In November of the 568th year of the El Tieno calendar, the free city of Shangri-La

Domains, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, species, no matter which school of biology, are based on these seven classifications to determine the biological category, among them, the dragon is more difficult to determine, but in terms of appearance characteristics, together with lizards belong to the reptilian class, it should be the consensus of various scholars.

Because of this, when Nier's exclamation sounded, Izumi Sakura immediately turned her head, expecting to see a huge creature that looked like a dragon, however, when she turned her head, the creature she saw, with a huge body of more than twenty feet in length, six feet on the ground, in a prone position, as if hunting, looking at two small prey, strange hard skin, reptilian claws, it really looked like a lizard-like beast.

If it were an ordinary person, they would be stunned just by seeing such a behemoth, but for Izumi Sakura and Nier, who have experience in fighting the Great Snake of the Eight Directions, what scares them is not the huge body of this monster, but the front half of its body.

On the back of this huge creature is covered with a pair of brown carapace wings, a brown and black oval head, and no obvious eye parts, and at the very tip of this creature, two long tentacles, wandering and drifting.

"This ...... It's ......"

At this moment, Izumi Sakura understood Niel's feelings, and her whole beautiful face was as white as death, and her shoulder, which was slapped by Nier's palm, trembled violently. No matter what the torso of this monster looks like, just looking at the front half of its body, I will never think of it as a lizard.

"Hey...... You know...... Is this something on the head?"

"No, I don't know...... I think...... It's about the same as Nil thought. ”

No one would think that Niel and Izumi Sakura were bullying cowards who had faced enemies stronger than themselves many times without retreating, but now they seemed to have lost all their courage, as if they had forgotten each other's resentment and hatred, and their hands were tightly clasped to the only companion around them, as if they wanted to find something to rely on.

The body of this monster is so huge, how on earth does it move in this space, and how can it approach silently? The two women no longer want to think about this, they only vaguely feel that the monster is looking at them with its "eyes", and after a while, despite the language barrier between them, the "momentum" felt from the huge monster is undoubtedly a hungry beast, the appetite for delicious food.

The strength of the Heavenly Rank has declined very much, but with the strength of two strong Heavenly Rank martial artists, there is no reason why they can't defeat a monster with a huge body, however, the two women can't find the courage to fight in their hearts.

"Hey...... If I run away at this point...... Isn't it a coward......"

"Whoever you are, you're a coward...... This time, though, I'd rather be a coward. ”

It's not just talking, Izumi Sakura declares her determination to run away with her actions, and as soon as she pulls Nier, she begins to rush in the opposite direction.

The timing was just right, for the tentacles of the monster swept over as soon as Izumi's form moved, and if it took a few seconds to slow down, the monster would pounce and fall down.

"Damn, don't think you can do whatever you want!"

Izumi Sakura pulled Niel to leap up, dodging the monster's blow, and took advantage of the momentum to fly to its side and back, and with a flick of her left hand, a fierce dragon cyclone rushed straight over, turning into a high-speed rotating air wind cone, and struck the monster's side.

"Peng!"

After the monster swooped into the air, it seemed to have sensed something, and before the launch of the Ascending Dragon Cyclone, it preemptively raised a pair of coffee-colored armor wings behind it, and flapped at high speed, rolling up an incomparably fishy wind, which made the middle man want to vomit, and correspondingly weakened the power of the Ascending Dragon Cyclone.

However, even if it had been greatly weakened for several reasons, how could the Ascending Dragon Cyclone break through the barrier of the wind, pass through the gap of the wings, and hit the monster straight away, opening a bloody hole in its body, and quickly cutting and expanding the wound area.

"No matter what kind of monster it is, as long as it can be injured, then there is no need to be afraid. Izumi Sakura, who thought so, thought that she would see bright red blood spurting out, even blue, cyan, and even purple, but as soon as the monster was injured, a large amount of white viscous slurry rose straight into the sky like well water that had been drilled through, and when it spilled down, the objects it touched emitted a corroded "zizi" sound.

"To ...... Do you want to fight?"

