71 Chapter 69: Black Magic In The Hole (1/2)

[ Violence ] [ Death ]

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After hours of walking in the same direction on the map and taking small sitting breaks, they all blankly stared at what looked like a dead end.

\”What the actual hell....\” Ivery looked at the map closer and looked down in front of her

\”What do we do now....?\” Danya sighed and looked down at the enormous hole in front of them, still in slight shock that this is what they found after walking several hours

\”Wait...\” Ivery noticed something strange happening with the map

\”What?\” Yannel asked

\”Look..\” Ivery pointed at the blinking blue glowing dot on the map

\”Isn't that where we are now?\” Luther asked

\”It is.\” Ivery nodded

\”So..we do have to go down there after all?\” Danya frowned

\”Seems like it.\” Ivery sighed

\”How could going down a giant hole in the ground lead us to Ridgefall?\” Yannel asked Ivery

\”Honestly...I don't know.\” Ivery was clueless, she put the map inside of her hanfu

\”But if we want to get to Ridgefall...this is the only way.\” Ivery said

\”To make sure it's safe for you two...\” Ivery looked at Yannel and Danya

\”I'll go down first...\” Ivery unhesitantly let herself fall forward into the hole

\”Ivery!\” Luther's eyes widened, he reached out for her but it was too late

\”Master!\” Eness shouted with worry

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\”Eos...are you sure you can find them like this?\” Xia impatiently asked

\”Since I'm being blocked from sensing them, ritually tracking someone with their own possessions is another method of finding them.\” Eos told Xia, holding a golden hairbrush in her left hand and a black shirt in her right hand

\”Although black magic is needed to do this.\” Eos closed her eyes

\”ƒιηєѕнєм υηαмι яєgєℓℓєм.\” Eos chanted

The brush and shirt in Eos's hands quickly turned into black sand. The black sand floated up and created a circle in the air in front of Eos.

\”....\” Xia stared in awe

Just as Eos opened her eyes, in the center of the sand circle an image swirled around.

\”It's working...\” Eos smiled

\”Good.\” Xia grinned

Eos looked into the sand circle and her smile instantly dropped as soon as black nothingness appeared in the sand circle.

\”Impossible...\” Eos gritted her teeth together

\”What's wrong?\” Xia worriedly asked

\”I see nothing...\” Eos said

\”This was supposed to show me where they are....but it is showing me nothing..\” Eos angrily waved her hand and the sand circle dissipated

\”Is there any other way to locate them?\” Xia questioned Eos

\”Yes...there is one last way...\” Eos nodded

\”What is it?\” Xia looked at Eos eagerly

\”A sacrifice...\” Eos answered

\”What type of sacrifice?\” Xia asked

\”Blood relatives?....You mean to sacrifice people of the Vandell and Castiell bloodline..\” Xia looked up at Eos

\”If I cannot track them from their magic, I am going to have to track them through relative blood...\” Eos said

\”How do you need to sacrifice them?\” Xia asked

\”It's a bit too...ghastly for a young girl like yourself to know the way the sacrifice has to be carried out.\” Eos smiled

\”Tell me...\” Xia didn't care about how gruesome or horrifying their deaths would be...

\”I need both of the sacrifices hearts and heads.\” Eos said

\”Oh..\” Xia was a bit shocked to hear it

\”Luckily for us, both of those emperors have no shortage of children.\” Eos laughed

\”Wouldn't it be better to sacrifice both of the emperors instead? I have a grudge against them both anyway...\” Xia grinned

\”Oh? What has the emperor of Fresia done to earn your grudge?\” Eos asked

\”He promised me that I would definitely marry into the Vandell family...and clearly that didn't end up happening...\” Xia angrily thought of Erdel

\”I thought you weren't in love with that prince anymore.\” Eos said

\”Oh I'm not, but his father lied to me....as soon as Inanna stepped into somewhere she didn't belong...he was so quick along with Julian to annul my engagement and rearrange it so that Luther would be engaged to that blonde homewrecker.\” Xia said with malice filled in her eyes

\”It doesn't matter to me who I need to sacrifice, all I need are their blood relatives.\” Eos smiled

\”How are you going to sacrifice them? Do they have to be here for it to work?\” Xia asked Eos

\”.....\” Eos looked down at Xia

\”Of course, don't be a fool, how can I sacrifice mortals that aren't even here to be sacrificed? So you'll have to bring them to me.\” Eos responded with a smirk

\”Wait-, what?! How could I manage to bring two of the most powerful emperors to you? Erdel Vandell is just as infamous as his evil crown prince for wiping enemy countries out of existence without the help of their armies, and I've witnessed the devastating power that Julian Castiell possesses....so how could I manage to somehow bring them here?\” Xia couldn't believe she was being asked to deliver Julian and Erdel

\”You should've thought about that when you suggested for them to be the sacrifices, I hope you weren't thinking that I was going to go fetch the sacrifices myself.\” Eos snickered

\”.....\” Xia started to feel herself sweating

\”If you find yourself in a bad situation, I might come to help you....but you should work hard for what you so desperately want....don't you think so?\” Eos asked with a smile

Xia silently nodded, looking down at the floor.

