Fang Yu picked up the acolyte's insignia on the ground. He calmed down and looked around. The light of the crystal lamp is dim, the underground is dark and damp and cold, the walls around it are covered with moss, the hall is circular, about fifty steps from east to west and from south to north, and there is no other exit except the entrance.

The ground underfoot is uneven, with some rough patterns on it, and if you sweep away the dust by hand, you can see the shallow dents below. The indentations are straight or curved, extending in all directions, forming a regular pattern.

Fang Yu straightened up so that he could see farther away. His eyes twinkled in the darkness, as if he could see what it had been when it had been built. "This is a magic circle?" He asked Miss Tata on his shoulder.

"It's very similar." Tata agrees.

Fang Plover walked forward along the texture, a total of thirty-three steps, and the texture converged on the north side of the hall, and there seemed to be something underneath. He ordered the angel to sweep away the dust, and only then did he see that there was a wolf on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Fang Yu suddenly thought of something, and held up the crystal, and the soft light illuminated the north wall. There were branches of vines sticking out of the ceiling, unkempt and shadowy.

He walked over and separated the root branch with his hand, and there was indeed a wolf's head emblem on the stone wall behind him, surrounded by thorns, and carved a line of small words in the stone:

'Strict and just, awe-inspiring—'

Seeing this scene, Fang Yu remembered why he was familiar with the wolf head on the girl's ring in the previous painting, because this was the emblem of the Rogessel family.

Speaking of which, he also has some relationship with this family. He had a legacy of the Rogersel family, which he had inadvertently acquired in the Doryphine Illusion.

The archon of Doriffin, Rocklen Rogessel, the last head of the Rogersel family, died in the fire thirty years ago. His last obsession was bound to the dragon's golden pupil, and after Fang Yu avenged him in the illusion, he got this strange-looking inheritance.

Although the Rogessel family is located on the Coast of Wands, it is possible that this place is also a branch family born of marriage, so it is not surprising that this emblem appears here. Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the girl in the painting, and couldn't help but wonder about the identity of the other party.

He looked at the stone wall and wondered if his vein inheritance could have any effect here. Thinking of this, he reached out and pressed his hand against the stone wall, but after a few moments, nothing happened.

He also thought that the Rogessel family admired strict hierarchy and took pride in blood, perhaps this magic array was medium by 'blood'. He backhanded a little blood on his chest before sticking it to the stone wall.

This time a miracle happened. Fang Yu found that his hand had passed through the stone wall without hindrance, and his palm disappeared behind the stone wall, leaving only the part of his forearm, as if passing through a wall of phantoms.

He took a soft breath and tried to walk forward, but the stone wall gradually engulfed his elbows, upper arms, and the tip of his nose; Then, with a flash of flowers, he found himself behind the stone wall. The fluorescent glow emitted by the illuminated crystal on his left hand outlines a low, narrow corridor here, and the messy roots stick out from the four walls, pulling out shadows.

The road seemed to have been hastily excavated, low and uneven, and even he could only bend forward. More importantly, though, he found blood on the ground, which had just dried up.

He had only been walking along the trail of blood for a short time, and a bright light appeared in the darkness ahead. Seeing this, Fang Yu extinguished the lighting crystal and released a goblin to fly in that direction.

But he didn't see Kita in that direction, and his vision was empty, and the clockwork fairy seemed to have entered a stone chamber.

There is a statue on the left and one on the right in the stone room, and the empty gaze looks straight ahead, and in the center is a stone platform, which is black and dull, like igneous rock. There are a large number of glowing crystals growing on the left and right of the stone platform, which is the source of the previous light.

Fang Yu saw that there was nothing else in the stone room, so he lifted the goggles and walked over. He walked over and examined the crystals, and was surprised to find that they were all magic crystals of mixed purity.

But this kind of golden magic crystal, he really rarely saw it in other places, the color of the crystal generally represents the attribute of magic, what attribute does gold represent?

"Miss Tata, these magic crystals ——?" Fang Yu broke a piece and put it in the palm of his hand, the crystal was pure gold, like amber without a trace of impurities.

