"What the hell is this...... What's the situation!"

After carefully reaching the depths of the cavern, Lin and the others did not encounter the size of the enemy they had expected—until they discovered the "camp" of the retreating squad. However, even here, Lynn's vision was still far from what she had imagined.

The ground was littered with corpses that could not be moved.

However, there was no smell of blood, and if it weren't for the fact that there was no living person at the scene, it would not be impossible to think that these people were already asleep.

Lynn crouched down and flipped over one of the fallen bodies.

“...... It seems that these people should be the people we were looking for. After inspecting the condition of the corpse, Lin said with a solemn expression, "But unfortunately, these people have no chance to stand trial, and they can't die more completely." ”

Not long after the man died, Lynn found that there was no trace of any soul among the corpses.

"Can't die more completely......?"

"Yes, the soul is gone...... I can't say whether these souls have been dissipated or erased, or whether they have been devoured......"

However, more worrying is yet to come.

"Their hearts are gone. ”

Judging from the corpse that had been undressed by Lynn, a huge piece of the body on the chest had been dug up, and judging from the stitching marks on the edge of the hollow, it should have been the black "heart" that was supposed to be.

Sarys also looked through several corpses around and got the same result.

"The cause of death, Lynn, can you confirm it?"

"No, I can't. I think Xia will be better at these things that involve black magic, right? Maybe you should be able to get a definite answer by looking for wet sauce. But I ...... Sure enough, it's still a little reluctant. ”

Like Salis, Lynn didn't have much experience with this kind of thing.

But no matter which way you look at it. The causes of death were not ordinary—the fighting power of the group as someone involved in an attack of this magnitude should not be underestimated. However, looking at the surrounding rock walls, there was not the slightest trace of damage, and it could be seen that the death of these people came extremely suddenly, and they did not give them any chance to react at all. As for the possibility of suicide, Lin didn't think about it, but seeing that these corpses all had frightened and desperate faces on their faces, Lin didn't think that this was left behind by people who died calmly.

"The 'heart' is gone...... Or can I say that this situation must have something to do with that thing?"

"That's how it should be. ”

Lynn and Salis and Yan Yu glanced at each other, and they all secretly adjusted their breathing state to the best - a strange change had happened here. It can even be said that it is very dangerous, but the three of them still need to go deeper. In this case, all three of them began to tense their nerves.

"Sister-sama!...... It's like footprints!"

The sharp-eyed Yan Yu noticed a faint shoe print on the ground.

After checking the clothes of these corpses, and after finding that they were all the same, she took off her shoes from one of the corpses and went to the footprints that Yan Yu was pointing at, and compared the footprints on the ground with the shoes.

"It's the same. ”

"Well, and judging from the drag marks of this shoe print...... "Lynn tried to take a few steps in an embarrassed gesture and looked at the shoe print she had left behind, "The man must have been quite panicked when he left. ”

"But it's always a survivor, right? ”

Saris walked in the direction of the footprints. Lin and Yan Yu also hurriedly followed.

"Hopefully, when I find that person, he's still a 'survivor'......"

......

The process of finding the "survivor" was very smooth, and in the direction of the footprints, Lin and the others easily found a man who looked trembling in a trance.

"What the hell is going on!"

Sarith doesn't bother to talk nonsense with the other party. An arrow stepped forward, grabbed him by the collar and began to question.

"I ...... I don't know what to do...... Right...... I don't know what to do...... I don't know what to do...... Hahaha...... I don't know how to say...... "The other party didn't pay attention to his current situation at all, and just talked to himself.

Looking at the other party's appearance, the corners of Salis's eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Wait first!" felt the temperature around Sarith drop by several degrees. Lynn hurriedly prevents Saris from using some "interrogation methods" such as QTEs...... If Saris pressed the circle button quickly, he would be in trouble.

Lynn walked over to the salivating "survivor" and put her finger on the other's temple. Infiltrate the mental power into it, and try to search directly for the information you need in the other person's brain. Although this way one is not careful. It's likely that the other party will become a veritable "brain-dead", but Lin doesn't have the slightest sympathy for them - stopping Saris's move is just worried that she will accidentally smash this person's head into a watermelon.

"No, this man's spirit has broken down......"

Lin shook her head helplessly at Saris and Yan Yu on the side - this person's spirit has been affected to a considerable extent, or polluted, the spiritual world has become a mess, and there is no possibility of repairing it. Affected by this chaotic spirit, Lin also had no way to obtain the information she wanted in a relatively mild situation.

[No way......]

Lin instantly increased her mental power, and her brain poured into the other party's narrow nerves, and rushed directly into her brain. Under the impact of Lin's mental power, the man no longer spoke wildly, but just stared at the front of him with a dull gaze.

“......”

The corners of Lynn's mouth twitched, and she let go of the hand that was pressing the other person's temple.

