The long night is like day for the wood elves, but for Akasha, it represents endless fear.

The moment she fell into the abyss, she clearly saw the giant snake's mouth spraying orange flames, and the scorching air waves even made her hair slightly curl - fortunately, after falling for about two seconds, she touched the ground.

"Bang!"

The muffled sound echoed in his ears, and his body seemed to be disintegrating, but it was not as terrible as the pain was in the bone marrow. Akasha reached out and touched it and found that there were pieces of broken paper under him...

He raised his head and the giant snake's head was trying hard to penetrate into the gap, but after several failures, he finally gave up his attempt and swam elsewhere. When its huge body twisted, the stone slabs shook again. The dust and gravel fell in the gap made Akasha raise his hand to block the top of his head, and he dared to let it go after a long time.

After the other party left completely, somehow, the gaps between the stone slabs returned to their original state, almost completely blocking the already faint starlight.

Gradually, silence fell into the surroundings, and all the sounds in my ears seemed to be blocked, and endless darkness enveloped her.

Although he escaped from the mouth of this terrifying monster, Akasha couldn't feel any relief at this time because she could not confirm whether she was safe. She released a healing technique to eliminate the pain. Akasha, who stood up, tried to widen her eyes, but could not see anything.

She raised her hand tentatively, and released a "holy light technique" with faint light for lighting. After seeing the surroundings clearly, Akasha grew up with her mouth astonished by everything in front of her.

The first thing that came into view was the paper debris half a meter thick under my feet. Because I had been watering it for countless years, it was already rotten like soil at this time.

He raised his head and with the faint light, more than a hundred dead bones were lying in the stone chamber, making Akasha’s body cold...

The hall, which is more than 500 square meters, looks like a palace, with smooth walls and no exit at all. The ground is full of collapsed bookshelf, shreds of paper and various debris of corpses that fell to the ground.

A closed stone chamber was presented to Akasha, the first intruder in 718 years.

There were 130 corpses on the ground, and the corpses that completely surrounded Akasha had decayed to gray-black, but for some reason there was still some skin on the skull, and the ferocious expression was still preserved after hundreds of years. Akasha looked at the faces of the corpses, and she seemed to be able to vaguely hear the sound of fighting hundreds of years ago echoing in the stone chamber in the ears...

Her lips were trembling, and she wanted to find an exit like crazy, but when she spent half an hour confirming that there was no way out on the walls around her and that the gap above her head could not climb up, her original hope was being eaten up by the desperate situation in front of her...

Although I have experienced life and death battles, I am not afraid of those corpses with miserable deaths. However, this does not mean that Akasha can bear the fear brought by despair...

The space that was so quiet that she suffocated, surrounded by monsters in the darkness of the location, nearly a hundred corpses on display - Akasha, who was only twenty-three years old, stared blankly at everything in front of her. The strength in her body seemed to be gradually drained by the cold air. She shook her head and murmured: "Why do you have to do this...Why do you have to do this..."

The strong will that originally supported her "out of the forest" was finally completely destroyed by a series of blows. The weakness caused by fright, fatigue, hunger, mana overdrawing and anemia made Akasha no longer able to hold on. After the third search for an exit, Akasha's will to survive finally collapsed completely...

As the lighting effect of the "Holy Light Technique" slowly disappeared, Akasha sat down to the ground in depressed manner.

"Who will come...who will help me..."

Amid the sobs, Akasha closed her eyes like a young and helpless little girl, and the faint sound of help echoed in the stone chamber, extremely desolate.

****

The next day.

The sky above Jingyu Forest was covered by clouds, and the sun was gone, and the air became cold and harsh.

The "Blood Shield Mercenary Group" divided into two groups was ready for the mission at this time. The regiment commander Kevin leisurely led nearly forty people toward Elsa Village, and the remaining ten mercenaries had already arrived at the edge of the "Wagra Ruins".

The route has been explored and cleaned up. Ten mercenaries were led by the deputy regiment commander, all leading the horses prepared in advance and looking at the still silent ruins a hundred meters away.

"Have everything taken? Then prepare-"

The deputy commander stuffed the magic communication scroll used to inform Kevin. He got up and was about to give an order, but his words were stuck in his throat and frowned and looked at both sides.

It seems a little too quiet around...

A little doubt flashed quietly in his heart, but he immediately remembered that the giant snake was an existence that could cause the beast tide. At this time, the quietness of the forest was probably due to the pressure maintained by the other party after waking up.

The last trace of doubt disappeared, and the deputy leader issued an order to start "inducement". Everyone got on the horse. Then each took out an exquisite metal box from his body and inlaid a piece of magic crystal as big as a thumb on the groove on the top of the box.

The reason why Snake King Sakya was awakened from his sleep and released strong pressure was entirely because this "Virgium Cross" was specially used to search for high-level monsters... The magic circle depicted inside the box will cast magic fluctuations that make the monsters unbearable. Once within a range of 100 meters, any monster will pursue them relentlessly because they are angry!

At this time, the deputy commander led the team to gradually approach the ruins. The war horses were wandering because of the pressure of Sakya, the Snake King in front of him, but had to move forward under the urging of the mercenaries. The tense atmosphere made the air stagnate. Although they seemed calm, the mercenaries' hands holding the reins had already been soaked in sweat.

