At this moment, Sequence 7 Celt was facing Sequence 8 "Lelouch," but he felt a little uncertain.
He simply couldn't understand what the lines Lelouch had drawn were for, or why there were so many strange traps in the house.
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"Lelouch," also known as Odis, said like a collector introducing his collection: "When you first enter, you will encounter an illusionary magic circle."
"It looks like a perfectly good floor, but I've actually made some holes between the floor and the basement."
"In the basement, there were rows of upright iron spikes, all coated with a powder made from black corpse peony and green ghost grass."
"Neither of these herbs is particularly rare, but they can instantly turn a dead person into a living corpse."
"Of course, I don't have the ability to control zombies, but the characteristic of zombies is to bite living things. They won't come to the second floor to attack me unless they bite you all to death!"
Selt then realized: "Those were all carefully designed traps!"
"Otherwise what?" Odis smiled. "Do you really think this is the underworld?"
He paused and then said, "As for the skeleton warriors later, those are undead summoning arrays. When I was setting up these arrays, I hadn't fully understood the undead summoning techniques."
"Now, after my improvements, the things that this magic circle can summon are much more powerful. The only troublesome thing is that after they have defeated the enemy, they are not very willing to return to the underworld."
"Where's that red-beaked monster?" Selt asked. "What is that?"
"That's from my research last year," Odis explained. "It's a kind of spirit monster that loves to suck blood and can make people's blood spray out and into its mouth."
"This is the new summoning circle I added just now after I saw that your companion was injured."
Celt hadn't expected that those bizarre attacks just now seemed to be casually arranged by "Lelouch": "What about the traps on the stairs?"
"That's my own invention," Odis smiled. "I call it the 'Turning Array.' It's an attack targeting 'mental entities' that will cause some confusion in the target's sense of direction."
"For example, your brain commands you to turn 90 degrees, but your body actually turns 180 degrees, or doesn't turn at all. In short, the movement of your limbs and the commands of your brain will become uncoordinated."
"Unfortunately, the magic circle only works when the target inside it turns around, and it cannot cause other actions or other kinds of chaos."
"No wonder my spiritual sense didn't detect any danger. It turns out these are all traps, harmless until you step into them." Celt sneered, "I was right, they're all just little tricks."
As he spoke, he suddenly threw a small piece of wood at Odis, which he had picked off the wooden railing when he jumped up to the second floor.
But the moment the small wooden block was thrown, Selt was surprised to find that his forward-throwing motion had turned into an upward-throwing motion.
The goal of "bribery" also becomes ineffective.
Odis smiled and said, "Did you really think I was showing off my magic array to you?"
"Ever since we were on the stairs, the magic array on the wall has been attacking your 'mental body,' and your logical abilities are about to completely malfunction!"
This is the core magic array set up here. It will not only attack the "mental body," but if you stay here for a long time, the "spiritual body" will also be affected to some extent.
This is an effect that comes with necromancy-type magic arrays. These arrays, or the underworld that the arrays connect to, will have some influence on spirits.
Odis had previously discovered these effects and thus provided some guidance as he had hoped.
Gran, who just escaped from here, was impacted by the shock to his "spiritual body." Otherwise, the tragic death of his companions would not have caused a Sequence 8 in relatively good condition to collapse.
Odis's old black coat was good at protecting against such attacks, so the plan was that even if they encountered a Sequence 7 opponent, as long as they could hold them off, they would quickly gain the initiative.
Selt did feel that the logic behind his actions had become somewhat chaotic, but he did not back down. Instead, he used the "weakening" ability again.
This time, he "weakened" the influence of the surrounding forces on him. After using the ability, he instantly felt that his condition had improved a lot.
However, Odis had already taken the opportunity to enter one of the rooms.
Selt followed closely behind and saw "Lelouch" standing against the wall, looking at him with a half-smile.
Celt snorted and kicked a chair at Odis, finally completing the "bribery" process. He then chased after Odis while using his "arrogance" ability.
This ability can make someone arrogant, lower their morale, and make them prone to making mistakes.
Although Lelouch was wearing a mask, Celtic could sense that the smile on his face had turned into an arrogant expression.
In that instant, the wall behind Odis suddenly became illusory, and he passed through it, arriving in the next room.
Odis smiled, found a chair, sat down, crossed his legs, and leisurely waited for Celt to die: "Haha, this trap is perfect, I'm a genius."
