"Come, come closer, sit down by the fireplace, it will make you warmer. ”

Daphne sat back in the wooden chair she had been sitting on, patting the armrests of the chair, two pieces of charcoal placed in the fireplace next to her, and a flame was burning to spread the warmth into the room.

No sooner had she said that a cold wind drifted in through the half-concealed window, and raged in the wooden house with snowflakes, and blew into the fireplace, and the flames floated in phantoms, and then quickly dimmed and extinguished.

Daphne was stunned for a moment, then sighed and shook her head.

"This wind really doesn't give face. ”

She waved her hand, and the windswept window closed out of thin air, but she stretched out a slender finger, and the tip of her finger shimmered with sparks, and a twisting flame ignited from her fingertips, and crossed a curve in the air, and finally touched the charcoal in the fireplace, and the charcoal clicked and cracked, and the extinguished flame rekindled, and became more urgent and stronger.

Hodge's pupils contracted rapidly, and she watched Daphne's every move carefully, and her ability to use the flames to the extent that she could retract them with ease once again confirmed her terrifying abilities.

"Am I that scary?" said Daphne smiled as she looked at Hodge, who hadn't moved for a long time, her fair face filled with two tiny dimples.

People who don't think you're terrible are fools.

Hodge said in his mind, then slowly stepped forward and sat down in the wooden chair across from Daphne.

"I told you my name, but you haven't said your own. Daphne casually took a glass test tube on the table, which contained a gray-green solution, and there seemed to be some black impurities left in the solution, "That's not polite, is it?"

"Hodge. Hodge stole a glance at the witch in front of him, "You should know my name." ”

If Devany didn't even know his name, how could she possibly pretend to be his aunt and say to the villagers, "I'm the aunt of the best-looking boy in the village"?

The people in the village are just simple, not stupid.

"Yes, I know your name. Daphne replaced the tube in its original position on the table, "But it's etiquette, and since it's etiquette, you should tell me personally." ”

"Hodge, do you only have a first name and no last name?"

"No, I'm an orphan. ”

"Oh, I see, I don't think orphans are a sign of pitiful, in fact I have many troubled old adversaries, and many of them are orphans. Devany looked at him with a smile, unsure of what was in her mind.

Hodge's nose fluctuated slightly, and the slightly violent breathing just now had returned to its normal rhythm at this time: "I think so too." ”

Orphans, seedlings born in the wilderness, they have nothing to worry about, but because of this, you can never guess when he will abandon all his desperate adventures, and do not despise any orphan, as the mercenary who accompanied him told him.

"You have a lot of questions in your mind. Daphne leaned her head closer and looked at the silky lines in his eyes, "Just ask, pretty little boy." ”

Hodge asked the biggest doubt in his mind.

"You...... Isn't it dead?"

Devany blinked, smiled at the corners of her mouth, and said lightly: "Yes, I died, it was you who stuck a knife into my heart, you won't forget, right?"

"No, it won't. Hodge was getting more and more confused, and he thought to himself, how can you say such a thing so casually?

"But you are standing before me alive now. ”

"Yes, here I am. Daphne suddenly got up and stepped in front of Hodge, two small hands quickly grabbed Hodge's cheeks, startling him subconsciously wanting to run away, but he was firmly controlled by these small hands.

She lowered her head, approached Hodge's ear, blew on the cool air gently, gave him goosebumps, and said in a very soft and low voice in his ear, "Do you feel the temperature of my palm?"

Hodge couldn't hold back any longer, kicking the floor and backing away from Daphne's position.

Seeing this scene, Daphne stood there and covered her mouth and chuckled: "Sure enough, it's a little boy, is it the first time to contact a woman? ”

His cheeks flushed slightly, and he didn't know whether it was shame or annoyance, but he then asked in a hateful tone, "Why?"

"Which one are you asking, why did I appear to you alive after I died, or why did I appear to you?"

Devany clasped her hands behind her back and strolled casually around the hut: "The first question, I am indeed dead and indeed alive, it is because of my ability, as for why I have such a magical ability, unfortunately even I can't answer it, it just appeared, suddenly, just like the day I awakened as a wizard, it was unexpected. ”

"Speaking of which, you are able to come back from the dead thanks to your help. ”

"Me?" Hodge wondered, the only thing he did to Daphne was to stick a knife into her heart.

"Death, and resurrection, means that there must be a premise of death before there is a possibility of resurrection. I was too weak to even kill myself, and the poison mage's toxin was also painful to me, and I had to thank you for plunging the knife into my heart, otherwise I would have to wait there for a long time in agony, and I would probably have been discovered by the other mages before I died, and if it had fallen into their hands, I would not have been able to come back to life. ”

"If you fall into the hands of a magician, you can't come back to life?

Devine shook her head slightly: "As far as I know, the only thing that can restrain the ability of wizards is the magic seal of the witcher, at that time I was not sure if there were any witchers following the mage team, at least I didn't find out, but they don't need to restrain my ability, the magicians understand our weaknesses, and they will destroy me fundamentally." ”

"Your—weakness?"

Daphne looked back at him, "Tell me, little boy. How much do you know about wizards?"

Hodge hesitated for a moment, then hesitated, "Very little, I've only read a sentence in one book - only women can be wizards. ”

"Oh, so the books have been cut down to this extent. Devany laughed, "Then you don't know that this is just one of them, and that there is another sentence after it." ”

"Female wizard, unable to have children. ”

Hodge frowned, "Why?"

Daphne sighed softly, her fingertips tracing her lower abdomen, and with the movement of her fingers, the clothing on her abdomen began to become clear and transparent until it disappeared, revealing a snow-white, firm skin.

Hodge was about to say something wrong, but then the transparency didn't stay on the surface of the skin, but went deeper, and he saw Daphne's musculature, saw her dense blood vessels, saw her bones, saw all the structures in her abdomen.

One of the most striking is the lower part of the lower abdomen, where some kind of organ should grow, but there is no fleshy structure there, instead there is a red crystal, faintly shining inside the crystal, like a leaping life.

His mind suddenly searched for a long memory, pressed the position of his temple, and said with some uncertainty: "I...... I've seen something like this. ”