The buildings on the top of the mountain are like all old-style castles, built on the cliff at the top according to the mountain. However, now only some ruins left are smoked by fire...

Looking up from the cliff, a burnt black round tower ruin stands alone on the top of the mountain, pointing to the gray sky.

Obviously, the Krague Castle, which was once built by the Santalin Society, had long been destroyed by a fire due to a failed war.

In Brian's impression, Santalin would have ambitions for Shadow Valley, which is no longer a new thing.

Even before the 'Ofa Catastrophe', the Dark Intelligence Network was living in an unremitting struggle with Shadow Valley and its protectors.

The followers of Bain sent from Santirburg have tried to gain dominance in Shadow Valley more than once.

But Shadow Valley is a famous place where voters live, Ilminster, Storm, Dov, Sheron, and the crazy witch Xinbu who often plays tooth festivals. For the Santalin Society, dominating Shadow Valley is undoubtedly a difficult task, and it is simply a copy of the difficulty level of hell.

Even so, in the history of Shadow Valley, there was still a warrior named Jomukh who had gained the dominance of Shadow Valley for at least a period of time. The Kragg Castle was built during his reign.

In the Valley Calendar 1339DR, it was the fortieth year that the Shadow Valley Lord Oram and his wife, Ms. Heron, ruled Shadow Valley together.

These forty years were a rare and long period of peace in Shadow Valley’s history, but in this year, the spies from the Santalin Society assassinated Lord Oram.

Although these assassins were quickly captured and executed by Jomuhh, Jomuhh got the Ashaba pendant and declared himself the legal new lord of Shadow Valley.

However, what the residents of Shadow Valley don't know is that Jomukh is also a Santalin spy, and the whole incident is nothing more than a conspiracy and a scam.

After becoming ruler, Jomukh did not choose to live in the Twisted Tower, but instead rebuilt a castle for himself on the hills east of the Shadow Valley.

The castle is located on a gentle slope at the foot of the Watchman Mountains, and in the dark years before the valley was established, it was once a forefront of Dower.

When Jomukh became the ruler of Shadow Valley and took it as himself, it had become nothing but the foundation.

Above the ruins, Jomukh built a sign of his power as the Lord of Shadow Valley: Kragg Castle.

In this way, Jomukh's fortress was soon filled with agents from the Santalin Society.

Finally, the people of Shadow Valley, who finally realized the seriousness of the situation, rose up and resisted. Subsequently, Santir Fort quickly dispatched troops to maintain Jomukh's rule.

However, all this effort was lost after Jomukh himself failed to ambush the Shadow Valley sage Ilminster by overestimating his own ability. The price of this brainless attack was Jomukhh's own life.

In Jomukh's original idea, Kragg Castle should be a magnificent building comparable to the famous dark fortress located on the Sunset Mountains in the western border of the Kingdom of Cormier.

But this plan was blocked by two factors:

One is that his master built the castle beyond the budget, which led to Santalin's lack of financial resources to support such squandering, and the other is the rebel army composed of mercenaries and residents led by Ms. Hillen.

Ultimately, the castle was built much smaller than the original design.

When Jomuh's death, the remaining residents who had originally reserved their attitude also joined the revolution, and the castle was burned to ashes in the rage of the people.

Since then, the Castle of Krague has once again become an abandoned ruin.

As time passed, Shadow Valley lasted for a long period of peace until Ilminster was seriously injured by the assassins of the Shadow City. When Sailor took the opportunity to enter Shadow Valley with his Black Hope Legion, there was only a lonely tower left on the old site of the castle.

Subsequently, the army entered here and began large-scale reconstruction work. At least, simple buildings can be built in this area for people to move in.

Brian saw from a distance that although the area around Kragg Castle was still covered with moss and low bushes, the path to the south to the northern horse road has been cleared, and the renovation work is currently in full swing.

After all, the valley has long been the biggest obstacle ahead of the Dark Trade Network for many years, so the Bain Church is very happy to participate in the conquest of Shadow Valley.

When I learned that the Miss Lost Church was going to target Ilminster, the leaders of both sides who had been particularly jealous when they met the enemy, and they hit it off and immediately formed a strategic alliance.

Through the information obtained by the harpist scout, Brian also learned that even though the most important task of the Santalin Society is to completely conquer the Shadow Valley, the priests of the Dark Monarch Bann are still concerned about the spread of faith.

Therefore, their energy was mainly focused on the reconstruction of the temple and making the Bain Church the only legal belief in the valley.

With this goal, Dark Judgment Manrathon led a group of pastors and craftsmen to come here to start the transformation work.

There is no doubt that the rulers of Santir Fort were interested in the idea of ​​building a prominent temple in the center of the occupied area. However, for strategic reasons, it is more important to set up various facilities for the army in the Castle of Krague.

Afterwards, a portal that had been forgotten by people for a long time was discovered at the bottom of the castle. The occupying troops quickly connected it with Santiel Fort, thus continuously transporting troops and materials to the occupied area.

However, the important information collected from the harpist made Brian unexpectedly informed that his feelings about the current situation were complicated from the position of the 'Dark Judgment' Manrathon.

On the one hand, he was inspired by the prospect of being able to start creating the future, which would eventually become the grand temple of Baen's faith center.

On the other hand, the agreement reached by Bozor, the ruler of Santirburg, and the conspiracy of Bain's voter, and the believers of Shahr were the biggest problems he faced.

Because the ritual of the priestesses of the Shar Church tore the magic net to the reconstruction of the temple was more than a little bit inconvenience: because the castle was too close to the lair of the lich Arokar, this ritual of suppressing magic caused any things the priests wanted to accomplish through magic to have adverse effects.

In fact, many important magic can't even be used.

