"Aluca! It's Aluca! One of the guards burst through the side door of the temple and shouted to an old shaman with two goatees.

His face was full of panic, and in contrast to the pious farmers who saw nothing of the joy of the legendary guardian.

"What?!"

The old shaman raised his white beard high and asked in shock.

The guard recounted what he had just seen, and then told him that the watchman was heading this way, and as soon as he finished speaking, he was pushed out by the old shaman:

"Quick, let everyone outside hide, don't attack that thing!"

After the guards left, the old shaman hurried to the depths of the temple and pushed open a door to the underground.

A putrid smell could be smelled inside the dark door, and he raised his bone staff and cast a purification spell that cleansed the air around him for a moment before he dared to continue walking.

From time to time, you can see mutilated animal bones, as well as human skeletons struggling in pain before dying; In areas that the purifying light did not touch, occasionally a cold gaze would be revealed, and these eyes stared maliciously at the old shaman walking in the passage, and the old shaman who noticed something strange immediately raised his bone staff high, and at the same time showed the rune pendant hanging around his neck.

If Natsu and the Lich were here, they would have found that the shape of the pendant was the same as that appeared on the child's body, and it seemed to represent the mark of some kind of god.

"—I'm Besfarniu's priest! Loyal servants of the Supreme Valrhona, you are all heroic spirits who died for the kingdom, how can you hurt a man who is loyal to both the kingdom and the goddess! ”

The old shaman shouted with his bone staff.

As his voice echoed through the eerie corridors, those sights faded away, and the temperature around him seemed to rise a little.

Silent footsteps echoed in my ears, as if something terrible was slowly leaving from nearby. The old shaman's tense face relaxed, and he continued along the long, dull road.

"Since the outsiders appeared here, there have been more and more manifest ghosts."

He watched worriedly at the flickering ghostly fires in the distance, narrowing the scope of the Purification Technique a bit, so as not to provoke their wrath.

"That's not a good sign."

The old shaman said to himself.

……

Outside, Natsu and the lich had followed the Hill Watcher to the square in front of the temple.

The two huge footprints seemed to have been made for the big monster. Just let its feet be embedded in it; The pale yellow light in the eyes of the hill watchman standing above gradually extinguished, leaned forward slightly, and carried Dolinda up to the middle of the altar with both hands like a bridge.

Because it was formed from a mountain peak, its body was already quite tall, but standing in front of this magnificent building, it was only halfway to the high platform when it raised its hand.

"It's a long staircase."

Dolinda was not so frightened now, she was a little curious about the scene after being locked up in the magic tower for a long time, she looked up at the high top of the altar, and turned to look at the watcher who had brought her here. It was found to be like a magic puppet that had run out of power, standing motionless in the square, as if it had completed its mission.

"Dolinda, stand there for now."

As soon as he saw the building towering into the clouds, the word "sacrifice" immediately came to mind in Natsu's heart.

"There must be something on the amulet that sent this monster here."

She cautiously approached the huge rock golem from the air, and after discovering that it really wouldn't attack herself, she folded her wings and jumped to the side of the little princess of the empire.

"Sister."

Dolinda snuggled her somewhat chilled body into her. There was no expression of fear on his face, but he looked a little eager to try.

"Do you want to go up and have a look?"

Natsu asked, touching her head.

"I—"

Dolinda hesitated to utter a word.

It was at this time. A javelin shot up from the ground, and the silver-haired girl was quick-eyed, picked her up and dodged.

“#%……#&……*（&！！”

Completely incomprehensible words rang out from below, followed by some strange spells.

However, none of these spells and javelins dared to attack the building, it was all the two of them, and God knows how those people were aiming so far away. It's not much worse than a sniper.

"I've only heard of sharpshooters and sharpshooters, but I've never seen anyone play javelins so well."

Natsu was a little frightened by the accuracy of the other party, and stuck to the inner wall of the building with Dolinda, but the attack below immediately stopped.

"Samoa - Furious Thunder!"

A short old phrase came from the depths of the uncloned lich's throat, and a puff of thunder shot down from the tip of the wand of death in its hand. Knock a large number of temple guards out of hiding place to the ground.

Because it didn't understand the origin of these people, it didn't kill them, it just paralyzed them with electricity.

“@￥#%*”

However, these people's bodies were extremely strong, and the spells issued by the already high-level lich in the New World could only make them stunned for a while, and it didn't take long for the guards with their bronzed skin to get up, shouting and holding their weapons and rushing towards the high platform.

“LV77！”

“LV81！”

Xia tried to scout the intelligence of several people on her own, and the results surprised her.

"Buzz ......"

A strange sound rang out from the building on the side of the temple, and from that side flew several huge bees with hideous appearances, each with a warrior sitting on it, carrying a bow and arrow, and charging in this direction.

"In this kind of tribe-like place, there are still bows and arrows."

Seeing that the other party had an air combat unit, Xia knew that this time the matter was in trouble.

She lifted her head off the wall and leaned forward slightly, looking at the guards gathering more and more below, and her scalp was numb and shrunk back.

