At night, Angel came to the location Emlyn White said, Verdi Street of the bridge South District.
Because she was worried that the cursed "Master Key" would affect her actions today, she left the key at Red Rose Street's home before traveling.
Fortunately, the lock-picking skills inherited from Cole Granger were still familiar. She came to No. Verdi Street 32, looked around the house, and found no obvious abnormalities. Then she used the lock-picking tool to open the back door and entered the two-story building from the kitchen.
It seemed that no one had lived here for a long time. Angel stroked the stove and found that there was a thin layer of ash on it. There was a pungent odor coming from the storage compartment below, which was probably from rotten food.
Walking through the kitchen and entering the living room, Angel, with the help of Dark Vision, found that the shelves and drawers here had been turned into a mess. It should have been done by thieves who had visited before. With such a professional in front, Angel had no hope of finding other valuable items. Besides, she did not come here to plunder the deceased's belongings.
Next to the living room was a staircase leading to the second floor. She walked up the stairs, and before she reached the second floor, she felt a coldness surrounding her.
There's something weird here!
Angel opened Spirit Vision, looked up from the stairs, and found nothing unusual. The coldness came and went quickly, as if it was just an illusion.
Taking out the dagger from her waist, she carefully walked up the stairs step by step and came to the corner of the stairs.
There was a figure on the platform at the corner. His back was to Angel, his face pressed against the wall at the corner, as if he was standing there thinking about his past. When he heard footsteps, the man with thick black hair turned around and looked this way.
His body didn't move, and his head had already turned half a circle.
In Angel's Spirit Vision, this corpse with no Spirituality light looked at her like this, with fear on its face and protruding eyes, as if it had been greatly frightened.
This weird scene made her heart tighten, and she was about to summon Black Flame to "disinfect" this suspected fake corpse. The protruding eyeballs of the corpse fell off and landed on the wooden steps with a "snap", followed by his heavy head and torso that was no longer supported by invisible force.
The body that was standing just now fell down in front of Angel's eyes, its limbs were limp, and its eyeballs and head rolled to the ground.
What is going on? Zombie? Wraith possessed?
Angel only knew about occult science, but she knew very well that it was impossible for a normal human body to turn its head 180 degrees on its own, even for a dead person.
Holding a dagger, she carefully approached the corpse. After a brief inspection, she found that the man's neck had been completely broken, and his eyes had been torn out of their sockets by external force. He had been dead for at least a whole day. He was wearing tight-fitting black clothes and carrying a lot of change, jewelry, a dagger and lockpicking tools. He was probably a thief who broke into the empty door.
Of course, it's not the one who "sent" Master Key to Emlyn, it's probably someone else who has his eye on this house, and he is obviously not as Luck as the former.
Strangely, there was no blood at the scene, so this was probably not the first scene.
After bypassing the body, she came to the corridor on the second floor and explored the rooms one after another. She found that every door had been opened, there were signs of being turned over in the bedroom and study room, and worthless clothes and books were scattered all over the floor. The window of one of the houses facing the street is wide open, with a balcony outside, which should be where the thief entered the house.
Returning to the body with its body and head separated, everything was still as it was when she left. This made Angel feel slightly relieved, but the strange aura revealed by the building still kept her vigilant, and the dagger never left her hand.
The first and second floors have been explored, leaving only the first thief to discover Master Key and the basement where the Abraham Family members he once saw through Magic Mirror Divination died.
Along the wooden stairs, bypassing the corpse, walking down step by step, Angel turned another corner and stepped on the floor of the first floor...
No, this is not the living room on the first floor, but the corridor on the second floor. I went down from the second floor, climbed a total of 26 steps, and finally reached the second floor!
She quickly mobilized Spirituality, and several invisible strands of silk thread appeared around her. They were floating like spider threads automatically without wind. They could move forward to launch attacks, and retreat to form protection. Surrounded by the silk threads, Angel slowly turned around and looked at the stairs she just walked down.
The stairs went down step by step, and at the corner, the headless body was still there.
A trace of cold sweat appeared on Angel's forehead. When she walked up the stairs just now, she didn't feel anything unusual at all. This was a bit like the effect of "Master Key" that makes people get lost unconsciously. It was obvious that she was heading east, but when she regained consciousness, she was already in the west.
Of course, if she pressed Magician Pocket Watch and jumped directly to the streetlight outside the house, this power should not be able to continue to work. Countless experiences of getting lost told her that as long as she activated Beyonder Ability, she could easily get out of the predicament.
Thinking of this, Angel no longer worried, but walked down the stairs again, walked around the corpse, and counted the steps until he reached the end of the stairs.
Not surprisingly, she was back in the hallway on the second floor.
