Chapter 61: True Lies
Gugrug is the head of his realm, the lord of everything he investigates. Although some called Gugrug a militant, he was a very intelligent chieftain and he was popular with clan families. In fact, since he came to power, not a single fish has starved to death. Over the years, the juvenile population has proliferated, from a few dozen to hundreds!
At least, that's what Gugrug was looking forward to before a moon passed. Now, the terrible Rankkin, who haunts their island, has returned from crossing the terrible sea. When they arrived, Rankin wiped out his outpost, taking the lives of 16 cubs. To make matters worse, judging by the reports he received from Fruger, there were flying shamans among the Randkin who could rain fire from the sky. Cursed fate! The best his shamans can do is scatter mud on their enemies to rot. How could he fight that war in the name of Bloupdgep?
As if that weren't the worst, in recent days his fish had begun to disappear by dozen, and the entire patrol had disappeared into the air, as if Blouptigp had eaten it himself. Row upon row, his relatives came to him with petitions, eyes full of mucus.
"My lieutenant is gone!"
"They took my spawn!
Phew! Gugrug was tired of their complaints.
Of course, the Gugrug knew why their children and their close associates were disappearing. Because they invaded the Rankin base! The skinned Rankin is delicious. These creatures are very convenient, and their skin comes with a zipper that can be easily removed. They are also good laborers when they work in spawning ponds, and when the pups become weak and die, they end up being excellent fertilizer.
Now there are only a few dozen of them left in the Gugrug, and they are all in the fence. Maybe he should use them to ask for peace? It worked for the snakes deep in the jungle, and when the ancient Grug handed over the human shaman to them, they left them alone. The snake people love to eat the brains and hearts of shamans, and they are so strange.
But what should he do? With the crystals they found and the meat they harvested, the tribe could grow to two or three times its size! If Gugrug needed more time for new spawns to be born, he would be the leader of a thousand devil's claws!
Gugrug shook his spherical, bearded head and spat out clumps of phlegm and phlegm in an attempt to clear his mind. while
Boom! Bang!
An explosion rang out, unlike anything Gugrug had heard before. That stupid voice quickly turned into the sound of the mother fish screaming.
Guglug banged on the door with his plump and fat body, his legs as thick as small tree trunks. He grabbed his favorite coral trident at the door and pushed open the seaweed curtains.
"Gollum!ahh
He replied that there was a cacophony of noise in the air. The protruding eyes of the Gugruge, each the size of a dinner plate, move the attention, focusing on a series of dots close to them. He panicked and realized that the horizon was on fire, illuminated by a miniature sun.
"Coo-coo-coo?!" he said to his guards. The stupid fish eggs stare like a mud houseboat, baring their teeth and claws.
Then the air became scorching.
Water vapor began to bubble up from the pool, and Gugrug could see the young man below writhing in pain.
"Gurak Uprak!
His warning echoed through the village, on the surface of the lake. By now, his skin feels incredibly dry, like all the moisture has been extracted from his mucus. He peered upwards and sensed something terrible happening.
The miniature sun has arrived, blazing with ochre and orange, emitting enough heat to wilt the wetlands. His warriors used all the weapons they could use, but they couldn't harm the radiant creature.
"Flame Barrier!"
The radiant sun god announced some decrees that he could not comprehend. Gugrug had no eyelids and could not squint, but in this case, he did his best. Half-blind, he could only make out the silhouettes of three humanoid figures.
There was a flash of light.
Gugrug was burned to death.
The forest was burned.
The lake is boiling.
The world is on fire.
As the cleanup team approached, Yue could see that Alicia's wall of fire had cast a devastating shadow in the forest. Every inch of green leaves they walked turned to scorched earth, and the trees withered as they passed. From the churning cinders, hundreds of muddy figures appeared, fleeing to the safety of the lake, their limbs swinging wildly, their heads throbbing in horror with their brightly colored flesh.
Yue threw a couple of explosive bolts and watched as the missiles below detonated. One of the arrows hit particularly accurately, splitting a very slow arrow from the shoulder and sending its head flying.
"Count!" shouted the Taj Mahal to the sound of music. "Have you been a century?"
"Almost!" Yue shouted.
"Let's see how many people are in the village," Alexia also joined, and you could reach four figures. ”
"Four figures?" Xiao Yue exclaimed.
