Deep underground in the Temple of Shadows, on the side of the high platform of the Sacrifice Hall, Meredith walked to Ratchell's side, looked at the withered and pale cheeks that had not been dripping day and night, and said softly: "You need it most now. It’s rest."

Rachel stood quietly next to the sacrificial totem, staring at the ground in the middle of the hall, and said nothing.

Meredith found a clean place and sat down, and handed the pancake in her arms to her side. After finding that the other party was indifferent, she withdrew her hand again: "The "Trial of Destiny" is the final test set by the gods. It measures the value of a soul before absolute will..."

"Have you ever said that two people returned safely?"

Rachel's sudden question made Meredith stunned for a moment.

"Yes, in the years I have followed Master, I have indeed seen two people return from the bottom of the sea."

The flesh and blood on Rachel's face had lost his vitality, but his eyes were surprisingly bright: "How long did it take them to get back to the ground?"

"One took nine days, the other three days."

"After they came back, did they talk about how they came back?"

"Anyone who has passed the trial, no matter who it is, will remain silent when asked about the world behind the dark gate after returning to this world."

Rachel turned his head and cast his gaze again at the uneven stone slab, as if the ground would crack in the next second.

Meredith lowered her head slightly, and asked in a barely audible voice: "In the "Trial of Strength", I heard someone call him "The King of Mussy"?"

Rachel replied coldly: "Does the answer still make sense at this time?"

Meredith thought for a while and gave up the discussion of this issue.

The two women just leaned together in silence, staring at the ground for a long time in a daze. Meredith couldn't stand the atmosphere in the end, and stood up and planned to leave the hall.

When she walked to the gate, she heard a strange sound coming from the ground.

The sound was like a tide coming, and it was like a flood erupting.

After searching in the memory for a while, Meredith opened her eyes wide, and she finally remembered what this sound meant was about to come.

Turning around, ran back to the sacrificial stage with the fastest speed, Meredith pulled up the still uncertain Rachel, and ran towards the gate desperately.

There was a loud bang!

The stone slabs on the ground behind him were washed into fragments by the violent ocean current, and the sea water rising like a herd of animals was rushing, and the entire sacrificial hall was submerged in a blink of an eye.

The two wet women climbed the steps at the gate, avoiding the spreading sea water under their feet.

Grasping the bulging rock on the wall, Rachel's voice was like a small boat in a storm in front of the turbulent water: "What's going on?! What happened?!"

"The trial of fate is over! The dark door opens again!" Meredith made a small basin with crow feathers, scooped the seawater around him embarrassedly, and said in surprise: "But with such intensity and movement, I have never before I've seen it!"

The sea water poured into the entire underground hall, and the large vortex rotating counterclockwise uprooted the boulder totem on the sacrificial platform, swept away the glyphs on the wall, and washed it into the seabed together.

A figure slowly crawled into the hall along the center of the ocean current vortex.

The two are tall and strong, with scales exuding silver metallic luster, one-meter-long tails like dinosaurs, and sharp iron claws exuding black awns.

A pair of faint red eyes, in the turbid sea, shining like a lighthouse in the dark night.

Rachel stared at the monster in the whirlpool in a daze, and yelled a little uncertainly: "Todd?"

Hearing the woman's voice, the monster moved around in the sea and swam towards the entrance of the hall like a fish.

With those intriguing eyes slowly emerging, Meredith wanted to pull Rachel back, but unexpectedly, the latter had no intention of shrinking.

As a last resort, the Crow Feather woman had to hide herself on the top of the steps, secretly observing everything in front of her.

Slowly stretched the sharp iron claw toward Rachel's throat, the red light in the monster's eyes slowly receded, and the mutated limbs slowly degenerated.

In the end, a human palm touched the woman's hair.

Seeing this familiar face in front of him, the tears in Richel's eyes slowly flowed down his cheeks, his body leaned forward, his forehead against the man's chest, and his mouth whispered: "It's you, it's you... That's great... …"

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Finding a fur carpet and draping it as a robe, the frail Todd, supported by Rachel, stepped onto the last level of the spiral steps and returned to the ruined temple of the Kingdom of Shadows. With his right hand, he blocked the bright sunshine swaying down from the sky, and his thoughts were full of thoughts, as if a world away.

Putting his right arm in front of his eyes, Todd took a closer look, and there was an almost invisible white trace on the right shoulder that had been broken before. Similarly, there is an exact mark on the left leg.

Todd recalled the experience of the sea in detail, and couldn't help but remember the last words Jing Su said to him.

"You have found what you need. 』

Does this mean that he has already come into contact with the "tyrant"?

So where is it? How did you reach it?

Also, the current body can not only repair itself to a normal state, but can even freely transform between a monster form and a human form. What is going on?

"You passed all the trials."

The purple-haired and red-eyed queen, standing on the high temple platform, smiled at Todd in an unprecedented manner.

Meredith, who was combing through the wet crow feathers, looked at the man in front of him curiously, nodded and said, "From now on, you are a member of the Kingdom of Shadows."

Todd took a step forward ~lightnovelpub.net~ Just about to speak, his weakness and fatigue made his knees soft and he sat down on his knees.

"Just finished the trial, there will be such a situation." Skaha waved his sleeves and waved his hand at Todd: "You go to rest first, if you have anything, we will talk about it tomorrow."

A burly young man of about twenty years old, from behind the corridor on the other side of the temple, poked out half of his head curiously. Before he could see the situation in the temple clearly, Skaha slightly raised his left hand, a stone the size of a fist. , Like a cannonball, bombarded the opponent's lower abdomen heavily.

"Cuchurin! Who told you you can be lazy?!"

Hearing the queen's displeased roar, the young man called Cuchurin, with his hands on his belly, disappeared at the end of the long corridor.

Meredith took a sip in the direction where the youth disappeared, lifted the wings made of crow feathers, pointed at the mountain behind the temple, and said: "Half of the mountainside there, there is an ancient temple with rooms and tools inside. , You can use it as you like. However, for food and water, you must find a solution by yourself."

Winking mischievously at Todd, Meredith said with a smile: "I think, since the trial has been completed, these little things will naturally not trouble you..."