The walls recede with a plucking sound, followed by an entrance to a basement.

Seeing Alyssa put her hand on the sinking brick, Ai Xiao blinked her eyes curiously, and said with some surprise: "I didn't expect there to be a secret door here, Miss Atila is so powerful, Miss Atila is the same surname as me, and they are both members of our Ai family." ”

"Miss Attila is not named Ai." Fang Yu spoke out to correct the whimsy of his cousin's friend.

"But what's the difference?"

"It's a big difference."

He replied as he stretched out the torch in his hand and shook it behind the secret door. Torches have this advantage over lighting crystals, providing a little warmth in the cold and being useful in the current situation.

Fang Yuan waved the torch, but the light of the torch was steady, as if to indicate that the air inside was probably no different from the outside.

He tested it for a while before turning back and putting the torch into the hands of the Paparals—and after hearing that there had been a discovery here, the crowd that had not found any valuable clues in other directions also returned.

Only Cweed and Blackbow left some of the Redeemed to keep watch outside, Sandnight and her men volunteered, and everyone else gathered here.

The Paparal man walked down, and the light of the torch went down the stairs, but it wasn't too deep, there were only a dozen or so steps, and then a turn, and then another staircase. However, there are two stairs in succession, both of which are just ordinary heights, and below is where the basement is located.

The Paparals held torches aloft and outlined the basement with the light of the fire—it was spacious underneath, made of solid rock, but empty.

He blinked, and stared around the empty room, where there was a pit at the end, and the bottom of the pool was pitch black, but there was nothing in it.

Parker couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and said, "Hey, there's nothing here, empty rejoice." ”

The little man shrugged his shoulders again: "We should have thought that they had destroyed all traces, and there was no reason to leave such a place for us to discover." The cellar we found last time in Istania was just luck, but luck doesn't always work so well. ”

Momiji turned around and asked a little curiously, "What did you do in Istania?" ”

"Well......" Parker couldn't say for a moment. Some of their experiences in Istania cannot be talked about to the outside world, and it is related to some of the secrets of the Penelope royal family, and its relationship with the kingdom, although the Paparals are not light or heavy, but at least understand that this is the decision of the team.

But they actually have nothing to hide from the people of Tapolis, but Parker looked at Kweed and Blackbow on the side, but instinctively couldn't trust these outsiders.

Fang Yu didn't care about the two of them, walked down the steps, came to the edge of the pool, and by the light of the torches, he found that the dark and dull things under the pool were uneven, like dried blood. But he crouched down and tried it with his hands, and found that it was not a bloody shell, frozen on the slate.

He then turned back and motioned for Parker to bring the torch over, and when the light of the fire came closer, it reflected the whole picture of the pool, which was like a layer of crystal growing at the bottom of the pool, black and dull, absorbing most of the light, except for a glimmer of light at the edges.

"What is this?" Ai Xiaoxiao asked.

But Fang Yu didn't know what it was, he looked at Ji Ta on the side, and Miss Naturalist stood on the edge of the pool with the big book in her hand, frowning and looking at the situation below. But after a while, she turned around and shook her head gently at Fang Yuan, indicating that she didn't know either.

"May I go down and have a look?" His knowledge couldn't help, and Kita always felt a little unwilling, and looked at the crystal layer again before asking in a low voice.

Fang Yu nodded, he had already gone down once before, and there was no danger below.

Kita placed the thick book in her hand on the edge of the pool and carefully climbed down, and Fang Yu walked over and gave her a hand. "Thank you, Captain." Kita blushed a little, looked at him, and replied a little smugly.

She quickly retracted her hand, bit her lip and turned away, half-kneeling down and touching the lens of the pool with her hand, but her fingertips responded with a peculiar sensation - she suddenly put aside her trance and concentrated.

The touch was slightly cold, with a hint of chill, but it didn't feel like the touch of reality, as if the fingertips had passed through a layer of space and touched an unreal world.

Miss Naturalist had been dealing with the Aether for a long time, and only then did she realize that there was something wrong with it, and if it were an ordinary person, he might not have been able to feel anything abnormal, and the crystals he touched with his hands were just some hard 'glass'.

Fang Yu stood on the top of the pond and watched, and then asked, "Did you find anything?" ”

"Commander...... These crystals contain the power of the aether that escapes, and I don't know what the composition is," Kita replied in a low voice, "...... They seem to exist in this world, but they are anchored in another dimension, and my hand can touch them through them to the 'them' that exist in another world. ”

"Isn't that the space-time attribute?" Fang Yu also has a solid foundation in ether theory, and he understands this description as soon as he hears it.

