"Could there really be ghosts? I didn't know whether buying this villa had been the right choice!"
"What ghosts? It was probably some evil thing at work. Even if there really were ghosts, so what? We weren't afraid of the living, so why fear a few ghosts?"
Yun Feiyang waved his hand. "I'll go in and take a look. You wait outside!"
"I'm going too!"
"You stay here. Stop getting in my way!"
"I..."
Lisanna grabbed Mira. "Mira, I'm scared!"
As for Elfman, he was trembling even worse!
Mira had no choice but to watch Yun Feiyang enter alone.
After entering the villa, Yun Feiyang headed for the basement.
According to Edward, this place had originally been an abandoned dock and had only begun to be developed in recent years. The site of the villa had once been a warehouse, and the workers had disappeared in the basement.
"Little White, look around and see if you can find anything suspicious!"
The basement was huge, with several rooms. The man and dog checked them one by one.
"Is anyone there?"
"Mr. Ghost? Ms. Ghost? Come out and let's chat about life and dreams!"
After making a full round, there wasn't a damn thing!
"As expected, ghosts don't exist. Aside from that loli First Generation, but she could survive in spirit form only because of a Curse. There are no ghosts in this world at all. There are Celestial Spirits, though."
He entered the last room. Judging from its layout, it seemed to be a wine cellar.
Looking at the empty room, Yun Feiyang felt troubled.
"So why were people disappearing? If I didn't solve that problem, I wouldn't dare move in with peace of mind!"
He had originally thought some magical beast was causing trouble, but now it seemed there was truly nothing here. No wonder the Guild had sent several people and still failed to solve the problem.
"Little White, did you find anything?"
"Woof~"
Little White came out of another room. It seemed it had found nothing either.
Just as Yun Feiyang was about to leave and check upstairs, light suddenly flared beneath his feet.
"This is... a Magic Array!"
Yun Feiyang's expression changed, and he was just about to leave when the Magic Array blazed brightly. Then the light vanished, and so did he!
"Woof woof woof~~~"
Little White panicked. By the time it ran over, the array had already vanished. It could only spin anxiously in circles before running outside.
The scene before his eyes changed, and Yun Feiyang found himself in a passageway.
"So it was a Teleportation Array!"
"Where is this? A mountain wall? A cave?"
Since he was already here, he might as well settle in. Skilled and bold, he truly wasn't afraid. Finding the source of the problem was a good thing.
Just as he was preparing to head deeper inside, another Magic Array appeared above his head.
"Again?!"
Yun Feiyang quickly dodged aside and saw the Magic Array spray out a cloud of gas.
"What is this?"
He accidentally inhaled a little and immediately felt his mind grow hazy.
He shook his head to clear it, then waved his hand and stirred up a light breeze, blowing the gas away.
"Illusion Magic? Let's see what secrets this damned place has!"
He carefully made his way through the passage and arrived in a room, only to be startled by the sight before him!
A Blood Pool lay in the center. Corpses were scattered all around it, while bones lay piled into mountains on the ground.
Without exception, all the corpses had reached a hand into the Blood Pool and were completely shriveled.
Several had clearly died only recently, looking as though every drop of blood had been drained from them.
If nothing unexpected had happened, these people were the workers who had recently disappeared.
"The Teleportation Array sent people here, and the Illusion Array deceived them into coming over to offer blood? What was this for?"
He cautiously approached the Blood Pool. It truly was filled with blood, and the stench was overwhelmingly pungent.
"Damn it, a Blood Pool made from human blood... How many people had to die for this?"
"What was the point of going to such lengths to make this Blood Pool?"
He casually picked up a piece of wood and poked it inside. To his surprise, the moment it drew near, several Magic Arrays appeared above the Blood Pool, startling Yun Feiyang into quickly dodging aside.
As the Magic Arrays operated, the Blood Pool below began to churn as though it were boiling.
"What an evil thing!"
Before figuring out what the Blood Pool did, he didn't dare get close again. What if he got refined into some kind of blood demon? Where would he go cry then?
He turned and wandered around the room instead, soon discovering another small chamber farther inside.
There was a stone bed and a stone table. Several books sat on the table, though all were covered in thick dust.
"An ownerless place? The people were gone, but the Magic Arrays were still operating?"
"Huh? Didn't this feel like falling off a cliff and finding peerless martial arts? This was totally protagonist treatment!"
The thought excited Yun Someone, and he walked over to the table.
"These books must contain peerless Magic!"
He blew away the dust and stared hard at the books...
Then tragedy struck!
"What the hell? I can't understand a single word. What country's writing is this?"
"Forget it. I'll take them back and have Fried translate them."
Yun Feiyang strongly suspected that these were Ancient Script.
But the moment he picked them up, the books crumbled into dust in the wind!
Yun Someone's mouth twitched. "Did I really have to be this unlucky? What happened to my protagonist treatment?"
"Damn it, how long had this stuff been sitting here?"
Still unwilling to give up, he felt around here and knocked around there in the room, but found nothing at all.
"Sigh... Looks like I really didn't have the fate of a protagonist!"
After making another round, he returned to the Blood Pool. "So what exactly is this thing?"
"It is Blood Refinement!"
Yun Feiyang turned his head. "Huh? Guild Master, why are you here? Was this an illusion? Had I fallen for it without realizing?"
He walked over and vigorously kneaded Makarov's face.
"This illusion feels pretty real!"
Makarov roared, "Stop it, brat! I'm real, not an illusion!"
"Haha, you should've said so earlier!"
Makarov said irritably, "Mira and the others rushed back to the Guild in a panic and said you had disappeared, so I came to take a look!"
"So that was it! Did you come through that Teleportation Array too?"
"What else?"
"All right! What was that Blood Pool thing you mentioned earlier?"
"Blood Refinement!"
Makarov stared at the Magic Arrays above the Blood Pool, his expression ugly. "It is the sacrificial refinement of blood, an ancient dark Magic."
"Explain it more clearly!"
"It uses the blood of living beings to refine evil weapons. It is said that this was something Dark Mages liked doing in ancient times!"
"I see. No wonder this place was filled with an ancient aura."
Makarov shook his head. "Such things are no longer allowed. The Guilds and the Magic Council were established precisely to stop such inhuman acts."
"Hey, Guild Master, is this Blood Pool still useful? Are weapons refined this way very powerful?"
"They are certainly powerful, but also extremely sinister, intolerable to the righteous path! Of course the Blood Pool is still useful. Didn't you see that the Magic Arrays are still operating?"
When Makarov saw the interested look on his face, his heart skipped a beat!
"Kid, what are you planning? I'm warning you, don't do anything reckless! We should just destroy a place like this!"
"We definitely have to destroy it, but in the spirit of not wasting anything, it should be fine to use it once, right?"
Makarov's eyes widened as he snapped, "No! We are a proper Guild. We cannot use such evil weapons!"
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