Chapter 42: Underground Lakes

"How long have we been walking?"

"An hour? Maybe two. ”

In the dark corridor, two fires slowly moved forward.

"The smell of kerosene has faded." Izawa sniffed the air carefully.

"That means we're slow." Jace looked at the endless darkness ahead.

"Maybe the pirates are coming." Izawa said lightly.

First, there was a long silence, and the lights reflected the shadows of the two of them in the corridor for longer and longer. And at the corner of the corridor where the two had just passed, there was suddenly a pair of cold eyes.

"Huh?" The two people walking in the corridor found out again, and there was a faint green light not far away. The two of them ran two steps closer, while silently thinking in their hearts that there would be no more tragedy.

"It turned out to be a door, and two more." Izawa ran over and sighed as he looked at the two stone gates that were exactly the same as when he first entered the corridor. The perimeter of the door was clean and clean, and there was no tragedy as imagined. It's just that the faint glow from the stone gate reflects the two of them in a miserable green.

"That would explain why we feel that the smell of kerosene on the pirates' torches in the air has faded, and it turns out that they are separated." Jace looked closely at the two stone doors and saw that there was no difference, the same strange ornament carved like a tongue.

Izawa nodded, not speaking, as if thinking about something.

Jace's tone changed to a low tone, "Ize, I've been thinking about a possibility since we met those three corpses. Perhaps the pirates didn't find themselves missing three at all. ”

Izawa's expression also became solemn, "You mean, one hit will kill, and you can't even shout to be killed by those creatures... ”

Jace nodded silently.

"After you say that, then I still don't say what I just thought. After all, this place seems to be more dangerous than I thought. Izawa stared at the two stone doors, thinking about which one the two of them were going to enter, after all, neither knew where the next stone door would lead.

"I agree." Jace suddenly said inexplicably, "I'll go to the left one." ”

“。。。 I can't hide anything from you. Izawa smiled, "Don't be pushy." ”

"When have I ever been reckless?" A smile tugged at the corner of Jace's mouth, "It's you, it's never reassuring. ”

"That's right." Ize still admits this.

Saying that, the two of them each stood in front of a stone door, Jace looked at Ize on the right, and said in a somewhat slurred tone: "Ize, I seem to have forgotten why we came here. ”

"I forgot too." Izawa scratched his head, "Let's take it as if it were to save those pirates who don't know the situation." And based on my hunch from years of exploration, the two stone doors should lead to the same place. ”

"Your hunch for years... Jace seemed to be holding back a smile, "Did you have a premonition when you were a kid that I and Catherine went into the sewers?" ”

"Hahaha, you remember."

"Hahaha."

After a long time, Izawa stopped laughing, "Hey, see you at the end." ”

"Click." The stone door on the left was pushed open, and Jace stepped in, "See you at the end." ”

The two of them don't need to take care, be careful of these useless words, this is a tacit understanding that has been cultivated together since childhood. No matter what danger lurks behind the stone gate, Izawa believes in Jace's strength and believes that he will defeat all obstacles to reach the end, just as he believes in himself.

"Then, let's take a look at the end of this road, what are the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods." Izawa tightened his grip as he spoke, pushing open the stone door. What he didn't know was that not long after entering the stone gate, the frog-like creature they had encountered, but this time it was half a man tall, also dragged its long tongue and shook its head and followed in.

Cool, amazingly cool. Inside and outside the stone gate are two distinct worlds. Regardless of the temperature, this kind of cold is not like the biting cold of winter, but it makes you feel like a maggot on your tarsal bones.

"Whew, it seems that my feeling is right, such a big damp and cold environment, only in the extremely deep underground. Maybe I'm below sea level right now. Ezawa thought about what he had told Jace about going underground.

And the stone door that Ize entered was no longer like the darkness in the corridor, I don't know what it was, it was glowing with a faint blue light, although the vision was still a little blurry.

