Theresia's footsteps stopped.

She stood in place, slowly turned around, the hand holding the bowl was trembling, and the soup in the bowl was like the sea stirred by a rainstorm and thunder, violently shaking.

She put the bowl down and took a deep breath, a smile on her face.

"Is it me?" She asked.

Xia Ming nodded.

Theresia was silent for a moment, as if struck by this heavy fact.

Her shoulders slumped, her eyes drooped, and even her red hair, which had always been beautiful and flying, hung limply on her shoulders.

"Ah, is that so?"

After a while, she raised her head and smiled at Xia Ming.

"Although I have been taught so much by everyone in the embers, I have always convinced myself that I must become a Valkyrie to save everyone, and after so many years I thought that I had long been accustomed to the destined future, but sure enough......

"Actually, I still haven't prepared for that."

She turned her face away, her haggard cheeks clouded with mist.

"Now that we know it's my problem, it's easy to do."

There was a false glint in her eyes, and she seemed to be slightly uplifted by knowing the root of the problem, but her smile was very pale and reluctant.

"Xia Ming, don't worry, I will try my best to overcome the escape of this fate in my heart in the past few days, I think...... When I'm really ready to take it all in, the phantom you see should appear, defeat her, and maybe we'll be able to get out. ”

After a few more moments, her countenance returned to its calm.

"I'll go and bring the chicken soup downstairs and let my brother warm it up for you."

She picked up the porcelain bowl and paused as she walked to the door.

"Xia Ming, if you can, can you treat this as our common secret and don't tell it to your brother?"

"Okay."

"Thank you."

After getting Xia Ming's promise, she stopped silently for a while, and went downstairs silently with chicken soup.

The oppressive atmosphere, the gray heaviness.

The liveliness and joy she wanted was only a fleeting fantasy, and this was the cold and pale reality.

It's time for the little ones to play.

The next day.

Tried was surprised to see that his temperament had become cold and firm, and he no longer had the youthful liveliness of his body, but was replaced by a calm, serious, serious and calm Theresia.

Or rather......

In imitation of the previous Valkyrie Theresia.

He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart inexplicably.

"Theresia, we're not in the embers right now, we can relax a little bit......"

"No, it is precisely because we are in danger that we can better understand the state of mind when the Valkyrie has experienced a difficult situation, and we can move our spirit and will closer to the Valkyrie."

Theresia browsed her brows with a straight face, and said with a serious and harsh face:

"I was so ridiculous and reckless a few days ago, as a descendant of the Valkyrie, destined to draw a sword to inherit its power, how could I relax and slack off like that, and show such a heartless side?"

"If this reduces the spiritual resonance between me and the Valkyrie, and fails to obtain the approval of the Red Flame Sword to inherit its power, I will be the biggest sinner in the Northlands, and I am sorry for everyone's cultivation and expectations in the embers!"

She was dressed in a thin cotton garment, and she did not invoke her psionic powers, and she took off all her guards, and walked alone into the cold mist outside.

"Even if I'm not at the base of the embers right now, I can't escape myself with such a weak indulgence."

Her lonely figure was gradually engulfed in a thick white mist, and in the mist there was not only a biting cold wind, but also the snow and ice that stinged her cheeks with the wind.

Treed clenched his fists hard, and there were faint bruises on his neck and forehead.

For some reason, at this moment, he would rather see his sister regain her liveliness, even if it was to go to Xia Ming again without listening to his advice, playing those childish games, and even to play tricks on himself.

He also didn't want to see the smile on his sister's face lose and turn back into the serious and cold clone machine that completely closed his heart in order to become a second-generation Valkyrie.

"Xia Ming, you went out alone with Theresia three days ago, what the hell are ...... What happened? He found Xia Ming.

Xia Ming shook his head and said with some apologies:

"I promised Theresia not to tell you, if you want to know, just ask her to go."

He looked at the vague figure in the mist.

Honestly, he feels the same way as Treed.

The girl in front of him, who was completely opposite to the lively elf Theresia before, brought him a strangeness, a chill in his heart.

Seeing the cheerful and lively Theresia, he initially thought that the goal of this mission might no longer need any spiritual salvation.

But now it seems that she is also a problem girl.

Weak avoidance makes it easy to lose oneself.

At some point, the evil dragon took Theresia's inner weakness and escape as the core, and created a spiritual enchantment in this fog-shrouded town that could not be escaped.

Xia Ming was curious and surprised.

If the dragon didn't know about Theresia's peculiarity, why did it spend so much power to set up such an enchantment, which he couldn't destroy even when he activated [Psionic Disillusionment].

But if the dragon knew that Theresia would become a new generation of Valkyries, why did it just set up this kind of test-like barrier, instead of killing her?

Also, after several days have passed, and Treed and Theresia have not returned from their missions, why should the Ember Formation send someone to find them, right?

Why doesn't there seem to be any movement?

However, Xia Ming is not in a hurry, he can wait for time to pass quietly, waiting for the truth hidden under the thick fog to be slowly revealed, anyway, he can read the file and start again.

Moreover, his spiritual energy was growing rapidly every moment, although it could not be accurately tested, but in just a day or two, it had risen from the energy level of the early thousands, which had just stepped into the fourth order, to the level of more than eight thousand.

In another day or two, you should be able to easily break through 10,000 and complete the promotion of the fifth order.

Night.

Theresia crept into the sleeping Xia Ming's room.

"I'm sorry, Xia Ming, I'm ...... I still can't hold on......"

It's just a day's play, obviously I've been used to it before, but maybe because I've tasted the delicious taste, it's hard to swallow the bitterness of the past.

Coupled with the heavy pressure in her heart, or perhaps the negative emotions accumulated in the past ten years and these pressures have turned into a mountain and pressed on the bottom of her heart.

She was a little exhausted and couldn't support it.

She took Xia Ming's palm and placed it in the palm of her hand.

This palm had brought her a strange and happy feeling that she had never experienced.

Dark and cold nights, heavy stress and dazed fear of the future.

She couldn't help but think of the short happy times with Xia Ming these days, and the joy of being caressed by Yang Zhiyulu when the girl's heart sprouted spring.

She is obviously in the prime of her youth, and her body and mind have already reached the age of Sichun, but her nature has been suppressed.

If she said that her suppressed nature and those heavy pressures before were only silently accumulated in her heart.

So now, what does she need to support her, comfort her, help her vent, so that she doesn't get crushed by these things.

The girl remembered that day when she was treated by Xia Ming, her heart flashed with amazement.

She took Xia Ming's hand and pressed it against her petite and delicate chest.

Xia Ming opened his eyes.

(End of chapter)