Under the silent deep blue starry sky, a pale debris suddenly fell from a pile of rubble piled up high, revealing a half-human-high pitch-black hole.

The silver-colored Jihir Manvenlin reached out of the grotto with his hands and crawled out with great difficulty. Returning to the stars, her silver hair fluttered in the wind, and her eyes scanned around calmly and vigilantly.

The area of ruins above the surface was even more vast than she had imagined, and in her rough estimates, at least one-sixth of the area of the tomb had been destroyed by the spatial catastrophe, but now it seemed that it was much more than that.

Confirming the direction of the pillar of light, she was about to jump back into the hole, only to notice a black figure suddenly appear in mid-air.

Pulling out the few arrows left in her quiver, she turned around nimbly and aimed her arrows at the figure, but there was a look of surprise in her eyes.

"Nevenmor?"

Ciel lowered the longbow in her hand, partly because she had no reason to do it, and partly because she knew very well that she had no chance of winning in front of the archmage.

Levi floated in front of Silver Hime, quietly looking down at her, and the signature deep female voice came from the shadows under the hood:

"Repent to the beauty that has passed, to the Lord of eternity, to the vile poison."

Listening to Nevenmor's words, Ciel's face flashed with an imperceptible look of confusion, and there was a faint confusion in his eyes.

Levi stared at her expression, was silent for a while, and then said slowly, "You're tired, rest for a while." ”

As he spoke, he raised his right hand, his cuffs swayed slightly, and a rich fragrance emanated, making Hill feel his body suddenly relax, and his consciousness became in a trance in the refreshing aroma.

Half a breath had passed, she closed her eyes and fell forward.

As soon as Levi's palm was raised, Ciel's body was suspended in mid-air, not tumbling and falling from the pile of rocks.

Throughout, he only chanted one plant-based medium magic [Sleepy Lullaby] and one storm-based medium magic [Levitation].

"It seems that Hill Manwenlin does not know these three sentences." Levi said lightly, "In other words, Archer Blaze is the dominant of the two of them." ”

"Sounds complicated." Terrella said impatiently.

"Don't you find it intriguing?" Levi mused, "All of the Odryks are aiming for the Heart of Tyrela, but Archer and Silver Ji form a two-man squad and have more information than the others. ”

Terella slipped out of his hood and said, "You want to dig up the mastermind behind them?" This is not an easy task. ”

Levi shook his head and said, "No, now my main goal is to help you get back to your body, isn't it?" ”

Terrella chuckled and said, "For the [Fire of Destruction] clue? You're a big fan of profit-supremacy in your heart. ”

"I just like fair trade." Levi calmly replied, "Archer Blaze is not a Magister yet, and her mental power level is not high, can your hallucinations deceive her?" ”

"It's about the same level of difficulty as it was against Alva, what are you going to do?"

"Transform me into the appearance of the silver hime." Levi smiled slightly, "If you can create illusions, I won't have to strip the silver Ji and touch it again...... However, just in case, a simple scan can be done. ”

He hooked his fingers, and Ciel's body floated over.

"If you want to find an excuse to touch her body, I can revoke what I just said." Terrella said lightly.

Levi ignored Terrella as he reached out his palm over Ciel's pale face, rubbing it slowly and delicately. Her skin was cold, and Levi's fingertips felt a little cold to the touch.

"It's done." Levi quickly memorized Ciel's facial features.

He withdrew his palm, then fumbled around Ciel's shattered armor for a moment, without any hint of evasion, and soon found a roll of parchment maps.

"It looks exactly like Archer's map, but it's a facsimile." Levi spread out the map and glanced at it, "The information that Archer told me is not on this map, it seems that it may have been eliminated beforehand." ”

His gaze rested on the circular blank space in the middle of the map, which corresponded to the pillar of light in the center of the tomb.

Without further thought, he grabbed the Dragonhorn Bow [Dead Touch] and flicked the air with his fingers, and several large slabs of rubble flew in, enveloping Ciel in them, landing in an inconspicuous spot in the ruins.

"I can sense that Archer is right below the rubble." Levi said.

"You don't want to enter the pillar of light with the little girl of the secret keeper, just to come specifically to find the Fire Rose?" Terella's tone was a little sarcastic.

"No, I just don't think she'll make it." Levi flew into the cavern, and in his tone he didn't think highly of Flora, "It's better to go their own way than to reluctantly cooperate with people who don't agree with each other." ”

Terella muttered, "I like her a lot." ”

Levi didn't bother to talk nonsense, and following the induction of [Parasitic Seed] in his head, he flew through the grotto tunnel, and made a rapid advance to the depths of the earth.

It didn't take long for him to arrive in the underground grotto where Archer was. At this time, Archer had fallen into a coma, and there was a pool of dark blood under her, and her body was scarred, and her broken right arm was left alone.

The headless corpse of a berserker lay not far away.

