Todd slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ruins of the temple around him, the dragon's eyes faintly glowing with sadness.

Meredith came from not far away, looked at the silent dragon, and said, "Let me guess, after what I said last time, you went to see Richel. ”

Todd moved his limbs and slowly crawled towards Meredith on the ground, the breath of fire was thick with the dragon's mouth, and there was irrepressible anger in his voice: "You must know where Richer is now?!"

"It doesn't look like you're having a pleasant conversation. ”

Todd shouted at Meredith, "Tell me where she is?!"

"Even if you can find her, so what?" Meredith looked Todd in the eye, "The point is, can you accept her?"

"It doesn't matter if she's a human or a monster. In my most painful and desperate times, she was always the one who was by my side and never gave up on me. ”

Meredith looked at the black dragon in front of him, and suddenly asked expressionlessly, "Todd, if you were to make a choice between strength and emotion, what would you choose?"

Todd struggled to get up from the ground, looked at Meredith and yelled, "If humans have no feelings, then what's the difference between them and the dead bodies crawling out of the grave?!"

The latter suddenly laughed: "Todd, you are qualified." ”

Hearing Meredith's words, Todd looked confused: "Qualified? What do you mean?"

"I've seen too many people who have gone out of their way to destroy humanity in the pursuit of power. So, even as you show moderation in your power and your thinking about the future, I still have deep concerns about your humanity. ”

Meredith smiled and said, "The relationship between you and Rachel is my last test of you. Test whether you, as a tyrant, are like a sharp blade with a scabbard to restrain your actions. ”

Todd looked at Meredith angrily, "Stop your tricks! I don't care if you trust me, I just want to know where Reichel is?!"

The latter didn't answer Todd's question, but just looked at his body and said to himself, "It seems that your injuries have basically healed." ”

With that, Meredith turned around and walked straight outside.

Todd stared at Meredith's back, "Where are you going?"

Meredith said without looking back, "Don't you want to see Richell? ”

Struggling to straighten up, Todd followed Meredith's footsteps and walked toward the edge of the temple.

Walking to a quiet clearing, Meredith looked around, nodded, and said, "It's fine here." ”

Todd was confused: "What exactly do you want to do?"

Meredith looked at the black dragon's huge body, clasped his arms together, and said, "Transform into human form, you are the way you are, I can't take you to meet her." ”

Todd's eyes widened, but in the end, he did Meredith's words and transformed into a dragon into a human form.

Meredith took out a cloak from under the crow's feather, threw it to Todd, and said, "It may be a little uncomfortable to wait, but it's only a matter of moments. ”

"What?"

Before Todd could react, Meredith suddenly took his hand.

A large amount of electric charges began to gather in the air around the two of them, and with the sound of crackling and exploding, one arc after another formed a huge ball of electricity, enveloping the two people.

Suddenly, after a loud explosion of thunder, the electric ball disappeared in an instant, leaving only a sparkling path that remained on the ground.

Todd truly realized what it meant to be "lightning fast", and the scenery around him seemed to move at the speed of light, constantly receding backwards, and by the time he reacted, he was already standing in the middle of a desert.

Meredith's face was a little pale, and she sat on top of the hot sand, gasped a few times, and said softly, "I haven't used my ability for too long, and my body recovery can't keep up." ”

Todd looked at his surroundings in surprise, "We were still in the Land of Shadows just now, how could we suddenly come to the desert?

"The Abbasid Empire, the beginning of the Supukha Mountains. Meredith stood up and patted the sand off her body in disgust: "I hate the desert, and once the sand gets into the feathers, it's very difficult to take care of. ”

Todd reacted suddenly, "You mean the Supurha Mountains, where the Presbyterian Temple is located?"

Meredith glanced in the direction of the sun and walked forward, "Don't you want to know where Richer is? ”

Todd had no choice but to follow Meredith into the depths of the desert.

After a long journey of more than half an hour, Todd was dizzy from the strong sun.

Meredith walked to the shade of a boulder, stepped on the nearby sand with her foot, and said to herself, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be here." ”

Todd walked up to her and asked, "What is here?"

Meredith lowered her body, found a protrusion under the large stone, pressed it hard, smiled at Todd and said, "The secret entrance to the underground temple of the Council of Lords." ”

"Uh, you mean ......"

Before Todd's words could be finished, a huge hole suddenly appeared under his feet, instantly engulfing his figure.

Under the influence of quicksand, Todd finally fell into a dark room after a long slide.

Meredith quickly jumped off the slide and came to a steady stop beside Todd.

