"What's the big picture?" Rob asked calmly in the face of Vannal V's questioning, "sacrificing the lives of a group of innocent girls in exchange for the so-called temporary peace?" I think that humanity has not yet degenerated to such a point. ”

The old man disagreed, "How many years has magic been born, how do you think humans survived in the dark years before Roland? We have done many things that are even more unspeakable in order to keep the race alive, but so what, looking back now, we just made the choices we had to make." ”

"Not this time. His Excellency the future Ultra Magister looked the Pope in the eye and said word by word, "With me, no one can hurt her." ”

"It's a good thing for young people to be arrogant, but it's best not to be overconfident, the church has 800,000 soldiers, five Holy Knights, hundreds of millions of believers, don't get me wrong, what we are afraid of is not you from beginning to end, but the Wizard Association behind you. A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Vannal V's mouth, "You are the most optimistic genius in the Wizards Association, one of your two teachers is the vice president of the Magicians Association, and the other is the director of the Wizards Association, although your attitude can affect the Magicians Association to a certain extent, but don't forget, the person who made the final decision was not you but the Council, I am curious, if you want to hand over someone not to the temple but to the Magicians Association, can you still be so tough?"

Rob was unmoved, "Your Majesty's threat is too low-level, if you can control the Council's decisions, why do you bother to talk to me today." ”

"Because I'm waiting. The old man looked at the thin leaves in the sun, and narrowed his eyes, "I have to thank you for this, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have caught that girl from the Bretton family by now, Gudris was the deadline that night, and now, the first round of warnings has come, nine hundred years ago, the church was always at the forefront of every great disaster, do you know why, because we are the number one force of the human race, but now, it's your turn to the Magicians Association."

............

The Margan Desert is already the fifth day, in the previous four days, Russell and Lucia did not find too many clues like the magicians who came to investigate before, the caravan of more than 100 people in Haifa and the two teachers of the Laurel Magic Academy disappeared without a trace as if the world had evaporated, and as he continued to go deeper, Russell also found something a little creepy, and on the fourth day, he finally confirmed that there was no living thing in the entire desert.

Plants, animals, and insects are gone.

Russell began to realize that the situation might not be as rosy as he had imagined, and he glanced not far away at the blue robe, glasses and the Grand Magician of Lucia, who was crouching under a sand dune to carefully test something.

After a while, the sorceress raised her head and looked serious, "The environment here is very degraded, according to the townspeople, about a year ago those oases began to disappear, but now the degree of degradation I have observed is more like the result of the cumulative effect of hundreds of years, Archmage Rosell, do you know what can affect such a large area in such a short period of time?"

The latter shook his head, "I've never seen anything like it." ”

Lucia stopped talking.

Rossel Wen said, "If there is anything else that the Grand Magician of Lucia has discovered, it doesn't matter, all the responsibilities will be borne by me after the final report comes out." ”

Lucia nodded, a little embarrassed, "I'm not afraid of responsibility, but I don't know if it's my delusion, I always feel that we are ...... now Hmm, it's like you've left the original world. ”

As soon as she said this, Russell's expression suddenly changed, his figure disappeared from the spot, but he had already used the phase movement, and the director of academic affairs returned to the same place after a quarter of an hour, but a wry smile appeared on his face, "This is a big trouble." ”

"Huh?" Lucia was puzzled.

"I probably already know what's going on in this place. Russell looked complicated, "There is only one possibility that this will happen." ”

"What is possible?"

"We're in a chasm in the abyss. Russell spat out the answer with some difficulty.

Lucia is a research-type magician, and she is a geological magician who specializes in a field, you can see from her appearance, typical scholar dress, she basically doesn't know anything about things outside her research field, although she has heard of the abyss, but she doesn't know anything about the abyss crack, and then she looks up and asks stupidly, "Is it serious?"

"More than two hundred years ago, there was an abyssal crack about five kilometers long and two kilometers wide at the southwest end of the Dawn Continent, and tens of thousands of abyssal creatures poured into the Dawn Continent from that crack, and the temple paid the price of a cardinal and five ninth-order paladins to seal that crack, and the Longinus Anti-Cross Battle Spear, one of the nine holy weapons, was also broken in that battle, and it took eighty years for the church to repair it, and the Magicians Association of that war also helped. ”

Lucia was taken aback, "This...... Is that terrible? So what are we going to do and report what happened here to the council right away?"

"It's too late, the Abyss Rift belongs to the overlap between the two worlds, it's easy to get in here and hard to get out, otherwise the church wouldn't have lost so much before, I just tried, we can't leave this desert now. Russell shook his head.

Lucia didn't know the severity of the matter until this time, and her little face suddenly turned pale, "Archmage Russell, are we going to die here?"

"Well, for now, that's quite likely. Russell didn't lie on this issue, and said truthfully, "Everyone knows that we came to the Margan Desert to investigate the disappearance of the caravan, so it will be half a month later at the earliest for anyone to notice that we are missing, and it is estimated that it will take another half a month to confirm our disappearance, and we don't have so many supplies on us to last for such a long time." ”

The Dean of Academic Affairs didn't finish his words, how could there be no other danger in the abyss rift other than supplies, this was the junction of the Abyss and the Dawn Continent.

Lucia was stunned, "But...... But I still have a paper that I haven't finished yet. ”

Russell comforted, "Don't be afraid, since I brought you in, of course I will protect you, and before I die, I promise that nothing here will hurt you." ”