"Are you sure those two kids are running through here?" At night on Lake Ebel, through the dense fog of the night, two guide speedboats are heading at full speed towards the ancient city of Lohengrin.

There were four people sitting on each of the two boats. On one ship were Laura, the Klaus steward, and Haliga, and on the other were Regram's famous, experienced shippers and several guerrillas, and it was reassuring to have such a navigator on this foggy night. And the conversation just now was that Butler Klaus asked the guide again for key information, and it was this guide who had just provided information to the busy crowd.

"Absolutely, yes." As if to avoid everyone's distrust of him, his tone became eager, and he said quickly: "In the afternoon, a man with a child came to borrow a boat, saying that he wanted to experience the pleasure of watching the scenery in the lake. I didn't have any plans to go to sea in the afternoon, so I lent them a boat. I remember very well that they drove the boat in the direction of the ancient city! ”

Klaus Butler frowned slightly: "In that case, it hasn't been back for so long, it's not normal?" There were adults among them, not completely ignorant children, and the fog only rose after the sun set, and they had time to return ......" As he spoke, the old man's tone was also mixed with some uncertainty, and he turned to the guerrilla next to the shipper: "I remember, there are no magical beasts around this ancient city, right?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Klaus." The man replied very quickly, "Your Excellency the Viscount will regularly come to this ancient city to inspect it, and he has never said that there are demonic beasts here, otherwise, this place would have been closed to tourists a long time ago." ”

While the two adults were exchanging opinions, the two children on the boat were also whispering.

The blue-haired girl, stroking the well-maintained giant sword body with one hand, whispered to the boy next to her: "Heliga, are you okay?" You've been weird since you just started? Why don't you get to the ancient city later, and you're waiting for us outside? ”

Heiliga wanted to open his mouth to answer, but the moment the words burst out of his mouth, he felt weak again, and the words that had just been organized dissipated in an instant. I had to shake my head and say that I was fine.

Under Laura's worried and concerned gaze, Haley strengthened the discomfort of weakness and the slight pain in his head, and remembered what had just happened......

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Two hours ago.

Heiliga, who quickly climbed down from the cedar tree, let go of his hand and jumped off the trunk when he was still three meters above the ground. The process of descending the tree is comparable to that of Arsenal fans, and the three girls, who have never received any martial arts training, are naturally startled by such swift movements. After spending about five minutes calming the frightened three teenage girls, and ignoring their calm eyes and hostile expressions, Helriga heard the reason why the three teenage girls had run into the woods.

"The tourist and his children are missing? A temporary commission received by the guerrilla association? Although the three young girls were divided by what you said and I said, Heliga understood what they meant—a couple came to Regram with their children, and the two children were clamoring to go to the ancient city to play, so the father of the child, who had experience as a sailor, took the children to the docks, and the child's mother waited at the hotel because she was seasick, and they agreed to come back before sunset to have dinner and enjoy Regram's famous local dish, Spiced Pork Stew.

However, when the sun was already sinking, the wife still did not see her husband and children. She had a vague premonition, so she hurried to the docks, only to learn that the three had already borrowed a boat and had not returned. Therefore, she hurried to the guerrilla association, asking for help from the masters under the command of the support armor to find her husband and children.

The Guerrilla Society, headquartered in the Lehman Autonomous Prefecture in the west-central part of the continent, has a high influence on the West Semlia continent. It is a force that no country dares to underestimate, and it is not controlled by political forces, and all actions are aimed at protecting the common people, which also restricts the exercise of power by the imperial nobles who pursue the old system, so it is common for the guerrilla associations in the empire to be suppressed and weakened by the traditional aristocratic forces, and the new guerrillas are increasingly choosing the imperial branch as their base of action. However, in the border area of Regram, due to the incorruptible and noble warrior temperament of the current ruler, Viscount Alsid, and the objective conditions of "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", the guerrilla association has developed quite prosperously. As soon as several of the guerrillas on standby at the Association heard that civilians were missing, including children, they immediately promised to help find them.

In a small town like Regram, if something big happens, the whole town will immediately know about it. This time was no exception. Those who had no work at hand and were resting, as well as those who had just come out of the ashram and were about to go back to rest, immediately threw themselves into helping to find out when they heard about it. It was soon confirmed that they had not returned to town by any other means. As a result, the search area has also expanded from the town to the surrounding areas.

The three girls also heard about this when they were playing together, and they heard that their sister who admired them also put down their training and devoted themselves to finding someone, and immediately agreed that they would go to the woods where no one had come to help find them, and if they found it, they would definitely be praised by their sister!

Unexpectedly, the missing person was not found, but a boy who had been unanimously listed as an "enemy" force by the three of them was found!

