As the cool wind swept through the village after a rainstorm and a faint rancid smell filled the air, Clark and Nicole helped Beverly to walk along the cobblestone pavement stained with golden sunlight.

In the vanishing sky, the sun spilled on the ground again, and the three remaining shadow whales were wiped out by the two Scourge Knights one by one. Unlike the Shadow Whale that destroyed the mansion in the first place, the other five monsters are several levels lower in combat power, and do not have the ability to turn into black holes and devour everything.

After razing the village to the ground as planned, the trio returned to the mansion and watched the swirling black void melt away in the sunlight through the tight wooden fence.

When the last monster was gone, seven dark iron furnaces were half-buried in the rubble in the ruined foundation, casting a cold and mysterious atmosphere over the silent village.

"What's that?, a hot water stove?" exclaimed Nicole as she glanced at Beverly, who was sickly and relaxed.

"It's not a stove that boils water, and there are very subtle mana fluctuations...... It looks like the feeling of the Rune workshop. ”

Clarke's heart was as rough as his appearance, and he had no sense of humor at all, and he looked at the strange structure of the iron furnace and replied with a straight look.

"If so...... It must have something to do with those monsters...... It must be double-checked. The red-haired boy cheered up, broke free from the support of the two, and walked quickly to the ruins of the mansion behind the fixing grass.

"Hey, if you're sick, say it, don't be reckless. The female knight was afraid that he would make a mistake, so she hurriedly followed.

"I'm fine. ”

Beverly responded. He reached out and held on to the wall at the edge of the foundation and gently jumped into the underground space.

He only felt a little tired now, and the wounds on his face ached. Other than that, there was no other feeling, at least the fighting spirit in the body did not send a warning.

"The stove seems to be open. ”

Nicole crouched at the closed mouth of the furnace and tapped the welded partition with her hand, staring at the red-haired boy with her eyes.

"Don't open it!"

Beverly knew that the other party would not mess around, but she was still startled by her, and hurriedly explained:

"We can take them apart and transport them back to South Celtic on the Petrel. Let the well-equipped Soundnest Base study these things. ”

"You're right. ”

The female knight gave him a playful look, then straightened up and slowly turned behind the iron furnace.

"Hey! I seem to have found something good!"

Clark lay under the steel frame of the iron furnace. Stretched out his hand to probe in, as if he had found something, and yelled at the two of them with excitement on his face.

"What?"

Both looked at him at the same time.

"Wait, let me see. ”

He pulled out half of his notebook from under the steel frame. Spread it out in your hand and open it. After seeing that it was full of dense Celtic text, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"A book...... Wrong...... It's like a work note. ”

"Show me!"

The female knight rushed to his side with great interest, snatched the notes and glanced at them, and returned them to him with a disappointed face: "Cut, it's all Celtic letters, I can't understand it." ”

"Be careful!"

Clark hurriedly reached out to catch the notebook and kicked her reproachfully: "Anyway, this is also an important clue, don't throw it around." ”

"That's what I said. Most of the disasters on Keith Island have nothing to do with the Demonic Calamity, but are probably just an experiment by a certain rune mage...... Although several experimental instruments were harvested. But it's not the same thing as what we're investigating......"

Beverly sighed softly as he stroked the smooth exterior of the furnace with one hand.

......

Deep underground, enclosed space.

In the space inside the altar, Calf, dressed in a highland-style black robe, sat on the glazed floor, a few sticky tentacles cushioned his seat, and whispered softly:

"Are you delirious because of the erosion of apotheosis...... Cognitive conflicts can lead to desperate and helpless torment...... Now I understand this very well. ”

He turned his head stiffly, his dark eyes churning straight ahead, his arms that turned into brown tentacles wriggled and drew a few runes in the space, and the huge mana turned into an arrow of light and shot at the tall metal wall in front of him.

Boom!

The passage connecting the foundation and the altar superstructure opened, and in the next moment, as if it were a lamp awakening in the night, the metal walls began to light up layer by layer from the bottom up, and let out a piercing roar.

