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The next morning, as agreed with Raphael, we arrived at her residence early to wait.

"Have you really convinced everyone?" Raphael poked his head out, glanced at me, and gave me a rare look of admiration.

"What else do you think?"

"I still clearly remember the scene a few days ago when a large group of them came in angrily to argue. Oops, it scared me. I thought they were going to tear down my tent."

Raphael patted his chest and made a frightened movement. According to my experience, acting accounted for nine points. I even believed that she was a slut who coaxed Artoria and the others back one by one.

"We were too impatient the past few days. We hope Elder Raphael will forgive us."

"I was wrong too."

"I am also involved in this matter. If you want to punish me, punish me too, but don't tell Tia, okay?"

Artoria, Benzina, and Tamoa all stepped forward one after another.

"Look what you said, I was just joking. Knowing that you care about Xiao Xiao Wu makes me happy before it's too late." Raphael narrowed his eyes and smiled meaningfully.

Artoria accepted it calmly, Tamoya smiled and nodded, and Princess Nana... was very embarrassed, indicating that she had been attacked.

"I ask again, are you two really ready? Don't remember that you forgot to bring something when you go to hell." After teasing the girls, Raphael stopped joking and asked us solemnly.

"No problem. Everything is ready." The little fox, who checked again and again last night, responded with a relaxed look on his face and without hesitation.

As for me...let me think about it, what else have I forgotten?

"Well, let's go when you're ready."

Hey, are you going to ignore my existence?!

Under the leadership of Raphael, a group of us walked towards the teleportation array. It seemed that the entrance to the hell world was not at Camp Rogge.

"Where is the entrance? Can you tell me now?" I asked impatiently on the way.

"Shh, you can't say it. We agreed not to say it out loud, in case the hell clan hears it." Raphael lowered his voice, glared at me, and quickened his pace.

You must be too cautious. How could the Hell Clan lurk in so easily?

I muttered and followed up. Stepping into the teleportation array, I followed the white light to...the Demon Fortress.

It turns out that the entrance is here. Indeed, the environment of the Demon Fortress looks most similar to hell. I should have thought of it a long time ago.

The transfer station of the Demon Fortress is located in the Temple Square, but Raphael took us directly into the temple, and after pretending to walk around a few times, he met the mage mysteriously, acting like an underground organization.

Then, under the leadership of Raphael and the mage, we arrived at the hinterland of the Demon Fortress.

That's right, it's the hinterland. As we all know, the Demon Fortress is built on a steep giant peak thousands of meters high. The slope of the giant peak is almost vertical. From a distance, it looks like a pillar sticking straight into the sky. There is only one dangerous natural moat.

The road can go down the mountain from the Demon Fortress.

A place like this, at first glance, seems easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a natural defensive fortress. In fact, it is not the case. You must know that this is the dark continent. A world of high martial arts dominated by powerful magic and force. Think about it, if the big pineapple comes

, does it need to think hard about how to climb up the steep and dangerous road to attack the demon fortress?

No need, even a mortal like me can figure it out. The simplest way is to knock down this huge cylindrical mountain like a tree. The demon fortress above will naturally knock down the macaques.

If you don't attack, you will be defeated.

Although this mountain peak has been reinforced by the magic arrays of countless mages for tens of thousands of years and has become indestructible, I do not believe that with the strength of the three demon gods, it will be impossible to overthrow it. Therefore, I have always felt that the group of demons

Is the existence of the fortress necessary? At least the demon fortress in the third world, I don’t think it is necessary. It will only increase the danger.

Now it seems that I have found the reason why the Alliance insists on building the Demon Fortress here. Apart from the previous external explanations, the most likely reason is to protect the only entrance to the hell world here.

Under the leadership of Raphael and the mage, we followed the secret passage of the temple and went all the way down. The spiral ladder turned so fast that I almost felt dizzy, so I am very sure that the location we are now is under the demon fortress.

In the hinterland, if this mountain peak is regarded as a giant, then we are probably in the giant's belly, or...well, three inches below the navel.

On the bottom floor, we saw a hall hundreds of square meters, with nothing in it. The place was illuminated by the most primitive torches, and the flickering feeling was even more mysterious.

Under the dim light of the torch, you can see a huge magic circle carved on the floor of the hall. The center of the magic circle is a groove, and floating on the groove is a diamond-shaped crystal as tall as a person. The light of this crystal is very dim.

It was even covered up by torches. If you hadn't followed the magic circle to look for it, you wouldn't have noticed its existence at a glance.

Our eyes were attracted by this unusually dim crystal. Experience and intuition tell us that the passage to the hell world is probably related to this crystal.

There are irregular sections everywhere on the surface of the crystal. Yes, it looks like it was cut into this shape one by one with a knife. There are even clearly visible cracks on the section. Various inferences tell us that this crystal seems to be

Separated from a whole, there are cracks all over the place, and some even have slight traces of stickiness, as if they were originally broken into pieces and then put back together piece by piece.

