"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The sound of flesh colliding with stones is endless.

Countless stone pillars were shattered in their impact, and the rubble was scattered everywhere, each of which brought a tremendous force that destroyed everything around it.

Under the huge impact, the two knocked over countless stone pillars and slid dozens of meters in the rocky jungle before stopping.

"Raya!"

"Mentor Tina, come out and save her!"

Fran desperately called out the name of her mentor, but the familiar figure never appeared.

And Fran herself has already reached the limit of her body due to the huge amount of magic consumed by casting dozens of buff spells and several trap spells in a row, and it is a miracle that she can maintain it without collapsing to the ground.

Raya, who was suddenly embraced, didn't see the faces of the people who came, and her eyes were fascinated by countless sand and stones.

"Are you going to die?"

She thought helplessly in her heart.

"It's a pity, if I knew that I would die, I would have told him earlier."

"What will the world be like after death?"

A cranky Raya begins to think about the world after death.

But strangely, the pain of the stone piercing her heart never came, which made Raya a little puzzled.

"Snap"

It wasn't until a drop of warm liquid fell on her face that Raya, who had her eyes closed, dared to open her eyes secretly.

What caught my eye was a beautiful face belonging to a boy.

But his handsome, elf-like face was now marked with ugly blood marks by the rubble and wind pressure.

Warm blood flowed down his cheeks, slowly coalescing, finally converging at his chin, slowly dripping onto Raya's forehead, and also into her heart.

As the smoke cleared.

Fran, who saw the two of them landing safely not far away, was finally relieved.

Tina, who had already arrived at Raya's side, scratched her head in annoyance.

Strange thing, why every time I want to rescue, there is always a new situation?

My students are all hidden so deeply, if they encounter danger next, will they save or not?

"Are you alright?"

Bill, who didn't notice that there was a mentor standing next to him, lowered his head, looked at Raya who was stunned in his arms gently, and said with a smile.

At the moment when he saw Raya about to be pierced by a stone thorn, he seemed to feel that his already dead heart suddenly beat.

[I don't want to. 】

[I don't want her to die]

The thoughts that echoed in his head left Bill with little time to think about it.

Subconsciously. In an instant, he pushed the only combat skill left to him by his mother to the limit, and crossed a distance of hundreds of meters to the girl's side in one step.

looked at Raya who was stunned in his arms and stared straight at his face.

Bill suddenly realizes that the two of them seem to be moving a little too close now.

"I'm sorry."

His face suddenly flushed a little, and he said embarrassedly.

"I'm just"

Before Bill could finish his next sentence, he was gagged by Raya, who suddenly raised her head.

"Hmm!"

The boy's staggered gaze contrasted sharply with the girl's clear eyes.

At this time, Fran, who was standing in the distance, and Tina, who was not far away, had grown their mouths at this time, and looked at the two kissing in disbelief.

It is worthy of master and apprentice, and the arc of the opening is the same - the standard O-shape.

Raya's initiative caught Bill off guard, and he subconsciously wanted to push the other party away.

But he hesitated.

“”

Eventually, he lowered his head and hugged him a little tighter.

Gave up magic, gave up friends, gave up honor,

Bill had given up everything he had.

But now

This girl, he didn't want to give up anymore.

Suddenly, while in the city of Vitas, the words of the old man named Homer sounded again in Bill's heart:

"But when a mage no longer trusts magic and magic, when a warrior begins to question his sword, when an archer is afraid to shoot."

"Well, that means they're rejecting their own power."

"And because of this, the power will also leave his body because of this terrible will."

[I already don't want to lose it anymore. 】

Bill, who faced himself for the first time, unconsciously tightened his arms a little tighter, as if he was afraid that the girl in his arms would leave him.

It's like a mother and a father.

"Hmm~"

Raya suddenly relented and couldn't help but snort softly.

It turned out that the wound on her back was scratched by the rubble, which was touched by an agitated Bill.

After so many attacks, the valuable inner armor on her body finally ended her short but brilliant life and was successfully scrapped.

