Todd hugged the blanket tightly and walked out of the temple. He looked at the green mountains and green waters in front of him and took a deep breath of fresh air with joy.
Towering snow-capped mountains stand tall on the lush green land; waterfalls cascading down hang between rocky mountain walls.
The clear stream water under your feet can almost flow over your insteps. Although it is already midsummer, it gives people a frosty and transparent feeling.
Rachel held Todd's arm with her right hand and exclaimed in surprise when she looked up at the sky.
The beast with the head of a griffon and the body of a lion soared among the mountain streams, its clear cry resounding throughout the valley.
Compared to Rachel who was amazed, Todd frowned.
In this different world, the western and central areas of the continent are like two different spaces compared to this place.
The biological system on the Yuexi Plain is somewhat similar to the earth in the previous life, but here, it has completely broken away from the scope of the normal biosphere.
What exactly is causing the biological changes here?
With such doubts, Todd, with Rachel's help, continued to climb up the snow-capped mountains.
After climbing for only ten minutes, the weak Todd was already sitting on the big rock, panting, shaking his head and smiling bitterly.
"I didn't expect that maintaining the monster form would be so exhausting. It only took me twenty minutes to climb up from the bottom of the sea along the whirlpool, but after this period of time, the feeling after returning to human form was as if it had been taken away.
All my strength."
Rachel straightened her hair for a while, looked at Todd's recovered right arm, and asked, "Speaking of which, I haven't had time to ask you yet, what is on the other side of the Dark Door?"
Todd looked into Rachel's eyes and asked seriously: "Do you really want to know?"
Seeing the other party nodding solemnly, Todd sighed and closed his eyes.
The next second, Rachel was pulled into the soul space without warning. For her, there was no warning and no resistance this time.
Different from the usual soul space, this time the space was an endless darkness. Rachel's body kept falling, and her limbs seemed to be tied together by an unknown force.
She wanted to scream, but she couldn't make any sound. Her entire body, and even the soul inside her body, were squeezed and imprisoned by a huge force.
Just when she was about to fall into the never-ending darkness, a huge eye slowly opened and looked at her position.
ah!!!
Rachel screamed, and when she returned to reality, she saw Todd's concerned face.
"That was just now...?!"
"That's the world behind the Dark Door."
Rachel wiped the sweat from her forehead and said in shock: "No wonder Meredith told me that people who have returned from the Dark Portal are unwilling to mention their experiences."
After calming down, Rachel suddenly thought of something and asked Todd: "Is that the power of 'Soul Link' just now?"
"That's right."
"But this link is different from the past. Without prior perception, I couldn't even muster a trace of resistance..."
After Todd thought for a moment, he said: "After returning from the Dark Portal, my abilities seem to have changed. Moreover, the mutations that were originally uncontrollable can also be managed to a limited extent."
After saying that, Todd stretched out his right arm. Slowly, metallic scales covered the skin of his arm, and his five fingers turned into the shape of monster iron claws.
The power of "Weakness" is slowly activated, and what should have been a light black dark glow is now like a flame poured with gasoline, turning into a billowing black and purple dark flame.
Todd held a stone with his iron claws, and the latter turned into a puddle of powder in less than a second.
This process took a total of ten seconds, after which his arm returned to its original shape.
Todd took a breath tiredly and said feebly: "I can control part of my body to mutate. The abilities used by the mutated body parts will be upgraded in power and form. For example, the 'Weakness' just now,
It was upgraded to ‘disintegration’.”
"Disintegration?! Is this the power of Jerome, the ninth in line in the legion?" Rachel said excitedly: "This also means that you have come into contact with the 'Tyrant'!"
Todd scratched his head: "Theoretically, this is true, but I really can't remember when and where I came into contact with that substance after passing through the Dark Door."
"It would be great if I had experimental equipment on hand so that I could analyze my own blood and biopsies."
When Rachel heard this, she sighed: "The Black Pearl did carry a complete set of experimental equipment, but unfortunately, they were all lost in the shipwreck."
Todd patted the dust on the blanket, stood up and looked up the mountain road: "It's useless to think about it now. Before we can't return for the time being, our most important task at the moment is to find a way to survive in the Kingdom of Shadows.
.”
The two people supported each other and continued on their way. They passed through a 100-meter suspended wooden plank, and then walked sideways past the lonely cliff behind the waterfall that was only accessible to one person. After a full hour, they finally reached the ridge.
of a temple.
The temple was built directly on top of the cliff. Looking from a distance, you can see that it was actually carved into the mountain wall by manpower.
I walked down a long stone staircase and entered the main hall of the temple, where a ten-meter-tall goddess statue was erected.
The stone statue has its fingers intertwined and placed on its chest, and behind it is a disc full of spikes carved on it.
Rachel walked directly under the stone statue and whispered the runes on the stone tablet.
"Here is the soul born, here is it lost, and all living beings surrender to the Lord of Will."
Todd frowned and walked around the stone statue. After finding nothing, he finally gave up the idea of exploring.
Walking into the passage behind the statue, a neat row of stone chambers were hollowed out in the mountain and built together.
Walking into the stone room, the interior furnishings are extremely simple, with a stone bed, a stone platform, and a stone bench, that's all.
Todd looked at everything in the room and took a breath. The scene in front of him actually reminded him of the life in the monastery.
Compared to Todd's nostalgic thoughts, the attentive Rachel came to the wall of the room, rubbed the marks on the stone, and whispered: "There is writing on this wall. The writing is seriously damaged, but it can still be touched by touch.
Let’s identify it. This line of characters is rune writing, this one is ancient Tyrian writing, this one is writing from the Ansaxon era, and these and these, I don’t recognize them.”
Todd asked curiously: "What's written on it?"
Rachel tried her best to distinguish them for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "I can only recognize the type of text, but the content is really unrecognizable. I can barely figure out the words "Shadow", "Sacrifice", and "Dark Door"
Words.”
The two searched the room for a while, but hunger and thirst forced them to give up their exploration and start looking for food and water.
"There is a spring here!"
Hearing Rachel's shout, Todd looked toward the innermost part of the temple corridor. In a pool of water surrounded by stalactites, a spring formed by an underground well was injecting clear and sweet fresh water into the reservoir.
middle.
Rachel, who had not had a drop of water all day and night, was so thirsty that she was about to smoke. She picked up a handful of water and was about to put it into her mouth.
A cold female voice sounded at the entrance of the corridor.
"If I were you, I would never touch that poisonous water..."