"You'll understand. Alicia laughed, lunging forward, emitting the embers of fireflies.
"Hey, look at that fat man!" Yue spotted a sizable Molok man holding a trident.
The Taj Mahal shouted, "I think it's a patriarch."
"Then let's get started. "Alicia accelerated to combat speed.
The trio came to the center of the lake, where he saw the spawning pond. Below, they can see hundreds of cuttlefish swimming in the water, trying to protect the transparent spheres. Alicia's fire incarnation emitted so much heat that the water beneath her began to ripple and steam in the massive broken ring.
"Filthy animal!" she spat in disgust. "How many people did they feed to get so many tadpoles out at once?"
She grunted, clasped her hands together, and the heat began to grow. In her fire monster form, Alicia is a human portal that channels relentless energy and gives power to the fire elemental layer.
"Flame Barrier!" she cast a spell using her unfathomable arsenal of elemental flames.
Soon, a 20-meter-high wall of fire began to form around the lake, and as the vegetation scorched, the wall of fire licked through the forest in black ravines. From above, the three watched as the flames formed a huge ring in a matter of minutes, enveloping the village of Mullock.
"There's no escape," said Alesia, and the interests of Paul and the others come to pack up the pen, and we'll pack it. ”
The Mollock warriors came out of the lake to fight them, and they were a large herd of large fish-faced amphibians with biceps the size of a football. They fired spears made of coral and bone at the girls from the water, and the sky was covered with black toxins and bone fragments.
If Alicia and Yue were alone, they would have to use their speed to avoid a ground-to-air attack, but this time, they had the Taj Mahal with them. The confessor effortlessly stopped the fish-man's non-magical attack, forming a stone barrier like a large bowl of black clay underneath the girls' bodies.
A cloud of acid splattered at the mage. The Taj Mahal was also blocked with another shield.
"Be careful, Xiaoyue," Alexia ordered.
Yue spotted the Murlock wizards below and began throwing fireballs at the surface of the lake, preventing them from coming to the surface.
At the same time, Alicia stretched out her hands and drew a burning glyph in the air. Another set of glyphs unfolds above and below her. She began the ritual of a seventh-level mass destruction spell, which could only be used in her fire monster form.
Yue fired another volley of fireballs, watching as the orbs hit the surface of the lake, scalding the creatures hiding below.
"Firestorm!" Alexia exhaled. A whirlwind of flames descended from the sky and rushed into the lake, displacing the lake violently, and hissing steam flooded the forest.
As Yue expected, the surroundings were filled with superheated steam. She even felt a white-hot mist hissing beneath her feet, and noticed in horror that the stone walls of the Taj Mahal were beginning to peel off.
"Glad you got the Resistance Elemental?" joked the Taj Mahal.
"Damn the oath. Xiao Yue almost bit her tongue.
As Alicia's spell rages, the ineffective attacks against them stop.
"Oh my God, what's that smell like?" Xiao Yue immediately realized a fragrance rising from below, thick, with the texture of oily gravy. That's the taste of fish, not stinky fish, but boiled fish.
Hundreds of boiled fish.
The vortex of superheated air continues for another minute and then fades away, thanks to the magical microclimate.
Yue's eyes widened with fear. What she saw was an obscene death on an industrial scale. The poor bastards below were boiled alive, their leathery skin peeling off their bodies and becoming a big, sticky layer of flesh. There are even people who have no skin at all, walk blindly in the mud, with bloody eyes and stepping on others. Others go mad in pain and violently attack anything that comes close.
Xiao Yue saw someone pointing a trident to her face and stabbed herself frantically to make the pain stop.
Then the cry rang out. First several, then a dozen, then the whole school of bastards began to scream in pain and suffering, a choir of agony. He saw the little monsters, the big monsters, the cuttlefish clutching their transparent eggs, now cooked, and howled in despair. The two damn things hugged each other. She even saw a small fish trying to wake up a dead fish.
"Fuck!" she whispered.
She was delirious. These are just monsters, right? Materials, feed, food! What was the feeling eating away at her chest? Why was her stomach squirming, her heart contracting? She couldn't even breathe. Is it the taste?
She wanted to speak, but couldn't find her own voice.
"I need a break," Alexia announced. The flames in her body began to dim. "Go and wipe it clean. At a higher altitude I'll be fine. Meet the second team. They should be next to the fence. If you're lucky, there may be a few people who succeed. ”
Taj stretches his muscular bull-like neck.
