Captain Malik spat out a mouthful of blood with a panicked expression … This was obviously not the bravest elf in the village that Mayfair once knew. Therefore, Mayfair was also shocked.
But at this time, Captain Malik who was on the ground naturally saw Mayfair who was supporting her body and hiding above.
They directly looked at each other.
Mayfair's face turned pale and she almost fell down.
But Captain Malik at this time looked at the inner temple through the door in a panic and said with a trembling voice, "Tomorrow … tomorrow … tomorrow there will be offerings sent to the temple! Wait, wait! "
"I'm hungry, I'm really hungry!"
"Okay, okay … I'll immediately, I'll immediately find something fresher … alive, it must be alive!"
"Remember, don't let me down again, otherwise … you know the consequences."
Bang —!
The door was directly closed at this moment. Captain Malik sighed and directly fell to the ground as if she had lost all her strength — Mayfair at this time did not dare to move for a moment.
Captain Malik had clearly seen her, but why did he …
At this time, Captain Malik raised her head again and stared at Mayfair's eyes — she was even more scared. But at this moment, Captain Malik actually made a gesture of silence.
Mayfair could not help but be startled.
…
…
It was still the temple … but it was slightly away from the inner temple — this was the place where the village used to baptize newborns. If there was nothing important, it was basically not used … it could be considered a relatively remote place.
Mayfair at this time looked at the silent Captain Malik with vigilance — this was the place he led her to.
The two sides kept a distance of arm's length. Mayfair even put her hand on the place where the weapon was placed and never let go.
"Okay, let's go from here." Captain Malick, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said, "The back of the Temple of Baptism leads directly to the back door of the temple. If you leave from there, it will be dark soon. Take advantage of the guards outside to find an opportunity to leave the mountain. For you, this shouldn't be difficult. After all, you are his daughter … He was once the fastest runner in the village. I know that you are actually very fast as well."
"You … you let me go?" Mayfair looked at Captain Malik in disbelief.
She kept recalling the things about Captain Malik — this Malik was forty to fifty years older than her and was still a young elf.
She heard that he was relatively ordinary in the past, but after he became an adult, he showed considerable courage and was recognized as the bravest guy in the younger generation in the tribe. Finally, he directly passed the selection and became the captain of the temple guards.
Captain Malik was kind to everyone and was very good to everyone … Even when she was finally chosen to be a sacrifice to serve the gods, she heard that Captain Malik had privately opposed it.
Before [Today], Mayfair had even been secretly grateful to Captain Malik of the Guardian Squad. However, this gratitude had long since vanished into thin air after seeing Captain Malik personally kill her clansmen … She was even incomparably fearful of this person who hid his terrifying face.
However, in front of the inner temple gate, Captain Malik did not directly catch her. Instead, he still wanted to let her go, which made Mayfair a little confused … Captain Malik, could it be that he was not an accomplice of the monster disguised as a god in the inner temple?
However, he had clearly killed the members of his own guards with his own hands and brought their corpses into the inner palace, wanting to feed that terrifying monster.
"I heard that earlier today, you secretly escaped." Captain Malik frowned and said, "Since you have already escaped, why did you come back?"
"I am back, isn't that what you want?" Mayfair sneered at this time and said, "Otherwise, where would you go to find a living sacrifice and send it to the gods … to the monster? A living one, right? "
"How much did you see?" Captain Malik's face changed and looked at Mayfair with a trace of murderous intent.
She was already prepared, at this time, she directly took out her weapon and waited, "I saw it all. Sneak attack from behind to kill our people, and bring the bodies of our people into the inner temple along the way! I saw it all, and I saw it very clearly! Malik, I will definitely tell this to the whole village … Even the monster pretending to be a god! "
"You shouldn't have come back." Captain Malik sighed, "You clearly could have escaped … Why didn't you escape? You have no parents, and there is nothing here for you to care about. Leaving the tribe, leaving the forest, the outside world is not good for you, is it not good for you? "
"I once thought about it." Mayfair said in a deep voice, "But if I leave … More of our people will be killed and eaten by you, by the monster in the temple! I can't just leave it alone! "
"There is no other way." Captain Malik shook his head. With a clang, he took out a sword that was longer and sharper than the short sword in Mayfair's hand. "I don't want to let others know about this, so you should know what I am going to do next … Are you going to surrender directly, or do you want me to really do it?"
Mayfair had already given her answer with her actions. She flashed and appeared behind Captain Malik like a ghost.