\”Don't waste anymore time, go ahead with the plan and be sure to capture both of those emperors you hold grudges against....\” Eos laughed as she disappeared from the room

\”Eos!\” Xia looked around and instantly felt at a loss

\”I guess there's really no such thing as quick and easy revenge....especially when it comes to those two...\” Xia teared

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Ivery opened her eyes and couldn't see anything, everything was pitch black. Her right hand glowed and a small golden luminescent ball floated above her hand, the light from it lit up the darkness.

Ivery looked around and she appeared to be in some sort of cave...

Ivery slightly jumped when she saw the back of a person cloaked in black beside her.

\”Who are you?\” Ivery asked

\”Who am I?\” The person turned around to look at Ivery

\”The real question is who are you and why are you here?\” The person pushed back their hood

Ivery's eyes couldn't break away from the face that she saw. It was a woman, an extremely beautiful young woman...her honey blonde hair was long and curly, her skin was unflawed and her face was well proportioned, and her pale black eyes looked suspiciously at Ivery.

\”I won't answer until you do.\” Ivery narrowed her eyes

The woman sighed and smiled, \”It doesn't matter...you'll die here anyway.\”

\”Are you going to kill me?\” Ivery smiled back and asked

\”Maybe...or they will.\” The woman snapped her fingers

Suddenly several pitch-black figures with glowing yellow eyes emerged from the darkness of the cave.

\”What the hell are those?\” Ivery asked as the distorted looking figures slowly walked closer

\”My dark servants.... or in other words, tortured and vengeful souls that are seeking for a body to possess or rip apart.\” The woman smirked

\”And a few warnings to make it easier for you, One, don't try to use magic because they absorb all types of magic and become stronger as a result, and that'll be bad for you since black magic or dark beings inside of a non-black magic-user is incredibly painful as it is, and you don't want to fuel a raging fire do you?\” The woman held up one finger

\”Two, if you run....that'll only anger them and they'll desperately look for you until they've found you, the hunt could last for days, weeks, months...maybe even years....but once they find you...they'll show no mercy.\” The woman put up a second finger

\”Three, they're really sensitive to noises since they're slightly blind...so even breathing a little loudly can send them running towards you, if you accidently trip, sneeze or cough, those incidences have killed many before you...so I'm warning you not to do that if you want to live long enough to happen to find the way out of here.\” The woman put up her third finger

\”You make it sound like some hide and seek game.\” Ivery said

\”Because it kind of is, but with a little twist of possible or definite death and possession.\” The woman widely smiled

\”If I were to kill you right here and now, what would happen to these dark servants of yours?\” Ivery asked with a smile

\”They would die along with me.\” The woman responded, not dropping her smile

\”So what's stopping me from killing you instead of running to hide then?\” Ivery asked

\”That's because....\”The woman stopped talking

\”Why tell you when I can show you..?\” She pulled a black knife out of her cloak

The woman brought the knife up against her neck, she instantly slit her throat in that same instant. Blood poured down from her neck, she collapsed and fell on her back.

\”What the hell....\” Ivery didn't understand what just happened

Ivery suddenly felt a hand grab her left arm, she quickly summoned her fan in her right hand and turned around, she positioned her fan under the chin of the person holding on her arm.

\”Calm down, it's just me.\” Luther slowly pushed her fan down

\”Oh...don't scare me like that..\” Ivery took a deep breath and exhaled

\”I came down to make sure you were okay...\” Luther said

\”I'm fine...there was just this woman that just did the strangest thing...\” Ivery turned around

\”What....\” Ivery slightly backed up in disbelief

\”What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost...\” The woman in black smirked

Ivery blinked a few times and didn't understand how the woman was standing up perfectly healthy and alive...

The slit wound on her neck was even completely gone..

\”You...just killed yourself so..how?\” Ivery said

\”I can't die...\” The woman said

\”Ivery..\” Luther grabbed Ivery's hand

\”W-What?\” Ivery turned her head to look at Luther

\”She's full of powerful ancient black magic from head to toe....unless it is removed from her, she...can't be killed since it will continuously resurrect her..\” Luther automatically sensed the dangerous magic emitting from the woman

\”So..what do we do..?\” Ivery asked him

\”Hey...you..\” The woman looked at Luther

\”Hm..?\” Luther looked back at the woman, he also noticed the familiar and ominous presence of dark servants behind her

\”You have a special type of black magic that I've never sensed before....you're clearly a powerful black magic user...\” The woman smiled

\”I could say the same thing to you..\” Luther sighed

\”Hey girl, you can forget about the little game we were about to play....I've found something far more interesting than playing around with you...\” The woman told Ivery as she looked at Luther

\”Join me.\” She held her hand out for Luther

\”I can grant you even more dark powers than you can even imagine if you do...\” She said

\”Pass.\” Luther immediately rejected the offer

\”What? Why?\” The woman stopped smiling

\”I already have a lot of abilities that I don't even use already at my disposal.\” Luther responded

\”Either you join me or die...\” The woman evilly grinned, her black irises and white scleras quickly turned black, small black veins surfaced on her face

She opened her mouth and a black mist flowed out and spread across the floor of the cave.