"The priest is the spokesperson of the goddess Jasmine, and the witch is the proof of the existence of heresy."

"That's the first reason we have to get rid of the witch."

The man's blade stabbed into Alyssa's chest.

The sudden attack left Alyssa with no time to react, and when she sensed that something was wrong, the tip of her sword had already pierced her heart.

It's not that you panic because you were stabbed with a sword, but if it's a physical injury, you just need to heal it.

The problem was magic, and there was a chill spreading in the chest.

The man's sword was endowed with ancient magic whose provenance is unknown, and it was a sealing rune!

The rune magic spread like poison, tearing Alyssa's flesh, blurring Alyssa's consciousness and gnawing at Alyssa's soul.

"Am I going to die?"

"Is it really going to end unprepared?"

If that's the case...... Taking this man as her companion would be the last madness of Alyssa's life.

Alyssa's magic is leaking out, and memories of the past are flooding in.

Alyssa's consciousness is like a buoy floating on the sea, memories of the past and present intertwined, washing over her consciousness like a wave.

Wave after wave pushed back in time, back to the original memory.

Then all the memories are slowly forgotten.

……

It was a rainy day.

"Do you know who you are!"

An orphaned girl without a guardian picks up a puppy from the street, which makes the orphanage director furious.

The puppy couldn't keep his eyes open, panting weakly, and everyone thought the puppy was dying.

However, the director and instructors of the orphanage did not care about the life or death of the puppy at all, but scolded the girl.

The girl was indifferent to being scolded, she didn't even blink her eyelids, and cheekily asked them for milk to feed the puppy.

"Why don't you throw me out into the open space outside, or I'll drive you out with you."

The director of the orphanage was so angry that he threatened the girl, but the girl still did not have a compromising expression.

As a result, the girl left the orphanage with the puppy in front of the yelling director.

How could a girl who grew up in an orphanage have anywhere else to go.

The girl, who had nowhere to go in the village, walked to the path outside the village.

Walking along this off-the-beaten-path path leads to a hill with a panoramic view of the village.

There is a temple on the top of the hill that has been abandoned by people, and it looks very desolate.

The girl sat under the eaves of the temple to shelter from the rain, but she had only one piece of clothing on her, which was already soaking wet, and slowly getting colder and colder.

The more cold she felt, the more tightly she hugged the puppies in her arms, warming each other with their faint body temperature.

"Either way, there's always going to be a way to live, right?" The girl stared blankly at the panoramic view of the village and said to the puppy.

Dark clouds overlooked the village, and dense raindrops kept falling on the village.

The girl secretly planned in her heart that in the evening, she would quietly go back to the orphanage to get some food.

The girl suddenly felt that everything in front of her was becoming farther and farther away.

The consciousness became clearer and clearer, however, the body could not move, as if the soul had left the body, fluttering.

It's not the first time she's experienced this feeling of time pause.

Occasionally, the girl can see the state in which time has stopped in this world. In an instant, the wind also stopped, and the whole world fell silent, the flowers and trees did not move, and countless raindrops were suspended in the open air.

The girl loved this magical moment very much.

The sound of rain suddenly came like a tidal wave, breaking the silence that seemed to be in a state of eternity.

Time is starting to pass again.

"Did you read that just now?" The girl asked, looking at the puppy with a curious expression.

But the puppy didn't know anything, but was afraid of the cold and drilled into the girl's arms.

"What a funny little girl." Suddenly, a human voice came from behind the girl.

A man emerges from the abandoned temple that the girl thought was empty.

The man was wrapped in a dark blue robe that reached to his ankles, and he wore glasses, and he had the air of a scholar.

He didn't look like an old man, but he had unkempt gray hair.

The man walked up to the girl and draped his robe over her shoulders, and the wide hood covered it to block the rain from falling in the air.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Alyssa, where's my uncle?"

An immature girl who answers a man's question with a non-honorific language.

Hearing the girl call herself uncle, the man laughed loudly.

He told the girl that his name was Shane.

Sean asks Alyssa why she is alone in such a place.

He said that this mountain is very dangerous, and there may be demons at any time.

Alyssa showed the man the puppy in her arms and told him why she was here.

