"My Lord!"
The Birdmen and Daji all gathered around Ethan at this moment.
Ethan looked at Bird Three, whose face was a little pale, and asked, "Are you alright?"
"Thank you for your concern, My Lord. I'm fine," Bird Three shook his head, "But My Lord, these people look dangerous. Why don't we leave?"
"Leave?", Ethan sneered, "I haven't settled the score with them yet. Why would I leave?"
"But My Lord..."
Bird Three looked toward the huge sword mark on the cave wall and said, "You are our backbone now. You absolutely must not take risks."
"It doesn't count as taking risks. I just don't want to clash head-on with them. I still don't know what abilities those people have. If you get caught up in it later, that won't be good," Ethan explained, "Once I learn a little more about them, I'll send them straight to hell. For now, let's go over and see if Medusa has already helped us get rid of one of them."
"Yes, My Lord."
The Birdmen all answered.
Daji, meanwhile, rubbed her head against Ethan's hand in a wronged manner.
Ethan rubbed her little head and said, "Don't worry. I'll help you get revenge. Just not now."
"Meow!"
Daji let out a dissatisfied cry.
Then she lightly bit Ethan's finger to show her displeasure.
It didn't hurt to begin with, and Ethan knew Daji was acting spoiled, so he didn't mind.
He directly led everyone toward the stone coffin.
Sure enough... The bookish girl wearing thick round glasses had already turned into a stone statue looking down at the stone coffin.
Her mouth was slightly open, and there was still a trace of fear on her face.
But everything had happened too suddenly.
The bookish girl only had time to let out a scream before she could make any other reaction. She was petrified where she stood.
"HELENA!"
Kaleb shouted.
Then he was about to rush over, either to check her condition or see if she could still be saved.
But at this moment... Harriet grabbed him.
"Dangerous! This should be the legendary petrifying demoness statue. Don't go over there!"
"Isn't the petrifying demoness statue supposed to be inside the labyrinth?", Kaleb broke out in a cold sweat when he heard that, "Why is it here? And... if that's really the petrifying demoness, how is this guy fine?"
"Could it be that he never got close to the stone coffin, so he escaped disaster?"
Harriet offered her guess.
But the bean sprout-like boy beside her shook his head.
"Sister Harriet, the platinum treasure chest is gone. I think he must have opened the stone coffin. He probably even looked inside. Otherwise, there was no way he could have gotten the platinum treasure chest."
"Hiss! He actually got the platinum treasure chest from the petrifying demoness's hands!"
Harriet sucked in a breath.
The way she looked at Ethan now carried several more traces of caution.
After all, she had spent a long time preparing for this underground labyrinth before finally setting out.
Of course, she also had Archmage Gonnegal's help.
Most of the information about the underground labyrinth had been provided by Archmage Gonnegal, and he had also taught Harriet and the others how to deal with it.
However, because Archmage Gonnegal had previously made an agreement with someone not to enter Region A, he couldn't come personally.
Of course, the main reason was that Archmage Gonnegal wasn't interested in the things here.
"Sister Harriet, what do we do now?", the bean sprout-like boy asked worriedly, "The next temple requires four people to enter. Now that Helena is dead, if we can't enter the second temple, that means giving up all the treasure chests afterward."
"What a headache."
Harriet held her head, feeling helpless.
It wasn't that she hadn't wanted to bring more people.
But there was no helping it. The spatial gate opened by Archmage Gonnegal could only allow four people through at most.
Because of that, she had specifically selected three classes that were the hardest to kill.
Like Shield Soldier Kaleb.
Although his agility and strength were average, with that large shield of his, killing him wasn't easy.
And although Charlie looked weaker, he was actually a Prophet.
He could predict upcoming routes and even divine fortune and misfortune.
Combined with his Holy Light Protection ability, his survival ability was still quite good.
But neither of those two had survival abilities as strong as Helena's.
Because Helena was an Assassin.
She had Blink, Backstab, and Stealth abilities.
No matter how you looked at it, she should have been the one most likely to survive.
Of course... when exploring a place like this, Harriet had never expected to clear everything without losing anyone.
But the only place that actually required four people working together was the second temple.
So her original plan had been simple.
As long as this team could survive through the second stage, that would be enough.
Who would have thought, the first stage had already claimed the person who was hardest to kill.
And it directly affected all the stages afterward.
How could Harriet not be angry?
It was infuriating.
"The only solution now..."
A fist-sized crystal ball appeared in the hands of the bean sprout-like boy named Charlie.
A layer of mist soon appeared inside the crystal ball.
No one else could see what was inside.
Only Charlie could see the prophecy within the crystal ball.
"The only solution is to cooperate with the man in front of us."
"Cooperate?", Kaleb was stunned when he heard the prophecy, "We just attacked his people and even planned to steal his treasure chest. Now we're supposed to talk about cooperation with him? Do you think that's possible?"
"Brother Kaleb, this is the only solution shown by the crystal ball."
"I think this lousy crystal ball is completely unreliable. Might as well smash it!", Kaleb rolled his eyes, "All it gives are terrible ideas."
"Stop arguing!"
Harriet shouted, silencing both of them.
Then she looked at Charlie again.
"Charlie, besides cooperation, did you see any other hints from the crystal ball? Anything will do."
Although the relationship between the two sides had become somewhat tense,
Harriet still believed that as long as it wasn't a life-and-death grudge, not everyone could refuse enough benefits.
So right now she needed a breakthrough point.
Anything would do.
After all, it didn't matter what promises they made.
Their cooperation was only limited to the second temple.
Once they obtained the treasure chest inside the second temple, there would naturally be no need for cooperation anymore.
As for any promises made or things given away, Harriet naturally had ways to take them back.
"The crystal ball also gave two more words. One is information, and the other is merchant," Charlie said, "Merchant probably means doing business. But I don't really understand information. Does it mean we should tell this man everything we know?"