"The host, no useful clues found......"

About half an hour later, the little Lori in black flew back with a depressed face.

"It's okay, we found out."

Natsu touched her head:

"Take a look at that hole underwater, it might be a hidden pathway."

"Good master."

The little Lori in black dived out of the water.

"Master, there is indeed a road here, but it is blocked by a large stone gate."

She pinched her little nose to lift the invisibility, and touched the faint glow on it:

"There's a spell pattern of holy light on it, and it's locking this door."

"The Order's men did that?" As soon as he heard the word Holy Light, Xia knew that he might have found the right place.

But why do those people have to go to such a big time to block the road? Building a stone gate in the water is not easy.

"I don't know much about divine spells, and it will be troublesome to destroy."

Sadonan was now wearing a warrior's shortcoat that Natsu had given him, and the tattered one had been thrown away:

"I'll take a look."

He dived into the water, came to the stone door, reached out and touched it, and then activated his abilities.

A dazzling light flashed, flicking his hand back.

"Laha Sadonan came up from the water.

"The strength of these people may not be very strong, but they definitely have an artifact in their hands, and they need to think of other ways."

By artifacts, he refers to items that contain divine powers, not ordinary rare items that can also be seen in the hands of nobles.

"Master, there is no water behind that stone gate, and there is a lot of ash inside, as if no one has been able to pass it for a long time."

The little Lori in black reported a message.

"There's still a trail of footprints here!"

Delia found some sparse footprints on the bank of the river not far away, which looked like someone had climbed up from the river. Formed by stepping on dirt with shoes with water.

"There's one up there."

About fifty meters away from those footprints, she found the same thing again.

"It seems that the previous guess was wrong."

Xia overturned the speculation just now:

"These people did not enter the stone gate, but went down the river for some reason, and then left the river separately, and looking at the appearance of these footprints, they looked like they were being chased from behind...... Is it the ogre? ”

"The hosts. Powerful monsters approaching! ”

The little Lori in black issued a warning.

"Hide!"

Xia and Delia hid in the grass, and Sadonam was able to breathe in the water, so they dived into Hanoi alone.

The warning range of the artifact Lori is very large, and after a while, the ground trembles.

A large shadow approached from a distance, and the two held their breath as they could see a stout thigh thigh with dark gray scales from their perspective.

The leg stood still for a moment, and a sound of inhalation was heard from the air.

"It's smelling strangers!"

Xia's heart tightened, and he grasped the handle of the Dagger of the Divine Fall. Always ready to attack.

"Master, like the Ancient Devourer, is a 3S-level boss."

The little Lori in black whispered to her.

"The most important thing now is to find someone, let's wait for it to leave, and try to avoid unnecessary fighting."

She pressed down on the werewolf princess who was about to move, and transmitted a message to the two.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

That leg stepped out. All the way to the location of the two corpses.

And then there was a click, click. This thing seems to be chewing on the bone.

"It's really an ogre."

Natsu felt a little sour in her gums and tried to keep herself from paying attention to the horrible sound.

It took about 10 minutes for the sound of chewing to stop.

This was followed by the sound of heavy objects being dragged, fading away with the footsteps.

"Whew-"

Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

"Woo......"

The werewolf princess seemed to be a little unhappy, her ears kept moving, and her tail turned quickly.

"I'm sorry. Delia, let's talk about it next time. ”

Xia hugged her and whispered:

"We have to find her whereabouts first, and that's the most important thing at the moment."

"Got it."

was hugged by her like this, and Delia's mood immediately improved:

"That little girl has been hurt by me before. This time, even if I pay off the debt I owe her. ”

She was talking about what happened when Natya Vida was still in the School Guard Corps, investigating the vampire killings; On that occasion, she injured one of her opponent's hands, leading directly to the defeat of Zhì Nati Yavida in the battle for the library with Egnes.

"It seems to be going in the direction we came."