"This is, a spar similar to the material on a stone door?" Izawa walked over to the glimmer and snapped a marble-sized hedron from the wall.

He really didn't know much about the stone, but Jace probably had research. Izawa thought about digging up a few more hedrons and throwing them into his bag. At the same time, when he started, the more he determined the source of the cool in this corridor, it was these countless small spars that were issued, and I don't know how many years they spent here, and slowly accumulated and formed.

Ize tightened his wrap and continued to walk on the road decorated with spars like stars in the sky, and the atmosphere seemed to be much better in the beautiful environment. In addition to the constant coolness, and the creature that followed Izawa into the stone gate...

And the corridor behind the stone door that Jace had entered did not have the hedron of Ize, nor did it have the astonishing coolness, nor the glimmer of light. It's like an extension of the road that has been coming.

"I wonder what's going on over there with Ize?" Jace held the glowing device aloft and walked aimlessly.

After a few steps, the darkness was illuminated by the luminous device, and a bright white reflection appeared in Jace's vision.

Jace froze, walking towards the abrupt reflection.

"It's a corpse again!"

Jace cautiously looked around his surroundings to avoid the small toads that popped up like the previous time. Luckily, apart from the few corpses lying on the ground, there was only one living person here.

"These corpses, dead for more than a few days, are not pirates'." Jace watched closely, trying to learn more from the corpse.

"Although there were signs of gnawing, the swelling on the corpse was clearly soaked in water. In addition, the pirates also found the corpses. Jace watched as a swollen corpse burst open on his chest, and the uneaten organs in his chest cavity lay on the ground, and the footprints on his chest clearly belonged to pirates. Because in the port of Birgewater, the pirates mostly wore no shoes, which made a very strong impression on Jace.

"Stepping over a swollen corpse that has been soaked ... Jace thought about the touch of the man squeezing on a mass of minced flesh with his bare feet, and felt like he was going to vomit.

After tearing off his clothes to cover up the disgusting scene as Izawa did, Jace calmed down a little and gathered his thoughts.

"It has long been heard that in Bilgewater, the dead are not buried, they are sent back to the ocean. The bodies were transported by boatmen to various marine cemeteries scattered in the straits near the city. The cemetery is made up of countless buoys and corpses. The wealthy would be buried in expensive underwater coffins equipped with lavish floating tombstones; The poor were often strung together on old anchors beneath water-soaked barrels. The corpses must have been dragged here by the toads from all over the place. Jace thought about being devoured by toads after he died, and he felt a chill. But there is an indescribable emotion in my heart, some sighs, some regrets, some indignation and helplessness.

"Goo~~." A dull sound interrupted Jace's thoughts.

"Are you here to eat me?" Of course, Jace knew it was the kind of toad, but he was also startled when he looked at the source of the sound a few meters away. An enlarged version of the little toad I met, a toad that was magnified to half a human height was squatting quietly a few meters away, its long tongue dragging a puddle of saliva on the ground, staring at Jace coldly.

"Even though it's such a big one, it doesn't change the fact that it's a toad." Jace leaned forward with the light-emitting device.

The big toad was still crouching on the ground and looking at him like a dead fish.

"Did I scare you?"

"Goo."

"It's okay if you don't understand me." Jace threw the light device in his hand on the spot, illuminating the area between him and the toad, "It doesn't matter if you want to eat me, I also want to cut open your stomach to see how many skulls are inside!" ”

"Whoosh!"

"Huh?" Ize, who was happily walking on the Jingjing Dotted Road, also felt a sound of breaking the air behind him! Ize dodged a flash of wind after noticing a strong wind coming from him, and at the same time raised his head to look at the figure behind him, which was exactly the same as the toad that Jace had encountered in another corridor.

