Scarlett staggered along with a blood-soaked sword in her hand.

She had been in this terrible garden for half a prayer hour.

Because of that damn red light, Ralph, who was guarding his side, is gone. Out of a dozen or so guards, only one ended up in the same area as her.

Like everyone else, they were soon attacked by demons.

In the rocks, behind the low walls, in the woods...... There are demons everywhere. They appeared in droves, and many of them were even high-level demons that should not have appeared at all in the third layer of the Abyss.

After forming a temporary team with the seven or eight mercenaries she met, Scarlett fought and fled until now.

Luckily, she was alive until now. And on the way, he also met three escort knights looking for him. And the bad thing is that they encounter two ninth-level demons on the way to escape. The makeshift procession had broken up in less than half a prayer hour. Even two of the Guardian Knights died in the attack of the Abyss Demon.

Scarlett saw her bodyguard knights fall, and saw their blood sucked dry by that weird ball demon.

Scarlett didn't know where it was sending its blood. But she knew she had fallen into a terrible trap - that the demons were engaged in a premeditated and organized hunt.

And these people are their prey.

Now, Scarlett's magic supplies have been depleted.

The magic scroll is long gone, and there are only two elixirs left for the magic pill and three pills for healing injuries. As for the jewelry that has solidified the magic, it has long since run out of magic, and even the wand has been turned into a wooden stick due to overuse.

The long sword in her hand was picked up by Scarlett from a dead mercenary. The blood stains on it were partly from the mercenary. Part of it was her own. She used this sword to hack to death an injured fifth-level demon, and the price she paid was a long wound in her forearm.

Scarlett didn't know how much longer she could hold out. I don't know where to go. All she knew was that she had to keep moving to avoid being surrounded by demons. At the same time, there is only that. to find others.

"Miss," a scarred knight of the guard stopped Scarlett as she walked through a grove, "we can't go any further." ”

Scarlett didn't ask why.

Because she had sensed a powerful aura coming from front of her that made her heart palpitate. It was an existence she simply couldn't resist.

"Go this way. Scarlett looked around, gave everything to intuition and luck, and headed to the left.

The figures of the three people quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

In the valley more than four hundred meters away from Scarlett, Ralph led five guards and a few mercenaries who had joined after meeting them on the way. While fighting the demon, he was anxiously looking for her.

Seven hundred meters to the south, the more than thirty mercenaries gathered by Longelo had just rescued Afu, Tu Su and seven other mercenaries who were surrounded by demons, and they were facing a counterattack from demons.

On the edge of a small fountain square three hundred meters to the north, Morton and a few thunderstorm mercenaries under his command were full of murderous energy. And at their feet. The abyssal demons are gradually turning into corpses of black mud. Morton's eyes scanned around, his red eyes still crazy. Fierce, but with a hint of fear.

Fierce battles take place in every corner of this huge garden.

Although these more than 600 mercenaries were the elite of the major mercenary groups, in just half a prayer time, more than fifty mercenaries still died at the hands of demons.

And the blood of the dead in battle is collected by that strange demon. It was transported to a circular altar located in the center of the garden.

The altar is old and dilapidated. The ground is full of sinuous cracks. Withered hellvines crawled all over the altar along the cracks, and the bones of unknown animals were scattered all around, looking eerie and terrifying.

Around the altar, twelve tall stone pillars stand. The stone pillars are carved with mystical symbols and characters.

A huge red demon stood right in the center of the altar.

Next to it. It's eight eleventh-level demons. These terrifying creatures, which originally only existed in the sixth layer of the abyss, were standing in the four directions of the altar at this moment, constantly shooting black light marks towards the altar.

One after another, the ball demon was escorted to the altar with blood sucking up. They poured blood into a pool of water in the center of the altar. With the increase in blood and the bombardment of the black light seal, the dilapidated altar was regaining its original appearance at an alarming rate.

The cracks are closing. Withered vines, dust, bones, and black mud are receding. The stone bricks on the ground have become new and tidy. The twelve stone pillars emitted a faint red light, and the blood in the pool tumbled, turning into a dense blood mist that condensed above the altar.

A large vortex emerges from the void as the altar moves. The black hole in the center of the vortex has expanded from less than an inch to nearly two meters in diameter.

