Lind looked at Alisha and already had an answer in his heart.
Although the goat skull was dissatisfied, it still completed the deal with him.
This delighted Lind. It meant that in addition to the Blood Magic and the incantations, he had a new offensive and life-saving tool—a deal with the Shadow God.
As this trade required lifespan, Lind considered it as a "Sacrifice Method".
With the "Sacrifice Method", Lind did not have to worry about being exposed at all.
Lind did not know the strength of this goat skull, but it was obvious that this guy knew Dracula.
Since it knew Dracula, even if its strength was not as good as Dracula's, it would not be too far off.
Moreover, the Shadow God was named "God" after all. The goat skull might just be a servant of the Shadow God.
However, as a servant of God, no matter how bad its expertise was, it could not be too bad.
At least, most of the problems Lind had now could be solved through the goat skull.
After Alisha realized that she had returned to normal, she asked Lind with a complicated expression, "Did you make a deal with the Shadow God just now to restore my health?"
Lind nodded and replied, "I was testing the effect of the skill. From the looks of it, there shouldn't be any problem."
"Idiot, I only needed a few days to recover from my weakness. But you paid three years of your lifespan to trade with that guy. Why did you do such a thing?" Although Alisha's tone was reprimanding, there was a hint of gratitude in her eyes.
In this world, only one person had ever treated her so well. That person was her father.
Her mother had died in childbirth the day she was born.
She was born in the cold Tulip Empire's royal family. Although the maids and guards were very respectful to her on the surface, Alisha knew that those maids and guards were actually spies planted by her siblings.
The first time she was assassinated was when she was seven years old.
A maid whom she had grown up with had poisoned the cookies she often ate.
That time, she almost died.
If she hadn't happened to give that plate of snacks to her favorite puppy, she wouldn't have known that the snacks had been poisoned.
When her father's guards found the maid, she had already killed herself with poison.
That was the first time Alisha had seen her usually refined father fly into a rage.
At that time, twelve people around her were killed.
Five guards and seven maids.
Only then did Alisha realize that these twelve people were spies planted by her brothers and sisters.
From that day on, Alisha never trusted anyone.
She would rather give up her identity as a princess of the royal family and wander outside alone as an adventurer under a fake name than return to that cold palace.
Although she was often hungry and her life was sometimes in danger when she was wandering outside, and there were occasions when she didn't even have a place to live and had to guard against poisonous insects and snakes in the wild, in Alisha's eyes, it was much warmer than the magnificent palace.
The only person she cared about in the palace was her father.
She thought that she would never meet someone like her father in her life.
Until today, this mage named Ander had used three years of his lifespan to make a deal with the Shadow God.
The deal was to restore her health.
To Lind, three years of life was like a grain of sand in the river of time. It was not important to him at all.
Therefore, Lind's answer to Alisha's question was very simple.
"Out of curiosity, I tested the effect of the skill. And since you're my companion, if your body recovers well, the success rate of our mission will be higher. That's all."
When Lind answered, his face was expressionless. But Alisha leaned in close to Lind and looked him in the eye up close, trying to see some weakness in the man.
Lind smelled a faint body fragrance from Alisha, but as a vampire, his heart didn't waver at all. The instinctive urges of living creatures were completely suppressed by the cold-blooded habits of vampires.
Although Lind could simulate human-like body temperature through Blood Magic, he was still a cold-blooded animal.
Alisha failed. She didn't see any expression on the man's face.
She sighed helplessly and gave up. "Mr. Ander, to be honest, I really want to open your head and see what's going on inside."
Lind didn't respond to Alisha's words. Instead, he said, "We've been dawdling here for a long time. Princess Alisha, shouldn't we go complete the mission now?"
As he spoke, he reached out and returned the knife he had borrowed from Alisha.
Alisha silently took the knife and stuffed it back into her pocket, then walked along the corridor into the temple.
Lind followed Alisha.
At this moment, Lind was also very curious.
What was hidden inside the temple?
The corridor was very long. The two of them walked for a long time, but they did not reach the end of the corridor.
At this moment, Lind was certain that this temple was definitely not built by the Goblins outside.
With the size of the Goblins, it would take too long to build a temple of this size, and there was no need.
It was more likely that this temple had existed for a long time.
When these Goblins were creating the cave, they accidentally dug up the ruins of the temple and became believers of the temple.
This could explain the passage that could accommodate the giants and the larger center of the temple that could already be vaguely seen ahead.
Lind's conjecture was quickly verified. With Alisha leading the way, Lind finally crossed the corridor.
He was suddenly exposed in the open space. Light attacked from all directions, and Lind was surrounded by huge crystals.
Those crystals were exactly the same as the ones he had seen in the Goblin Cave. However, the crystals in front of him were larger and purer. The light of the crystals shone warmly on the ground, and the roof of the temple seemed to extend into the sky. It was unbelievably tall.
Lind saw a huge statue in front of him.
This statue was not in human form, but an incomparably huge black snake.
Thousands of scales on the snake's body opened and closed. It flicked its tongue, where a huge ball of light was hanging.
This ball of light was firmly nailed to the top of the snake's mouth by some mysterious power. It was floating, and it seemed to be made of the same material as the surrounding crystals, emitting a warm white light.
"Could the god of this temple be this snake?"
Lind's head felt like it was about to explode.