Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83 - Cry-Baby And Ugly-Faced Woman
Chapter 84 - The Situation Took A Turn For The Worst
Chapter 85 - The Blood Clan’S True Form (One)
Chapter 86 - Blood Clan'S True Form (Two)
Chapter 87 - Your Blood Is Quite Nutritious
Chapter 88 - Awakening (One)
Chapter 89 - Awakening (Two)
Chapter 90 - Awakening (Three)
Chapter 91 - Return
Chapter 92 - Sin Of Hell’S River
Chapter 93 - Don’T Do It, It’Ll Hurt
Chapter 94 - All The Blood In This World Belongs To Me
Chapter 95 - The Charm Of That Shield
Chapter 96 - I Definitely Will Not Let You Suffer
Chapter 97 - Our Inland Sea
Chapter 98 - Arracca Murkh
Chapter 99 - Uncertain Fate
Chapter 100 - Ramon (One)
Chapter 101 - Ramon (Two)
Chapter 102 - Eckstedt’S Welcoming Ceremony
Chapter 103 - Gamble (One)
Chapter 104 - Gamble (Two)
Chapter 105 - The Kingdom’S Wrath
Chapter 106 - The Failed Bet
Chapter 107 - Mystic Gun
Chapter 108 - Chapman Lampard
Chapter 109 - Remnants Of Magic
Chapter 110 - Paid Homage
Chapter 111 - Kaslan’S Tavern
Chapter 112
Chapter 113 - The Intersection Of Fate
Chapter 114 - The People In Hell (One)
Chapter 115 - The People In Hell (Two)
Chapter 116
Chapter 117 - Star Killer
Chapter 118 - The Unexpected Guests
Chapter 119 - A Marquis From Camus
Chapter 120 - Bait
Chapter 121 - Clue
Chapter 122 - Until Dawn Came (One)
Chapter 123 - Until Dawn Came (Two)
Chapter 124 - Queen Of The Sky
Chapter 125 - The Female Warrior
Chapter 126 - Heroic Spirit Palace
Chapter 127 - The Born King (One)
Chapter 128 - The Born King (Two)
Chapter 129 - A Duel
Chapter 130 - The King And His Archdukes
Chapter 131 - The Strange Swordsman
Chapter 132 - Who Are You?
Chapter 133 - Hunt And Chase
Chapter 134 - Little Rascal And Alex (One)
Chapter 135 - Little Rascal And Alex (Two)
Chapter 136 - Stabs
Chapter 137 - Kidnapping The Archduke?
Chapter 138 - Numb Hands
Chapter 139 - A Unique Welcome Banquet
Chapter 140 - The Red Witch
Chapter 141 - Reunion
Chapter 142 - Who’S There (One)
Chapter 143 - Who’S There (Two)
Chapter 144 - The Sword Of Baptism’S Death
Chapter 145 - The Wait
Chapter 146 - The Culprit
Chapter 147 - The Northland Road
Chapter 148
Chapter 149 - Not Even Worth Half A Penny!
Chapter 150 - The Beloved Former King, Nuven
Chapter 151 - Veteran
Chapter 152 - Shadow
Chapter 153 - Have A Drink
Chapter 154 - The Secret Of ‘Triumph’
Chapter 155 - A Bargaining Chip You Cannot Refuse
Chapter 156 - Horrifying
Chapter 157 - The Death Of Soria
Chapter 158 - Betrayal
Chapter 159 - The Fateful Night
Chapter 160 - The Invitation
Chapter 161 - The First Mystic Declaration
Chapter 162 - Letting Go Of A Suspicion
Chapter 163 - Monster And Monster
Chapter 164 - Chaos Begins
Chapter 165 - Just Speak
Chapter 166 - Surprise
Chapter 167 - Flee
Chapter 168 - The Tragic End Of Weaklings
Chapter 169 - Air And Blood
Chapter 170 - The Desperate Dash
Chapter 171 - The Outcome Of The Civil War
Chapter 172 - Elimination
Chapter 173 - The Blade Of Purification
Chapter 174 - The Truth About Elimination
Chapter 175 - Same Kind (One)
Chapter 176 - Same Kind (Two)
Chapter 177 - Sudden Entrance Into The Battlefield!
