When Albert rode the Holy Spirit White Tiger and rushed to the top of the Central Temple, what he saw was a door that had been opened.
The iron door to Castro's room, which was supposed to be locked, was forced open by someone with brute force. A smell of blood came from the room.
"Mutt!" Seeing this scene, Albert's heart sank and he hurriedly rushed in to check the situation in the room.
Like other places in the room, because the power supply system has stopped operating, everything is dark. The only light sources are the ice blue light emitted by the tiger stripes on Albert's body and the white light of the Holy Spirit White Tiger. Under the reflection of this light source
, Castro's room had a gloomy atmosphere, and there were many splashes of bright red liquid on the floor.
Then, in the center of the room, lay a cold corpse.
The corpse of the tiger man.
"Mr. Gusta?!" Albert exclaimed.
"Hey! Are you okay, Mr. Gusta?!" He rushed over to check the situation and tried to push away the tiger man.
Gusta did not respond, as if he was asleep, with a dagger stabbed on his back. The dagger was just long enough to penetrate his chest and reach his heart.
With Albert's push, Gusta fell from one side, and the person he had been protecting with his back turned out to be the cat-man boy Mutt.
Mutt vomited blood from the corner of his mouth and lay there with his face facing the sky. His chest was also penetrated by the dagger. However, because Gusta blocked the dagger with his body, the wound on Mutt's chest was not as serious as expected. It only pierced his right lung.
, did not hit the heart. Moreover, a mysterious red crystal grew out of the wound on Mutt's chest. This crystal blocked the cat-man boy's wound like a blood scab, making the bleeding less serious. Waiting for Al
When Bert hurriedly touched the blood crystals, they had already scattered, and the wound on Mutt's chest showed signs of healing.
"Mutt? What's going on? Wake up!" Albert lightly slapped Mutt's face a few times: "You're not dead yet?"
"Hmm," the cat boy woke up and hummed in a low voice: "It's okay, Mr. Gusta protected me."
"Who did it?" Albert asked with a gloomy face: "The murderer is still around here? Has he escaped?"
"Dead." Mutt whispered: "I know I can't let him escape, so——"
He pointed to the side, and then Albert looked over, and what he saw was a body that was eaten to pieces by crystal. Taking advantage of the dark moment when the power went out, the murderer broke into the room and tried to
After assassinating Mutt (who was pretending to be Albert), Gusta used his life to protect Mutt. Although Mutt was also injured, he threw the crystal bayonet out the moment before the murderer escaped.
The murderer never expected that the lethality of the crystal rapier would be so great. He was only stabbed in one leg by the crystal rapier. Immediately, the whole body began to crystallize from that leg, and the ground where he stood also began to crystallize. As a result, the murderer's body
Countless crystals grew and pierced him. Countless crystals also grew on the ground and pierced the murderer's body. Then he turned into the miserable state where his flesh and blood were penetrated from the inside out by the crystals, and he fell among the crystal clusters.
Albert could still vaguely recognize the man's appearance.
"[Master of Assassination - Pickman of Stinging]." Albert hummed: "So this guy is the mole, Meow."
But Albert already knew that there was more than one person in the inner skeleton, which meant it was too early to worry now.
"Gu, where is Mr. Gusta?" Mutt got up and began to worry about Gusta's condition: "Just now he sacrificed his life to protect me. The enemy clearly wanted to stab me, but he changed the enemy with his war cry.
attack track, so he——"
Halfway through his words, the cat-man boy had already seen the tiger-man Gusta lying on the ground in the darkness with his chest penetrated.
"That's a lie!" Seeing Gusta lying on the ground with his chest pierced by a dagger, Mutt exclaimed: "Mr. Gusta? Mr. Gusta! Wake up!"
Albert fell silent. It seemed that Gusta protected Mutt with his own life. But the sacrifice was too much——
"Wait, he's still breathing!" Mutt suddenly put his hand on the tiger man's nose and could feel an extremely weak breath. But no matter what, Gusta was now dying.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Gusta. I'm going to--" Mutt wanted to pull out the dagger from Gusta's chest so that he could heal the tiger man.
"No! Don't touch him! If you pull out the dagger, he will bleed profusely!" Albert stopped him immediately.
"But!"
"It seems that the dagger did not penetrate his heart, or it may have penetrated him, but the heart stopped beating as if to protect itself." Albert leaned over to check Gusta's condition: "I don't know. There are still many orcs' body structures.
An unknown mystery. In short, we must maintain this state now and send him to emergency treatment as soon as possible!"
"Where can it be sent?" Mutt looked at Albert desperately: "Is this Lviv?"
The entire Dawn Region is the territory of the orcs, and there is not even a decent medical facility to be found, let alone a fortress-like ancient ruin like the Central Temple.
"You should take Mr. Gusta with you immediately and ride back to Cairo on a cavalry." Albert changed his words halfway: "Well, this won't work either. It will take at least a few hours to go back from here, Gusta."
