"I couldn't shout before, but now I suddenly appear to make a choice, what do you want to do?"

Natsu was wary of the sudden appearance of the manual.

But looking at the progress bar that had begun to move slowly, she couldn't make up her mind for a while.

This time the situation doesn't seem to be as dangerous as the last time, should I try one of them?

"Hmph, are you trying to lie to me again?"

After thinking for a while, Xia suddenly smiled:

――Why did you have to split into two teams?

Can't all of us choose only one path, it's a big deal to go back when there is a problem, such an obvious BUG...... Can you change the plot with just one manual?

"It's not that easy to lie to me!"

She snorted coldly in her heart, ignored the options on the manual, and chased after the team in front of her.

"There's another fork in the road ahead, I'll see which way to go."

At the front of the line, Agnes sensed the direction of the little mouse's spirit.

In front of her were two passages that were almost identical to the ones before, one sloping straight downward, and the other with a steep rise in the ground, the path leading upwards.

"Hum—"

As she struggled to track down the spirit's message, a faint voice came from beneath the ground.

"What's going on?"

The pace of the procession stalled, and people looked around.

Natya Vida crouched down and put her hand on the ground:

"It was like a tremor from a deep underground, a bit like an earthquake...... But the earthquake should not make this buzzing sound, and it should be felt more intensely. ”

"The shaking has stopped."

Agnes looked at the top of the passage, there was no gravel on it, but some dust was scattered on the top of everyone's heads, and some of the female students began to shake their hair and hats to remove the dust from it.

"I don't know why, we're getting farther and farther away from the ghosts, let's speed up!"

She had been scratching the positioning rune on her hand and noticed an anomaly.

"Huh? It's ......"

Natyavida's hand was just about to be put away, when she suddenly heard a strange voice.

The sound was a bit like the explosion of a rock when something shattered, and it was like a very violent force pushing and squeezing underground.

"Everyone, hurry up and get out of the middle of the passage!"

After listening for a moment, a look of fear appeared on her face, and she suddenly raised her head and shouted to the team members in front of her.

"What's wrong?"

Many team members were cleaning up the dust, and they were a little puzzled to hear her warning voice.

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently!

Not only the ground, but also the rock walls around the passage, the rocks above their heads began to tremble, and the amplitude increased.

There was an exclamation, and a magician was hit by a stone, but fortunately she was wearing a school uniform, and the stone was not big, and the protective function unloaded it and threw it on the ground, and on the ground the stone began to roll from side to side like a dish in a pot.

"Crackle."

The sound of rock breaking came from somewhere.

"Crackle! Crackling! ”

"Click...... ―――――Click, click ”

A long crack began to appear in the otherwise hard stone floor.

"The ground is cracked, everyone retreat to both sides!"

The sharp-eyed man shouted.

At this time, everyone understood the meaning of Nati Yavida's phrase "hurry up and get out of the middle of the passage", and began to run to both sides in a panic.

The moment the crack was created, the whole ground was split in half; Then the crack quickly extended backwards from the fork in the road, until it cracked 100 meters away; Then the ground trembled, like a terrifying beast opening its mouth, and the middle part of the entire passage collapsed downward, turning into a dark abyss, expanding at a terrifying speed.

"Darkwings—Darkwings!"

Agnes chanted the incantation.

As her voice sounded, two black wings suddenly appeared on either side of the wheelchair, carrying her into the air with the wheelchair, and the black wings scattered with dark and shiny feathers flew in the air, bringing her to the left side of the wheelchair.

Natyavida was not idle as the first to discover the anomaly, and several vines suddenly pierced out of her hands, tied up several team members who had no time to dodge, and sent them to safety, and jumped to the left with agility.

"Woo hoo!!"

Ebner threw his shield and sword around the corner, roared and jumped to the right side of the road with a man in his hand, and not far from him, Al and several female cadets from the Firearms Section got together and grabbed the rock wall.

The few of them were the fastest of all, and from the very beginning of the crack, they rushed from the middle to the nearby rock wall, clinging to the rock bulge behind them, resisting the vibrations from above.

Behind everyone, the progress bar in front of Natsu's eyes came to an end at this time, turning a shocking red.

Then, the three options disappeared along with the Crimson's progress bar, and the instructions above his head disappeared with him.

She stood there dumbfounded, her eyes swaying from side to side, looking at what was happening in front of her.

This qiē came too suddenly, just a few seconds, the crack in the ground has turned into a giant hand separating the earth, separating the people on both sides far away, and the ground on the left is getting higher and higher, and the right side is slowly sinking, and soon a layout is formed with one side high and one low, and in the middle, there is an unfathomable dark ravine.

1。 At the second fork in the road, with Abner and Litchie Al, take the path down.

2。 At the second fork in the road, together with Agnes and Natia Vida, choose the way up.

The option she had just ignored was forced into reality.

At this time, the ground under her feet has begun to crack, and the middle area is rapidly disconnecting to both sides!

Why, why is that?

Why is this happening!

Could it be that manuals really have so much power that they can change the direction of the world?

Could it be that her guess was wrong from the start?

"Sister Xia, watch your step!!"

Agnes flew in the air with a wide field of vision, and at a glance saw Natsu standing still in place, her eyes widened and she screamed, but the sound was drowned out by the rumbling noise.

"What am I doing? Now is not the time to be upset, I have to make the right judgment. ”

Xia's brain was in a mess, looking at the panicked people in front of him, desperately suppressing the disordered heart, and doing analysis like lightning:

As stated in the options, Natiavida and Agnes are on one side, while Abner and Al are on the other, whether this is a coincidence or fate, all she has to do now is to make a choice with practical actions immediately!

