Having a powerful lord as a father figure, what's wrong with just wanting to draw cards?

However, he was not a true magical being, so even when the Soul Devouring Energy Ball hit him, it didn't take much damage.

"Damn it!"

He cursed under his breath, then continued running...

the other side.

After running for some time, the group suddenly found themselves in a bright and open space, as if they had emerged from a cave.

Upon closer inspection, what lay before them was a bottomless abyss, with wisps of white smoke rising from it, creating an eerie and terrifying scene.

A stone bridge spans the abyss from one side to the other, and on the opposite side of the stone bridge stands a huge bronze door.

They stopped before the giant gate, which was covered with countless bas-reliefs, depicting something unknown, but in any case, it was quite terrifying.

“Let’s give it a push together,” Argyle suggested.

Two people on the left and two people on the right exerted force together, but the bronze door did not move an inch.

“No,” Aiwei gave up on the foolish attempt to push the door open: “Let’s see if there’s any mechanism; pushing the door open is absolutely impossible!”

Just then, roars and whispers came from behind them, like the cries of the dead from hell...

"Ugh... Ugh!!"

Edward looked back and screamed in terror, nearly scared the soul out of him: "A monster...a monster!"

Aiwei: "Ew~ These guys are really ugly... Hey, aren't these the four-legged beasts from above? They just have more rotten flesh and no scales! And why do they look like they're laughing?"

Argyle: "You've seen them?"

"I saw one when I was looking for a water source with Domi."

Edward: "Aaaaaaahh ...

Rosa: "Um...brothers and sisters, shouldn't we find the mechanism to open the door first..."

Hearing this, they panicked again.

With a giant gate blocking their path in front and four-legged beasts closing in from behind, they had been driven to the brink of despair!

“Look, there seems to be a mechanism here!” Argyle then found a clue in the crack in the middle of the door.

Everyone crowded around.

It was an inlaid bronze square plate, containing fifteen small squares engraved with ancient numbers and one empty space.

"Uh... does anyone recognize these characters?"

Argyle prided himself on being diligent and studious, but unfortunately, he had devoted all his energy to studying the regular curriculum and had little exposure to extracurricular knowledge, which inevitably made him feel somewhat embarrassed.

Actually, he doesn't need to feel embarrassed, because no one else would either.

The four illiterate people stared at each other blankly, watching as the smiling four-legged creature was about to climb onto the stone bridge, but the decryption made no progress whatsoever.

Just then, they heard hurried footsteps coming from the cave entrance they had come from. When they turned around, they saw that it was Shia who had returned!

Seeing her companions on the other side of the stone bridge and the four-legged beast about to climb onto it, she steeled her heart and, risking being dragged off into the abyss by the monster, resolutely rushed across.

Lady Luck ultimately favors the brave, and Shia finally reached the bronze gate unharmed, but the four-legged creatures had already climbed up.

Aiwei couldn't care less about anything else now, and led Shia to the square plate:

"I know you like studying ancient things. Do you know these characters?"

Shea knew immediately whether she could do it or not, and amidst everyone's anticipation, she nodded:

"It comes from a long-deceased dynasty, and it's the character used there for numbers, from one to fifteen, but the order has been shuffled."

"Great! The key to opening this door might be right here! You're in charge! Edward, Argyle, and Rosa! Help me stop those four-legged creatures!"

"Understood!"

Argyle's magic of raising earthen walls became the key to stopping the four-legged creatures, while Rosa focused on accelerating the solidification of the earthen walls to make them hard. As for the four-legged creatures climbing the earthen walls, Edward's flames were used to repel them.

Aiwei's wind and plant-based magical talents can not only heal wounds, but also help others restore their magic power, although it requires consuming her own magic power.

So she became Edward's 'power bank,' charging the little dragon with whatever magic he used.

In this way, they managed to hold off the four-legged beasts' overwhelming attack, creating an environment where Shia could safely solve the puzzles.

However, she was also under a lot of pressure, since she didn't know what the correct approach was.

Looking back, the big guys didn't look like they could hold out for long. They were only barely managing to block the four-legged beasts' attacks. If more four-legged beasts climbed up, Argyll's earthen wall would soon collapse.

"Never mind!" Xia made up her mind and decided to arrange the numbers in order from left to right and from top to bottom.

At first, I was very unfamiliar with the characters. I had to learn how to read them while also figuring out how to move them over.

However, her speed increases as the game progresses, after all, she is hailed as a genius girl!

