The forest where the sage lived was located in a deep mountain northwest of the town of Fermoran. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The info horse ran all the way to the foot of the mountain with the two beautiful maidens and stopped in the green sea. The road surface here is undulating, like layers of waves piling up the slope. The foot is covered with a large area of vegetation, and when you look up, you can see a deep and rich emerald forest.

On the horse, Melissa looked left and right, and after a while, her eyes locked on one place, and then she stretched out a finger and pointed in the direction of the top of the mountain, and said to Alicia:

"That's where the sages live. ”

Alicia searched Melissa's finger and saw a strange gray thing.

"That's ...... Chimney?"

"No, it's a stone tower! Don't all magicians like to live in towers and crypts?"

"Who said that?"

That's what the book says. ”

“...... People who like to live in this kind of place must be some eerie and autistic guys. Alicia suddenly remembered that the undead prince she had met in the Necrometric Mountain before also liked to hide in the tomb, combined with what Melissa was saying now, so she lost her favor with the group of "magicians".

After entering the forest, Melissa skillfully steered her horse in a zigzag step to avoid the annoying foliage. In Alicia's eyes, it seemed that it was no longer Melissa avoiding the leaves, but that the trees were actively making way for Melissa. This kind of skillful skill makes Alicia admire the five-body throw. While she was envious, she was also thinking to herself, when would she be able to have such a good equestrian skill?

"Huh?" After walking most of the distance, Melissa stopped the horse, and a puzzled sound came out of her mouth.

"What's wrong?" asked Alicia as she saw the horse stop.

"It's weird. ”

"Huh?"

"This is the road we have just walked. ”

Probably because the country girl was more sensitive to the appearance of trees, Alicia looked around, and suddenly felt dizzy and said:

"How do you know? It seems to me that every tree looks the same. ”

"Look there. Melissa pointed to a tall conifer tree in front of her and said, "We brushed past that tree ten minutes ago, but now, we're running into it again." ”

Tapping her chin with a finger, Alicia looked at the sky and thought for a while, listing a possibility:

"Could it be because we accidentally went around in circles?"

"It's impossible, look!" Melissa pointed to the top of the hill again, and the gray stone tower at the top of the hill was faintly visible through the cracks in the dense leaves that covered the top, "I have always been heading in the direction of the stone tower, unless the stone tower moves on its own, otherwise we will not be able to deviate from the direction." ”

"But now we're running into the same tree. ”

"That's right. ”

"Well......" Alicia looked at the sky again, thought for a while, and listed the second possibility, "Then it must be Melissa, you are mistaken, this must not be the same tree, just a tree that looks very similar." ”

“...... I hope so. Melissa may have accepted this reason, but she looked at the forest and said with some concern, "Alicia, do you think this forest is strange?"

"Why do you say that?"

"I often followed my father to hunting, so I knew what a forest should look like, but this forest couldn't be called a forest at all. ”

"Can't it be called a forest?" said Alicia, amused, because this is a forest.

"Well, we haven't seen a single animal since we entered this forest. ”

After hearing this, Alicia's mouth suddenly opened as if she had realized it. That's right, since entering the forest, let alone a small animal, not even a snake or a bird, I haven't seen it, this is too unusual!

Alicia suddenly felt a creepy feeling, and she thought to herself, she can't get involved in something strange again.

"Let's go further and see, hopefully everything is just my guess. ”

When Melissa had finished speaking, she drove her horse forward again. After this conversation, Alicia clung to Melissa in fear. The surrounding trees seem to be monsters that can move at any time at this moment, and the quiet forest makes people feel inexplicably weird, Alicia thinks of the Devil May Cry Forest under the Necronomicon Mountain, and can't help but shrink her neck, looking around with her small eyes, for fear that behind which tree, a white grimace suddenly appeared.

And so it was. Melissa stopped the horses again, and where they were now was in a clearing surrounded by trees.

"What, what's wrong?" suddenly stopped in this kind of ghost place, and Alicia's heart became more and more depressed.

"We've definitely been here. Melissa lifted her horse and picked up a palm-sized stone on the ground, "This stone has just appeared in the same clearing. ”

"So, we ...... Lost?"

"It's not like getting lost. Melissa said as she looked in the direction of the tower again, "I just noticed that no matter how much we move in the direction of the tower, the tower won't close the distance between us and us. ”

"You mean, we've been going around in circles?"

"It's someone trapped here. Melissa looked at the scenery around her and said, "I don't know much, but I think this forest is like someone has cast some kind of magic on it, causing it to become a labyrinth. ”

"Magic again?" Alicia must have hated magic now, and now that life was at stake, she was inexplicably stopped here.

