I looked carefully at the woman who looked a little shy standing in front of me. I thought to myself, how could such a woman have anything to do with the legendary magician before? And, judging from the news I heard before, that magician should be a man, how could it be like this?

As if aware of my speculation, Hua Siqi smiled and wiped it on her face, followed by a deep middle-aged man's face. Such a face would not attract any attention on the street, even in the mage robes that showed off their status.

So, is he a man or a woman?

Hua Siqi restored her appearance to the previous woman's appearance, and her blonde hair playfully covered the pale blue eyes on her left. "That's what I am, and my previous outfit was just what I did to hide it. For I am one of the last survivors of our race, and if it is discovered by someone with ulterior motives, then ... ”

"Are you a shapeshifter?" said Redding, who seemed to be the only one in the room who knew the true identity of the girl named Hua Siqi.

A wry smile flashed across Hua Siqi's face. "Yes, I'm a shapeshifter. But we call ourselves the Children of the Forest. Ma'am, I don't mean to be offended, but we're just like you elves in the forest, and the only difference is that you're elves and we're human. ”

I looked at Reading inquiringly, and Reading explained, "Yes, Hua Siqi is right, they are real humans. It's just that there have been some changes in their bodies, allowing them to master some special abilities that ordinary humans don't have, so they are called shapeshifters. Moreover, after the discovery of these heretics, the self-proclaimed orthodox human beings launched several sieges against them. As far as I know, this race was extinct thousands of years ago. ”

"What the Auxiliary Minister said is true, after the encirclement and suppression, only a small part of us fled to the mountains, but by the time I arrived, I was the only one left. Hua Siqi smiled and said: "I understand the laws of this world, so we don't blame anyone, if there is really anything weird, it is only to blame us for not being suitable to live in this world." ”

"But you still helped us. ”

"Is this how it should be?" Hua Siqi asked suspiciously, "Won't you do this?" I'm just doing my best to tell you that the empire and the apostles have a conspiracy. ”

Yes, there is indeed a conspiracy, and if it weren't for Hua Siqi's discovery, we wouldn't have come all the way here with the Auxiliary Minister.

Hua Siqi continued: "According to my investigation, the Apostles and the regent of the Danmoth Empire have concluded a treaty, and the Apostles have promised to leave the regent a piece of land for themselves after the defeat of the Danmos Empire. And this piece of self-reserved land is likely to be the current royal capital. As for the apostles' fear of the cold, it's definitely just a false guess, but I can't figure out why the apostles haven't broken through the courage defense line now, and I think it's possible that after our coalition forces are assembled, we can continue to wipe out the coalition forces after occupying the Danmoth Empire. But now that the coalition of the undead and the three kingdoms of Kaiyuan has gathered on the border of the Danmoth Empire, the apostles have not made any moves. ”

"They are waiting for the coalition forces in the north. I said in a lost voice.

"What?" the others all turned their heads to look at me, shocked by my speculation. Tie Shan was even more shocked and asked, "How is it possible? How is it possible for the north to form an alliance? The orcs and barbarians are feuds, and I don't believe that the previous few people will erase the estrangement between these two races." Moreover, those exiles are also notoriously poor in combat, and if they join the coalition forces, they will become a burden to the coalition forces!"

"So there's no need for them to let those exiles join the coalition. I smiled bitterly: "The north only needs orcs and barbarians, plus those people from the destroyed kingdom of Magellan, it is enough, I now know why the apostles are making such slow progress, their appetite is so big, they want to wipe out all the resistance forces on this continent through a war! ”

But Hua Siqi shook her head helplessly: "No, I don't know space magic." ”

I was stunned and asked eagerly, "But weren't you using space magic when you first came, and why did you say you wouldn't at such a critical moment?"

"That, that's just teleportation magic at close range. And I have to be here beforehand. Unlike the orthodox spatial magic used by Master McGregory, mine is more like, more like a castrated version. Speaking of this, Hua Siqi's face turned red, and she still looked very cute.

It's just that I'm not in the mood to admire her now, and I'm still a woman. It seems that those people from the north will definitely come over immediately. And that's what the apostles were waiting for.

Now, we really don't have any need to stay here. Moreover, for the old man here in Reading, it no longer makes any sense for him to return to the Empire to report on his duties. I glanced at Redding, and the old man's mind didn't seem to keep up, and he looked at us blankly.

"Let's go back. I sighed and whispered to Reading.

Reading still didn't react, and actually looked a little surprised. "Are we going back?"

"No, it's not. I shook my head: "There is no need for us to go back now, and even if you do, you are doomed to be killed." Didn't you hear what we said earlier?"

"How is it possible, how can it not go back?" Reading frantically grabbed my hand and asked, "Are you kidding, we have now completed our mission, then we should go back to the capital and tell His Majesty the Emperor Regent's wolf heart!

