"I can't stay here any longer!" Tess suddenly sat up straight and cried, "I need to get out, I can't breathe!" she complained loudly.

"Oh, you can go out and help me get some clean snow and come back and boil water. Naria said. Tess called it a few times a day, and she was used to it. It was still dawn, and the Anktans were busy with their sacred work, and it had been quiet all the time. The elves cautiously forbade them to go out alone, but she didn't think it was necessary.

Tess's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "So, if Norway comes back and finds me away, you'll tell him that you told me to go out and dig the snow, right?"

"Uh......" Naria hesitated when Tess happily kissed her on the cheek, picked up Mochi and ran out.

Akan looked at her back enviously and gestured at Naria.

"No, Akhan, you can't go out with her. Naria said sternly, she had begun to think that it was a mistake not to stop Tess, that the girl would never have come back with a snowball by the door.

Tess didn't go far, she just slipped to the next floor, scurrying around the shops down the street, trying to tell what was being sold from the sign hanging at the door of the shop, and had to chase out of the streets because Moqi suddenly jumped out of her arms to chase a small animal that looked a little similar to her, and finally Mo ran back on his own because it was too cold.

Some of the metal signs had fallen out of sight, and some were barely hanging on the walls, but they were rusted to the point of being illegible. Recognizing the two crossed swords, she stepped inside to see if there were any weapons that their owners had forgotten when they left, and all she got was a pile of dust and a few large sneezes. Then she moved on to another shop, which from the sign seemed to sell flowers, herbs, or jewelry—the latter, she hoped. The shop also had a basement, and Tess gently kicked the rotten piece of wood that was half-hung on the door frame, and the whole door shattered silently.

She looked at the doorway of the black hole, and curiosity overcame fear, lit the torch, and boldly walked down the steps.

The basement was empty, and Tess was about to leave, but she tripped under her feet, and the completely blackened blanket on the ground was kicked out of a hole, and in the light of the fire, the broken carpet showed a faint pattern on the ground. She lowered her head and rubbed her toes against her.

There seemed to be a colorful spot of light flashing in front of me. She looked up in confusion, but was startled in a firm way—the whole room suddenly changed.

No. She looked around, it was a round, larger room, but still visible at a glance. The crooked tables and chairs were pulled by the firelight in a strange black shadow, and there was a bed against the wall that remained the same, and there even seemed to be a person lying on the bed......

That's really a person.

Tess almost threw the torch over. She was not afraid of the dead, as the gods testified, but she played a game of skull-knocking with a stick in the Weeping Forest. But she was only a little surprised to find a dead man lying on the bed, and suddenly she was taken aback by a place she didn't recognize—oh, there wasn't even a door in this place!

She patted her chest, calming her beating heart, and after thinking about it, she took a few steps back and moved a little farther away from the dead man.

But she really didn't have a place to retreat.

She didn't know what it was, there were no doors, no windows, a few narrow rectangular gaps in the walls around her, barely letting in a little light, and she stood on tiptoe and looked out - well, at least she was still in the ruined city.

Such a building really doesn't fit the style of the elves, but how much does she know about the elves of more than a thousand years ago?

If she wasn't trapped here alone, she would be interested in studying what was going on here, but now, it was getting dark, and she didn't want to be alone with a corpse that had been dead for more than a thousand years after dark!

Mochi squirmed in her arms and rolled over. She looked up at the slender gaps, Xiao Mo could probably get out.

As a result of a busy day, Ed failed to wake up the sleepy Fili before the time he had agreed with the elf in the evening, as planned.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was a little annoyed to see Fili's smug face, but he could only get up quickly and tiptoe out the door with Fili.

Almost all of them lived in the inside of the circular square, in the huge building carved out of the rock, probably one of the few places in the abandoned city where there were still doors—its heavy gates made of iron hoops wrapped in ironwood, and though somewhat rusted and broken, they still hung nicely from the door frames. There is a large hall behind the door, and there are many rooms on either side of the corridor that extends inward, but everyone still prefers to gather in the warm hall. Goblins were guarded in rooms on the street outside, and they had managed to escape once, but most of them had been recaptured. Although they weren't really of much use, no one thought about letting them go altogether. Knowing that it had been suggested that all the goblins should be killed as sacrifices when the temple was built, neither Risec nor Khaliat objected, saying only that their fate would be decided by the priest.

That strengthened Ed's resolve to let the goblins go as soon as possible. They didn't plunder human villages like their people hundreds of years ago, killing all those who didn't have time to escape, they just survived, and there was no longer any justifiable reason to kill them, just senseless massacres.

The snow that had fallen last night had stopped falling in the early morning, a bonfire was still lit in the square, and Haryat was sitting by the campfire and whispering to a man whose name Ed didn't know who had just arrived today.

Ed didn't expect anyone to be here, which made him a little uneasy, but Fili shook it off as if nothing happened, said a few words to the two men, and then shook it back as if nothing happened.

"Let's go. He said.

After walking some distance, Ed whispered, "What did you tell them?"

"I told them that you are a devotee of Kaluti, and now that your heart is full of doubts, I am going to take you to the temple of Kaluti so that you can have a good conversation with your goddess. ”

“...... Are you deliberately trying to make them suspicious?!"

"No, it only makes them think we're being honest and honest. Ed, there are many gods in this world, and there is nothing wrong with wandering between several gods, and even believing in several different gods at the same time. Besides, you're not a follower of Nesses yet, and they'll only become more enthusiastic about you, making you more likely to abandon your moody goddess and follow the great Nesses. ”

“...... At least it's a goddess, and she's in good shape!" said Ed, sullenly, if he had to choose a god letter, it would be better to be a goddess anyway.

Fili touched his chin and nodded sympathetically.

The place they agreed with Novi was indeed the temple of the Ice Goddess, but the elves were not there. Philip looked around, stretched a big waist, and a slender figure stepped out of the shadows.

"Naria!" Fili stretched out his arms to the brunette girl, "did you bring me mushroom soup?"

Naria frowned suspiciously, "The mushrooms have already been eaten." The dried mushrooms she had brought from home were eaten by the dwarves in two days.

"Is something wrong?" Ed asked uneasily, the elf was quite a man of promise, and if there were no surprises, he wouldn't let Naria appear on his behalf.

"Well......" said Naria, "Tess didn't know how to get into one of the rooms up there, and Norway was trying to get her out." If you have anything important, I'll call him again. ”

"Did she climb up on her own?" Ed couldn't help but think of the cat that always climbed up the tree but couldn't get down, it really looked a bit like Tate.

"Uh...... It seems that she doesn't know either. Thinking of Tess trapped in a high place, Naria was worried and blamed herself, she really shouldn't have let Tess slip out alone. When only Mochi ran back, the elf who had just returned immediately became nervous. He went out alone to look for Tess and came back with a strange look on his face, saying that Tess was trapped in one of those dangling rooms above their heads.

Naria ran out to look, but all she could see was a dark mess, and the elf said that the room was sturdy and should not collapse. But to save Tess, he needs Akan's help. Naria took his place to meet with Ed and Fili.

“...... Did the goblins say how the city was haunted?" Ed asked Fili, the whole thing sounding a little strange, and he could only think of a reason for this.

"Don't you think it's more like the red-haired girl who is running around and lying for fear of being scolded?" said Filly, "and she's definitely going to do that!"