After listening to the girl's explanation, Shane took a closer look at the puppy, and then took out a magic wand from his arms.

A faint flash of fire appeared at the end of the wand, followed by a flick of the man's hand, drawing a mysterious trail in the air.

The trail took the shape of a rune, flickering and glowing.

In an instant, the puppy in the girl's arms magically stopped trembling.

The little guy, who had been listless before, looked up at Alyssa and wagged his tail.

Looking at the healthy and lively puppy, Alyssa smiled brightly for the first time in her life.

Alyssa and the puppy played in the open space in front of the temple for a while.

The girl and the puppy were playing happily, completely forgetting that it was still raining, and Sean looked at them and smiled.

As the sun sets, at Shane's suggestion, the two decide to help the puppy find its owner.

They went down the hill together, wandering around Rochester and around the village, looking for a long time without finding the master, until at last a beautiful young lady passed by the maiden with her twin daughters.

"Mom! Look, this puppy is so cute, sister, is this puppy yours? ”

Seeing the little girl asking herself, the girl shook her head unhurriedly: "No, it doesn't have an owner yet." ”

"Mom, can we adopt it?"

"Lord, Daddy doesn't like puppies, you know." Lord's twin sister persuaded Lord.

But Rod, who really likes this puppy, is so fond of it.

"No, no, no, I'm going to adopt him, I've already figured out his name, I'll call it Kabran!"

What can the mother of the two children do, her daughter likes it, and finally she can spend money to buy this puppy from the girl.

Watching the puppy gradually move away from the puppy in the arms of its little owner, Alyssa waved her hand reluctantly.

At some point, the sky cleared.

"Alyssa, do you want to learn magic?" On the way back to the orphanage, Shane asked.

Alyssa nodded almost without thinking.

Seeing that Alyssa had made a decision without hesitation, Sean laughed again.

At the same time, Alyssa also remembered the magic that Shane had just done to heal the puppy.

Alyssa will never forget that miraculous moment in her life.

When I finally stepped out of the seemingly endless woods, I was greeted by a vast basin surrounded by mountains on all sides.

With the sound of crunching wheels, the carriage entered the basin.

This is a hidden area near the Alert Order in the northern part of the kingdom, and it is a mage realm that neither humans nor demons dare to set foot in easily.

Close to the open field, in the center of the basin, a huge tower of the red moon soars into the sky.

The Tower of the Red Moon, shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere, seems to inhale all the breath of the surrounding space.

The Tower of the Red Moon is known as the largest magic school in the entire continent.

It is a place that everyone who dreams of becoming a magician yearns for.

The carriage in which Shane and Alyssa rode arrived at the main entrance of the Tower of the Red Moon.

The mysterious aura of the Tower of the Red Moon stirred as if it were welcoming two people.

Alyssa, who grew up in an orphanage and never left the orphanage, quickly adapted to life in the Tower of the Red Moon.

She has a very strong sense of magic.

In general, a magician needs a magic wand to perform magic.

Because without a magic wand, it is difficult to control the amount of invisible magic power gathered.

But Alyssa can sense the changes and flow of magic, and can easily control it with her own will alone.

"What the hell are you doing!"

"I'm just going to say, it's your!"

The classroom was full of commotion, and it sounded like friends were arguing and playing.

The classmates all came to see the excitement and surrounded the two of them.

The two who quarreled angrily both took out their magic wands and aimed them at each other.

The classmates saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly began to dissuade the two.

If a magician uses magic to fight, the safety of people and property in the surrounding area cannot be guaranteed.

Despite the desperate efforts of their classmates around them, the two have become so angry that they have lost their minds.

Between the two, the magic begins to stir.

The students closed their eyes and waited for the unforeseen next second.

However, for a long time, there was still silence, and the end of their magic wands was calm.

The two stared at each other without moving.

"What's wrong, what's going on?"

The faces of the two people who quarreled were red,

The expression is indescribable.

At this time, Alyssa pushed aside the onlookers and walked in front of the two.

"Alyssa?"

In the surprised eyes of her classmates, Alyssa calmly looked at the two of them separately, and said lightly:

"If you want to fight, go to the gladiatorial arena to fight."

The faces of the two boys who were arguing turned even redder.

