A few hours ago.

When Christy saw the mysterious man leaving, she returned to her seat in the hall. She took out the strange box and looked at it carefully.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but when she held the box, she always felt uncomfortable, but it was different from the disgusting feeling when the mysterious person was present.

What this box seems to produce is an attraction. It seems to be alive and eager for someone to open it.

Christy carefully placed the box on the table in front of her. The strange feeling disappeared instantly. At this time, she finally relaxed.

From this point of view, this box is definitely not a good thing, and the contents in it are definitely not good.

According to what the mysterious man said, when she can't withstand the siege of the knights, she can open the box, and she will be given a surprise in the end.

Christy didn't want any surprises or anything like that, she just hoped that she wouldn't be frightened when the time came.

However, facing the ominous aura emanating from the box, Christy was 100% sure that if she used it without knowing the consequences, she would be frightened in the end.

So, driven by a strange reason, she picked up the box again, and then reached out to touch the lock outside.

She wanted to open it to find out, but then, with a "pop" sound, the box unlocked easily, and the lid immediately popped open, revealing the contents inside.

Unexpectedly, the first thing to come out was a burst of purple smoke. Although Christy was prepared, she still didn't expect it and was choked to the point of coughing.

"Ahem, what the hell."

Christy threw the box out and dropped it to the ground. The purple smoke quickly dissipated, and the box lay upside down on the ground without any movement.

"Tsk, am I being deceived?" Christy looked puzzled.

However, under her gaze, the box moved slightly and then turned over.

Christy's brain was buzzing, and a chill suddenly rose up behind her. She immediately ran to the wall and drew out her swords.

However, when the box righted itself, it stopped moving again.

Christy approached slowly, feeling nervous for a while. When she finally saw the contents of the box, she was completely shocked.

What was inside was actually a black heart, covered with blood vessels, but with no blood flowing. It was obviously not a human heart, and what was even more horrifying was that the heart was still beating.

If it were a human heart, it would be a great miracle, but she knew very well that this heart given by a demon could only belong to a certain monster.

Christy thought about the real purpose of the mysterious man giving her this heart. If it was some kind of powerful weapon, it would be easy to understand, but what could this heart do?

Is it possible that this thing will explode and be thrown directly at the enemy as a bomb? It is not impossible given the physical characteristics of the demons, but it is far from a surprise. If it is really unable to withstand it, it is not a bomb at all.

It can be solved.

She was deep in thought, and the hall became extremely quiet. Suddenly, a little mouse emerged from nowhere. It looked around, as if looking for food.

After a while, its keen sense of smell seemed to pick up the smell of the heart. After confirming that there was no danger, it quickly ran towards the box.

Only then did Christy notice that although she knew that rats did have the habit of scavenging when there was no food, she did not intend to stop it, but wanted to see if the living heart would respond.

As expected, the mouse opened its mouth, ready to bite. However, a dozen tentacles as small as earthworms immediately stretched out from its heart, and the mouse was tied up in one fell swoop.

But if you look closely, you will find that the tentacles have penetrated directly into the mouse's body. This is such a terrifying scene that Christi couldn't help but want to vomit.

Before she could spit out all the food she had eaten today, the mouse's body changed. Instead of being sucked dry by the tentacles, its body began to swell. In the end, the mouse, which was clearly no bigger than the palm of a hand, became

As big as a large dog.

The mouse's eyes glowed red, its teeth became slender and sharp, and its bearded nose sniffed the air, and soon it smelled the scent of humans.

Seeing this, Christie quickly raised her sword and pointed it at the mutated mouse. In the next moment, the mouse got rid of the shackles of the monster's heart and rushed towards it with its teeth and claws spread out. It seemed that it was not afraid of the sword in her hand at all.

Christy quickly took a step back, then swung her sword horizontally, trying to cut the mouse in half.

However, the mouse's mobility did not slow down due to the expansion of its body. Instead, it relied on its flexible skills to escape with a single jump.

Christy was shocked. On the one hand, she had hated such dirty creatures since she was a child. On the other hand, she was not sure what the consequences would be after being bitten by this mouse.

After the sword just now was dodged, she took a few steps back and swung another sword at the same time. However, the mouse successfully dodged it, and then opened its fangs and tried to bite her.

Christy was furious instantly. She didn't expect that she would be forced back by a little mouse. It would be such a shame if word of this spread.

So, she immediately retracted her two swords, then stabbed the mouse crosswise, while using her sword skills.

Because the speed of the sword was not very fast, the mouse still dodged, but then, Christy used her body as a bait to attract the mouse to bite, and then took the opportunity to kick the mouse in the abdomen.

That kick was very heavy, and Christie used almost all her strength. If it were an ordinary person, he would have broken his whole body and died. But the mouse was extremely tenacious. Even after being kicked until its internal organs were shattered, it still bit.

Holding the armor on her arm without letting go.

"Tsk, damn thing!"

Christy impatiently chopped off its head with her sword, and then saw that it was still squirming. She felt even more disgusted and chopped its body into pieces.