One hundred meters, eighty meters, seventy meters...

"boom!"

When approaching sixty meters, a muffled sound suddenly came from the ruins in the distance, and then I saw a large area of ​​smoke and dust suddenly floating in it.

"run!"

In order to make no mistakes in the inducement task, the deputy regiment commander personally led the team to act, so the mercenaries did not dare to slack off. They turned their horses and started running towards the planned route, and formed the formation in the shortest time...

In the ruins behind, the body of the Snake King Sakya suddenly ran out of the dust. Its huge head was slightly raised, and there was no hesitation at this time. She stared at the gray eyes and chased the mercenaries. A "hiss" sound came from the smelly mouth, and her anger was unconcealed!

When its body escaped from the ruins, it was only when it saw that it reached an amazing length of more than 30 meters. It weighed several tons but was not slow at all under full force to chase it. In the blink of an eye, it jumped out dozens of meters and approached the mercenaries who had not yet run at full speed.

However, when the deputy regiment commander and the mercenaries passed the initial acceleration stage, the giant snake chasing behind him could no longer approach him. Although he was still chasing him closely, his speed slowed down a lot.

"It's just a stupid beast, it's not scary at all!"

A mercenary beside the deputy commander shouted, and his originally nervous companions laughed, and the reins seemed to have become more elegant in their hands.

"After doing this, the team leader will be rewarded with great rewards! Don't let it go - Damn! Hide!"

The deputy commander said as he looked back, but when he saw Sakya suddenly raised his head, his face changed drastically, and he shouted and asked the mercenaries to avoid...

"boom--"

The fire suddenly lit up the dark forest. As a high-level monster of fire attribute, Sakya was able to spew out nearly thirty meters away with just the simplest breath. The mercenary closest to it slowed down for a few seconds and was immediately shrouded in flames. In an instant, even the people and horses became galloping torches, and they fell to the ground with screams...

Then Sakya directly crushed it into meat sauce with her body.

Such an accident caused the mercenaries who had just run far to chill in the spine. The original passion was like being poured on a basin of cold water on their heads. They all ran forward with tight faces and accelerated. Once they accelerated, the flame breathing of Snake King Sakya was useless, but it still chased her angrily.

"After all, it's just a snake..."

The deputy commander breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but just when he thought all plans would go smoothly, a muffled sound from his ear made him turn his head in confusion...

"puff!"

Just now, the mercenary who was still shouting that Sakya was a beast fell down straight and an arrow was inserted into his chest!

How could there be arrows here? Who will attack us!?

Before he could figure out such a problem, he felt something shaking in front of him, and immediately leaned over to dodge, and narrowly avoided a long arrow.

"Someone attacked!"

"Enemy attack! Be careful of hidden arrows!"

The remaining mercenaries screamed, but as soon as they became distracted, the snake king Sakya, who was chasing her tightly, directly used fire to breathe another unlucky ghost into a torch.

The deputy commander was shocked and raised his head, but he could not find the archer.

Being plotted against!

He gritted his teeth and looked back at Sakya, but reached out to take out the magic scroll used to notify Kevin, and tore open the seal on it...

*******

Let time go back a few minutes ago.

When the mercenaries of the "Blood Shield Mercenary Group" were just about to march towards the ruins, Roddy kept silently watching everything in front of him.

After using the "discovery technique", he stood on the trunk and almost merged with the bark and dead leaves next to him. From the early morning to now, he has been waiting nearby for three hours.

Roddy's plan is actually very simple: since these mercenaries are willing to lead Snake King Sakya away, he is completely happy to see it - this is definitely a big help, and he doesn't have to deal with the snake himself. He just needs to take the opportunity to enter the ruins to find the "Demon Hunter" inheritance... As for those mercenaries running into the distance, the "surprise" prepared by the wood elves is waiting for them.

A rumbling sound rang out, and Snake King Sakya rushed out of the ruins without any surprise. Because he was far away, Roddy had a more intuitive understanding of the guy's size. However, the other party's gray eyes and slightly hesitant actions when running also made Roddy understand the fact that the other party was a blind snake.

However, these things have little to do with him. According to his plan and Village Chief Brody, it takes at least ten minutes for the snake to be led out. If you want to complete the task, you must find clues within ten minutes.

Roddy was not sure about these, but the opportunity was in front of him, and he had no reason to retreat - seeing ten mercenaries and Snake King Sakya leave the ruins and enter the forest, he jumped down from the trunk, ran towards the ruins with [Ice Crystal Thorn] on his shoulder...

Remember when doing the advanced mission of [Ranker], the goal set by Nata for him was to kill three beasts with a level of 15 alone within the specified time. This task is simple and straightforward, but now the task of [Lone Walker in the Dark] does not give specific prompts. Roddy couldn't help feeling a little nervous. After all, he didn't know whether the advanced mission of this Imba profession would be so difficult that he could not cope with it.

But before he had just taken a few steps, he stepped into the ruins of Wagra and suddenly realized that everything in front of him had changed.

In front of me, there were originally dilapidated stone roads, overgrown with weeds, the surrounding buildings were decadent and exuding a vicissitudes of life. Occasionally, there were solid walls, covered with mottled cracks and ivy.
Chapter completed!