The sky above Shuangqiu Town was gray, and on the horizon far east, I don't know how long it would be before the first rays of new morning light appeared.

Under the sky, the town is also gray.

There are broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and the smoke and dust are filled, and at a glance, the eyes are full of gloom. The original square and decent buildings were left with a broken frame.

In the middle of the street, a white-haired old woman hugged her relatives who had been soaked in blood for a long time and had lost their vital signs, and she was in tears; In a corner of a house, a skinny girl wept bitterly, angrily trampling on a shaved throat and whimpering with her little shoe, a whimpering wolf, muttering childish curses; On the outskirts of the town, a bruised man in the prime of life picked up a young woman in a skirt and walked towards the burial area in the distant mountains step by step.

In a place between the town and the forest of the long sickle, a white-bearded old man held a giant blade that had long been stained red by the blood of the wind demon wolf, and stood in the distance.

Suddenly, the white-bearded old man's face trembled, and he saw two familiar figures hurrying towards him.

"Hilton!"

"Grandpa Hilton!"

Hawke and Loren immediately summoned the name of the white-bearded old man.

"Hawke, Loraine, you're finally back." Hilton looked at the two of them for a moment, and after making sure that they were not injured, his tense face finally relaxed a little.

"Hilton, what's the state of Twin Hills?" Hawke asked suddenly.

Hilton smiled when he heard this: "A total of seventeen Wind Demon Wolves have been invaded in Shuangqiu Town, and all of them have been killed. ”

"That's right," Hawke's eyes froze, "but that's not what I'm asking. ”

Hilton, a veteran who had followed Hawke for many years, knew what he meant when he heard this, and he did not hesitate to report the truth: "The convoy killed two in battle, seriously injured one, and minor injuries were not counted. Twenty-seven residents were killed, more than 50 were seriously injured, and countless minor injuries were made. ”

"Understood." Hawke's eyes suddenly darkened, and he wanted to move forward.

"Hawke, now is not the time for you to show up." Hilton stretched out his strong arms to block it.

Hawke shook his head and smiled, pulling Hilton's arm off, "That's right, but Mayor Mare must show up." ”

Hilton was silent, silently watching as Hawke and Loraine's two figures, one large and one small, drifted apart.

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"Stompe."

After a few ticks, Hawke and Loren returned to Twin Hills.

What they saw before their eyes was no longer the pleasant and bustling street scene of the past, but the devastated ruins, which were unsightly.

"Hawke." A cold male voice came, and along the sound, a strong man wearing iron armor and a saber could be seen.

The man was a head taller than Hawke, with blue eyes and brown hair, and less pronounced ear tips. He is the deputy mayor of Twin Hills, Kimli Galton.

"Golden Bolt." Hawke called out the other person's name. The next moment, more than a dozen knights of the Guardian gathered up.

"Hawke, what happened to Twin Hills, do you know?" Jin Li, who took the lead, bluntly spat out words that even the knights wanted to question.

"Hilton told me that seventeen Storm Wolves had invaded, and the town had suffered heavy casualties." Hawke replied truthfully.

"So," said the golden bolt, his eyes sharp and his cold light bursting, "where were you then?" Where were you when we woke up in the middle of the night and fought bloodily against the wind demons and wolves? ”

"I'm not in Twin Hills." Hawke's face did not change, and his voice was low.

"And where are you?!" Jin Liqiang asked.

Hock's silence continued.

Between the two mayors, Luo Lan could only listen silently, but he was so anxious that he couldn't interject.

"It doesn't matter where he is, does it?" Suddenly, one of the knights of the convoy spoke.

"Also, it's useless to stay in the town even if you're greedy for life and afraid of death." Immediately afterward, another Guard Knight spoke.

"The three-star knight is just a little stronger than the average resident!"

"I really don't understand why he became the mayor."

"It's not thanks to his father, tsk."

“……”

The originally cold and silent environment was gradually filled with the denunciations of the knights of the escort team.

Hawke's face remained unchanged. Luo Lan on the side was like a knife, and he was resentful.

"You ......" Finally, Loren couldn't hold back his heart anymore.

However, when he was about to come out, Hawke covered his mouth and nose indifferently, and forced Loraine's anger back into his stomach.

"Alright, I'll take care of the rest." Hokla picked up Loran, ignoring everyone's scolding and sarcasm, and peeked through the cracks in his armor.

"Father......" Loraine's eyes widened, and after moving away from the escort, he couldn't hold back any longer, "Why?" Why not tell them the truth? ”

Greedy for life and afraid of death, humble in strength. Is this really Hawke? Absolutely not.

Far away in the Scythe Forest, it was Hawke who discovered that the Wind Demon wolves were attacking at night, and it was Hawke who ordered Hilton to return to the town as fast as possible to guard it, and it was Hawke who single-handedly killed most of the Wind Demon wolves.

There is no doubt that Hawke was the biggest contributor to this sudden incident. But what about reality? But he bears the identity of the greatest sinner.

The huge contrast between reality and reality made Loren angry and puzzled.

"Because," Hawke said halfway, pausing for a long time, "I'm a wizard." ”

Because, I'm a wizard.

This sentence was like a red-burned soldering iron, deeply imprinted in Luo Lan's heart.

Not long ago, the wizard who was beautiful and proud of the crowd was so helpless at the moment, and he could only swallow the bitter fruit that he shouldn't have gotten alive.

"Why?" Lorraine couldn't help but ask again, and the moment he asked the words, he realized that his question was too ridiculous.

"How can there be so many why?" Hawke smiled, but not smiling, "Because ...... Only by being alive can there be hope for everything. ”

Alive.

Don't...... Aren't wizards worthy to live in the open?

If Hawke wasn't a wizard, Hawke wouldn't have that power; If Hawke hadn't been a wizard, the town's losses would have been even greater; If Hawke wasn't a wizard, there wouldn't be Loraine today.

Unfortunately, because Hawke is a wizard, he has to endure this unspeakable pain in order to live.

If it was placed in the past, when Loren did not know that Hawke was a wizard and had never been exposed to wizard knowledge, in the face of everyone's ridicule, Loren could still admit his fate and talent, which was irrefutable. However, how can there be so many "ifs" and "ifs" in this world? The fact is that as a wizard, you obviously have the ability, but you can't provoke the voice, you can only do it.

Why? Because wizards do not have a strong enough existence, there is no supreme existence that can subvert the cognition of the main continent.

"Wait for me! One day, wizards will be free to walk on this continent. I'm going to make the wizards rise again on this continent! Loraine, who was only fifteen years old, secretly made an oath in his heart.

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