Anros followed behind Esther, slowly walking through the corridor without any light source.

He didn't know exactly where it was. The two of them had been walking here for five or six minutes since Esther teleported in with him.

Because of the experience of this adventure, An Ruosi did not relax his vigilance because of the safety of this time, but carefully felt everything around him, lest he suddenly stretch out a dry hand or something in the dark world.

The magic he had drawn from his body was condensed at his fingertips, ready to be unleashed.

Admittedly, in this case, Anroth's magic will gradually drain away over time at a slow rate. But it's at least better than having no time to use the magic after something happens.

This is also the spell-casting technique that Captain Marken taught him after they were separated from Roland.

With a nervous mood, An Ruosi cautiously followed behind Esther.

Almost every step he took was one of Esther's footprints.

An Ruosi could hear the sound of the water snapping under his feet constantly resounding in the dark corridor, echoing lonely.

The stench in the air was thick and sticky, and it was inhaled into the lungs through the trachea, and you could even feel something rolling in your throat.

Ann Ruosi even suspected that he was naked. The exposed skin is now coated with a film.

In this strange environment, An Ruosi didn't even dare to speak-

It's too quiet. An Ruosi even had the illusion that the two of them were walking in the esophagus of the giant beast.

He took two quick steps and grabbed Esther's sleeve. Wanted to make Esther's pace a little slower.

But unexpectedly, Esther ignored him. Opposite. He walked faster.

A huge force came from Esther's sleeve, and he pulled Anros forward with him. He was almost pulled to the ground.

I always feel that I have neglected something. The rapidly fermenting uneasiness made An Ruosi's heart beat faster and faster.

He could even feel the roar in his chest now. Not only the heart, but also the pulse of the blood vessels in her neck and wrists could be clearly heard.

The whole world was as quiet as an illusion.

An Ruosi's eyes trembled nervously. Nervous looking around.

His Adam's apple slid up and down. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

An Ruosi finally couldn't help it.

He reached out again to grab Esther's sleeve and said hurriedly, "Wait, wait, ......."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a creep.

――Because An Ruosi's outstretched right hand did not touch the previous texture of the fabric.

Where his right hand touched, there was something slippery and sticky. The slippery, cold feel is reminiscent of aquatic products, feces, or rotting internal organs.

An Ruosi was startled, and reflexively threw out what she was holding in her hand.

But at that moment, An Ruosi suddenly realized what was wrong.

…… Why, before there was only the sound of water on the ground when I took every step?

An Ruosi's breath suddenly stopped. His heart was beating harder and harder. He even had a faint feeling of a void in his brain caused by the lack of oxygen. The sight began to blossom in front of me.

But it doesn't matter. I can't see anything clearly anyway......

There wasn't any light source around, so it was too dim.

An Ruosi could only see a vague black shadow in front of him.

Now he suddenly began to wonder if it was Esther who he had been following?

Moreover, why is it that there is no light source, but I can see the footprints on the ground clearly?

Don't look down -

Such an alarm sounded frantically in An Ruosi's heart.

But because of this, he subconsciously lowered his head.

Suddenly, An Ruosi almost fainted.

I don't know when the footprints under Anrusi's feet have become damp marks three times the size of the soles of adult feet.

- But. It is indeed the mark of a human foot.

But human feet will never be so big.

An Ruosi raised her head in panic, only to find a half-rotten head with a very strange smile, hanging in front of her eyes. The rotten tip of the skull was not even more than three centimeters from An Ruosi's cheek.

So close, the stench of decay had even rushed into An Ruosi's nostrils.

An Ruosi's pupils instantly contracted to the limit.

There was a gurgling in the depths of his throat. The body instinctively wanted to escape, but the place below the knee seemed to be embedded in place.

Accidentally, he fell to the ground.

"Smack". The sound of sticky water sounded crisply.

It wasn't a very deep water trail. If you have to say it, it's only about a finger deep. But An Ruosi was almost completely soaked at the moment.

