"Is there really a monster?"

"That legendary magical beast or rare beast that protects ancient ruins?"

"Then I have to go take a look quickly."

Upon hearing this, Riley immediately speeded up with excitement and ran towards the ancient building below.

"Don't worry, it's not too late to go after they finish fighting."

Ilumi followed leisurely.

"Of course you are not in a hurry if you can see the scene, but I want to see it."

"What if they all die?"

Riley pouted, then jumped up from the suspended road with a "swish" and fell towards the winding road below, so that she didn't have to take the extra road in the middle.

"Although those people are not strong, they still have no problem dealing with ordinary monsters."

Yilumi explained to her that in his observation, those monsters now showed the ability to surge in size, which seemed to be able to enhance their own strength and speed, but there was no enhancement in other aspects.

But judging from the skillful movements of those hunters, they didn't pose much of a threat.

"But what is that boy doing?"

Yilumi frowned and said, through the mosquito's shared vision, he saw that the young man was slowly retreating, and for some reason, he actively attracted a monster to him.

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Fifteen minutes later...

"Damn it, I almost died!"

The bald man kicked the monster corpse in front of him and walked out of the pile of monster corpses covered in blood. He touched his fist and the numerous wounds on his body with his fingers and complained.

"It stinks, the blood of these monsters."

"There's a disgusting fishy smell."

The blonde woman took out a white handkerchief from her arms and wiped her bloody face, frowning.

The battle lasted for fifteen minutes. None of the six people in the group were attrited, and all the monsters were successfully eliminated. Although everyone had injuries on their bodies, they were just superficial wounds, which were not worth mentioning.

Everyone wiped the disgusting blood from their bodies and looked around at the same time.

At this time, inside this magnificent domed hall, the white floor had been dyed dark red with the monster's blood, and the air was filled with a stench of blood that resembled the smell of fish.

Disgusting.

"Help...help me...I'm hurt..."

Suddenly, the young man's voice rang out in the hall, and everyone heard the sound and ran away. They saw the young man lying in a corner, leaning against the wall, with his left hand covering his abdomen. The black jacket there was cut open.

In front of him stood a huge humanoid monster.

"Hey, you can't even deal with a monster. What a waste."

The red-haired man swung the scimitar in his hand and shook out some blood stained on it. He looked at the young man lying in the corner, his eyes stayed on his abdominal wound for a moment, and then he frowned and said:

"The wound is so deep that there is no way to move forward."

"In this case, the contract between us will be terminated."

As soon as the red-haired brawny man said these words, the other five hunters all raised their mouths with expressions of gloating.

"What...is this...what?"

"We... we... agreed... before..."

The young man covered the wound with his hand, resisting the pain, and looked at the strong red-haired man with a twitching corner of his mouth.

"snort!"

"Do you think I came here to make a little money?"

The red-haired strong man looked disdainful, holding the scimitar in his right hand across his chest, and scratched the blade with the index and middle fingers of his left hand, wiping away the blood.

"Do you think just that little money can satisfy me?"

"I know the secret of this ruins..."

The red-haired brawny man had a sinister smile on his face, which combined with his rough face made people fearful.

"Go, you go get that stone slab!"

The red-haired strong man turned back to look at the people behind him and gave instructions.

"hey-hey……"

Everyone smiled and turned around and ran towards the circular high platform. No one wanted to fall behind. If they wanted to get the stone first, whoever got it first would get it.

They stepped over dozens of steps, bypassed the statues on the steps, and came to the cyan stone slab suspended in mid-air.

"You can't tell from a distance, but it turns out this thing is so big."

The five hunters all stood under the blue stone slab, reaching out to touch the stone slab that was almost as tall and wide as an adult.

"No... no..." The young man looked at their hands touching the blue slate, his face suddenly showed concern, and he panted and said, "If you touch it casually..."

"boom!"

Before he finished speaking, the blue slate suddenly exploded, with broken stones and rubble splashing around, knocking away the five hunters surrounding the slate.

"Cough... cough cough..."

All five hunters fell on the steps, with blood on their mouths. They were obviously seriously injured.

"What's this?"

The blond woman looked up at the center of the high platform with a surprised expression.

I saw that in the center of the high platform, the original cyan stone slab emitting a faint white light had disappeared, replaced by an inverted triangular golden pyramid.

The surface of the golden triangular pyramid exudes a layer of faint red light, and there is a dark red vertical pupil as big as a palm on it, which faintly exudes an inexplicable attraction.

The five hunters stood up and surrounded them again.

"Wait!"

At this time, the red-haired strong man shouted to stop and walked slowly towards the high platform.

"Hey, what does it matter, boss."

"It's the same thing if I help you get it."

Among the five people, a thin man with a sinuous long hair grinned and reached out to touch the golden triangle suspended in mid-air.

"I told you to stop!"

When the red-haired strong man saw this, he looked fierce and rushed towards the high platform with his feet on the ground.

"Hey hey hey..."

"The treasure is mine."

The smile on the thin man's face gradually became abnormal, and his pupils expanded. The moment his finger touched the golden triangular pyramid.

"Buzz~!"

The entire dome hall went dark, and the dark red vertical pupils on the golden triangular pyramid suddenly released a burst of dark red light. The light illuminated the entire dome hall, sweeping past the five hunters, including those who rushed towards them.

The strong red-haired man on the high platform.

Only the young man lying in the corner escaped the dark red light.

After a while, the light dissipated and the dome hall returned to brightness.

"Danglang~"

A long knife fell to the ground, and the thin man who touched the golden triangle slowly raised his hands.

"What...what is this...?"

At this time, his hands turned gray starting from the fingertips, he lost consciousness, and his muscles became stiff. This phenomenon spread from his fingers to the entire arm.

After it spreads to the shoulders, it starts to spread from both ends, one side spreads downward to the chest, waist, abdomen, buttocks, and even the legs.

Spread upward on one side, neck, chin, mouth, nose, until it spreads to hair.

Completely transformed into a statue, lifelike.

"Ahhhhhhh...!!!"

The frightened screams of the emaciated man echoed in the domed hall, which was extremely miserable.

"Quick...run!"

When the other four people saw his appearance, they turned around and ran away in fright.

But while escaping on the steps, their bodies began to rapidly turn to stone, eventually turning into one of dozens of statues.
To be continued...