** Shikotander used to say during his lifetime, "As long as you live, there is hope." ”

If the confrontation with the Primordial Warlock wasn't so exhausting, then Sadiri might have done better. But the Coral Witch has done her best. In every way, the outcome of the battle was much better than she expected.

"In time, you'll have the power of a million stellar explosions. In the Pure Fortress, the vision in the lens said to her last. "As a solar mage, you will be above all beings. Only the primordial warlock himself is your match. ”

There, fate and luck allowed Sadiri to leapfrog the Guardian and the Blasphemer. She no longer needs to draw life force from nature to complete spells, she can squeeze power from the cataclysmic remnant of Attath, the greatest tyrant in the dying world.

In the ensuing battles, her mana was more durable than Ebu's polis, and more stable than that of Anandro Penis and Tektu Titlai. If it weren't for her, the victory of the primordial warlock would have come much earlier and more completely.

But Rajat was far older than her, and not only was he far more powerful, but he knew far more spells than the young Coral Witch. Harnessing the power of ancient magic, Rajat pinned Sadiri into space with a blunt blow, throwing her onto one of Atas's moons, Atops. He was confident that the Coral Witch would not have enough spells to make her return from the moon to Atas.

His self-confidence is well-founded.

Atopus, or the Moon of Death, is an ancient evil being of the power of the gods. During the Battle of Purification, it was summoned to this world by the Primordial Warlock to confront the gods of the inhuman race. After the fifteenth century of the Purification War, it fell into a deep sleep and only began to awaken just now.

After being struck by the primordial warlock's spell, Satili endured great pain and cast spells to survive in a vacuum. Attath grew smaller and smaller in her field of vision, until it became a yellowish disc no bigger than a dinner plate. Darkness came from all directions, there was no air, and the bitter cold of space enveloped her.

Then, she was captured by the gravitational field of Moon Atopes and began to fall again.

Now, she stood on the gray moon with wide eyes. In front of her was her shadow, like a pile of ink magically pulled into a human form. The ground is rugged and barren, with only shades of gray and black of various shapes. The breath of death is everywhere, and the great danger is just the tip of the iceberg.

At the last moment of her fall, she uses a clever anti-gravity spell to protect herself from being shattered, but she is still trapped here. The most powerful teleportation spell that Sadiri knew could only teleport her two hundred Palesan (about a thousand kilometers) away. And the distance between this moon and Atas is at least 80,000 palesan (more than 400,000 kilometers, about 5 percent farther than the distance between the Earth and the Moon).

"What a barren place. She muttered to herself. Behind her, the sun had just climbed the top of a crater, shining on the rock fragments scattered across the rugged plains.

Sadiri looked at the barren moon surface and couldn't help but burst into tears.

The first thing the Coral Witch did was to use magic to try to get in touch with Tyr's people. It was not surprising that she had tried, but had received nothing—since she had not been thrown straight up, Athas was now below the moon's horizon, and no one was in orbit around the moon.

In addition to her, many fragments were swept away in that extremely fierce battle, and they were thrown up by the effects of magic. Fragments of the Pure Keep, white and black marble stones, landed in a sizable area around the Coral Witch.

It didn't take much for her to find Khwarazmi and Amar from the wreckage of the fortress. In low gravity, their bodies were surprisingly easy to carry. There is no need to bury them. Sadiri placed them between two boulders, facing the sun and facing west towards Attas, behind the black mountains in the distance.

She wanted to say a few words of eulogy, but she couldn't, perhaps because she didn't know what kind of funeral ceremony to give to the two men.

"Farewell, Amal, farewell, Khorezmi! I wish it hadn't turned out like this, I'm sorry. Her voice was almost a whisper, "May you ever be in peace when you die......"

She tried not to think about how long it would be before she would join them herself.

She forced herself to think about what she would do if it was her sister who was alive. Survive, Ryan would survive.

First, Sadiri cheered herself up in her heart. It's a miracle she's alive and unharmed, and the Patience Elemental Spell she's cast during the battle still works, so she's not bothered by the lack of oxygen and the cold. As long as you can cast spells, food can also be conjured. Although she doesn't know how to teleport over long distances, it doesn't seem like a problem to survive for a short time.

If it had been before, she would have had limited spells to memorize, and it would not have been possible to help her endure the harsh environment on the moon all the time. But now, as long as the sun still shines on her, she will never run out of her spells, and she won't need to memorize and prepare them again.

Second, it is a call for help. At the moment, the nearest possible rescue was at Eighty Thousand Palesan beyond the moonline, and none of the spells she knew could help her get in touch with such a distant place. Moreover, the moon, the ancient evil Atoppus, seems to have some kind of energy field that can affect all kinds of teleportation and flight, and even the effects of other spells. Maybe that's what Atops used to capture his victims, she thought.

So, she needed a mountain with a view of Attas. In that case, a magic item she carried with her at the beginning of the adventure might come in handy.

She examined her injuries. It wasn't too strict, and the bleeding stopped in several places. She tore off the corner of her robe and bandaged her calf, and then stepped out to meet the shimmering rosy sun.

She must have looked ugly now, she thought to herself, dirty and ugly. Then she kicked up a handful of moon dust, which in low gravity and in the absence of air, the dust particles took on a perfect parabolic shape and slowly fell.

