Then I turned and ran. I kept running, and the green gem burned a hole in my chest.

I kept running until it was pitch black. ”

Berclaire shut his mouth. His face was covered with beads of sweat, as if he had really just been running non-stop for days.

No one spoke. The terrible story turned them into creatures as stiff as the stones around them.

Finally, Berclery took a breath in fits and starts. His eyes refocused, and he saw the people around him again.

"And then for a long time I didn't know anything. When I woke up, I was old, as you see now.

At first I told myself it was a horrible nightmare.

Then I would feel the emerald, burning in my chest, reminding me that it was real.

I don't know where I am. Maybe I've traveled all over Candela.

I've always wanted to come back to Pro-Raqqa. But I knew it was the only place I couldn't go, and I didn't have the courage. ”

"Then I wandered about for many more years, without peace, without a place to rest, dead and resurrected.

Everywhere I went, I heard rumors of evil spreading, and I knew it was my fault.

Then the dragons and dragonmen appeared. Only I know what that means, only I know that the power behind the darkness is enough to start conquering the world.

She pushes and needs to be me. Why?

I'm not sure either. All I could feel was someone struggling to close a door, and someone else struggling to open it. I'm so tired......"

Beclery's voice became low. "I'm so tired," he said, holding his head in his hands. "I'm going to end this!"

The crowd sat in silence for a long time, trying to figure out what was like a horror bedside story.

"What are we going to do to close this door?" Robert asked Berclery.

"I don't know," Berclery said indistinctly. "All I know is that there is a force pushing me to Nairaka.

But it was the only place on the whole Candela that I didn't dare to go! ”

"But you're going to go in the end," Robert said slowly, firmly.

"You're going to go there with us. We'll be with you. You won't be alone. ”

Berclery shook his head trembling and wailed. He suddenly closed his mouth, raised his head, and blushed.

"That's it!" he shouted. "I can't take it anymore! I'm going with you! you're protecting me—"

"We'll do our best," Robert muttered, seeing Calamon roll his eyes and immediately look away.

"We'd better find our way out quickly. ”

"I found it. Belclery sighed. "When I heard the dwarves screaming, I almost ran over.

This way. He pointed to a narrow gap between the rock walls.

Calamon sighed, looking at the scratches all over his body in self-pity. One by one, everyone squeezed into the gaps.

Robert was the last one. He turned and looked at the desolate place once more.

Night fell quickly, and the clear blue sky turned a deep purple and soon continued to turn black.

The bizarre stone map is slowly surrounded by twilight. He couldn't see the black pool where Evan had disappeared now.

Just thinking that Hubble was gone made me feel weird. He felt very empty in his heart.

He had been expecting to hear the dwarves complaining noisily—all sorts of aches all over their bodies, or the voices of relentless arguments with the cooks.

Robert struggled for a moment, reminiscing as much as he could about the best friend.

Then, quietly, he let Hubble rest in peace.

He turned around, burrowed into the narrow crevices of the rock walls, and left the land of the gods, never to return.

As soon as they returned to the path, they followed the path and came to a small cave.

They gathered together, not daring to start a fire in such a close place to Jinrakka, because this is the place where the power of the Evil Dragon Legion is most concentrated.

For a while, no one spoke, and then they started talking about Hubble and letting him rest in peace from their memories, just as Robert did.

All that remains of their memories are the good things, the memories of Hubble's rich, colorful life.

When Calamon recalls the tragic camping trip, he tried to catch fish with his bare hands, only to capsize the boat and knock Hubble into the water...... They all laughed.

Robert recalls the fateful meeting between Hubble and Wade, when Wade "accidentally" took a bracelet that Hubble had just made to sell for a good price at the market.

Lena remembered the tiny little toys he had made for her.

She remembered how the dwarves had kindly taken her in when her father had disappeared, and waited until Otick helped her find a place to live.

They remembered many, many stories until late at night, when their pain had been healed, and only the regret of loss remained.

At least, for most of them.

Later, when Wade was keeping vigil, he sat at the entrance of the cave and looked at the sky.

