The girl slowly walked past the priest's ashes-shattered corpse, but she didn't look at him, and walked quietly forward. Everywhere she passed, a thick layer of snow melted away on its own, revealing the pitch-black rocks below.

Only then did Fang Yu realize that the other party was stepping on the sharp rock with his bare feet, and there was blood flowing under his feet, spreading. But when I looked closely, there was nothing, and everything I saw before was like an illusion.

But this scene had silenced the valley, and looking at the girl, the big cat man in the distance and the Dulun City Guards had stopped fighting.

"It's her ......"

The city guards whispered, their faces pale, and suddenly they parted and stepped back. The noble knight didn't care about the others, a thought flashed through his mind, and he only raised the long sword in his hand with a solemn expression, pointing in this direction uneasily.

But the maiden did not hear it, and continued to walk, and at the end of her destination was the direction of the dark fairy tale. The latter also grabbed Drissy, and was startled when he saw this, he had not forgotten the tragic situation of the priest and Aille, and knew that something was wrong, and subconsciously wanted to retreat and escape the girl's forward route.

However, the next moment, the dark fairy tale was shocked to find that she couldn't move, standing in the snow with her feet rooted. But the little girl finally broke free of his hand and fled backwards.

"Be careful!" Sophie shouted.

The little girl fell into the snow, but immediately gritted her teeth and got up again.

Sophie subconsciously wanted to pull the other party up, but suddenly her face changed slightly. Her Royal Highness the Silver Princess of Vislan felt the pale flame in her hand weigh like a thousand pounds, and she actually plunged her hand into the snow.

She tried to hold on steadily, but her fingers didn't move as if they were frozen. Exactly like the state of the dark fairy tale, she also finds herself losing control of her body.

The girl still didn't hear it, and moved forward step by step.

But when she passed by the dark fairy tale, the latter finally couldn't help but let out a heart-rending scream. Sophie saw that the other party seemed to be melting, and the right eyeball first turned into a black ball of melted wax and fell out of the socket.

Wherever the wax juice passed, the flesh and skin were curled and blood was dripping, but as soon as the blood touched the air, a black flame immediately ignited. In the midst of this flame, the dark fairy tale wailed and turned to ashes, and in the process he could not move, like a burning stone statue.

Sophie watched the stone statue burn and then turn into pieces of ashes, she didn't see life and death, but she couldn't imagine how much pain the other party endured before dying.

The black-haired girl slowly passed by her again.

At that moment, Sophie could almost hear the sound of her own heartbeat, she was not afraid of death, but the feeling of not being able to control her fate was unbearable. And that kind of death also made her a little nervous.

Surprisingly, however, the imagined scenario did not happen.

The other party didn't look at her, only passed her, and then passed the charred corpse of the dark fairy tale, until he walked in front of Delis. The little girl took a step back a little frightened and looked up at the black-haired girl: "You, who are you......"

The dark-haired girl looked down at her, but did not answer. Sophie, however, noticed that Dressy did not seem to be affected, and looked up into the other's gaze—the little girl also had golden eyes, but they were clearer and brighter—and looked at each other with some concern.

Looking at each other's eyes, Drith also had a trace of curiosity in her heart. For as long as she can remember, there has never been a single person around her who resembles herself, and the adults have always said something to her, 'The fire of Venus, an omen of uneasiness'.

Although she was still young, she could see that everyone looked at her with some fear, and among everyone, only Shesta, Sister Sylvid, and the strange black-haired girl in front of her were the only ones.

But the girl didn't look at her for long.

The other looked at it for a moment, then turned and walked between the three of them—two plus a corpse. She walked straight forward, reached a spot, and then turned back somewhat quietly and looked in the other direction.

Sophie couldn't move, so naturally she didn't know who she was looking at.

But Delis could see clearly that the black-haired girl was looking at the square plover in that direction.

On the other side of that gaze, Fang Yu only felt a sudden jump in his heart - from the moment the girl appeared, he was also in a situation of immobility like everyone else, as if it was a nightmare, and suddenly restrained his hands and feet - but at this moment, he clearly felt that the other party's calm gaze was falling on his heart.

Underneath the breastplate and coat hung a necklace with a finger ring as a pendant, which had been faintly hot since they entered the valley, and now it was even hotter.

Fang Yu almost felt as if a flame was about to burst out of his chest, turning him to ashes, but suddenly he heard a disturbing whisper coming from his ear. It was not a voice that lingered in his ears, but the words of countless people, converging into a torrent that swept into the depths of his heart......

There is a woman's voice.

There is a man's voice.

There is the voice of an old man.

There are also young people's voices.

Sobbing, wailing, moaning, shouting, the wind swept through the flames, making a loud noise, like the sound of another building collapsing, coming from afar, for a moment it seemed to put him in Dorifin, thirty years ago, but the language of the people was a little different from Dorifin.

He heard a questioning voice, a clash of swords, a man's sinister smile, and all the sounds turned into a soft 'ding'.

