"No, no," Wade stammered. He looked palely at the knight's back.

"Whatever that thing is, we can't beat it. Hubble, I-I'm scared!" the Kander shook his head sadly.

"I- I'm sorry, but I can't face that guy that monster.

We need to hurry back to Karaman. Maybe we can find reinforcements—"

Wade began to rush into the forest. Hubble stood in anger for a moment, looking at Lolana in the distance.

Then his face sank. "He's right," he muttered.

"I can't chase that monster either. Whatever it is, it doesn't belong in this world. ”

Hubble turned and glanced at Bakaris, who was lying beneath Lorana's cloak. Hubble's heart began to throb.

Hubble ignored all of this and said firmly to himself, "He was lying about Robert."

Ella too. He's not with her, I just know!" the dwarf clenched his fists.

"I don't know where Robert is, but one day I'm going to have to face him, I'm going to have to tell him...... I let him down.

He believed I could protect her, and I failed!" the dwarf closed his eyes.

Then he heard Wade shouting. He sighed and blindly followed the Khand, rubbing his left arm as he rubbed it.

"How can I tell him?" he growled. "What are I going to do?"

"Okay," Robert looked at the man sitting calmly in front of him.

"I want an answer. You deliberately led us into the maelstrom!

Why? Do you know there's this place? Where are we? What about the others?"

Berclery sat in a wooden chair across from Robert. The patterns of birds and beasts carved on it are very similar to the patterns that elves like.

In fact, it reminds Robert of Rorak, the throne in the destroyed elven kingdom of Sivanastina.

This resemblance did not calm Robert's mood, and Berclery looked a little flinching under the angry gaze of the half-elf.

His hands, which were too young for their appearance, were nervously tucked into his tattered pants, constantly surveying his surroundings.

"Damn, answer me!" said Robert, grumblingly.

He lunged at Berclery, grabbed the man's clothes, and pulled him up from his chair.

Then his clenched hand moved to the man's throat.

"Robert!" Scarlet Moon immediately put her hand on Robert's arm to soothe him.

But the half-elves have lost their minds. His face was so full of fear and anger that she barely recognized him.

She tugged anxiously at Becleral's hand.

"River Breeze, hurry up and stop him!"

The tall plainman grabbed Robert's wrist and pulled him away from Belcleral, wrapping his strong arms around him.

"Don't do that, Robert!"

Robert struggled for a moment, then went limp, taking a breath in fits and starts.

"He's a mute," River Wind said sternly.

"Even if he wants to tell you, he can't.

He couldn't speak—"

"You're wrong, I can speak. ”

The three men stopped and looked at Belclery in amazement.

"I can talk. He calmly said in the lingua franca.

He absentmindedly touched his neck, which still bore the marks of Robert's hands.

"Then why are you pretending to be dumb?" Robert asked, gasping.

Beclerc rubbed her neck and looked at Robert. "People don't ask dumb questions......"

Robert forced himself to calm down and try to think about it.

He looked at River Breeze and Scarlet Moon, and saw River Wind shake his head and frown.

Scarlet Moon shrugged slightly. Robert finally dragged a chair and sat across from Berclery.

Noticing that the back of the chair had cracked, he sat down carefully.

"Belclery," Robert said slowly, trying to hide his impatience, "you're talking to us.

Does that mean you'll answer all the questions?"

Berclery glared at Robert and nodded slowly.

"Why?" Robert asked.

Beclercle licked her lips and looked around. "I-you've got to help me get out of here.

I-I can't stay here-"

Even though it was warm, Robert felt a chill.

"Are you in danger?

Are we in danger? Where is this?"

"I don't know!" Beclaire looked around helplessly.

"I don't know where we are. All I know is that I can't stay here. I must go back!"

"Why? Dragoons are hunting you. One of them is a dragoon—" Robert coughed dryly and continued hoarsely.

"One of them told me that you are the key to complete victory after darkness.

Why, Berclery? What do you want?"

"I don't know!" becrank her fists and shouted.

"All I know is that they're after me...... I've been on the run for years! there's no peace...... No break!"

"How long, Belclery?" said Robert, softly.

