Arthur led everyone hurriedly through the ruins, and within a minute, they came to a large pool.
Green bushes surround the remains of the building. Among the ruins, there is such a living pool.
"Sure enough, this area should be the site of the Imperial Capital Bathhouse. Although the entire Imperial Capital was razed by the explosion, the underground water supply lines were not affected." Arthur said, "The water has been seeping out of the waterways, and it has become like this after decades.
It’s a small lake."
"Uh, there aren't any monsters in the lake, right?" Tristan looked at the lake worriedly. The black water looked bottomless.
"No, don't worry." Arthur said, "Oh, what is that?" He pointed to somewhere in the lake.
"Where------Wow!" Tristan was accidentally kicked into the lake.
"Ugh, I hate you, Arthur!" Tristan stood up, wiped the water off his face, and said angrily.
Then he discovered that the water in the pool was actually only waist deep. He couldn't help but blush for his foolish worries before.
"Hurry up and wash the blood off your armor. We still have to hurry." Arthur said ruthlessly.
"Huh, I'm really sorry for holding you back!" Tristan said angrily while washing the armor with water.
"Uh... I'm really sorry that it turned out like this." Bedivere said with an embarrassed smile.
"Why does Bedi want to apologize? After all, it's not because of Arthur that caused so much trouble------"
"Tristan, behind you!!!" Arthur suddenly shouted.
"Hmph, you want to lie to me again? No way! Your lies are lame enough. Is there a monster in such a shallow pool------"
Before he could finish speaking, Tristan's legs were grabbed by something, and his whole body was pulled into the air.
"Out, it's appeared! The octopus monster!!!" Tristan shouted. The one in front of him was a ten-foot-tall deep sea troll! Its countless tentacles were waving in front of Tristan!
"Are you kidding?" Bedivere pulled out a luminous arrow and shot it at the troll's head. This time, he was afraid that the arrow would explode for no reason, so he deliberately fired it far away from Tristan.
But it was useless. At the critical moment, the output of the light arrow was lower than expected, and the light arrow disappeared directly before it hit the monster.
"Useless guy!" Arthur rushed over, cut off the troll's tentacles with a sword, and rescued Tristan, "Swim back to the shore quickly!"
"And you?!"
"I------ do this!" Arthur raised the King's Sword and slapped it hard towards the water!
The lake water was split instantly, leaving a road covered with mud!
"Okay, okay, I'm shocked." Tristan was dumbfounded.
"What are you doing? Run!!!!" Arthur shouted, dragging Tristan towards the shore. They ran very fast and immediately got rid of the slow-moving deep sea troll.
"That guy, what's going on?" Arthur looked back, the troll was still slowly chasing behind him, "It's so different from the deep sea troll that he fought against before. Is this really the same one?"
After finally waiting for the deep sea trolls to land, they could fight with peace of mind on the shore. Thinking so, the knights cheered up and raised their swords to fight.
Countless tentacles attacked. However, the troll's attacks were disappointingly monotonous. Arthur easily avoided the first wave of attacks and rushed over immediately. A blow from the King's Sword immediately cut the troll into two.
Half.
The little octopus struggled on the ground for a moment and died.
Arthur looked at the octopus on the ground that had returned to its original shape, "This is indeed not the one we fought before. This so-called "deep sea troll" is just an octopus that has mutated after absorbing Camilo's heterogeneous photons."
(But why do marine octopuses appear in cities?)
"But, it looks exactly the same -------" Bedivel said.
"No. There is a subtle difference in color. You were just too panicked to notice it." Arthur looked at the octopus carcass on the ground carefully and analyzed, "The most important evidence is that this guy has not experienced much fighting, and the attack
Very simple. The previous deep sea trolls were much more difficult to deal with than this impostor."
"What I'm more concerned about is whether the deep sea troll from before came here like this." Tristan said, "For example, there was a war in a certain deep sea, and some ancient people used something like nuclear fusion."
The ultimate magic of magic, making photons heterogeneous somewhere on the seabed------"
"It is indeed possible. But there is no point in thinking about it now." Arthur said, "We still have a black history library to look for, so we should continue on our way------"
"There's no need for that anymore." Bedivere said, "Arthur, look at that!"
The pool where we were fighting just now had countless cracks exposed due to the damage of the battle. The water gradually slipped away from these cracks, and finally revealed a secret door at the bottom of the pool.
Bediwell recognized this secret door. The design was exactly the same as the doors they had seen in the Black History Library of the Second Imperial Capital.
