The servant helped to push open the heavy door, lowered his head and waited respectfully for Kadiya and Pav to enter the room and closed the heavy door. The floor was covered with a black wool carpet with an old flavor, with green wavy patterns along the edge of the carpet, and the center of the stall was a golden tumbling waterfall emblem, which was the emblem of the Pulin family. The carpet was also sprinkled with a faint fragrance, and the air was filled with the burning smell of wood burning in the fireplace and an uncomfortable medicinal smell.

Duke Udolf Plin sat behind a towering and heavy desk, which was carved from fossil wood and pale as bones. It is said that it was moved from the stone tower in the center of Jin Falls. At that time, the first Duke of Jin Falls told everyone, "This is my trophy." The four legs of the desk were carved into a rolling waterfall, but the top of the waterfall was covered by a thick tablecloth. It was a burgundy velvet tablecloth, which was presented by Lord Fujie of Linle Town several years ago.

"Father." Miss Kadiya, who was used to being arrogant, had to become obedient in front of Duke Udolf. Udolf Plin is not a strong man. Legend has it that he did not have the courage of his brother, so he saved his life. He was his father's second son. His father and his brother died nearly thirty years ago in a murder that shocked the kingdom. So the naturally weak and sick Master Udolf sat on the chair of the Duke of Jinshui City.

At first people questioned his ability, and his uncle was more suitable for this position, but now he is Udolph Pulin, the Duke of Golden Waterfalls, a village that starts from the north to the northern border, to the pass of Wind Valley in the south, and the coastline between the hinterland of Wind Valley and North Roar Bay. No one dared to question the authority of the Duke of Golden Waterfalls. If he had not seen him with his own eyes, anyone would think that this was a strong and strong man. But in fact, it was not the case.

The thin-cheeked Duke Udolf raised his eyes and looked at her and said tiredly, "Sit." His voice was not as noble as he seemed, and his hoarse and low voice was one of the reasons why he did not speak often, but silence was also his powerful weapon, and no one would be rude and presumptuous in front of the silent Duke Udolf.

Kadiya obediently sat down on the chair diagonally opposite the desk. She walked through the account books piled up on the desk, and looked at him with the roster and letters. His eyes were blue and black like the deep sea. Kadiya had been to Aide Town and rode her grandfather's long boat "Fro" out of the sea with her younger brother Mdolph. She remembered that the color of the cold sea area covered with dark clouds was similar to that of her father's eyes. Kadiya's eyes inherited the color of her mother, which was a gray eyes that exuded a light green. Grandpa said that it was the color of gray reefs and the color of the Lord of Aide Town.

Although Duke Udolf is in his prime, his hair has begun to turn white, and his light golden hair, which has no time to take care of, has become dry and messy, which adds a touch of decadent temperament to Duke Udolf. In fact, this is true. He has been decadent after Madam Fro's death, but this is only as her husband, as the Duke of Golden Waterfalls, he is still majestic and wise.

He signed his name on a document with a black quill, then put the document into an envelope, dripped with wax, and covered it with his ring with the inscription of the rolling waterfall, and then he put the envelope to his hand. He looked up at the captain Pavre standing by the door, "My captain, please give me a little time with my daughter."

"Yes." Captain Pavrank seemed to have something to say, but after seeing the Duke of Udolf, he turned around and left the room.

Then the Duke of Udolf looked at Kadiya. Kadiya subconsciously tried to avoid his gaze, but she noticed it immediately and forced herself to look at him. If she avoided her gaze, it would be equivalent to admitting that she was wrong. No, I was not wrong. Kadiya told herself, but she knew she was a little unconfident and her hands were shaking slightly.

How would he scold me? Kadiya was worried, or would he directly sentence her to punish her and then call Pavle in and take her away?

But Kadiya didn't think of anything.

"Kadia." Duke Udolf sighed, then leaned against the chair, as if he had no strength. "Kadia, when can you let me save some snacks?"

Kadiya bit her lip and didn't know how to answer.

"I didn't close my eyes all night. Do you know how worried I was when I knew you had escaped from the inner castle again?" said the Duke of Udolf tiredly. "I said, I will not marry you to anyone, nor will I force you to marry anyone. Why do you just don't understand?"

"You are lying." Kadiya said in a trembling voice. She didn't realize that her voice had increased a little. "Mr. Fujie's baby son has told me! You have betrothed me to him long ago! Master Fujie also said that you have made a marriage contract with him for me!"

"He really told you that?" Lord Udolf raised his eyebrows, and a hint of anger flashed through his blood-covered eyes. Then he closed his eyes and rubbed his nose. "No, that's not a engagement, it's just a verbal promise."

"Promise? You really promised me to the fat man who likes to smirk?!" Kadiya stood up angrily, looking at her father with red eyes.

"Master Sendier is not a fat man who likes to smirk. He is a kind child." Lord Udolf said patiently, "I didn't promise you to anyone."

