After a long night, the rising sun slowly dispelled the white mist that gently drifted over the jungle on an early autumn morning. ...... It was as if an invisible hand had lifted the last veil of the night that had wrapped around the landscape before leaving.

The clouds rose and fluttered, lifted from the branches, and left the treasures that were hidden below, and gradually dissipated in the gentle glow of the sun. And the black shadow that was hidden by it, like a sea, came to life at the moment when it kissed the light. The fine, weaving-like leaves turned bright red in the flowing glow, and then burned to a bright red......

Finally, in the chirping and praise of the birds that came out of the forest, this uncrowned king who always guarded the land under his feet, this deep forest as ancient as the river of time, finally brought its own golden crown in the light.

The light was shining downward, washing the dew that dotted the forest, either on the tips of the leaves or on the grass stalks, all shining like diamonds.

In the distance, two vague figures slipped through the bushes and walked over, but faster than them was a clear, pleasant voice. "Praise the Lord God, I never thought that the morning of the 'Hidden Terrace' would be so beautiful......" The sound of a pleasant inhalation sounded, "Whew...... No wonder the Wood Elves live so long!"

A chuckle or two came out of the mouth of the man walking in front. "If so, I can tell you one more secret to their longevity......" His voice didn't sound like a joke.

"What?" the girl asked.

"Their menu is only wild vegetables, mushrooms, and fruits, if you can tolerate it......" The man's voice finally turned to a teasing.

The girl burst out laughing, gasping as if shaking her head. "Forget it, Zhar, I know that many meat-eating wood elves can live to be more than seven hundred years old. You can't fool me!" she protested.

"Okay, okay......"

After last night's "battle", Zar and Adjani slept comfortably, without harassment or sneak attacks, the only pity was that they could not light a warm campfire. But it's nothing to them. Early the next morning, after a brief meal of wild fruits, they set off, and if all went well, they could reach the "Fengyin Bridge" before noon, and from there return to the "Conviction Yuntai".

Walking behind, Adjani carried the ballista she had captured yesterday on her back, and twisted a small green blade of grass in her hand. The morning dew drenched her long brown-blond hair, and the skin exposed from the upper edge of the veil seemed to be covered with a mist. The white skin is extremely clear, with a bright luster.

"Don't digress, you haven't answered my question yet, Zal!" Adjani asked, looking at the back in front of her.

Zar pushed aside the branches and leaves that stood in his way, and it was much easier for him to use "Sishua" to clear the way, but he didn't want to do that. "What's the problem? My lady......"

"You haven't said why you provoked the Brotherhood of Ironstone!" the girl prompted. "There are not many people on the gimbal who dare to be their enemies......"

Zhal's footsteps didn't stop. "That's quite a long story...... "As if sensing something, he reached out. Soon, a red wild fruit crossed his shoulder. Flew into the girl's hand.

"Thank you!" Adjani said cheerfully, "I love to hear stories. Especially the long one!"

Zal shrugged his shoulders in front. "Then I'll be brief, they killed my friend, a good man......" His voice sank, and he took another breath and returned to his previous state, "I know it sounds strange. But he's a good guy, a good guy who has made mistakes, at least that's what I think. He tried to explain the "language disease" in it.

"I'm sorry, Zhar, I didn't know......" The girl had an apologetic look on her face. Then she said, "Actually, you don't need to explain, I know better than you about the situation of the 'Conviction Cloud Terrace'," she said, "The residents here have long since failed to meet the 'sinner' standard set when Wind Cliff City was established." ”

She followed behind Zal and continued thoughtfully. "Anyone who can't live outside can come to Wind Cliff City, there are villains, sinners, and exiles who have lost everything......" she looked at the back of Zar in front of her, and said as if unintentionally, "Of course there are good people who have made mistakes, and I wonder which one do you belong to, Zar?"

"Me?" Zar's movements seemed to pause, "Trust me, you won't want to know......" He shifted the subject away, "By the way, did your family live here for a long time when you said 'when Wind Cliff City was founded'?"

Adjani frowned slightly, seemingly disappointed, but quickly relaxed. "Zar, didn't anyone tell you, you're such a digressive expert!" Zar shrugged his shoulders noncommittally. "Well, at least you're telling a little bit of the truth. She soothed herself.

"As for how long you're asking, that's long enough. The girl replied briskly, "My family has been here since the establishment of Wind Cliff City, and they have been vassals of the city lord for more than two hundred years, and it should be about the same......

More than 200 years?zar cleaned up the branches and leaves in front of him, and silently recited in his heart, even if such history is placed among the nobles of Orem, it belongs to the ancient family. "Now that the standard has changed, you don't know what scale the 'Brotherhood of Ironstone' has developed to on the current gimbal, right?" he carefully rounded the subject.

