In the dark room, a mess of alchemy potions were placed haphazardly, emitting a disgusting smell, and in the depths of the room, bursts of wails and roars mixed with terrifying. Goliath looked at the evil alchemist in front of him expressionlessly, waiting for the other party to open an increase.

Goliath always knew that his encounter would sooner or later become the key to his fall into the abyss, especially after he entered the abyss and encountered the Soul Eater Mist, this feeling was even stronger. So in order to avoid such a situation, Goliath chose to come here to find this notorious evil alchemist, Kiddel, in order to find a way to suppress the darkness deep within him.

As one of the churches with the largest number of believers on the mainland, the Temple of Judgment has supreme authority, and Goliath, who chose to defect from the Temple of Judgment, was naturally tolerated by righteous people, and could not solve this problem through normal channels, so he had no choice but to choose Keddle.

- Looking at the former Knights of the Judgment Temple, Kidder let out a wicked smile before pulling out a scroll made from the skin of a Cliff Volcano goat. "I didn't expect the knights of the Temple of Great Radiance to let the toad who survived in the mud swamp help him. Kiddell smiled, "If only you can grant me a humble offer for this filthy man, then your confusion will be solved." ”

Goliath didn't seem to hear Kidder's words, and all his attention was on the scroll made of sheepskin from Mount Cliff in front of him. The conscience in my heart was constantly admonishing myself not to open the parchment scroll. But Goliath knew that with his current meager willpower and conscience, he could no longer control the powerful darkness in his heart. The death of his mother hit him too strongly.

"What's the matter? Could it be that the powerful Knights of the Rings are afraid that the weak alchemists will set a trap in this scroll?" Kiddle sneered at Goliath's hesitation. Goliath raised his head and glanced coldly at Kidder, the evil alchemist in front of him didn't know how many he had killed in the years when he was a knight of the precepts.

Although Goliath's eyes were terrifying, it made Kidder laugh even more, and Kiddel's thin body curled up under the table with an exaggerated laugh. Seeing Kidder's performance, Goliath frowned slightly, sighed deeply, picked up the parchment scroll on the table, opened it slowly, and read it carefully.

"How is it, my glorious knight of the Commandments, is the contents of this contract acceptable to you?" Kidder, who had recovered a little, asked Goliath mockingly. "No problem. Say what you want. Goliath asked, rewinding the scroll and looking into Kiddle's cloudy eyes. "My lord, my conditions are very simple......" Kidder waved his hand, and an esoteric abyssal text appeared on the scroll and flashed, "My lord, open it again and take a look." ”

Goliath glanced at Kidder suspiciously, then opened the sheepskin scroll again, and when he saw Kidder's offer, Goliath's hand holding the scroll immediately clenched the scroll. "Oh...... Oh...... My dear lord, don't crush this scroll, it's a scroll made of Cliff volcano goatskin that I bought with a great deal of money. Kidder said with an exaggerated expression. Looking at Kidder's state, it seems that Goliath's anger is not enough.

Goliath only took a deep look at Kidder before picking up a quill and signing his name at the very end of the scroll. After seeing Goliath's final signing, Kidder whistled happily and threw a worn-out box to Goliath. "This is the item you want, as long as you have this, when you fall into the darkness, he will automatically trap you in it, and then after a period of control, the darkness inside you will be suppressed. However, the darkness in your heart can only be suppressed by this prop for a period of time, and if you want to completely eradicate it, then you can only rely on yourself. After the deal, Kidder was extremely excited, not only talking a lot, but also telling Goliath about the item's flaws.

"Now that you've got what you want, ask the great Lord of the Knights of the Rings to leave my little house. To be honest, the aura of light on your body is disgusting. Seeing that Goliath was still holding the box in a daze, Kidder unceremoniously ordered the eviction.

After Goliath packed up the worn-out box containing the props that could suppress the darkness in his heart, he didn't look at Kiddell again, and silently stood up to leave. "Oh, I forgot to tell you. The name of this item is - Iron Maiden, and the method used is within the scroll. Goliath, who had already reached the door, froze, and then returned to his original state in an instant.

After Goliath left his lab, Keddle let out an arrogant, menacing laugh as he looked at the parchment scroll floating in front of his eyes.

When Carl saw that Vilia had successfully shot the Life Arrow at Goliath, he hurriedly separated from Goliath and ducked to the side, after all, he did not want to eat a Life Arrow with Goliath. But just as the Life Arrow was about to hit Goliath, a strange change suddenly appeared, and a pitch-black iron box appeared in front of Goliath, blocking the extremely powerful Life Arrow, or more accurately, temporarily blocking the Life Arrow in front of Goliath. However, looking at the appearance of the iron box, it could not withstand the power of arrows made from the branches of the ancient tree of life.