Not only that, it looks very familiar, like...like...

"World Stone?" Perhaps because I often travel between the three worlds and have seen the most, I was the first to shout out.

"Yes, it does look like the World Stone. Apart from its size, it also has a too dim light." After my reminder, the girls also responded one after another. They nodded in agreement, and then all their eyes fell on Raphael, waiting.

her answer.

"Yes, it is the World Stone. To be precise, it is part of the World Stone." In the dim light, Raphael's expression was confused and serious.

"Back then, in order to prevent the hell army from pouring into the third world, an unknown warrior sacrificed his own life to break the World Stone of the third world. This story should be familiar to you."

Everyone nodded together, they couldn't be more familiar, but so far, they still don't know who this unknown warrior is.

"After the World Stone shattered, it turned into meteors and scattered. Most of them were blocked by the Hell clan, and a small part of its core fell here. It took root in the heart of the mountain under the Demon Fortress."

"That's why we built the Demon Fortress here to hide its existence, right."

"Not bad, Xiao Xiao Wu. Finally got a wit." Raphael glanced sideways slightly, seeming to have changed his view on me.

"Humph. It's scary even when I use my brain."

"Foreword withdrawn."

"Why do you want to withdraw it? Did I say something wrong?!"

"It's not a big deal, I just can't see Xiao Wu getting carried away."

The problem is huge, okay, Boss Raphael, please explain it clearly. What are the unresolved grievances and grievances between us?

"Is this crystal the core?" They ignored my resentment. Everyone continued to discuss the crystal.

"It's not that simple. The core fragment alone is far from opening the door to the hell world. After discovering this core fragment, we built a demon fortress on the mountain as a cover, and spent thousands of years collecting other scattered pieces.

fragments of the World Stone. It took thousands of years to connect these fragments together with magic arrays, and only then did we have this relatively complete remnant of the World Stone."

"It's really amazing." Even a heartless person like me couldn't help but marvel when I heard it.

It’s not just that it took two or three thousand years. The World Stone has always been a tall existence, and even angels have never stopped studying it. There is a kind of "Brother has always existed, but has never been understood."

"Super cool style.

But at that time, the Alliance managed to put the broken pieces of the World Stone together like building blocks, and they succeeded. This is simply unbelievable. It can't be described even with the brain of someone borrowed from God.

Too much, I can't imagine how much effort and brainpower the predecessors have put into it.

"Yes, the potential of intelligent life in our continent is incredible. Now that I think about it, how did those predecessors do it? It feels weak to describe it as a miracle. If this fragment is removed, I am afraid it will not be given to us again.

Even in ten thousand years, we may not be able to put it back together again." Raphael also sighed. She is a mage, so she can say this most convincingly.

"Are there any other remaining World Stone fragments on the continent now?"

"There should be no more. We have never given up looking for these fragments, but we have never found them again. Maybe it was because all that could be found at that time had been found, and the rest were in the hands of the Hell Clan."

"Calculating it this way, at least nine-tenths of it is in the hands of those guys." I compared it to the complete World Stone and sighed.

"Isn't it? Fortunately, we got a core fragment. No matter how big the World Stone fragments in those guys' hands are, they can't reproduce the functions of a complete World Stone. Otherwise, a steady stream of hellish armies will pour in.

Come on, our mainland has long been unable to resist."

"The remnant body we have now can only lead to the hell world in one direction. It can't specify the landing place, and it can't come back, right?"

"Just be content. If you can use it, you should kneel down and thank your ancestors with tears in your eyes. And it's not impossible to come back, but the conditions are a bit harsh."

When Raphael said this, he paused. Suddenly, a gleam of light appeared from the dark depths of the hall where the torch could not reach.

A dazzling and holy white light.

"Raphael, I didn't expect you to have the patience to explain like this. It really surprised me."

A four-winged angel slowly walked toward us from the dark depths.

Four...four wings?

No, it should be a quasi-four-wing, but the size of the second pair of wings is very close to the first pair of complete wings. At first glance, I thought it was a four-wing. Of course, I'm afraid it is almost close to breaking through the four-wing.

I can't beat this guy!

The first time I saw an angel, I had this idea in my mind. It was right when I thought about it. How could such an important thing not be protected by a heavyweight? But I didn't expect it to be an angel.

"Phillips, I didn't expect your patience to suddenly become so bad. Don't you know it's rude to interrupt someone else's conversation?"

Raphael seemed to be very familiar with this angel who was infinitely close to the level of four wings, and he was not polite at all.

"Sorry, I'm a little impatient. I want to meet the genius boy you mentioned."

"Hey, hey, I didn't say he was a genius, he was just a fool."

Ignoring Raphael's protest, the angel named Phelps turned his eyes and fell on me. His eyes were gentle and wise, making me feel like a spring breeze. He was obviously being scrutinized and judged by these eyes, but he
To be continued...