"Gladys, Gladys!"

Her strength was so great that Natsu couldn't pull her hand away, so she had to lie down and call in her ear.

Seeing that it didn't work, she used psychic sensing again, but the sound was blocked out and couldn't be transmitted at all.

"Master, she should be scared."

The little Lori in black quickly judged the reason why the spider beauty was afraid:

"She was afraid of this after hearing the word Faennes, and like the original demon dukes, they seemed to be very afraid of the ancient magicians."

"The Demon Duke is just jealous, and he is not so frightened that he can't move like her."

Xia looked at Gladys's trembling appearance, and her heart was very anxious.

"Master, her ear is bleeding!"

The little Lori in black exclaimed.

Natsu hurriedly squatted down and saw blood dripping from the sides of her cheeks, which seemed to be caused by the excessive force of the hand covering her ears, and the skin at the base of her ears had turned dark purple.

“…… I couldn't pull her arm. ”

Natsu pulled one of her arms with all his might, but in the end, it didn't work.

"Master, knock her unconscious, she will be seriously injured if she continues like this."

The little Lori in black said worriedly.

Although she doesn't like Spider Girl stealing her dragon meat, it doesn't mean that she hates each other.

The most important thing is that Gladys, as the object of Xia's contract, belongs to one of Xia's combat partners, which is related to their overall strength, and as the No. 1 servant (self-proclaimed), she naturally can't sit idly by.

"I'll try."

Natsu tried to slash Gladys in the back of the neck with a knife, only to be shot back, which made her palms tingle.

"The blood vessels and nerves are not in the right place."

She quickly looked at the other person's neck and found the reason.

"Her skin and muscles are very tough, and her weaknesses are different from those of ordinary people, unless she uses a powerful attack to cause a faint, but our intention is not to hurt her, wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse."

Xia's mind spun rapidly, and finally his eyes lit up and he thought of an idea.

"Fight poison with poison!"

She asked for a black long knife from the black-clothed little Lori, and then flew into the air to launch the elemental awakening.

"Boom!"

Dark black flames erupted from above the blade, and the crystal building was filled with a scorching aura, and there was a hint of shock that could reach the depths of the soul.

"It was only when the Demon Duke saw the Elemental Awakening that he mistook me for a magician from Faennes, so Gladys should think the same way, right?"

She looked at the Spider Queen with some apprehension, it would be a very dangerous situation if the other party suddenly attacked her.

The expected attack did not come, and Gladys felt the shock of her soul and her body shook and stopped trembling.

Then I saw her slowly open her eyes, look into the air with despair and misery, and see Xia at a glance.

"It worked!"

In order to avoid being recognized as an enemy, Xia put away the flames early, observed in the air for a while, and found that Gladys's eyes were gradually becoming confused, so he flew to her side and hugged her gently.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay...... The bad guys aren't here, you're safe. ”

In fact, he didn't have a bad feeling for the ancient magician Xia who dared to fight against the gods, and even had a trace of admiration.

But the other party's domineering behavior of destroying Miè's entire race at every turn made her put them on the side of the bad guys, and the original admiration disappeared.

“――！！”

Feeling her kindness and warmth, Gladys swooped down on her, burying her face in her chest, her eyes filled with tears.

"Have you been bullied by them before?"

Natsu asked softly as she stroked her hair.

Gladys didn't respond, just lay on her chest and cried, as if she had thought of something unusually sad.

- Enslave the dragons, trample the demons, tear the angels apart! Exterminate a qiē disobedient race of one!

Recalling the rumors of the ancient magician, Xia had some guesses in his heart:

"Could it be that Gladys's spider race was also exterminated by the magicians of Faenns? In the end, she was the only one left to survive. ”

Before she knew it, she had come to see the other party as a human being, and no longer a terrifying spider monster.

After a few moments of calming, Gladys regained her senses.

"Well, if you're tired, get some sleep, I'm here to watch over you." Touching her silky hair, Xia coaxed her like a child, and then gave a look to the little Lori in black.

The little Lori in black took out a cushion knowingly, and was about to go over to help her master help her lie down, when an accident happened.

"Crackle."

A crack formed in the center of the purple crystal.

"This indestructible crystal ...... Cracked? ”

A bad feeling rose in Natsu's heart.

"Crackle, crackle!"

There were more and more cracks on it, and they got bigger and bigger, and finally the whole crystal suddenly exploded into pieces!

