"Gone?"

She rushed to the empty hut in a frenzy:

"That's a powerful enchantment with at least dozens of layers stacked, how could it be that it's all gone!"

She was then able to see with her eyes that she was seeing in the darkness that there were some shimmering fragments of the ground.

She walked over and picked up a piece of shard, revealing that it was a dark red, high-quality magic crystal, but for some reason it was only one-fifth the size left.

"Summer, there's a lot of dust in the house, and no one should have lived in it for a while."

Delia walked to the door of the room and looked inside.

The time agreed between Xia and Nati Yavida was three months.

It's not three months yet...... This means that the room has not been used for at least a month.

The half-elf maidens love cleanliness, often cleaning their common hut, and if they have recently returned, they will never leave the dust alone.

"These enchantments were violently destroyed!"

"Nana knows how to dismantle enchantments, and most of the enchantments I've set up are one-way enchantments, so she won't hurt even if she gets out of them."

Xia carefully observed the debris on the ground, and found that there were no signs of impact or explosion.

"Elves don't like to waste, even if it's a shard of a magic crystal, so much is enough to buy a house in an ordinary town; If she had spare time, Nana would never have left them here. ”

The signs of qiē all pointed to the worst outcome, which made Xia unable to stay any longer, and drew his long sword to break into the darkness ahead.

"Summer! Don't be impulsive, we haven't prepared enough dry food and water yet. ”

Delia pulled her back.

“……”

Xia held the hilt of the sword without saying a word, her long silver hair was stuck to her face with sweat, and her heart was completely messed up.

"Master, my reserves are only enough to last for half a month."

The little Lori in black said timidly on the side:

"And we still have to prepare for the part back, this trip is a round trip, not a one-way route like before."

"Although the light of the job transfer can restore you to a healthy state, I don't know how far this road is, and your body will greatly reduce your combat strength if you don't eat for three days, let alone if you go by yourself......"

She didn't dare to finish her words.

Because the appearance of summer is about to explode.

"Then go for it......"

Natsu's body is trembling:

"Then go and prepare!!"

She almost shouted:

"--What are you doing here? Don't you have any money on you? ”

The little Lori in black was startled.

She glanced at her master aggrievedly, turned around and flew towards the blue teleportation array.

"Summer ......"

The werewolf princess, who has always been atmospheric, was also shocked by her appearance, and did not dare to come forward to comfort her for a while.

"I'll go ahead and have a look."

The cyan glow on Natsu's body appeared for a moment, and then dimmed again.

She hadn't lost her mind yet, knowing that she couldn't act in such an unknown place in a conspicuous way, so she gave up using the wind elemental to awaken and walked into the path ahead with the ice sword.

"The firefly snails are gone, too."

The strange shape of the snail from the last time did not reappear, as if she knew that this place was becoming dangerous, and she did not see any sign of life until that fork in the road.

Near the fork in the road, Natsu's footsteps stopped.

Because in front of her was a ruin.

The high wall, which had been pierced by the giant's arm, was gone, replaced by ruins and rubble, and even the four Black Spirit Knights could not destroy it so completely.

"This place has the smell of the undead...... But not my four former servants. ”

The Lich Fernanxi's eye sockets shone with a golden light:

"And it's a very powerful undead, and I can feel its spiritual remnant."

It floated into the huge scene, feeling the fluctuations around it:

"This is an undead creature that is good at mind control and can create fear, and its strength is extraordinary, I don't know if I can subdue it."

Mind control?

Natsu thought of something and hurriedly ran to the room hidden deep underground.

Once there, they found that the sturdy door had been completely shattered, the device containing the Death-tyrant-beholder had been destroyed, and the terrifying monster had disappeared, leaving only a few residues and a foul-smelling liquid.

"The Dead-Eyed Tyrant is good at controlling monsters and humans, and can also petrify, sleep, and all kinds of curses and magical attacks; And it's immune to psychic magic, paralysis, and attribute damage, and has no weaknesses in the body, so it can't cause fatal damage to it. ”

She recalled the description of the powerful undead:

"Worst of all, its central eye has an anti-magical stance...... This would greatly reduce the Lich's attack, as it was impossible for Fernanxi to contain divine power in every magic. ”

"This is the entrance to the end of the road, but the beginning of the whole adventure! I was confronted with such a tricky enemy! ”

Natsu felt like she was in a bad mood before.

