At this moment, the battle within the manor had completely ended. After a thorough count, including the slaying of Taurus, all 67 remnants of the Illuminati were annihilated without any missed!
Subsequently, the team searched the entire manor and found a few Illuminati magic properties that they hadn’t taken with them, as well as an intact door.
The door, naturally, was Taurus’s. However, upon Taurus’s death, this door could not be opened again for as long as a year.
While everyone else was happily celebrating their great victory, Mu You felt a bit regretful because at the last moment, he wasn’t able to recover Taurus’s crystal.
Considering Taurus’s cautious character, he likely set his teleportation destination in an unknown location for absolute safety.
But such a place would be extremely difficult to locate out of the blue.
Who knows when someone will be lucky enough to inherit Taurus’s legacy.
Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, deep beneath the sea, inside a cavernous stalactite cave.
The corpse of Taurus lay on the ground, wide-eyed in death. One hand was still in a clawing position on the ground, the other reaching out in front.
In the spot directly in front of his upraised palm, a narrow, ghostly blue space fissure flickered in and out of existence.
This space fissure, not more than half a meter long, emerged strangely in the stalactite peak ahead. Its warped and twisted spatial turbulence resembled shadowy blue eyes peering through the fissure at this new world.
Taurus chose this place for his teleportation target because of this randomly discovered space fissure. Crossing through the fissure would allow him immediate access to the Star Spirit World, enabling him to acquire the ability to resurrect at the cost of his lifespan.
Unfortunately, he was one step too late and was remotely cursed to death just as he teleported, ending up dying close to the space fissure.
Shortly after Taurus arrived, the supposedly silent space fissure suddenly went berserk. Numerous blue turbulences surged out from the crevice and eventually formed an ethereal arm.
This ghostly translucent arm struggled to burst forth from the fissure, swiftly bringing another arm, then a head covered in long hair, a torso, legs, and feet...
A ghostly long-haired woman, like Sadako, crawled out of the fissure.
After appearing, the ghost drifted in the air, chortling a chill laugh: "I thought I heard somebody come in..."
Laughing, she scanned her surroundings through her disheveled hair and soon noticed the body of a man lying not far away on the ground. She was about to float over to inspect it.
However, just as she was one meter away from the fissure, her form seemed ensnared by countless invisible chains, rendering her immobile.
The ghost curled her lips in disdain. With a wave of her hand, Taurus’s body flipped over.
Upon examining the current state of the corpse, the ghost stalled for a second. The smile on her face stiffened, then twisted into endless resentfulness.
"Who was it? I’ve waited for 1500 years, finally seeing a glimmer of hope to escape from the abyss, who killed it? Who was it..."
Her eerie voice continuously echoed around the cave, causing the surrounding space to hum. The humming grew more intense and emanated to the sea which, under the accumulating energy impact, triggered a small-scale tsunami nearby...
After venting for a while, almost until her own spirit was about to shatter, the ghost gradually calmed down.
"Hmm, what’s this..."
Only then did the ghost notice that by the side of the man’s corpse, aside from the piece of equipment she didn’t care about, a pure white hexahedral crystal was floating.
"It’s something even I’ve never seen before..."
Her curiosity piqued, she hurriedly floated over. Struggling against the constraints from the space fissure behind her, she reached forward forcefully. The ghost’s form stretched to its limit, barely touching the crystal with her fingertips.