Lord of Mysterious Wizard
Chapter 379: 368 Hell's House

Chapter 379: Chapter 368 Hell’s House

Tang Qi’s fingertips felt soft, smooth, and carried a lingering warmth that beckoned fantasies, as though… the skin of a young girl?

But accompanying this sensation was a great horror, a cold filth like congealed blood wrapping around, inducing nausea and confusion, seeping into your body bit by bit, whispering mutterings like secretive murmurs in your mind.

Those voices, giggling and wailing, issued some sort of eerie invitation, a vague, cold “cottage” phantom slowly emerged in Tang Qi’s mind.

“Hu~huhuhu”

The anomaly occurred abruptly; before Tang Qi could discern the details of the cottage, the curtain of its door suddenly flapped open, various arms—thick, slender, pale, aged… as if encompassing all forms of human arms—reached out towards Tang Qi.

In an instant, the Melting Furnace Power within Tang Qi automatically erupted.

“Boom”

As the Melting Furnace Refinement proceeded, golden light dispelled everything, and Tang Qi reopened his eyes.

Before him, still stood the fourth floor of the Library Tower.

On the workbench, the pocket space inside the Witch Iron Box was almost emptied, and the last “thing” now lay in his hand.

In a corner, three figures huddled together, looking with disgust and disdain at what was in his hands.

A piece of cloth?

Tang Qi, with puzzled eyes, focused on his own hand.

The last collection he retrieved from the iron box was bundled up, a piece of finely tanned brownish-yellow leather, engraved with strange, horrifying symbols, and at the center, lines of bright red, twisted lines came together forming an outline resembling a cottage.

At the very core of the construct, hung an inverted cross.

“Human skin!”

Before the ghost light flickered, Tang Qi had already made the judgment.

In fact, he knew it the moment he touched it.

Then the next moment, he felt an unbearably cold and turbulent tide of ghost light.

“Boom!”

As Tang Qi felt the impact, an unbelievable special image slowly formed.

[Curios: Hell’s Door Curtain.]

[State: Normal.]

[Information Fragment One: A young Witch Crocodile Granny, after massacring the groom’s entire family, unexpectedly discovered the Black Witch’s iron box in the basement, and under the drive of some mysterious force, she opened the iron box and found this human skin curtain and began devoting her life to mastering the Undead Witchcraft etched on it.]

[Information Fragment Two: The Witch Crocodile did not know that inside the iron box, there was another layer of sealing, a seal formed by depleting the life of that powerful Black Witch.]

[Information Fragment Three: This piece of human skin belongs to…]

…

The decryption of the third information fragment seemed exceedingly difficult.

Just as Tang Qi began to feel a sting in his eyes, a burst of ghost light exploded within his mind.

“Information Fragment: This piece of human skin is part of the Curios [Hell’s House].”

“Hell’s House?”

Again, that vague phantom flickered through Tang Qi’s mind.

This time, he discerned something.

He saw that cottage, situated on cold, hard ground, enveloped in grey-black mist, at the end of which was a cottage completely built from human corpses, sticky flesh intermingling arms and legs, heads biting into each other… In the storm, a familiar curtain fluttered, faintly revealing an endless dark, bloody world behind the door.

A gateway to hell?

Or perhaps an entrance to a hell-like Exotic Realm.

“This is its curtain, the real Hell’s House might still be sealed inside the iron box.”

“All the witchcraft of Witch Crocodile originates here, from hell or the Undead Witchcraft of an Exotic Realm?”

Tang Qi’s gaze once again fell on the human skin.

As he moved, the meanings represented by those symbols and patterns also started to emerge, clearly being various bizarre Undead Witchcrafts.

If a qualified Transcendent came into possession of it, they could wholly create an “Undead Kingdom,” enslaving and commanding the undead at will, just like the Witch Crocodile killed by Tang Qi.

And it was only a curtain.

Part of another Curios “Hell’s House,” Tang Qi didn’t need to think too much to know how dreadful a complete Hell’s House would be.

Most crucially, it was likely also a gateway to hell, or a similar entrance to an Exotic Realm.

Almost immediately, Tang Qi fell into a dilemma.

His gaze returned to the Witch Iron Box.

The second seal!

Belonging to the original owner, a nameless Black Witch, the seal directly appeared before Tang Qi’s eyes.

The Witch Crocodile couldn’t discover it, but it couldn’t escape Tang Qi’s special ability.

Even the method to unlock this second seal, Tang Qi knew.

Though very cumbersome, it not only required rare materials like “Witch’s Dust” but also needed a powerful, Professional Level witch to preside over the ritual, and not just a simple decryption potion.

Materials, not difficult to obtain, Esmeralda’s warehouse, could be called a treasury.

The latter was a bit more challenging, but Tang Qi had long prepared for this backup.

At the beginning, he borrowed his second identity “Night Wing Knight”, unexpectedly intersected with the FBI’s Transcendent team, one of whom was a White Witch named Zoe, who was entirely capable.

But now, Tang Qi had to consider whether to unlock the second seal?

Most Black Witches belong to the Chaotic Evil Camp, and these Transcendents, after obtaining Curios, not only do not use them but choose to sacrifice themselves to seal them?