"How long have they been chasing you?"

"It's been many years!" Berclery said depressedly.

"It's been many years...... I don't know how long it has been. He sighed, soaking in satisfaction in calm. "I'm five hundred and forty-one years old. Or sixty-two?twenty-seven?" he shrugged.

"Most of those days, after the darkness, we chased after it. ”

"Five hundred and forty-one years old!" said Scarlet Moon in surprise.

"But - you're human - it can't be!"

"You're right, I'm human," Belclery's blue eyes stared at Crimson Moon.

"I knew it wasn't possible. I've died many times. His eyes turned to Robert.

"You've seen me die once! I recognized you when you first came to the ship. ”

"You did die when those rocks fell!" said Robert, surprised. "But we saw you alive at the wedding, Stone and I-"

"Yes, I saw you too. That's why I ran away. I know...... There will be more questions. Berclery shook her head.

"How can I explain to you how I survived? I don't know myself, all I know is that I died once and then came back to life.

Over and over. He covered his face with his hands. "I just want to put an end to this!"

Robert was completely confused. He scratched his beard and looked at the person in front of him. He was sure he was lying.

Oh, not about the resurrection. Robert himself witnessed it.

But he knew that after darkness almost all the troops that could be withdrawn from the battlefield were sent to search for him. He must know why!

"Belcleral, how did that green gem, uh, get into your flesh?"

"I don't know," Becleral's voice made them barely audible.

He involuntarily grabbed his chest, as if it was in pain for him.

"It's a part of my body, like my bones and flesh.

I- I think it's it that keeps resurrecting me. ”

"Can you take it out?" Scarlet Moon said softly as she sat down on a cushion beside him, placing her hand on his shoulder.

Berclere shook her head violently, her gray hair covering her eyes.

"I've tried!" he muttered, "and I've tried to dig it out many times."

I almost dug out my own heart!"

Robert shuddered and sighed helplessly.

However, it didn't help at all!

He still didn't know where they were. He hoped that Berclere could tell them...... Once again, Robert looked at the strange surroundings around him.

They were in an ancient room of unknown age, and the moss hanging from the walls like a tapestry lit up the room with a strange light.

The furnishings are as old as this room, and they look very dilapidated, but it is clear that it must have been very opulent before.

There are no windows here, nothing can be heard outside. They don't know exactly how long they've been here.

The concept of time began to get confused, and in the meantime they ate some strange plants and fell asleep in a daze.

Robert and Riverwind had carefully inspected the building, unable to find any other exits or other creatures.

Robert couldn't help but suspect that there seemed to be a powerful magic spell that made it impossible for them to get out.

Because whenever they walk down the narrow hallway, they always come back to this room unexpectedly.

After the boat was sucked into the whirlpool, they remembered only a few fragments.

Robert remembers hearing the sound of the deck cracking. He remembered seeing the mast fall and the sail torn to pieces.

He heard screams. He saw Calamon washed off the deck by a large wave.

He remembered seeing Lena's red curls floating on the surface of the sea, and then she disappeared with her.

And the dragon ...... Ella...... The scratch on his arm made it impossible for him to forget.

And then another big wave! I just remember holding my breath until my lungs were about to explode.

He remembered welcoming the death, but he still couldn't help but grab a piece of wood.

He remembers floating on the surface of the water and finally being sucked down, knowing that this was the end......

Then he woke up in this strange place, his clothes soaked with seawater.

It is discovered that Bercleral, River Breeze, and Scarlet Moon are with him.

At first Beclere seemed to be scared of them, hiding in a corner and refusing to let them get close.

In fact, they are even more wary of Berclaire, because this existence that is regarded as an ominous person is the culprit who has caused Robert and his party to fall into the vortex.

What frightened them even more was the strange gem on River Wind's chest, according to his tone, it seemed that this was a divine stone that could awaken life force.

However, when the whole ship was swallowed up by the huge whirlpool, no one told them what would happen to them.

However, the position they were in at this moment was not the so-called whirlpool at all, it looked like an ancient and exquisite house.

River Breeze reminds me of some old legends that when people die, they come to a whole new world.