"There's a door here."

Fernanxi finds an entrance at the end of the scene:

"It's locked up from the other side, and I can force it open, but I'm not sure if it's going to have unpredictable consequences."

"Whew!"

Natsu walked to the door, looked at the crack and bottom of the door, reached out and destroyed the structure above, and then pierced the door panel with a sword.

"The old exploding trap will blow up a large crater in the vicinity if you force your way in, but I broke the mana connection, so I just need to remove it."

She slowly slipped open the door that was actually hard—a door that was defenseless under the 233-point sharpness of the ice sword—and then set the exploding device aside, kicked the broken part, and stepped into the area she had never stepped into.

"Looks like I've been misled by the name Path to the End."

She looked at the vast space in front of her that was almost like a continental plain, where was this road? It's a real underworld.

"Come out - Queen Butterfly!"

Before Xia, when using the Light of Transfer, he deliberately chose a summoning class to upgrade to a higher level, and there was an additional unit with extremely strong tracking ability.

"Smell the smell and find its owner."

She took out one of Natyavida's headdresses and let the big butterfly sniff it a few times.

This thing was given to her by a half-elf girl, and it is very common for two girls to exchange accessories with each other, not to mention that their relationship is not ordinary.

The butterfly queen flapped her beautiful wings and flew around in the air, slowly drifting towards the east of the plain.

"Nana is here."

Seeing this scene, Xia not only did not feel at ease, but became even more anxious.

Natia Vida was a very intelligent woman, and the two of them had made an agreement that they would never enter such a dangerous area alone for no reason, and someone or something must have forced her to leave the entrance.

"According to the old village chief, the key to the end of the road - the drawing with the circle should be the only one."

She checked the package around her waist and found that there was only enough food to last two days.

As for water, it's not something to pay special attention to for an elemental mage.

"If someone can get their hands on the fake teleportation key, then there will probably be a real key, but the entrance is not in this forest."

Like Uncle Black Knife said, the location is the Forest of Condensation, which is a very distant place.

But there is another possibility...... That is, even if the entrance of the teleportation array is different, the location of the teleportation is exactly the same.

"The difficulty of the main quest is not only reflected in the boss of the Black Calamity, it seems that there are many things that need to be paid attention to."

The more she thought about it, the heavier her heart became, and seeing that the butterfly was about to disappear from view, she had to follow hard.

The butterfly queen's stunts are transmogation and confusion, and she can hide in front of most creatures without being detected, but Natsu is not in the mood to sneak around, and on the way she encounters several underground monsters that attack, all of which are split in half by her sword.

"Z-"

The butterfly flew to the periphery of a low bush, bumped into something, and suddenly lost contact.

"Don't go any further."

The Lich Fernanxi appeared at Xia's side, staring at the area in front of him and said:

"There's a tricky trap out there, and your summon has gotten lost in it...... It shouldn't be able to come out again. ”

"Elemental terrain, or a man-made labyrinth?"

Xia is still relatively familiar with these.

She occasionally encountered this kind of thing when she walked in those dangerous places on the continent, but she didn't expect it to be found in the underworld.

"Not like that."

The lich's head turned:

"According to the dwarven excavation record, the deepest part of the underground world is more than 5,000 kilometers above the ground, and the dwarf who made this record fell into the scorching magma, leaving no further clues."

Fei Nanxi stretched out his hand, and a dark magic ray hit the place where the butterfly queen disappeared, and the ray disappeared silently, as if it was swallowed by an invisible mouth.

"The quality of the Blue Teleportation Array is unknown, but I believe it should not be weaker than the Medium Teleportation Array, that is, we are now at least 1,000 kilometers underground."

Xia analyzed the information he knew, and felt that at least in terms of depth, he should not encounter the disaster terrain that destroyed it.

"Rock melts into a semi-liquid state at around 2,000 degrees Celsius, while the melting point of ordinary iron is about 1,500 degrees Celsius."

"According to the more classical geological theories, the temperature at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle is also affected by tremendous pressure, which is also the basis for keeping the spherical structure stable, and I don't feel a strong sense of depression here."

She knows some basic geography, but she doesn't know much more than anything else about the underground that is still mysterious in the 28th century.

When he looked up, he saw that the lich was looking at him with a strange gaze.

