A few hours before the decisive battle between Xin Hongmu's many forces and the master of the Black Forest Lair.

"You said the key ancient relics were found?"

Shiloh asked the members of the Explorers Association around him.

It was an ordinary-looking man. He controlled the floating secret ritual. The four rings rotated slowly, and the information turned into light spots and penetrated into the secret ritual again. The man raised his head and gave a positive answer to Shiloh.

"Yes, news from the association, one of our members has recovered the 'Eternal Cup', and with the help of adventurers, he has completed the containment again. They are now at the tenth rest point and need support."

At the tenth rest point, Shiloh estimated the distance. Their current location was the sixth rest point. The tenth rest point was southwest of them, and the straight-line distance was about thirty kilometers.

But you have to go through the core area.

"What's the rest situation over there?" Finn, who was listening on the sidelines, joined in the conversation.

"It is said to have been completely destroyed, just like here." The man from the Explorers Association replied, "But there are not enough manpower to rebuild the defense projects there. It should still be in ruins now, after all..."

Shiloh and Finn both knew what the man had not finished saying.

After all, the Tenth Rest Point and the Twelfth Rest Point to the east are the two closest points to the empire's territory.

In today's emergency period, the priority over there is naturally lower.

A few hours ago, they, together with other adventurer teams and members of the Black Brigade, successfully recaptured the sixth rest point from the hands of Warcraft and established simple defenses.

Except for the core area and the southernmost area of ​​the forest, other places have returned to the control of Xinhongmu's forces.

The Adventurer's Guild even issued commissions to branches in various regions, organized adventurers from countries around the Black Forest Mountains, and formed a blockade around the periphery of the maze to defeat the violent monsters in the maze, thereby preventing the spread of ether in the maze.

Assimilate the surrounding environment.

Although the expansion rate of the maze has been greatly curbed, the forest is still spreading outward.

Some small villages that were originally on the edge of the maze have been swallowed up, and the people living there had to leave their homes.

As long as the new nest master has not been defeated, the crisis will not be over.

To defeat the nest owner, the lost "Cup of Eternity" is indispensable.

"Then let's set off quickly." Gina walked towards a few people from the camp. She had been treating the injuries non-stop in the past few days, and now she looked tired.

"Saturation rescue, we don't need to be too anxious." Finn persuaded calmly.

"Oh, are you caring about me?" Gina leaned next to Finn and asked teasingly.

Finn raised his eyebrows: "Let's go."

The three of them set off immediately.

The angel's wings glowed in the darkness, lighting up the road in the dark night forest.

As they approached the core area, they slowed down slightly.

The core area is the highest peak in the Black Forest Mountains. The ether currents all over the planet converge on this peak, making it an ether accumulation point. The rich ether gave birth to this vast maze.

Shiloh looked up at the mountain peaks in the darkness from a distance. According to the guild's information, the new nest master is currently there.

Sue the dead bird, the monster in the forest.

The championship-level crusade team has arrived near the core area, waiting for the "Sustainable Cup" to be obtained, and then immediately launch a crusade.

Shiloh also wanted to witness that scene, but he knew very well that his own strength was weak.

In this emergency mission, they first served as intelligence explorers, and then became emergency support personnel who rushed to various places. Although they ran around and did hard work, they did save many people.

This makes Hilo feel very fulfilled.

They saved Luoman and obtained important information, which also helped the guild further open up the situation.

Obviously, there are traces of man-made changes in the maze this time.

Someone stole the ancient relics in the core area, made the Death Bird the new nest owner, and filled the forest with ether through a large number of energy crystals, causing the Black Forest Labyrinth to spiral out of control.

Most of the crystals have been stored in Xinhongmu for several years or even decades. In addition, some people have recently used the name of the Chamber of Commerce to plunder the remaining energy crystals on the market, opening up transportation channels, and using various names under the eyes of the Adventurer's Guild.

, transported the crystal to the black forest.

Some of them may come from outside, and the biggest suspect is the Syrian Empire.

In other words, this change in the maze was a long-planned move.

More and more clues point to the Syrian Empire.

I'm afraid it will turn into a serious diplomatic dispute later, Shiloh thought.

"Stop!" Finn suddenly warned.

Then, they heard birdsong.

It was a sharp, weird cry, and the sound tore through the night sky, and then a huge figure flew in the sky toward the southwest, and a strange blue fire could be vaguely seen.

