After confirming his identity, Griffith felt relieved:
“I was sent to investigate the truth about this strange domain-type sealed object on my own. Several groups of Extraordinaries have already left and never returned. I lost contact with friendly forces after I entered.”
"What kind of friendly forces," Galadia said reproachfully, "Domain-type sealed objects need to be led by extraordinary people. If you come in alone, you will be a consumable that will be killed."
“Well, I originally wanted to escape halfway, but the big shots above had already made arrangements and didn’t give me any chance to escape.”
"Hey," the elf sighed and accused him helplessly, "Then you shouldn't come in and die. Sealed objects that explore the realm are a dead end for people with your strength! Why are you so stupid?
?Even if you disobey orders on the spot and fight with them, you must escape. Sonia and I will find a way to help you."
“Deserts will be hunted like dogs and crucified on roadside crosses.” Griffiths shook his head.
“That’s better than dying! If you die here for no reason, you will have nothing. If you fight to the death, you still have a chance of survival.”
This is not such a simple thing. Griffiths could not imagine the fate of being chased by the authorities, so he changed the subject:
“What are you doing here again?”
"In the promotion trial, I suddenly understood something when I saw you," Galadia said. "I was sitting well in Homemonworth, but suddenly an unknown force pulled me in. My brother
None of the people nearby had time to help me."
…”
"Where is this?" Galadia checked the bowstring and asked, looking at the village below and the distant mountains under the setting sun.
Regarding this issue, Griffith had already done some understanding in advance before setting off:
“It is located in the Tuyan Reservoir near Varna Port in the west.
"Tuyang Valley is the territory of Lord Salorian, the most powerful Sequence 4 Supreme Mage in the world. He is an erudite man who has been carefully managing this place for many years and has built a magnificent reservoir in the valley to provide for his magical magic workshop.
Energy. Salorian himself was not nearby.
"The reservoir submerged the villages in the mountain basin. The villagers were relocated in advance and settled in Lord Salorian's territory, leading a better urban life. The peaceful life and ancient history in the past have been submerged underwater and become
A speck of dust from history.
“The submerged village or a mythical creature that once lived here may have retained a consciousness that cannot be dissipated after the destruction, and the lost energy formed this closed world.”
Galadia nodded and said: "I can feel the death-like silence and despair. It is indeed dangerous here. If we cannot crack its secret in time, the power released by the sealed object will devour us."
Griffith nodded. Entering the inside of a strange sealed object would be strange if it was not life-threatening.
However, what surprised him was that the elf had neither weapons nor armor, and even the most common enchanted accessories could not be found in the beautiful hunting attire. She appeared in this dangerous place alone and bare-handed.
“Where are your weapons and equipment?”
“I lost it when I got involved. The rules or rituals here don’t allow me to bring it in.”
Griffith opened his mouth, trying to ask the question in his mind.
“Hush!” The elf girl suddenly raised her index finger to her mouth, “Something is about to begin.”
What started?
A sharp and long trumpet blast resounded across the sky.
“Stand here and don’t move,” Galadia grabbed Griffith’s wrist, turned around and leaned against his back.
The sound of the horn tore through the silence at dusk. Uneasy, lonely and fearful emotions emerged in Griffith's heart at the same time. The ashes in the sky reflected a heart-stopping light.
There is a choking smell in the air, as suffocating as a fire scene.
Darkness swallows up the light.
Everything within sight, including trees, roads, rocks and villages in the distance, were burned by the flames. The skin and color quickly peeled off, leaving behind rotten and decaying wreckage, which seemed to have experienced centuries of erosion in a few seconds.
.
A pinprick-like sense of crisis swept over him. Griffith, who was looking at the village, suddenly felt the threat of death and a powerful aura coming from the opposite direction.
"Be careful!" Griffith immediately thrust his short spear in the dangerous direction. The sharp spear head seemed to have been pierced into the soil and rotten wood, and was tightly wrapped and unable to penetrate.
Galadia shot an arrow in the dangerous direction at the same time. The arrow pierced into the huge outline and disappeared like a dark swamp.
A four-meter-tall, bare-chested giant appeared next to the two of them. He was wrapped in a shiny linen covering his whole body. His strong bare arms were as strong and burly as bronze castings, and his physique was extremely majestic. On his huge head was a
He was holding a cloth bag with his eyes exposed, and in his hand was a huge black scythe with a long handle.
“Ice wall!”
When Griffith saw the monster and the murderous weapon in his hand, he realized that this was not an enemy they could fight at close range. The coming attack even exceeded the defense limits of ice shields and double armor. He condensed forward.
A solid wall of ice stood between the giant scythe and the two of them. At the same time, he bent down and picked up Galadia, who was still shooting, and jumped towards the hillside.
