"Are you so sure, am I right?"

The decision made by Eruli was based on unverified inference. Seeing her confident appearance, Rena couldn't help but ask.

"That's right. Iruli nodded generously and acknowledged, "I'd like to believe that the inference is true, and all we have to do is verify it." I don't want to be so aimless every day. ”

Rena was silent for a moment, then smiled, "You're right, Iluri, for the sake of our family, we must also verify. ”

"Then we'll come to an agreement, well, let's start tomorrow, starting with Hadilith. ”

......

The next morning, before the misty fog had dissipated, the entire mage camp awoke. A knight in charge of reconnaissance and messengers, with morning dew on his armor, appeared in the camp of the regimental commander Bloomers.

On the beach next to an abandoned fishing village, a three-masted merchant ship appeared silently approaching the shore, and no crew members were found on deck.

This is not the first time this anomaly has appeared, as some merchant ships preparing to go to Arabe City were unaware of the sea monster invasion and were attacked by sea monsters on their way to the waters of Arabe City.

In the same way, the crew members were infected by the curse and turned into ugly monsters. As soon as the merchant ships docked, they would rush onto the beach and attack all living things.

According to past experience, the strength of the mutant crew is weaker than that of the sea monster, and there is no need for a mage group to dispatch, only a knight is needed to complete the cleanup.

This time, however, it was different.

The merchant ship, stranded on the beach, found a survivor. When the sea monster boarded the ship, he hid in a wooden box and narrowly escaped before being rescued by the Knights.

Then, he recounted a scalp-tingling discovery.

The merchant ship belonged to the warlords of the Kurminsk split, who were ordered to sail to the Duchy of Vendon to procure military supplies. After half a month of sailing, they arrived near the Crackstone Islands and stumbled upon a palace rising from the bottom of the sea, the size of an island, covered with seaweed, sediment, barnacles, and indescribable totemic creations.

When they got closer, they were horrified to find that the palace had countless shapes of entrances and exits, tens of thousands of strange creatures shuttling through it, and even some particularly huge, tower-like trolls, roaring through the huge ruins.

What's even more terrifying is that on the sea around the floating island palace, there are countless transparent follicles floating densely, in patches, with the continuous ups and downs of the waves, each follicle is pregnant with a monster hatchling.

As far as the eye can see, it looks like a boundless hatchery, and it is impossible to count how many monsters are hatching.

This discovery frightened them, and they pulled up the sails and fled. Finally, on a stormy night, dense monsters appeared from the sea and climbed onto merchant ships.

The rescued sailor, who was guarding the hold, saw a monster with a fish's head through the cracks in the crate, gnawing off his companion's head.

He hid in a crate for three days and three nights, and had several mental breakdowns. If it weren't for the Knights, I'm afraid he would have ended up either going crazy or starving to death.

The knights who learned of these news did not dare to slack off at all, and quickly reported to the mage group. The head of the group, Bloombos, thought that the situation was serious, and immediately returned to the headquarters of the Mage Guild.

"Oh my God, I can't imagine it. There are thousands of sea monsters. ”

Inside the tent, the atmosphere was solemn. Galia walked around anxiously, this news was only known to the mages for the time being, and she was also one of those in the know.

"I think that's half the good news. Iruri, who was nibbling on a brioche bun, wiped the cream from the corner of her mouth and scraped it into her mouth without wasting anything: "At least, that place sounds like a monster's lair." ”

Jialia shook her head and smiled bitterly: "Even if you know, what if you know? In the entire Mage Association of Arabe City, there are less than a hundred magicians, and in the face of tens of thousands of monsters, I am afraid there is no chance of winning." ”

At present, the number of sea monsters that frequently attack the coastline is about two or three hundred, and there will be a small number of jellyfish-headed monsters and shark-headed monsters.

But for these monsters, it takes a dozen mages and hundreds of knights to work together to barely deal with them.

And that floating island palace has tens of thousands of them.

Even if the city of Arabe were desperate to gather all the magicians and sail the warship to the floating island palace, it would be a foolish act to send them to death.

Iluri and Eslena glanced at each other, and the appearance of the floating island palace made their worries come true. At least judging by Galia's worried performance, Arabe City does not have the strength to withstand such a large-scale sea monster invasion.

"Galya, what about the reinforcements, isn't there still two branches of the Mage Guild, stationed in the other two cities. How's it going on over there?"

