Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 27 Pretense
William and the tower keeper with fiery red hair walked in the tunnel leading to the sealing room.
The two of them were silent all the way until they were close to the door of the sealing room, and then the tower guard said:
"Since we've come this far, I won't ask questions like 'whether you want to reconsider' or 'are you sure you want to do this'. But if things get completely out of control, I will do my best to get you out."
William simply replied expressionlessly:
"You don't have to force it."
Then he added:
"But this situation should have been completely avoidable. The reminder given by the Rose Palace was early enough."
In response, the tower keeper sighed and said:
"But I still haven't figured out how he did it..."
The door of the sealing room opened. At this time, the room was illuminated by countless complicated seals. Seventy-seven seals were placed on the crazy box at the end of the room.
Crazy Box now looks as calm as before, without any sign of agitation at all.
Everything seemed normal except that the place where the soul fragments were supposed to be floating was empty.
According to the description of the guard who was guarding this room before, he first witnessed the thief holding the holy object in his hand at the door of the sealing room, and when he turned around, he found that the holy object on the crazy box had disappeared.
Before this, he didn't even feel anyone coming into the sealing room.
If the other party had not accidentally exposed himself before leaving, he might not have had time to sound the alarm and activate the seventy-seven backup seals.
"The thief must have deliberately exposed himself in the end."
Looking at the constantly changing seal in the seal room, the tower keeper suddenly said.
"Why did you deliberately expose yourself? Just to provoke me?"
William asked casually.
"I don't know... maybe it's to give us time to react, so that we can open the backup seal and delay the time it takes for the demon general to break through the seal."
The tower keeper thought for a moment and answered.
"Will it be like this?"
William said perfunctorily.
"But to be honest, if that's the case, then his approach is too risky. When the Star Council designed this place, they didn't dare to guarantee how long the backup sealing measures could last. It's better to say that this thing was just a psychological comfort in the beginning."
Not noticing the other party's perfunctory attitude, the tower keeper looked at the seal solemnly and said.
It was completely beyond her expectations that none of the seventy-seven seals had been broken so far.
After all, as the number one demon general under the Mad Fool, Madness's notoriety is widely known in certain circles.
Basically, every time it comes to the world, it will cause a disaster of huge scale. It is a truly mythical existence.
There are only three records of it coming to the world.
The first record of its advent was as far back as the Silver Age, which only vaguely mentioned that it drove everyone in a large city on the Boiling Plains crazy. In the end, it was only after three divine heroes broke their oaths that they successfully exiled it.
The second time was a thousand years ago when the End Watchers were active. It disguised itself as the "Mad King" Fox III of the Baroque Kingdom in the early stage of the second invasion. However, ironically, during the reign of this fake Mad King, the national strength of the Baroque Kingdom actually increased. Under the command of "Mania", the Baroque Kingdom won many wars with the Kos Empire in a row. And it was because of this that it was suspected by its eunuchs. He secretly found the Tribunal to investigate the abnormality of his king. In the end, the Tribunal revealed its identity and finally exiled it back to the Moon Realm.
The third time was during the period of the promotion of the Star Law, when Furious came to Nakuland and wanted to destroy the construction of the Star Lighthouse. This time, it was defeated by the great sage Ye Zhi and sealed at the bottom of the lighthouse until now.
"So now we are..."
The tower keeper stared at the crazy box and was about to tell the envoy from Thorn City beside him what to do next, but he didn't expect that the other party had already ignored the seals and restrictions and walked straight past.
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It was not a difficult task for William to get the soul fragment of the Father of Crows.
The defense here may be as strong as a rock to others, but to him it is no different from paper.
The problem is how to evacuate the people in the fortress area before the seal is lifted - especially the enchanters and alchemists.
After all, "Mania" is considered to be more particular about pomp and circumstance among the demon generals, and the noise is quite loud when fighting.
If we let it out like this , after William exiles it back to the Moon Realm, there will probably be few sane people left in the entire fortress area.
Therefore, he had to evacuate all the people here before breaking the seal - preferably to his own territory.
Before he came, he had already informed Nezemal and Cass to make sure to properly accommodate the valuable technical personnel who were coming.
As he thought about it, William passed through the seventy-seven flashy seals and came to the front of the Crazy Box.
Because the seal of the Madness Box has never been opened by anyone, no one knows what will happen except that Mania will be released after the seal is opened.
Will there be a big noise, or will it be a silent breakthrough? Will the mania break through the seal instantly, or will it take some time to come out?
They knew nothing about it. After all, no one was willing to remove the seal and conduct an experiment to find out.
They might even think that the spare seals could buy them some time.
So what William had to do was very simple, he just had to make them mistakenly believe that the soul fragments had been stolen.
Ignoring the voice of the woman behind him, William looked at the empty space above the crazy box and slowly stretched out his hand.
Then, a shadow was torn apart by William, and he took out a pitch-black illusory crow feather from under the cover of the shadow.
The Crowfeather Prophet did not steal the soul fragment at all, and the seal had never been broken. He just used shadow spells with the blessing of the Crown of Darkness to cover up the appearance and breath of the soul fragment.
The soul fragment that the guardian of the sealed room saw in the hands of the Crowfeather Prophet was also genuine, otherwise he would not have been able to deceive the master-level magic caster.
However, the soul fragment in the Crow Feather Prophet's hand was actually the one that William had taken out from the Holy Tomb before.
According to William's estimation, after the other party discovered that the holy relic that sealed the mad box was stolen, his first reaction would definitely not be to put his head close to check whether the sealed holy relic was really stolen, when the demon general could reach out his hand from the mad box at any time and grab something around and smash it hard.
They would directly sound the alarm and open the backup seal like they are doing now, evacuate all personnel and be on high alert.
This is what normal people think.
Of course, if the other party really didn't play by the rules and insisted on checking whether the soul fragment was really stolen, it wouldn't have much impact on William in terms of the result.
At worst, he could just force his way in then, at least it wouldn't affect his getting the soul fragments back.
But to those in the fortress area, he could only express his deep apologies.
After all, he had tried his best.
Fortunately, everything went well.
As William took the soul fragment off the top of the crazy box, the crazy box instantly cracked into several cracks.
At the same time, the seventy-seven seals placed next to the Crazy Box made a series of sounds like shattering porcelain.
They broke one after another.
"ah……"
A deep and terrifying voice echoed throughout the sealing room.