Atopus seemed to be asleep again, strangely, it had been awakened by the primordial warlock, how could it fall into a deep sleep again? Could something had happened to Rajat? she rejoiced at the possibility, but at the same time worried about the possibility of Muhadi being possessed.

Maybe the battle was over, she thought, and the resurrection of the primordial warlock had been interrupted. However, she could never think of anyone with such a powerful ability to prevent Rajat from coming back to the world.

From the shadows of the moon, several stumbling lunar monsters approached the Coral Witch. They look like they're a patchwork of bones from different creatures, and they're horrific in appearance.

Relying on the new power drawn from the sun, Sadiri carefully distanced herself from these monsters, and then killed them point by point with powerful ranged spells. It seemed to realize that this prey was tricky, and soon, the remaining undead monsters retreated neatly, as suddenly as they appeared.

How many monsters are there? Coral Witch thought to herself, can she handle them all?

When she got closer, she realized that the mountains on the moon were not as steep as they seemed from the point. Under the action of low gravity, although the body that is not adapted to it is a little staggering, there is not much difference between climbing and walking. Once at the top of the mountain, a thin line of dim yellow appeared on the horizon of the moon as if it were a reward for Satili, and the mountains on the other side of the valley were still immersed in darkness. She stretched her shoulders and headed down the valley.

On the next peak, Sadiri encounters some more undead lunar monsters. It was only after these enemies that stood in her way that she saw the edge of the planet Athas revealed on the horizon of the moon, like a patch of orange basalt half-obscured by a black mountain range.

She pulled the artifact out of her robe, and luckily it wasn't damaged in the battle. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to amplify her teleportation spells, and she wouldn't be able to get in touch with anyone on Attas. This item had been brought with her before she began her adventure into the Salt Sea, and she had not used it before, but she had not expected that she might be able to rely on it to save her life now.

"This is Satilly, I'm stuck on the moon, trapped on Atopps. Can anyone hear me?"

She touched the surface of the spell to activate the spell, waiting for an answer. But she couldn't hear anything but the whispering noise of the sun.

"This is Satili the Coral Witch calling from the moon of Atops! did anyone hear me?" she waited a little longer, for it might take some time for the magic to reach Attath.

"Did anyone hear that?" she repeated, her heart sinking lower and lower. "Anyone, anyone?" her voice fell.

"--Coral Witch?Coral Witch of Tyre?Is it really you?I'm Oronis, the Witch-King of Kuhn, and I've received a magical summons from you. Pass guò it, I can determine your position, please hold on to it. ”

Satili breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't even know she had been holding back for so long.

It was the Witch King who had received his signal, and perhaps he shouldn't have been too surprised by this, since their sorcery was unmatched. But would this Oronis, the Lizardman Executioner, really be willing to save himself? In Atas, the witch-king was known for his seclusion, rarely taking part in battles in the desert. So Satili knew almost nothing about him.

Perhaps, in order to fight the Primordial Warlocks, they are really willing to join forces with themselves, Sadiri thought. They're really scared, aren't they.

In any case, there is no way to hope for a better outcome at this time. Satili breathed a sigh of relief and touched the communication device again, "I heard your reply. ”

Before the next reply, the Coral Witch had precious time to reflect on her situation.

She determined by the magic of guò's prophecy that she was very close to the twilight line, right on the border of the sunny side of the "moon". Atopus, despite its slow turn, is unstoppable. Roughly speaking, according to the observations of ancient mages, the moon rotates about every thirty days. That is, one day on this moon is equivalent to thirty days on Attas.

And the sunset will come in three Atas days, however, there is no shelter on the moon, and there is no place for her to spend the long "moonlit night" of fourteen Atas days. And she needs the mana provided by the sun, magic to get food, magic to protect against lack of oxygen and cold.

Moreover, Atopussan's terrifying energy field can prevent any teleportation and flying spells, and like a greedy hunter, it will not allow its prey to escape. Before sunset, no one on Attas had time to use the magic ship to come to the moon and save her. Except for the Primordial Warlocks, no one's magic is strong enough to throw a person onto the moon, or to throw a person from the moon back to Athas.

There are too many impossibilities.

She sat silently on the ground, staring at the slender faint yellow "crescent" at the end of the rugged wasteland, lost in thought.

Almost as long as a lifetime later, the Witch King of Attas, Oronis of Kuhn, sent a message: "Satili, Coral Witch, can you hear me?"

"I can. ”

She finished casting the spell and silently waited for her words to be teleported to Athas.

"I hear you, Sadiri. I'm sure the earliest magic ship I can find to fly to the moon will be in thirty days, can you hold out that long?"

She turned her heart on the side and cast a spell to send her own message: "I understand, I will wait here for rescue, no matter what happens." ”

She waited for a while, but received no answer. Mages who can cast spells to send messages from Athas to the moon are extremely rare, and they may not have memorized many of these insignificant spells. Unlike Satili now, others cast spells for life force.

"I'll stick with it until then. The Coral Witch sent the message over and over again until the item ran out of uses. The ground must have received her answer, and she must believe that Oronis or someone else has received it and will come to her rescue, all she has to do is live until then.

How would Ryan react if it were? Hurry up, little one, and when dusk catches up with you, you'll be dead.

The telecommunication device had run out of energy and had become useless, so Satili threw it away and stood up. Now, her magic comes from the sun. If the sun went down, she wouldn't be able to cast a spell to endure the vacuum and the cold, so she started walking.

