The wide underground passages are filled with darkness, and the feeling of silence is breathless.

"Put on the cloak of darkness, let the light rest and sleep, wither and fall, bury life in the ground, praise the darkness, and call for fear with a suffocating voice. A roar from the depths of his soul made Joyce's heart tremble.

Thick darkness poured into the ripples that unfolded behind Elena, and the vague figure covered with roots seemed to be possessed by darkness.

"Retreat!"

The filthy incantation, like the voice of a demon, caused the blurred figure to spiral out of control.

"Whew!"

The roots that invaded Elena's skin, with small sarcoma-like worm packs, were pulled out of her body and made a numb sound.

"Elena. ”

After Joyce's trance, the shiver improved a little, and he saw golden blood flowing from the many wounds on Elena's skin.

"Bazel, you dare to be nosy. ”

A vague figure in the ripples, a roar of anger came out of a state of chaos and uncontrollable.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The sound of gunfire rang out, and three bullets with demon hunting patterns burst into a dazzling tearing brilliance as soon as they penetrated the vague figure covered with roots.

Joyce suppressed her fear and immediately lifted Elena out of the range of her vague roots.

Bursting roots, rotten flesh everywhere.

The small sarcoma worms on the roots were blown up and leaked sticky, and it seemed that they had not had time to turn into worms.

"Captain. ”

The bearded Cliff Colby, apparently hearing the movement outside, ran out of the arsenal with a terrifying roulette machine gun in his hand.

"Goo! Goo!"

After the vague figure of the root whisker was shattered, the mirror ripples lost their support and slowly converged, and a small clay puppet the size of a palm moved in slow motion, grabbing the sticky root like rotten flesh and eating it into its mouth.

"That's a clay puppet of the fallen level 10 guardian secret. ”

Joyce learns of the existence of this Guardian Artifact by reading the mission files.

There are four types of artifacts that can be used: Guardian Artifacts, Enshrinement Artifacts, Seal Artifacts, and Ancient Artifacts.

It's just that Elena is not doing well now, and Joyce doesn't care about exploring the strange clay puppet.

The strange turn of events just appeared, and Joyce even forgot that he had a Sarin pistol with him because of fear.

"Cliff, save her. ”

Joyce hugged Elena, not knowing what to do about her strange wounds.

The blood from Elena's wounds was like golden light.

Cliff, who was holding a roulette machine gun, also looked a little helpless when he saw Elena's dotted wounds.

"She is still conscious, and this should be something like the ability to boil blood. Just as Joyce was anxious, a burly man in a leather trench coat had already emerged from one side of the underpass.

Watching the trench coat man approach, Joyce guessed that he was probably Operation Captain Bazel, as evidenced by the vague figure and Cliff's mouth.

"Smack!"

I saw the man in the leather trench coat take out the finger-long glass tube from the inner lining, and flicked off the lid, revealing the needle that was not long, as well as the fat clotting agent in the bolus tube.

"It's a stabilizing elixir that will prevent her abilities from getting out of control. The man in the trench coat explained to Joyce as he injected Elena on the back of his hand.

"What is the ability of blood boiling?"

Feeling that the captain Bazel was quite calm, Cliff, who had a hairy beard on his face, couldn't help but ask.

"The rare ability of the secret vein, which turns one's own blood into metal blood, in order to increase the fit between metal and machinery, is even stronger than the ability, and the ability of steel and iron bones. Bazel whispered.

"Is she from the Church of the Goddess of Life, how does that sound like the Church of Machinery's advanced path to arcane cultivation?" Cliff said with a slight surprise.

"There are very few secret cultivators in the Mechanical Church who have such abilities, and most of those guys are mainly focused on the ability to focus on firearms, and they have already abandoned mechanical control. The burly man in the fur trench coat showed a slight look of disdain.

Elena was injected with a milky white stabilizing potion, the golden light of the blood from the wound began to fade, and the convulsions of her body were also calming, as if she had fallen asleep under anesthesia.

"Half an hour later, inject her with a recovery potion, it is estimated that it will have an effect, but it really doesn't work, and you can also let Erwin perform a radiant healing technique on her. Seeing that Elena's wound had lost its golden glow, and that it had not caused her massive bleeding, the man in the trench coat gave Joyce another bolus tube.

"Earlier, Ms. Sula Sylvia said that Captain Bazel had gone on a mission. Joyce just thought that the MIA's claims to the outside world did not correspond to reality.

"What was the figure just now, and will it appear again?" Joyce asked the man in the trench coat worriedly, tucking the recovery potion injection tube into his coat.

"It's a parasitic dryad of the Church of the Goddess of Life, and she won't reappear after she dies unless she's cursed with life again. Bazel, whose face was like a knife, took a deep look at Elena who had fallen asleep.