Fang Yu realized that the pendant on his necklace had fallen somehow, passed through heavy clothes, and fell in the snow. Before it could hit the ground, the snow melted in layers, allowing it to roll down on the pitch-black rocks.

The exposed sharp rock is charred and glowing, as if it has been burned by a sea of fire, and the traces left by a hundred years ago are still deeply engraved on this land.

Fang Yu lowered his head, and suddenly reacted, and found that he could move again. He looked up sharply and looked into the valley, but where was the dark-haired girl in that direction? I saw Sophie pressing her chest and kneeling in the snow.

Driss, who was on the side, walked through the waist-length snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, came to her side, and asked cautiously, "Sister Knight, are you alright?" ”

Her Royal Highness the Silver Vislan Princess shook her head, and when she saw the little girl's well-behaved appearance, she couldn't help but smile.

"What about her?" She asked in a whisper.

Dries looked in one direction, the depths of the valley, and shook her head just as slightly.

Sophie looked back at the valley, where there was silence, only a road of melted snow that stretched deep into the valley. It's just the bare black rock, reminding everyone that what happened before is not an illusion.

And the black-haired girl has long since disappeared.

The three of them looked at it for a moment, and they were also a little dazed.

Who that girl is, only Fang Yu knows in his heart. Maybe there is a slight difference between the eyebrows, but it's clear that Doriphonic Nicol Bolas takes on human form, but he is much younger, or should it be the other way around, this is what Nicol Bolas really looks like?

Was it a girl before she turned into a dragon?

Fang Yu bent down and picked up the ring on the ground, the ring became cold again, there was no abnormality, and even the looming lava pattern on it was dim at this moment.

Fang Yu held the ring in his hand.

The question in his mind was, was that Nicol Bolas, or was it a phantom?

If it is a phantom, but the three people before were really dead in front of themselves, and they died tragically. And the melting snow in the valley seems to indicate that everything that happened before is not unreal.

But if it's true, how could Nicol Bolas be in this place? And he hadn't forgotten Dorifin's last scene, the other party's resentful eyes on him, how could the dark dragon appear in this place, how could he let them go?

He looked deep into the valley, in the direction the snowmelt road had left.

Before leaving Goland, the old knight sent them to the Land of the Dragons in the sands of Ash, Idus, and Istania, with the first stop in the Ash Forest, where the legend of the Dragon Witch ended a hundred years ago.

It was here that Nicol Bolas fought the last battle against the hero Josyud, and then fell into the valley, his blood turning to flames and burning the place to ashes. The fire lasted for three months, followed by a week-long downpour, and after the heavy rain, the valley became what it is today.

It's a local legend, but there's also truth in the legend.

Fang Yu looked at the ring in his hand, and after the experience of Aimao Castle, he realized that this ring might really allow him to find out some truth about the history of the Dragon Witch from the ruins of the past.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he arrived in the Ash Mountain Forest, he would encounter such a scene when he was fighting with the city guards.

He had a vague feeling that the girl was unlikely to be Nicol Bolas's real body—

So what exactly is the other party?

He turned back again, thinking to himself that he was not the first person to see the girl.

Because at the exit of the valley, the previous scene had already frightened the soldiers of the Dulun City Guard, so that these people could not care much more, and they turned around and ran, looking from a distance, like a group of groundhogs fleeing in the snow.

The young noble knight could no longer stop these men, and in fact he himself looked solemn, stepped back step by step, and then turned and fled.

The big cat man didn't embarrass these people, he glanced at it from a distance, and saw that Fang Yu and Delisi were okay here, so he let go of a position and let these people escape. Speaking of which, these people are still the goal of their mission, but the way to complete the task is obviously not limited to one.

The valley was quiet again.

Only a corpse remained.

However, those who died at the hands of the dark-haired girl, including Aille, the priest, and the dark fairy tale, showed no signs of starlight disappearing, and the corpses were turning into bits of white light, decomposing in the snow.

This scene made Fang Yu confirm the thoughts in his heart, what happened to Dorifin thirty years ago told them that those who died at the hands of the dark dragon should not be resurrected, and would appear to be in a state of starlight vanishing.

But in Dorifin's vision, those who died at the hands of Nicol Bolas's shadow turned out to be alive. This shows that the phantom of the dark dragon does not have the same abilities as its original body.

The current scene obviously shows that the black-haired girl before should be an existence similar to Nicol Bolas's shadow - the same refraction and projection of the power of a dark dragon here.

I just don't know what the meaning of this shadow is here?

It didn't take long for Luo Yu to bring back the statistical results, in this battle, the opponent had a total of twenty-one casualties, and his own casualties were almost zero.

Saying almost, it was because Parker accidentally stepped into the ice cave and fell half to death, resulting in no sound in the second half of the battle. Outside of the fighting, two workers were injured by snow falling from the valley, which was about the only 'casualty' on their side in the conflict.