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Kuhn's Oronis stared at his Templars, it was early in the morning, and it was not yet dawn. Usually mages will sleep at this time to make sure that the spells they have memorized are ready. But he didn't have time to sleep anymore, and he planned to build a magic ship that could fly to the moon in thirty days.

If Malik, who was good at enchanting magic, did this, he would be more than he could do it himself. Oronis thought to himself, his huge compound eyes blinking and blinking, he was really not fit for this job.

However, according to rumors, Malik unexpectedly ran to work with the resurrected Pseudo-Atrodido (Oronis insisted on not believing that the guy was the real thing), which made it impossible to seek help. It would be a miracle that I was able to steal a simplified version of the fusion furnace design.

What's more, Oronis's wings are as thin as cicada wings, and the path he chooses to take also limits his strength.

"How long do you think we'll delay when we dismantle the magic ship's energy cores for inspection?"

"Assuming it's normal, we'll lose one day, otherwise, two or even three days. ”

Oronis clenched his fists in exasperation, while his third and fourth hands rubbed against the back of his chair. He hates being forced to make hasty decisions: "What is the usual procedure?"

"Usually we recheck. His Templar replied.

"Let's get started. ”

He nodded in agreement. Delayed again. In heaven, someone was counting on him to arrive on time. If she were still alive, if the loss of communication did not mean the death of other fatal accidents.

If only she could withstand the attacks of the monsters of the ancient evil Atotops.

If only she could endure the vacuum and the cold when there was no sunlight and no life force to draw spells from.

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On Attas, it's the equivalent of a marathon. But on "Moon" Atops, this is nothing more than a trot. After five parasansan walks, the trek takes on a relaxed pace: half is a walk, the other half is both jogging and a slow-moving mongoose jumping. There were no moon monsters attacking on this route, and her biggest distress was that this qiē plane was too monotonous.

This is the way she came up with for herself, since she must be in the sun to continue to survive on this cold moon. Then keep walking so that the sun never sets. On Attas, it takes one lap of Atas in a day to make the sun never set. Fortunately, the rotation of this "moon" is much slower, and it takes you a month to circle it.

She had to.

Her fellow trainees under Master Cotander were somewhat jealous of her talent for becoming the first full-fledged Guardian Mage, and they mercilessly ridiculed her as a lowly woman who relied on her beauty to take advantage of her.

Now she is a sun mage, unkempt, unkempt, and walks on a giant ancient evil thing. She didn't know what her former classmates would think now, maybe she could hear them apologize one by one—if she made it back to Atas alive.

The magic that flowed into her body through guò suddenly dropped, and Sadiri woke up from her reverie. There seemed to be nothing unusual around, and she only thought about it for a moment before she figured out what was wrong. Now she was walking downhill in a circle, the moon dust raised by her feet in low gravity flying overhead, blocking out the sunlight. She thought about it for a moment and decided that she was going to take a smaller step and act like a lady.

Behind her, the sun swirled slowly in a dreamy yellowish yellow, creeping imperceptibly on the horizon. She began to think cranky. Travel across the Salt Sea to find the Pure Fortress, uncover its secrets and defeat the Dragon King Polis. It sounded like a daunting mission, but she never imagined that it would end up landing her on the moon, and before that time she would join forces with Polis.

As the sun shines, she casts spells to ensure that she can continue to endure the absence of air.

As she travels west through the Lunar Wastes, Sadiri falls into a hallucination of blood and fall: the Primordial Warlock comes to life before her eyes, and the Pure Fortress falls apart. Dragonlord Polis casts a terrifying spell never seen before in the world to fight Rajat, and Andrpenis and Tektukti Terley fall.

That qiē is gone. Now is the time to focus on the realities. Take a step, one, two, one.

The magic power flowing into the body has dropped again, isn't this a downhill road, raising moon dust again?

She cast a prophetic spell, and was shocked to find that she had walked a full thirty palesans.

Anyway, it's time to rest for a while, she thought, and luckily Atopps only affects spells like teleportation and flying.

She sat down on a large rock and cast a spell to create a hard bread that could be eaten. She turned her head and bit down on a few pieces, the food was hard and slightly sweet.

She had never been a good chef herself, and she thought that the conjured up was not delicious either.

The Coral Witch looked out over the western wilderness, the moonline looking too flat to be real, creating a picturesque backdrop almost as far as it could reach. On this "moon" it should be easy to maintain a walking degree of two palesan per hourglass. If you take into account the time of sleep and rest, this degree will drop to a palesan dot per hourglass when she can go far, far away.

She inexplicably remembered her sister. Ryan would love this, she always likes to hike in the barren land.

"In a sense, it's pretty enough, isn't it, sister?" "Who would have thought there were so many strange shadows here? there are so many open spaces where no one has them, and there is no need to worry about sand bandits, and no slave owners to enslave others." ”

Time to go. She continued through the potholed but mostly flat field. This "moon" is a surprisingly flat place, with only one percent of the moon's surface greater than 10 degrees. Those little craters, she jumped over with a light jump. The few big ones, she walked by. In low gravity, this doesn't pose any real problems for walking. She didn't get tired, but when she saw that she had walked twenty hourglasses, she forced herself to stop.

Sleep is a problem. Vacuum and Cold Tolerance spells only last for two hourglasses, so they have to be refreshed frequently. It also meant that she couldn't sleep more than two hourglasses at a time.

