Belle was still wearing a white sacrificial suit, and the Roman scepter in her hand waved in the air with the dancing girl. The dim sunlight passed through the girl's figure, creating a desolate beauty. Many relatives of the victims could not control themselves for a moment and began to cry loudly.

...

It was late at night. Rick was pillowing his head with his hand, tossing and turning. "Can't sleep?" Kakaro asked, "The first time I've experienced such a cruel thing?

Rick found that Mins and others were already snoring in the temporary large tent, and the people on the boat saved him and Kakaro not sleeping.

This time, they did not return to the boat, but chose to camp and shed in the village, hoping to bring more vitality to this unfortunate village.

Rick nodded and said, "Did that whale attack you like this before?"

Kakaro smiled and said, "How did I know that when I was born, it was driven back to the bottom of the sea by the high priest and never appeared."

"Does the priests come forward to save the dead every time someone dies?" Rick asked again.

"Well, this is also a sacrificial obligation."

"That saint...hahaha, you finally got the point." Kakaro suddenly smiled.

Rick smiled, he didn't intend to hide his admiration for the saint. "But don't blame your brother for hitting you. Anyone who is a sacrifice will never get married or have children in his life." Kakaro looked at him with a smile.

Rick was suddenly disappointed.

Kakaro saw Rick's face gloomy and said mysteriously: "Actually, I have a way to get close to her..."

"Oh? Say it!" Rick said quickly.

"As we all know, although the summoners have powerful contracted monsters, maintaining their appearance in this world is very consuming mental power. Human mental power is limited. Therefore, the summoners cannot let their summoned beasts guard their side at all times, and at this time they are similar to ordinary people."

Kakaro paused and continued: "However, summoning requires time to chant, that is, when a crisis suddenly comes, the summoner will have no ability to protect himself."

"So whenever a new sacrifice is produced, warriors will be recruited as guardians of the sacrifice."

Although Rick cares a lot about Belle, she is not worth losing her freedom.

Rick immediately rejected the proposal. Kakaro said in surprise: "Are you wrong? The people who want to be the Saint Guardian are already crowded. You kid would still dislike it. If the lady hadn't been in seclusion and practiced now, she would have come out. How could you have a chance?"

"Do you think I can choose? Stop joking, I still know how much I weigh." Rick fell asleep after saying that.

Seeing that Rick had no idea and didn't know what to say for a moment, Kakaro had to think that he was bored.

But Rick thought a lot in his heart. Although life here is comfortable, there is no challenge. Since he has come to this world, he really wants to go to the mainland to see it.

The next day, Rick returned to the main island to find the magician Fat Aunt. He asked her for a navigation chart leading to the Kato Empire. The fat Aunt Aunt seemed to be not planning to return to the Kato Empire. She was willing to study miracles here, so Rick easily got the navigation chart.

The Cato Empire occupied the most fertile land on the Ero Continent. The most prosperous of the three empires is the country. Since Rick is in the Southeast Archipelago, he should go to the Cato Empire to make a breakthrough.

So Rick went to bid farewell to Mins, Kakaro and others.

The two were busy on the trek by the sea.

"What? Are you leaving?" The two of them immediately stopped the work in their hands and said in unison.

Rick explained patiently, and Mins remained silent for a long time.

He suddenly hugged Rick and patted him on the back hard. He said, "Good brother, let's support you." Kakaro just felt that Rick was a little abnormal last night. He didn't expect that he actually asked to leave today.

Kakaro pondered for a moment and said, "This way, you haven't prepared the boat yet. Our boat has been repaired and is suitable for long-distance voyages. Now it's yours."

"This is your hard work!" Rick asserted and refused.

"If you hadn't shot the whale in the eyes yesterday, everyone might have been in that guy's belly. Life-saving grace, what is a ship? Besides, do you have money?"

Rick said silly. Speaking of which, he followed Minska Carlo and others to fish, with goods as the auxiliary. The money he earned was always spent together, and he never had to worry about food or clothing.

In fact, he couldn't help much. After all, Mins and others were taking care of Rick.

