"Run!"

The voices of Gray Wind, the Old Thief, and Xingxi sounded at the same time, and everyone instinctively ran towards the place where there were fewer cracks in the ground, but the speed of the ground collapse was too fast, and before they could take a few steps, they had already reached everyone's feet.

The old thief and Inari who were holding him were chased by the crack first, because the strength was not restored, and the old thief's current physical condition was no different from that of an ordinary old man, and his legs and feet were not good, and he even fell to the back of the line with Inari.

"Yikes!"

The cracked ground began to collapse, and Inari only felt empty under her feet, and subconsciously screamed, but she didn't really fall. The old thief, who realized that he would definitely become a burden with his current physical state, pushed the little girl out with all his might, and happened to fall into the arms of Zhao Hao, who hurried over with his fighting wings after throwing the fat twins near the entrance passage on the ground.

"Old man!"

"Leave me alone!"

Zhao Hao held Inali in his arms, and wanted to continue to drag the old thief up, but the collapse extended to his feet in just a blink of an eye, in order not to fall down with the Inali he had just saved, Zhao Hao had to listen to the old thief's words, gritted his teeth and began to retreat quickly.

At the same time that the thief refused Zhao Hao's rescue in order not to drag down the team members, there was also a thrilling situation on Cheruth's side.

At the moment of the collapse, the three of them were standing with Xingxi. The speed of Cheruth and Gray Wind is very fast, but although Xingxi and Nanoha are Nolan with the power of law and the other are humanoid magic guide circuits, the two without the blessing of fighting spirit and magic are just two ordinary girls physically. Soon, the cracks on the ground caught up with the two girls who were not fast on their feet.

"Ah......h

The ground beneath her feet began to sink, and Nanoha and Starstream each let out slightly panicked exclamations, Startide's companions Ali Ali and Egger were far away because of the confrontation with the knights just now, and Nanoha was lucky to be noticed by Chelus and Grey Wind for the first time.

"Nanoha!"

The wolf sisters turned their heads and stepped forward at the same time to save Nanoha, and Cheruth grabbed Nanoha because her arms were longer than Lori's Gray Wind and wanted to pull the chestnut-haired girl back, but before she could use her strength, a new crack continued to extend to the wolf girl's feet.

The weightlessness made Cheruth's head panic for a moment, but before she could react, her body faithfully performed the previous unfinished action - her arm pulled Nanoha's arm hard, because she couldn't borrow the force under her feet, Cheruth instinctively flung her waist with the strength of her waist, as if dancing a ballroom dance, Nanoha was thrown to the ground that had not yet collapsed, and at the same time she flew out by inertia.

The luck of the wolf girl and the three seems to be suddenly in a state of disconnection from this moment, just after Cheruth "replaced" herself in order to save Nanoha, suddenly the stone wall at the top of the first floor of the ruins also began to collapse, and a huge stone slab fell from top to bottom towards Xingxi and Cheruth who replaced Nanoha next to her.

"Xiaobai!"

Gray Wind's heterochromatic pupils were full of panicked looks, and the red fighting energy on his body burst out in an instant, and he directly took the initiative to jump out of the ground range that had not yet collapsed, wanting to protect Chelus from harm under the large stone slab, and Chillus finally understood the situation, and flew towards the direction of Grey Wind after quickly inputting the floating magic on her arm.

However, before the two could merge, a familiar dark green spherical barrier appeared out of thin air between Cheruth and Grey Wind, because the barrier appeared too abruptly, and the speed of Cheruth and Grey Wind rushed forward, the two of them crashed into the barrier at the same time without having time to make any decent reactions.

Inside the barrier, Xingxi, who used the law of solidified space in order to protect herself, couldn't help but feel a heartfelt apology, of course she didn't want to obstruct the two, but when she originally planned to use the solidified space barrier to protect herself, she happened to see Cheruth who also fell near her, thinking that the wolf girl was likely to be the orphan girl of their Nolan tribe who was outcast, Xingxi decided to expand the scope of the solidified space barrier to protect Chelus inside, but she didn't expect that this would have the opposite effect.

Since the essence of this barrier is made up of the space where the law power is solidified, theoretically speaking, as long as it is not facing the same law power, there is basically nothing to break through this layer of solidified space, whether from the inside or from the outside. Whether it was Cheruth or Gray Wind, almost all of them didn't even make a head protection action at the moment when the barrier appeared, and they directly hit their heads on the incomparably hard solidified space wall, because of the excessive force, the two of them fainted at the same time.

Fortunately, although she fainted, because it didn't have anything to do with the solidified spatial barrier of the star tide, the gray wind outside was in unexpected danger because of this, due to her petite stature, the gray wind that hit the space wall was directly bounced out and fell straight in another direction.

