Hearing the movement in the communication spell, Ronald naturally asked questions immediately.
Before Claudia could speak, Heloise, who was in the middle of a tense battle, answered first:
"Ronald, we are being besieged by a strange creature! These things have strong physiques and sharp claws, and the number has reached an unmanageable amount!"
"..."
After a description, Ronald immediately thought of the Hunters he had encountered at the bottom of the sea. Could it be that after these monsters were repelled, more Hunters began to attack?
"Phyllis, does this monster have blue-black scales, exposed teeth on its head, and extremely big eyes?"
"That's right, Ronald, you also... get out of here!"
During the communication spell, Heloise was only halfway through speaking, and her tone became urgent and angry. Ronald only heard this, and he could guess that the other party was dealing with the attacking hunter.
A few seconds passed, and Heloise's voice appeared again.
"Ronald, if you know anything about this thing, please tell me quickly. We have no problem dealing with a few of these monsters, but there are too many of them!"
Ronald's knowledge of the Hunters was limited.
Facing Heloise's inquiry, he could only give the most direct response strategy.
"Phyllis, don't think of them as monsters without intelligence."
"This is an intelligent species that can organize actions and have the ability to communicate. It may be helpful to you to find their leader and kill him."
"..."
"Every time at such a critical moment, you can come up with some surprising information."
With a meaningful sigh, the conversation between Ronald and other companions temporarily ended. On the surface of the island, the current fighting situation was very fierce. Although everyone present was a highly capable spell caster, the hunter used overwhelming power to
Their numerical superiority overwhelms them.
So much so that although someone found the entrance to the ruins in the center of the island.
They are now unable to enter it as originally planned.
Ronald ended the communication with a downcast look, and the mermaid lady beside him immediately said:
"Wuling people, what happened to you over there?"
"The monster we encountered before is currently besieging my companions on the surface."
"..."
After experiencing two battles with Ronald, Herbes' attitude was much better than at the beginning. Faced with such an answer, she even took the initiative to help analyze:
"Smart creatures generally don't behave like this. I think there should be someone behind the scenes of these things' current actions."
Ronald nodded in agreement with Miss Mermaid's statement.
He then turned around and looked at the rock fragments that had been torn apart by the roots of the monster plant. Although the scene was very chaotic, there was still a vague passage that continued upward.
"No matter who gave the instructions, we should first consider solving the typhoon problem. If we continue to move forward, we may find something new."
After saying this, Ronald took the initiative to walk towards the passage.
The mermaid lady behind him naturally followed.
The two of them have confirmed that the flower in front of them is the center of the island's magic node, but due to the current situation they cannot destroy it. All they can do now is to continue to look for possibilities to deal with this thing.
As for the strange plants still standing in the underground space...
Now that there is no enemy to attack, the thing immediately returned to silence. If the wounds caused in the previous battle were not still on it, it might still be able to continue to pretend to be harmless to humans and animals.
Bypassing the unresponsive plants, Ronald and Herbes moved the broken stones and entered the passage. This is an ordinary underground tunnel. The main body composed of earth and stone has nothing special, it is just caused by the previous battle.
As a result, the road conditions in the channel are very bad.
Even if the two of them work together to move forward together.
This distance, which was not too far, took them nearly a quarter of an hour.
But after they left this difficult road, the scene that appeared in front of them made everyone and the fish immediately fall into deep thought.
Corpses, a large number of human corpses, are now scattered in a building like a sacrificial altar. The position where Ronald and Halbers left the ground is a crack in the center of the sacrificial altar.
Especially at their feet, the corpse of an old man wearing a white robe was lying there. On his raised face was the despair that he still did not want to believe before he died.
Analysis from the remaining conditions.
These people must have gathered to hold some kind of ceremony, and then all of them died tragically in an accident.
Witnessing such a scene, Halbes, who was not a human being, immediately turned his gaze to Ronald, with a hint of weirdness in his tone:
"Wuling people?"
"This...was done by your people?"
Ronald immediately shook his head in denial:
"I 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, the subtlety in Halberth's eyes faded away. The mermaid lady did not care about the densely packed corpses around her, but walked directly out of them in the direction away from the altar.
Seeing his companion's reaction, Ronald naturally chased after him.
"Don't you take a closer look at the condition of these people?"
"It's just a failure in the ceremony. There's nothing to study." While expressing his views on this scene, Halbers led Ronald outside. "What I'm curious about now is what is the result of their failure in the ceremony. Let's
The plant I encountered underground doesn't seem like the culprit that could have caused them all to become like this."
While talking and analyzing each other's opinions, Ronald and Halbers walked out of the altar-like building together.
Then, Ronald understood why this place was called a ruins.
Directly below the center of the island, an underground cavity large enough to accommodate a small town is located here. Broken buildings and statue fragments are almost everywhere in the field of vision.
The altar where they are now is also located in the center of the town.
But unlike the dilapidated appearance of other locations, this is the only thing that has been repaired.
What is even more concerning is the top of this space.
A layer of hazy white mist is on top of the cave, and the light it emits provides sufficient illumination for the entire space, as if a large cloud that is constantly glowing is hidden underground.
But if you look closely, you will find that there is another mystery in it.
Inside the large white mist, there seemed to be a vague outline that looked like a human face.
If Ronald remembers correctly...
This face is exactly the same as the old man who died in front of the altar!