The night is getting darker.

The Rich Quarters are much quieter and safer at night than the Ghetto, after all, the night patrols and guards are not negligent in this part of the city, and the kind of work that keeps them alive is partly due to the fact that the people who are qualified to work here are well paid, and partly because they look after the wealthy people who live in the city, whether they are members of the city's several grand adventure parties or resident merchants who have financial investment sponsorship in Twilight.

The guards knew that getting along with these people might be beneficial to their future lives, such as the big businessmen who had more or less a say in the city council might be able to secretly pull themselves in the future if they accidentally committed a crime. Draco Barton was an adventurer before, and he is now the personal escort of the Lord of the City, close to the city's true power hub.

The experience of the elven swordsman had inspired some ambitious adventurers in some way, and he himself was now in the fourth villa mansion on Sixteenth Street in the wealthy district, and the ten fingers of his hands interlaced each other to form an arched half-fist on the table where he had met with the Thorns Squad last time, and his emerald green eyes looked peacefully at the black-haired young man sitting across the table; "Captain Urs, can we start talking about this mission now?"

At the same time, outside the door of the room, on the corridor aisle on the second floor of the villa.

"With the fire on the fire, Xiao Meng thinks the captain and that elf must be talking about something inside, but this damn door seems to have been locked by the door sealing technique you said!" Koto, who was wearing his Mithril full body armor at all times, carrying his precious saucepot on his back, was now leaning half of his body on the door outside the small chamber, the hair on the side of his face, his ears, and his trademark beard as a highland dwarf seemed to be eager to penetrate the door, "The sound is not clear at all, is the wall of our house so soundproof?" Belch...... Hey, poetess, do yourself a favor! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the others behind him, his gaze past Gloridon, Thea, and Stonefist in turn, to the crows who were standing against the wall with their hands crossed. He remembered that Miss Poet had a magical spell that would open a thick stone door in a section of the Shadow Ruins with a single tap of her finger in the air.

When she returned to the villa, she had already taken off her black robe and put on an ordinary skirt, and the expression on her face showed a hint of playful banter through her dark skin and calm words: "What do you want to do, dwarf?" Dig a tunnel like your clan's cavewalkers? ”

The term cavewalker is an alias for the Dwarven Ranger, implying that the Dwarven Ranger is responsible for patrolling the underground tunnels of the clan city on behalf of his people, rather than working in the forest like the Elven Ranger.

Koto heard that the crow was making fun of himself again, and immediately grinned unhappily, and shook his head with a crazy expression on his face: "Hey, hell prejudice, why do you always have trouble with my size!" Dwarf? No, I'm Koto Hearth, the brave warrior of the clan, your steadfast and reliable companion! Don't let me stress it a second time, okay? ”

But in fact you have stressed it many times about you being a warrior of the clan, my friend.

Standing a little further from the door, Stonefist looked at the dwarf and thought to himself, saying that the brave and fearless clan warrior did not seem to be able to use his courage to win the respect of a bard, especially since the prickly poet was still a venomous crow, and her failure to say that you were a "golem with a brain" was probably the greatest respect for you.

Believe it or not, there's an "old dog with no teeth" over there.

I still haven't figured out why she said I was a golem...... A golem with a brain, a little more advanced than a normal golem? But it doesn't sound like a compliment.

The orc monk shook his head slightly, but didn't let the whisper out of his mouth come out of his mouth, and then looked sideways at Gloriden, the old thief who stood next to the dwarf with the wolf-eared girl.

Gloridon's gaze rested on Koto's. The brown-haired old man, of course, could see that the dwarven warrior was eager to know what the elf who had visited again tonight was talking about in this room with his own barbarian captain, and then he joked to him: "Yes, warrior of the clan, your curiosity shines as brightly as the glory of the warrior, but now is not the best time to show it." ”

"Gloridon is right, Koto." Thea echoed the old thief's words and persuaded the dwarf, who was still half clinging to the door, "Urs asked us to wait outside, presumably to discuss something very important with Mr. Draco alone...... I'm sure he'll tell us about that after that, so let's be patient, okay? ”

With that, the girl looked at the dwarf, her amber eyes lifted and glanced at the door of the room.

Behind the door, the small chamber on the second floor of the villa mansion is indoors.

Draco made good on his promise and left again the night he learned that the group had returned to the city, and Urs arranged for all the rest of the party to wait outside the room, whether in the hallway or in his bedroom, and not to break in and interrupt his upcoming negotiations with Draco.

He decided to take the opportunity to talk to the evening visitor alone.

The black-haired young man also put on a friendly expression to the visitor sitting across the table, and then moved his two brown eyes in his sockets, reminding Draco out of the window where the curtains had been drawn out of the corner of his eye: "Does the people outside know you're here?" ”

"It's a secret mission and conversation." Draco smiled, "So when I came over, I cast a little misleading illusion on myself, causing the guards in this area to think that I was just an ordinary merchant who had come to visit you, just like the last time I came to see you. ”

"Mage's magic is handy."

"Yes, magic is always so magical."

"Let's get down to business, Mr. Draco, then." Urs withdrew his gaze from the window of the room to the elf's face, "By the way, I have a lot more to ask you, including some questions that I couldn't get answered from you last time, if you are willing to answer them." ”

"Yes." Draco nodded his head, as if expecting Urs to say that, blonde hair sliding slightly over his elven ear, "But you have to show proof of your mission first, the one I mentioned to you beforehand." ”

"Do you mean this stone?"

