Chapter 1 Special Sealed Space

“Huh… a special sealed space?”

Suren had actually been paying attention to Heidmann's movements all along, and he was slightly surprised to see that it was a spirit summoning technique.

Even though he was quite knowledgeable now, it was the first time he had seen someone use spirit summoning to directly conjure a sealed space.

It was somewhat similar to the sub-space created by his [Steinitz's Chessboard].

But the space before him was eerily large.

Because in Suren's perception, this space was actually "boundless"?

It made him think for a moment that he had gone to a book world like the [Land of the Yellow Springs] again.

But it wasn't.

Very strange.

The woman's speed of forming seals for spirit summoning was extremely fast. Unless Suren had used the Plane Crystal to teleport away the moment he saw her, he would have inevitably been caught.

But since he was determined to fight, he naturally wouldn't escape.

…

Suren glanced at the surrounding environment.

A desolate and dilapidated manor, somewhat like the Stormwind Manor of the Dawn Ruins. Because it was too dilapidated, it looked more like a cemetery.

This terrifying atmosphere didn't cause any psychological fluctuations in Suren. Instead, he sensed the strength of the space, and his heart immediately became heavy. "This 'Curator' gave me a big problem as soon as we met. Tsk tsk… the hidden experts of Lingdun really can't be underestimated."

The outside world now knew that "Death" had very strong spatial displacement abilities, so spatial restrictions for ambushes were completely within expectations.

However, this [House of Wax] was still somewhat beyond Suren's expectations.

His current understanding of the laws of space was already very high, and he immediately discerned that the current situation was different. It was several levels more "solid" than his chessboard space in terms of the law level. It even faintly resembled the space strength of the main plane.

Not only could Suren not use spatial displacement to escape, but he also estimated that even using the Plane Crystal would consume a very large piece.

Not only him, but the spatial restrictions of this [House of Wax] were such that even the "Thief Emperor" Carlo, one of the Ten Legends, couldn't escape!

This was unbelievable.

This kind of "sub-space" could never reach this kind of law strength.

What caused it?

Of course, the caster had a treasure in her hand!

Without the blessing of a treasure with a very high law level, this space would never be so strong.

Indeed, opportunities weren't just for him, Suren.

Others had them too!

Especially top nobles like Lu Ying.

It wouldn't make sense if they didn't have a few ancient treasures with special effects in their hands.

…

Thoughts flashed in his mind, and the scenery changed in an instant.

Surprised as he was, Suren didn't give the enemy any time to react.

He teleported behind Heidmann two meters away and raised his hand to slash with the Black Scythe again.

Before the slash landed, he saw a "water element magic shield" triggered on the woman's body.

The Black Scythe felt like it was cutting into a gelatinous substance, and the resistance became more and more exaggerated.

In the end, it seemed to be embedded in it, unable to advance an inch, still a foot away from Heidmann's neck.

Taking a closer look, the terrifying face of the [Ghost Bride] had condensed on the magic shield.

Suren frowned and exclaimed in his heart, "This elemental wax statue can be used like this?"

Today was truly an eye-opener.

He also understood why they chose the "four elemental corpses" to make wax statues. Elementalized corpses were indeed very convenient to control.

They could fight,

They could protect,

Simply perfect!

The woman obviously didn't plan to hide anymore. She lifted her cloak, revealing her face covered in demonic纹 (mó wén, magic纹). She looked at Suren with a sneer, and mocked, "Wasn't Your Excellency looking for me everywhere? Now, as you wish, I'm here..."

These words weren't just empty boasts. The sound seemed to linger, revolving in his mind and refusing to dissipate.

I'm here…

I'm here…

I'm here…

Suren only felt a trance, and immediately understood that this was "wind sound".

The [House of Wax - Sleeping Beauty]'s abilities weren't just various wind-based methods, but also a mental hypnosis technique that was hard to guard against, putting people to sleep.

But Suren's mental strength was now so exaggerated that ordinary professional players couldn't even compare. Even an eighth-order professional might not be able to hypnotize him, so how could he be controlled by this kind of method?

"Hmph!"

He snorted coldly, and his expression instantly cleared.

The moment the shadow of Death rose behind him, an invisible aura also surrounded his body.

