In the compartment of the train, Eleazar quietly flips through his magic guide book.
Sensing the darkness around him, the book stirred stupidly, tending to break free of his grasp.
"Stop it, I'm looking up information."
Evelea deflated, "Why did you bring this shitty book out."
It seemed that she was still in shock over the last time she suddenly had her palm eaten.
"Earth Knight, advancement condition: nation building."
"Sky Knight, advancement condition: conquest."
"Dark Knight, advancement condition: fallen."
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"What are you looking into?" Evelea asked, curiously.
"The Knight Sequence Progression to Legend."
"Huh? You're going to help that knight break through the shackles to become a Legend? Come on, you can't even take care of yourself right now!"
"Not me, I don't have that kind of free time."
Eleazar closes the magical guidebook, then slips the book into the inside pocket of his coat, finally dropping the garment to hang on the coat rack by the door.
The witch quickly 'flopped' into his arms.
"Then why are you checking this out?"
"That brother of his, crazy as he is, deliberately chose a magical potion for a chaotic pathway, as if he was preparing to premeditate something terrible."
Evelea, sitting in Eleazar's arms, wrapped her arms around his neck and cocked her head in thought.
"If you say so, I seem to have vaguely heard of an avenue ..."
"Pale Justice - Blood Knight, advancement condition: kinslayer!"
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In the evening, the two men, who had made a stop, hurried to the Emerald Town, which was built on a mountain.
The streets are lit up with orange lights and romance.
Built on the side of a mountain, the town is small, the whole divided by a wide road, half near the mountain, half built on an overhanging platform with a half-height parapet around the edge, and a few al fresco restaurants for visitors to eat their food while enjoying the lights of the city below.
A very distinctive tourist town, and at the top of this mountain is an elliptical observatory.
"Whoa!"
Evelea blushed in surprise and was running out two steps when she looked back to see Eleazar's face full of concentration.
"What's wrong?"
"This place, it's not right..."
His voice grew cold.
It's obviously a very pretty town, but there are very few tourists.
In the transcendent vision opened by perception, the buildings on both sides all rose up in black mist, like a devouring haunted house, ominous omens.
"No more fun?"
The witch deflated, disgruntled, and looked at the town on either side of her.
"I curse you!"
"You don't need to curse, people are going to be worse than dead soon."
Eleazar takes her in hand and prepares to find an inn to pitch up at.
There were inns on both sides of the town, and he chose the side against the mountain more cautiously.
Choosing one of the larger ones, he was just about to walk in while a man inside happened to come out cursing as he dragged his suitcase.
"You're noisy as hell here, there's people jumping around upstairs all the time at night when I'm sleeping and making a lot of noise, no one pays attention when I call reception, it's really like what they say across the street, the quality of service on your side of the house is poor!"
Looking at the man who cursed and walked off across the road to pitch in, Evelea looked back to her side.
"So we...?"
Eleazar lowered her gaze, "Whatever, it's really pretty much the same with either one."
They then walked into the hotel and were greeted by a listless receptionist.
"One large guest room for two..."
The woman with the thick, dark eyes, muttered in a low voice and pulled out two toiletries and placed them in a basket, handing them over along with a key.
"Top floor, 5th floor, room on the left, enjoy your stay."
Retracting their gaze from the haggard woman, the two men looked at each other before walking up the side stairs.
On the fifth floor of the hotel, there were only two large guest rooms, left and right, and Eleazar went to the door of the room on the left and tried it with his key.
"I'm sure it's a trance, giving the wrong key."
Eleazar tried the room on the right again, which pushed the door open.
"Yikes!"
Evelea subconsciously grabbed his arm.
In front of the window of the guest room, a dark shadow loomed, unreadable.
Eleazar looks away faintly and turns on the room lights.
The dark shadow disappeared and the front of the window was empty.
"Scared the hell out of me~"
Evelea tapped her chest.
"Pah~"
Eleazar puts out the lights again, and the dark shadow in front of the window reappears.
Evelea: "..."
"Could it be that we're going to spend the night with this ghostly thing?"
"You can destroy it!"
"It doesn't help that I wiped this out, I'm guessing there's more in the room, or the whole town is full of these things."
Eleazar turns the lights on again and walks in to put his bags away.
"Sprinkle a few drops of holy water on the side of the bed if you really want to get a good night's sleep, and the bathroom, or I'm afraid you're going to run out of there without your clothes on later."
"What the hell is going on."
Evelea was a little disgruntled as she pulled out the half-empty bottle of holy water that was still left.
"Hmm... It should be a cursed object."
Her hand froze, "Let's go then, you can't digest magic potions even if you destroy something like this anyway."
"I can collect them first and see if I can seal them, I'll need them for my 5th ritual." Eleazar shrugged back.
Evelea: "..."
"You haven't even landed your first ritual yet, and you're already preparing for the potion ritual dozens of copies later?"
"No way!"
"No no, I just love it when you're confident like that."
She turned around and pounced on her in a hurry, and after pampering herself in her arms for a bit, she raised her head again and asked, "So what else is in your ritual, I'll keep an eye out for it in the future."
Eleazar glanced at her, "Don't worry, it's easier than that founding ceremony of the Earth Knights ...
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Witcher branch, main killing and conquering.
After completing the five Legendary Rituals, feel free to take magic potions if you can still take them later."
"Actually, I feel as if the founding ceremony should be simpler ..." Witch said weakly.
"Huh!?"
"Wow, Mr. Prince you're amazing, you're actually trying to combine all the evils of the world!"
Eleazar gave her a good-natured knock on the head.
"Go ahead and sprinkle your holy water."
Knowing that it wasn't useless, the witch was energized again.
And Eleazar faintly senses the source of the curse.
It was basically certain that it wasn't this room, the black fog slowly seeping in through the floor, the doors, windows, walls, all the cracks.
At present, except for the beds and bathrooms sprinkled with holy water, which are safe, other places, at any moment, will be subject to strange and unusual visions.
For example; this portrait in front of me.
A portrait of a woman in a black sari with her eyes looking straight at him.
Eleazar averted his gaze and tidied up the nightstand, and when inadvertently casting his eyes out again, realized...
The woman in the portrait also slanted her eyes down, looking straight at herself.