"Do you think the generals are gone?" Catherine and Ace hid in the shadows in a corner.

"Why don't they stay here?" Ace observed the situation in the square by moonlight.

The square was in shambles, and when I looked hurriedly, there seemed to be no one. The generals of the Dead Realm, Lady Vicie and her elven war squad are nowhere to be found.

Of course, Ferry couldn't be found. But during the safety period, neither of the two regiment commanders dared to rush over.

"Look at the Paradise of the Brave. Pointing to the large tent that stood out in the square, "the torches around it were extinguished." I think the domain enchantments in there must have been no effect. Remember the hole we escaped from? We went in from there, and we went around the main entrance. Wasn't the main battlefield in front of the Brave Paradise? ”

This is a feasible plan, and Ace raised his hands in agreement.

The two of them agreed, and walked through the street to return to the cave where they had originally escaped from Paradise for the Brave. Asra grabbed Catherine and leaned in to take a look.

"It's dark inside, but I see the door over there, and there's light coming in. ”

"Then go inside, although there is not much magic, it should be fine to get a flame for lighting. ”

So Ace opened the way, Catherine followed him, and the two re-entered the Paradise of the Brave.

At the moment, Catherine's actual situation is not good, and creating an elemental storm has drained all her accumulated magic. And after continuous fighting, wounded, her body is very weak. It's just that as the head of the group, the female mage feels deep down in her heart that she can't just fall down like this and become a burden to As.

Catherine fiddled with a small flame not much bigger than a fingernail. She didn't have time to meditate, and her body's natural accumulation of mana was almost negligible. In this state, the female mage can also communicate with the fire element, and if her teacher Quisling is here, she will also praise "genius".

But don't look at the light of the fire, in the absolute darkness, the effect is surprisingly good. The two of them took advantage of this faint light source to touch the crack in the door that showed light step by step.

Before reaching the crack in the door, Catherine extinguished the fire and said, "Watch the movement outside." If they do all leave, we'll go out and find Fee. In case there is anyone else, we will discuss the countermeasures here. ”

"As long as it's not the undead of the realm of the dead. Ace stood on tiptoe and walked to the crack in the door to look.

Three seconds later, he walked back slowly, leaned into Catherine's ear and said, "Something isn't right, something is not right with what I see." Why don't you check it out? ”

Catherine frowned, followed As, and walked over on tiptoe to look around.

The female mage came back faster than As, and she put her ear close to the deputy head and said, "Go back the way you came, hurry up." ”

As soon as the two of them turned around, the door behind them "creaked" open. There was a strange red glow from the door, and two red claws with thin nails and bones stretched out, and with one hand grabbed a man's collar, dragging Catherine and Ace through the door.

Catherine slammed to the ground, shattering all her bones. She shook her dizzy head and tried to prop herself up with her hands.

But Catherine screamed and fell to the ground again, having inadvertently pinched on a reddish stone. The stone was so hot that a string of blisters suddenly formed on Catherine's palm.

The female mage tried desperately to shake off the stone, her mind was stimulated by pain, but she also sobered up a lot. She sat up cautiously and was relieved to see Ace beside her. But the deputy head of the regiment seemed to be suffocated, and he couldn't move on his back to the sky.

"It's so hot here, it's not 100 degrees, it's 80 degrees. Catherine felt like every breath she breathed in was burning her throat.

Ace blinked, motioning for Catherine to look up.

Catherine looked up, immediately stunned. The sky was fiery red, and like a viscous liquid, it was constantly flowing.

"Magma!"

Oh my God, the sky here is completely filled with hot lava. It weighs heavily on the top of his head, and it seems to pour down at any moment.

Catherine couldn't believe what she was seeing. She hurriedly looked around, and as far as her eyes could see, there was only red sand and red stones. No matter which way you look at it, it's a boundless fiery red. Only on that distant horizon seemed to be billowing lava, flowing from the sky to the ground.

It's a vast desert.

"What's going on? How did we get to such a place of the hell?" Ace breathed a sigh of relief, and finally got up, "I saw a red patch in the crack of the door just now, and it turned out to be such a place. We're going to stay here for an hour, I'm afraid we're going to get roasted. ”

He unbuttoned his shirt, the skin on his chest cracking and upturned from the dryness.

