Chapter 3: Afterglow

"The shouting has stopped, how is the victory? Forget it, it's not the time to worry about this, hurry up and save people!"

When everything was calm, he slid down the wooden ladder and landed on the floor of the lower prison, looking around at the dark stone wall around him, Sieg decided that this was the place where the crew of the Goshawk was held, so he held his breath and moved deep against the cold stone wall, sneaking a hundred meters away and finally seeing his long-lost companions. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Sige, why are you back again!But it's okay, while the guards are away, quickly find a way to let us out!"

"What else can I do when I come back to save people? I hope I'm not late, where is the regimental commander!" he replied, and began to inquire about Shaw's whereabouts.

With more than twenty crew members in the same cage, the scene was so crowded that Nabal managed to squeeze in front of Sieg and pointed to a secret passage in the cell that led to the lower level.

"Why didn't you kid come earlier, the guards just took the regiment commander away, and I heard that bastard say that he was going to be a sacrifice!

"I need your help, do you have a spare key?"

"How could there be!But the roof is just an ordinary iron plate, and your knife can be opened with a single slash!

In the next few minutes, Sig destroyed the cage according to Mo Cha's instructions, rescued all the crew members of the Goshawk here, recovered their equipment from the nearby armory, and assembled at the entrance of the suspected underground tunnel.

"Everyone, listen to me, although rescuing the head of the regiment is the most important thing at the moment, if we all go to the altar through the underground tunnel, there will be no way back, so most of us must go back the way we came!"

After regaining their freedom, the crew members were very excited, completely ignoring the current situation and trying to rescue Xiao Yi who had been taken away. Sieg managed to convince most of the crew, only to find that the crowd was missing the person he needed the most, the water dancer Ryuchen.

"That, where did Long Chen go?"

"He is even worse than our regimental commander, he was taken away yesterday, and now his life and death are unknown. It was still Mo Cha's answer, as if he had seen everything that had happened.

"Damn, there's one less useful scavenger...... Tea, Nabal, you two come with me, Mirror and Lady Melva, I need you to fight your way out with your crew and take refuge in the Goshawk in the harbor!"

After the distribution, Nabal and Mo Cha followed Sig into the entrance of the dark passage, while Melva and the others led more than twenty sailors to the upper floor.

After more than ten minutes of walking through the underground passage where they couldn't see their fingers, they finally began to regret that they didn't carry torches into the dark passage, just when they felt powerless to move forward, there was a faint roar nearby, following the way the sound came, the three gradually approached the exit of the dark passage, until a bright beam of fire shone into the dark passage, accompanied by a much magnified soldier projection not far away.

The three of them didn't have time to discuss the plan, but the tea felt the exit and slit the guard's throat, and Nabal stripped the sturdy black armor from the sentry, and disguised himself as the axe warrior of the Dark Order at Sieg's request, but had to admit that the golden infantry axe was a little too eye-catching, so Nabal felt that his disguise was too unsuccessful.

"Don't bother, hurry up to the front to cover us, the destination is just around the corner, isn't it!?" Sieg grumbled, and pushed Nabal around the corner of the basement with Mocha, and Nabal's thick frame was just enough to provide cover for the two of them of medium stature.

A sentry around the corner saw Nabal, dressed in black armor, approaching, ignored him and returned to his post, where he took the opportunity to assassinate the careless sentinel, who took his place to aid in the later retreat.

Walking on the pebbles everywhere to the end, the two of them wished that time could go against the flow a little, in the stone room in front of them, there was a huge statue of a sword-wielding knight (the statue of the god of darkness, holding a deep dark glass, wearing a bat-wing breastplate), three altars were evenly distributed in front of the statue, from right to left were displayed a gem badge that collected four gems of air, water, wind and earth, an upright ebony coffin, The sacrificial Shaw was also lying unconscious on the altar, holding a small bottle in her hand, which contained nothing more than the blood of Fe August.

"What kind of ritual is this, do you know the tea?"

"Hell, the three gems we worked so hard to find and our beloved beauty leader are the sacrifices...... It seems that what these Dark Cultists want to do is not simple!"

"Stupid! Just kidding! The contents of that coffin must be unusual, the ritual seems to have been interrupted, apparently due to the lack of an elemental gem. Take this opportunity to get the regimental commander back!"

