I. Ed couldn't help but look at Ante a few more times.

"You don't think he's manipulating that snake, do you?" Borena guessed his suspicions, "That guy doesn't look like he has the ability." ”

That's true. Moreover, the Serpent has no instinct and lacks wisdom, and it is unlikely that it will understand what it means to "join forces". However, it is even more difficult to explain why Ante was able to survive unharmed...... He was indeed dead, but wasn't his soul still trapped in that body?

In the midst of the firelight, Ed discovers another fact. The huge wound on Ante's neck that had been cut by Isis was squirming and healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the sticky and blackened blood seemed to be absorbed by his gray skin, and gradually disappeared.

“...... What was he trying to say?"

The same discovery made Borenna's tongue stiff.

“...... Undead. Ed replied.

“...... It doesn't seem like the undead I've heard of. Borena laughed dryly.

They all retreated in the direction of Is—even though Is's face was twisted at the moment, his fangs were exposed, and his slightly elongated, half-bowed body looked like a monster with blade-like claws sticking out of the ends of his thick limbs...... He may be as dangerous as the invisible snake, but he still seems to be inexplicably able to be trusted and relied on.

"What are you struggling with?"

Slowly approaching, Ante stopped. His voice had almost completely returned to normal, and his face, which was no longer terribly swollen, showed even more undisguised malice: "You are destined to die at my hands...... If you had come to terms with this sooner, you might have died a more dignified death than you do today. ”

"If you don't talk so much, if it's not like that, you have to find a reason for what you did anyway that 'it was meant to be so......" Borena sneered, "maybe you can kill us a long time ago." ”

Ante was easily irritated – and for a short time, Borena was well aware of it.

The greatsword slashed down with a roar of rage. Borena dodged nimbly, and the slender murderer's sword stabbed Ante in the back of the head from a tricky angle - since it was an undead, it couldn't be wrong to attack the head, right?

Ante didn't dodge or dodge, swinging his sword and slashing at Borena's waist. But the sword was cut off in the middle of the way. A scale-covered claw grasped the blade of the sword firmly and pressed it to the ground, smashing a spark on the rock.

“...... Is!" Ed cried out hopefully, his golden eyes still cold.

At the same time, the murderer's sword snake is like a snake...... Slid past the target, not even Ant's skin was cut.

Borena stumbled and almost fell, and couldn't help but grit his teeth: "...... What the hell is this sword?!"

It really doesn't whisper in his head and try to control him, but at some point it does its own thing, and is not manipulated by him at all!

"It's smarter than you. Ante sneered.

Unexpectedly, he abruptly abandoned his sword and grabbed Isis empty-handed.

Is, who dared to grasp the blade directly with his hand, pulled back and quickly dodged the blow - he seemed unwilling to be touched.

He slid backwards for a bit, jumped to his feet, and glanced at Ed, intentionally or not.

Ed's heart sank, and he rushed over to grab Borenna, and without hesitation, he opened a gap in the air and dragged him in.

The snake moved.

The invisible body pressed over, and there was no sound at all, but it could make him feel it...... It was as if outside the Silver Tooth Mine, chased by the earth-shattering avalanche, the suffocating fear and pressure.

The next moment they fell to the wall, crushing a pile of orc bones.

“...... Can you teleport?" Borena asked.

- Why don't you just run farther?

Ed understood his unspoken question, but could only smile wryly and shake his head.

They didn't even leave this stone hall...... He also has no ability to leave.

Perhaps it was affected by the things that trapped the snake underground, such a short distance, still within his sight, this spell that could be easily cast had already made him feel that his internal organs were displaced.

Borena staggered to his feet against the wall, his face pale, and obviously uncomfortable.

It's not safe here, either...... Unless they can escape the pit, there is nowhere safe. The most lethal thing was that they couldn't see the snake at all, and they didn't have the keen sense of Is, and if it approached silently, perhaps they could only feel it at the moment it was captured and devoured.

Ed thought desperately. But the three words he swallowed in his stomach at the beginning could not help him at all. Compared with...... Iss definitely knows a lot more than he does.

He looked up at Is.

Isis landed not far from them, with his back to them, tilting his head slightly, as if in thought.

“...... Light and sound. He said stiffly: "The vibration will make it manifest, and the light will disgust it." ”

Ed froze, then jumped for ecstasy. It was clearly not Isis who spoke...... The voice was cold and deep, and the words were unusually clear and precise, like a cold and arrogant man who had mastered the lingua franca by pure magic, and who did not bother to use it but had to use it...... Dragon.

But he finally spoke.

If you can talk, you can communicate—Ed thought with great optimism, his fingers already moving, and the incantation he uttered was unconsciously light as if he were singing.

A powerful sound wave exploded in the middle of the stone hall. It was Is's spell. With a short dragon voice, the surrounding air rippled like water waves, and in the glittering waves, a giant beast that occupied almost the entire stone hall appeared. It was half-sunk in the rock, long as a snake, headless and tailless, its scales shimmering like jewels, but when it was dim, it showed a blank face, so blurred that it was impossible to distinguish race, only a pair of empty eyes, which made people shudder to see.

Almost at the same time, light poured out of Ed's palm, warm and soft, like the clear sun of an early spring morning.

The Serpent, which was writhing in anger and pounced on Is, paused slightly, revealing its only weakness in a split second of instinctive reaction.

Iss disgustedly made his right hand more suitable for gripping...... became more human-like than his hand, and then drew a sword from his body.

It was a giant sword, slightly thinner than the heavy weapon in Ant's hand, but longer, simple in style, the body of the sword was dark and heavy as if it could absorb all the light, the lines of the layers were like flowing clouds and flames, and the end of the hilt was cast into a half-gripped dragon claw, with five fingers in the void, and the claw was empty.

Ed's eyes widened - it was the Sword of Acton!

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