Behind Alyssa, a large cloud of magic swirled in the palm of her left hand.

Before the two of them could pull out their wands to gather their magic, Alyssa sucked out all the magic around them, creating a vacuum of magic.

Alyssa turned and left the classroom.

The two male classmates who were arguing looked at Alyssa's back in amazement, and their magic wands suddenly began to set off fireworks.

The two of them were startled and threw their wands to the ground.

The students watching around couldn't help but snicker when they saw them like that.

Before she knew it, Alyssa had spent more time in the Tower of the Red Moon than she had spent in the orphanage.

She was no longer the helpless little girl in the orphanage.

"Magic Ice Blade!"

Alyssa straddled the window of the research room, and shouted as she put her hand out of the window.

Magic gathered in her hands, but only firecrackers.

This is Shane's magic laboratory.

When Alyssa wasn't in class, she spent most of her time in Shane's magic lab like this.

Although Shane is said to be Alyssa's guardian and mentor, for Alyssa, she was already her best friend before she became her teacher.

"If you can't learn, can you shout at your voice?"

Shane deliberately teased Alyssa in a mocking tone.

Alyssa glared at Shane, who saw Alyssa's eyes and quickly closed her mouth and continued to look down at the papers on the table.

"Magic Ice Blade!"

Alyssa shouted again, and the result was the same.

She can easily control her magic, but she is not very good at converting it into elements.

Because of this, Alyssa is quite attached to elemental magic.

Although she can control her magic as she wants, she can't use it, which makes her very angry.

"That's why I persuaded you to learn rune magic."

"Rune magic is getting old."

Alyssa was angry and unceremoniously refuted the teacher, and Shane, as a teacher, could only smile bitterly.

Shane is a magician who specializes in rune magic, which is one of the oldest in history.

Rune magic is said to have been created before ancient wars, using rune marks to perform magic, and most of its principles and secrets have been lost in the long history of mankind.

As a result, rune magicians are a very niche profession among the researchers of the Tower of the Red Moon, and only Shane and a few other very few magicians do research like archaeology, trying to carry forward the rune magic.

"Well, the gift I prepared for you may be old-fashioned."

Shane took something out of the lab and showed it to Alyssa.

It was a small bracelet.

The thin bracelet was densely engraved with tiny rune marks, and it looked as if it had been carved by Shane himself.

Sean walked over with a confident smile and put a bracelet on Alyssa.

With a puzzled expression, Alyssa tried to gather magic with her bracelet-worn left hand.

A flame of magic ignited in her palm.

Alyssa's eyes widened in surprise.

"I gave it a name, Horcrux. If you can't always learn to convert elements, you can control the magic directly. ”

As Shane said.

After using the Horcrux, the pure magic particles changed form and structure according to Alyssa's will.

She thought of the wind, and the particles of magic would spin and form the wind; When she thought of ice, a hard, cold magic crystal appeared in her hand.

It's simply the best gift in the world.

Alyssa threw herself up and hugged Sean with a smile on her face.

Sean looked down at Alyssa in his arms tenderly and smiled heartily.

……

It's a world where everything is dyed black.

There is no light, no darkness, no life, no death, not even time in this world.

There is no light in this world, so there is no darkness either.

The perception of the world is that there is nothing.

There is no life in this world, and therefore there is no death.

This is neither a place where the living beings nor the dead dare to set foot here.

There is no time in this world, so this world is eternal.

This immortal world has existed since the beginning and will always exist.

Alyssa stared blankly at the eternally dark world.

It's so lonely here.

"Help me!"

It was useless to shout, time sealed Alyssa's voice, and darkness erased Alyssa's existence.

"Help me!" Alyssa wanted to cry, but it didn't work.

There is a pain called eternity, and it crushes Alyssa.

There is a loneliness called eternity, which robs Alyssa of all possibilities.

She had to escape.

She had to get out of here.

"Help me!"

With a dying cry, Alyssa opened her eyes.

In front of him was Shane, who was looking down at him.

It's that nightmare again.

Alyssa came back to her senses, her mind gradually calmed down, and a wave of shame welled up in her heart.

Talking in her dreams in front of Sean made her feel ashamed.