“Hell’s House, very dangerous.”

In an instant, Tang Qi confirmed a thought, unexpectedly, he decided to give up decryption.

The treasures of the powerful, mysterious Black Witch were worth looking forward to, but he had glimpsed the presence of intense danger, and Tang Qi’s disposition made him absolutely not choose to take risks.

The risk was too great, and the returns were not stable.

Not worth it!

Unless he had a stronger backup, and his certainty increased, only then he would decrypt the iron box.

This moment seemed not far off.

Besides Tang Qi’s own strength, which was increasing terrifyingly fast, there was another thing, or rather, a Curios.

Diana’s corpse!

The most valuable existence in Tang Qi’s collection so far.

Once her transformation ends, it would be equivalent to Tang Qi obtaining a “Demigod Level” ally.

At that time, taking a risk once would not matter.

After his thoughts were confirmed, Tang Qi reined in his thoughts, glanced at Gluttony also shrinking in the corner, twitched the corner of his mouth, stuffed the human skin and other items back into the iron box, the cold, filthy aura disappeared, and the three guys came out again.

However, Tang Qi noticed that including Gluttony, their fear of the “Human Skin Curtain” was not deep, more of a feeling of disgust. Unwilling to let that filth contaminate themselves.

Having made a decision, Tang Qi did not delay further.

Completely disregarding Gluttony’s vehement resistance, he stuffed the Witch Iron Box back into its belly, and then he cleaned up, directly sliding the doors open.

On the other side, the bustling scene of Secret Phoenix City appeared.

Main City!

The sight of a real metropolis, a group of towering buildings reaching into the clouds.

It was deep into the night, and lights were brightly lit everywhere.

Tang Qi’s figure appeared in front of a luxurious hotel building, with various high-end cars coming and going, well-dressed gentlemen, tall and beautiful ladies, bustling about, the greeters in black vests, and the yellow-vested parking attendants…

Here, it seemed no different from most parts of the city district, bustling and busy.

But as Tang Qi walked forward step by step, and whispered a Spell as he passed a statue in the forecourt, light flowed, and an invisible Magic Barrier actively included Tang Qi within it.

The next moment, Tang Qi saw a dramatically changed scene.

The modern and luxurious, dozens-of-stories-high hotel disappeared, replaced by a six-floor building, full of antique flavor, every wall brick in sight was full of mottled traces of Time, and even had nostalgic neon signs that were popular decades ago.

Tang Qi glanced at the sign, Old Tavern.

The place he and Jason and others agreed to meet tonight, the largest Extraordinary Class social gathering in Secret Phoenix City, also Savoy’s newest workplace.

This building, in fact, was extremely old.

In its era, it was second only to the “Secret Phoenix Fortress” as an attraction.

Later, the fortress was rebuilt into the City Hall, and the Central Square, while this place, to ordinary people, was demolished and a hotel building was constructed.

But on the Mysterious Side, it was restored and became similar to a huge Extraordinary class entertainment venue, like Messer City’s “Mysterious Valley Market,” but encompassing a much larger area.

As Tang Qi approached the porch, there were quite a few moving in the same manner.

The invisible Magic Barrier would accept all Transcendents who recited the Secret Word.

Once inside, they would automatically follow the rules here, similar to the Valley, but more complex.

“Ah~”

Just as Tang Qi reached the porch and was about to enter, he was suddenly bumped by a figure rushing out from inside.

Looking up, he saw a blood-pulsing scene.

What he bumped into was the bare upper body of a female, an almost perfect-level body, paired with an extremely charming face.

Just when you see her lower half, most men would collapse.

Spider Demon?

Yes, what he bumped into full-embracingly was some kind of half-human, half-spider Wisdom Demon.

She seemed a bit tipsy, and it took her a moment to realize she had bumped into someone, her purple lips opened, exhaling a fragrant breath, leaning towards Tang Qi said, “Sorry little brother, sister is a bit drunk, can you help me?”

Saying so, this Spider Lady leaned her fragrant body over.

Until the next moment, another Spider Lady appeared behind her, moving swiftly, a flash of light, turned into a redhead sister, walked straight over, took the drunk green-haired Spider Lady aside, and politely apologized to Tang Qi.

However, when she clearly saw Tang Qi’s face, a hint of astonishment flashed in her eyes, she couldn’t help coughing, quickly apologized, forcibly pulling the still seducing Spider Lady who turned into a green-haired girl, and left.

“Recognized me?”

Through several reminders from Jason, Tang Qi knew a bit about his reputation on the Mysterious Side of Secret Phoenix City.

Taking over the Witch School, his decisive actions on the first day, the subsequent clean-ups, and that day’s clearing of the Green Dragon Ridge Lake, were enough to make the Extraordinary World here treat him as a Big Shot.

Seeing the reaction of the redhead Spider Demon, he took it in stride, glanced around at the onlookers, the Extraordinary ones, some looking like normal Humans, some half-human demons, Ghosts, or other life forms, altogether a scene frightening enough to scare someone to death.

“The variety of guests, really is rich.”

Murmuring to himself, Tang Qi stepped into the tavern.