"It's miserable." Levi said in a low voice.

He walked over to Archer, crouched down, and shook her body slightly.

"Wake up, Athena."

Archer slowly opened his eyes and said with a tired expression, "Did you find the exit, General Hill?" ”

In Terella's transfiguration, Levi has taken on the form of Ciel.

"It's a shame we're stuck here." Levi shook his head and said, "I must ask you, how many secrets did you tell Nevenmor?" ”

Archer was silent for a while, as if she was a little surprised by the question, and she hesitated and said, "Do you already know?" How do you know ......"

Levi didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.

Under the gaze of "Ciel", Archer moved his body with difficulty and said, "Although His Majesty has only told me one person, he said that I don't have to hide this information from you if necessary. ”

She paused, stared into Hill's eyes, and said, "On the map of the Himeling in our hands, there was originally a sentence written on it...... Your Majesty said to me that sentence most likely in Saladin's handwriting, you take out the map. ”

Your Majesty...... I didn't expect to be so easy to get the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, but if King Odryk wanted to get the dragon's heart, why did he make such a big detour? Isn't the Odelik explorer in the tomb looking for the heart of Terrela for the king? Why did you appoint Archer and Silver Ji to do this separately?

Levi thought as he took out the map he had found from Hill and unfolded it in front of Archer.

"Before you joined me, Nevenmor revealed to me the possible location of the Heart of Terella, and expressed no interest in the artifact, so I told her a part of that passage." Archer stared at the blank space in the center of the map and said slowly, "It was originally written in the middle of the map, which is the location of the pillar of light, but before His Majesty handed me the map, this passage was scraped off with a knife, and I only got the dictation. ”

And so it was.

Levi nodded and asked, "So...... What is this phrase? ”

Archer's eyes flickered as if he had made a decision.

"The words are: Repent to the beauty of the past, repent to the Lord of eternity, repent to the vile poison...... That's what I told Nyvenmor. "Although neither Your Majesty nor I understood what it meant, the matter has come to this point, and I have decided to tell you the whole thing." ”

Archer took a deep breath.

"The full content is: Dear Akasha, do you regret it? Confess to the beauty that has passed, to the Lord of eternity, to the poison of vileness...... I'm waiting for you in the gap between the void and reality, in the vault you hate the most. ”

Levi froze, then fell into deep thought.

Terella on his shoulder didn't react, and seemed to be thinking about the meaning of the words.

Previously in the grotto, according to Terella's confession, he roughly understood what happened thousands of years ago......

Although Terella refuses to go into details, the key points are clear: Terella, the Queen of Shadows, did not kill the killer as described in history - instead of poisoning the White Queen Mayvis, she gave her a bottle of poison that was not lethal. This poison, known as [Intimidation Essence], rendered Mavis beautiful, and not only was she no longer beautiful, but she became a monster with a terrifying face, and even Saladin, who loved Mavis deeply, could not bear her ugliness and had to endure the pain of banishing Mavis.

In retaliation for Terella, Saladin drained Terella's soul into the Frost King's dragon egg, and threatened to make her regret it for a thousand years.

The last thing Terrela learned before falling into a millennial slumber of chaos was that Saladin had built the [Himereung] for her, and had taken her heart and replaced it with the [Dragonheart]. Saladin told Terella that she would never be able to return to her body unless she returned her heart to its original place.

"That makes sense." Levi whispered.

Terella's lesser-known full name is: Terrela Akasha Cleopatra.

Plus three "confessions", as well as the gap between the void and reality......

This is the sadomasochistic love triangle between the Shadow Queen, the White Queen, and Saladin...... Combined with the scraped off phrase on the map, Levi felt that the last piece of the puzzle had been put in place.

"Repentance?"

Terella's voice came suddenly.

She burst into laughter, hysterical laughter, anger and contempt and unstoppable madness.

Archer couldn't hear it, but Levi did. At this moment, he only felt that the laughter of the Shadow Queen was so lonely, like a lonely queen who was discarded, hated, cursed and disgusted, but disdained to face these eyes.

Even her mausoleum was nothing more than a tool to take revenge on her, and Saladin was still playing tricks on her even though she had been dead for a thousand years.

What was her real thought in the midst of the contemptuous, lonely laughter?

Levi thought silently.

She just wanted to get back to her body.

Maybe...... She would have gone looking for Saladin's tombstone, or maybe not.

But at this moment, Levi seemed to understand Terrela's true thoughts, albeit only partially.

She is no longer Saladin's Queen of Shadows, she is only the Queen of the Shadow Country.

At this moment, the illusion quietly disappeared, and the appearance of Neven Mor appeared in front of Archer.

"You—" Archer's eyes widened, his pupils trembling violently.

Levi didn't have the slightest sense of accomplishment in the success of the deception, but calmly lowered the dragonhorn bow, reached out and grabbed half of his right arm on the ground, and cast [Continuous Severed Limb], [Flesh Stitching], and [Bone Remodeling] in turn.