And Raya's reaction also caused the two to have to end their first kiss experience in their lives.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bump into it, are you okay?"

Looking at Bill, who was at a loss because he accidentally hurt herself, Raya couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She sniffed her nose, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and she couldn't help but say proudly:

"Hee-hee-hee, stupid senior, I'll just say you have a crush on Raya, that guy Fran still doesn't believe it, let Raya catch you this time."

"Me"

Bill's face flushed a little, but he still couldn't say anything negative.

Oh, yes

When did you start to like her?

Looking at the blushing teenager who was silent.

"Hee-hee-hee"

Raya playfully wrapped her arms around Bill's neck, gently twisted the bridge of his straight nose, and then caressed her lover's face little by little along the elegant lines.

"Your ears are a little long, and your skin is so white, whiter than Raya."

Raya gently stepped her head into his chest, sniffing his taste, muttering something she had wanted to say for a long time.

The peculiar flowery aura of the boy made Raya a little intoxicated.

That's who I think about day and night. ’

Raya thought to herself.

Then, suddenly, she raised her head, looked at Bill's emerald eyes, and closed her eyes slightly.

Bill, who was originally flustered, finally understood what Raya meant at this moment.

He complied, bowing his head slightly.

The breeze brushed the hair of the two of them, blocking their cheeks as if they were shy.

The words of the heart are given to the wind, and the wind is my will.

Love rises with the wind, and the wind stops loving non-stop.

"Phew, these two guys, they really scared me to death."

Fran breathed a sigh of relief, and she slumped on the peak.

However, looking at the two people hugging each other in the distance, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but hook, and she sincerely sent her most sincere blessings to the two in her heart.

Just when she was relieved that her best friend's love had come to fruition.

"Bang!"

A loud bang interrupted the sweet atmosphere between the two.

"What?"

Fran's eyes widened as she looked at the crater more than thirty meters in diameter at the bottom of the peak.

now

The juvenile Peng bird, which was originally thought to be dead a long time ago, slowly struggled to climb up from the huge pit more than ten meters deep.

The feathers on its originally beautiful wings and legs have been burned, revealing layers of dark-brown skin and muscle.

And at its neck, a large clear hole is imprinted on it.

Through the hole that was almost charred, you could even see that Peng Bird's heart, which had been half shattered by the fireball technique, was still beating hard.

But every time it beats, it pumps out not only plasma, but also countless tiny heart fragments.

"Chirp."

Although it was very difficult to breathe, his steps were weak like a newborn baby, as if he would stop at any moment.

But it still stood up!

Even though it was seriously injured, hatred drove it to crawl out of it step by step with its broken and exposed blood wings and intact steel claws.

"Haven't you died after being attacked to that extent?"

Bill calmly turned his head and looked at the bird in the distance that had struggled to crawl out of the hole, leaving only a scarlet-eyed bird.

And Raya, who was in Bill's arms, also looked at the half-crippled Peng Bird in surprise, and shouted in a little panic:

"It looks like it's watching us, Bill, we need to get out of here."

Bill shook his head, put Raya down, and said softly:

"In order to be able to get over in time, I pushed the force of my body too much, and now the muscles and tendons in my legs are almost completely broken, and I can't move for a long time."

"What!"

Raya looked at Bill in shock, unable to imagine that the other party had been so seriously injured in order to save herself, but she didn't say a word.

"I'm sorry, it's because of me that you're hurt like this."

Raya lowered her head.

She is now in a serious mana deficit.

Not to mention running, she couldn't even stand up without Bill's support.

"It's none of your business, you made me find myself, you protected me all the way, and now it's my turn to protect you."

Bill gently erected Raya's loose strands of hair behind her ears and said with a smile.

Raya shook her head, just as he was comforting herself.

Unfortunately, there is no time for them to communicate.

"Groan!"

With a sharp cry that had never been seen before, Peng Bird rushed towards the two people in the distance like crazy.

Caught in madness, it galloped and jumped through the jungle, and even pulled the land with its wings, running in an ugly posture.

