In the inky black cave, only three or two torches lit up the surrounding area for only three or two meters. The six Purple Knights who entered the cave with Karen were silent and silent.

By the faint light of the fire, Carl stared at Karen's flickering face. Karl didn't understand why the Alveria Imperial Golden Lion would suddenly say this to himself. Before that, he had been with him for so long, and he didn't say it to himself. When they first met, he didn't say why he told himself the first time he entered Dracula's mausoleum! What was the golden mask that Karen was talking about? Wasn't the purpose of their trip to find a way to make the Blood Crystal and stop Albert's plot?

"Carl, I know it's a little hard to swallow for a while. However, every word I say is true. If you are willing to believe me, then I and the Greywater Mercenary Group will be rescued. If you are skeptical of my words, then the next expedition will be as the secret file says. Everything we do will be the wedding dress of Dracula's resurrection!"

By this time, Karen's tone was not as eager as she had been when she had just stated to Carl. On the contrary, Karen's tone was calm, completely restoring the golden lion to its original appearance.

But this only frightened Carl even more.

Since his awakening, Carl has become suspicious of everything that is happening around him, and a pair of ruthless hands seem to control the direction of the world. And these ruthless hands have a lot to do with the disappearance of their own Father. After the original war, Karl was disheartened by the rebellion of one person, but now it seems that some things are intentional by some powerful beings, and this powerful being should be the hell and the abyss that have always coveted the main plane.

Although, I don't know if hell and the abyss will cooperate, and during the period of time when the father disappears, they will start a war again and fight for the main plane, but combined with those fragmented memories, Karl knows in his heart that the shadow of hell and the abyss has always shrouded the main plane!

Karen saw Carl closed his eyes and froze in place, thinking that what he said was too shocking, and he didn't digest and absorb it for a while, so Karen motioned to the other Purple and Gold Flower Knights to pause and stay where they were and wait for Carl.

After a while, Carl, who was immersed in the memories of the past, still regained his spirit because his memory awakening was not perfect enough and he did not find too many useful memories.

When he opened his eyes and saw Karen and the other Purple Flower Knights waiting for him, Karl first said sorry, and then said to Karen, "I don't know, in the next operation, how can I break the story that the Lord of Hell has written?"

"Next, we need to pass three trials before we can reach the real Dracula's Mausoleum. As long as you get there, and then stop Albert from obtaining the Golden Mask, then all the stories will be rewritten!

"yes, I see. In the next action, I will try to follow your arrangement, and we will work together!" Karl said to Karen with a firm look in his eyes.

And then on

In the time that Carl and Karen were talking, Colin and the others, who were at the forefront, had already encountered the first obstacle in the true sense of the word.

Walking in the dry cave without encountering traps or monsters, and halfway through the trip, Colin and the others not only did not feel happy, but looked more and more nervous. In any case, the people of the Greywater Mercenary Group will not believe that there will be no traps in Dracula's mausoleum!

"Be careful!" When the members of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment who were walking at the forefront walked past a gargoyle statue, the malicious reconnaissance that had been surrounding Colin and the others suddenly burst into brilliant light, illuminating the entire cave!

"It's a gargoyle, everyone defends the formation and prevents other attacks!" When he saw the red light erupt from the eyes of the gargoyle on the cave wall, who had not moved, Colin knew that the attack he had been fearing had arrived!

Soon after entering the cave, the Greywater Mercenaries discovered the presence of ugly gargoyles on the walls of the cave, and they were careful about it. Not only was the undead scout released on the gargoyle statue, but one of the party members also destroyed one of the gargoyle statues. As a result, the other gargoyle statues were unresponsive. Afraid that just this one was a gargoyle statue, Colin would destroy a dozen other gargoyle statues. The results have not changed.

Although gargoyles are a difficult opponent among the undead creatures, that just means that gargoyles are in an open place, after all, relying on high mobility, many mercenaries who have just joined the adventure cannot have effective means to deal with gargoyles. But in the narrow space of the cave, the gargoyles can only be beaten!

But what happened next was completely unexpected. When an unknown number of gargoyles revived, they did not choose to attack the Greywater mercenary group, but chose to escape into the cave rocks.

"Everyone, be vigilant. Harry, resist the opening of the Ring of Fire, Roy, Matt, ready to support the shieldmen. Colin yelled. "Yes, Commander!" the three people who were called by name hurriedly responded. At the same time, a fiery ring of fire appeared around the Greywater Mercenary Regiment, enveloping it!

The Greywater Mercenary Regiment is preparing to resist the enemy, and Carl is also preparing. Although this side is not as complete as the Greywater Mercenary Group, there are warriors, shields, magic swordsmen, and mages. But here Carl is more convinced that it will be easier to deal with than the Greywater Mercenary Group. The reason is simple, those hapless gargoyles are facing the most powerful weapon of the Alverian Empire, the Purple Gold Flower Knights.