"Are you alright? Alyssa. ”

Sean looked at Alyssa silently and smiled softly.

Alyssa was able to experience the phenomenon of time stopping when she was in the orphanage, but at some point, it was accompanied by severe vertigo and even caused her to lose consciousness.

"Why am I like this?"

Alyssa asked uneasily.

This is the second time this week that he has lost consciousness and fainted to the ground.

The cycle of recurrence of this situation is getting shorter and shorter.

She felt a strong sense of uneasiness that made her tremble.

Shane gently hugged the trembling Alyssa.

"It's going to be fine."

Shane's voice was soothing to Alyssa.

Alyssa fell asleep again.

Shane's blade slammed into Alyssa's chest.

In order to seal the otherworldly gods, the sword was endowed with ancient runic magic.

The sword pierced Alyssa's body in an instant, reaching her heart.

Under the influence of magic, Alyssa's body squirmed.

It's against an otherworldly god who tries to descend through Alyssa's body.

Shane added some more mana to speed up the seal.

The slightest miss will cause the seal to fail. Then, Alyssa's personality will be trapped in another dimension forever.

At this moment, a huge amount of magic power erupted from Alyssa's body.

This is the last struggle of the otherworldly gods.

The magic swirled rapidly in the surrounding space, instantly forming a small whirlwind.

The whirlwind begins to break down everything in space into its smallest molecular state and erodes it bit by bit.

Starting from the corners of the robe, little by little, the whirlwind was eroding all the skin and muscles on the backs of Shane's hands, arms, and legs.

Shane let out a scream of excruciating pain, but he still didn't let go of his sword.

Shane's pupils reflected Alyssa's struggle.

Can't give up.

He decided to make a last-ditch effort and summoned all the magic he could to complete the seal.

The moment the seal was completed, the whirlwind vanished.

Until the last moment of his demise, Shane did not let go of the sword.

Syllable!

Shane's glasses fell to the ground.

When Alyssa opened her eyes, she saw a magical laboratory that she didn't know at all.

She struggled to sit up.

The whole head was confused, and the headache was splitting.

She couldn't remember why she had fainted here.

There is a pair of glasses and a sword on the ground, and it is not known who fell here.

Alyssa picked up her glasses.

She vaguely felt as if she was with someone just now,

But she couldn't remember who it was.

After several days, Alyssa still couldn't solve the day's questions.

There are too many fragments of memory.

After going through this, Alyssa lost her memory.

She felt an unknown magical mark on her heart, and she wore a bracelet on her wrist that looked like a magical tool.

Both places have traces of runic magic.

Alyssa looked at the glasses and sword she had picked up in the research room, and felt as if she had forgotten something important.

Alyssa couldn't resist her urge to find out the truth,

She decides to leave the Tower of the Red Moon to look for clues.

Runic magic is the only clue.

On the mainland, there are only a handful of magicians who can use runic magic.

Alyssa asks around and visits the magicians of the Wizards' Guild and the magicians of the royal palace, but they don't know anything about the magic engraved on Alyssa's body.

But in the process, she learns that in a small town on the border of the mainland, there lives a magician, who was once the most famous in the kingdom.

Alyssa decided to go to that village.

She came to Hilda's Forest, and through here she could reach the village.

Alyssa was awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps coming towards her.

She accidentally fell asleep.

Alyssa looked at the sword and Horcrux at her waist, ready to deal with the unknown being coming towards her.

Emerging from the darkness of the forest are lizardmen in red armor.

The blue moon illuminates the night sky, and the moonlight shines on the armor, glowing grayish-white.

Although it was unknown why the lizardfolk race, who liked the humid zone, appeared in such a woods, Alyssa could clearly sense that the other party was coming with hostility.

The lizardmen's gaze is unfocused as if they are fascinated by something.

In an instant, the reptile's cold gaze turned to Alyssa again.

The lizardman raised his sword and shield in his hand and took on an offensive stance.

"Although I don't want to hurt you......"

Alyssa pulled out the long sword at her waist and said with the knife back down.

The lizardman screamed and pounced on Alyssa.

It's a battle that doesn't require a waste of time.

In this moonlit forest, the concentration of mana exceeds the normal value.

This should be enough.

