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Wait... what?Quinn froze and his eyes slowly hardened like ice. Any and all warmth disappeared as if it had never existed. "What do you mean?"Lady Slave took an involuntary step back, her face wide with fear. Suddenly the person that stood in front of her didn't just pose a minimal threat. He radiated bloodlust that made her spin, turn cold. "Wait! What I meant is that to return, I need to use my power to get us out! My unsealed power!"Quinn stared at her in silence for a while and then his eyes narrowed. "I warn you: if you trick me, I will give you the worst death I've ever bestowed upon anyone."And it wasn't a warning, he was simply explaining what he would do if she should do anything out of line. The whip he was holding hummed as more draconic energy poured into it, making it flicker with purple light.Lady Slave nodded hurriedly.Quinn didn't trust her but knew there must be some truth to what she said as well as a trap. The problem was that he didn't know what she could do
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Lady Slave took her time replying. "Where else would it lead? Into that room."Quinn tightened the whip. "What is in that room except for the magical instrument that would lift that seal? That you were not even sure was there?"She shrugged. "What else would be there? What else would a necromancer hide so deeply and with such advanced magic? It is a body!"Quinn narrowed his eyes. "Oh? Hide so deeply. Is it not quite easy for you to open it? All you have done was draw a circle and kill some slaves. I do not think the Lord of Eboncrypt was trying to hide anything that hard."She sneered. "What do you know? This door right here is one of the crafts created personally by Cold Barren. It was given as a gift to Lord Pale who put the lord of Eboncrypt in charge of Eboncrypt."Some things instantly became clear.Eboncrypt fights for Lord Pale while Umbracrypt must be for Lord Shroud. Whatever is in that door must be related to the war."It took years to build a spell to counter it and a war
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Lady Slave gritted her teeth as her eyes flashed with anger. She took an unsteady, deep breath. "What are you? You are not a Magus! Who sent you here? Are you here to stop me?"Quinn frowned. "That's a lot of questions."He did not answer right away either; his hand went to his back and traced his scars while he kept his eyes on Lady Slave and her remaining stubbornness.His fingers pried into the scars until they started to bleed and tear through the first layer. Then, one by one, he began to remove the needles he had stored in his flesh.He breathed a sigh when he finished removing them. He raised the five needles. "This is truly a great discomfort for me. I'm glad to finally get it out."The needles had been put there over time as the only source of weapon that he had, and putting them in his flesh had been the simplest way to hide them from view.Lady Slave did not think much of it because she looked at him as if he were the one who was actually mad.Quinn coated the five needles
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When all the blood was completely drained, the woman slave was tossed away and another took her place, throat slit and blood drained as if they were butchering animals.Corpses began to pile to one side and the ritual circle was turning hotter and hotter, making the air heavy with the smell of blood and power that settled around like cold heat.In just a blink, half of the slaves were gone, their blood used to nourish the circle.Just as the next slave was about to be used, the great door they were all standing before twitched. The clasped mouth softened as if it was preparing to open.Lady Slave was excited. "Yes! Yes! I said it! I wasn't wrong after all! This is the best way to open it! Come on, kill more, more! We need more!"The poor slave who expected things to stop once the door moved a little began to beg even more loudly, but it was all for nothing. His screaming soon turned to wet gasping as he too was drained of blood.And just like that, it was Quinn's turn."Well now, it's
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The slaves hadn't caught on and the woman who asked the first question smiled. "Of course we'll help you! We've been slaves for so long and you are the only one that tried to help us. What do you want us to do?"From his place in the front, Quinn watched silently, his mouth curled into a shadow of a smile. "... here we go..."Lady Slave gestured to the ritual drawing on the floor. "This door was created with no means to open it except for Lord of Eboncrypt himself. But we've come up with a plan of our own."You see, each and every one of you here are royalty in a way. Meaning, your blood carries dormant abilities. Some of you might even have been powerful before you got captured and sealed. But anyway, through a blood magic technique, we are going to use your blood to open the door..."Then she frowned and added as an afterthought. "And your life essence as well."What followed was a slight pause as the words settled into the minds of the slaves. Most of them had grown numb to pain an
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There are very few people that Quinn wanted to kill in the most painful way he could.His father was one of them, Blood Spike as well, and maybe some very other people.But there, in the Great Dungeon, Quinn wanted to destroy those who enslaved him, and the only one he could put a name and face to was Supervisor Kim.....at the moment anyway.He barely controlled his killing intent and bloodlust as he stared at the man that suddenly stood in front of their little group.As far as he could tell, the man was also a Magus, but he must be quite a very pitiful one for him to have the job he had. Either way, he could cause a lot of trouble for Smiling Slave's escape plan.But Quinn was left shocked when the thin supervisor swept into a bow, his eyes glittering. He didn't even look at any of the slaves. "Everything is as it should be, my lady."Quinn felt a chill down his spine then.He was wrong. He was so damned wrong about Smiling Slave and everything that surrounded her. At first, the two
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