There was pain, there were screams, there were desperate gasps.
In a single instant, a merciless torrent of despair severed the only connection between her and him.
All that remained was pain, as though she had fallen into a bottomless abyss.
"Noooo!"
The scream rang through the entire burial chamber. The invisible, deafening sound rampaged like an unseen monster, shattering walls and cracking floors wherever it passed. The whole Old Castle teetered on the brink of collapse.
The stone coffin's lid flew open, and a woman rose from within. She gazed despairingly at the coffin beside hers, then reached out to open it. Inside lay a handsome young man dressed as a noble.
But now, the nobleman's body, which had maintained its human form, began to melt. His skin and muscles swelled, twisted, and warped like a wax figure melting under intense heat, turning into grotesque flesh.
"Ahhh... darling..."
Rather than retreat from the swelling flesh before her, the woman reached out, willingly embracing the writhing mass.
The instant she touched it, a huge mouth suddenly opened in the flesh as it inflated like a balloon, swallowing her whole.
RUMBLE!
The earth roared and shook without cease.
"Captain, what's happening? An earthquake?"
Anthony looked at the ground in confusion and asked, while Li Wei stared at the Old Castle with a deep frown.
He had no idea what was happening either!
All Li Wei had seen was that, after he killed the Brain, one of the two red lights beneath the Old Castle rushed toward the other. The two points of light instantly merged, and the resulting light blazed with an incredibly bright, far-reaching red radiance as it climbed up the underground passage!
*Good thing I didn't let these people go in. With a move like that, I could've escaped,