Thanks to the slowness of these skeletons of unknown origin, we ran forward with little to no interruption.

Anyway, these guys are not all hostile, and they seem to be more curious.

But I fear they probably don't have that kind of feeling...... After all, they were all bones wrapped in wind and sand.

"How far is it?"

I shouted to the front, the only way to get my voice to reach the ears of the elves in front of me.

"Keep up!"

The sound of the wind was still so short.

It's just the distance from the hillside to the valley, which should be about the same as our speed......

Just as I thought of this, the elves in front of me suddenly disappeared, as if swallowed by the heavy wind and sand, and as if they were obscured by the thick fog of winter.

"Hey!"

Isn't that a trap?

If it were, Elle and I would have blasted this piece to slag right away!

Kick hard a few times under your feet and chase a few steps forward.

Suddenly, the wind and sand that slapped on his body disappeared, and the dusk sky that blocked his vision suddenly opened up.

The sunlight shone through the bushes, painting Elle and me bright green.

"...... here?"

Looking back, the dead desert had turned into a quiet valley again, and every tree seemed to be so vigorous.

In front of us, the huge structure that blocked the view, was the pyramid we saw on the hillside.

The heart of Bladetooth City.

"That was the barrier that protected the tower?"

Ellie was overjoyed, it was the first time she had seen such a grotesque scene.

Unexpectedly, however, the leader standing in front of us shook his head.

"Those are lost elves"

"It's been here for thousands of years"

"Neither to return to our world nor to the torrent"

Oh?

That sounds like a ......

"That's the entrance to Hades"

I thought the same thing, but I didn't expect such superstitious words to come out of the elves' mouths.

Oh no, it's in the wizarding world, and anything supernatural can exist.

Speaking of which......

Princess Timia's guardian elves seem to use some magic related to Hades.

"And the opposite"

The elven captain who led the way pointed to the pyramid behind us.

"This is the entrance to the torrent"

"Oooo

The little one is already jumping up.

Both Ellie and I were convinced that this trip would take us to a whole new place.

"Please follow me"

The elf turned and walked around the pyramid.

The building looks like a pyramid, just its appearance.

Aside from the crawling vines, nothing was found on the exterior walls of the building.

When we look at it from a distance, we notice that the building is not piled up, but carved out of a huge rock.

Up close, this was confirmed, and the texture of the stones beneath the vines was as coherent as the flow of water, without any cracks or protrusions.

The whole building looks more like some kind of hypertech sculpture built by aliens.

Coming around from the other side of the pyramid, there are distinct steps.

Like the ladder of Elgonda, it goes vertically up the outer walls of the building, and the higher it goes, the narrower the steps until the end - leading to a large gate.

Whoa, whoa, whoa—

His steps are as light as if they are being blown by the wind, and even if he is not moving, his legs will take steps on their own, as if he were floating down a river.

We have entered the mana flow we saw earlier, which converged from the surrounding forest and poured into the pyramid from here.

"These magic powers are so weird!

Neither lukewarm, neither soft nor hard, neither strength nor flexibility, these magical qualities are incompatible with Ellie.

So the little one felt itchy all over his body in this huge flow of magic.

"I can only send you here, and then you can go on your own"

The elf who had led us here nodded to Ellie.

The princess also returned her salute to the elf with her smug smile.

'What a business smile, little ghost!'

On the surface, he was happy, but in his heart he grinned at me, which is also the princess's unique skill...... Ouch hurt hurt!

The elf who had led us turned around and took a few steps, jumped forward with his head down, and immediately disappeared from our view.

He should have been in the dusk of the sandstorm again.

Unexpectedly, this city deep in the dense forest has such a moat, no wonder it can survive in the northern region of the Aurora World, which is full of demons.

Goo, I swallowed, not knowing what kind of creatures would inhabit this building.

And Ellie's heart was full of excitement.

"Quick, quick!"

I also ran quickly, the building was much smaller than that of Ergonda, and we were only a few dozen meters away before we came to the gate.

The semi-circular door, which is dark inside, looks very ominous......

"Welcome"

Just as Ellie and I were hesitating whether to walk in, a "familiar" voice came from the door.

"Leon......?"

From Ellie's memory, I also learned about the owner of this voice - Leon Akaba, Ellie's grandfather, the previous lord of Chiya City.

But this genie has ......

No, no, if it's in the city, it's possible!

Ghost!

Entering the semicircular gate, the inside is not as dark as it seems, but it is filled with light as if it were daytime.

The light that comes from the magic.

The magic manifested itself on the ground like a stream of water, flowing in behind us and flowing out far ahead.

This is the magic circulation I've seen outside.

But that's not all.

From this river-like trunk, there are many, many small branches that flow in all directions, and many small branches that flow into the main stream from the periphery.

Further away are not illuminated by magic, and the walls and roofs of buildings are not visible.

It's more like an empty plain than the inside of the tower.

But I've seen this kind of space magic many times, so I'm not surprised at all.

Whether it's the infinite realm of Gloria, the witch king, or the treasure vault of Brixington, the giant king, it's even more mysterious and magnificent than here.

But it also has its own unique charm -

In the middle of the river, there is a small sandbar, and in the center of the sandbar is a bonfire, the faint light of the fire is almost masked by the beautiful magical light around it, but it reveals power.

Around this bonfire, there are sections of tree trunks horizontally, like benches in the park.

The elves sat on the trunks of the trees, chatting impassionedly or calmly.

"Leon, is it really you?"

Ellie tried to reach out and touch the elf standing next to us, but the red-bearded elf shook her head.

"I am only an afterimage and an echo of Leon, whose will and soul have long since died"

The little guy retracted his hand in disappointment and looked at the elf in front of him in a daze.

The body of this elf is like a colored mist, and at the slightest touch, no, as soon as your hand comes close to him, he will probably disappear.

"Let me introduce"

Leon's apparition reached out and pointed to the sandbar in the river.

An old female elf dressed in gray-black linen, hunched back, with a pointed chin looking at us.

"She's Judith Bone Blade"

"The Sacrifice of This Temple"

"Master of Bladetooth City"