"Master, teleportation array!"

Stephanie exclaimed in surprise.

Natsu lowered the arm that was blocking her face, and a red teleportation array appeared in front of her eyes.

"This color...... It's like blood, and it looks so weird. ”

She noticed the difference between this teleportation array and the others.

"What sound?"

Then she heard a popping sound from outside, as if countless crystals were shattering at the same time.

"Stephanie, go out and have a look!"

Natsu raised the long black knife in front of him.

Gladys also seemed to sense the crisis, and raised her head from her arms, a pair of dark eyes kept looking around, and Natsu felt that her body was very stiff and had entered a state of imminent battle.

"Master, those crystals are broken! Out of it came some terrible black monsters, like ghosts! ”

The little Lori in black flew back noisily and grabbed Xia's arm:

"Let's run away, master! The information about those monsters is all question marks, and there are too many of them! The crystals in the entire secret realm seem to have turned into this ghost-like monster. ”

It's all question marks?

Natsu felt a little weak in her legs.

"Master, I'll try them!"

The black-clothed little Lori said with a small fist.

She lifted her invisibility and was about to fly out the door when suddenly an extremely long black arm reached out from the crystal wall and grabbed her leg.

"Wow! Master, I've been caught! ”

This was very unexpected, and the little Lori in black was so frightened that she screamed.

"If it doesn't work, be incognito immediately!"

A blue light appeared in Natsu's eyes, and he sent out a spiritual attack towards the surroundings!

"Master, I'll try their attack power...... Woo-ahh ”

The black-clothed little Lori was pulled out by the black arm and stuck on the crystal wall.

"This guy is amazing, master...... And not like the entity! ”

Her body was stuck there, unable to move, struggling to speak.

"Psychic attacks don't work!"

The blue light in Natsu's eyes disappeared.

"Peng!"

At this time, Gladys was also attacked by a black hand, and she flicked the black hand away with all her might, making a strange noise.

"Whew-"

Then a stream of blood erupted from where her arm touched her black hand.

"You just touched it and got hurt?"

Natsu knew Gladys' strength, and she was only frightened when she saw this.

Gladys didn't freeze there when she was injured, but jerked into the air, dodging a black arm, and then sent out two rays of spider silk, one glued to the ceiling of the building, and the other wrapped around Natsu's body.

"By the way, this building is tall, maybe you can use it to hide from their attacks."

Xia's heart was racing, and he didn't resist and let the other party pull him up.

When the two of them reached the top, more and more black arms began to stretch out and grab at them, but the length of these arms seemed to be limited, and they stopped there about five meters away from them, dancing wildly below, this sight looked very shocking.

"Master, all those ghostly monsters out there are pouring here! There's some tall guys in there, and they should be able to reach you! ”

The little Lori in black got rid of her arm incognito, and a message came outside.

"Let's get out! Can't stay here. ”

Natsu hugged Gladys, and a cyan glow broke out all over her body.

"Wind elemental, awaken!"

She gritted her teeth and activated her awakening skill, which she was not yet proficient in, and rushed towards the door in a cyan glow.

"Ahhhh

Avoiding a few black arms along the way, Xia successfully rushed outside and flew all the way to the top of the secret realm.

At this time, the crystal group below had long since disappeared, and one by one the irregularly looking black objects shook and slowly gathered on the ground, gathering below the two of them from all directions.

"Gladys, you brace yourself up with spider silk here, and I'll be back in time."

Xia dispersed the wind elemental, replaced it with flame wings, flapped and circled in the air, and found that those black monsters followed him without exception, but no one paid attention to Gladys and the black-clothed little Lori who occasionally appeared in the air, unless they were too close to be attacked.

"They're targeting me?"

Xia understood something in his heart what was going on.

"I used Elemental Awakening to save Gladys, the symbol of the Elder Mage...... Bad luck! ”

"But what's going on with that teleportation array?"

She suddenly thought of the red teleportation array:

If the power of the Elder Mage was the source of the alarm, how could a teleportation array appear at the same time? It's not like the elves still leave a back path for the enemy, or is there a boss hidden inside?

Red Teleportation Array...... And it appeared in the building where the Elf King left a message, I'm afraid its level is quite high.

Xia's heart moved, and his thoughts became active:

In that case, why don't you go and see it?

"Come out - the ferocious crow!"

She summoned an unsightly bird in the air and sent it flying towards the building.

