"Are you alright, Kita?"

Fang Yu stopped and gestured to his chest. Seeing this, Kita blinked lightly before remembering something, and hurriedly patted her left shoulder - although the communication crystal failed, they had agreed on the code long before entering the castle. Seeing that the code matched, Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, walked over, half-knelt down, and checked Ji Ta's injuries.

It's not that he's too suspicious, it's that this place is too weird. And in the midst of adventure, meticulous implementation of the original plan is also the only way to improve the survival rate. How many of the electors are because of carelessness, which leads to failure.

He may have been a little arrogant in the past, but since he became the head of the regiment, he has become more careful and meticulous.

Kita's injury was mainly on the shoulder, it was a scratch wound, and although it was not serious, it looked scary. Everyone in the team had a recovery potion, which she had probably used, and the wound was showing signs of healing, except for a hole in the robe, and the young and weak shoulders were faintly visible.

Kita blushed a little and lowered her head, but she didn't object, and Fang Yu still examined her wounds.

Fang Yu saw her pear blossoms with rain, and there was a little self-blame in her heart. He was still a little too careless, not considering that Kita was only level six, and she was easy to be targeted.

"Don't worry, it won't happen again next time." He didn't know how to comfort the girl, so he could only mention it dryly.

If other people were here, they would probably scoff at it. However, Kita buried her head and only responded timidly: "Hmm." ”

"That's right," Fang Yu remembered something. "How did you get into this place, what about the vampire?"

Kita then looked up and glanced at him. "Miss Delis brought me in." She replied quietly.

"Delis?"

Fang Yu suddenly felt something.

He looked back and saw a pair of glowing eyes looking at him in the darkness, as beautiful as sapphires. The owner of the eyes was coming out of the darkness, with a graceful step, shaking the white fluff on his neck and a little dark spot on his pointed ears, who was the cat they had picked up earlier?

"Meow—"

It screamed softly, as if coquettish.

Miss Tata sat on Fang Yuan's shoulder, put her arm around his neck, looked at it and greeted, "Good afternoon, Delis." ”

The cat lady walked over with her tail upright, circled the plover, tilted her head and rubbed his trousers lightly, and looked up at him with curiosity. But Fang Yu was not as calm as Miss Fairy, and asked incredulously, "Why are you here, little one?" ”

Could it be that they had been chasing them all the way to this place, but how could this little thing do it after a night of trekking through knee-deep snow that even adults could not bear?

He frowned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered the white shadow he had seen earlier. Now that I think about it, isn't that what Miss Deliss is? Could it be that it was around them then?

He couldn't help but think of the origin of the cat, which was very strange in itself when it appeared in a blizzard.

Coupled with the fact that it had appeared twice before, each time it seemed to lead them deeper into that room—and then to the cat in the arms of the girl in the painting in that room, which was exactly the same as Miss Delis—at this moment, even if it was dull, Fang Yu could not help but be suspicious.

What's more, he is not sluggish, and he is even a little sensitive to these details and clues. It may have been a little strange for him to think at first whether Delis and the cat in the painting were the same, but Attaria was a world of magic.

And Fang Yu firmly believes that after ruling out all possibilities, the remaining possibility, even the most improbable, will be the answer to the question.

Or maybe Delis is a descendant of the cat in the painting, who has been living in this castle and has come back to this place? It's not impossible, but that doesn't explain why it leads them into that room and the painting over and over again.

It may be a coincidence, but if everything is explained by coincidence, when there are too many coincidences, there is probably an underlying logic behind it.

Fang Yu stared at Delis's sapphire-like eyes, as if he wanted to see something from them—he wondered if it had wisdom and intentions.

But the cat lady just looked at him curiously, then stepped aside, meowed back, and wagged her tail at them.

"Miss Delis tells us to keep up with it." Kita said suddenly.

Fang Yu was a little surprised. "Do you understand?"

Kita shook her head. "That's how it brought me to this place before, there's something strange out there...... will attack us, but Miss Delis seems to be able to avoid them. ”

Fang Yu knew that she was talking about the shadow monsters outside. The system called it the 'Dragon's Shadow', although aside from the dark and heavy shards of cold steel, Fang Yu still didn't understand what the other party had to do with the dragon.

The eerie shadow was neither as powerful as Nicol Bolas or Torragotos, nor did it have the physical characteristics of a dragon-like creature like the dragon's minions.

If there was one thing they bore in common with dragons, it was that Fang Plover always had a lingering sense of fear when he recalled his fight with the shadow monster—chilling.

It wasn't as obvious as it was when he faced Nicol Bolas and Toragotos, but it was there, and it was probably the dragon's fear, the suppression of the lower creatures by the dragon, the highest class of life forms in Aitalia.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but touch the fragments in his pocket. The shards didn't look like pieces of armor or constructs, they were too thick and straight, and besides, there was no alchemist among the elves.

While she was thinking, Delis had stepped into the darkness. "Brother Ed?" Kita asked in a whisper.

