"Girls, please take your breath," Rog smiled as he walked up to Alice, looked around at the mermaid priests who were surrounding her and Serena, and gently held Alice's hand around him, "I admire Miss Alice's integrity, but I have a question for you." ”

Alice stared at him coldly, grabbing Serena's hand behind her without fear, and heard Rogge ask, "Can you tell me why the nail of your right index finger is broken?"

Rogge's inquiry stunned everyone present, and they all focused their eyes on Alice's index finger, where there was a gap left by a fingernail, as Rogge said.

"I don't know, maybe it was accidentally broken in the chaos of the day of the crime, right?" Alice replied unhurriedly.

Rogge smiled and said, "Then can you explain a little bit more about why your nails are broken in the body of the sea cucumber?"

He raised his left hand and grafted a broken nail to the base of Alice's broken nail, which was tightly knit and exactly the same color, and those present were stunned, while Rogge stared into Alice's eyes with a scrutinizing gaze, and saw a trace of consternation that could not be hidden.

"This is what I just found in the meat of the sea cucumber's mouth, if I guessed correctly, it should be that when you put the holy weapon into the sea cucumber's mouth, you used too much force in your hurry, and accidentally pierced your nails into the flesh of the sea cucumber, and the stinging sensation made the sea cucumber tighten its muscles, causing the nail to be unable to pull out, so you had to break your nail......"

Rogge said as he pulled Alice's hand in front of him, reached out to remove the cigar from his lips, stared into her eyes and said, "You're right, Miss Serena is wronged, you are the inner ghost of the mermaid clan, Miss Alice!"

"Alice!" Hearing Rogge's words, Serena couldn't help but exclaim, and Tali on the side was also caught off guard by the turn of events, staring blankly at Alice in front of Rogge.

Alice stared at Rogge on the other side of the smoke, and after a long time, she suddenly showed a mocking smile: "I really didn't expect that I did everything I could, and finally lost to my own nails!"

"Alice, why are you doing this!" Tali asked, her eyes wide in surprise.

Alice glanced at her and sneered: "It's very simple, if the lost artifact can't be recovered, you will lose the qualification of the guardian, so you must go out and look for it, and 'they' promised that I will deal with you on land, so that the position of the guardian will be mine!"

"You bastard!" Hearing Alice's words, Tali was furious, she stepped forward and pointed at Alice with the Guardian Staff, gritting her teeth and angrily recolding, "Is it just to be a Guardian, you can ignore the safety of the Hallows, and even use your own sisters!"

"Hmph, the Sacred Artifact is only about the safety of humanity, it means nothing to us!As for Serena, she is my best 'accomplice', this stupid girl has been helping me wholeheartedly, even though she doesn't know what she is doing!"

Alice sneered and glanced at Serena beside her, and said to Rogge: "That's why I argued for her just now, I hope to be able to disturb or even drive you away, keep this stupid girl for the time being, she is still useful to me, but I obviously underestimated you, Mr. Witcher!"

Alice's words pierced Serena's heart like a sharp blade, and she shook her head in pain, unable to believe her ears, tears of sadness clouded her eyes, but only Alice's contemptuous sneer was reflected.

"Alice, tell me, who is behind the theft of the Hallows?"

Alice stared at her with a pair of beautiful dark blue eyes and sneered, "I won't tell you unless you kill me, but then you will never know!"

"I'll find a way to get you to speak, but I hope you don't regret it, Alice!" Tali gritted her teeth with a gloomy face, turned back to call out to the merfolk soldiers, ordering them to take Alice to prison.

Caught off guard, Alice's squid suddenly squirted out a large amount of ink, and the surrounding sea water was instantly dyed black, Tali hurriedly cast a spell to disperse the surrounding black water, and the mermaid soldiers also swarmed up to control the crazy squid, but Alice had taken the opportunity to slip away.

"Alice, don't you want to escape!" Tali glanced hatefully in the direction she had fled, and chanted a spell to summon a giant great white shark, she beckoned Rog and the others to sit on the back of the great white shark, and the great white shark jumped up and chased in the direction of Alice's escape.

The tail of the giant shark swayed gently from side to side in the water, but it moved faster than the human war horse, and the reefs and corals on both sides of the seabed quickly retreated, and the oncoming fish were shocked by the shark and scattered in terror.

"She's ahead!" Tali, who was sitting behind the shark's dorsal fin, quickly saw Alice's back, she was shaking her long fishtail and moving quickly, the great white shark's rapid approach made her feel the current tremble, and she looked back to see her pursuers.

"Stop, Alice, you can't escape!"

Tali's voice reached Alice's ears with the ripples of the current, and she glared at Tali hatefully, then turned and dived deep into the sea, only to stop the shark when Tali arrived at the location where she was diving.

"What's wrong, why did you stop?" asked Rog, who was sitting behind her, surprised.

"It's a no-go zone, and the elders strictly forbid merfolk members from entering. Tali pointed to the bottom of the ocean below and turned back to Rog.

Rogge and Catherine looked in the direction that Tali was pointing, and saw a large complex of buildings looming in the dark blue seabed, like a mysterious and secluded underwater city.

"What is this place, what's inside?" Rog looked at the silent city, everything seemed unusually peaceful, there wasn't even any sea life around it, and it was as dead as a ruin under the sea, eerie and gloomy.

"The name of the city is Artis, it once stood on the Icewind Strait, it was a bridge connecting the ice island and the continent of Europe, Artis was once one of the principalities of the human empire, the ice island was once the territory of Artis, and the magic castle on the ice and snow island, the city of Shining Light and the mage tower, were built by King Artis. ”

"But no one expected that one day two hundred years ago, Artis suddenly disappeared into a vast ocean, and it is recorded that at that time, there was a huge explosion at the bottom of the sea, and the elders of the clan felt the spread of strong magical energy. ”

They speculated that King Artis, who was obsessed with magic, might have discovered some kind of source of ancient magic, and that these unstable ancient magic powers had been excavated without permission, with devastating consequences. ”

"Regardless, no one knows exactly what happened, all we can see is the ancient city of Artis lying silently at the bottom of the sea, and the elders say that it still exudes terrible magic to this day, so the people are forbidden to enter the ancient city. ”

Tully's words made Rogge and Catherine look at each other, they didn't know much about the ancient city called Artis, and couldn't guess what was hidden inside, but Tully's words put a troubling question in front of them: Should they go in and hunt down Alice?

"Tali, I think we have to take this risk, it's about the whereabouts of the Hallows, and the true identity of the mastermind behind it, and it might be even more difficult if we give up chasing Alice and find out the truth from other directions!" Rog pondered for a moment, then looked up at Tali.

"It seems that this is the only way!" Tali looked into Rog's determined eyes, and after thinking twice, she made up her mind to direct the great white shark to dive quickly in the direction of the ancient city of Artis.

The great white shark soon entered the ancient city, swimming through the ruins covered in seaweed and oyster shells, and Rog noticed that many of the buildings were still in their original shape and had not completely collapsed into rubble, indicating that the land had sunk into the sea in its entirety.

"What kind of power can sink an entire piece of land into the sea?" Rogge thought to himself as he looked around at the silent ancient city around him, when he suddenly noticed a gloomy and fierce light from the windows of the buildings on both sides.