At this time, most of the black monsters were concentrated below the three of them, and the ferocious crow flew to the red teleportation array.

"Take a closer look at the lines on it and draw it out for me...... Ay? ”

Natsu suddenly found that her connection with it had been cut off.

"Dead?"

She wondered.

"One more!"

She summoned a dark bird once more, and asked it to take the place of the ferocious crow.

But this time she had an extra heart, and let the little Lori in black follow her incognito to see what happened.

"Master, that bird disappeared as soon as it approached the red teleportation array, as if it had been teleported away!"

The little Lori in black told the truth.

"Flying skulls in the air, go! Once inside, take a walk inside, remember what you see, and see if you can come back. ”

At Natsu's command, a half-rotten head screamed and lunged towards the building.

"It's back!"

After a while, Xia received the message of the return of the flying skull, and beckoned it to his side with a happy face.

"Mirror...... Sub, huge ...... Mirror. ”

The Flying Skull is one of the very few low-level monsters that can speak, and it answers the summoner's questions in a pitted manner:

"No...... Monster. ”

"Three...... The room is transparent...... Wall...... Separated. ”

Xia patiently asked it a few words, sent it back, and began to hesitate in his heart:

"Would you like to go in and have a look?"

"Or do you want to fly at full speed to where the yellow teleportation array is and escape the way you came? These monsters should not seem to be sane, and unlike entities, the teleportation array can only transport objects with entities, and it should be safe no matter which teleportation array they enter. ”

"If you choose to enter the red teleportation array, just let Stephanie lure them away before coming out, and there will be no danger."

Just as she was thinking, several tall black monsters suddenly appeared in the corner of her eyes.

"Master, those ghost-like guys are starting to merge! They want to get high and catch you! ”

The little Lori in black shouted loudly in her head.

"Storm Lizard, lead a black monster into the red teleportation array!"

Once again, she summoned an extremely fast evil creature and sent it to the building with an unformed black ghost.

The black Ghost Monster stepped into the red light under Stephanie's gaze, and then pierced through it without hindrance.

"Let's go, come in with me!"

Knowing this crucial information, Xia was sure that her guess was correct, and rushed to the building at full speed with Gladys in her arms, telling Stephanie to take out the sniper box.

"Wait."

Natsu suddenly changed her mind.

Instead of entering the box, she rushed straight towards the red teleportation array.

The red light flashed, and the sad feeling of her body stretching hit again, and she walked out of the red teleportation array with her whole body intact.

"Sure enough...... The level of this teleportation array has surpassed the ordinary level, and it is no longer the realm of ordinary spatial magic. ”

The little Lori and Gladys in black also followed her in, and as soon as the former came in, he shouted:

"Master, why are you still dressed? I'm ready to pick up your panties for you......"

"Go, I'm talking like an exhibitionist."

Xia knocked her unpleasantly.

"But what the hell is this place...... It looks like an exhibition room. ”

Walking forward, the first thing that catches your eye is three gorgeous crystal mirrors ten meters high, with purple metal inlaid next to them, it seems that the High Elves like purple and white, and almost all of them are in the secret realm.

Behind the three mirrors, each corresponds to three large rooms separated by transparent walls, and in each room a yellow teleportation array can be seen, which leads to an unknown direction.

"Master, there's handwriting here."

The little Lori in black found something written on a wall.

"Only those who possess the power of God can enter the realm of sighs......"

“…… The power of the gods? Do I have such a thing. ”

Xia looked at his hands, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like there was that kind of thing against the sky.

Aside from being immune to magic, there's really nothing special about her. Could it be that the Demon Immunity Physique is also a manifestation of God's power?

"The host...... I seem to know what's going on. ”

At this time, the little Lori in black suddenly said hesitantly.

Xia is very familiar with her artifact Lori, and when she saw her expression, she knew that this incident might have something to do with her.

"I accidentally touched the purple crystal when Spider Girl had an accident just now, and it didn't take long for the crystal to crack......"

The little Lori in black said, quietly looking at the master's face with her eyes, and her two index fingers circled in front of her.

"Hehe, yes."

Natsu laughed.

- Then he walked over and pinched her face with both hands!

"Accidentally touched it? Well? ”

She said in a chilling voice:

"Thousands of precious trial crystals turned into monsters and almost killed us! Didn't I tell you not to touch those crystals if you were fine, ah! Are you turning a deaf ear to my words? ”R1152