"Is Golia alright!?" was the first thing Eric said as he regained consciousness, "How long have I been unconscious?"

"It's only been a little while, and you've been brought here for only a tenth of an hourglass. The answer was a mature and steady middle-aged lady, who looked like a goddess sacrifice in the village. In the face of Eric's anxious inquiry, she only answered lightly.

The brightly lit room is adorned with wooden sculptures with allusions and allegories, and it looks like it is indeed the temple of the earth in the village. Captain Ranger sat up from the benches in the main hall and carefully observed his surroundings.

"How's Golia?" asked Eric again, knowing that he was simply overtired, and that all he had been concerned about was his life-threatening partner.

A suffocating silence pervades the cold prayer hall, and the silence of the priest is filled with imperceptible unbearability.

Sensing that the atmosphere was not right, Eric felt as if a cold, sharp claw was gradually grasping his heart - it was a nightmare called "Despair".

Sighing silently, the sacrificial lady shook her head helplessly, "Come with me, young man." ”

Turn a few corners and cross a narrow promenade. Eric finally saw his partner's figure that already felt familiar to him, even though they had only known each other for three months since they had been assigned the same mission.

Gloria lay quietly on a wooden platform, behind which stood a statue of the goddess made of cedar, the solemn goddess with her head bowed, her face hidden in her hood, and her eyes seemed to contain infinite compassion for the world—a solemn ritual used only when bidding farewell to the deceased, representing that the soul of the deceased would eventually return to the embrace of the goddess.

Eric felt his feet go limp, and he almost fell on the wooden floor. It was the ranger at the door who helped him, and it seemed to be the young ranger who had found himself and Golia in the woods at the edge of the village.

An old man with a white beard was preparing various sacrificial items for the ceremony, and when he saw Eric, who had just entered the room, he stopped what he was doing.

"You've done your best, young man. But unfortunately, we are still one step late. ”

With a simple gesture, a bright green light bloomed naturally in the old man's right hand, and he pressed his wrinkled, withered palm against the Ranger Captain's chest, and the abundant life force disappeared into Eric's body.

Such a simple gesture made Eric feel the strength return to his body, and the elder in front of him was a powerful priest who had mastered the magic of life and was extremely proficient, and with just one gesture, he cast a powerful magic that restored his physical strength. Although he didn't know why a powerful elder like him would live in a village not far from the edge of the forest, Captain Ranger didn't have the heart to think about these questions now.

Lying on the wooden platform, Golia's expression was calm and natural, her skin had regained its healthy color, and there was a faint blush on her white face—this was the effect of magic on her body, but the powerful life force had not been able to save her young life, although it had healed her body and purified her of toxins.

Eric knelt beside his partner with empty eyes, he didn't know where he should be looking at this time, whether it was or not

You should keep in mind the beautiful appearance of your temporary partner, and always remind yourself of the irreparable mistakes you have made that will affect many people's lives!

If I had told her the emergency toxin elimination method taught by His Highness Andrew, if I hadn't let her prepare the ingredients for dinner...... Could it have ended differently?

He used his stiff hand to grasp Golia's palm, which was still faintly warm. His skin was soft, but he had calluses that had been sharpened by years of holding the bow, and although he had lost the possibility of responding to himself, Eric could still feel the power of this seemingly weak palm.

Why is it that there is such a powerful priest here who has not been able to save your young life? Didn't you already say that you would go to Andrari to experience the unique alien customs there?...... Abion and Tori are still waiting in the woods for news from me, but how am I going to deal with them? How to deal with the chief who has entrusted your safety to me, how to deal with your family who are expecting letters from home!?

Tears of remorse flowed silently from Eric's eyes, and he felt as if his throat was soaked in some sour liquid, preventing him from even making a sad sound.

However, although the powerful magic has removed the residual toxins from her body, it still cannot make her truly awaken, and the residual life force is still maintaining her body temperature, but it is destined to slowly dissipate with time, and at that time, Golia's body will become as cold as the night tonight.

It was as if she was asleep, just lying there quietly, her body temperature was still there, but her heartbeat and breathing had long since disappeared.

In the not very spacious room, almost everyone couldn't bear to look closely at the man who was kneeling on the ground and weeping bitterly. The tattered coat hung from the branches and the leather boots that had been opened were all testimonies of how tenacious the man was when he was carrying his companions on his back, and yet he seemed so fragile at this moment.

"Mourn, my child. Her soul must have returned to the bosom of the Goddess, and she is watching us with the Goddess in the kingdom of God, and she will be grateful for all your efforts. The elder behind Eric patted his trembling shoulder with sad eyes.

The elder's unintentional reassuring voice suddenly reminded Eric of something, and he suddenly stood up, checking Golia's pulse and breathing like a madman, but his mouth kept chanting, "Soul toxin, soul toxin...... What did Your Highness say at that time......"

"Young man, give up your useless efforts. Her soul has left her body and embarked on the path of reincarnation. The white-haired elder couldn't bear to be dissuaded.

However, in the amazed gaze of everyone, Eric ripped off Gloria's coat as if no one was around, and the madness in his eyes was almost like the grief-stricken appearance just now!

He actually forcibly kissed the deceased's lips in front of everyone, but after a breath, he began to press her chest hard...... Just as everyone in the room was considering whether to stop the mad ranger after a brief shock, the white-haired High Priest Enriel raised his hand to stop them.

