"Why haven't you come out yet?"

Aurora was pacing back and forth in front of me anxiously, and she still stood at the door of the camp and looked out into the open space, and the staff in her hand kept making a rhythmic tapping sound following her footsteps.

It's just that this sound is not very pleasant, after all, all of us are in a rather impetuous mood at the moment.

Hex was taken away by Desmo just after he came back. Desmo mentioned before that there were some things that needed to be discussed with Hex alone. We agreed to this, or we actually had no right to object at all.

, after all, they are goddesses, strictly speaking, they do not need to pay attention to the requests of us mortals.

As for the content of their whispers, I can roughly guess some of them. Anyway, it's just about this dungeon or some related matters, and that part of the content must be related to Hex. As for the specifics, we can't access it.

It's a matter of time, so we can only wait here.

"Phyllis, do you think the goddess will help us?"

When I was thinking about the question, Celine suddenly came over and asked quietly. I looked up at her nervous look, then naturally showed a relieved smile and said: "Yes."

Celine hesitated slightly after hearing my answer. It seemed that she was not very satisfied with this general answer and tried to ask again. However, her ambivalence about hesitating to speak did not last long, and she finally smiled awkwardly.

He smiled and reluctantly accepted the answer and sat back quietly.

In fact, I have not finished what I said, but I am also a little irritable now, so I don’t want to speak more, because Erica and I have been separated for nearly two hours now, and my inner uneasiness has completely exceeded the other party’s.

This operation is very persistent, so what I want to do most now is not to continue exploring here with the team but to find Erica quickly, and if possible, I want to take her directly out of this ghost place.

As for what I didn't say, I actually still care a little. Our current team has obviously reached its limit. The past three battles with local monsters have resulted in more serious losses. The strength of the monsters here is also completely beyond ours.

People's expectations and endurance, if it is usually my own investigation, my best way to encounter a similar situation is to retreat quickly and report the assessment to Severna and let the gods handle it. But this

Once I was really surprised that we were in this situation. The goddess Desmo who was traveling with us never asked us to leave. She even encouraged us to move on. This is really abnormal.

I know the "mission" arrangement that Severna set for Erica, and this operation may be a so-called mission, so it would be logical for Hex to intervene and arrange something. But things started from

When did things start to go wrong? At the beginning... the appearance of ghouls? Or the monsters that were quietly eliminated without showing up?

Yes, I know that some monsters were quietly eliminated by Desmo. Although I was lucky enough to perceive them once, it is not difficult to understand how those wonderful anomalies came about as long as this incident is combined with some of the strange things that happened before.

Something's happened.

Near the earliest entrance, in the crystal channel full of radiation, in the battle where we first discovered the ghoul, etc., I did sense the existence of some very powerful monsters in these places, but these things

They all disappeared quietly after Desmo joined.

My perception ability is actually much more comprehensive than others know, so I was lucky enough to detect something abnormal during that blocking battle. At that time, there was actually a more powerful worm monster behind those worms. I compared the monster's

The outline and breath, unfortunately I found that thing is definitely not something we can easily defeat. This is the information recorded by the ancestors of the chosen ones in the past with their blood and lives, so I have no doubt. And next, I still

The moment he didn't have time to think about countermeasures, the terrifying monster disappeared silently, as if it had never appeared before. This also caused turmoil among the nearby monsters, and indirectly weakened the defense line at that time.

pressure.

After the war, I took some time to think about this matter, but in the end I didn't tell anyone about it, because at that time I knew that this must be Desmo's handiwork, so I speculated that Desmo

An abnormality was discovered after arriving here. Perhaps this is the reason why Desmo suddenly joined us. Her existence is equivalent to the backup insurance for this operation, and this is definitely not something Hex arranged in advance.

