"Teacher Claire, why are you here?"

Arimia had some doubts, she had thought that Claire had left with Reiner, but she didn't expect her to stay at school.

"I'm hungry."

Claire didn't bother to lift the fallen shoulder strap, staring at the dinner between the two, drooling.

"You haven't eaten all day, have you?"

Arimia sat Claire down, nibbled on two mouthfuls of bread, and took a long sip of soup before she breathed as if she had come to life.

"Saved, I thought I was going to die here!"

Claire said, only then did she feel a hint of coolness, and hurriedly wrapped herself in the quilt, now a quilt star with only two long bare legs and a head exposed.

"Didn't you go out with Mr. Reiner, Mr. Claire?"

Fina asked, Reiner left in a hurry the day after learning about Sauron's xenomorph invasion, and only had time to arrange the school's next arrangements, she naturally understood that as a high-level mage, there should be a place where he was more needed when disaster came, but Fina originally thought that Reiner would bring Claire, but now it seems that he still left Claire here.

"Reiner he won't let me come along, he said he's going to a very dangerous place, so let me stay here."

Claire explained, not dissatisfied, only slightly worried.

"It's the first large-scale invasion of the Sauron xenomorphs in so many years, and Reiner should be able to repel these monsters."

She asked, but Fina and Elemia couldn't give an answer.

"Let's just wait here for him to come back."

Arimia glanced out the window and saw that the snow was getting heavier, it was the biggest snow in Priest's years.

The dark night sky was a deep purple, the color of thick dark clouds and snow, the forest had long been covered with a layer of gray, and the Crescent Academy, which was silent, seemed to be submerged in the dark night.

Only the light of the lounge brought a glimmer of hope in the dark night, faint, flickering, but sure, tenacious, like the hope of mankind.

"We're going to take care of the school and wait for Reiner to come back."

Claire drank a cup of black tea in one gulp, and somehow suddenly became motivated.

"yes, but let's rest today, and it's never too late to work hard tomorrow when the snow stops."

Arimia nodded, a smile on her face.

"Will the snow stop tomorrow?"

Fina asked, looking at the snow with some concern.

"It'll stop."

Claire said firmly.

"It's going to stop."

......

Somewhere in the world.

The sky was overcast, as if ashes were scattered, and the whole world fell into dead silence, without any movement of any living being.

In the charred earth, there is a huge crater, which seems to have been left by the impact of a meteorite, creating a desperate forbidden area in the cracked earth.

Reiner stood at the edge of the pothole, looking into the middle.

In the middle of the huge crater was a twisted and strange structure, like a tower, but not straight to the sky, but winding and full of indescribable malice.

The material of the building is not masonry, but some kind of amethyst-like crystal, the surface of which is smooth and translucent, which seems to be the product of high temperature and pressure.

"Is this what Lord Hohenheim said came of as a place of origin?"

Reiner muttered to himself, reaching forward as his arm entered the realm of the pit, and soon, a feeling of déjà vu came through his fingers, and he withdrew his hand.

Then, a charred stone beside Reiner floated up and flew towards the pit, but when it entered the hole, it suddenly lost power and rolled to the ground.

Looking at the stone, Reiner sighed softly.

"Sure enough, it's the Dead Domain."

Yes, this pit is an area where magic cannot be used, that is, the Dead Domain, according to Lord Hohenheim, this is the trace of the fall of a legendary mage of the ancient Magic Empire during the modern magic revolution, he was attacked by the power of the Philosopher's Stone, resisted for three days and was finally killed, and his body fell to the earth, causing this dead field.

The tower in the center of the pit was the original mage's tower, and in the explosion that destroyed everything, this tower survived, and formed such a distorted appearance.

"Lord Hohenheim says that this mage may be hiding the mystery of the origin of magic, but this dead realm is not accessible to everyone."

Reiner looked at the southern sky, where there were vast ice fields that were permanently frozen, and here, scorched earth.

The place where he was now was located in the northernmost part of the continent, more distant than the Great Ice Sheet, and geographically near the North Pole of the planet.

"If we can find the mystery of the origin of magic, will we really be able to save the world?"

Reiner glanced at the twisted tower and whispered.

Due to the incompleteness of quantum theory, although Reiner has received some feedback from the world, it is far from enough compared to his current level, and the general theory of relativity needs further experiments to prove that it cannot directly become Reiner's combat power for the time being.

In order to seek a breakthrough, he had written to Lord Hohenheim for help, and after exchanging speculations about the behavior patterns of the Sauron Xenomorphs, Lord Hohenheim told Reiner about this place, which Lord Hohenheim had accidentally come to when he was in a state of madness, and in fact, the wind and snow outside had cut everything off, and even the Rainbow Tower had not yet set foot in it.

"Definitely. I can feel that there is something special here. ”

Behind Reiner, a woman with blond hair and scarlet eyes in a black and white maid's dress replied, her voice cold, but also a little more human than before.

This is none other than the alchemical doll made in the prototype of Lord Hohenheim's daughter, Halleyson.

"Are you okay?"

Reiner asked, Halleyson was on the verge of death at one point because she couldn't absorb magic in the Dead Realm before, but she was able to survive thanks to Reiner's replenishment of mana, and now, she was going to follow Reiner into the Dead Realm again, so Reiner asked with some trepidation.

"Sure, my source of magic is Lord Reiner now, and as long as Reiner is alive, I'll be able to move freely, which is one of the reasons Mistress Reiner brought me here."

Halleyson replied, and she took two steps forward, past Reiner, and into the pit, but she was not affected in the slightest, and still moved freely.

"Looks like it's fine."

One of the reasons why Reiner took Halleyson with her is naturally that she can still act in the Dead Realm, which can be used as a certain combat power, and there is another reason that you need to wait until you see the real thing.

With a sigh, Reiner took the same step.