Below are the powerful pursuers swarming.

Next to it are an unknown number of monstrous giant bees.

Neither side is easy for their current group to deal with, is there only one way to escape immediately?

"If you leave now, I always feel a little unwilling."

Xia looked up at this high platform:

"I've been running for a long time, and I still don't know where this place is. Maybe this building is the key to leaving the world of memory, and it would be a pity to give up without even investigating it. ”

"Actually, the solution to this dilemma is very simple."

The lich was not afraid of those bows and arrows and javelins, and flew a few of them away, and said to Xia:

"As long as they don't get caught."

“…… I know that too. ”

Xia pulled out the long sword behind his back and slashed a javelin, picked up Dolinda and ran to it:

"Fernanxi Stream. Please, Trap! ”

"Smart choice."

The lich waved his wand a little triumphantly, and the lightning and ice rings were released from front of it, turning into a plate of mine-like things in the air, and disappearing into the not-so-wide staircase.

"Cheap mana cost - mass production casting - a variety of unique effects."

"That's the magic trap."

It is like a sapper laying traps on a ladder one by one, and the wand of death in his hand is spun by it from time to time in various fancies; Rather than fighting each other face-to-face, this intelligent top-level undead creature seems to like Yin people more.

"Click! My leg! ”

One of the fastest guards foolishly stepped into the ice trap it had laid, and one foot was immediately frozen in ice.

"Quick, help me get it out!" He shouted to his companion behind him.

"Bang!" "Hold on." "Smack!" "This thing is so hard!" The guards had everything. After seeing him trapped, some people used shields, others used blunt objects, and began to find ways to remove the ice from his legs.

"-Keep walking!"

The rest of the crowd squeezed past them and continued to rush forward, trying to catch the enemy who had desecrated the altar as quickly as possible.

But soon they stepped on the trap behind them, and the lich's spell was both stealthy and fast; Ordinary people could only see a few colors of light flashing in mid-air, but in fact, countless crises were already lurking on the steps of this space-time swing. Waiting for them to arrive.

"I'm sinking, hold me!"

An unlucky guy was trapped in a quagmire-like aura of magic. His face sank with fear, and his hands waved wildly, calling for the helpers beside him.

"There's got to be Kameia, the Demon Serpent, down there! Wrapped around his body with his torso. ”

Several heavily guarded guards lowered their weapons and tried to pull the man out, but in the end, they were gradually pulled inside, and they were about to fall into it with the other party.

"Go and report the Great Shaman! There are people here who can use demonic spells. It should be those spies sent by outsiders! ”

A man dripped beads of sweat shouted to the rear:

"Their target is likely to be our sacred altar, and this is not a simple theft or exploration, but a war!"

"After the ice comes the thundernet, and after the thundernet is the dark swamp......"

The lich casts a trap like a chant, and it looks like it's having a good time.

But what it set up casually made the pursuers behind it unlucky.

Those who freeze are luckier. Just standing there staring and waiting for help.

And those who fell into the bottomless swamp were all lost in the end; The bubbling dark aura inside sticks to the slightest touch, and the cramped environment makes it difficult for the mighty warriors to get through the obstacles, and many of them fall for it.

"As long as you don't use a powerful deadly spell, Fei Nanxi's magic power should be able to last for a long time."

Xia looked at the situation below, and continued to climb up with Dolinda in his arms, with the foot strength of a superior swordsman, and soon the two of them approached the top of the high platform.

“￥&&%￥*！！”

At this time, the opponent's air support also arrived, and Xia deliberately advanced with the pattern on the wall of the altar, which made the person riding the giant bee dare not easily swing weapons and shoot arrows, so he had to follow her closely in the air, harassing her with long weapons from time to time.

"Get me down—"

How could Xia be polite to them, when it came to brute force, she might not have much advantage, after all, there was a difference between men and women, and the other party's rank was very high; But in terms of combat skills, the two sides were not at the same level at all, and she just used the simplest twisting, knocking, and three basic swordsmanship to pick off those spear warriors with unstable foundations.

"You're actually dead anyway. Don't blame me. ”

She was silent in her heart, and ran up as fast as she fended off the attack, and Dolinda, who was held in her arms, felt thrilled and exciting, her hands grasping her clothes, and her big eyes were full of shining stars.

"Sister Xia is so reliable."

She felt the heat coming from the silver-haired girl's body, and thought in her heart:

"Sister Tasia is also very steady, though. But I always feel that I am not as majestic as Sister Xia, is it because I am used to seeing magicians? The men in the court always pretend to be chic, and they are equipped with gorgeous swords all day long, and there is no taste of might at all. ”

Someone didn't know that he had changed in the eyes of the little princess of the empire, and he just shouted and kept knocking the enemy's weapons away, not letting them get close to him.

"Ente!!"

After a long period of futility, the giant bee knights flying in the air became angry, and one of them flew high into the sky, and then swooped downward, not caring about whether it would damage the altar.

"False tricks."

Xia saw through the other party's trick at a glance.