"Yue, are you ready?" he joked.
Yue Yangming was still staring intently at the delicate hell below them.
"Yue, are you still there?"
She slowly turned to look at the Taj Mahal.
"Are you alright?" he asked, briskly, had he never seen a weapon of mass destruction in action? I'm not going to lose sleep over it. If you think this is bad, you should see an expanding range of burning clouds. Crisp, I'll tell you! Hah, are you ready to be a little bit of a thriller?"
Xiao Yue felt a crazy smile begin, the muscles around her lips locking in place to form a permanent smile.
"Let's wipe it clean!" she cheerfully announced, her mind no longer willing to contemplate the prospect below. All she could recall now was praying for the fireball. From Mr. Yue's point of view, she really needs a lot of fireballs.
"White Moon ......" Gwen felt very painful, and she had to hug Xiao Yue tightly and cover her head with both hands.
Elvia joined in, and the three of them observed a moment of silence.
"Do you want to cry?" Gwen asked carefully, and it was okay to cry. ”
"I'm fine," Yue whispered, and I never like to lose my temper. ”
The three broke up.
Gwen felt the eyes of her friends watching her.
"It's your turn," Elvia said ruthlessly.
"Yes," Yue said with certainty, what is the loss? Nine times out of ten, it is Miss. ”
Gwen exhaled.
"I have a lot of secrets, some of which don't belong to me alone, so I have to restrain myself, but I'll do my best to tell you about myself. ”
The girls nodded.
"Before I start, I want to show you something. It will make my story more believable. ”
"Okay. ”
"Hit me. ”
Gwen was engrossed.
"Ariel. ”
A bolt of lightning tossed through the air without harm, turning into a cute little mink, which landed with a bang.
"Oh!
"Impossible!"
"Oh. It's mine. My God. ”
Ariel begins its devastating attack on cuteness, immediately enslaving Elvis Presley and Yue's virgin hearts.
"Can I touch it?" asked Elvia.
Gwen nodded.
Before Elvis could touch the mink, Yue stretched out his hands and hugged it to his face.
"It's so soft!" she moaned in an orgasm.
Elvia watched enviously, waiting for her turn. After a while, Xiao Yue handed over the cat and snake. Elvia took it with trembling hands, blue eyes glaring at it, it sniffing the air.
"Huh?" Ariel grabbed Elvia's hand with her cheek.
This cuteness was too much for Avia, and her mental fortitude had reached zero. Like an obsessed girl, the therapist suddenly kisses Ariel's nose and then kisses again. Ariel stretched out her little pink paw and nudged her face hard, but Avia insisted on using her weak gesture to hide herself.
The girls played with the mink for a full fifteen minutes. Finally, Ariel sits on Avia's lap.
"There's another one," Gwen said expectantly, which was also cute. I think. ”
The two girls grinned and nodded.
Gwen took a deep breath.
Then she took another deep breath.
Then she placed the plastic sheeting on the bed and asked them to stick out the corner of the bed and sit on the edge of the bed.
Her friends were confused. Is it the water element? Is Gwen trying to imply that she has other elements? If so, it will make Gwen transcendent and unique. Very few mages have more than one element.
"Caleban," said Gwen tremblingly, come on!
A dark door opened near the ceiling. The temperature immediately dropped by a few degrees. She felt fear and disgust as the negative energy in the air polluted the air, and her heart trembled. Elvia, on the other hand, turned pale with fright, reacted positively to the desolate aura of Caliban.
That's when Gwen's familiarity came, a slithering monster of black obsidian, snaking and winding, its curling body writhing back and forth. Unlike Ariel, Kaliban turns to Gwen and hisses.
"Shah!"
Xiao Yue felt the bile in her throat rise.
Elvia suddenly began to scream.
She lowered her head, clutched the sheets, and screamed.
As if reacting to his favorite music, Caliban turned to the petite blonde and joined the symphony orchestra. Its carapace split in half, revealing a mass of purplish-red flesh dripping with cold-gray slime. It opens its lamp eel's mouth and begins to sing, its tongue flying around happily.
"Shah, Shah, Shah!"
Gwen grimaced. Will Elvia's father burst into the room and see his unconscious daughter with the monster?
Gwen carefully took out a small handful of pure water and poured the cold on Elvia's face. Elvia snapped back to reality and cried again when she saw Caliban.
