BXBX NOVEL Chapter 92 - 92 Fake Ornament
Along the way, the two of them kept silent. Only when they approached the Sealing Chamber’s door did the tower guardian say, “Since we’re already here, I won’t ask if you want to reconsider or if you’re sure you want to do this. However, if things spiral out of control, I’ll try my best to let you escape.”
William replied expressionlessly, “You don’t have to force yourself.”
Then, he said, “However, such a situation could have been completely avoided. The Rose Palace had given plenty of early notice.”
Regarding this, the tower guardian sighed and said, “But how did he do it? I still don’t understand…”
The door to the Sealing Chamber opened. The room was already illuminated by countless complicated spell seals, and 77 seals were augmented on the Mad Box at the end of the room.
Mad Box looked as calm as before without any signs of agitation.
Other than the empty space where the soul fragment should have been floating, everything seemed normal.
According to the guard’s description, he first saw the thief holding the holy relic at the door of the Sealing Chamber. When he turned around, the holy relic over the Mad Box was gone.
Before this, he didn’t even sense anyone entering the Sealing Room.
If the other party hadn’t accidentally exposed himself before leaving, he might not have had the time to sound the alarm and activate the 77 backup seals.
Looking at the constantly changing seals in the sealing room, the tower guardian suddenly said, “That thief probably deliberately exposed himself.”
“Why would he deliberately expose himself? As a taunt?” William asked casually.
“I’m not sure… Perhaps it’s to give us time to react so that we can open the backup seal and slightly delay Demon General Mania’s breakout,” the tower guardian replied after some thought.
“Is that how it is?” William commented patronizingly.
“But to be honest, if that’s the case, his actions are too risky. Back when the Astral Council designed this place, they couldn’t guarantee how long the backup sealing measures could last. It’s better to say that this thing was only a psychological comfort from the beginning,”
Not noticing the other party’s patronizing attitude, the tower guardian looked at the seal solemnly and said.
It could be said that none of the 77 seals had cracked. It was completely beyond her expectations.
After all, as the First Demon General under Absurdity Jester, Mania’s ferocious reputation could be said to be widespread in a certain circle.
Every time it descended, it would cause a huge disaster. It was a true mythical existence.
It had only descended to Currere a total of three times.
The first descent recorded was far away in the Silver Age. It only mentioned without going into the details that it drove everyone in a large city on the Seething Plain crazy. In the end, three godly heroes broke their oaths and successfully exiled it.
The second time was in the era when the Doomsday Watchers were active a thousand years ago. It disguised itself as the Mad King of the Baroque Kingdom, Fox III, in the early stages of the second invasion. However, ironically, during the reign of the fake Mad King, the Baroque Kingdom grew in strength. Under Mania’s command, the Baroque Kingdom won many wars against the Kos Empire. It was also because of this that a eunuch under him grew suspicious. He secretly commissioned the Judges to investigate the anomaly of his king. Finally, the Judges exposed its identity and banished it back to the Moon Realm.
The third time was during the period when the Astral Laws were promoted. Mania came to Nakuland to destroy the construction of this Astral Lighthouse. This time, it was defeated by Great Sage Yeats and was sealed at the bottom of the lighthouse to this day.
“Therefore, we…”
The tower guardian stared at Mad Box and prepared to explain to the Thorn City envoy beside her what to do next. Unexpectedly, the other party had already ignored the seals and walked over.
…
Obtaining the Father of the Crows’ soul fragment wasn’t a problem for William.
The garrison here might be impregnable to others, but it was no different from paper to him.
The problem was how to evacuate the people in the fortress area before removing the seal—especially the enchanters and alchemists.
After all, Mania was rather particular about being ostentatious among the Demon Generals. When they fought, it caused quite a commotion.
If it was released just like that, there probably wouldn’t be many sane people left in the fortress area after William banished it to the Moon Realm.
Therefore, he had to evacuate everyone here before removing the seal—it was best to evacuate them to his territory.
Before he came, he had already informed Nizemar and Cass that they had to settle down the precious technicians.
As he thought, William passed through the 77 flashy seals and arrived in front of the Mad Box.
As the seal on the Mad Box had never been undone, no one knew what would happen other than the outcome of releasing Mania after the seal was undone.
Would there be a huge commotion, or would he break out silently? Would Mania instantly break out of the seal and take some time to come out?
They didn’t know anything. After all, no one would test it out by removing the seal.
They might even think that the backup seals could buy them some time.
Therefore, what William wanted to do was very simple. He wanted them to mistakenly think that the soul fragment had been stolen.
Ignoring the woman’s voice behind him, William looked at the empty space above the Mad Box and slowly extended his hand.
William tore open a shadow and took out the pitch-black illusory crow feather from under the shadow.
The Crow Feather Prophet didn’t steal the soul fragment at all. The seal had never been undone. He only used a shadow spell to hide the appearance and aura of the soul fragment with the augmentation of the Crown of Original Darkness.
As for the guardian in the Sealing Chamber, when he saw the soul fragment in the Crow Feather Prophet’s hand, it was genuine. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to fool the peak Master-level magic chanter.
However, the soul fragment in the Crow Feather Prophet’s hand was the one William had taken out from the Holy Sepulchre.
According to William’s estimation, after the other party discovered that the holy relic sealing the Mad Box had been stolen, his first reaction wouldn’t be to move his head to the side to check if the sealed holy relic had been stolen since Demon General Mania might reach out its hand at any moment and smash something around.
They would sound the alarm and activate the backup seals, making sure everyone was on full vigilance.
This was something the average person would do.
Of course, if the other party didn’t play by the rules and insisted on checking if the soul fragment had been stolen, the outcome wouldn’t have affected William much.
At most, he could barge in again. At the very least, it wouldn’t affect him from retrieving the soul fragment.
However, he could only express his regret for the people in the fortress area.
After all, he had done his best.
Thankfully, everything went smoothly.
As William removed the soul fragment from the Mad Box, a few cracks instantly appeared over it.
At the same time, the 77 seals beside the Mad Box emitted cracking sounds like porcelain.
They shattered one after another.
“Ah…”
A deep and terrifying voice echoed throughout the Sealing Chamber.