wheeze... wheeze...

Father Taylor's chest heaved violently.

From the promenade, he has moved a considerable distance.

According to common sense, the speed of the three Dorins siblings cannot catch up with him.

However, the feeling of shuttling through the castle is like falling into a nightmare that does not follow common sense...

The passage he stepped on will become longer and longer. Even when running with all his strength, it seems to be moving slowly.

But the world of the three brothers and sisters is different. The passage is shortening by itself, and the corners are turning automatically...

It's as if the whole world caters to them.

"That's for sure..." Tai Luo's physical strength has reached its limit, his whole body is aching, his lungs are burning as if they are about to explode, "the whole spiritual world... is their world."

"Father..." A ghostly voice sounded behind Fagar Taylor again.

The priest, like an old tiger, turned his head.

He knew that he could no longer run away.

No matter what happens, he must face the three children who disappeared from the orphanage ten years ago...

"It's time to pay for my sins..."

Beside Taylor's ear, the giant that emerged from the ground was wailing:

"You promised to take care of them!"

Mrs. Dollins seemed to grab his arms again, her eyes mixed with despair and madness: "Promise me, Father Taylor!"

The dusty, empty room flashed before the old man's eyes.

The priest closed his eyes, channeling a ray of spiritual energy into the delayed "Curtain" played by the moonlight for him.

The originally muffled piano sound was released and suddenly became brighter.

The velvet canopy burst open to include the priest and the three Dorinses...

The three siblings looked around in amazement.

In this airtight curtain, the priest held up the "Holy Book" and the rosary: ​​"Children...

"Exorcism is my job...

"Forgive me for having to do this."

Moonlight sensed that the delayed-release "Curtain" he played for Father Taylor was inspired.

This means that the priest will try to exorcise the three children.

"It's really... not very optimistic." The pianist's eyes were gloomy - although he is not a professional exorcist, he also knows how deep and stubborn the ferocity has taken root in the souls of the three little ones.

"Hope Keene can protect you, Dad."

However, the pianist can only pray for the old priest for a moment.

Because he still has a big problem ahead of him that needs to be solved.

The dense piano sounds converged into a dangerous melody.

The climax chapter of "Anonymous Nocturne", "The Darkest", resounded in the corridor at this moment, and even created a dense black field that absorbs light...

In the center of the black field is an alchemy giant that seems to be absorbed by the black hole...

"The spiritual power manifested by the sound of the piano is indeed only at the Queen level..." The magician never expected that there would be a divine spell of the same level that could stop the footsteps of the "perfect body" imitators.

Moreover, the power of this strange piano song is not only that.

He found that the imitator seemed to have fallen into a gloomy valley filled with the breath of death...

This place seems to be "the kingdom of the dead". In this kingdom, the dead are strong and the living are perishable!

"The Darkest" is a movement that reverses life and death, black and white.

At the climax of the carnival, the boundaries between life and death are blurred. The living people who strayed into this place will find that the rotten ones are having a carnival, while the vigorous ones in the outside world have become lifeless at this moment!

Those originally fragile undead have become strong and crazy at this moment; while the parts of the imitators seem to be under the impact of the torrent of time and are rapidly decaying...

The dead filled the valley, and the living could not move.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Moonlight suddenly felt something.

Amidst the intense sound of the piano, a poem I once read came to my mind:

"I found graveyards everywhere.

"Those houses that are full of life are also full of death, and this house is now.

"Streets, ships, playgrounds; Grigor, Minston, Philademonya—

"Everywhere is filled with the dead as much as the living, and more...

"Ah, time is so long after all—there are far more dead than living." (Note 1)

It seems to have glimpsed the obvious secrets of this world that are ignored by everyone...

Moonlight·1902 seems to have seen a world full of tombstones.

In the night sky, the spiritual ring coincides with the Milky Way, its bright light even dims the lights of the city streets...

Death is a universal issue.

Time, so that everyone will eventually join the club called "Death".

There are more dead than living.

As if having insight into the true meaning, the fingers playing the piano became firmer and smoother.

If it is said that he only learned how to play "The Darkest" before...

So at this moment, he has fully understood the piece.

As if to be grateful for this "understanding", the darkness at the bottom of the valley became even darker—

As if a piece had been cut from the night sky, the darkness had completely engulfed the alchemy giant.

Deep in the world of the dead, it is dying.

The King level in the bitter battle has insight into the situation of his teammates.

Although severely weakened and punished, the arrogant cleric is King-level after all.

The guard of the Kingdom of God didn't look back, he just raised the holy hammer and shouted out the surging faith in his chest:

"When you pray in your heart—

"He will be with you!"

The cleansing evidence on the steel mask lit up.

The call sign inspired a circle of transparent sound waves, sweeping across the entire corridor.

The dark valley created by "The Darkest" suddenly faded a little.

As for the two teammates of the guards of the Kingdom of God, their spiritual power and fighting spirit have all begun to decline...

At this moment, it suddenly became high-spirited again!

The alchemy giant, who seemed to have been forgotten in the valley for countless centuries, moved again, and the figure that was moving forward bravely seemed to have ignored everything.

He trudged forward against the dead, and the augmented accessories on his body were blown into the abyss by the wind of the piano...

Step by step…

Step by step!

Shengsheng walked out of the darkness!

Behind the imitator, the sorcerer gritted his teeth, exerted his last bit of strength, and swung the sickle in his hand towards the pianist...

However, when the blade touched, the figure in the black suit and the pearly moon white tie shattered like the shadow of the moon in the water.

The pair of "Undead Charlie's Tap Shoes" appeared behind the alchemy giant, the starting point of its departure.

The sorcerer and his puppet suddenly turned around, unable to tell whether what they saw was real or an illusion—

A huge crescent moon illuminates the desolate land.

A twisted dead tree stretched out to the sky.

Under the dead tree~lightnovelpub.net~ A young and melancholy pianist is playing with passion, regardless of whether there are audiences here.

The world is as usual, the night sky is desolate and silent, and the sound of the piano finally comes to an end.

At the moment when the last note was played, the alchemy giant kneeling on the ground shattered.

"Winner takes all", Moonlight 1902 accepted the old-fashioned spherical earrings from the artist.

At his feet was the "Clockwork Pavilion Sorcerer" who had lost consciousness. Moonlight, whose spiritual power was almost exhausted, looked towards the direction where the chains were slowly entrenched, with a slight pant.

Although he has won, he is still not without worries—

He noticed that the spiritual power of the disabled soldier Max seemed to have disappeared.

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Note 1: Excerpted and adapted from Whitman's poem "He Who I Love Day and Night"