Chapter 289 The mission is free, and the way to complete it is even freer
After all, if you want to learn about magic, you have to pay someone to teach you. The existence of the [Poverty Pledge] means that Mo Cheng can only know the most basic and popular knowledge. The rest depends on whether the magicians in the team are in a good mood to answer his questions.
With doubts in mind, Mo Cheng quickly passed through the gate of the Blood Duke Castle.
This ancient castle, which is regarded by countless people as a devil's lair, welcomed an invisible ghost today.
The environment inside the castle reminded Mo Cheng of the horror movies he had seen before: dim lighting, quiet environment, and a group of red mist mutants standing there as decorations but actually highly dangerous.
These red mist mutants had no breathing and no heartbeat, and looked like a cruel master who had made corpses of his servants and placed them in the corridor.
But when someone walks in front of them, the sudden movement of the corpse will definitely be the most deadly shock.
These red mist mutants were all cast under illusions. Some of them appeared in the form of decorative armor, some hid behind huge portraits, and some even transformed into three-winged bats with twisted tentacles, standing upside down on the ceiling.
The illusion was very sophisticated. Mo Cheng didn't notice it when he first came in. But when he got closer, the [Gem of True Vision] in his equipment bar began to take effect.
In an instant , Mo Cheng's eyes saw the [reality]. The interior of the castle, which should have been classical and elegant, now looked like something that could only appear in nightmares.
The floor is covered with wriggling flesh and blood, the blanket is covered with fur and blood, and on the walls appear pairs of malicious eyes, monitoring everything in the castle.
In the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, where the light bulb should be, there are eyeballs full of pain and twisted emotions.
"grass!"
Suddenly seeing this scene, Mo Cheng couldn't help but curse out loud, "What the hell, Saya no Uta, right?"
The Blood Lord Castle, hidden by the illusion, is an elegant and classical castle, but the real appearance of the castle seen through the [True Vision Gem] is a hell like a slaughterhouse.
Calling it a slaughterhouse is a beautifying adjective. At least from the slaughterhouse that Mo Cheng had been to, although it was a bit bloody, at least the overall environment did not look that degrading.
And this place...
Mo Cheng doubted that if there was no illusion to cover it up, the bloody smell alone would have spread for ten miles without dissipating.
When I was thinking about how to find the three people on the assassination list, I heard a pleasant humming sound from the other side of the corridor.
"Hehehe, hehehe, I found some good ingredients today. I'll take out the heart, skin and bones, and deep-fry the fresh meat until it's crispy and fragrant..."
The sound is pleasant to the ears, but the meaning of the lyrics combined with the environment of this place makes it sound very creepy.
The person walking towards me was a maid pushing a dining cart. It was called a dining cart, but it looked like it was made entirely of dismembered human bones.
As for the maid's appearance, she was like a walking giant, and her appearance alone made Mo Cheng feel nauseous.
But the nausea did not stop Mo Cheng from taking action. He instantly maximized his sensing ability. The red mist mutants around him were all dormant, and the eyes on the wall were blinking.
The moment the surveillance eyes on the wall closed, Mo Cheng emerged from the air, inserted his right hand into the maid's body, and then a flash of holy light completely evaporated her.
There was no resistance and no reaction. The power of the holy light after the upgrade was completely incomparable to before.
And the operability has also been greatly improved. The holy light burst out in the maid's body through Mo Cheng's palm, evaporating all her flesh and soul in an instant, leaving only a huge piece of skin.
Mo Cheng immediately drilled into the skin, and then used his [Seventy-Two Transformations] to transform into the maid's appearance, propping up the human skin tightly.
Everything happened in a flash, and only after Mo Cheng completed his transformation did the surveillance eye on the wall open again.
Disguised as a maid, Mo Cheng continued to push the food cart forward, humming the song he had just heard. His disguise was perfect, and even the eyes on the wall and the dormant red mist monsters around him did not notice anything wrong.
It was as if the person standing there was the original maid.
Mo Cheng consciously slowed down his pace. He didn't know where the food truck would be sent, but he knew that he would most likely encounter the next target.
"Jis, did you see anything just now?"
Two people jogging towards him, Mo Cheng's eyes suddenly lit up, because the parchment he was carrying was trembling slightly, and it was obvious that the two guys in front of him were the remaining two targets.
Just now, when Mo Cheng killed the maid Jis, he consciously leaked a trace of breath.
The aura flashed by so quickly that people with weak strength might not even be able to sense it.
But the owner of this castle, Griffiths, the butler Alfred, and the captain of the guard, Geno, must be able to sense it.
Mo Cheng was gambling. If two people came, he could accomplish this feat instantly. The parchment clearly stated that he could not be discovered before killing these three guys. In other words, as long as he killed these three guys, it didn't matter if he was discovered afterwards.
Of course, if only one of the targets came, then Mo Cheng could only act according to circumstances. If it was Griffiths, then Mo Cheng would have to give up the achievement of [Everything is false, everything is permitted] and kill Griffiths directly.
Mo Cheng's previous experience in the [Foreign Land] told him that he needed to make [trade-offs] when going through a dungeon. The rewards obtained in the Death Territory were enough to make back the investment, and the next step was to complete as many achievements as possible.
When possible, but not reluctantly.
Compared to the assassination target, Griffith's value is undoubtedly greater, and he is the priority target.
"I……"
Seeing the people coming, the maid Jis seemed a little flustered. She pushed the dining cart closer to the captain of the guard and the butler, and said hurriedly: "I just saw it there..."
"What did you see?"
"I see..." Before he finished speaking, holy light suddenly flashed. The actual holy light took away the vision of the butler and the captain of the guard, as well as their lives.
A long sword swept from left to right, purifying their bodies and souls.
"I saw you die."
When the bodies of the two men turned to ashes, Mo Cheng slowly added the second half of the sentence.
He felt that the parchment on his body had stopped shaking, and at the same time, Mo Cheng also had a feeling that he had accomplished something. Obviously, killing the assassination target before everyone could react was also a way to accomplish it.
"I like the way this was done. It seems like a free task."
