Calamity Crown

Lust, the suburbs.

A group of people wearing scarlet cloaks stood in a special position.

The low-pitched incantation sounded continuously.

Cold, withered.

Invisible power spreads out.

The day of June entered the cold winter in an instant.

Standing aside, the person wearing the same hood and cloak let out a low laugh.

"come on!"

"A bunch of self-righteous guys!"

The laughter was full of disdain, and when the other party raised his head slightly, a pair of blood red eyes radiated a faint light in the night.

...

A few minutes later, Kyle was dug out of the rubble by Goethe.

"Lord Morey's "Keeper's Handbook" saved me."

Kyle said this, and then struggled to get up.

However, this is obviously a luxury.

Although there was the "Keeper's Handbook" given by Morey as a protection, Kyle was still seriously injured at this time and lost his mobility, but compared with the attacker who turned into a corpse, he couldn't be better up.

"Can you pass me that head?"

Kyle begged.

Goethe didn't refuse, and handed the burnt head not far away to Kyle.

"Thank you, Goethe."

"Gentleman, gentleman..."

Holding his head, Kyle wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything. When the young man thought of the innocent old Henry, all he could do was choke up.

Goethe glanced at Kyle, but didn't say much.

He is not good at consoling others.

Digging Kyle out of the ruins is within his power.

When [Unarmed Combat] reached the extraordinary level, not only did his attacking methods undergo earth-shaking changes, but his [Physical] attribute even reached 2.8 under normal conditions, nearly three times the all-round physical fitness of ordinary people, allowing his hearing to be able to Kyle's groans in the ruins were clearly captured.

Goethe turned around and walked towards the 'Murderer in the Fog' again.

The other party's eyes were wide open on the head that fell to the ground, as if he was dying.

Goethe fired two more shots.

Immediately, the eyes of the 'Misturer in the Fog' turned into two holes of blood.

Although the other party seems to be dead, Goethe still thinks it is a good habit and needs to be persisted.

Then, he took off his grandfather's ring from the 'Mist Killer' and picked up the 'Executioner'.

[Executioner: This is an extremely cruel weapon. Its original user did not use it as a weapon to fight, but to punish his slaves. In the end, it cut off the head of the original user , was taken away; effect: the sharp side has an attack 'above blade level', while the serrated side will bring 'bullet level' pain to the wounded (just pain, not real damage, but can destroy the spirit of the wounded)]

...

When he picked up the 'Executioner', words appeared in front of his eyes.

But Goethe was taken aback when he picked up his grandfather's bronze ring.

Because, Goethe found a line of text inside the ring: Wandering between reason and non-reason, is it important?

If it was just this, it would naturally not make Goethe stunned.

The reason for his real bewilderment was that this line of text was completely written in the language of his hometown that he was familiar with.

"this?"

Just when Goethe was in doubt, the faint light in the copper ring flashed past, and the next moment, it appeared on the index finger of Goethe's left hand.

[Unknown object discovered, judging...]

[Identify and unlock the secret key, the judgment is passed! 】

【Inheritance completed! 】

...

Three lines of text flashed before his eyes, and immediately after, a dark night sky appeared in front of Goethe.

It was a darker and deeper night sky than the Lust night sky.

Seven stars hang on it, presenting a '丄' shape, shining extremely brightly.

The luster of the three is dim, showing a row at the bottom and one white, one gray at the top, one black at the top, and one red at the top.

The three with dim luster were like candles in the wind, as if they were going to be extinguished at any moment.

The white one is like cream, exuding a seductive brilliance.

The gray one is like a mist, making people trapped in it and unable to distinguish.

The black one is like an abyss, which is about to be swallowed by the naked eye.

The red one is full of ominousness, but it is what Goethe cares most about. Ordinary people will avoid the ominousness just by looking at it, but it makes Goethe stare intently, as if there is something there that attracts him to go.

It's like the food you see when you're hungry.

Completely instinctive.

Goethe almost gritted his teeth before letting himself look away.

