Although he had already confirmed from Miss Tata that there might be an exit nearby, Fang Yu was not in a hurry to leave immediately to check. He first tried to contact Alyssa and the others outside with the communication crystal, but the communication crystal still didn't respond at all.

Fang Yu was a little speechless, and he didn't know if there was something wrong with his communication crystal itself - someone in the community had indeed said that the communication crystal was also of second best quality. His previous communication crystal didn't have so many problems.

Fortunately, the communication crystal on Kita's side was also silent, which made him dispel this idea a little.

I don't know if the lich will ever return. However, Fang Yu put away the communication crystal, looked at the altar in the center of the grotto, thought for a while, and walked over. "Brother Ed." After all that had happened, Kita looked a little worried in the back and whispered to stop him.

Fang Yu shook his head at her, signaling that he didn't need to worry. He hadn't forgotten what had happened when he approached the altar, and of course he had to figure out what was going on. Now that the lich had been scared away, he was about to seize the time to check it out.

He turned around and walked over to the altar. He had actually had the opportunity to approach the altar more than once in the middle of the battle, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it—and now it appeared that the altar itself was unremarkable, boxy, and seemed to have been carved out of a single natural rock.

It's just that the Moya Holy Sword, which was originally suspended in mid-air, is also missing at this moment, and I don't know if it was taken away by the lich, or if something else happened during the battle at that time.

He asked Tata about it. But Miss Fairy only shook her head, saying that it was full of smoke and dust, and she didn't know what was going on.

At this moment, only the skeleton was left on the altar, covered with dust and cobwebs due to its age. Fang Yu lifted the lighting crystal, peeled off the layers of webs, and watched the large and small round spiders below scatter.

Out of respect for the deceased, he only carefully examined it - but found a lot of details. There was a neat cut in the ribs in the chest of the remains, where the sword had been inserted, and the blade of the sword pierced through the heart, killing it with a single blow.

A century later, the skeleton still retains its last posture, grasping the blade that does not exist in the air with its hand, as if it is still seeking a ray of life.

It had a ring on its ring finger, and Fang Yu wiped the dust from the ring with a cloth, revealing only a bright silver wolf head.

He was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously took a step back, his heart moving. The Cat Lady was now walking to the stone platform, circling the altar a few times with the Plover, and she looked up at the skeleton with sapphire eyes, and squealed a few times.

The girl in the painting, and Delis in her arms—

This picture flashed in Fang Yu's heart, and he was suddenly stunned.

The afternoon on the canvas is quiet and peaceful, and there is only innocence and innocence between the girl's expression. But who would have thought that the owner of the painting would end up in this place?

Lie quietly in this dark and silent underground.

Only the remains under the dust and cobwebs, quietly savoring a hundred years of loneliness.

Fang Ou opened his mouth wide, and involuntarily remembered what he had seen in Dorifin's illusion.

Isn't that what Heath is all about? She also died on such an altar, and her father was even searching for his daughter's whereabouts until the end. It's just that in the end, Misu used her kindness and dragon soul to let her return to this world.

But this time, in this abandoned castle, who knows that the beautiful girl with the painting is lying on this altar? There is no more kind and noble lady here, without the same kindness, who can bring her back to life.

No one even knew the girl's name.

No one knows what happened to her in life or what she went through. For a century, she just lay here quietly, no one knew who the murderer was, and Fort Erimao would and would become what it is today.

If he and Kita hadn't stumbled upon this place, the secrets of this place might have been buried under the dust of history for as long as Dorifin's illusion.

Until the end, all traces disappeared -

But perhaps it was no coincidence, Fang Yuan couldn't help but look at the cat lady surrounding his feet.

Is Delise the cat in the painting, or is she a direct descendant? While it is common sense that cats do not live for more than a century, in Attaria, it is not impossible.

As long as you become a magical beast, you can have a longer lifespan. Fang Yu suddenly thought of a possibility, maybe Delis was a magical pet.

"Did you bring us to this place, Miss Delis?"

"Why?"

Fang Yu asked softly.

But the cat lady only meowed at him, as if she was coquettish.

Fang Yu couldn't help but smile helplessly. Miss Delis is sometimes mysterious, not only killing vampires, but also scaring away the lich, allowing her to move freely around the place.

But sometimes, it's no different from an ordinary cat, except that it's more elegant and pretty. He couldn't help but think to himself, could Chrissy be the name that the girl in the painting had given to Miss Delis?

It's a pity that Fang Yu doesn't know.

He's an alchemist after all—not a veterinarian, or a druid, or whatever. Miss Attila also couldn't understand what this cat was, it didn't seem to be as simple as a magical beast.

However, the only thing Fang Yu could do at the moment was to examine everything on the altar and around him to see if he could find any clues. He approached the skeleton with his hand, but this time the half of the crown mark on the back of his hand did not react at all, and the power of the Radiance seemed to be dormant.