It has no eyes, only a golden glimmer of light from its sockets, but it still feels scrutinized.

"It's ...... I read it on a book. ”

Xia was drumming in his heart when he saw it, and lied to:

"I thought that made a lot of sense, so I wrote them down."

After such a disturbance, her mood eased a little, but the whereabouts of the half-elf girl were still pressed on her heart, making her unable to completely calm down.

"It's good to care for your fellow people."

The lich made a gesture back:

"But don't forget, in addition to my immortal skeleton, there are two companions with fresh blood waiting for you, don't put them in danger because of your grief."

Natsu was silent for a moment.

Then he raised his head and looked blankly at the pitch-black field in front of him, trying to find the shadow of the half-elf girl on it.

But even with bloodshot eyes, all she could see was wandering shadows and a stray mess of plants.

"The control of those four black spirits is in your hands, and I can't detect their location."

The Lich reached out and summoned one of the remaining Dark Spirit Knights, casting a complex spell on it, commanding it to scout the vast plains as a wandering undead.

"Unless that guy's ability surpasses mine, it is impossible to forcibly control the black spirit, and this immortal servant will bring us a qiē that he sees."

“…… I understand. ”

Natsu took a deep breath.

She stood there and thought for a moment, summoned the hidden genius of one of the monsters, the Ghost Shadow Bat, and activated the image ball from Luo Ye and tied it around its neck.

"It's also a good idea, not inferior to mine."

Fei Nanxi watched the bat fly away, and then with a wave of his hand, the corpses of the monsters that had been hacked to death by Xia closed together.

The corpses gathered their internal organs, used the dark magic bestowed by their masters to heal their wounds, and began to stiffen and scatter in all directions.

"I'm going to find some suitable materials to organize these undead into an army of scouts, which will save us a lot of trouble for our future trips."

The lich flew into the air and swept towards the monsters that lurked on the ground.

A handful of monsters with a premonition of doom quickly burrowed into the ground, and the rest were also disturbed by the arrival of this powerful undead. But soon this uneasiness disappeared, because they had no way to think about it anymore.

"I'll go back first."

Natsu lowered her eyes and forced herself to turn around and walk towards the entrance.

Passing by the ruins, she saw Sadonan and Delia in front of the broken contraption.

"I thought you had been snatched up by something here, Captain."

Sadonan actually told a joke.

“…… Did you find anything. ”

Xia couldn't laugh at all.

She walked over to Delia and watched as Sadonan gently touched the magical device fragments with her hand, then tapped the old buttons on them with her cane, a pensive look on her face.

"Campaign-level legacy technology."

After a long time, he expressed his opinion:

"The things cultivated here can make or break a regional battle, and similar devices I've seen in the empire, they are all biochemical devices used to imprison and cultivate high-level monsters."

"This is the road to the end, why is there such a thing as zài?"

Natsu felt a little incomprehensible.

"Although the device has been stored for a long time, it has not been used for a long time...... Preliminary estimates are between 500 and 600 years. ”

Sadonan tapped the shell of the machine, which was covered with yellow liquid, with a cane:

"And this kind of circuit and construction method of manipulating magic power reveals obvious Harlem magic skills, at least this arena-like place was by no means built by ancient people, it was established no more than a thousand years ago."

"Five hundred to six hundred years...... Could it be that the Lordingham Saint who had returned from the Road to the End had built this space? ”

She turned her head to look at the high dome that was revealing above, and the fierce giant puppet of the day was still in front of her.

"My partner, I seem to have found something interesting."

While the trio were studying the wreckage of the devices and vessels, the lich flew in from outside.

"Oops...... Brie's waist! Brie's waist is going to break! ”

A foul-smelling monster was tossed to the ground from its hands, rolling and screaming.

"Goblins?"

The creatures were often seen near the snowy mountains, and some were enslaved by the Gos werewolf tribe, so Deria was familiar with the creature howling on the ground.

"Werewolf!"

The goblin saw her and shrank back in horror.

Although not born masters and slaves, the history of goblins being oppressed by werewolves dates back to antiquity, and no one knows exactly how this relationship came about, but it has been recorded in various historical records.

"This kind of guy who can communicate is rare underground, so I brought it to you."

The Lich said:

"You might be able to ask for clues about the half-elf woman in its mouth." R1152