After dinner, Raphael observed from the window for a while and found nothing unusual downstairs, so he arranged for Markel, the apartment’s owner, and his subordinate Carter to take turns guarding Audrey.
Markel had already prepared the room for resting, so Raphael returned to his room first to rest.
The room prepared for Raphael, besides a bed, also had a lounge chair.
Raphael lay on the lounge chair and sensed with his spirituality that the Lunatic and Criminal Beyonder potions were almost completely digested.
This kidnapping of the “Backlund Diamond” was not only very “crazy” but also a meticulously planned crime, so the Beyonder potions of both Sequences were very well digested.
Raphael yawned, and regardless of whether Miss Susie was still there, he closed his eyes and began to rest.
Although there was no fighting during today’s operation, Raphael had been extremely vigilant, always ready to escape or burn his sanity to fight for his life.
After several hours, he was already a bit tired and fell asleep in no time.
However, even in his sleep, his spirituality maintained a certain level of alertness, ready to immediately wake up if any sudden situation occurred.
Suddenly, Raphael, in his dream, felt his spiritual body being pulled by a force.
After a slight stunned, Raphael seemed to regain some sanity, vaguely struggling against that force.
But the more he struggled, the more Raphael felt his spiritual body uncontrollably detaching from his physical body and flying to an unknown place.
Raphael tried hard to open his eyes, but he couldn’t regain his vision.
It felt like one or two seconds, and then it felt like half a minute, before he heard a chanting spell in his ear.
Immediately after, Raphael finally “opened his eyes” and could see things.
He first let out a slight sigh of relief, his gaze immediately sweeping around.
At this moment, Raphael was in a dim, damp cave.
This cave was very wide, like an underground plaza, with many traces of artificial embellishment.
Roughly in the center of the cave, there was a circular altar.
Directly in front of the altar was a chief priest wearing a wide-sleeved robe, solemnly chanting a spell towards the altar, while also performing some dance-like movements.
Around the altar, seven priests were kneeling, devoutly prostrating themselves on the ground, echoing the chief priest’s chant.
And in the center of the altar, there was a wooden chair, on which a man was chained.
Hollow bone needles were inserted into the man’s body, and the altar was covered in blood, as if these bone needles had drained all the man’s blood.
Only after seeing all this did Raphael fully wake up.
If he had only heard the chanting spells, he would have thought it was a good chorus.
But seeing the bloody scene on the altar was different, making Raphael immediately realize that this was a bloody ritual, and the man in the center of the altar should be the sacrifice.
The next second, Raphael realized that he had actually been summoned by this bloody ritual.
At this moment, he was in a spiritual body-like state, but it seemed to be more concealed than an ordinary spiritual body.
At least, the chief priest and the priests around the altar had not discovered him.
At this point, the spell seemed to reach a crucial moment; the chief priest’s volume increased, and his movements quickened.
Raphael heard that the other party’s pronunciation was somewhat familiar.
Before he had time to think carefully, he suddenly felt a huge downward pulling force, and his spiritual body uncontrollably floated towards the man locked on the wooden chair in the center of the altar.
Realizing that it was almost impossible to struggle, Raphael stopped resisting and allowed the ritual to manipulate him.
Because he had already become a Beyonder, he felt no fear about such unexplainable things.
He just couldn’t understand which ignorant person had summoned him, a Sequence 8?
Theoretically, such a summoning ritual should summon some powerful and strange existences!
In a few breaths, just as Raphael had expected, his spiritual body sank into the man’s body in the center of the altar.
Hiss~ Raphael actually felt pain, and then he saw the bone spurs inserted into “his” legs and stomach… His spiritual body was surprisingly well-suited to this physical body, as flexible as if he were commanding his own body.
“Success!” The chief priest in the wide-sleeved robe exclaimed in surprise when he saw the man on the altar move slightly.
Raphael weakly raised his head.
He finally realized that the language the other party spoke was surprisingly similar to the Chinese he remembered!
Although it wasn’t Mandarin, he could understand it.
Then he noticed that the clothes worn by the chief priest and those priests were also somewhat similar to the ancient robes he remembered.
This discovery surprised Raphael.
When he first arrived in the cave, Raphael had thought it was the language and clothing of the Southern Continent.
He had heard that the indigenous languages of the Southern Continent were not in the same language family as the languages of the various countries on the Northern Continent, and their cultures were also very different.
At this moment, the chief priest in front of him knelt down towards Raphael: “Greetings, Demon Lord!” Raphael opened his mouth.
He could confirm that the other party was indeed speaking Chinese!
Could it be that he had been summoned back to his home country again?
Raphael couldn’t help but complain in his heart: This transmigration experience is terrible!
He just digested the Sequence 8 Beyonder potion in Loen and was about to gain some decent abilities, and now he’s back?
Immediately, he looked at the chief priest in front of him.
Raphael’s mouth suddenly twitched.
In this situation, of course, he had to pretend to be a powerful and strange existence!
Otherwise, these people wouldn’t know how to deal with him!
He cleared his throat and asked, “Who are you people…” As soon as he spoke, Raphael realized his voice was very hoarse and weak: “…Why have you summoned this Lord?” The chief priest bowed his head low: “This humble one is Chen Qingzhi, the branch leader of the Jizhou branch of the Dark Cottage.
Please, Demon Lord, lend us a hand.” The several priests around the altar also held their breath, quietly prostrating themselves on the ground.
“Oh?” Raphael asked in an old-fashioned tone: “What difficulties have you encountered?” He didn’t know what kind of ghost the Dark Cottage was.
But asking this way left no flaws.
The chief priest named Chen Qingzhi said: “The Qi Sect is preparing to secretly kill our Blood Sect disciples!
Please help us, Demon Lord.” Raphael thought to himself: I can’t help you.
But in order to understand the current situation, Raphael still looked around grandly, as if confirming the surrounding environment, and then he said: “I am not the Demon Lord of this realm, and I don’t know if the Blood Sect and Qi Sect here are different from the Blood Sect and Qi Sect I know.
“Also, tell me about your specific disputes…” He hooked his lips and smiled: “Don’t treat the Demon Lord as omniscient and omnipotent.”