What kind of scenery is this?

Like blackened snow particles, countless black particles are scattered everywhere, and they are everywhere in the whole sky.

People fell one after another, entering a vast dream woven by the unreal.

The reason is not known, and no one can explain it.

No one, no exception.

The world, as if time had stopped, fell into complete silence.

******

Three days later.

Danica sat in the carriage and looked out at the scenery.

It's dusk, and the side where the sun sets is stained blood-red.

Next to him, because he was too sleepy, he heard the sound of snoring.

The red-haired girl thought about what had happened in the past few days, and her mood was weighed down by a large boulder, and she felt heavy.

In the bottom of the girl's heart, she left a regret.

Not just over there, but over there.

"What else can I do. ”

On the journey back, there should have been three people, but now there is one less companion.

“……”

These days, she's been thinking about it.

What can I do?

If that hadn't happened, maybe she would have been able to talk to the people of the Magalias, and maybe she would have had more time to see the old man.

Although, those riots in the temple branch did not have much to do with her, and the city of Ridimpa also had nothing to do with the riots in the temple branch. However, I always feel at ease.

Inexplicably worried, I can't rest assured at all.

The carriage continued on its way, and in five days they would be back in Ridingpa.

Return to the familiar mountain town.

The familiar and humble home, the uncomfortable bed and pillows that I had become accustomed to.

The smiles of the people of the mountain town.

"Vance ......"

Vance was separated from them and remained there.

It's a pity that I can't help with anything.

Can't do magic, and can't use a sword.

When I came into contact with the hidden part of the world, my state of mind no longer changed the same as in the past, and I only thought about the mountain city.

This mood contains powerlessness and fear.

It is a well-known fact that dragons are a threat to the whole world, and because of the Temple of the Four Directions, people in the Vogulite continent are not so afraid and worried.

However, there are parts of this world that are full of unimaginable things.

"In the end, what can I do to become a qualified city lord......

"How am I going to explain Vance's whereabouts to Dawn......"

"Vance ......"

From the bottom of the girl's heart, an apology welled up.

If you told Dao about all these things, what would Daun say, and what kind of expression would Daun show?

When I go back this time, I will definitely be inquired about.

"If Lance is here, there must be a way. ”

Lance is different from her, she is just a poor nobleman born in a poor mountain town, Lance is better than her in all aspects, her only advantage is hard work, and Lance was also chosen by the Sword of Thunder to become a dragon slayer knight.

"Ahhhh ”

Danica held her head and screamed in frustration.

"Why am I so cringe?"

"Why does he like me, why does he like me?"

She produced self-doubt.

"With the title of declining aristocracy, in fact, what can be done is so limited. ”

"After the rebuilding of the mountain castle...... What can I do? ”

The head is a little confused.

“…… I'd love to see you, Lance. ”

It's not been a long time since the last time, but I have the illusion that a long time has passed.

"Lance, I want to see you...... Would love to meet you......"

If it were you, you would be able to tell her what to do next.

She couldn't explain the current mood, nor could she understand the feeling at the moment.

******

"It hurts......"

I opened my eyes and got up from the ground, and my vision was gray.

I took a step forward, touched something with my feet, and when I looked down, it was a person.

When he saw the other person's face, he opened his mouth in surprise.

"Ppuin?"

Samuel dragged Popin out of here, intending to leave the palace.

There are a lot of questions on my mind, but now is not the time to stop and think about it.

Put those questions aside for a moment and walk out of the building.

From the gloomy building, back to the daylight of daylight.

He closed his eyes, and after a while, finally adjusted to the intensity of the light, and looked around, only to see that the ground was covered with strange things. The sun shone on it, reflecting a slight silver light. In fact, they were as small as sand, and Samuel tossed Popin aside, leaned down and folded his hands, and scooped them.

"Black sand?"

They are more delicate to the touch and very smooth than ordinary sand.

"What the hell!"

As far as you can see, there is a layer of this stuff on the floor.

I tried to take a few steps, but I didn't feel anything when I stepped on it.

“……”

He picked up Popin again and took a few more steps.

"This guy is so heavy!"

Throw it on the ground again, crouch down and pat your cheek.

"Hey, wake up, get up!

After shouting for a while, there was no sign of waking up.

"Tsk, let me ask for a porter, I'll ask you for a porter when you wake up." ”

Let's carry him honestly.

Samuel sighed inwardly and continued on his way.

After walking for a few minutes, I still saw that strange layer of black sand on the ground.

"There are so many of them, and no one comes to clean them? ”

As Samuel stepped out of the area, he began to notice even stranger things.

"How could it be ......? Is it wrong? Why are you lying on the ground?"

The people in the palace were maids, waiters, knights, and gardeners. Everyone seemed to be lying on the ground, and Samuel tried to wake them up as he passed them, but he couldn't wake them up.

"W-no, won't?"

