Civilization Guardian Front

Judging from the current extremely bad situation of the young man, even if the other party does nothing, the attrition war launched by the endless stream of monsters around is enough to kill him, and there is really no need to do anything extra.

In any case, it is a good thing for the charmed monster group to temporarily stop their offensive.

Chios, who accidentally got a chance to breathe, immediately took out a bottle of panacea and drank it.

The expensive life-saving potion released a powerful healing effect, and the young man's pale face finally regained some blood...

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Seemingly realizing that Chios didn't take a step immediately, the guiding song from the depths of the maze suddenly added a sense of anxiety, urging him to move on.

"Okay, I got it." The white-haired young man nodded in response.

blow!

Chios stepped into the gap between the monsters, and sprinted forward while trying to avoid waking up the stunned enemies...

He knew that he had no choice.

Backtracking is the least realistic option these days...

There are far more monsters chasing up from behind than the ones in charge of intercepting in front of them.

Because of his insistence on breaking through the encirclement, the enemy in his frontal position suffered the most casualties, and was undoubtedly the weakest part of the defense line.

There is not much power left, and the only way to break through is to focus on the weak points.

Even if the charm works on a monster with a low mental level, the duration will not be too long.Especially considering the killing intent of the will of the world against him, it is estimated that it will be impossible for the monsters to be easily recruited again.

It was just that he was caught off guard by the singing before.

gah...

sizzle...

Sure enough, after less than ten seconds of stagnation, the songbirds, half-human birds, and half-human snakes with human-like upper bodies were the first to recover from their absence.

Oh ah ah ah ah!

When they found that the young man was not in place, they couldn't help shouting angrily.

Many monsters woke up suddenly, turning their red eyes around to search for the target.

During this period of time, Chios, who had already run to the back of the frontal monster group, saw the monsters start to make a commotion, so he simply stopped hiding.

Swish!Swish!

The Light Eater emitting dark purple light in the cross section cuts out two intersecting sword shadows, sweeping away the obstacles ahead.

tata tao...

He sprinted fifty steps along the labyrinth road, and before the group of monsters reacted, he stomped on the ground with his front foot to stop the inertia, drew a semicircle with his back foot to complete the turn, and then rushed into the left passage.

In front of me is a square room, except for the entrance, all three sides are blocked by crystal walls.A small underground river flows out of the room along the central riverbed that runs straight through the ground.

Apparently, a source of water in the maze is hidden behind the wall.

The singing voice, projecting a stereoscopic image in his mind, formed a mark of notes, guiding him to dive under the subterranean current.

He raised his hand to draw a "water" rune in the void, crushed it and turned it into an arm, the black-haired young man dragged his weak body and plunged into the water with the remaining source power no longer enough to maintain the release of ghost energy.

The faint blue light enveloping the youth erases the thrust of the rushing water.

Even so, his paddling speed is still slow.

The body is as heavy as lead...

As the ghost energy dissipated, all the exhaustion that had been forcibly dispelled earlier returned.

Fortunately, this tight water area does not seem to attract monsters very much, excluding the large water snakes that are not suitable for activities, and the less dangerous radar fish do not appear here.

With a firm will to keep pushing the countercurrent, Chios followed the guidance of the notes and drilled through the narrow hole that only one person can pass through.

The underwater light suddenly became brighter.

Knowing that he had successfully arrived at the hidden area behind the room, Chios was about to go upstream when his right wrist was grabbed by a soft hand that dipped into the water.

Can't feel bad...

He relaxed his body and let the other party exert force to pull him out of the water.

Whoa!

Eyes blurred by blue glare refocus...

What caught the young man's eyes was a circular space made of blue crystals.

The diameter is only about six meters, surrounded by higher rock formations, the pure water dissolved by the crystals on the wall is poured into the low-lying places to form a pond, and the crystals on the ceiling shed light, kneading fine silver waves on the surface of the flowing water.

On a reef right in the middle of the pool, sat a slender figure half man, half fish.

Transparent green scales and fish tail, the upper body is different from the emerald green lower body, showing a light blue.

Smooth and shiny skin, cute fish fins instead of ears, beautiful eyes like emeralds, and long hair of the same color as the fish scales are decorated with natural accessories made of shining shells and pearls.

Mermaid, a rare monster that appeared in the City of Water Puzzle...

No, to be precise it should be...

"Heretics"

Facing Chios' gaze, the mermaid girl showed a trace of uneasiness.

Even if she saved the opponent's life, she still couldn't be sure whether the unknown adventurer in front of her would hurt herself.

After all, an alien like her who was born in the dungeon is still a heinous monster in the eyes of adventurers.

"Are you OK?"

With a pure voice like snow melting spring water, he uttered some jerky questions.

"Well, thanks to your help..." Seeing the inner activities of the other party, Chios suppressed the tiredness that could hardly bear falling asleep, and returned a gentle smile.