Raising her right hand, Meredith snapped her fingers, and a dazzling arc of lightning burst out of her hand, catapulting around the room at a rapid pace, igniting torches on the walls.

Todd stood up, looked at the ruins of the underground world, and couldn't help asking, "This is the underground temple of the Presbyterian Church?"

"The Council of Elders existed before the Order of the Ancient Terro's Empire launched a xeno-purge order. Meredith found a rusty iron cable in the dark lattice of the wall, and pulled hard, and a heavy stone door slowly rose, revealing a hidden passageway.

"The Archon of the Ancient Terro Empire, who led the Xenomorph Purge, had already smelled danger long before he ascended to the throne. They began to do everything possible to make efforts for the survival of the alien race, including secretly transporting xenomorph criminals to the outside world, raising funds to build shelters, and so on. My father was one of the xenomorph leaders. ”

Meredith stepped on the dilapidated floor tiles, with a nostalgic expression on her face: "At that time, the xenomorphs worked together, and everyone had the consciousness of sacrifice, in order to preserve as much blood as possible for this race in that troubled world. ”

Glancing at Todd thoughtfully, Meredith whispered, "Rachel should have told you about the rest of the story." After escaping from the Empire, with the barbarian invasion and the infighting in the Empire, the greatest threat of xenos at that time was removed one by one. The Presbyterians began to slack off and began to focus on the struggle for power. The whole organization has become a mess, and it has become the most common thing to form gangs and attack each other. ”

Later, some aspirants in the Presbyterian Church decided to find a way to put an end to this infighting and reunite all the alien forces. ”

Meredith stopped in front of a stone door, pushed his hands forward, and the door fell.

A pungent smell of embalming liquid hit his face, causing Todd to frown deeply.

"This group has secretly formed an association of xeno-alliances, intent on banding together against the careerists and power grabbers of the Elder Church. They wanted to resurrect the leader and put an end to the chaos of the Presbyterian Church once and for all. ”

Todd followed suit and asked, "The Xenomorph Society?, the Resurrection Leader??"

Meredith flapped the black crow feathers, and the debris in front of her rose into the air, which she cleaned up to both sides: "That's right, Rachel is a member of the Xenomorph Society, and she was assigned the task of seeking how to resurrect the leader while fighting against the Presbyterian careerists. ”

"Let's put aside the matter of the Xenomorph Association for a moment, let's get back to the point, let's talk about the resurrection leader. Thousands of years ago, the first group of leaders in the Presbyterian Church led the alien race to escape the Taylor Empire and escape the Great Purge, so they were regarded as sages by all the aliens, and were regarded as almost divine beings. The idea of the Xenomorph Society is that if one of the dead can be brought back to life, then the entire Council of Elders will submit to the leader and there will be no more strife. ”

"Resurrect the dead, bring the dead back to life, can this be done?" said Todd skeptically, "It's hard for even Skaha to bring back to life a man who has been dead for a long time." ”

Meredith pressed several stone slabs down the stone wall one after the other, only to hear a click, and a downward stone staircase appeared above the ground.

"The Xenomorph Society has come up with a number of ideas about how to resurrect its leader, including a strange ritual called human replication. ”

"A small piece of tissue from the human body is cultivated and multiplied to produce a replica that is exactly the same as the original body. ”

Todd's eyes widened unconsciously, and he secretly wondered in his heart, how could this method become more and more like a human clone in his previous life?

Walking down the last stone staircase, Meredith said, "The ritual of human replication, the Xenomorph Society has tried for hundreds of years, and has been studied by countless scholars and masters, and was even once considered a dead end. Finally, a breakthrough was made decades ago. ”

Meredith waved his hand and lit the torches around him, revealing a huge laboratory full of crystal cultivation tanks before Todd's eyes.

There are hundreds of huge cultivation tanks erected in the room, most of which have dried up and cracked, and only a few are still relatively intact.

Todd walked over to a cultivation tank, wiped the dust off the surface with his palm, and a misshapen, ugly face appeared in front of him.

Seeing that this creature that did not look like a human ghost or a ghost, floating in the embalming liquid, Todd took a few steps back, and his chest felt a little stuffy.

Meredith walked to the door of the lab, wiped down a bronze plaque hanging from the door panel, and motioned for Todd to come and have a look.

Suspicious, Todd approached the bronze medal, saw the words on it clearly by the light of the fire, his eyes opened to the maximum, and his body began to tremble unconsciously.

The bronze medal can still be vaguely seen as a name.

"Richier"