Sadonan popped his head out of the water:

"Now do you want to track down the enemy, or do you want to look into the secret passages in the water?"

"Needless to say, of course it's chasing ......"

Before Xia could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a system option that popped up.

"How, at this time, you have options?"

She and the little Lori in black are very strange:

No matter how you look at it, this time it has nothing to do with the main quest, right?

"Forget it, let's take a look before we decide."

Xia stared at the information bar.

There are three options for this time:

1. Walking from the water (建yì)

2. Walk from the shore

3. Track down the ogre and see what it's doing.

"Hey, Stephanie, what's going on with this building?"

Xia is a little confused:

"Is this an inducing choice?"

"I've never seen anything like it, master."

The little Lori in black shook her head and said:

"Actually, since the beginning of the cursed village, I feel as if the system has been reducing the difficulty for the master, the hidden quest to find a helper has never happened before, and the soul light...... That prop is just cheating. ”

She learned the word cheating with Natsu.

"Cheating...... ? ”

Xia settled down and stretched out his hand to choose the first item.

Unlike the trickster's instructions, the new system hadn't hurt her so far, so she decided to continue believing the system's prompts.

"Deria, Sadonan, let's go and have a look at that stone gate in the water."

She bit the Dagger and jumped into the water.

"Click!"

Once you got to the hole. The first thing was to slap her hand on the stone door, she didn't know anything like magic and could only use brute force to crack it.

After touching her hand, most of the lines on the door quickly dimmed.

But there were still three lines with golden light that were as strong as ever, stubbornly sealing the crack in the door, and Xia slapped a few times on the three lines. There was nothing to gain except for the numbness of the palms of the shock.

"This dagger seems to have a special effect on divine magic, I don't know if it works for this spell pattern."

She took the godfall dagger from her mouth, grabbed it and slashed at the top gold thread.

There was a jolt at the stone gate.

The golden thread burst out with a dazzling light under the dagger's cut, and then Xia felt his hand loosen, and the blade slid down, leaving only two of the three golden threads.

"Great."

She was overjoyed, and used the same method to cut the other two golden threads, and slowly pushed open the stone door.

Originally thinking that the river would flood in, all three were ready to resist the rapids. But unexpectedly, after the door opened, the river hovered outside the entrance as if it was blocked by something.

"Wow!"

Natsu poked his arm in, it was cold inside, it seemed that there was plenty of air, and he even faintly felt the wind blowing.

"Master, there seems to be an invisible membrane here, blocking all the water."

The little Lori in black flew inside first. I tried to remove the invisibility, and it felt no different from the ground. The smell of the air is also fresh.

"I'll go."

A cloud of bubbles exploded in Sadonan's mouth, creating sonic concussions in the water.

He remained defensive and entered the passage, feeling the energy around him, sending a signal of safety to Xia and Deria.

"It's strange, didn't we break the door?"

The werewolf princess walked in wet and licked the water off her arm.

"Boom ......"

Natsu closed the stone door again. There was a dull noise in the passage.

"There should be something here that can stop the flow of water, I don't know if it's the effect of props or some kind of powerful creature, I hope it's the former."

She stomped her feet, and now she couldn't use magic to dry her clothes, and she felt very uncomfortable.

"The hosts. The path of this road is very familiar. ”

The little Lori in black flew into the depths, looked at the straight passage in front of her and said:

"Just right to the location marked on the map."

"Then go check it out."

Xia's current mood can't be said to be good or bad, although she chose the first item of system construction, she still has some bottom in her heart.

"Sadonan, take this."

She asked the black-clad Lori to take out a magic wand suitable for use as a crutch.

The staff is made entirely of a heavier metal and feels textured in the hand, but the only drawback is that there is no gem-setting at the top, only an empty groove.

Stephanie ...... I remember that the werewolf named Gehr gave us a box with what you said was a glass ball, and took it out for me to see. ”

She took the box from the black-clothed little Lori, and a light green light came out of it when it was opened.

