A few months ago, the royal palace of Hansha City. The night before Joika and Owen left.

Owen promised to help Queen Catherine track down Jane who was being held on a rope, not completely for free. In the presence of Queen Catherine, Owen made a request.

"You want me to cooperate with you in a play? Hmph, it seems that you have ulterior motives for staying with Her Royal Highness the Princess. After hearing Owen's request, Queen Catherine said coldly with a disdainful expression on her face.

"Your Majesty, please believe me, yes, there are things that must be kept from Sophia, but everything I do is for Sophia. Owen explained, "If I had any intention of harming Sophie, would she still be alive until now?"

"How do you make me trust someone who deceives Her Highness the Princess?"

"Don't say that, Your Majesty, don't you yourself hide a lot of things from Sophia?"

"Are you trying to coerce me?"

"No, I'm just stating a fact. Now the situation in Olopa is getting more and more dangerous, and you can't fail to understand it. ”

"This ......," Catherine began to waver after a second thought, "how do you want me to cooperate with you?"

"It's simple. Your Majesty, didn't King Duris mine the ancient treasure of the second Shumiro Empire? And...... "Owen handed a half-crescent-shaped jet-black stone to Catherine," please give this thing to Sophia with a discreet manner, and tell Sophia that this is the key to the treasure. ”

After a moment of hesitation, Catherine finally took the half-crescent stone from Owen's hand.

"I don't know what your real purpose is. I am now the queen of a country, but I am also the 'bull' general of Her Royal Highness the Princess. I can trust you for the time being, but can you guarantee that Her Royal Highness the princess will not be harmed in any way?" Catherine suddenly stern.

"I can't guarantee that Sophia will be unharmed. Owen replied honestly, "But if she's going to get hurt, it's going to be after I'm a corpse." ”

The two half-crescent-shaped "keys" were put together to form a complete crescent shape, which was then shattered into powder in Owen's hands.

It is not crushed by pure brute force, this is an extremely hard rare ore, even if it is hit hard by a monster of the level of a mammoth, it will not be damaged in the slightest, Owen does it by crushing telekinesis. No matter how strong the substance is, as long as you can know the material condition of its composition, you can use your mental power to break it down, and this is the power of the mental power master.

With the shattering of the two "keys", two giant stone statues of ancient samurai also appeared. As if sensing the two "keys", the two stone statues have also changed. Cracks began to appear on the stone statues, then split, disintegrate, peel off, shatter......

This dark cave was tricked into this dark cave by Owen colluding with Catherine - or cooperating with Catherine to trick Sophia in, but one thing Owen did not deceive Sophia is that the inside of these two stone statues does contain extremely large alien magic. It's just that the person who is immersed in this magic power is not the ancient Shumiro Empire, which has long since perished, and the time of attention is not on the eve of the collapse of the Shumiro Empire more than 1,700 years ago, but more than two months ago.

There is still a stone wall behind the stone wall, there is no such thing as a "treasure" at all, but the key is still the key, and there is nothing wrong with that.

The two giant stone statues were completely shattered into slag, and the magic contained in them was also released, pouring into a magic circle that had long been buried on the ground. After activation, the magic array was replenished with a steady stream of energy, and the colorful magic light waves were constantly flickering.

Owen picked up Sophia, walked to the core of the magic circle, and put her down.

As the magic streamer swirled, Sophia was enveloped in a massive magical light, making her look like a giant glowing cocoon from afar.

On the other hand, Owen himself was not idle. After the two giant samurai stone statues were completely shattered and the magical energy released was completely absorbed by the magic array on the ground, two shelves about 3 or 4 meters high were left in place, echoing each other from afar, looking like execution racks used to torture prisoners. Owen jumped onto the "execution rack" and secured his hands on both sides, allowing his body to levitate in mid-air. Immediately afterwards, I saw a cloud of moon-silver magic light detached from the magic array on the ground, rushed onto the "execution rack", and invaded Owen's body through the skin in an extremely savage way.

"Ahh......h

The extremely uncomfortable pain made even a tough guy like Owen unbearable, and he screamed out loud. It was not only the pain of the body, but also the pain of the soul being torn apart.

Then he saw the blood-like mist emanating from Owen's body, mixing with the moon-silver magical light that enveloped his body, leaving Owen's body and flowing back into the magic circle on the ground, and the magic power full of Owen's life and soul energy was injected into Sophia's body.

During this period, no matter how cruel the torture was, Owen still gritted his teeth and endured it, resolutely not letting himself lose consciousness. Because only in a state of soberness can this "life-changing ritual" be carried out smoothly, otherwise it will only be a failure.

Suddenly, the whole process of energy conversion came to an abrupt halt.

Owen, who was sweating profusely, came back to his senses a little, and when he looked closely, he saw a graceful figure floating towards him. Sophia took Owen, who had no strength on the "execution rack", and helped him down to the ground.

"When did you wake up?" Seeing the scene in front of him, Owen couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"I've been awake and just want to see what you're going to do. Sophia looked annoyed, but not because of Owen's deception of her, "But...... But you are sacrificing your life and soul without telling me!"

That's why Sophia is angry.

"I'm sorry, Sophia, I didn't want to lie to you. But you should know that the power of the 'stigma' flowing through you is by no means a free lunch, and every time you use the 'stigma', you must pay the price of shortening your life and damaging your soul, even before your own strength reaches the point where you can fully master the 'stigma'. ”

"So you're colluding with Catherine to create this 'life-changing' circle and sacrifice your own life and soul to me?"

"Listen, Sophia, even if I don't do anything now, I don't have a few years left to live, and I'm happy to be able to do something for you......"

"But I'm not satisfied!Who do you think you are mine??, why sacrifice for me!" Sophia snarled rarely, "Bastard! bastard...... Hard, do you want to make me carry a lifetime of sorrow and guilt?"

In front of him, her strength was nothing more than a fragile.

Owen raised his weak hands and grabbed Sophia's shoulders to calm her down: "Grit your teeth, hold on, what can't you get through? There's no need to think about anything for me, at least not for now." Otherwise, all the preparations that the Lich King had prepared for us would be in vain. ”

"The Lich King, the Lich King, the thousand-year-old tortoise again! Why did he come up with such a bad idea to take you away from me?"

"Little girl, you are also a well-bred girl, don't you know that it is wrong to speak ill of others behind your back. Suddenly, in this deep cave, a third voice sounded, and it was the voice of an old man.

A spatial rift was cut open a few meters behind the two of them, and then a gray-haired old man could be seen walking out of the spatial rift: Village Chief Bora.