"It's useless, it's all useless. I let him grab my hand and whispered, "Now that we have no need to go back, we have underestimated the strength of the Regent." Now that you go back, he will have 10,000 ways to make you die without a place to bury. Do you understand? The reason why they don't attack the line of courage now is not because of how brave the soldiers are now, in fact, you have seen the situation of your soldiers now. If it weren't for the fact that we blocked the firestorm, those two generals would have been killed a few days ago. You are a heartfelt minister, but sadly, you may be the only one in the current Danmos Empire who still has such a heartheart. And the saddest thing is that no matter how heartfelt you are, your emperor no longer knows. ”

"No, no!" Reading instantly became furious, and he laughed: "I don't care about these things, I just need to truthfully report all the things here to His Majesty the Emperor, then he will understand that all this is a conspiracy of the Regent, then His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not let go of that traitor!"

"Okay old fellow, this is just your fantasy!" Firestorm slapped Reading at this time, although it was very light, but it still hit Reading stunned: "Why don't you understand, you old fellow, in fact, this action of yours was destined to have no meaning from the beginning! Do you understand? Ah! Even if you truthfully reflect all the situation here to that brainless emperor, what can you do? Do you still think that he is the ruler of your country now? Wrong, very wrong! After your old emperor is getting old, the ruler of this country is already your great regent!How else could these armies be so easily dispatched either to attack us or to pacify us? Why don't you understand now?"

"Forget it, there's no way we can stop an obsessive old man. Iron Mountain walked over and stopped the firestorm. Only Banksy was left silently healing Reading's wounds. Even if the wound on Redding's face was not serious at all.

Tie Shan is right, we have no power to stop an obsessive old man. When we were about to leave the next day, we found that Reading had already left before us. Banks wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Iron Mountain. "You want to chase him?"

Banks looked back at Tie Shan, who was holding her, and said impatiently, "Why are you stopping me?"

"Do you know which path he's going to choose to go back?"

"Surely that's the way we came from?"

"Wrong. Reading may be old, but he has more experience than any of us. If you can think of something, then he has already thought it through, so as long as he doesn't want us to find him, then he will definitely not let us find him. ”

"But... Banksy was still unwilling, "But we can't just watch him go back to his death!"

"We didn't watch him die, do you want to follow him and watch him die?"

Banksy suddenly began to cry, which was quite poignant.

Hua Siqi did not choose to leave, but joined us. In this way, although Reading eventually left us, our numbers remained the same. Instead, it became even more powerful because of the addition of a shapeshifter mage. Before she joined us, I specifically asked why Hua Siqi chose to join us now, and Hua Siqi answered me like this. "My magic won't allow me to teleport to the north, but I'm sure I can help. If I can avoid a catastrophe, then I have done my part. ”

I looked at her with a smile, but I still didn't quite believe what the mysterious woman was saying. After all, I don't believe that I can let go of my hatred of exterminating my race and choose to help my enemies.

The two generals held a grand farewell ceremony for us. But when they came to look for us, they couldn't find us. After all, we've been gone for a long time.

We didn't follow the path we came from. Instead, he climbed to the highest mountain nearby and looked down. Standing here, even the majestic line of courage has become very small. But even so, the tents and soldiers of the apostles outside the line of courage were still clearly visible.

"I didn't expect these apostles to have such a large army. "I felt a chill in my heart, these troops may not be as good as all the armies of the Danmoth Empire, but they are still several times more than the soldiers stationed near the Danmoth Empire near the Courage Line. "I believe the soldiers saw it better than we did, but the Lord Regent naively thought that the Apostles would make some deal with them. By the way, Hua Siqi, why did you let us come here?"

Hua Siqi pointed to a slightly lower mountain in the distance, but this low was only relative. "See there?"

I nodded and asked, "See, what's wrong?"

"If we fly from here to there, we can save half a month. ”

"But we can't fly past it except for the Firestorm. ”

"But I can. Hua Siqi smiled brightly and silently recited the mantra. Immediately afterward, I noticed that we were enveloped in a burst of white light, and this bright light forced me to close my eyes. When I opened my eyes again, I realized that we were now standing on the same mountain as before. I looked at Hua Siqi suspiciously, but she smiled lightly: "I've been here before, after all, the three holes of the cunning rabbit." ”

I could see the helplessness in her smile, it looked like she had been hunted down even now. If you hadn't made adequate preparations, I'm afraid that the last survivor of this shapeshifter would have died long ago. And we elves, why not.

No, we can't be used to describe the elves anymore. Now the only one who is eligible to use the name of Elf is the Elf named Ciel. As for me, I'm just an undead now.

But now, we've quickened our journey, probably faster than Reading, who went first.