But this short moment was enough for the iron box to do what it wanted, and under the surprised gazes of Vilia and Karl, the iron box wrapped the angry Goliath. The unblocked arrow of life also hit the iron box in an instant, and then the emerald green light bloomed, driving away all the original red color of the space of the molten river. The green shadow of a towering tree of life appeared on the place where Goliath stood, and at the same time wrapped the iron box that had inexplicably appeared.

Vilia, who was holding Erin Loth, and Karl, who had already put away his sword to slash the enemy, cautiously walked towards the ancient tree of life, which was still radiating. "Vilia, what's going on? How did that arrow of yours turn into a big tree?" Karl felt pitiful about his lack of knowledge, which had already touched on his blind spots when the past few days had happened. And the two partners who were originally familiar with each other, during the time they were separated, seemed to have happened something he didn't know, and now Carl saw that Vilia and Goliath were a little strange.

"It's an arrow made from the branches of the Ancient Tree of Life, which can change the attack method according to the user's mind, like the arrow I shot just now just wanted to control Goliath, and didn't want to hurt him, so this arrow turned into the phantom of the Ancient Tree of Life to control Goliath. After explaining a little, Vilia turned to Carl and asked, "Do you know what the tin box is?"

Karl hesitated for a moment when Vilia asked this, "I don't really want to name this thing. But I'm also curious why he's here. After glancing at Carl suspiciously, Veria saw a reluctant and uncomfortable look, so she didn't ask any more questions.

Seeing that Vilia didn't ask herself again, Carl's hanging heart let go. Because of the origin of this thing, Carl really didn't know where to start with Vilia.

The young girl-like tin box was called the Iron Maiden, and was a torture instrument made by an evil Grand Duke of Nuremberg to torture people. When the box is opened, the inside of the box can be seen to be covered with sharp spikes, and these spikes will stab into the prisoner's body after being locked in the box, causing the prisoner to be tortured to death.

And then this is not the most terrifying, I heard that in the later years of Nuremberg's reign, the evil Grand Duke actually hollowed out the spikes inside the iron box, and then smeared it with honey, and found the Cree fire ant with amazing bite, and let the Cree fire ant pass through those small holes, and follow the honey into the prisoner's punctured flesh, making the prisoner even more painful.

In the end, the evil rule of the Grand Duke was overthrown by the people who could no longer tolerate his brutal rule, and the cruel torture instrument of the Iron Maiden disappeared into the long river of history.

"Carl, although I don't know exactly what this item is, but judging by your expression, I know it's not a good thing, so why did this thing put Goliath in it, do you know why?" asked Cal as she stared at the Iron Maiden.

Karl couldn't understand for a moment why the situation had become the way it was, the Iron Maiden was obviously a torture instrument that had disappeared for a hundred years, why it suddenly appeared, and she also put Goliath in it. During the period when Goliath was put into the Iron Maiden, and the Life Arrow shot the Iron Maiden and turned into the Ancient Tree of Life, there was no movement in the Iron Maiden, and the silence was terrifying.

Just when Carl and Vilia were at a loss for what to do in front of them, Phoenix, who had been guarding in front of Ivlit, suddenly let out an exclamation, and after Carl heard it, he immediately ran to Phoenix and asked with concern: "Finny, what's wrong?" Goliath has already had an accident, and Finnico can't have an accident, otherwise this expedition insisted on by Carl will become a stain on his life.

"I just saw Ifrit's hands. Phoenix flew up to Karl and said uncertainly. "Really?" Vilia, who came later, carefully glanced at Ifrit, who was motionless in mid-air, and then turned to Phoenix and said, "Fatney, are you mistaken?" This Ifrit is still a soulless shell in my perception. ”

"No...... No...... No...... I'm not mistaken, Ifrit's right fingers did move, but only once, so you didn't feel it. Phoenix didn't want to believe that the Ifrit in front of her was a soulless shell, and that she had been separated from Ifrit for too long.

"Feonny, you don't have to worry. Whether Ifrit touched it or not, we'll take her back. Even if I can't revive her now, I'm sure that old ghost Kalenezzi will know. Carl knew that Phoenix was concerned about chaos, so he held Phoenix in the palm of his hand and comforted him.

"Carl, you're going to revive Ivlit, aren't you?" Phoenix looked up at Carl pitifully, raising his big tearful eyes. "When have I ever lied to my favorite fatny?Moss Hunt, as your humble believer, I, Karl, am willing to swear that one day, I will help Ifrit recover!" As Karl's words fell, an arrow came from the void and pierced into the hearts of Carl and Phoenix. The contract is concluded!

"Oh, let me see, what a disgusting aura is wafting through it. The terrifying sound that had been ignored by Vilia and Carl for a long time was replaced by the coercive voice of "Demogogan", and it was gradually approaching Carl and Vilia.

