Chapter 625 - Climax 38...

There was this gigantic pile of the dead bodies, each one of them brutally murdered. Some had their body parts amputated while some even had their heads shaved.

"What is the logic of shaving their heads?" Stefen frowned looking the bald and n.a.k.e.d dead bodies piled up.

Xio Lee who was now looking at another body lying inside the jail turned to look at Stefen, "Black magic!"

Stefen whose eyes were fixed on the pile suddenly turned and gapped at Xio Lee in horror. He then quickly ran up to him, not wanting to stand much afar.

"Remember what we read? It is effective in night or in complete darkness, where no sunlight can penetrate. This area has been built for this purpose itself. To perform black magic. Their parts are chopped so that their blood can be fed to the snake, as written in the book. They all must be killed by the two men to solve their respective purposes. I wonder how many men they must have already killed by now." Xio Lee spoke pensively as he was constantly looking at a dead body. It was also laying n.a.k.e.d but it had not yet completely rotten or swollen much. The body's blue eyes were wide open and its mouth had fallen downwards revealing its two frontal gold teeth. The fingers and the ears of the body was chopped with several signs drawn on it from blood. The man's golden teeth and striking blue eyes were constantly reminding him of somebody.

"Oh damn! This is Leonard Jeaffory." Xio Lee spoke up suddenly, looking towards Stefen.

"Oh, the richest man on the earth and the former Hollywood actor?" Stefen brought his torch closer to the body and gaped at in surprise. "Yes. You are right master. Looks like he has been recently killed. Oh! Now I remember. Just yesterday the tabloids had reported him missing. His family too had no idea where he was. Rumours said that he ran away with his girlfriend. But ... .but why would he be killed?" Stefen frowned looking at the brutally chopped fingers of the body.

"Why would he not be killed? Davis is the second richest man in the world and Jeaffory was the first. Davis killed him to take his position. He might have tortured him with black magic to make him transfer his entire company in his name." Xio Lee sighed wondering how cruel Davis was.

"This man is just too ruthless and crazy!" Stefen spoke feeling terrified and disgusted.

"Let us go ahead now." Xio Lee patted the boy's shoulder not wanting to stay here anymore. The atmosphere of the room was such that it was automatically draining their spirits making them feel extremely scared and weak.

They both walked further ahead and crossed several cages, inside which several dead bodies were lying down. Most of them looked very old and had been almost rotten.

"This is the most disgusting place ever!" Stefen nodded his head in disapproval trying not to glance at the bodies.

Xi lee nodded his head as they were now barely able to even handle the stink. "I don't know, how long it will take, before I start throwing up right here." Lee gulped as they walked towards the edge of the room leading to another door.

"Another door? Where exactly are we headed to?" Stefen looked at Xio Lee feeling a bit dishearten. "Do you think we are making a big blunder?"

They both looked at each other in confusion.

"Let us make it this way. This is the last door we enter. And if it does not lead us anywhere substantial, we will go back from where we started. Ok?" Xio Lee sighed looking at the boy. Though he did not want to start from the scratch but it was now getting difficult for them to even breath in this stinking place as the smell had taken over the atmosphere and there was no fresh air or sunlight in the place. The place was designed in a way that before the man's body fell week, he would fall unconscious due to lack of oxygen.

"Ok master."Stefen nodded in a yes and they tried to open the door hoping that they have entered somewhere worth going.

"Locked again." Stefen sighed almost losing his patience now.

"Hmm...." Xio Lee nodded his head and let out a very powerful kick on the door, venting out all his frustration and anger at the door. But for the first time he felt a little out of breath and could feel the place was already affecting their oxygen level in the body. "We need to hurry up Stef." He looked at the door which had now fallen with a loud thud.

They both walked in a long slanting corridor and then stepped inside a similar looking room, only that it was even more suffocating than the previous one as it was situated even deeper.

"Damn it." Stefen looked around as the room was once again filled with same amount of dead bodies, with their heads shaved and their body parts amputated. They walked a little further ahead trying to find any door or way out but there was none that they could find.

This was a room longer than the previous one and they both covered quiet a distance looking for something substantial. The floor was once again painted with several scary patterns and was full of half melted candles. Stefen lit some candles and then looked around with hopeful eyes. But all he could see was dead bodies and rats around him. The only noise was that of the insects and flies buzzing around the rotten and n.a.k.e.d bodies. They could no longer take it. The smell was making them extremely dizzy and suddenly Stefen threw up on one side as he saw a man's private parts been eaten by a rat.

"Ok. That is it." Xio Lee spoke up as he patted the boy's back as he threw up in one corner. "Let us go back Stef. It is only torturing us to stay here."

Stefen finally straightened his back, panting heavily. He then nodded his head in a yes and they walked back towards the door, about to get out when suddenly they heard a loud crashing noise behind them....!