At the first moment of the gargoyle's recovery, the six Purple Gold Flower Knights who walked on the outside formed a defensive formation. The reassuring defensive light shield was already swirling around the Purple Flower Knight's formation.

"This is the first test of Dracula's mausoleum, it is indeed a gargoyle, but the material used to make a gargoyle is an expensive space stone, and the core of these gargoyles is a dark source crystal!" Karen explained to Carl.

Space Stone?Karl frowned slightly, if it was really a gargoylee made by Space Stone, then the next battle would definitely be extremely difficult.

As

Although the raw material for making the space ring, the Space Stone is not difficult to obtain, the processing of the Space Stone is extremely difficult. It requires mastery of space magic, as well as skilled mechanics. However, space magic is rarely studied, and even fewer can be proficient in mechanical production at the same time. Very few people have a space ring that is relatively simple to make, let alone make a space stone into a gargoyle.

If the gargoyle is made of the Stone of Space, then the stone wall will not be an obstacle, but will become an obstacle for Carl and the others to kill them.

"Also, these gargoyles have the characteristic that they are difficult to kill. Specifically, Carl, you will find out in the next battle!" As soon as Karen finished speaking, he swung his long sword and slashed a gargoylee that had broken through the light shield in two!

As this one gargoyle broke in, other gargoyles also appeared from the wall, and then broke through the papier-mâché-like light shield and rushed towards the Purple Gold Flower Knight behind the light shield.

But no matter what material these gargoyles are made of, they are just gargoyles, and for the Purple Flower Knight, it is like a child holding a sledgehammer to smash himself, although the weapon is powerful, but the user's strength is too weak.

In two or three clicks, the Purple Flower Knight killed all those gargoyles. On the side of the Greywater Mercenary Group, the situation was even simpler, the gargoyles did not break through the Ring of Resistance Fire at all, and were directly killed outside the Ring of Resistance.

Looking at the gargoyle statue shattered into several pieces on the ground, Carl's inquiring gaze turned to Karen, "Carl, look!" Karen pointed to the gargoyle statue on the ground, and following the direction that Karen pointed, Carl saw that the body of the gargoyle that was cut in half was slowly melting into the ground.

"Karen, is this what you call the scary thing about gargoyles?" Although Cal was a little surprised to be able to blend into the ground, it was not harmful to the adventure team.

"Carl, do you know why this cave is getting bigger and bigger?" After Karen finished speaking, she looked at the Greywater Mercenary Group in front of her, and it seemed that the Greywater Mercenary Group had also discovered the situation of those broken gargoyles statues, and let out an exclamation.

"You mean?!" Carl looked at Karen in shock, and now he understood a little bit of what Karen was saying about the horror.

"That's right, Dracula's mausoleum is a huge space stone!" Karen picked up a gargoyle gravel from the ground that had not yet fully integrated into the ground, and said to Karl, "Although I don't know where Dracula got such a large space stone, this mausoleum is indeed made of a huge space stone!"

"To be honest, when I saw it for the first time, I was no less shocked than when I saw the message of the Lord of Hell. And these gargoyle rubble, as long as they are in this mausoleum, will be infinitely reborn, and their strength will become stronger and stronger!" Karen said as he lifted half of the gargoyle rubble through his palm to Karl.

"Isn't there a way to crack it?" asked Karl.

"Yes, or no. Karen's gaze flickered,

"The only way is for a space archmage to cut off the relationship between the gargoyle and the mausoleum through the spatial blockade, and then shatter the dark source crystal in the gargoyle's body. Only in this way can you completely crack the first level. Karen's face was a little bitter.

"It's hard to shatter ......" Before Carl could finish speaking, Karen spoke first: "Just simply shattering the Dark Source Crystal doesn't have any effect. That would only delay the gargoyle's appearance!"

"How did you crack the first level in that secret file?" If, according to Karen, in the end, they managed to reach Dracula's tomb. But according to the current situation, it is difficult to even pass the first level, so how did they get to Dracula's mausoleum.

The bitterness on Karen's face became even more obvious when Karl asked him like this, "At that time, we didn't solve the first level at all, but escaped by escaping, and after reaching the second level, we got rid of the gargoyle attack!"

"It is recorded in the secret file that after discovering that the gargoyles can be resurrected infinitely and their strength will increase, I discussed with the people of the Greywater Mercenary Group to retreat, and as a result, the strength of the next wave of gargoyles has greatly increased, and the strength of the blood-stained gargoyles is even stronger. ”

So, at that time, we were shut off in order to avoid annihilation. I consulted with Captain Colin, and the Purple Gold Flower Knight led by me was in charge of the break, and the Greywater Mercenary Regiment continued to advance. But Master Colin refused my request. In the end, each side sent four players with strong defensive capabilities to stay behind us. Because of their efforts, I and the Greywater Mercenary Group were able to reach the second level!"