Chapter 178 - True Form
Chapter 179 - Silence And Darkness
Chapter 180 - Knocking On The Door
Chapter 181 - Phantom
Chapter 182 - A Gentle Kiss
Chapter 183 - The Cost Of Victory
Chapter 184 - The Paradoxical Assassin
Chapter 185 - Thunder Rumbles In Winter
Chapter 186 - End Of Arc: A Good Name
Chapter 187 - The Night Ends, The Day Breaks
Chapter 188 - It Is You
Chapter 189 - Symphony Of Blood (One)
Chapter 190 - Symphony Of Blood (Part Two)
Chapter 191 - Stop Meddling Into The Matters Of Elders
Chapter 192 - Six-Fifty
Chapter 193 - Choose Who You Want To Become
Chapter 194 - Ice-Cold
Chapter 195 - Spirit Of The Contract
Chapter 196 - The Manipulator (One)
Chapter 197 - The Manipulator (Two)
Chapter 198 - Price
Chapter 199
Chapter 200 - Encounter
Chapter 201 - The Prince’S End
Chapter 202 - Really Bad Luck (One)
Chapter 203 - Really Bad Luck (Two)
Chapter 204 - Understanding
Chapter 205 - Execute On The Spot
Chapter 206 - Guest From Barren Bone
Chapter 207 - The Prince’S Doubts
Chapter 208 - The Black Prophet From The Other Side
Chapter 209 - Code Name: Dragon’S Blood
Chapter 210 - The Importance Of Dragon’S Blood
Chapter 211 - A Gamble In The Dark (One)
Chapter 212 - A Gamble In The Dark (Two)
Chapter 213 - The Curse Of The Witch
Chapter 214 - The Scorching Blade
Chapter 215 - Stall
Chapter 216 - The Latecomer
Chapter 217 - A Very Big Problem
Chapter 218 - The Blade And The Wing
Chapter 219 - Trust And Loyalty
Chapter 220 - Nicholas’ Bargaining Chip
Chapter 221 - Shelter
Chapter 222 - A Critical Decision
Chapter 223 - Failure
Chapter 224 - Little Rascal’S ‘Consolation’
Chapter 225 - Save This Country
Chapter 226 - King Slayer
Chapter 227 - Creating Trouble For Ourselves
Chapter 228 - The Strongest Chess Piece (One)
Chapter 229 - The Strongest Chess Piece (Two)
Chapter 230 - The Strongest Chess Piece. (Three)
Chapter 231 - Lampard’S Plan
Chapter 232 - The Archduke’S Fight
Chapter 233 - It Has Been A Long Time
Chapter 234 - A Great Threat
Chapter 235 - Contention
Chapter 236 - The Inextinguishable Starlight
Chapter 237 - The Virtuous King
Chapter 238 - Centuries Of Strategic Planning (One)
Chapter 239 - Centuries Of Strategic Planning (Two)
Chapter 240 - Centuries Of Strategic Planning (Three)
Chapter 241 - Genuine Patrols
Chapter 242
Chapter 243 - Seize Control
Chapter 244 - Chad Vlad
Chapter 245 - Severing Souls With A Slash!
Chapter 246 - A Game Of Chess
Chapter 247 - A Chance Encounter
Chapter 248 - I Am Very Honored
Chapter 249 - When Swords Cross (One)
Chapter 250 - When Swords Cross (Two)
Chapter 251 - Arduous
Chapter 252 - I Am So Relieved
Chapter 253 - I Can Help You
Chapter 254 - The Black Knight’S Death
Chapter 255 - Changing Hands
Chapter 256 - Counter-Attack
Chapter 257 - Check
Chapter 258 - Checkmate
Chapter 259 - A Speculation
Chapter 260 - The Reason For Battle (One)
Chapter 261 - The Reason For Battle (Two)
Chapter 262 - Twist Of Fate
Chapter 263 - A Child Who’S Not Able To Drink Alcohol
Chapter 264 - You Northland Barbarians!
Chapter 265 - Two Minutes
Chapter 266 - What A Shame (One)
Chapter 267 - What A Shame (Two)
Chapter 268 - We Won
Chapter 269 - The Archduchess
Chapter 270 - The Blood-Stained Crown
Chapter 271 - The Day Before The Bitter Cold Winter
Chapter 272 - Yc
Chapter 273 - End Of Arc: The Destiny They Missed
Chapter 274 - The Quiet Prince
Chapter 275 - A Game Of Chess (One)
Chapter 276 - A Game Of Chess (Two)
Chapter 277 - First Lesson
Chapter 278 - The Truth Brothers
Chapter 279 - Traitors
Chapter 280 - Target
Chapter 281 - An Awkward Dinner
Chapter 282 - Upset
Chapter 283 - Riot
Chapter 284 - The Familiar Guest
Chapter 285 - The Honor And Humiliation Of The Great Dragon (One)
Chapter 286
Chapter 287 - The Mystery About Putray
Chapter 288 - The Dragon’S Blood Has Yet To Dry
Chapter 289 - Dragon Breaker (One)
Chapter 290 - Dragon Breaker (Two)
Chapter 291 - Meryl Hicks
Chapter 292 - The Boundaries Of Governance (One)
Chapter 293 - The Boundaries Of Governance (Two)
Chapter 294 - What Is Magic?
Chapter 295 - An Unforeseen Invitation
Chapter 296 - The Game In The Carriage
Chapter 297 - The Former King’S “Present”
Chapter 298 - The Prince’S Shackles
Chapter 299 - Friend And Foe
Chapter 300 - Victory And Defeat
Chapter 301 - A Duel
Chapter 302 - Not Too Bad?
Chapter 303 - Leave
Chapter 304 - A Storm Is Coming
Chapter 305 - The Creation Of The Two Empresses
Chapter 306 - Raven Of Death
Chapter 307 - Ian The Nuisance
Chapter 308 - Collusion
Chapter 309 - The Writers Of Legend (One)
Chapter 310 - The Writers Of Legend (Two)
Chapter 311 - The Day Of The State Affairs Hearing
Chapter 312 - The Hatred For Stealing His Sister
Chapter 313 - The Beginning
Chapter 314 - For Dragon Clouds City
Chapter 315 - The Archduchess And Her Vassals
Chapter 316 - Plan
Chapter 317 - A Romantic Story
Chapter 318 - Are All Of You Coming?
Chapter 319 - Not According To Plan
Chapter 320 - Releasing In “Installments”
Chapter 321 - The Price Of Saying “No”
Chapter 322 - The Moral Of The Story
Chapter 323 - Good Morning
Chapter 324 - Returning The Favor
Chapter 325 - Send Reinforcements
Chapter 326 - Five Archdukes
Chapter 327 - The Prince’S Whereabouts
Chapter 328 - Just Like Chapman Lampard
Chapter 329 - The Final Journey
Chapter 330 - Assassinating Lampard?