Under the complicated gaze of the three people, Hailiga, who had already sorted out the ins and outs of the matter, put his hand on his forehead, and he was in a complicated mood, and after thinking for a long time, he held back such a sentence: "You guys...... Is it stupid? ”

"What did you say!" Kuloai, the youngest of the three and the most anxious of the three, immediately had a small temper, and was about to rush towards Heliga with his neck, but he had the momentum to rush forward and be tough. Unfortunately, before he could rush up, he stepped on a small stone mixed with the soft soil, and his center of gravity was unstable and he rushed forward into the street, but fortunately he grabbed the cuffs of the boy in front of him in time to not slip completely.

“…… It seems that this guy is the stupidest of them all......" Hyliga, who silently labeled Kuloai as "BakaNo.1" in his heart, decided to ignore the situation in front of him after thinking for a second, just sighed softly and said, "Look around, they can't be good in this area at all, right?" ”

"How do you know?" Cindy, who had the most composed personality of the three, opened her mouth to ask. At this time, Kuloai, because of embarrassment and shame, was already dyed red from his forehead to his neck, and simply turned his head away and stopped talking. And Selia saw the funny appearance of Kuloai, looked at the cloth shoes on her feet, which were also not very strong, and did not speak. Only Cindy remembered that the main purpose was to find someone, so she got the conversation back on track.

Heiliga sighed helplessly, "First of all, this is on the same side as the dock that goes out to sea, if they really go in the direction of the ancient city, how can they go back here?" The child's father has experience at sea, so it is impossible not to even be able to control a dinghy, right? "Secondly, the soil in this vicinity is very wet and soft due to the strong water storage capacity of the forest here (and at this point, Kuloai, who turned his head, shook slightly), and if they came here, they would have left very clear footprints. Finally, if they had come by boat, their boat must have stayed somewhere on the shore, and should you not have looked for signs of the boat along the coast, and if you found a boat docked, then come back to the woods to find someone? ”

The three girls looked at each other. They didn't expect that the little boy in front of them, who was often pestering (from the perspective of the three of them) sister, usually saw that he didn't dare to speak much, but he thought so much. Cindy couldn't help but ask, "So, where do you think they will go?" ”

"Since we haven't found it in the city, let's look for it in the surrounding area first. If you still don't find any traces, then you can only go to the ancient city to find it......" Feeling that the inexplicable hostility of the three of them had eased a lot, Heliga also felt relaxed, "However, the three of you, if you come to this forest without an adult, aren't you afraid of danger?" There are no monsters or large beasts, but there are a lot of snakes and bugs here, right? ”

"Hmph, don't preach!" Kuroai, who had recovered his strength, turned around and grimaced at Heliga, "You yourself are not a child, but you came to the forest alone and hid in a tree to scare us!" It was still hostile conversation, but knowing that Heliga was right, Kuroai's tone sounded a bit like a child's bickering.

"I'm a boy, and I'm still practicing in the dojo!" In a relaxed atmosphere, Heliga also casually put on a posture, which was still imitating Laura's. Kuloai, who saw the source of Hailiga's actions, immediately blew up: "Hmph! You're not a man! A man who is as reliable as a guerrillas, or as strong as a viscount! You're just a little ghost who learned a few tricks in the dojo and came out to show off your might! Kuloai had completely forgotten the embarrassment just now, and quarreled directly with Heiliga. Celia, who was watching the play next to her, also behaved a little more relaxed, and Cindy even had a helpless wry smile on the corner of her mouth.

"I ......" was about to use words to terrify Kuroai when Helriga felt a tingling in his head and swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. His consciousness began to dissipate, but the remaining part of his consciousness reminded him that his body had collapsed into the dirt. In a trance, the darkness in front of him was gradually becoming clearer, and he saw the images that often appeared in his dreams again-

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Bloodstained guillotine. A huge black monster that landed on top of the tower. Destroyed houses, charred corpses.

On the towering snow-capped mountains, the fortress made of black rock, and the courtyard covered with unmelted snow, four old men in gray robes looked at them with kind smiles.

I don't know where it is, but in the sky, there is a dazzling white light in front of me. A majestic voice is ordering itself to expel the blasphemers from the temple.

In the dark underground tombs, creatures floating on the ground with strange staffs and strange masks are laughing. And he fought side by side with a black-robed mage and knocked him to the ground.

In an unknown cave, several powerful warriors and themselves wielding strange battle axes are battling with clusters of blue wolf-shaped ghosts. After the battle, a gray-haired old man walked up to him, thanked him softly, and then turned into nothingness.

