Todd slowly opened his eyes and looked at the temple ruins around him, his dragon eyes glowing faintly with sadness.
Meredith came from not far away, looked at the silent dragon, and said, "Let me guess, after listening to what I said last time, you went to see Rachel."
Todd moved his limbs and crawled slowly towards Meredith on the ground. The dragon's mouth was filled with the breath of fire, and there was uncontrollable anger in his voice: "You must know where Rachel is now?!"
"It seems like your conversation was not pleasant."
Todd shouted to Meredith, "Tell me where she is?!"
"Even if you can find her, so what?" Meredith looked directly into Todd's eyes: "The key is, can you accept her?"
"Whether she is a human or a monster. When I was in the most pain and despair, she was always the Rachel who stayed by my side and never gave up on me."
Meredith looked at the black dragon in front of her and suddenly asked expressionlessly: "Todd, if you were asked to make a choice between strength and emotion, what would you choose?"
Todd struggled to get up from the ground, looked at Meredith and shouted: "If humans don't have emotions, what's the difference between humans and corpses crawling out of graves?!"
The latter suddenly smiled: "Todd, you are qualified."
Hearing Meredith's words, Todd looked confused: "Qualified? What do you mean?"
"I have seen too many people destroy their humanity in pursuit of power. So, even if you show restraint in power and think about the future, I still have deep concerns about your humanity."
Meredith smiled and said: "The relationship between you and Rachel is my last test for you. Testing you as a tyrant is like a sharp blade, whether it has a scabbard.
Can come to restrict your behavior."
Todd looked at Meredith angrily: "Stop your tricks! I don't care if you trust me, I just want to know where Rachel is?!"
The latter did not answer Todd's question, but just looked at his body and said to himself: "It seems that your injury has basically healed."
After saying this, Meredith turned around and walked straight outside.
Todd stared at Meredith's back: "Where are you going?"
Meredith said without looking back: "Don't you want to see Rachel? Come with me."
After struggling to stand upright, Todd followed Meredith's footsteps and walked towards the edge of the temple.
Walking to a quiet open space, Meredith looked around, nodded and said, "This is fine."
Todd was confused: "What on earth do you want to do?"
Meredith looked at the huge body of the black dragon, folded her arms together, and said calmly: "Transform into human form. I can't take you to see her like you are now."
Todd opened his eyes wide, but finally followed Meredith's words and transformed the dragon form into a human form.
Meredith took out a prepared cloak from under the crow's feathers, threw it to Todd and said, "It may feel a little uncomfortable later, but it's only for a moment."
"What?"
Before Todd could react, Meredith suddenly held his hand.
A large amount of electric charge began to accumulate in the air around the two people. With the sound of crackling and exploding, one arc after another formed a huge electric ball, wrapping the two people.
Suddenly, with a loud bang of thunder, the electric ball disappeared in an instant, leaving only a path of sparks on the ground.
Todd truly experienced what "speeding like lightning" means. The surrounding scenery seemed to be moving at the speed of light, constantly moving backwards. When he realized what he was doing, he was already standing in a desert.
Meredith's face looked a little pale. Sitting on the hot sand, she took a few deep breaths and said softly: "It's been too long since I've used my powers. My body can't keep up with its recovery."
Todd looked at his surroundings in surprise: "We were in the Kingdom of Shadows just now, how could we suddenly come to the desert? Where are we?!"
"The Abbasid Empire, the starting point of the Supuha Mountains." Meredith stood up and patted the sand off her body with disgust: "I hate the desert. Once the sand gets into the feathers, it is particularly difficult to take care of."
Todd suddenly reacted: "You mean the Supuha Mountains? The location of the Presbyterian Temple?"
Meredith glanced at the direction of the sun and walked forward: "Don't you want to know Rachel's location? Come with me."
With no other choice, Todd had no choice but to follow Meredith and head into the depths of the desert.
After more than half an hour of trekking, Todd was dizzy and dizzy due to the strong sunlight.
Meredith walked to the shade of a large rock, stepped on the nearby sand with her feet, and said to herself: "If I remember correctly, it should be here."
Todd walked up to her and asked, "What's here?"
Meredith lowered her body, found a protrusion under the big stone, pressed hard, smiled at Todd and said, "The secret entrance to the underground temple of the Presbyterian Church."
"Um, you mean..."
Before Todd finished speaking, a huge hole suddenly appeared under his feet, swallowing his figure instantly.
Under the influence of quicksand, his body passed through a long slide, and Todd finally fell into a dark room.
Meredith quickly jumped down from the slide and stopped firmly next to Todd.
