"Hi Lindsay!"

"You ran away like this, so how can I go down?"

Lindsey plunged headlong into the ground, and as a result, Red was left on the surface.

The girl looked at the small hole in the mound, and even dragged the unconscious Darktide Lizard over, and then gestured with her white palm:

"This ...... That's going to stuff my thighs in, right? ”

Obviously.

Red that doesn't have the ability to escape from the ground will definitely not be able to go down.

The girl's fiery red eyes revealed unwillingness, and she lay on the ground, listening with her ears on the ground.

"Bang! Boom - roar! ”

Red stood up helplessly.

I could detect some movement with my ears on the ground, but not to the point where I could hear clearly.

"Throwing me on top of it all by yourself makes a lot of sense, right?"

Red patted his right cheek.

The surface of the mound was wet, and she just listened to it on her stomach, and her face was already covered with mud.

I can't go down and fight.

There is nothing else to do on the surface either.

Under the boredom, the red eyes wandered around, and the starlight at night fell quietly.

The light of the stars falls on the Three Pillars Lake, and the bright colors are reflected in the clear water, and then flow along the ripples to create a beautiful dream.

Three huge stone pillars towered above the stars.

They seem to be giants leaning on each other's sides, and they are also like the skeleton of a palace under construction.

Meanwhile.

The battle under the ground has come to its most critical turn.

The gophers who were defeated in the Darktide Lizard sneak attack began to turn the tide of the battle because of the sudden addition of Lindsay as a reinforcement.

In skirmishes. The addition of a strong man is enough to dominate the battlefield, and the number of Darktide lizards is rapidly decreasing.

Meanwhile.

Hong, who was sitting alone on the ground, gradually focused his eyes on the nearest stone pillar.

She hadn't sensed it when she was far away before, but now that she looked closely, she vaguely felt that there seemed to be some kind of power contained in the stone pillar.

"Essentia?"

The moment the doubt was born, Red immediately got up from the ground.

She didn't even pat off the dirt stuck to her hips, and in a few strides she rushed straight into the lake, stepping on the starry splash to the stone pillar.

"This feeling ......"

Red held out her hand thoughtfully.

She felt right, this stone pillar did contain essentia.

But this power is very special, it is not the kind of essiba dominated by humans or demonic beasts, nor is it the feeling that essentia is integrated into the substances of nature and finally forms special minerals or herbs.

"It's ...... The power to get closer to the roots. ”

Red made a somewhat vague judgment.

Or maybe she was following her instincts and recognizing the stone pillar in front of her.

The knowledge that the girl possessed was slowly learned in the small half year that she traveled with Lindsay. At this moment, I noticed the particularity of the things in front of me, and I couldn't think of how to deal with them for a while.

Red caressed the rough surface of the stone pillar, and the marks left by the wind and sun rubbed against the fingertips, as if he was touching the years that had happened on the stone pillar with his own hands.

Buzz Buzz –

At this moment, a mutation suddenly occurred.

At first, the stone pillars were calm and normal, but the essentia in them began to change.

This power began to converge towards Hong's hand, and with it, the essentia increased in 'quantity'.

"Huh?"

Red quickly frowned.

This kind of thing happens to ordinary awakened people or demonic beasts, and it is definitely a godsend to increase their strength.

But she's different.

As a essentia lost, Red herself is still in a slow recovery process, which is actually the speed at which her current body can adapt the most.

The sudden increase in the quality of the source directly put pressure on her body.

While feeling some incongruity in his body, some broken images began to appear in Hong's mind.

The black fog that swallows everything, the earth that collapses in the shock and shock, the shattered time and space that is chaotic with light and shadow......

Strange scenes flashed through her mind one after another.

Red seemed to understand something, but this memory would not remain in her mind at all, and it would disappear completely in the blink of an eye.

What finally froze in her mind was a white light.

It seemed to be a straight stab from a white steel sword, and that was it......

"Uh-huh!"

Suddenly, there was an indescribably sharp pain in the red heart.

This is not a physical sickness, but a remnant of some kind of willish rule, which manifests itself with the revival of memory.

"Damn it!"

"Get out of here!"

Red put his right hand on his chest and let out a roar.

In an instant, her palm detached from the stone pillar, and the whole person took two steps back, splashing messy.

And then......

"Huh?"

Red blinked.

The intense pain and the emergence of memories stopped in an instant, and everything just now seemed to be an illusion, only the clothes on his body that were wet with cold sweat were still proving what happened a second ago.

"I ...... White light, that's my memory? ”

Red realizes what happened to her.

In the next second, she reached out to the stone pillar again, and there was not even a trace of fear in her determined gaze.

Red didn't care about the pain that seemed to tear people's minds apart.

Or in the face of what she wants to achieve, she doesn't care about all the suffering and torture.

Syllable!

The white palm caressed the stone pillar, and the surface of the rock was still rough.

“……”

“…………”

This time, however, the stone pillar did not react.

Red maintained her movements in place for a long time, and even took the initiative to probe her essentia into the stone pillar.

However, the ancient stone pillar in front of him did not change at all.

The essentia contained in it can still be sensed, but it no longer reacts to Hong's movements.

"Can only have an effect once?"

The girl bit her lip and frowned.

This was the first time she had the opportunity to touch the memories of the past since she became an awakened person again.

Although in my mind at the moment, I only remember the white light that pierced my heart.

But Hong is also very sure that continuing to increase her strength is definitely the right way for her to recover her memory!

The girl stood silently in front of the stone pillar.

She began to think about what she was going to do next.

After waiting for a minute or two, he simply dragged the Dark Tide Lizard that he was in charge of guarding over, sat on it like a carpet, and then slowly studied the stone pillar in front of him that brought him a turnaround.

At the same time, the battle underground came to an end.

Most of the Dark Tide lizards that came in sneak attack were wiped out in the counteroffensive.

Although a few have managed to escape, they are now too numerous to form a population of a certain size.

After the results were confirmed, Lindsay finally returned to the ground.

He was accompanied by a gopher with an eager expression.

For the human in front of him who has saved his race, the attitude of the gopher can be said to be extremely flattering.

Lindsay, who had returned to the ground, swept his eyes around.

Immediately, I saw the figure of Hong, who was already deep in thought, sitting in front of the stone pillar.

Lindsay immediately walked over and asked with concern:

"Red, what are you doing?"

Red turned his head to look.

Without waiting for the girl to answer the question, the gopher on the side took the initiative to explain to Lindsay:

"Human, the first pillar strengthens her power."

"She must have felt this greatness, so she was showing respect for the first stone pillar!"

(End of chapter)