Not long after Martin lost contact with Kate, the Dark Elf King finally arrived at the platform at the top of the altar in the deep and dark underground.

Strangely enough, this altar platform had no gravity at all. As soon as the Dark Elf King entered, he began to breathe heavily. His body was already soaked with sweat, and his originally exquisite and luxurious clothes were tightly stuck to his body.

At this moment, he didn't care about these things. He just wanted to lie down and relax.

After a long time, the Dark Elf King gradually recovered and finally had the mind to look at the platform carefully.

However, there was nothing on the platform except the words engraved on the ground.

The worst thing was that he couldn't understand any of the words. He was so anxious that he was turning around in circles, but he didn't know what to do.

At this moment, a tremendous force suddenly pressed him to the ground.

Then, a hunched, old stone man slowly rose from the platform. He coughed and spat out the stones in his mouth, and walked slowly towards the Dark Elf King while leaning on a crutch.

"How many years has it been? I finally see a living creature! Now that you're here, it's time for me to be free again. Congratulations, little one, you're the next guardian of the altar."

Before he could finish his words, the stone man took the Dark Elf King into the altar without saying a word.

Inside the altar, the stone man was explaining the various functions of the altar incessantly while staring at the Dark Elf King with a strange and pitying look in his eyes.

The Dark Elf King has been struggling in this world for many years and is very shrewd. How could he surrender easily? He immediately thought about how to find an opportunity to escape. As for what His Majesty Lucifer had instructed, he would talk about it later.

But how could this stone man let the Dark Elf King go easily? He had waited for so many years and finally got a seed of immortality.

If humans came here, it would kill them without saying a word, but it turned out that elves came.

"Okay, okay..." the stone man muttered, and used his divine power to take the Dark Elf King around the altar, and then brought him to a magic circle.

This magic circle looked a bit worn out, but the rich divine power emanating from it made it almost impossible for the Dark Elf King to breathe.

The old stone man just watched quietly. Suddenly, the Dark Elf King's eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Seeing this, the old stone man smiled with satisfaction.

After carefully confirming that the Dark Elf King was not pretending to be unconscious, the old stone man threw the Dark Elf King onto the magic circle like throwing an object, and stood aside, then activated the magic circle.

I saw that something was extracted from the stone man's body by the magic circle and merged into the body of the Dark Elf King.

Just when the old stone man thought that everything was about to end, something unexpected happened. The divine power and divine nature in his body began to be extracted by the magic circle, and he was powerless to stop it.

In an instant, the old stone man seemed to understand something. He looked fiercely at the place where he had buried his master, and a strong resentment surged from the bottom of his heart.

It suddenly wanted to self-destruct, but at this time it could no longer control its own divinity.

Gradually, the old stone man's body began to disintegrate, and his eyes were full of relief.

Afterwards, it turned into a pile of rubble, slowly dissolved, and was finally all infused into the body of the Dark Elf King.

After an unknown amount of time, the Dark Elf King slowly woke up.

He stood up suddenly and looked around warily.

Just as he tried to mobilize his own strength, a tremendous divine power surged out like a surging tide.

Feeling this powerful force, the Dark Elf King felt an irrepressible joy in his heart.

Then, he used his perception to try to find the trace of the old stone man. However, after some investigation, he found that there was no trace of any living creature in the entire altar.

"Where's that stone man? Could it be...that shouldn't be the case."

The Dark Elf King pondered to himself, and considering the fact that he had suddenly been promoted to a middle-level god, he guessed that the old stone man was most likely dead.

"Is this the reward given to me by His Majesty Lucifer? How great!" he thought happily.

However, the Dark Elf King did not know that any seemingly shortcut in the world often requires a price, and the price he has to pay is freedom.

The Dark Elf King flashed and came to the platform outside.

Then, without thinking, he tried to open a space crack to leave this place, but what he didn't expect was that here, the space seemed to be imprisoned by a mysterious force, and the space crack could not be opened at all.

He tried to fly out directly again, but encountered an invisible wall of air, blocking his way.

No matter how hard he tried to use his divine power to attack the air wall, all the attack power was like a drop in the ocean and was absorbed by the air wall.

Even if he intended to walk out of the passage obediently, it would be of no use.

At this moment, the Dark Elf King finally became terrified, muttering to himself, "His Majesty would never do this to me. I've done so much for him. I even nearly killed my own mother for him. It's impossible. This is absolutely impossible."

However, the cruel reality was like a heavy hammer, ruthlessly shattering the remaining sanity of the Dark Elf King.

He simply couldn't imagine what he would do if he were trapped here alone for the rest of his life.

At this moment, he noticed that some memories had inexplicably appeared in his mind, and he hurriedly checked them as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw.

He hoped that this was the key information His Majesty had left for him to escape from this place, but...

"Gatekeeper, your duty from now on is to guard this dimensional passage. From now on, you have become one with the altar and will not die easily."

"Thousands of years ago, I escaped from the plane of the gods and came to this plane. I was surprised to find that there was no trace of gods here. So, I tried to make this plane my own exclusive territory, but I failed."

"Fortunately, my friend Lucifer used his angelic powers to rescue me. I knew he had ulterior motives, and so did I."

"We both had a tacit understanding and didn't report this to the God of Light. After all, the appearance of an angel would inevitably attract the attention of other gods, so he only used the power of the angel to help me."

"And I... and I ultimately failed to live up to his expectations and failed once again. To repay him, I built an altar here that leads to the plane of the gods. It can only be opened with his power, as a form of compensation to him."

"Since you are here, you must have his power. Help me repay him, my friend."