Holding Francisco's helmet in his little hands, tears kept rolling down his cheeks.

The Kander Mourning Song is the same as ever, and spring is coming again.

The bright world is once again running in the air and flowers, in the green grass and waste, all thriving in the embrace of the sun.

As in the old days, you can explain why the soil turns black, and how this darkness brings raindrops and allows flowers and ferns to grow.

I have forgotten these things, how the golden vines grow, how the spring is so vibrant, and countless lives are vying to emerge at this time.

Now winter only exists in my memory, autumn, summer sunshine from now on every spring will be the season to the night.

In the end, everyone realized that it was very easy to get into Nairaka.

It's unbelievably simple.

"What the hell is going on down there?" Calamon muttered. Still wearing the stolen armor, he and Robert looked down into the plains from the vantage point in the mountains west of Kinraka and found a bewildering sight.

The sinuous black lines were like snakes, all the way to the building within a hundred miles, the temple behind the darkness.

It looks like hundreds of giant snakes have emerged from the mountains, but these lines are not snakes.

These are thousands of legions of dragons. The two men saw everywhere the sunlight shining on the spears, or the reflections on the shields.

Black, blue, and red flags flutter in the wind on the towering flagpole and are embroidered with the emblem of the Dragoon's own.

Dragons of all colors flew in the sky—red, blue, green, and black—almost the colors of the rainbow.

Two massive flying fortresses floated above the temple, casting shadows that plunged them into eternal night.

"You know what. Calamon said slowly, "Fortunately, the old fellow drove our mount away before.

If we ride the brass dragon into this chaos, I'm afraid there is only one way out. ”

"That's right. Robert said absent-mindedly. He had just been thinking about the "old guy" as well, piecing together a few things and recalling what he had seen and Wade had told him.

The more he tried to figure out who Evan was, the more the answer came out. He "shuddered," as Hubble said.

The thought of Hubble forced him to put aside the dwarves and the old fellow.

He had enough things to worry about now, and there was no old mage to help him get through this time.

"I don't know what's going on. Robert said quietly, "Anyway, it's good for us and reduces our hindrance."

Remember what Elistan said? The Mishakai Platinum Disc says that evil tends to kill each other.

After darkness, for some unknown reason, her troops are gathering, perhaps preparing to deliver the final blow to Clais. However, this makes it easy for us to sneak into the chaos for a while.

No one paid attention to the two guards escorting the prisoners. ”

"Is that your judgment?" added Calamon gloomily.

"I pray it will be like this," Robert whispered.

The captain of the Nairaka Gate Guard has been plagued by a lot of trouble lately.

After the darkness, a battle meeting was convened, and these Dragoons from the continent of Anceron would gather here for the second time since the beginning of the Great War.

They began to flock in four days ago, and from that time on, the captain's life was worse than death.

Dragoons should enter in order of class.

Therefore, Lord Eriakas was the first to lead his squire, his troops, his personal guards, the Wyvern Brigade.

Then there was Ella, the Daughter of Darkness, the second with her attendants, her troops, the personal guards, the Wyvern Brigade.

Then there was Lucian of Taga, with his attendants and so on, all the way to Toude, the dragoons stationed on the easternmost frontier.

This whole order was not just to satisfy the vanity of the higher Dragoons, but to allow large numbers of troops and supplies to move in and out of buildings that were not originally designed to gather troops.

Moreover, due to the distrust of the dragoons among themselves, no one wanted to carry in and had fewer troops than the others.

The system was designed to work very well and theoretically work.

Unfortunately, from the very beginning, Lord Eriakas, after being two days late, the whole design ran into trouble.

After the darkness, it is now a nest of people, obviously wanting to launch a final blow against the alliance of elves, humans and dwarves.

Robert is with the Eternals, and they also seem to have lost their bearings.

And Rodrith is still in the Great Library, delving into those ancient magic spells.

And the river breeze and the crimson moon, who are still in the ruined capital where the sea elves live, are rushing back to the area guarded by their companions.

The situation was so urgent that Robert had no time to waste.