Kita withdrew her hand at this time, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed, she furrowed her delicate eyebrows, and smelled a faint smell of blood.

"Blood?" Fang Yu listened to the other party's description, a little surprised, he instinctively felt something, turned around, and just saw Atira and Red Leaf walking up together, "-Could anyone have performed a blood sacrifice here?" Alyssa listened to the conversation between the two and immediately asked a little sensitively.

After all, for the people of the Seven Seas Brigade, they had already dealt with too many followers of the Dark Saints, so it was not surprising that such an association would occur.

But Attila knew what the two were thinking, and shook her head. She looked around and replied, "There is nothing necessary for the ritual here, and that alone doesn't mean much. ”

She didn't say more, but the implication was that more evidence was needed to prove against the other side.

Fang Yu bowed his head slightly, and then he looked at Ji Ta and said, "But in any case, this should be the most suspicious place, there is no need to delay any longer, just try it here." ”

Kita answered, picked up her magic book, opened it and laid it out under the pool. She crouched down, pressed her snow-white hands to the page, and knelt there, before she looked up at Miss Elf—

Attila was untying the necklace from behind her neck, the leaf lying flat on her chest was Ameya's emblem, she picked it up with one hand, held it up, and a faint green light shone on Kita's magic book.

Centered on Kita's magic book, a cloud of smoke and dust fills the air.

In Aitalia, prophecy has always been the domain of the saints, and even astrologers need divine power to see the mist-shrouded future—Amea has always been an ally of the righteous lady Marlan, and the two goddesses promised Fang Ou a promise of help, and now is the time for them to make good on their promise.

Of course, the promise of the Orin Saints was not without restrictions, but Fang Yu understood that when used at such a time, it must be in line with the other party's intentions.

Sure enough, the divine power in the dark passed through the space and came to this basement.

The smoke formed a phantom that shrouded the entire basement, a shadow of longing, but not a thing, but a person. There were many figures faintly, as if they had happened in this basement for a certain period of time, but they gradually froze, and gradually coincided and became one.

With her hands clinging to the pages and her eyes glowing with silver, Kita seemed to be the embodiment of a river of time, going back in time, two months ago, one day.

"Go back in time."

She spoke in a low voice, her cold voice as if it was not herself, the ancient books precipitated time, reading history, as if seeing the past.

The apparitions finally froze into a few established figures, ghost-like, translucent, glowing in the dark basement, seven figures, tall and short, and one of the shorter, female figures, standing beside the pool.

She stared at the pool, her face was misty and her image could not be seen clearly, but her gaze seemed to be facing the Ji Ta in the pool, hollow and silent, which made the naturalist lady shudder. The woman half-knelt down, picked up a crystal from the pool, held it up with both hands, and then turned away—

"Golia!?"

Bane couldn't help but exclaim as he looked at the female figure, and even though he couldn't see the face shrouded in the mist of the phantom, he still recognized the companion from his outfit and figure.

Unfortunately, as if he hadn't heard the phantom at all, his expression calmly staggered past him, and he walked towards the other six people with the crystal. She held up the crystal and placed it in front of the men, the tallest of whom spoke:

"Alright, it's done."

"We can get out of this place."

Hollow voices echoed through the basement, like ghostly words, piercing everyone's heart.

Then the seven phantoms seemed to have weathered, and with the diffuse mist, they gradually dissipated into the darkness, and the basement fell silent again.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and although they saw some things as expected, they seemed to be a little different from what they had imagined. What are those crystals, and who are those six people?

And how could Bane's missing companion be among them?

The others couldn't help but look at the young man, but the latter seemed to be greatly shocked: "Why, Gollydia has always been here, but how can I not contact them?" …… She, how did she know those people, we had never been here before...... It was just a chance ...... to get that assignment."

Parker, who had always been hesitant to speculate on the worst of others, shook his torch and looked around, replying, "Maybe they didn't tell you the truth." ”

"It can't be," Bane shook his head in disbelief, "they have no reason...... And they disappeared so suddenly, wouldn't I be more suspicious? ”

"Maybe they thought you wouldn't be able to get out of here?" Alyssa thought for a moment and replied.

But the young man shook his head firmly: "...... It will never be like this, I have known them for several years, and Golia and Cordil will never be like that...... And ......" He couldn't help but scratch his hair in pain, and some details in his mind told him that the truth would never be like this, but for a moment he didn't know how to explain it.

