For Teresa's super keen perception of dark aura, Adam has great trust in him. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info So the group raised the spirit of twelve points and moved forward carefully, Andrew walked in front with a sword, and Teresa broke behind.

The mermaid who was the target has not yet achieved results, only found a corpse that was bitten to death by an unknown powerful demonic beast, and now still feels the breath of dark energy, and the development of things is somewhat unexpected to everyone.

"There's a light ahead." This continued for about ten minutes, passing several forks in the road, and this time Teresa's judgment based on her perception of the dark aura was strikingly consistent with the decision of the two Nagas.

"It's a dungeon." Coming out of a pool about two meters wide, what appeared in front of Adam's eyes was a very eerie dungeon, with a cold wind swishing and dim light - now even Adam and Andrew, the paladins, could easily feel the dark aura in the depths of the dungeon.

There were rows of magic lamps hanging from the aisles and stone walls on both sides, some still functioning, emitting a strange dim light, and some were knocked to the ground, and it was a mess.

In addition, there were navy blue scales on the ground—those of crocodile sharks—blood stains, and various broken weapons and props. Coupled with the various traces left on the ground and stone walls, it proves that there was once a fierce battle here.

"These are crocodile shark scales, yes." Ellie and Nikita both looked serious.

As the first shallow sea tribe to defect to the Naga Empire, the crocodile shark disappeared mysteriously less than a year after joining the Naga Empire, which surprised many people in the know. It's not easy to get a race to disappear without alerting the others.

"The temple priest sent by the pearl priest is in charge of investigating the disappearance of the crocodile shark and found nothing, but the scales of the crocodile shark and the mermaid appear here at the same time, there must be a secret in the middle." Ellie clenched her fists.

From the first time Ellie mentioned the disappearance of the crocodile shark, Adam had vaguely felt that something was not quite right, but he never remembered, and now that Ellie brought it up again, he finally knew what the problem was.

"I remember you and I mentioned that the Mermaids were exiled to the Sea of Clouds and were not in the center of power in the Naga Empire."

"That's right." Ellie still didn't see what the problem was.

"But why would such an important matter as the disappearance of the crocodile shark be entrusted to the pearl priests of the Misty Church, instead of the Coral Priests or the Empire directly intervening?"

"That's right." Adam's words wake up the dreamer, and Ellie, the simple-minded Naga princess, finally notices the abnormality.

It is so unusual why the disappearance of the crocodile shark would be entrusted to the mermaid, who has not been treated well by the royal family. Although the Misty Church also has missions within the Naga Empire, the mainstream of faith is Ito, the god of the sea, and the Church of the Sea God led by the Coral Priests.

The scales of crocodiles, mermaids, and the dark aura in the depths of the dungeon, things seem to be going beyond simple disappearances.

Ellie bit her lip: "It was my mother's order, I remember it very clearly." ”

"Your Royal Highness, don't think about it......" Nikita hurriedly comforted Princess Naga.

Adam and Andrew glanced at each other, it was actually an order given by Empress Naga herself, which is worth playing, but there is something hidden in it.

"Yes, yes, there are some crocodile shark corpses in the depths of the underground palace, if those are really crocodile sharks." After entering the dungeon, Teresa used her huge spiritual power to scan the entire dungeon inch by inch, "near the stone chamber where the dark aura is the strongest." ”

The stone chamber with the strongest dark aura among them had more than one magic array arranged, blocking her spiritual power from the outside. It wasn't difficult to use her spiritual power to break through the magic array directly, but Teresa thought that perhaps Her Highness the Holy Son would prefer to go and check it out for herself.

Five minutes later, the group came to the vicinity of the stone chamber where Teresa's mouth and Adam's perception of the darkest aura were the strongest.

At the door of the stone room, there were more than a dozen corpses of crocodiles. Adam the crocodile shark, who had been seen in Midland, was a humanoid creature that did not have a tail like a Naga or a mermaid, but only had scales and ears that were very different from those of humans.

It's just that the bodies of these crocodiles are a little different from what they remember: they are stronger, their scales are denser, their muscles are well-developed, and their heads have become hideous heads similar to those of sharks.

"How did the crocodile shark become like this?" While Adam was still wondering if the corpses on the ground were crocodiles, Ellie and Nikita had already confirmed their identities.

"It's like being transformed into this by an evil experiment in human magic." Ellie's face turned a little pale. The White Mage excels at healing defenses, the Black Mage excels at curse attacks, and of course, various rituals such as evil sacrifices, including experiments with human magic.

