"Yeah?" Catherine's excavation suddenly paused. She held the shovel for a few seconds before carefully putting the shovel aside, slowly squatted down, and held the bones in her palm through her hand armor: "Is it said that the mission goal is such a small piece of bone?"

"No, right." Catherine shook her head vigorously and said to herself mockingly: "Why did I suddenly become so stupid? This is obviously just a human bone. It should be left by the Archbishop with something. Yes, it should be him. Since his corpse appears here, I think the mission items are not far away. Sure enough, this is the place we are looking for, okay, keep digging."

"Chachak", under the gaze of countless controlled sea tribes, Catherine bent over and continued to dig silently. There were more and more controlled sea tribes around, and in the end, almost everyone was crowded with people. Each of them looked at Catherine with hostile eyes, as if she would pounce on her and tear her into pieces at any time. If it were ordinary people, she would have collapsed under the gaze of so many people. Even if she didn't collapse, she would probably be so scared that her hands and feet were sore and unable to dig. However, Catherine looked calm, and her expression did not fluctuate at all. She would even look at these controlled sea tribes for a while while she was resting during the excavation period, and occasionally smiled.

With Catherine's excavation, more and more gravel was removed from the ground, revealing the stained bones. The deceased looked like a woman, with a relatively short figure, with only one calf and the other had been cut off. There was no damage to her corpse and lower body except for one calf. However, eight of her upper body, sternum and ribs were broken, which was judging from the traces. It should have been broken before death. There were also some subtle cracks on her skull, and it was obvious that her head was also severely impacted during the battle.

"With such a serious injury, I can actually struggle to swim from the wreck to this place, and I also endure the pain of floating from the deep sea. Huh, I really have to admire you." Every time Katherine digs out a bone, she carefully placed it beside her. Try to make out the appearance of the dead when she was alive. When Katherine found these serious scars, Katherine couldn't help but draw out her long sword. She bowed deeply to most of the skeleton in front of her and whispered: "No matter what her position is, insist on implementing her faith, and even if she is seriously injured and dies, she will not forget her faith. This will alone is enough to be admired. I do not agree with your belief, but I respect your will. Therefore, please accept the greeting from an ordinary knight."

"Sister, Big Sister." In the defensive fortress, although he knew that the other side of the crowd was calm, Catherine had not responded and made it difficult for the three girls to rest assured. Lina finally couldn't help it. She shouted loudly: "How are you doing there? Are you sure you are safe?"

At more than 40 meters, the sound had become weak. However, the island was silent except for the sound of sea tides, and more and more controlled sea tribes made no sound. Therefore, Catherine still heard Lina's shouting clearly, and she smiled warmly in her heart: "I am very good here, and I have discovered a big discovery, and I was shocked to find a corpse. The human body, I think this is the Archbishop who escaped from death in the end."

"Good news." Lina shouted: "The mission items should be near the corpse. With the piety of an archbishop, even if he dies, he will not throw a magical weapon. It must not be too far from him."

"It's her." Catherine corrected: "I'll keep digging, don't be distracted by me, concentrate on defense, I'm fine."

"The frequency and intensity of attacks on our side are getting lower and lower." Freya also joined in and shouted: "At this level, even if we don't make any strengthening, relying solely on our current defense, it will be fine to support for another half an hour."

"Then you wait patiently." Catherine shouted: "I will go back soon after I find it."

Turning his attention back to the excavation work, Catherine dug fewer and fewer bones. Most of the remains of the archbishop had been transferred from the gravel to the ground, but the target of the mission has not been found yet. However, Catherine was not worried, because the most critical hand bones had not been found. With the Archbishop's condition at that time, the most likely thing was to hold the artifact tightly in his hand, so the hand bones were the key target. Although the mission goal was not found, the only few artificial objects were found during the excavation process, such as the wreckage of the sheepskin scroll, crystals without energy, and very small things such as mitral threads used to cast spells. These items were pressed under the bones. It seemed that the Archbishop had never been able to get up again after falling face down for the last time.

