My Cell Prison-Chapter 477 - : Deciphering

Chapter 477: Chapter 477: Deciphering

“Including my vassal Barons, a total of eleven teams will participate in this Crimson Feast…

Once I declare the feast to have begun, you will each enter the portal in order by your assigned numbers.

Different teams will randomly appear in the peripheral areas of the Crimson Manor.

My pets and I will serve ‘overseers’ for this feast, entering last of all.

If you linger in one area for too long, the chances of encountering me will greatly increase… If I stumble upon you, you only have one choice: try your best to escape from my pursuit.

Bring all your ability to bear and exhaust all methods to obtain the incredibly precious ‘Royal Blood Brew’!

I now declare the Crimson Feast formally open.”

The instant his words fell…

Shah~ The Count’s giant red wings unfurled from his back.

Extending his arm, with its pointed, blood-red fingernails, he gestured towards the portal made of blood threads in the middle of the great hall.

The team number one was indeed Han Dong’s, headed by the Blood Knight Lucius, all of them stepping into it.

This door felt totally different from the Door of Fate.

At first, it was like the feeling of penetrating through a thin layer of viscous fluid.

Then, a pungent smell quickly drifted up. They felt as if they were completely wrapped in greasy, stinking material, as if they’d fallen into a cesspool full of stinking garbage…

As their bodies slowly sank, they finally hit the solid floor.

Teleportation ended.

Even though the team members had strong endurance, the overwhelming experience of being submerged in stinking filth, along with a strong feeling of spatial displacement in their brains, caused Jane, Lenze, and Dumps to look visibly uncomfortable, almost throwing up.

Lucius and Abe only looked slightly unwell, and just needed a short rest.

Only Han Dong started examining the space they were in immediately after landing…

The squad was currently inside a secret room painted in bold red shades.

A library area, two stories high.

Bookshelves crammed full of books stood neatly against the walls.

In the center was a square wooden desk, equipped with paper, a pen, and an uncapped inkwell.

Drip… drop…

Blood kept dripping from the cracked ceiling, yes, dropped right into the inkwell…

It was as if the crew had to write some correct words or draw some specific symbols to get out of this room…

From the clues available, it seemed that cracking the code was quite difficult.

Clearly,

This first challenge was designed to test their observational skills and their ability to analyze and extrapolate.

This was something that Han Dong, who had been a professor in his previous life, was highly proficient at. Moreover, the information to decode was directly related to the genre of books that Han Dong was most familiar with.

Most people seeing the thousands of books here would feel overwhelmed, they wouldn’t think of reading these books to decipher the way out of the secret room.

“Was this space created by the Blood God?”

Captain Lucius collected a drop of blood from the ceiling and seemed to have a homologous resonance with the Scarlet Curse within his body.

If this were a space indeed created by the Blood God…

When they finally obtained the Royal Blood Brew, it would be impossible for them to bring it back to the Holy City with the team…

Drinking the brew and being titled noble would all be here.

Like what the information Han Dong had previously collected, the Blood God would supervise everything happening in the Crimson Manor.

However, judging by the look in Lucius’s eyes, it seemed he had been well prepared.

By the time everyone gradually recovered from their discomfort,

Han Dong had already taken a book from one of the shelves (from the small Demon Eye’s inspection, these books didn’t seem to have anything unusual).

The reason why he had chosen this book was because its title and category obviously didn’t fit with the shelf it was placed on.

Using this method, Han Dong managed to find a misplace book from each of the other three shelves as well.

‘Blood Lotus’, ‘Duke Meyers’ Petition’, ‘Origin of the Tarigan River’, and ‘Ritual Culture of the Zudahaga Tribe’.

“Are we supposed to select certain words or symbols from these four books to write on the paper?”

Lenze was a bit overwhelmed.

Even though he was raised in a library, as a scholar of necromancy, he hardly read books on regular basis.

“No… The Count mentioned at the start that if we linger in an area for too long, we greatly increase our chances of running into him. So, the mechanics of the challenges are not deliberately designed to drain our time. They would not let us spend much time reading these books. If we’re doing it right, we should be able to decode it swiftly. The clues are all in the titles of the books, not their content.”

‘Origin of the Tarigan River’ had an interlocking upward and downward triangle imprinted on the cover, Han Dong used it as a base, and drew it on the blank paper.

Next, he pulled out English words from other title books and formed a short sentence.

The first time he made a mistake writing it, the blood ink dissolved the paper, and a fresh piece of paper appeared on the desk.

After three failed attempts, Han Dong figured out what the correct answer should be.

“Captain Lucius, you write it…”

Han Dong purposely passed the pen to Lucius.

The words correctly compiled together were: “Blood Sacrifice of the Petitioner.”

Immediately, a beam of red light shot straight up to the library ceiling from the paper. During this process, it seemed the markings on the paper got bound to Lucius, the one who wrote these words. freēnovelkiss.com

Due to the effect of the red light, the already cracked ceiling completely split open.

A large volume of blood-red liquid fell directly downward, quickly filling up the room..

With the buoyancy of the red liquid, everyone crawled out of the library through the top, finally passing their initial test and truly entering the Crimson Manor.

The library area where they had been was nothing more than a blood pool.

They were now seemingly in an underground ancient tomb.

In an area with seven equal sides, each wall corresponds to a stone door.

In the center facing them was a large stone door, which was etched with an image of a woman making offering.

However, the object of the offering in her hands had an ‘Empty Groove’. It seemed they needed to supply the object of offering before the door would open, leading them deeper into the manor.

These so-called offerings supposedly hid behind the remaining six stone doors.

“The number of stone doors corresponds exactly to our team members… Let’s try to proceed together first.”

In situations of uncertainty and danger in unfamiliar spaces, it’s best to act as a group.

However,

Only when a single person approached a stone door would it open.

Trying to force a door open or attempting to enter in groups might lead to unexpected hazards.

Since all members of the squad were strong enough, Captain Lucius promptly gave the order: “Split up! Return as soon as you find an offering.”

Boom!

The stone doors descended.

Six people separately entered the dark tunnels corresponding to different stone doors…