212: Chapter 212 The Strange Room

Just as Nie Ning was about to check the room, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"What are you doing, sir?"

Nie Ning spun around abruptly, only to see Achilles, the butler, smiling at him.

But...

Where was Heloise?

Heloise had clearly been right behind him just a moment ago, only for a few breaths when he was drawn to that room.

And this butler could appear behind him without a sound!

Sensing that something was amiss, Nie Ning stared intently at the butler in front of him, his Spiritual Power rapidly spreading outwards.

First floor!

Realizing that Heloise was still on the first floor, Nie Ning directly attacked the butler with his Wind-Thunder Blade.

The butler still smiled, but under the attack of the Wind-Thunder Blade, his body shattered and vanished like glass.

Seeing this, Nie Ning didn't delay. He used his Earth Control Skill to open the floor, and his body rapidly fell downwards.

When Nie Ning returned to the first floor, he didn't see Heloise.

How could this be!

Nie Ning's face showed astonishment.

He used his mental scan again, but this time it showed Heloise was outside the house.

Nie Ning took a step, preparing to go out and look for Heloise, but then he suddenly stopped.

Looking up, the hole opened by his Earth Control Skill had already disappeared.

His Spiritual Power quickly spread outwards. Heloise had moved again and was now near the courtyard wall.

After a moment of thought, Nie Ning launched a Wind-Thunder Blade upwards, breaking through the ceiling and leaping to the third floor.

Looking at the half-open door not far away, Nie Ning tried to blast it open with a Fireball Spell.

The expected explosion didn't happen. There seemed to be a barrier in front of the half-open door, and the fireball disappeared after causing ripples as if entering water.

Seeing this, Nie Ning's expression changed, and for a moment, he couldn't tell what the problem was.

And as he returned to the third floor, Heloise's figure appeared on the first floor again.

Something's wrong!

Very wrong!

He didn't know if that figure was Heloise, but Nie Ning always felt like this place was trying to lure him out.

Why would it try to lure him out?

Corruptors wouldn't do something so unnecessary unless it was to kill people.

There must be a reason for this.

Nie Ning carefully sensed the malice around him, which hadn't changed since he entered.

"Sir, your female companion is downstairs, she's looking for you."

At this moment, the butler's voice sounded again from behind Nie Ning.

However, in Nie Ning's mental vision, he couldn't perceive Achilles's presence.

"Tell her to come up, I'll wait for her here."

Nie Ning turned to Achilles and said expressionlessly.

Achilles stared straight at Nie Ning, his face still bearing a professional smile: "She told me the same thing."

Hearing this, Nie Ning walked to the balcony window, and that familiar figure stood downstairs; it was Heloise, who had disappeared.

"This place is really strange."

Nie Ning sighed with inexplicable emotion.

And in his mental perspective, Heloise was standing on the first floor.

As a wisp of white smoke drifted from Nie Ning's body, the massive Jerky Bear Head filled the entire passage, even crushing Achilles.

The Jerky Bear Head's shriveled body swayed slightly like a withered branch, but the arm holding the Blade of Corrosion suddenly swung towards the wall.

In an instant, the entire castle shook violently.

Despite being a stone castle, the wall attacked by the Blade of Corrosion showed rust, which rapidly spread around.

At the same time, Nie Ning looked down from the window, and Heloise's figure had vanished.

However, in his mental perspective, Heloise appeared in the room behind him.

Turning back to the half-open door, Heloise had already entered the room at some point and was sitting in front of the crystal dressing table.

Not only that, but the mirror on the dressing table reflected not Heloise's face, but the pale, grim face of a middle-aged man.

Nie Ning had seen that man's face before; it was the portrait in the middle of the wall in the first-floor hall.

Viscount Carter!

Just as Nie Ning was about to walk over, a group of people appeared before him in the blink of an eye.

Leading them was Achilles, along with the knights Nie Ning had seen before, and some people Nie Ning hadn't met, including Kim, who was looking around with a terrified expression.

Except for Kim, these people in the hallway were expressionless, their eyes hollow, like puppets.

"That meat really was problematic!"

Seeing this, Nie Ning waved his hand, and several Wind-Thunder Blades swept through.

Unlike when he killed Achilles before, wherever the Wind-Thunder Blades passed, severed limbs fell to the ground, and black blood splattered everywhere.

He didn't need to think twice; those people must have turned into Corrupted Puppets.

The flesh and blood from before must have been the means to corrupt these people.

And Kim, having only eaten one bite of meat, wasn't severely corrupted or assimilated.

At this moment, Kim stared blankly at Nie Ning, seemingly unable to imagine that Nie Ning was a wizard, and one of such powerful strength.

After all, there were several Great Knights among these people.

He had never seen such strength that could make Great Knights die without resistance.

But at this moment, Kim's body moved on its own, drawing the longsword from his waist and charging at Nie Ning.

"I'm not moving on my own, I don't want to die! Save me!"

Kim shouted in terror.

As Kim rushed in front of Nie Ning, Nie Ning struck him with a palm, embedding him in the wall, then ignored him.

...

Nie Ning, seeing that everyone was cleared, walked towards the room inside.

But after only two steps, the dead people reappeared completely unharmed in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Nie Ning frowned slightly.

Although these people couldn't harm him, if they were endless, it would still be a bit troublesome.

He used Wind-Thunder Blade again to kill the people in the tunnel, but in just a blink of an eye, they reappeared.

After trying a few times, Nie Ning discovered that these people did have some kind of refresh mechanism.

Except for Kim, whom he hadn't tried, everyone else would recover to their original state at an unbelievable speed.

However, it did allow Nie Ning to discover something.

Whenever the Corrupted Puppets revived, the corrosive effect of the Blade of Corrosion would accelerate.

And Nie Ning could feel that the concentration of corrupted aura around him was indeed decreasing.

But when Nie Ning's gaze swept towards the room, he found Viscount Carter in the mirror staring at him with eyes full of hatred.

This made Nie Ning feel a bit strange.

But looking at Heloise in the room, it was clearly not the time to think.

"Stop playing around!"

Nie Ning shouted into the room.

In an instant, a large number of Green Crystal Vines gushed out from the room.

The Green Crystal Vines pushed aside the Corrupted Puppets at the doorway, and then Heloise was moved and brought out along the vines.

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