"It's a big problem. ”

Lin solemnly threw aside the man who was no longer silent, and turned his head to look at Sarys and Yan Yu: "According to the information I found in this guy's brain just now, it seems that these people are really self-defeating." ”

"How?"

"These people, the magical network established through secret methods, for some reason, seems to have gone a little messy...... as an ancillary product. These black 'hearts' resonate as well. I can't say the specifics, but I see it in this person's brain. It was those black hearts that seemed to have suddenly burst away, forcibly stripped from these people's bodies by an invisible force. And then it ended up coming together......"

Some of the reasons...... Lynn subconsciously glanced up in the direction of the surface.

"Then this man ......" Saris crouched down and flipped open the man's shirt to see a black heart still embedded in his chest.

However, it was not beating vigorously as it had encountered before, but as if it was about to die, it was very weak from one pulse to another.

"I looked through his memories, he had only recently joined the circle, which meant that he had been embedded in this heart for a shorter period of time than the others. Presumably, it is for this reason. He didn't fit this heart very well, so he just survived, right?"

It's a pity that even if he hadn't met Saris, or the monster that only had a dozen or so black hearts fused, it wouldn't be long before he would have died because his "heartbeat" had stopped.

"That monster you talked about...... Is there any specific description?"

"I'm sorry, because this person's spirit has become chaotic at that time, so the scene at that time is only complete with the sudden change at the beginning, and everything after that is shattered. Unrecognizable. ”

In this regard, Lin is also powerless.

"But I suppose the nature of that monster should not be much different from those black substances, right? After all, it's the same ......."

"Lin-chan be careful!"

Before Lin could finish her words, Yan Yu suddenly pushed her away. Immediately after, a large area of blazing red lotus flame grazed Lin's forehead and rushed forward.

Hiss-hiss-

The flames released by Yan Yu after touching the body of the sudden assassin. There was no explosion, but rather red-hot steel immersed in cold water. A cloud of fog rose up.

"End...... Didn't find it at all!?"

Not only Lynn who was attacked, but even Salis, who was on the side, was stunned. If it weren't for the reminder of words. The two of them wouldn't have noticed that an uninvited guest was quietly approaching!

Lin hurriedly stood behind Salis with an arrow step, and pressed her back tightly against Salis's back - it seems that she and Salis are not able to detect each other in advance like Yan Yu, and the mist that is steaming under her now greatly obstructs the vision, and Lin can't care about exploring the identity of the other party, so be careful!

Salis also understood, and did not focus his gaze and attention on the place just now, but cautiously focused on his side.

"Lynn, can you feel that guy's presence?"

"No, mental power is completely useless - maybe you can only rely on hearing and sight to make it, right?"

For Rin, who is accustomed to using mental power, the current situation is really very bad, but fortunately, he is now in the state of transformation of a magical girl, and he can still have a certain degree of experience in mochi. As a swordsman's mochi, he is still very strong in this aspect.

"Woo!"

Yan Yu's scream came from his ears, and now Lin and Saris couldn't sit still.

"Sister, Lin-chan, don't come here!" Just as the two were about to act, Yan Yu spoke in the mist: "I saw it just now, this guy secretly ripped off part of his body - that must be a means to plot against you!"

Hearing Yan Yu's prompt, Salis and Lin were both startled, and then the two of them swung their weapons in unison and stabbed at the same place!

Looks like something has been attacked......

However, it was clear that they had already been stabbed, but the touch coming from the tip of the sword quickly disappeared. Moving the sword in his hand again, he found that there was only air around his sword now.

Lin's heart moved, dropped the sword in his hand, and replaced it with the standard configuration of his current state, that is, the magical girl staff, and raised it above the top and waved it gently. Several white miserable souls emerged from the tip of the staff, let out a heart-piercing cry, and began to circle Lynn and Salis.

Salis glanced behind her in surprise—she heard the ghosts too, but unlike Lynn, she couldn't see them.

【...... I didn't touch any living creatures. 】

Lynn manipulated the ghosts, allowing them to rotate in a radius that continued to expand...... Until she finally felt the ghost pass through a body that seemed to be a living thing!

"Saris-chan!"

Lin immediately had the ghosts wrap around what appeared to be a living thing, trying to hold them back. Even if it's just for a second...... Because soon, Saris's attack was directed in the direction that Lynn was pointing.

She didn't use swordsmanship. It has been proven before that swordsmanship has little effect, so this time. Saris's using magic that she is also good at!

The whistling flames literally hit something.

"Caught!"

The moment the flame charge hit the opponent, Saris immediately activated the magic buried in it—a tiny fiery snake clinging to the opponent like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and emitting a light that was equally bright and dazzling in the thick mist.

"Don't think about running away!" After discovering that Saris's side had successfully attacked the enemy in the shadows, Yan Yu excitedly said to the enemy who was fighting with him, "I am entangled in my strength, and I can't get rid of it by changing one form!"

