Before Xio could leave the room full of bodies she was stopped by Adryan's arm who received a sharp glare from the Sheriff.
The masked redhead shook his head and advanced first with his always silent step, Xio could only follow the man closely without being able to complain due to their previous agreement.
'I have a horrible feeling about this…' Adryan thought seriously as he approached the door.
He stuck his head out again to see a short hallway that was just as horrible as the room they were in.
The hallway walls were the same as the rest of the house, the paint had been peeling off a long time ago and mold was slowly covering the wall.
Without taking his eyes off, he signaled to Xio behind him and began to advance down the corridor, being closely followed by the woman.
There was no sound in the house, everything was absolutely silent....
Moving slowly down the hall, Adryan and Xio found more rooms just like the one they had entered with multiple skinless bodies hanging from hooks but found no trace of Joseph.
Moving down the aisle they came to what must have been the main part of the store at some point.
What appeared to be cabinets now barely appeared to be standing and the counter was cracked.
Everything was empty and there was also a horrible smell but it did not come from this part but from some stairs that were in a corner that went down to a basement.
Turning to look at Xio, Adryan pointed to the stairs and Xio nodded, they both started heading towards the stairs, the smell had gotten much stronger the closer they got.
Looking at the bottom of the stairs they both could see how there was a light coming from deeper in the basement.
Looking at each other and nodding, they both began to slowly go down the old staircase, being careful not to make the old wooden steps rattle.
*SQUEAAAAAAKKKK*
But due to a misstep by Xio the stairs screamed in protest causing both of them to stand still and look at the bottom of the basement but again no other sound was heard.
Turning around and looking at Xio who apologized as best she could with her hands they both went down to the basement.
It was a large space being illuminated by several lamps and this was without a doubt the worst place in the whole house.
'What kind of monster is Joseph' Adryan thought...
Ironically the floor was extremely clean, if one took the floor and ignored the rest of the horrible basement one would think it was the floor of a middle class restaurant...
The well-preserved skins of all of Joseph's victims hung on the basement walls like laundry spread out to dry,all of them still have hair.
There was a large pile of naked bodies in a corner that varied in age and gender there was also a bed next to it with a body already on it....
But again there was no trace of Joseph but Xio approached as quietly as she could to the pile of bodies before the doubtful gaze of Adryan who just followed her.
He watched as Xio looked around the pile for a few moments before she stopped after seeing a certain body.
Following Xio's gaze, Adryan saw that she was looking at the body of a girl who was still wearing an old gray dress and had a little green bracelet on her right wrist.
It seemed that she had been hanged because he could see the mark of rope that had been left on the girl's neck,and she wasn't the only kid that died like that,this made the blood of Adryan boil.
'Fucking bastard, she must be someone Xio knew...' Adryan thought as he watched Xio who seemed to be trembling with fury and clenched the sword and revolver in her hands.
Deciding that the best thing would be to look around the basement, Adryan saw a door that they didn't saw before.
They had not seen this door before because the hanging skins had covered the door and prevented them from seeing it from the stairway.
There was a little light that was coming from it.
Touching Xio who looked at him with some anger, Adryan pointed to the door and Xio look at it with a little surprise after that she nodded strongly but before going to the door she lifted the girl's body in her arms and separated her from the pile, after gently placing her on the floor next to the stairs she returned to Adryan who watched all this in silence.
Now they both began to move carefully towards the door, Xio with sword and revolver raised and Adryan ready to unleash a torrent of fire if necessary.
Arriving in front of the door, Adryan noticed that it seemed new, it seemed to be made of a very dark wood and it had some small details all over it.
The same feeling from before returned so she placed herself in front of Xio and prepared herself for whatever was behind her.
But he couldn't prepare any more because Xio stepped forward and kicked the door hard, forcing it open and revealing the interior of the room.
The interior of the room was the same as the door in that it looked new, not part of the abandoned fishing house.
But that didn't mean it was less demonic, there were several shelves on the walls that had many vials filled with a green liquid and floating in that liquid were human heads, organs, fingers, eyes, hands...
There was also a large table at the back of the room with the half-skinned corpse of a woman...
But this was not the most important thing they saw inside the room, but there was something else that made both their blood run cold.
In the middle of the room not far from the door was a large pentagram painted on the floor with what appeared to be blood, on top of which was an altar that had candles that were lit and danced in green fire.
When the door was opened and Adryan and Xio saw the altar, the blood that made up the pentagram shone for a few seconds.....
Adryan didn't think it and hugging Xio, who didn't have time to protest, and covering her with his body, he conjured a sphere of fire that enveloped them both....
At night in the harbor known as Mulock's Viscera, the abandoned fishing house exploded in a huge green fire.