Blackber patted the young man on the shoulder, but did not speak.

And Fang Yu saw the embarrassment of the other party, of course he understood that this incident had a great impact on him, in fact, it had a great impact on everyone present, at least they hadn't figured out what was going on here.

He looked at Kita again, and asked the other party with his eyes if he had recorded the previous scene with crystals, and only after receiving an affirmative answer did he speak: "Everyone, there is only one chance, and now we have what we want, as for what the scene in the phantom is, maybe we still have time to argue, but not here." The Artori area isn't safe, and if there's nothing missing, I think it's time for us to get back to the Seven Seas Traveler—"

Everyone was silent, and the answer that they thought would be easy to get was now hidden behind the fog once again - especially at this critical juncture, which made everyone hesitate.

But Fang Yu's deliberate composure still infected them, and Kward also nodded and said:

"I agree."

Blackbow was about to speak, but at this moment, suddenly, everyone heard a loud noise coming from outside the castle.

They couldn't help but look back in that direction.

……

The redeemed built a bonfire on the city walls.

Since there was no one else in the vicinity, they did not have to worry about anyone noticing the fire above the city in this direction, and besides, it was freezing on the walls, and it was really difficult to keep a guard under the battlements without a fire.

The flickering flames dispelled the chill for a moment, and a piece of wood was thrown into the bonfire—from the elaborate furniture of the castle, but in the cold of the night, it had returned to its original form, which was nothing more than a piece of firewood for the fire.

A few older hunters sat by the campfire, leaning on their longbows, and watched the scene outside the battlement, the forest was dark and dreary in the snowy night, except for the whirring of the wind, and nothing else. They relaxed and began to talk in low voices, most of whom were refugees from all over the world, discussing the situation in their hometowns.

The harsh winter has made the former northern frontier no longer exist, and the peace and tranquility seem like yesterday, but today, people have to deal with monsters that haunt the land, and the oppressive rule of the Ravenclaw Sanctuary has overwhelmed the people.

They talked about silent topics, sometimes with long silences and a few sighs. In the quiet time, people brought out dry food and distributed it to each other.

Sand Night and Sora sat on the other side and also got food. The boy's face was still pale and a little weak, but he could handle the bow—Fang Ou had made him another magic bow, and it was even better than the previous one, and he couldn't value it more now, and he wouldn't lose it again.

He thanked the men, who saw that he was weak and gave him more dry food. Sora originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking for a while, he fell silent, now everyone is all the way, they are comrades who fight side by side, he really doesn't need to be so polite.

Seeing that he understood this, the other party nodded, turned around and prepared to walk back.

"Excuse me, can you teach me how to shoot arrows more accurately?" In the slightly surprised gaze of the sand night, Sora got up and asked.

The cold wind howled in the winter night, and the redeemed looked at him with some surprise.

The boy was a little embarrassed, the Electors and the Natives came from two different worlds, and their experiences often did not share the same experience, but he had seen that these old hunters were much stronger than his own, and when dealing with those skeletons, only he and the girl named Ai Xiaoxiao missed the shot.

The Oak Knights no longer exist -

What he saw in the camp made him desperate to become stronger, so that he could protect the people around him.

in order to be worthy of Ed's expectations.

The old hunter turned around, looked at him, thought for a moment, and then pointed to the bow in his hand and said, "Shoot an arrow and see." ”

Sora nodded hurriedly, took the big bow from behind his back, activated the magic furnace, and then opened the bow. He narrowed his eyes and aimed at the forest and pointed the arrow in his hand in one direction, but just as he was about to release the bowstring, the mutation occurred.

In his field of vision, in the dark night sky, a bright golden thread suddenly reflected in his eyes.

The bright golden thread stretched slowly, as if someone had used a pen to slowly draw a horizontal line above the night.

Sora was slightly stunned, and subconsciously let go of his hand in the face of this scene, and looked up in that direction.

Everyone stood up.

In the night sky, there seemed to be a ball of fire, and it was getting bigger and bigger, falling straight in their direction.

"...... that?" Sora opened his mouth wide.

But before he could finish speaking, a great force knocked him to the ground, and the old hunter swooped down and tossed him to the ground, and the next moment there was a sharp roar, mixed with a strong wind, and in the eyes of the young man, the blazing flames flew right above their heads.

"Be careful!"

Then there was a screech and crashed into the castle.

I can see it clearly-

The winged sail sticking out of the flames was the wreckage of the airwing.

……