I have been eating and drinking all the time. Thinking of this, Rick couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

"Okay, don't say much, otherwise the big guy will be unhappy again." Kakaro said quickly for fear that Rick would shirk again.

Rick secretly thanked the two of them in his heart and did not refuse. He would always remember this love.

In this way, Rick said goodbye to everyone one by one and set out on the way to the Kato Empire alone.

Fortunately, he is no longer a novice who didn't know anything back then, and he has a good grasp of the control of the ship and life at sea.

Rick unfolded the map in his arms and confirmed the route. He found that there was an island on the route that specifically marked: The Land of Trial.

The island is said to be the holy land of the goddess of the sea. Most people are not allowed to approach it, otherwise they will be punished by the goddess. This is what the locals say. Minska Karo and others were commissioned by the temple to send Belle to the holy land for trial. They were preparing to take back the holy land but found that there was one more person on the island, and this stranger who violated the regulations was naturally Rick.

Fortunately, Rick was not embarrassed after returning. In addition to the reason for the Saint, the other part was that they believed that the goddess had tolerated him and allowed him to come back alive.

Looking back on his life this year, Rick smiled from the bottom of his heart. Here, he did nothing and would not be scolded. He did not have any intrigue and learned a lot.

After closing the picture scroll, Rick began to conceive his future life. He learned that the currency used between the archipelago was issued by the temple. That is to say, when he arrived at the east coast of the Kato Empire, Rick's only way to get money was to sell the ship.

Oh my God... Rick couldn't help but get a little crazy.

After sailing on the sea day after day, Rick felt very frustrated. As before, when sailing on the sea for a month, everyone chatted and joked, it passed very quickly. Now he has become a lonely man again, which feels like he was forgotten on the Trial Island by the world.

However, he had made a decision. How could he give up halfway? Rick gnawed the dry bread and looked into the distance.

Well? Rick found that the island in front of him looked very familiar. When he looked closely, he turned out to be the Island of Trial.

He quickly opened the navigation chart and was delighted. Along the way, Rick had no timekeeping tools to prepare, and could only judge how many days had passed by sunrise and sunset, but how far it had driven. He was not sure.

And this island of Trial is located in the center of the Southeast Islands and the East Coast, which means that Rick is halfway through.

He didn't pass many islands along the way, and Rick couldn't help but get off the boat, feeling the down-to-earth feeling of returning to the earth.

It was a different feeling to visit the old place again. Rick smiled self-deprecatingly and walked a few steps around the forest. He felt that he had been relaxing enough, Rick planned to return to the boat and continue to set off.

The clear sky suddenly burst into a thunder. Rick stood on the beach with a heavy face, thinking, "It won't be such a tragedy, right?" He ran away, but the earth began to shake violently. Rick couldn't keep his pace. Although the boat was right in front of him, he couldn't move.

The scene that he would never forget happened again, but this time Rick was unfortunately on the island. Seeing the sun was blocked and the earth was cracked, he found that it was indeed a different feeling.

Then the beach under me suddenly sank and the whole person fell into the sea.

Rick was not injured. His body was almost covered with sand. When he was about to swim back to the boat, he suddenly realized that his body seemed to be no longer his own.

Rick was stopped. Although he could think, he lost control of his body and his whole body seemed to be frozen. But he could not breathe in the sea and sink with the gravel of sand, trees and gravel.

He had also thought that other summoners would come to the test place if they had certain strength, but they didn't expect that they would encounter it so coincidentally.

However, Rick was not very worried. As expected, within a few minutes, Rick was subjected to upward suction and returned from the sea to the rebuilt island. This place seemed to have its own natural laws and reunited.

So magical. Rick felt that the feelings brought by all this could only be understood but not expressed in words, and any adjectives were too pale.

The sky cleared again, and the island was almost exactly the same as before Rick came ashore.

Rick, who recovered from his senses, found that there were no ships coming to greet him. Could it be that it was just the saint's privilege?

He thought again, someone would definitely need to respond to such a long distance, otherwise, by summoning beasts, wouldn't anyone have such strong mental power?