I didn't pay too much attention to this at the beginning, because there is nothing wrong with having an extra layer of insurance, so I stopped paying attention to it from then on, but I would still take the initiative to take a look at the existence of abnormal monsters. I originally thought

We will easily invade this dungeon and deal with the things here as soon as possible, because in terms of my strength, those who are stronger than me have been wiped out by Desmo, and the rest are weaker than me.

Monsters, no matter how many there are, I am not afraid of them. But the facts tell me that my thinking was too naive. The reason is that when we captured the city, I took advantage of my rest time to try to enter this dungeon.

I explored it, and at that moment I saw thousands of terrifying shadows. From that moment I understood that the monsters in this dungeon were definitely difficult to deal with. At the same time, I also felt a little worried, but in the end I still

Calm down and let Erica go in here.

This is really a stupid decision. I should have just taken her out of here.

But there is no use regretting now. Erica was captured by an unknown enemy, and none of the enemies we met along the way were capable of being dealt with by me. Even I couldn’t even conduct a reconnaissance in this weird dungeon.

I don't dare to use magic at will, because I'm afraid of provoking more powerful monsters, or alerting the monster that captured Erica and causing accidents to her.

It may sound helpless to say it, because now no matter how unwilling I am, I can only leave my last hope to Desmo and Hex. I hope that the matter can be resolved satisfactorily, and I also hope that Erica can

Everything is safe and sound. As for the deaths in the team? To be honest, except for Aurora and the others, I don’t take the lives and deaths of others too seriously. This sentence may sound a little ruthless, but that’s the truth.

, after all, I did not initiate this operation. Whether it is Meryl Gil or the Principality of Michael, they are fighting for themselves. Erica and I, or our "force", are just assisting them.

.

He turned to look at Miles and Marco who were sitting not far away discussing things in a low voice. The sad looks on their faces were enough to know how bad the situation of the people in the Michael Principality camp was at this moment. When they came in, there were a total of

There are 32 knights. Apart from the two who rebelled, there are already 7 knights who have died in battle. As for the soldiers, there are even more, especially the batch of javelin cavalry who did not ride in. These are a few of Chris's men.

There are many elite troops, and the current death toll has reached more than twenty. The situation on Celine's side is not much better. The number of dead elf magicians alone has reached 10. As for Algasburg,

The situation over there is even worse, because in the battle just now, a secretary and a mentor were sacrificed on their side.

Everyone needs to rest, but we don’t have time to rest. This is not because I am worried about Erica and have been acting as an opponent, but because Desmo just told us that the monsters in this underground city are constantly awakening and reactivating.

, that is to say, the longer we stay here, the more monsters we will encounter. Maybe after two or three battles, this team will completely collapse.

So we are in urgent need of a stable resting place and a reasonable and safe plan. As for the original purpose of exploring threats? I'm sorry, this was canceled by everyone's vote when we were attacked for the second time, because now

The situation is really not suitable to continue urgently. Our only purpose in staying in the city is to solve an unavoidable threat.

Desmo hesitated for a long time before revealing the target to me. It was a dangerous facility in the center of the dungeon, and there was a large tentacle monster inside that controlled most of the monsters in the city.

I'm not sure why Desmo asked us to eliminate this target, because she didn't reveal the specific reason. She only said that she needed to discuss it with Hex before making a decision. But I learned from the previous rangers' investigation.

Please take care of yourself, which caused some uneasiness, because the rangers saw more and more tentacle monsters constantly transporting large amounts of radiation crystals there.

I don’t know much about the specific knowledge of nuclear radiation, and all I know is the partial knowledge I got from Erica, but as a magician, I am very aware of the strange power contained in that dangerous crystal.

, and this power is very unstable and in terms of killing power, it is not inferior to the same amount of magic, so even I can make some kind of powerful magic weapon with a little modification.

Obviously, the monsters are not collecting those luminous crystals to decorate the house, so the purpose is nothing more than to make something. And in other words, what the monsters want to make is definitely not what we want to see, even if it is

We won't get an answer if we ask it, so in that case we might as well investigate it ourselves. As for the big monster, we will probably have to kill it, because a united monster group is not something we can accept. After all, our

Race determines each other's alignment, and it is unlikely that we and monsters will reconcile at will.