After completely eliminating the danger, she looked at the place where the rat had just bitten her, and found that there were actually two big holes there. At the same time, she also felt a dull pain in her arm under the armor.

She quickly took off that part of the armor, and what she saw were two bloody holes. The blood flowing out of them was not bright red, but the same black as the weird heart.

Unexpectedly, Christy was not particularly panicked, because after what happened just now, she finally understood the purpose of the heart, which can enhance the combat effectiveness and vitality of living things.

A little mouse has been enhanced to such a terrifying level, what if it is an enhanced person? Not to mention a powerful paladin like Christy.

Thinking of this, instead of panicking, she looked excited. She quickly walked over, picked up the box, and locked it again.

However, the moment she picked up the box, several tentacles sprouted from the heart, trying to get into her body. She immediately pulled out her sword and cut them off.

Because now is not the time, but there is no doubt that this box will definitely surprise her when the time comes.

…

Back in time, Christy's entire body was enveloped in a fireball, and Emil and others standing aside could smell the smell of burning flesh.

Because dragon's breath does not require fuel to continue burning, they are not worried that this shot of dragon's breath will not burn her to death.

They could vaguely see the human figure in the flames, but as time passed, the human figure did not disappear. In other words, under such high temperature, Christi's body was not completely burned.

This is incredible. The human body obviously cannot bear the dragon's breath.

Emil also felt something was wrong, and quickly signaled Daniel to hide behind Lilith, and such a move was indeed necessary.

Because the next moment, the figure who had been shrouded in flames rushed out, with two sharp swords pointing directly at Daniel's chest.

Daniel quickly raised his sword to block, but unexpectedly only one sword was blocked, and Christie's other sword continued to stab him.

Seeing that Daniel was about to be stabbed to the core, Lilith directly waved her claws and knocked Christi away.

"What's going on? Is this guy really a human?" Lilith was puzzled.

"I don't know, maybe she has been assimilated by the demons." Daniel speculated.

If there are any creatures that can resist the dragon's breath with their bodies, the only ones are demons whose bodies can heal themselves and dragons of the same kind.

Emil agreed very much with his statement. Christy had probably turned into a monster. It seemed that their current opponent was not a paladin who betrayed the empire, but a real monster.

"Hmph, it doesn't matter if you become a monster. Since one shot of dragon breath is useless, let's try another shot."

Lilith watched Christy quickly get up and approach them again, her tone full of disdain.

"Please, Lilith."

"Haha, Emil, I will kill her without you having to ask."

After Lilith finished speaking, she spat out another dragon's breath at Cresty, perhaps using all her strength. This time the fireball was twice as big as the one before.

Christy looked at the approaching fireball and felt that she was facing a sun, but she did not panic at all.

She just grabbed the heart in the box in her hand at the critical moment. The black heart immediately stretched out countless tentacles and pierced her body. The transformation happened almost in an instant. She suddenly changed from a human to a human.

Monster.

Immediately afterwards, unlike the previous effect on the mouse, the monster's heart was completely integrated into her body this time. Relying on the monster's powerful self-healing ability, her body's regeneration rate completely exceeded the rate of burning.

Sure enough, when the fireball enveloped her body again, she stood calmly as if nothing had happened.

However, what made her a little unhappy was that the two swords she finally obtained turned into molten iron under the high temperature.

"cut."

Although she was unhappy in her heart, the pleasure of gaining powerful power soon made her no longer care. She even felt that she controlled the whole world.

Lilith also found that her dragon's breath was of no use at all, and she immediately became angry. This was the first time she was frustrated.

Immediately afterwards, because she could not fly, Lilith could only use her strong limbs to jump up and jump over Christy's head, intending to trample her into pieces.

However, the moment she landed, Christy reached out and caught Lilith's claws. This move almost made Lilith unsteady. Fortunately, she had four legs and wings to help maintain her balance.

But Christy's counterattack was not limited to this level. She stretched out her hand in the air, and then, countless small tentacles spread out from her hand, and finally condensed into a long sword.

Christy repeated her old trick and obtained two swords again using this method. Although it was not as tough as before, the advantage was that it could be infinitely regenerated.

She used a sword skill directly at Lilith. Her sword skill could strengthen the strength of her sword swing. It was impossible for ordinary knights to avoid it, let alone one as big as Lilith.

The next second, Lilith was indeed struck by Christi's sword, but nothing happened to her. It would be better to say that she never thought of avoiding it in the first place.

Because her body is covered with extremely hard scales, let alone swords, no weapon on this continent can pierce it, and in the tens of thousands of years the dragon clan has existed, no dragon has ever died from a stab wound, only magic

The attack can penetrate the scales and cause internal damage to the dragon.

However, this does not mean that Lilith is invulnerable. She still has a fatal weakness, that is, her eyes are not protected by scales, and Christy seems to have discovered this.

When Lilith wasn't paying attention, she jumped directly onto the dragon's back. This was completely a blind spot for Lilith's attack. No matter how she shook her body or flapped her wings, she couldn't get rid of Christi.
To be continued...