Just as she was about to leave the house from the balcony on the second floor and pry the door from the street back to the living room on the first floor, a cold wind suddenly came from behind her. It blew Angel's long hair and neck, as if it was hugging her from behind.
"Bang——"
A stream of Black Flame sprang out from behind her and spread instantly along the invisible threads that had been laid out between the stairs and corridors, covering the surrounding area in flames darker than the night. She opened the Spirit Vision and looked into the depth of the flames. There was a translucent figure there. Distortion deformed in Cursed Flame, which had special damage to Spirit Body. It let out a low roar, and then dissipated like blue smoke.
Black Flame, who had nothing to burn, disappeared quickly. Angel put away the dagger, walked through the wooden stairs for the third time, counted 26 steps, and stepped onto the flat ground.
This time, she successfully returned to the living room on the first floor.
It seems that Spirit Body is the cause of the corpse turning back and the stair maze... but where does it come from? That unlucky thief, or the dead Beyonder in the basement?
She found the stairs leading to the basement from behind the wooden ladder. Angel walked through the same 26 steps and entered the windowless room she saw when she divined the origin of "Master Key". She saw flesh and blood all over the room that had once crawled and left traces of corrosion. She also saw a long table with iron pots, jars and a notebook.
It's a shame that the thief who took Master Key dared to enter here...
Angel sighed, walked to the table, picked up the brown-covered notebook, and flipped through it with the help of Dark Vision.
"This will be Abraham, Qidian of this cursed family rising again!"
"I'll record every key point."
Like an epitaph engraved on a tombstone... Angel commented mercilessly and continued to read the following content.
The notes record all the family history that this unfortunate Abraham Family member learned, including their glory as the top nobles of the Tudor Dynasty in Fourth Epoch, their decline after Four Emperors War, and the subsequent terrible curse that enveloped all Abraham.
The Beyonders who have been trying to revive their families for generations, with the goal of being promoted to Sequence, all get out of control or go crazy, and these crazy monsters often bring bigger Catastrophes to other family members around them, causing the blood of the Abrahams to gradually wither.
In order to prevent the entire family from disappearing into the long river of history, they can only live scattered around the world as a family unit and no longer live together. This way, even if a family member loses control and kills the whole family, it will not affect other families.
The father of the author of this notebook left his original family for the same reason and chose to become an ordinary person, get married and have children, and was not even prepared to pass on occult knowledge to the next generation. This kept him away from curses, but not away from ordinary diseases.
The father left the author when he was young, and his mother, devastated by grief, soon followed.
"While it grieves me, it also means I am free."
the note reads.
"Although my father did not tell me about Beyonder and the occult in order to prevent the curse from spreading to me. I could only explore and understand it on my own. Fortunately, according to the family's orders, he gave me the Potion formulas of 'Apprentice', 'Trickmaster' and 'Astrologer' before his death."
The following is the detailed formula material of Potion.
After reading this, Angel was filled with surprises. In order not to forget the formula of Potion, this member copied all three formulas into his notes. Although further verification is needed, it can be said that this journey of sliding door locks has been full of rewards.
The second half of the note is about the experience of this Abraham descendant exploring the occult and coming into contact with other Beyonder circles. Since he had no mentor and could not rely on other family members, every step of his Beyonder journey was very difficult, but in the end...
"According to the occult knowledge I have mastered, taking Potion during the full moon is the most beneficial to promotion. I plan to become 'Apprentice' on the full moon night next week, and use this as Qidian to reproduce the glory of the Abraham Family!"
It's a pity that this Potion and his glory have now become "Master Key"...
Angel felt sorry for Abraham, who had a far-sighted but ill-fated life, but there was also a trace of doubt in his heart:
Yesterday, I was indeed promoted at Blood Moon and almost lost control. However, in fact, taking Potion during the full moon would not cause similar problems. If he lost control on the night of the full moon and even exploded into strange flesh and blood like this Abraham, "no promotion during the full moon" has long been a rule of occultism.
The only possibility is the "curse of the Abraham Family" mentioned in the notes. Maybe this curse makes all the descendants of Abraham fear the full moon and fear Blood Moon. This descendant who did not receive the correct inheritance used the general principles of occultism and took Potion at the full moon. As a result, he triggered the curse in his blood and killed himself.
So, the curse on the Master Key probably comes from the family curse of the Abraham Family that has been passed down for thousands of years?
This reminded Angel of the "Magician" Miss that she saw in Gray Fog yesterday. She would also hear strange murmurs during the full moon, making her on the verge of losing control. If it hadn't been for Mr. Fool's rescue, she might have died on a full moon night.
Could it be that she is also a descendant of Abraham? Will she have a clearer understanding of these curses?