In no time, she had arranged all the numbers in order, leaving the bottom right corner empty.

Then, mechanical sounds rang out from inside the bronze gate.

"Success?"

But reality slapped her hard in the face.

The four-by-forty-six square was just the beginning. The bronze giant gate actually extended a six-by-six square from its original position, just like before, except that it had twenty extra numbers!

"Tsk!"

She clicked her tongue, feeling like she'd been tricked, but there was nothing she could do; her life was hanging by a thread, so she had to deal with whatever came her way.

As she became more and more proficient at this 'game,' she gradually mastered knocking on doors, and her hand speed increased dramatically.

Before the colossal bronze gate, besides the roars of the four-legged beasts, Aiwei's wisdom, and the constant sound of shifting stones, there was nothing else to hear.

"Faster...faster...can be even faster!"

Her eyes didn't even linger on the same rock for two seconds or less before moving on to where they were.

Sixty seconds!

She completed the decryption, her forehead drenched in sweat. Clearly, under the pressure of life, such a brain-consuming activity was a challenge to her mental capacity.

"This time... is it okay?"

As she watched the massive bronze gate take in the square array she had arranged, hope began to rise. Next... next, the gate should slowly open!

To her utter surprise, a much larger square plate was soon laid out...

Nine times nine!

A whopping eighty-one big, chaotic number!

The square plate was even half a head taller than Shia's head.

"Damn it!"

While uttering unusually foul language, his hands didn't stop moving, for it concerned the lives of all his companions.

Just then, another noise came from the cave entrance!

Aiwei, who was in charge of command, acting as a power bank and observer, quickly received intelligence: "It's Domi! Domi is back!"

"Wait... there seems to be something following behind him?"

"My God! This is the gravedigger he was talking about!?"

At this moment, Aiwei suddenly realized something bad: if the gravedigger charged in recklessly, wouldn't their defensive line be wiped out?

She suddenly realized, and then, standing on the little stool Argyle had just made, she shouted to Domi:

"Domi, don't let the gravedigger come over! Shia is still solving the mystery!"

Domi heard him, and roared back, "How much longer?!"

"Forty-eight seconds! I'm confident I can finish in forty-eight seconds!" This time it was Shia who shouted.

Domi paused, turned around at the other end of the stone bridge to face the gravedigger wielding the giant scythe, sheathed his dagger, took out his gloves, and stretched his limbs:

"Ahead, monsters and the undead are prohibited from passing."

Chapter 106, Section 105: A Desperate Escape

"Susanohu!!"

Deep purple ribs and giant hands seemed to crawl out of the void, wrapping around Domi's sides. It was those giant hands that, bearing the blows of the gravedigger's giant scythe, forcefully pressed him to the spot.

Watching this scene that resembled a battle of gods, Aiwei bit her lower lip tightly. When did she and Duomi fall so far apart?

Wait, wait, wait! Now is not the time to think about that. Domi is still fighting hard, and they need to pull themselves together too!

So they increased the power supply to Edward.

"Ohhhhhh!! I feel power filling my body!"

"Burning with rage!"

Edward, engulfed in flames, raised his hand and unleashed one basic fire spell after another—small fireballs. Fueled by his burning rage, each small fireball gained even greater power.

The impact on the four-legged creatures wasn't great, only making them thrash around a few times, but it still had enough force to knock them off the earthen wall.

A naked man wearing only a rag and his underwear was throwing fireballs wildly here. It was quite a spectacle, but I really didn't dare to look at him for long, for fear that ten years of training would vanish in the midst of his laughter.

However, at this critical moment, Rosa, who had the least magical reserves and was the youngest, was the first to give in.

Time magic is one of the most energy-consuming spells, and the fact that she has been able to use it until now is purely due to her brute force; before this, she had never uttered a word of complaint about being tired.

When his magic ran out, he collapsed helplessly to the ground.

Aiwei immediately went over to check on her: "Rosa, are you alright?"

"It's okay... I just feel a little weak..." Rosa replied weakly.

Not everyone can be as energetic as Domi even after draining their magic. After all, that's not his main power system. If an ordinary mage uses up all their magic, they are likely to faint, or even have their magical energy channels shrink, causing irreversible consequences.

“Come on,” Aiwei lifted Xia’s arm and put it on her shoulder, “I’ll take you to hide with Xia.”

"But I'm not here..."

"Don't worry, I'll give Argyle extra magic to keep him going."