“...... In my opinion, the definition of the so-called spirit of all things is to know how to disdain to fight some battles that should not be fought at the right time. ”

The words were very high-sounding, but they could not hide the fact that they were afraid in their hearts, and the two women did not look at the monster any more, and immediately unleashed the power of the heavens, and flew away as fast as they could, while the monster let out a strange roar and crawled after it from behind.

Due to the darkness of the space, only the faint glow of the glowing ferns faintly illuminated the scenery in front of them, and the flying situation could only be described as stumbling, and the speed was slowed down entirely. They knew that there was still a passage ahead, but in which direction did it lead, and where did it extend?

"Actually, we don't have to be so timid. Niel said suddenly.

"How?" Izumi asked, confused.

"Even though that monster looks like this, it spews white blood when it is flattened, but ...... But don't you think? It has wings, but it can't fly, and it looks like a lizard when it crawls on the ground. Niel said.

"Well, that's right, there's no need to be afraid of lizards, right?" Izumi replied.

"yes, what is there to be afraid of lizards? we don't even care about the Iron Mask Ladyboy anymore, how can we be intimidated by a lizard, as long as it's not that kind of thing, we don't need to be afraid at all. Nile affirmed.

Talking to each other to give each other courage, the more they talked, the more they felt reasonable, the two heavenly martial artists were actually chased by a different monster, it was really shameful, let's go back and destroy it!

Just as they were about to summon up the courage to kill the enemy, there was a strange sound of air shaking behind them, and despite the darkness, they still felt a huge black shadow approaching from behind, and when they looked closely, it was the troll, impatiently crawling at a low speed, fluttering a pair of brown carapace wings, flying after them.

"Wow~~Cockroaches~~"

The terrible screams of the two delicate voices at the same time instantly resounded throughout the space, expressing the fear in their hearts, although they were reluctant to admit it, but when they saw the familiar flying attitude, they still instinctively called out the name of the terrifying creature.

Driven by fright, even the speed of flight was a few points faster, and Niel and Izumi Sakura instantly distanced themselves from the monster behind them, and while flying, they shouted to their "comrades" around them with all their strength.

"Now I finally know why Shi Chong's men have suffered casualties. ”

"I don't need you to say it, I already feel it, if only Yukitaro was here at this time. Izumi Sakura suddenly felt a feeling.

"That's right, he's the most likable monster, and with him, the cockroaches won't run after us. ”

The two of them didn't just talk, while flying, they also tried to send out some air-breaking palm strength, fist strength, and hit the back of the head, hoping to shoot the behemoth out of the air, and this tactic did have some effect, the giant monster after more than a dozen volley attacks, constantly spraying corrosive body fluids, the huge body was shaky, but tenaciously unwilling to give up the pursuit of prey.

"Oh my god, if there were any weapons to throw, maybe he could knock this thing down. Niel said.

"Weapons?"

"Yes, you also have to use a fly swatter to fight flies, do you lizards just roll up with your tongue and swallow it?"

Of course, Izumi Sakura wouldn't be bickering at such a time, on the contrary, Niel's words reminded her of one thing.

"Ahh......h

However, they had been flying at high speed before, and it was too dark around them to see clearly, even though they were only a few feet from the ground, and when Niel approached the ground, she was surprised to find that the ground was already crawling with insects and snakes, some of which were even unnamed, never-before-seen, and similar to the monster behind them.

"Oh my God~~"

Frightened by this, Nier hurriedly rose to the height, and the farther away from these insects and snakes below, the better, but at this turn, she lost the figure of her comrades.

A strange sound of breaking the air sounded, and in the darkness, Niel only vaguely saw that Izumi Sakura seemed to have pulled something out of her waist, as if it was an object like a weapon, followed by an extremely delicate, but bright enough snow-white flash to easily cut through the darkness.

(She's wearing a weapon? why didn't I see it at all? where did she hide it? it feels like a sword, but what sword can be extended all at once?)

These questions bothered Niel, however, after that flash of light, the surroundings returned to darkness, and the strange worm that had been chasing after her suddenly fell to the ground. Generally, high-speed flying objects fall to the ground, they will first fly forward due to their own inertia and fall obliquely to the ground, but this strange insect is different, the posture is like the whole body is suddenly tied to tens of millions of pounds of weight, overwhelmed, straight down embedded in the ground.