"I think it's probably a spell that the Sage Lady cast to keep others from harassing him. ”

"Cut, what kind of bullshit sage! You're just idle and have nothing to do, right?" Alicia erupted, "It's nothing to build a labyrinth, I have something to ask you for." ”

"Heh......" Melissa chuckled and said, "Since it's a labyrinth, there must be an exit, so let's just look for it slowly." ”

So, Melissa began to mark the trees with X's in stone, but back and forth, they always returned to where they started, and now, they were back in the clearing. In front of me, all the trees were marked.

"No, we've tried all the ways, but we still can't get out?!" Alicia became more and more impatient, it was getting late, and the trees were golden as the setting sun shone on the trees.

"It's a little weird indeed. Melissa also seemed puzzled, according to the marked clearance method she came up with, they should have already walked out by now.

"Ah, no matter, let's sit down and rest for a while!" Alicia felt dizzy and tired, jumped off her horse, found a stone with a smooth surface, and sat down.

"Ahh

Alicia thought that there was a snake or some other monster next to her, so she quickly jumped up, but when she found that there was nothing, she thought that Melissa was teasing her, and immediately crossed her hands on her hips and showed a dissatisfied expression.

"Hehe, I didn't lie to you, you look behind you. Melissa pointed to the stone where Alicia had been sitting just now and said.

Alicia turned around suspiciously, stared at the stone carefully for a long time, and finally noticed something unusual.

"Ahh

On the smooth surface of the stone, four small words are engraved: "Conceived/Buried".

"What does it mean?" Alicia was confused, but she felt that nothing would be easy in this eerie labyrinth. And these four small characters are engraved on the stone, which is so unsightly, obviously the person who carved the words does not want anyone to find out.

Melissa and Alicia exchanged glances, both tilting their heads in confusion. Why do you carve such an inconspicuous word on a stone in this labyrinth?

A thought flashed through Alicia's mind, and before she could catch it, it sank into the sea. Alicia desperately remembered what the word seemed to mean, what it portended, where had she seen or heard it?...... By the way, it was in a bedtime story that her mother read to her.

The protagonist of the story is a magician who embarks on a journey to find the five elves in order to create the strongest magic in the world. The five spirits, created by Ilia, the goddess of light, and Dark, the god of darkness, are:

Wendini, the water spirit for "healing", Kurabey, the wind spirit for "rebirth", Ifrit, the fire spirit for "pain", and Katis, the thunder spirit for "destruction".

There is also one, the spirit of the earth, which is created by two gods and represents the double meaning of conception and burial......

“...... Laon?" Alicia finally remembered the name of the last elf and whispered it.

"Ah, Alicia, look!" Melissa's eyes widened in one direction, and she tugged at Alicia's clothes hard.

And Alicia looked up, but saw a very incredible scene. Between the two large trees in front of her to the left, a yellow-brown circle of light appeared out of thin air, shaking unsteadily.

"What did you just say? Did the forest react to what you said?"

"I don't know, I just said it...... Laon?"

After the word Laon exited, the aperture widened again, and it moved faintly, as if calling Alicia and Melissa and walking towards it.

"For some reason, I have a feeling that the direction of that aperture is the right direction. "Alicia makes a bold assumption. When Melissa heard this, she was first taken aback, and then nodded in agreement. Because, she feels the same way.

The two of them decisively moved towards the yellow-brown aperture, and the horse was still a little resistant before entering the aperture, but under Melissa's reassurance, he finally quieted down obediently. After Alicia and Melissa exchanged glances, they mustered up the courage to step into that aperture.

To their disappointment, they didn't feel the slightest bit when they crossed the aperture. After passing through, I looked back and found that the aperture was gone.

"What, isn't this still here?" Alicia was a little melancholy, she had been expecting that stepping through that pale blue circle of light would greet them with a completely different world.

"No, Alicia, we seem to be on the right track!" Melissa suddenly became excited, with a happy smile on her face, "That tower is closer to us!"

Alicia quickly looked up, and sure enough, compared to when she had been standing still just now, the stone tower now seemed to have pulled some distance from them.

"It should be fine to go on like this, let's move on. Melissa stepped onto the horse with a single leap, and Alicia was envious and surprised, how the hell did she do it?

Melissa grabbed the reins with one hand and reached out to Alicia with the other. The latter also held the hand trustingly, and suddenly, Alicia felt that the whole person was pulled by a force, flew into the sky, threw an arc, and sat firmly in the saddle.

"Wow, that's fun!"

The scene of the trapeze artist just now made Alicia feel very enjoyable, and she wanted to do it again. But the horse had already started running while Alicia was still in the air, so Alicia could only cling to Melissa and hugging her delicate waist.