"Kill the small one, and the big one will come out to take revenge, which is very reasonable." Izawa looked at the big toad squatting on the ground, and the corners of his mouth seemed to show a long-planned smile. Regardless of whether it could understand it or not, he continued: "Do you think I didn't notice it all the way to the end? From the moment I first entered the stone gate, I felt the cold, and immediately after I smelled the smell of the corpses of the three pirates, it must be the smell of blood left on my body after years of cannibalism. The reason why I didn't do it was because I wanted to see how creatures like you used to kill those three people. ”

Saying that, Izawa slowly approached the big toad step by step, "Since you know how to follow and have some wisdom, then I will tell you another common sense today, in the extremely cold air, the smell is extremely difficult to dissipate." It's like... Izawa's right hand flashed, "Like now I've had enough of the disgusting smell of you!" ”

"Goo."

As Izawa sent out a wave of energy, the toad leaped into the air, its tongue dancing in the narrow corridor like a retractable whip.

Although the toad was slightly larger, it was very flexible, with four stubby and powerful feet firmly sucked on the wall, and the venom glands in the pimples on the body surface spewed out gray-green liquid.

"Snort." In the narrow passage where the tongue and venom glands weave into a web, no matter how agile Izawa is, the sleeve of his right hand is still accidentally contaminated with venom, and the small hole in his clothes melts away at a speed visible to the naked eye, faintly expanding outward.

"Shrappt." Izawa grinned at his sleeves, "It seems that there are still some means." ”

Before the words fell, Ize's whole person suddenly moved, and his extremely fast feet suddenly kicked, and his body jumped into the air like an arrow from the string, dodging the dense venom, and at the same time, a burst of dazzling light erupted in the narrow corridor.

"The spell is high!"

"Essence Joy!"

"Smack!" After the light flashed, the big toad that had been sucking on the wall also fell to the ground like a puddle of rotten meat, trembling and losing its vitality.

"It's dangerous."

Izawa secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the whole process seemed simple, on the one hand, he had to kill with one hit, and on the other hand, he had to dodge the venom that flew in. The danger is something that only he can understand.

"Hey." Izawa rubbed his empty wrist and sighed, "It's been so long, I'm still a little unaccustomed to it, if it was put in the past, how could it be so laborious." ”

"Smack." A shiny thing rolled down from the dead toad's body.

"Huh?" Izawa stepped forward to pick it up, only to find that it was the same thing as the hedron dotted in the corridor, but it was mostly the same, and the coolness of the hand was even greater.

"This isn't any ordinary stone." Izawa carefully put the hedron into his backpack, and as he continued to walk forward, he said thoughtfully: "These hedrons must have energy fluctuations, Jace must have discovered them." Perhaps, the huge size of these toads is also because of these spars... He thought that Jace would enter the corridor inside another stone door and find hedron dotted the walls as well. However, it is clearly a different story.

"Sure enough, I've heard wizards say for a long time that dead human flesh has many miraculous effects. It seems that this is the reason why these toads are so large. At the same time that Iza killed the toad, Jace also ended the fight and came to a different conclusion than he did. At this time, he was squatting next to the corpse and looking at the few unformed bones that had been digested and rolled out, and it could be vaguely seen that they were human skulls.

Picking up the glowing device he had thrown on the ground, Jace continued to walk down the corridor, where there was no shadow of pirates or unknown creatures except darkness and darkness in front of him. However, Jace had not been gone for a short time, and there was a ninety-degree turn in the corridor that the light could reach, and the direction of its extension should be the direction that led to the stone gate that Izawa was taking.

"I thought I could go straight down and go to hell." Jace smiled self-deprecatingly, intensifying his vigilance. Just like by playing games, OSS is always at the last minute.

Another stone door chosen by Izawa.

"Depending on the direction of the sun at the time of entering the first stone gate, plus the time it took to get to the present point through the first corridor and the second corridor. By the way, there is also the time to stop when I met the three corpses, and the time to fight the big toad is added together," Izawa muttered with his fingers, "Now, it should be evening... ”

Indeed, as an explorer, Izawa was always so accurate in his sense of direction and timing. The sea in the evening is resplendent, mysterious and beautiful. As the sun sets, the sky is still burning with an orange-red sunset. The pirates guarding outside the stone gate lit piles of bonfires early to roast all kinds of seafood caught from the sea. The pirates of the major gangs, who usually meet each other, gather happily and drink at this time, just like a family who love each other. The premise, of course: none of the people inside came out.

