hours ago.

When Christy saw the mysterious man leave, she returned to her seat in the hall, pulled out the strange box, and examined it carefully.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when she holds the box, she always feels uncomfortable, but it's different from the disgust feeling when the mysterious person is present.

The box seems to produce an attraction, it feels like it has life, longing for someone to open it.

Chrysti carefully placed the box on the table in front of her, and the strange feeling disappeared in an instant, and it was only then that she finally relaxed.

In this way, this box is certainly not a good thing, and what it contains is by no means good.

According to the mysterious man, when she can't withstand the siege of the knights, she can open the box, and she will definitely surprise her at the end.

Surprise or anything, Kresti didn't want it, she just wanted not to scare her then.

However, in the face of the ominous aura emanating from the box, Christie was 100% sure that if she used it without knowing the consequences, she would end up in shock.

So, driven by a strange reason, she picked up the box again, and reached for the lock outside.

She wanted to open it to find out, and then, with a "pop", the box was easily unlocked, and the lid on it immediately popped open, revealing the contents inside.

Unexpectedly, the first thing that came out of it was a puff of purple smoke, and although Christie was prepared, she still didn't expect it, and she choked and coughed.

"Ahem, what the hell."

Christy threw the box out and threw it on the ground, and the purple smoke quickly dissipated, and the box fell upside down on the ground, without moving.

"Tsk, am I being deceived?" Chrysti wondered.

However, under her gaze, the box actually moved slightly, and then turned over.

Cresti's brain was buzzing, and a chill suddenly rose behind her back, and she immediately ran to the wall and drew her twin swords.

However, when the box straightened itself, it did not move again.

Chrysti approached slowly, nervous, and finally shocked when she saw the contents of the box.

It contained a black heart, full of blood vessels, but there was no blood flowing, this was obviously not a human heart, and what was even more terrifying was that this heart was still beating.

If it was a human heart, it would be such a great miracle, but she couldn't know better that this heart given by the demon people could only belong to a certain monster.

Chrysti pondered the real purpose of the mysterious man giving her this heart, if it was some kind of powerful weapon, then it would be understandable, but what could this heart do?

Could it be that this thing will explode and be thrown directly at the enemy as a bomb when the time comes? It's not impossible with the physical characteristics of the demons, but this is far from the point of surprise, if it really can't be parried, it's not something that a bomb can solve at all.

She was lost in thought, and the hall became very quiet, when suddenly out of nowhere came a small mouse, looking around, as if looking for food.

After a while, its keen sense of smell seemed to smell the scent of the heart, and after confirming that there was no danger, it quickly ran towards the box.

Only then did Chrysti notice that although she knew that rats did have a habit of scavenging when they had no food, she didn't intend to stop it, but wanted to see if the living heart would react.

Sure enough, the mouse opened its mouth and was about to bite down, but a dozen small tentacles like earthworms immediately stretched out from its heart, and it tied up the mouse at once.

But if you look closely, you will find that those tentacles are directly pierced into the rat's body, what a horrible scene, Chrysti can't help but want to vomit.

Before she could spit out all the food she had eaten today, the mouse's body changed, it was not sucked dry by its tentacles, but its body began to swell, and finally, the mouse, which was not the size of the palm of her hand, became as big as a large dog.

The rat's eyes glowed red, its teeth became slender and sharp, and its bearded nose sniffed through the air, and soon it smelled human.

Seeing this, Chrysti hurriedly raised her sword to aim at the mutated mouse, and in the next moment, the mouse was free from the shackles of the monster's heart, and pounced with its teeth and claws, as if it was not afraid of the sword in her hand at all.

Chrysti took a step back, then swung her sword horizontally, trying to cut the rat off.

However, the mouse's mobility was not slowed down by the expansion of its body, but it was dodged with a single jump by relying on its nimble hands.

Chrysti was horrified, on the one hand, she had hated this filthy creature since she was a child, and on the other hand, she was not sure what would happen if she was bitten by this mouse.

