ragginovel Chapter 556 Reversal Ritual
Chapter 556 Reversal Ritual
Chapter 556 Reversal Ritual
Seen from the outside of the building, there is no way the top of the clock tower could be connected to such a huge square. Even if it was, what you would see when you look up here is the night sky dyed red by the blood moon, not the deep, clear sea of stars before your eyes.
From this, it can be seen that the vast space ahead is undoubtedly abnormal, and such abnormality, in Sun Huang's eyes, immediately turned into a very strong "feeling".
This feeling is called - there must be a thrilling BOSS battle waiting for us in this place.
So, the two of them understood each other tacitly... they tensed their nerves, clenched their weapons, and walked slowly through the gate and stepped into the square in a state of extreme alert.
After entering the door and taking a closer look, you can see that this place is an ancient Greek-style relic.
Huge limestone piles were repaired into rectangular palaces, but after years of vicissitudes, they turned into ruins. Only the Corinthian columns still stand, like stubborn giants, as if they are still guarding the afterglow of civilization.
Shuang Xie walked up the cracked porphyry steps and stepped on the white stone road, looking around carefully and taking every step carefully.
However, after observing again and again and walking for a while... nothing happened.
“What the hell… what’s going on?” Sun Yixie looked around for a long time and saw that there didn’t seem to be any danger around him, so he simply said, “This place, this atmosphere… it’s only a piece of background music away from an epic BOSS battle, but in the end there’s not even a small monster?”
"I don't know either." Huang Donglai shrugged. "Anyway, it seems that right now, the only thing missing from this epic boss battle is not a piece of background music, but a boss..."
Although what he said was just a complaint, he was right.
Originally, there should have been a "BOSS" here, and that BOSS was the castle's butler Hugo, but he is not here now.
So what is Hugo doing?
This has actually been mentioned before: Didn't Huang Donglai, Roman and Balde hear some eerie music before they escaped from the organ room? In fact, that was the music Hugo played in the organ room in the surface world.
Over the years, Hugo, who had acquired a large amount of chaotic power, had become the actual controller of the castle. The huge organ transformed from the corpses of Maria and a large number of innocent people was equivalent to the "console" for Hugo to control the castle.
At this moment, Hugo was busy at the control console dealing with the rangers who had been scattered all over the city, so he had no time to take care of the top floor of the bell tower which was supposed to be guarded by the "castle steward".
Because of this, Shuangxie took advantage of an opportunity. They easily passed through the ruins without any obstruction and came to a "light gate" deep in the space.
The two of them struggled again in front of the door, which I will not go into detail here, but in the end they went in together, shoulders side by side.
After passing through the door, they came to a place similar to a laboratory.
Of course, it is not the kind of scientific laboratory that we modern people know, but it is closer to the "laboratory" built by alchemists in the Renaissance.
The cramped space, the eerie lighting, the walls covered with occult symbols, the ebony medicine cabinet and pharmacist's table filled with all kinds of materials and tools... In short, it can be described in two words: messy.
Sun Huang walked forward for a while in this space where he might step on a retort or animal entrails if he took two steps, and finally came to a relatively spacious room.
And in this room, there were two, or three, unexpected people.
As you may have guessed, the first two are Andre and Dan, and the third is the real Philibert who has been soaked in a blood-filled experimental pool after his head was "replaced".
"Wait! Don't do anything! Listen to me!" The moment Dan saw Sun Huang appear at the door, his first reaction was to open his arms, first stop Andre beside him, and then shout at the two people outside the door.
It has to be said that his decisive action was correct. If he had been a second later, Sun Yixie's trident and Huang Donglai's hidden weapon would have arrived.
After all... Sun and Huang don't mind launching a sneak attack to knock down the enemy first and then communicate.
And once they take action, Andre will definitely fight back. By then, the situation will not be resolved with just a few words.
"Hmph! You are really a traitor. You have already stood next to the enemy boss. What else do you have to say?" The next second, Sun Yixie sneered and retorted.
Having said that, it was obvious that Sun Yixie was still willing to listen to Dan's explanation, otherwise he would not have to say such a cheap word and would have just continued to do it.
Huang Dongzi could understand Sun Yixie's intention, so he immediately played the good cop beside him: "Hey~ Wait a minute, you see that Philibert was pinned down by him, and he didn't rush towards us, which means there must be some hidden story here, why don't we listen first?"
Now that the two of them had found the way, the conversation became easier, so Dan quickly told Shuang Xie everything he had told Andre before.
