- He still couldn't push open the door to his study.

Because at the very moment when Viscount Dolgoruki said this.

In the shadow cast in front of his study, a hideous, articulating arm of pure shadows suddenly stretched out.

It seemed to be slow, and it poked out of the ground as fast as it could, grabbing the viscount's face—the magic hand slammed the viscount backwards, shoved him away from Annan, and slammed him against the wall on the other side of the hallway!

It just so happens that the other side is a stone wall made of cobblestone gluing. The Viscount, who was hit by the smooth stone in the back of the heart, suddenly almost turned his back and was pressed against the wall by the shadow hand of the anti-joint, and his body subconsciously twitched.

“…… You'd better be clear, Your Excellency. ”

As if he had just woken up, a very soft and low whisper sounded from behind Annan.

I saw that Zorgen had completely opened his eyes.

The silver-gray pupils were extremely cold, burning with a blue-blue halo, and seemed to exude a cold air. The entire hallway was covered in frost marks, and the ground was as cold as an ice cellar.

"Heheheha......ha

The viscount, who had a scar on his face, just couldn't help but laugh.

It was a hearty laugh, as if something had finally been put down.

But he didn't have to laugh long.

"-Hmm."

He was slowly lifted off the wall by the Shadow Hand of the Anti-Joint, and held it up in the air.

Then he slammed Viscount Dolgoruki back against the wall.

This time Zorgen used a little force, so much so that the viscount couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood.

A mouthful of dark red, sticky, dirty blood.

It is the blood of the dead.

Zorgen's face changed slightly, and he turned to look at Zoya.

"Look at his neck, wrists and ankles."

Zhuo Ya thought for a moment and immediately responded: "There is also the skin of the heart. ”

Soon, an anti-joint shadow hand stretched out from each of everyone's shadows—they swarmed up, completely tearing apart the entire body of the Viscount, who was still laughing wildly.

Not surprisingly, they found a thin black thread at the viscount's throat, about six or seven centimeters, usually obscured by the chin. It's like sewing two pieces of cloth together with a rough method, like an ellipsis stitch.

And on his left chest, an equally intermittent thin line was found...... It was a black ring the size of an egg tart.

After seeing this trace, Zorgen didn't say a word, and directly twisted the Viscount's throat.

“…… This is a sign of being bitten by a worm. ”

Zoya explained in a low voice, "He's dead. ”

"Worms...... What is it? ”

Annan frowned and asked in a low voice.

He was still thinking about the question of "the door between worms and cicadas"...... "cicada" is a reference to the way of sublimation, so what is "worm"?

And now he knows that [worm] is a "beast of change". In this way, the "Gate of Worms and Cicadas" means the door ahead of the "Way of Ascension and Change".

Annan was suddenly a little surprised—the knowledge about "worms" that he didn't even know about was in the hands of the Hand of Winter and these nobles of the Northlands, who were not even transcendents and ritual masters. Judging by Zorgen's reaction, I'm afraid this is not some kind of secret......

"This is supposed to be what Master Ivan told you, but he dragonized too early and too quickly."

After Zoya confirmed that Viscount Dolgoruki was dead again, he quickly explained: "This is the Worm Sect, which has been exterminated by us once back then, but I didn't expect it to breed again...... It's really like a worm. ”

She whispered to Zorgen: "Do you remember the layout of the city? I'm afraid there are many more ...... in this city."

Annan asked suspiciously, "Worm Sect?" ”

"There's no official scientific name, and it's not a sect, it's just what Winterwinter calls them...... They call their deeds "the pursuit of the serpent that is not a serpent." ”

Zoya roughly summed it up: "It's a bunch of avid elf lovers.

"They believed that the elves who could naturally become silver transcendents when they reached adulthood, and who could not be corrupted because they had skipped the bronze steps, were a superior race to the Aryans.

"And they believe that the Fallen are born because other races are not as noble as the blood of elves—they believe that other races are 'devil's eggs,' and that the root cause of sin and sin is because they are not elves. As long as everyone becomes elves, there will be no more degenerates and demons.

"This group of people search for and excavate elven ruins all over the world, buy large quantities of elven era antiques, imitate elven lifestyles, and ultimately find a way to transform themselves into elves...... And the fanatics among them are pursuing a way to transform everyone into elves. ”

Annan listened, and his expression gradually became a little strange.

Why does it sound a little harmonious, but I can't say where it is......

“…… According to my memory," Annan replied in thought, "the elves seem to have migrated from the east, right?"

"There are also degenerates in them, I remember."

"They don't care about that. I actually think that it is because the elves are extinct that they can pursue the blood of the elves so passionately. ”

Zoya shrugged: "Their philosophy is that this world is so sinful, and everything is because of 'race is not good'. If the blood of the elves is restored, the rule of the elves is restored, and the customs of the elves are restored, there will not be so many ugliness and tragedies in the world. ”

…… I'm afraid not, man.

Your quest for ...... I'm afraid it's not the blood of the elves, it's the pursuit of spell energy, right?

The elven era is thriving, not because of their noble bloodline, but because the universal resource of spell energy is easy to use......

By activating the mantra energy, it can be used to skip the "ingredients" and "processes" and directly obtain the desired product. The process is fast and clean, produces no exhaust gases and waste, and does not require a large number of workers, only designers to use it.

It's like turning on creative mode.

At that time, almost every town in the empire had built a spell cellar, and the spell energy was continuously extracted. Most people can get abundant living materials without labor, so singing, writing poetry, exercising, and inventing things to win people have appeared in large numbers.

The so-called classical culture of the elven empire flourished incomparably can actually be simply described as "entertainment activities tossed by idle people".

Under that condition, of course, there will be no disputes, and there will be no evil. If it weren't for the fact that the Extraction Spell would quickly cause environmental degradation around the world, it could even be considered a Ascend mode.

But you toss the elven blood...... It really doesn't make any sense.

Annan couldn't help but ask, "Have they seen elves?" ”

"Of course not. I don't think they would have been so fanatical if they had seen the elves, they were just looking for original sin. ”

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Zhuoya commented.

She sighed, looked at Annan, who was still a little puzzled, and explained: "Do you know the time when Grand Duke Ivan and his brother were kidnapped? That's what the Worm Cult does.

"They were demanding the release of a political prisoner – a political prisoner, the top of the Worms."