However, Captain Malik seemed to have expected it. He casually inserted the sword in his hand behind his back and directly blocked Mayfair's attack.
After her attack failed, she did not pull away. Instead, she began a storm of powerful attacks … However, the sword in Captain Malik's hand transformed into a screen of light and easily blocked it.
Even in the face of Mayfair's concentrated attacks, he did not even move half a step.
Like a bolt of lightning striking the ground in the darkness, Captain Malik swept out with his sword just as Mephistopheles was about to be exhausted from her powerful attacks – the immense power behind the strike sent Mephistopheles flying. Even her weapon was knocked away.
Mayfair fell to the ground. She could not help but taste blood in her throat. She hurriedly wanted to get up, but at this moment, Captain Malik's sword was already pointed directly at her throat.
"You are very fast, but your strength is too weak, and your technique is even worse." Captain Malik said indifferently, "From the moment I told you to leave, you already shut down and did not say anything. Just leave directly … Zhengzhi obviously will not let your path be any easier."
"If you want to kill me, then kill me." Mayfair gritted her teeth, "However, if you want to bring me in front of that monster alive, I would rather commit suicide here."
As she said this, Mayfair actually suddenly slammed into Captain Malik's arms. At her waist, there was actually a palm sized knife hidden.
However, Captain Malik effortlessly swatted Mephistopheles away with the flat of his sword. At this time, Mephistopheles directly stabbed his own throat with the small knife in his hand.
Captain Malik's eyes flashed … He was even faster than her. In an instant, he flashed in front of Mayfair and directly knocked her unconscious with the hilt of his sword.
Thump —!
The elf lady instantly collapsed on the ground and lost consciousness.
"Such a strong personality, really not like an elf at all." Captain Malik shook his head, but directly carried Mayfair and walked out of the baptism hall.
At this moment, the sunlight was about to disappear, and the sky had completely darkened … The guards on the temple on the hill began to light up the surrounding lights.
…
…
She woke up on a stone bed … The moment she woke up, Mayfair instinctively wanted to escape, but very quickly, she was directly pulled back by something.
Her legs — at this moment, her legs were already shackled and connected to the iron chain. The iron chain was nailed to the stone bed — she simply could not break free.
Mayfair looked around in horror, and finally saw Captain Malik in the corner of the room.
At this moment, Captain Malik raised his head and looked at something. A soft light sprinkled on his body, but because of the screen, Mayfair could not see what Captain Malik was looking at, but she guessed that he should be looking at the window sill.
He was looking outside the window, as if he was thinking about something absent-mindedly … Even the sound of Mayfair struggling after waking up did not disturb him.
"Why not send me to the inner temple and hand me over to that man-eating monster?" Mayfair said coldly at this time.
"It fell asleep." Captain Malik said indifferently, "You are lucky … In fact, it is very easy to fall asleep, but after waking up, it will be hungry. When it needs to eat, it will become particularly irritable."
"So, I can only keep my life until it wakes up …" Mayfair was silent.
"Don't worry, I won't send you tomorrow." Captain Malik still did not look at Mayfair, "Because of the escape, the village has not been found, so the priest candidate was temporarily changed."
"Who is it!" Mayfair was shocked.
"It is the little daughter of Eric's family." Captain Malik said expressionlessly, "She looks very happy. Tonight, the village is preparing a celebration for her."
"She is not even eighty years old this year! You actually … "Mayfair struggled agitatedly again, and her delicate skin was directly damaged because of this.
"She will be sent to the temple in the middle of the night." Captain Malik suddenly stood up, "I am going out to patrol … Don't think about leaving this room. I have released a barrier outside. With your strength, you can't open it."
At this time, he looked at Mayfair and said indifferently, "Of course, if you want to kill yourself, I will not stop you … It is just taking care of one more corpse."
"Wait! You come back! Malik! You come back —! "She screamed.
However, Captain Malik had already left the room and locked the door.
Mayfair struggled to no avail. She could only lie on the stone bed in frustration. She said to herself, "You can't give up … You have to escape from this room and save Uncle Eric's daughter … You can't give up, you can't give up!"
She gritted her teeth and sat up again. Then, she held the shackles with force … She straightened her foot and tried to pull it out of the shackles.
The metal had already worn through her skin … and even her flesh.
Finally, with a miserable cry, Mephistopheles successfully pulled her left leg out. The price she paid was that her left ankle was now bleeding profusely … to the point where it was badly mangled.