"Scale?" Adjani's laugh came from behind, "Do you mean their power is huge, or do you mean their monopoly on the 'sweet wax' business?" she said with great acuteness, "Zal, this is the 'Conviction Stage', but the Crown is not all there is to Wind Cliff City......" she then apologized, Please don't mind me saying that, after all, the inhabitants of the Yuntai are still sinners in nature, and you can't expect us, especially the lord of the city, to treat sinners the same way as the people, and we have no responsibility to educate them, never. ”

Without waiting for Zar to speak, or if Adjani didn't want Zar to speak, she continued. "What's more, 'Conviction Yuntai' does not represent the future of Wind Cliff City, it is just the 'past'......" The girl's words have some meaningless flavor, "'Wind Breath Yuntai' is our present, and what about the future......"

Zal picked up the conversation. "The future of Windcliff is for the children you picked up. Isn't that right?" he tried his best to hide, but his voice was still visibly trembling.

"What's wrong with you, Zhal?" Adjani captured the gaffe in Zal's words, something she'd never seen before.

Taking a deep breath, Zal shook his head. "Nothing, just don't understand. "He lied.

"Don't you understand? Because there's so little you can see, and so little information you can access......" the girl said, laughing, "but it's hard to think of that. She whispered, "No matter what their parents have done, these children are innocent, and only children are the hope of all." This has been the creed of Windcliff for hundreds of years, and it has never changed. Adjani said at the end, with a hint of worry in her words, and threw the blade of grass in her hand.

"Is there anything wrong?" your tone has changed...... "Zar asked, pretending to be strange. Although the movements of his hands did not show the slightest change, they were still so casual, but in fact, his attention was all focused on the answers that might come later.

Adjani frowned slightly, as if hesitating about what to say next. Is it appropriate to say it in front of Zhal. Eventually, she sighed. "Nothing. In recent years, fewer and fewer babies have been born in the 'conviction platform'......"

"Less and less?" said Zar, but his heart trembled, and as he had guessed, the Archon of the Throne had intercepted some of the babies and worked with the sheriff to create the illusion of a gradual reduction. "And what about the lord of the castle? doesn't he know?" confirmed Zar.

"Of course the lord knows, but so what? can he still interfere with the fertility rate on the gimbal?......" The girl smiled and shook her head. "Forget it, these things shouldn't be said to you. She said, her tone becoming serious, "Take my words, Zal." Wind Cliff City is far from as simple as you seem, more than two hundred years have created a huge prison. ”

Zar knew that Adjani wouldn't be revealing anything else, so he quipped, "I don't doubt that, because you shouldn't be bored to that point......"

The girl stopped following and laughed. "Of course, we certainly won't be that boring!" she stressed, pretending to be angry, "do you think we're all crazy people crouching on the top of a mountain......

As soon as the girl was halfway through her words, her eyes shrank when she looked up at the front, only to see that Zal had already reflexively rushed towards her! "What's the matter......" Before she could finish speaking, she felt a lightness all over, and was swept backwards by Zal!

At the same time, a round of pale blue runes suddenly flashed from the position where the two of them were standing just now, and it exploded with a hiss, rolling towards the surroundings with an incomparably pale ice mist. In the creaking sound of quick freezing, the surrounding plants slowly solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a layer of brilliant ice crystals!

As soon as he landed, Zal directly blocked Adjani behind him, staring at a big tree not far ahead, at this time, a black-haired figure turned out from behind the tree, and it was Zal who humiliated Loppoero twice in a row!

The mage grinned and stood under the tree. Strands of dirty, greasy black hair stuck to the scalp and hung down, and the cheeks covered under seemed to have not rested for a long time, and they were pale without a trace of blood. In the pitch-black eye sockets, the bloodshot eyes had no human color at all, and the gaze that revealed was like a serpent's letter, sweeping around Zal's body. He now looked like a day-wraith tormented by his wrath, emerging from the dirt and ready to be devoured.

The mage slowly moved forward, his hands burning with a pale blue mist of ice. "How was last night?" his voice was hoarse, like broken glass rubbing together. "I've been waiting for you here for a long time, ...... Zal"

Zar held the hilt of his sword, ready for a possible attack, Adjani's voice softly reaching his ears from behind. "How is that possible, how could he know the location of the Wind Hidden Bridge?......" she said, as if she had seen something on the mage's outfit, her voice startled, "Zal, you didn't say that there was also the Hand of Judgment among the people who were chasing you......" Her gaze fell on the emblem on the mage's cuff.

"Is it too late now?...... Zal replied simply, without looking back.

"It's late!" the girl shook her head very dryly, for some reason, there was not the slightest panic in her eyes, but there was an untimely excitement. "And then, what are we going to do?" she whispered.

