Deep underground in the Shadow Temple, on the side of the high platform of the sacrificial hall, Meredith walked to Rachel's side, looked at the withered and pale cheek that had not received a drop of water all day and night, and said softly, "What you need most now
It’s rest.”
Rachel stood quietly next to the sacrificial totem, looking at the ground in the center of the hall without saying a word.
Meredith found a clean place to sit down, and handed the cake 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 final test set by the gods. It measures the
The value of a soul in the face of absolute will"
"You once said that two people returned safely"
Rachel's sudden question made Meredith stunned for a moment.
"Yes, in the years I have followed 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 astonishingly bright. "How long did it take them to return to the ground?"
"One took nine days, the other three."
"After they came back, did they talk about how they came back?"
"Anyone who has passed the trial, no matter who it is, 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 back to the uneven stone slab, as if the ground would crack in the next second.
Meredith lowered her head slightly and asked in an almost inaudible voice, "During the trial of strength, I heard someone calling him the king of Muxi."
Rachel replied coldly, "At this time, does the answer still make sense?"
Meredith thought for a moment and gave up discussing the issue.
The two women just leaned together in silence, staring at the ground in a daze for a long time. Meredith finally couldn't stand the atmosphere, stood up and planned to leave the hall.
When she walked to the door, she heard a strange sound coming from the ground.
The sound was like the coming of a tide or the eruption of a flood.
After searching in her memory for a long time, Meredith opened her eyes wide and finally recalled what this sound meant that was coming.
Turning around and running back to the altar as fast as she could, Meredith picked up Rachel, who was still in shock, and ran towards the door as hard as she could.
A loud bang
The stone slabs on the ground behind him were washed into pieces by the violent sea currents. The seawater continued to rise like a herd of beasts, and the entire sacrificial hall was submerged in the blink of an eye.
The two wet women climbed up the steps at the gate to avoid the spreading seawater under their feet.
Holding on to the protruding rocks on the wall, Rachel's voice sounded like a small boat in the storm in front of the rough sea water: "What's going on? What's going on?"
"The Trial of Destiny is over and the Dark Door has opened again." Meredith used crow feathers to make a small basin and scooped up the sea water around her in a panic. "But I have never seen such intensity and movement before."
Sea water poured into the entire underground hall, and the counterclockwise rotating whirlpool uprooted the huge stone totems on the sacrificial platform, swept away the carvings on the walls, and washed them all into the seabed.
A figure slowly climbed into the hall along the center of the whirlpool of the sea current.
The two men were tall and strong, with scales exuding silver metallic luster, tails as long as one meter like dinosaurs, and sharp iron claws emitting black light.
A pair of faint red eyes shine in the turbid water like a lighthouse in the dark night.
Rachel looked at the monster in the whirlpool blankly, and shouted "Todd" with some uncertainty.
Hearing the woman's voice, the monster moved its body in the sea water and swam toward the entrance of the hall like a fish.
As those captivating eyes slowly surfaced, Meredith wanted to pull Rachel back, but unexpectedly, the latter had no intention of retreating at all.
As a last resort, the Crow Feather woman had no choice but to hide at the top of the steps and secretly observe everything in front of her.
Slowly extending the sharp iron claw towards Rachel's throat, the red light in the monster's eyes slowly faded, and the mutated limbs slowly degenerated.
Finally, a human hand 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 great that it's you."
He found a fur rug and put it on his body as a robe. The weak Todd, with the help of Rachel, stepped onto the last level of the spiral stairs and returned to the ruined temple of the Kingdom of Shadows. He used his right hand to
Blocking out the bright sunshine shining down from the sky, I had so many thoughts, it felt like I was in another world.
Putting his right arm in front of his eyes, Todd looked carefully. There was an almost invisible white mark on the previously broken right shoulder. Similarly, there was an identical mark on the left leg.
Todd recalled the experience at the bottom of the sea in detail, and couldn't help but think of what Jingsu said to him at the end.
What you need, you've found.
Does this mean that he has come into contact with the tyrant?
So where and how did you come into contact with it?
Also, the current body can not only repair itself to a normal state, but can even freely transform between monster form and human form. What's going on?
"You passed all the trials."
The queen with purple hair and red eyes stood on the high altar of the temple and smiled at Todd for the first time.
Meredith, who was combing the damp crow 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 was about to speak, when weakness and fatigue made his knees weaken and he knelt on the ground.
"Just after completing the trial, something like this will happen." Scathach waved his sleeves and waved his hand towards Todd. "You go to rest first. If you have anything to do, we will talk about it tomorrow."
A burly young man about twenty years old poked out half of his head curiously from behind the corridor at the other end of the temple. Before he could clearly see the situation in the temple, Scathach slightly raised his left hand and held out a stone the size of a fist.
, like a cannonball, hitting the opponent's lower abdomen heavily.
"Cu Chulainn, who told you you can be lazy?"
Hearing the queen's displeased roar, the young man known as Cu Chulainn covered his stomach with his hands and rolled and disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Meredith spat in the direction where the young man disappeared, raised her wings made of crow feathers, pointed to the mountain behind the temple, and said, "There is an ancient temple halfway up the mountain. The rooms and tools inside,
You can use them as you like. However, you must find ways to use them yourself for food and water."
Winking mischievously at Todd, Meredith smiled and said, "I think, since you have completed the trial, these little things will not trouble you."