The road that Izawa walked on was clearly getting wider and wider, the spars embedded in the walls were getting denser and denser, and the road was getting brighter and brighter. He had a hunch that not far ahead should be the end of this trip to the mound.

"Humph!" Ize, who was walking on the road, exhaled heavily with his nostrils like an old cow, frowning and looking at the horizontal and vertical lying on the ground...

"Corpses! It's a corpse again! It was the last thing Izen wanted to see, but since he arrived in Bilgewater, the dead have been like a commonplace.

"Six corpses. He should have died not long ago, and his chest was still warm. Izawa crouched down and probed, carefully looking at the six corpses, "Intact corpses that have not been bitten and devoured, then they are not dead at the hands of those toads." As he spoke, Izawa carefully unfolded the corpses and laid them flat on the ground, "There is an inconspicuous blood stain on the clothes on the chest and heart of these six people's bodies, which is not like the wounds of ordinary knives and guns. And judging by such a neat wound, it should have been killed by the same person. Five pirate masters were killed in an instant, and the murderer's methods were too neat. ”

The more Izawa thought about it, the more shocked he became, and a chill ran down his spine: "In this inexplicable passage, those unknown creatures have gained the upper hand, but I didn't expect that the pirates who entered here would not only not unite, but also kill each other." Is it because, this... Thinking about it, Ize touched the hedron in his backpack with his backhand, "Do those pirates know what hedron these are?" It seems that these hedrons are what Jace calls the temptation above life. "But then I thought about it, there was no sign of the hedron being dug up on the road I came from, maybe it was because it was too small? Or is it not for this spar at all? Either way, there will be an answer.

Izawa carefully returned the guns and weapons scattered around the six corpses to their owners. They rummaged through their backpacks, but there were no more clothes to cover them.

"It doesn't matter if you're here or not..." As he spoke, Izawa took out a few hedrons from his bag and placed one next to each corpse. "Now you've got your wish."

After doing all this, Izawa was speechless for a long time, thinking about the scene that happened in Bilgewater, and smiled wryly, "What a bad journey." But... Izawa tightened his backpack as he spoke, looking at the wider and wider corridor, his eyes also rekindled, "The answer still has to continue to be searched!" On the contrary, Jace walked in the dark corridor as always, but he never encountered any accidents, but he still did not dare to take it lightly, who knows if there was a bigger toad lurking in the dark place that could not be found a few meters away. Moreover, he clearly felt that the corridor was getting narrower and narrower.

"It's getting narrower and narrower. Fortunately, there were no more turns. Jace's sense of direction in the wilderness is naturally not as good as that of Ize, who is an explorer, not to mention that in this lightless environment, if there are a few more turns, he will definitely be dizzy here.

And Izawa is getting faster and faster in the more spacious and bright corridors. His hunch was right, the corridor had come to an end, but there was only one wall standing alone.

"How could it be? Impasse? Izawa reluctantly looked left and right in the corridor that could accommodate four or five people, trying to find the entrance to the next road.

"Corridors, dead ends, walls. Could it be that the real road is in the same way that Jace entered? Izawa thought to himself, "But it's not right, the murderer who killed the six pirates is also in this corridor, either there must be an exit here, or... Thinking about it carefully, Izawa thought of an invisible man who turned back after discovering that there was no way, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he passed by...

"There must be an exit!" Izawa continued to feel relentless at every part of the wall, hoping to find a button that resembled a mechanism.

The passage where Jace was located, though narrow enough for only one person, was fortunately not as dead end as Izawa's, and he had also spotted the torches that the pirates had dropped on the ground.

