"What happened?" Aurora slowly got up from her sleeping bag, then looked at Diana who was walking towards her drowsily and asked, "Am I asleep?"

Aurora looked around in confusion, because she clearly remembered that she was discussing something with Diana and Desmo, but she got distracted because of something in the middle, and when she came back to her senses, she suddenly realized that

I am now lying in this familiar tent.

"Don't you remember?" Diana hugged Aurora and sat firmly before handing her the hot tea in her hand.

"Remember what?" Aurora lowered her head and was about to take a sip of hot tea, but soon she was stimulated by a sharp pain in her head and almost lost her balance.

"Forget it, you'd better not think about anything now, be obedient, lie down and rest for a while after drinking this glass of water." Diana helped Aurora take a sip of the tea in the cup.

Aurora reluctantly took a sip of tea and realized that this was not ordinary tea but some kind of herb from the elves. This herb is very valuable to magicians because it helps stabilize their mental state.

And it achieves the effect of promoting the recovery of magic power. But then again, since Diana drinks this kind of thing to herself, it is obvious that there is something wrong with her body. In addition, Aurora finds that her memory of the recent past seems a bit hazy, so

It was not difficult to draw some not-so-good inferences. However, Aurora still believed in her best friend's arrangements, so she obediently followed Diana's instructions, drank tea, and then lay down to meditate.

Diana breathed a sigh of relief after watching her friend return to normal, and then walked out of the camping tent with an empty tea cup.

At this moment, everyone outside the tent is nervously building a camp, and all the magicians are trying their best to use magic to create various defense measures. Although the location here is a street in the underground city, everyone does not dare to do it casually.

Entering these "unmanned" buildings, because not long ago the team fought these twisted monsters again. At the same time, in a corner of the camp, there were a few more corpses covered with cloaks, and this time the battle

Everyone discovered too many confusing things, so for everyone's safety, Diana ordered a temporary camp here for some rest.

Diana looked around expressionlessly, then returned worriedly and walked into the tent next to Aurora.

"Ruby, are you feeling better?" Diana immediately changed into a warm smiling face after entering the tent.

She casually put down the tea cup and came to a sleeping bag. After gently opening the zipper of the sleeping bag, she saw Ruby curled up and sleeping soundly inside. However, there was an open bag of marshmallows next to Ruby, which seemed to be before she went to bed.

They even stole some snacks, but Diana was not angry about this. Instead, she silently helped Ruby clean up her sleeping bag and then looked at her bandaged hands with a heartbroken look on her face.

Ruby was injured in the battle just now. It was a sudden and unexpected encounter. The reason was that when we picked a certain big house to set up camp, we encountered a dozen tentacles hiding in the basement.

monster.

These monsters are subtly different from the ones we encountered before. Their individuals are larger or shorter than the previous ones. At the same time, the size and shape of the tentacles are also quite different from the previous ones. The most important thing is

The special thing is that these monsters all have deformed organs that look like mouths of different sizes, just like the pieced-together organs of the big ghoul. They are disgusting but full of threats. The steel shields of the knights are on

Their bloody mouths are as fragile as papyrus. Elves with extremely strong vitality will die within a few minutes after being bitten by those dirty teeth. As for magicians, these monsters will use their strong tentacles to dodge flexibly.

Despite the attacks of the magicians, the magicians could only appear quite passive in the face of such a swift opponent.

At the same time, in addition to these powerful monsters we have to face, there is another new type of monster that we have never seen before that is also very difficult to deal with. It is a kind of eyeball monster that can float and float. If it weren't for it,

As for the iconic tentacle structure of Hertogos, I would really think of it as the "Magic Eye" for a moment. A small monster with the Magic Eye that can fly and use magic is simply a nightmare.

But fortunately, this thing is not a real magic eye, so it will not use the power of mental interference. But it is also fortunate that it does not have this ability, because its unknown type of magic has already given us quite a headache.

Facing the fierce attack of these abnormal and deformed monsters, the defensive shields of magicians cannot play much role at all, because the tentacles of these monsters can easily pass through most magic barriers. The reason is that

Because the "Alien Magic Eye" floating in the air will use some kind of counter-magic to suppress our own magicians, this magic alone caused us a lot of casualties.

In short, the result of the battle just now was terrible, and at that critical moment, Ruby took the initiative to run out and use her unique power to protect everyone. At the same time, the goddess Desmo, who had always been passive in the past, couldn't help but

Taking the initiative to help, she used some kind of "mild" power to destroy the monsters that attacked us, and this gave everyone a chance to breathe.

