With the evacuation of the three Sand Wolf brothers, the other two groups of raiders on the periphery, who had served as bait to attract the attention of the Minotaurs of the Sural tribe, also withdrew from the battle.

Although the other two were only feints, the number of attackers was large, and the fear of being constantly attacked by the attackers would increase the curse, so the Minotaurs did not have an easy time coping. After the battle, the bull-headed people in the village began to busily put out fires, take care of the wounded, and resettle women and children who had lost their homes due to the sneak attack, and the scene seemed a little chaotic for a while.

Although the scene where Cheruth and the others also encountered the enemy had been seen by some minotaurs before, because Cheruth and the others finally beat each other away when only one person was injured, these minotaurs did not expect that the one who attacked them would be the mastermind of tonight's attack, so in addition to sending someone to ask if they were okay at the beginning, they did not come to say anything to them again, and Cheruth and the others were also happy and relaxed, and cleaned up the other part of the usable space in the half-collapsed wooden house, and everyone settled down temporarily.

The three Sand Wolf brothers are the leaders of the Sand Wolf Sand Bandits who attacked the Sural tribe, and naturally they also carry the terrible curse called the "Mad Demon Curse" by the Sural tribe.

Ji Xiangtian, who was not lightly injured in the battle, naturally inevitably fell into that curse, but fortunately, although there was nothing to be done about those who had been completely corrupted by the curse, for people like Ji Xiangtian who had just been infected by the curse, the sacrificial girl Raphael came up with the most stupid but effective treatment.

Using the high-level magic of the light system "Great Purification Technique", Raphael, who had almost exhausted most of the magic power on his body, finally succeeded in "squeezing" a small cloud of strange gray-black substance from the wound on Ji Xiangtian's flank and used the seal of the light system to seal the mass of substance, in the words of the sacrificial girl, thanks to the fact that she was by her side at the first time of the injury, otherwise if it was too late to completely integrate this mass of things similar to the energy of the curse body into Ji Xiangtian's body, then she would have nothing to do.

Except for Ji Xiangtian, the others have carefully checked each other - by the way, at the suggestion of Cheruth and Chiyo, the only man, the little wolf children's shoes, is Sakura-mei, who took the responsibility of her childhood sweetheart and did a full body examination ♀ (fog) very seriously ♀ - and after confirming that neither of their bodies had been scratched by the enemy in the battle, they were completely relieved.

Speaking of which, it's really thanks to the fact that the opponent of Nanoha and the others is the third with the limit of physical strength, if it is the second child with dangerous claws or the boss with extreme leg strength, then even if there is Nanoha in the estimation team, the rest of the team will be more or less hit.

The third sand wolf has an extremely tough body, but his attack power is only very outstanding when he has just reached the elite level, so when fighting against the third child, Ji Xiangtian and Li Xiaowolf, the two melee leaders, easily blocked all the attacks of the third child with the support of the ranged people behind. If it weren't for the fact that the third child took advantage of the fact that they hadn't figured out his ability yet, he would have taken Ji Xiangtian by surprise with his body that would be fine no matter how he fights, and he would not have been so seriously injured at all.

After the battle, everyone was a little tired, because there were not enough chairs, so everyone simply sat on the ground leaning against the wall.

Mu Sakura and Li Xiaowolf sat together, it can be said that the little Sakura sister paper, who had experienced the first real life-and-death battle in her life, had already fallen asleep in a daze because she had relaxed, and her little head was tilted and happened to lean on the shoulder of the little wolf who also had some upper and lower eyelids fighting next to her, and as a result, the coarse nervous sister paper let out a light hum that seemed to be very satisfied with the pillow and continued to fall asleep, while the little wolf of Zhumajun smelled the girl's hair and suddenly woke up, his face was flushed and his body was stiff, obviously a little overwhelmed.

It was a very warm scene, which made Zhishi next to him look hot for a while, but finally Zhishi still remembered that he still had to do something in his head, and finally didn't take out the magic guide imager in his bag on the spot to make a 360-degree realistic record of the two cherry wolves.

"How are you feeling, Ji Xiangtian?"

With the light blue light of water magic on his hands, Zhishi put his hands on Ji Xiangtian's waist and used hydrotherapy to treat the wound on his sister's waist.

Raphael's light magic is miraculous for removing curses and negative statuses, but when it comes to healing injuries, he is not so good at healing injuries, although the healing spells in water magic are not as "professional" as healing magic, but they are more or less effective in healing external injuries, so Zhishi, a water magician, can also make a cameo role as a healer in the team like this.

