James snapped his eyes open, and there was a white tent roof in front of him.

He gasped for breath a few times, and his brain was a mess.

"You're awake......"

A calm and gentle voice came.

James let out a long breath and turned his head to see Alta's smooth cheeks and jet-black hair. He stretched out his right hand and found that his entire arm was intact.

"You're not hurt," Alta stretched out her left hand and gently stroked the right side of James' face. "Don't worry, you're just a little weak, that's normal. ”

"Constance, where is Constance?" cried out James as he sat up from the bed, instinctively breaking free of Alta's left hand and her strange tender gaze.

"It's okay, when we found you, she was crouching next to you, unharmed. Alta clearly understood James' thoughts, but she just smiled. "I'm going to call Damac and them. ”

She stood up, bent her knees slightly, bowed with great humility, and walked slowly out of the tent.

James touched his hot and sweaty forehead, and after learning that he was not dead, his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Did I just go to the afterlife for a short time? James held his cheeks in both hands, feeling the strength of his whole body drained, and he couldn't help but fall on the bed.

Tired......

He closed his eyes, and his mind was still the lavender field. He had no way of knowing what the sudden flash of light and the white shadow in the light meant as he lay on his back in the grass. Rummaging through the fragments of memory, James couldn't even tell whether the shadow belonged to a man or a woman, and could only rely on the quiet and pleasant voice to barely guess the other party's gender as a woman. It is impossible to clearly determine the gender, let alone know the true identity and intentions of the other person. As for that sentence -

"Don't believe it...... Thor ......"

The ethereal voice still echoed in James's ears, and he opened his mouth and hummed the last words softly. Grisenda's appearance and purple lavender appeared together, and the white shadows, the world that appeared out of thin air, he could only see them as dreams.

James moved his right arm with difficulty, and after making sure that he was only weak and that there was nothing else wrong with his body, he secretly made up his mind that everything that had happened during the time he had fallen asleep would not be repeated with the second person except himself.

Hurried footsteps came, and James turned his head slightly, and saw a huge body rushing towards him. Damac ran to James's bedside, let out a hard breath through his nose, and before James could speak first, he said loudly:

"James, are you alright?"

"It's fine, it's not hurt, it's just a little weak. ”

Damac nodded, then roughly pulled a chair and sat down at the head of James' bed. Janold also opened the tent at this time, holding the staff in his right hand, and his face was full of worry.

"James ......"

"Well, master, I'm fine, just rest and rest. James smiled.

"Hey......"

Janold changed from his previous appearance as an immodest old man, became melancholy, sighed, stood at the head of James's bed, and did not speak again.

"James, thanks to you, otherwise those orcs would have caught us off guard......"

"What?"

James was a little confused. He didn't know what he was doing to protect the camp.

"Ahem...... It's just ......" Damack paused, not knowing where to start. "When you faced that group of orcs, you used the explosive fireball that Old Man Jia taught you. Your bathing place isn't far from our camp, so we can hear the fireball exploding, which kind of alerts the bastard recruits to take up arms and defend themselves to a certain extent, which makes the orc's sneak attack plan fall through. ”

Damac gritted his teeth, his right hand clenched into a fist, his muscles tensed.

"But even so, the bastard recruits were beaten up unorganized and undisciplined. Either they are just rushing to the death, or they are too timid to come forward. Luckily, Kingsbridge's experienced guards came to our aid, and Old Man Jia and Pastor Alta helped us, otherwise the orcs would have burned down our house......"

"Did they attack in droves?"

Damac squeezed his chin roughly with his hand.

"The scale is not very large, but they are relatively scattered, and it is difficult to break them all in a short period of time when a team of sneak attacks are carried out. And those bastard recruits are really outrageous in combat, and there is almost no possibility of parrying against the orcs. A strong orc can even break five soldiers to join forces to defend, and Lao Tzu is really convinced...... Hey, I don't train well when I usually train, but now that I'm really fighting, I can't even lift my sword when I'm weak. Damac glanced at James again. "They're not like you, James. They fought like a wive, but you didn't hesitate to die with an orc to protect a. ”

"Ah...... You all know that...... Where's Constance? She's okay now?"

Alta also walked in at this point.

"That is all right, it's just that when I explained to the Kingsbridge people that you saved her, they didn't believe it, and you were so injured that I didn't bother to pay attention to them. Damac glanced back at Alta. "It's a good thing that Ms. Alta is here, otherwise you might not have made it back to camp from there. ”

"It was the Three Saints who saved you. Alta just smiled, then kept silent.

"How did you find me?"

"It's not that your magical powers are too special......" Janod had tears in his eyes. "I was sleeping soundly, but suddenly I was awakened by a burst of magic......"

"I'm ......" James had never seen Giarold look like this, and he was a little at a loss. "Master, I was wrong......