Only the Ring of Golden Flame was still faintly hot in his arms.

He pulled out the Ring of Golden Flame—the ring seemed to draw some power from the previous mutation, and it became bright again in the darkness, like a layer of flowing lava.

It's just that the light it emits is not as good as before, just like faintly leaking out from under the rock formations, giving people a feeling of hidden flames.

At this time, Fang Yu faintly felt a throbbing, as if a voice in his heart was calling for something, asking him to bring the ring close to the bone. It felt like a mother's call to her child, and he couldn't resist it.

Miss Fairy seemed to be aware of this, but didn't warn her.

Fang Yu relaxed slightly, he knew that Miss Tata could not harm herself. He lifted the ring and brought it closer and closer to the bone, until the ring of golden flame touched only the bone's right finger bone.

At that moment, Fang Yu felt that all the scenes in front of him seemed to be stretched, as if he had been dragged into a long passage, and all kinds of illusions came one after another.

It was as if an infinite number of images and memories poured into his mind, but he couldn't see anything clearly, only watching as the fragments of those images and memories seemed to have all fallen under an unknown cliff.

There was a very complex feeling in his heart, which seemed to be sorrow, and it seemed to be relief, and there were tears and hysterical pain that burst out of his eyes, so that he could hardly cry out.

But all this illusion is only a matter of moments.

All the illusions and feelings eventually turned into a sigh of nothingness.

That faint sigh sounded in Fang Yuan's heart. He seemed to see a long shadow, with long black hair, slowly turning in front of him, away from himself.

And in the depths of the darkness, there is only a pair of golden pupils, shining.

And then all illusions vanished—

"Brother Ed?"

Fang Yu only heard a somewhat worried voice shouting timidly beside him.

Only then did he come back to his senses and find that Kita had come to his side at some point, looking at him with a thin brow. Fang Yu shook his head, only to realize that everything before was just an illusion.

But he couldn't help but look at the Golden Flame Ring in his hand. The light on the ring had long since fallen silent, and it had regained its dim appearance, as if nothing had happened before.

Even the throbbing sensation in his mental world had disappeared, and the dragon soul that had once existed in his mental world seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

Only the text on the ring remains the same:

'Therein is great power—'

Fang Yu turned back a little confused and asked, "Did you see anything just now, Ji Ta?" ”

"All I saw was that the light on the ring was fading away, and then Brother Ed, you had been standing there for almost ten minutes." Miss Naturalist shook her head lightly and replied in a low voice.

Fang Yu didn't expect that he would be distracted for ten minutes. However, from Kita's description, at least the light emitted by the Golden Flame Ring before was not a hallucination of his own, which indicates that something did happen between it and the skeleton before.

It's just that the last phantom he saw, what did it represent? The Ring of Golden Flame is the source of Nicol Bolas's Dragon's Golden Flame and power, but it is not only the power of the Dragon Witch alone, but also absorbs some of the divine power of Toragotos and the Lizardman God.

Fang Yu didn't know if what had happened in Wormburg had something to do with the Dragon Witch, Torragotos, or the Lizard God. However, the pair of golden eyes he saw last time should indeed be the witch of the dragon.

Is it just Misu, or Nicol Bolas?

And why did the Ring of Golden Flame react with this corpse?

Who is the girl in the painting, and how does it relate to the Rogersel family? What happened to Fort Eiger?

Fang Yu suddenly remembered what the lich had said before: "Everything is fate-" The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something in this sentence, but he didn't have a clue for a while.

He recalled the last scene he had seen, and asked Tata in his heart, "Miss Tata, what do you think?" ”

Fang Yu knew that what she had seen, Miss Tata should empathize. After all, the knight and the dragon soul are one, and their feelings and thoughts are connected, sharing joys, angers and sorrows.

Tata thought quietly for a moment: "I don't understand the feelings between mortals, Mr. Knight has any ideas that can teach me." However, the power in the Golden Flame Ring before should have belonged to the Dragon Witch. ”

She continued: "Those powers are now lost in your psychic world. But I don't feel like they're gone, they're becoming more perfect—I even have a hunch that you're going to see 'it' soon, Mr. Knight. ”

"It?"

Fang Yu suddenly reacted, Miss Fairy was talking about the dragon soul born from the dark power of Nicol Bolas.

He couldn't help but fall silent.

Every time Nicol Bolas's power appeared, it was filled with a negative aura, which was also an inherent attribute of the Dark Dragon - and Torragotos and the lizard gods were not good, and the 'existence' born from the power between the three made him really wonder if this was good news or bad news.

Although the other party has never shown any malice in his mental world.

He was silent for a moment, and the underground grotto was quieter—the place fell silent in darkness as the visions vanished. Aside from the dim glow of the illuminating crystal, there was not a trace of movement around.

And Fang Yu couldn't find any clue for a while, he checked the other places, and there didn't seem to be anything else worth noting in this underground grotto except this altar.

