"Is this it?" I looked at the church in the distance and asked the captives around me.

"Yes, I've been here once before, and this is it." The captive glanced at it and nodded.

"Then Maria, you stay and watch him, and Malthus and I will go in to find out the truth, and if we don't come out in the afternoon, you can go first, and leave us alone."

"Understood, be careful." Maria nodded, and took the captive into the woods, while Malthus and I went straight into the interior of the church by "crossing".

"Hmm." As soon as I entered the church, a pungent smell hit my face, and I hurriedly covered my nose.

"What does this smell like?"

"Sulfur smells." Malthus replied nonchalantly, the "Dream Demon King" was obviously accustomed to seeing big scenes, and seemed to be calm and relaxed at the moment.

"How can there be a smell of sulfur here?" I wondered, and when I looked up, the entire interior of the church was in ruins, as if no one had set foot on it for a long time.

"It should have been left behind by that guy from Gragon." Malthus said as he rummaged through the rubble on the ground, as if looking for something...

"So that guy is already here!?" I couldn't help but nervous when I heard Malthus say that, and looked around warily.

"Not necessarily, that guy has an edict with him now, and we shouldn't feel any trace of it, and the smell is probably from the past." As he spoke, Malthus walked up to the altar, where the pulpit that had been used for the bishop's sermon still stood, but it was already covered with rubble and wood.

"How do you know?" I wondered.

Malthus smiled when he heard this, and didn't answer, but kicked away the garbage on the altar, and the pattern of a magic circle faintly revealed on the ground.

"Summoning Array!?" Although the pattern on the ground is no longer so clear due to the excessive fire and age, I can quickly recognize that this is actually a summoning array used to summon demons, and it is of a very high level.

"It seems that this should be the cause of that fire..."Malthus couldn't help but sneer as he looked at the magic array.

"Are you saying that someone summoned demons here, or was it of Gragon's level?"

"You can't go wrong."

"That's incredible, isn't it?" I can't help but mutter, although the discipline of the Holy See has become increasingly corrupt over the years, and there are many heretical cultists who are full of heresies on the surface, but it is not common for those who dare to summon demons directly, not to mention that this move is deviant and rebellious, and more importantly, what kind of race is the demon, since he has been summoned, he will never return empty-handed, let alone a great demon of the level of "King of Fire Demons", which is almost a well-known common sense in the spell circle, Not to mention the person who was able to set up such a high-end magic array, so I was curious about what could make people take such risks...

"To get eternal life!" Before Malthus could reply, Gragona's hoarse metallic voice rang out. Malthus and I were startled, and we turned our heads to see Gragon and his men slowly emerging from the shadows in the corner of the church, and before we knew it, we were surrounded!

"I didn't expect you two to find this place so quickly..."Even though it was daytime, the raging flames on Gragon's body were particularly dazzling, and they complemented the burned ruins around them.

"Then you should know what we're here for, right?" Because I was prepared, I didn't panic at the time, but turned around and asked calmly.

"You mean the women? They're in the back warehouse, and they're being "taken care of" by Jack and them, haha..."Gragon couldn't help but laugh out loud at the end, and there was a clear obscenity in the laughter, and the men around him couldn't help but echo it, and it was not difficult to guess the meaning of Gragon's words from the expressions on their faces.

I couldn't be clearer about the behavior of Jack's guys, princesses, it would be absolutely good for them to fall into their hands, and I couldn't help but be anxious and angry at this point, and immediately stepped forward and said: "Your target is me, the whole thing has nothing to do with them, let them go, I'll go with you."

Hearing this, Gragon couldn't help but sneer: "Yo, I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect our Demon King His Majesty to learn to care about others. You're not trying to get our attention so that the dream demon can come and save someone, are you? I'll tell you the truth, those girls and Jack are chained together now, and you don't even have a door if you try to do the same trick as you did last night!"

In fact, I really had this idea in my heart when I said those words just now, but I didn't think about how to send a signal to Malthus without attracting the attention of the other party, but I didn't expect to be called by Gragon to break my plan now, I have to say that after all, it is a high-level demon, and the brain of conspiracy and trickery is faster than others. Although this guy Gragon has always been arrogant, but now that he dares to put big words here, he must have a certain degree of certainty in his heart, it seems that it will definitely not work if we want to raid and save people like before, and I can't help but decide to change the way after thinking about it.

"Don't get me wrong, we don't have that planned. It's just that those people are very important to me, and I don't want to see them hurt in any way, so why don't you think we might as well make a deal?"

"What deal?" Gragon asked.

"You let those girls go, and I'll go back with you. Anyway, you're aiming for me."

"Why do you think we're going to accept such a deal? Last time, we just took advantage of the loophole for you on the spur of the moment, and you have no chance of winning this head-to-head confrontation at all!" Gragon took two steps forward as he spoke, his huge body even more oppressive in the room, and the minions around him couldn't help but force us both in.

"The enemy is outnumbered, and it is the best policy to go." Seeing this, Malthus couldn't help but move to my side and whispered.

"No, I can't leave the princess alone, give me some more time..."

"What are you muttering!?" Before I could finish speaking, Gragon on the side couldn't help but say in a loud voice, this guy's temperament is really not ordinary.

"No, we're just curious how you're so confident, and if we really want to escape, you can't do anything, right?" I deliberately digressed the topic in the hope of buying more time.

"Hehe, are you trying to trick me?" Gragon sneered.

"No, if you don't dare to say it, forget it." I deliberately put on a nonchalant appearance, I know too much about the character of this guy Gragon, and there are some things that you should make the "agitation method" come faster than asking it directly. Sure enough, when I said this, my mask-like face immediately changed slightly.

"Hehe, in fact, it's nothing to tell you, because this whole church has become my territory, completely protected by my magic, you can enter today, but you may not be able to get out!"