Chapter 578 429 Very 61

The seven towers shimmered with damp moisture, like the sweat of a dying man, highlighting the unhealthy pale color of the stone. From the tallest tower in the middle of the castle, a fine mist floated on the wind. Was it my imagination, or did I really hear a hint of laughter on the wind...

"Not very good."

The crooked castle tower was like a rheumatic claw inserted into the cloud. A beam of dead gray light shone from a high window, contrasting with the dark green-gray of the city wall. The top of the tower looked as if it could barely withstand a slight breeze, let alone a storm. The whole place looked dead and desolate, a ruin only suitable for dead people and carrion birds...

The main body of the castle seemed to have been moved a few yards away? Did the weather vane look the same as the other shapes? Why can't I remember what I saw before...

"My writer, we should set off." Colonia put his arm around Tolandil's shoulders and whispered.

"That tower..." Tolandil, who stopped recording, hesitated for a moment and asked Colonia who was close at hand. He wanted to kiss her, but he didn't put this idea into practice.

"We'll know when we go in."

"That's right."

Now, there are two roads in front of Dacus, one leading to the castle from below, and the other leading to the main gate of the castle along a rugged path from the edge of the cliff. He chose the second one without hesitation. Although he was familiar with the first road, he didn't want to experience it again.

The ropes were constantly fixed to prevent the members of the team from slipping and sliding down the hillside. The team kept moving forward and soon came to a position not far from the main gate of the castle.

Dacus took a look and saw that the outer wall was about 7 meters high and 1.5 meters thick. When he passed through, he could see a buttress wooden plank road behind the wall. The strong winds and heavy rains in the area severely eroded the wood, making the wooden plank road no longer safe and unsuitable for large troops to pass through.

There are many arrow holes in the outer wall of the castle, but no undead beings attacked the team during the team's passage. Dacus thought this might be because of the Battle of Altdorf. At that time, the undead army attacking the southern city did not run as fast as Deye. After all, the core corpse transporters had entered the city and stayed in the square of Sigma Cathedral.

The windows of the castle inside the castle are made of heavy lead glass with cross-shaped lead strips. Even if the heavy curtains hanging behind the windows are opened, they will not let in too much light, nor will they let anyone see through them very clearly.

"Is someone in the castle spying on us?"

"Yes, spying, I feel it too."

Dacus did not participate in the discussion. After waving at Kalyon, he took out the pre-prepared tactical board from his bag and started drawing. While he was drawing, the spellcasters applied the buff effect to the Scourge Chariot, and then the chariot set off under the watchful eyes of the team.

The Scourge Chariot kept moving and moving under Kalyon's superb driving skills. Drusala, who was holding the edge of the chariot, felt like she was going to vomit. After looking at the city wall for a while, she turned her head to look at Kallion who was concentrating on driving the chariot. She swallowed back what she wanted to say before, and then looked at the city wall again.

"There is no need for detection anymore, go back." After the chariot moved for a while, Drusala shook her head and said.

"As you say." Kallion said, and began to turn the chariot around.

The Scourge Walker chariot drove in the direction of the team just like the Shandong Confucius encountered by the Brotherhood in the Battle of City Garden. There were no British and American coalition forces, no tank guns, and no bazookas. The chariot drove back safely.

"That's about it." Dacus knocked on the tactical board to the leaders around him, and then he said, "Now, each of you take the tactical mission."

"I'll go to this."

"This."

"I'll do this."

"Let's get started!" Soon, the tasks were sent out one by one, and Dacus nodded with satisfaction, and then said to the spellcasters.

Before coming, Dacus had divided the groups. He was a whole team, not a few adventurers who were looking for death. He didn't need to explore one by one. He was good at CBQ and knew that this would cause an embarrassing situation. When the fierce battle started in the house, the people outside the house could only stop in the corridor and act as cheerleaders, which would take a long time. So he divided the combat teams in advance, with both long-range and short-range capabilities, physical and magical, and could deal with various complex situations.

Just as Lord De could destroy the gate of Altdorf, the spellcasters could also destroy the gate of Dragon Rock Castle. As the gate disappeared and the magic mist appeared, the battle teams formed a tight formation and rushed towards the gate. Dacus, holding a shield, followed behind Flanais, who was holding a walking barrier, and charged. There was no rain of arrows, no magic bombardment, and the whole journey was unimpeded.

