Rui closed her eyes and let out a long sigh, then she walked to the river and shouted to Hor, who was still standing on the other bank, "Is this what you call the sacrifice of a few?

Hall had been acting like an outsider since the beginning, not intervening in the fight between the two sides, and now he was still standing on the other side of the river, not answering Rui's question.

Recovering from the pain, and unable to deal with the remaining mercenaries with himself and his two surviving men, Dias saw Rui yelling at Hor, and began to ask for help. "Hall, kill all the remaining mercenaries, our plan is short of this final step. ”

Hor didn't even look at Dias, just sighed heavily, then raised his right hand, and a fireball began to form rapidly in his palm.

Niss struggled to her feet, and with Rui raised her hands in an attempt to cast a shield spell, but both of them fell to the ground, unable to cast any magic at all.

"Hall, do you really have the heart to make a move on the juniors?" an old voice suddenly sounded.

Hore, who hadn't had had had any drastic mood changes since the beginning, suddenly widened his eyes and kept looking around, his distracted attention couldn't even continue to support the fire magic, and the fireball went out in his palm.

"Don't hide, come out!" said Hall, who seemed to have found the source of the voice, as he turned behind Rui.

A vague figure appeared behind Rui, who noticed something strange and turned around suddenly, and it was none other than her mentor, Moses, who appeared in front of her.

"Master, is it really you, Master?" Rui couldn't believe his eyes, and even the tone of his voice was no longer the same as usual.

Moses' figure grew clearer and clearer from the beginning to the beginning. The old mage's gray eyebrows hung down at the corners of his eyes, and his white beard grew even to the front of his belly. "Yes, Rui, it's been a long time, you've matured a lot, and you've already exceeded my imagination. ”

"Master, why did you leave me, I still have a lot to say to you, and I still have a lot of questions to ask you, Master......" Rui ran to Moses and threw himself into the arms of the old master, crying bitterly, as if all the grief of several years had been vented at this moment. At this time, Rui seemed to have changed people, and the mage who was usually calm and calm was now an ordinary young girl.

"I'm sorry Rui, I'm also out of helplessness, I can't watch the once beautiful and innocent you slowly become another person. Moses stroked Ray's black hair gently.

Rui looked up at Moses sadly. "Master, there is a question that has been pressing on my heart for so many years, tormenting me for almost ten years, I thought I would hate you because of this problem, but now that I know, I can't hate you Master at all. ”

Moses gently pushed Rui away and looked at the mage in front of him lovingly. "I know, Rui, this question, I was looking for a chance to tell you, but until I left, I didn't find a good time, now, I'll tell you. “

The old mage sighed and began to recount the past. "Rui, do you remember the serious illness you had when you were fifteen years old? As the teacher watched you get weaker day by day, and in the end you couldn't even breathe smoothly, I went to every place I could think of, tried all the methods I could, but you were still getting closer to death day by day. ”

"Remember, didn't you help me heal me later, Master?" Rui wiped his tears and nodded.

"It's cured, but it's not for the teacher's cure, it's for yourself. Moore shook his head helplessly.

"What? myself, how could it be?" said Ray, looking at Moses incredulously.

"Just when I was in despair, I suddenly remembered that I had read in a book in the Mage Tower that dark magic could transfer anything in this world to the Shadow Plane, and an idea suddenly jumped into my head. Moses continued.

Rui speculated on what was going to happen next. "So you asked me to learn dark magic, and the source of my illness shifted to the Shadow Plane?"

"That's right, I went to the Mage Tower to borrow a dark magic book, but as you know, the Mage Tower prohibits the study of dark magic, so they refuse to lend me the book. Moses paced forward. "I had to lie that it was because I had discovered that dark magic had a special effect on the Dark Tide, so I wanted to look into it, and in the end they gave it to me anyway for the sake of me, the so-called archmage. ”

Rui didn't speak, and Moses continued, "I tried to use a few dark magic on my own to help you seal the disease in the shadows of your body, so that you can recover a little, and I am ecstatic to see you recover little by little. ”

Rui pursed his lips, also recalling the situation.

"When you are back enough to cast spells on your own, I will give you the magic book and let you start learning dark magic, because it will take a very long time to completely transfer the disease, and during this time, you will rely on your shadow mana to temporarily seal it in your body, and by today, it should have almost all been transferred to the shadow plane, right?" Moses turned around and asked with concern.

"Yes, there is no need to seal with dark magic anymore, I am exactly the same now as I was before I was sick. Rui nodded in reply, and then Rui frowned and plucked up the courage to ask, "But Master, why do you say that you used me as an experiment to learn dark magic in order to study how to deal with the dark tide?" This matter has been tormenting me in my heart, I know that you have always loved me, I have always refused to believe it, but everyone said so...... Rui choked up again.

Moses sighed again, and the old man's voice was even lower, "Just when you were able to live as you were before you got sick, the Mage Tower noticed that you were studying dark magic, and they came to question me, so I had to make up a lie about experimenting with you in order to deal with the dark tide. ”

Rui couldn't stop nodding, this was the truth she had always wanted to know, and now, the demons that had tormented her all this time were finally gone.

"I'm so much happier to see you finally recover than I could have lived a few more years. The old mage smiled, but his expression immediately became serious again. "However, it took me a while to discover the side effects of learning dark magic. As a teacher, I can't bear the way you look at the mirror and cry every day, and I feel that I can't face you anymore, so I have to leave. ”

Rui shook his head vigorously, and tears flowed down again. "No, Master, if you tell me the truth, I won't blame you, but you left me, but I blamed you in my heart for ten years. ”

Moses smiled and put his hand on Rui's head, "Everything is good and bad, if I didn't leave at that time, you must still be a wayward little girl now, how can you be so mature and sophisticated?"

Rui cried even more sadly, and kept wiping the tears from his cheeks with both hands. "I'd rather be that wayward little girl!"