The one who was faster than her was the head maid Lumi.

The head maid is not a member of the Moonlit Cat Group.

But she would not let the little swan out of her sight.

Before Louis realized something was wrong, she had already reached the little swan.

The two giant scimitars in her hands turned into hurricanes and slashed fiercely at the side of the little swan.

Accompanied by a roar.

Under the terrifying impact caused by Lumi, a surging wave of sand appeared out of nowhere.

The next second after Rumi swung her knife, she had already escaped from the scene carrying the little swan.

Louis went into combat mode without saying a word.

There were streaks of azure light flickering on the skin inside the armor.

"William..."

Before Louis could finish his words, William, who already knew what he was going to say, raised a heavy shield as tall as a person in his hand and smashed it heavily on the ground beneath him.

【Shields are a fortress】

Iron Guard high-level skills.

The effect is to use the giant shield in the hand as a transit point to cover the Iron Guard's original power to the surrounding land.

Then... build a giant wall directly on the ground.

Yes.

Even though he already knew about this ability, Louis was still shocked when he saw the dozens of meters long city wall rising from the ground and surrounded by azure flames.

"Your Highness, call for the soil for the city wall."

As soon as William finished speaking, Louis pulled out Rimuru and pressed his hand to the ground.

[Matter Manipulation], full strength!

The moment Louis' boiling mental power poured into the land beneath his feet, he felt the familiar power of the land beneath his feet.

For some reason, the lands surrounded by William's power emitted power fluctuations that were somewhat similar to his.

It was as if she had been half infected by Louis and Rimuru’s magic power in advance.

Louis didn't think about it too much, but just pulled up the entire city wall without hesitation.

In an instant, large mud dragons appeared on the city wall and bit towards the trapped shadow below.

Hundreds of meters long mud dragons roam across the land, just like surging in the water.

Louis has not yet seen the real body of the thing that attacked the little swan.

But in his perception, the thing moved faster than he had imagined, it was as if it did not appear directly at the scene.

and……

Surprisingly large in size.

"What are you still doing here? Just standing there and watching?"

Louis cursed in the direction of the Adventurer's Guild.

The people in the Adventurer's Guild were so sad that they could not even cry. They shouted from afar:

"Everyone leave the scene first, the ceremony is about to start!"

"I'll explain the situation to you later."

"Help them restrain that monster first."

An Adventurer's Guild took the lead in calling for action, and other teams trying to compete for the title of adventurer also followed suit.

Only when they launched an attack directly into the depths filled with smoke and dust did their expressions change slightly.

"W-What is that?"

Someone shouted in a trembling voice.

Louis, who was flying in the air holding Alice and Grace, looked down.

In the diffuse smoke and dust, a huge statue emitting silver light appeared above the earth.

"Damn, what is this?"

"The statue of the goddess of darkness? Why is that thing still moving?"

The little swan held in Lumi's arms seemed a little strange.

Louis glanced at her and asked, "What do you mean?"

However, the little swan rolled his eyes and said nothing.

Louis understood instantly that this was a secret that could not be told in front of everyone.

...So it was in her past life, had she seen this statue? Thinking of what Little Swan had said about her past life, Louis suddenly realized.

Does this statue come from the temple of the goddess of darkness?

At first Little Swan was not quite sure, but after carefully observing the information from the Three Kingdoms, she quickly confirmed that the temple in the Shadow Kingdom was the temple she had explored in her previous life.

Of course, only he and Little Swan knew about this.

Well, at most just add a black swan.

So there was no way she could say this in front of everyone.

"But why would the Temple of the Goddess of Darkness target Little Swan?"

Others may not know, but doesn't Louis know it himself? The danger he just felt was directed at the little swan.

The moment that cold breath appeared on the earth, it rushed towards the little swan without hesitation.

"Did you provoke Him?"

Louis looked at the cygnet.

The little swan couldn't help but recall some of his experiences in his past life.

Although she said that she had gone to the Temple of the Goddess of Darkness to hunt for treasure, she did not tell Louis about the strange things that happened during the treasure hunt.

