For some unknown reason, Mu Rufeng felt that the area illuminated by the oil lantern had also become a bit warmer.
"Where should I hang it?" Mu Rufeng looked around.
Suddenly he thought of something and immediately issued an order to the Demon Vines.
A vine shot out from the ground and then sprawled across the floor to the side of the door.
It then climbed up the wall, and when it reached above the door, it coiled around a protruding stone sculpture of an Evil Ghost Beast Head.
Mu Rufeng immediately tossed the oil lantern up and hung it on that vine.
Then Mu Rufeng took another look at his current appearance.
After thinking for a moment, a cloud of black mist surged from within his body, covering him completely. Now, one could only see Mu Rufeng as a butler shrouded in black mist.
A cheerful and crisp sound of bells rang out.
Mu Rufeng looked and saw two red-dressed Christmas reindeer, pulling a rather large carriage behind them.
Each corner of the carriage had an oil lantern hanging from it.
"Santa’s reindeer?" Upon seeing the two reindeer pulling the carriage, Mu Rufeng immediately remembered the reindeer sleigh driven by the Christmas girl he had encountered before in the Undead’s premium selection.
"Open the door!" Mu Rufeng stood at the doorway and gave the command.
Soon, two robust vines shot out from the ground, each grabbing onto one of the courtyard’s large iron gates and slowly pulling them open.
The clear sound of bells grew closer.
Then, the reindeer-drawn carriage entered the courtyard and finally stopped in front of the steps.
[Players have arrived, please play your role well]
A prompt appeared in Mu Rufeng’s mind.
Then, the door of the carriage opened, and one after another, foreigners stepped out of the carriage.
Mu Rufeng counted them, exactly thirty, not one more, not one less.
When everyone had gotten off, Mu Rufeng thought the reindeer would leave, but instead, he saw the two reindeer start munching on the green grass on one side of the courtyard.
The green grass was defenceless and had to be eaten without resistance.
And since Mu Rufeng had not given any orders, the Demon Vines did not act against them.
These two reindeer were Level 5 Strange Creatures, and they ate the grass rapidly, consuming a large patch in a short while.
Seeing this, Mu Rufeng said coldly in English, "Throw the reindeer and the carriage out."
As soon as he spoke, everyone looked at Mu Rufeng.
Then, two vines shot out and directly wrapped around one of the reindeer’s legs.
The reindeer were Level 5 Abnormalities and naturally wouldn’t be captured without a fight.
But before the reindeer could go wild, multiple vines shot out and completely wrapped around the two reindeer’s limbs, bodies, necks, heads, both feet, and even their tails.
They hardly had any strength to resist.
The vines then extended to a height of ten meters before swaying left and right, and with a powerful thrust, sent the two reindeer and the carriage flying hundreds of meters away, falling outside the courtyard.
The reindeer, upon landing, did not dare to linger and immediately dragged the carriage away from this place, disappearing into the blizzard.
The vines also retracted back into the ground.
"Close the door!" Mu Rufeng called out again.
Under the impetus of two vines, the large iron gate slowly closed.
Then, where the reindeer had grazed, a small patch of green grass sprouted anew from the soil.
"Welcome to Death Castle, I am the castle’s butler, my name is Dorgula Sen. It’s very cold outside, please come in," said Mu Rufeng as he stepped slightly aside, gesturing an invitation.
The guests were initially amazed by the Demon Vines and then saw Mu Rufeng emitting a terrifying aura but didn’t dare to speak, and entered the castle with caution.
After the last person entered the castle, Mu Rufeng also walked in himself.
At that moment, another prompt appeared in his mind.
[Host detected entering instance, cheat load successful]
[Please choose one of the following three cheats for the host]
[1. Identity: You can freely choose to switch your own identity]
[2. Unimpeded: You can move freely within the castle]
[3. Game Developer: You can freely determine the rules and gameplay of the death game, and can define the rewards and punishments to the greatest extent within the castle]
Mu Rufeng pondered over these three cheats.
The first one, Identity, allowing the free switch of his own identity, seemed to be of little use.
However, Mu Rufeng had to consider the legacy of the cheat and that the Third Forbidden Land was about to open, where the most important aspect was indeed identity...
But then, Mu Rufeng already had that identity proof from before.
The second one seemed utterly useless and was immediately discarded.
Moving unimpeded within the castle? Nearly worthless.
As for the third, freely determining game rules, rewards, and punishments also seemed of little use, since the rewards and punishments were for the Contractors and didn’t concern him.
After all, could the rewards given to others be provided to him, and as for punishments, Mu Rufeng could punish those Contractors himself.
Also, as per the rules and gameplay, he had already seen in the butler’s instructions that they were his to decide.
After hesitating for a moment, Mu Rufeng ultimately chose the first cheat, Identity.
The door was slowly closed by two sets of armor.