"So...... How much strength is left in the Doge's Palace...... Let me tempt and tempt. ”

Huge waves of mana condensed on the metal walls, spiraling passages swirling and slowly opening, emitting a blurry black and white halo that tore the monsters buried deep beneath the foundation into the altar.

Bang!

A large translucent claw pierced through the passage and pressed against the edge of the metal wall from the inside out, and in the violent vibration, the saw-like claws crushed the metal and tore it to pieces.

"Very good...... Very good......'

Calf watched the scene, squeezed a stiff smile on his face, clapped his hands, and called softly, "Come out, my dear child, don't be shy." ”

“......”

The shadowy, mottled transparent body slowly squeezed into the altar, and the light of mana clearly outlined the silhouette of the monster - it resembled a large, deformed seal, with an elongated body and a disproportionately bloated head.

As if searching for something, the ugly human-like head slowly turned to Calf, uttered a silent call, and squirmed and floated past.

"The monsters that have been conceived by the devil are truly extraordinary. ”

Calf stretched out his wet tentacles, pressed them against the monster's head, gently stroked its head, and whispered softly, "Go to the ground, kill all the living things you see, and show the value of your existence." ”

The monster's eyes flashed with dark green light, and its mouthparts made a gurgling sound, flapping its fins, and the huge figure slowly floated up, unhindered through the outer wall of the altar, and quickly climbed upward.

“......”

After watching the figure of the monster slowly disappear. Calf narrowed his eyes, and after a long silence, he sighed, "I failed again." Those two tomb robbers have the ability to escape my pursuit again and again. ”

"Hee-hee-hee. ”

The short and fat figure of the demon god's servant flew out of the gap in the passage, glanced at the other party with great resentment, and said with a smile on his twin fins:

"Being able to escape the chase many times proves that they are not ordinary people, if you don't hurry up, those two guys will take the truth to the Governor's Palace. ”

"I've got my own measure. ”

Calf stood up from the tentacle-formed seat. Walking towards the exit of the altar, Mu Ran said:

"This time, I'm going to do it myself. ”

......

After encountering a series of terrifying experiences such as a man-eating spider, a moth female killer, a cyclops, and a giant flea. The father and son of the tomb robbers ran for their lives, finally crossing the primeval forest that had caused them nightmares.

Standing on the mountain trail with a disgraced face, Hank and Derek first hugged each other with tears of joy and cried bitterly, and then cheered up. Look for the border guards stationed on the mountain road.

After being tormented by fear along the way. They now yearn for prison because it means safety and shelter. Even if it was only an hour early, the two wanted to go to prison as soon as possible.

Perhaps it was because they had encountered too many bad luck, and at last they began to be lucky, and on the way under the moonlight, they saw a little fire on the road in the distance, and the fire was coming towards them, and soon. Heavy footsteps were already faintly audible.

In a few moments, you can see the dust flying behind the fog. And the flags fluttering in the night wind—the army, the army of the Highland kingdoms, and the fires are the torches in their hands.

Although this place has been developed from the primeval forest, as a country with a partial undeveloped territory, the territory of the Highland Kingdom actually has quite a large wasteland.

In this desolate border area, there are not many people in normal times, most of the people scattered in the wilderness are mountain people, and when a real army of the Highland Kingdom steps on, the sight is enough to be called spectacular.

Flaming torches lined up one phalanx after another, led by banner-bearers holding high banners, marched silently and neatly, with red-maned helmeted generals at the front, then hill-like monsters, and then heavy infantry and baggage in the night.

The most conspicuous of these are the warriors who are clad in intricately carved armor and armed with spears and short swords. They were generally a head taller than the Celtic warriors, covered in a variety of near-range weapons, breathing steadily, powerfully, and walking in unison.

As Celts living in the western suburbs of Edinburgh, Derek and Hank knew at a glance that this was a mixed army. The generals were obviously Rosevia's officers, and the monsters were also their auxiliary legions, and most of the strong men who were heavily armed with iron towers were elite guards.