Fang Yu nodded. He had been in a panic before, and he had already lost his way in this intricate underground tunnel. Since the cat lady is willing to lead the way, let's see where it can take them.

In fact, he was also a little curious in his heart, why did Delith insist on letting them come to this place? Now that I think about it, it may not have been by chance that the cat appeared on their ship at that time.

But as for why it appeared there, Fang Yu couldn't be sure, and could only guess that it might be because of the Rogessel family's bloodline inheritance.

But this reason is a bit far-fetched.

Delith walked in front with her tail upright, not far away, just on the edge of the illuminating crystal light. Fang Yu looked at its back before asking about the vampire.

He suspected that the vampire had died outside the secret room, and that the squire emblem was left behind by it, but he couldn't figure out how the other party died.

Kita listened to his question and whispered, "I don't know ...... either."

"When the vampire caught me, I was so frightened that I didn't have anything on my mind...... All I know is that it was brought back into the room and into the secret passage......"

When I could react again, I heard it let out a scream and fell to the ground...... Then I saw Miss Delis jump off it. ”

"It was rolling on the ground, and I was terrified, but I couldn't think of any spell in my head to deal with it."

"It was then that Miss Delis suddenly spun around in front of me and told me to follow it, and then it came to a rock wall and disappeared behind it......

"That's how I got into this place...... Is that vampire dead? ”

There was something strange about her voice.

But Kita stammered though. But Fang Yu still understood, and Delis seemed to have some kind of ability that could activate the spells on the rock wall, so she brought Kita to this place.

But he was a little curious, because he had the inheritance of the Rogessel family's bloodline. But what is the reason why this cat lady can come and go freely in that rock wall?

And how exactly did it kill that vampire?

According to Kita's description, Delis simply jumped at the vampire, who fell to the ground screaming. Although it was not dead at that time, it turned out to be dead in that place.

Even if the vampire is badly injured, he won't die after being touched by a cat? How can it be said that he is also an undead creature of more than twenty levels, and he may not be able to win one-on-one when he is prepared for each other, doesn't this mean that he is not as good as a cat?

Fang Yu couldn't help but glance at the cat lady in front of him strangely.

However, it seems that as Kita said, the other party has an ability to avoid those strange shadows. Along the way, Fang Yu didn't hear a strange 'click' sound from his magic furnace - indicating that there were no 'dragon shadows' nearby.

It's just that Fang Yu suddenly thought of a possibility-

Maybe it's not that Delis has the ability to avoid the strange shadows, but that the things don't dare to come near it—he and Miss Tata avoided the strange shadows before, also because when they arrived at the place where Kita was, the other party chose to turn around and leave.

But this possibility is too unbelievable, so Fang Yu feels a little unbelievable just thinking about it.

The cave ** was quiet again, leaving only the two of them to breathe.

After asking the previous question, Fang Yu didn't speak anymore, but he had a lot of questions in his heart. The two of them were walking with a cat, and Delis suddenly stopped in front of them.

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that they had come to a natural cave.

Like the rest of the tunnels, the cavern was littered with crystals - only they were empty, dark, and there was not a glimmer of light inside. It was as if the magic contained in it had already been absorbed by something, and only an empty crystal was left in this place.

But it's not the crystals that are the most striking.

Rather, they are dents in the interior of the cave. The indentations and textures interlaced with each other, and the patterns that extend into patterns that are somewhat similar to those on the outside, but much better preserved.

Fang Yu vaguely felt that he had seen this circle somewhere—but not outside.

He looked up and watched as the texture stretched forward, all the dents seemingly converging in one direction. The two men walked towards the center of the cavern holding the illuminated crystal, the edge of the light stretching forward until a stone altar came into view.

At the same time as seeing the altar, Delis circled around the two of them, rubbed the square plover lightly, and then walked to the edge of the stone platform with catwalks. It turned its head and looked at the two of them with sapphire eyes.

And the moment Fang Yu saw this stone altar, he suddenly remembered where he had seen this magic circle.

It was in the basement of the Great Temple of Dorifen.

There was an identical circle there, and in the center of the circle, there was also one such altar. On that altar, lying quietly, the body of Heath, with a crooked dagger stuck in the girl's chest, blood pouring from the altar.

It was hard for him to forget that scene.

And on this altar, there is also a skeleton, but it is no longer visible its appearance before death, whether it is male or female, fat or thin.

The skeleton lay quietly on the stone platform, still maintaining the posture of looking up at the last moment of his life, and time seemed to be frozen in this moment. It clutched a broken sword into its chest in some pain, its knees bent and its legs slightly apart, like a woman's posture during childbirth—

Fang Yuan's heart suddenly jumped.

At the same time, he felt three forces rushing forward.

The first force was the Ring of Golden Flame in its bosom, which suddenly became hot just as it had when it shone beneath Fenris.

