On the shores of the jungle lake, the black fog drifting through the dense forest also affected the area, coupled with the rising thermals over the lake in late autumn. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn cloudy weather like today, visibility around is almost zero......

In an antiquity-style log cabin by the lake, Hull and several of her Grim Eye soldiers searched the house, which Hull believed was hundreds of years old, judging by the mountains of ancient scrolls, broken bookshelves, and other scraps. Just then, a Grim Reaper's Eye seemed to have discovered something, and she removed a thick parchment from the top of the shelf.

"Ahem...... This dust is really ...... Huh, this is the Guardian's diary?" Hull blew away a thick layer of dust and found the name written on the title page.

"Mistress, what's written on this?" One of the Grim Reaper's Eyes removed the armor from his head, and hidden under the iron helmet was the face of a young girl, who did not look to be over twenty years old, and some of the other sentinels were equally young, all of them taking off their masks one after another, waiting for Hull to tell them what was in the diary.

This was written by Ricardo in 940, when he left the Holy Kingdom to live in seclusion and built this hut himself, according to his diary. ”

She quickly flipped through Ricardo's diary, skimmed over some trivial things, flipped to the memorabilia of 944, and began to read.

"On the 11th day of the seventh month of 944, it rained, and my friend Leon sent me a heavy duty to my long-lived seclusion, which would bring misfortune, but my heart did not allow me to refuse, and I accepted the commission to seal the earth elemental gem, and left my wife and daughter to go to the ruins of Eren alone...... Sisters, this is the last page, it seems that there is no valuable information. ”

"Our Eye of Death is the master's personal guard, and our duty is to be the master's eye, and it is our fault to let you run away in vain, please punish the master. At this point, the Eyes of Death immediately bent their knees to ask for Hull's punishment, as if Hull had always been cruel to his men.

"It's nothing, get up, it can't be said that it's all fruitless, the search isn't over yet, is it?" Hull smiled as he put the parchment back on the shelf, but stumbled upon something buried in dust.

From the appearance, it was a sword, and Hel wiped the scabbard of the cross-sword in her hand, blowing away the dust covering the hilt, the silvery hilt seemed to be made of pure silver, and Hel, who wanted to see the whole picture, couldn't pull the blade out of the sheath despite all her might, so she had no choice but to give up this plan, and left Ricardo's hut with the Eyes of Death hanging the sword on her belt......

"Mistress, why don't you punish us......?

"Sisters, you just came under my command, we are all women, and we should not blame each other to cause those men to laugh at you...... It's a bit of a gain this time, look at this sword!~"

They stopped on a boulder not far in front of the hut, and Hel washed it thoroughly with his sword in the water and handed it to a Grim Reaper.

"It's strange, why make a scabbard for it if it can't be pulled?" asked the sentry, who was also unable to pull out the sword.

"I think its owner will be able to pull it out, but I'm not sure if it's Eric Ricardo or someone else......"

Hull smiled and asked for his sword back, and casually asked, "Where are they, Isaac, and why are they nowhere to be found......?"

Immediately, a teleportation array appeared in the nearby meadows, and a knight of the Judgment appeared, who dismounted and reported to Hull: "Sir Bravo is currently traveling through the Temeo Valley, they have been all the way to the forest, and according to the progress, they will not be able to cross the mountains until at least tomorrow morning, and reach the woods by the lake......"

When she got the news, she motioned for the Adjurator to leave, and then said to the Eye of Death beside her, "Isaac, that guy is really slow...... Sisters, let's go to the west side of the lake to rest......"

"As you wish, hostess......"

The group walked west along the lake, towards the largest beach by the lake and camped......

In the middle of the night, Hull woke up from her sleep and left her tent, and because of the cold of the night, she put on a cloak and braved the night breeze to the lake. She sat on a boulder and looked at the rippling lake, as if she was pondering something.

"What do you want to do, Finreal? You never care about the church, but what about me......? How I wish you could hear it...... These words ......"

Just as Hull looked at the lake and sighed, a small whirlpool appeared on the surface of the lake not far away, and a translucent figure glowing with blue light rose from the bottom of the lake, floated on the water, and gradually walked towards Hull.

"Who are you?, you're welcome to come over again!" the cold blade of the moon wheel was drawn from the scabbard, and the extremely sharp tip of the knife pointed directly at the figure in the distance.

The other party ignored it, and still stepped on the surface of the water at a steady pace to the shore, and Hel saw his appearance clearly because of the light he emanated. This is a middle-aged man in an overcoat, with a feathered top hat on his head, and a slightly wrinkled face under his long hair, which gives people a very vicissitudes of life......

"Again, who are you?"

"I didn't expect to sink the ruins...... You're still not giving up. Why are you so obsessed with elemental gems?" the man asked her helplessly and forcefully.

Hull waved the moon chakra, using it to point between the man's heart and throat, and sneered: "Huh...... Listen to this, you're Eric Ricardo, the legendary hunter who followed Leon before his revolt in El-Deig, the chief of the four horsemen?"

A strong gust of wind blew, Ricardo's figure blurred, and Hull could hear his voice behind her, and she noticed that her right hand holding the knife was being turned behind her, and a sharp pain entered her head.

