Chapter 115: The Journey
Angela came back late that night...... Time passed slowly, and after confessing to Sister Mira, Ulysses did feel that the world was changing.
The confession became a secret shared by the two. Before you know it, the time between the two began to increase. So much so that both Rascha and Yulia wonder why Ulysses has been so zealous about his studies lately.
"Sister Mira, have you been painting?" Ulysses asked the question he had wanted to ask a long time ago, looking at Mira, who was painting a small river in the distance on a canvas in seven colors in seven colors.
"Well, because I like it, I want to leave something behind. There was an imperceptible sadness in Mira's eyes, and the brush in her hand drew a soft rainbow.
"Oh, there's no rainbow there?" Ulysses looked at the river, confused, and then at Mira's painting, to make sure it wasn't his own eyes.
"Yes, it's right there, right next to you and Xiao Xia, Xiao Ya, and Xiao An. Mira gently lowered her paintbrush, then stood up and tapped Ulysses on the head.
"So, don't waste time around me all the time, go play with Xiao Xia and them. I know they've been jealous of me lately. Xiao You, who snubbed them so much, is not the Xiao You I like. ”
"Uh...... I know. Ulysses looked at Sister Mira, who seemed to be angry, a little embarrassed, and wondered, if they really like each other, then shouldn't they be together as long as possible?
The girl's mind is really hard to guess.
............ "To the city?" Ulysses looked at Rasha, who had come to tell him the news, with some surprise.
"Southern city?" Yulia looked at Raxia in surprise, for the people in this village, this is big news, enough to talk about it for half a month.
"That's right, Mom said, tomorrow we'll follow her with the caravan to the city to the south, which is said to be so big!" Rasha gestured with his hand, as if to express the feeling of "very big, big".
"Tomorrow?" Ulysses' expression became even more strange, for he remembered that the farthest he had been until he went to Taji City was the town closest to the village.
In that town, he learned a lot of news from the outside world, and also knew how to use the mercenary union to make money, which can be said to be the foundation for him to step out of Mira Village. But he couldn't remember which big southern city he had been to.
Many people in the village, like him, have reached the farthest place in their lives, which is just that small town. For them, the big cities of the South are so far away that they only exist in stories.
Serene and peaceful, this is the small village of Mira, located in the mountains on the edge of the continent, an ordinary village that can be found everywhere on the mainland. The people here are kind and simple, even a bad boy like Bake is not bad by nature, just a little too competitive.
"Well, I heard from my mom that she was going to take me to meet someone who was very important to me, and by the way, to take us to see the big city. "Rasha told a little lie, in fact, this time Lana's mother was only going to take her with her, but she really wanted to go with Ulysses, so in the end it became everyone to go together.
"Southern City......" In the village chief's house, Miss Mira was quietly sipping the black coffee in her hand, and the mixture of bitterness and sweetness spread from her mouth, just like the taste of her love affair.
"Xiao You, Xiao Xia, and Xiao Ya all go together, then let's go together, Xiao An. ”
"Got it, I'll protect you. Angela, who still hadn't recovered her memory, wiped the immortal dragon lance in her hand with a snow-white hand towel, and there was nothing in her eyes except it, and the ancient magic spear emitted mysterious fluctuations, making the blood temperature in Angela's body rise at a slow rate, as if something was about to wake up.
She wanted to reminisce again, to remember the strongest version of herself, enough to fight the terrible Ulysses.
She wanted to prove to him that she was truly the strongest and worthy of the red bridal dress.
So, the wheel of fate that belongs to this summer began to turn, towards the end of the summer that was intertwined with sadness.
.................. Ulysses sat beside Rasha, looking up at the sky high in the sky.
Wisps of light wind blew the clouds floating in the sky, streaked across the empty sky, obscured the blazing sun, and left a large shadow on the earth, but it did not bring much shade, but the terrible heat swept the whole land.
However, not everyone will be afraid of the heat.
"Ahaha! it's so hot!" Laxia sat on the top of the carriage with great energy, shouting happily to the white birds flying in the sky, as energetic as ever.
"Really ......" Ulysses, who was forcibly pulled together by Lasha, squinted at the burning sun in the sky, and from this angle, the sun was completely a constantly burning fireball that was baking the earth.
Compared to the village of Mira, which is located at the foot of the mountains, the sun on the southern road is much hotter, which makes Ulysses doubt himself even more, did he really experience this trip with Raxia and Yuria?
Yulia, who was not in good health, had long been hiding in the carriage and not coming out. For her, who is frail and sickly, such a sun is too terrible.
In the whole team, only he and Laxia, Angela could easily face such heat and came to the roof of the carriage.