Hearing the terrifying voice of "Demogogen", Vilia not only did not be afraid, but showed a sneering expression, and then raised her hand to pull the bow, and an energy arrow shot towards the empty place in front of her. The sound of a "bang" arrow hitting a hard object was heard, and looking at the ripples in the transparent space, Carl knew that the enemy had touched his face, and he didn't know anything.

"Come out, cowardly Slime. Vilia continued to raise her hand and draw her bow, continuing to shoot at the empty space in front of her, and Carl also took out the few goblin grenades left in the space ring and threw them forward with Vilia's energy arrows.

Perhaps because he was fed up with Vilia's attacks, or maybe Slime felt that he had achieved his goal, when an energy arrow was about to hit the invisible barrier again, Slime took the initiative to remove the barrier, exposing his body to Vilia and Carl. Behind the slimes stood fallen dwarves with eyes hungry for blood.

Looking at Slime's slippery and disgusting body, Vilia had confirmed that her guess was not wrong, Goliath's rampage and the voice of the terrifying Dimogogen just now were all ghosts carried out by the previous Lord of the Swamp Abyss, Slime.

"Proud elf, how did you know of my existence, and how did you break my mirage?" Although Slime is not good at melee combat, there are Abyssal Dwarves who have been successfully transformed behind him, as long as Vilia and Karl also act rashly, then let them taste how terrifying the power of the Abyssal Dwarves is.

"I've been smelling the disgusting stench of you since the moment you appeared. I thought you would use other powers against us, but I didn't expect you to choose the stupid method of using mirage coercion. Elves are not afraid of any kind of mind control. Velia raised her head proudly. Although Slime is regarded as a proud elf, if even Veria is not qualified to be proud, then no one in the entire elf clan can be a proud elf.

Hearing Vilia's words, Slime's cunning eyes slid through his narrow eye sockets, and Slime roared, "Foolish elves, you will pay the price for offending the great Lord of Slime. With a breath of acid spat at Vilia, the abyssal dwarf, who had been standing behind the slime, eager to kill and blood, frantically rushed over the slime towards Vilia and Karl as if they had been ordered.

Looking at the abyssal dwarves rushing in front of them, thinking that behind them was the imprisoned Goliath, Carl and Vilia knew that they had no way to retreat now, and only by fighting and winning could they save Goliath and complete their agreement with Phoenix.

"Carl, I'll help you contain those fallen dwarves, and you'll find a way to deal with that Slime Lord, if I'm not mistaken, that guy is just a projection of the Slime, the Lord of the Swamp. His strength was not strong enough to enter the main plane as a body. Vilia said to Karl as she moved quickly and drew her bow and shot arrows to kill the abyssal dwarves who had rushed in front of Karl.

Karl, who had already entered the battle state, nodded slightly, as a response to Velia. Faced with an unknown number of abyssal dwarves, Carl did not choose to take out the sword that the dwarves gave him to fight the enemy, but chose to use a dagger that he had always liked, an ordinary dagger.

After Vilia kills a roaring abyssal dwarf wielding a warhammer, Karl begins his own killing.

Although Slime had high expectations for these Abyssal Dwarves, he had hoped to return to the Abyss with them after obtaining the Defending Jewel, which no one would ever be able to obtain, and settle his feud with Lady Thunderbolt Zugemos once and for all. As a result, Slime saw a heartbreaking scene, the momentum was very strong, and the seemingly powerful abyssal dwarves were slaughtered like giants trampling a bunch of ants under the attack of Karl.

In fact, this is not to blame the abyssal dwarves, it can only be said that Carl is too perverted, although several of Carl's professional levels are very low, but Carl has a secret, that is, his body is strong and powerful to believe. Although Karl's battles with Goliath often ended in defeat, Karl did not suffer much damage, which can be used as a release for Goliath, but also due to Karl's physical fitness. And in Yaxi's competition, why he was hammered by Yakexi to vomit blood, Carl was also puzzled.

However, no matter how strong Carl's physical fitness is, he can bite an elephant to death if there are more ants, not to mention that those abyssal enemies are not small ants at all. Gradually, Karl felt that his speed at killing the Abyssal Dwarves was slowing down, and he was getting harder and harder. Although with the help of Vilia, Carl was already very close to Slime, the Lord of Slimes, but the short distance of more than ten meters between him and Slime was like a moat, making it impossible for Carl to cross it.

And there was no trace of panic on Slime's transparent and smooth face, and there seemed to be some mockery.

Just as Vilia and Karl were engrossed in fighting the Abyssal Dwarves, they didn't notice that behind them, the phantom of the originally crystal clear Ancient Tree of Life was already full of cracks.