When the battle team entered the castle, most of the people who followed behind also formed a dense formation and pressed towards the gate. Their main task was to eliminate the large enemy forces that might appear, such as orcs, cultists, or demons.

The inner courtyard was paved with cobblestones, which forced the various battle teams to slow down.

"This is not normal, my lord... If I am not mistaken..."

"Hmm?"

"This may be composed of small pieces of fat residue..."

"Okay." Dacus interrupted Ryan.

Darkius could clearly feel that the cobblestones were a bit greasy, as if they were covered with a layer of grease. This was not normal. If he ran at the maximum speed, he would easily fall. Thinking of something, he lowered his head involuntarily, as if he was possessed. At that moment, he regretted it. He didn't know why he lowered his head so madly. He would rather not have such good eyesight. He saw the suggestive and recognizable fragments of human remains in the gaps between the cobblestones.

After cursing in a low voice, Darkius did not stop and rushed straight to the predetermined location.

"It just died not long ago, sir, someone has been here, and it is very likely in the castle." Flanais, who rarely spoke on weekdays, said.

"Maybe, we will know in a while, right? Come, give me a hand." After turning the corner, the remains of a mule appeared in front of Darkius. Just as Flanais said, the mule had just died, its abdomen was torn open, its internal organs disappeared without a trace, and the mule's face was full of horror. He leaned against the wall, glanced at Ryan who was holding a shield against the door, and then nodded to Franes who was leaning on the other side.

The door was slowly pushed open by the handle of the weapon, and Ryan who was facing the door did not start shooting. Franes turned his head and looked at Ryan, then rushed into the gatehouse with his shield raised. There was nothing, only some rotten wooden chairs and tables, a few crossbow quivers and a pile of human skeletons. It was obvious that these skeletons without clothes and armor should be skeleton soldiers who had lost energy support.

Dakus was the last to go in. He looked at the combat teams rushing to each tower and then entered the gatehouse, walking up the clockwise stairs.

The stairs of the castle are usually designed in a clockwise direction, that is, entering the stairs from the left and walking to the right. The advantage of this design is that the attacker cannot launch an effective close-range attack, and the weapon held in the right hand cannot be used, which is commonly known as a stuck knife, while the defender waiting at the corner can easily launch an attack. Of course, this design is actually useless, the enemies have appeared on the stairs...

Darkius, who came to the second floor, saw Talos and his team in charge of the opposite side through the corridor above the city gate. Without saying anything, they nodded to each other and took their own actions. He could see that there were many shooting holes on the floor of the corridor connecting the guard rooms on both sides of the city gate. These shooting holes were used by defenders to shoot attackers attacking the city gate. There were also several barrels of hardened kerosene and a metal barrel with a hinged lid on the corridor.

Arohan, who was following Talos' team, used an arrow to pick open the barrel lid, and a strong and pungent organic acid rushed into Darkius's nostrils.

"What is this?"

"A corrosive acidic liquid will corrode wood or leather. Okay, there's nothing to see. I don't recommend you put your hand in it."

After speaking, Darkius left. The wooden trapdoor leading to the city wall on his team's side had been destroyed by Drusala's magic, and the city wall was covered with small puddles and moss spots. He lay on the outer wall and looked at the large army that was entering in a line, then looked at the main castle, and then he quickly followed.

"Hey, he's gone, don't look." Talos said to Alohan who was still stunned. As a person who had experienced it, he knew what Alohan was thinking.

The entire Longyan Castle consists of six high towers surrounding the city wall and the main structure in the center. If the city gate is the horizontal central axis, the six high towers are arranged in three upper and three lower positions. The entire castle has only one gate, and there is no gate or tower in the city wall area opposite the gate.

Dakuus took a quick look. The tower he was responsible for was nearly 25 meters high, while the tower Talos was responsible for was 30 meters high. The six towers were of different lengths. The tower that Celile was responsible for was nearly 36 meters high, and the diameters and lengths of these towers were also different. The six towers plus the main body looked like a wretched multi-fingered, clawed hand, grabbing the sky, which was indescribably weird and twisted.

"I have a strange feeling? I obviously ate."

"I have prepared food in my bag, do you need a bite?" Genevieve patted her bag while speaking.

