Todd, who was lying on the ground panting, looked at the wound on the dragon's wings, his eyes mixed with anger and incomprehension.

Commanding the griffin to land beside the black dragon, Evie, who was armed with a bow and arrow, walked quickly to Todd's side and asked with concern, "Are you injured?"

"The wound has stopped expanding, but here it is like poisoning, the pain and weakness cannot be eliminated. Todd struggled to retract his dragon wings: "There must be something wrong with that crimson spear, even if the tyrant's enhanced 'regeneration' ability can't work." ”

Looking up at the sisters hovering in the sky to scout, Evie clenched the bow in her hand: "It's not safe here, we must get out of here immediately." ”

Todd tried to flapp his wings, but the pain was so great that he couldn't keep his balance, and he let out a low growl of involuntary relief.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to fly anymore. Todd said to Evie, "With Plasticity, I can compress the dark matter in my body and return to human form, but it will take some time. ”

Evie nodded: "I will let the warband of the Junka Fortress take care of the guards." ”

Todd sat on the ground, a pale blue glow emanating from all around him, and hot steam gushed out from the cracks in the dragon's scales, filling the forest in an instant.

An hour later, Todd, who had regained his human form, sat up from the ground without a blink and stumbled towards the edge of the forest.

Evie, who had been by Todd's side, hurriedly draped the velvet blanket that had been prepared in her hand over his body and helped him climb onto the griffin.

Todd moved his arm in pain, and when he looked from behind, he was still covered with a shocking wound on his back.

Todd, whose face was pale, said to Evie: "Tell the warband leaders of Froststone that preserving their strength is the highest priority, and I will allow them to shrink their forces and give up some of their outlying strongholds. ”

Evie nodded, and after passing this command to her subordinates, she turned over and rode on the griffon, and flew quickly in the direction of Froststone City with Todd in her arms.

Returning to Froststone City, the first thing the griffin did was to ask the Valkyries to carry Todd back to the bedroom on the second floor of the small building, and after instructing Deirdre to take good care of him, she hurried to the temple to find Minnie, a shaman who was proficient in herbs.

Gently rubbing his fingers against Dildri's crying cheeks, Todd, who was lying on his side on the bed, said softly, "I'm fine." ”

Listening to the hurried footsteps of several people on the stairs, Todd gently shook Deirdri's hand and said, "Help me sit up." ”

Deirdrith's eyes were red and he asked, "Are you sure?"

Todd shook his head slightly, motioning for Deirdre to help him.

As soon as he sat up, Todd saw three people walk in from the bedroom door.

There are two of them, Evie and Minnie.

And the rest of the person surprised Todd very much.

Dressed in a coat made of crow feathers, the woman's smile was like a bright ray of sunshine, but her voice was as cold as the cold wind on a snowy day.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you human, and at first glance, I'm still a little used to it. Meredith smiled at Todd and said, "How? Didn't you expect it to be me?"

Todd shook his head helplessly, the pain from the wound on his back made him frown slightly.

Minnie said to Todd, "When you first set off for the north, she was in the temple and has been waiting until now. ”

Todd sighed, "You really should have warned me of the dangers I might encounter when Skaha gave me this kind of task. ”

Meredith smiled and said, "Didn't my master send me?" ”

Evie put her right hand on the handle of the sword, stared at Meredith's every move, and asked vigilantly, "When you were downstairs, you told me that there is a way to deal with this wound?"

Meredith pointed to the wound on Todd's back and made a pleading motion.

Todd motioned for Evie to calm down, then nodded to Meredith.

The latter slowly walked to the bed, and under the gaze of a room of people, stretched out his right hand, palm up, and said to Todd, "Put your hand on my palm." ”

Todd did as he was told.

For a moment, Todd's consciousness was sucked into an unknown space.

A huge and majestic crystal city that stands in the sky, sparkling in the sun.

In the air dozens of kilometers away from the city, nearly 100 steam-powered steel warships, lined up in an assault formation, rushed towards the city.