Alyssa opened her left hand and focused her magic on the Horcrux.

Through the runes engraved on her body, the moves of ancient magic were cast.

The moves of ancient magic evoke magical resonances that envelop the world around them.

With Alyssa's left hand as the center, the flow of all time around her stopped.

The wind through the woods stopped, and there was silence again.

The lizardmen's arrogant eyes, and the sword flying towards Alyssa, froze.

Everything in the world seemed to freeze in an instant.

Alyssa walked towards the lizardmen.

In this world where everything is frozen, only Alyssa is free.

With the help of the time-stopping magic, Alyssa jumps onto the lizardman's head at once.

Her sword stabbed through the gap in her helmet into the lizardman's eye.

The lizardmen's massive body crashed to the ground.

Intuition tells Alyssa that this is not the end of it.

The guy who stalked him all the way was still hiding in the shadows of the forest, perhaps related to the presence of the lizardmen.

"It's amazing."

A gloomy voice came from the shadows of the forest, and out came a group of men in black cloaks, leading a hound.

In order to hide their identities, the black cloaks wrapped in black bandanas and black masks slowly walked to the moonlight and surrounded Alyssa.

Alyssa gathered her magic on the Horcrux once more, ready to fight.

"We're not here to fight you."

Among the black-cloaked group, a man with a gloomy voice stepped forward to dissuade Alyssa.

Unlike the rest of the gang, the man wore only a headscarf and no mask.

But in the dark forest at night, even if he was wrapped in a turban, he still couldn't see the man's face clearly.

The man continued, "We're just here to confirm if the Otherworldly Power has really been sealed. ”

Alyssa couldn't understand what the man was saying at all.

Otherworldly power, what does that mean.

"Looks like the rune magic did work today. Although the situation was a little different from what he expected, this should be the result he wanted. So we're leaving. ”

The man gestured, and the black cloaks disappeared into the shadows of the forest.

"Wait a minute!"

Alyssa hurriedly shouted.

The man mentioned runic magic.

Maybe he knew more about the traces of magic left in Alyssa's body.

The man immediately stopped.

"Ah, I almost forgot, he asked me to bring you a message. The person you're looking for is no longer in this world, Time Witch. ”

When the man had said this, he disappeared into the shadows.

Alyssa tried to catch up with the man, but stopped again.

The shadow of someone in her memory seized her.

It's Shane.

The name that popped up in her mind threw Alyssa's mind into a mess.

The person I'm looking for.

Alyssa pulled out her glasses from the Tower of the Red Moon and looked at them.

Shane's glasses.

Memories flashed through Alyssa's mind.

But it was also temporary, and Alyssa was soon lost in the darkness of oblivion again.

The shadow disappeared at some point.

Before becoming a magician, there was a man who was in love with a woman.

The woman had the wonderful ability to predict the weather and make plants sprout, which the man thought was a woman's extraordinary ability.

But when he realizes that it's all witch's power, a lot of things change.

The gods of the other world gradually took over the personality of women, and women died because of the power of the gods.

The man survives with the guilt of not being able to prevent his beloved woman from becoming a witch, and the deep guilt makes him have gray hair at a young age.

The man fled to the north, where he began to study magic.

The solitary man lives a conservative, withdrawn, colorless life.

One day, the man wants to let go of everything.

And so, he set out on his last journey.

The man is in front of the abandoned temple, ready to die.

Then, as fate had planned, the man met the maiden Alyssa and thus gave up on death.

A girl who will become a substitute for the god will become a living sacrifice of the witch.

The man gave up death and returned to his daily life,

And made up his mind to protect Alyssa.

The man kept his promise.

At the cost of being forgotten by the world.

Alyssa couldn't stop crying, and she decided to find out.

She had to figure out what otherworldly power was and what the concept of sealing was.

Alyssa decided not to return to the Tower of the Red Moon until she found the answer.

But I don't know where to start.

Alyssa walked through the woods and saw a village.

The name of the village is Kuhan.

"Ai ...... Alyssa, is that you? ”

"Sister, is that you?"

At this moment, the two girls grabbed Alyssa's two hands behind her back and asked each her own question.

Obviously Alyssa didn't know them, maybe she forgot them, but ...... They seem to be really familiar.