Zal held the girl back away. Keep a safe distance from the mage. "I say run, and you immediately run backwards, don't look back......," he whispered, staring at the mage.

"What about you?" asked Adjani, frowning, a little worried.

"You're safe, and I'm sure I'll kill him. You're here......"

"Zal, you're so straightforward!" the girl interrupted him and whispered. "I'm ready, you're going to do it, you can do it anytime. ”

Zar was still backing away, and the ice mist in the mage's hand was getting brighter and brighter. "Why are you still retreating, don't you dare to rush up?" his voice suddenly raised, and without warning he roared, "If you don't come, then I'll come!" he said and flicked his arm, and three sharp ice picks came out of his hand in a row. Whistling and struck at Zal!

"Run!" Zar burst out with a burst of "Sishua", and a few crisp sounds slashed the icicle flying towards him, and at the same time, Adjani behind him had already reflexively rushed away in the direction she came. But just as Zal was about to rush towards the mage, two other figures came out from behind the side and went straight to Adjani who was fleeing!

"Kill me, or save her?!" the mage laughed wildly and raised his arms and pushed forward. The frenzied ice mist shot out with more than a dozen tiny ice picks!And Zar didn't hesitate in the slightest, shaking off the ice picks that hit behind him. Rushed to where the girl was, but as expected, the mage's form twisted and disappeared in place with a streamer.

In the distance, the Rogkan overtook another of his men. Stretched out his palm to the girl who was getting closer and closer in front of him! At this moment, a terrifying sound of breaking the air made him startle, only to see that Zal, who was rushing wildly, actually pulled out "Destroy" and threw it out! A deadly sense of crisis swept through the skin of the Rogkan people like a cold wind, and he roared wildly. Pick up the giant hammer and smash it!

"Dang!"

A piercing crack shook the woods, and the stout two-handed hammer fell apart in a flash of black light, and the Rogkan people were carried by the tremendous force of the impact, and pushed far away. And the man who fell behind took his place, jumped to his feet, and pounced on Adjani, who was running wildly!

At the moment when his finger was about to touch the corner of the girl's clothes, Adjani's eyes flashed with cruelty, and with a flick of the turn, and after a buzz, the subordinate was nailed into the air by the crossbow arrow, and with the blood spilled, he fell heavily to the ground. But because of this, the girl's speed followed, and by this opportunity, the Rogkan who had regained his feet finally caught up!

"Be careful!" Zar shouted and jumped up, picked up "Sishua" and stabbed the other party in the back of the heart!

"Give me down!" The mage who stepped out of the streamer finished chanting as fast as he could, and his outstretched hand pointed at Zal's figure and shook it fiercely, and several light blue cyclones thrown out of the void spun around his legs, and with a muffled thud, he was dragged from the air!

Among the splashes of grass and dirt, the figures of the three fixed figures slowly became clear. Rogkan's face was covered in cold sweat and he tensed his breath as he grabbed the back of the girl's neck with his right hand, keeping her in the space between himself and Zal. Adjani, who was standing in the middle, closed her eyes and stood there, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, as if she had given up hope of life.

Zal's legs were covered with ice, and the "Sishua" in his hand stopped steadily in the air, pointing at the girl's eyebrows, only a trace of distance remained.

A moment passed, and the Rogkan let out a breath, grabbed Adjani's neck, and stepped back in a panic. "Drop, put down the sword! damn it, I'll let you put down the sword!" he roared, as if he had walked around the brink of death. Adjani, who was dragged away by him, struggled, and looked at Zal with a complicated gaze.

The mage walked slowly in the distance, smiling. "O Zal, poor Zal, you have a chance to kill my men, you have a chance to stand in front of me ......" he said, "you just need to move your sword a few inches forward and kill the girl who is dragging you down, instead of stopping steadily, ......"

He shook his head with some regret. "Remember, my friend, on the gimbal, as long as you remember your conscience, then you are not far from death...... Like, now?hahaha!" the mage laughed and stopped behind Zhar, a safe distance. "Well, you also heard what to do after that, lay down your weapons and don't let me say it a second time!"

Adjani, who was stuck in the neck, looked at Zal and kept shaking her head. "No, Zal, don't listen to them, avenge me when I'm dead!" she cried out.

"Shut up!" roared in anger as the Rogkan man's hand was strengthened, and the girl's face instantly flushed with suffocation, and she coughed violently as the other's palm was released again.

Zar, who had never spoken, made the only movement, holding "Sishua" in his back, pinning it to the ground with a thud and lowering his weapon. "I'll just say it once, if she dies, you'll all die!"

The cold words sent chills to the mage and his men, but Adjani covered her lips under the veil with her hands, her dark eyes overflowing with tears, and she trembled slightly, unable to utter a complete syllable. (To be continued......)

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