He gave Mo Cha a punch angrily, and walked to the empty altar desperately to save Xiao Yi, and Mo Mo Cha also walked to the altar on the right to retrieve the holy stone, but this smooth also brought them strong uneasiness, and the hearts of the two of them were already up and down.

As soon as Sieg's footsteps stepped on the stairs in front of the altar, a violent fireball suddenly flew nearby and hit the tea at the other end, and in the severe pain caused by the explosion, the tea fell, and Nabal, who had heard the sound, was also shot through the chest by several crossbow arrows and fell in a pool of blood, and the footsteps of a man could be heard from the dark corner of the stone chamber......

“...... I didn't expect you to end up in the net...... Agni, the embodiment of fire......"

The unique way of speaking signifies the arrival of the Witch King, but the Agni does not exist, much to the confusion of Sieg, the only surviving one.

A moment later, a group of heavily armed crossbow soldiers surrounded the altar, and the Witch King, hidden behind the veil of darkness, slowly walked towards Sig, holding a pitch-black staff with thorns in his hand, and he was followed by dozens of black-robed wizards, all raising their staff to cast spells, and a huge pressure fell on Sigg's head and overwhelmed him.

"Ahem...... I was careless about falling into such a trap...... If you're fooling me, then I'm going to kill you!!" he stood up with all his might leaning on the wolf, and his own negligence had caused his companion to fail, and his anger made him lose control for a moment.

"Wake up!!!Bastards hiding behind the scenes!!"

Completely ignoring the hypergravity barrier laid by the mages, Sieg sprinted forward with a slashing blow that destroyed all the mages in his wake through the Witch King. Strangely enough, Sieg didn't use the Sky Wolf attack, the powerful blow came entirely from his left arm, which was tattooed with fire, and now Sig had rolled up his long sleeves and clenched his hard fist.

"The power of the fire demon is indeed ...... Terrible...... But a little bit of temperature alone isn't enough to defeat me!!" The Witch King shouted, and the flames around him suddenly went out, and the black staff was suddenly enveloped in a cloud of decay, and then released a black wind and headed straight for Sig.

Seeing that Sieg's body was swallowed by the aura of decay, but the miasma covering Sieg's figure dissipated in a dazzling firelight, Sige's left arm changed, and the original flame tattoo had been transformed into a burning flame phantom, and this arm completely lost the color of human blood, replaced by dazzling firelight.

"It seems that I need to destroy you with the hidden power of this hand!Let me find out the truth of all this today!" Now that Sig has gained the power to manipulate the flames, the image of the flame claws of the fire demon Agni appeared around his left arm, and when he struck again, he engulfed the figure of the Witch King in only an instant.

"It's really nice...... Strange, it should have avoided the flames...... Could it be that the claw is more than just an image......" Although the flames that bombarded him were bounced off at the last moment, the Witch King's black robe was still burned with four flaming claw marks.

After a brief distraction, the Witch King relaxed his vigilance, but Sieg took the opportunity to walk through the flames to the Witch King, and once again cast the Flame Demon Claw to burn the Witch King's body at zero distance.

It wasn't until the last piece of rag was also reduced to ashes in his left hand that Sieg realized that he had been played by the witch king's tricks again, and sure enough, a large number of stand-ins appeared around him in an instant, and they all pulled out black swords and attacked him.

"Die to them all!!!This hand is enough to bury you forever!!" He raised his left arm, and the flames burned more and more under his will, and the claws of the fire demon as an accessory instantly became huge, and the shadow of the flames illuminated the entire underground stone chamber.

The next moment when Sig slammed his left palm to the ground, the surrounding witch kings were smothered by the claws of the fire demons, and the puppets were burned to ashes.

"Get out of here!!Bastard!!" After eliminating the dummies, Sieg still couldn't calm the anger in his heart, and the explosion caused everything around him to fall into flames.

“...... Ridiculous, this is ridiculous!The unruly Demon King of Hell, Agni, has been completely tamed by a mere mortal!Why!!" The flames were extinguished by a spell, and the Witch King reappeared underground, but this time with a state of utter surprise.

Sieg, who had always been confused by the Witch King's words, scolded: "This time it's the real thing! It's useless for you to say these inexplicable words! I will definitely use the power of this hand to kill you! Enlightenment! You bastard!!"