"Oh, that's what Gell got from a dwarf."

Delia seems to have seen this glass ball-like thing:

"The dwarf once dug up a ruin, but he didn't know magic at all, so he took out the weird items he got from the ruins and exchanged them with us, and Gehr always thought he had picked up a bargain after he got it, because the orb was beautiful."

"Arcane Eye?"

Sadonan's voice of surprise came from the side.

"This thing can be embedded in a staff and can amplify the power of the arcane."

He stared at the 'glass ball' for a long time:

"But this one seems to be a little different......"

"Since it's something related to arcane, I'll give it to you."

Natsu handed him the Arcane Eye:

"It's useless for me to take it anyway."

She has too many powerful classes to choose from, and she has no plans to develop into arcane arts, and listening to Sadonan's tone, this thing is quite useful for arcane mages.

"Thank you."

Sadonan didn't refuse, he had already gotten too much from the silver-haired captain, and there was no need to be pretentious about a trivial matter.

"Click."

The groove at the top of the staff was like a powerful magnet, and as soon as the Arcane Eye approached, it was firmly sucked into it, and it could not be pulled off with your hands.

Then the staff lit up with a pale green magic pattern all over its body, which seemed to match the arcane fluctuations.

"It's a rare spirit staff, almost like it was made for the Arcane Eye."

Sadonan's indifferent face was filled with joy.

Although his greatest reliance is not arcane magic, it is his initiation profession, and he has always regretted that he has not improved much because of his research on new abilities.

"If you like it."

Xia didn't expect that this half-finished staff that had been thrown there and never used it would still have this kind of origin, and it seemed that it was really a coincidence today.

"Stephanie, go ahead and scout, let's go slowly."

She asked the little Lori in black to explore the way, and the three of them walked forward along the not very wide passage.

"Master, there's a fork in the road."

The voice of the little Lori in black sounded not long after.

"Go left."

Xia roughly estimated their location according to the direction indicated on the map, and finally chose the left.

"Dead end?"

She looked at the gray rock wall in front of her and wondered:

Could it be that the map is fake?

"Master, it's empty behind this."

The little Lori in black emerged from a rock wall.

"It's a hidden stone door, and it's just like the one we just had."

Sadonan put his hand on it, and it was bounced back again, revealing a dense pattern on the door panel, and a golden thread in the middle.

"Boom!"

After an unpleasant movement, Natsu destroyed the golden thread with a dagger, and then kicked it over.

"Smack."

Something suddenly fell from above the door.

It was the skeleton of a dead man, with only a few strips of cloth left in his shirt, and a dusty map had fallen near his left hand.

"It's exactly the same as the one we got."

After comparing the two maps, Xia came to a conclusion.

"This man is probably Ron's father...... He was just Cheng Dù of the Sword King, and he actually came all the way here, but he died in the end. ”

"Is it because of the curse? I'm still locked up here and can't get out. ”

She used her telekinesis to carefully remove the bones and walked into this stone chamber of about a few hundred square meters.

"Now is not the time for treasure hunting, let's take a look and go."

Now she was in the mood to rummage through here, no treasure was as important as Natia Vida's safety.

"Master, there seems to be nothing here, it's completely empty."

The stone room is not big, and the little Lori in black quickly looked around, and found that there were neither cabinets nor secret doors, and this was not originally a place for storage, judging from the old tables and chairs that fell, it was more like a conference room.

"If not, let's go, there is wind coming from the other road, it must be an exit."

Xia sighed slightly, turned around and walked out the door.

Just as she was about to walk out, the unexpected happened.

The space behind her suddenly tore open, and a dazzling sword shot out of it, stabbing straight into the back of her neck.

"Be careful!!"

Because the speed of this sword was not fast, the little Lori in black happened to follow behind, and when she saw this scene, she immediately pounced on her neck, and narrowly blocked the sword for her master. (To be continued......) R1292