"Space Ring. ”

"What?" a voice came from behind him, and Elsie asked.

Doro stretched out a hand to show her, a knobby hand, wearing a silver ring on his thumb, and a gray-white gem inlaid with a hollow in the center of the ring, which looked so simple that it could not even be found without looking carefully.

"The weapons are all in there, so you can get them when you need them. ”

"It's amazing, I've only heard of it but haven't seen it. Curious, Elsie grabbed Doro's hand with one hand and looked at it, rubbing the ring.

Doro didn't react to her movements, and said, "It's not that powerful, there's very little space to store inside, you can't put living creatures, and the food will rot over time when you put it in, it's just a convenient backpack." ”

"It's still amazing, where did you get that?" Elsie let go.

"Enzo. ”

"Huh?"

"He's... The magician of the imperial capital, he gave it to me. ”

"Do you have a good relationship, you met in the imperial capital?...... What have you been through in the Imperial Capital in the past few years?" Elsie asked anyway, a question she had been wondering about for a long time since they had reunited.

At the beginning, his parents told him that Doro was amazingly talented, and he felt that it was difficult to develop well in this small city, so he went to the imperial capital to study, and the young Elsie cried and cried, but he didn't even see Doro's last face before leaving.

Later, she comforted herself that it was good for Doro, but four years had passed, and they had never seen each other again, and they had no contact, and their closest childhood companions had drifted apart, so that there was nothing to say about the reunion.

Doro never replied.

Elsie felt embarrassed and changed the subject: "How long will it take us to get to the imperial capital?" ”

"At the current rate, more than half a month. Doro's voice didn't make any mood swings.

Elsie only felt that the road ahead was long, he was worried about the danger on the road, and he was looking forward to reuniting with his parents.

Time flies.

It's been two weeks, and they have encountered sporadic demons along the way, because they have avoided big cities, and they are not even close to villages and towns, and they have encountered low-level squads of demons, which is not worth mentioning. During this time, Elsie also asked Doro many times and learned something about the demons.

The crack in the demon world is the only way for the demons to come to the Divine Ruins Continent, once it is opened, it cannot be closed, unless all the demons who are ready in the other world enter, there may be an omen before opening, but only some people can feel it, among them, there are mostly middle and high-level magicians, perhaps because they need to perceive the rules of the elements to practice magic, and they are more sensitive to changes in the environment, and Dora is not very clear.

The Demon Race began to invade on November 21, 2000 in the Divine Ruins calendar, and before that, many people thought that the Demon World was a legendary thing. The demons will stop for about a month every time they invade, and it seems that they also have time to rest. The city of Dofaan, where Elsie and Doro grew up, seems to have been one of the first cities to be invaded, because it fell in one fell swoop, and then appeared twice, each time it seems to be larger and more ferocious.

The Atlantean Empire is a coastal country, itself, and the surrounding are small countries, the imperial capital is the closest city to the inland direction, the size of the empire is a total of 28 cities, and now it is exaggerated that it has fallen twenty, and only the imperial capital and the nearest three or four cities have not been invaded from beginning to end, if there is a next time, it is estimated that the imperial capital will not escape.

Elsie took a big breath when she heard this, she didn't expect the country to have reached such a point, and hurriedly asked, "What about the rest of the continent, is this the whole world?"

Doro replied that as far as he knew, the situation in the surrounding countries was not very good, and further inland, there seemed to be no signs of demon invasion.

Elsie was puzzled: "If other countries have not been invaded, why don't they come to our aid?"

Faced with her question, Doro said with a rare straight color: "Elsie, you have to understand that in the vast Divine Ruins Continent, the connection between countries is not so tight. ”

"Atlantis is just a small country on the edge of the continent, and perhaps it would be ridiculous to call it a nation, even if you add the surrounding countries...... Do you understand, for them, it doesn't matter if all of our small countries are destroyed, because there is no rule that all races on the continent must watch and help each other. ”

"As long as the demons don't hit them, the miserable howls of other countries have nothing to do with them. ”

"We don't matter. ”

Elsie interrupted him with a movement, and when she heard this, she almost didn't want to accept it, she squatted down, buried her head in the crooks of her arms and knees, and a low voice came out: "Then what will we do after that, what if the imperial capital also falls in the next invasion?"

Doro touched his head and said calmly, "Then we will escape from this country, and I will always protect you." ”

Elsie's eyes were hazy with tears, and he didn't know whether he was happy or worried.

......

Nothing after that.

The two stopped and stopped, and finally approached the imperial capital. The full name of the imperial capital is Atenia, which is the capital of Atlantis, so it is generally called the imperial capital, in fact, according to their studies in the academy, except for a few special circumstances, the general continental countries should call their capitals as such.

When there are still a few days away from the imperial capital, there are few woods, almost all of them are open plains, and the view is unobstructed. They also encountered more dangers because of this, not only from the lone demons, but also from the strange creatures that originally existed on the mainland, some of them were not aggressive and even close to humans, and some were extremely dangerous, the two encountered them a few times, but fortunately they both escaped.

The imperial capital is on higher ground, and there are many towns around the majestic and prosperous main city, and when people start to appear, they know that they are safe.

When you come to the range of human activities, you can say goodbye to the sinister natural world for a while.

The two of them have been in the dust all the way, when they left the town where they found Atu, they had been out for a long time, Elsie suddenly shouted to stop and go back, and the two searched and looted, and took a lot of daily necessities and clothes, as well as cloaks and other items to keep out the cold.

Doro's ring really can't put many things as he said, Elsie originally guessed that it was calculated according to the cube, Doro's heavy sword was huge, twenty centimeters wide, and the hilt was one meter forty long, even it could be put in, the space capacity should be very considerable, but in fact it was not, it may be calculated according to the total volume of the item, that sword accounted for the vast majority, Elsie thought, in short, the extra was put into the satchel for Doro to carry.

When the two arrived at the town around the imperial capital, the two of them were like adventurers returning from afar, because they didn't have time to take care of Ah Tu, who was originally only earthy yellow in color, but now it is really Ma as his name. The two of them were not going to go in like this, so they settled in the town to prepare for a day of rest.

Because he didn't need Ah Tu anymore, he originally wanted to let him go or give it to the residents of the town when he entered the town, but Ah Tu seemed to be very affectionate to them, especially to Elsie, who kept rubbing her face with his neck, and at Elsie's strong request, Doro had to take it to the hotel and hand it over to the boss to take care of her.

The two picked two rooms, and when they moved in, it was almost dark, and they were tired all the way, and Elsie was like heaven when the bathroom was drenched with warm water, and when he was halfway through the bath, he heard a knock on the door, and Elsie asked through the two doors, "Who?"

She vaguely heard Doro's voice, so she shouted, "Is it Doro? I'm not convenient now, you can come in." ”

She heard the sound of the door opening and closing, and after a while it was another sound, she guessed that Doro had gone out, washed and came out to find a new set of clothes on the bed of the hotel, on which was spread out a notebook, which was owned in the hotel room, she picked it up and opened it, and there were a few words written on it, the handwriting was tough and restrained: "Lock the door before going to bed." ”

Elsie looked at the clothes, thinking to herself that Doro wouldn't have gone into the room to clean up and rest and run out to buy clothes, she was a little inexplicable, and remembered the meticulous Doro who took care of her when she was a child.

She closed the notebook and put it back on the table in the room, lay on the bed to rest, and after a while, she somehow got up and opened the notebook to that page, tore it off, folded it a few times, and put it into the pocket of her underwear.