He himself was trying to check his surroundings and geography, Rasha seemed to be doing it purely for fun, and Angela seemed to be refueling her undead dragon lance, Filu Bedilu.
"Ulysses, it's amazing out there. In the future, I will definitely travel to various parts of the mainland like this. Rasha, who had come to Ulysses' side, raised the index finger of his right hand and pointed to the endless horizon ahead.
Those beautiful and clear eyes were filled with a certain unwavering determination, as if she would definitely come to conquer this land in the future.
"If you can cure your road idiot. Ulysses had no doubt that if she hadn't forced Rashia to be in her sight all the time, she would have been separated from the convoy.
Although I don't have to worry about the safety of the inhumanly powerful Lasha, I don't know when the next time we meet.
I remember that once Raxia only went to the grove outside the village to pick wild fruits, but did not come back for seven days and seven nights, but Aunt Lana and Yufy's mother went out to find her, and it is said that she was fighting the bay crocodile in a dangerous swamp area.
"I ...... I've only walked a little far!" Rasha is clearly not going to admit the truth about his super road idiot.
Yes, it's not her fault, it's just that she occasionally goes a little wrong. But that's fine, even if there's no way in front of her, she can create a way out - by violence.
"There was no road in this world, but when there were more people walking, it became a road. That's what a great man said. So, even if she gets lost, she will definitely be able to find her way out on her own.
"yes, far, far away. Ulysses didn't know how Rasha had gotten lost to that point, it was beyond his common sense.
"Hmph, that's what a bad head is. In the other carriage, Angela, who heard the secret, looked at Racia defiantly, completely forgetting how she had been taken to Ulysses for emergency treatment this morning.
"Angela, you really like to be abused by me. "Rachadu can't remember how many times she's knocked out the red-clad boba lately, definitely several times more than she's lost to Ulysses.
Could it be that this guy was deliberately knocked down and treated by Ulysses? It's hard to imagine that Rashia could have been taught so many times without repentance.
"Gah!" Angela's hand as she held the undead dragon lance Filu Bedilu tensed suddenly, if she really regained her strength and reached that realm again, how could she have suffered such humiliation.
She's better than Rasha! There's no doubt about it, it's just that she's not really learned to master the power of the red bridal dress. As long as she comprehended that state again, how could Rasha defeat her!
It's all your fault, Angela gritted her teeth and looked at Ulysses, if it wasn't for his last sword that forcibly lifted the red bridal dress she was wearing and knocked her off that realm, how could she have lost to Raxia.
"Alas......" Ulysses sighed, and suddenly felt that the heat had risen again, and it was clear that he should not be affected by the weather at all.
"If only it could be cooler. Ulysses muttered to himself.
Then, the unthinkable happened.
The scorching sunlight shining from the sky suddenly seemed to encounter some invisible obstacle, and most of the light was refracted out. And the air that is full of heat is also actively repelled and replaced by fresh air that is as fresh and natural as clouds in the sky.
The caravan, which had been moving under the scorching summer sun, suddenly found that the temperature around it had dropped a lot unconsciously, and the wind, which was originally extremely hot, became full of coolness.
"It's going to rain?" said the leader of the caravan who had been on this trade route for more than ten years, and in his experience, this phenomenon could only happen in one case, and that was when the heavy rains characteristic of summer were about to occur.
For caravans, a sudden rainstorm is not a good thing, so every experienced tour leader will be prepared before the rainstorm comes.
"Prepare the tarpaulin, quickly, block all the goods that need to be covered. ”
"Over there, hurry up, the rainstorm won't be waiting for you. ”
"Prepare a bag for water storage and store a little rainwater. ”
Order after order was carried out quickly and effectively, and any caravan that traveled the southern regions all year round knew that the summer transition from the drop in temperature to the onset of heavy rains often took only a few minutes to prepare, or even less. If you don't prepare in time, you're in big trouble.
Three minutes later, the sky was still clear and the air around him was still cool and fresh, and the leader squinted his eyes, trying to find the black cumulonimbus he expected from the clouds on the horizon.
Ten minutes later, the sun was still shining, and the deep blue sky stretched all the way to the other side of the crust line. The temperature has dropped by several degrees and has become more suitable for travel, almost like spring in March.
Fifteen minutes later, a beautiful and lovely white cloud finally floated in the sky, looked curiously at the caravan under the ground like a great enemy, blinked his eyes, and continued to float away.
There was no raindrops falling, but the weather naturally became cooler, as if someone had given an order to the hot weather and let it drop by more than ten degrees.
"Sister Mira......" Ulysses looked up at the clouds in the distant sky,
(To be continued)