"Now that you know who I am, you can still point a knife at me so calmly, it's really terrifying...... Listen to me and give up. And the kid I stabbed last time, you're in the same group, right? persuade him to go back......"

After reacting, Hull let go of the moon wheel in his hand, and rolled forward with his left palm to break free of Ricardo's control. As she stood firm, she turned around and slammed Ricardo on the shoulder, while her left hand gripped the falling moon chakra and slashed Ricardo's throat with a kick.

"It's too slow!"

When she hit her target with a kick and slash, she realized that it was only an afterimage, and Ricciardo's true body had flashed behind her, holding a silver dagger against the back of her head.

The coolness of the blade came to her mind, but Hel still didn't give up, and quietly activated the spell with both hands, and said, "It's really powerful, but why don't you pay attention to your feet?"

Ricardo heard the sound of horses breathing, and as he turned back, one of the adjudicators in the teleportation array swung his giant mace and smashed it. The ruling, which weighed more than two hundred kilograms, hit Ricardo, and although he met it with defensive maneuvers, he was still knocked far away and hit a boulder.

After the sneak attack was successful, Hull laughed a few times and gave the order to pursue, and the Knight of Judgment immediately rode his horse and galloped forward Ricardo, the giant stick attack instantly shattered the boulder behind him, and the powerful shock wave shook him away, and the slam of the judgment struck again, and the heavy giant stick attack hit Ricciardo directly in the head.

Looking at the battle situation not far away, she was very satisfied, and waved her cloak on the ground behind her to print a dozen incantations, and it didn't take long for more than a dozen Death Eyes to appear from it, all holding black crossbows and forming a line behind Hel.

"Looks like the Adjudicator can't beat him, and he's ready to wind up and shoot. ”

As Hull had said, the Judge Knight's great rod struck only an afterimage, and Ricardo's figure came to the lake not far away, summoned two silver double-edged axes out of thin air, and threw them at the Judge Knight in the distance. In the blink of an eye, blood splattered, and the silver axe killed the knight's horse, while another silver axe was embedded in the knight's chest.

"Although I'm on budget...... But I was still a little surprised to see the results...... Sisters, get ready to shoot!"

At Hull's command, dozens of ebony crossbows shot sharp steel arrows at the same time, hitting the ground at Ricardo's feet in unison, and when the Eyes of Death noticed that their targets were gone, more than a dozen silver daggers fell in mid-air and stabbed them. With a splash of blood, the Eyes of Death fell, and Ricciardo pressed the edge of his top hat and landed in front of Hull.

"That's the end of your men, and you have my sword, should you give it back to me?"

"You're such a horrible person...... Is this silver sword yours that can't be drawn? ”

She handed the long sword she was carrying to Ricardo, who nodded and took it, and explained, "Since you went to my hut today, I know that you are here for the holy stone, and in that four-hundred-year-old house, only this iron sword has some value, and everything else is just history." ”

Ricardo closed his eyes in contemplation and pulled out the silver sword, and the moment the scabbard was removed, the dazzling silver light made Hel feel its hidden power, and she couldn't help asking, "What is ......this?" Why are your weapons all silver, and there's an alternative sense of sacredness......"

"I am a hunter, a monster hunter, and my job is to dispel the darkness that the world fears. I don't want to say much about the origin of this silver sword, you just need to know that it can break steel and cut through the night. And these silver weapons are not only capable of killing the undead, but also have the same effect on fallen people like you who have been baptized by darkness, and no matter how many of you come, they are only lambs to the slaughter in the face of my power...... Do you understand?"

In addition to the silver sword, other items such as silver daggers, silver axes, and silver amulets were displayed by Ricardo.

"Okay...... One last question, why do you want to stay alone in the ruins of Ellen, knowing that you will be the last guardian? and your body ...... It seems that you did not go to hell because you were burdened with powers that do not belong to you, nor did you ascend to heaven as a legendary hero?"

Ricardo nodded to Hull's question and said, "My body is between soul and body, and I will never sleep until the curse of the Holy Stone is removed, and my body is sleeping in the ruins of Alan, and your friends have seen it." As for the other question, it is too early to know that the creatures that wander in the ruins of Eren are not ordinary creatures, and these ruin guardians do not need to eat, sleep, or succumb to the invaders...... I'm all I say, if you don't listen to the dissuasion and insist on breaking into the ruins, the consequences will be the same as the knight you are summoning now!!"

The Iron Sword bloomed with a dazzling silver light, Hel instinctively closed his eyes under the strong light, and the Judgment Knight who appeared in the spell portal in front of her had no time to defend, so he was shrouded in divine light, and let out a heart-rending scream, and when the echo receded, Hel opened his eyes and found that the Judgment Knight who was called by himself had turned into ashes under the silver light, and the bodies of the other fallen Eyes of Death also began to decompose, believing that it would not be long before they would also be displayed in this world forever.

Having disappeared from the lakeshore and the whirlpool in the center of the lake receding, Hull was frustrated like never before when she was about to return to camp, and as she prepared to return to camp, she found the words Ricardo had carved on the beach......

"If you want to get the Holy Stone, come to the throne of Allen's Ruins. Before you do that, you'll have to defeat the beasts of the lake, and I hope you'll think about it - Eric Ricardo"