The long night was like day to the Wood Elves, but to Akasha, it was a sign of endless fear.

The moment she sank into the abyss, she could clearly see orange flames erupting from the serpent's mouth, and the scorching waves of air even made her hair curl slightly—luckily, it only took about two seconds before she touched the ground.

"Phew!"

The muffled sound rumbled in my ears, and my body seemed to fall apart, but it was not as terrible as the pain in my bone marrow. Akasha reached out and touched it, and found that there were pieces of broken pieces beneath her... Paper.

Looking up, the serpent's head was trying to burrow into the gap, but after several failed attempts, it finally gave up and swam elsewhere - as its massive body writhed, the stone slabs shook again, and the dust and rubble falling from the cracks made Akasha raise her hand above her head before daring to let it go.

And after the other party left completely, somehow, the cracks in those stone slabs actually returned to their original state, almost completely blocking the already faint starlight.

Gradually, the surroundings fell silent, all the sounds in her ears seemed to be blocked, and the boundless darkness enveloped her.

Although she escaped from the mouth of this terrible demonic beast, Akasha did not feel the slightest relief at this time, because she was not sure whether she was safe or not. Unleashed a healing spell to remove the pain, and Akasha struggled to widen her eyes as she stood up, but she couldn't see anything.

Tentatively raising her hand, she unleashed a faintly lit "Holy Light Spell" for illumination—and after seeing her surroundings clearly, Akasha's mouth widened in surprise at what she saw.

The first thing that catches the eye is the half-meter-thick scraps of paper under your feet, which have rotted like dirt because of the rain for many years.

Raising his head, in the faint light, more than 100 corpses that had become dry bones were lying in the stone room, making Akasha shiver all over his body...

The hall, which is more than 500 square meters in size, resembles a palace, with smooth walls and no exits, and the floor is full of collapsed bookshelves, shredded paper, and the remains of all kinds of fallen corpses.

An enclosed stone chamber was thus revealed to Akasha, the first intruder in 718 years.

There were one hundred and thirty corpses on the ground, and the corpses that had completely surrounded Akasha had decayed to a gray-black color, but there was still a little skin left on the skull for some reason, and the hideous expression had been preserved for hundreds of years. Akasha looked at the faces of the corpses, and seemed to hear the sounds of the battle hundreds of years ago echoing in the stone room...

Her lips trembled, and she tried to find the exit like crazy, but when she spent half an hour making sure that there was no way out of the walls around her, and that the gap above her head could not climb up, the original hope in her heart was being eaten away by the desperate situation in front of her...

Although she has experienced life-and-death battles, she is not afraid of those miserable corpses, but this does not mean that Akasha can bear the fear of despair...

The space that was so silent that she was suffocated, the magical beasts that surrounded her in the darkness, the nearly a hundred corpses on display—Akasha, who was no more than twenty-three years old, stared blankly at everything in front of her, as if the strength in her body was gradually being drained by the cold air, she shook her head and muttered, "Why do you want to do this... Why should it be..."

The strong will that originally supported her to "get out of the forest" was finally completely destroyed by a series of blows, and the weakness caused by fright, exhaustion, hunger, mana overdraft, and anemia made Akasha unable to support it anymore, and when the third search for an exit was fruitless, Akasha's will to survive finally completely collapsed...

As the lighting effect of the Holy Light Technique slowly faded, Akasha sat down on the ground.

"Who's coming... Who's going to help me..."

Amid the sobbing, Akasha closed her eyes like a young and helpless little girl, and the faint sound of pleading for help echoed in the stone chamber, which was extremely desolate.

Following.

The sky above the Silent Forest was covered with clouds, and the air became cold and bitter without sunlight.

The "Blood Shield Mercenary Regiment", which was divided into two routes, was ready for the task at this time, and the regiment leader Kevin Youya led nearly forty people towards Elsa Village, while the remaining ten mercenaries had already come to the edge of the "Wagra Ruins" at this time.

The route had been surveyed and cleared, and the ten mercenaries, led by the deputy commander, all led by the horses prepared in advance, looked at the still silent ruins a hundred meters away.

"Everything, then ready-"

The deputy head of the regiment stuffed the magic communication scroll used to inform Kevin, got up and was about to give the order, but the words got stuck in his throat, and he frowned and looked to the sides.

It seems a little too quiet all around...

A little doubt flashed in his heart, but he immediately remembered that the giant snake was the existence that could cause the beast tide - the silence of the forest at this time was probably also due to the coercive existence maintained by the other party after waking up.

The last trace of doubt dissipated, the deputy commander gave the order to start "inducing", everyone got on their horses, and then everyone took out a delicate metal box from their bodies, and uniformly inlaid a thumb-sized magic crystal on the groove on the top of the box.

The reason why the Snake King Sakya was awakened from his slumber and released a strong coercion was entirely because of this "Pit Viper Cross" device specially designed to search for high-level demonic beasts... The magic circle depicted inside the box will cast magic fluctuations that are unbearable for the monster, and once it is within 100 meters, any monster will chase after it because it is provoked!

At this time, the deputy commander led the team to gradually approach the ruins, and the war horse hesitated because of the pressure of the snake king Sakya in front, but had to move forward under the urging of the mercenaries. The tense atmosphere made the air freeze, and although it seemed to be calm, the mercenaries' hands holding the reins were already soaked with sweat.

100 meters, 80 meters, 70 meters...

"Boom!"

