The site of the burial site.

Since that disaster, there have been no visitors to the already inaccessible area.

Perhaps only the only survivor would have the idea of revisiting.

Heine and Siara walked up the hillside to the west of the boneyard, sat on a rock, and looked into the distance.

The steamed-out pit of the river pond is like a charred black scar, but after a series of rain and snow and more than half a year of moisture, it is now dyed a little green again in the early spring of March.

"It's rare to have time to relax, but I pulled you here, you won't have an opinion, right?" Siara asked.

"Of course I don't have a problem with it, it's the same everywhere you go."

Heine smiled.

After returning from the east, he did not rush back to the lord's mansion, but spent half a day with Xiara.

Indeed, as she said, she rarely has time to relax.

After dealing with the chain of forgiveness, he took advantage of this time to add stories to Ciara beyond his trip to Atthi, including the development of the territory during this time.

Hearing him say this, Xiala pursed her lips and smiled.

Suddenly, she asked, "You and your undead are actually the same kind of people, right?" ”

Boom –

For a moment, there was a slight buzzing in Heine's ears, as if he had been struck in the temple by a hammer.

He stared straight at Thiara.

It's so sudden.

The other party also stared at him, smiling calmly and beautifully, but with some hint of success.

Heine did not refute, but asked rhetorically: "Why do you say that?" ”

Xiara: "Remember the first lesson I gave you?" ”

"First Lesson ......"

Heine was slightly distracted.

He later learned that it was Siara's first formal class as a teacher.

Previously, her function was more like that of a counselor, occasionally purifying the unlucky ghosts who were haunted by wandering spirits.

As a rookie teacher, her way of teaching is to stumble and stumble according to the notes she has made.

At that time, Heine had just come into contact with transcendent knowledge not long ago, and he couldn't wait to break a second into two petals, a full volume king.

So, he listened for five minutes and then patted his ass and left.

He thinks it's a sheer waste of precious time.

Heine: "Hmm...... Come to think of it, I don't seem to be very polite. ”

"yes, I almost went to the headmaster to complain about you." Xiara smiled and sighed: "You never attended my class for the next month, and I almost forgot about you as a problem student, but it wasn't until you got a perfect score on that test that I didn't know that you were not that simple." ”

Heine pouted: "No wonder you came directly to my dormitory on that prayer day, it turned out to be a grade." ”

Siara: "That's the point, when I found you, I saw you making steamed buns, so I tasted them, and it turned out to be the spicy buns you made specially, and I threw them on the ground - remember what you said at the time?" ”

Heine was stunned: "Where do I remember this, probably ...... 'waste is shameful'?" ”

Siara: "Yes, you still say, 'If you drop on the ground, you can pick it up in three seconds,' I've never heard such a novel expression before, and it's not McCalalla's slang, but then I heard almost the same expression from Naga. ”

Ah......h

Is it so exposed?

"Of course, you have more than that."

"You were a very interesting little adult when you were in the academy, and you often popped up some strange words - what 'skipping class', 'pressing the road', 'failing the course', etc., these words are novel combinations, I didn't understand them at first, but after explaining them, I felt appropriate and vivid, and I heard similar combinations in Naga.

"You've said before that 'slang' is an informal and fixed colloquial expression, so you can tell from what I say I'm not a native of Maikala. Coupled with the fact that his actions during his time at Villitas made his position clear, I couldn't help but think about your relationship, and it wasn't until I learned this time that he was the undead you summoned. ”

At this point, she paused slightly, and the conversation changed.

"But what surprised me even more was that you were watching out for them.

"I noticed an interesting detail, when those magical undead of yours are present, you speak extra carefully, as if for fear of revealing your own specialness.

"It reminds me of that reunion at the manor, when I mentioned buns and ravioli, and your nervous face turned white."

Although she said this softly, every word was fine.

If he had said this to another person, Heine would probably be nervous and sweaty by now.

He would even think about how to kill it.

But in the face of this face, in the face of the gentle gaze in her eyes, Heine only felt a sense of relief.

Sure enough, there are some things that can't be hidden from the people closest to me.

As the last shackles in his heart were unshackled, his nerves, which had been tense since the arrival of the player, finally relaxed completely, and he fell into a deep sleep in his soft arms.

Siara stopped the calming spell and held him, gently stroking his hairy blonde.

"Sleep, sleep, you must have had a hard time during this time......"

…

When Heine woke up, he felt as relieved as if he had gone to take a bath in the fish pond.

Only at this time will he perceive a trace of fear-

If the nerves keep tight, they will break one day, right?

"Awake?" Siara asked.

"Wake up."

Heine looked away from half the sky and sat up from her lap.

At this time, the sun is setting and the chill is coming.

Although it does not affect Heine, who has a physique close to level 4, the time has come.

"Are you leaving?" Heine asked.