After waiting for a while, he found that no one had come down from the mountain, which made Rick wonder. He had lived in the archipelago for so long and had dealt with enthusiastic people for a long time, and Rick became nosy.

Could it be that the ship encountered the whale on the sea? Several days passed, and the guy's injury should have been healed long ago. Rick thought it was reasonable.

What about the people who tried? Rick was still worried. He spent a long time finally passing through the forest and finally saw the endless steps.

Damn, how to get up? Rick is no longer the physical condition he used to. He didn't take much effort to get all the way to the center of the island, but the stone steps in front of him were really daunting.

However, giving up halfway is never Rick's behavior. Since he has come here, there is no reason to retreat.

Rick climbed up step by step, and he was so tired that he was breathing.

"This is also part of the trial? Those beautiful girls are walking." Rick complained.

Finally, hard work pays off, Rick finally arrived at the platform on the mountainside. He was sweating heavily, his feet were soft, and he bent down to breathe.

Wow, no one. Rick cursed angrily, isn't someone undergoing the trial?

Hum? Rick suddenly realized that something was wrong with his feet because his feet had lost control and approached the pool step by step.

He suddenly remembered that he had fallen into a pool in his dream, and then he traveled here. He was inexplicably attracted to him.

Rick wanted to resist, but in vain. Seeing himself entering the pool and whirlpools appeared on the water surface, it felt really uncomfortable.

After a while, he was sucked into the bottom of the water again.

Rick considers himself unlucky.

Rick was sucked into a cave at the bottom of the lake. There seemed to be an invisible membrane at the entrance of the hole, blocking the water outside the cave. He reached out and touched it, and could feel the strange touch, but he could not reach out his hand.

It seemed that the entrance of the cave could only enter and not exit. Rick knew that it was meaningless to stay in place, so he touched the hard stone wall and walked through the dark cave.

Rick found a ray of light at the end, and soon a cylindrical platform as big as a basketball court appeared in front of him.

Outside the platform is an abyss that cannot be seen, and many torches with blue flames are hung on the walls, illuminating the interior of the mountain.

On the other side of the stone platform is a two-story stone door with strange images carved on it, and Rick couldn't see clearly for a moment. However, if you want to go there, you have to pass through the corridor between the entrance of the cave where Rick is located and the stone platform, but there is no road between the platform and the stone door.

Rick suddenly found a figure in the center of the platform. He thought it was the trial trapped here, so he rushed over.

When he approached, Rick's chin almost fell to the ground. The person in front of him looked exactly the same as himself. Not only that, his figure and clothing were also exactly the same, and he was engraved according to a template.

Another Rick looked at him expressionlessly, and punched him in the face without saying a word. The defenseless Rick was directly hit and took a few steps back.

Seeing another gust of fist wind blowing, Rick hurriedly dodged to the side, but unexpectedly, a whip leg called him hard on his waist.

Bastard, are you afraid of you as a fake guy when fighting? Rick took the opportunity to grab his calves and pulled him over with the same look. Rick's upper body moved suddenly and his shoulders hit the man's chest.

With this collision, the distance between the two men was separated. Rick touched his numb shoulders and waist, looked at the fake, and thought, "Is this guy a robot without pain?"

Seeing that he took the initiative to attack again, Rick was naturally not afraid of him, and the two quickly fought together.

After a few rounds, no one could do anything to anyone, but Rick was already exhausted at this time, while the other Rick was in his pre-war state as if nothing had happened.

Rick became more and more sure of his thoughts. He clearly remembered that he hit the fake guy's chin with a punch. The ordinary man had already fallen down with such a heavy blow, and he just took a few steps back, his eyes dazed and suddenly returned to normal, without even showing a little painful expression.

If you continue to waste like this, you will be exhausted. Rick thought about it and then made a plan.

The fake guy would not give him any rest, and Rick retreated back while blocking his tide attack with his hands until he stepped on the stone platform near the edge. He suddenly exerted force, grabbed another Rick's arm with both hands, and then fell backwards.

It was just a copy of a combat machine, so naturally he would not realize that Rick was deliberately luring it to the edge of the stone platform. He was pulled by Rick with force and his feet left the ground.
Chapter completed!