In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun stained the distant sunset, and the bronzed sunlight crossed the streets and the sides of the buildings, casting a dim shadow on the backs of the rows of houses and walls, and the door to the inn that Urs and Thea had found was somewhat deserted in the post-disaster period, although there were undoubtedly many obvious but powerless voices in the inn.

The inn had also been paid for by Victor, who had arranged for the owner to convert the entire inn into a makeshift "ward".

Urs walked down the street beneath his feet, the Cloak of Shadow Scales that had now been draped over the stone bricks on the ground, blowing a small breeze that stirred up dust. He turned his head to look, the silver-haired wolf-eared girl followed him quietly, the white church robe was replaced with a new one, the fluffy wolf-eared girl meekly put on her hair, gently swaying with the movement of his gaze, and after a while, he couldn't help but look at the inn that was already close in front of him and sighed: "This place was not like this in the past. ”

"Disaster has changed this place, at least temporarily." "Scourge will show no mercy to anyone, and our strength will not save all those who are affected, but fortunately we ourselves are alive." ”

"yes." Xia nodded with feeling, "There is still hope if you are alive......"

"Let's go inside."

"Hmm."

The two of them said casually, and then walked into the main entrance of the inn, and went up a staircase at the corner of the first floor to the second floor of the building, and along the corridor of the second floor, past the doors of several rooms, to the door of the room where the innkeeper had told them.

The wooden door was unlocked, but it was just hidden, revealing a narrow gap between the door and the frame, and the atmosphere inside was as quiet as if no one was there.

Thea and Thea looked at each other sideways, and Urs reached out and knocked on the door—

"Miss Dorothy?" The young man asked.

Soon there was a slight movement in the room, as if the person on the hospital bed was twisting his body and shaking to get up the bed, and a soft, extremely weak voice, hesitated for a few seconds, and then replied softly: "Please come in." ”

That weakness is not a physical illness, but a mental exhaustion. The innkeeper warned the two of them before they went upstairs that the female patient in the room had no outward injuries, and that the priest doctor from the temple district had diagnosed her and thought that her problem was psychological.

The innkeeper advised the young man and the wolf-eared girl not to do anything to provoke her.

Urs paused, gently pushed the door open, and squeaked.

The crack in the door opened a new scene with the movements of the young man, but the new scene that appeared in front of the young man and the wolf-eared girl was naturally no different from the ordinary hotel room, the simple room layout, the dusty windowsill, a tightly drawn curtain, if there was anything special, that is, a girl in moon-white pajamas sitting on the bed by the window.

Her legs were under the quilt, her delicate silhouette leaned against the wall behind her, her slender hands resting lightly on her legs through the thickness of the quilt, and her long fiery red hair adorned the beautiful girl like jewels set in a ring—but beneath this beautiful appearance was a palpable haggardness.

Miss Warlock's voice was weak, and her already thin figure looked like a blank piece of paper at this moment, and her two sea-blue eyes made people feel hollow when they turned to look at the young man and the wolf-eared girl, and they couldn't see that there was still the brilliance of a normal person in the depths of her pupils.

After all, she was hit so hard......

The sudden betrayal from his biological father, the reality has been subverted from the original normal to a real nightmare, and anyone who changes it will probably be depressed for a long time, right?

Dorothy turned her head quietly, looking at the young man and the wolf-eared girl who had entered the room, her face more calm than dazed.

Urs, who had already learned from Victor about what had happened to Dorothy that night, walked slowly into the room with Thea, took a cursory look of the surroundings, found two stools and sat down with the wolf-eared maiden at the side of Miss Warlock's bed, and after a long moment's deliberation, he said, "If you are not offended, do you remember us?" ”

“……”

Speechless.

"The last time we saw each other was at that jewelry store called Water Fairy Tears."

Urs tried to prompt her, but knew that the other party should not have really forgotten about himself and Thea.

The red-haired Miss Warlock sat down on the bed without saying a word, and after a few seconds, nodded her head expressionlessly, "Hmm." ”

And then there were no words again.

There was silence for about half a minute......

"Urs, her situation may not be too rosy." Thea couldn't help but observe Dorothy's face with some concern, tugged at the corner of Urs's coat with her hand, and whispered to the young man in a low voice.

Of course, Urs knew this, and then waved his hand to signal that Thea was okay, then thought about it again, and after waiting for a while, he continued to ask Miss Warlock: "The Red Scorpion Adventure Group has now been forced to disband. Can you tell us what your plans are for the future? ”

When he asked this, the young man cautiously looked at the red-haired girl's eyes, those two eyes as beautiful as sapphires, and thought to himself that her endurance should not be so fragile that she would collapse again when she heard about the Red Scorpion Adventure Group.