In the end, being too paranoid to allow her friends to be free-handed, she covered Elvia's mouth with her hand.
"Shhh ”
Gwen calmed Caliban and watched as its tentacles retracted into its carapace. Caliban does not expose its pulsating flesh, like an abstract work of art.
Elvia gripped Gwen's wrist tightly, her nails digging into Gwen's skin.
"Wow, I don't feel like I've been tricked by the dark forces anymore," Xiao Yue stared at Caliban warily, its head bobbing from side to side, well done, Gwynnie, I'm cured. ”
"What......" Elvia racked her brains to find the right word. She was found in Yue's favorite vernacular. "Gwen, what the fuck is that?"
"Eve!" Yue slapped Elvia, shocked!
Gwen held up a hand, hoping that Caleban would come closer. She carefully rubbed its nose on her thigh, making a clattering sound. Meanwhile, Ariel plays the role of ambassador and jumps on Elvia's lap again, licking her face and giving her some material comfort.
"What element is that?" he was surprisingly sharp when it came to magical creatures. "Yes...... Undead?"
"No, thank goodness. Gwen calmed Kaliban down, feeling a pang of weakness as the empty mana drained her body. Feeling tired, Caliban reached out and pressed his tentacle-like tongue against his master's chin. "Eve, can I trouble you?"
Elvia reached out and began to groom. She could see Gwen's face change for the better with her healing words.
"Enough. "I didn't get hurt or anything. Gwen gasped and said in order to answer your question, Yue-Kaliban is empty and familiar
"What! it can't be!" Yue exploded. "It's one of the three taboos! Right next to the big forbidden zone! How is that possible?"
Meanwhile, Caliban found what it liked the most. It slipped out of Gwen's lap and walked towards Elvia, nodding comically as she begged.
As the dark thing approached, Avia felt herself ossify. It gently lowered its head and nudged her knees. When Elvia did not retaliate or resist, it continued to climb her legs.
"Gwen?" Elvia's voice choked her throat.
Unfortunately, Wen was distracted by Yue.
"Gwen?" Elvia asked again, this time Caliban climbed onto her lap and began sniffing her skin.
Gwen was still busy fending off the unbelieving Yue.
"Gwen!"
"Caliban!" come back," Gwen ordered. Her familiar man slipped back sullenly. However, before it returns, it looks at Elvia and seems to say that they are best friends now.
Elvia shuddered, cold sweat soaking through her pajamas.
"I don't understand!" Yue blurted out, this is what they used to say in history class! In the waves of wild beasts! In the midst of the catastrophe! Why is it right next to us, and it has to wash Elvia's tongue!"
"It's a long story......" Gwen began. ”
"We've got a whole night—" Yue sat in the back, holding a pillow against Caliban.
By her side, Avia hugged Ariel tightly, feeling the resonance of positive energy in her heart. At the same time, Calleban was coiled around Gwen's knee.
Gwen nodded. She looked at her two friends desolately, and then began to tell her story.
When she and Alicia return to the tower, she begins with the Rainbow Serpent incident. To avoid this topic, she is still under Yas, so she only hints that the owner of the tower is very interested in her near-death encounter with Edgar (Edgar), the mage who kidnapped herself and Deborah.
From that meeting, Gwen discovers that she actually has a school to wake up. With the help of Henry Kilroy and the larger Cognitive Chamber, she becomes a magician and summoner, lightning and emptiness.
When Yue asked about the Void Element itself, Gwen told her a half-truth: she didn't know. As for why she woke up, Gwen linked the talent to her near-death experience, which Edgar owes.
After that incident, Gwen trained with Alexia and Gunther at school and in Tari. During this time, Gwen also met with her grandfather, Surya, and with the help of Henry, managed to summon Ariel and Caliban.
"So you're gone every weekend!" Mr. Yue said sullenly, I thought you had a boyfriend or something. ”
Gwen continues her story by talking about the unfortunate encounter between Mark Chandler and herself. It's a complicated story, and Gwen tries to tell it in chronological order, first about her assault on the slave base, then her capture, and then Kaliban's madness. She even fully acknowledges Kaliban's appetite.
"Don't be afraid, Eve, and think about how Caliban reacts. "Oh my God, I wish I had a Kaliban in a difficult place. Yue said confidently.
