CHAPTER XIX

What the hell is this bastard trying to do!

With a little grievance, Lavia covered her arms and looked at the boy in front of her hatefully, if she hadn't cast a magic in time just now, using a force of recoil to reduce the speed of the fall, I'm afraid it would be ...... now

"Damn!" muttered the girl in a complaining tone, struggling to get up from the ground, but she felt a dizziness in her head because of the impact, and fell to the ground again.

Hey?

Supporting the ground with her hands, she suddenly focused on the ground below her, as he noticed that the ground here was not as uneven as the tunnel rocks earlier, but very smooth......

But smooth to smooth, this ground is too hard, right?

Curiously, she bent down and tapped her fingers on the stone bricks laid on the ground, and suddenly the surprise in her eyes became more and more intense.

Obsidian!

The ground was paved with obsidian that was hard enough to match steel!

If you didn't cast a spell just now......

Lavia shuddered, scared for a while.

But where is this?

It's too ...... to treat an ore like obsidian as an ordinary rock to act as the ground

Not because of the preciousness of obsidian, because it is just a common low-grade gemstone, after all, it is an igneous rock scattered all over the vicinity of volcanoes, a natural spar formed by the rapid condensation of volcanic lava, but in terms of hardness, it is far more hard than ordinary rock, and even harder than cyanite.

In addition to being hard, obsidian is also very sharp, so in ancient times, there were also people who used this spar to make weapons, and the hardness and sharpness of obsidian itself are not inferior to metal.

But it was only a weapon, and Lavia had never heard of anyone who would spend a lot of money and money mining obsidian, but only for the purpose of using it as a normal floor tile.

"What the hell is ...... here," Lavia's eyes looked around in surprise.

Through the still-thick dust, she saw what appeared to be a dungeon-like place, with neat rows of black cages and a disgusting stench of [***] in the air.

Taking a light breath, the girl barely stood up, walked over to a cage and tapped her fingers.

The sound of Bang Bang Bang made her understand that these cages were actually made entirely of black iron.

Oh my God, black iron is a rare metal!

Both density and hardness are the largest of all ores, but its mass, indeed, is the smallest of all metals, and it will not be corroded, and only a few pounds of black iron can be smelted in an ordinary set of armor to withstand heavy piercing blows, and it is the best material for making weapons and armor, in the Empire, this metal is classified as a controlled product, and is only widely used in the army.

And this precious metal is actually used as a cage here?

What kind of prisoner is being held here?!

Out of curiosity, the girl looked into the cage, which was dark due to the lack of light, so she had to use flames to illuminate it.

“......”

She shuddered at the dusty and cobweb-covered skeletons in the cage, and from these weathered bones we could tell that they had been sitting here for a long time.

Decades, if not centuries......

"Stomp, stomp!" a slow sound of footsteps echoed through the deep dungeon.

When Lavia turned around, she saw that the boy had gone deeper into the dungeon.

"Soth!" Lavia hurriedly chased after her, although she felt that the current boy was very dangerous, but her subconscious told her that he would not hurt herself.

Just following four or five yards behind the boy, Lavia didn't dare to get too close, because the thick and pure darkness of the giant bear made her feel very depressed.

Along the way, the girl still did not forget to look at the cages on both sides, and there was no accident, the poor fellow who was locked in the cage had turned into a weathered skeleton.

Suddenly, a faint light source from ahead caught Lavia's attention, and at the same time, she noticed that the boy's footsteps had stopped.

She carefully walked around the great dark bear, and was surprised to find that in the depths of the dungeon were long tables lined with messy books, parchment, knives, and alchemical vessels.

What is this place?

Why did he come here?

Lavia's mind was filled with question after question.

But what made her even more curious was the faint light here, and she turned to look at it, only to find that the faint light was brought by the oil lamps on the walls on both sides, and it was strange that the oil lamps themselves were already covered with dust, but they were still burning.

"It's incredible!" the girl muttered as she walked to the side of the wall, reaching out to touch the torch.

"Curious why these two lamps can burn for so long? Hey, because someone has refilled the lamp oil, which is the bucket in the corner of the wall, which comes from human grease, hehe......" Out of nowhere, there was a sneer, in this deep environment, it looked very terrifying.

Lavia subconsciously retracted her hand and shouted vigilantly, "Who? who?" looked at her pale face, as if frightened, but I didn't know if it was due to the two oil lamps or this sudden voice.