"IMHO. Galia sighed heavily, "As far as I know, the other two chapters are not much better than us. They simply don't have the power to save us. ”

"You really can't do anything about it?what about the mages of the Council of Elders? aren't they very powerful?" Iruli frowned, Arabe had fallen, and they didn't end well.

"Elder......" Jialiya was stunned for a moment, the expression on her face suddenly became extremely complicated, and after hesitating for a while, she still swallowed hard, as if there was something unspeakable.

"Galia?" that caught Rena's attention.

"They can't get out of the Mage Tower. A deep voice came from the corner, and Hadiris, who had come with Galia, sat quietly in the chair in the corner, the first thing she had said since she entered the room.

"Can't get out of the Mage Tower?

Galia bit her lip and finally sighed, "Iluri, Rena, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it. We fought side by side, and you saved my life. But this thing ...... I can't give an exact answer at the moment, and why. It was true, the elders could not get out of the mage tower. ”

Iluri and Rena looked at each other, the status of the Council of Elders was above the Council of the Three Laws, and in their minds, they must be extremely powerful magicians.

But I didn't expect to hear such an answer today.

Speaking of which, it actually stems from a rumor. So far, Jialia has not chosen to hide: "The elders who live in seclusion in the Central Mage Tower have not stepped out of the Mage Tower for decades. Except for the three archmages of the Three Dharma Councils, no one had seen them. ”

So, a rumor spread. The elders guard a magical artifact left behind by an ancient god. They have devoted their whole lives to it, and they can't get out of it. ”

Of course, this rumor cannot be confirmed, and the source of the rumor cannot be identified. Caria smiled apologetically: "More often than not, it's like a joke that doesn't know who started it first." ”

"If it can't be proven, it can't be falsified. A wry smile appeared on the corner of Rena's mouth: "If what the survivor said is true, in addition to the thousands of monsters that can be witnessed in the palace, there are also countless hatchlings on the sea, which are hatching. Then, the disparity in strength is incredible. ”

Yes, once those larvae mature, the consequences are unimaginable.

There was a brief silence in the tent, and it was clear to everyone that the city of Arabbe was facing a crisis of great might enough to destroy everything.

"That's the back of an evil god rising from the sea. ”

The silence was broken by Hadilys again, her voice soft, her expression as cold as ever, no worry in sight, no fear in sight.

"Hadilith, what did you say?"

The three pairs of eyes looked at each other, and Hadilis, who was instantly focused, seemed to be a little uncomfortable, and quickly lowered her eyes and pinned her gaze to the ground.

In anticipation, Hadilith said in a small voice, "That dark and twisted being, inhabits the volcanoes of the deep sea full of rotting corpses. Born from the hidden world, the name born from eternity belongs to it. It was the ultimate destruction, and when the palace on his back rose out of the sea, even Satus had to submit to him. ”

"Hadilis, you...... Where did you see that?" said Galia, whose face was full of surprise, the description was clearly from some kind of text, but she knew that the book certainly wasn't from her bookshelf.

From the prologue to The Book of Yah Lear. On the teacher's bookshelf, count from the left, the seventh book in the third row. ”

"Hadilys, can you elaborate?"

Regardless of whether the current crisis can be resolved or not, it may not be easy to have a topic for this little girl to say a few more words.

"Soul hunter. Again, it was a short sentence, and Hadilis didn't seem to be comfortable going on.

"Hadilith. Yiluli leaned over with a face full of encouragement, and said softly, "Don't be nervous, there is your sister here, and there are also your sister's friends." We're your friends, too. What you're saying today is important, and it's important to all of us. ”

"Hmm......" Hadilith buried her head, her fingers stirred together, and glanced at Iluri quickly before continuing: "It's the great descriptions I read in books, they can make soul-trembling, but inaudible sounds, they are the vanguard of the dark being. ”

"You mean the kind of monster that looks like a crab but has a jellyfish head? That's a soul hunter?"

Hadilith nodded, then shook her head again.

"I ...... I'm not sure either. ”

"What else do you know?" asked Eluri.

"Hmm......" Hadilith pursed her lips, "Krieger." ”

"What? What Krieger?"

"A kind of butcher carrying disease, wherever it passes, the plague spreads, and all living beings become slaves of the Great Being. ”

"What's that?" said Iluri, frowning.

A flash of inspiration flashed through Rena's mind: "I see, isn't that the shark-headed monster that releases a poisonous mist when it dies?

Galia's face was full of incredulity: "Hadiris, when did you come up with that?"

"Just now. Hadilith nodded: "Floating palace." ”