The king shook his head: "No, I can't risk a complete break with the temple and poke this thing out. I thought I was just going to kill that thing in the Divine Ruins. Not on the High Priest's side.

All these years of preparation have not been in vain, I found a record in the royal inheritance I retrieved last time, which was a map and a compass left by the sages who had transformed the relics of the gods in the past. The map records three secret passages set up by the Sages, which can connect the three major parts of the God's Ruins. The compass can help us determine the location of the secret passage.

So I have a new plan. This time, you can increase the strength outside the royal family, enter from the path of the Great Forge Trial, and if you don't encounter a monster, you can find a way to find that monster through the secret passage, and then completely destroy him. That way, I don't have to rely only on warriors and mages trained by the royal family. ”

"But our family doesn't know that. Ansaldo said.

"Because your Fire Crystal family is very close to the temple on weekdays. If it weren't for you and the people of the Tower of China who fought in the temple this time and almost completely wiped out the power of the temple, I would have kept my distance from you. "The king said helplessly," said the king, "I must be absolutely cautious about such a matter, and not give the temple any chance to strike first." So I turned to the Black Rock Family and the White Leaf Family, who had always been estranged from the temple. Together with me, they spent more than a year preparing a team to kill monsters, and they also invited the best of the human race. But I didn't expect that because you brought the Chinese to the Forging Tower, and took them to the temple, all your plans were disrupted. ”

Xiao Chen instantly understood what was going on with those mysterious people he met in Crowell, and he asked, "On our way to the royal capital, we met that the Black Rock family hired a group of humans, all of whom were masters from the Ancient God Temple, and it turned out that they were all hired by the Black Rock family for the royal family?"

"Yes. The king's voice was tired and heavy, "Not only did the Black Rock family invite these people for me, but the White Leaf family also found several masters from the orc clan, including two great swordsmen from the lion clan and two great shamans from the fox clan. Together with the dwarven warriors and the great blacksmiths we sent, there are a total of twelve master-level masters. On the same day that you visited the temple, they entered the ruins of the gods through the passage of the Great Blacksmith's trial. ”

"On the same day, what time is it?" Xiao Chen asked.

"About an hour before you entered the temple, our party entered the Divine Ruins. However, it will take them a lot of time to find the location of the monster in the ruins of the gods, and I guess they will have been fighting the monster for about the same amount of time as you. ”

"What was the result?" Xiao Chen asked.

The king got up and walked to the door, and said, "Come with me." ”

The king led them out of the room through the side door, and went down a corridor to another. There was a bed in this room on which lay a human. The man's injuries were severe, half of his face was charred black, and his body was covered in bandages. Xiao Chen looked at the scars carefully, mottled like the traces of raindrops. He suddenly realized that such an injury was caused by that kind of red rain, and that the monster must have released a red rain on the other side of the red ball, and the person in front of him should be a survivor of that battle.

"What is this?" Xiao Chen asked.

"This is the Grand Wizard Bohawks, the only survivor of this expedition. The king said.

Bohawkes didn't look like a great magician at this time, just a dying patient.

"Twelve masters! I have been preparing for so many years to find the right candidates. The king lowered his head and looked at the man on the bed, his face was very depressed, and he said, "Twelve masters and more than ten high-ranking people who went together, so many people challenged that monster together, and he was the only one who escaped. ”

"His injuries seem to be very serious, and I can feel that his mental strength is in a very weak state, like a candle in the wind, which may be extinguished at any moment. Luo Ling said.

"When he first came, the injuries were not so serious, but the damage caused by the red mist seemed to continue to corrode people's bodies. We used a lot of exorcism potions, and we were able to dispel the effects of that magic, but the injuries stayed at this level. Whether he can survive tonight is still a big question. One of the healers of the White Leaf Family said.

The king said, "But before he passed out, he told me that the strength of the Red Mist Monster was far beyond their expectations, and everyone but him died.

They had encountered the monster halfway through the Great Forge's trial, and the battle was fierce. At first, the mages teamed up to cast shields, then used magic to consume the energy in the red mist, and the warriors were responsible for fending off the dwarven-type monsters it summoned, which was effective at first, but when the monsters turned into a torrent of red rain and fell, everyone couldn't resist for long. Their shields pierced quickly, and their bodies were corroded by the red rain. Although they finally used magic to inflict a lot of damage on the Red Mist, no one was able to escape the God's Ruins, and only Bohawks, under the cover of several subordinates, successfully used short-distance teleportation magic to have a chance to escape through the teleportation array. Even so, in the end, the Red Mist caught up with him, inflicting a heavy blow on him the moment he fled the God's Ruins. ”

"You don't really understand the strength of this monster. Umeda said, "No matter what you call it, its strength has actually surpassed that of the Sage, even if it is not a powerful god like the ancient gods, but it is at least a truly powerful demigod." Letting a team of master-level warrior mages challenge a demigod is simply sending them to death. ”

"Demigods, what evidence do you have?" the king's face turned paler than before.

Umeda said, "The proof is that the power it uses is divine power. I'm different from you, I've faced real divine power, and the divine power has been processed and condensed by the gods or demigods themselves, so it's more advanced than ordinary magical power, and the mages of the realm below the sage don't have enough understanding of the nature and rules of magical power, and the magic power used will also be very fragile in front of this half-hung divine power, which is why your shield can't resist the power of the red rain, and why you need a lot of exorcism potions to get rid of a little bit of the divine power that remains on him. ”

The king said, "You mean you have to be a sage to fight it?"

Umeda said: "If it is an ordinary mage, the sage realm is not enough, it stands to reason that at least to the super saint realm can effectively suppress the demigods." ”

Ansaldo said strangely: "But I saw that the mage cast by His Excellency Xiao Chen can dispel those red mist." When you encountered the Red Rain in the temple, you also resisted the Red Rain's attack. ”

"Because we've never been ordinary mages. ”