These facts put a lot of pressure on Manrathon.

As a result, while others were carrying out the reconstruction of the castle day after day, he fell into a state of cowardice, worried that the castle would be attacked and hid in his temple and disappeared all day long.

He waited for the decision-makers of Santir Castle in vain to send him "enough supplies and troops to build this temple".

However, this expectation will take about a long time to be realized - if it can eventually be realized.

From these fragmented news, Brian learned that his next mission of saving Azara and destroying the portal is likely to encounter the Dark Judgmenter of the Dark Trade Network.

Before he knew it, Brian had quietly approached the vicinity of Kragg Castle.

Looking around, the architectural style of the castle can be said to be completely inconsistent with the old castle.

During the reconstruction, the army tried to use as many existing buildings as possible, and even so, a large area had long been completely ruined and needed them to start over.

In the map given to Brian by the harpist, the situation of different parts of the building complex is also marked in detail.

The huge circular towers and annexes on the west side are the original complex, while the low buildings on the north side are completely new.

Some of the ruins have not been cleaned up, and large tracts of gravel have accumulated in place.

In the northeast corner, workers laid the foundation for what Manrathon hopes to build the huge temple to come to the next year.

As Bryan expected, the guards near the castle were obviously much looser, and even the mage who rode the magic pet and patrolled the sky rushed to the Twisted Tower as soon as possible.

From this we can see how outstanding the half-elf monk Leoson, the harpist elite, has accomplished this task.

Brian no longer delayed his time. With the blessing of many hidden spells, he chose to go from the construction site of the castle to the interior.

This is the safest channel pointed out to him on the map.

The ruins on this road have been cleared and the flat land has been sorted out.

The wooden stakes that penetrated deep into the soil in the land outlined the architectural blueprint of a new castle.

Countless stone and wood have been neatly stacked on the clearings aside. As part of the castle reconstruction plan, the Baeners designed and built the foundation of the new building.

Until now, they still used old stones cleaned out of the ruins, but as can be seen from the ruins that were about to be demolished, they would soon have a demand for new stones.

On the busy construction site, two huge two-headed creatures swayed their heads, supervising a group of shackles and handcuffed workers transporting and carving these rocks at 360 degrees without dead corners.

A man in armor leaned lazily against a wall, directing everyone's work.

Two hellhounds summoned from the lower planes, as supervisors, in a cruel way, intimidate slave workers to work hard.

At the same time, there is a Pastor Bann who is about the second level, supervising the entire work.

One third of the labor slaves here, except for the humans in the Cormanso area, are residents of Shadow Valley.

They were used as pure labor, and more than thirty mountain dwarves were brought from the Crow Fortress and acted as carving stonemasons.

Although with Brian's current ability, he could save these slaves by just wavering his hand, if he chose to do so, he would be very likely to be exposed. Wouldn't it be a waste of the opportunity created by the harpists for him, and some of the gains would be more than worth it.

So, after quietly passing through the busy crowd, Brian walked directly along a cold and dark tunnel towards the depths of Kragg Castle.

When the last ray of light from dusk disappeared on the eastern horizon, Brian had successfully arrived at the interior of Crag Castle.

The moonlight dimly shines on the courtyard in the middle of the wall.

In the middle of the courtyard is a large pile of limestone blocks, and a circle of masonry tools is placed around it.

On the edge of the courtyard, the shadows of the walls are gloomy, as if they will jump or turn into something at any time.

Brian quietly observed the surrounding environment, and found a secret passage to the underground of the castle from the stables filled with stinky smell.

Thick dust and layers of spider webs cover this narrow secret passage. At the end of the secret passage is a small secret room in all directions.

It is covered with heavier dust, which is very clear at a glance. No one has visited this room for many years, so that in many corners, dust and spider webs have even formed blocks.

It seems that someone used this secret room to store treasures many years ago. No matter what the treasures were originally planning, it seems that they have not been able to come back for various reasons...

Brian also discovered that many items that were not so strong, such as fabric, had been decayed.

Just like the sack in front of him that looked intact, it broke with a slight touch, and a large pile of gems emitted gold and colorful gems flashed in the air.

After taking away the pile of spoils that surprised him, Brian found a switch for a secret room in the corner of the room.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! He looked at the switch in front of him, and with the help of detection magic, he looked around, pondered for a moment, and pressed the switch with a vigilant look.

With the sound of rumbling sounds, a wall covered with spider webs on the left side of the secret room slowly rose.

Immediately afterwards, a stench of excrement and a strong smell of orc sweat spread in the air.

Brian frowned. With the legendary favor, he could see the environment in the room clearly without any dark vision magic.

There was no one in the room. At first glance, the stench probably emanated from two basins in the corners of both sides of the room.

The bed in the room was scattered with animal furs, as well as the remaining animal bones, and a few pieces of coal burned in the brazier at the end of the bed, providing a little warmth for the cold and humid underground room.

There was a pot above the brazier, stewing something, emitting a disgusting smell of meat.

The door was a thick black door curtain. When Brian carefully walked through the door curtain, a strong smell of animal excrement came to his face...

He used the anti-detection methods of invisibility and the purple dragon seal ring to come to a spacious hall under the castle without any danger.

On the old candlesticks, dim candles burned, and the erratic firelight shone on the spacious rotunda.

There is only a circular staircase and corridor in the room. The counterclockwise staircase on the left leads to the surface, while the staircase on the right is covered by a locked door.

Just as Brian was about to walk into the depths of the hallway, a dull sound of footsteps came from far and near from the darkness.

With the help of the faint firelight, after seeing the figure like a hill landing on the ground, Brian looked like a move, immediately hidden, hid in the dark and waited for the enemy to come over.

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