If that's the case, then he has no choice but to stop there, after all, he can't change other people's minds.

Dorothy's emotions were not agitated or out of control, but still as silent as ashes.

"I mean, I'm not good at detours, so I'll be straight." Looking at her, the young man decided to shoot another straight ball, "My team needs a spellcaster, and that spellcaster can be a full-fledged mage or a warlock. If you don't mind, Thorn Squad welcomes you and invites you to travel along. ”

At this point, Urs paused, stopped talking, and began to wait patiently for Miss Warlock's response.

He waited a little while, about two minutes, and then finally heard the red-haired girl in front of him say the first long sentence from the meeting between the two parties: "No, you won't welcome my ......"

"Why do you say that?" Urs seized the moment to ask.

"My father did that to the inhabitants of this city, including you." The red-haired girl lowered her gaze and stared blankly at her hand on the bed, "Can you forgive me for being the daughter of that sinner?" ”

"Dambert's crime has nothing to do with you, Miss Dorothy." Thea sat next to Urs and helped add, "Please don't carry a burden that doesn't belong to you, it will crush you." ”

"...... that doesn't belong to me Burden? Dorothy blinked, slowly lifted her gaze back to Thea's face, paused for half a second, and then moved back to Urs, "Have you ever heard of my power?" ”

"Frenzy magic."

"The lord of the castle told you everything?"

"Yes."

Urs simply admitted.

Victor did tell the team that Dorothy was a berserker. The mage city lord's mention of Miss Warlock's words may have been blurted out casually, but the word frenzied was an extremely special concept in Urs's eyes.

That means rare, and extraordinary...... Either climb to the top or fall into the trench, in short, it will not be lost to everyone.

As for the negative risk of instability, young people dare not guarantee that it can be completely avoided, but there is actually a way to reduce it to a certain extent, although that solution will generally depend on the frenzied caster himself.

He was willing to gamble on that possibility.

Dorothy pursed her lips, her sickly pale fingers tugged at the quilt covering her little by little, hearing the young man answer her like this, and there was nothing unnatural about her expression, she suddenly choked her throat as if she was a little aggrieved, and a faint cry slowly flowed out of her small voice and said, "This is a curse I was born with." ”

"A curse is not something that cannot be overcome." Urs encouraged her.

"But I'll never get over it." Dorothy's teeth clenched lightly in her mouth, "You don't understand what it means to be wildly fluctuating. In the past, when I was in the party, I had the courage to try to suppress that terrible turbulence of magic, but now ...... Now I'm just a scourge. Trust me, when I cast a spell, you will only suffer. ”

When the words fell, the tip of her nose couldn't help twitching, and her hands were hurriedly raised to hold the face that was buried down.

She couldn't put together the proper language to express to Urs and Thea what she had felt over the years, only to implicitly imply that when her mental state stabilized, the frenzied fluctuations of magic would subtract from the spells she cast.

And when she's in a terrible mental state, or emotionally out of control...... The results speak for themselves.

Urs understands the common hurdles of mad spellcasters. He sighed helplessly, and said in his heart that if this warlock lady's mentality could not be adjusted, if she wanted to get her answer, there was no doubt that there was no need to think about it.

"Then we won't disturb your rest for now, Miss Dorothy." After thinking about it, the young man stood up, "But you can still think about my proposal again." It's just a matter of thinking about it and not rushing to decide whether to accept or reject. ”

After saying that, he cast a look at Xia and motioned for the silver-haired wolf-eared girl to leave with him.

Thea glanced at the young man for a moment, her amber eyes at the depressed red-haired girl, and then got up and followed the young man to the door of the room.

"Oh yes, there's one more thing I can reveal to you." As he was leaving, the young man's footsteps suddenly paused at the door for three seconds, and then he turned his back to the red-haired girl sitting on the bed and said, "Actually, we will soon be leaving Twilight and embarking on a new journey, and that journey will most likely involve all sorts of information about your father, Dambert. ”

"As I said, you can think more about my proposal and don't have to make a decision right away."

"There should be a few days left before the departure time......

With these words, Urs turned his head, looked at her one last time, and then took the door with him, and walked away with Thea, the sound of footsteps echoing in an orderly manner in the hallway of the inn outside the room.

The red-haired Miss Warlock may have listened to the young man's words. She heard the soft sound of the door shut, lowered her hands to her abdomen, and turned her head with sea-blue eyes, and found that the backs of the young man and the wolf-eared girl had disappeared, and the whole empty room was left alone in the blink of an eye......

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