Dain continued:

"The curse is constantly infiltrating everything about me, becoming a part of me, and even gradually replacing me."

He gestured to the pool above his head.

"You can imagine just burning a part of your body, and until then, you won't even be able to save your life."

"It's a curse that can't be purified."

A curse that cannot be purified......

"These pools have limited water to inhibit erosion or curse and it is possible to purify ...... From what I feel, I'm afraid he's still far from effective. ”

As they came to the bottom of the upside-down pool, a device suddenly rose directly below.

It's positive.

All the creations of this ancient city are hanging upside down, but the device that rises with their arrival is upright, and the shape of this device is also out of place in the whole ancient city.

"It's ......"

Dain tried to inspect the device, but a portal opened again next to it.

A long sword made of black mud poked out of the portal and landed in front of Dain.

Abyss Princess Ying turned back at this time.

"Stop, Dain."

"I didn't have time to confirm the teleportation network, but I let you track it here...... It was really my mistake. ”

"Get out of here, I can act like nothing happened."

"Otherwise, don't blame me for not missing the old love."

Dain saw the frosty face at this time, but he didn't stop, and the long sword made of black mud went up.

Ying obviously didn't expect Dain to make such a move, and just before the tip of the sword was about to pierce Dain's body, she withdrew her hand and threw the black clay long sword.

The longsword that landed on the ground instantly turned into a puddle of black mud, binding Dain's legs.

Unable to move on, Dain, whose legs were wrapped in black mud, stopped his movements and looked directly at his former traveling companion.

"It seems that this equipment was indeed placed by the Abyss Order."

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Although Ying didn't bear to do anything to Dai Yin, she also looked back at Dai Yin firmly.

"I want to return to the country."

"Before, I was too focused on fighting the great cause of Tianli, but I forgot the mission of recovering the country."

"Now I'm going to revive Kanriya."

"Revive Kanria?"

"You stubborn guy, you really haven't given up yet."

"You mean to use this place to purify the curse of the hilichurls and the Black Serpent Knight, and thus serve as the foundation for the restoration of Kanria?"

"That's why you've gone to great lengths to make this a base?"

There was a hint of sarcasm in Dain's tone.

"That's right."

Ying said.

"This time, I will definitely remove the curse that afflicts the people once and for all."

Ying's words made Dain sneer.

"Utterly ignorant."

"You should have heard our conversation just now, right?"

"If you don't hear me, I'll repeat it to you."

"I have lived with this curse for five hundred years, and no one knows better than I that there is absolutely no salvation that cannot succeed."

"No one understands this curse better than I do, and the potency of these pools of water can only be suppressed at best."

Ying also laughed.

"Don't underestimate the technology of our abyss, relying on this device, we can increase the purification capacity of the pool water tenfold and hundredfold."

"What about the success rate? How many? ”

Dain asked.

"Even if there's only one percent hope, I'm going to try."

"Dain, I'm not as indecisive as I used to be."

Ying's words completely angered Dain.

“…… With such crude and rudimentary methods, I still overestimate you. ”

"The curse is irreversible."

"If you forcibly exorcise the curse, you won't get anything but pain."

"Those hilichurls and black snake knights, there is nothing left of them except curses."

Facing the angry Dain, Ying just said lightly:

"You've seen the hilichurls huddled in the corners, right?"

"After so many years of torture, they have lived without dignity."

"Don't let them continue to be burdened with trumped-up charges."

"Either we succeed and they become citizens of Kanria and rebuild their homes."

"Either we fail and we get nothing."

"Rather than living like this, it is better to return to the cycle as soon as possible."

"We're already in the abyss, aren't we? Dain. ”

Ying's words sent Dain into a brief silence.

Finally he sighed.

"Back then, we parted ways because of different ideas, right?"

Dain drew his saber and swung it at the black mud beneath his feet, which began to dissipate the moment it touched Dain's saber.

"Maybe at that time, we didn't expect that one day, we would face each other."

Then he pointed straight at the amplification device behind Ying and pounced on it.

"I didn't expect that either."

"But I'm all for the people of Kanria, and I won't regret it."

Ying was still expressionless, then raised her hand, and as her gestures changed, Sasuke felt that everything around him suddenly slowed down, including his own movements.

Can't move.

It's the same as when the wind rises, except that this time the elemental power chakra has not been sucked away.

Immediately after that, the portal fluctuated again, and an Abyss Apostle walked out of the portal, but was not affected by it.

The Abyssal Apostle's outfit was unlike any other Abyss Apostle I've seen before, with more intricate patterns on its armor and a larger size.

It stood respectfully in front of Ying.

"Your Royal Highness, have you made a decision?"

Ying nodded with some difficulty, activating this ability similar to time stasis seemed to be a burden on Ying, and she began to gasp for air.

"Your decision is the Order's luck."

With that, it made its way to the device, and a core glowing golden light was removed from its chest and pressed against it.

The hands of the Abyss Order stirred, and the light of the core began to condense, finally converging to one point, heading straight for the upside-down pool of water overhead.

As the light poured in, the entire pool began to emit golden light, carrying the entire ancient city to shine, illuminating every corner of the ruined area.

The stagnation of time was also lifted at this moment, but with the flicker of light, the hilichurls in the original corner hugged their heads in pain, and the movements of the black snake guards who had been on the periphery before also became distorted.

"Uh......"

All kinds of roars continued, and then the group of black snake guards fell in pieces.

Dain was also affected by this light, holding his head and unable to move, as if he was in great pain.

At this time, only Sora and Sasuke can act.

Sasuke, who regained his mobility, immediately turned on Susanoh, and the skeleton threw a punch, and the target was that device.

(End of chapter)