Alien Knights

In the depths of the Temple of Shadows, on the side of the high platform of the sacrificial hall, Meredith walked up to Rachel, looked at the withered and pale cheek that hadn't had a drop of water all day and night, and said softly: "What you need most now is rest."

Rachel stood quietly beside the sacrificial totem, staring at the ground in the center of the hall, without saying a word.

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

"You once said that two people returned safely?"

Rachel's sudden question stunned Meredith for a moment.

"That's right, during the years I've been following Master, I have indeed seen two people return from the bottom of the sea."

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

"One took nine days, the other three."

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

"Those who have passed the test, no matter who they are, will remain silent when asked about the world behind the dark door after returning to the present world."

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

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

Rachel replied coldly: "At this time, does the answer still make sense?"

Meredith thought for a while and dropped the discussion of the issue.

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

When she got to the gate, she heard a strange noise coming from the ground.

The sound was like a tide coming, or a flood erupting.

Tracing her memory for a while, Meredith's eyes widened as she finally remembered what the sound meant to come.

Turning around and running back to the sacrificial altar as fast as possible, Meredith pulled up Rachel who was still in shock, and ran towards the gate desperately.

There was a loud bang!

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

The two wet women climbed up the steps at the gate to avoid the sea water spreading under their feet.

Holding tightly to the protruding rocks on the wall, Rachel's voice was like a boat in a storm in front of the rough sea: "What's going on?! What happened?!"

"The trial of fate is over! The door of darkness has opened again!" Meredith made a small basin out of crow feathers, scooped up the seawater around her in a panic, and said in a surprised voice, "But I have never seen such intensity and movement before!"

Seawater poured into the entire underground hall, and the counterclockwise vortex uprooted the giant stone totem on the sacrificial platform, swept away the glyphs on the wall, and washed them into the seabed together.

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

A strong body as tall as two people, scales exuding silver metallic luster, a one-meter-long tail like a dinosaur, and sharp iron claws exuding black awns.

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

Rachel stared blankly at the monster in the whirlpool, and called out with some uncertainty: "Todd?"

Hearing the woman's voice, the monster turned its body in the sea water and swam towards the entrance of the hall like a fish.

With those captivating eyes slowly emerging from the water, Meredith wanted to pull Rachel back, but unexpectedly the latter had no intention of retreating at all.

As a last resort, the Crow Feather girl had no choice but to hide at the top of the steps, secretly observing everything in front of her.

Slowly extending the sharp iron claws towards Rachel's throat, the red light in the monster's eyes slowly receded, and the mutated limbs slowly degenerated.

Finally, a human palm touched the woman's hair.

Looking at the familiar face in front of her, tears in Rachel's eyes slowly flowed down her cheeks, she leaned forward, pressed her forehead against the man's chest, and murmured: "It's you, it's you... that's great..."

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Finding a fur carpet and wearing it like a robe, the weak Todd, with Rachel's support, stepped onto the last level of the spiral steps and returned to the dilapidated temple in the Kingdom of Shadows. He used his right hand to block the bright sunlight swaying down from the sky, and he was full of thoughts, as if he had passed away.

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

Todd carefully recalled the experience of the seabed, and couldn't help but think of the last words Jingsu said to him.

"What you need, you have found. 』

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

So where is it again? How did you get in touch?

Also, the current body can not only restore itself to a normal state, but can even freely switch between monster form and human form. What's going on?

"You passed all the trials."

The purple-haired and red-eyed queen, standing on the high altar of the temple, smiled at Todd like never before.

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

Todd took a step forward, and just about to speak, his knees softened due to weakness and fatigue, and he knelt down on the ground.

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

A burly young man in his twenties poked his head out curiously from the promenade at the other end of the temple. Before he could see the situation in the temple clearly, Skaha raised his left hand slightly, and a fist-sized stone, like a cannonball, hit the opponent's lower abdomen heavily.

"Cuchulin! Who told you that you can be lazy?!"

Hearing the queen's displeased roar, the young man named Cu Chulainn covered his stomach with his hands, and disappeared at the end of the corridor while crawling.

Meredith spat in the direction where the young man disappeared, lifted the wings made of crow feathers, pointed to the high mountain behind the temple, and said, "There is an ancient temple on the mountainside there, and you can use the rooms and tools as you like. However, you have to find your own way for food and clean water."

Winking mischievously at Todd, Meredith said with a smile: "I think, since the trial has been completed, these small things will naturally trouble you..."