Isn't this exactly the same then?

He must have fallen asleep on the ground like these people?

Why did he wake up?

Wait, Popin is asleep too, Popin is also affected?

Let's not talk about whether Popin has anything to do with the shadow mage, isn't Popin a member of the Shadow Alliance? Why did he fall asleep too?

It doesn't matter if there is infighting or not.

Why?

Why is he the only one who woke up?

He's not going to be the first to wake up, is he?

“…… Or is it because I've been in a dream before, so this time I'm the one who wakes up the fastest?"

"I don't understand ......"

I can't figure out what this is, it's resistant to magic? How is it possible? Magic isn't a disease!

Suddenly, my head hurt, as if I had been stabbed by something.

Samuel couldn't bear it anymore, let go of his hands, gave up the person he was carrying on his back, held his head, and knelt on the ground with his legs bent.

Something poured in, into his memory.

"That's right......"

"I see, I remember, I ......"

“……”

The pain was gone, and Samuel stood up and glanced at Popin.

"Poor man. ”

His gaze was full of pity and sympathy.

At this moment, a white cat jumped into his field of vision.

"Meow. ”

"It's you. ”

"Meow!"

"I know, they're on their way, aren't they? I slept for three days, everybody slept for three days. ”

Samuel looked at the white cat as if talking to himself.

"Thanks to the enchantment you set up in time, these things didn't spread. ”

Otherwise, the entire imperial city will become a city of eternal sleep.

"Do you want me to compliment you like that?"

"Well, you're doing well, you're really doing well. ”

"When I'm done with all this, I'll come back to see you, I have something for you. Samuel pointed to Popin on the ground.

"Take this person out of here and go to the temple branch. Of course, I'll break your seal, and then you can go back to that little imp and use your power to wake up the brother and sister, and if they continue to sleep, the country will be in chaos. ”

"Meow meow!"

After Samuel snapped his fingers, the white cat barked happily.

In less than a second, the white cat changed, its body gradually became taller and bigger, and it was completely impossible to see the original cat, but it turned into a white monster with horns, and the snow-white monster rolled up Pupuyin lying on the ground with its tail, threw it on its back, turned around and ran out.

It's like the wind, and it's gone in the blink of an eye.

“…… It's a hassle, but if you don't look for it, where will you go? ”

He muttered a sentence and began to walk in the other direction.

******

"Damn!"

I don't know how many times I have said this sentence in the past three days.

Angry at the powerlessness of reality, dissatisfied with the only way to wait.

The palace was cordoned off for unknown reasons, and no one could enter it by ordinary means.

Why is this happening?

Let's start with three days ago, three days ago, an unimaginable and incredible event happened in the palace.

All the mages in the Imperial City, whether they were trainees or beginner or advanced mages, were all affected.

For ordinary people, they probably just think that it is just an ordinary headache, but for magicians, it is not the case, somewhere in the palace, there is a magic vortex.

The magic vortex is an extremely rare phenomenon, generally in a certain area, hidden in the air invisible to the naked eye, seemingly invisible but actually existing magical elements, upside down chaotic phenomenon.

If a mage enters it, he may encounter two situations, one is that he can't use magic at all, and the other is that any beginner-level small magic may have the power of high-level magic once used.

Magic Vortex, to be precise, has a significant impact on the success of a mage's use of magic.

If a magician is extremely proficient in a certain magic and uses it in the magic vortex, the effects will not be so severe that the magic will not be used at all.

The reason for the emergence of magic vortices, one of the most recognized views in history, is that when a variety of high-level magic of different attributes or types collide together, causing excessive disorder of magic elements, magic elements are entangled, forming a magic vortex, and regional magic elements are out of control.

In times of war, especially when high-level mages fight each other, there is a greater chance of causing a magic vortex.

A real event that happened in history, the local magic competition program attracted a large number of magicians, no one would have expected that there would be a dragon in the game, the magicians attacked the dragon, more than 400 high-level magic, thousands of middle-level magic, in the process of knocking down the dragon, triggered a magic vortex. The scale of the magical vortex caused by that incident was enormous, and more than half of the mages were killed or wounded.

To the wizarding world, this is a sign of admonition.

Later, the state began to impose some restrictions on the power of magicians, and intermediate and high-level mages had to be allowed to use magic in public places, otherwise the damage to the safety and property of others was unpredictable.

No matter what level of strength it reaches, as long as it is a magician, it will feel that abnormal situation without exception.

The magic vortex appeared inside the palace, what exactly happened in the palace.

Until now, no one knows.

Magicians gather on the periphery of the palace, as well as a number of others, making it a unique sight that is absolutely difficult to see on a daily basis.

On the opposite side of the place where the magicians gathered, stood soldiers with nervous faces.

In addition to this, there were knights and priests from the temple.