"Are you hungry?" Daquus, who came last, asked his companions standing on guard on both sides. When he approached the tower he was responsible for, his stomach made a rumbling sound. After seeing his companions nod except Genevieve, he raised his head and frowned as he looked at the tower. He found that Dragon Rock Castle seemed to be more weird than he thought.

"I can feel that this tower is alive."

As Drusala's voice fell, the door was opened. A standard guard room, full of bones, arrows and furniture debris. The trap door on the floor was intact, and the spiral staircase leading to the top was unobstructed.

"Dear, I can sense that there are things above and below."

"Go down first, open it." Daquus nodded at the trap door on the ground and said.

There were six skeletons in the basement locked around a half-collapsed wooden table, with rotten food and leftovers placed on the silver plates on the table. When the team came to the basement along the ladder, it was like a switch was triggered, the skeletons twisted their bodies and bit their loose jaws eagerly, but they were locked there tightly and could not escape.

"It's so sad, end their suffering, and you can take care of the rest." Dacus, who was lying on the ladder, took a look and had no desire to continue climbing. After giving an order, he climbed up again.

After receiving the order, the Huangqi Shadow Hunters raised their leaf hammers and smashed the skeletons trapped there. The silver tableware that was worth some sovereigns was then cleaned up.

Exploration, looting, all require a process. Besides, even a little bit of money is still money. If there is more, everyone can get some. At least it is not in vain. No one will complain that they have too much money.

The second floor above the guard room is empty, with nothing, but it is different on the third floor. There is a large dining table in the room with 10 huge wooden chairs on it. There is a skeleton under each chair, and their arms are handcuffed to the chair legs.

"Is this... something wrong?" Dakuus felt that the scene in front of him was somewhat curious. In his opinion, most of the Druks could not do this kind of work. Only those extremely morbid and hysterical Druks could match it.

The handcuffed skeletons could only lie on the dining table. In front of these diners was a set of gorgeous silverware and crystal tableware, but even if these diners tried hard and stretched their heads forward, they could not touch the tableware.

However, unlike the basement, the handcuffs were not so strong this time. After Dacus and the others watched for a while, the two skeletons moved, trying to pull the rusty iron handcuffs that trapped them off the chair legs and attack.

"Wait a minute, don't be in a hurry." Dacus first stopped the Huangqi Shadow Hunters from attacking, and then said to Genevieve, "Try to throw a piece of meat?"

Although Genevieve didn't quite understand Dacus's intention, she still took out a piece of wrapped meat from her bag. She was going to throw the whole piece over, but when she threw it out, she hesitated, because she made the meat last night. She broke the meat in half, and after half of the meat was put into the bag, she threw the other piece of meat over.

Then, something strange happened. The skeleton that was still pulling the iron handcuffs stopped moving after seeing the meat, sat up straight, and started to chew the meat. The other skeleton also saw the meat, but it had no chance. It struggled more fiercely, and kept furious, but the skeleton chewing the meat had no intention of sharing.

Genevieve's hand reached for the bag again, and at the same time looked at Dacus.

Dacus shook his head speechlessly.

The meat was torn, and the fragments kept falling on the table along the skeleton's chin. The eating skeleton seemed unaware of this and kept eating. It was not until the meat on the side of its mouth disappeared that the skeleton realized something. It lowered its head and looked at the fragments on the table, and then fell into madness.

"You made me hungry." Ryan said in a joking tone, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva after he finished speaking.

"You can pick it up and eat it." Dacus glanced at Ryan speechlessly, waved his arm and continued, "Waste is shameful, end this farce."

"Ugh... Ugh... Ugh..."

"?" Dacus' eyes were full of doubts. The Huangqi Shadow Hunter froze at the moment of attack, raised his head and stared blankly at the transparent stone on the ceiling, and after a while began to vomit against the wall.

"Did you see anything? Illusion?"

"Master... Sir, I..." Huangqi Shadow Hunter wiped the vomit from the corner of his mouth and stuttered about what happened just now.

As Dacus expected, the Huangqi Shadow Hunter, who was originally a guard of the Hell Disaster Family, did see an illusion, and this illusion was extremely real. Huangqi Shadow Hunter could even smell the aroma of barbecue in the room. He looked up and saw a particularly fat human on the roof, who kept cutting slices of meat from the corpse of a multi-legged chaos creature.

When the skeletons struggled desperately to touch the meat, the fat man floated down from the ceiling, like a celestial being, and put a piece of meat on each plate, and then asked: Are you ready to eat? Is this what you desire? Is this what you expect? Is this the help you need?