The sound of gurgling still sounded in the wide underground passage, and it was the movement of the Fallen Clay Puppet, a Level 10 Guardian Secret Artifact, slowly eating.

In Joyce's peripheral vision, he could see the palm-sized clay puppet, which had grown a little by now, and its clay body had even begun to be mixed with rotting roots.

"Don't wander around, wait until the passage is cleared by the Fallen Mud Puppet, and you take her to the volume vault. The man in the trench coat didn't let Joyce go underground.

Joyce had thought that the vague figure in the mirrored ripples was a god, but he didn't expect to be shot and killed by the man in the leather trench coat.

Even Elena's golden blood, Joyce once wondered if it would be divine blood, or some ancient bloodline, but it turned out to be one of her abilities.

"It's so inferior!"

Thinking back to the previous circumstances, Joyce herself couldn't help but blush secretly.

The clay puppet, which had grown up, not only ate the broken roots and sarcoma worms, but even the mucus that collapsed in the passage was cleaned up by its strange mud tongue.

"Cliff, help. ”

Bazel, dressed in a leather trench coat, first walked to the end of the underground passage, and then took a large iron box.

"Bang!"

As Joyce watched, Captain Bazel fastened the large iron box to the clay puppet, which was half knee-high.

By the time the iron box was toppled down, the clay puppet had been packed in the crate, and not even a single mud mark had been left in the passage, and even the bearded Cliff and the fur-coated man Bazel carried the tin to the metal door at the end of the passage.

If Joyce wasn't worried about Elena, he was just afraid that the burly captain had a sneaky feeling.

The darkness at the end of the underground passage vanished, and Joyce was able to see for the first time the full extent of several Wheel Vault Doors, as well as the ancient Owen that dotted the stone walls at the end of the passage.

Unable to continue to observe what Captain Bazel and Cliff were going to do, Joyce opened the door and let Elena in.

"The wheels had the feel of an earthen safe, and the ancient Owen on the stone walls of the passage was unusual. Joyce, who locked the door of the library, just thought so.

Thinking that the time was almost up, Joyce looked at Elena, turned her over, lifted the hem of her black woven skirt, pulled her shorts down a little, opened the lid of the bolus tube, and stabbed the sparkling potion inside into her buttocks.

Previously, Bazel used intravenous injection to give Elena a stabilizing drug, and Joyce was worried that the re-intravenous injection would lead to a fierce conflict between the two drugs, so he chose to inject intramuscularly.

Pushing away the sporadic potion in the glass tube, Joyce quickly pulled out the bolus tube and helped Elena tidy up.

"Hmm!"

Elena soon tensed all over, and the wounds on her skin slowly showed a sparkle of light.

"What a magical potion!"

Looking at Elena's dense wounds all over her body, healing as the light converged, Joyce couldn't help but grin.

Taking a few steps back, Joyce became more focused, channeling the ability to open his eyes.

"See. ”

With layers of compass textures hidden in his left eye and a swirl on the side of the pupil of his right eye, Joyce clearly spotted Elena's golden source on the back of his left shoulder and the three secret veins that emanated.

"What's that?"

Joyce wanted to use the power of her eyes to see if there were any residual roots in Elena's body, or sarcoma worms and bugs, but she accidentally discovered that a green seed in her heart had taken root and sprouted, almost growing on the soil of her heart.

The horror of this discovery caused Joyce was not trivial, and he froze in place, his expression and body frozen.

"Why is this happening, how is this planted, in the field of medicine on the earth, catheter intervention may be able to do it, but it is also extremely difficult to take out the seeds that take root and sprout. It took thirty breaths for Joyce to calm down a little.

In Joyce's eyes, the seeds that sprouted in Elena's heart were green, and her secret source and veins were golden, and that seed should have nothing to do with her own secret cultivation path.

"What should I do, tell Elena that she has something in her heart?" Joyce quickly shook his head at the thought of this.

Not to mention Elena's involvement with the Church of the Goddess of Life, Joyce's ability to see both eyes cannot be exposed.

"I can only use this incident to let the military intelligence department do a detailed inspection of Elena. Seeing that Elena's wounds were healing, and that the seeds in her heart were growing slowly, Joyce felt that her life would not be in danger anytime soon.

Joyce considered that even if she told Elena about this, she might not have done it, and if she had known it herself, it would probably be self-defeating.

"Elena, how are you?"

The blonde girl's tense body eased, her breathing was no longer short, and Joyce hid her eyes and hurriedly asked her.

"Joyce, I'm sorry. ”

Elena's first words when she regained consciousness were to apologize to Joyce.

Seeing that Elena had tears in her eyes, Joyce guessed that she was in the Church of the Goddess of Life, and she probably had some sad secrets.

"You were too scary before, but luckily the captain is here, otherwise I'm afraid you'll turn into a monster. Joyce looked cautious, but his heart was extremely heavy.