"I've seen them in a magic book about Babelatis, where they use brutal rituals and experiments to alter the size, organs, and structure of living beings to gain terrifying powers, and use them as slaves and pets of the Black Mage."

The Holy Land of White Magic is the famous Silver Tower of Yuple, and the Holy Land of Black Magic is beyond ordinary forces, it is a country of mages, Babelatis, the most prosperous place of black magic in the whole world, and the great dukes of magic have been powerful black mages with the terrifying power of the legendary rank.

"The answer may lie in this stone chamber." Adam said, pointing to the stone chamber in front of him.

There are three magic circles still in operation on the stone gate, representing the curse of imprisonment, vertigo, and weakness. I don't know if it's an illusion that Adam felt a trace of extremely pure special aura in the rich dark aura, very faint, so he confirmed it with Teresa.

"You are not mistaken, there is indeed a very faint trace of pure aura in the stone chamber, which is firmly suppressed by dark energy."

Teresa Yang waved out a piece of holy light and landed on the stone door, and the two magic arrays representing imprisonment and vertigo were instantly rushed away, only the magic array representing the curse of weakness burst out with a strong purple-black light, entangled with the holy light.

Crash! It was as if the glass was broken, and the purple-black light quickly shattered under the purification and washing of the holy light.

Click...... After the three magic arrays were broken, the door of the stone chamber automatically opened, accompanied by the pungent smell of blood and disinfectant water, revealing its true face.

This stone room, which was at least the size of a small square, was full of cold equipment that emitted cold light, various experimental instruments and magic devices, colorful and slimy unknown magic potions, and large and small crocodile body parts that had been cut off.

On the right, there is also a row of containers about two meters high, which are soaked in the corpse of a crocodile shark. Some were the normal crocodile corpses that Adam had seen, some were similar to the ones at the door of the stone chamber, and there was also a kind of stubby tail.

The entire stone chamber was filled with a strong smell of blood and darkness, and it was clear that this was a magic laboratory used by black mages to conduct experiments with human magic.

In the center of the stone chamber stood a small white bone altar, burning with a black flame, and the dense and visible souls in the flames rose and fell and let out a terrible scream - the dark aura that Adam and the others sensed was released from this flame.

"How so?" Ellie covered her mouth and almost threw up. Adam frowned as well, the stone chamber that served as a magical laboratory made him feel very uncomfortable.

"The kingdom of the mages of Babelatis." Nikita finds a magic sign on the stone wall. It was three concentric circles, the middle circle was a black sheep's head with curved horns, the second circle was wrapped around a poisonous snake, and the third circle was empty.

"The sheep's head and the viper are the most famous symbols of Babelatis." Resembles the Templar's Cross of the Sun, the Scourge Church's six-pointed star and five dragons.

Not much is known about the mage kingdom of Adam, Andrew, and Teresa, but considering the scarlet scorpions, the rich aura of dark energy, and the human magic lab, which are supposed to be in Asha, Babelatis is the ultimate answer.

"Your Highness, it is better for me to purify the soul in the flames first." Teresa said.

This black flame is the purgatory fire of black magic, a legendary rank spell, and the power is unknown how many times that of the silver spell Hellfire.

The most terrifying thing about it is not that it can burn the body to ashes in one fell swoop, but that it locks the soul of the other person in the flames after the target loses the body, and endures the painful scorching torture until the last bit of consciousness in the soul is gone.

Adam nodded, and he could see that the souls that were wailing in the black flames were mostly crocodile sharks. Under the torture of the purgatory fire, they have long lost their emotions and reason, if they hadn't come here today, the souls of these crocodile sharks would have howled in pain day and night in the purgatory fire until their souls died.

The light fell from above the fire of purgatory, enveloping the black flames, and the two brilliances of milky white and black collided and splattered.

One by one, the souls were rescued from the fire of purgatory, and their expressions gradually calmed in the holy light, and then dissipated into the stone chamber - if there is faith, their souls will go to their respective kingdoms through the faith channel after death, and if there is no faith, their souls will turn into energy factors and return to the natural universe.

Bite!

When the fire of Purgatory was extinguished and all souls were purified, a dark golden coin fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and it exuded the extremely pure aura that Adam and Teresa had just felt outside the stone room.

At the same time, there is an extra line of hints in the Templar Adventure Journal: Purify the Crocodile Shark's Soul, Dispel the Infernal Fire, gain a small amount of experience, and increase your career progress by 10%! (To be continued.) )