Jace picked up the torch that had finished burning and was smoking and looked at it carefully, "There is still heat, which means that it has just been extinguished, and it is getting closer and closer." I don't know what's going on over there on Ize... ”

Raz, who had been searching for half a day without results, had already prepared for the worst: to return the way he came, and then enter the other stone gate where Jace was.

"That's right, the wall!" A flash of inspiration flashed through Izawa's mind, and he turned back to the wall at the end of the corridor, a smile on his face.

The walls are covered with a thick layer of moss because they have been in this damp and cold environment for many years. After Izawa carefully brushed it open, the wall was carved with the image of the toad creature.

"Big, surprisingly big." This is Izawa's first reaction, and the next entrance, Ize has also been found.

"Do you want to go in from here?" Izawa looked at the totem-like *** case on the wall, and the most striking thing was the mouth that opened to the exaggerated black hole. "The entrance is the mouth of this toad? It looks as if I'm delivering food to my door and trying to burrow into its stomach on its own, but where is this going? Izawa scratched his head, "What a reluctant and uncomfortable decision. Saying that, Ize looked at the hideous patterns on the wall, and then looked back at the empty road, if you know which station is the end of the roar, and you also know what the future tomorrow will encounter, then what are you still doing as an explorer, it is better to be a prophet. Step in!

After Izawa stepped in, the pattern on the wall slowly covered a large black hole as if it were alive, and turned into a new pattern. And the moss that had been brushed off the walls by Izawa also resurfaced one by one. Here, it was as if no one had come, only the hedrons in the corridor were flickering little by little.

"The sound of water?" Jace, after seeing the pirate torches, knew what it meant for the pirates to drop the torches: ahead, it should be the end. And then, he heard the gurgling of running water, "If I'm not mistaken." According to Izawa, we are going down, and the sound of the water here should not be the sound of the flow of the sea, so I am going down, that is, I have reached the bottom of the mound, and the end is the sea? But where did the pirates go? ”

Jace rubbed his head in pain, he didn't have much experience or interest in expeditions, and this time he was kidnapped by Iza in the name of a treasure hunting team.

Jace, who had walked for a while, noticed a corner a second time, and the sound of the water was even louder. Looking at the darkness hidden in the corner, Jace stopped and thought, "If it's still the same path as before, go back the same way and wait for Izawa by the stone gate." If it's the end of the sea that I just thought, then I have no choice but to go back the way I came. ”

Calming down, Jace carefully turned the corner and was taken aback!

On the other side of the corner, instead of a dark and endless road, it is not an imaginary sea full of seawater, but a piece of open land with a little green.

"What is this... Jace couldn't believe what he was seeing, a stark contrast to the swarthy hallway that had always been. "There are trees in the depths of the ground, and where are these lights? Is it reflected from sea level? The vivid greenery in front of him made Jace feel as if he was back on the ground for a moment, but the more this happened, the more vigilant he became, most of the evil things were dressed in a good guise. Moreover, there is not a single shadow of a pirate here, and the source of the sound of water is not here.

Jace looked around the open area, and found no more passages, or corners, which seemed to be the end of the road.

"It shouldn't be like this, the pirates, the sound of the water, and the frogs?" Jace tried to discern the direction of the water, but as he got closer, the sound of the water became louder and louder, rumbling through the space.

Round and round and round, Jace was almost about to go back the same way as Ezawa had been...

"Huh?" Jace snorted and found a hole like the one he had found when he first climbed the mound, but this one was much bigger than the others, with the waist of a strong man of several hundred pounds. The position of several large trees on both sides happened to cover the hole very secretly, plus the clumps of weeds and vines, if it wasn't for the angle Jace was standing at the right angle, I am afraid that this underground hole would not be visible.

"This must be the hole of that toad." Jace affirmed that of course, ordinary people would never use the monster crypt as an exit, and his first instinct was to be on guard against the big toad that might suddenly pop out.

After waiting for a while, there was nothing unusual except for the rumbling sound of water. And Jace also clearly heard the source of the sound of water, which was this crypt.

