When there was a scratching sound from the mouth of the cave sealed with sand by Shaya, the sleeping witches in the cave were suddenly awakened.

But Lena knew that someone would never wake up, and the girl she was holding in her arms had no body temperature.

Red Flame unleashed a fireball that lit up the dark cavern.

The witches were silent and looked at the lifeless maple leaves.

She still had a faint smile on her face.

Perhaps at the last moment of her life, she was still looking forward to the ordinary life that Lena promised her.

It's just that for the witches who are destined to be extraordinary, ordinary is also a luxury.

"Shaya, bury the maple leaf. ”

"Hmm. ”

In response, Shaya gently took the cold hand of the maple leaf, and the fine sand around her began to gather, gradually covering the maple leaf in a neat layer of sand dunes.

They stayed by the Maple Leaf's graveyard for a while, and it wasn't until the sound of digging the sand wall outside was getting louder and louder, and the witches, who were a little numb, came back to their senses.

Lena instructed everyone to pack up their things, and then slowly gathered magic in her hands.

Later, the witches walked to the hole closed by a heavy sand wall, and found that a huge claw had made a small hole in it, and a cold wind was blowing in from it.

As if sensing something, a scarlet eye appeared in the small hole, staring at the witches who were only separated by a wall.

"Die!" Lena unleashed her long-stored magic toward the sand wall.

"Boom!"

The entire cave shook violently, and the sand wall was shattered by the storm in an instant, and even the unknown beast behind it was all swept away.

"Let's go. ”

Knowing that such a movement would definitely attract more beasts, Lena hurried out of the cave with the sisters behind her.

When I passed by the huge beast that had just been swept away, it was already lying motionless on the ground, and it was bleeding black liquid, and I didn't know if it was blood or what.

The witches didn't have the heart to care about any of this, and fled in a panic.

However, as they left, the black liquid that flowed from the beast began to slowly coalesce into shape, and finally turned into a droplet the size of a human head.

This huge droplet of water floated near the beast that had just died, and stretched out its arm-like tentacles, as if it wanted to re-enter the beast's body, but when it was about to fully enter, it seemed to feel something, and all of it withdrew from the beast's body, and the beast, which had begun to tremble slightly as if it was about to come back to life, also completely stopped moving.

The black droplets began to float down the cave, and then stopped at the place where Lena and her group had rested yesterday, and began to stretch out their tentacles and grope their way, as if searching for something.

After searching for a while, it stayed on the neatly paved sand dunes, as if it had identified its target, and then slowly descended, like a stream of water seeping into the gravel, completely seeping into the dune, but not a single gravel from beginning to end.

It's been three days since they came out of the cave where Maple Leaf died, and the witches are still living a day of hiding and hiding, and it is impossible to go back, because looking back from the big tree where they are hiding, the mountains are all covered with black Koso beasts.

Lena wondered if any of these headless and mobile monsters had invaded Icefield City, and if she did, Rafa would have complained that she hadn't gone back to report the news, right?

"Look! What's that!?"

Hiding in a tree covered in wind and snow, Corona couldn't help but exclaim.

In the sky, a huge shadow is gradually becoming clear in the wind and snow.

"It's the devil!"

The witches all had the same thought in their hearts.

It was a flying dragon with dozens of eyes, extremely ugly in appearance, there was no skin on its body, and from a distance, it looked like a huge skinned duck, which looked really a little oozing.

A huge shadow swept over their heads, and Lena hurriedly cast her magic to stop the hurricane so that the tree she was hiding in was not overturned by the incoming hurricane.

"Maybe this is a monster that only appears in "Hymn to Hell"......" When the huge shadow completely disappeared into the mountains, Hong Yan couldn't help but say.

The Hymn to Hell is a book that has been handed down for a long time to describe the demons and demons of hell, and the original intention of this book is to explain how terrible hell is so that people will not do bad things.

However, when the church gained power, in order to completely exterminate the witch, the content of the witch was forcibly modified, and the witch was added to the "Hymn to Hell", so many people were scared when they saw the witch, and it was largely due to the mispropaganda of the book.

"It seems that the monster in front is more terrifying than the beast behind. ”

Lena didn't know what to do now, the Orr Mountains were full of ghouls, and the road leading out of the mountains was full of red-eyed beasts, and they had no way out now.

After some discussion, the witches finally decided to go beyond the Orr Mountains, because they didn't know what kind of monsters they would encounter if they continued to go on, so for the sake of safety, they preferred to face the beasts that covered the mountains rather than the demons who came back from the dead.

But things were a little unexpected.

Maybe the beasts were almost migrated, and in the next few days, except for the first two days, there were a lot of beasts, and after that, they didn't encounter too many beast pursuits, and the journey back was very smooth, except for the occasional beast and the slow-moving walking corpse, a large number of beasts had all disappeared into the mountains.