“Boom!”
The solid ice wall instantly disintegrated under the sweep of the giant scythe, and the violent wind pressure hit the shield behind Griffith, sending both of them flying away.
Griffith felt that all his bones were shaking under the blow. He adjusted his posture in the air, held Galadia and fell into the bushes on the slope, sliding down the slope.
He protected the elf in his arms, used the shield behind him as a point of contact, and rolled over the dense trees like a tortoise on all fours. The thorns and gravel rolled down to the foot of the mountain before stopping.
Galadia jumped up quickly and looked up at the mountain road above. The terrifying monster stood there, with two blood-red eyes flashing in the torn bag, staring directly at the two people at the foot of the mountain.
“Griffith, can you move? Have you brought any recovery potion?” The elf girl pushed aside the thorns and bushes entangled around her companion and asked with concern.
“I’m okay, I don’t need any medicine,” Griffith lay flat on the ground. Even if he used the Vanguard Shield to reduce the impact, his whole body still felt as if it was falling apart. “Let me slow down.”
"There is no time, we have to leave here." Galadia helped the trainee knight and looked up again. The humanoid monster strode down the slope and hit the bottom like a mudslide.
"That thing is coming after us. We hide in the village to meet him."
There is only a low fence around the village at the foot of the mountain, with earthen ridges and paths connecting the scattered paddy fields and courtyards.
Griffith's injury was not serious, he just suffered a concussion after falling from the mountain as a pad. He recovered quickly due to his powerful self-healing ability, and was soon able to keep up with Galadia's light footsteps.
.The two passed through the houses on the outskirts of the village and hid in the alleys with denser buildings.
"You have so many little secrets," Galadia poked her head outside to make sure that the monster had not caught up, and then said to her companion who was leaning against the wall and panting, "You smashed down the hillside solidly,
In just a short while you have recovered a lot.
"There is also an ice wall that blocked the monster's blow. You did not chant a magic spell or use a magic wand, not to mention that you can't do magic configurations under the influence of blood. Don't tell me that you inherited this from the magic potion given by Sonia.
The power of.”
Griffith reached out and touched his shoulder, found a sharp piece of wood inserted into his arm from the gap in the armor, and pulled it out with gritted teeth.
Galadia stared at the bloody broken piece of wood and bit her lip: "Does it hurt? Let me help you look at the wound."
"It's okay," Griffith crushed the wood pieces and scattered them. "During the attack in the Whispering Forest, I was fatally wounded after being captured by Baron Anselm..."
The elf girl's slender eyebrows couldn't help but twitch, and before she could stop him, Griffith continued on his own.
“After defeating both of us, I gnawed at his corpse with my last breath.”
…”
Griffith smiled, as if he was talking about the dinner he had just eaten, and pointed to his bone ring, "I was supposed to mutate, but with the help of this ring, I absorbed some of the extraordinary characteristics of the vampires, and possessed
Powerful self-healing ability and some knowledge of blood magic."
Although Griffith, Galadia, and Sonia have briefly communicated about their abilities, this is the first time they have explained them in such detail.
“I won’t listen! I won’t listen!” The elf girl covered her long ears and shook her head.
"The spirit of this ring calls himself Minos, and it gives me a power different from magic spells and holy light. I can cast ice spells and blood spells through premade runes, and even be able to resurrect briefly and drive the dead.
," Griffith then finished, "I can use runes continuously to cast spells. Making spells again requires mental energy."
Galadia punched him.
“You will be deducted 5 points!
"Aren't you worried about killing me when you tell me this? Contact with unknown occult knowledge without protection will be fatal! Maybe this ring is the tentacles of the evil god extending into the world!"
Griffith observed the surrounding environment and shrugged his shoulders carelessly: "At least it's very useful. Without its assistance, I would have died long ago.
"Garadia, the matter has come to this, I will not hold anything back, and I will share all the information with you. After all, the current situation is that I have been sent to a highly dangerous sealed object, and the previous batch of investigators may have already
Death; and you, appearing here with bare hands, have many restrictions because of the rules of the promotion ceremony, right?"
“Yes~”
Griffith asked seriously: "Your tribe, Sidious, can't you provide support and assistance now?"
The girl shook her head, took Griffith and hid at the intersection of the street, secretly looking at the empty and decaying road ahead:
“No, appearing here was randomly transmitted during the promotion ceremony. My brother needs to determine my location and then rush here from Homemonworth. It will also take time to crack this sealed object.
“Relax, this is the end of the matter. Worry and tension will not make the situation better.
"Isn't this because of you? I thought that I went all the way to defeat the goblins because Iluvash's prophecy said that if I go there alone, I will find a discovery that will increase my chances of surviving the promotion ceremony. I thought I was looking for something.