The tone of Connie's first half of life has been gloomy.

Her mother was a slave, so she was a slave as well.

As for the father, who knows? No one cares.

The eternal yellow sand, the hunger and thirst day after day, the empty eyes of her mother, the cold in the middle of the night, the never-ending war, and the discrimination and bullying from others, Connie has long been accustomed to all this.

It's like... That's how the world is supposed to be.

Life is painful.

Her mother used to tell her so.

Even more than once wanted to strangle her, and then kill yourself.

It seems that in this way, it is possible to say goodbye to these pains.

However, Connie still overestimated her courage, and when the pain of suffocation and the unknown of death struck, she pushed away her mother, who had fallen into despair and madness, and her violent struggle and screams attracted the attention of the slave owner.

Her mother was whipped to death, and the enraged slave owners only felt a little unlucky.

Because in the eyes of the slave owner, compared to the mother who can be regarded as sick and disabled, Connie, who has grown a little taller, can undoubtedly be sold for a better price.

Those aristocrats always liked to take pleasure in destroying fresh and tender flowers.

Connie was then sold, and on her way through the barren Karin Desert through the mountains, the slave trader who stopped to set up camp asked her to dance for the group.

But she can't dance...

The stunned Connie was forced out of the car by the sharp tip of the knife, and after a while, the hot touch under her feet made her have to keep changing her feet and 'dance' on the yellow sand.

She wanted to cry, but the slave trader demanded that she have to laugh.

In the distorted aesthetics of the slave merchants, the immature body that can't stop the rhythm and the smile that seeks perfection seem to be a pleasing dance in the first place.

Connie didn't know how long she had been 'dancing', but when she was in a trance, the crowd suddenly sounded a panicked and desperate warning sound.

They were confronted with 'robbers'.

A somewhat peculiar robber.

A silver-haired, half-elf.

Armed with two fanged scimitars, she burst into the crowd.

Everywhere he passed, there was a cold sword light and a pillar of blood rising to the sky.

She crossed the desert strewn with corpses and dried blood, came to the ignorant Connie, stuck one of the scimitars in the sand, and told her:

If you want to be free, pull out the blood-stained knife and follow her.

Because on the road to freedom, there must be blood and fire.

Connie didn't know what freedom was at the time, she just felt that the 'sister' in front of her was very powerful, and she could easily kill those humans that she could never defeat.

She wanted to be that strong, too.

If she had been so powerful, perhaps, her mother would not have died.

Later, she finally understood that that mood was called guarding.

The half-elf who saved her from the fate of slavery was named Jeanie Saar.

And there are many rescued 'slaves' like her in the marching mountains.

Like Maria, who is much younger than her.

They studied together, they grew up together, and when they grew up, they also became 'Jenny Saar'.

They followed the example of Sister Jenny's and continued to free the other slaves.

In the process, they learn to forgive, forgive, cooperate, and glorify, but it also comes with anger, hatred, despair, and sacrifice.

Jeanie Saar tells them to learn to control their emotions and not to be swayed by the death and hatred around them, as they will lose the path to salvation forever.

Connie asked Jeanie Sal in despair:

They are just repeating salvation and sacrifice over and over again, but their power is like a puddle in the desert compared to the whole of Karinshan, which could be completely wiped out at any moment by a sandstorm.

If you know the result, what is the point of doing so?

She had expected Jenny Sal to tell her the answer.

But Jenny Sal told her only one story:

After the Elves' Age of Fire turned the entire Karinsan into a desert, the land was completely plunged into chaos and darkness.

The art and civilization of the Elven Age were destroyed by the burning of the palaces, and barbarism and ignorance reigned supreme in life.

It was at that time that the rose dragon Ilvera Salisar passed through the land of suffering, and she re-ordered the chaotic land, bringing an unprecedented concept and balance.

She advocated that all living beings should be equal, and that others should not be enslaved lightly.

Under her leadership, Karinsan ushered in the best of times.

It is no longer a lie that all men are created equal, and under the light of the red sun, the sons of former slaves and slave owners sit together, learn and grow together, and share brotherhood.