Overlord Haki (霸气, bà qì) was specifically designed to counter all kinds of fancy elemental abilities!

With Overlord Haki blessing the Black Scythe, this slash continued to fall, and with a "whoosh", it seemed to cut through a water ball, and corrosive black water splashed everywhere.

Looking again, a black cloak was left on the ground.

Dozens of meters away, Heidmann had already removed her armor and, under the protection of the four elemental wax statues, looked at Suren with greed in her eyes. "Overlord Haki? Heh heh heh… another perfect material for making wax statues."

Suren rolled his eyes. Based on you?

He was just curious about this set of dark gold armor. The name identified was [Hell Carrion Beetle Armor (Dark Gold)].

The woman was covered in a layer of metallic, dark yellow armor, and she looked like a… iron-backed cockroach.

The appearance was indeed not very good.

But it had to be said that the defense was amazing.

Suren was also curious about what kind of professional advancement path this woman was taking and why she would use this kind of armor.

At this moment, Heidmann was muttering some incantations that sounded like necromancy spells.

Judging from the way she was chanting, she was probably preparing to unleash a big move.

Suren wouldn't wait for her to successfully condense the術式 (shù shì, spell).

Knowing that he couldn't kill this guy without using some tricks, he waved his hand, and a gargoyle appeared beside him.

One man and one puppet charged towards Heidmann again!

After taking a few steps, the gargoyle "swooshed" and teleported away. Suren quickly pinched out a 術式 (shù shì, spell) with his flying術士 (shù shì, sorcerer) seals: "Void Alchemy - Imprisonment!"

He formed a triangular seal with both hands, pushed it forward, and as spatial ripples flashed, Heidmann was instantly frozen in place.

The four elemental wax statues were indeed good, but the shortcomings were still obvious.

That was that, like a puppeteer, the controller's body was the weak point!

Suren didn't want to entangle with these wax statues and directly controlled Heidmann's body.

This guy was only sixth-order.

It might have been a little more troublesome to deal with before, but now that Suren had also advanced to sixth-order, without the pressure of階位 (jiē wèi, level), the power of the術式 (shù shì, spell) greatly increased!

At the same time, the gargoyle had appeared behind her, and its hands blasted forward with cannon fists, wrapped in some fierce void cracks, which was a move called "Void Rending Fist"!

The cooperation of one man and one puppet was simply perfect.

"Bang!"

Both fists accurately hit Heidmann's body.

Like being hit by a cannonball, she spat out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards.

The water element magic shield could indeed block almost all physical attacks, but the spatial laws engraved on the gargoyle were the most understood by Suren.

It could be said that it was Suren's third hand!

Even though the puppet didn't have Overlord Haki, it was engraved with seventh-order power runes. And the core of the puppet was the [Four-Colored Elemental Heart], a top-level ancient core, which could fully support the instantaneous ultra-high energy burst of the術式 (shù shì, spell).

Miracles happened through great power!

These two cannon fists were no weaker than the power of a seventh-order professional!

Suren saw that the gargoyle had succeeded in one blow, but since he didn't see the "gray mist," he knew that the person wasn't dead.

Even if it was a test, he would never give the enemy a chance to breathe. He controlled the gargoyle to teleport again to where Heidmann landed, smashing down with heavy fists, and unleashing a barrage of violent output like a charging bull.

The four wax statues' attack methods weren't weak, unleashing various sixth-order術式 (shù shì, spells), but they couldn't stop the gargoyle, which wasn't afraid of death.

This was the alchemical puppet that Sereya regarded as the most perfect in the rune術式 (shù shì, spell) lineage. It was not a false reputation.

Not to mention that most elemental spells were免疫 (miǎn yì, immune) to its perfect body structure. Even if the body was damaged, the material properties of [Activating Silver] could quickly restore it.

The behemoth stubbornly withstood the attacks of the four wax statues, bombarding Heidmann with a dense rain of heavy fists.

"Dong!"

"Dong!"

"Dong!"

"..."

The earth-shattering movements, the core of the battle, various elements were about to explode.

It was so exaggerated that even Suren didn't dare to approach.

The "Curator"'s own combat strength was weaker than expected, and it seemed that she didn't have much resistance.