Chapter 331 - Bumping Into A Ghost
Chapter 332 - Headquarters
Chapter 333 - Smooth-Sailing
Chapter 334
Chapter 335 - The Confusion While Going Back Home
Chapter 336 - The Veteran On The Wheelchair
Chapter 337 - Double The Amount?
Chapter 338 - The Point Of Contact
Chapter 339 - His/Her Eyes
Chapter 340 - The Magical Therren
Chapter 341 - You Son Of A *Censored*
Chapter 342 - Which Will You Choose?
Chapter 343 - Exterminate Them All
Chapter 344 - Black Track
Chapter 345 - Join Us
Chapter 346 - Silver Shadow
Chapter 347 - You Will Fail In The End
Chapter 348 - You Fell Into The Trap, Eh?
Chapter 349 - The War Of The Deceased Souls
Chapter 350 - Never Lost
Chapter 351 - The Pulse Of The Ground
Chapter 352 - God Knows
Chapter 353 - The First Rule
Chapter 354 - Pursuers
Chapter 355 - The Hardest Fight
Chapter 356 - Unique Only To One
Chapter 357 - Just Die Here
Chapter 358 - The Three-Second Fight
Chapter 359 - Surpassed Kaslan
Chapter 360 - The Raven And The Snow Blade (One)
Chapter 361 - The Raven And The Snow Blade (Two)
Chapter 362 - The Black Raven’S Eyes
Chapter 363 - Who Does Your Loyalty Belong To?
Chapter 364 - Turning Against One Another
Chapter 365 - Saber Or Crossbow?
Chapter 366 - Prince In The Desert
Chapter 367 - Sellsword
Chapter 368 - Dante’S Greatsword
Chapter 369 - Desert Threat
Chapter 370 - There’S Someone
Chapter 371 - Barren Bone People
Chapter 372 - Bloody Thorn Lizard
Chapter 373 - Young Cub
Chapter 374 - Foreign Blood
Chapter 375 - Coming-Of-Age Ceremony
Chapter 376 - Flag
Chapter 377 - The Destructive Army
Chapter 378 - Freaks
Chapter 379 - Welcome To Constellation (One)
Chapter 380 - Welcome To Constellation (Two)
Chapter 381 - Ghost Prince
Chapter 382 - My Home (One)
Chapter 383 - My Home (Two)
Chapter 384 - Age Of Mercenaries
Chapter 385 - Confrontation And Stalemate
Chapter 386 - Prince Versus Prince
Chapter 387 - So Many Tricks
Chapter 388 - You Have To Laugh
Chapter 389 - Shackles Of Power
Chapter 390 - Perhaps I Have
Chapter 391 - Happily Ever After
Chapter 392 - Technical Skill
Chapter 393 - Intention
Chapter 394 - New Guest
Chapter 395 - Shadows And Swords
Chapter 396 - The Dark Side
Chapter 397 - Emergency Mission
Chapter 398 - Alliance Of Traitors
Chapter 399 - The Mole
Chapter 400 - As Bad As Can Be
Chapter 401 - Affectionate And United
Chapter 402 - F*Ck You
Chapter 403 - H.N. Jadestar
Chapter 404 - Stupid Idea
Chapter 405 - Sinner
Chapter 406 - The Intruders
Chapter 407 - Head Towards Omniscience
Chapter 408 - Black Prison
Chapter 409 - Behind The Iron Curtain
Chapter 410 - Hallucination
Chapter 411 - Seven
Chapter 412 - People Whom History Has Forgotten
Chapter 413 - The Mourning Of The Guards
Chapter 414 - Where Is He?