In the end, Fang Ou only took out a dark fragment from his pocket, which had fallen after he had killed the strange shadow earlier. He only remembered now that this thing could be a fragment of something-

It should probably be part of the Dragon-Slaying Sword Moya.

No wonder Miss Tata would say that there was a fairy breath on it, and the five holy swords were not the same five guardians that the goblins forged and gave to mortals?

But how the fragments of the Dragon Slayer Sword could have turned into such a twisted monster was really suspicious. It's just that there are too many questions in this underground, and there is no shortage of this one, Fang Yu knew in his heart that he might find out what had happened to Aimao Fort for more than a hundred years.

is the answer to all these questions.

He took one last look at the remains, which were still lying motionless on the altar in their previous position, only approaching it with the Ring of Golden Flame again, and nothing responded.

Fang Yu also hesitated for a moment, whether to find a place to bury this skeleton so that it would not be exposed here. But after thinking about it, he didn't know what the life of the owner of the body was, and he didn't even know the name, and he couldn't erect a simple tombstone for the other party.

He sighed, he was inadvertently implicated in the incident of worshipping the dragon cult and the dragon witch. Maybe one day, he and Miss Atira will find out all the truth.

Maybe then it's not too late for him to come back and do all this.

And until then, it might not be a good idea to have this quiet underground grotto as a temporary burial pit for this remain.

After all, in a hundred years, he and Kita may also be the only ones who have entered this underground grotto. Except, of course, the lich—but the lich probably wouldn't have had any interest in the remains.

He looked at the remains on the altar and couldn't help but think of the girl in the painting again. On that quiet afternoon, under what circumstances, a painter fixed the portrait of the girl on the canvas.

And then everything was lost to history.

"Maybe I'll help you find out the truth," Fang Yu said silently in his heart, "If you can still hear it, you just need to wait a little longer." ”

Kita also looked at the skeleton silently, of course she also saw the ring on the other party's hand, faintly thought of something, and couldn't help but have a little pitiful look.

But the girl has been waiting alone in this dark underground for a hundred years, and may have become patient enough.

Only Delis tilted her head to look at Fang Ou and screamed softly.

It was the Cat Lady's cry that brought the two of them back to their senses.

Fang Ou lowered his head to look at Delis, although he didn't know what kind of power had brought Lady Cat to this place, he preferred to believe that it was the guidance of the girl's soul in the dark.

Aside from the altar, the dark crystal, and the skeleton, there seemed to be nothing else remarkable about the grotto. Fang Yu checked around before he was sure of this, and after he couldn't find any clues, he turned back to Ji Ta and said, "Let's go, leave this place." ”

Miss Naturalist nodded slightly.

In the darkness underground, only the light of the illuminating crystal slowly stretched forward.

The two of them, along with a fairy lady and a cat, walked through the tunnel on the side of the grotto, and it didn't take long to find the exit that Tata and Delith had found earlier. Sure enough, there was a staircase leading to the top, and Fang Ou checked it and found a guillotine trap at the entrance, but it had fallen into disrepair and had long since rusted to death—and it was no longer functional.

The crowd then safely crossed the trap and walked upwards. I don't know where this passage leads, but it's somewhat similar to the one from the room where the girl's portrait was located, only slightly wider.

Fang Yu estimated the direction slightly. It may not be accurate, but given the size of the cavern below, it is likely that the exit of the tunnel is not inside the castle.

He didn't know if it was his own delusion, but he had a vague feeling that the road might lead to the valley below.

In that case, however, the exit of this secret passage should not be difficult to find in the valley. And after so many years, there should be a lot of adventurers who have gone to the Blood Thistle Glade, is there really no other adventurer who has discovered this place?

He was thinking about this when he heard a knock in front of him.

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, he realized that he was not the only one who heard this voice. Jita behind him also obviously had a puzzled look on her face, looking ahead.

Fang Yu gestured to Miss Naturalist, signaling her to be calm. The latter closed his mouth and nodded obediently.

Fang Ou turned around and heard the knocking sound getting louder and louder—since the sound was so close, he didn't bother to use the clockwork goblin, leaving Miss Tata, Miss Cat, and Kita to stay where they were, and touch it by themselves.

When he got closer, Fang Yu found that there was already the end of the secret passage in front of him, where there was a thick iron door. A violent knock came from behind the iron door, mixed with a few anxious voices:

"Haven't you opened this door yet?"

"This thing is a little too strong."

"Why haven't you heard of a door here?"

"When, you still care about this? Those things are going to catch up, can you hurry up? ”

As soon as Fang Yu heard this, he could tell that these voices were not either Alyssa, Lady Quesu, or Luo Yu, nor were they Esta and the Big Cat Man below. It dawned on him that these were the Chosen ones who had entered the valley and left traces of camping.

But listening to their conversation, it seems that they are in trouble?

……