The magic that Salis buried in the flame charge was through his relationship with Yan Yu, borrowed from Yan Yu's red power - being entangled by it, not only controlled the clone who sneaked up on Salis. In the same way, the influence of the power of the red has also spread to the main body. Hearing a muffled snort coming from the mist, Yan Yu decisively activated the skill that required a short spell cast.

A blazing red light crossed the mist-filled cavern.

"Fog...... Scattered. ”

Under the impact of Yan Yu's strength, the mist that shrouded Lin and Saris's vision finally disappeared.

"It's three to one now! You shouldn't have paid attention to my sister and Lin-chan in the first place, how about it? I didn't devour those two people and then come to kill me, but I didn't even have a chance to escape!"

Yan Yu's abdomen was oozing blood intermittently. With Yan Yu's self-healing ability, he couldn't stop the bleeding, and he could see how dangerous it was to be hit by the opponent's attack.

Yan Yu covered his bleeding abdomen. But the expression on his face did not look like a wounded person at all, and his proud expression seemed to be like a princess of a country.

"That's it...... The monster that was born out of that filth thing is really beyond expectations. ”

Although Lin has thought about a lot of possible looks of the other party, such as slimes, tentacle monsters, and harmonious faces...... But I just didn't want to fight, and the other party's appearance would be a normal human being.

It was a guy with the appearance of a normal human young man.

Belch. Actually, it's not normal - at least, humans don't regrow limbs from broken arms.

Lynn looked at the thing that had just been attacked by Saris's flames, and sure enough. It was a "thing" with the appearance of a human arm, just. Judging from the section, there are no blood vessels or anything like that.

"Quack babble—"

"Although it has the appearance of a human being. But is it still a monster after all?"

Saris couldn't help but frown. In her opinion, monsters with human appearances are the most dangerous - at least monster-like appearances can still make people stay away, and human appearances are really deceptive. This restless and dangerous monster can't let it escape from anything!

"You...... You guys...... You soulless ......"

Coldly, the man's mouth spat out a human word intermittently.

"This guy! ...... Is it the integration of knowledge and reason? No wonder the souls of the dead have disappeared, and they have all been turned into its food!"

Lin suddenly realized that this was not a simple monster, in addition to its powerful and strange powers, it also had the knowledge of more than a dozen necromancers!

Birth is based on the lives of a dozen people.,Creatures that attack living people and want to devour them at birth.,If you have enough knowledge......

"Yan Yu!

Saris also figured out the key, and hurriedly reminded Yan Yu, who was triumphant, while himself and Lin also cautiously blocked the man.

"To ...... I'm going to eat you ......."

"If you can do it!"

Yan Yu stomped on the ground, and seven flames radiated out of her center, deeply embedded in the rock formations of the ground. The man instinctively realized that something was wrong, and when he tried to escape, he found that his feet could not move according to his will no matter what.

"The earth soaked in my flames, you have no chance to escape!"

Yan Yu looked back at Lin and Saris, "Sister, come and help me pull that guy over...... Can you cripple it with one blow? My strength doesn't work very well against it!"

"No problem, as long as you let it know how to behave!"

Lin raised the staff in her hand and aimed it at the immobile man from afar, and in the front of the staff, there was a continuous sound of wailing that went straight to people's hearts - it was the result of the condensation of a high concentration of netherworld power, even if it was just looking at it from a distance, it could affect people's emotions!

If it weren't for the contract between Salis and Yan Yu, she would have been overwhelmed by the sadness and despair that overflowed from her heart beside the Netherworld power that was constantly compressing and condensing. That is the most instinctive reaction of life to the forces of the underworld.

It seems that maintaining this land of fire that restricts the enemy's movements is not a small burden on Yan Yu, and this time she even needs the assistance of Salis to complete the next step. And Salis didn't have any extra words, he came directly to Yan Yu's side, held her left hand, and the two of them raised it high above their heads together.

What Yan Yu wants to do, she doesn't need words, in fact, she can also know the Tao.

"Come over to me!"

Dazzling light continued to overflow from the overlapping palms of the two, and the man in the distance seemed to be attracted by a huge gravitational force, even though he tried his best to escape, he was still powerless to pull in the direction of Yan Yu.

Eventually, he was pulled directly above Yan Yu.

"Then disappear in peace!"

Seven flames radiated outwards with Yan Yu as the center, and suddenly shot out the sharp stakes made of seven flames towards the imprisoned man above Yan Yu, piercing it firmly.

Yan Yu's red power continued to converge from the seven sharp stakes towards the impaled man. Like ice cream placed in the sun, the man's body began to "melt", and the black liquid was evaporated by the blazing flames before it dripped to the ground.

Lynn calmly pointed her staff at the "fixed target".

"Although I can't tell if you're dead or alive...... But the underworld is more suitable for you, right?" (To be continued......)