Deep underneath the Temple of Shadows, on the side of the high platform of the sacrificial hall, Meredith walked up to Richel's side, looked at the pale cheeks that had not been dripping for a day and a night, and said softly, "What you need most now is rest. ”

Rachel stood quietly next to the sacrificial totem, staring at the ground in the center of the hall without saying a word.

Meredith found a clean place and sat down, handed the baked cake in his arms to his side, and after finding that the other party was indifferent, he retracted his hand again: "'Destiny Trial' is the final test set by the gods, it measures the value of a soul in the face of absolute will......"

"You once said that two people returned safely?"

Rachel's sudden question made Meredith stunned for a moment.

"That's right, in the years I've been with Master, I've seen two people come back from the bottom of the sea. ”

The flesh on Reicelle's face had lost its life, but her eyes were surprisingly bright: "How long did it take them to get back to the ground?"

"One used nine days and the other three days. ”

"When they came back, did they tell me how they came back?"

"Those who pass the trial, whoever they are, will remain silent when they are asked about the world behind the Dark Gate after returning to this world. ”

Rachel turned his head away, and refocused his gaze on the uneven stone slab, as if the ground would crack in the next second.

Meredith lowered her head slightly, and asked in a barely audible voice, "In the 'Trials of Strength', I heard someone call him 'King of Twilight'?"

Richer replied coldly, "At such a time, does the answer still make sense?"

Meredith thought for a moment and gave up the discussion on the issue.

The two women leaned together in silence, looking at the ground in a daze for a long time. Meredith finally couldn't stand the atmosphere and stood up to leave the hall.

As she reached the gate, she heard a strange noise coming from underground.

The sound was like a tidal tide coming and like a flood.

After searching her memory for a few moments, Meredith's eyes widened, and she finally remembered what the sound meant to come.

Turning around and running back to the altar as fast as he could, Meredith grabbed Richel, who was still in doubt, and ran desperately towards the gate.

Boom!

The stone slabs on the ground behind him were washed into pieces by the fierce current, and the sea water rose like a herd of beasts, and in the blink of an eye, the entire sacrificial hall was submerged.

Two wet women, climbing the steps at the gate, dodging the spreading sea beneath their feet.

Clutching at the protruding rocks on the wall, Rachel's voice was like a boat in a storm in front of the rough waters: "What's going on?!what's going on?!"

"The trial of fate is over! The door of darkness is open again!" Meredith made a small basin out of crow feathers, scooped the sea water around him in embarrassment, and exclaimed, "But I have never seen such intensity and movement before!"

The sea water poured into the entire underground hall, and the whirlpool that rotated counterclockwise uprooted the boulder totems on the altar, swept away the carvings on the walls, and washed them into the bottom of the sea.

A figure, following the center of the current vortex, slowly crawled into the hall.

The two of them were tall and strong, with scales that exuded a silver metallic luster, a meter-long dinosaur-like tail, and sharp iron claws that emitted black light.

A pair of dark red eyes, in the turbid water, like a lighthouse in the dark night, shining.

Richer looked at the monster in the whirlpool in a daze, and shouted with some uncertainty: "Todd?"

Hearing the woman's voice, the monster spun around in the sea and swam like a fish to the entrance of the hall.

As those soul-stirring eyes slowly surfaced, Meredith wanted to pull Rachel back, but the latter had no intention of backing down.

As a last resort, the Crowfeather woman had no choice but to hide at the top of the steps by herself, secretly observing everything in front of her.

The sharp iron claws slowly stretched out towards Richel's throat, the red light in the monster's eyes slowly faded, and the mutated limbs slowly degenerated.

Eventually, a human hand touched the woman's hair.

Looking at the familiar face in front of him, the tears in Rachel's eyes slowly flowed down his cheeks, leaning forward, his forehead resting on the man's chest, and muttering, "It's you, it's you...... Great......"

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Dressed in a fur carpet and draped over his body as a robe, the frail Todd, with the help of Rachel, stepped up the last floor of the spiral staircase and returned to the ruined temple of the Shadow Country. He used his right hand to block the bright sunlight swaying in the sky, and his thoughts were myriad, as if he were in a different world.

Placing his right arm in front of his eyes, Todd took a closer look at it, and there was a thin white mark that was almost invisible on the previously broken right shoulder. Similarly, there is an identical mark on the left leg.

Todd reminisced about his experience at the bottom of the sea, and couldn't help but think of the last thing Jingsu said to him.

"What you need, you've found. 』

Does this mean that he has come into contact with the "tyrant"?

So where and how did you get it?

Also, this current body can not only repair itself to a normal state, but can even freely transform between monster form and human form, what is going on?

"You've passed all the trials. ”

The purple-haired and red-eyed queen stood on the high temple podium, smiling at Todd for the first time.

Meredith, who was combing the damp crow feathers, looked at the man in front of him curiously, nodded and said, "From now on, you are already a member of the Shadow Country. ”

Todd took a step forward, and was about to speak, when weakness and fatigue made him fall to his knees and fall to his knees.

"Just after the trial, it's going to happen. Skaha waved his sleeve and waved his hand at Todd: "You go to rest first, if there is anything, we will talk about it tomorrow." ”

A burly young man of about twenty years old poked out half of his head curiously from behind the corridor at the other end of the temple, and before he could see the situation in the temple clearly, Skaha raised his left hand slightly, and a fist-sized stone, like a cannonball, hit the opponent's lower abdomen heavily.

"Cú Chulainn!Who told you you could be lazy?!"

Hearing the Queen's displeased roar, the young man known as Cúchulainn, holding his stomach with his hands, disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Meredith took a sip in the direction where the young man had disappeared, raised his wings made of raven feathers, pointed to the mountain behind the temple, and said, "Halfway up the mountain, there is an ancient temple with rooms and tools that you can use as you please. But you have to find your own way with food and water. ”

Winking mischievously at Todd, Meredith smiled and said, "I think, since you have completed the trial, these little things will naturally not be difficult for you......"