"Sometimes... I really wish I don't have to worry about this kind of thing anymore. Maybe you are right, I should take a long vacation after this incident... Erica."

"what are you saying?"

I raised my head and glanced at Aurora, who was sitting next to me at some point. She was holding an empty cup and trying to drink water absentmindedly.

"It's nothing..." I reached out to block her cup, then took the initiative to bring a kettle from the side to pour water for her and comforted her: "Don't be nervous... things haven't gotten to that bad yet, maybe... we

There’s no need to worry about things we can’t handle next.”

"I hope so..." Aurora held the water cup in daze for a while, and then drank all the warm tea in the cup.

Just when I was about to pour her a drink, a familiar flash of light suddenly came from outside the camp. Judging from the color and duration of the light, it should be Desmo's portal.

The people in the camp couldn't wait to get up and go to the door, but before they took a step, they saw Hex and Desmo walking in side by side.

I noticed a hint of doubt in their expressions, as if they had brought some bad news.

Hex and Desmo sat down opposite me in silence, and then Hex looked thoughtfully at the empty ground in a daze, while everyone sat back quietly, but all with solemn expressions.

Waiting for the goddess' command.

"Actually... you can choose to leave now."

After being silent for a long time, Hex suddenly said something like this. Everyone was stunned because no one expected Hex to say this, including me of course. Although I had expected this.

result, but I didn't expect that she would say it so straightforwardly.

Hex looked up and looked around everyone and then smiled with an unknown meaning. I don't know if it was an illusion, but I always felt that her smile was full of teasing.

"You should all know that the monsters in this underground city are different from those outside the city, and the original purpose of you people is to worry that the monsters outside the city will all run on the ground and threaten your own

Country or city, right?”

After hearing Hex's explanation, the leaders of the two forces except me and Aurora nodded in agreement. Among them, Celine, the representative of Meryl Gil's elf side, answered very well.

Directly, she didn't hesitate at all and answered immediately after Hex finished speaking. On the contrary, Miles and Marco from the Principality of Michael hesitated for a long time. They both now actually knew this tough momentum.

Who was the woman? It was because of face or other reasons. In short, they hesitated for a while and answered rather abruptly.

Their reactions didn't seem to attract Hex's attention. Anyway, Hex turned his head and looked at Aurora who was restless next to me.

"What about you? Facilitators, what are you here for?"

Hex's question surprised me a little, because when she asked Aurora, she didn't call her by her name, but used a rather subtle title. "Assistant", which describes the staff of the Chosen Library.

The title, and it is also an informal title. The Chosen Library was born out of the "Temple of Knowledge" in the past, and with the departure of Severna, all the temples disappeared from the sight of mortals. This batch of

The managers who remained in the mortal world were forcibly "unemployed". From then on, they called themselves informal assistants and continued to help the chosen ones of the past generations manage and record various knowledge and information.

When Aurora heard this question, she was also inexplicably stuck. She knew very well that Hex was not asking about herself, but about Algarsburg, or the goddess was asking the Chosen One's library.

Aurora lowered her head and thought for a moment, but soon raised her head again and stood up. Then she bowed neatly to Hex and Desmo and solemnly replied: "For knowledge and truth

."

Hex didn't say anything, he just smiled knowingly and nodded for her to sit down. Then Hex stopped talking, and Desmo next to her stood up and said to Celine and Miles: "

You two should leave this city first, as what happens next is no longer suitable for you to continue to participate."

This answer shocked them, but the reaction of elves was faster than that of humans. Celine quickly accepted the proposal, but she still planned to let herself stay.

"I can assign a few elite rangers to work with me to continue assisting Phyllis and the others." Celine kept her attitude low, as if she was pleading.
To be continued...