When he noticed that the greenclaw tribe's lizardman cavalry had returned to the forest basin with the man lying on the back of the earthwalker, Finn's mind jerked to look like Arya, and without thinking too much, he quickly ran with Lilith up the hill at the edge of the basin.

Versidis looked at the young man's eager back, and vaguely thought of something, so he also called the old witch Barthra, who had remained in place after Lilith had been taken away by Finn, waiting for his instructions.

The figures of the four quickly made their way up the slope of the basin to where Atasu and the lizardman cavalry were.

Finn quickly approached Atasu and was introduced by Vercidis to the chief of the Greenpaw tribe to briefly introduce himself and make his intentions clear to him.

Atasu then had his people pick up the man who had been found by the lizardman cavalry from the back of the dragon and place him on the ground.

Everyone gathered around, and the young paladin lowered his head and looked down at the unconscious man lying on the ground, confirming that she was the elven girl named Arya.

She had blonde hair, a pair of long, pointed ears sticking out from between the tips of her hair to the sides of her head, her skin was a fair color, and she was dressed in the same clothes that Fein and Lilith had seen before, with only a black cloak that reached the base of her thighs.

The girl's eyes were closed at this moment, and she seemed to be asleep, but the two slender eyebrows under her forehead were uncomfortably wrinkled, making it seem that she was having a nightmare.

"Arya......" Lilith looked at the elf girl lying on the ground, although the expression on her face was still as flat as ever, but her heart was probably somewhat touched, so she knelt down beside the elf girl and reached out to caress the latter's haggard cheek.

"Arya, is this her name?" Hear Lilith call the maiden. Vercidis turned his head to look at Fain beside him, "She's your companion?" ”

“…… Well. The young man pursed his lips a little bitterly, turned half of his face to the side, and nodded.

"Is she still alive?" The old shaman of the Greenpaw tribe, Guterr, quickly learned about the situation from the other lizards, and soon walked over from the side.

The group turned their heads to look at the old lizardman shaman.

Then, Finn looked back at the elven girl lying motionless on the ground. After thinking about it, he squatted down beside Lilith and put the index finger of his right hand under the girl's nose to test it.

"And breathing." Then, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he immediately turned around to inform the others around him.

But the moment he looked back, out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the girl under the cloak fabric. Between the two clumps of fat, there seems to be something protruding.

Suddenly, he turned his gaze back to the girl's bare skin outside the cloak. I hesitated.

Then he gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand to the cloak that covered the girl's upper body, carefully twisted the edge of the cloak fabric, and slowly lifted the black cloak that covered the girl's carcass in a straight line from the girl's navel to her throat.

Arya's white skin began to reveal more as Finn's heartbeat unconsciously accelerated.

The young paladin held his breath, held back the heat in his heart, and kept reminding himself not to suddenly have any crooked thoughts in his brain.

As he twisted the fabric with two fingers, he lifted the black cloak to the girl's crisp. Soft under the chest back. The hard object that had previously stood out from the cloak was finally exposed to everyone's sight.

An amethyst gem that looked like it had grown out of the flesh of an elf girl, a small piece of it was exposed. Most of the rest looked like they were stuck in the flesh.

"What the hell is this?" The snake pupils on either side of Atasu's head looked at the amethyst, and the big tail behind the butt swayed subconsciously in confusion.

"It's just a magic crystal." The old Tiflin witch Barthra, who followed Versidis, took a hard look at the crystal on Arya's chest with her wooden staff, and replied to Atasu before the others could react, "This thing is a little more expensive than the most common magic crystals...... But I don't understand, how can it grow into an elf? ”

"Nope. Basera, this crystal may not have grown from this child's body. Vercidis' ice-blue eyes sharpened, "Perhaps, this thing was inserted from the outside." ”

"Will there be any serious consequences for this?" The old lizardman shaman Guterr's eyes flashed with curiosity.

"I don't know." The leader of the Templar shrugged as he looked at the old shaman of the Greenpaw Tribe.

The words fell. The black-haired man frowned slightly, turned his head to look around, and found that whether it was the old witch who had followed him all the way here, the lizardman chief of the Greenclaw tribe, Atasu, and the old shaman's deputy, Guter, whom Atasu trusted very much, all of them all showed some embarrassed expressions on their faces.

After all, everyone present knew that something bad had happened to this elf girl named Arya, but they didn't know what to do.

Perhaps, this elf girl just fainted and would wake up on her own the next day?

Or maybe she won't wake up again unless they do something in time?

No one can guarantee it.

"Finn, what are we going to do?" After a long silence, Lilith, who was kneeling beside Arya, looked at Finn, who was half-crouching next to her, and softly broke the embarrassment with words that lacked emotion, "I feel that Arya is in danger...... Can we save Arya? ”

The young man ...... looked at her, but did not answer her immediately.

Because he still has something uncertain in his heart at this time.

But-

"Wait, if this amethyst was put into Arya's chest by a poison vine......" Suddenly, Finn blinked, feeling that Vercidis' words seemed to remind him.

Suddenly, he thought along this line of thought.

It didn't take long for a flash of inspiration from his memory to flash through his mind, and he managed to figure out what happened to Arya.

Subsequently -

"Everyone, please listen to me." He immediately stood up, "If I'm not mistaken, this amethyst is also an alchemical product processed by poisonous vines, and the phenomenon we see now should be the method used by the Demon Shepherd Sect to create magic crystal slaves. ”

"Crystal slave?"

In addition to Lilith, Vercidis, Butera, Atasu, and Guterton all spoke in unison, all staring at Finn.

They heard an unfamiliar name from the young man's words.

As for Finn, he knew from the beginning what kind of creatures the monsters in the Crystal series were.

So, he exhaled softly, adjusted his slightly chaotic state of mind, and then organized his language, explaining to the people around him in as concise a sentence as possible: "This must first mention a disease called crystallization......" (To be continued. )