She looked at Gandalf with a trace of apology in her eyes.

"Sorry, little handsome guy of the Great Xia Nation."

Facing Polina's sudden change, a look of astonishment first surfaced on Gandalf's face.

He didn't seem to expect that this woman would betray so decisively.

Immediately afterward, that astonishment turned into obvious disappointment, and even a trace of hurt.

"Polina... How could you do this?"

There was a trace of an imperceptible tremor in his voice.

"I am so disappointed in you."

Seeing him like this, Polina just shrugged indifferently, her azure blue beautiful eyes showing no guilt at all.

"Sorry, for the Pendulum of Life, I have no choice."

She stretched out her slender fingers to tidy up her long golden hair blown messy by the sea breeze, her tone flat.

"Who made me just a support class after all."

"Naturally, I have to stand on the stronger side."

Hearing this, a satisfied smile unique to a victor appeared on Thor's face.

He rushed forward in one step, and amidst Polina's astonished exclamation, he scooped her up by the waist.

His sturdy and powerful arms tightly held her voluptuous figure in his embrace.

He lowered his head and whispered a sentence by her ear that exuded an enticing fragrance.

"Dear, don't be afraid."

After speaking, he didn't even look at Gandalf again.

The whole person turned into a dazzling blue electric light, and without hesitation, he plunged into the bottomless ocean vortex ahead!

On the island, Park In-maeng and Takatsukasa Arashi looked at each other in dismay.

They looked at the figure that disappeared into the vortex, and then glanced at Gandalf standing alone on the sea surface.

In the end, gritting their teeth, they both leaped forward, following Thor's footsteps and jumping into the huge vortex.

With the departure of the four people, this dilapidated island returned to an eerie silence once again.

Only Gandalf and the charred Kalen were left staring at each other.

"This damned bitch!"

Looking at the constantly spinning vortex, Kalen trembled with anger and cursed loudly.

"How dare she switch sides at the last minute! I really misjudged her!"

He stretched out his pitch-black palm and swore to the heavens, his voice filled with endless malice.

"Even if she kneels on the bed in the future and begs me for forgiveness! I will never forgive her!"

Hearing this, Zhou Huai felt somewhat speechless.

Big brother, can you stop daydreaming?

The other party is being held by that Thor right now.

With your pitch-black appearance, what do you have to compare with him?

However, he didn't speak these words out loud.

The next second, the disappointed and hurt expression on Gandalf's face completely vanished.

Replaced by that eternal calmness and detachment.

As if everything just now was just a play he acted out.

"Don't worry about her."

He spoke calmly, with no emotion audible in his voice.

"She probably has her own plans."

To be honest, Zhou Huai had never been able to see through this young girl from the Great Bear Country.

Always feeling that every step she took had a deeper meaning.

Now throwing her to Thor was actually a good thing for Zhou Huai.

Lest he still had to constantly guard against whether this woman would stab him in the back.

He turned his head and looked at Kalen who was still cursing beside him.

"The current situation has changed from three-on-three at the beginning to two-on-four."

"Are you still planning to go down?"

To Zhou Huai's surprise,

Hearing this, Kalen stopped cursing without any hesitation.

He turned his head, and on his black face, two rows of white teeth were revealed.

"Go down! Of course I'm going down!"

He fiercely punched his own chest, making a dull "thudthud" sound, his voice filled with absolute confidence.

"As long as you dare to go in, I dare to follow you in!"

"I still have a score to settle with that damned Thor!"

Zhou Huai thought to himself, you've already been electrocuted into charred charcoal by others, and you're still talking big here.

However, he still didn't say it out loud.

Lest it dampened this black brother's self-confidence.

Zhou Huai was not in a hurry to jump into the vortex at this moment.

He cast his gaze not far away at the six bronze keys quietly lying on the ice surface.

Always feeling that the role of these keys shouldn't just be as simple as opening the passage.

Otherwise, why would it be in the shape of a key?

Since it's a key, naturally there must be a lock waiting to be opened by it.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai manipulated Gandalf to slowly reach out his hand.

Attempting to put all six keys into his Spatial Ring.

The result was very successful.

The six keys were collected by him without any obstruction.

And the huge ocean vortex in the distance was still spinning wildly, with no sign of disappearing at all.

An expression of "as expected" appeared on Zhou Huai's face.

These six keys definitely had other uses.

After finishing all this, Zhou Huai hesitated no longer.

The toes of his feet lightly tapped on the water surface.

An invisible stream of water appeared out of thin air, supporting his body and slowly flying towards the bottomless vortex.

Kalen behind him also didn't hesitate at all, closely following behind.

...

The moment he entered the vortex, Zhou Huai felt a terrifying and irresistible suction force coming from below.

His and Kalen's bodies uncontrollably went all the way down along the turbulent current.

The surrounding light became darker and darker.

Soon, it plunged into pitch-black darkness where one couldn't see their own fingers.

The temperature also became increasingly cold.

That kind of cold was not purely physical low temperature, but a gloomy cold capable of freezing the soul.

Zhou Huai manipulated Gandalf to subconsciously wrap the Star-Moon Robe tighter.

He could clearly feel it.

In this pitch-black deep sea, it seemed like something was secretly spying on them.

One malicious gaze after another, like invisible sharp swords, cast over from all directions.

Sending chills down one's spine.

The surrounding atmosphere was as oppressive as a horror movie.

Just like that, they dived for I don't know how long.

Maybe ten minutes, maybe half an hour.

Zhou Huai felt that he had entered at least several thousand meters deep into the sea.

Yet this passage still showed no end in sight.

Finally,

Just when Zhou Huai's patience was about to run out,

In the endless darkness below, without any warning, a glimmer of light appeared.

That light was soft, yet filled with a certain sacred aura.

Immediately afterward, that terrifying suction force suddenly disappeared.

Zhou Huai and Kalen's bodies passed through a thin, jellyfish-like soft barrier.

The next second, the two heavily landed on solid ground.

The terrifying water pressure around them, which was enough to crush steel, also vanished without a trace at this moment.

Here turned out to be an independent space filled with air.

Zhou Huai looked around, but it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.

Nor did he see the figures of Thor and the other three.

Just when he was wondering,

Kalen behind him seemed to have sensed something.

He stretched out his pitch-black palm and gently waved towards the darkness ahead.

"In the name of the God of El, grant us light!"

Hum——!

A sphere emitting soft golden light appeared out of thin air and slowly floated towards the darkness ahead.

Wherever the golden light passed, the darkness receded like a tide.

The mysterious underwater world around them was finally revealed before the two.

Under their feet were fine, white jade-like sand grains.

Around them grew all kinds of nameless strange seaweeds, as well as colorful coral reefs.

Those seaweeds and corals all exuded a faint fluorescent light, decorating this underwater world like a dreamy fairyland.

However, what shocked Zhou Huai the most was not the breathtaking scene before his eyes,

But not far from them,

There unexpectedly appeared a terrifying dark shadow so huge that it could not be described in words!