"You'd better figure it out. Asra pulled up a bewildered Catherine, "The soles of my shoes are melting. ”

Catherine smiled wryly and shook her head. Of the hundreds of books she had read, there was no record of such a place.

Why Paradise of the Brave had brought them here, Catherine couldn't figure it out. Without seeing the corner of the city square through the crack in the door, the female mage knew that they had made another big mistake. Unfortunately, there was no time to evacuate, and the two were in a deep predicament.

The only thing Catherine can confirm now is that as a magician, she can only feel the presence of the fire elemental here. However, the fire elemental here is extremely irritable and active, full of dangerous aura. Using any fire-based magic can be attacked by uncontrollable elemental backlash.

"Look at that. Catherine looked around again and pointed in a direction, "If you see that little black dot, why don't you go and take a look." Maybe we'll find the answers we need. ”

"Why didn't I see the little black dot you said?" Ace put his arm around Catherine, and the two of them leaned forward against each other.

"Huh?" Catherine paused, looking left and right for a moment, "How did you get over there?"

So the two of them changed direction to the right. But after a few steps, Catherine stopped again.

"Over there!" Ace saw this time.

For the rest of the trip, the direction of travel is always changing. Every time you walk for a while, that black dot moves to another place. On a good day, the two of them can walk a few hundred steps, and on a bad day, they have to change directions three times in a row after taking ten steps.

Although this way of traveling is very time-consuming and energy-consuming, Catherine and Ace do not complain, but have some expectations. They knew in their hearts that the black dot was indeed strange.

In the boundless desert, what I am most afraid of is moving forward without a goal. Now, no matter what they end up encountering, at least the two of them are given hope.

But walking in this red desert is extremely dangerous in itself.

For example, the lava that drips from time to time in the sky. Once this magma hits the ground, it melts nearby earth and rock, forming a small pool of magma.

Bubbles will emerge from the magma pool, slowly bulging, expanding, and exploding, scattering flames in all directions.

Catherine and As, several times, were almost swept away by these splashes of flames. And when the flames were extinguished, they became the kind of stone that had burned Catherine's palm in the first place.

The two trudged hard, becoming more and more difficult as time went on. It's a contest of will and strength. Their biggest threat is the rapid loss of water in their bodies.

"I can't walk anymore. Catherine, who collapsed, fell to the ground. Her body was already weak, and it was a miracle that she barely supported it until now.

"Come, I'll carry you. Ace struggled to move Catherine onto his back. In fact, he was on the verge of collapse, but the deputy head still persisted tenaciously.

Ace staggered to his back as he carried Catherine, he had never thought that their emaciated regimental master would be so heavy.

"It's time for you to lose weight. Ace laughed hard, "Even Ferry is lighter than you." ”

"Then you can leave me behind. Catherine licked her dry lips, but unfortunately she couldn't lick any spittle, but licked off two hard, dry skins, "You might be able to walk there alone, carrying me, we won't be able to get there." ”

"No, let's go together. I'm sure I'll be able to carry you on my back. Ace paused to catch his breath before continuing to walk, "You didn't notice, the black dot is no longer moving. Ten minutes ago, it hadn't moved again. We're almost there, rest assured, it's almost there. ”

As soon as Ace finished speaking, he stepped on a protruding rock. His ankle "clucked" to the side.

"Bang" The deputy head of the regiment knelt heavily on the ground, and the gravel pierced his knee, so painful that he almost screamed.

"What's wrong with you?" Catherine leaned her head on As's shoulder with her eyes half-closed.

"It's okay, it's okay. There is a pit, we have gone down, and now we have to come up. Ace replied in a hoarse voice. He stood up tremblingly, a movement that made it a little difficult for him to breathe.

"Two hundred steps away. Ace took about half a minute before he started again.

Catherine nodded over his shoulder, wrapping her arms around the man's neck.

"One, two, three...... One hundred and ninety, one hundred and ninety-one......" Ace silently counted his steps in his heart, "One hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred!"

"Catherine, here we are, Catherine!" Ace called to the female mage on his back, but no one answered.