Without pretense, Urs immediately took out the dimensional bag he was carrying, and then took out the black ore inside that Xia had originally found in the Shadow Dragon Treasure Cave in the shadow ruins and held it in his hand.

The black stone, as it had been found in the ruins of the dungeon, took on the shape of a square octahedron in the eyes of young men and elves, with twenty-four areas divided by ridges on the surface with abstract lines carved in red paint.

Draco lowered his gaze slightly, glancing at the stone that Urs was holding in his hand, "Yes, that's it, please give it to me." ”

Then, still in a gentle manner, he parted his interlaced fingers, and spread the palm of his right hand upwards on the table, ready to reach out to pick up the black ore that the young man was about to hand him as he had requested.

Urs understood what he meant, but did not do so immediately, but continued to hold the stone in his hand, and the gaze in his eyes suddenly looked directly at the two emerald green pupils in the other party's sockets, as if trying to see through them.

This undisguised gaze made Draco conscious, and he immediately withdrew his hand and asked tentatively, "What's wrong, Captain Urs?" ”

"Mr. Draco." Urs pondered for a moment, took a deep breath, and said, "If I give this thing to you like this...... Will you really tell me the inside story and the truth behind everything? ”

"What do you mean?" There was a look of surprise on Draco's face.

"Meaning, let's put an end to this dumb mystery that doesn't need to go any further." Urs was silent for a second, holding the stone with his right hand and keeping it clenched, and responded in a calm tone, "After all, this seemingly inconspicuous black stone is actually an artifact, right?" And still...... An artifact used to summon evil gods. ”

After speaking, the black-haired young man held his breath, while mentally observing even the slightest slight change in the expression on the elven demon swordsman's face, while forcibly suppressing the restlessness in his heart and waiting for the other party's reply.

Memories of his previous life made him aware of what kind of object he was holding in his hands, and he knew that he might be a bit of a risk to ask, but he decided to take a gamble to see what Victado's attitude towards his team through Draco in the current series of events.

Draco's character is clear in his heart, and with the help of the memories of his previous life, it is clear that this elven man's camp tends to be at least neutral and kind, so at least he doesn't have to worry about the outrageous possibility of the other party suddenly turning his face and drawing a sword to cut people.

Of course, if Draco didn't know what he was talking about, he would just treat himself as a cheap one, and then make up some barely reliable reasons to prevaricate the past, such as that as a slave knight of the Golden Warbler Empire, he was lucky enough to see a stone of this shape in the literature of an imperial scholar...... Anyway, how to make it up decently.

Draco seemed a little surprised, or rather unexpectedly shocked.

The elven demon swordsman sat on the chair in front of the table, his emerald green eyes looked at Urs in a daze, the smile on his face froze, and his brows furrowed slightly: "Did anyone tell you anything?" About this stone. ”

He didn't deny it outright!

Based on the answers and attitudes of the other party, Urs's eyes lit up, and he secretly thought that he might have found a valuable clue.

The young man hurriedly suppressed the excitement in his heart, planning how to get more out of Draco's mouth next.

But then - "Boom! ”

The silence of the night in the city was suddenly shattered by a deafening loud noise. The horrible thud was like a damn cannon against your eardrums, firing without warning, and with a violent shaking of the mountain, it almost threw him out of the padded seat under his butt.

Fortunately, the loud noise and shaking only lasted for a short second.

The young man and the elf invariably leaned over and pressed the table in this abrupt moment, reflexively maintaining their sense of balance, and secretly cursed in their hearts, what was going on just now?

Earthquake?

No...... Wrong!

"Outside the window!" For a brief moment, Urs and Draco stood up from either side of the long table at the same time.

The two of them looked at each other for a moment, and Urs, who was close to the windowsill, quickly turned around and opened the curtains of the room, and suddenly felt the scene outside the window as if the paladin had run to any of the lower planes and lost a detection of evil, almost blinding his own eyes.

Outside the window, the crimson light quickly faded, and a scorching wind then hit his face through the window like a wave of heat that spreads around him during a volcanic eruption.

The door to the small chamber slammed open, and the sealing technique applied to it was lifted by tapping from the corridor outside.

"Urs, we all heard a loud bang just now, what's going on outside...... Is it? ”

The other five adventurers of the Thorn Squad rushed in from the hallway outside the room at this moment. With an anxious look on her face, Thea wanted to ask about Urs just now, and then she saw the scene outside the window like the young man and the elven swordsman in the room.

Incredible...... A pillar of fire burst straight through the roof of a building in the direction of the city center and rose into the night sky, reflecting the whole city red for a short moment, while leaving a narrow cloud in the sky.

Then, the pillar of fire in the sky suddenly extinguished with a spiral of residual flames, and the narrow cloud in the night sky turned and cracked, like an indescribable monster opened its eyes, turning into a huge and terrifying blood-colored eyeball, hanging in the outline of a full moon over the entire city overlooking everything beneath the night, no matter which angle you looked up from the city, it always seemed to find it staring at you at the same time.

The quiet night immediately became noisy. The people in the city also felt the violent vibration just now, and woke up from their sleep.

Urs stood on the floor of the room by the window, looking up at the unknown object hanging in the sky that opened like an eyeball, and could almost feel some kind of terrible suffocation gradually tighten his throat, and a little cold sweat unconsciously slipped down the skin on the back of his neck.

He knew what it was......

That's the "Eye of the Abyss...... A sign of the Holocaust, a giant portal that must be summoned through a special evil magical ritual, the distance that crosses the astral plane connects Castano's main material plane to the bottomless abyss!