But amber doesn't have such a regular shape.

Tata shook his head, indicating that he had never seen a crystal like it. "There's a lot of magic here to make these crystals. They were formed over a hundred years. ”

It's a pity that magic crystals are too common in nature, and this level is not valuable, so Fang Yu only put a small piece in his pocket before moving on. He had a vague feeling that the magic that was abundant in the valley came from the ground here.

As he passed by the stone platform, he accidentally glanced at it, and always felt that the deep igneous rock did not look like a natural color. It's more like the color formed after layers of blood spilling on the stone platform and drying up.

He couldn't help but shudder, touched it with his hand, and found that he was thinking too much. The stone platform is smooth as a mirror, and the color of the rock is also from the inside out. However, when he stroked the stone platform, a trace of depression flashed in his heart, and he subconsciously withdrew his hand-

"Who's there!"

Fang Yu suddenly heard Miss Tata's stern questioning.

He subconsciously turned his head to the side and saw Miss Tata staring at a narrow shadow of himself falling on one side of the stone wall - Miss Tata was talking to the shadow? This thought made Fang Yu feel uneasy.

He suddenly realized that something was wrong—the light source was coming from all directions, how could there be such a deep shadow on the rock wall in that direction? As if sensing his thoughts, the shadow suddenly took the initiative to deviate in one direction, stretching longer and longer, blending into the darkness in that direction.

There was not a single sound during the whole process, but Fang Yuan had goosebumps.

Almost immediately, he remembered the local legend that Sylvid had told him—the Pale Ghost. They discussed it for a while, and came to the conclusion that it was either a cunning anomaly or a powerful one.

Miss Ship Officer agrees more with the latter guess -

But Fang Yu didn't expect that on the first day he came to this ancient castle, he would see this thing. And this thing was even weirder than the rumors, and he still had some chills as he recalled the scene of the strange shadow leaving.

"Be careful, Mr. Knight." Miss Tata said in a rare serious tone, "That's something wrong. ”

"Miss Tata, what's that?"

Tata shook his head. "What did you see before?"

"A shadow." Fang Yu thought for a moment, not quite sure.

"What I see is magic," a silver gleam flashed in Tata's eyes. "A very strange state of being, an aether that is completely different from what we know now. It's like ...... Doped with something. ”

"I can't say what it is, but it makes me feel a little uneasy."

Even Miss Tata showed some uneasiness.

Fang Yu's heart was even more uneasy. He suddenly heard the clicking sound of the magic furnace behind him, and when he looked back, the pressure gauge was spinning like crazy.

Attacked! Fang Yu immediately realized this, but he looked around and didn't even see where the enemy was. Suddenly, the back of his hand burned, and the green light shone out.

There seemed to be a shrill cry in the air, which shook people's eardrums almost to burst.

Fang Yu subconsciously covered his ears, and the space in front of him flashed slightly, and a translucent figure appeared there—he really didn't know how to describe what a standing shadow should look like.

It was like a jumble of light and shadow, thin and long, with almost no thickness, and its two eyes glittered in the air, flashing with a resentful light. The Shadow held a long, narrow shadow sword and stabbed at him.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, Fang Yu had no time to control the sword-wielder standing on the side, which was also the weakness of the combat craftsman, who was often powerless in the face of surprise attacks.

But fortunately, he still held the gun given by Scarpe in his right hand, and he raised the gun to block it without thinking about it. A huge force came from the sword, hitting Fang Yuan's empty door wide, and the handcuff also flew out.

But Fang Yu finally seized the opportunity and shot a flying punch - the strange shadow flashed sideways, and a single-digit dodge damage jumped out of the darkness.

Fang Yu held his left hand back to his chest, and at this moment, the Angel finally arrived, and slashed at the strange shadow with a sword of silver light. The strange figure took a step back in a daze, almost as if it was panning, and raised its sword in a way that violated the rules of physics, and the two swords intersected with a tooth-aching trembling sound.