Sir, there is no way that you can last that long——"
"I want to send him into the [Crystal Realm]." Mutt went to retrieve his crystal sword and tried to cut his palm with the sword: "In the Crystal World, all injuries can be recovered, even fatal injuries.
It can be restored, right?"
"Theoretically, yes, but Mr. Gusta may not be able to enter the [Abyss Crystal Boundary]." Albert said. The reason why he and Mutt were able to enter the [Abyss Crystal Boundary] was because they had fought against the Crystal White Dragon together.
Lord God, since then their bodies have been somewhat corroded by the power of the abyss.
Mr. Gusta, who has never been eroded by the abyss, may not be accepted by the abyss crystal boundary. Even if he can, whether he can come out smoothly after entering the crystal boundary is still a big problem. What if the owner of the crystal boundary does not let him go?
"Don't take this risk." Albert grabbed Mutt's hand tightly and stopped the cat-man boy.
"But, are we just going to watch Mr. Gusta die like this? There is nothing we can do?" Mutt just stared at Albert blankly, with a look of aggrievedness on his face.
"No." Albert said: "There is another way."
"Nina, can you hear me?" He tried to contact the black bunny girl: "The matter has been resolved. The person who attacked Mutt is [Stinging Pickman], and he is the insider in the organization. And he
already dead."
"Where's brother Mutt?"
"A little injured, it's okay. But our friend Mr. Gusta was seriously injured and is now in a dying state." Albert: "You seemed to have seen that there was a teleportation device on the bottom floor of the Central Temple before? The exit of that thing
It’s still set in Cairo, right?”
"Yes. But its remaining power can only be used once more." Nina replied: "The power used by the transmission device is completely independent from the power supply of the central temple. There is no need to worry about the power outage here.
."
"Did you hear me, Mutt?" Albert turned around and said, "You should use that portal now to take Mr. Gusta back to Cairo. This is the only way to save him. Contact Bediville immediately after you return.
That guy, he will find a way to settle this matter."
"But you——"
"Lvov is the battlefield where I should be, little fool." Albert stroked Mutt's cat head with his hand: "Don't worry about my things. Worry about your own first."
Let’s do it. Think about why Mr. Gusta came to Lviv and why he risked his life to protect you. Don’t let him down.”
Mutt was silent for a while, and then finally figured it out: "Okay. I will take Mr. Gusta back for treatment. I hope it's not too late."
"Then let's go." Albert put his hand on Mutt's forehead, and after the cat boy grabbed Gusta's hand, he immediately activated the power of the Holy White Tiger.
The next moment, Mutt had been teleported to the underground courtyard with the teleportation device. In Albert's hand, there was an extra crystal fragment that he had touched in the underground courtyard before. The Holy Spirit White Tiger just moved the two pieces
The space is just replaced. Replace the crystal fragments that serve as anchor points in the courtyard, and replace Mutt and Gusta.
"Come on, Mr. Gusta -" the cat boy tried his best to carry the tiger man and walked towards the portal: "Please survive."
On Albert's side, as if he had exhausted all his strength, the tiger stripes on his body no longer emitted an icy blue light, and his [Transcendental Saint] state was also lifted.
Not good. Continuously entering the [Transcendental Saint] mode, coupled with the continuous use of the power of the Holy White Tiger, will drastically consume Albert's concentration. Not long after he woke up, he immediately began to feel sleepy again.
As his eyelids gradually drooped, Albert felt that something was not good. There was more than one mole in the Hunter Association. If those moles knew that [Stinging Pickman]'s assassination attempt on Albert was unsuccessful, what else would happen?
Another killer will be sent to deal with Albert. If he fell asleep in a place like this, wouldn't he be completely defenseless and at the mercy of others?
But, I’m really sleepy——
His eyelids were completely collapsed, and he was lying on the floor, not even having the strength to open his eyes. He even had the illusion that Pickman's dead body beside him was moving again. Although it was just grass and trees, Alber
He knew very well that as long as he fell asleep in a place like this, he would be dead.
If you cannot prevent yourself from falling into a deep sleep, then at least you must find a safe place to sleep.
Albert, who was obviously very sleepy, suddenly had an idea and suddenly activated the power of the Holy White Tiger to teleport himself away.
What followed was a slight stabbing sensation, and a spreading numbness. He returned again, to the room full of scarlet thorns that he had escaped from before. When he escaped from here, he had the foresight to leave part of himself
The pieces of clothing were left in place and used as anchor points for the short teleport here.
Although the scarlet thorns are poisonous, and the poison will corrode the body after being touched; however, this room is a strange space cleverly constructed by magic, which is isolated from the outside world.
Moreover, the outside of this floor has long been immersed in magma-like high-heat fluid. As expected, the lava cannot flow into this alien space, and the group of moles cannot cross the lava area and enter this alien space to cause trouble for Albert.
.As long as he stays in this alien space with scarlet thorns, Albert will be safe for the time being.
Unexpectedly, his former prison turned into his temporary refuge.