Chapter 415 - Fall Out
Chapter 416 - Disaster Sword’S Battle
Chapter 417 - The Knight Of Judgment
Chapter 418 - A Different World
Chapter 419 - The Queen’S Dowry
Chapter 420 - The Greatest King
Chapter 421 - Knew Clearly
Chapter 422 - Nameless
Chapter 423 - Awaken
Chapter 424 - Loyalty
Chapter 425 - Peer
Chapter 426 - He Was Probably Old
Chapter 427 - A Stalemate
Chapter 428 - Dusk
Chapter 429 - The Man At The Proximal World
Chapter 430 - The Second Declaration Among Mystics
Chapter 431 - The Anchor Point
Chapter 432 - Taurus Mill
Chapter 433 - Decision
Chapter 434 - Correcting The Mistake
Chapter 435 - Malicious Flower, Malicious Fruit
Chapter 436 - Moriah Returns
Chapter 437 - Old Self
Chapter 438 - The Prince Is Not Here
Chapter 439 - Scheme Between The Thief And Bandit
Chapter 440 - Seven To Three
Chapter 441 - Missing One
Chapter 442 - Quick Wit
Chapter 443 - Not Just You
Chapter 444 - Someone Needs An Answer
Chapter 445 - A Forbidden Name
Chapter 446 - Three Calamity Allies
Chapter 447 - Enemy Of The World
Chapter 448 - 1 Vs 8
Chapter 449 - Chaos Of Armies
Chapter 450 - Two Hands
Chapter 451 - Xx Films
Chapter 452 - Fratricide
Chapter 453 - It Was Not A Coincidence
Chapter 454 - More Than Half
Chapter 455 - I Hated Him
Chapter 456 - Nothing At All
Chapter 457 - The Person Who Supported Him
Chapter 458 - Where The Sun Does Not Shine (One)
Chapter 459 - Where The Sun Does Not Shine (Two)
Chapter 460 - Rebirth (One)
Chapter 461 - Rebirth (Two)
Chapter 462 - Rebirth (Three)
Chapter 463 - Rebirth (Four)
Chapter 464 - Rebirth (Five)
Chapter 465 - Truth Swords
Chapter 466 - Beheaded
Chapter 467 - Revealed In Flames
Chapter 468 - The Silent Demon
Chapter 469 - So Naïve That You Are Adorable
Chapter 470 - The Fate Twins
Chapter 471 - The True Essence Of The Power Of Eradication
Chapter 472 - Leaving The Prison
Chapter 473 - I Am Not A Devil, After All
Chapter 474 - Much… Higher
Chapter 475 - The Warden
Chapter 476 - Life, Safety And Freedom
Chapter 477 - Something Lighter
Chapter 478 - Get Me Something To Eat And Drink
Chapter 479 - Exclusive Possession
Chapter 480 - Kill Them
Chapter 481 - A Different Way Of Living
Chapter 482 - Get Yourself A Girlfriend
Chapter 483 - Make Me Even More… Excited
Chapter 484 - You Are Good-Looking
Chapter 485 - Too High
Chapter 486 - You Are Good-Looking
Chapter 487 - Too High
Chapter 488 - That Night
Chapter 489 - Usurp Power
Chapter 490 - Do Something
Chapter 491 - Power Comes From Violence (One)
Chapter 492 - Power Comes From Violence (Two)
Chapter 493 - The Third Party
Chapter 494 - Destiny Is Like A Poem
Chapter 495 - Raven Leader
Chapter 496 - Never
Chapter 497 - His Majesty’S Blessing
Chapter 498 - Black Lion
Chapter 499 - I Have Come In Peace
Chapter 500 - End Of Arc: Duke
Chapter 501 - Everything Will Be Better
Chapter 502 - Six Divisions And Seven Attendants
Chapter 503 - Divided Western Desert
Chapter 504 - Only One Day Left
Chapter 505 - Protection
Chapter 506 - This Is Just The Beginning
Chapter 507 - Hometown
Chapter 508 - A Small Spark
Chapter 509 - Anxious
Chapter 510 - Fifteen Minutes
Chapter 511 - King In The Mist
Chapter 512 - Crazy
Chapter 513 - A Small Favor
Chapter 514 - Like A Fleeting Cloud
Chapter 515 - Timetable
Chapter 516 - Coincidence?
Chapter 517 - Went To High School
Chapter 518 - Discovered?
Chapter 519 - Let’S Fight
Chapter 520 - Not Just The Power Of Eradication
Chapter 521 - World Class Battle Worthy Of Being Written In Historical Poems
Chapter 522 - Continuous Fights
Chapter 523 - Mutant
Chapter 524 - Self-Reliant
Chapter 525 - Lustful Woman
Chapter 526 - Knowledge Of People
Chapter 527 - Holiness Exorcism
Chapter 528 - Fight Between The Eldest And Youngest
Chapter 529 - Privacy
Chapter 530 - Alien Star
Chapter 531 - Guest
Chapter 532 - The Young Kingdom
Chapter 533 - Calm On Iron Spikes
Chapter 534 - Sorry To Keep You Waiting
Chapter 535 - Polaris
Chapter 536 - Times Have Changed
Chapter 537 - Pretty Boy
Chapter 538 - Magnificent Scene Of Hell
Chapter 539 - Side Story 7: Joint Council
Chapter 540 - Never Kneel
Chapter 541 - A Piece Of Cake
Chapter 542 - Merciless
Chapter 543 - That Gaze
Chapter 544 - Watchmen’S Code
Chapter 545 - The End Of It
Chapter 546 - To Not Perish As Foes (One)
Chapter 547 - To Not Perish As Foes (Two)
Chapter 548 - To Not Perish As Foes (Three)
Chapter 549 - To Duke Thales
Chapter 550 - What Rationality
Chapter 551 - Better
Chapter 552 - Sacrificing A Pawn (One)
Chapter 553 - Sacrificing A Pawn (Two)
Chapter 554 - Sacrificing A Pawn (Three)
Chapter 555 - Unfulfilled
Chapter 556 - Chess Player
Chapter 557 - Relieved
Chapter 558 - Punishment
Chapter 559 - Eight Arteries
Chapter 560 - Imperial Style
Chapter 561 - Cannot Escape The Sheath
Chapter 562 - Want Everything
Chapter 563 - Cause And Effect
Chapter 564 - Blazing Blood
Chapter 565 - Of Course—Not
Chapter 566 - Crown Jewel Of The Kingdom
Chapter 567 - Head Over Heels
Chapter 568 - As Truthful As Possible
Chapter 569 - Hand In Marriage
Chapter 570 - What Do I Need You For
Chapter 571 - Defects
Chapter 572 - Heart Of The Guards
Chapter 573 - You’Re A Real Dog
Chapter 574 - Antecessors
Chapter 575 - The Years Have Caught On To Me
Chapter 576 - Shooting Yourself In The Foot
Chapter 577 - Lie
Chapter 578 - The Wine Merchant
Chapter 579 - Damn The Prince
Chapter 580 - The Prince Likes Them
Categories Genre: Action, All, Drama, Fantasy, Mature, Ongoing, Psychological, Seinen, Tragedy Status: Ongoing Alternative names: Wang Guo Xue Mai, 王国血脉, ______
Total Chapters in book: 580
Estimated words: 2362673 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 11813(@200wpm)___ 9451(@250wpm)___ 7876(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 2362673 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 11813(@200wpm)___ 9451(@250wpm)___ 7876(@300wpm)
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Chapter 407 Head Towards Omniscience
In the dim environment, the Disaster Swords walked behind Josef, and the echoes of their footsteps were heard vaguely.