As long as you work hard enough, you will be able to gradually become rich.

As long as you work hard enough, you can hope to achieve your ideals.

Unfortunately, her rule is too idealistic...

The most important thing is that no matter how great she is and how much she thinks about the people under her rule, she is a dragon after all.

And human desires... But there is no end.

By the time she found out what she had done wrong, it was too late.

She eventually died in the machinations of her subjects.

But on her corpse, the accusations still rang out.

The people cry out in despair: their king does not understand the human heart.

Then the kingdom collapsed, and barbarism and strife returned.

On the top of the homeland, only ruins remain.

Jeanie Saar said that it was her teacher's regret and unsuccessful experience, and that she had tried again, but unfortunately, she had also failed, and it was even more complete.

But she was reluctant to tell Jeanie Sal's own story.

Jeanie Saar tells her that it's up to them to find a solution, and that she's a complete failure.

But even so, Jeanie Sal is still the light that illuminates her life path in Connie's heart.

I also firmly believe that in the distant future, she will definitely be able to find a right path for Karinshan and her compatriots who are suffering.

Merely... On this road, which seems to never have an answer, a small accident suddenly appears.

They are visited by a group of 'merchants' from the Northlands, who claim to have brought a collaboration that would change their situation for Jeanie Sal.

But in Connie's eyes, these people are arrogant and shameless.

Especially the damn 'Fish-Man', though she was sure it wasn't a real Fish-Man.

Not only did he ask them to cooperate unconditionally with them to provoke the powerful Redon Federation, but he also needed to bear the name and retaliation from the other party afterwards.

Although promised to help them through the process, Connie doesn't trust them.

The content of the other party's promise is so beautiful that it is like a lie that can be broken at the first pok.

I don't believe in such a slave-free city-state, because that's what even Jeanie Sal called the rose dragon ultimately failed.

But to the surprise of all of them, they were invited to visit their northern city-state.

And she was personally appointed by Jeanie Sal to go to the city of Minas Stiris as one of the messengers.

This made her a little frightened, and she actually had to bring Maria, who was not in the world.

But at this point, she can only choose to believe in Jeanie Saar.

Faced with this unknown magic and journey, Connie has an irrepressible apprehension.

'Behind this door, what awaits them?'

She took a deep breath and led Maria with the group of strangers into the legendary portal.

It was an indescribable feeling, like walking into an ordinary door drunk, but once you stepped inside, it was as if the world was spinning and you couldn't tell the direction.

It's like... and then towards the endless abyss.

"Sister Connie, we seem to be in Feiye!" said Maria's excited and excited voice.

Hearing this, Connie opened her eyes suddenly, and suddenly realized... I really 'fly'!

Fly a fart!

That damn 'fish-man' actually opened the portal to the sky!

So everybody was in free fall towards the ground.

Connie, whose face was pale, looked at the clouds and birds that were constantly passing by her, the blue sky above the sky, and the desolate earth, and felt a wave of dizziness rushing straight into her mind, and her limbs were fluttering.

"Ah!!h

"Oh, I'm sorry, the coordinates of Minas Stiris for the first time seem to have been a little off. ”

The abominable fish-man reappeared in front of her, then shoved a silver scale into her hand, and in her broken and bewildered twilight, spread its paws and said:

"But you're still welcome, welcome to the crown of the Northlands, Minas Stirris!

"We still have some urgent matters, so we will leave first, you are holding my token in your hand, if you encounter any difficulties, you can take it to the city guards or the property for help.

"Don't lose it, I'll be coming to you in three days.

"Have a pleasant journey, then, ladies!

"Farewell!"

After saying this, the figure of the fish man in front of him suddenly began to swell, and then turned into a silver behemoth.

It spun around in the air, caught a fish-man falling from the sky with its head, and then spread its claws to support another fish-man morph elf, and saw the beautiful and noble female elf smile at them.

When the other red-robed half-elf fell, before he could say hello to them, he was dragged away by a silver tail curled up, his face flushed, and he couldn't help but protest loudly:

"Levi, can you be gentle with me! I'm a lady, too. ”

At the same time, the other bald-headed, werewolf, and knight spread out a pair of scaly wings behind themselves, and followed the silver beast away.