Raising her right hand, Meredith snapped her fingers, and a dazzling arc of electricity shot out from her hand, quickly flying around the room and igniting the torches on the wall.
Todd stood up, looked at the ruins of the underground world, and couldn't help but ask: "Is this the underground temple of the Presbyterian Church?"
"Before the Gutero Empire launched the order to cleanse alien species, the Council of Elders already existed." Meredith found a rusty iron rope from a hidden compartment in the wall, and pulled hard, and a heavy stone door slowly opened.
It rises, revealing a secret passage.
"The governor of the Gutero Empire who led the Great Purge of Alien Races, long before he took office, the leaders of the Presbyterian Church had already smelled the danger. They began to do everything possible to make efforts for the survival of the alien race groups, including outward
Secretly transporting alien criminals, raising funds to build shelters, etc. My father is one of the alien leaders."
Meredith stepped on the dilapidated floor tiles with a nostalgic expression on her face: "At that time, the aliens worked together, and everyone had the consciousness of sacrifice, in order to be able to fight for the troubled times.
This ethnic group should retain as much blood as possible."
Glancing at Todd who was thoughtful, Meredith said softly: "Rachel should have told you what happened next. After escaping from the empire, with the barbarian invasion and internal fighting in the empire, the alien species were the largest at that time.
The threats were eliminated one by one. People in the Presbyterian Church began to slack off and began to focus on fighting for power. The entire organization became a mess, forming cliques and criticizing each other became the most common things."
"Later, some ambitious people in the Presbyterian Church decided to find ways to end this situation of internal fighting and reintegrate all the alien forces."
Meredith said this and stopped in front of a stone door. She pushed forward with both hands and the door fell down.
A pungent smell of antiseptic liquid hit his face, making Todd frown deeply.
"This group of people secretly formed a heterogeneous alliance association, intending to unite to fight against the careerists and power grabbers in the Presbyterian Church. They hope to use the method of resurrecting the leader to completely end the chaos of the Presbyterian Church."
Todd then asked: "Alien Association? Resurrection Leader??"
Meredith flapped her black crow feathers, and the debris in front of her rose into the air, and she cleared it to both sides: "Yes, Rachel is a member of the Alien Association, and the task she was assigned at that time was to fight against the Presbyterian Church.
At the same time as careerists, we seek to resurrect leaders.”
"Let's put aside the matter of the Alien Association for now. Let's get back to the topic. Let's talk about the resurrection of the leader. Thousands of years ago, the first leader group in the Presbyterian Church led the alien race group to escape from the Tyro Empire and evade
Great Purge, so they are regarded as sages by all alien species, and are regarded as beings close to gods. The idea of the Alien Association is that if one of their dead can be resurrected and returned to the world, then the entire elders will surrender.
With this leader, there will be no more disputes."
"Resurrection of the dead? Rebirth? Is this possible?" Todd said doubtfully: "If you want to bring a person who has been dead for a long time back to life, even Scathach would have a hard time doing it."
Meredith pressed several stone slabs on the stone wall one after another, and only heard a click, and a downward stone step appeared on the ground.
"As for how to resurrect the leader, the Alien Association has thought of many ways, including a weird ritual - human body cloning."
"Take a small piece of tissue from the human body, cultivate and reproduce it, and finally get a replica that is exactly the same as the original body."
Todd's eyes widened unconsciously, and he secretly wondered, why does this method sound more and more like human cloning in a previous life?
Walking down the last stone steps, Meredith said: "The Human Body Replication Ceremony has been attempted by the Alien Association for hundreds of years. It has been studied by countless scholars and masters, and was even considered a dead end. Finally, in a few days,
There was a breakthrough ten years ago."
Meredith waved her hand and lit the surrounding torches, and a huge laboratory filled with crystal culture tanks appeared in front of Todd's eyes.
There are hundreds of huge upright culture tanks in the room, most of which have dried up and cracked, while only a small part is relatively intact.
Todd walked to a culture tank and wiped off the dust on the surface with his palms. A deformed and ugly face appeared in front of him.
Seeing this creature, which looked neither human nor ghost, floating in the antiseptic liquid, Todd took a few steps back, feeling a little tight in his chest.
Meredith walked to the door of the laboratory, wiped off a bronze plaque hanging on the door panel, and motioned for Todd to come over and take a look.
Todd, who was full of doubts, approached the bronze medal and saw the words on it clearly by the firelight. His eyes opened as wide as possible and his body began to tremble unconsciously.
There is still a name vaguely visible on the bronze medal.