Just as the little swan was about to say something more, Lumi hugged her tightly and flew higher into the sky.

Louis simply changed his flight direction and flew to another place.

Not long after they left, they saw the huge statue slapping the area around them.

In an instant, a huge hole appeared on the ground.

That was the palm print left by the statue on the ground.

"Alice, Grace, hold on tight."

Louis needs to rein that guy in.

He put his hands together, and Rimuru, who was sticking to him, instantly released a large-scale [Matter Control] with him.

The surging mud dragon and the dragon and snake rising from the land were entangled with the huge statue.

With each collision, the surrounding safe zone was shaken.

“I feel like this thing isn’t very high definition!”

Louis could clearly feel that the mud dragon he made using the large city wall controlled by William as raw material was better than he had imagined.

The power of the Iron Guard seemed to have some restraint on the statue.

But, it's just restraint.

"Can anyone tell me what's going on with this thing and why it suddenly moves?"

"Also, what the hell is going on with the Adventurer's Guild? Why did the statue of the Dark Night Goddess Temple find a way out from you?"

"Isn't the Shadow Kingdom open yet?"

Fortunately, not long after, the Adventurer's Guild seemed to have finally made relevant preparations.

As a beam of white light shot up into the sky, the Adventurer's Guild organizers shouted:

"Back off! Back off! Don't get sucked into the ritual magic."

Louis looked at the dark clouds in the sky, then turned around and released a Greedy Grip towards the smoke-covered area below.

In an instant, four more people were taken away.

The three dusty brothers William and Fox were pulled away from the surrounding area by him.

The next moment, Louis felt a slight tingling sensation on his skin.

He looked up at the sky and took a breath.

I saw six light balls in the sky, with a bright trail in the air, which finally merged into one in the middle.

The strong shock wave dispersed the dark clouds in the sky.

The golden ball of light eventually melted into a giant lightsaber of nearly a hundred meters in length, and fell to the ground like the sky collapsing and the earth collapsing.

The statue also sensed the terrifying energy gathering in the sky, and it roared unwillingly: "Karina!!!"

"Call you a f! " Louis cursed loudly, and the surrounding land rose up like dragons and snakes again, severely restricting the movements of the statue.

He could clearly feel that this ritual magic had already posed a huge threat to the statue.

The taut mud dragon bit the statue's limbs tightly, making it impossible for Him to break free.

The angry voice resounded through the sky, but the next moment he was hit hard by a lightsaber falling from the sky.

The horrific impact was like a large missile exploding on the ground.

The shock wave that rose into the sky pushed everyone around away.

Louis just felt like a fallen leaf drifting in the wind, swaying around non-stop.

Not long.

When everything returned to calm, they had been blown into completely different directions by the shock wave.

"Successful?"

Louis looked at the ground covered by the mushroom cloud and said subconsciously.

However, the next moment, the smoke and dust suddenly twisted and instantly broke apart under the influence of the terrifying impact force.

A silver palm slammed into Rumi, who was flying in the air holding the little swan.

The blood energy wrapped around the two people shook instantly.

The statue raised its hand, ready to launch a second attack.

But Lumi was faster than Him.

In just this moment, she had stepped on the bow and shot out several heavy arrows in succession that were comparable to cruise missiles.

At the first blow, the statue that was about to attack was knocked off balance.

The second heavy arrow that followed hit the statue's neck and made it tilt back.

The third time, the entire tattered body of the immortal instantly fell backwards.

Then followed various skills projected from all around.

Seeing that someone had restricted the movement of the statue, the adventurers decisively chose to beat the fallen dog.

One skill after another hit him like a meteor.

Taking this opportunity, Louis took another look at the huge golem that was beating almost all the adventurers.

"I'm injured."

Although the ritual magic released by the Adventurer's Guild has not yet entered its complete stage, it is indeed incredibly powerful.

The statue's seemingly indestructible body had been chopped into a huge hole.

Perhaps because of the injury, His movements were quite slow.

At some point, more and more ink began to wriggle on the ground.

Streams of ink rose into the air, pulling the statue's body into it.