After listening, Sun Huang whispered a few more words, and then Sun Yixie said: "Then I have to ask... You said that you took the parchment away because the contents on the parchment were made up by Hugo to deceive us. I will assume that this is true... But what is your intention in breaking the mirror?"
"What?" Dan was stunned for a moment. "The mirror is broken? This... I don't know."
"I don't know?" Sun Yixie showed his doubt without disguising his expression. "So what you mean is... there was a third person at the time, and he sneaked into the room and broke the mirror?"
"That's a possibility," Dan said thoughtfully, "but I think the mirror could have broken by itself."
"Oh?" Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows and looked sideways, "What do you mean?"
Dan thought for a moment and replied, "The reason why the mirror allowed you two to communicate in the inner and outer worlds was because Maria in the inner world was using her power to maintain it. But when the ritual started, the boundary between the two worlds was broken...even Maria herself was affected, so the mirror might naturally break as a result."
"Hmph... Anyway, we don't understand your theory, and we can't verify it, so whatever you say is what it is." But after hearing this, Sun Yixie still sounded sarcastic and looked unconvinced.
This is not a doubt based on logic, but a rejection from the heart.
Even Sun Yixie himself didn't know why, he just couldn't trust Dan, and he felt that this man was annoying; call it "turtle sense" or "villain radar", anyway, Brother Sun just instinctively disliked this man and was on guard against him everywhere.
"Since you also said that it cannot be verified, let's put that trivial matter aside for now." At this time, Andre suddenly interrupted them and joined the conversation, "The most urgent thing right now is to perform the 'reversal ritual' and get my head back first."
"I haven't even said anything about you yet, and you just jumped out on your own, right?" But Sun Yixie was still relentless towards Andre, "Let's not count the bad things you did before, just assume that you were fooled and controlled by Hugo at that time. Now, what will you become after you come back? A living dead? And after you come back, will the real Philibert become a half-vampire like you?"
In fact, Andre had asked Dan these questions before, and it was Dan who spoke to Sun Yixie at this time: "If the reversal ritual is successful, they will all return to the state before the ritual, that is... Philibert will be resurrected, and Andre will return to the state where his body was sealed after death. At the same time, the confused memories of the two will return to normal."
"Ah?" Sun Yixie looked at Andre, "You agree to this?"
"If I just become a corpse, I naturally don't want to." Andre said, "But don't forget that the two worlds are merging now. In other words, I won't just become a corpse, but I will become..."
"I see." Huang Donglai followed the other party's train of thought. "You will become the same thing as that 'Organ Spirit', and then you can move around and look for your old lover, right?"
"Can't you two guys speak a little more politely..." Andre had experienced the foul mouths of these two in Commann's castle. Now he was being scolded by the other party with such blunt words, which made him a little unhappy.
"Then I don't understand again." Sun Yixie didn't respond to Andre's question, but said to Dan, "Assuming that the information you have told us so far is true, what is your ultimate goal? Don't tell me that you are a good person who simply wants to clean up the mess made by your other personality, so you resurrected the vampire hunter and reunited the ill-fated couple from a hundred years ago..."
Dan was silent for a few seconds, then replied in all seriousness, "My goal... or what I want is to take back this castle from Hugo, continue to be the steward here, then banish Hugo to chaos and permanently cut off the connection between the two worlds.
"And to do this, I will need the help of all of you... Maria, Andrea, and the real Belmondo.
"So, what I am doing now, which is the so-called 'good things' in your values, can actually win your trust and help, and is also a necessary step for me to achieve my goal.
"Are you satisfied with this answer?"
Upon hearing this, Sun Huang looked at each other and nodded.
Sun Yixie then put away his disbelieving attitude and said with a smile: "Okay, if you say so... we understand."
Huang Donglai also said: "What do you still lack for this 'reversal ritual'? Is there anything we can help with?"
Ladies and gentlemen, you are familiar with these two... The readers of these two articles should have realized by now that when Sun and Huang put on an "I believe it if you say so" look on the surface, it is very likely that they actually confirmed the opposite in their hearts.
But Dan and Andre obviously don't know this...
"No need." Two seconds later, Andre continued, "I have collected everything. If you two hadn't suddenly appeared, we would have already started."
This is true. After all, Andre is now the nominal city lord. With the cooperation of the butler Dan, it is very easy for the two of them to move around the city and collect items.
Therefore, during the period between when Dan found Andre and when Sun Huang came to the laboratory, Andre and Dan had already made all the preparations necessary for the ceremony.
So at this moment, right before Sun Huang's eyes, Dan was about to start what he called the "reversal ritual"...