Then Fang Yu felt a strong will pounding into his mind, as if urging him forward. He immediately realized that it was the strange being in his mind world that had been born from the power of Nicol Bolas, Toragotos, and the lizard gods.

It seemed to have an urgent plea that made him involuntarily want to approach the stone platform.

Finally, it's the brilliance of the sky -

Fang Yu felt the back of his hand burn slightly, and subconsciously raised his hand in that direction.

When he raised his hand, the bones on the altar did not react, but the broken sword let out a trembling sound, and suddenly pulled itself out of the stone platform with a 'clang' and hung in the air.

Only then did Fang Yu discover that this broken sword was very peculiar.

Its broken blade was as black as ink, almost like black crystal, and its gauntlets were not connected to the hilt, but instead were suspended around and outside the hilt, made up of a long ring of fangs.

The sword was so unique that Fang Yu recognized its identity as soon as he saw it.

In fact, Kita recognized it too.

"Moya the Dragon Slayer—"

"It'...... Isn't it the head of the Five Holy Swords forged by the goblins, how could it be here, and how could it be broken......" Miss Naturalist couldn't help but muttered to herself in disbelief.

Only Miss Tata, sitting on Fang Yuan's shoulder, watched this scene quietly, as if she had expected it.

Fang Yu's heart was also full of shock.

Until he heard Tata calmly remind him in his heart: "Be careful, Mr. Knight, this sword is tainted." ”

"What?"

Fang Yu was walking towards the altar. But when I heard this, I couldn't help but stop. And it was at this time that he was alarmed in his heart, and subconsciously looked in one direction.

In the darkness there, a purple light suddenly lit up. Fang Ou heard one or two hoarse and low spells, and then a ray of light shot in the direction of him and Kita.

At that moment, Fang Yu didn't think about it, turned around and flew towards Ji Ta, holding the latter and rolling to the side. Purple rays passed through where the two had been standing, hitting the rock wall behind them.

I heard a 'bang' and the rock formation there collapsed.

In the smoke and dust, Fang Yu heard a sigh coming from the previous direction, and then an even more lengthy and obscure incantation came from that direction—he knew something was wrong, and raised his hand to shoot the flying claws.

The spell came to an abrupt end.

But Fang Ou heard a sound of wind, and it seemed that something had hit his flying claws, knocking it to the side. Then he heard a sound of sighing, like Ma Xiao.

He looked up. The smoke and dust in front of him suddenly rolled to both sides, and Fang Yu actually saw a black knight with a tall head and a tall horse in full armor jumping out from behind on a skeleton war horse, and slashed down at the two of them with a sword.

Miss Naturalist let out a cry of surprise.

"How did this thing come about!?" Fang Yu also shouted in his heart - this is the Black Knight, an undead creature of more than thirty levels, how could this thing appear in this place?

However, he was obviously faster than his brain reacted, and immediately rolled to the side with Kita under him.

The black knight slashed his sword to the ground, and the blade almost grazed the bodies of the two of them. Fang Yu also broke out in a cold sweat. With the black knight's attack power, if this sword is slashed, no matter what kind of shield, dodge and block, with his level of protection, he will definitely be dead on the spot.

He also had to take Kita with him to the Resurrection Temple to report.

Although it is not a temple for the believers of Roman, who is dead and asking for money, Lady Ameya is extremely cold to outsiders, and the loss of resurrection experience and equipment in her temple is often the heaviest.

Fang Plover certainly didn't want to hang in this place. In the face of an enemy above level 30, he didn't care about any caves and underground environments, so he took out the fire djinn with his backhand and threw it in the direction where the black knight was.

The ground shook slightly, and bright flames and shockwaves swept in, and due to the close distance, he and Kita were almost blown away, and the shield and life plummeted at the same time.

However, Fang Yu carefully protected Miss Naturalist, allowing herself to hit the altar first, and snorted. He looked up, but was a little desperate to find that the explosion of the fire djinn was quite a threat to creatures around level twenty, but it was not worth mentioning at all for black knights above level thirty.

The engulfing sea of fire only reduced the skeletal mount it had sat on to ashes, but the latter fell to the ground on his knees, then straightened up and tore away the flames, just like a trench coat of flames wrapped around it, and walked straight out of the flames.

At best, the explosion left a trail on its cold iron armor.

The black knight raised his head to look at him, a cold red light flashed under his helmet, and with a swing of his sword, a blade of air spanned a distance of seven or eight meters, and hit the Chinese plover in the chest.

Fang Yu made one last move, but he only had time to push Ji Ta away.

Then he felt a tearing pain come over him, and it was almost dark in front of him. I heard only the screaming of Miss Naturalist, which seemed to have a hint of crying.

It's a dead end—

Fang Yu thought to himself.

With a blow from the black knight who was level 30 head-on, Fang Yu felt that he should go to Ms. Ameya to report. It's a pity that he couldn't save Kita, and Miss Naturalist will probably die in this place like herself.

He also did not expect that his second resurrection would be handed over to this place.

……