Alien Knights

Holding the blanket tightly on his body, Todd, who walked out of the temple, looked at the green mountains and green waters in front of him, feeling happy, and took a deep breath of fresh air.

The towering snow-capped mountains stand on the lush land; the waterfalls that flow down are suspended between the rocky mountain walls.

The clear stream under the feet can barely flow over the insteps. Although it is midsummer, it gives people a cool and transparent touch.

Rachel's right hand was on Todd's arm, and when she looked up at the sky, she let out an exclamation of surprise.

The beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, soared among the mountain streams, and its clear cry resounded throughout the valley.

Compared to the amazed Rachel, Todd frowned.

In this different world, the western and central regions of the continent are like two spaces compared to the Kingdom of Shadows.

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 is the reason that caused the biological changes here?

With such doubts, Todd, with the help of Rachel, continued to climb up the snow mountain path.

After only ten minutes of climbing, the weak Todd was already sitting on the boulder, panting, shaking his head and smiling wryly.

"I didn't expect that maintaining the monster form would take so much energy. It only took me 20 minutes to climb up from the bottom of the sea along the vortex, but after this period of time, the feeling of returning to a human is like being drained of all my strength."

Rachel straightened her hair for a while, looked at Todd's lost right arm, and asked, "Speaking of which, I haven't had time to ask you, what's on the other side of the dark door?"

Todd looked into Rachel's eyes and asked seriously, "You really want to know?"

Seeing the other party's solemn nod, Todd sighed and closed his eyes.

In the next second, Rachel was pulled into the soul space without warning. For her, there was no warning and no resistance for this entry.

Different from the usual soul space, this space is an endless darkness. Rachel's body kept falling, and her limbs seemed to be tied together by an unknown force.

She wanted to cry out, but no sound came out. The whole body, even the soul inside the body, was squeezed and imprisoned by a huge force.

Just when she was about to fall into this endless darkness, a huge eye slowly opened and looked towards her position.

ah! ! !

Rachel screamed, and when she came back to reality, she saw Todd's concerned face.

"Just now that was...?!"

"That is the world behind the Dark Door."

Rachel wiped the sweat from her forehead and said in shock: "No wonder Meredith told me that those who returned from the Dark Gate are not willing to mention their experiences."

After calming down, Rachel suddenly thought of something, and asked Todd, "Was that the 'soul link' ability just now?"

"That's right."

"But this link is different from the past. Without prior perception, I can't even condense a trace of resistance consciousness..."

After thinking for a moment, Todd said: "After returning from the Dark Gate, my ability seems to have changed. Moreover, the mutation that was originally uncontrollable can also be managed to a limited extent."

After speaking, Todd stretched out his right arm. Slowly, metallic scales covered the skin of the arm, and the five fingers turned into monster iron claws.

The "weakening" ability was activated slowly, and it should have been a pale black light, but now it turned into a tumbling dark purple flame like a flame poured with gasoline.

Todd held a stone with iron claws, and the latter turned into a puddle of powder in less than a second.

After that, his arm slowly regained its original shape.

Todd breathed tiredly, and said weakly: "I can control a part of my body to mutate, and the powers used by the mutated body parts will be upgraded in power and form. For example, the "weakening" just now has been upgraded to "cracking"."

"Crack?! Is it the ability of Jerome, the ninth pick in the Legion?" Rachel said excitedly: "This also means that you have come into contact with the 'Tyrant'!"

Todd scratched his head: "In theory, that's true, but I really don't remember when and where I came into contact with that substance after I passed 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 whole set of experimental equipment, but it was a pity that they were all lost in the shipwreck."

Todd patted the dust on the blanket, stood up and looked towards the direction of 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 present is to find a way to survive in the kingdom of shadows."

The two supported each other and continued on their way. After walking through a 100-meter suspended small stack made of wooden planks, and walking sideways through the lonely cliff behind the waterfall, which is only accessible for one person, it took them a whole hour to finally come to a temple on the ridge.

The temple was built directly above the cliff. From a distance, one could see that it was carved out of the mountain wall by manpower bit by bit.

Dwarfing down a long stone step, he entered the main hall of the temple, where a statue of a ten-meter-high goddess stood.

The stone statue crossed its fingers and placed it on its chest, with a round disk full of spikes engraved behind it.

Rachel walked right under the stone statue and whispered the rune writing on the stone tablet.

"The soul is born here, and it is buried here, and all beings submit to the Lord of Will. 』

Todd frowned, walked around the stone statue, and finally gave up the idea of ​​exploring after finding nothing.

Walking into the passage behind the statue, a row of neat stone chambers were hollowed out in the mountain and built together.

Entering the stone room, the interior furnishings are extremely simple, a stone bed, a stone platform, and a stone bench, nothing more.

Todd looked at everything in the room and took a breath. The scene in front of him reminded him of the life in the monastery.

Contrary to Todd's nostalgic thoughts, the careful Rachel came to the wall of the room, stroked the traces on the stone, and said in a low voice: "There are words on this wall, the handwriting is badly damaged, but it can barely be recognized by touch. This line of writing is runic script, this one is ancient Tyro script, this is the writing of the Ansarson era, and these and these, I don't know."

Todd asked curiously, "What's written on it?"

Rachel tried her best to distinguish for a long time, and finally said with a sigh: "I can only recognize the type of characters, but the content is really unrecognizable. I can barely find out the words 'shadow', 'sacrifice', and 'door of darkness'."

The two searched the room for a while. Hunger and thirst forced them to give up their exploration and start looking for food and water.

"Here is a spring!"

Hearing Rachel's shout, Todd looked towards the innermost part of the temple corridor. In a pool surrounded by stalactites, a spring formed by a groundwater well was pouring clear and sweet fresh water into the pool.

Rachel, who hadn't had a drop of water all day and night, was so thirsty that she was about to smoke. She picked up a scoop of water, just about to put it in her mouth.

A cold female voice sounded at the entrance of the corridor.

"If I were you, I would never touch those poisonous water..."