Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

Jiang Luo took a deep breath.

No matter what the system is hiding, this trial will eventually unravel the mystery.

Let's take a step by step.

"My lord."

Stella raised the giant scissors again.

"The messenger has been placed in his coffin; Shura will not wait any longer."

"Then tell him not to wait any longer."

Jiang Luo walked back up the steps to the throne and turned to look at the three people inside the hall.

"White Bones, guard the north wall. There's no need to actively pursue them. Let them fall within the area covered by the castle's rules first."

The skeletal giant bent down, his bone armor striking the ground with a deep thud.

"Understood."

"Stella, go and take inventory of the torture chambers."

Jiang Luo looked at the giant pair of scissors covered in eyeballs.

"There will be no shortage of prisoners today. If you're missing even one chair, I'll take it from your spoils."

Stella immediately clutched the scissors, the fervor in her golden vertical pupils somewhat diminished by the tension.

"Don't worry, Master, there are still 372 empty seats in the torture chamber. I'll go make room right now!"

"Nyarlathotep, stay."

Stella and the skeletal giant quickly left the hall.

Once the footsteps had completely faded away, Naya walked to the coffin of the deceased and put the pure white glove back on.

"The master doesn't seem worried about the army outside the city."

"Why worry?"

Jiang Luo rotated the calamity mark on his palm, sensing the lingering essence within it.

"Tell Shura not to take away anything he brought."

"thing?"

"His army."

Jiang Luo folded his five fingers together and incorporated the mark into his origin.

"The 20,000-strong army of monsters has already been delivered to my door; I don't have the habit of returning goods."

Nyar lowered his head and chuckled, the bone staff twirling half a circle between his fingers.

"If Shura heard this, he would probably regret coming too soon."

"What he should regret is that he didn't come sooner."

A deep rumble came from outside the castle, the ground undulated, and several cracks appeared in the dome as large chunks of stone fell onto the coffin lid.

Not long after the skeletal giant left, he pushed open the palace door again and quickly returned.

"My lord, the north wall is under attack."

"Has Caesar made his move?"

"Not the Senate."

The skeletal giant raised his hand, holding a stone slab that had just fallen from the north wall in his palm.

The ancient castle markings on the stone slab are fading, and the remaining white light is constantly devouring the abyssal aura attached to it.

"The attack came from the sky."

Jiang Luo took the stone shard, and as soon as his fingertips touched the remaining white light, a burning pain appeared on the lines of calamity on his palm.

The strange rules attached to the stone flakes adhered to her skin and were trying to penetrate her body.

What happened to the north wall when this thing fell?

The skeletal commander held up the gap in the stone slab, and a faint clanging sound came from inside the bone armor.

"First, weeping was heard from the north wall, then something fell on the top of the wall, and the castle's markings began to disappear in patches."

How long did the crying last?

"Three breaths."

The Bone Commander paused, the bone fragments inside his chest cavity rubbing against each other.

"The seventeen monsters responsible for guarding the wall have lost consciousness. My subordinates have blocked their hearing, but four of them still cannot be saved."

Jiang Luo didn't touch the white light again, but simply flipped the stone slice over to its back.

A thin, long bloodstain was hidden deep in the crack, its shape exactly the same as the reverse bloodstain emitted from the burial coffin.

"Nyarlathotep, come and take a look."

Naya bent down to examine the bloodstains, her fingertips, clad in pure white gloves, hovering above the stone slab, never touching it.

"Master, the aura of the Burial Name Coffin remains on this."

"That coffin has already swallowed the messenger, so why is its aura heading towards the north wall?"

"When it devoured the messenger's name, it also sent the source of your calamity out of the castle."

Naya raised her bone staff, blocking Jiang Luo's view of the dome.

"Don't look up at the sky."

"It's too late."

Jiang Luo glanced over the cane.

There was no gray sky outside the crack in the dome; instead, churning flesh and blood covered the high sky, with hundreds and thousands of mouths and eyes crammed together, making the entire sky writhe.