Catherine stood there and thought about it, and simulated the scene in her mind. The Archbishop escaped from the sea and, with the idea that the farther away from the sea, the safer the artifact, she tried her best to climb up the mountain. However, she had already suffered many fatal injuries. Even with her demigod physique, it would be difficult to continue to support her. The injury attacked her more and more severely, making her speed slower and slower. Moreover, she had already broken one leg, and at this time she could only crawl between the mountains with both hands and one leg. No, I'm afraid there was only one hand. Judging from her relics, she no longer had a pocket to place a slightly larger object, and she could only hold the artifact with one hand, so she could really use only one hand and one leg. Finally, her vitality was completely lost and she could no longer move forward, and she could only fall regretfully on the hillside.

"What will she think at this time?" Catherine tried hard to stand on the other side's side: "If she climbed up the mountain and wanted to leave the sea as far as possible, then her purpose was to protect their artifact. If so, she should protect the artifact before she died. But the body had been searched all over and there was nothing."

"No, right? At this time, her consciousness was already blurred. She would not think of such a complicated thing, but would fulfill her initial hope according to her instinct. What is hope? Well, it should be to climb up the mountain and let the artifact far away from the sea. Since this is the case, she should use her last strength to lift the artifact upwards, then, is it above?"

Catherine nodded, feeling that she was right, so she started digging upwards from the side of the bone head. Sure enough, not far upwards, she found the arm bones that had left her body due to a landslide, and followed the arm bones and then dug out the forearm and hand bones all the way. The bones in the three parts were obviously in a straight line, showing the deceased's final efforts to stretch his arms upwards. However, something happened to Catherine and was puzzled. There was nothing in the palm of the body, and even if she turned the gravel under her palm, she did not find anything.

"No, this is not reasonable at all." Catherine was a little annoyed and used a shovel to fiddle with the gravel around her, and paced back and forth around the location where she found her hand bones: "The performance of these controlled sea tribes means that the mission target must be nearby, and her physical condition cannot allow her to hide things elsewhere. But where can she hide things? There is no position for her other hand."

"No, right, there must be something I didn't expect, think about it again." Catherine put down the shovel, slapped her cheeks with her hands a few times, and encouraged herself: "No problem, Catherine, you can definitely think of it."

"Before she dies, she will definitely lift the artifact as much as possible. This idea should be correct. The location of her bones also explains this, but why isn't it? Strange, did she hide things on purpose? But she is said to be dying, so how could she hide things again after she falls on the ground?"

"No, I understand. After she fell down for the last time, she already realized that she was about to die, so she was not trying to climb up, but using the last bit of power to hide the artifact. In this way, the artifact could only be in the range around her, and the most likely was the range of one arm, because she no longer had the strength to move anymore, and she probably had only her arms. But her arms were obviously raised high and obliquely upwards, was this just a disguise?"

"Will she really have the energy to think about disguise before she dies? Maybe it's true. In order to protect the artifact, she will use the last bit of strength to disguise. Then, if I'm not wrong, um..."

"Linna." Catherine suddenly shouted loudly: "If you lie on the ground and have no strength to move, and you want to hide things, where will you hide?"

"My?" Lina was stunned in the fortress, thinking for a while and responded: "It must be hiding something under the body and covering it with her body so that she can avoid being discovered."

Catherine didn't say anything, and didn't care whether Lina could see it or not, just nodded.

"It's true, everyone should think so. I understand. Since normal people think so, if you want to hide things, you must be contrary to everyone's ideas. In other words, things will be hidden outside her body so that they will not be guessed. Her left arm stretched forward with force, which seemed to make things as far away from the sea as possible, but if you think about it carefully, maybe it's a concealment. Okay, try the position on her left."

After making up his mind, Catherine waved the shovel hard and began to dig a large area on the left side of the body where the bones were found. It was dug until the depth of the body was found, but nothing was discovered. Catherine frowned, tilted her head and thought for a while, gritted her teeth, and continued to dig downwards until she dug downwards for nearly half a meter. As she raised the shovel from the ground again, a black mist suddenly appeared in the gap on the ground, and the mist was full of aggressive aura.

However, as soon as the large fog emerged from the ground, it was shining by the light of the silver moon, making a shrill sound under the moonlight, melting rapidly like the ice and snow under the scorching sun, screaming and turning into a blue-white smoke, floating in the air.

The fog dissipated, revealing the affairs below the gap. It was a small horn the size of a palm. The horn was pitch black all over and smooth and clean, and it was impossible to see that it had been buried for thousands of years.
Chapter completed!