How lucky she was, Sadiri thought, if she hadn't become a solar mage and didn't need to memorize and prepare spells, she would have been finished. When she can sleep less than two hourglasses at a time, it means that she will not be able to memorize spells at all in the past, and she will not be able to resist the vacuum if she does not memorize spells. And if you fall asleep, you will die in your sleep because the spell fails.

She sat carefully on the ground, squinting her eyes to rest, but she didn't dare to let herself fall into a deep sleep completely. It was a long time before she was in a daze, and when she was half asleep and half awake, she dreamed of her sister. In the dream, her sister was not dead, she was just pretending to be dead and joking with her.

She woke up with sore muscles and couldn't tell the difference between east and west, and then she suddenly remembered where she was—Atas was hanging a palm above the moonline. She stood up, yawning as she ran toward the gray sandy plains of the Gobi to the west.

Her feet hurt from the boots. She changed her footwork, from trotting to jumping to kangaroo jumping. This makes the situation better, but not enough. She could feel her feet blistering. Satili simply threw off her boots and stepped barefoot on the surface of the "moon", Atops.

Ryan also walked for so long with blistered feet, and didn't have the patience to listen to complaints or minus. Maybe she should have taken her boots off before she started walking, the pain was at least bearable in low gravity.

At least that's what she wants.

After a few more moments, she simply lost sensation on her feet.

She jumped over the small crater, the larger one she bypassed, and the largest one she over. After crossing the western part of a vast lunar plain, she entered a rugged section of small hills. She had to downgrade. The sun is shining on the slopes, but the inner walls of the crater and the valley are still in shadow.

The blisters on her feet burst, and the piercing pain came from the center of her feet. She bit her lip to keep herself from crying and kept going. After walking a hundred more palesans, she came to another plain of the moon, and the road became easy again.

When the ancient ** masters observed the two moons of Atas, there were some dark patches on the moon's surface, so they called these large areas of shadow the Moon Sea. Like the Salt Sea on Atas, it lives up to its name, not a drop of water, but is nothing more than a flat, low-lying plain covered with Moon Sea basalts.

Sadiri is currently in the plain of Tongguò, which was called the Bubble Sea by the ancient masters. Crossing the Bubble Sea is the northern end of the Abundant Sea, from which you can reach the Quiet Sea. Her sixth day was supposed to pass through the huge crater in the center of the Sea of Tranquility, a huge crater that had been observed in ancient Atas.

She watched as she walked, but saw nothing. She guessed that she must have staggered a hundred palesan from it, and walked a distance further north. Now only the sea of steam continues to move forward. The crater was believed to be even more spectacular than the tallest mountain in Attas, but unfortunately she was out of sight.

"Really," she said, "after all this distance, the only tourist spot within a hundred miles is closed." That's the usual outcome, isn't it, sister?"

No one laughed at her humor, so after a moment she laughed herself.

Wake up from a chaotic and short dream, return to the dark sky and still sunlight, yawn, and set off on your way with sleepy eyes. Take a sip of boring warm water, nibble on magically uncharacteristic food, rest, and carefully use prophecy to determine the direction, this is your life. Walk again, rest again...... When you go to bed again, the sun is still pinned to where you woke up. Repeat the same process the next day, and then repeat again...... Repeat......

Although the food made by magic is low-residue, you have to excrete it according to the laws of nature every few days. Becoming a Sun Mage doesn't mean you're holy, you can only find a convenient place. In a vacuum and at low temperatures, those excrements resemble a brown, brittle powder. Your whereabouts have been marked by these powdered remnants, which are almost all in touch with the black lunar dust.

To the west, all the way to the west, racing against the sun.

Atas hung high in the sky, and she had to look up now to see it. She paused to celebrate as Atas hung at the zenith, opening an unseen bottle of water of Nightshade to toast her imaginary traveling companions. Now that the sun is high above the moon's horizon, she has rounded a quarter of the moon's surface after seven days of walking.

She skirted the southernmost part of a large crater in order to stay away from the meteorite area and not climb over the mountains. In this mysterious area, the monoliths are the size of houses, and some are bigger than the palace of the witch king. Beneath your feet, the soft, powdery topsoil is mixed with rock, and the deep trenches in the shape of radial shapes show the effects of the cataclysm of eons ago. She groped her way forward, muttering to herself as she went, "Be careful under your feet, the ground where you land is not solid. Now there's a hill ahead, think about whether we should climb up it, or get around it?"

There was silence. She looked at the rocky mountain in front of her, and although she could see no trace of volcanic activity, the rocky mountain looked like an ancient volcanic crater. The situation in the area around the pass can be bad, and she can observe the road ahead from the top of the mountain.

"Hey, you hear clearly, climbing this mountain will be dangerous, follow me, see where I am staying, don't gamble on luck, walk slowly and safely, it's better than walking to death! "Uh, well, let's rest for fifteen minutes after we get to the top. Follow me. ”

Past the rocks in the mountains she named the Mohadi Gorge, the Boruseren Ocean is as flat as the Punishment Square of Tyre. Satili glides across the sand in a gentle, even step, and Ryan seems to be either far behind or running ahead, not even a shadow in sight.

As before, Ryan was always the one who went one step ahead, she even walked with such grace, but she could only imitate it clumsily.

