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

Jiang Luo stepped down from the throne, his black robe trailing behind him on the steps.

"They used the name of their burial coffins to mark their location, so I used the same coffin to take their lives."

She raised her hand to brush away the stone powder stuck to her sleeve.

"That way the accounts will be clear."

"My subordinates are responsible for maintaining the castle's defenses."

Naya put away the gray bead, and black mist spread outward from her feet, covering the crack in the dome and the gap in the north wall.

"How long can it last?"

"Half an hour."

Naya glanced at the rows of green-flame oil lamps arranged inside the hall.

Every quarter of an hour, a layer of green flames inside the hall would extinguish.

"The master must return before the last layer goes out."

Jiang Luo turned to look at the White Bone Commander.

"Remove all the strange creatures guarding the city into the torture chamber, blindfold them and deafen them, and they shall not leave without orders."

"What if it's already contaminated?"

"Tie him up first."

The lines of misfortune on Jiang Luo's palm slowly closed up and disappeared back under her skin.

"Those who can still understand the commands, stay. Those who have begun reciting the celestial voices, be dealt with on the spot."

The white bone commander turned and walked towards the palace gate.

Jiang Luo watched his retreating figure and added another sentence.

Tell Stella that the torture chamber is one space short, and take a piece of furniture from her own room.

"Understood."

The palace gates closed again.

Naya, however, held his cane across Jiang Luo's side, not clearing the path to the rooftop.

"Master, you cannot go alone."

"That bait rule comes from my mark of calamity; it won't take it from anyone else."

"I can bring my master back."

Naya took a piece of bone from the top of the bone staff and placed it in Jiang Luo's palm.

"When the last layer of green flames goes out, your subordinates will trigger this anchor point."

He didn't retract his hand; the white skull-patterned face was directly facing Jiang Luo.

"Regardless of whether the master finds his target or not, he must return to the castle."

Are you ordering me around?

"I simply cannot accept that my master died on the roof."

Jiang Luo glanced at him for a moment, then tucked the white bone anchor into his long sleeve, walked around the cane, and headed towards the palace gate.

"Hold the line below."

She pushed open the palace door, her black robe sweeping across the threshold.

"If the city is missing even one brick, I'll put it on your tab."

A spiral staircase leads all the way to the top floor of the castle.

The closer you get to the exit, the clearer the low-frequency ringing becomes, and the black liquid seeping from the cracks in the wall has already eroded a large area of ​​the red moon mark.

Jiang Luo arrived at the rooftop, but did not cross the hidden lines left by the eaves.

She knelt down on one knee, placed her right hand on the cold floor tiles, and let the patterns of calamity extend along the entire castle into the sky.

"The first layer of green flames has been extinguished."

Nyarlathotep's voice came through the bone anchor.

"understood."

The temporary rules detached from the dome and rose toward the heavens, drawn by the source of calamity.

The outer layer of the rules was deliberately wrapped with a large number of Red Moon Castle marks, enough to attract any monster that devours the rules.

The whisperer high in the sky was the first to open his mouth.

The low-frequency rumble penetrated the roof and fell directly into the interior of the castle.

Jiang Luo sealed off his hearing, retaining only the tactile sensation transmitted back by the calamity patterns.

Countless split pupils turned towards the rooftop, the visual pollution crawling downwards according to the rules, but before it could reach Jiang Luo, it was stopped outside the castle by the authority of the throne.

"The second layer of green flames has been extinguished."

Nyarko's reminder came again.

"It hasn't eaten yet."

Jiang Luo tightened his grip, the bait rules stopped below the sky, and the outer layer of the castle mark began to peel off on its own.

Between the shifting pieces of meat, a cavity gradually became visible.

There were no eyes or mouths there.

Only after entering the castle do the rules disappear one after another.

"I've found you."

Jiang Luo flipped his palm, and the calamity rules that had been embedded in the bait closed.

[The consumption is complete; the calamity remains.]

An unfamiliar name appeared in the center of the sky.

The blood trail shot out of the coffin bearing the name of the deceased burst out of the castle's main hall and soared into the sky.

At that very moment, all the pupils closed simultaneously, plunging the entire sky into darkness.

The name that had just emerged was not taken away by the coffin.

It turned around and looked towards the castle rooftop along the bloodline.

The moment the mark of the Devouring Castle was branded with a name by the rules of calamity, the Coffin of Burial Name shot out blood lines, entangling the prey hidden between the fleshy walls.

A pulling sensation came from the other end of the bloodline. The void rushed along the bloodline, and the entire castle shook every time it got close.

