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Carefully avoiding the drops of water dripping overhead, Sylvie slowly walked through the cave with a torch - even if there was no light, the True Eye would not be stopped by the darkness, just to save his magic.

"It's a fork in the road," stopped the nightingale, who was at the front, "what cave is this?"

"The first fork in the twenty-third and second gate," Lightning pulled out his notebook and glanced at it.

"Hopefully this is the end," Sylvie muttered, opening her eyes that were completely magically shaped, "left...... Out of the mining area, no mine. Right...... The same. ”

Lightning jotted down the results, "Well, there's one last door left in this cave to be inspected." ”

"Let's go," said Nightingale, who circled from the front of the line to the end, and led everyone back the way they came. Her abilities seem to be more than just invisible, and Sylvie can only faintly see the magic of the nightingale's transformation, but she can't capture her form and movements. According to Lightning, she is the strongest fighting witch in the Mutual Aid Society.

This may be the reason why Roland asked her to follow him - the mine was once rumored to have been the lair of an ancient monster, and there have been several previous incidents of miners going missing. Before leaving, His Royal Highness the Prince repeatedly told him to be cautious, and if he encountered an uncertain situation, he should exit the mine first and then report to him.

Sylvie didn't think so, no monster could escape the detection of the Magic Eye, even the animal carcasses and writhing soft insects in the stone walls, she could see clearly.

There were four people in the "expedition", and in addition to her, Nightingale, and Lightning, there was also a little girl named Lucia. Every time she found an ore, she turned it into various detritus, and then carefully sorted it into her pocket, saying that she wanted to give it to His Highness for identification.

Lightning was in charge of mapping the terrain of the mines, and of course, according to her own words, she was indispensable for any expedition - a proud tone that reminded Sylvie of the captain who had been stationed on the Sleeping Isles.

Cave Twenty-Three is a large deep cavern near the bottom of the mine, and after going hundreds of paces, it divides into three branches, and if you continue to go deeper along these branches, you will find more branches, but by then they have almost extended beyond the boundaries of the mine, and there is very little possibility of having a vein, so they will only go so far as to stop.

Returning to the original fork in the road, where the lightning recorded the "door", Sylvisch exhibited his abilities to observe the situation of the three more gates of Cave Twenty-Three.

The wider the range of the True Eye's gaze, the greater the mana consumption and a heavy burden on the body, so she chose to observe once at each fork in the road, one passage at a time.

"Three more...... Well, there is no mine, there is a ...... at the end," she was stunned, "there are five branches, one of which seems to go down and back. ”

"Down?" Lightning repeated.

"That's true," Sylvie looked at it again, and it wasn't long before the slender passage turned back toward the mines, and as she tried to continue looking down the fork, a strong feeling of dizziness flooded into her mind, interrupting her connection with the MONOCULUS, "I think it might lead to a deposit." ”

But this explanation is very far-fetched, and it is clear that the intricate caverns in the mines on the northern slope were not excavated by hand, and they did not specifically seek out the ore - an unidentified vein found earlier was sandwiched between two forks, and the pile of metal stones hidden under the stone walls and dirt would not have been found if it were not for the True Eye to penetrate the obstacles.

"Whatever it is, just go and see," Nightingale shrugged.

The group entered the third gate of the cavern, reaching the end of the passage in about a quarter of an hour.

I saw that the passage was divided into five here, and the narrowest one of them was no longer for people to walk, and could only climb into it. The strange passage that Sylvie had seen earlier was in the middle of the five-way path, and the terrain had plummeted, almost forming a steep slope to the ground where they were standing.

"It looks pretty deep," Nightingale tapped with a torch, "and I've always felt that the caverns in this place are somewhat similar to those seen in the cliffs of Desperation. ”

"Let's go back after the check," Lucia couldn't help but grab the nightingale's arm, "I don't like it here...... It always feels like something is staring at us in the hole. ”

"There's nothing in the cave, except mud and stones," said Sylvie, though she didn't like the secluded and damp place either, but her ability told her there was no danger here, "the left and right are all mine-free, out of the mine," she quickly swept the straight fork in the road, moving her gaze to the middle one, and then was slightly startled, "...... Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Lightning asked.

"I ...... I don't see the situation below. ”

"Can't see?" said the little girl, surprised, "Are you too tired to fail to use your abilities?" ”

"No, it's not a matter of ability," Sylvie closed her eyes and opened them again, still pitch black in front of her, as if she had been deprived of her vision. She endured the headache and widened her field of vision, but nothing changed—the dirt around her was clearly discernible, except for the middle that was completely shrouded in endless darkness, thick as ink that could not be dissolved. "Something is blocking my peeping. ”

"You all stay here and don't move," Nightingale pulled out two silver weapons, "I'll go down and find out, and I'll be back soon." ”

"Don't go!" Sylvie stopped while holding her swollen forehead, "there's only one thing that can have that effect. Even if you go, you'll be in danger. ”

"What is it?"

"The Stone of Divine Punishment," she said through gritted teeth, "there is a Stone of Divine Punishment underneath the ground, and it is the kind that can cover the entire territory!"

......

When Roland learned of the news, he immediately mobilized the soldiers of the First Army to enter the North Slope Mine.

The final findings were just as Sylvi had guessed - the deep cavern at the bottom of the mine contained a large number of Divine Punishment Stones.

After making sure that there was no danger, Roland also entered Cave 23 under the protection of his guards, and he also wanted to see with his own eyes what the Stone of Divine Punishment looked like that could ban the entire bottom of the mountain.

"Your Highness, please be careful," Carter reminded, "and the exit is ahead. ”

"You can't use magic here, it's safer for you to stay there," Roland looked back at Anna, Nightingale, and Lightning who were following him, "Isn't it good to learn from Sylvie?"

"I'm better than you without magic, and of course I can come if you can," Nightingale pouted.

"Where there's adventure, there's me. Lightning said with his chest straightened.

Anna didn't say anything, just looked directly at Roland, and when she saw the clear eyes that reflected the light of the torches, Roland knew that it was useless for her to say anything.

"Well," he sighed, "you must stay with me, but don't stay away." ”

Walking down the sloping cavern to the end, Roland suddenly understood what the chief knight meant by "exit".

The vision suddenly opened up, and a huge cave of incomparably deep cavern appeared in front of him.

Even without the help of fire, he could clearly see the whole of the cave - the light came from the crystal prismatic stones of divine punishment, which rose from the ground, each between twenty or thirty meters in diameter, like a giant neon tower, standing majestically in front of his eyes. (To be continued.) )