Diana looked extremely heartbroken when she saw Ruby's injury, because the injury on her hand was to protect Diana from being hit by the magic of the alien evil eye. If Desmo hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid Ruby would have been injured.

You need to cut it off to save your life. But not everyone is so lucky. Even Desmo is a powerful goddess and cannot protect everyone in the team. Therefore, after the war, several warriors who were unable to be healed by the goddess died.

Unfortunately, most of them were knights from the Principality of Michael, that is, the subordinates of the old-fashioned knight Marco.

Although Diana didn't like them, she still felt a little sorry for their sacrifice. If nothing else, at least they didn't retreat when facing such a terrifying enemy. For humans, this is really

It is a rare and precious courage.

The morale of the current team is almost as low as the limit, so they can't move forward no matter what. Diana is also aware of this, but the worry about Erica in her heart keeps urging her to move on, because

The more powerful the enemy she encounters, the weaker Erica's comfort will be. Because at this moment, Diana doesn't feel that Desmo's guarantee will be successful, because even if the monster kidnaps Erica, he won't hurt her.

, but this does not mean that other monsters will not, especially after the appearance of these almost invincible tentacle monsters.

Diana knew her own strength. In normal times, she could indeed pat her chest to show that she was powerful, but after all, this was only among a group of ordinary species. Faced with the suppression of the alien magic eye, Diana was proud of the magical attack.

She was as helpless as a child playing in water. At the same time, this was the first time she realized that she was so fragile and vulnerable.

"Still...do you believe in the power of magic too much..."

Diana raised her head and looked at the bow that was placed not far away. Her shining silver long bow was hanging casually on her backpack without even installing the string. At the same time, there was the one she got from Erica next to her.

It seemed that he had never put on the holster strap since he got off. Even the dagger given to him by Erica was still casually in his backpack and not carried on his body.

I remembered a habit that I often teased and laughed at Erica, that is, she always liked to carry a large number of weapons and ammunition, unless there were special combat needs. But now think about it, what is wrong with her approach? She

She is a mercenary. Maybe in the past she had the cooperation of many companions so she would not consider this, but when she comes to this strange world, she will inevitably be wary of everything, because there are no people like her in this world.

Even now, I still can't keep up with the way her soldiers fight together. One thing Erica often says is "be prepared for anything," but I never agreed with this at the time, because in my opinion, as long as it's enough

It's okay to be strong, but reality slapped me hard once again. I had suffered losses several times before, but I didn't seem to learn enough lessons from them.

I looked down at Ruby, who was sleeping soundly, and thought carefully about whether she would be injured if I was prepared. Then I looked up at the weapons placed beside the salute, which were Erica's spare parts.

But if I had brought some of those things with me into the war, maybe this result wouldn't have happened.

"I don't pursue power...but I cannot lack the power to protect important people..."

I arranged Ruby's sleeping bag, then slowly came to the edge of the weapons pile, reached out and picked up Erica's favorite machine gun and tried it. At the same time, I glanced at the big backpack on the ground and reached out.

Lifted it a bit.

"It's so heavy... Have you ever carried such a heavy weapon to fight every day?" I put down the backpack and put the machine gun in place, then sighed with a wry smile and said again: "Or... this kind of weight is what you call

Where’s the ‘security’?”

Just when I was about to try other weapons, suddenly a ranger's voice came from outside the tent.

"Phyllis, the people who went out are back. Ms. Celine asked you to listen to the report."

The elf ranger's voice was a little low. It was obvious that the rangers who went out to explore brought back some not-so-good news, or maybe...someone didn't come back.

"I understand, go right away."

The footsteps outside slowly faded away, and I looked at my pile of salutes and shook my head helplessly.

"No more bad news... everyone can't bear it anymore... Erica, you must be safe and sound."

"I want more!"

"...Okay, wait a minute."

I stretched out my hand and pinched my forehead, then looked at the girl sitting nearby waving a knife and fork with a greasy mouth and let out a long sigh. Then I walked up to her, took away the empty plate in front of her, and went back to the oven to put on the fresh food.

Grilled steak. Since the kitchen utensils were running out from the middle, I had no choice but to reuse some of the utensils. This was not because I was lazy and didn’t wash the dishes, but because I simply didn’t have time.

If you go and do this, you can tell just how good this girl is by looking at the mountains of empty plates in her hand. And we have been here for almost an hour, which means she has been eating barbecue for an hour.

Not full.

But more than this, I am more concerned about the fact that she ate almost an elephant and a half of meat, but until now, her stomach has been burst, and I haven't even noticed any bulge in her belly. Simply unbelievable.