Sadiri was angry at Ryan for refusing to follow her closely—Ryan had promised to let her take the lead this time—but Sadiri could only resent. Ryan used to call her a naughty bag, so she's determined to act like an adult. Either way, she's the one who became a solar mage. If Ryan had lost, she had done it herself.

She set her route farther north so that she could walk in the flat terrain that the magic had detected. She looked around to find Ryan, only to be surprised to see Atas hanging low on the horizon of the moon like half a full moon.

Of course, Ryan wasn't seen anywhere. Ryan died more than a decade ago, just after she had gone with the slave traders and given Sadiri a chance to live in Tyre.

Satili was alone in a stinky, itchy mage robe that had almost worn a layer of skin off her thighs. The clothes used to be beautiful and close-fitting, but now they are dirty and unsightly, and they are torn and have a few holes. She should have torn her clothes, but who would have thought she would walk so far in them?

It's unfair, but Ryan, who is in rags, is neatly dressed, and there is no sign of a long journey. Ryan could always do a lot of things that Satili couldn't, but how could she travel on the moon so lightly that she didn't even need to cast spells to endure the vacuum and the cold?

She turned to ask Ryan. Ryan smiled bitterly: "You ignorant little sister, I cast a spell to endure the vacuum because I died, and I sold myself to a slave trader so that you could have a chance to live in a safer life in Tyr." Soon it seemed like I was dying from abuse, remember?"

Oh yes, that's right. Well, if Ryan is dead, then she won't have to breathe. This excellent reason led them to walk together in silence for another palesan, until Sadiri suddenly remembered:

"Hey, wait a minute, if you're dead, why are you here?"

"Because I'm not here, little fool. I am just the product of your imagination and confused mind. ”

Sadiri was taken aback and turned her head to look. Ryan wasn't around, Ryan was never around.

"I'm sorry, can you please come back?"

She tripped and fell headfirst into a crater with a puff of dust.

She never thought that her body was exhausted to such a journey, and when she fell, she repeatedly tried to support herself with her hands to stand up, but once she was unsuccessful.

Ryan's voice rang out again. "Atopus only awakened at the command of the primordial warlock, and now it fell into a deep sleep again, and only instinct, the instinct to hunt, remained. Don't you see, little thing, that Atops is eroding your spirit, corrupting your will, confusing your mind with illusions. Why aren't the moon monsters coming out? They're waiting ahead, and when you're weak, they're going to pounce on you and devour your flesh. ”

"I'm so tired, Ryan. Sadiri said as she lay on the ground. It seemed that the negative energy field of this moon, the ancient evil thing, really affected her, making her tired and unable to think, as if she was carrying the weight of a whole world. "I'm going to sleep for a while, it's time to rest. ”

She woke up cold, red-faced, and gasping for breath, but still felt as if she was going to suffocate. It was the protective magic that had failed, she thought, thanks to her waking up in time, before she could cast the spell again.

Sadiri sat on the ground, feeling that her brain was still groggy, her heart was beating so hard that she could feel the blood vessels fluttering on both sides of her forehead. It took a while for me to calm down.

She used the time to estimate the situation she was facing. When she wasn't looking, the terrain had become mountainous, and the walk would be slower than before.

"It's time for you to wake up, sleepy bug. Ryan reappeared. She yawned, stretched, and looked back at her footsteps. At the end of the long trail, Atas hung like a small yellow dot above the horizon of this "moon", not very far away. It is the only colored spot on a monotonous gray background.

"Half a circle around the moon in twelve days. She said, "Yes, little one. Of course, this is not too good, but it is not bad either. But it may not be so easy in the future, and the moon monsters of Atopps are gathering on the road ahead, waiting for you. ”

Sadiri stood up and began walking. As she rinsed her mouth from the water she had magically created, her feet automatically took their usual steps. Without looking back, she beckoned to Ryan, "Let's go, we have to hurry." Are you going to walk or not?"

The sun was shining, and the ground of the "moon" seemed to have been washed, with almost no shadows. Sadiri struggled to find a place to stay, stumbling on a seemingly flat rock that she was almost invisible. Take it one step at a time, one, two, one.

The thrill of the trek at the beginning has long since faded, leaving only a firm determination to survive, and even this has sometimes metamorphosed into a spiritual comfort. Satilly and Ryan are at home, telling her the details of her own private life, the revolution she has started, and the achievements she has made. She secretly hoped that Ryan would be happy and would tell her that she was proud of her. Suddenly, she didn't listen, and sometimes slipped away while she wasn't looking.

She stood at the edge of a long, winding canyon. It looked like a riverbed waiting to be filled by a storm, but Sadiri knew it had never known what water was. The valley floor was filled with nothing but dust, dry like ground bones. She slowly found her way down to the bottom of the valley, careful not to hurt herself from falling. She looked up at the top of the valley, where Ryan was standing and beckoned to her, "Hurry up! Don't be sluggish, you sluggish fellow." Do you want to stay here forever?"

"What's the hurry? We're already ahead of schedule. The sun is high in the sky, and we have made half a circle around Atopus. No problem, we'll go through it. ”

Ryan slid down the mountain like skiing on the sand. She pressed her face to her forehead, forehead to forehead, and glared at her with a look full of anger that almost frightened Sadiri.

"It's really exciting, my lazy girl, you've finished walking around the half moon, but you've only finished the good part. From here, it's all mountains and rugged terrain. You'll have to fight against the mental corrosion of Atopps and deal with the possible moon monsters and walk another two thousand palersans. Once you slow down and let the sun come to the front, and then you come across a big crater that can pull out a long shadow, just one, and you're dead, dead, dead! Trust me, you won't like this. Now cheer up and go!"

