The farms on the yellow plain of the Molten River area were smoking and the mountains were burnt black . There were burnt marks and bloodstains all over the ground .
The green farms were deadly silent and the dark smoke was rising to the sky .
Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes; he slowly walked through the farms with a yellow cane in his hand . He was wearing a black hat and his long red hair was trailing down his chest .
It was afternoon . The golden sunlight illuminated the farms .
Angele glanced around .
'These are the farms around a city of the Molten River area… Why is there no one here?'
The area was empty, the only thing he could see were the farms .
On the far side, Angele could see tall mountains that looked like pyramids .
"Tarren Volcano mountains…" Angele muttered .
Suddenly, translucent energy waves appeared around the mountains, they looked like smoke rings that were disappearing into the air .
Minutes later, Angele noticed that the wind was getting stronger and his expression changed .
'The energy waves are so strong…' He stopped .
'I shall stay away from that area and find a location here . '
Angele walked down the path and found a relatively large hill .
He stood in front of the hill and grasped forward .
*BAM*
The yellow hill was damaged and a black crack appeared . The crack slowly turned into a dark tunnel leading underground .
Angele could see that mud, stones, and sand were solidifying—they were turning into the walls of the tunnel .
His face turned pale and his forehead was covered with sweat .
After about half an hour, he sighed with relief and lowered his hand . He walked straight to the crack .
He stepped into the crack, the tunnel was leading down . Angele had to keep digging so that he could keep advancing .
The underground tunnel he created was already more than one kilometer long after a while .
The tunnel was dark and the white fireball that was floating around Angele's body was the only source of light .
Angele stopped digging after the path in the front was blocked by minerals . He sat down with his legs crossed and the walls of the tunnel were slowly pushed back .
He took out many white magic stones from the mirror; the magic stones were covered with complicated runes, and Angele lined them up following a certain pattern .
The magic stones would start releasing bright white light after Angele put them down on the ground . Seconds later, there were more ten magic stones on the ground .
Also, the place was becoming more and more spacious every time a magic stone was laid down .
The end of the tunnel quickly turned into a large stone chamber and it was a perfect cube .
Angele put down the last magic stone and pressed on the ground while chanting some incantation .
*WOO*
All the magic stones on the ground released eye-blinding white light, they connected with each other and formed a complicated magic rune . The white light brightened up the whole stone chamber .
Angele stood up and nodded . He pointed at the tunnel and the tunnel quickly collapsed . The mud and stone melted; it almost looked like the tunnel was never there .
The whole stone chamber turned into a private area that had no entrance or exit .
Angele raised his hands slightly, creating a table and a set of chairs . He walked to the table and took out a dark crystal orb from the black mirror .
He put the crystal orb on the table and tapped it slightly .
Gentle white glow was released by the orb and an image of the farms appeared .
It was the scene that Angele saw before creating the tunnel .
Angele was not concerned, he bit his finger and started drawing a skull pattern on the table using his blood .
Strangely, white patterns appeared on the walls of the chamber as he drew on the table . It felt like there were invisible knives engraving them .
The irregular patterns on the walls looked like random circles and human-shaped creatures .
Angele finished the edges of the skull and he started adding details to the skulls line by line .
'It's a problem…' Angele's expression changed as he started on the details .
He noticed that his mentality was being pulled out of his body as he drew the lines . It felt like the skull was sucking his blood .
Angele almost thought that there was a creature sucking his blood through the wound on his finger .
Time passed .
Angele's face turned pale and he finally finished the details .
'It's the first sign and half of my mentality is gone… It felt like I'm signing a contract…'
He stood up and the wound on his finger quickly healed .
The sign was closely connected to his mentality wave . If the sign was damaged, his mentality would also be damaged .
'Alright, Bone's sign is done but I still need to work on the other ones . ' Angele rested for a while and created another tunnel on one of the walls . The tunnel was also leading down .
Angele spent the next several days building two more stone chambers for Vapor and the man with a cape .
The signs of the lords were all completed in the stone chambers and he set up several hidden rune circles for alarm .
Angele still needed to collect the souls for the ritual after completing the signs .
He stayed in the chamber with Bone's sign and observed the crystal orb carefully . He was checking the situation of the war .
Four days later, things finally changed on the plain .
In the crystal orb, a small team of golden eagles landed on the farms . Knights wearing white armor who varied in gender were riding on the backs of the eagles .
The knights jumped off the eagles and checked their equipment . They started checking the surroundings immediately .
"Damn monsters! They should all be slaughtered and tortured!" A muscular knight cursed .
"Be careful everyone, we detected some energy movement here several days ago, there might be a trap!"
The female knight behind him had a blank expression on the face . She drew the silver dagger and carefully cut her left arm open .
Red blood spurted out of the wound and dropped to the ground .
Red mist permeated the air after the blood landed on the ground .
The female knight stopped the wound from bleeding and observed the blood mist . She shook her head after several seconds .
"Nothing? They probably left," a blonde knight spoke in a deep tone . "We still need to be careful . There was a fight in the south and it seemed like they initiated the fight . "
"Come on, be brave!" The muscular man grabbed his ax and swung it several times . He swung the ax so fast that the blade of the ax blurred .
A team of dark-red vultures appeared in the sky as the knights talked; there were five dark knights on the back of the vultures .
The vultures looked like mutated vultures, but their claws were covered with silver needles . The claws looked like iron plates with spikes .
"Prepare to fight!" The female knight detected the enemy first, she grabbed the long bow and fired at the dark knights .
The black arrow left the bow and turned into three black strings, flying toward the dark knights .
Each of the black strings was followed by a shadow that looked like a monkey . The monkeys were jumping at the dark knights like crazy .
*BAM BAM BAM*
After the noise, the dark nights were all surrounded by a dark mist .
The arrows flew into the dark mist like stones falling into the water . It felt like the arrows did not do anything .
"It's a dark knight captain! We need assistance!" the female knight shouted .
Two of the knights nodded and jumped on the golden eagles . They quickly left the battlefield .
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In the stone chamber .
Angele observed the situation carefully using the crystal orb .
Two eagle knights were fighting against two dark knights; however, it seemed like the dark knights were just playing around . They had many chances to kill the eagle knights but they were just blocking the attacks .
"They're just bait," Angele muttered .
The other dark knights were rotating in the sky, they were laughing while watching the fight .
The situation lasted for several minutes .
Dozens of golden eagles appeared in the sky; the leader was a young man in silver armor . He was a handsome man with a two-meter-long spear in hand that was reflecting the sunlight .
"Retreat!" The dark knights' expressions changed and they started retreating immediately .
One of the dark knights was slowed down by the man with an ax . His chest was pierced through by some blue lightning and he quickly fell off the vulture .
The dark knight exploded as he landed on the ground, his body turned into black smoke and disappeared into the air .
The soul of the dark knight sank into the ground and no one noticed it .
Angele sat in the chamber and narrowed his eyes .
He raised his head and saw a human-shaped soul coming down from the ceiling, flying to the skull sign on the table .
It only took one second for the soul to be absorbed by the sign .
'The soul of a dark knight is the same as a soul of a normal knight?' Angele's brow furrowed . The dark knight had the same power level as a rank 3 apprentice, but his soul was weak .
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