But thinking about it, it was normal.

Mystic-type professionals were inherently weak in physical fitness.

Originally, with a few immortal wax statues guarding her, she was almost invincible.

Normally, no sixth-order professional could withstand the four wax statues and go close to assassinate Heidmann.

But encountering a gargoyle that was almost immune to all elemental spells below the same階位 (jiē wèi, level) and wasn't afraid of death, she was somewhat countered.

No matter what your means, I'll break it with brute force.

A self-destructive fighting style looked like a completely crushing situation.

This set of continuous methods was indeed completely enough to deal with ordinary sixth-order professionals.

But gradually, Suren faintly had a bad premonition.

Because,

The woman hadn't fought back.

And even more strangely, in Suren's perception, her soul fluctuations were still very healthy.

In other words, after fighting for so long, the gargoyle was completely doing useless work!

Seeing this, Suren's pupils shrank slightly, and he thought, "As expected, it's not so easy to kill her."

He looked at the entire space.

His intuition told him that if the method of attack wasn't right, it was impossible to kill this guy.

Moreover, this space was called the [House of Wax]. There couldn't just be four wax statues, right?

As expected,

What he thought about came true.

…

Just as Suren was controlling the gargoyle to bombard her with heavy punches, trying to find a flaw, an eerie laughter suddenly echoed in the dark space: "Doesn't Your Excellency think that this 'House of Wax' is just to trap you?"

Hearing Heidmann's laughter, Suren raised an eyebrow.

She had been condensing that spell all along, and now it seemed that she had successfully cast it.

From a psychological point of view, this was the normal procedure before the villain "enlarged" their move.

Especially for some obsessive artists, if they didn't let people understand her works, even if they successfully killed the enemy, they would feel that half of the sense of accomplishment was missing.

Wax statues were also art.

Although it was horror art.

Just as these words fell, Suren watched as all the lights in the dilapidated manor not far away lit up, and then his face twitched, and he complained in his heart: I really have a crow's tongue…

Like an exhibition hall, the lights suddenly turned on, and the entire manor became bright.

Then, Suren saw a "person" standing in every window that lit up.

Like figurines in a display case, neatly arranged.

A total of thirty-six windows, with thirty-two people.

The four empty ones were right in front of him.

Suren identified them, and they were all corpses with names starting with [Horror Wax Statue].

[The Little Match Girl], [Little Red Riding Hood the Wolf Girl], [Snow White the Witch], [The Vicious Prince], [Midnight Ghost Cinderella]...

None of them were various existences from the strange legends of Lingdun.

None of them were精品 (jīng pǐn, fine products).

After randomly identifying a few, they were all of qualities no less than the previous four sixth-order wax statues.

Even the four at the very top, lit up by dazzling spotlights, were of a大階位 (dà jiē wèi, greater level) quality!

The "Curator" of the House of Wax. No wonder she was called by this nickname.

In addition to being surprised, Suren felt greatly puzzled: "Where did this guy get so many corpses of strong people? Also, can this guy control dozens of sixth-order wax statues at the same time? Then who can beat him within the same階位 (jiē wèi, level)? I'm afraid even a seventh-order professional would die on the spot…"

Although Suren wasn't proficient in wax statue making, he was very clear that to create a sixth-order wax statue, its raw material must be even higher than sixth-order.

In other words, these dozens of wax statues were all seventh-order professionals or higher before they died?

Obviously, it was impossible for Heidmann to have so many corpses to make into wax statues through normal channels.

A series of questions popped up.

Suren, who had always used human wave tactics to crush his enemies, was shocked by the enemy's human wave tactics for the first time.

…

Seeing that the gargoyle hadn't hurt the other party at all, Suren didn't do any more useless work and took it back to his side.

At this time, Heidmann proudly introduced, "Hahaha, welcome to my collection hall! After today, you will also be a藏品 (cáng pǐn, collection) in my House of Wax."

Saying that, she glanced at Suren, as if looking at a semi-finished藏品 (cáng pǐn, collection), and said, "This is your honor. You must know that the corpses that can become my收藏品 (shōu cáng pǐn, collections) were all top professionals before they died."

"…"

Suren ignored the woman's bursting self-confidence, but he did take it seriously in his heart.