The skeletons couldn't touch the meat, and the fat man happily stuffed every helping into his mouth, and then wiped the skeletons' skulls with the juice on his hands. Of course, he was also kind, and occasionally, he would hand over a small portion of food, and the skeletons who received the food would chew and swallow furiously, but the result was just as Dacus had seen before, no success, no desire to be full. Skeletons have no stomach, no esophagus, only an uncontrollable desire for gluttony.

"I can only say that you have not experienced enough." Dacus patted Huangqi Shadow Hunter on the shoulder and said, then he said, "Let's go up and take a look."

There was nothing upstairs, no fat man, no corpses of multi-legged chaos creatures, only a piece of emptiness. However, Dacus did not think that the Huangqi Shadow Hunter was hysterical. It was obvious that there was a reason for this tower, otherwise his stomach would not have been growling all the time, as if he had not eaten in the morning. It should be some kind of test, and the Huangqi Shadow Hunter was caught and failed the test, so he saw the illusion.

Just as Dacus said, he had too little experience. If it was an ordinary adventurer who came here, he would probably be in trouble. After escaping from the illusion, those handcuffed skeletons should surround the adventurer and eat him...

In addition to reaping hunger, the team also obtained new spoils. The gorgeous silverware and crystal tableware are conservatively estimated to be about 20 imperial crowns, 10 of which are... It was not a wasted trip.

"What are you doing?" Dacus, who came to the courtyard again, asked Talos, who was sitting on the ground and panting without any image. He felt that Talos, whose head was full of sweat and hair was soaked, had experienced something extraordinary, as if he had not entered the tower at this time, but had trotted along the way he came after parting, ran all the way to Uberrick, and then ran back from Uberrick and appeared in front of him.

"There is a problem." Talos said panting after gulping down the water.

"Tell me." Dacus squatted on the ground and took the half of the meat that Genevieve had put in the bag before and started to eat it without any image.

The tower that Talos went to was not locked, but there was a disgusting magic mechanism on the thick wooden door. Those who touched it would be directly blown apart by the mechanism on the door, leaving only the skeleton lying on the door. However, this was not a problem. Liv discovered the problem and lifted the trap.

The room was filled with rotten furniture and wooden boxes, as well as a large number of crossbows that had long been unusable. The basement was flooded with damp, smelly water, and some moldy bones were scattered on the surface of the water.

The spiral staircase was so narrow that only one person could pass through it. During the passage, they encountered ambushers. Two extremely cunning skeleton crossbowmen occupied a favorable position. After the long-range attack failed, they used melee attacks. These were blocked by Talos who was in the front. At that time, he did not notice the problem.

After passing the stairs, the room was the same as the one below, full of rotten things, and the same was true for the third floor. Unlike the tower that Dacus went to, the top of the tower that Talos went to needed to climb a ladder, but this was not a problem for the elves. The team did not climb the stairs that could collapse at any time, but shot the rope up with arrows. The more Talos climbed, the more he felt something was wrong. When he pushed open the trap door, he felt that he was about to collapse.

Then, Talos stopped feeling it. He was attacked, but luckily he reacted quickly and managed to dodge it. The top of the tower was covered with guano, feathers, broken bones and strips of cloth. A pair of vultures built a nest here, and they could just get in and out through the narrow windows.

When Arohan climbed up, one vulture had died under Talos's dagger, and the other escaped through the window, without any intention of avenging its partner. In addition to a pile of odds and ends, he found a pile of coins and a pair of small topaz rings. Liv used a spell to buff him, but he almost fell when he slid down, but fortunately he barely caught it.

Liv's magic had no effect in the tower. The longer he stayed, the stronger the negative buff became. An almost unbearable feeling of weakness kept attacking the members of the team, and in the end they could only walk with the help of the wall.

"Tower of Exhaustion? Well, yes, Tower of Exhaustion, mine is Tower of Hunger." Dacus, who had eaten all the meat, clapped his hands and said. Just as he was about to say something to comfort him, Celile appeared.

"It's a bit cold." Celile, holding the halberd, said to Dacus, and he couldn't help shuddering while saying it.

"My uncle, do you want to hear what you are saying?" Dacus joked, he knew that Celile should have encountered something strange in that tower. (End of this chapter)