The statue let out an unwilling roar, and suddenly struck out in the air towards the little swan.

Just this one move was enough to send Lumi and Little Swan flying backwards.

"Stop her!"

The voice of Black Swan suddenly sounded.

The voice was full of anxiety, and Louis realized that the Black Swan had been lurking around this area without him knowing when.

But it was too late.

The palm force was too swift.

Even with the head maid's level, she couldn't dodge, let alone be stopped by Louis.

With a loud roar, Olivia and Lumi were knocked to the ground.

The ink spreading on the ground directly engulfed their figures and disappeared from the area.

Louis' eyes narrowed.

Little Swan and the others entered the shadow plane without any preparation.

Black Swan's irritable voice echoed in Louis' mind: "When did this guy wake up?"

"Damn it, I have to save her!"

"Louis, help me, help me!"

However, what responded to her was Louis's cold voice:

"Shut up."

She seemed to be surprised at Louis' sudden change of expression and was slightly stunned.

"You know about the existence of that statue? It seems that you are very sure that the statue will come for the little swan!"

The Black Swan suddenly fell silent.

"Stop talking? Fine, I'm going to do what I should do."

Louis looked at the people he had pulled out and said in a deep voice:

"You guys wait outside for me. I'm leaving for a while."

Grace reached out and grabbed Louis: "Mr. Caesar, do you want to go to the shadow plane alone?"

Louis said calmly: "I promised others that I would protect the little swan."

He regrets it very much.

I really regret it.

Although he didn't know why the Little Swan was targeted by the statue of the Dark Night Goddess, he was even more angry about...

Why didn't I stop the little swan before?

I shouldn't have listened to Little Swan and let her participate in this competition with a fluke mentality.

Little Swan had clearly told her that she had encountered unknown danger in the temple of the Goddess of Darkness.

Grace looked at Louis' hands:

"But, Mr. Caesar, your hands are shaking..."

Louis: “…Maybe a little scared?”

Grace said anxiously: "The fighting power of that statue has obviously exceeded level 20! That is a legendary realm that ordinary people cannot break through. If you go..."

"I know..." Louis said calmly, "But I can't not go because of fear. This is the choice I made."

Because he did not make careful decisions, when he was being chased by the army of the living dead in Dragon Bone Grassland, Little Swan ran away from home to find him, but he never thought that he would encounter danger.

So, he was afraid, but he was going.

"…Then please let me go with you. You will probably need me to deal with this curse-like power."

Grace said seriously: "If you really want to rescue Miss Olivia and the others, please use me as much as you want."

Louis looked at the girl with a headache.

Finally, he hesitated for a moment:

"good."

Alice glanced at Louis and said with a sigh:

"I won't go down and cause trouble for you. The same goes for the three Fox brothers. You stay here. I need you to help me with coordinates."

Alice threw a red gem into Louis' hands:

"Take this, and don't break it."

Louis took a look and asked: "What is this?"

"The Red Erotic Dream, an heirloom of our Ashford family."

Hearing Alice say this, Louis suddenly felt that the thing he took was a little hot.

But after hearing Alice's next words, he finally took the thing.

"The effect of this thing is very simple. It can directly generate a directional teleportation array in the surrounding area, forcibly teleporting people in the surrounding area to the side of another Red Erotic Dream Gem."

Alice took out another identical red gem from her own ravine:

"Go and save them. If you are on the Star Continent, no matter where you are, even in the dead magic zone, you can teleport to me."

"But you are going to the Shadow Plane. The effect of the Red Erotic Dream is not obvious enough. I need to stay in this swamp and serve as a coordinate for you."

"This way you'll have a chance to teleport safely to me."

"But it's a bit too dangerous here. I'll wait for you if the three Fox brothers stay here."

Louis nodded: "I'll leave the things here and give them back to you when I come back."

Alice smiled and said, "If we can bring that idiot back, everything will be fine."

It was at this moment that the trembling voice of the Black Swan was heard.

There was an indescribable fear in that voice:

"I can give you my power... Please bring her back. Only you can help her. Grace is not enough now."

(End of this chapter)