The sword light was almost glaring-

The two sides exchanged blows several times, one blow was as fast as a blow, and then the angel took a wrong step, and Fang Yuan's hand was a little slower, leaving a deep wound on her left arm.

However, Fang Yu also used his color and slashed at the shadow's right leg with a sword.

The durability of the Angel structure plummeted by 44 points, and the durability of the left arm was almost cleared and almost broken.

And the strange shadow also jumped out of a number, strangely. In the system, the value is blue, and Fang Plover recognizes this color - it is the color of mana damage.

He felt strange in his heart, but his hands were not slow at all, and at the same time, two light gates opened behind him, and one enemy and one angel fell to the downside, but the battle craftsman was never the master of one dozen and one.

The engineering machine appeared behind Fang Yu and began to repair the damaged energy angel remotely under Fang Yuan's command.

On the other side, another energy angel also stuck in the back path of the strange shadow. As soon as the two energy angels joined the battle, the battle situation immediately changed, and Fang Yu had the opportunity to retreat to a corner of the battlefield and leave far away.

Beware of any other strange tricks on this thing-

It turned out to be a very difficult shadow, and the two Angels of Power were only going to tie with it. However, it was inseparable under the attack of the two alien sword-wielders, and Fang Yu gradually relaxed and was not in a hurry at all.

The remote repair speed of the engineering machine Fang Yu had tested it early in the morning, and the basic repair crystal he installed could restore a little durability about every three seconds. The flexible construction only requires a supply of mana, and there is no physical limit, and after a minute or two, the injured Angel will be repaired as before.

There were a few more wounds on the shadow's body.

Fang Yu consciously slowed down the offensive in order to maintain the continuous output of mana, as long as there was no problem with the output of his main mana crystal, it was only a matter of time before this thing fell.

It was the first time he had faced such a difficult battle. In Dorifin, he couldn't beat Nicol Bolas, he had to outwit him. In Fenris, although he encountered monsters like a sea underground, with the support of the military, the battle was quite smooth, but the process was a little more tortuous.

And for the first time, this strange shadow gave him the feeling that he was brushing the boss alone - his output was not enough at all, and he could only rely on the advantages of other aspects.

It didn't take long for him to make his wishful thinking, and Tata reminded him again:

"Mr. Knight, hurry up and end the fight."

"What's wrong?" Fang Yu wanted to ask why. But suddenly, he heard a slight 'click' from his magic furnace again, and the mana output began to decrease continuously.

At that moment, he knew in his heart that there were other enemies around!

Miss Tata also said, "There are quite a few of these things approaching, from the direction we came. ”

Fang Yu couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp, this thing was already at the BOSS level, and there were actually quite a few of them. What kind of place is this, no wonder not many people want to come here, this castle is full of elite monsters.

Not to mention the vampire before, this monster can't even give the system a species and level, and most of them are lord-level creatures. Of course, there was also the factor that his knowledge was too low, but Fang Yu preferred to believe that it was the former.

And the strange shadow looked like it wasn't going to fall for a while.

Fang Yu had no choice but to let the Angel give up his defense and stab his sword at its thin layer of chest and abdomen. The latter's narrow shadow sword also stabbed straight into the chest of the Angel of Energy, and the two stabbed each other at the same moment.

The monster screamed, and exploded into thousands of fragments. At that moment, Fang Yu felt a tingling pain, as if something had passed through his body, but there were no injuries on his body, and when he checked it, he found that the magic power in the magic furnace was less than half.

Only then did he realize that this thing would actually explode on its own, and it would burn with mana.

Fang Yu was speechless for a while. However, Miss Tata has said that things have magical properties in their own right, and it's not surprising to have this ability. He checked his energy angel, but fortunately, the sword did not hurt too many precision components - the 'engineering machine' remote repair can only repair the structure and armor, if the internal precision components are broken, there is no condition on the battlefield that can be repaired for a while.

He has a total of three energy angels, and the loss of one is equivalent to the loss of one-third of the combat power, which is not good in this place.