His gaze had become hollow.

An Ruosi raised his water-soaked hands in a daze. Lift it up to the eye.

It's strange to say. It should have been extremely dark, without any light source—but at this moment, An Ruosi could see his hands very clearly.

It was full of sticky bright red.

It's blood--

An Ruosi instinctively made a judgment. While he was making his judgment. The blood on the entire floor was reflected in An Ruosi's sight. His eyes turned blood-red.

Yes, the blood was only a finger's width - but what if you count the five minutes you walked?

An Ruosi's heart was beating desperately, but he still couldn't breathe.

The world in front of us has begun to be gradually pulled away.

Just then, he heard the sound of ticking water in his ears.

- Don't look up.

- Don't look up.

- Don't look up.

- Don't look up!

His sanity was desperately warning himself. But An Ruosi's neck seemed to be manipulated, making a dry creaking sound and lifting it one by one.

-- It's Esther's corpse.

No, it's not so much a corpse as a corpse.

No legs, no forearms. His remaining limbs were tattered and scarred by crushing and twisting.

Now it seems that the half-rotten head is the most complete part of the body

His remaining torso looked like a cross. Seven or eight thin black threads hung down from the sky, tying up Esther's body from all angles. It is hung in the air like a pendulum, swinging slowly from side to side.

Dark red blood oozed from the place where it was tightly pinched by the black line, and fell to the surface of the water with a special rhythm.

At that moment, a soft laugh came from his ears, and something warm and smooth wrapped around the top of his head, slowly engulfing it downward.

It was like something was going to swallow him whole.

"Ahh

Ann Ruosi finally broke down.

The magic power in his body burst out, rolling up a raging hurricane.

But at the same time, the overly rough use of magic power also caused the skin of his whole body to burst suddenly. At that moment, An Ruosi seemed to have turned into a bloody man.

His actions set off a prelude to the mutation.

The blood on the ground, the walls around it, and the corpses behind them all moved in that instant. And An Ruosi no longer has a trace of magic in his body at this moment.

Without hesitation, he dragged his somewhat limp legs and ran desperately backwards.

But soon, a thick wall appeared in front of him, formed entirely by the tight entanglement of chains of steel.

At a cursory glance, he even thought it was a wall of jagged bars.

But An Ruosi showed an excited look, and her steps were a little faster.

There is a way......

Although his blank brain had not yet thought of a specific solution, his body instinctively told him that the "iron chain", an object with binding significance, could be easily shattered by himself.

It can definitely be shattered-

An Ruosi ran towards the dead end, but the light of life flashed in his eyes.

You can't die.

At the last moment, Anroth's confused brain finally remembered the secret technique that Esther had taught her.

"Bastard, ahh

He howled hysterically and stretched out his right hand to the front.

The moment his hand touched it, countless steel chains shattered. Light poured in from the outside.

…… Yes.

Finally, saved.

An Ruosi smiled reluctantly, and fell into the soft and fragrant light, losing consciousness.

――――――

“…… Good boy, thank you for your hard work. ”

Esther accurately hugged An Ruosi, who was unconscious and fell, and a trace of apology appeared on his face that was always smiling.

He gently placed An Ruosi flat on the ground. He was covered with his own coat.

Beside Esther, the ground was littered with broken shards of chains.

However, these chains are completely different from the patterns that Anruth had seen in the illusion before.

Their texture is white gold, with an inexplicably graceful curvature, and they are covered with tiny celestial inscriptions.

It was a chain of holiness that no one who had ever seen it once would never have thought of.

And in the very center of the room, someone who had been bound in mid-air by countless chains fell to the ground, but he woke up and opened his eyes.

"Ah, my friend, long time no see."

Esther lowered her head and smiled a genuinely gentle smile.

“…… Ah, my friend, long time no see. ”

Someone on the ground looked up, and a hoarse voice came. (To be continued.) )