“...... Ignorance!!If it weren't for the power of the Demon God, how could you have won against my clone!!But the power that Leon couldn't use directly hundreds of years ago!!How did you ...... Wait a minute...... Your hand...... Your soul ...... This hand has given you a whole new life, is this assimilation!?"

"Assimilation!...... That dream!!The nightmare of losing my left arm!!Is that real!!If you combine it with the story that the regimental commander told me, this ...... Why is this so!!...... Damn!!"

Sieg's mind was suddenly in chaos, he lost control again, and the third outbreak turned the entire underground chamber into a sea of fire, and the Witch King opened the magic barrier in order to protect the altar, and Xiao Yi and the others in it escaped being burned to ashes......

"I think I've been eroded by the Flame Elemental Gem!Fortunately, Brother Xia Yan saved me and freed me from the fate of being occupied by the Fire Demon!" His mind suddenly flashed through the past that Xiao Yi had mentioned to him, but in the blink of an eye, it turned chaotic again.

"It's just a part of the memory lost...... For example, if you know your last name but don't know your first name...... Sieg Valheitt. The impression that came to him was a hint from the wolf, and he retrieved his surname, his consciousness blurred again, as before.

"From now on, you are the first member of the Black Seal Knights! we will be able to do it! Eric!" The third clear memory fragment is the moment when he talked to a man with long white hair, Sieg finally remembered his original name, he was the fifth executor of the Holy Cult - Eric Valheit, and the white-haired man who spoke to him and later cut off his left arm was none other than the person who betrayed the Holy Religion, the leader of the Black India Knights, Victor Delacro.

In the midst of the fire, Agni's image appeared behind him, and the fire weakened slightly, so much so that he could see Sieg in the gaps in the flames. When he remembered the most important points, all that remained in his mind were sporadic memories, the old Eric was long dead, and all that remained was the host of the fire demon power in the elemental gem, but unlike Shoy, who had been occupied in the past, Sieg completely reversed the control of Agni, who had given him a new life, and fully gained its power. Despite being influenced, Sieg cares deeply about his former host, Shaw, and this emotion goes beyond colleagues and partners. The only thing that is unknown is why the Revelation of Fire was assimilated with the dead Eric, and the real reason for the loss of the Fire Stone, and Xiao Yi is the only one who knows all this.

"Okay...... I remembered it all...... Why do I use the Executor's moves, the mysterious plan of fate, and all my past...... Since I am destined to be the host of the power of the demon god, even if I become the embodiment of fire because of this!Then that's it!I am willing to accept the judgment!!"

Finally, the fourth eruption appeared, and all the surrounding flames were concentrated behind Sieg, and under his consciousness, the huge figure of the Helldemon King Agni appeared in the world again...... At this time on Minella Island, smoke slowly rose from the dark ground, and the black soil in the center of the island was suddenly ignited by the fire underground, and many Druas died in the sudden fire, and the fire finally subsided after burning for more than ten minutes, but none of the Drua soldiers took water to put out the fire, and it seemed that the reason for the flames to extinguish was still tens of meters deep underground.

"You've got a hand left, is this making us kill each other!Then I can tell you that I'm definitely not going to fall here!!"

A flaming sword in Sieg's left hand steam away a wall of water in front of him, and the person who blocked the flames and extinguished the flames for the Witch King was none other than Long Chen, but the water dancer at this moment was just a puppet manipulated by the Witch King with witchcraft.

"Hahaha......!!!This little ghost has the ability to dance water, this is the nemesis of the power of fire!I had expected this, so I prepared in advance......" The witch king gave the order to destroy the enemy with the puppet in his hand, and then disappeared into the darkness with a wave of his black sleeves.

"Damn...... You bastard!!" Despite being deeply angry at the Witch King's escape, Sieg's emotions affected his fight, and Long Chen would not let go of this opportunity, and a pair of Tang knives slashed like flowing water, and the duel between the two was at an impasse from the beginning.

After a vicious fight, Sig had already consumed most of his physical strength, and the flame attacks failed again and again under the resistance of the water dragon, and the close-quarters sword duel was completely suppressed by Long Chen, and after barely getting out, he decided not to engage in a head-to-head confrontation, but instead tried to break the spell set by the Witch King.