At this time, her whole body was soaked in cold sweat due to the pain. Her face was as white as paper. Even when she moved her left foot that was successfully pulled out, she felt a piercing pain.
However, time did not wait for her … Mayfair looked at the shackles on her right foot again.
This time, the pain almost made her faint … She failed. That kind of inhuman pain, when it happened for the second time, became a tiger that blocked the road.
Mayfair couldn't help but curl up and cry secretly. She didn't cry out loud, but her tears soon mixed with sweat, dripped on the stone bed and then melted.
Suddenly, something fell out of her clothes … It was that incomparably sweet candy.
Mayfair trembled at this time and held the candy up … She was distracted.
After her mind wandered, Mephistopheles took a deep breath and unwrapped the candy. She broke the candy in half and put half of it into her mouth, while the other half was wrapped in the candy again and kept close to her body.
Feeling the sweet taste in her mouth again, Mayfair carelessly wiped the stains on her face with her palm.
"Mayfair, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't taste bitter … Mayfair is sweet."
She muttered to herself. Then, she trembled, gritted her teeth, and began to whip her right foot again. The hard metal shackles directly began to scratch the flesh on her ankle together with the skin.
Little by little.
Finally, she fell under the stone bed … Mayfair gasped for breath. She only felt the burning pain in her feet now. Even the air could bully her bloody feet.
She rested for a moment and began to slowly crawl on the floor … It was just that her physical strength was astonishing. Now, she was so tired that she just wanted to faint directly.
There was a light in front, which should be the light from outside the window … Most of the light was blocked by the screen. Captain Malik was sitting in this place just now.
Mayfair crawled here, thinking that if there was a barrier on the door, she could climb out of the window … She subconsciously looked at it.
What she saw was not a window at all … but a coffin placed vertically — the light was actually emitted by the coffin.
Luminous Stone … This coffin was inlaid with a few luminous stones. This was a relatively easy material to obtain in the [Roaring Forest].
"Malik, have you been looking at it all this time?"
Mayfair gritted her teeth and crawled to the coffin. Then, she grabbed the coffin and climbed up with difficulty … She hesitated, but in the end, she opened the coffin and opened her eyes to look inside.
"Empty … Empty?"
There was nothing inside … Mayfair opened her mouth. In the end, she could only ignore the empty coffin and look at the door of the room.
…
She couldn't open it!
No matter what she did, she couldn't open it. She had already tried every method to dispel the curse, but the barrier released by the door completely exceeded her strength. Just as Captain Malik had said, she couldn't leave the room no matter what.
Time had already quietly approached the time when a new sacrifice would be sent to the temple. Mayfair's heart was incomparably anxious … and because the injuries on her feet couldn't be treated effectively, she had lost too much blood.
She could only bandage them simply, but the blood had completely seeped out.
Mayfair only felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. She felt that she could fall asleep at any time. Maybe after she fell asleep, she would never wake up again. Maybe after she woke up, it would be a new [Today].
"Well … If we return to the morning …" Mayfair's vision gradually became blurred, "Then no one will die … As long as I can't walk out of [Today], no one will die. This is also good …"
"But …"
"Will I forget …"
She slowly took out the remaining half of the milk candy in her arms. Her fingers unwrapped the candy with difficulty, and finally, she slowly put the remaining half of the candy into her mouth.
She waited for the sweet to melt …
— She didn't want to forget.
Right at this moment, many black patterns suddenly appeared on Mayfair's body … The patterns covered her entire body in an instant. In the end, many shadow-like arms strangely extended out from the blossoming patterns.
The arms directly wrapped Mayfair up like a black giant cocoon. Finally, her body began to sink little by little.
It was a darkness that spread out under her.
She couldn't hear any sound. Her eyes had completely lost their luster, like an empty shell … She couldn't even taste the taste in her mouth.
Crack —!
A soft sound at this time, but at this time, it startled something … It startled everything strange here!
It was as if the light from the fire had dispersed the darkness in an instant. The shadowy arms on her body began to tremble randomly, and then quickly returned to the blossoming patterns ….. At this time, the patterns also quickly began to shrink. Finally, all of the patterns disappeared into Mephistopheles' forehead.
Her eyes regained a trace of luster again.
At this time, the enchanted door had been opened, and someone appeared in front of her.
"I found a key outside, so I opened the door to see … Are you okay, Miss Mayfair?"
The elf lady cried out at this time. She cried and said, "I'm sorry, I ate the candy you gave me … Can, can you give me another one?"
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