After the sword was dodged, she took a few steps back and swung another sword at the same time, but the mouse managed to dodge it, and then opened its fangs to bite her.

Chrysti was instantly furious, she didn't expect that she would be forced to retreat by a small mouse, and what a shame it would be if it got out.

So, she immediately withdrew her two swords, and then stabbed at the mouse crosswise, and at the same time used her sword skills.

Because the speed of the sword was not very fast, the mouse dodged, but immediately after, Christy used her body as bait to attract the mouse to bite it, and then took the opportunity to kick the mouse in the abdomen.

The kick was very heavy, and Christy used almost all her strength, if it were an ordinary person, she would have broken her whole body and died, but the mouse's vitality was extremely tenacious, even if she was kicked to pieces, she still bit the armor on her arm and did not let go.

"Tsk, damn it!"

Christy impatiently cut off its head with her sword, and when she saw that it was still wriggling, she was so disgusted that she chopped its body to pieces.

After the danger was completely eliminated, she looked at the place where the rat had been bitten just now, and found that there were actually two large holes in it, and at the same time, she also felt a dull pain in her arm under the armor.

She quickly took off the part of her armor, and was greeted by two bloody holes, and the blood that flowed from them was not bright red, but as black as the strange heart.

Unexpectedly, Chrysti was not particularly flustered, because after this episode just now, she finally understood the purpose of that heart, which could strengthen the combat power and vitality of living beings.

A little mouse has been strengthened to such a terrifying level, so what if it strengthens people? Not to mention a powerful paladin like Christie.

Thinking of this, instead of panicking, she looked excited, and she quickly walked over to pick up the box and lock it again.

However, the moment she picked up the box, several more tentacles appeared on her heart, trying to burrow into her, and she immediately pulled out her sword and cut it off.

Because it's not the time yet, but there's no doubt that this box will surprise her when the time comes.

……

Back in time, Cresti's entire body was enveloped in fireballs, and the Emir and the others standing on the side could smell the smell of burning flesh.

Since dragon breath doesn't need fuel to burn continuously, they weren't worried that this dragon breath wouldn't burn her.

They could vaguely see the human form in the flames, but as time passed, the human form did not disappear, that is, under such high temperatures, Chrysti's body had not been completely burned.

This is incredible, the human body obviously can't bear the dragon's breath.

Emir also felt that something was wrong, and quickly motioned for Daniel to hide behind Lilith, and such a move was indeed necessary.

Because the next moment, the figure that had been shrouded in flames rushed out, and two sharp swords were pointed directly at Daniel's chest.

Daniel hurriedly raised his sword to block, but unexpectedly only blocked one sword, and Christie's other sword continued to stab.

Seeing that Daniel was about to be stabbed in the heart, Lilith directly swung her claws and knocked Chrysti away in one fell swoop.

"What's going on, is this guy really human?" Lilith was puzzled.

"I don't know, maybe she's been assimilated by the demons." Daniel guessed.

If there is any creature that can resist the dragon's breath with its body, it is only the demon clan whose body can heal itself and the dragon who is the same kind of dragon.

The Emir agreed with him, saying that Christy had probably turned into a monster, and it seemed that their current opponent was not a paladin who had betrayed the Empire, but a real monster.

"Hmph, what about turning into a monster, since one shot of dragon breath is useless, let's do it again."

Lilith watched as Christy quickly got up and approached them again, her tone full of disdain.

"Please, Lilith."

"Hehe, Emir, I'll kill her without you saying it."

After Lilith finished speaking, she spat out another dragon breath at Christy, perhaps with all her strength, this time the fireball was twice as big as the one just now.

Chrysti looked at the approaching fireballs and felt that she was facing a sun, but she didn't panic at all.

She grabbed the heart in the box in her hand at the critical moment just now, and the black heart immediately stretched out countless tentacles, piercing into all parts of her body, and the transformation happened almost instantly, and she suddenly changed from a human to a monster.