Even if it causes fragments of broken internal organs to flow out with the wounds of vigorous exercise, even if the fire of life is shaky, it will be extinguished at any time.

But it swears to the death to pull the two people who hurt it in front of it into hell!

"No!"

Seeing the bird getting closer and closer, Fran shouted in surprise.

And the two of them, who were already unable to run, just glanced at the young Peng bird who was getting closer and closer.

I don't know what the golden talons are, even if they are unscathed in this attack, the sharp light on them can still easily harvest the lives of the two of them.

In the face of Peng Bird's desperate blow, the two did not show any fear.

Suddenly, Bill felt a warm body wrap around his waist.

"Even at the last moment of my life, it was a heavenly dream for me to be with you."

Raya leaned on his shoulder, looked affectionately at the loving boy in front of her, and made a final confession:

"I love you."

Bill looked at the confessed Raya suspiciously, and then suddenly smiled with relief.

A thought rises with the wind, and all thoughts are born from the heart.

The shackles of the past can no longer bind a soul that has rekindled the fire of life.

As the bird got closer and closer, the whole land began to tremble slightly.

It roared, flapping its wings to create a powerful current, throwing up patches of stone and dirt.

The trees throughout the valley began to shake slightly, as if they were about to be swallowed by this powerful air current.

However, Bill just lowered his head and gently kissed Raya's forehead.

Looking at the girl who was smiling in his arms with his eyes closed, Bill's eyes flashed with a determined and soft light.

He lowered his head and whispered in her ear:

"I swear to the sky that our love will never wither."

As the last word fell.

The next second

"Boom!"

An invisible storm of magic erupts around Bill.

"What?"

Tina, who had already come to the two of them incognito, was about to intercept Peng Bird's attack, suddenly turned her head in shock and looked at Bill, who was slowly getting up with Raya in her arms.

The wound on his leg was rapidly healing under the influx of mana.

A storm of colorful magic swirled around him, forming a colorful shield.

The elemental elves were like servants of the King, and they surrounded Bill with excitement to celebrate the return of their King.

And the Peng Bird, which originally rushed towards the two of them, was suppressed on the ground by this huge magic wave almost the moment Bill erupted.

At this time, the madness in Peng Bird's pupils was long gone, and all that was left was fear.

This kind of power, it had only seen once in the old man who suddenly burst into his sight.

It was on that occasion that it was forced to leave its lair and be confined to the forest that it had once hated the most

"Chirp!"

Thinking of this, Peng Bird was unwilling to hissed again, his eyes full of anger and madness.

It's a pity that in the face of this terrifying magic storm, no matter how much it struggles, it can't escape the suppression of magic power.

"How is that possible? He, is he going to break through the legend? ”

Tina's mouth grown, feeling the restless fluctuations of magic in the air, unable to believe the results of her perception.

An ordinary person who was still without magic one second, and the next second he is about to break through the legend?

Tina felt that she might have been dreaming a little too long today, and that she must be hallucinating.

But this illusion is too real, isn't it?

The iron-clad reality lay out in front of Tina.

No matter how much she didn't believe it, she could only accept the reality that her disciple was about to break through the legend from an ordinary person.

Feel the familiar magic around you, feel the waves of magic that once accompanied you like a friend, and feel the restless elemental elves in the air.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

He whispered as if to comfort the familiar powers.

Long ago, Bill, who had witnessed some truth, was afraid of magic and would see it as a source of misfortune.

Bill had abandoned magic, and it was no longer possible for magic to contain him.

He who doubts his own power does not deserve it, and his power itself will leave him.

But at this moment, Bill no longer had any fear.

He figured out his own path and found the person he had to protect.

He slowly opened his eyes and took a step forward, embracing the magic he had once again thought of as poison.

In an instant, the originally irascible waves of magic all rushed towards his former master, and the violent magic power was like a well-behaved child in front of him.

Like an elemental crown, the seven-colored elemental light continued to surround behind Bill, forming a colorful starry cloud.

This moment

The former star of the royal capital is back to the legend again!

(End of chapter)