Now, though, there's Carl for you, and that's the singularity of that script. I believe that with the help of your power, then it will be possible for us to get rid of what is written in the secret file. Successfully break through to the second level!"

Although Karen is full of confidence in herself, Karl doesn't think so, he is not a space archmage, and he can't block the connection between the gargoyle and Dracula's mausoleum, so how can he get through the first hurdle safely?

When the gargoyles reappeared in front of the Greywater Mercenaries, Colin noticed something unusual. "Mistress Meredith, have you noticed that there is something unusual about these gargoyles that attacked us?"

"Colin, I've already discovered the spatial anomaly here, but I'm only a fire-based archmage, not a space-based one, so I don't have a clue how to solve the current problem!" Meredith shook his head.

"Perhaps, with the help of Carl's Lamp of Shar, we can find out the spatial fluctuation anomaly here, and then we can crack it!" Meredith said to Colin.

"Okay, I'll ask Carl to borrow the lamp of Shar!" Colin nodded to Meredith, and left the defensive phalanx of the Greywater Mercenary Regiment, walking towards the lagging Cal and the Purple Gold Knights.

When Colin arrived, Carl and the others had just finished out the second wave of gargoyles. Watching the gargoyle rubble disappear into the ground once more, Colin spoke Meredith's thoughts.

As soon as Colin finished speaking, before Carl could speak, Karen took the lead and told the news she had, and when Karen said that the news was collected by the Alverian Empire, Karl was a little different. Why don't you tell Colin the key to your operation, and why don't you tell Lord Colin what will happen next?

Although he was a little surprised, Karl didn't show it, but smiled and said to Colin: "Lord Colin, in my space ring, there is a space magic scroll, maybe it is useful!"

"In that case, let's quickly talk to Master Meredith, the third wave of attacks should be coming soon!" Colin turned his gaze to Karen, "Well, yes, there are about three minutes left." And after the third wave, the strength of gargoyles will be greatly improved. We must seal these gargoyles before the fourth wave comes!" Karen responded.

By the time Karl and the others returned to the Greywater Mercenary Regiment's defensive phalanx, the third wave of attacks had already passed. And the fourth wave is only ten minutes away.

"Master Meredith, I have a space-based magic scroll here, but it's not a sealing scroll, it's a fixed-point teleportation scroll. If all of this gargoyle were teleported to other places, would it be possible to break the connection between the gargoyle and Dracula's mausoleum?" Karl took out the pitch-black scroll that Kalenezzi had given him from the spatial ring.

When he felt the spatial fluctuations emanating from the scroll, even though Meredith was not a space mage, he was shocked by the violent magic fluctuations on the scroll. But Meredith took the scroll from Karl's hand and studied it for a while, only to find out. I've never seen this kind of space scroll before.

"Carl, where did you get this scroll from?" Meredith asked in surprise.

"It was given to me by one of my elders, and he gave me this scroll just in case he wanted to take the risk. According to my elder, just open this magic scroll and you can teleport yourself where you want to go!" Karl explained.

"Although, I don't recognize the name of this scroll, but from the magic fluctuations on it, I can feel the preciousness of this scroll. Carl, you'd really like to use this scroll here. If you use it, it's equivalent to losing your life!" Although the scroll in front of him could indeed easily solve the dilemma in front of him, Meredith still solemnly told Karl about it.

"This mission is a must for the Greywater Mercenary Regiment, and I'm here now, and if I don't get rid of those disgusting gargoyles, I'll die here!" Karl said in a firm tone.

"In that case, I'll just use it!" Meredith didn't ink again, but chose to do it directly. The use of the magic scroll is very simple, as long as you tear the seal on the scroll to control the stability of the magic power, you can use it directly.

When Meredith's magic spread across the pitch-black scrolls, even warriors such as Colin, who were not so obvious to the sense of magic, clearly felt a powerful magic power manifest in Meredith's hands.

Everyone

Stand back!" Meredith shouted, now feeling more and more that the scroll in his hand was like a barrel of explosives ready to explode.

When the Greywater Mercenary Regiment and the Purple Flower Knight retreated nearly twenty meters away from Meredith, the fourth wave of gargoyles had arrived. As a gargoylee made from the Stone of Space, the fluctuations in the magic of space are more obvious. When they felt the spatial magic fluctuations in Meredith's hand, all the gargoyles abandoned Colin and the others and began to attack the Meredith archmage.

However, it was already too late. An indigo wormhole flickering with spatial lightning appeared in Meredith's hand. All the gargoyles seemed to have been swept away by a tornado, and they were all sucked into the indigo wormhole and disappeared!

When all the gargoyles were gone, so was the indigo wormhole in Meredith's hand. After doing all this, Meredith collapsed to the ground as if she had collapsed.

(End of chapter)