The night is quiet and breezy everywhere.

On the outskirts of the city, the farmhouses and wheat fields are divided into standard symmetrical shapes, covered with a white veil of silver moon and holy haze.

Ryze held the Rune Secret Archive in his arms and panted as he ran under the moonlit night, staring back in horror into the dark veil of darkness.

In the next second, a white figure suddenly emerged from the originally empty wilderness.

It floated in mid-air, its legs completely submerged in nothingness, not touching the ground, and its entire ethereal and illusory body was translucent, wrapped in its robes.

Ryze couldn't make out the traces of its features on its smooth, blank face, a ghost, a wandering ghost, from the remnants of the past...... And the curse of the water of life.

The ghost's hollow face was aimed squarely at the magic apprentice who was new to arcane runes.

Ruiz could imagine that if it had eyes and a mouth expression, it would curl the horrible corners of its mouth and stare at itself with the eyes of a dead man.

Bypassing a few luxurious farmhouses with carved beams, the ghost is still in pursuit.

Ruiz's mind was still cranky, and the next moment, the ghost raised his thin finger that was flooded with blue light and pointed at Ruiz, and his figure suddenly accelerated.

"Damn, shit!"

Ruize, who was almost swept through his body, rolled under him to avoid the sudden attack, and cursed like a vent in his mouth.

The fear in my heart reached the extreme, gradually turning into a volcanic eruption-like rage.

"I feel the sand on the bottom of my hand, I feel the sand on the bottom of my hand!"

According to the meditation method that Tyrus had taught, Ruiz closed his eyes and muttered, replaying in his mind the images of meditation that he had been guided by his master as if he were there.

Then, as the ghost turned around to charge, Ryze took a deep breath, and some of the magical essence in the air was pumped into his body with his breath.

Recalling his days of studying arcane runes, Ryze snapped open his eyes that shimmered with a purple-blue arcane light, emitting a glow of magic.

When the ghost was only a few steps away from him, he raised his hand and drew a purple rune of overload.

Arcane energy erupted, and purple energy slammed forward at a speed far faster than the ghost's dash, leaving a dense trail of runes in the air.

However, even when Ruiz cast his magic, the ghost was aware of the danger.

The moment the arcane rune came out of its hand, its illusory form had already dissipated, as if it had escaped from the realm of reality.

The overloaded energy mass slammed into the wall of a pen, the exploding magic light blasted a smooth opening, the cattle and sheep inside screamed in terror, and the herding dogs rushed out of the fence and barked wildly on the street corner.

Ruiz glanced in surprise at his right hand, where the purple afterglow had receded, for the first time he had actually unleashed runic magic.

In the past, he could just rely on his talent to pry some rune locks.

Ryze never imagined that he would one day be able to unleash such a powerful magic.

But before there was too much thought, more than 20 families in the entire village were awakened by Fang Cai's movement.

The light of the sacred stone pierced through the cracks between the windows and doors, and someone had already come out of the room to check on the situation.

"Hell!"

Ruiz cursed secretly, not daring to stay here longer.

Gliding through the intricate triangles and diamonds, intricately designed village streets, his hurried figure remelts into the night.

……

……

On the other side, Josh's mansion.

In the evening, Ahri took the initiative to provoke a "war" and frolicked in the water with Josh, and his clothes were basically soaked.

Finally having a peer as a friend, Ahri has been suppressed since he was a child, and his belated "childlike nature" has finally been completely released, and he has experienced the joy of getting along with his friends.

Although Ahri was ashamed to feel that her behavior was a bit naïve afterwards, she had no worries or restraints when she was able to play with Josh, who understood her and was willing to accompany her crazy.

Good friends should be happy with each other, revealing and confiding in each other, so why hide their true selves?

In this way, it was not until the sun melted into the haze and the temperature dropped completely that the two returned to the house, and one occupied a separate bathroom and soaked in the hot springs purified by magic.

After taking a shower, Ahri temporarily put on Josh's clothes and chatted happily while he used his magic to dry his clothes, and then reluctantly said goodbye and left.

The night was dark, and at the end of the day, Josh changed into his pajamas and fell asleep.

However, after falling asleep for a moment, Lunithia woke him up again: "Something is wrong...... Josh, wake up! 】

Even though he is gifted with arcane talent, Josh is still a mortal flesh and blood who needs to regain his energy by sleeping.

I had a nightmare yesterday and didn't sleep steadily, and today I just closed my eyes for I don't know how long, and I was still tired and woken up.

However, Lunicia didn't give him a chance to lose his temper, and warned solemnly: "I feel the breath of life and death intertwined, it's nearby! 】

The anger quickly subsided, and Josh was slightly stunned.

After so many days of getting along, he had never seen Lunihia so serious.

Life and death are intertwined, is it a curse of ruin?

It shouldn't be, Callista hasn't returned to Kamavia yet, and the eaux-de-vie haven't even sent back the news, how could Foyego enter Fuguang Island?

"What the hell is going on...... Well?! ”

Josh had just gotten out of bed and hadn't even finished speaking, his mouth was tinged with the rancid smell of metal, and he felt the resonance of runic magic.

Hurriedly putting on his boots, not even having time to change his clothes, Josh rushed out of the main entrance of the house, squinting into the distance following the source of the magic.

More than a minute or so had passed since the last arcane energy fluctuation, and the pitch-black dirt road leading to Helia erupted again with the light of arcane magic, illuminating a familiar figure.

"Ruiz?!"

Josh draws in mana and is the first to use mana channeling to temporarily seal the arcane energy in his bloodline.

With the blessing of the runes, his speed of running skyrocketed.

The arcane magic that boiled like a furnace fire tumbled, and the intricate wedge-shaped runes that shone with blue and purple light were engraved on Josh's skin from the inside out, ready to cast spells in advance.

When he got within a few dozen steps of Ritz, Josh discovered that it was several white ghosts with no faces who were chasing Rhyz and forcing him to use magic.

[Is that really the case?] Lunithia muttered to herself like a riddler.

"What is this?"

[Instead of asking me this, you should ask your junior brother later how he provoked them. Lunicia has no idea of answering Josh's question for the time being.

The energy converges, and Josh throws a cloud of arcane energy that blasts into one of the ghosts that tries to sneak up on Ryze from behind.

The white, translucent body was swept away by the overloaded blast, turning into misty smoke and particles, and in the blink of an eye, a ghost dissipated as if evaporated.

Immediately after, two more ghostly blank faces turned to Josh, as if they had seen something rare, and greedily opened their teeth and claws, and floated towards Josh at great speed without a word.

Raising his hand, another overload blast scattered a cloud of ghosts that tried to dodge, but failed to dodge.

The thin claws of the other nearby ghost were about to catch Josh, but his hands were blocked by a translucent barrier, splashing with a bright runic light.

Contorting his body in pain, he hit the rune barrier several times in succession but could not break free, and the ghost was quickly completely annihilated under the consumption of mana, and the dissipated rune confinement was only empty in the narrow space.

At that moment, Ruiz also threw a cloud of arcane energy and smashed it into the last faceless ghost.

Then, as if out of strength, he knelt and collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath, trembling all over, and he couldn't even hold the book in his arms and fell to the ground.

Josh quickly trotted over to Ryze, glanced at the books on the ground, and then watched around vigilantly, always on the lookout to prevent the ghost from reappearing.

At the same time, he asked sharply, "How did you provoke these things?!" ”

"Cursed ......"

Sitting on the ground, Rheez snorted his chapped lips in shock, his eyes lost and said, "From ...... The curse of the water of life. ”