Driving to the vicinity of the city, the battleship let out a piercing whistle, the hull slowly turned, and the side side of the ship was facing the city, and as the gun door of the black hole was opened, thousands of blazing light edges, shot out from the muzzle, hitting the aqua blue shield above the city, stirring up ripples layer after layer.

Under the continuous blows, the city in the sky made a deafening sound of earth and rocks cracking, and large blocks of rocks and buildings fell apart, peeling off from the edge of the city.

Eventually, the protective shield of the city in the sky, which could no longer withstand the attack, was broken in an instant, and the light of the steam battleship hit the streets, gardens and sculptures of the city directly, and the beautiful city slowly tilted and fell towards the earth in the explosion and flames.

Just as Todd was stunned by the scene in front of him, a familiar voice sounded behind him.

"It may take thousands or even tens of thousands of years to build a civilization. But if it's just to destroy it, it only takes a day. ”

Todd turned his head and saw Skaha in mid-air, staring intently at the city that had crashed to the ground.

"Here it is...... Your soul space?" Todd came to his senses, "You buried the soul seed in Meredith's body, so I can enter your soul space through her?"

Instead of answering Todd's question, Skaha pointed to the shattered Crystal City, "That's the Linglan Empire, an empire with highly developed arts and medicine. ”

After a pause, Skaha continued, "I, as a precursor, were the first race to participate in the creation. ”

Todd was a little puzzled: "The race you helped create?"

"As the ruler and creator of the universe, there is a huge pool of biological genes. As the first creations of the Crystal Su, the forerunners had to cooperate with the Crystal Suction to select suitable fragments from the gene pool to create other organisms, and complete the work of observation and supervision. ”

Skaha watched as the city in the sky fell to the ground, letting out an earth-shattering loud bang, and a huge sandstorm swept through the entire space in an instant.

"Although the ultimate goal of these created creatures is only to pursue the results of experiments, as pioneers, we have our own ideas and preferences. Skaha shook his head and said, "We poured all our heart and soul into the race that we were responsible for helping to design and create. Whether it's appearance, character, or intelligence, we all hope to create a perfect race, but we forget one thing......"

Todd closed his eyes and said helplessly, "War." ”

Skaha looked at Todd with infinite sadness in his eyes: "At first we didn't understand it at all...... In the infinite living space, creativity and collaboration are something that all can benefit from, why are there races that are keen to grab everything by such stupid means as destruction as this?"

"One race after another, the races we love have been destroyed, and the genes of those who have survived have been left with nothing but tyranny, suspicion, possession, and madness. The winners, who had nothing else to destroy and devour, set their sights on their fellow citizens and went further and further down the path of cannibalism and suicide, and finally the whole universe returned to peace. ”

Skaha turned his body to Todd, and there was an oddly shaped crimson spear in his hand.

Looking at the familiar blade, Todd exclaimed, "...... this?"

"The name of this weapon is 'Dead Silence', and it originally belonged to the warmongers who destroyed the Linglan Empire. It is made of a very special silicon-based biomaterial that is able to lock onto the dark energy wavelengths of specific organisms and use planetary gravity as a propulsion force to deliver a tracking strike on the target. ”

Skaha looked at Todd and said word by word: "This weapon will not only attack the enemy, but also attack itself if it is not used properly, and if you use one word to describe it, it should probably be 'curse'." ”

"I once gave Cú Chulainn such a weapon to make him understand the nature of power—it can give you everything, but it can also make you lose everything. But he may have become so addicted to power that he had forgotten what I had said......" Skaha hung his head and whispered, "He's barely a tenth of the power of this weapon now." So, Todd, stop him before it's too late, before he makes a bigger mistake......"

The space dissipated, and Todd's consciousness returned to his shell in an instant.

Looking at Meredith who was smiling in front of him, Todd was still a little immersed in the consternation of Shicai: "Skaha told me ......"

Meredith interrupted him: "After you left, my master thought twice about it, fearing that you would be inferior against Cúchulainn, so he sent me to bring you something. ”

Taking out a long strip of sackcloth from under the crow's feather cloak, Meredith slowly opened the sackcloth, revealing the true face of the hidden object, causing Todd to gasp.

It was the blade that Skaha had shown him in the soul space—Dead Silence.