"Celebrity? He was so fat that he almost broke the back of a foal!" Kadiya almost screamed, "If he was kind, he should have let go of roasted bacon and apple pie!"

"I'm not asking you to come and tell you about bacon and apple pie." Lord Udolf sighed, then straightened up again, "Sit down, Kadiya, loud voice does not mean you are reasonable. I've told you many times."

Kadiya almost went against him, but in the end she sat down angrily.

"Listen, Kadiya, for the last time I told you that I did not make any engagement for you. My agreement with Lord Fojie is that his children can pursue you, and you can be together as long as you want." Lord Udolf replied tiredly, "Dear, pour me a glass of bitter wine, you know how to do it."

Kadiya stood up without saying a word. She had learned from the servant who was taking care of her father how to prepare the so-called "bite wine", which was a kind of medicinal wine. Udolf had a bad stomach and needed to drink this unpleasant and bitter medicinal wine for a long time. She walked to the wine cabinet and began to recall the steps the servant taught her. She practiced many times, so that during that time her fingers were full of the bitterness of herbs, and she could not wash away the smell no matter how she washed it with soap.

"So I will no longer allow you to leave Golden Waterfall City without authorization under such an excuse. It is very dangerous outside." Lord Udolf said.

"This is Jin Falls City. Is there any safer place in your Jin Falls City?" Kadiya said while pouring the light base wine into the cup. She suddenly remembered the prophecy of the blind little girl in the catacomb, which made her feel uneasy.

"There is no real safe place, kid, you must know this earlier." Mr. Udolf said patiently, "But soon, Jinhu City will soon be able to return to peace."

"Did you find that monster?!" Kadiya turned her head in surprise and looked at her father, and stopped with the medicine jar.

"Not a monster, it's a killer." After saying that, Lord Udolf waved his hand, "I don't want to talk about this." Then he raised his head and shouted softly, "Pavre."

The door was pushed open with a creaking sound, and the fully armed captain walked in. He glanced at Miss Kadiya who was standing next to the wine cabinet, and then looked at his lord again. He lowered his head and said respectfully, "Master Duke."

"Do you want to tell me anything before?" Lord Udolf asked, looking at his captain's guard, "I hope this matter is important enough."

The captain of the guard opened his mouth and wanted to say something. Then he subconsciously glanced at Kadiya. Kadiya, holding bitter wine, walked carefully towards Lord Udolf behind the desk. When she found the captain of the guard's gaze, she frowned and glared back. But when the captain of the guard found that Lord Udolf did not understand what he meant, he sighed secretly and said, "Captain Barolwu of the Iron Chain Knights sent me a letter..."

"Barowfu?" Lord Udolf raised his eyebrows, "He wrote to you? Didn't he be in Jin Falls?"

"He has led his men to the hills outside the northern city gate, and it is said that he plans to build a sentinel there." The captain of Pavrank replied truthfully.

"It is said that he plans to burn one of my mountains." Lord Udolf said in a low voice, then he waved his hand and signaled not to continue discussing the topic. "What did he write to you?"

"He said his allies were on their way here to help us guard the Golden Falls." Captain Pavre said as he looked at Miss Kadiya uneasy, and she glared at him in more confusion.

"It's just crows that smelled blood, and the mercenaries are like this." Lord Udolf commented, "Although I had expected this to be like this, I didn't expect that Barolofu would notify you who is his so-called 'ally'?"

The captain of the guard did not answer immediately, and he looked at Kadiya again. If it weren't for the Duke of Udolf, he might have had to attack him. Then the captain of the guard felt Lord Udolf's impatient gaze, and then continued to say: "It's the Ghost Sword Brigade, Lord."

"Ghost Sword Brigade?!" Lord Udolf was surprised, but his voice was far less than his daughter.

"Is it the 'Scarlet Rose' ghost sword brigade?!" Miss Kadiya asked excitedly.

"Yes." The captain of the guard sighed secretly, and what made him feel even more helpless was the obvious reproachful gaze of Lord Udolf, "The scarlet rose is coming here with a mercenary group called the Ghost Sword Brigade."

...

When Joel was almost exhausted, the end of the wall finally appeared at the edge of the fire. The wall and the corner lines spread upward into the darkness. The slight sound of water coming from behind was almost inaudible. Only Joel stopped and held his breath could hear it. He didn't know whether this dark and ancient corpse road was too long or he was too weak. The torch in his hand and the steel sword at his waist almost crushed him.

The hp bar in the upper left of Joel's field of vision has never recovered, and even the single-digit value will drop a little every once in a while. Joel reached out to touch the wound on his abdomen. Although the wound had been burned and stopped the blood, the sharp fish-slicing knife still stabbed into his body, which may have left wounds on his internal organs. The wounds in his body cannot be burned with fire to stop the bleeding. Although it has not died more than once, Joel was surprised and uneasy about his body again.