"Well, I thought it was someone, it turned out to be a little ghost! Oh, it's still two!"

"Who?!Who's here?" Clearly, Lavia was startled by the voice.

"Who?" the playful voice laughed, "Am I not right in front of you?"

"Huh?" Lavia was stunned, and looked ahead in the faint light of the fire, and was shocked to find a hazy figure on the wall at the end of the dungeon.

"Who are you?" Lavia walked cautiously, and she noticed that there seemed to be a man covered in shackles, looking at her playfully.

As if seeing the vigilance in Lavia's eyes, the man said with a low smile, "Little ghost, don't be so afraid, I can't hurt you!" he said, he raised his arms, and the seemingly very difficult movement was accompanied by a clanging sound.

Lavia realized that the limbs of the man kneeling on the ground were firmly bound by shackles made of black metal, and the neck, shoulder sockets, arms, chest, thighs and other places were full of gray needle-like objects, which seemed to be these things that made the man's movements just now very difficult.

But when it comes to needles, these needles are as thick as little fingers......

"You...... Are you still alive?" Lavia's face was full of strange faces, people, how could they be alive after being inserted into the heart by something like that? And it doesn't matter if it's just the heart, everything that is vital is full of those things.

"Hey!" said the man, who seemed dissatisfied, smirking, "do you think I'm an undead?"

"No!" Lavia shook her head, affirmatively but uncertainly, "you're a werewolf!"

The man's eyes narrowed, and then he shook his head and laughed at himself, as if he had acquiesced.

But even so, Lavia's doubts deepened, because she found that the man in front of her did not seem to have lost his mind like those villagers.

Could it be that he attacked the innocent villagers?

With a hint of anger, Lavia asked the question.

"Hmm?" said the man, looking puzzled, and then teased, "Do you think I can attack someone like this?"

"Ivo Berwick?

The man didn't seem to be willing to answer, or for some other reason.

"Is that little imp your companion, there seems to be something wrong with him!" said the man in a light-hearted and playful tone, but his eyes were not so relaxed, and anyone who was stared at by a giant bear that was more than twenty yards tall and exuded a dark aura would not feel good.

"He?" Lavia couldn't help but glance back at the boy, shook her head and said, "I don't know what's wrong with him, he's usually very friendly......"

"Isn't it friendly?" interrupted Lavia, and the man said in a playful tone, "I really didn't ......see the way this little ghost looked at me," he said, he paused, turned to Lavia, and said, "Help me pull out those annoying things on my body, and I will repay you!"

This demon-like demagogic tone made Lavia a little wary, took two steps back, shook her head and said in a deep voice, "I don't know why you're locked up here, but...... My feelings tell me that you are not a good person! So, please forgive me for refusing!"

"Huh?" the man was stunned, laughed in a low voice, and then said jokingly, "Then there is no way, I can only wait for that little ghost to kill me, and then kill you...... Don't you see? This little imp is like a beast right now......"

"No!" Lavia said, shaking her head, "He didn't hurt me just now......"

"That's because I'm here!" interrupted Lavia's words, and the man said in a deep voice, "This little ghost feels my presence!So he doesn't have time to pay attention to you, don't blame me for speaking directly, the strength between the two of you is not at the same level at all, as long as he wants to, he can kill you at any time! When he kills me, you will think that what I said is correct!"

"......" Clearly, Lavia was stunned by the man's words, and in retrospect, since he had become like this, it seemed that he really hadn't looked at himself with his eyes, as if he didn't exist......

He...... Will he hurt himself?

Biting his lip and looking back at the boy, the boy was just looking at the man as the man had said, neither he nor the giant bear was looking at the man.

"Speaking of which, this little ghost is really terrifyingly strong!" the man smiled and said bewildermently, "Let go of me, I'll let him return to normal, how about it?"

After a long silence, Lavia shook her head and said firmly, "No, I believe him, I believe he won't hurt me......"

"What if he hurts you?" for some reason, the man's tone became a little inexplicably strange.

"Then ...... He saved me once, and if he did hurt me, he would just take my life back......"

"......" looked at Lavia talking about his life in a flat tone, the man's eyes gradually changed, he seemed to be reminded of distant painful memories, his gray eyes flashed with sadness, and he looked at Lavia inexplicably.

Suddenly, the man's expression was stunned, as if he had noticed something, the sadness in his eyes was instantly put away, and he said viciously, "Then you can get out!

"You're ......" Lavia was startled by the man's sudden change in tone, and she said angrily, "You're really not a good person!"