It was true that she was walking slowly, and she could no longer jump straight down the slope as before, for now the shadow of the mountains was stretched longer, and she could not walk out for half a day. And without sunlight, she can't cast spells, and she hasn't slept properly for a long time to remember spells. Now she had to get around the mountains that were too tall.

There are no more flat plains ahead, either boulders or craters. On the eighteenth day, she came to a great natural arch that towered over her head. Sadiri looked at it in awe, wondering how such a structure could have been formed here.

"It's not weathered, that's for sure. "I think it's lava." The lava melted a hole in the mountain beam, and then the bombardment of billions of years of micrometeorites modified the rough edges. But then again, it's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Spectacular. ”

Not far past the archway, she entered a needle-like crystal forest. At first they were small, shattering like glass at her feet, but soon they towered above her head, the tops of the six-sided spires shimmering with fantastical colors. She walked silently between them, the sapphire flash making her dizzy. The crystal jungle finally faded away, replaced by colorful transparent boulders that reflected the sun. Is this an emerald? or a diamond?

"I don't know, little one. But they're in our way, and I'd be happy to leave them behind. ”

After a little further walking, the glittering Stonehenge gradually disappeared, and only a few sparse colored lights remained on the slopes on either side, and finally the rock was only a craggy rock.

At the foot of a huge crater, prophetic magic determines the midpoint of the far side of the moon, but there is no time to celebrate. The sun had long since finished its lazy rise and was gradually setting straight down towards the horizon in front of them.

"Little one, it's a race against the sun, and the sun never stops to rest. You're lagging behind. ”

"I'm tired, can't you see I'm tired? I think I'm sick, I'm covered in wounds. Leave me alone, let me take a break, just a few minutes, okay?"

"You can rest when you're dead. Ryan laughed at a shrill voice, and Sadiri suddenly realized that she was on the verge of madness.

She suddenly suppressed her laughter: "Run, little one, go!"

The unusually monotonous gray moon surface passed at her feet.

But good intentions and desperate rush do not offset the fact that the sun is setting. Every day when she woke up, the sun in front of her was lower, shining more directly into her eyes. In front of her, in the blinding glow of the sun, there seemed to be a few moving boulders in the corner of her eye.

No, it wasn't a boulder, it was some undead that seemed to be pieced together from broken bones, activated by the negative energy of Atopps. I don't know how long they had been lurking before, but now, it seems that they feel that their prey has no strength to struggle, so they boldly appear.

She stood still, the negative energy aura emitted by the undead made her sick to her stomach, she was too weak, and the world was spinning around. "You're in the wrong mind!" she shouted at the undead monsters. "As long as the sun is shining, I can't be defeated!"

She cast spells to attack the undead monsters, half of which were shredded by the magic light, and the rest hid again, hiding in the shadows. Satili knew they weren't far away, she knew they were still growing, lurking in the shadows. When you can't support yourself, you will rush to it.

The sun was now shining directly on her face. The shadow of the rock stretched out to her like the claws of a hungry devil, and even the tiniest of them looked vicious. Ryan walked beside her again, but this time she had a gloomy face and didn't say a word.

"Why don't you talk to me? What did I do? Did I do something wrong? Sue me!"

"I'm not here, little girl, I'm dead. I think it's time for you to face this qiē squarely. ”

"Don't talk about that, you can't die. ”

"There is an ideal image of me in your heart, let me go, let me go. ”

"I can't. Don't go, hey, do you remember when we had saved up for a long time to buy a dress? Then we met a sick fugitive slave, and we went to the veterinarian with a handful of pottery coins full of change. The veterinarian didn't ask anything, and in the end he confiscated our money. ”

"Yes, I remember. But we never saved enough money to buy a new set of clothes. Ryan waved his hand, "Do you think it's easy to grow up with a sister who drags her nose around my ass all day and wants to repeat everything I've done?"

"I didn't sniff. ”

"You dragged it. ”

"No, I don't, I adore you. ”

"Really?"

"You are my idol. ”

"I know you adore me. I tell you, little one, that doesn't make me much better. Do you think it's easy to be an idol? Sometimes I have to be with different men to make a little money, and I have to hide from you in private. Otherwise, my bastard little sister will come to a copy. ”

"You're not like that, you've never been like this. ”

"Don't be naïve, little one. Of course I am. You're always keeping an eye on me, and whatever I do, I know you're going to do it. I had to struggle desperately to stay ahead, and you, damn it, kept up effortlessly. You're so much smarter than I am, do you know? Do you know what I'm going to think?"

"Well, then I'm going to feel better? Do you think it's going to be easy for me? I grew up with a dead sister, and every time I did something, people would say, 'You're not as bad as Ryan, or 'Ryan would do this,' or 'If Ryan were ......still alive,' what do you think about that? ”

"Long pain is better than short pain, little one, it's better than dead. ”

"you, Ryan, I love you. Why do you have to go?"

"I know, little one, I can't help it, I'm sorry. I love you too, but I have to go. Even if your revolution succeeds, even if you eliminate slavery and kill all the witch kings, I won't survive...... Can you let me go? Can you just be yourself from now on and not me?"

