In the dark depths, the darkness enveloped everything around them, and the icy lake slept silently in another large space beneath the huge chamber, and on the stalactite shore of the lake there was a small bright ballfire, which the caster thought had been made by magic, and Fain, Lilith, and Arya were sitting around the small campfire at this moment, baking their clothes.

"Lilith, Arya, are you all alright?" Feeling that the sleeves of his shirt were almost dry, Finn picked up the chain mail on the side and put it back on, took out a rag from the empty pocket and wiped the water-stained iron sword, and then looked sideways at the two girls next to him.

"I'm fine." Lilith sat by the fire with her knees folded and lowered her head, her dark eyes as calm as the surface of a lake, her slender hands took a rag she had received from Finn and aimed at the owl pet Pol who was carried into her arms and rubbed and rubbed it, and it took a long time to finally wipe Pol, who was as wet as a chicken in soup, and then gently stroked Pol's feathers like a baby, so that the little owl gradually fell asleep under the warmth of the campfire.

"Anything but a little cold." Compared to Lilith's calmness at all times, although Arya was a little distressed to hold the new scarf and plush cloak she bought from Orlan in her hands at this moment, when she thought of the terrifying fire rain she encountered in the giant secret room not long ago, she felt that she was still alive to sit with Fein and Lilith in this new ghost place to roast on the fire, which was really a blessing in misfortune.

The blessing of this misfortune was due to the fact that there was a huge underground lake beneath the huge collapsed chamber.

Finn, Lilith, and Arya were so close to each other when they fell, so the three of them had fallen from a pitch-black height into the icy lake a few minutes earlier, and then when they realized they were still alive, they quickly swam to the stalactite shore, and Lilith used a spell to light a bonfire for the three to dry their soaked clothes.

Lilith can use spells to create flames, but what is used to burn is a [Tinder Stone] that Finn took out of the Void Pocket - this kind of stone that can be used as fuel is said to have been first discovered by the dwarves on the Mooncold Plateau, and later adventurers always do not forget to buy one from a nearby city when crossing the snow and take it with them as a precaution.

"But speaking of which, what do you think this is?" After holding the cloak and scarf in her hand and baking on the campfire for a long time, Arya took in a breath of cold air and shivered, feeling that the temperature around her had become as cold as in the snow in Scorpion Valley, and she suddenly wondered.

Hearing Arya's question, Finn looked at the firelight in front of him for a while, and then looked up at the direction where the three of them fell, and estimated in his heart that he would probably not be able to return to it for a while, so he lowered his gaze and looked around, and with the help of dark vision to his vision, he found that the place where he was at this moment looked like a naturally formed underground cave.

Above this huge cavern was the collapsed chamber, and there was no artificially paved stone bricks in a large open space around it, the surface of the land part was like stalactites, and the lake water on the side was so cold that when the elf girl first swam ashore, she shivered with cold, and thought she had fallen under a bottomless ice cave.

In the previous life, he led a team of players to explore the upper level of the ruins, but did not explore the lower part because they did not find the door of the law that Lilith had discovered. From the height of the fall, Fein guessed that this place was probably the lower part of the entire ruin, but he had not noticed any signs of life in the vicinity since he fell into the lake, so he also speculated that there might not be just such a place under the huge secret chamber where everyone was before-after all, Leah, Telks, Countess Callea, and Camussa were far away from him, Lilith, and Arya, and if there were other survivors in the party, Then they must have fallen somewhere else after the Chamber of Secrets collapsed.

"In other words, you think that this cave is part of the lower level of the ruins, and some of the others have gone to the Land of the Dead, and some have survived like us, but they are scattered to different places, and they can't join us in a short time, right?" After listening to Finn explain his thoughts in general, Arya put down the scarf and plush cloak that she held in her hand and placed them beside her, then tightened her knees and curled herself into a ball like Lilith, and slowly exhaled a white mist from her mouth with a wry smile.

"Maybe." Wringing out the rag that wiped the iron sword and putting it back in the empty pocket, Finn grabbed the hilt of the sword and put the iron longsword into the scabbard, turned his head sideways to make sure that the bandaged moonlight sword behind his back was still there, and then looked up at the darkness deeper into the cave with a little dazedness, and replied to Arya with a light sigh, "All in all, although this place is not dangerous for the time being, since none of us have been here before, whether it is to find a way out, or to continue to explore this ruin in search of the obsidian codex, I'd suggest we try to walk around here, but be more careful than ever. ”

"Okay, I agree with your proposal." After a moment's consideration, Arya closed her eyes and nodded, deciding that Finn was right, "It's just that since none of the three of us have been here before, it sounds really weird, as if you've explored the upper part of this ruin in your previous life, but you've never been here......"

"Ahh

"Huh? What's wrong, Finn? Do you have a cold? ”

"Uh-no, it's fine, it was just a sneeze." Finn's back was cold, and he hurriedly raised the back of his hand to cover his nose, and glanced to the side of his eyes avoiding Arya, "Then again, it's really cold down here, hahaha......"

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Part of the lower level of the ruins was indeed as Fein had guessed, and after the collapse of the huge chamber that was connected from the upper level of the ruins by a door to the law, the young men and the explorers fell from the collapsed chamber to various places in the lower level of the ruins.

Of the group, Finn, Lilith, and Arya fell together due to their proximity, and Leah and Terkes had both fallen to another part of the lower level of the ruins for the same reason—unlike the underground lake and stalactite cavern that the young paladin had seen, it was just another bronze room full of stone pillars and broken bricks, a mess like a pile of ancient people's construction rubbish.

This room surrounded by bronze stone walls on all sides is a large circle smaller than the giant secret room above, and the hard ground makes it impossible for Leah and Terkes to fall to the ground as easily as Fein, Lilith and Arya falling into the lake at the moment of falling, among which Telx applied a life-saving [Feather Fall Technique] to himself at the critical moment when he was about to land, thus greatly slowing down the momentum of the fall in a short period of time, so that although he accidentally broke his foot when he landed, he still saved his life in the end.

Compared to Tarks's luck, Leah didn't have the ability to cast spells, and even the Templar Church didn't learn a few magic skills, so when he fell, he fell directly on the floor of the room, and the whole person smashed into a large pile of rubble and bricks next to Tarks like a cannonball, although he miraculously did not die for a while, the lower half of his body was crushed under the hillock-like stone pile, and it took him half a day to only get out of the gray head and a bruised arm exposed, His eyes were raised as high as he could, and he looked up at Telkes, who was walking over and leaning down to look at him, and pleaded, "Hmm...... Brother, please help me, myself... Ahem...... I can't seem to get out, haha. ”

He begged Telx to find a way to help him get out of the rocks, and the naturally pitiful baby face showed a slightly embarrassed smirk.

Telx crouched down, his forehead bowed, and looked down at his brother with an expressionless face, Leah who was crushed under the pile of stones.

After three seconds of silence -

"Yes, Leah." Telx looked quietly into Leah's eyes, and a kind smile hung on the corners of his mouth for a while, "You can't get out, you're going to die slowly if you keep lying here...... Hehe, since that's the case, then I'll help you. ”

As he spoke, he lowered his staff slightly, and slowly stretched out his free hands to Leah, and then—suddenly, his hands tightened, and he grabbed Leah's neck, and the kind smile on his face suddenly became hideous. (To be continued.) )