"Little Card—"

"Little Silver—"

"Little Card—"

"Little Silver—"

Christina clasped her hands together in the shape of a trumpet around her lips and called out the names of her companions. However, until her voice was hoarse, all that was restored to her was the desolate sound of the leaves rustling in the wind.

She crouched down, looking at her face in distress on the water, and sighed in frustration for a long time.

How exactly Christina got separated from Xiaoka, in fact, she didn't seem to know too well, she only remembered that she seemed to be following the team through the waterhole before, and suddenly encountered an attack by surprise-

……

The originally beautiful little fish suddenly swelled and jumped out of the water, its yellow-green eyes bulging like light bulbs staring at the team, and the green and fresh blades of grass suddenly stretched out like soft ropes, and just when the team was still panicking to deal with the fish monster, it quietly wrapped around the ankles of several people, and pulled them directly into the fish monster's large, spiky and terrifying bloody mouth with a powerful force!

Even the small flowers of all kinds of beautiful colors suddenly burst into strange green vines, like iron chains, and slammed towards the few people closest to them!

The group, which had been tightly knit, was already panicked and overwhelmed after several successful attacks, and fled in all directions despite Watt's shouting of orders. However, when Watt looked at Barty for help, he was desperate to find that he had already taken his daughter out of the way.

A blade of grass suddenly wrapped around Watt's ankle, and before he could struggle, he was pulled hard and pulled him into the mouth of the fish monster. The fish monster chewed a few times before swallowing into its belly, opening its bloody mouth again.

At this time, Christina stumbled and fled with Barty in a panic, and even had deep doubts about herself.

This was the first time she had encountered such a situation, and although she had not been attacked by the plants because she was a flower spirit master, she was strangely unable to control them no matter what method she used!

- This simply violates and subverts the common sense code of the flower spirit master!

After escaping for some time, Barty suddenly pulled Anna and Christina and rushed into a waterfall.

"Come here, it'll be safer!"

Anna struggled and screamed, "No, father, there are man-eating fish monsters in the water!!"

"Shut up!" there was a narrow natural cave behind the waterfall, and Barty violently threw Anna aside, panting and angrily, "There won't be fish monsters here, they've been attracted by other people, what are you afraid of!"

Christina held Sver in her arms and stared blankly at the water in front of her, dazed as she didn't know what she was thinking. Suddenly, there was a pain in her shoulders, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Barty's face twisted with panic and anger.

"Tina, tell me, where is the secret realm of Desmond?!" he trembled and roared as if he had entered a desperate situation, his eyes were cold and manic, "Since you have entered here, you must know the location!!"

Christina unexpectedly calmed down at this time, blinking and shaking her head sternly, her delicate voice was steady without a hint of trembling, "I don't know, because I haven't been here, and the inner circumference I entered is not like this." ”

Barty stared at her with red eyes, as if he had overwhelmed the last straw, and roared like crazy, "Impossible! Didn't you say you had been inside the inner wall, how could it be different?!"

The pain in her shoulder was even worse, and Christina secretly stopped Carrera's attack, frowning and looking back at the past with a cold face, "I said before that I didn't know what the secret realm of Demon was, didn't you explain it to me yesterday?"

Barty's eyes widened, and his face contorted angrily, "You-"

"Father, be careful!" Anna, who had been hiding quietly in the corner, suddenly shouted in horror, and her high cry rang out sharply, "Don't, ahhhh

Barty reflexively subconsciously flipped Christina in front of him, but the expected bloody picture did not appear-

At some point, the black winged bird that had been in front of it stretched its wings as sharp as a blade and easily slashed the rushing fish monster, and then slowly turned its head and cast a merciless and cruel gaze on Barty with a terrified face as if it were looking at a dead man.

……

And after that?

Christina, whose memory suddenly broke down, frowned and tried to continue remembering what had happened, but she didn't remember anything other than a tingling in her brain.

She exhaled deeply, rubbed her tingling temples, barely suppressed her worries about Xiaoka and Xiaoyin, stood up and continued to walk towards the white mist.

I don't know how long she walked, but just when Christina suspected that she hadn't moved at all, a long dragon roar came from nowhere, and the howl that seemed to make the heavens and the earth shake was sacred and majestic, and people were filled with awe and trembled when they heard it.

Christina's ears moved slightly, and her blue eyes, which were originally dim and empty, suddenly lit up, as if all the stars were gathered in her eyes, and they were incredibly bright and bright.

She hurried towards the source of the sound, until the sweet smell of rust came from her throat, and she saw the beautiful and majestic palace that the white mist had lifted.

Christina bent slightly to support her knees and panted lightly, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and finally walked firmly towards the palace after a long hesitation.

"Anyone?" Christina's originally delicate voice was slightly hoarse at this time, but it seemed to add a magnetic sense as if it was attached to her ear, and the gentle voice of inquiry echoed in the empty palace, adding a bit of ethereal.

No one answered.

Christina blinked, then asked abruptly, "What...... Is there a dragon?"

……

"Xiaoyin, is that you?" Christina scratched her cheeks, the joy in her heart was self-evident, and even the face that had not been smiling before seemed to have a smile a little more at this time, and she asked tentatively and softly, "Are you playing hide and seek with me?"

There was still no sound in the palace to respond.

“…… Am I really in the wrong place?" Christina muttered as she licked her lips, then shook her head helplessly, and turned to leave.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a violent shaking of the palace.

"Whoa!" Christina was unsteady on her feet and nearly fell, but she was saved by clinging to the pillar beside her, closing her eyes and breathing a sigh of relief when she felt the ground seem to settle down.

Then she heard a deafening dragon groan.