Immediately afterward, unlike the previous influence on the rats, the monster heart was completely integrated into her body this time, and with the monster's powerful self-healing ability, her flesh regeneration rate completely exceeded the speed of burning.

Sure enough, when the fireball enveloped her body again, she stood calmly in place like a nobody.

It's just that what makes her a little unhappy is that the two swords she finally obtained turned into molten iron under the high temperature.

"Cut."

Although she was unhappy in her heart, the pleasure of gaining great power soon made her careless, and she even felt that she was in control of the whole world.

Lilith also found that her dragon breath was useless, and immediately became angry, this was the first time she had eaten deflated.

Then, unable to fly, Lilith could only leap up on her powerful limbs and leap over Kresty's head, intending to trample her into a meat sauce.

However, at the moment of landing, Chrysti actually reached out and caught Lilith's claws, which almost made Lilith unstable, but fortunately she had four legs and wings to help maintain her balance.

But Kresty's counterattack was not limited to this extent, she stretched out her hand into the air, and then, countless tiny tentacles spread out of her hand, and finally condensed into a long sword.

Chrysti reused her old trick and used this method to obtain two swords again, which were not as tough as before, but had the advantage of being infinitely regenerating.

She unleashed a sword skill directly at Lilith, and her sword skill could enhance the force of the sword swing, which the average knight would not be able to dodge at all, let alone be as large as Lilith.

In the next second, Lilith was indeed slashed by Kresti's sword, but she didn't do anything at all, or rather, she didn't think about dodging it at first.

Because her body is covered with incomparably hard scales, not to mention swords, no weapon on this continent can pierce it, and in the tens of thousands of years of dragon existence, no dragon has ever died from a stab wound, only a magic attack can penetrate the scales and cause internal injuries to dragons.

However, this is not to say that Lilith is invulnerable, she still has an Achilles' heel, which is the lack of scale-protected eyes, and Chrysti seems to have discovered this.

She took advantage of Lilith's inattention and jumped directly on the dragon's back, which was completely Lilith's attack dead end, no matter how she shook her body and flapped her wings, she couldn't shake off Chrysti.

Seeing this, Emir couldn't help but worry, and he quickly took out the sword he had forged and handed it to Daniel, hoping that he could help cover Lilith.

However, Daniel said that he would be sent to death if he went, and no matter how good the weapon was, it was useless.

“…… Tsk, what can I do? Emile couldn't help but sweat for Lilith.

Sure enough, Lilith couldn't resist at all, and seeing that Chrysti was getting closer and closer to her eyes, the emir on the side had a whim and stretched out his hand to Lilith.

Then, the ring on his hand burst out with red light, enveloping Lilith's body, and then took her in at once, and Christy instantly lost her place to stay, and then fell heavily to the ground.

At the same time, Emile released Lilith again, and she was very grateful for Emile's action, and then trampled Chrysti with the dragon's claws before she could get up.

Christy tried to resist, but Lilith didn't give her another chance, and directly broke her limbs with her sharp claws, while spitting out even more violent dragon breath.

Even though her powerful self-healing ability could help her recover from her injuries, Lilith kept her under control, and every time she completed her self-healing, more intense flames followed.

In this way, I don't know how long it took, the human form in the flames finally disappeared.

Seeing this, the emir was finally relieved, it seemed that the greatest threat of this war had been eliminated, and the next must be the victory of humanity.

After a while, Lilith flapped the flames with her wings, trying to make sure that Chrysti had really turned to ashes.

However, when the flames died down, they were greeted by a pitch-black orb, presumably created by the scorching of Kresty's body.

But just as everyone relaxed their vigilance and Lilith was about to ask for credit from the emir, she didn't expect countless tentacles to stretch out from the black sphere, attacking Lilith in an instant.

This time it was a very thick tentacle, and it could be extended indefinitely, and it didn't take long to wrap Lilith's body tightly.

In the end, as if wrapped in a huge cocoon, Lilith couldn't get out no matter how hard she struggled.