"Lair Master! It has left the core area."

As soon as Shiloh's voice fell, the ground began to shake again.

The nest master leaves the nest, and then the beasts gallop.

"Which way?"

"The back is in the same direction as the lair master." Fein felt the trend not far away, "We have to avoid it first."

The angel can fly into the sky with Gina and Shiloh, and Finn can also escape through his weird spells.

"Wait a minute, there's someone in front!" Gina saw the fire in the forest ahead.

In the dark forest, there are dozens of lit torches.

"Is there a group of people, adventurers? No, no, there are civilians?" Finn used magic to observe the situation ahead. He opened and closed his mouth and glanced at Gina, "If I tell you, the mission is priority, don't

Leave them alone, you won’t listen, right?”

"After all, it's a saturation rescue." Gina responded with a smile, "Why do you tell the truth about the detected situation? Do you also want to save people?"

"Let's go over and meet them first." Shiloh interrupted the two people's friendly way of getting along.

The angel fell in front of the crowd.

After getting close, Shiloh found that they were indeed a group of civilians who did not look like they had fighting ability. There were about thirty or forty people gathered together in a haphazard manner. They ranged from the prime of life to the elderly to children. They were dusty and exhausted.

But no one seemed to be injured.

"We are the adventurers of Xinhongmu. Who are you?" Shiloh asked the crowd, "The beast tide is coming, and it is very dangerous here!"

The crowd made a nervous noise, but there was no panic as expected.

A blond girl walked out of the crowd. She was wearing a traveler's robe that was full of dust, but her beautiful face was not stained with dust. Her eyes were bright, and she made a gesture of crossing her hands on her chest to the three people in Hilo.

"I am a ranger of the Iliad Orthodox Church, Lily." Her voice was clear and gentle, making people feel a sense of intimacy. "It is true that I feel the beast tide, and I have ways to deal with it. What are your plans?"<

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She cut to the chase without any nonsense.

"There is a high ground over there. I originally thought that if you need help, I can open a protective barrier for you there to avoid the frontal impact of the beast tide." Gina answered.

"That's great. Please let us go. I can also strengthen your defenses."

Lily immediately turned around. When she spoke, the crowd fell silent. They obeyed and cooperated with the arrangements to quickly move to the high platform Gina mentioned, without too many surprises or panic in the team.

"They trust you very much." Shiloh couldn't help but talk to Lily.

"They are villagers near the maze. They were involved in this unfortunate accident. The maze is blocked. I can help them in any way." Lily smiled, and the white light expanded and quickly enveloped the stone platform.

The beast tide has arrived.

A small group of monsters will pass by the high platform.

However, when the tributary was about to hit the white light, it squeezed the current and changed its direction, like a steel ball being thrown into the current.

Shiloh looked at the scene in front of him and sighed: "It's really amazing."

"It's just a tiny bit of power given to us by the will of the planet." Lily responded kindly.

Shiloh did not feel the coercion on the girl that matched this white light energy. Some kind of intuition told him that the girl was just a container, just like the water spurting from a pipe, with an endless stream.

But the water does not come from the pipe.

He found Lily staring at him for a while, so Shiloh cast a questioning look again.

"Do you know about divine power?" Lily asked.

Shiloh nodded hesitantly. Because of Arien, he knew something about divine power, and then he also knew that the priests or rangers of the Iliad Orthodox Church possess divine power.

"Do you have any relatives or friends with magical powers?" Lily continued to ask curiously, "I saw a very weak reaction of divine powers from you...it seems to be the traces left by others?"

"What will happen if it is?" Shiloh remained a little cautious and did not answer immediately.

"I'm just curious, we don't know how to do anything." Lily said with a smile.

But she soon showed a serious look: "It's just that this Black Forest incident was a man-made disaster. I came here to investigate and found that there was a certain degree of connection between the owner of the divine power."

The Iliad Orthodox Church will only intervene in natural disasters and will not specifically deal with man-made disasters - this statement is widely circulated in the main continent, but this is not accurate.

The Iliad Orthodox Church will also protect innocent people who suffer due to man-made disasters and deal with them to a certain extent. However, when a man-made disaster arises from conflicts of interest among multiple forces, the Orthodox Church will not stand on the side of any force.
To be continued...