"Did all those pirates enter this crypt?" Jace was already thinking about it. "Who knows if there will be a bunch of toads waiting for you with their long tongues licking their lips, like food delivered to your door... Jace imagined himself entering and falling into the mouths of those creatures, sending a chill.

He relentlessly searched everywhere in the open field, including the small holes in the trees. The result was disappointing: it seemed that out of this crypt, you had to go back the way you came. Jace hesitated as much as Ezawa had in the beginning, and obviously hesitated for a long time.

"I don't want to, you know it's a creature lair. And it's such a big hole. "Jace on the left.

"I had no choice but to go back the way I came. No one will laugh at you, but how do you explain to your friends in the treasure hunting team? "Jace on the right.

“。。。” After the battle between the heavens and the humans, Jace still made a move that ordinary people would not do.

"No matter, if it were Izawa, he would definitely not hesitate to go down long ago. Well, he must be waiting for me down there. Jace comforted himself, carefully not destroying the original view of the cave entrance and entering the crypt. Ize was just an entrance to the stone wall he was facing, and although it was also a large toad with its mouth open, it was obviously not as clear as Jace who knew that there was a lair below and wanted to go in. One can imagine how much courage it took Jace to convince himself.

"Ahh Jace, who entered the crypt, let out a scream, "How is this TM going straight up and down... It turned out that the crypt was not what he imagined, maybe it was uneven, at least it had to be a slope. But this crypt is straight up and down, of course, those frogs are jumping, and you can imagine the misery of Jace who is falling rapidly...

A little further in time, Izawa stepped into the hole in the wall with a wide mouth open, and there was a demihuman highland road that stretched down to the middle of nowhere, and Izawa hugged his backpack to his chest and bent his body slowly.

After about half an hour of walking, the tunnel finally began to grow taller, and Izawa straightened up and quickened his pace. Because, he saw the bright light of the exit, and the faint sound of fighting!

Finally, after walking for a while, Ize finally walked out of the long tunnel, looking at the scene in front of him that no one dared to believe.

At the end of the tunnel is an underground cavern, which is tentatively estimated to be about 2,000 meters in area, and the surrounding rock walls go straight up to the top of nearly 20 meters before closing. The whole cave presents an irregular semi-circular light, which comes from the top of the cave, there are countless holes, and the sunlight is drawn down from those small holes to illuminate the whole cave, and it seems that you can feel the warmth of the sun in the cave, not the brightness of those crystals, but the warmth of the sun. Most unmistakably, there is a small lake that occupies about a fifth of the area of the cavern and shimmers. Izawa had walked through the dark tunnels before, and it was like a dream to come here.

However, the sight before him did not allow Izawa to be surprised, because on the grass by the lake there were groups of pirates who had been caught and killed, and the corpses were already dripping with warm blood, and the ground was full of stumps, and it was impossible to tell who belonged to whom. It is also the source of the sound of fighting.

"Ha, hahaha. It's all mine, and you all have to die! A pirate with a red-eyed slash slashed at a man's neck, and before he could laugh a few meters high, he was impaled through the body by a dagger behind him.

"Kill, kill." The pirates couldn't tell anything apart like crazy, and the two pirates, dressed in the same patterned clothes, were obviously a gang, but they stabbed each other in the chest, and bit each other's arms, tearing off a large piece of flesh with a "snort". These irrational pirates have just stabbed in the chest with steel knives, maybe they are teammates who have fought side by side together, maybe the next one is.

"Stop! You guys! "Izawa didn't know what he was going to say or what he could say. He could only shout desperately with his mouth open, but no one could hear him, and on the contrary, several pirates spotted him and slashed at Ize with a knife and a big mouth.

"Ahem!" Izawa snorted, and the light of his right hand flashed and sent several waves of energy in succession, knocking several pirates into the grass.

"Crazy, all crazy, what is this for!" Izawa roared angrily, fearing that the pirates along the way had not been eaten by the toads, but had died by his own swords.