Walking on the path trampled by the beasts, the mood of the group was much more open, and the sad atmosphere that had been continuing between them was much lighter, and at the current speed of travel, it would only take more than half a month to get out of the Orr Mountains.

"Sister Lianna, you eat this. ”

At night, the group rests by lighting a fire under a large tree, and Shaya uses her ability to control the sand to pick many fruits that can only be picked in mid-air.

"Hmm... It's so sweet, I didn't expect to be able to eat such fresh fruits in winter. Lena ate the bright red fruit in two bites, and the fat juice was very sweet.

"Strange to say, the surrounding woods have all frozen off their leaves, but the forest where I picked the fruit is still leafy, like it has just grown. Shaya gave it to the people and began to eat it herself.

"If the maple leaves were still around, we would have been able to eat more fruit. Lucy nibbled on the fruit as she remembered the maple leaves.

As soon as the maple leaves were spoken, the witches began to be silent around the fire again.

They remembered that before the beasts attacked, the whole group needed to build a few more fires to get all the sisters to sit down, but as the beasts and demons attacked, there were fewer and fewer people around the fires each time.

By now, the people around the fire were not satisfied.

Lena knew exactly how they felt, as she had previously been wiped out by the Church.

"Hurry up and sleep, we have to go to war tomorrow." In order not to let them immerse themselves in the past, Lena admonished.

"Hmm. ”

Each agreed, and the girls took out their heavy clothes, curled up under the tree, and huddled together to sleep on the spot.

In the middle of the night, the cold wind gradually rose, and the girls couldn't help but curl up even tighter.

After running around for a few days in a row, Lena couldn't hold on anymore, and she fell asleep in a daze when she was thinking about the vigil.

She slept badly that night.

The scene of Maple Leaf being buried began to recur in her dreams, and the sisters who had died long ago began to flash before her eyes.

It was a twisted face of horror, unwillingness, pain, resentment, all hanging in the dark sky of her dreams, all calling Liana's name, as if complaining about why Liana had abandoned them.

Lena retreated in horror, but the faces followed, and no matter how she ran, the horrible faces always followed, and then the faces converged in the middle, and the miserable faces came together to form a huge strange face full of ugly and hideous cracks.

Lena glanced back, her large, terrifying face overwhelming her.

She fell to the ground, and looked at the hideous face that grew bigger and bigger in front of her, and she didn't bother to get up, and kicked back in horror.

The strange face finally arrived, and she opened her large, foul-smelling mouth, revealing her teeth with pitch-black slime inside, and then stuck out her barbed tongue.

"Don't come here!" cried out a frightened Lena in her dream.

But to no avail, the scarlet tongue wrapped around her neck, but she was breathless.

Lena shuddered and woke up from her dream.

She wanted to scream, but she found that her neck was really entangled in something, and she tried to speak, but the cold thin thread was strangled into her flesh, so that she couldn't make a sound at all, and couldn't even breathe, so she could only grow her mouth and make a strange sound like "lotus".

Feeling breathless, Lena stretched out her hand and grabbed it indiscriminately, but the next moment her hands were tied to the trunk behind her by the strange silk threads in the dark, and she couldn't exert any strength.

"It's over!"

Liana could feel the threads around her neck warming slightly, and she didn't have to guess that the threads embedded in her neck were sucking her blood.

"Red Flame ...... Please... Wake up......"

While her consciousness was still unconscious, she tried to stretch out her long legs, then slightly charged up, and kicked through the darkness according to the position where Hongyan was just now.

"Ahh

There was a scream in the darkness.

"Hit!"

Lena heard the screams and knew it was Red Flame.

"It hurts......"

Hongyan screamed, rubbing his chest as he lit a fireball in his hand.

"Ahh

Seeing the painful Lianna, Hong Yan immediately screamed, and even the witches who were awakened by her screams hurriedly got up.

"Get out of here, these abominable branches!"

Although he didn't know what was going on, Red Flame used the flames to burn the vine-like thing that was wrapped around Lianna's body.

As a result, these things seemed to be very afraid of flames, and when they encountered the flames of red flames, they immediately pulled out of Lianna's body.

Unrestrained, Lena began to hang her head and cough violently.

"Oh my God!"

As soon as he picked up Lianna, before he could greet him, Hongyan was startled by Corona's screams.

Lena looked up, the fear in her eyes even greater.

In the area illuminated by the red flame fireball, dense vine-like tentacles had already tightly encircled their position.

It's like there's a giant snake coiling them in the middle!

The monstrous muscle-like vines twisted and writhed, and more tiny vines began to fall from the top of their heads, stretching out as if tentatively.

"Get out of here!"

Red Flame expanded the fireball in his hand, dispersing several thorny vines.

