Water, the origin of life. Drowned, suffocated, detached from the sky and the earth, unable to breathe, back to the beginning. Water nourishes life, but it can also erase life. How many lost existences in the vast ocean, even in the limited water of the lake, are connected with death.

The beautiful dream awakening is the cruel reality. Trying to resist the lake, it still can't stop the invasion of death. The water in your ears is a small thing, and you can keep the lake out of it with your eyes closed. If you don't breathe, there will be no water in your nostrils and no need to open your mouth. Unfortunately, human evolution has determined that human beings cannot survive under deep water on their own.

I could feel the chilly water of the lake entering my nostrils and into my airways. If this moment were eternal, it might be the end of life and death that I longed for in despair. However, unlike the sharp pain of a pinprick and almost the same feeling as lying naked in the snow and frost, it tells me to sink alone to the bottom of a lake that no one knows.

In the haze, the girl stretched out her hands to me, and in a trance, I stretched out my hands to the woman.

It's strange that I am so hungry for death, and why do I yearn for life so much. It's not because I'm timid, it's not because I'm greedy for life and afraid of death, it's just that I remember that I have a mission that I have to complete: to save an unknown person.

The fingers touched each other, and the two of them embraced each other with open arms, and pressed each other against their foreheads.

"The body is destroyed, the dream is alive, and the soul is eternal. God, I sing for you, and share with me the sorrow of eternity. ”

Knowing his heart and tears, he told the woman about hope.

It's a dream, and the protagonist is me, not me......

"Yi Jiahe!"

Regaining consciousness from the darkness, I only felt that my bones were about to fall apart under someone's violent shaking.

"Ma Chao?"

The sad-faced Scrooge gave me a sense of schadenfreude.

"Painful ......" karma is so effective.

"Can you move?"

"It's a bit difficult. "If I can ignite the flame in spite of the agreement, I don't care about this little injury.

Ma Chao turned his back to me and gestured with his backhand: "Come, I'll carry you." ”

"There's no need. "I stood up in pain, but I didn't know that I had fallen and the wounds I had suffered were much worse than I had imagined.

Even a few seconds after the elemental bird let go of me, I knew it would plunge into a tree branch or smash into the ground to unleash a flame to clear the danger, reality was not what I expected. Fortunately, I did not encounter sharp branches during the fall, and at the same time, due to the effect of soul power, the trauma caused by the strong impact when touching the ground was reduced, and Yi Jiahe did not fall to his death.

"I'm sorry for you. ”

My opinion of Ma Chao has been changed to a mess after witnessing it again and again. After correcting my cognition, I must admit that Ma Chao's nature is not a villain.

"Yi Jiahe, is there any labor expense?" Ma Chao, who was sweating profusely, ran on his back on his back.

"Nope. A categorical answer.

"Alas, work in vain. ”

Knowing that there is no such thing as a free lunch, I am dissatisfied with Ma Chao's problem, although I did not say it explicitly.

"How's everybody?"

"Guerrilla warfare, I took the opportunity to come looking for you. ”

"How did you find me?"

I have looked back, the lake under the moon and the woman in the lake disappeared without a trace, as if everything was a dream within a dream.

"In the guerrilla warfare, I, who had repelled the enemy, broke away from the battlefield with the help of your classmates and took to the air to search for you, but I found neither the elemental bird nor you, thinking that you had already died and that there were no bones left. The sky lives up to the painstaking people, and I am tired and tired of perseverance, and finally find you lying in the forest. ”

"Thank you so much. ”

"You ought to thank me, if I hadn't been convinced that you were safe and searched for you, you would have died there. ”

Give up, I won't pay you. However, if you need a magic device, I'll spend a little bit for you at my discretion.

"Then again, you kid is also blessed with a great fate, attacked by night ghosts, disabled by tigresses, teased by swamp witches, and finally taken away by elemental birds but escaped from death, and shit luck. "The guy who can't spit ivory out of the dog's mouth.

"Where are we going?"

"Park Ji-woo sent a message from thousands of miles to say that after they left the battlefield, they accidentally discovered a device that caused the magical creatures in the forests of District 10 to go berserk. Due to the crowd of high-star magical creatures surrounding the device, they did not dare to act rashly, and retreated to their hiding places to wait for my reply. ”

"Your reply?"

Ma Chao said proudly: "After all, I am a third-class magician, of course, I am only admired by you." Isn't seeking my opinion exactly why they've been waiting for us?"

Jokes, though, are reasonable.