Only the two half-elves 'tourists' who were completely stunned were left.

"Sister Connie! It's the first time I've seen such a mythical creature, but why did he turn into a little fish-man?"

Compared to Connie, Maria seemed very happy to see such a large and mysterious creature for the first time.

"Who knows, Maria, think of a way, if we continue like this, we're going to fall to our deaths... up..."

Connie looked at the land and the city that were getting closer and closer to her, and felt as if her soul was about to leave her body.

It was only in the middle of her speech that she suddenly stopped, because the world unfolding in front of her at this moment...

It's really... So beautiful...

Compared to Karinsan's seemingly eternal golden sand and mottled city, the world in front of her with its vast expanse of green fields and forests is incredible.

The fertile river seemed to divide everything in front of him into two halves, one half was a farm full of orchards, and the other half was a white city-state completely different from Karin City.

In the larger and larger city in the field of vision, many figures could already be faintly seen, and people seemed to be alarmed by the silver dragon that swept through the sky, and then they all erupted with enthusiasm that Konie could not understand, either saluting or waving.

But she soon didn't have the leisure to care about it!

"But Sister Connie, I don't know how to do magic!" Maria kindly reminded.

So the two poor half-elves could only hug each other and scream in unison in mid-air.

It's just that just when they thought they were really going to fall to their deaths, the silver scales in her hand that she was holding tightly suddenly emitted a gentle white light.

The two [Feather Falling Techniques] that had been prepared for a long time fell on them, causing them to fall lightly on the main road of the Second City of Minas Stirris, like real feathers.

So the people of Minas Stirris, the people of the second city of Minas stopped one after another, and watched with bewilderment as the two coolly dressed half-elf girls hugged each other with their eyes closed, and kept screaming in horror.

There are even good deeds who take out engrams to record this scene, ready to use it as a talking point to watch it later with friends.

"Buzz!"

A steam locomotive that had been forced to stop let out a hum, and then a dwarf uncle leaned out half of his body and shouted helplessly to the two half-elf girls kneeling in the middle of the road:

"Hey, I said two mage girls, you can play high-altitude gliding to find excitement, I can't say anything about young people's games, but blocking the main road like this will affect the traffic, I'll do it, and the back will be jammed into a dog." ”

"Huh?" Connie and Maria opened their eyes and realized that they were all right.

Seeing that they were being watched by a large group of people, and there were many blocked carriages behind the strange big iron shell in the distance, their faces immediately turned red, and they quickly got up to give way and bowed down to apologize.

"Hold... Sorry!"

Then they saw the big metal cart turn in front of them as soon as it took two steps, and saw the dwarf uncle look them up and down:

"Two half-elf girls, just came from out of town, right?"

"What do you want to do?" Connie snapped into action, holding Maria behind her and gripping the hilt of her sword tightly with one hand.

She felt that the other party's eyes seemed to have a picture.

"Hey, hey, don't get excited.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Hammer, a Zeellandia veteran, as you can see, a steam locomotive driver, well, and I run a hotel at home.

"So I'm just seeing that you haven't landed yet, and by the way, it's getting so late, do you want to go to my hotel to rest. ”

Connie and Maria looked at each other.

Connie touched her waist, and then said with some embarrassment:

"I... I didn't bring any money..."

The dwarf hammer suddenly showed a look of surprise that it was indeed so, and said with a smile of "kindness":

"It's okay, then I'll change the question, are you willing to do a little part-time job in my hotel?"

Clang!

Connie's face changed on the spot, and she drew her sword on the street and shouted angrily:

"Shameless merchant, do we look like the kind of half-elves who would easily sell their bodies?"

Some passers-by immediately glared at the hammer as well!

What era is it, and you still fool the half-elf to be a recruitment girl?

Iron Hammer immediately showed a mocking look, and quickly waved his hand to explain:

"Hey, don't get me wrong!

"Is my hammer the kind of dwarf who knows the law and breaks the law?"