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt anymore. ”

Ji Xiang Tian said gratefully, Zhi Shi smiled, and looked at Yi Ping, who was sleeping next to her next to Ji Xiangtian, maybe it was because she was emotionally blackened and consumed too much physical strength, Xiao Lori slept very deeply, and even the dull hair on her head was a little listlessly drooping down and motionless.

"Ji Xiangtian must get better quickly, otherwise Yiping will be worried. ”

Looking sideways at Yi Ping beside him, Ji Xiangtian's face also showed a gentle look, and he reached out and touched Yi Ping's little head.

"Well, thank you, Chiyo. ”

"You're welcome, thanks to Ji Xiangtian protecting us in the front of the battle just now, none of us were injured, and there is no need to be so polite between partners. ”

At the broken end of the room, Grey Wind sat cross-legged on a chair that had escaped the catastrophe and guarded everyone, seeing that it was time for the friends to rest, Cheruth and Nanoha did not disturb them, and turned to enter another intact small single room in the room, where Raphael was sitting on a chair in the private room, intently observing a small ball of light floating on the table in front of him.

"Raphael, how are you doing here, nothing is going on?"

Cheruth asked, because she was worried that what would happen to the little "curse body" that Raphael forced out of Ji Xiangtian's body, Raphael was not with everyone in the hall, but was here alone to concentrate on studying what was sealed in the ball of light.

"Cheruth, Nanoha, it's okay, and though it seems to be in good spirits, it doesn't seem to be able to do anything about the seal I've imposed. ”

Raphael smiled a dumb but reassuring smile, but Cheruth and Nanoha looked at each other for a moment, but they could see the confusion in each other's eyes.

Uh, very spiritual? Is that thing a living thing?

Out of curiosity, the two of them approached the table to look at the small ball of light on the table that had been sealed by Raphael with several light attributes, and then quickly understood what Raphael meant.

I saw a small gray-black mass locked in the ball of light, because it didn't look like an entity, so it was difficult to define it in terms of "matter", and it seemed more appropriate to say that it was a shadow. And now, the shadow seemed to have an autonomous life inside the ball of light, scurrying up and down, left and right, constantly crashing against the side wall of the ball of light, obviously not satisfied with its situation.

“...... Is this what kind of mad curse is this?"

Cheruth asked, looking at the little shadow in the ball of light.

"Actually, I've been a little unsure about this since the beginning. ”

"Huh?" Cheruth looked at Raphael in surprise, "Hey, you're not saying that this isn't the body of that curse that's a little bad, are you?

"No, it's true that this is the culprit behind what the Minotaur call the 'Mad Curse', but ......," Raphael looked a little distressed, "but I just tried to carefully perceive the inside of the orb of light, but there was no ...... Magical energy exists. ”

"Uh, you mean that this thing isn't a form of magic?"

"To be precise, it's not a curse, it's a curse magic that can cause all kinds of curse phenomena, the body should be a kind of magical energy mass that contains a certain magical structure and can be attached to the body of a living being, but I don't feel any pure magical energy from it. ”

With that, Raphael picked up the orb of light.

"On the contrary, in this shadow, let alone the spells that constitute the curse, they don't even seem to meet some of the most basic rules of magic, the magic elements are in a very chaotic state, and there are even a lot of equally chaotic psionic energy mixed in them, and it is not even possible to determine whether this should be blamed for magic or vindictiveness, after all, I have never heard of magic and psionic energy being mixed together to form something. ”

Both Cherus and Nanoha were a little stunned, neither of them had learned any magical theories, so they only knew anything about Raphael's words.

"Well, all in all, this thing isn't a curse like you thought it was at first, it's something you've never seen before, right?"

Raphael nodded.

"That's right, I'm afraid it's for this reason that there is no way to use the magic of the light system to heal it, but to force it out in a hard way, this kind of mutation is not a curse in the traditional sense at all, and it is naturally impossible to cure the curse by pure healing. ”

With that, Raphael put down the ball of light in his hand and stretched slightly.

"Uh......h I'm so tired......"

"Raphael, why don't you take a break, it's getting late. ”

Nanoha said understandingly, and Rafael rubbed her eyes and nodded a little confusedly.

"Well, that's ...... too"

Muttering like this, the sacrificial girl suddenly fell on the table.

"Chelus, rest early, I'll be here watching it. ”

Seeing Raphael's sleepy appearance, Cheruth went to the table, looked at the ball of light on the table, and reached out with some curiosity to grab the ball of light.

...... Is it a mysterious substance mixed with demonic energy and psionic energy...... Belch...... What's going on?

Looking at the ball of light in her hand, Cheruth suddenly noticed something strange.

This thing...... Why is it suddenly not moving?