"Oh, you're back soon, we're still discussing whether you can come back."

Kach and the Raven remained silent in the darkness for a long time, until the brightness of the ball of light above her steadied and she smiled and waved into the depths of the darkness.

There was another approaching fire, burning away the curtain wall of withered vines, revealing gaps large enough for her to tread, and Esther stepped out of it.

After regaining her sense of time, Esther realized that she had been in front of the "heart" for almost a day and a night. Her mind was disconnected from the outside world in an incoherent situation, losing her judgment of time, and synchronizing with the power of the pollution.

And such a long time, it can not be said that it is "very fast", and the mockery in Kärcher's words, Esther can still hear it.

She looked at the smiling Cach, knowing that she must have a tired look on her face, because Cach's smile this time was sincere, with a little schadenfreude and curiosity, as if she wanted to know more details.

However, Esther was not obligated to satisfy the other party's curiosity, and she threw the "passing flame" directly at Kach: "This one is back to you, thank you, it's very useful."

Cach didn't reach for it, "No, I don't need it anymore."

The diamond-shaped piece of iron flicked over her shoulder before it fell to the ground, causing the crow, which had been crouching on Cacher's shoulder, to spread its wings and fly and step on top of Esther's head.

Esther and Caher didn't move for a moment, and the passerby, made with the "Fireman" trait, lay quietly on the ground, but it seemed as if there was an invisible flame burning.

Kach turned the monocle in his right eye and gave him a look of concern, "Are you okay?" The contamination hasn't been fully digested?"

Esther lifted the corners of her mouth, and of course she could see that Cach was not concerned about her, but was inquiring about the final solution: "You should tell me first, what if I really encounter a situation in there that I can't handle?"

"In that case, we'll ......" Cach rolled his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking, "It's easy for me, isn't it?"

Esther glanced at her suspiciously, "First, this entire building is supposed to be designed to suppress the remaining stained seal, and even you don't have the ability to seal it, so I can only speculate—"

"Yes, it's what my father left behind, including the army stationed here." The raven, who sat on top of Esther's head, spoke, preemptively saying what she was thinking.

"Well, if it's Darhiborg, it's not strange. Second, the source of pollution here is still there, no, it's just gone, but what about the power it should have left? It's like breaking an empty bottle."

Esther said this, but she already had the answer in her heart - she had come to work for Amon for a day.

This guy didn't want to risk the pollution on his own, so he brought her to Spark City, where there might be a lot of lies. He sent the doppelganger into the depths first, and then kidnapped himself with the essentia leak, prompting Esther to see for herself......

Esther let out a long sigh and calmed down for a few seconds before she said, "Even if you hadn't put so much thought into telling me about it, wouldn't I have helped you?"

"You will, but you will also make conditions."

"Don't talk like you know me well." Pierced through her thoughts, Esther leaned down and picked up the "Passing Flame" from the ground, "Huh, Cach? You really don't have to give this thing back to Lev?"

Kach didn't look at Esther, but at the raven above her, "You're not going to say it?"

"You just say what you have to say."

Esther was confused by the riddle between Caher and the crow: "Don't you answer what you ask?"

"That's a secret, of course." As she said this, Cach walked over and put her arm on Esther's shoulder, giving her goosebumps, but she shook twice before she could shake off the slender finger that was clinging to her shoulder.

Kärcher didn't care about Esther's resistance: "Congratulations

, our hero, it's remarkable that you've lifted the city's greatest hidden danger and helped Spark City recover from the long millennia of tragedy, isn't it?"

The resistance on Esther's face was gone, replaced by confusion: "No, no! What are you talking about? There's only a physical source of pollution left, and there's no power left at all, so you have to do it."

"yes, I did," Cach looked happier, "because that's how Spark City can come to life."

Esther's heart sank suddenly: "Continue life?"

Cach grabbed Esther's arm again, she could feel Esther's body gradually tense, and this reaction seemed to make her happy, Cach leaned into Esther's ear, and said in a soft tone as if to coax a child who was about to lose his temper: "Yes, for so many years, they have obtained 'life' from it according to rituals, distracting the power of the source of pollution, so that it has been in a state of suppression, and here it has given birth to offspring of various races—"

"This isn't the 'heart', it's the delivery room for the new life of Spark City."

Esther lowered her head and looked at her right hand, which was clenched into a fist, and she suddenly felt the diamond-shaped iron piece in her palm become hot, not because its temperature was rising, and when it was not infused with spirituality, the "passing flame" would not burn on its own.

It was only because of what she had done with it before, that Esther couldn't help but waver at the thought of it.

But all this has already happened.

However, to Cacher's surprise, Esther's inner pain and struggle soon calmed down, and her previously clenched lips were released again: "I admit that you caught my weakness, but what do you want to do next? Threaten me with their lives? Expecting me to do my best to prove my innocence to them? Face or even bear their pain and despair?"

Esther said this, clutching Kach's wrist tightly and pulling her arm away, "Or maybe you're waiting to see me flee here, leaving these people to fend for themselves in the dark—I know, that's what you're going to do."

Cach stared blankly at Esther, such an overreaction was what she expected, but what was the difference, even the crow that was crouching on top of Esther's head did not speak for a while.

Esther let out a sharp sneer, then let go of Cacher's hand, "You know what? The smile on your face is gone."

The "passing flame" in her hand suddenly lit up, but it did not fall on Cach, and continued to clear the surrounding obstacles, widening the road to the outside world, and the ball of light dissipated into a little light, dissolving into Esther's hair.

In the thick darkness, the crow turned to Kach and winked, and the monocle-clad lady sighed silently and had to follow Esther's footsteps.