At this moment, a cold aura permeated the surroundings. This coldness was not like the chilling cold brought by the gray fog of Backlund, nor was it the biting cold of the winter sea breeze.
Instead, it strikes straight to the soul, a chilling coldness from the inside out.
In the next room, after Odis left, the door slammed shut. Then, Celt saw eerie patterns and symbols emitting a pale white light appear on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room.
Realizing something was wrong, Celt rushed to the door, but as soon as he took a step, cold water surged up from the ground.
The hairs on his body stood on end instantly, and he felt as if his soul was being constantly washed by icy water, making his body extremely stiff.
This water is no ordinary water; it is the water flowing in the "River of the Dead" that the dead travel on by ferry to the underworld.
Even a Sequence 7 level extraordinary being's spirit body cannot withstand the prolonged scouring of these waters, especially since the water level is still rising rapidly and has already reached waist-deep in the blink of an eye.
Selt's lips were purple, his face was deathly pale, and he was covered in cold sweat. He was still trying his best to reach the door, knowing that it was his only way to survive.
The tide of the "River of the Dead" quickly reached his chest, and the air Selt exhaled from his lungs turned into cold mist.
Finally arriving at the door, Selt suddenly swung his fist, and "crack!" a hole appeared in the door panel.
But that's not enough, because these streams of water don't exist in reality, so they only have minor breaks and don't flow outwards.
By this time, the water had risen to the corners of his mouth, and Selt felt the suffocating sensation of death. He used his last bit of strength to throw another punch.
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
Click!
He broke the door in half, destroying the surrounding sealed magic array and creating a hole, through which water immediately flowed away.
The water flowing inside the room was icy cold, the "River of the Dead" that could wash away spirits. However, it did not flow out through the holes in the door, but instead flowed into the void, returning to the underworld.
The corridors were filled with a chilling wind and were unusually cold, but there wasn't a trace of liquid.
At the same time, because the magic circle was destroyed, the sealed environment inside the house disappeared, thus severing the connection with the "River of the Dead," and the tide inside the house quickly receded.
In the end, only a thick layer of frost remained in the room, and all the furniture, carpets, and other furnishings were not wet.
Covered in bruises, Selt fell to the ground and struggled to crawl out onto the corridor, finally feeling like he had returned to the human world.
"Your spirit has suffered permanent damage." Odis said with a smile, standing in the doorway of the next room. "I was so careless; I should have sealed the door completely…"
"Yes, I was so careless!"
Odis seemed to snap out of his daze. He had been about to come out and seal the door, so why was he sitting there indulging in self-admiration?
He took a step back abruptly, but the "weakening" from Celt lying on the ground still struck him, and Oddis immediately felt a decline in his spirituality, strength, and so on.
Odis thought to himself: It is indeed quite difficult to deal with Sequence 7 alone.
Fortunately, this is his home turf, and it was designed to be able to deal with Sequence 7 at its highest level.
Although Odis was "weakened" at this point, he regained his composure.
He took a sword he had prepared long ago from the wall. The sword was white like bone and was made by Odis from the bone of a "hellish rhinoceros" that he had bought by chance. It was a weapon specifically designed to attack the spirits of the target.
With his sword in hand, Odis strode into the corridor and saw Celt climbing toward the window at the end of the corridor, trying to escape from there.
However, because his spirit was very weak at this time, the attacks on his "mental body" and "spiritual body" were even more intense, so he had great difficulty crawling and his mentality was on the verge of complete collapse several times.
Upon realizing that "Lelouch" had appeared, he struggled to turn over, trying to continue using his extraordinary abilities to hold off Odis.
But Odis didn't give him that chance, directly using the silver-white sword as a javelin, which flew out with a "clang" and pierced Celt's abdomen.
Selt cried out in pain, feeling the piercing pain of the sword wounding his already weakened spirit body once again.
Odis took a handful of powder that he had prepared beforehand, which could increase his affinity with the underworld, and sprinkled it on Celt.
Selt suddenly froze, unable to move at all.
Odis stepped forward, drew his sword, and cleanly slit Celt's throat. Black blood flowed from his neck, sending the "briber" to the underworld.
Odis pinned the silver-white sword to Celt's chest to prevent the corpse from turning into a zombie. Then he dealt with the zombies on the first floor, recovered the extraordinary characteristics of the three people, and removed Celt's cold gauntlets.
Finally, they set it on fire, completely abandoning the stronghold.