"Hmph, it's good to know that it's wrong, and you don't know how to be careful when using magic. Janold snorted and turned his head.

The corners of James' mouth twitched.

"Hehe, Xiao Zhan, after Old Man Jia sensed that you were in danger, the anxious one rushed out without saying anything, running faster than the wind...... Damac laughed a few times. "Don't say it, Xiao Zhan, your master is strong, I saw those royal magicians in Freetown, I'm afraid it's only half of your master's level......"

"Hehe, don't compare me to those slightly stronger magic apprentices, I was also the vice president of the Magic Guild in Turan back then......"

"Haha, Old Man Jia is starting to brag again......" Damac laughed.

"You ......" Janold reverted to his previous personality.

"Thanks to you, Xiao Zhan, we have found an opportunity to let the nobles of the kingdom know about the battle. Damac continued. "If Old Man Jia is not wrong, in order to defeat that strong orc, you used your magic power at close range or something, and created an explosion or something...... "He scratched his head. "I don't know anything about magic, but I know that a bomb can't be detonated in front of me, because that would cause the person who detonated it to suffer the same damage. But you did, didn't you? That's why I feel more and more that you have a great warrior's heart......"

"I just didn't think about it because I was too urgent, and I didn't have enough brain capacity to come up with a suitable way to get away, so I had to make this decision......"

"Hehe, even that can't block the hero's glow from you!" Damac straightened his chest, as if the hero was talking about himself.

James' eyes lit up suddenly. A long, long time ago, he had the dream of being a hero, and at this moment, he was really praised by a person to the point of becoming a hero, and he even felt a little embarrassed. Listening to Damac's thick voice, the passion in his heart also swelled up.

"Uh-huh!" he nodded desperately in agreement.

Hehe, I turned out to be a hero......

"You're in luck, too. Damac suddenly pulled out a crumpled and dirty piece of parchment from his jacket pocket. "We found such a piece of paper on the body of the orc who wounded you. ”

"It's ......"

"It's the 'Orc Counteroffensive Plan' combat map we've been looking for. With it, it is much simpler for us to fight back. It's not an exhaustive drawing, but it's chilling......" he clenched his fist. "Those people in the Warrior Guild before thought that orcs could not have the IQ to organize an attack in a group, so this piece of paper slapped them in the face. I'm going to send a battle plan to the Warriors' Guild in New Garand, so that the Warriors' Guild's higher-ups will take this threat seriously and send more soldiers to defend Kingsbridge. ”

"What if the orcs attack again during this time?"

"It's okay, I've seen this battle plan, and they won't be holding a general offensive anytime soon. Besides, this sneak attack was defeated by us, and the orcs would not be so quick to carry out a second attack. And although the orcs had plans to sneak attack, they didn't have the intelligence to think of a sneak attack at night. That way, we'll have plenty of time to wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

"Really? That's great...... Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

"Okay, okay, Xiao Zhan, if you think you're still weak, just hurry up and have a good rest, we won't bother you. Damac was rare and meticulous, and when he saw the exhaustion on James' face, he touched his head, stood up, and said.

"Hmmm......"

Janold was the first to leave the tent with his chest held high, leaving without even looking back, as if angry that Damac had interrupted his self-introduction. Damac gave James a thumbs up and left the tent as well. It was only when Arta was about to get up and walk without saying a word that James called out softly to her.

"Alta ......"

"Huh?"

Alta paused, turned around, and gave James a gentle smile.

"That, thank you......"

"Uh-huh...... You should go and thank the Three Sages, it was their strength that saved you, not me. ”

"No, if it weren't for you, the Three Saints wouldn't have noticed me, ahem......"

Alta smiled and narrowed her eyes.

"Yes, it's okay, as a pastor, it's normal to help others. ”

"Well, are you going to go to the altar next? or ......"

"If there is any question you can ask me, I don't care. ”

James was stunned for a moment, and then secretly scolded himself for having too low emotional intelligence and stammering, which could easily attract the suspicion of others.

"Well, Ms. Alta, will I still be breathing before you treat me?"

Alta thought for a moment, then regained her smile.

"Absolutely. A corpse that has been dead for a long time cannot be healed with the power of the Three Saints. When you were carried in front of me by the soldiers, your breathing was weak, but not messy, as if it were ...... It's like...... It's a dream......"

"Hmmm......"

An inexplicable chill crept up in James's heart.

"So, James, is there anything else you want to ask?"

"No more......" James shook his head.

Alta bent her knees slightly, smiled softly but a little hairy on James, and slowly walked out of the room.

Lying on his back on the bed, James was basically certain that the place was not the afterlife. But in this case, the possibility flashed through James's mind - such a world, if it is not a place where the dead live, means that James has a chance to enter again.