"Claudia? What's wrong with you guys! ”

Hearing the movement in the communication spell, Ronald naturally immediately opened his mouth to ask.

Before Claudia could speak, Heloise, who was in the midst of a tense battle, replied:

"Ronald, we are under siege by a strange creature! These things possess a strong constitution and sharp claws, and the number reaches an unhandleable amount! ”

“……”

After the description, Ronald immediately thought of the hunters he had encountered at the bottom of the sea. Could it be that after these monsters were repulsed, more hunters began to attack?

"Phyllis, does this monster look like it has blue-black scales, a mouth with exposed teeth on its head, and very large eyes?"

"That's right, Ronald, you too...... I don't care about you! ”

Heloise was only halfway through the communication spell when her tone became rapid and angry. Ronald only heard this, and could guess that the other party was dealing with the attacking hunters.

A few seconds passed, and Heloise's voice reappeared.

"Ronald, if you know anything about this, we have no problem dealing with a few of these monsters, but there are too many of them!"

Ronald has limited knowledge of the Hunters.

In the face of Heloise's inquiry, he could only give the most direct response strategy.

"Phyllis, don't think of them as unintelligent monsters."

"This is a sapient species that can organize actions and have the ability to communicate, and it will probably help you to find their leaders and kill them."

“……”

"Every time in such a pinch, you can come up with something surprising."

With a meaningful emotion, the conversation between Ronald and the rest of his companions ended for the time being. On the other side of the island, the fighting is fierce. Although everyone present was a highly capable spellcaster, the Hunters suppressed them with overwhelming numerical superiority.

So much so that while someone found the ruins entrance in the center of the island.

They can't get into it as originally planned.

Ronald ended the communication with a gloomy look in his eyes, and Miss Mermaid on the side immediately spoke:

"Wuling people, what's going on over there?"

"The kind of monster we encountered before, and is currently besieging my companions on the surface."

“……”

After two battles with Ronald, Helbeth's attitude was much better than at the beginning. Faced with such an answer, she even took the initiative to help analyze it:

"Sapient beings generally do not exhibit such behavior. I think there should be someone behind these things. ”

Ronald nodded in agreement with Miss Mermaid's statement.

Then he turned around and looked at the shards of rock that had been torn apart by the rhizomes of the demonic plants. Although the scene was chaotic, there was a faint passage to continue upward.

"Regardless of who instructs us, let's first consider solving the typhoon problem. Keep going up, and you might find something new. ”

The words landed, and Ronald took the initiative to walk towards the side of the passage.

The mermaid behind her naturally followed.

The two of them had confirmed that the flower in front of them was the center of the island's magic node, but due to the current situation, they could not destroy it, and now all they could do was to continue to look for the possibility of dealing with this thing.

As for the demonic plants that still stand in the underground space......

Now that there was no enemy attacking, the thing immediately returned to quiet, and if it hadn't been for the wounds inflicted in the previous battle, it might have continued to disguise itself as harmless to humans and animals.

Bypassing the unresponsive plants, Ronald and Helbeth move the broken stones into the passage. This is an ordinary underground tunnel, and the main body of earth and stone has nothing peculiar, but because of the impact of the previous battle, the road conditions in the passage are very bad.

Even if the two of them work together to move forward together.

It wasn't too far away, and it took them nearly a quarter of an hour.

However, after they left this difficult road, the image that appeared in front of them made a man and a fish immediately fall into deep thought.

Corpses, a large number of human corpses, were now scattered all over a sacrificial platform-like building, and where Ronald and Hylbes left the ground was a crack in the center of the altar.

Especially at their feet, the body of an old man in a white robe was prostrate there, and on his raised face was the despair that he still did not want to believe the scene in front of him before he died.

Analysis from the condition that remains.

These people must have gathered for some kind of ritual, and then they all died in an accident.

Witnessing such a picture, Helbeth, who was not human, immediately moved his gaze to Ronald, and there was a hint of strangeness in his tone:

"Wuling people?"

"This ...... Did your people do it? ”

Ronald immediately shook his head and denied:

"I've just received an order to come and stop the source of this typhoon. I don't know any of these people. ”

After receiving an unrelated reply from Ronald's mouth, the subtlety in Helbeth's eyes faded, and the mermaid lady didn't care about the dense corpses around her, but walked directly out of it and walked in the direction of leaving the altar.

Seeing the reaction of his companions, Ronald naturally chased after him.

"Don't take a closer look at the condition of these people?"

"The ceremony just failed, there's nothing to study." While expressing his opinion on the scene, Helbes led Ronald out, "What I'm curious about now is what the result of their failed ritual was. The plant we encountered in the ground wasn't like the culprit that could make them all like this. ”

As they analyzed each other's opinions, Ronald and Hylbes walked out of the altar-like building together.

Then, Ronald understood why it was called a relic.

Directly below the center of the island, an underground cavern large enough to accommodate a small town sits here, and the view is almost everywhere with fragments of broken buildings and statues.

The altar they now occupy is also located in the middle of the town.

However, unlike the tattered appearance of other locations, this is the only thing that has been repaired.

What's even more interesting is the top of this space.

A hazy white mist topped the roof of the cavern, and its glow provided ample illumination for the entire space, as if a large glowing cloud was hidden underground.

And as long as you look closely, you will find that there is another mystery in it.

Inside the large white mist, there seemed to be a faint outline of a human face.

If Ronald is not mistaken......

This face is exactly the same as the old man who died in front of the altar!