He climbed up to the ground by the pool and sat down with his back against the wall.

"If your singing is one second late, my life might be over. Thank you."

Hearing this, the mermaid girl had a cheerful look on her face.

"Plop" jumped into the water, the girl swung her fish tail and swam close to where Chios was seated.

After confirming that Chios would not hurt her, the girl's movements suddenly became intimate.

"Because of me, see, you..."

She put her hands on the young man's knees, and looked up at the man's face with her small face on her arms, as if she was looking at something novel.

"In order to protect your companions, you are working hard, desperately. I don't want you to die."

"Really..." The young man's long and narrow eyes widened slightly, looking quite surprised.

Heretics...

Born in the dungeon, it is an intelligent life that is hostile to adventurers and attacked by monsters.

Struggling to survive in an embarrassing situation where neither side was recognized, their goodwill towards surface humans gradually turned into disappointment and rejection over time.

According to Chios' original inference, it is difficult for an outsider like himself without the help of fate to win the favor of this sensitive and vulnerable group.

(Perhaps, while the will of the world is going all out to encircle and suppress me, the influence on the characters in the plot is inevitably relaxed...)

It is rare to have a great opportunity to eliminate intruders. Instead of using power to interfere with thoughts, it is better to use these world powers to create monsters and increase the success rate.

Hence, the present encounter...

Chapter 520 Four? Deceiving...

"So you've been watching around?"

"Hmm, there are a lot of monsters running out, I'm curious..." the girl replied clumsily, supplemented by gestures:

"I, hiding in the lake, saw that many people were running away, and they were very scared. Then, you saved them, alone, and fought many, many monsters."

Hearing this, Chios smiled weakly.

He went on to ask:

"I don't know what should I call you?"

"My name is Mary."

The mermaid girl answered with a voice like a silver bell.

"Mary..." The young man raised his hand to touch the girl's face.

"I'm Chios, nice to meet you."

"Your lovely name, your song that saved me, I will never forget it as long as I live."

Facing the young man's touch, Mary shrank her shoulders uneasily.

Feeling the gentle force of her fingers rubbing her face, a blush immediately appeared on her cheeks, and the tension quickly dissipated.

Not only was it not rough, but it was very delicate and flexible to the touch, which did not bring any pain to the girl at all. Occasionally, the pressing was neither light nor heavy, as if it wanted to imprint the skin texture of the fingertips and joints on her body.

Although she didn't understand the specific reason for the warm current flowing into the lake of her heart at this moment, it did not prevent her from being immersed in the gentleness of the man in front of her.

"Hmm..." The girl closed her eyes obediently, feeling the intimacy that only skin-to-skin contact can convey.

"Ceos... Chios, Chios, Chios..."

Mary murmured and repeated the young man's name, as if she wanted to remember the name in her heart forever, just like what the other party said.

so innocent...

Looking at the mermaid girl who was greedy for the warmth of his right hand, Chios felt emotional.

Like the pure water formed by the dissolution of surrounding crystals, it is too pure and clean.Because of this, when a drop of ink falls into it, it will quickly smudge and become cloudy.

The will of the world didn't take good care of her, it was a big mistake...

In normal times, Chios would probably use skillful means to plant an unshakable anchor in the heart of this heretic.

Unfortunately, in his current state, this level of touch and dialogue is already the limit.

The gray-black woolen coat that was neat until noon today is now completely stained dark red by blood. Even though the smell of blood was mostly diluted when it was underwater, it still cannot wash away the color.

Under the ragged clothes torn into tatters by weapons, sharp claws, and bird beaks, countless wounds were exposed.

Of these, the panacea cures most.

Including the skeletal tendon of his right shoulder, which was pierced by the gun blade and formed a hole, the repair is basically completed.

However, that's the end of it...

There are at least a dozen wounds on the young man's body that are slowly oozing blood.

The panacea is worthy of its name, as long as it is not dead or disabled, it can heal all kinds of injuries, such as abnormal states, fractures, tendon ruptures, etc., but there is still an upper limit to the efficacy of a single dose of this medicine.

Chios was injured too much, too badly...

It is so serious that every drop of energy in the panacea is exhausted and there is no way to completely cure it.

There is still a long way to go to recover, let alone replenish exhausted physical strength.

In the heraldry space, the drug placement area is empty...

The bottle of panacea was the last healing item Chios carried, including the legion supplies.

He thought it was an exaggeration to bring nearly thirty bottles of medicine, but unexpectedly, after just two hours of fighting, he faced the dilemma of running out of medicine.

"..."

sand...

The hand that caressed the girl's face loosened and then slipped down.

"?"

Mary raised her head in confusion.

I saw that Chios managed to squeeze out a faint, almost illusory smile.

"Sorry, I think I need a break...for a while..."

Whispering in a low voice that he could hardly hear clearly.