Dealing with four sixth-order combat power wax statues wasn't a big threat to him.

But what about these thirty-six?

Moreover, it wasn't just the problem of the wax statues. The most important thing was that Suren still couldn't figure out why this guy hadn't been hurt at all after being beaten by the gargoyle for so long?

It was absolutely impossible to do this with just the [Hell Carrion Beetle Armor] on her body.

Since the other party hadn't made a move, Suren also patiently waited to see what she wanted to do.

At this time, Heidmann waved her hand, and a corpse of an old man wearing a gorgeous swallowtail coat instantly appeared beside her.

This was one of the four藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections) at the top of the manor.

As soon as Suren saw it, he naturally recognized that the elementalized ability was the elementalized ability of [A-003-Wind Whisperer].

Heidmann seemed eager to find someone to share her secret.

Seeing these藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections), there was a kind of morbid pleasure on her face, and she explained with an exaggerated expression, "You should be familiar with this one, right? This is Hermann Regarthy, the eighth-order 'Wind God' of your Regarthy family who died in battle twenty years ago. It cost me a lot to get this corpse…"

These wax statues couldn't be exposed to the light.

Anyone who saw them had to be killed.

It was so uncomfortable not being able to share his secrets with living people.

"…"

Suren rolled his eyes slightly.

He didn't know the person,

But he was quite surprised.

Immediately afterwards, Heidmann waved her hand again, and another wax statue at the very top jumped down.

This was a wax statue wearing a gorgeous court dress. Judging from the noble纹饰 (wén shì, crest) embroidered on the skirt, it seemed to be a royal family.

She introduced, "This one is even more famous. Flora Golwin, the 'Fire Dragon Girl,' the Queen from fifty years ago, was the number one genius of the Royal Academy that year. Oh, I finally managed to steal this from the emperor's陵寝 (líng qǐn, mausoleum). Fortunately, those idiots in the royal family weren't bad at preserving corpses, so I got such a perfect corpse…"

Hearing this, a strange look flashed in Suren's eyes and disappeared.

He had indeed heard this name before.

When he visited the Royal Academy before, this person was the outstanding alumnus hanging in the corridor of the classroom.

As this guy said, this was the former number one genius of the Royal Academy. The celebrity column also specifically introduced that her talent was the very rare [A-001-Fire Thief] second段 (duàn, stage) awakened.

Suren finally understood that this Heidmann was a grave robber.

There was such a sequence in the超凡 (chāo fán, extraordinary) professional, called [Grave Digger].

Her藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections) were mostly from grave robbing.

No wonder she was the Dean of the "Ancient Magic and Archeology Research Institute" of the Royal Academy. This job and her profession had a really high degree of契合度 (qì hé dù, fit).

Heidmann introduced a few of her most proud藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections), and her eyes were already full of madness. The look in her eyes seemed to be saying: Look, what a great work of art this is.

But she didn't seem to have the patience to say any more, and with a wave of her hand, "As for those… those are my former enemies. I have made all the opponents worth paying attention to into wax statues. And 'Death' Your Excellency, you are the only one who is not seventh-order, but I plan to include you as one of the special materials for藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections). Heh heh heh, feel honored…"

…

Suren always felt that this guy had something wrong with her brain.

Mental畸变 (jī biàn, aberration)?

Perhaps.

But her strength was indeed very strong.

This woman indeed had the capital to be crazy.

With these收藏品 (shōu cáng pǐn, collections), even if she faced a seventh-order professional, she had the confidence to kill them. (If she wasn't boasting, she seemed to have really killed them before)

Sixth-order professionals were a very special group of people.

Different from other professional thresholds, those who could advance to sixth-order were all professionals with excellent talent.

But they lacked some key insights and were stuck at this threshold for a lifetime.

Like the previous Augustus, and this "Curator" Heidmann in front of him.

After they advanced to sixth-order and got stuck, they would have a lot of time and energy to琢磨 (zhuó mó, ponder) some strange abilities.

One studied the method of bloodsucking more thoroughly than the vampires, and the other liked to collect "藏品 (cáng pǐn, collections)."

After listening to her introduction, Suren also knew that it was time to fight.

His goal was still very clear.