However, Stake walked through the crowd and went in front of Ricky.
“Wait.” Stake stared at Thales, who was detained by Marina beside her, puzzled. “Are you bringing him down there? You know that we can wait for you here, right?”
Thales furrowed his eyebrows. He noticed that many of the mercenaries moved indistinctly to surround them.
Ricky turned and shot a glance at Stake. “All of you did very well and saved us a lot of trouble, Stake.” He pressed down on Stake’s shoulder. “But I also know that all of you are going all-out and being cooperative because of this hostage in our hands.”
Stake’s expression stiffened.
“In another situation, you might not be acting like this. Now, you can either choose to walk with us, or stay here and wait for me.”
Ricky paid no more attention to Stake who had an unpleasant expression. He waved his hand and continued walking forward. Samel snorted scornfully as he walked past Stake.
As he watched from the side, Thales wished that Stake could be firmer in his attitude. Unfortunately for him, Stake still did not say anything. He only made a gesture with his hand and followed the Disaster Swords down the prison with a few assassins from Shadow Shield who were dressed to maintain a low profile.
Just like this, escorted by the Disaster Sword group, Thales continued walking forward. As they moved further down the prison, the Disaster Swords spread further apart, and many of the prisoners noticed this group of intruders.
Patrolling guards would encounter the intruding Disaster Swords from time to time. Hopelessly outnumbered, these unfortunate beings often died fighting after a violent struggle.
The Prison of Bones began to grow restless, and the chaos exceeded Thales’ imagination.
“That guard coming over from there… Yes, you. Let me tell you, these few years, I earned a lot of money through buying weapons and selling them for a profit, most of them were not found by ‘them’. If you let me out, I guarantee that I’ll give you… Eh, all of you, all of you aren’t guards?”
“Damn it… What’s with the ruckus this time?!”
“Wow, wow, wow… There really are people breaking into the prison?! Ah… this is too awesome… The gang that broke into the prison last time didn’t even manage to last five minutes before the freaks came to finish them off. Williams chopped them up like firewood. This time, all of you must perform better, you must last ten minutes!”
“Let me out! I am a devoted Priest of the Dark Night Temple! They cannot lock me here with this… this group, just because of the artistic play I created…”
“Hey, good friend, let’s make a deal. I’ve been locked here for four years, and I’m going crazy from not having s*x… I’m not asking for you to let me out… I’ll be satisfied if… if you transfer me to the female prison, is that alright?”
“Someone’s murdering someone~ This is too amazing~”
“F*ck your father, motherf*cker. There are so many prostitutes on the street, why did you only lock me up?! Girls’ clothing? What’s wrong with girls’ clothing? I like to wear girls’ clothing and be a prostitute, what’s wrong with that? If you don’t believe me, all of you can come and touch my breasts…”
“F*ck, you brat, come back! What does other people breaking into the prison have to do with you? I’m going to give you a good beating again! Keep it properly in your mouth, don’t simply turn your head around. Exactly, ooh… good boy, use some force, ah, this is how it should be… Don’t worry, if I’m satisfied, I won’t hit you tomorrow.”
“I beg you, marijuana… give me a little more marijuana. I’M BEGGING YOU!! If you don’t MOTHERF*CKING give me marijuana, I’ll kill myself by throwing myself against the wall. I’m gonna throw myself against it, I’m ABOUT to throw myself against it! Look, I’m REALLY going to throw myself against it! Motherf*cker, take a look at me! What if I really kill myself by throwing myself against the wall?!”
“F*ck that baron! F*ck the Stardust Unit! Fuck Blade Fangs Camp! You better believe that when I get out, I’ll kidnap that f*cking sissy Williams and force him to wear girls’ clothing. Then, I’ll find a hundred burly man to take turns and pin him on the bed, and then… ah-ah, oh… mmh… ah-Ah! Shit, I used too much force, I’m bleeding…”
“Hey, that person over there, help me pass a message to my wife. Three years ago, she wrote and said that she would bail me out of prison… In the end, she hasn’t come until now… I’ll give you a reward…”
‘Shit, what kind of place is this?!’
Thales did not even dare breathe loudly as he walked beside Ricky. He shot a worried glance behind him. Quick Rope was still tied up. The man stared at the notorious prison with a terrified expression born from his past trauma in this place.
Finally, under Josef’s guidance, they walked down a few flights of stairs and reached an empty room that had no jail cells.
The room was very big, so big that it could fit a hundred people, almost comparable to a banquet hall fit for an aristocrat. Even the noises made by the prisoners could no longer be heard, as though they had been separated from them by the door behind.
However, at the same time, the observant Thales noticed that the ground here was laid with meticulously fired stone tiles, and the surface of the walls were also rather old. It was a sharp contrast from the crude and dirty prison cells a few floors above.
The design of the room was also quite distinctive. It actually had eight walls, like an octagon.