Didn't hear it, heard it and won't heed. There was only the sound of a knife slashing at a person's body and a heavy panting.

"You guys! Stop it! ”

"Brush!" A huge blade of light glowing yellow also joined the battle group with a wave of qi, and the pirates were instantly scraped to pieces. It turned out that Izawa used the same trick that used to deal with the fear of the near sea: "Accurate barrage, change." "He was measured, he didn't hurt the vital point, he just wanted to keep the pirates from doing it.

"It's useless." Suddenly, a hand pressed on the hysterical Ize, accompanied by a sound of vicissitudes.

"Huh?" Izawa looked back and saw a tall man with a mask. As if he had been standing here for a long time, Izawa was attracted by the pirate fight and did not pay attention. Now, though, is not the time to care about that.

"Look at their eyes." The figure said lightly, standing side by side with Izawa.

"Eyes?" Izawa looked puzzled.

After being prompted by the masked man, Izawa found clues, including the corpses of the dead pirates, glowing as if they had no whites of their eyes. At first glance, I don't know what method has been used to make them lose their human sanity, and they are completely not afraid of death and have infinite power.

The pirates who had been knocked down by Ize earlier also struggled to join the warband, entangled with each other, punched, kicked and gnawed, and ended up dead. The only thing they had in common was the expressionlessness on their faces, not even the slashing of their swords on their bodies to make them look in pain.

"How did this happen?"

"There." The masked man pointed to the center of the lake.

Izawa also noticed that a huge head appeared in the middle of the lake, about fifteen meters away, and it looked like it was about a meter large, somewhat like a snake's head. And the surface of the water is slightly yellow, eyes without a trace of human feelings, blue and gray skin, and a small human top hat on his head.

"Is that the monster that disturbed the minds of these pirates?" Izawa looked at half of his face on the water. The creature seemed to sense Ize's gaze as well, and turned its head to look at him, as if smiling.

"It's not all the monster's fault, he's strictly a catalyst that ignites the insatiable greed in the hearts of these pirates. In fact, this is also the deepest feeling in the hearts of these pirates. The masked man also looked faintly at the center of the lake, "That monster is the embodiment of greed, and every time he appears, it must be accompanied by the abyss of despair." His name is Tamkench. ”

"I call him anything." Ize didn't listen carefully, his right hand was already glowing with blazing white light, "Is it not to defeat him, and these people will be able to return to their original appearance." ”

"Maybe, I don't know."

"Then why didn't you keep doing it and watching those pirates kill each other?" Izawa was already walking towards the lake.

"I'm no match for him." The masked man still spoke in a light tone, with a hint of melancholy.

"And what about me?"

"You can try." There seemed to be a hint of a smile in the masked man's tone, and there seemed to be a hint of helplessness.

"Then don't talk nonsense."

"Bang!"

Before Izawa could finish speaking, a loud sound of landing was heard, and at the same time, a puff of flying dust fell on the ground a few centimeters ago in Izawa.

It's Jace who finally fell out of the crypt!

"Uhhh Jace rubbed his head, the first sight of Izawa with a serious face, the second sight of the masked man, and then he was frightened by the scene that seemed like hell on earth.

"Izawa...

A pair of hands reached out in front of him, and at the same time a voice was tinged with a playful voice, "The first time you came to Bilgewater, you flew here." Now to this mound, you still fly. However, it's not too late for you to get to the battlefield. ”

Jace took Ize's hand and stood up, stunned as he stared at Hell on Earth. Until, at Izawa's signal, he followed his gaze to see the half of the face in the center of the lake.

"I'm also curious about all of this. But I don't have time to explain to you why this is the way this is, the culprit is the thing on the lake. Kill him first, and then talk nonsense with you. Izawa glanced at the masked man, who was also slowly following, and pointed at Jace, "And what about him?" ”

"That's enough." It's still a light tone.

"That's it!"