"Agnes and Natia Vida are very strong! Even without me, the two of them would be able to get through most of the difficulties together, and even if I was on the two of them, I might not be able to make a difference; ”

"But Al and Ebner are much different, one is a pure warrior who can't do magic and can't fight, and the other is a firearms expert with limited strength, so it's obvious that this side needs my help more."

Xia Yi gritted his teeth, his body soared into the air, avoiding the devouring of the ground, and flew to the side that was slowly sinking.

The moment her body leaped up, the ground beneath her feet completely collapsed, swallowed up by the cracked darkness.

At this time, the so-called fork in the road in front of him had completely disappeared, the rock wall in the middle had long since disappeared, and the entire path had been far separated into two halves.

"There are so few people here!"

Xia dodged the falling rocks and came all the way to the location where El and them were, and his heart sank when he saw the number of people in front of him:

Except for Abner and the two he saved, only Al and the three gunsmiths behind him remained; Plus yourself, that is to say there are only eight people in the entire right area!

"What's that air flow in between? I felt the unusually violent wind elemental! ”

A wind mage lay on the ground, holding his body in place, looking up at the cracked abyss.

I saw some visible air currents rushing towards the abyss from all directions, driving countless gravel and dust, and frantically falling into the bottomless darkness.

"It's a vacuum tornado! There is no air below the abyss, and a large amount of air from the ground is being sucked to fill it, and everyone immediately grabs the solid things around them, so as not to be swept into the violent air current! ”

Natyavida clung to a rock with both hands and shouted with difficulty.

As she shouted, the elements in the air began to vibrate, sending her voice far away; Both on the left and right sides of the abyss heard her words, and firmly grasped everything around her that could hold her body in place.

"Everyone hide behind these stalactites, quick!"

Compared to the pitiful number on Xia's side, there were seventeen members of the remaining team on the left, in addition to Agnes and Natia Vida, there were five magicians and ten magicians, all of whom were in trouble at this time.

"Egnes, don't be impulsive! The passage in front should be connected, and we can bypass the front to meet Xia in a while! ”

Natia Vida saw Agnes trying to manipulate her black wings to rush above the abyss, and hurriedly stopped her.

“……”

Agnes didn't reply, only she was the most stable in a wheelchair in the raging air, a thin dark curtain of light enveloping her and her black wings, unaffected.

"Hell Gate, the source of dark magic."

Natya Vida looked at the ominous door looming behind her, and sighed in her heart:

She and Egnes should have been on par in strength, but she suffered from the lack of mana and could not last in battle; If the two really face off, she will most likely lose in the end.

"Look into the distance, ghosts! Floating right ahead! ”

One of the team members suddenly called.

The people on the left looked forward, and saw a white shadow moving slowly in the air, passing through some falling rocks from time to time, without the slightest appearance of being hindered, and marching straight ahead of the darkness.

Unlike humans, ghosts can traverse walls and obstacles, as well as float in the air, so they can travel much faster than normal people in this complex terrain, even if they move slowly.

Not far behind the ghost, a small white dot of light was struggling in the raging wind, and was finally torn into pieces by the air current, turning into bits of white light and dissipating.

"The little mouse spirit summoned by Agnes has perished."

Xia hugged a stalagmite, and felt a little sad when he saw this scene.

She couldn't be sure what had led to this consequence now, because she had ignored the system options? Or the plot has already produced unpredictable changes; But she still felt an indescribable sense of guilt at seeing a small, not even creature, disappear before her eyes.

"The wind is light."

I don't know how long it took, when those magicians and magicians were exhausted, the violent air that could sweep people away finally weakened a little, and they could barely stand up.

After a while, people came out of their hiding places and stood there in shock.

A high cliff had formed on the left, and people were looking at Nati Yavida, hoping that she would have an idea and decide what to do.

"Egnes, don't go over!"

Seeing Agnes levitating in the air, Natia Vida struggled to prop herself up from the rock, her injured hand still not fully healed.

"Now that the wind is much lighter, I can rush through!"

Agnes gritted her teeth.

"Wait a minute, let me try."

Natyavida knew that it was useless to persuade her with words, and with a little stretch of her hand, a small fireball shot into the air, flying towards the other side of the abyss.

As soon as it flew above the abyss, the small fireball began to shake, and when it reached the central area, it was even more slammed, falling downward.

"The air flow in the middle is still very strong now, so we'd better take a break and continue to walk forward to see if we can meet Xia and them."

Natia Vida retracted her hand and said solemnly to Agnes.

“…… All right. ”

Agnes bit her lip and finally fell from the air to the ground, retracting her outstretched wings.

"Is everyone okay? There was no one hurt. ”

On the right, Abner shook the dust off his body and shouted at the top of his voice.

"I'm fine, thank you, Abner."

One of the people he saved got up from the ground and thanked him.

"You magicians are relatively thin, and you will have to hurry in a while, but don't be too reluctant." Abner looked at the male team member and reached out to pat him on the shoulder, grinning the magician.

The other, dressed in a black robe, was Zero, who stood up from the ground silently, without saying a word, and Abner scratched his head, nor did he come forward to ask for himself.

"How's that going over there—"

He tried to convey a message to Natyavida high up, but the sound couldn't penetrate the raging currents above the abyss.

“…… We...... Ahead...... Finding the Way...... Rendezvous ......"