That was to kill Heidmann's body.

He had already tried it before. The four elemental wax statues couldn't be killed. They would be infinitely resurrected because of a special necromantic術式 (shù shì, spell).

But it wasn't like [1911 Hotel] where souls would appear, allowing Suren to strip the souls and kill them.

The ones in this House of Wax seemed to be completely resurrected without any cost.

The four elemental wax statues had their气机 (qì jī, aura) connected as one, constantly regenerating, and the energy consumption was also very small.

Suren didn't understand.

But in the eyes of alchemists, energy was conserved.

In addition to the influence of this closed space, he was even more certain that there was a "treasure" supporting this resurrection ritual in this situation that violated the "conservation law".

Ignore the wax statues if you can.

Suren held the Black Scythe and charged towards that person.

In order to prevent the wax statues from interfering with his actions, he凝 (níng, condensed) a術士 (shù shì, sorcerer) seal, and after removing the armor, eight arachnid spears appeared behind him.

A cross appeared in the sky, and Suren tore out a scroll, and "Bang" "Bang" "Bang" a pile of rune puppets exploded.

Seeing this scene, Heidmann in the distance didn't have the slightest fear in her eyes, and sneered with disdain, "Hahaha, rune puppets? You call those broken wood傀儡 (kuí lěi, puppets)? Let me show you what a real傀儡 (kuí lěi, puppet) is!"

Saying that, she muttered the necromantic咒语 (zhòu yǔ, incantation) again.

Looking again, strange phenomena suddenly rose from the four wax statues collected on the first floor of the manor.

As if they had been activated, the elemental power on their bodies visibly skyrocketed, gradually forming a red, yellow, blue, and green four armored elemental god-like images.

The four images were solemn and sacred, awe-inspiring, their eyes without god, but as if they had the contempt of gods overlooking the world.

[Mu Shi - Flame Emperor], [Xu Shi - Wind Witch], [Yu Shi - Tearful Demon], [Shan Shi - Uria's Will].

Seeing these phantoms, Suren immediately recognized them and exclaimed in his heart, "The Four Servants Secret Method? These wax statues can still use their complete abilities from before they died? This is too exaggerated…"

…

To be honest, although this woman's words were a little harsh.

But Suren was really envious in his heart.

The quality of these wax statues was no less than a "封禁物 (fēng jìn wù, sealed object)" of Iku.

The materials used for refining them must have cost a fortune!

Suren had few rune诡偶 (guǐ ǒu, puppets) that he could拿 (ná, take) out and compare with them, except for the gargoyle.

Because he himself stripped the [Mu Shi - Flame Emperor] this spell, so he knew what this phantom meant.

This was the Four Top Elemental Secret Methods.

He rarely used it on weekdays, because his talent and spiritual power weren't very契合度 (qì hé dù, fit) with this spell, and its power was also average.

But the wax statue in front of him, with the four elemental talents matched with the Four Servants Secret Method, the effect was immediately different when used.

The pressure of the top professional immediately rushed to his heart, making his scalp numb.

Moreover, as it stood, the [Mu Shi] secret method was in the Bonaparte royal family, the [Xu Shi] secret method was in the Regarthy family, and the other two secret methods had been lost for hundreds of years.

Unexpectedly, he saw them here?

Thinking about it, Suren thought that Heidmann didn't know which ancient tomb she had dug them out from, which could be considered as letting the former secret methods see the light of day again.

He observed for another moment, and rejoiced again in his heart: "Fortunately, she didn't use the domain, otherwise it would really be invincible."

Domain was a manifestation of a professional's control over the laws, more of a soul-level understanding than a bodily instinct, requiring enough "wisdom".

Although these wax statues had spiritual fluctuations, their essence was still怨灵 (yuàn líng, resentful spirits) and死灵 (sǐ líng, dead spirits), with a low level of wisdom.

At the same time, a thought flashed in Suren's mind: If he gave the wax statue a complete soul, wouldn't he be able to 'revive' a person?

Although it was still a wax statue, it would have both a body and a soul, and it would be considered "alive".

However, reality didn't allow Suren to think too much.

The four quasi-seventh-order wax statues showed their faces,

Suren knew that the other party had murderous intentions.