"What the hell is going on......"

Although frightened, in order to save her life, Shaya controlled the sand under her feet and began to slowly gather, and she wanted to build a sand wall that could resist the invasion of vines.

"Burn them with flames!" Lena coughed for a moment, then finally shouted in a somewhat hoarse voice.

Red Flame listened to Lena and immediately made the fireball continue to grow in size, and began to scorch the wriggling vines that trapped them around them.

This trick was very effective, and the vines seemed to be sentient, and they immediately retreated as if they were approached by the flames.

"Don't ...... Abandon me......"

Red Yan was about to gather his magic power to blast away the vines around him, when a melodious, strange, but yet very familiar voice came from overhead.

"Maple Leaf!"

The crowd looked up in horror, and a pale face was looking down with wide eyes from the top of their heads.

Maple Leaf has become a demon!

"Maple Leaf, don't you know us?" shouted Corona, tilting her head.

"Don't ...... Abandon me...... "There are no more eyeballs in the eyes, and the maple leaves, which are completely black, are still repeating what they just said.

"Let's go!"

Lena struggled to her feet, waving her hand violently, and a furious hurricane swept toward the vines that surrounded them in the distance.

"Why...... Hurt me......" Maple began to move down the twisted and wriggling vines.

Only then did everyone realize that her body had melted into the trunk of the tree, so she could move freely among the vines.

This is something that only the white-haired witch in the magic group can do before, but I didn't expect the maple leaf who came back from the dead to do it.

"Maple Leaf, I'm Corona!" Corona continued to shout with a crying voice.

"Corona ......"

"Yes, Corona, do you remember me?" Corona suddenly rejoiced, and the long-dead Maple Leaf still remembered her.

"Corona......" The maple leaf, whose face was pale and did not have a trace of blood, continued to read like a dream.

"Corona, be careful, she's not the same maple leaf anymore!" Lena reminded as she observed the twisted vines around her.

"Of course I do......" Maple Leaf replied one more sentence.

"Really, that's great!" Corona was even more pleased.

It's just that the next moment her smile froze.

"Of course I remember...... I'm here to find you......" Maple Leaf's voice suddenly became shrill and piercing, "You sluts who abandoned me!"

At the same time, her face began to distort, and the eldest with her mouth open, and the blood on the back of her head began to grow suddenly, and it struck at the five people on the ground.

"Burn her!" Lena shouted at Hongyan as she unleashed a hurricane.

"Don't!" Corona pressed Hongyan's hand, her eyes full of pleading, "She's Maple Leaf, she's still alive!

"Corona, she's not a maple leaf! she's a demon possessed by filth!" Lena's hurricane blocked most of the threads, but there were still threads that had leaked through her arms, and when she cut them with the wind blade, a huge wound had already appeared on her wrist.

"No!" Corona took a few steps forward to prevent Red Flame from unleashing her fire magic, blocking the way in front of Maple Leaf.

"Corona, come back, do you know what you're doing?" Red Flame shouted as she dispersed the attacking vines.

"Corona...... You're so good to me......"

Seeing Corona standing in front of him, Maple Leaf actually stopped attacking, and his expression began to return to normal.

"Sister Maple Leaf......" Corona turned her head to face Maple Leaf, who was only halfway out of the vine.

"Corona ......"

Maple gradually stretched out her bare arms, as if to hug Corona.

"Don't go over......" Lena felt her words a little weak.

"Sister Maple Leaf, come back, we didn't abandon you. ”

Corona also stretched out her arm and hugged the maple leaf into her arms, her eyes full of fraternity.

"Thank you, Corona. ”

Holding Corona with her cold body, Maple Leaf's arms began to tighten gradually.

"Shaya, pull her back!" Lena was a little anxious, she absolutely did not believe that people who came back from the dead would be the same.

"Hmm!"

The sand on the ground turned into two thick arms, grabbing at Corona.

"So......" Maple Leaf put her arms around Corona, her eyes on the three in the distance, and a twisted smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Join us." ”

Before Shaya's sand arrived, Maple Leaf's hands holding Corona had already stabbed her in the back.

"Corona!"

Lena roared and whipped up the wind, as if she was going to tear the vines apart.

"Hehehehaha!"

Maple Leaf laughed wildly and hugged Corona and quickly retreated, and the vines around her also retreated like a tide.

In just an instant, the maple leaves had disappeared into the darkness with Corona, and the vines had disappeared without a trace.

Without the confinement of the vines, the remaining four people stayed on the spot as if they were out of strength.

What just happened was like a dream.

Maple Leaf, who had been dead for a few days, came back to life, and came along to kill one of their companions?

Lena reckoned that this was perhaps the most absurd thing in the world.

After a while, the dawn gradually broke in the east.

The companion of the magic group is one less.