When the young man saw the army, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself, and he opened his mouth and was about to shout, but he was gagged by the cheap father, pulled to the side of the road, and reprimanded fiercely:

"Stupid, there are more than just people in that army, if you alarm the monsters, you and my lives will be reimbursed!"

"Didn't pay attention...... Or are you cautious. ”

Derek knew that he was wrong, so he could only nod and laugh in agreement.

The two stood on the side of the road, waving their hands in the air, and some of the soldiers noticed the two homeless men dancing on the side of the road, and looked at them in surprise.

After the old Hank was sure that the generals led by him saw him, he hurriedly pulled his cheap son and pounced, and knelt directly on the ground:

"My lord, we turn ourselves in!

“......”

The leader of the general rolled his eyes, and wanted to pull these two people over to draw a pass, and then let them see their military rank clearly - Lao Tzu is a soldier, not a strip, you are the first egg!

"Don't you see that we are border guards, get out of the way, we have to turn ourselves in and go to the execution office, damn your IQ!"

The general waved his hand with a dark face, and several soldiers with a tiger's back and a bear's waist immediately pounced, picked up the father and son of the tomb robber, and threw them into the grass on the side.

"Phew!"

The old tomb robber took a bite of the weeds, quickly turned over and stood up, and shouted to the general, "My lord, we just came out of that forest, and we found that there is a cyclops in the forest!

"Huh, cyclops?"

The general sat in the steel-armored sedan chair on the back of the water lizard, and after hearing his shout, he turned his head and said with a smile: "You have made a fortune, I am here to congratulate you first, but if you dare to hinder our march again......"

With that, he sneered and made a gesture to wipe his neck, then turned his gaze to the main road, ignoring the two passing madmen.

"My lord, we're telling the truth!"

Derek rolled up from the grass and cried out with a handful of snot and tears:

"We are actually tomb robbers, we robbed the cemetery of the Treves family, first chased by evil spirits, then chased by monster assassins, chased by man-eating spiders, chased by cyclops, and now we finally escaped from the primeval forest. ”

"What!?"

The general instantly turned his head and looked at the embarrassed tomb robber father and son, and suddenly stood up from the sedan chair: "You two are the tomb robbers who stole the Treves family cemetery?"

"That's us! I'm Hank, he's Derek! We're telling the truth!" replied old Hank, with sincere trepidation.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

In the sound of the general's order, a long horn sounded from the side of the sedan chair, and the entire army gradually stopped, and the leading officer jumped off the sedan chariot and walked quickly to the two of them:

"I'll tell you the truth. I have an urgent mission to find these two grave robbers. If you dare to make up a joke to fool me......"

He drew his saber with a "bang" and pressed it against the old tomb robber's neck, revealing a conceitful expression.

"We're just coming out of the forest because the head of the snake named Jeffrey is a monster who wants to kill us in the process of smuggling. Luckily, we were lucky, and after a bit of fighting, we were able to kill the monster. Also, there are strange things in the cemetery of the Treves family, and it is likely that there is something more terrible than evil spirits buried in it, and we have an accomplice who was killed by that thing!"

Old Hank only felt that the cold air on the blade suddenly penetrated into the bone marrow, and he quickly explained without words.

"Hmm...... It doesn't sound like a fake. ”

The general withdrew his sword, looked at the father and son of the tomb robber, and grinned: "The more I look at it, the more it looks, most of it is true, but I didn't expect that Lao Tzu just set off, and this credit was sent to the door by himself." ”

"General. ”

The old tomb robber hurriedly pressed a hand on his chest, leaned forward slightly, and made a bowing posture: "Please send us to prison quickly!"

"What's the hurry?"

Seeing the miraculous anxiety of the two, the general's face turned pale, and he tightened his eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?

"Yes, yes!"

Derek nodded vigorously, and said with a sad face: "That Geoffrey's accomplice has been chasing and killing us, and the monsters sent are stronger than the other, if it wasn't for the Cyclops and the monster fighting last time, we would have died in the primeval forest." (To be continued.) )