"Is the entrance to the Black History Library hidden under the large bathhouse? This is really a wonderful idea." Arthur said, walking over and opening the door with his sword.
(Isn’t moisture the enemy of books?)
The dark tunnel seemed to lead all the way to the depths of the earth, and a strong musty smell came from that bottomless place.
"Do you really want to run into a place like this?" Tristan covered his nose and asked. In fact, he was very reluctant to enter such a damp and moldy place. "Maybe it has become a monster's lair?"
"They must have secretly moved the collection of books out of here after the destruction of the First Imperial City." Arthur checked the brackets on the ground, "At the same time, some of the collection of books was left behind. Why is this?"
"Because some of the books have been damaged and are not suitable for moving casually." said a voice in the sky.
"Who?!" Arthur and the others immediately raised their weapons and were on alert.
A huge one, with hair all over its body exuding dazzling brilliance, with the upper body of a silver vulture and the lower body of a golden lion, [Platinum Gryphon], descended from the sky and landed gracefully on the ground.
"You actually found this place so quickly. That guy Leon Dickens is right, you are indeed a dangerous character." The platinum griffon said, with a tone full of arrogance.
"Who are you? ------Do you know the Grand Duke of Lyon Dickens?" Arthur asked.
"You will know the answer soon, Knight Arthur." The platinum griffon said, as if he was just dismissing this meaningless question.
"...Let me pass, I don't have time to play charades with you." Arthur said, trying to walk into the tunnel.
"Oh, that's not possible." The gryphon stood in front of Arthur, "It's not possible now."
"What?!"
"We'll wait until you beat Leon Dickens tomorrow. If you want to go in then, I won't stop you." The platinum griffon said coldly.
"What if I have to go in?" Arthur said angrily, already raising the King's Sword and preparing to attack.
"Then let's give it a try." The platinum griffon said as if nothing had happened.
As soon as he finished speaking, Arthur had already rushed forward, aimed his sword at the gryphon's head. The tip of the sword hit the powerful shield and bounced away instantly.
What a tough shield!
Arthur took advantage of the force of the rebound and rolled in the air, and drew several swords again, but he was still bounced away by the invisible powerful protective shield!
It's so strange! The feeling of the sword hitting the shield is very weird. It is not "blocked" by the shield, but "deflected". The attack trajectory of the sword is changed by invisible force in an instant, as if it is touched.
An extremely smooth plane seemed to slide away in an instant.
How to make such a shield? This made Arthur full of doubts.
So he had to keep a distance from the griffin, and kept this distance on guard, "Oh, a rainbow-colored protective shield? Is it really rare?"
The Platinum Griffin also said with a sarcastic tone: "Oh, did you see the excess light emitted by the shield at the moment the attack was deflected? Boy, your dynamic vision is worthy of praise."
The seemingly completely transparent photon shield is actually composed of very high-purity photons. The sword tip and the shield collided, and in just one hundredth of a second, rainbow-colored excess light was splashed out.
Arthur has never seen or even heard of this kind of shield magic. But he can be sure that this is definitely a very powerful shield that cannot be easily broken.
Realizing this, Arthur understood that as long as the platinum griffon consciously defended, they would not be able to break through the griffon's shield even if it took several days and nights. Continuing to waste time would just be a waste of time.
"Huh, that's boring." Arthur put the sword in its sheath, then turned and walked away, "I'll come to you to settle accounts tomorrow after I defeat Leon Dickens."
"I'll just wait and see." The platinum griffon sneered arrogantly.
"Arthur?" Bedivere looked at Arthur who returned disappointed.
"Let's go. Let's leave the ruins of the imperial capital for a while and then teleport home." Arthur said.
"But------" Bedivere had no choice but to run after him.
"Don't you understand?" Arthur whispered after walking away, "That guy dared to use such advanced protective magic in such an area full of heterogeneous photons, which proves how exquisitely it controls photons.
.That is the insurmountable strength gap between epic photon creatures and us mortals. This gap cannot be caught up overnight."
"But, is this our trip in vain?" Tristan said dissatisfied.
"No," Arthur said, "To be able to meet such a rare species as the platinum griffin and to find out this guy's ability, it's worth the trip."
"I really didn't know you had such a strong interest in zoology." Tristan said sarcastically.
"There must be a meaning to all this." Arthur said thoughtfully, "We have to explore the Black History Library in London again after we go back. There are some materials we want to look up."
Tristan complained impatiently: "Are we going to go through the muddy water with you again? Oh, I hope the tunnel dug before is still useful."