The illusion is fading fast.

Fang Yu could clearly feel that this was different from the previous few switching scenes, it was really fading, the power of the illusion was weakening, and it felt like a person waking up from a dream, no longer believing in everything in the dream.

Finally, at some point, his eyelids shook violently and suddenly opened.

Bright light poured into his sight like a trickling stream, causing him to close his eyes again, get used to it, and then open it again.

Everywhere you look, there is a silent square, with a dark mud exposed beneath the scattered stone slabs, as if the blood that had been shed thirty years ago had not yet dried up.

Weeds grew between the crevices of the gravel, dazzlingly green, and the breeze rustled through the square.

The former towering building was reduced to ashes in a sea of fire, and among the weeds, only a half-half statue of a knight stood in the middle of the square.

On the base of the stele there is a line of words that boast of the bravery of the people who founded this place in the past, but there is a deep crack in the center of the text.

A gecko, from a swaying dark green figure flashed over the stone tablet.

Fang Plover remembered that it was midnight when he entered the illusion, and now, the sun was shining overhead, and the sun was just past the dividing line of noon.

He heard a soft sound, and turned around only to realize that it was Momiji.

"Here?" The place where Momiji was standing was where she was hiding in the illusion, but she looked confused, and she didn't seem to be fully awake yet.

"Grey Oak Square, as you can see."

Momiji froze for a moment before he reacted: "I, we're back again, Dorifin's illusion...... All this ...... It's over? ”

Fang Yu nodded lightly to her.

Yes, it's all over -

Everything you saw in that long illusion.

Dorifin's cosy haven, the Lady Vine Leaf Inn, the town hall office haunted by disputes, the Hostings Cathedral where countless souls rest, and the burning Grey Oak Square in the midst of fire.

Everyone in the fantasy world, starting with the unlucky ghost Jeffrey and ending with Nicol Bolas in the square, the people and events of thirty years ago are still vivid in front of them.

But all of this is gone.

It's as if it had been sealed in the long river of history, and now, it is just a return to the bosom of ancient times, and only something still proves that it once existed.

Fang Yu opened his palm, and there was a ring of golden flames lying quietly, it really looked like a giant dragon's wheel-shaped eyes, and there seemed to be some power lurking in it, talking to him in a low voice.

But Fang Yu only looked at it, then took it back into his palm, and all illusions vanished.

There were a few other people in the square.

Not only the Paparals who had somehow regained their courage to fight Nicol Bolas to the death, but also those who were not in the square at the time.

For example, Hansen's adventure group and his men.

The men came out of the ruins scattered and confused.

When they first entered the Grey Oak Square, they were scattered by Nicol Bolas's shadow transformed into Missu, and Fang Yu had never met these people in the illusion since then, he thought that these people had all died at the hands of Nicol Bolas, but he didn't expect that there were still people alive.

Those people were still smart and smart, and they probably realized that they were blessed by surviving, and they couldn't help but be in awe and awe when they looked at Fang Yu and the others.

But they had been treacherous in the illusion before, so they were embarrassed to come and deal with Fang Yu again at this time, and the group of people finally left this place in a gloomy manner.

In fact, Fang Yu didn't care too much about that, and in that case, the choice of these people was actually understandable. He also took a special look, and there was no sign of Hansen in the group.

It's a pity that the uncle still doesn't seem to have escaped the disaster.

And then there were the knights of Tapolis.

Most of these people, with the exception of Nicol Bolas, who died at the hands of Nicol Bolas, actually survived in the end.

At this time, they all ran out to recognize Momiji, but they were all surprised when they realized that the other party was involved in the completion of the final mission.

"Then why didn't you leave your employer behind, oh my God, that guy won't abscond with the money, right?" The knights said in a big voice.

"Shut up, that's the president of the Black Goat Chamber of Commerce." Momiji looked at these brainless guys angrily.

Her guild was named the Oak Knights at the time, but it may be the name that caused it, a person in the group was so stupid that he seemed to have a wooden head, she thought she was not ordinary, but in the guild she became an outlier, and it would be regarded as the core cultivation of the future.

The people of the Spear of the Silver Forest often laughed at them for taking a stone as a treasure, and because of this, she gritted her teeth and desperately caught up with the two genius boys of the Spear of the Silver Forest.

Everyone in the group looked dull in her eyes, but at least it was warm, and there was no need to worry too much, but there was not so much intrigue.

In fact, there were some things she didn't tell Kita and Luo Yu.

The two of them had already been seated in the regiment, but it was the rule of the Knights of Tapolis Oak that the truth would never be told to newcomers until they were selected.

They were selected from the academy, in fact, it means that the team has recognized their talent and hard work, and the so-called assessment is just a test of their own persistence.

This is the foundation of the Knights of Tapolis for a long time - the knightly test, which is not so much a test of talent as a test of human heart.

Momiji knew that this was the idea of the original founder of the Knights.

Although the founder has long since retired, his spirit has always been carried out by his successor - the so-called free guilds should pursue something different from those of the big guilds, and if they really follow the old path of the latter, it will undoubtedly betray the original purpose of the people.

It is something that the Knights have been pursuing for a long time.

Momiji also deeply recognizes this.

It's a pity that there are not many people who agree with all this now, and she can't help but glance at Fang Yu not far away.

One by one, people came out.

In the end, Fang Yu saw the figure of the older knight, the other party's figure was even more rickety than before, his hair was gray, and he looked overdrawn, but he pressed the sword firmly with one hand, and his expression was still serious.

Among the few people in the square at that time, except for the noble lady and her maid, who had disappeared in the first place, only Lune-Lincius was missing.