In the depths of the castle filled with the smell of blood, the terrifying monster with red eyes and fangs in front of him roared angrily, and its body was alienated and formed, and it pounced on itself. The girl with the same form beside him and several heavily armed warriors fought with him, and after a fierce battle, an arrow from his longbow turned it into a cloud of blood.

In the mountains covered with ice and snow somewhere, a man with black armor and red skin in his hand nodded at him, and then a terrifying fighting spirit erupted and started a fierce battle with him. He defeated him with all his might, and he died peacefully in his eyes of approval and relief.

A deserted island covered in most of the volcanic ash, strange ruins, shuttled through it by himself, and found a strange black book. As soon as it was opened, it was swept into another world by several strange tentacles. He saw a powerful figure, and behind him were all kinds of powerful monsters under his command. He said something, and the monsters swarmed up and rushed towards him—

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"Heliga, are you alright?"

"Hey, wake up!"

The eager girl's voice gradually became clear in her ears.

"Great! He's awake! ”

"Hey! Don't look happy! ”

"Hmph, doesn't Seria also look relieved!"

The sound of the girls' quarrel came to his ears, and Haley struggled to sit up as if his head was cracking, muttering "What's wrong......

"You were arguing with Kuloai just now, but you suddenly fainted! Scare the hell out of Kuloai! The girl in red ignored the excuse of "I wasn't scared" next to her, and quickly answered.

"Are you alright?" Cindy asked, standing aside, bent over, but heartily.

"It's okay...... It's just a little dizzy...... "The pain came and went quickly, and Heliga felt much better, so she stood up. He noticed that the sun had completely set, and he and the three girls were still in the woods.

"Is it really okay? Would you like to take another break? Cindy asked with concern.

"No need...... The sun has set, let's hurry back. Shaking his head, Heiliga, who said that he was fine, was now in a mess in his mind, but he realized that three girls with no experience in martial arts training or survival in the wild should not stay in the forest at night for too long. He didn't say anything superfluous, just walked straight in the direction of the town of Ragram. The three girls looked at each other for a moment, and they all followed.

Nothing to say all the way.

By the time I got back to town, my vision was very blurry and the air was getting a little damp. Regram is often foggy due to the climate, but it is more common in the morning and foggy at night is rare. However, the four of them were still thinking about what had just happened, and no one cared about it for a while.

When you get to town, you don't have to worry about anything. After the three girls said goodbye with different attitudes and tones, Heliga walked alone to the Guerrilla Society, where the guerrillas, who had been searching for the missing three people for an afternoon, were there, exchanging information, while the client, the woman whose husband and child had disappeared, were waiting anxiously. When they learned that "there was no trace of them in the forest" brought back by Heliga, everyone unanimously decided to send someone to the ancient city by boat to find it.

Originally, the decision was made by the three guerrillas and the Klaus butler. But Laura insisted on going, considering that there were no monsters infested in the ancient city, safety should not be a problem, and the eldest lady had been working hard for this matter all afternoon, so she should know the result as soon as possible, and the Klaus butler agreed after deep thought. However, Heiliga, who looked a little weak, insisted on going, which was a bit unexpected by everyone.

In the end, everyone still didn't resist Helriga and agreed to his request. On the one hand, considering that Heliga is the child of Viscount Queholzwell after all, he belongs to the aristocratic forces with privileges in the empire, and it is normal to occasionally behave willfully, and there is no danger, on the other hand, Heliga is usually very approachable and easy to talk, but this time he is so persistent, and considering that he is a little tired, there seems to be something hidden.

When they arrived at the pier, they found that the dense fog seriously affected their vision, and they were afraid that they would not be able to find the north in this fog. At this time, the shipper still had the last thought, hoping that the man would return with the child in the evening, and after some exchange, the two sides hit it off, and the shipper was the guide, and the "expeditionary force" marched towards the ancient city.

Heliga couldn't understand why he insisted on coming to this ancient city. Maybe I should go back and rest. But a strong intuition in my heart is calling to me, tonight in this ancient city, maybe I can solve the mystery behind this strange dream recently!

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"Here we are." The voice of the shipper pulled Heliga back to reality from the depths of his thoughts. He looked up at the front of the ship, not far away in the thick fog, the ancient castle standing quietly in the middle of the island. The ship under him was also slowly slowing down......

I had never felt the sensation of a rapid heartbeat.

“…… Hailiga? Heliga, who had just fallen into a state of "semi-sleep", seemed to be in a better condition, so Laura didn't continue to ask, just thinking that maybe he needed to rest a little more. But now, it seems that his physical condition has deteriorated again.

The ship stopped.

Laura finally did not continue to ask, she glanced at Hyliga with some concern, and saw that the other party got up from the boat with some difficulty, followed the guerrillas and the old butler who disembarked first, and jumped from the boat.