From the outfits of the two, Enriel could already see that the two rangers, a man and a woman, should belong to the patrol team on the border, but Bluestone Village is also nearly thirty kilometers away from the nearest border. He did not want to believe that a young man who had traveled so long at night with his companions on his back, and who had finally fallen unconscious from exhaustion, and who had great perseverance, would do something crazy for no reason because he had been hit hard. In his long life, he had seen several patients bitten by the red krait, and within two hourglasses, the poisoned people had basically begun to have respiratory arrest, and without timely help, almost no one could survive the third hourglass safely. And when the young female ranger was just sent in, although she had no heartbeat and no breathing, she still obviously had a residual body temperature, and he could hardly imagine that someone could carry another person to complete this journey of life and death at night in such a short time!

There must be a deep bond between this pair of young rangers!

At the same time, High Priest Enriel observed more closely than the others, and the Ranger in front of him pinched her nose with his left hand while "kissing" her partner, and his right hand carefully dragged her chin. Judging from the contractions between his chest and abdomen rather than kissing, it seemed to be more like blowing into her mouth, and the movement of his pressing on the deceased's chest also followed a unique rhythm, which seemed to contain some incomprehensible strong purpose.

With just this simple action, the well-informed Enriel couldn't guess what Eric wanted to do.

......

The only sound in the room was the sound of Eric's seemingly futile movements, and the others frowned and watched coldly, in the eyes of the elves, desecrating the body of the deceased was a very inappropriate act, and even if the two were close lovers in life, they could not understand Eric's strange behavior at this moment.

Just as Enriel was pondering whether he should stop Eric and calm him down first, a slight but clear cough came from above the wooden platform. Before everyone could react, Eric, who had just looked like a madman, had already hugged Golia's body tightly, with an inexplicable cry brewing in his throat, and his face was full of excited tears.

Everyone in the room looked at the female ranger who seemed to have woken up in surprise and eyes half-open, and couldn't believe the fact that had just happened in front of their eyes!

Enriel grabbed the female ranger's wrist in disbelief, and his expression was as surprised as everyone else—her pulse was still a little weak, but at the same time very clear!

"Captain, you hold so tightly...... I'm so uncomfortable......" muttered Miss Ranger who had just woken up from a dream.

"Great! Great! I knew His Highness was right!" Eric didn't have the slightest intention of letting go of his partner in his arms, as if he was afraid that if he let go, his partner would disappear like the wind.

"Young man, she is still very weak, please control your emotions. Enriel was duly reminded.

......

Until this time, everyone in the temple couldn't believe that everything that had just happened was true!

Even the so-called "resurrection" of powerful magic is not so magical as those laymen know, for those who have "died", even if the magic can repair their bodies, it cannot recall their souls who have gone to the underworld, for this "miracle" that just happened in the temple, everyone can only think that the sincere feelings between the two touched the great goddess, so the goddess herself showed a miracle without anyone knowing.

But what intrigued the white-haired old priest was how the ranger, who called himself Eric, had brought his lover and partner from the edge of the forest in such a short time, apparently they had no camel beast to walk around.

"Goliath is not my lover, don't talk about it for a while, Your Excellency......," Eric couldn't help but blush when he remembered what he had done in front of everyone when he performed CPR, "Besides, Golia's bite should have been exactly dusk......"

"Dusk!?It's been nearly four hourglasses since you arrived in the village!!How did that little girl named Golia hold out for so long?Did it bite her a young snake that had just come of age!?"

However, when the person was questioned afterwards, in Golia's account, the venomous snake was only more than two meters long, and it was obviously a venomous snake in its prime.

"Probably not, I've seen that snake look like it...... Perhaps His Highness's contingency plan played a key role?" said Eric, reflecting as he truthfully explained the measures he had taken, including controlling the spread of the toxin and "cat grace".

"Which of your highnesses actually knows such unknown knowledge!?"

"It's Lord Andrare, His Highness Andrea Gesareth, who has been making a fuss in the forest lately. ”

"What do you mean...... That demon leader's understanding of the mysteries of life is beyond the reach of our elves!?" Enriel simply felt a little incredible.

"If I hadn't remembered the cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique taught by His Highness at the end, I'm afraid that Goliath would be more than lucky now......"

"You mean that in the end, the girl woke up not by mistake, but by sure that you woke her up!?"

"This ...... I couldn't say for sure, but I suddenly remembered that Golia's situation at that time was very consistent with what His Highness said about the state in which her body was slightly damaged, but her heartbeat and breathing had stopped. It's also the first time I've used this method to save someone, thanks to the Goddess's blessing......"

"That's ......!!"

"Your Highness has also explained to us in detail the principle of the deadly threat caused by the 'Soul Toxin', if it weren't for the repeated use of 'Cat's Grace' on her a few times, Golia might not have been able to hold on here, right......?

"At the beginning, Abion and Tori opened the way for me again, oh no, I need to hurry up and get them back, Goliath must be angry if she doesn't see Abion in the morning!"

"Wonder young man, leave this matter to the others first, you've been tired all night. ”

"Is that really good?...... Then please take this, this is the flute that summons Tori, and they will follow when they hear this sound. ”

......

By the time everyone had rested, the aged priest of Enril was still standing in front of the statue of the goddess, as if thinking about something secret...... Receiving no response to his prayers to Her Majesty the Goddess, the old priest felt that he might have to go to the rumored town of the valley to find out for himself.