On the first day, everyone found that they could not enter the palace, and the whole palace was locked down, refusing to communicate with the outside world, and people and voices could not come out of it. Several high-level spells were used in succession, and the magic crashed into the city wall, and then as if absorbed, these high-level spells did not exert their power smoothly, and disappeared in an instant like extinguished flames.

"What's going on? Isn't it okay to use magic on the periphery?"

Everyone was terrified of the situation inside the palace, even if they forcibly broke through and broke in?

After discussing it for a while, I finally reluctantly chose to break through.

Of course, the magicians refused to participate, and the members who participated included the knights of the temple branch and the soldiers of the nobility.

They found a weak point, which was a gray wall, on the side of the palace, and then concentrated their efforts on attacking that wall with physical means. After two hours of continuous attacks, a breakthrough was finally created.

"Damn, it's so hard to just get in. ”

The walls seemed to have some kind of magical power attached to them, and they could only be attacked with swords or other weapons, taking longer than expected. In short, they finally entered the palace and continued to move forward, and the scene in the palace was even more bizarre than imagined.

Walked for hundreds of meters and didn't see a single person.

Keep walking, but you can't keep moving forward, there is something in front of you, and you can't get past it.

This situation has been encountered more than once.

The solution is to continue to force breakthroughs, and if you can't break through, take a detour.

It took more than two days, but they couldn't even reach the deeper part of the palace.

Oh, the only thing that could be said about progress wasn't actually progress, they at least saw the people in the palace, the sleeping people to be exact.

Lying on the ground, sleeping very soundly, I couldn't wake up no matter how I screamed, as if I was deeply addicted to an illusory dream and couldn't return to reality.

Of course, they also saw black particles like fine sand in many places, and who knows what it was, almost everywhere, on the ground, among the flowers, in the stairs, on the trees, on the roofs, and so on. As long as you are outside, you can almost see it.

"Damn, what the hell is going on!"

"Damn!"

How many times has this word come out of my mouth?

The chief knight, who led the knights into the palace, complained.

Once again, however, they encountered places where they could not move forward, and many of them were already tired.

Until, in anxious waiting.

A white monster bursts into view, taking things to the next level.

******

The day after that, order in the palace gradually returned to normal.

The streets outside were bustling with activity, and everyone was very receptive, and the unusual incident that happened in the palace a few days ago seemed to be completely forgotten at this moment, and I went back to life. This means, of course, the procession from the Royal Palace.

Because of the lethargy incident, he was later confused by the theory that there was an explosion in a magic experiment, even if it was definitely not pure behind this matter for the magician, but as long as it dealt with ordinary people and civilians, it was enough, and there was no need to add too much fuel to the fire.

In fact, even if it was delayed for a few days, and the emergency treatment was carried out later, the action on the palace side would be fast enough.

It was just for the sake of the other sequelae caused by this incident that the temple branch and some people ran around all day long, showing the correct attitude towards this matter, and giving a certain degree of help.

All in all, the aftermath of this incident has passed quickly.

Samuel buried his face on the table, listening to the cacophony coming from outside, his body motionless.

He sat there motionless like a dead fish, muttering two words in a whispering voice.

"Tired, tired, tired......"

"Noisy dead, noisy dead, noisy dead, noisy dead......"

It really tossed everyone, and in order to deal with the matter of Popin, everyone was running around.

Of course, they also faced an interrogation carried out by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and no one dared to hide anything from the young king who wanted to know the truth. Although Ppuyin was asked by the king, he was also half a puppet, after all, no one knew if he had any inside story about trading with the vanished shadow mage.

As for the invisible shadow mage, the stinky old man who was terrible to the extreme, after some effort, he fooled the past with the claim that he had lost the battle with Ppuin, and because he was so badly injured, Ppuyin also fell into a deep sleep. After that, thanks to the salvation of the temple, everyone woke up.

In short, in order to make the reality tend to this statement, everyone ran around and tried to get Popin out of his cell.

Of course, the fact that Popin was asked by the king must not be said, only a few people secretly know about it, otherwise, it will be difficult to add one more charge of slandering the king. Besides, if this fact is stated, doesn't it mean that His Majesty, who is innocent in the first place, is in fact the author?

Fortunately, His Majesty the King was generous and spared Popin.

Regardless of whether the main reason was due to the six-nation conference, there was no need to explore the reasons, and the liberation of Popin was the most important thing.

Outside the street, it's really noisy.

Today, it is a rush to travel.

At the front of the procession, there were soldiers and knights dressed in fancy clothes.

In the middle of the procession was a royal carriage with a crown roof.

While repeating the grumble, Samuel covered his ears.

After a while, the sound faded into a quieter voice.

"It's finally gone...... It's so much quieter, so nice ......"

However, there are always things in life that are unpredictable.

There was a rhythmic knock on the door, and then a distinguished voice came from somewhere.

"Excuse me, is there anyone in there?"