Then, when his eyes turned to the dimly shining stars, the words appeared again——

[Yes/No Consume 500 gold grams to enter the secret realm? 】

...

"Secret Realm?!"

Goethe was startled.

While staring at these stars, he had already begun to guess what these stars represented, but Goethe never thought that these stars actually represented a 'secret realm'.

With the attitude of the owner of the Pine Nut Hotel facing the 'secret realm', Goethe could imagine the value of the 'secret realm'.

And that...

just one!

Now there are seven!

"'Descendants of the Mad King'...'Legacy of the Mad King'...'Treasure of the Mad King'!"

Goethe murmured softly in his heart.

Final confirmation--

'Mad King's Treasure'!

The bronze ring in front of him is the 'Mad King's Treasure'.

And the clue to the "Mad King's Treasure" mentioned by the "Mist Killer"?

Goethe couldn't be sure that it was his grandfather who had deceived the other party by setting up doubts.

Or the other party is so suspicious.

Or maybe some wonderful misunderstanding occurred in it.

These are not important to Goethe now, his eyes swept over these stars representing the 'secret realm' again.

Every star with dim luster will prompt [consume 500 gold grams], but there is no prompt for white, gray, black, and red.

"Is it necessary to 'complete' the 'secret realm' at the bottom to open the 'secret realm' above?"

Goethe guessed according to the graphic arrangement of '丄'.

Then, he completely withdrew his gaze from the ring.

It's not that I don't want to go to the 'secret realm' to find out.

Instead, no money.

He doesn't have 500 gold grams.

Now his total net worth is only 192 gold grams, 11 silver cables, 30 copper horns and 1 and a half copper horns.

That's a long way from 500 gold grams.

certainly!

And disaster!

Goethe did not forget what Morey said that whenever the 'secret realm' opens, it will bring disaster.

He needs more information about the 'secret realm'.

After confirming more conditions, turn it on again.

as well as……

That text!

Branded in the copper ring, the familiar hometown characters!

"Could it be that the 'Mad King' is also..."

Goethe guessed, and then his eyes were attracted by the sound of horseshoes in the distance.

A carriage is galloping by.

It's Sheila.

The head of the Garden Club and the owner of the Hunter Bar drove a carriage to Goethe, and jumped out of the carriage with a look of embarrassment.

"do you know?"

"You owe me a big favor!"

"I... xxx! It's that guy!"

The lady hadn't finished speaking when she saw the corpse of the 'Murder in the Fog' on the ground. Immediately, after a burst of exclamation and greetings mixed with some local slang, she went straight to the corpse.

It was not searching for the corpse, but spitting on the corpse.

"asshole!"

"You bastard!"

"Silly X who pretends to be smart!"

The woman continued to spit on the dead body of the 'Mist Killer' while swearing.

"what happened?"

A bad premonition rose in Goethe's heart.

"This guy made us think that he successfully deceived the 'Church of Flesh', but in fact, everything here is controlled by the 'Church of Flesh'—these guys are more cunning than imagined, they hide in the dark, Let this idiot successfully attract all of our attention, and then arrange it secretly... No, it's not arranged secretly, anyway... You should ask them!"

The more this lady couldn't explain, the more irritable she became, with a panic that Goethe had never seen in her expression.

Goethe immediately opened the carriage door, and Morey and Mrs. Burns were half leaning on their seats.

Both of them were covered in blood, and Mrs. Burns fell into a coma again, while Morey weakly raised his hand, gestured to Goethe, and then showed a wry smile.

"When I was fighting with the bodyguard of the owner of the Pine Nut Hotel, the Church of Flesh used those corpses to initiate the ceremony."

"ceremony?"

Goethe's bad premonition grew stronger.

"'Flesh Gate'!"

"it is……"

Boom!

Before Morey could finish his explanation, the whole Lust trembled.

Amidst the trembling of the earth, a gate made entirely of flesh and bones slowly rose from the ground with a heavy whistling sound like the undead, enveloping the entire Rust like a shadow.

Seeing this scene, Morey's face completely lost all color.

"It's over!"