Some distance away, Niel only vaguely heard, Izumi Sakura whispered, "I can't imagine that it has an effect on things other than humans!" And the giant monster did not die, its tenacious vitality still supported its actions, but no matter how hard it struggled, it just couldn't stand up from the ground.

(What the hell is going on?, what did she just do?)

This matter is unknown, and Niel vaguely saw that after Izumi Sakura slashed out the sword, her physical strength seemed to be very depleted, and her panting voice became thick and muddy, and she was struggling to maintain her floating state. Based on the relationship between her comrades-in-arms, she leaned over to take a look, but Izumi Sakura suddenly screamed.

"Jump forward!"

With a coquettish sound, Xue Liang's sword light burst out again, pointing directly at Nier, this time she felt it very clearly, it was the feeling of a sword, and it was not a sword qi, it was a real sword blade, it was quite soft, and it went around half a circle obliquely from the side of her neck, and stabbed straight back.

Nile realized this, and ran forward as fast as she could, when she heard a strange beast roar behind her, and at the same time as the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, a few drops of warm liquid were sprinkled on her arms, calves, and vests, and the sharp pain that corroded the muscles penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

The girl gritted her teeth and endured. At this moment, she suddenly understood that something was happening behind her, because the same thing happened mysteriously behind Izumi Sakura, a huge figure, slowly forming from the darkness, and pounced on her.

They had never figured out before, such a huge monster, it was impossible for it to be silent when it moved, why when it first appeared, the two of them were completely unaware of it, and let the monster appear nearby. The answer is now revealed, because these monsters are not approaching from afar, but directly from the stone wall behind them, and their huge bodies silently and quickly emerge from the stone wall, take shape, and devour their targets.

"Be careful, you're ...... behind your back"

The time was too short, and Nier only had time to shout this, Izumi Sakura had already woken up, and the Tiancong Cloud Sword immediately fought back, and the slender blade grazed by Nier's side, which was faster than her rapid sweeping movements, and instantly circled a snowy arc, hitting back at her back, and at the same time she also rushed forward.

The monster behind Izumi Sakura, although huge, was not the same as before. The long body and hundreds of claws on the side of the torso can't help but remind people of centipedes and other creatures, Nier saw that it was hit by Izumi Sakura's sword, and the whole body fell straight to the ground as if it was tied to tens of millions of pounds, but before falling to the ground, the body fluids erupted because of the sword wound sprayed towards Izumi Sakura, but Izumi Sakura was like a puppet and didn't move, as if she didn't know the fatal crisis behind her.

"You idiot!"

At the last moment, Niel swooped down like lightning, turned at a most beautiful right angle, first grabbed Izumi Sakura, then flew to the right, and just as she moved away, a few drops of corrosive liquid were sprinkled on her body.

This time it was really dangerous, if it weren't for the fact that Niel was flying at high speed, the speed didn't slow down, as long as it slowed down a little more, it would have been sprayed with a large amount of acid along with Izumi Sakura.

Violating the original declaration to save the enemy, Niel didn't have time to make any mental struggles, just looked at the darkness ahead with worry, praying that it was not a big rock wall, otherwise she would crash into it at such a high speed, and she would faint if she was not injured, and prayed that there would not be another monster suddenly appearing over there, and now she was really overwhelmed.

The prayer was only half successful, and although most of the darkness ahead was a rock wall, there was a hole directly in front of Niel, which allowed Niel to fly out of the hole, but it was only a jump from a volcano to another Iceland.

Rushing out of the hole, Nier's body sank suddenly, and there seemed to be a strong suction force below, sucking them down as they flew in the air, and finally Nier reacted fast enough, and saw a big rock next to her in the fall, and immediately reached out to hook it to stop the fall.

"This ...... What the hell is going on......"