"Hmm."

Siara nodded.

She is about to return to Ciudad de Godero for her promotion.

She will travel to a higher standard city and gain a greater voice.

Just like her mentor Catherine.

This is dangerous, of course, but it also increases the amount of help that can be given to Heine.

Taking the incident in Atti Town half a month ago as an example, without the network of Goudro City, this matter would not have been possible at all.

And now, McCala's upcoming collaboration with the Shadow Sanctuary speaks for itself.

Heine tried to persuade her, but knew that she couldn't stay with her in McCalla, so she didn't do it.

Sometimes it's not a good thing to be too tacit.

Instead of pulling and pulling through the process, it is better to look forward to the next meeting.

As for that question......

Not answering is the best answer.

"Then let's go."

Heine summoned the ghost horse and stretched out his hand at Thea.

The latter smiled and got on their horses, and the two rode together all the way west to the northbound junction.

Two of Chiara's attendants, Shadow and Fang, were waiting for her at the intersection.

The Attendant's Attendant is also a life-dedicating position, though in principle they are loyal to the Shadow Sanctuary before the Attendant.

But in reality it is always the other way around.

So there's no need to worry that they'll leak what they've seen on this trip, and they haven't seen anything blasphemous.

- At least no one in Heine's realm painted trophies on the statue of the Lady of the Dead Whisperers......

However, after landing, Heine couldn't help but make a joke:

"When you get up to the fifth level, you won't be welcome at McCalla."

Tooth gave an awkward smile.

Seeing the carriage all the way north, completely disappearing from view, Heine felt a sense of loss.

He rubbed his face and reinvigorated himself.

Siara was right, he could only relax when he was alone with her.

Other times, my nerves tensed, for fear of saying the wrong thing.

He has been using meditation instead of sleeping for half a year, and there is no lack of consideration for avoiding talking in his dreams.

He also asked himself, is it possible to have a showdown if they are all mixed up like this?

But the answer is the same every time.

Even if there is only a 0.01% chance of causing a rift in the relationship, he can't afford to gamble.

In that case, it's better to play this role until the end of the world, to the end of the game.

After clearing the customs, spread your hands again.

"I don't pretend, buddy is also an earthling."

The thought of how joyful that scene was, filled him with strength.

……

When Heine returned to the Lord's Palace, the two visitors had not yet left the inner world.

However, Megumi found him as soon as possible and relayed Renee's story.

"So it was her father who took Loulton to the Northlands?"

Heine exclaimed.

"It's just a guess, but it's not too far off." Megumi explained, "The known clue is that Her Highness Renee's father traveled to the Northland with a quarter of the Zumugensu, which is not considered disobedience and betrayal from the perspective of his descendants' situation.

"So it's not hard to judge that this is the mercury royal family's means of saving themselves. And in addition to the part of the root that he took away, they should have another section. ”

Heine glared when he heard this: "How many ancestral trees are left in the Mourning Wood City?" ”

Megumi: "A conservative estimate is that there is still a quarter left, but I'm more inclined to ...... Without. It is very likely that the ancestral wood of Mourning Wood City is just a fake, an illusion, and an empty shell.

"So I have another inference: that is, the elf families who left Mourning Wood City at the beginning, each family took a part of the ancestral wood with them.

In other words, this may be compensation for the departure of the Silver People, or a concession made by the Wood Elves in order to gain the dominion of the Mourning Wood Forest.

"And the bloody purge that the Sigh Wind Clan suffered after returning to the Mourning Forest may be a real betrayal.

"The Council of Elders found that sending away a group of compatriots could not alleviate the withering, so they reneged on the covenant and wanted to get back the lost Zumu, but unfortunately they were empty of people and money, but instead used the death of the Sighing Wind Family to let the other families see their true colors, which led to the establishment of the Mercury Royal Family."

Heine strongly suspected that this was the standard answer, and even if it wasn't, it wasn't far from the answer.

He remembered that Catch Sheep said that there was a task to "restore historical archives" in the Mourning Wood Valley, and many of the contents had been tampered with.

Originally, he had thought it was the intervention of the people of Eternal Dawn, or the work of the people of Veritas.

Now it seems that the elves themselves have a lot of pickled things.

"If that's the case...... Heine thought to himself, pinching his chin, "then the possibility of us cooperating with the Mercury Royal Family is very high, has Her Royal Highness changed her opinion of us?" ”

"Of course."

Megumi couldn't help but smile, "It's not just that she has changed, she now believes that only we can save the elves' future...... And the good news is that Mr. Dylan has made a new discovery, which is definitely more conducive to our negotiations with the Mercury Royal. ”

Heine was stunned: "What did Dylan find?" ”

Megumii: "He improved the Transfiguration Technique, so that the Shepherd's Transfiguration School is truly a self-consistent school!" ”

(End of chapter)