"I'll ...... I'll try. ”

"After I'm gone, you have to be strong, okay?"

"I'll be strong. ”

"Goodbye, sister. ”

"Goodbye, Ryan. ”

She stood alone in the shadowy, empty and rugged wilderness, and in front of her, the sun was already on the mountain beams. The dust she kicked up was strange, and instead of falling to the ground, they floated half a meter above the ground. She was bewildered by the phenomenon. Then she saw the dust around her drifting silently off the ground, and at first she thought it was another hallucination, but soon she realized that it was just a low-gravity static phenomenon. She walked through the rising mist of moon dust. The remnant sun was like blood, and the sky turned a deep purple.

The darkness swooped down on her like a demon, and only a few peaks were still illuminated behind her, the foot of the hill long since vanished into the shadows, and the ground ahead was covered with shadows that she had to get around. She casts a prophetic spell to determine her position.

She was sure she wasn't far from the point, but there wasn't a familiar landscape around. Was it the hill ahead that she had climbed to deliver a message to Athas? She climbed up, but didn't see the discarded communication device, maybe the next one?

The darkness was up to her knees, and she groped her way over the rocks hidden in the darkness, the sparks kicked by her footsteps on the rocks flickering behind her. "Rubbing light!" she thought—no one had ever seen that phenomenon before. She can't die now, she can't fail. But the darkness would not wait. The darkness enveloped her like an ocean, and the rocks poked their heads out of the tide into the remnant sun. When the tide of darkness swept over her body,

She felt the long-awaited lunar monsters swarm and pounce on her.

Countless undead monsters made of bones rushed out of the canyon, from the ravine, from the corner of the corner. Their numbers are endless, and there is an overwhelming saliva.

Even in its slumber, the horrors of the Dead Moon are in full swing.

Among the countless undead monsters, there is a tall figure that is particularly eye-catching. It was a terrifying headless monster with a rotten muscular humanoid appearance. It was as if he had been summoned from the deepest dark nightmares, a living, or rather lifeless, horror.

If you look closely, part of its filthy body is covered in the same holes and fissures as the moon's surface itself. This is the embodiment of the Dead Moon, the embodiment of Atopps' mad nightmare.

Satili felt the aura of the other party, and all the remaining vitality in her body seemed to be squeezed clean. A meteor shower was summoned by the other party and fell sharply towards him. There is no atmosphere, no friction, and these meteors do not heat and light. But the slightest weakening of momentum did not diminish their power.

Sun Mage, fight against the Moon of Death.

The weight of a world weighed on Satilly, and even as she fell into a deep sleep again, Atops' negative energy field pervasively eroded her will, disintegrating her spirit, and blurring her memories.

She hadn't slept well for a long, long time, had no memory or prepared spells, and in the darkness she had no power to fight back. It won't take long for the protective spells to endure the vacuum and the cold to dissipate.

Only the top of the mountain is still in the sun. She ran on her legs, her bare feet leaving petite footprints on the moon's surface. She dodged the attacks of the avatar of Atopus, and made her way through the darkness before she was surrounded by the undead monsters, towards the nearest highest mountain she could see.

She stumbled and crawled through the dark ocean, and finally pulled herself into the sunlight like a swimmer thirsting for air. She curled up on her rocky island, watching in despair as the dark tide slowly rose and enveloped her. The eyes of countless undead creatures glowed blue, more than the stars in the sky. The tall, headless monster drew closer, ready to feast on its feast.

Satili used the last rays of sunlight before sunset to cast spells to fight back, many of which she couldn't remember due to Atops' mental contamination. All she can do is attack, attack, keep attacking. Will there be rescue? I am obviously very strong, and I have done everything I can. Now that they have circled the moon, where are they? Where are they?

The undead monsters pounced like a tide, and the avatar of the dead moon commanded in the center. Powerful spells hit them like boulders falling into the ocean. Indulge in huge waves, but the ocean itself is unharmed. A qiē counterattack seems to be so powerless. A legendary spell that can light up mushroom clouds on Atas is nothing on this moon. Without air, there would be no shock waves here, and radiation and heat would not even tickle the undead.

According to the previous prediction of the prophecy magic, it has now been a week since the moon's rotation, and the sun should have set. But there was still the last glimmer of light on the spire of the crater. Sadiri knew she had made the right bet, and she tried to stay as far north as she could on the road. Even if the moon doesn't have the polar day phenomenon like on Attas, the sun will set more slowly at higher latitudes.

The embodiment of the Dead Moon grew closer and closer, and every step it took felt like a blow to Sadiri's heart. A wave of negative energy enveloped her, and the wound that had long healed ruptured again, and the moonstone on the ground oozed blood strangely.

Will anyone save themselves?

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On Attas, the rescue operation is proceeding at a rapid pace. Uronis of Kuhn, the Lizardman Executioner, one of the most solitary witch-kings on Atas, oversees the formation of his magic ship. Everything has been checked over and over again - in space, a small loophole is an invitation to an accidental death, let alone landing on a sleeping ancient evil being.

The schedule was almost unbelievably tight, and what would have taken at least years to build a magical ship and the combined efforts of a dozen legendary mages was now completed in a month. All of the Master Craftsmen in Kuhn were recruited, and Oronis repeatedly used time-based spells to speed up the build.

In just one month since the Great War, Atas had so many great things to do that Oronis could not count on the help of other witch kings or the king of the Tyres, Tysian, so he had to complete the construction of the magic ship himself.