Joel was sure that he had come to an end of this dark and wide underground space, but this end was not the kind he was looking for. There was no exit here, Joel told himself that I had come to a path of thought. He looked to the left again, and the wall continued to spread into the darkness. The corpses on the ground were grinning, as if mocking Joel's stupidity and misfortune. Joel kicked a skull at his feet, and his helmet and skull hit the wall together, making a sound.

Keep walking. Joel told himself that he was walking forward with difficulty holding the wall, thirst, fever, burns and abdominal trauma, which were superimposed on him almost made Joel want to fall here and accompany these corpses. I was long dead, and now I should have died so much that I gritted my teeth and thought, why didn't I let me die? Why?

While not knowing who to ask questions, Joel continued to take difficult steps forward, and each step was a feat for him.

But he suddenly tripped by something, maybe it was a skeleton, maybe it was a weapon. No matter what it was, Joel fell on the pile of skeletons, and the armor and skeletons under him made a noise. Joel also heard laughter mixed in it. These damn bastards were laughing at me. Joel was drowsy and wanted to scold me. No, they were already dead.

I should have died long ago. Joel fell on the pile of bones and had no strength to get up. The torch rolled down from his hands. The flames moved forward slightly, and Joel's lower body was sinking into the darkness. Joel turned his head and saw a bare skull grinning at him, as if mocking him.

Shut up. Joel wanted to scold him, but he didn't have the strength to open his mouth and could only close his eyes.

"Protect Hermi, Joel." Ellu's voice was so close that it pulled Joel back to reality from the groggy darkness. The fire illuminated the things in front of her, and the skull with a ridiculous skull disappeared. What Joel saw was his smiling wife lying on the bones with her. "Protect Hermi, Joel, we have agreed."

"Dear... I'm too tired..." Joel said hoarsely. He almost spent all his energy when he said these words. He didn't even realize that his voice had changed back to what he used to be. Let me take a break...

"No, my dear," Alu kissed Joel's chapped lips, "Not now."

Joel opened his eyes weakly, and Elu's face became hazy and emitted a white glimmer that looked dazzling in the darkness, "Not now." She whispered to him again.

No, don't leave. Joel wants to reach out and grab her.

As a result, he grabbed the handle of the torch. The touch of the wood made him open his eyes suddenly, and his dry eyes were stinged by the fire. Now he was no longer Alu's face, but the skull with ridicule. Joel struggled to get up, and the darkness covering him faded away like the mud at the bottom of the river was washed away by water. Joel stood up again and kicked the skull that had just been in front of him. It rolled into the darkness with a silent laugh.

Joel shook his head, returning to reality from his dream just now, how long have I been sleeping? Joel thought suspiciously that the soreness from his body made it extremely difficult for him to adapt. The hp bar in the upper left field of vision finally began to rise compared to the previous value, although it was still single digits. In any case, his body did recover some strength. He raised his head and looked at the darkness ahead, and then continued to take steps.

Joel's throat moved and he swallowed, but there was no drop of water in his mouth, which made his throat and tongue feel like a crack. I felt like a walking zombie. He told himself, then he unconsciously looked down at his feet, and then stepped on a grim skeleton face. Maybe I was a walking zombie. The only difference between me and these things under my feet was that I could still move.

Crack. Another thing broke at Joel's feet, maybe it was the wooden handle of the weapon, maybe it was a fragile bone, but at this moment, Joel didn't care about these things. Crack, another one. Crack.

It was such a group of noisy dead. Joel said to himself in his heart that even if he died, he turned into bones, he would still chatter and scream. Maybe this was outside the Black God's abyss gate, these were the guys who were blocked outside the door by the silent Black God. The undead who had been blocked outside the door for hundreds of years, the pirate fish-sealing family.

Like them, I was blocked by the Black God and died and left me. Maybe it was the Black God who thought I was not "quiet enough"?

When Joel thought of this, he remained silent. His voice could no longer make a sound, so his silence was the silence in his mind. He stopped thinking, leaving only his body instinctively moving forward. Crack. Crack.

After moving with instinct for a while, something different finally appeared at the edge of the fire. Joel's silence in consciousness was finally broken. The feeling of returning to his body made him think that he had also become a bone, which would collapse into a pile of useless bones almost at any time like those guys under his feet.

He looked at the thing that appeared on the edge of the fire, and continued to walk forward and then saw it clearly. At first he thought it was a big pot, but when he got closer, he realized that it was an ancient brazier full of white ashes and bones. The wood supporting the brazier had long been decayed, but fortunately, the bones were piled up under the brazier and became a new support, which made the brazier look particularly weird.

Joel held up the torch and moved forward a little. He found at the edge of the fire that there seemed to be a brazier exactly the same as this one in the dark. Two braziers? Joel was stunned, which meant...
Chapter completed!