Seeing this scene, Nanoha, who had just gotten up after being thrown to safety by Cheruth, didn't care that she didn't have a fighting spirit, so she jumped down directly from the safety zone and activated the magic guide flying shoes on her feet, bearing the pain of small pieces of debris falling from above the zenith on her back, shoulders and head, and hugged the fainting gray wind as quickly as possible.

This collapse seems to be caused by a chain reaction of collapse caused by a violent shaking from the bottom up, and the part that collapsed was not only one floor, but also the following floors had already completely collapsed into a huge empty underground space.

During the time when Nanoha caught the gray wind, Cheruth and Startide had been pressed to the bottom by the boulder slab from above, along with the indestructible solidified spatial barrier, where they disappeared. And Nanoha's position at the moment is already a whole layer lower than the original, Nanoha, who has no fighting energy or magic enchantment protection, knows that it is difficult for her to return to the first layer against the rubble falling from the zenith at the top, so she retreats to the second, and then while avoiding those large falling rocks as much as possible, she flies to the nearest second-layer dungeon area that has not collapsed, looking for a place to take refuge temporarily.

"Nanoha~~"

Finally, just as Nanoha's head was hit by a small piece of rubble again, and she was already completely unconscious, a familiar voice attracted her, only to see that at the edge of the broken second layer of the dungeon, there was a place with a dazzling white light, and Nanoha instinctively leaned towards that place with the gray wind in her arms.

"Nanoha-san, come to my barrier, ah! You've bled a lot!

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The collapse of the underground ruins continued for a long time, and almost half of the floor of the first floor of the hall collapsed from the side wall with the three passages leading to the second floor to the center of the hall. For a long time after the collapse and shaking had stopped, those who were lucky enough to remain on the first floor watched the empty valley on the other side not relent.

There, not so long ago, was where they stood.

With a sense of happiness that they had escaped death, the rest of the crowd began to identify their companions.

The old thief group is relatively lucky to some extent, before the collapse, the four unconscious members have been moved to a position close to the ground exit by Zhao Hao and Cook, the collapse has not affected here, only the old thief in the group fell into the ruins of the lower layer in order to save Inali, and his life and death are uncertain.

The two Templars were full of sadness, and after the collapse began, they were running by themselves while holding Raphael's hands, but for some reason, Raphael tore his hands apart in the middle, and then fell underneath.

And the same loss of a companion is also the wanderer trio, Xingxi and Cheruth were smashed below by a boulder, only Ali Ali and Egger are still left on the first layer of the ruins, but compared to the old thief and Raphael, Ali Ali and Egger are obviously not too worried about Xingxi's safety, they all know that Xingxi's law ability has incomparable survivability in the occasion just now, and the solidified space barrier created according to the law is helpless no matter how heavy the boulder is.

Of the three, the one with the least ability to survive in such a situation just now was Ali Ali, and the girl with glasses was knocked unconscious by Egg, who knew her temper, early in the morning, and then resisted on her shoulder and ran smoothly to safety. Of course, after that, the glasses girl who hated men woke up and knew that she was being resisted by the bald uncle, and although she knew that she should be grateful to Egger, she couldn't help but give the uncle two punches...... Of course, the absolute law of attack was not used.

"Grandpa, thief grandpa...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry ......"

The old thief and thieves group, Inali knelt on the ground and cried into tears, Zhao Hao and Cook stood beside her with silent expressions, in the violent collapse just now, the chance of the old thief who had not yet recovered his strength was obviously not too high, for them, the old thief was not only the head of the group, but also an elder who was not related by blood but had a real friendship. If it was a normal day, they would have jumped down without saying a word to at least find the thief's body, but now there were four unconscious companions here, and they couldn't leave them and Inari alone.

The two Templars couldn't help fighting with Egger and Ali Ali at this time, they were desperate to know about Raphael's safety, but there was no passage to the bottom on the side of the hall where they were, and the weight of their armor obviously didn't allow them to jump straight down.

Just when the two knights looked at the deep hole in front of them and didn't know what to do, suddenly Egger and Ali Ali, who were not far from them, took a step forward without the slightest hesitation, Egg opened his hand towards Ali Ali as he walked, as if he had done something, and then the two of them jumped off the first floor as if it were just an easy expedition under the shocked gaze of the old thieves and the two Templars.

They can't waste time here, this collapse should be related to the archdemon in the ruins who is in the process of awakening, they need to find Xingxi quickly, and then deal with the archdemon.

As for the people of the Solan Cult here, let's wait until we have completed our mission and then come and clean them up.