The remaining regular markings on the north wall fell off in patches, and rubble poured down from the cracks in the dome, smashing through two layers of roof tiles in succession.

Jiang Luo pressed down on the floor tiles, and the calamity patterns climbed up his arm to the roof ridge, stitching the collapsing roof back together.

The coffin in the main hall hummed, and the blood-red characters on the coffin lid lit up one after another. The taut blood lines dragged the empty space closer and closer to the rooftop of the castle.

The prey struggled twice, and large gaps appeared in the bloodline, but it was unable to break free from the rules of the reverse burial.

Jiang Luo stood up, his black robe billowing in the wind blowing in from above. His gaze first fell on the white bone anchor point left by Naya.

The two outermost layers of green flames around the anchor point have been extinguished, but the innermost layer is still burning, and the flames have not yet reached the center of the skeleton.

"There's still time."

Jiang Luo raised his hand to tighten the bloodline, and a deep male voice echoed across the rooftop.

"Let me see what the Senate has sent over."

The bloodline shortened by tens of meters again, and layers of flesh rose up from the edge of the cavity, revealing a giant mouth with a diameter of over 100 meters.

Black, sharp teeth filled the mouth, with undigested, regular fragments stuck between them. Tentacles grew outside the mouth, each tentacle ending in a murky eyeball.

Jiang Luo examined the giant mouth, and the calamity patterns on his wrist stopped spreading.

She sees this kind of eating behavior at the dinner table every day.

When Jiang Xiaobai stuffed food into his mouth, he seemed to want to swallow the plate and tablecloth along with it. The way this giant mouth in front of him wouldn't even spit out the bones was no different from his own.

"system."

No electronic voice returned from the depths of my consciousness.

Jiang Luo did not call out again, but turned her gaze to the row of constantly rotating black teeth.

"Little White from a hundred years ago had such a huge appetite."

The coffin continued to pull at the giant mouth, but its sharp teeth began to wear down the calamity marks on the bloodline. With each rotation, several names fell off the surface of the bloodline.

At this rate, in another dozen or so breaths, the anti-burial rule will lose its target.

"Master, the anchor point has detected that the bloodline is breaking."

Nyarlathotep's voice came from within the bone anchor point.

"Please return to the main hall. I can invoke the castle's rules to seal off the north wall."

"Is sealing off the wall effective?"

"We can only delay."

"Then let's not waste the rules."

Jiang Luo raised his hand and pressed down on the anchor point, and a temporary calamity rule crawled up the white bones into the roof.

"The voices of this place must not be heard outside. The creatures outside the anchor point can only hear the commands of the Lord of Calamity."

Black lines immediately appeared on the surface of the bones, enveloping the entire rooftop in a silent zone.

"Master, what are you preparing to do?"

"Let's get to know each other as relatives."

There was a moment of silence at the other end of the anchor point before Nyarlathotep's voice came again.

"I didn't understand."

"If you don't understand, then guard the main hall and don't let anyone up."

Jiang Luo stepped onto the edge of the rooftop, wrapped the reverse blood-red thread around her waist, and then wrapped it around her wrist.

"Master, below the rooftop is the Abyss Devourer, which can crush the rules of the ancient castle."

"If it really wanted to eat me, it could still open its mouth even through the roof."

As soon as he finished speaking, the black robe swept across the edge of the rooftop, and Jiang Luo slid down the blood trail.

The lines of misfortune crawled from the palm to the fingertips, leaving a dark trail in mid-air.

The giant mouth was only a few meters away from her, and its rotating sharp teeth had already worn away most of the bloodline.

Jiang Luo did not launch a rule-based attack; instead, he directly probed between the gear-like rotating teeth with his right hand.

The fangs slashed through his palm, and the source of calamity flowed into his giant mouth through the wound.

"Owner!"

Nyarlathotep's shout pierced through the bone anchors, causing the innermost layer of green flames to sway.

"Shut up and watch."

Jiang Luo gripped the bloodline on his wrist, letting the source of calamity continue to pour into that giant mouth.

A restless energy surged from the deepest part of her body as a symbiotic force, sealed by the trial, broke free and rushed along her arm into the space between the sharp teeth.

The spinning sound inside the giant mouth then stopped.

The eyeballs at the tips of the whiskers all turned towards Jiang Luo, and several clean black lights shone from their cloudy eyes.

"Can you hear me?"

Jiang Luo grasped one of the sharp teeth and whispered that name.

"Jiang Xiaobai".