When I got close to sixty meters, there was a muffled sound in the ruins in the distance, and then I saw a large cloud of smoke and dust floating in it—

"Run!"

In order not to make any mistakes in the induction task, the deputy head of the regiment personally led the team to act, so the mercenaries did not dare to slack off, turned their horses' heads and began to run towards the pre-planned route, and lined up the formation in the shortest possible time...

In the ruins behind, the body of the snake king Sakya suddenly rushed out of the dust, its huge head was slightly raised, there was no hesitation at this time, it directly stared at the big gray eyes and chased after the mercenaries, the sound of "hissing" came from the fishy mouth, and the anger was undisguised!

When its body broke away from the ruins, it could be seen that it had reached an astonishing length of more than thirty meters - but the multi-ton body was not slow at all under the full pursuit, and in the blink of an eye, it jumped dozens of meters, approaching the mercenaries who had not yet run at full speed.

However, when the deputy commander led the mercenaries through the initial acceleration stage, the giant snake chasing frantically behind him could no longer get closer, although it was still in hot pursuit, but the speed slowed down a lot.

"It's just a stupid brute, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

One of the mercenaries beside the deputy head shouted, and the originally nervous companions laughed, and the reins seemed to become fluttering in their hands.

"After this vote, the head of the regiment will be rewarded! Don't slack off, everyone—damn it! Hide!"

The deputy head of the regiment glanced back as he spoke, but when he saw Sakya suddenly raise his head, his face immediately changed, and he yelled at the mercenaries to dodge...

"Boom-"

The firelight suddenly lit up the gray forest, Sakya, as a high-level demonic beast with fire attributes, was able to spew out nearly thirty meters away with just the simplest breath, and the mercenary closest to it was a few seconds slower to dodge, and was shrouded in firelight, and in an instant, even people and horses became galloping torches, screaming and falling to the ground...

Later, he was directly crushed into meat sauce by Sakya's body.

This kind of change sent chills down the spine of the mercenaries who had just run away, and the original pride was like being poured cold water on their heads in an instant, and they all accelerated forward with tense faces - once accelerated, the Snake King Sakya's flame breath was useless, but it still chased angrily.

"It's just a snake after all..."

The deputy head of the regiment breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but just when he thought that everything was going smoothly, a muffled sound in his ears made him turn his head in confusion...

"Poof!"

The mercenary, who was still shouting that Sakya was a brute, fell straight off his horse and stuck an arrow in his chest!

How can there be arrows here? Who will attack us!?

Before he could figure out such a question in his head, he only felt something shake in front of him, and immediately leaned over to dodge, narrowly dodging a long arrow.

"Someone attacked!"

"Enemy attack! Beware of the Hidden Arrows!"

The rest of the mercenaries screamed, but as soon as they were distracted, the snake king Sakya, who was chasing after him, directly turned another unlucky ghost into a torch with his flame breath.

The deputy head of the regiment was horrified, and when he raised his head, he couldn't find anyone who was shooting arrows at all.

Plotted!

He gritted his teeth and looked back at the Snake King Sakya, but he reached out and took out the magic scroll used to notify Kevin, and tore the seal on it...

Let's go back a few minutes.

When the mercenaries of the "Blood Shield Mercenary Group" were just about to march towards the ruins, Roddy kept silently watching everything in front of him.

After using the "Concealment Technique", he almost merged with the bark and dead leaves next to him when he stood on the trunk of the tree. From the early hours of the morning until now, he has been waiting around here for three hours.

Roddy's plan is actually very simple: since this group of mercenaries is willing to lure the snake king Sakya away, he is completely happy to see it happen - this is definitely equivalent to helping him a lot, and he doesn't have to deal with the snake himself, he just needs to take the opportunity to enter the ruins to find the "Demon Hunter" inheritance... As for the mercenaries who rushed into the distance, the "surprises" prepared by the wood elves were waiting for them.

A rumbling sound sounded, and the snake king Sakya rushed out of the ruins without accident, because it was far away, Luo Di had a more intuitive understanding of the size of this guy, but the other party's gray eyes and slightly hesitant movements when running also made Luo Di understand the fact that the other party was a blind snake.

However, these things have little to do with him, according to his and Brudy's village chief's plan, it will take at least ten minutes for the snake to come and go after it is lured out, and if he wants to complete the task, he must find clues within ten minutes.

He wasn't entirely sure about these Roddy, but the opportunity lay in front of him, and he had no reason to back down - seeing the ten mercenaries and the snake king Sakya leave the ruins and enter the forest, he jumped down from the trunk of the tree, carrying the [Ice Crystal Thorn] and ran towards the ruins...

I remember that when I did the [Ranger] advanced mission, Mentor Nata set the goal for him to just kill 3 beasts that reached level 15 within the specified time, speaking of such a task is simple and straightforward, but now the task of [Lone Wanderer in the Dark] does not give specific hints, Roddy can't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, he doesn't know if the advanced task of this IMBA profession will be so difficult that he can't cope with it.

It's just that he didn't run a few steps, and he stepped into the ruins of Wagra with one foot, and he suddenly discovered... Everything in front of me has changed.

In front of me was a dilapidated stone pavement, overgrown with weeds, and the surrounding buildings were decayed and vicissitudes, with the occasional sturdy wall, which was also covered with mottled cracks and creepers.

But at this time, Roddy's head suddenly appeared a picture that he had never seen before, and it coincided with the ruins in front of him, he tried to blink his eyes, but he felt that this sudden extra "memory" was like a fantasy that completely changed the ruins in front of him...