After encountering Sir Brafdor, the team split up temporarily, with Todak, Shirley, and Urchi following Brafdo's advice and not going deeper into the tree, while Kirito and Besco chose to move on. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Passing through the door at the end of the gallery guarded by the Knights of the Templars, the outline of the dark room was blurred by the faint fluorescent light. The walls and roof were littered with glowing mushrooms, as well as umbrella mushrooms and mushrooms, and lower animals resembling polyps and some small creatures that were difficult to distinguish between the walls and the fungi were also burrowing between the walls and the fungi, and the whole room was filled with the smell of rotting and moldy.

This is one of Belik's tree gardens, and the entire room belongs to the traditional underground plant system.

The two intruders greeted the gardener, a mourning bear goblin who was hoeing and mourning, and the bear goblin named "Dalu" was mourning his crops that had been destroyed by the worms. There are many slits connecting the tree layer to the underworld, and the Dirt Worm itself is a very fast-moving worm creature in the underworld.

Dalu carved out a small area in the tree garden as his vegetable garden, and he worked hard here every day with a sickle and shovel, enjoying the joy of planting and harvesting, this area is the sacred territory of Dalu.

But two days ago, the Worm had broken into the place and burned down his garden, and he was now full of anger and had no way to vent it.

At this time, two humans who didn't know him came in inexplicably.

The anger overshadowed the bear goblin's sanity, and he grabbed the giant scythe he used to mow the grass and slashed at Kirito who was walking in front.

The sudden scythe had countless flaws in Kirito's eyes, and compared to the previous swordsmanship designed by Sir Brafdor's for combat, this bear goblin's movements were unstable, his center of gravity was unbalanced, and there were too many mistakes in the control of the angle and distance of the slash.

Slightly on one side. The giant scythe cut down by Dalu grazed with the wind pressure, smashed on the ground, and the full swing missed, Dalu's movements immediately lost his balance, and Kirito's right fist was reckless in Dalu's abdomen, and the bear goblin, which was much taller than Kirito, was blown away by this punch.

The sharp pain in his abdomen caused Dalu to curl up. He whimpered and trembled and did not dare to move.

Besco was going to make up for it, but seeing that this bear goblin was so timid, he couldn't bear it: "It doesn't seem to be very harmful?"

Kirito walked up to Taro, who curled himself up into a ball, and his already somewhat fat body looked particularly funny, trembling even more as Kirito approached, rolling himself into the corner of the tree.

“...... Let's go. Kirito said after a moment of silence.

The footsteps faded away, and Dalu dared to raise his head cautiously. After cursing a few words, he went back to tending to his vegetable garden.

The temple of Ashadron has been largely shattered by the ornate granite reliefs on the walls of this room, and large and small stones are scattered on the ground. A massive statue of a giant dragon towers over the west side of the room. The statue's deep-set eye sockets shimmered with a flickering red light, and the dragon's wings cast a pitch-black shadow on the ground. The whole room was filled with a red glow like blood. On the ground in front of the dragon statue, dark red tiles draw a circle 5 feet in diameter. The inside of the circle is engraved with mysterious runes.

One in front of the other and one in the back, two people quickly entered the interior of the temple.

A figure with a mage's hood stood still in the runestone circle, as motionless as a sculpture, the sound of the temple's stone door being pushed seemed to wake her up, and her raised head revealed an almost completely vegetative face under the hood. It seems that there is also a vague silhouette of a human woman.

"Miss Salvin?" Besco asked cautiously, reminiscent of Sir Braffordor before.

The tree-like skin on Salwen's face moved. A strange string of laughter echoed through the dilapidated ruins of the temple, looking eerie and eerie.

"I'm curious who you are to break through that paladin's defenses. The answer to Besco came from the mouth of Salwen, but it was clearly another will. "Welcome to my territory, and I hope you have a great day. ”

A swarthy shadow floated out from behind the dragon statue and coalesced into a recognizable figure at Salwen's side, a humanoid monster with an indistinct face, the whole person looking like a black, translucent jelly. It was supposed to be the left hand, but it formed a terrifying claw larger than its head, reflecting the luster of metal.

"E, Sekota, Ravu, Kaluwa, Naiaphosti!" the unknown dragon voice sang, from the mage's mouth.

The runes on the inside of the dark red stone circle began to emit bright light, and surging spiritual flames erupted from the stone circle, and the energy level of Salwen standing in the center of the stone circle continued to rise, and finally stabilized at a level similar to that of the shadow around her.

With the help of the power left over from this temple, she temporarily strengthened herself.

Kirito didn't rush to attack when the other party was preparing, because when the dragon language was chanting just now, the entire temple was protecting the people in the stone circle, and a rash attack would only lead to a greater counterattack.

The interpreter reverses that Kirito waited for the moment of the battle to begin.

According to Sir Brafdor, Salvain and he are already dead, because the paladin is closer to the gods, and has more resistance to control evil arts, so he can restore consciousness under dispelling, but looking at Salven's situation, the mental corrosion is much more serious than him, and there is no possibility of awakening at all.

The only thing I can do is to let her rest completely.

Pointing forward at the tip of the sword, Kirito burst out of extreme speed in an instant, leaving a string of black afterimages behind him, crashing into Salwen, who was surrounded by spiritual flames.

Sonic Impact!

The shadow leaned sideways in front of Salwen, who was the caster, and the giant claw slashed at the head and face, and if he followed Kirito's speed and trajectory, he would be hit by a claw before his sword could attack him.

The silver-white fighting qi formed a cone-shaped windbreaker layer at the tip of Kirito's sword, and the air with huge resistance was slashed by the windbreaking layer of the fighting qi to both sides, Kirito's speed increased again, and before the giant claws of the shadow could be grabbed down, he crashed into the arms of this humanoid monster, and the interpreter easily cut through the surface of the shadow, and the black smoke evaporated from the shadow's body and disappeared into the air.

This is a sign of the injury of a half-imaginary creature like Shadow.

Not only that, Kirito's sonic impact can't help but have the characteristics of high speed, and it is also accompanied by a huge propulsion, and the shadow monster, which is two heads higher than Kirito, is pushed back again and again.

Kirito continued to advance several steps against the shadow before stopping, but unfortunately he didn't directly attack the shadow to protect Salwen.

The faceless creature let out an angry roar, and the attack that had been interrupted just now swung down at Kirito again, its claws glowing with an ominous black light, and it was certainly not a wonderful thing to be caught.

Kirito immediately drew his sword and retreated, and the Phantom's attack missed.

"The power of the earth is infused into you!" said Salven, holding up her staff, pointing at the Shadow.

Pale yellow points of light floated up and converged on the shadow's body, and the penetrating wound caused by Kirito's sonic impact disappeared from the shadow's body, and a yellow film of light was attached to it, which was barely visible to the naked eye.

After dodging the Phantom's claw blow, Kirito immediately turned around and drew his sword, slashing at the Phantom with a powerful slash, but such an attack only shattered the pale yellow light film on the surface of the Phantom, and did little damage to the Phantom.

Faced with this situation, Kirito seemed to have anticipated this, and his left hand grasped the middle of the sword blade, pressing it against the Phantom, and immediately after the slash, he added a small area of dragging, and the black smoke damaged by the spirit body came out of the Phantom again.

Besco was hiding in the shadows, the current battle was not something he could meddle in, Kirito's centimeter-accurate dodging method and flowing attacks opened his eyes, Kirito is not the kind of leveling maniac with an imaginary level, but a true master of swordsmanship. (To be continued.) )