"Lord Banksar, we need more human blood," an eleventh-level demon raised his head, looked at the red demon standing by the blood pool, and said respectfully, "The blood qi of these knights is very strong. If we can have the blood of another hundred men, we can completely open a passage for the passage of the army. ”

"You'll get it. The red demon inhaled the blood mist that filled the pool of blood, and half-squinted his eyes, revealing a hint of intoxication, "These people have all been locked up in this cage by us, don't worry about them escaping." Everyone will be part of this pool of blood, but it's just a matter of being a little earlier and a little later. ”

It said, looking up at the sky.

The entire garden was shrouded in gray air, and visibility did not exceed a hundred meters. Only above this altar, the gray cloud seemed to be blocked by some kind of force, leaving a circular hollow. Through the hollow, you can see the high dome at a glance.

The dome is hundreds of meters high and consists of red rocks. The rock is cut flat and densely carved with magic patterns.

It was a Heavenly Dome Magic Array. In a magical way, simulate the sun, moon and stars.

Originally, the dome was lifeless, and the sun, moon and stars were dim. However, as time passed, the magic pattern seemed to be activated by some kind of power. The stars in the picture are getting brighter and brighter. The Demon Moon has moved to the west, and it won't be long before that. The sun will rise.

"It's almost dawn in the outside world. Rank 12 Demon Banksar muttered.

............

After making his way through the hallway, Roy continued deeper into the ruins.

He didn't know what happened to Rundero and the others, but he knew that if he wanted to save people, he had to find the control core of the ruins' magic pattern circle as soon as possible. Time is of the essence. There is no room for delay.

At the end of the corridor is a bronze door.

Pushing open the door, a huge rotunda appeared in front of Roy's eyes.

Roy cautiously walked into the hall. The dome of the hall is seventy or eighty meters high. The surrounding walls look like mountain cliffs. Standing in the hall, Roy felt like an ant walking into a church, and he felt a sense of insignificance and awe.

In the center of the hall, there is a long dining table, and on the right side of the hall. It's a spiraling staircase. The staircase winds its way up the curved wall to the dome.

This familiar layout immediately made Roy sure that this was the first floor of a magic tower, where magicians usually dined.

"This is the magic tower of Noiotans?"

The thought had barely crossed his mind when Roy noticed that the mysterious consciousness in the dragon's skin had reappeared, and he hurriedly warned himself of danger.

And almost at the same time. A loud, shrill wind sounded behind itself.

"Be careful!" came the voice of the bow spirit in the sea of knowledge.

Roy spun around.

I don't know when, a skeleton guard has approached me.

This is no ordinary skeleton guard. Rather, it is a sculpture cast of steel. It was pitch black, its hollow eyes dancing with blue flames, and the long scythe in its hand slashed at its neck like lightning.

Roy's hair stood on end, and the shield of judgment in his hand slammed to meet it.

There was a loud bang. Skull Guardian's scythe. Slashed at the shield, pulling out a flying spark and making a piercing sound of the tip of the knife.

"Damn! What the hell is this!"

As soon as they fought, Roy discovered that the power of the skeleton sculpture was amazing. Even with his current strength, the shield was almost shaken out of his hand.

One hit missed, and the skeleton sculpture didn't say a word. With a stride, like a ghost, he reached Roy's side, and the scythe swept over and slashed at Roy's waist.

At the same time, there was a fluctuation on the surrounding walls, and one after another identical skeleton guard statues emerged from the void.

Some of them were armed with long axes, some with swords, and some with bows and arrows. Each statue is three meters tall. The black body glows with metal.

With the addition of the one attacking Roy, there are a total of thirty-six Skeleton Guardian statues!

The statue moves quickly and is extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he had already rushed up and surrounded Roy.

"When!" Royg fended off the scythe of the Skeleton Protector, turning his shield into a combat axe and slashing at the Skeleton Guardian's chest while the scythe was swinging away.

There was a loud bang, and Roy only felt that his axe was like slashing on a mountain. The tremendous force of the shock shook the tiger's mouth.

Hit by this axe, the skeleton statue only took a few steps backwards before stopping. The black metal skeleton on his body had only a shallow dent.

"Shit!" Roy spat fiercely.

Holding an artifact, he did his best, and he used the powerful thunder axe method, even if the Great Light Knight was chopped by this axe, it would be either dead or injured. Unexpectedly, the skeleton statue only took a few steps back, and returned to normal as if nothing happened.

A statue is so difficult to deal with, let alone thirty-six.

Looking at the swarming skeleton guards, Roy only felt that one head and two were big for a while.

............... (To be continued......)