After doing all this, he stood up and whispered, "I don't know why, I'm starting to hate Saladin a little. ”

Looking at Nevenmor, Archer forgot his shock and anger for a moment. Even though there were only two people here, she felt unable to tell who the archmage was talking to.

In front of the giant pillar of light, Anna Christer, the winter saint, floated in mid-air, her ice-blue dress and snow-white cloak hunting in the wind.

Her expression was gentle and calm, and the crystal ball in the transparent leaves of the crystal ball in her hand exuded an awe-inspiring chill.

Taking a deep breath, she floated forward, her figure disappearing into the pillar of light.

Flora, the Lady of Secret, walked among the ruins, and it didn't take long for her to reach the bottom of the pillar of light.

Her black veil returned to her face, and her dark eyes gleamed with a mysterious rose.

"What kind of danger lurks within?"

Thinking of a certain unkind guy, her mood suddenly became extremely bad, so she didn't bother with other things, stepped into the pillar of light, and disappeared above the ruins in the blink of an eye, into the depths of the Ji Tomb.

After restoring Archer's mobility with animal magic, Neven Mor awakens Ciel from the pile of stones and returns the Dragonhorn Bow to her.

Although Archer and Ciel's hearts were filled with anger at Nevenmor's deception, due to the strength of the Archmage, they fought back their anger and followed her.

It took about an hour for the three of them to walk through the ruins to the giant pillar of light.

"Don't worry, Athena."

Before entering the depths of the ruins, Neven Mor turned, his voice calm and deep.

"I'm not interested in exposing your masterminds, and there's no need to do so, I'll keep this secret for you." She whispered, "Once you're in the depths of the Tomb, I'll help you get the Heart of Terella...... As for the body of the Shadow Queen, I have other uses. ”

Archer stared at Nevenmor's figure, his eyes were very complicated. She was silent for a moment, only to nod slightly to accept the offer.

Ciel looked at Nevan Mor coldly and said, "I hope you don't do anything superfluous." ”

She clutched the Dead Touch, the hideous wound on her chest that had been temporarily mended by Nevenmor with [flesh stitches].

"If you had been honest with me in the first place, I wouldn't have had to go into such trouble." Nevenmor chuckled softly and said, "Time is running out, let's go." ”

With that, Neven Mor was the first to step into the pillar of light.

Hill and Archer looked at each other.

"You know what to do, Athena." Taking advantage of Nevenmor's absence, Ciel whispered, "If it comes to a critical moment, you don't have to care about the partnership with Nevenmor. ”

Archer nodded and said, "No matter what danger comes us, we must do it." ”

Hill acquiesced to her claims.

Without further ado, they followed Nevenmor's footsteps into the pillar of light, and the three of them completely disappeared into the vast ruins.

At this moment, a heavy bell rang throughout the tomb.

Neither Levi nor Terella, nor the rest of the people in the tombs, understood what the bell in the pillar of light meant—

The first bell rings to mean that the first deceased person was born in the pillar of light, and after the bell rings, the exterior of the tomb begins to crumble.

The second bell rings to mean that eight people have entered the depths of the tomb through the pillar of light, and the pillar of light will disappear.

At the same moment as the dull bell rang, in the middle of this pale and magnificent ruin, a huge pillar of light disappeared into the sky as if it had never appeared, leaving only a huge circular pit, and beneath the pit was an infinite sea of deep blue stars.

……

Within the pillar of light, the majestic and massive black city ushered in the first light of dawn.

In one corner of the city, beyond the obsidian tower, stand eight different tall statues:

An old man in cloth with a long sword.

Golle warrior with a great sword.

Gole shepherd in an old leather jacket.

An old man with two funny mustaches and a thin chin pointed.

A man with a strange long-handled weapon and a blurred face.

A female youkai with a longbow and a snake's tail.

A demon with wings on his back and horns on his head.

A tall man with a shattered burning knife.

Eight obsidian statues enclose the tower in the middle, making it seem inexplicably oppressive and even intimidating...... The truth they symbolize is as mysterious as the tomb itself, but the real scene behind the curtain is still obscure, and the closer you go, the more shocking it is to outsiders.

The second day after the arrival of the tomb has ended, and there is only one last day left before it disappears into the void again.

The curtain of chaos has long been lifted, and the long and tortuous prelude has finally come to an end...... Whether it is a soldier, a magician, or a queen, they are only the corner of the stage after all, as they move towards the unknown end in the dawn.

"Hold on a little longer, Terella."

Levi whispered.

("Flesh Stitches: Medium Magic of the Natural Animal, Directional Magic, Creator unknown.") Wound sutures with magic threads are more efficient and leave no marks than freehand stitches, and are suitable for flesh wounds, but are not very useful for internal injuries such as organ injuries. —Illustrated Magic: Medium Magic)