"You are not Adrian, who are you?"

Athos held up his staff and pointed it at Adrian who had fallen to the ground.

His expression was unprecedentedly serious.

Tony was stunned by this sudden scene.

But the next moment, he saw the other three team members who were also surprised and looked solemn in an instant, and they drew out their weapons, stood beside Atdos, and looked vigilantly at Adrian who was flowing in blood.

Tony immediately realized, and instantly changed his gaze, and his eyes also fell on the young mage who fell to the ground.

The young mage looked blank and his eyes widened.

He looked down at the blood that was gushing out of the wound in his chest, then slowly raised his head, coughing up blood while looking at Athos with a sad and unbelievable look:

"Father...father...I...I am Adrian..."

“For… why?”

His eyes were filled with grief.

A trace of pain flashed through Athos's expression.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes gently, and when he opened his eyes again, his eyes had become firm:

"No……"

"My son is dead..."

"You are not my son, you are a monster in the ice castle!"

After hearing Athos's words, the young mage's eyes became even more sad.

While coughing blood, he stretched out his hand to Athos with a hard time, his eyes filled with a strong attachment and sadness:

"Father...father..."

"Father...father!"

He repeated over and over again, and the sound became louder and louder.

And as he repeated it, his skin gradually swelled up with squirming pieces of meat.

Blood gushed out from the penetration of his chest, but... it was no longer a bright red color, but a foul-smelling dirty black...

"Father...father!"

He continued to repeat, his body began to expand, his expression became ferocious, his clothes broke, and his limbs began to grow black hair and scales... Soon, his body expanded to nearly three meters.

At the same time, his breath began to increase continuously as his body changed.

"Go together! Kill it!"

Athos roared.

As soon as the words came to an end, everyone who was ready for battle shouted angrily and rushed towards the monster disguised as Adrian.

The battle broke out in an instant.

However, just as the two sides fought, the monster let out a roar.

A strong aura spread out from its body. Its thick arm grabbed the giant axe that Bolls waved, and then threw the heavy armored warrior and his giant axe out like a toy in the other party's horror gaze, and directly threw it onto the wall in the distance.

A dull sound came, and Bolls let out a muffled groan, slowly slipped off the cracked wall, and fell into a coma.

"Bols!"

Ramis exclaimed.

However, before he could do anything, a gust of wind came, and before he could react, he was punched in the chest by the monster.

Accompanied by the sound of bone shattering, Ramis squirted out a mouthful of blood, and then flew out like a broken sack, and hit Milair, who was singing a spell.

The metal armor hit the female mage, and another series of sounds of bone shattering came. The huge inertia led the two to throw it out, and they also hit the wall.

They slowly slid down and never got up again...

All this happened in just a flash.

When Tony, who had the most lack of combat experience, realized it, the entire team had lost most of its combat power, leaving only him and the old mage Athos.

Looking at the hideous, terrifying and extremely powerful monster, Tony was shocked, and his mood instantly sank to the bottom of the valley.

"Ramis! Milaire!"

Tony exclaimed softly and quickly met him. When he touched the breath of several people and found that they still had a breath, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"roar!"

A roar came from the monster's mouth.

The terrifying pressure accompanied by the smelly wind came, which made Tony's stomach roll and his whole body tremble, and he was shocked.

"silver……!"

Athos's expression was very ugly.

He clasped his staff tightly, his nails almost embedded in the flesh.

"Father...why..."

The monster was still growling.

It had completely turned into a giant with scales and steel hair all over its body. The yellow-green eyes squeezed by pieces of sarcoma were looking at the old mage frantically, and the viscous and fishy mucus flowed down from its huge mouth with sharp fangs...

Looking at its gradually solidified terrifying appearance, Athos's eyes gradually became complicated.

"Shadow-eating monster...Adrian...I'm late."

He sighed slightly.

Shadow-eating monster!

Tony's heart was shaking, and the battles these days immediately emerged in his mind. He had made up for the relevant knowledge about monsters in the Western Continent.

Among all the fallen monsters, this kind of monster is mentioned.

This kind of monster is often degenerated by mages, with strong strength and amazing magic.

They long for flesh and blood and magic. Whenever they devour new creatures, they will become the other person and gain some of their souls and memories.

And while constantly devouring, they will continue to improve their wisdom.

Thinking of this, Tony also instantly understood the meaning of Athos's words.

I'm afraid... this monster that turned Adrian was right. Adrian was indeed a human mage who persisted until the end, but... in the end it was not the monster he defeated, but the monster swallowed him.

Not only that, the opponent's strength has at least reached the level of silver!

This is no longer something he and Athos can compete.

Even though he has the silver skill of [Eagle Strike], he can only use it once in the end.

When he first arrived, the silver monster was seriously injured and his sneak attack, and he was also extremely lucky to destroy the other party. But in fact, everyone encountered new silver monsters along the way, and often only had to take a detour and escape...

However, the place where the monster is located just blocks the road leading to the inside of the ice tower. If you can't go deeper and turn around and run away, you will lose the opportunity to open up the wall of divine sighs...

No.

Even if you escape, you may not be able to escape.

Tony heard from Polls that when he meets a head-on-one with a fallen monster who is stronger than himself, he never thinks about running away.

Because you can't escape at all, you can only fight desperately...

Although the current situation is not one-on-one, Tony knows that it is useless to escape just by his and the old mage's power.

After fighting for so long, he is no longer the novice. With his experience and redeemed perception skills, he can sense that the power of monsters is probably not ordinary silver.

And at this moment, Tony found that the monster suddenly diverted his attention and turned his eyes to him.

To be more precise, it was the wrap around his waist.

Inside, there is the magic energy gathering core they escorted.

Seeing the monster's greedy gaze, Tony instantly understood.

There is abundant magic power in the magic energy gathering core.

This is also fatal attraction for Shadow-Eating Monster.

You can't let this core fall into the hands of the monster, otherwise... it will probably be swallowed by it and eventually destroyed!

Tony thought.

He glanced at the coordinates of his teammates in the Celestial Dynasty and shouted to Athos:

"Ados! I'll hold him back! You take the energy core to the inside of the ice tower and close the wall of sighs! Our reinforcements will come soon!"

As he said that, he pulled the package around his waist and threw it at Athos.

However, just after he threw out the package, Athos raised his hand. The package seemed to have gained a force, and in Tony's shocked gaze, he returned to his hand.

"No, Lord Tony, you go to the inside of the ice tower, I'll drag him."
To be continued...