The more unusual thing was that there were four narrow openings on the ground which looked like wells, and it was dark inside these openings. For some reason, as Thales stared into these deep wells, he suddenly shuddered from fear and felt a chill down his spine.
‘Strange. That’s… that’s…’
Stake and Lasalle also noticed this. They evaluated the place with considerable surprise. Even the Disaster Swords, including Klein and Samel, seemed to have never been in this place before.
Ricky swept his gaze over his surroundings and stood still in front of one of the mottled and shabby walls. “This is the place?”
Josef nodded. He pointed solemnly at the thing that looked like a well opening and said, “Yes. As we have observed, the guards brought extra supplies here at regular intervals. They definitely threw those supplies down there.”
Ricky crouched down and knocked at the ‘well’. He then picked up a stone, tossed it in, and listened carefully.
For a whole ten seconds, no sound came out from the depths of the well. It was still completely silent.
Thales understood something.
“That’s correct.” Ricky patted the dust off his hands, nodded, and stood up. “It’s here. As for the entrance…”
He lifted his head and looked at Josef, but Josef only shook his head, troubled. Ricky snorted softly. He seemed rather resigned.
“If my personality was like Williams’, I definitely won’t personally go looking for trouble.” Ricky started pacing back and forth. He lowered his head to observe the ground, then muttered, “There are no stairs here. This means that the path down must be somewhere we can reach while standing here…”
Stake’s expression changed. “Wait, honorable Crassus.” Stake furrowed his eyebrows and said, “Does he mean that he hasn’t found the entrance, even though all of you want to enter Black Prison?”
Ricky paid no attention to him. Instead, with all eyes trained on him, he took a torch from Klein, walked towards the wall, and continued to observe the empty room.
“Black Prison is, after all, a legend,” Klein said coldly. “Apart from those who entered, no one knows how to get inside. And those who went in…”
“Never came out.” Samel snorted softly when he spoke.
Lasalle walked forward. “Do all of you know that our time is limited? We don’t have the time to slowly play treasure hunt.” He said in dissatisfaction, “Once the camp registers the situation—”
“Shut up, Northlander.” Samel cut him off. The brand on his face became even more hideous under the firelight.
Lasalle, however, not only did not restrain himself, he seemed angered by the former member of the Stardust Unit. “Do you know what kind of risk we’re taking…?”
At that moment…
“Aha,” Ricky suddenly said, attracting everyone’s attention.
Thales stared curiously at the leader of the Disaster Swords.
The latter had the torch in his hand raised as he faced a wall. He stretched out his left hand, and gently patted the dust and cobwebs off the wall.
Ricky smiled and said. “The people in the past probably didn’t think about hiding it. As for the Constellatiates, they probably didn’t expect that anyone would be able to break into this place.”
Everyone looked at the wall, surprised and bewildered.
As the dust fell, a strange fragmented pattern appeared on the mottled wall. As Ricky dusted the wall, a triangle was seen first. One of its corners pointed to the left. The line connected to it curled in towards the center of the triangle.
Soon, a circle on the right side of the triangle became visible. There was a circular concave in the wall at the center of the circle.
Ricky smiled. He continued dusting the wall.
A new triangle that mirrored the previous triangle appeared to the right of the circle. This triangle, however, had a corner that pointed towards the right, and the curled line was on the left.
Ricky stepped back and looked in satisfaction at the pattern before his eyes: two irregular triangles mirroring each other with a circle between them.
“We found it.”
But many of them, including Lasalle, revealed a puzzled expression.
“What is this? An eye?” Ricky pursed his lips.
Among the puzzled crowd, Thales stared absentmindedly at the pattern. No one knew that the moment the pattern appeared, Thales’ entire body went stiff. At that moment, he even forgot that he was in a dangerous situation.
‘That’s… that’s…’
Stake also stared at the pattern, perplexed. But he had good eyesight and saw something else.
“There seems to be a sentence below this picture.” Stake walked forward, reached out his hand, and wiped off a layer of dust below the circle.
Sure enough, a row of strange words which were engraved into the wall appeared under his palms. But be it Stake, Lasalle, Klein, or Josef, all of them only stared at the line of words in confusion.
“I don’t understand this sentence.” Lasalle furrowed his brows. “This symbol is quite strange. I have read up on the emblems of all the major nobles of Constellation, but none of them look like this. These words below it aren’t even in the common language, neither does it look like the Empire’s language that I recognize…”
The uneasy Lasalle looked at Ricky with a solemn expression. “Crassus, what in the world is the Prison of Bones?”
Ricky did not answer. Another voice suddenly rose into the air.
“The ancient language of the Empire.”
Everyone turned in unison to stare at Samel who stood on the other side. The man with the brand on his face stared at the words below the pattern with a complicated expression.
“This is the purest form of the Ancient Empire’s alphabet, and are words passed down from the Ancient Chauvinistic Country instead of the Empire’s modern language, which is mixed with the common language. It is said that it was established by the first batch of ancient humans under the guidance of the ancient elves. Its grammar is complicated, and it is hard to understand.”
Samel stepped forward slowly, every Disaster Sword besides himself moved aside to create a path for him.
“Now, nobody uses it anymore. Even among Constellation’s nobility, very few are proficient in it.”
Lasalle and Stake turned in astonishment and looked at the line of unfamiliar words again. Samel stretched out his hand with a perplexed expression, as if he was reminiscing about something.
