Theopharan, dungeon.

The shackles made a crisp sound, and the regular beating sound successfully attracted everyone's attention. Imprisoned here were once Theophalans who could not control their bloodthirsty desires. Prior to this, the death penalty did not exist in Theopharan's law, and when the bloodthirsty people were convicted of their crimes, they were exiled to the periphery.

Of course, there are exceptions.

For example, the hapless bard who fell here a few years ago.

At the end of the dark corridor he did discover an unknown kingdom, but he had never been able to leave the dark cell of Theophalan from the day he set foot in it. One of his arms was attached to a heavy chain, the end of which hung from an iron bar, a quality that would have held the aggressive Theopharans so hard that the unarmed bard could not have opened it.

But today, he meets two rare customers.

One was an outsider of the same color as him, and the other was the king who had ordered him to be detained.

The act of banging on the shackles was a sign that he was in a good mood.

Most of the prisoners who are usually sent in have fallen into a state of delirium, so that he has no one to communicate with. He had long since given up the idea of escaping, and it was a good thing to have someone to talk to him—especially since one of them was his enemy. He didn't do anything, and he could see the face of the former enemy in distress.

"Your Majesty, why have you become a prisoner?" asked the bard.

The king ignored him and stared at Eric in the cell opposite.

Another outsider.

Not only that, but the young man's reaction to being imprisoned in his cell was very different from that of the bard, and instead of crying and cursing, he smiled contemptuously after the guards left.

"What are you laughing at?"

The king finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked.

"I'm sorry, but you're in a slightly comical situation. Eric responded.

But what really reassures him is that Sindora has left the country. If the woman was still here, his plan would not have succeeded - deliberately being caught by the guards was just a temptation, and news about him would have been the first to go, and if Sindora didn't show up, it meant that she wasn't here.

The incident in the imperial capital, Sindora stabbed him in the back, and also made the entire Musa consortium bear such a black cauldron, he didn't have to go out to know that the consortium's industries in various places were suppressed by the local high-level, with Sindora's scheming, she was afraid that she would have withdrawn a huge amount of money from the headquarters a long time ago, and the remaining Musa consortium was just an empty shell with nothing to show for itself.

The attack on the headquarters of the church and the almost misfortune of the Henry clan meant that he had now completely become the public enemy of the entire Herutia, and no one would be willing to listen to his explanation, and even killed him as soon as they saw him.

Cyndora had already planned the ending for him.

After witnessing the battle between Lin Qiu and Phoenix, he had completely untied the knot in his heart, and then, Sindora wanted him to die in the imperial capital, so that the entire Musa Consortium could be held responsible for this attack, and the Chaos Cult could escape. However, the moment he saw Phoenix fall, Eric suddenly changed his mind.

Instead of waiting for Lin Qiu to come and end his life, there was something more meaningful waiting for him.

The Lost Kingdom of Theopharan.

He had heard that this kingdom might exist underground because of a giant monster that had existed underground since ancient times. According to the agency's research, it appears that a monster has survived all of the underground. This was what Sindora had told him personally, and he had entrusted her with full responsibility for the matter.

While fleeing the imperial capital, Eric heard news from the palace that the Crow's Assassins had been resurrected. Throughout the second half of the night, soldiers continued to flee the city.

And he finally understood Sindora's true intentions.

The woman was not interested in monsters, but there must be something underneath the institution that was worth studying.

Fortunately, due to the surprise attack of the monsters, the researchers fled the imperial capital unprepared, so he was able to find some measurement data at the bottom of the research institute that was too late to be destroyed.

However, it is not for the data of the monsters, but for a human named Goeben Azuk.

The ability to cause vibrations, the ability to petrify objects by touch.

It's just that these researchers are so focused on humans that they ignore some of the implicit information.

"Your ancestors once sealed a monster, right?"

One problem, the king is stagnant.

This is a secret that has been kept in the hands of the royal family of Theopharan for generations, but how did this newcomer know about it?

"Are you in the same group as those people?" asked the king in a cold voice.

He had already shown that he had nothing to talk about with those who called themselves the Chaos Cult, and he had expected that the other party would retreat, but he did not expect that they would find Goeben and blatantly take away the kingdom! If this young man was in the same league as those people, he could only curse the other party with the most vicious words.

These people simply do not understand what it means to put Goben Azuk in control of the country!

"No, I'm here to help you. Eric said.

"Help me, are you kidding?" the king couldn't believe his ears, now they were both trapped by the damn iron bars, and the soldiers who had once been loyal to him were all under the control of the strange moon...... No, the outsider was in a worse position than he was, and soon Goben-Azuk would personally interrogate him, who had always been known for his tyrannical methods.

Whether this young man will survive tonight is still a question.

"I'm not joking, but before I do that, I have to identify a couple of issues. We don't have a lot of time, so can you skip this unnecessary nonsense, because you don't have any other choice - first of all, you didn't kill it at the time, you sealed it, I'm not wrong?"

“...... That's right, why ask?"

"Good, so that we can make progress in our conversation. Based on the current situation, I suspect that when you sealed it, it was in the form of a demon core. ”

"That's true. ”

"Sure enough. ”

Eric knew it.

Because in those materials, it is specifically mentioned that Goburn Azuk directly swallowed the demon core.

Anyone who does this will only have two consequences, one is to be consumed by the will of the monster, and the other is to be propped up and die. However, in rare cases, there may be a third scenario, in which humans can achieve a high degree of unity with monsters.

Fortunately, the researchers at the bottom are always immersed in their own world, and if they occasionally walk around the upper floors, they will hear some creative hypotheses.

"I have to ask you again - why are you asking this?"

"Because, there is a reason for Goeben's special physique. ”

Eric said.

And if you find a special cause, you can find a way to fight against the special.