Fang Plover asked the knight where the latter had gone, but Dickett only shook his head slightly: "I see that he is in the illusion, chasing the phantom to the direction of the Fisherman's Alley—"

Fang knew that it was the direction in which the lady had left Dorifin.

The president of the Black Goat Chamber of Commerce came to seek the answer he had missed in the past, but he didn't know if the answer was the same as what he had in mind.

"Will he come back?"

"Maybe."

This problem came to an abrupt end, although the two were comrades-in-arms who fought side by side thirty years ago, but after thirty years of estrangement, they did not know each other's situation.

It's just that this illusion is like a reappearance of the past, and the two meet here again.

Fang Yu wanted to speak and stopped: "Mr. Knight, what are your plans for the future?" ”

Dickert gazed at the square for a long time, as if from the fragmented details of the memories of the place thirty years ago.

He replied faintly, "The illusion of Doriphon is gone, and this place will probably return to peace, and after the adventurer leaves, it will not be long before there will be only forests and ruins left here, and in a few decades, people will no longer remember that there was once a city here." ”

Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

The story of the hero, buried under this unknown ruin, how many people will know what happened here thirty years ago?

A knight, a young merchant who had just joined the Cowling Merchant League, and a dragon slayer lady, the first two of whom had spent the first half of their lives, and the latter, who had used himself as a container, became one with Nicol Bolas.

Where did she go after she left Dorifin? And does the dragon sleeping in the swamp of the Traveler still have a part of her soul in her body?

Or is it actually the lady of yesteryear?

Fang Yu suddenly understood why Mazak and his father had built the inn in the swamp.

Is the pure soul described in the martyrdom mark of the faithful the hope and wish of the lady the same?

"As for me," Dickett said softly, "the Old Mountain Forest is a good choice, and when things settle down here, the lumberyard may be back on track, which is a good thing for everyone." ”

Fang Yu turned his head: "But they never knew that you were the one who solved all this." ”

"It's not me," the older knight looked back at him, "it's you, young man. ”

Fang Yu was slightly stunned, a little surprised.

"But it was just a coincidence, if it weren't for the ...... ring"

"The ring is on your hand."

"That was given to me by Mr. Mazak," Fang Yu was a little surprised, "Did he already know all this?" ”

The older knight shook his head: "That's Misu's brother, and he doesn't know all this, but it's not a coincidence, and it's not some fate in the dark, young man." ”

Lady Marlan does not believe in fate, for her knight has only a sword in his hand and an indomitable courage.

But Fang Yu still didn't understand.

"It's just because you have this underlying quality," Dickett looked at him earnestly, and there was a seriousness in his gray eyes, "That's why it chose you, even if you didn't come here at this moment, but one day, it believes that you will solve all these problems-"

"Thirty years ago, we had this ring, but it didn't turn out that different. Or - if you were a different person, in the illusion, would you make the same choice as you? Like those people—" The knight's eyes flashed with a hint of humor, looking at the gray people who had left not far away.

Although Fang Yu didn't feel that he had made any great choices in the illusion.

But it seems unlikely, that those people will stay in Uptown with the ghosts of Dorifin's past. In fact, Fang Ou had long understood that these were the obligations of the Electors in the past, but in Aitalia, at least in the First World, it was not always the case.

Mr. Quelod and Miss Scarpey had not lied to him.

The glossy surfaces he had seen in his propaganda in the past were only a façade of every aspect of the world.

Or a brilliant aura.

But Fang Yu never questioned his choice, he just thought that he hadn't seen enough and wasn't far enough. But he understands that he will mature one day, but maturity does not mean that he needs to change his mind.

He suddenly understood the elder knight's words, and subconsciously looked down at the ring in his hand.

The disturbing whispers disappeared, and he faintly felt that the power in the ring was a little afraid of him, cowering and avoiding his gaze.

That was the power of the dragon's golden pupil.

But the ring no longer had attributes, and in his field of vision, the system only gave the ring a simple label: 'Ring of Golden Flame'.

There is only one name, not even a description of the equipment, and no level or quality of the item.

However, there is still a line of small letters, engraved on it.

'Therein is great power—'

Other than that, I won't go into details.

Seeing that he understood, the knight smiled a rare smile on his serious face, and nodded to him: "You are much braver than Rune, even in front of that man, I would say so." If it had been you thirty years ago, maybe not as many things as there were then......"

Fang Yu thought to himself that the president of the Black Goat Chamber of Commerce might not be happy when he heard these words, and he himself did not feel relaxed because of this.

Because he vaguely felt that this matter might not end because of this.

It may even be just a start.

"Mr. Knight," Fang Yu couldn't help asking, "...... your current state?" ”

"I am the Eternal," Dictor replied without hesitation, "as you can see in the illusion, those dragon worshippers are not wrong, and my power is not much different from theirs. ”

"Your power ......"

The knight nodded, "My strength comes from Miss Misu, and I can clearly feel that she is still alive, and even stronger and stronger. ”

"Over the years, I have carefully suppressed myself from actively using this power, and even let my own power drain with it. But the experience of the illusion undoubtedly awakened it, and that's what I've been fearing all along, and if one day I'll become a servant of the dragon, I might be able to put an end to it before then. ”

Fang Yu couldn't help but be a little silent when he heard this.

He looked at the ring in his hand and suddenly remembered something.

Including the name he had heard in the illusion, the one in the mouth of the Archon Declan, Master Mags, he thought it was a familiar name at the time.

But at this moment, Fang Yu finally remembered where he had heard this name.

Isn't that the same owner that Mazak wants him to send this ring and the letter to?

This thought, along with the words of the older knight, confirmed some of the speculations in his mind. I'm afraid the trouble this ring has caused him has just begun.

But recalling the experience in the illusion, Fang Yu didn't know for a while whether he should regret it.

……