"Okay. In fact, according to the information of Qianli Transmission, they may be besieged. Risking being found to pass on the information, on the one hand, it is for me to also use the voice of Qianli to contact the hospital, and on the other hand, it is to make sure that you are safe and sound as soon as possible. ”

"So, where are we?"

Ma Chao turned his head slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said to me, "It's up to you." ”

"Why am I here?" I have choice hesitation.

"I declare in advance that I do spare my life, but I am by no means a villain who abandons my companions. But you're not doing well, and I'll have to send you back to the academy for treatment as soon as possible. On the other hand, as I just said, they are in danger, and they cannot delay a minute or a second. I've spent two thousand miles to inform the academy and the brawlers of your class respectively. If you're lucky, reinforcements will come straight here. However, unlike me, who received Park Ji-woo's teleportation, they couldn't lock the location of the device for a short time, especially in a grim situation where magical creatures would attack the mage in a hurry. ”

"Go and save Park Ji-woo and them. ”

Ma Chao paused, probably surprised by my immediate answer.

"Are you sure?"

"Nonsense. If you are stunned again, the daylily will be cold. I patted Ma Chao on the shoulder and pointed forward to signal him to run.

Ma Chao grinned, adjusted my position and continued to run, and said, "I knew you would say that, so I planned to go directly to rescue them from the beginning." ”

In order to reduce Ma Chao's physical exertion, I didn't want to open my mouth to disturb him. As the most useless of all the magicians, I can only rely on my divine skills to see the needle and win with one blow. However, powerful tricks are often flawed, which is a common rule in many anime. Don't tell me the word "invincible", deceive. There is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the people, and the strong enemy is not the other party, that is, oneself.

One of the drawbacks of what I know so far is its cooling. One second for one hour, one hundred and sixty-eight hours for another use of cooling increments. For example, I use a time-stop that is set for one second at a time, and the cooldown time is one hour. As soon as the cooldown was complete, I used the set time stop for one second, and this time it was two hours later. In addition, it makes little difference whether you use it immediately or not, even if there is an interval of 24 hours, the cooldown time after the second use is still 2 hours. So far, I have encountered many desperate crises, and because of the shortcomings of the time, I have either fled for my life or found another way. Now, Youyan has been sealed away by such an abominable thing, and I can only rely on time.

The cooldown is not over, and perhaps I was really affected by the hallucinations of a concussion - the lake that I thought was an endless loop and the girl in the lake on it disappeared as if it had never appeared, which is an anomalous state of affairs.

"Who's going to care about time? Ma Chao said the same.

"About an hour or so. ”

After Ma Chao finished speaking, I sometimes stopped feeling that the cooling was finished. It seems that even if I have a concussion or cerebral hemorrhage, the use of time and inflammation will still not be affected. On second thought, this was a matter of course, after all, it was a fact of practice that Youyan was able to repair my serious injuries. As long as I burn the flames, I can determine my physical condition, isn't it like the physical examination magic in light magic.

"Maybe I'm a light mage. ”

"That's impossible. "I ran out of breath and talked.

"Ma Chao, you have the strength to run, why don't you have the strength to fly?"

"You don't know, when I found you, there were dozens of elemental birds hovering over the forests of District 10, like vultures in the human world, intending to find us and make us powerless after a group attack. Now I'm running a path with more dense trees and foliage, so that I don't get spotted by elemental birds. ”

"Your plans are going to be ruined. I slapped Ma Chao's arm and motioned him to stop and showed him.

On the thick branches stood an elemental bird staring at us silently. It didn't deliberately hide itself, but if it weren't for Ma Chao's back and raising my gaze, I might have ignored it like Ma Chao in his eagerness to go to his companions.

"Calm down and be quiet. Ma Chao moved quietly.

"Wow-"

Ma Chao immediately passed under the screaming elemental bird and asked me: "Yi Jiahe, take out the Qianli Transmission in my pocket!"

After fumbling around, I pulled out a magic tool that looked like a bird—wait, this is a carrier pigeon, right?

"Letter positioning. ”

As Ma Chao's command was proposed, the magic tool responded: "Five hundred meters ahead." ”

"I came in without paying attention," Ma Chao braked me to hide in an uncle and carefully observe the surroundings, and then said in confusion, "What's the matter, it stands to reason that the magical creatures are already lined up in the city wall so close." ”

"It's a trap, isn't it?"

"Crazy magical creatures will sensibly set traps for us to drill, at best, lurk in the shadows and launch a surprise attack. However, the guy above kept barking, and the guy below didn't move. Anyway, it's too long, and the situation is too strange. ”

There was movement in the distance.

