"Claudia? What's wrong with you!"

Hearing the movement in the communication spell, Ronald naturally asked immediately.

Before Claudia could speak, Heloise, who was in a tense battle, replied first:

"Ronard, we are being besieged by a strange creature! These things have strong physique and sharp claws, and the number is intractable!"

“…”

After a description, Ronald immediately thought of the hunters he met on the seabed before. Could it be that after these monsters were repelled, more hunters began to attack?

"Phyris, do this monster have blue-black scales, with exposed mouths and eyes that look particularly large?"

"Yes, Ronald, you...get out!"

Heloise's tone became quick and angry when he was only half said in the communication spell. Ronald could only hear these, and he could guess that the other party was dealing with the hunter who was attacking.

A few seconds passed, and Heloise's voice indeed appeared again.

"Ronard, if you know anything about this thing, hurry up and say it. It's okay for us to deal with a few such monsters, but they are so many!"

Ronald has limited knowledge of the hunter.

Facing Heloise's inquiry, he could only give the most direct response strategy.

"Phyris, don't treat them as monsters without wisdom."

"This is a smart species that can organize actions and communicate with each other. Finding their leaders and killing them will probably help you."

“…”

"Every time you're in such a critical moment, you can come up with something surprising."

With a meaningful sigh, the conversation between Ronald and other companions ended temporarily. On the surface of the island, the battle situation is very fierce now. Although everyone present is a caster with high ability, the hunter suppresses them with an overwhelming numerical advantage.

So much so that although someone found the entrance to the ruins in the center of the island.

They can't get into it as planned now.

Ronald ended the communication with a low look on his face, and the mermaid next to him immediately spoke:

"Wuling native, what happened to you?"

"The kind of monster we encountered before is currently besieging my companions on the surface."

“…”

After two battles with Ronald, Haierbeth's attitude was much better than at the beginning. Faced with such an answer, she even took the initiative to help analyze:

"Generics with wisdom generally do not show such behaviors. I think someone should be instructing these things behind the scenes."

Ronald nodded in agreement with Miss Mermaid's statement.

Then he turned around and looked at the rock fragments that had been cracked by the rhizomes of the monster plants. Although the scene was very chaotic, there could be vaguely seen a passage that continued to move upwards.

"No matter who is instructed, let's consider solving the problem of the typhoon first. Keep going, maybe there will be some new discoveries."

After the words came to the ground, Ronald took the initiative to walk towards the passage.

The mermaid behind him naturally followed.

The two have confirmed that the flowers in front of them are the center of the island's magic node, but due to the current situation, they cannot destroy them. All they can do now is to continue looking for the possibility of dealing with this thing.

As for the strange plants still standing in the underground space...

Now no enemy attacks, the thing immediately returns to silence. If it weren't for the wounds caused in the previous battle, it might have continued to disguise itself as a harmless human and animal.

Bypassing the unresponsive plants, Ronald and Helbeth moved the broken stones to enter the passage. This was an ordinary underground tunnel, and the main body composed of earth and rocks had no special features. It was just that due to the impact of the previous battle, the road conditions in the passage were very bad.

Even if the two work together to move forward.

This not too far distance also took them nearly a quarter of an hour.

However, after they left this difficult road, the scenes that appeared in front of them immediately made each person and a fish fall into deep thought.

Corpse, a large number of human corpses, are now scattered in a building like a sacrificial platform. The location where Ronald and Helbeth left the underground is a crack in the center of the sacrificial platform.

Especially at their feet, an old man in a white robe crawled there, and his raised face was the despair that he still didn't want to believe the picture in front of him before he died.

Analysis from the residual situation.

These people should have gathered together to hold some kind of ceremony, and then suffered accidents and died here tragically.

After witnessing such a scene, Haierbeth, who was not a human, immediately turned his gaze to Ronald, and his tone also had a hint of weirdness:

"Wuling people?"

"This... was your people doing it?"

Ronald immediately shook his head and denied:

"I just received an order to come and end the source of the typhoon. I don't know any of these people."

The subtlety in Helbeth's eyes faded from Ronald's mouth. The mermaid lady didn't care about the dense corpses around her, but walked out directly toward the altar.

Seeing his companion’s reaction, Ronald naturally followed.

"Don't you take a closer look at the situation of these people?"

"The ceremony failed, there is nothing to study." While expressing his views on the scene, Haierbeth took Ronald out, "What I am curious about now is what the result of their failure in the ceremony was. The plant we encountered underground would not be like the culprits that could make them all like this."

While analyzing each other's opinions, Ronald and Helbeth walked out of this altar-like building together.

Then, Ronald understood why this place was called a ruin.

Just below the center of the island, an underground hole that is enough to accommodate a small town is located here, with broken pieces of buildings and statues everywhere in the view.

The altar where they are now is also located in the middle of the town.

However, unlike the dilapidated appearance of other locations, this place is the only thing that has been repaired.

What is even more interesting is the top of this space.

A hazy white mist is topped by the top of the cave, and its radiance provides sufficient lighting for the entire space, just like a large cloud that constantly glows is hidden underground.

And as long as you look closely, you will find that there is another mystery.

Inside the large white mist, there seemed to be a vague outline of a human face.

If Ronald remembers correctly...

This face is exactly the same as the old man who died in front of the altar!
Chapter completed!