The 'click' of the magic furnace is getting louder and louder. Fang Yu knew that those strange shadows were approaching in this direction, he didn't dare to stay longer, put away the energy angel and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, Fang Yu stopped and stopped.

He found that he had an extra line of prompts in his system at some point-

'The Witch of the Dragon' sub-event directory has changed. ’

'Kill the Dragon's Shadow and draw on the power of the Source. ’

And Fang Yu also saw that there was another legendary inspiration in his craftsman attributes:

Legendary inspiration, sorrow.

He was completely stunned. The last time he received legendary inspiration was when he got the Pale Flame of the other party after killing the Ancient Monarch Hunter. But what kind of monster is the Gujun Hunter? Even if it's just a phantom, it doesn't affect its legend.

And it's no surprise to artisans that they're inspired by legendary weapons. But how did you kill an inexplicable shadow and get a legendary inspiration?

Then if he kills the strange shadows here, won't he be able to gain countless legendary inspirations?

Of course, Fang Yu could only think about this possibility in his heart. And what he was more curious about was, what was the power of the Origin? What is the Dragon's Shadow?

He had heard of the dragon's minions, seen them with his own eyes, and even fought with them. But the Dragon's Shadow, he'd never heard of it—if Dorifin's Nicol Bolas's Shadow was also a Dragon's Shadow, then it was too different from it.

He really didn't see this strange shadow, and what did it have to do with the dragon?

"Mr. Knight, on the ground." That's when Tata reminded.

Fang Plover paused for a moment, then looked to the ground, only to find that the place where the strange shadow fell before, there was actually something left, which was lying quietly on the ground.

It was a black, heavy shard of metal, and it didn't seem anything out of the ordinary.

However, the 'Dragon's Shadow' has no substance, and it can drop a piece of metal, which is strange in itself. Aitalia isn't really a virtual world, but there's no such thing as killing monsters and exploding equipment.

Fang Yu picked up the metal fragments, the fragments were heavier than expected, and they looked so thin that they were almost not thick, but they carried a lot of weight in their hands.

Tata looked at the piece of iron in his hand steadily, and suddenly spoke: "Mr. Knight, this is cold steel, and it has the breath of fairy blood on it. ”

"Cold steel?"

Fang Yu glanced back and asked as he walked out of the stone room.

"A rare metal that can withstand elven spells, rarer than elven gold, and they like to use it to forge weapons......" Tata pondered the words. But elves generally don't leave their breath on it, unless ......"

"Unless?"

Miss Tata shook her head and didn't speak.

Fang Yu could feel that her thoughts were a little complicated, and the two of them felt the same way, and he didn't open his mouth to ask.

Besides, the chasing soldiers are coming, and he doesn't have this mind. After leaving the stone room, the road began to become complicated, Fang Yu didn't dare to stay longer, and he didn't know if he had taken the wrong path, so he could only blindly move forward with his intuition.

On two occasions he encountered a trap, but he cautiously avoided them.

I don't know how long it took for him to gradually feel the feeling behind him disappear.

But Fang Yu didn't dare to be sure if his feeling was correct, and he walked forward for a while before stopping. The surroundings had fallen completely silent, except for the dim glow of the illumination crystals.

The 'click' sound of the magic furnace also disappeared completely, and Fang Yu glanced back, only to be sure that those 'things' had left.

"They seem to have left suddenly." He asked in a whisper.

Miss Tata nodded. "About the same time as the previous fork in the road, they turned back."

"What's going on?" Fang Yu felt that this underground was simply very weird.

"Maybe there's something nearby."

Fang Yu looked around, only to find that a bright light had appeared in front of him. His heart tightened, and he thought that he had inadvertently gone back to the vicinity of the stone chamber, and was about to summon an angel of energy, but a somewhat frightened voice came from behind him, and asked tentatively, "Brother Ed?" ”

"Kita!"

Fang Yu couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this voice, it was the voice of a little girl who had been missing for a long time.

He rushed over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw Kita sitting alone by the wall, holding the illumination crystal, with a wound on her arm, looking at him with some trepidation.

……