The mages floating in the hall screamed in amazement as they fell, and the sudden darkness caused the slightly calmer guests to burst into fear and rush for their lives.

Ruth takes advantage of the chaos to break free from her fiancé's grasp, picks up the oil lamp that has fallen to the ground, and runs to the basement to find Jack's traces.

A dense stream of rats filled the basement, and a waiter was wading painfully back up the steps with a stream of rats that had submerged his calves.

"My friend is locked in the basement ......"

"I don't ...... I can't ......"

Ruth asks him for help, but the waiter, overwhelmed by fear, shakes her head away from her and flees to the top.

Ruth was the only one left in the basement corridor, and all she had to do was take a deep breath, step into the rat tide that terrified her, and call out Jack's name with a quick breath.

Handcuffed underground, Jack responds when he hears the movement and tells Ruth to follow him.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have suspected you of stealing the gemstone necklace."

Reunited lovers embrace each other, and the purest love blooms in the most filthy rat tide.

The key to Jack's shackles was in the rat tide, and Ruth had no choice but to push aside the rat tide that rose to her knees, retching as she groped for the rats.

They couldn't understand how this was recorded...... Are the rat tides all real?

Fortunately, Ruth felt the key and opened the shackles, and Jack and Ruth grabbed each other and fled back to the hall in a waist-deep moat of rats.

The real rat tide had poured into the hall from outside the mage tower, and the guests screamed and fled to the heights, some of the mages clumsily waving their staff at the rushing nezumi before being pounced on and their throats tore open.

The mages frowned slightly, but they thought it was reasonable that mages in the Forbidden Demon Realm couldn't cast spells, only Michael wasn't very happy - what was the difference between mages who couldn't fight and magic scrolls?

Jack and Ruth fled up the stairs and reached the second floor, when the windows on the upper floor of the hall burst openly, and countless scarlet eyes poured into the hall, drowning everything in the hall.

"The Mage Tower is over......" Ruth murmured in despair.

Jack cratted her, "We have to go, Ruth." ”

And not long after they left, the surging tide flooded the second floor.

Jack and Ruth followed the crowd upward, but soon they converged with a group of fleeing guests, who said that there was also a rush of nezumi from above.

At this moment, a stone brick fell from the top of his head and shattered in front of a guest.

They looked up at the same time, and a crack was creating under the wall where the dust was falling.

"The Mage Tower is collapsing!"

Screaming out of nowhere made the crowd crowd crowded again, and Jack and Ruth clung to each other as they continued to move with the panicked crowd, a deep pit formed by a broken gap in front of everyone.

The rat tide is close in the back, and the safe area in front is not yet infested by the rat tide. To get there, they must leap into the pit of rats.

A mage leaped down, screaming into the rat tide and struggling to swim to the other side.

"Ruth, we need to jump......"

Jack persuaded Ruth, who was afraid, "Remember what I said? You jump, I jump too. ”

With her lover's encouragement, Ruth mustered up the courage to jump into the rat pit with Jack, as if falling into the water and disappearing completely.

After a brief silence, Ruth's head emerged from the rat tide, and she breathed sharply and shouted, "Jack! Jack! ”

"I'm here! Ruth! Swim forward! ”

Jack's voice rang out from behind, and Ruth struggled to stretch her neck and flick the rats up the steps.

Kicking away the rats that had been brought up, Jack and Ruth continued forward, and the sound of speech sounded from behind the door panel of the next room.

Ruth tapped on the door and begged to let them in, but Jake stopped her: "This kind of plank can't keep the rats out, we need to find a stronger room." ”

The mage towers beneath their feet suddenly shook, shaking violently for them to grab each other.

The theatergoers saw the most shocking sight - the mage tower that cracked in it began to tilt.

To the sound of the sad musicians, they saw the elderly couple embracing each other in bed; Several mages fought bloodily with rat teeth and table knives; The woman coaxes the child on the bed.

Like an ordinary old man, the tower owner stood quietly in front of the window, watching the rat tide gather a huge wave higher than the mage tower......

……

Breez City is under martial law.

Patrolling and running city guards are everywhere, residents are being driven home, scavengers are pouring out of their nests, and mage towers have been activated.

Ormedo led the city guard to seal off the theater, and his cronies arrived: "The scavenger has confirmed the cavity under Breeze, and if it collapses, the entire Breezy City will be destroyed......"

"Didn't the Mage Tower stop it?"

"There is no way, the nezumi have arranged evil energy underground, and they will be discovered if they are close, and they will have to wait for the tower master to come back."

But the tower owner obviously couldn't get back as quickly as he did that night......

"Lord Castle, we'd better move the inhabitants out before the nezumi react......

"Annan is still underground, right?"

"I know you believe in Lord Annan, but he is only one man, and he ......"

"Relocating the inhabitants will only let the nezumi hiding in the city know that we've found them, and have you ever wondered what will happen to the nezumi when we migrate?"

Olmedo reminded his cronies: "These questions are left to them, and our problems are this theater. ”

"Lord Castle, what are we going to do next?"

"You stay outside, I'm going to question him......"

Olmedo walks towards the theater.

"You know what...... I earned this invitation from a dwarf...... At that time, I thought it was the luckiest time of my life......"

Entering the theater, Annan in the magical image leaned against the door and said weakly:

"And now too, because I met you...... Live, promise me...... You will be free from bondage, and you will have a freer life......"

"Promise me."

This touching picture, which is nearing the end, is untouched because Olmedo has already seen it, and after passing the sobbing spectator, he returns to his father.

The cronies began to quietly evacuate the nobles in the theater with their soldiers.

"What do you think of this story? Father. Olmedo struggled to keep his composure.

"Novel stories, brilliant ideas......"

"You no longer resist the chaos that Annan will bring?"

"Each of us is going to change...... We measure our surroundings with our own shallow perceptions. The boy thinks that the village under his feet is the world, and the woodcutter encompasses the forest in it. ”

As the magic lamps lit up, the spectators, who had no idea of what was happening outside, stood up and applauded, unsparing their praise, and Jonatan Mace clapped his hands red with tears in his eyes.

Augusta looked at the eyes that came from herself, now filled with complexity and sorrow.

"Let's get started, kid. Don't let your determination turn to patience. ”

(End of chapter)