"Damn...I'm not here to be a cook..." I was very dissatisfied and picked up a medium-rare steak with a skewer, then sprinkled a handful of spices and brought it to her.

The girl doesn't really care about my dissatisfaction. Anyway, she is now sticking out her tongue to lick her lips covered with meat in anticipation, and the front of her gauze dress that looks very noble is also greasy. In short, her current image Not to mention how bad it was.

"How full are you now?" I put down the barbecue for her and sat directly opposite her. Then I poured myself a glass of spring-flavored fruit wine from the jug next to me.

"Hmm... um... 7 points?" The girl roughly cut off a piece of meat, opened her mouth and chewed it. Without waiting for the meat to be chewed, the girl swallowed it wholeheartedly and said: "Or 8 points? , in short, it’s fast.”

"Really...are you finally full..." I moved my sore wrist, and then wiped the barbecue-smelling sweat from my face with a clean wet towel.

To be honest, I am suddenly tired of barbecue now, because I just made more barbecue than I have ever made in my previous life. Who said that I started cutting corners in order to speed up the process, but even so, I couldn't stop the girl from eating like a storm. speed.

"Really...I'm not afraid of choking to death..."

I took a sip of wine and frowned at the girl who was devouring her food. After thinking about it for a while, I walked to the oven and put the last piece of meat on a relatively clean plate and brought it to the table.

But I didn’t serve it to her, but I took a knife and fork from somewhere else and started to enjoy it myself. Because first of all, I was really a little hungry after being busy for so long, and secondly, I was really curious about what this steak-sized lizard meat was like. How does it taste? You have to know that you can't eat such large lizard meat on earth, because the raw meat in the food storage warehouse is all the stone-skinned lizard meat pieces that monsters got from outside. Well, they are the big monsters we have seen before. , and the meat is very fresh, it is said that the monsters came back from hunting...

I didn't actually believe what the girl said before, but after the girl ate all the steaks in stock, those monsters hurried out and hunted a truck-sized stone-skinned lizard back, not far outside the kitchen. The huge corpse was dismembered into large and small pieces of meat on the spot.

I have seen with my own eyes that these tentacle monsters use their soft tentacles to easily cut open the skin of stone skin lizards, and I also personally used my dagger to test how strong these lizard skins are. Anyway, my dagger is basically It can't be cut. At the same time, I'm also glad that the monsters didn't cut me into sashimi when they caught me in the bedroom, especially the monster whose head I blew off, and the monster that came to deliver meat before. There is it, and its head has recovered, but it is not as good as before.

Speaking of which, it's not like I didn't get any information after waiting for the girl in the kitchen for a long time. At least I got some information about these monsters from the girl's mouth, but it's not a good thing.

Generally speaking, these monsters seem to be twisted tentacle monsters, but in fact they still have quite complex classification groups. For example, these monsters in the palace belong to the servant category and are quite loyal to the girl's orders.

I'm afraid they wouldn't even hesitate for half a second if the girl asked them to commit suicide. As for the monsters outside the palace, the girl's knowledge of the monsters living in the underground city was very one-sided, but her few words revealed some

The rather terrible fact is that not all the monsters in the city over there obey the girl's orders, and the being she calls the "gloomy guy" told her that there are places in the underground city that she cannot go to...such as the city.

There is a certain area in the center, which is near where the monsters with radiation crystals that I saw in the bedroom before appeared.

Even thinking about it on my knees, I know what is there, the location of our target, the location of the real target. Moreover, I have also generated some subtle ideas through the previous information, such as the girl in front of me who is staring at me with an unkind expression.

...If possible, I want to win her as my ally, because in this strange and terrifying place I...We all need strong allies, but the premise is that she cannot threaten me or us...or

I.

"Why are you looking at me?" I asked her a little uneasily.

The girl still kept her unfriendly eyes, then pointed at the half-eaten barbecue in front of me with a grease-covered fork and said: "My..."

I stared at her blankly for a while, then suddenly my mind became hot, and for some reason I pointed at her and shouted, "I've been serving you for a long time, and I can't even eat a piece of meat?!"

The girl also looked at me blankly for a while, then she silently lowered her head and replied in a slightly aggrieved voice: "Okay..."

I sat down and ate the steak in front of me in silence. Although I looked very angry on the outside, inwardly I was already panicking and restless because I noticed a tentacle monster at the kitchen door quietly observing behind the door.

I, for some reason, always feel that it is quite hostile to me...

Hmm... They are really loyal... Speaking of which, will I be retaliated by them?
Chapter completed!