So, to Gwen's relief, Yue reached out and rubbed Caliban's body, feeling its smooth appearance. Caliban looked up and nodded knowingly at Yue. Then, Yue asked Caliban to sniff her hand and felt the snake touch her knuckles with its nose.
"Okay Cali," Yue muttered, who is a good boy?
"Shah, Shah!" replied Caliban coldly.
Gwen continues her story, continuing with the arrival of Gunther, who borrowed her hand to murder two slave owners.
"You...... Killed!?" Elvia turned pale.
Xiao Yue raised her eyebrows.
Gwen confessed to everything, including how Pozza and Faress ended up expiring.
"How do you feel sitting next to the murderer?" asked Gwen weakly.
"Ah, this is self-defense!" Mr. Yue retorted.
"Really?" Gwen sang, melancholy. She had already replayed it in her head many times. "They don't have limbs, Yue. They were unarmed. ”
Xiao Yue licked her lips nervously, but I don't blame you or anything. ”
In contrast, Avia seems ambivalent about Gwen's story. Her hand was rubbing Ariel's belly, which had stopped stroking.
Gwen sighed and continued her story. She didn't give too many details, but explained why Mark was against his friends and allies. Gwen tells them that Elizabeth, the wife of Henry Kilroy, is herself a user of the Void element. Elizabeth goes crazy for power and ends up consuming others to satisfy her insatiable hunger. Convinced that Elizabeth had murdered his sister, Mark uses Gwen to trap Henry. She even tells them that Mark used witchcraft to capture his sister's soul as evidence.
"That bastard!" Yue said in disbelief, and then realized the reason for Gwen's depression.
"No! You're not crazy! You're a good guy who blames yourself! Not like Elizabeth. She was unbalanced from the start. ”
"Thanks, Yue, that's my assumption as well," Gwen replied, hoping her friends had enough confidence in her to believe in her.
Elvia remained silent.
Gwen has a little story left. She tells them how Gunther arrested Mark and how she had such a long conversation with Henry. Gwen explains that the only way to save her from living a disgraceful and hidden fate is to become a panda that is known to be protected by all. She will become a living spell of mass destruction, with all the powers respecting her and staying away from it, with the influence of the middle faction of the tower, therefore, that is, the magic reigns over itself.
Finally, she tells them about Surya and Henry's plans and the girls' role in the plans. Now all that's left is how the girls take the news.
"That's what it's about," Gwen said. She also overlooked a few things: her true origin, her twin soul, her spending power, to fit the talents that Caleban devoured. These are the secrets she may have to take to the grave.
"Well, I'm cool. Yue beckoned to Caliban. Gwen watched in amazement as Yue brought her face close to Kaliban's own face, making their noses touch.
"Tasteless, how interesting," Yue said, giving it an invisible head bop. Caliban stretched out some tentacles to touch Yue's collarbone, oops!
"Yue is an amazing mage," Gwen affirmed. That kind of perseverance, that kind of calm character. The girl was made with something harsher than Gwen herself.
"Avia, if you want me to leave anything, it's okay. Gwen felt her stomach sinking, please say something. ”
Avia looked up from caressing Ariel's face and looked at Wen Yue with her bright blue eyes. Then, to their surprise, Elvia jumped up from the bed and hugged Gwen by the neck. She put her head on Gwen's shoulder and began to cry.
"I'm sorry," she muttered incoherently, saying that you've been through so much and I'm not there. I don't even know! I'm a terrible friend!"
Gwen felt the tension all over her body disappear. Suddenly, she was breathing again. She put her arms around Elvia and kissed her on the cheek.
"It's alright, Eve. I'm glad you still accept me as your friend. ”
"Oops! Oops!" Ariel joined the crowd.
"Ahh
"Shah!!" Caliban wandered between the two girls.
"Ahh
"Shah!" Kaliban looked hurt.
Suddenly, Xiao Yue laughed.
Gwen smiled too.
Ariel screamed with joy.
Avia wasn't in a good mood, but the laughter was contagious.
Realizing that it wasn't in trouble, Caliban wagged his tail.
All five members were "laughing" so hard that Gwen had to retract Kaliban and Ariel back into their pockets.
"Phew," Yue said, recalling the interruption of the chronology If we can get more details later, I would like to know what you did the whole of last month. ”
"Ah," Gwen realized she had stopped this prematurely Well, there are a few things you need to know about Deborah......"