"Less bullshit! Fuck off!" the man growled under his breath.

Lavia's chest heaved rapidly, and it was clear that the man's rough tone made her feel very angry, when an unfamiliar voice interrupted what she was about to say.

"You found out here, damn little mouse! I wanted to let you go, but in this case, you will die here for me!" The voice was mixed with panic and anger at the discovery of the secret.

"Who?" Lavia jerked back, and found a guy in magic robes standing in the distance behind her, and looking at his panting appearance, it seemed that he had come from somewhere else.

"Tsk!" sneered the man in chains, "Ivo Berwick, are you bastard still alive? I can feel that your proud 'outstanding achievement' seems to have been destroyed!"

It turned out that the guy in the magic robe was none other than the apothecary Ivo Berwick.

"Shut up, you shitty werewolf!"

Ivo Berwick...... The guy who attacked the villagers?" Lavia looked at the guy in the distance who looked like a magician in surprise, and suddenly, as if she thought of something, she turned to the man and said, "Werewolf?

Glancing at Lavia, the man didn't answer, he acquiesced.

"Yes, he's a real werewolf!" hehe's smirking, and Ivo Berwick's words sent Lavia's heart palpitating.

"It's strange to see that you guys seem to have such a good chat, haha, but I don't blame you, you don't know the identity of this guy, speaking of which, when I first saw this guy, I was also shocked! The legendary werewolf, the first werewolf born hundreds of years ago, Jean Connell!"

Sure enough, the name seemed too terrifying, making Lavia a little incredulous, pointing at the man and shocked, "You...... Are you Jean Connell?"

"Hmph!" the man's eyes seemed to show a little disappointment and loss, laughing at himself, and said angrily, "Yes, I'm Jean Connell! Why? Just hearing my name makes you scared?"

"Aren't you dead, it's written in ancient texts that 'the evil werewolf died in the study of the alchemist', and it is impossible for him to be alive!" Lavia asked in surprise.

Before Jean Connell could speak, Ivo Berwick laughed and said, "Death, what are you kidding, this guy was an extremely valuable research material for the alchemists of the time!

"You ......," Lavia said in shock, looking at Ivo Berwick in disbelief, "is it...... Don't you ......" Shocked to the depths, she stuttered a little.

"That's right!" Ivo Berwick said unconcernedly, as if reading through Lavia's thoughts, "For the sake of a clueless rumor, those stupid, money-hungry civilians dug this place for their own **, and unexpectedly, they dug through the underground prison used by alchemists to study werewolves hundreds of years ago...... What a great discovery!"

"You're the magician who went here alone?"

"Oh?" said Ivo Berwick, with a look of surprise on his face, "Has anyone ever mentioned me?"

"You ......" looked at Ivo Berwick in front of her, and Lavia, who recalled the words of the captain of the guard, was filled with anger.

"They...... Including those kind villagers, they have always remembered you, felt sad that you didn't go back, and organized people to look for you......"

"Looking for me?" said Ivo Berwick's face with an inexplicable relief, as if years of confusion had been unraveled.

"I said, how did these stupid guys go deep into this underground in the first place......"

"Stupid fellow......" The extreme anger made Lavia's body tremble slightly.

"Alright, the good-natured chit-chat time is over!" Ivo Berwick snapped his fingers, and the voice was accompanied by the whispered roar of countless Gangaro already lurking in the prison.

"I didn't intend to solve you, so I'm going to blame your curiosity...... Kill these two imps!"

As soon as Ivo Berwick's words fell, Lavia saw countless Gangeros pounce on him, but in an instant, these Gangaros were knocked out from a distance.

"This ...... What's going on?" Ivo Berwick watched in shock as more than a dozen Gangero were knocked away at the same time, and then suddenly turned his head to look in one direction, because of the light, he didn't notice just now, that the boy's body was actually covered with a thick dark aura, like a huge beast...... Indeed, the beast, those blood-red eyes......

"Hostility at this time, stupidity!" said Jean Connell, sneering under his breath, laughing with a cheerful taste.

"Hmm?" Lavia looked at the legendary werewolf suspiciously, only to see him smile and look at the boy not far away, "That little ghost...... Instinctively attack all the guys who are hostile to him, and, thanks to him, I didn't even dare to breathe just now!"

"He?" Lavia looked at the boy in confusion as if it were a huge mountain, and without seeing him make the slightest movement, the dark bear that enveloped him blocked all Gangero's attacks, as Jean Connell said, just instinctively.