“Other than elves, no matter what branch they belong to, there are perhaps only a handful of archeologists and historians from Dragon Kiss Academy who are proficient in it.
“…I don’t recognize these words, but I remember the root for this one.” He touched one of the words with his finger. “When I was a teenager, my father hired an old scholar who taught me how to recognize some of them, to help me fight for the qualification to enter Renaissance Palace and become part of The Royal Guards of Constellation.” Samel’s face darkened. “The root of this word probably means ‘total’ or ‘all’…”
Everyone listened quietly to what the former flag bearer of the Royal Guards of Constellation said… except for one person.
“…Omniscience.” The voice of a teenage boy echoed flatly among the crowd.
Stake turned in astonishment. Then, along with the displeased Lasalle, looked towards the one they least expected to know this.
Klein and Josef cast a questioning look at their leader, but Ricky also arched an eyebrow. Even Quick Rope, who had his hands tied behind his back, widened his eyes.
“Omniscience, or all-knowing.” Thales sighed and slowly walked forward, moving past the scowling Marina who was still watching him. He stared at that row of words in a daze. “That is the meaning of the word.”
At that moment, Samel’s gaze as he stared at Thales was extremely complicated. A second later, he sighed, lowered his head, and said,
“Of course, as the descendant of the Imperial Family, the ancient language of the Empire is something that someone from the Jadestar Royal Family must learn—”
Thales shook his head. “I didn’t learn it well. Apart from the earliest couple of months, I basically learned the rest by myself.” The Prince of Constellation stared at that row of words with a solemn expression. “But if I only look at the individual words, I reckon that this sentence roughly means…
“…Towards omniscience,” said Thales softly.
Everyone went silent as they mulled over the meaning of this sentence.
‘Towards omniscience.’
Thales raised his head slowly in the quiet room, and gazed at the pattern that resembled an eye. It felt like he was staring into another person’s eye… which made him quite uneasy.
However, Thales did not expect that the object he once searched for in books for years but could not find… would be here.
‘The Prison of Bones. This “eye”. This is—’
“Great, since this is the case… let us head towards omniscience,” Ricky said with a smile, cutting off everyone’s thoughts. As he spoke, he took out a long dark green stone that resembled a rod, but had edges and corners.
“What is this?” Stake narrowed his eyes and gauged the stone, which was as long as a palm and as thick as two fingers. He seemed to feel that something was not quite right…
…and this time, Ricky had no intention to hide things.
“To open Black Prison, we need a key that can open the lock.” Ricky stared at the thing in his hand with a complicated gaze. “Throughout the year, the only key in the camp is with the Baron of Blade Fangs Camp.”
Ricky slowly raised the dark green object in his hand. “…Until we found the second key outside the camp.”
Puzzled, Lasalle asked, “Key?”
Ricky did not say any more. He turned without hesitation and pressed the ‘key’ in his hand into the small concave in the middle of the ‘eye’ which, now that they looked at it, resembled a pupil.
*Click!*
There was a dull sound. Thales was shocked.
As everyone stared anxiously at it, a cylinder suddenly jutted out of the ‘pupil’, the ‘key’ was in the middle of the cylinder.
“Ta-dah.” Ricky flashed a smile. “Bullseye.”
He faced the people. “Black Prison is definitely underground… Perhaps all of you would want to step back a little and clear the center?”
Everyone in the spacious room immediately moved back until their backs were against the walls behind them. Then, Ricky tentatively took hold of the protruding cylinder and twisted it slowly until a clicking sound was heard.
Everyone held their breaths and studied their surroundings curiously. The first one to feel that something was not right was Thales.
Through hell’s senses, he saw that the four ‘wells’ in the ground were sucking in the air.
‘No, the air is rushing inside! This is…’
When Thales was still surprised and bewildered, a faintly discernible noise of something moving came from below the floor they stood on.
*Rumble…*
It rose with a slight tremor. Everyone was shocked and fixed their gazes on the floor tiles in the room.
*Rumble…*
However, they were wrong. The ground was not the thing that was changing…
…Instead, it was the wall.
*Rumble…*
“This isn’t right!” Samel turned and yelled furiously, “The wall! The wall is moving backwards!”
Thales instinctively took a step forward, and anxiously looked behind together with the others.
*Rumble…*
‘Indeed, it’s the wall.’
The eight walls were retreating, simultaneously parallel to each other. It looked like the ground was expanding.
*Rumble…*
Everyone stared, eyes wide and mouth agape, as the walls in the room moved back. Gaps appeared between the walls and kept growing in width. Fortunately, the unusual movements only continued for ten or so seconds before it became quiet… and the walls stopped retreating.
Thales stared at the walls which had moved in a really baffling manner, then he stared at the empty gap in the floor which was a few meters long. It appeared after the walls had moved away. If anyone looked from above, it would seem like someone pulled the octagonal room outwards and made it bigger.
The part that appeared after the walls were pulled outwards… Thales could see it.
It was not a gap, but a fleets of steps forming a spiral stone staircase surrounding the center of the room. Naturally, it led the way down.
‘But I wonder where it leads to.’
As he thought of this, Thales subconsciously looked at the sentence below the pattern again.
“My God…” With his eyes wide and mouth agape, Lasalle stared at the spiral staircase which had suddenly appeared under his feet. “Although I have heard that Constellation has a good relationship with Steel City and possess superior forging skills, this is…”
Stake stared in disbelief at the sudden change and studied the now much larger room warily. “What in the world is this…?”