Black liquid dripped from the gaps between the pieces of meat, falling behind the north wall and immediately corroding a layer of the castle's rule mark.

Large shards of stone lost their support and began to fall into the city.

The moment Jiang Luo's gaze met one of the eyeballs, the distance in front of her began to blur.

The throne and the dome overlapped in several layers, and even the title of the Bone Commander was forcibly erased from memory.

The lines of misfortune on the palm climb up the arm on their own, entangling the visual rules that invade consciousness.

The burnt, fishy smell immediately entered my nasal cavity.

Jiang Luo closed her eyes and silently counted three breaths before the chaotic images faded from her consciousness.

Was this the kind of thing Jiang Juechen faced back then?

The reason those old monsters in the Senate have survived to this day is probably entirely because he's been standing in their way.

"Master, do you still recognize me?"

Naya's voice came from the right, closer than usual.

"Stop talking nonsense."

Jiang Luo raised his hand and pressed it against the still-hot Calamity Pattern, then turned to the Bone Commander.

"How long can the north wall hold out?"

The Bone Commander placed his palm on his chest and paused for a moment before answering.

"At the current rate of disappearance, we can only hold out for another half an hour."

"What are Caesar's army doing?"

"They did not attack the city."

The soul fire in the White Bone Commander's eye sockets flickered gently.

"All the soldiers had their eyes closed, and they had soundproof membranes attached to the outside of their helmets."

Jiang Luo flipped the stone slab back to its front and slowly moved his fingertips along the reverse burial bloodstain.

"The preparations are really thorough."

"Does the master suspect that the Senate knew something from the sky was coming?"

"They brought coffins with names of the deceased, so that the coffins could be used to find these things in the ancient castle, and they also prepared protective gear for 20,000 troops in advance."

Jiang Luo raised his eyes, and the stone shard in his palm made a fine cracking sound.

"Is there any need to doubt that?"

The Bone Commander gripped the bone blade at his waist.

"I will now leave the city and break through the enemy lines in the front."

Don't go.

Jiang Luo crushed the stone fragments, and the powder fell through her fingers into the ground in front of the throne.

"They're waiting for the castle rules to be completely exhausted. Your departure from the walls now is exactly what Caesar wants."

Nyar placed the bone staff horizontally above the stone dust.

The black mist swirled along the ground, sealing the remaining white light into a gray bead.

"Master, there are at least three things hidden in the sky."

Naya lifted the orb, the white light inside still engulfing the castle's mark.

"The split-eyed ones are responsible for contaminating vision, the corrupters are hidden in those mouths, and the city guards will lose consciousness after listening to just three breaths."

"There's one more."

Jiang Luo pointed to the ever-decreasing castle markings inside the bead.

What's it called when you're eating something that follows rules?

Naya did not answer immediately; instead, a thin crack appeared in the gray bead in her hand.

"Abyss Devourer".

"Where is it hidden?"

"Between the chunks of meat."

Naya twirled his cane, temporarily sealing the spreading cracks on the bead.

"It has no physical form under normal circumstances, and only leaves traces when it devours rules."

"So it cannot be found directly, yet it must eat."

Jiang Luo turned to the throne, his gaze falling on the calamity mark he had just acquired.

That's enough.

Before the Bone Commander could understand, Nyarlathotep had already taken half a step forward.

"Is the owner going to feed it according to the castle rules?"

"I won't feed it to you for real."

Jiang Luo pressed the mark of calamity into the armrest of the throne.

Large black lines climbed up the stone pillars along the handrail, then spread along the dome, eventually forming a temporary rule in mid-air.

[Anyone who consumes the seal of the Red Moon Castle will have their name etched with misfortune.]

Nyarko looked at the rule, and the gray bead at the top of his cane stopped cracking.

"Once it swallows this rule, its name will be left on its body."

"With a name, the coffin can be used for burial in reverse."