"Quack?"

saw his comrades-in-arms lose their voices, but he was found to be hiding by an extremely keen man.

"He doesn't look right. ”

As Ma Chao said, the croaking frog's eyes were full of bloodshots, and his expression was like a fierce god.

"Could it be that he was affected?"

Ma Chao didn't say a word, and I was about to face Gollum, but the moment I landed, an abnormal Gurk appeared on our side and struck Ma Chao hard in the abdomen. Ma Chao flew out and implicated me.

After confirming that Ma Chao was not dead, I turned to Gollum to try to bring him back to his senses: "Quack, it's me, your comrade-in-arms." ”

Croaking his head, he threw a punch at me as I continued.

Gollum's attack didn't hit - under Ma Chao's wind magic attack, the entire Gurk that was focused on me was blown away.

"Wow-"

"Annoying!" I grumbled loudly at the elemental bird behind me.

I don't know if I don't see it, I can't see it. In a minute or so, a large number of elemental birds gathered on the branches behind them. They weren't shouting, they were just listening to the elemental bird howling.

"It's noisy!" Ma Chao, who didn't notice the elemental birds for a moment, used wind magic to shoot it down.

Their own kind were attacked, and the elemental birds on the side were indifferent.

"Weak. "Elemental birds, do you speak human language?

"Weak. ”

......

Along with the speech of the first elemental bird, the subsequent elemental birds are echoing in human language. That's when I realized that the elemental bird that spoke first was different, and it was an elemental bird that collected many colors.

"Human, what are you looking at?" the other looked at me with murderous eyes.

"You look very special. I answered it with a normal attitude and tone.

"Quite discerning. The lead elemental bird turned and said to me, "For the sake of you being the Soul Contractor, I will spare you." ”

It spread its plump, gorgeous wings and added, "Don't think I'm sorry for you to let you live, it's just that I can't bear to see the death of a magical creature who has just made a soul pact with you, even though it doesn't qualify for my mercy." After saying that, the elemental bird flapped its wings and blew a fierce wind and broke through the dense forest and rushed into the sky, while the elemental bird behind followed it, leaving the elemental bird fluttering on the ground struggling in pain, and then motionless.

"What's wrong with it?" I asked Ma Chao.

"Dead?" Ma Chao was also unsure.

"You go check it out. ”

"It doesn't matter if it's dead or not, finding those people in your class is the top priority. If you drag it out any longer, your good brother will fight back. ”

Looking back at the elemental bird that was clearly a corpse, I thought it was a pity. You don't obey such a good master, you have to recruit companions, and you are finally abandoned by them in cold blood. Speaking of which, the howl of the elemental bird just now was not so much a signal to invite its companions as it was a cry of complaining about the heavens—I felt that way.

Go deep into the forest and carry my horse on my back. Worried about the current situation of the sudden disappearance of Gollum, I looked back from time to time in the hope of finding Gurquack's figure, although it was quite troublesome to be discovered by him, and it was inevitable that there would be a vicious battle. And Gollum is not Ma Chao's friend, once Gollum can't restrain himself from attacking Ma Chao madly, the magician of the third level will ruthlessly kill him. I don't want to see Ma Chao unlucky, and I don't want to witness Gollum's tragic death.

"What the hell is going on, not a single magical creature?"

What Park Ji-woo said is very different from the actual situation, which is really incredible. Some distance further, I found an unidentified device standing on the ground, but it had been destroyed.

"Huh?"

I asked Ma Chao to put me down, and with his support, I approached the suspicious device, and accidentally found that most of the fragments of the device were not one-sided—the pieces of the device walked around the device, and based on the situation at the scene, the device seemed to have exploded from the inside.

"Yi Jiahe!"

Ma Chao pointed to the bushes not far away, and I saw an arm stretched out.

Panicked and walked quickly to the bushes, I hated my body, endured the pain and angrily pressed down, but was stopped by Ma Chao.

"I'll take a look. ”

From his expression, it could be seen that Ma Chao was also nervous, but after taking a deep breath, he immediately squatted down and pushed aside the bushes and found the owner of the hand, Kojiro.

"Woo...... "Kojiro is not dead!"

"Oh, Kawa?" Kojiro said to me, propping himself up, "Oh no, it turns out that the function of strange things is not to drive magical creatures crazy, but to transform them and make them the masters of the wizarding world...... "Don't forget the old common misfortune and good claw bookhouse" The latest chapter is free to read for the first time.