Survival Guide After Accidentally Kissing a Demon - Chapter 186

Chapter 186

Today was no longer a day full of vitality.

Beili found everything she did to be dull, boring, and pointless.

Reading storybooks was dull; doing nothing was boring. Even the freshly baked snacks the servants brought her tasted pointless after two bites.

Is this the legendary honeymoon phase…

How terrifying.

Beili felt she needed to leave her room, leave the castle, and go out to clear her head.

When the coachman asked where she wanted to go, Beili fell silent for a few seconds.

Since Ashera had already returned to the Royal City to make preparations, she should think about whether there were any other ways to find Doctor Cassius.

After all, the doctor knew many details, and there was a good chance he would be invited back to the palace to operate again-this time for the King’s heart transplant surgery.

Beili’s mind emptied for a moment.

Then, all at once, the Nameless Town Doctor Cassius had once taken her to flashed through her thoughts.

Maybe she’d run into Doctor Cassius there.

Maybe.

Beili suddenly wanted to go and try her luck.

Even though the odds of meeting him were low.

“Nameless Town,” she answered after thinking it over. “The town I went to with Doctor Cassius last time-if you still remember it.”

“I remember.”

The coachman nodded and set down the step stool. “Eldest daughter, please board the carriage.”

…

The carriage departed from the Teleportation Array in Butterfly Valley.

After passing through several towns, they arrived at Nameless Town.

There were still old houses scattered unevenly about, and the streets were still narrow-barely wide enough for a single carriage to pass.

“Miss, are we going to the same place as last time?”

Once they entered the bounds of Nameless Town, the coachman asked respectfully.

Beili paused, then a few seconds later realized he meant the Tower that concealed the Teleportation Array.

“Let’s go there and take a look,” she said evenly.

…

When the Constance Family carriage reached the Tower at the end of the road.

Beili stepped down and found that the once-ruined Tower had been renovated until it looked completely new.

There was even a clock installed on it.

As she got off, it happened to be the exact hour. The bell tolled-dong, dong, dong-its sound carrying far and clear as it echoed over the whole town.

“Uh… was it Hodgson?”

As Beili walked toward the Tower, she tried to recall the old tower keeper’s name.

“I think it really was Hodgson…”

Muttering, she reached the Tower and was just about to call out the old man’s name.

Only…

The person in front of her was a stranger-a young man.

When she asked-

“Hodgson?”

The young man pointed at the brand-new Tower behind him. “That was my grandfather. He passed away the day after the Tower was completed.”

He paused, then added in a breezy tone, “When he died, a kind doctor stayed with him the entire time. It didn’t hurt at all-he went very peacefully.”

“So that’s what happened…”

Beili lifted her red eyes and looked toward the Tower.

“I want to go inside the Tower and take a look,” she said quietly.

“Inside the Tower?”

The young man guarding it scratched his head, looking troubled. “Miss, this Tower’s door is harder than stone. There might be magic on it. I can’t open it for you.”

Beili waved a hand.

“It’s fine. I’ll do it myself.”

If there was magic on it, then Doctor Cassius was very likely hiding inside the Tower.

With that thought, Beili told the coachman to find a spacious place to park and wait. Then she walked up to the Tower.

She raised a hand and summoned a Morpho Butterfly.

-Ever since the night of the Royal Hunt, when she’d taken a solid hit from a defensive spell on Cyril’s tent, Beili no longer tested things herself.

She gave the order for the Morpho Butterfly to check whether there was a defensive spell on the door.

With blue-green wings beating, the Morpho Butterfly flew over-and the very next second, it sank straight into the door.

Beili’s red eyes flickered. Without hesitation, she reached for the door, stepped forward, and passed right through it.
The young man standing guard outside the Tower watched in stunned silence.

After the girl passed through the door without any resistance, the man walked up to the entrance in surprise and tried to reach out.

As expected, his hand met only a thick, cold stone wall.

Through the Teleportation Array inside the Tower, Beili arrived once again in the Magic Space created by Doctor Cassius.

However, what met her eyes was no longer the dreamlike, vibrant sea of flowers that looked like an oil painting.

The entire Magic Space was shrouded in a gloomy darkness.

Only a ghostly green full moon remained in the sky.

Aside from a few dark green silhouettes, the Magic Space was almost impossible to see clearly.

Beili had no choice but to summon several more Morpho Butterflies, letting them emit a strong light to disperse the surrounding darkness.

Soon, she saw that all the flowers on the ground looked as if their nutrients had been cut off and their roots severed.

They were withered, scorched yellow, and decaying, shedding ashes constantly as the wind blew through them.

“Doctor Cassius-”

This space had become somewhat strange. Beili stood still and called out tentatively a few times.

She sent out a mental command for several Morpho Butterflies to scout the surroundings, her heart beginning to waver.

Could this Magic Space have been abandoned by Doctor Cassius?

And she had accidentally stumbled into it.

This thought surfaced in Beili’s mind.

The scene before her was truly too eerie; if it were paired with horror movie BGM…

A Morpho Butterfly flew back to tell her that a short distance ahead, there were many stone coffins.

The stone coffins were still there…

Then why had this Magic Space turned into this?

Thinking of those neatly arranged, cold stone coffins, Beili felt a stir in her heart.

Doctor Cassius had said that the bodies in those stone coffins were once his obsession and later became his habit.

Items that required him to expend a large amount of Mana and Magic Crystals to maintain were clearly very important.

Unless he had moved the bodies out of the stone coffins.

Beili decided to go and see.

If the bodies in the stone coffins were gone, it would prove that this Magic Space was abandoned, and she could return home.

She raised her hand, letting the Morpho Butterflies lead the way while illuminating the surroundings.

After a moment, she arrived before a row of neatly arranged stone coffins.

She saw that the stone coffins were still there, and they were all open, just as they had been when she left.

Beili walked past the stone coffins one by one, letting a Morpho Butterfly glide lightly over them.

The bodies in the stone coffins were all still there.

However, those bodies had lost their preservation; their skin had all turned to ash, revealing grim white bones.

Just like the withered and dying flowers on the ground.

Under the blue-green light emitted by the Morpho Butterflies, they presented a direct and visceral horror to her.

Then.

Beili’s expression stiffened as she stopped before the final coffin.

The other coffins were made of stone and were all open.

Only this last coffin was made of wood, evenly coated in black lacquer, with simple carvings and decorations on the surface, and it was completely sealed shut with silver nails.

“…”

Beili felt as if she heard a faint sound coming from inside the coffin.

She couldn’t help but lean down, holding her breath and listening intently for a while, confirming that someone inside was indeed whispering something.

Beili was quiet for a few seconds before commanding the Morpho Butterflies around her to open the coffin.

The silver nails were pulled out one by one.

With a dull thud, the heavy coffin lid was pushed open, leaving a gap.

A handsome man with golden hair, dressed in white, was lying quietly inside.

His slender fingers were crossed over his chest; his eyes were closed, and his eyelashes rested gently beneath his eyes like curved feathers.

Even with his eyes closed and no expression on his face, his temperament still appeared so gentle.

Doctor Cassius Alfredo.

…

Was he dead?