Thirty days after receiving a signal from the moon Atops and learning that the sun mage had miraculously survived, the magic ship "The Rescuer" soared from the surface of Atas and flew towards the moon.

Oronis commanded his magic ship to land on the surface of Atopps, a living ancient creature who did not dare to make something too outrageous to wake him up. Although it is said that Atopus only wakes up when he is ordered by the primordial magician, who can be sure that he will not sleepwalk occasionally?

It didn't take long for the Witch King to find the fragment of the Pure Fortress that had fallen on the moon. Out of fear of the Seven Sins Sect, he never dared to let his city-state go unprotected, and ventured to the center of the Salt Sea, where he did not expect to see its fragments.

"It's amazing," Oronis' Templar whispered, "to survive the spell of nailing into the sky, and it's a shame it didn't save her." ”

After the Witch King and a few high-ranking Templars who could cast spells and endure the vacuum searched the remains of the Pure Fortress, they found a trail that stretched due west, over the ridge, and disappeared into the lunar horizon. Oronis used magic to strengthen his huge compound eyes, and there was no sign of them.

Looks like she's trying to get a good look at the moon before she runs out of air. He said, shaking his massive exoskeleton-covered head.

"I wonder how far she's gone?"

"Is it possible that she's still alive?" asked a loyal High Templar, "and according to rumors, she became a solar mage. ”

"Even if she can cast spells without relying on the life force extracted, she needs to draw on the power of the sun. In the long moonlit night, I don't think she could have learned how not to breathe. The Witch King said. "I came this time to find her body. Maybe I can resurrect her, maybe I can show how to harness the power of the sun. ”

The high-ranking Templars nodded in unison, agreeing with the Witch King's conclusion. Oronis is an outlier among the Witch Kings on Atas, and his subordinates genuinely love him rather than fear his power.

"Wait. The Witch King shook his exoskeleton head again. He landed on all fours, fully stretching his massive insect-like body. At the same time, use your first two hands to cast spells to further strengthen the vision of your compound eyes. "I seem to see a flash of light on that side. ”

One of the high-ranking Templars immediately said, "I saw it too, but how is that possible?"

Then, at the same time, they sensed a message from someone using magic. "I'm here!Does anyone hear me?!"

"Did anyone hear that?"

The Witch King and the Templars looked at each other.

The ornate mage robes, which were once pure white, were now stained a dirty gray by the moon dust, and in some places there were openings, making them look tattered. And the people in the mage's robes are almost falling apart. Her **'s feet were dirty and oozing blood.

"You're not a demon dragon?" after eating a little bit of something, recovering a little bit of vitality. Satili asked, looking at Oronis warily, as if ready to defend herself. "But you're a witch king. ”

"I'm not a blasphemer mage, not anymore. Kuhn's Oronis explained carefully. "I have converted to the Way of the Guardians......"

“...... Many years ago, I learned of a replica of a Guardian spell that resembled the Dragon's Transformation. Based on the name of the ancient legend, I named it the Mortal Transformation. ”

"That's why I look like a giant insect right now. He said, spreading his four hands to the sides, and no expression could be seen on the exoskeleton's cheeks.

With a look of disbelief on her face, Sadiri nodded slowly and began to explain her experience: "It was the top of the mountain that saved me, and I climbed to the top to stay in the sun. Just defeated the avatar of Atops, repelled the undead monsters, and then I saw your magic ship. ”

Oronis nodded, "I can understand that, but the rest of the time - in the last month - you really circled the moon? two thousand two hundred palesan (about 11,000 kilometers)? and defeated the embodiment of an ancient evil thing?"

Sadiri nodded, "I think that's the case." I estimate that the distance is roughly equivalent to a round trip from Atki to Bird, which has been completed on foot and survived (about 1.2 times the distance from Beijing to Moscow). All that is required is a walk of just over two palesan per hour. The back of the Atops is more difficult to walk and much more rugged than the front. But some places are surprisingly beautiful. You won't believe what I've seen. ”

She shook her head and laughed silently, "I don't believe in some of the things I see either. I couldn't even believe that I had resisted the spiritual corrosion of Atopus and defeated its incarnation. All in all, I'm in a hurry to get back to Atas now. During my absence, has the Primordial Warlock been defeated?"

"You'll know. "The Lizardmen Executioner, Oronis of Kuhn, said, "There have been many earth-shattering changes in Atas in the past month, and I will tell you them all, it will be a long story." ”

As the magic ship flew away from the moon, Sadiri threw one last glimpse at the moon. For a moment she thought she saw a lonely figure standing on the moon and waving goodbye to her. She waved back.

She looked again, and there was nothing but the magnificent wasteland.

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P.S. Some people mistakenly think that Atopus is the mother of the ancient evil monsters, which is wrong, it is the Dead Moon. Oronis is the mortal witch king in the canon set, and because the plot line fluctuates too much, the way he appears is naturally different. If the magic ship can fly to the moon, why not fly to the Salt Sea? Let's talk about the events of this month.

The reason why this chapter is used to imitate Jeffrey's famous story is to better represent the character of Sadili. In the original book, she was a little too dark. So I wanted to give her sister a different story, and by the way, I also buried some foreshadowing.

Like I said earlier, Chapter 3 needs a bigger stage. The contents of the two canon sets, Magic Ship and MyStara, will also appear.

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