And the other party, including the elderly noble knight, the aborigines lost eight people. Except for the alchemist, there were twelve people in total, and the entire army was wiped out, and the death rate could be said to be 100 percent.

The casualties of the Dulun City Guards are much lower than those of the Electors, and it is also because the Big Cat People did not kill them, firstly, the other party is their mission target, and secondly, those more than ten level City Guards are not a big threat to the Big Cat People.

However, Luo Yu was obviously concerned about another matter.

"There's one thing that's a little concerning." The boy brought back the body of one of the Electors and laid it down in front of the crowd.

It was the priest who had lost his combat ability after being punched by Shesta at the beginning. But although the latter was seriously injured, he didn't hang up directly, and after receiving treatment, no one had the time to mend the knife, so he shouldn't have died.

But Luo Yu told the others that when he found the man, he was already dead.

It wasn't even from the cold and hypothermia, but it was similar to the death of a dark fairy tale, the corpse was charred and almost invisible. "It's not just him," Luo Yu replied, placing the corpse in the snow, "almost all the Chosen Ones, including those we killed, have corpses like this......

Fang Yu and Sophie couldn't help but froze when they heard this.

Dark Fairy Tale, Aille, and finally the priest were just that, watching the black-haired girl walk past them, and then the three of them turned to ashes in different forms. But the shadow of Nicol Bolas obviously didn't pass through the other side of the battlefield, these people, how did these corpses become like this?

"What about the natives?"

"No," Luo Yu shook his head: "Whether it is that knight or other soldiers, there are only external wounds on the body, and there are no other changes." ”

This is the strangest part, Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.

He subconsciously remembered the previous scene, when the black-haired girl passed by him, Drith and Sophie, she only chose to do it to the dark fairy tale and the other two. At the time he thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seems that there is another reason.

They were all Chosen Ones, and Nicol Bolas seemed to them to be no different—and even if there were, Nicol Bolas should have been dealing with them, not Dark Fairy Tales and the like.

If he was alone, it might be explained because of the Golden Flame Ring, but this reason obviously couldn't be put on Sophie and Drith. And judging from the distribution of corpses in the valley, the other party really has the heart to make a move, and Luo Yu and Ji Ta can't escape either.

So what is the reason for the other side to target these electees?

"Could it be related to their mission?" Ji Ta asked in a low voice.

"That little girl," she replied with some hesitation, "it seems to be a black-haired golden pupil......"

But Sophie shook her head.

"It stands to reason that the Dulun City Guards should be on the same mission as the Ragnarok men." Her Royal Highness the Silver Vislan Princess said, "If it were for the mission, then the natives would have been killed as well. ”

This reason is irrefutable.

Kita thought for a moment, but could only nod.

But it doesn't matter if it's or not. Regarding the little girl named Delisi, Fang Yu actually had a lot of questions to ask in her heart at the moment......

The little girl had not been injured in the previous battle, but she had suffered from the cold, and along with the young man named Uncrowned Crown, who had a blue nose and swollen face from the cold, and was almost dying, she had been sent to Mr. Graystone's back, where she was to be cared for and treated by Miss Atira for the time being.

Since there was already a sick lady in the infirmary, the elf girl could only carve out another room for the older and younger two to serve as a place for temporary care. Fortunately, there were reserved empty rooms on the ship, and when leaving Golland, I also prepared bedding and blankets in advance.

This is where it comes in handy.

When Fang Yu saw the little girl again, a red stove had been lit in the room on the platform, and Shesta and Sylvid were in the room, and the little girl was sitting on a small bed. The young man named the Uncrowned Crown slept in another bed, behind the curtains, and had long since passed out.

Dries was not afraid of life, her gaze passed between Miss Ship Officer and Shesta, and her golden eyes glanced at Fang Yu with some curiosity. She coughed lightly before asking, "Sister Sylvide, is this your captain?" ”

Sylvide only smiled slightly, and only looked at Fang Yu with curved light blue eyes.

"Well, does Dressy like it?" Miss Ship Officer turned around and asked with a smile.

"It's quite ordinary, not as handsome as the uncrowned brother." The little girl thought for a moment and replied seriously.

Fang Yuan's face darkened.

However, he had seen the scene where the little girl had called Shesta earlier through the vision of the clockwork fairy, and as Sylvid's maid, it was not surprising that Drith knew Miss Shipsteer.

He was just curious about the other party's identity.

"Sylvide," he whispered, "who is she?" ”

"Drees-Cillin-Sbicca."

Sylvid replied, "It's her name." ”

Cilin-Sbica.

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment.

A strange pronunciation has an inherent meaning in the Kaurin-Ihurian language.

In the southern part of the continent of Cowling, the term was used to refer to a flower, a plant of the genus Rosa that originated in the lowlands of Notridine and is now commonplace in Attaria, and is widespread on all continents.

Red and black roses.

The family coat of arms of the Rose Workshop.

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