Gloria waited in the ruins of a small village not far from Turbidity. The original inhabitants of this village, because of the proximity, packed up their belongings early in the morning and ran to Turbidity Town or beyond. And because they fled early, the villagers were lucky to escape the danger of being infected. Therefore, knowing that there is no one in this village anymore, even the exploration team going to the county of Saron will not waste time and make a detour to get here. That's why Leon recommended this hideout to Gloria at the time. After all, an uninhabited house is much better than a dangerous wilderness.

And having learned from the awake that the proto-nezumi would not rashly attack her, Gloria was not afraid of being attacked by other nezumi here. It gave her time to reflect on what had happened recently, and what she would do if the plague was truly suppressed. She didn't expect Cheese to turn herself back into a human, which she had asked Ann Lina many times when she was in the Gray Tower, and the answer she got was that the plague virus had completely changed the physiology of the infected in a short period of time, so even if the virus was removed, the infected would not want to change back to their original form all at once like those who were cursed and transformed. And according to Ann Lina, Cheese is not as specialized in diseases and creatures as she is, and although he is quite proficient in this way, this is not where the mage is really good at.

At that time, out of curiosity, Gloria also asked Ann Lina what Cheese was really good at, but Miss Vampire told her that as a mage, their research direction was extremely secret, so she couldn't reveal it to Gloria. Of course, the expression on Ann Lina's face when she said these words made Gloria feel that compared to the so-called confidentiality, the other party just found a random reason not to tell her about Cheese's area of expertise, and she still remembered what An Lina whispered at that time.

"What he studied was probably incomprehensible to ordinary people. ”

What would have caused the lady who had been patiently explaining things to Gloria such a remark, Gloria had no way of knowing. All she knew was that Ann Lina had told her before she left that when the color in Cheese's eyes became confused, she should never look at what was going on. The color in her eyes became confused, and although she thought that she knew more about the caster group than ordinary people, Ann Lina's last admonition still made Gloria wonder. Although she had seen the glow in Cheese's eyes later when he cast the spell, the color of those rays was pure and fleeting, so she still couldn't understand that sentence.

However, if Gloria can't understand it, it seems that Elsa can understand it now.

The scene returns to the building where the pharmacist is stationed in Turbidity Town, and the three people trapped on the second floor by the fire seem so powerless. Although I tried to escape by jumping out of the window, the second floor of this building is smaller than the first floor, and jumping out of the window is just jumping into the fire from above. As for forcibly breaking out of the first floor, the stairwell is located in the center of the building, and it is impossible to rush down the stairs and then reach the outside of the house against the fire. And, not to mention the spreading fire, it was questionable how long the house, which was almost entirely made of wood, would survive the fire. The floor that is now a foothold is at risk of collapsing at any time.

In this case, both the blood lion and the proprietress can only pin their hopes on the spell of cheese, in fact, in the journey so far, whenever there is a problem that cannot be solved by common sense, it is the mage who comes forward to solve the problem in an incredible way. But this time, when the two of them looked at the mage, they noticed that Cheese was not looking good at the tongues of fire that kept pouring in from the stairwell. The grimace on Cheese's face was different from the composure he had often shown when he was in danger, and the mage's expression was invisibly telling the others that he could not escape from the fire.

For such a situation, the knight chief quickly calmed down, after all, Leon has experienced countless life and death moments, and sometimes he wonders why so many people who are better than him died at those times, but he survived. But now, the Blood Lion has a hunch that maybe he will not escape his fate this time. But if you think about it in another way, dying to save the plague kingdom is not an unacceptable way to die. As for the death of the fire, perhaps the tragic death in the hospital bed is an even more unacceptable fate for the knight.

"Whew...... It's just a pity for the two of you. It's not a loss for me to sprinkle my bones there, but you're still young. Shaking his head, the chief knight sat down against the wall.

Elsa tilted her head, the gradually increasing fire made the oxygen on the second floor thinner, and at this point, let alone a breakthrough, even normal activities became very difficult. Even though the three of them had retreated to the window, the smoke outside the window did not provide air to breathe. Consciousness has gradually become a little blurred. Maybe that's where it ends, the proprietress thought as she leaned on the cheese's shoulder. When she left Longji Mountain, she had the consciousness of being born and dying with cheese, but when death did come to her face, she found that she was not as calm as she imagined. How many people can see through the fear of death, but Elsa doesn't regret coming here with Cheese, as she said when she was at camp in Sweetwater, if that's the price of affection for a mage, then she's okay with it. It's just a pity that Cheese doesn't seem to have any clear response to this until now.

Suddenly, the proprietress turned her head to look at the mage, she wanted to see the mage's current state. The lack of oxygen had left the trio's consciousness on the verge of dissipation, and the distinction between hallucinations and reality was very confused when the brains were not working properly. In this case, instead of looking around in vain, it is better to simply close her eyes like Leon on the other side, but it is in this state that Elsa sees a scene that she will never forget in her life. There was no painful distortion or relieved smile on Cheese's face, the mage's face was serious, and his mouth was silently muttering something, and his eyes, what kind of eyes they were! Even if Elsa were to use all the words she knew in her life, she would not be able to describe Cheese's eyes at this time, not even the most basic colors, those eyes...... It's so indescribable that even the hostess's brain instinctively refuses to admit its existence, but those eyes seem to have some kind of power, and even though Elsa tries to look away, her gaze is firmly grasped.

Cheese apparently noticed the boss's gaze as well, and he turned his head to look directly into Elsa's eyes, and for a moment, as if an invisible thread in her brain had broken, the proprietress lost consciousness like a puppet with a broken thread and fainted in the mage's arms. At this time, Cheese changed from his previous feeling, and he seemed so out of place with his surroundings, as if he didn't belong to this world. Cheese stood silently with Elsa, who had fainted, and there was not the slightest pain on his face, nor did he show any weakness in his movements, as if the lack of oxygen had no effect on him. At this time, Leon, who was leaning across the corridor, had already entered a state of fainting due to the smoke and lack of oxygen, and because he was closer to the stairs, the flames that spread up were about to burn to the knight's body. However, as the mage walked up to Leon with the boss lady in his arms and put his left hand, which he didn't know when he could move, on the other's shoulder, the flames seemed to have become something from another world, and they roared through Leon's body, as if the knight chief here was just an illusion and had no real form.

Cheese seemed relieved to see that Leon was not on fire, and it seemed that he didn't know what the consequences of his actions would be. The mage put his left hand under the knight's armpit, as if he didn't feel any weight, and single-handedly pulled Leon, who was still wearing a layer of light armor, up from the ground. Then he silently walked down the stairs that were almost impossible to see with a man in his hand. It was a complete counterintuitiveness, as many parts of the steps had been licked and vanished by the flames, but the mage walked down the second floor as if he were stepping on a staircase. He and the two men beside him were completely oblivious to the blazing flames, which passed through them like false images.

In this way, just before the building collapsed, Cheese walked out of the fire with two other people, and after walking to the area where the fire would not spread, the mage fell to the ground without warning. And as those eyes closed, the strange temperament on his body disappeared, and he seemed to have changed back to his usual cheese.