The downward inhalation of the air still did not stop, Nier hooked the boulder with one hand, and still held Izumi Sakura with the other, Rao was her natural divine power, but she also had to be tired and sweaty to stabilize her body. After that, she looked at her current situation intently, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The big stone that I climbed on was originally a part of a long stone beam, extending to the other end of the opposite side, but from the empty situation all around, this stone beam was the only passage, as long as you stood on the stone beam and held your body steadily, you can go to the opposite side.

"Lizard girl, you're heavy! I have a sore hand holding you, won't you move?" called Niel.

"Nier, you should get out of here first, I think this crypt is much more complicated than expected, and it is too dangerous to enter here without adequate preparation. ”

"You don't need to say that I'll leave too, you still have an itinerary tomorrow morning, and it's too late if you don't go back...... Hey, what are you doing on top of me? I said heavy! You can't hear me, do you?"

"I hear you, but ...... I couldn't move, and when I stabbed the monster behind me with my sword just now, I ...... Cut to themselves. ”

Izumi Sakura's voice became weaker and weaker, and Nile was confused at first, but then she understood that if the effect of being stabbed by the Tiancong Cloud Sword was to withstand a huge gravitational pressure, then Izumi Sakura, who was injured by the Tiancong Cloud Sword, was the same now, no wonder her body became so heavy, and she was born with divine power, but she supported it so hard.

What's even worse is that there is a strange sense of crisis that tells them that a monster is appearing nearby, coming this way, and with their current posture, they are completely unable to resist, if they understand the sign that says "Please feel free to eat me".

"Neel...... Didn't you say that when you were in danger, you would walk alone......? That's right...... You climb up first, and then you leave...... I'll break the ......"

Having said that, the idiot can also see that Izumi Sakura is competing with the abnormal gravity of her whole body, and she doesn't even have the strength to raise her hand, so if Nile leaves someone alone, she will have to go to the belly of some monster next time to find someone.

The awkwardness and stubborn temper made Niel not know what to say for a while, but the sound of the rapidly approaching insect crawling forced her to express her position immediately.

"I ...... I won't lose my brother's face! We who were born as forty thieves will never abandon our comrades-in-arms!"

As if to express her determination, Nier screamed, exerted all her strength, and raised her right hand holding Izumi Sakura's slender waist upward, throwing this delicate body, which was heavier than the stone statue of the same volume, onto the end of the stone beam, and landed steadily.

"Thank you, Nil, I knew you were a nice girl. ”

Izumi Sakura's tired voice couldn't hide the joy in her heart. She knew that Nil's personality was like Lancelot, who valued righteousness and affection, and would not abandon her relatives and friends, and it was still a heartwarming joy to see that she could save herself like this.

"You...... Don't be complacent, I won't leave you alone, but when I get back, I'll slap you in the face as a reward. ”

"Okay, when I get back, I'll wash my face and let you have a good time. ”

Although the sound of the snake crawling was getting closer and closer, Izumi Sakura, who had not raised her hand to listen to Nier's heavy gasp, felt extremely relieved, and even had a happy smile on her face.

It's just that there are too many variables in this adventure, and when Niel finally climbed the stone beam with both hands, resisting the strong suction while supporting her body, a sudden crisp sound made the two women who were staring at each other stunned.

"W-What sound?"

When Niel realized that the cracking sound was coming from the stone beam under her palm, it was too late. It seems that due to the impact when throwing the Izumi Sakura, coupled with the pressure of Nell's gravity, the stone beam where she climbed was brittle and shattered, and Nier, who had lost her climbing point, was pulled by the strong suction force below, and her whole body was like a leaf in the wind, and she was sucked down at once, disappearing into the deep darkness, leaving only a cry to come.

"I'll leave the rest to you~~" Nier's voice grew weaker and weaker.

"You, what is the difference between you and running away alone~~"

Despite worrying about Nil, Izumi Sakura had to focus on her situation first. The pressure was so heavy that she couldn't do anything but lie on her back, and despite desperate attempts to move her fingers, the thought had no practical effect.

The fishy wind became more and more intense, and when three pairs of overlapping turquoise eyes appeared in the darkness, a drop of cold sweat dripped a frightening trace on the snow-white face of the spring cherry blossom......