Her eyes rolled. also pretended to swing his sword upward, making a posture of desperate with the other party.

The man above the giant bee had a triumphant smile on his lips, and the spear in his hand spun in the air a few times, and swooped straight above her head.

“*&%？”

After seeing her face clearly, the man's face was stunned, and he said something in his mouth.

"Dare to scold me!"

The silver-haired girl thought that the other party was provoking, and she couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, and when the two of them met, she turned around suddenly. He led the spear towards the wall behind him.

“#…… ￥！！ ”

The man slammed into the wall in shock, and Xia had already given up his position at this time. Many bees are good at levitating and retreating, so the giant bee stabilized its body before the collision and did not cause a tragedy.

But the person sitting on it was not as lucky as it, and was still thrown out by inertia, and his face "snapped" against the wall.

Then the body and spear slowly slid down, and the nosebleed stained the lines of the wall red.

"These guys seem to be scared."

The silver-haired girl proudly watched as the number of them increased to more than ten in the air. But the giant bee, who only dared to hover around the periphery, flashed her arms at that side, and later found that there were no muscles on her arms to show off, and her face turned red, and she continued to carry Dolinda upward. Finally, under the watchful eye of many enemies, he reached the highest place.

"There's nothing up there."

She gasped and lowered Dolinda to the ground, surveying the empty altar.

As with ordinary ancient sacrificial buildings, the most conspicuous thing on the empty platform is a stone table surrounded by six stone pillars, and there is nothing on the table, including imaginary black blood stains or cruel torture instruments; However, there are also four totemic-shaped pillars on the edge of the high platform, which are stationed at the four corners, but they are a little dark red on them.

In addition to these four totems with a murderous aura, she noticed a certain pattern carved under her feet, and when she looked down, it turned out to be a woman with beautiful lines.

The woman's face was a little blurred, but judging by her eyebrows, she should have looked beautiful, with a long and slender figure, holding a chain in her hand, and was praying in a pious posture.

"It's certainly not a place to do good."

Xia thought secretly in his heart.

Beauty, torture pillar, altar...... These three things appear together, and it's hard to think of anything good.

"The pendant under that chain looks a bit like a star; Coupled with a few bloodstained totems next to it, this place won't have anything to do with the Virgo in the Twelve Stars of the Firmament. ”

She blinked and walked around, unoblivious to the intimidating sounds in the air.

"Or don't walk away from her, go around it."

Out of love for the beauty, she did not step on the female motif on the ground, but slipped to the stone table with the little princess.

The giant bee knights saw that she did not insult the portrait of the goddess, and their excitement calmed down a little, but they still stared at her figure deadly, and the sharp bows and arrows and javelins in their hands were always pointed at this side, but they didn't dare to attack casually.

"They seem to be waiting for an order, so don't stay here for long, check it out and leave immediately."

Xia felt her eyelids flutter a little, and a sense of crisis rose in her heart, so she took Dolinda's hand and walked over to touch the stone table.

"I didn't have any reaction."

To be honest, she was still a little nervous before touching it, but when she saw that nothing had happened, she became bolder.

"Knock."

She tapped her fingers on the tabletop, and a dull sound sounded, it seemed that the thing was solid.

Then he bent down, looked closely at the side of the stone table for a moment, and stretched out a foot and kicked it on it.

This action caused the fury of the giant bee knights, who screamed and tried to fly down desperately, but were stopped by a majestic man.

"Wait for instructions from the Great Shaman."

The man looked at the silver-haired girl and said in the native language of the aborigines:

"As long as she does not destroy the altar with her hands, she is not allowed to violate the prohibition and attack without permission; Otherwise, I'll lock you to the Punishment Totem with my own hands! ”

His prestige seemed to be very high, and those who rode on the giant bee immediately shut their mouths and reluctantly put away their bows and arrows.

"Sister Xia, this stone seems to be hot."

Dolinda gave full play to the curiosity of a girl of this age, stretched out her finger and poked at the stone table, and cried out in surprise.

"Hot?"

Xia straightened up suspiciously, touched the cold and hard desktop with his hand, and put his hand on her forehead, wondering if there was something wrong with the little princess's feelings.

"Don't stay here, wait for Fei Nanxi to come up and check it out, and then we'll go."

She picked up Dolinda and walked over to where the Hill Watcher was, and when she looked around, she saw that the other party was still silent, and sent a message to the lich below.

"It's a very strange place, an ordinary setting, no character."

The Lich came out of hiding, examined each suspicious place, and finally issued a comment.

"If we don't find out, we'll get out of here immediately."

Natsu looked at the increasing number of giant bee knights gathered in the sky, and made a wise decision to retreat.

"These giant bees are nimble, but not very fast; We can fly as fast as arrows, and if we can break out of their encirclement, we can easily escape from pursuit. ”

But...... Will they really be able to get out of here?

Just as Natsu and the lich gathered their magic shields around them and began to break through to the outside, the stone table that had been touched by Dolinda before shimmered. (To be continued.) )