Ricky smiled. “Do you know why only such a small number of guards are required to maintain the basic operation of the Prison of Bones, even though this place is obviously a prison for people convicted of serious crimes?”
Ricky switched to another torch and said flatly, “Because this prison isn’t really guarded by living people. Instead, it’s guarded by hundreds of dead people who died almost a thousand years ago.”
He was the first to step into the gap and walk down the spiral stone staircase.
“The Prison of Bones isn’t just a prison… and it doesn’t only lock up criminals.” As Ricky moved down the stairs, his voice echoed from below the floor. “The past is what it truly intends to lock up.”
He strode forward and walked down the spiral staircase that led into the unknown. The Disaster Swords behind him followed in unison.
Lasalle was startled. “Dead people?”
The former Baron of Eckstedt immediately furrowed his brow and turned to Stake. “Lock up the past… What does he mean?”
However, the assassin from Shadow Shield only had a solemn expression.
“Over the many years I worked as an assassin, I have seen quite a number of odd things.” Stake stared at the strange room and exhaled. “But one of the things that unsettled me the most was the legend that the knowledgeable Teng had told me one night.”
Lasalle was shocked. “Teng? Legend?”
Stake nodded. He was becoming more and more uneasy. “Legend says that there was a group of people who existed in the world before the Battle of Eradication, and even before the era of the Empire.
“They despised taboos and scorned authority, but were knowledgeable, highly skilled, and did things that surpassed imagination.”
Stake gritted his teeth and raised his head to look at the strange symbol on the wall.
“They were once the most dazzling beings in the world, until the merciless passage of time turned them all into dust with nothing but tales about them—not a single trace of their existence remains.”
Lasalle’s eyebrows kept moving. ‘The most dazzling beings in the world?’
“Are you talking about…?”
Stake shook his head. He saw that Thales was also brought down and quickly followed.
Filled with anxiety, Thales walked behind Samel down the staircase. It was obvious no one had come here in a long time, to the point that with every step he took, a huge cloud of dust flew up. The prince was not tall, so he had no choice but to cover his mouth and nose so that he was not coughing constantly.
This place gave him a very bad feeling. Everything in front of him was dark, and not even hell’s senses could help him. Only torches illuminated the stone steps beneath their feet.
Deeper, lower, and darker…
After walking down countless steps, Thales finally stepped onto a floor, and felt at ease.
“The first level. We’re here.” Ricky’s voice echoed airily.
The Prince of Constellation took a deep breath, and lifted his head to look at his surroundings with curiosity, excitement, baffling uneasiness, and fear.
The Disaster Swords raised their torches and studied their surroundings in astonishment.
They were still in a spacious, octagonal room that could fit dozens of people. However, compared to the floor in the previous room, the workmanship of the black tiles here was exquisite. He did not know what kind of material was used here.
There was a thick pillar erected in the center of the place. Next to the pillar was a round stone table. But Ricky did not pay any attention to the stone pillar, but turned around to face the walls.
The light provided by his torch allowed Thales to notice that the walls around them were not, in fact, walls. Instead, they were thin metal pillars connecting the top of the room to the bottom, forming bars. On each bar was a layer of dust.
‘It’s just like…’ Thales stared at those bars. Through them, he could vaguely see the isolated space behind. ‘It’s just like…’
Thales thought fearfully, ‘It’s just like a prison cell.’
Ricky raised his torch and approached one of the metal bars, illuminating what was behind them. Thales shuddered and took a step back.
Bones. Or, more accurately speaking, a human skeleton.
With the torch in hand, Ricky spun on his feet, illuminating eight spacious prison cells.
All over the floor of each cell were tall piles of human skeletons. There were ribs, arm bones, leg bones, skulls, and on quite a large number of those skeletons were faded clothes that were similarly covered in dust.
No one knew from which era they came from.
Samel stood in front of Thales. He stared at the skeletons left behind from long ages past, and grew agitated. He instinctively clenched his fists.
“Looks like there are no longer any survivors in the first level.” Ricky shook his head in resignation. “It’s unfortunate, but we have to continue downwards.”
Lasalle and Stake followed behind him and arrived at the cells of the first level.
“This is…” When Lasalle saw his surroundings clearly, he widened his eyes. “This is the real Prison of Bones?”
Stake furrowed his brow. He seemed unable to even say anything.
Ricky let out a light snort, then swung his torch at his similarly shocked comrades.
“Of course. Welcome to Black Prison, the true main structure of the Prison of Bones.”
Ricky walked to the side of the pillar in the center of the room. He raised his torch to illuminate the picture on the pillar.
There, was another eye, and it was similar to the symbol on the floor in the room. Under the eye was the national language of the Ancient Empire.
[Head towards omniscience.]
“One thousand years ago, this place had another name.” The leader of the Disaster Swords stared at the symbol and said with a sigh, “The fourth branch of Alchemy Tower—Confinement Research Center.”
During that moment, Thales could not help but clench his teeth.
Ricky turned around and, with a grim expression, stared at the skeletons in the eight prisons. “This place also has a history no one knows.”
His next sentence caused Thales to widen his eyes.
“It is the place where the first batch of anti-mystic equipment… was made.”
Total Chapters in book: 580
Estimated words: 2362673 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 11813(@200wpm)___ 9451(@250wpm)___ 7876(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 2362673 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 11813(@200wpm)___ 9451(@250wpm)___ 7876(@300wpm)
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