"So, Soth came to you because you were hostile to him?"

"Hey," said Jean Connell dissatisfied, "when have I ever been hostile to you?" he said, pausing and pondering, "rather, all those who are hostile to him, or who can threaten him...... But it's a terrible imp! What's the matter with that bear that oozes an ominous smell all over his body? Could it be that the imp has made a deal with a demon in pursuit of power?"

"He won't!" Lavia's angry expression stunned Jean Connell, the legendary werewolf looked at the boy in the distance, then at the girl, showed a strange smile, and said in an inexplicable tone, "What two annoying imps!"

Having said that, Lavia felt strangely that the words themselves did not have the slightest tone of disgust, and out of confusion and curiosity, she cautiously approached Connell and looked at the legendary werewolf.

"Stay away from me, little ghost!" Lavia's proximity made Connell feel very uncomfortable, "Didn't your parents tell you that this way of looking at people is rude?"

"Parents ......" Hearing this, Lavia's expression suddenly fell, and she recalled something in a distracted manner.

Suddenly, she felt as if a gust of wind was blowing behind her head, and subconsciously looked back, and her little face was startled.

At some point, a Gongro jumped past the boy and lunged at her......

"Tsk!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, before Lavia could come to her senses, an arm locked in heavy shackles reached out and grabbed Gangero's arm......

"Close to me...... It's dangerous!" In Lavia's stunned eyes, Connell recounted a fact flatly.

"Whoosh!" At that moment, several black breaths swept over, enveloping Gangaro tightly......

At the moment when those few black breaths swept in, if Connell hadn't hurriedly withdrawn his hand, I was afraid that even he would have been implicated.

"Whew, I'll just say this kid has lost his mind!" Shaking his head, Connell glanced at Lavia, who was looking at the boy worriedly, and whispered, "But he does seem to be protecting you......"

"Really?" Lavia felt a feeling of joy for some reason.

"Ah......h Since that imp can tolerate you hanging around him all the time, this in itself shows that he is not hostile to you, not only will he not hurt you, but he will also protect you...... I don't think that guy would have hurt you even if I hadn't made a move...... Is that imp really not trading with the devil? How could he have such great power?"

"Not really!" Lavia shook her head vigorously, then looked at Connell deeply, and said hesitantly, "Thank you!"

"Didn't I say it, even if you didn't have me, you wouldn't be hurt!" As he spoke, Connell frowned and looked at the girl who was already standing beside him at some point, and said in a complicated tone, "You also saw just now, I am not completely incapacitated......

This sentence obviously reminded the girl, and in the midst of Connell's wicked laughter, the girl hurriedly took two steps back, and then said hesitantly, "Are you really Jean Connell......? Also, you just asked me to leave, not because I refused to help you, but because you sensed someone came in, right?"

"Do you think that's the case?" said Connell, grinning wickedly, "I'm an evil werewolf!"

Indeed, no matter what the document is, as long as it is a description of Connell, it only records that this is an evil werewolf, but at this moment, Lavia has a strange feeling, as if this guy is not as recorded in the literature......

"I think you seem to be ......"

Being stared at by a teenage girl, Connell felt very uncomfortable, coughed, and changed the subject, saying, "Hey, shouldn't you care more about that imp than I do? Don't you notice? The imp's power is starting to weaken......"

"Huh?" Lavia looked back in confusion and found that the dark bear's body was indeed much hazy and transparent than before, and the dark energy had decayed...... No, it's decaying all the time! It was only after devouring a Gangaro that the bear's body became clearer, and then it gradually became hazy again.

It seems that this dark bear is unable to condense the dark elements from the atmosphere......

How is it possible? As long as there is still magic, how can it not be possible to condense the dark element?

Moreover, that guy's mana recovery speed is far faster than others.

Suddenly, Lavia noticed the faint white light on the boy's body once again, perhaps it was this white light that completely cut off his magical connection with the dark bear......

Is it going to be back to normal? Lavia was a little happy, but then there was a lot of worry......

If it weren't for that strange dark force, then ......

Damn it!

If you can help him......

If......

Just as Lavia felt helpless about her weak power, a word came from beside her that felt a little familiar.

"Little ghost, help me unplug those annoying things on my body, and I'll repay you!"

ps: The first protector of the Dharma!Woo woo, thank you for the support of Phantom Fox ☆ Star Resentment classmates !!;