The wooden and stone building is surrounded by red meteors, and the flames are intertwined and connected; beams and pillars are turned into firewood, rendering the sky south of the Four-Leaf City a bright red color.

Joey looked up and looked at the sudden rising sunset.

Under his feet was the bell tower of Siye City. The pointer turned mechanically, but there was only the longest second hand left. Whenever it turned horizontally on the left, it would be as difficult as if it was missing a clockwork; it would land quickly on the right.

The man in black robe lay all over the ground on the bell tower, and a colorful rainbow light was reflected on the ground directly exposed by the sun.

These are just puppets without souls. If Sauron is not there, Joey will not get any information.

Only the abnormality of the clock tower was found. Someone removed the hour and minute hands on the dial and hung the acting city lord of Four Leaf City on it. When Joey put him down, the temporary city lord had only breathe.

The messenger didn't waste time, and went straight to the point: "Who is it?"

Gentry is a member of the Wiggins family and has a head of the family like Tracy. He will not be ignorant of the importance of the crisis, and said with difficulty:

"Chester..."

That great alchemist? Why is he in Siye City?

Joey didn't know what this had to do with the famous alchemist in the Oathkeeper League. He wanted to ask more, but at this time the air rippled and a black figure appeared on the roof of the empty bell tower.

"The Dead?" The young man was stunned.

The man in black robe surrounded him silently, and then turned into an ice sculpture in the wind and snow. The gap between the ring steps and the empty realm was huge, and Joey killed them and didn't even take the time to get there.

But when the young man stepped on a thin broken limb and carefully studied the magical components of these inhuman things, an exquisite black cross caught his attention. Joey felt the power that touched the soul on it, which originated from the clear golden stamen depicting it.

He probably understood the whole story, and the traces of alchemy were almost impossible to hide.

It seems that Chester really created something amazing. The messenger had no thoughts about it. However, although he was not very concerned about the safety of Four Leaf City, he had to know what dangerous things the alchemist had done.

Gentry was still open, and the messenger stuffed the gold-like particles into his mouth, and then witnessed the poor temporary city lord stiff and his eyes were dull, and finally stood up slowly.

Joey's eyes fluctuated for a moment, and he inserted his finger into the dead man's chest that was pounced on him, and his feet remained motionless. The light blue frost spread, making it a gorgeous coffin that matched its identity and was not damaged.

And then the flame just rose—

...

The building slowly collapsed amid the crackling sound of bursting.

Under Knox's sign, a cold ice sculpture stood. Ginniva's hollow eyes were staring at the blazing fire, and the deformed face still had the fanatical emotions of strangers.

Uriel hugged Cecilia, and rushed out of the sea of ​​fire with a water stain. The woman in black veil fell to the ground, making a hard sound, and even a piece of ice chips did not fall off.

Cold and humid mist surrounds them.

The apprentice wiped his face and wiped away the dripping frost and melted water. He leaned against the railing and watched the girl with her eyes closed twitching her eyelashes, revealing a pair of confused and moist pupils.

“…Uriel?”

Cecilia screamed tremblingly. She held up the apprentice's face in disbelief, turned to look at the bar where the fire was rising, then turned around and buried her face in the boy's arms, and started crying.

"That's great...we're alive, we're still alive..."

"Yes, we're still alive."

Uriel's heart felt unprecedented comfort, and the scars and fatigue of fighting melted like frost armor in her voice. He hugged the girl's shoulders hard, which was a treasure he exchanged for with his life.

At this moment, he suddenly understood something. Some things that he had never thought about in his life in the first seventeen years were like dead branches in the warm wind after the frost moon, growing green, bright and vibrant new leaves from the dead ashes.

The apprentice felt the girl's breathing through the frost that had not yet melted on her chest. She remembered her previous attitude of thinking that she was brave and fearless in front of the door, and couldn't help but smile:

"Cecilia, do you know? When I opened the door, I thought I would be a hero. I told Sauron that it was the greatest courage to show his feelings to the person he liked, but in his heart he wanted to be your hero - even if I was just an ordinary person."

Cecilia whispered, "We are all ordinary people, Uriel. I don't want you to be my hero, that's terrible... We are all ordinary people, and we are destined to live like this for the rest of our lives. Promise me, Uriel, never do this again, I don't want to lose you."

These heartfelt words made Uriel feel warm. Her heart was so clear that no one could refuse such a gentle request: "Of course. I will not break my promise - I swear to protect you, Cecila, so glad I did."

The girl didn't speak, and surrounded the apprentice's arms tighter.

What suddenly happened to him, "Soren, Sauren?"

...It won't be buried inside.

But even so, Uriel didn't have the strength to dig out the ring. However, since it was a mysterious creature and an alchemy product, it should not be destroyed in the fire no matter how you think about it.

"Cecilia, I said it won't hurt us, it saved us," said Ulier. "I have a lot to tell you about a mysterious train, my original hometown - these things I know you don't really believe, and that guy's chattering and harassing... Hey, you must have thought that it wanted me to be a mysterious creature. Now you might start to hate Sauron again, right?"

Cecilia listened quietly.

Uriel felt such a strong desire to talk for the first time, and he wanted to tell her everything and share everything with her. The apprentice ignored the crisis-ridden road, saying while embracing him, the girl leaned against the railing, watching the bar turn into ashes.

"Mr. Ez will definitely kill me when he comes back."

Uriel sighed, hoping that the other party would be safe and sound. However, the two ordinary employees of Knox Bar are fine, and Ez, the owner of the mysterious creature, is even more unlikely to be surprised. Soren said that the mysterious person is difficult to deal with.

Suddenly the apprentice said:

"By the way, that, I mean, Cecilia, are you...will you marry me?"

His heartbeat was like a drum, and his blood surged upwards. Ulier didn't know what romance was, but he felt that the moments of embers and white smoke, flowers and the long streets were very suitable to say this sentence.

If they understand the other person's intentions, they can go through the ginger temptation and directly express their request to deliver the rest of their lives, just like Sauron wrote on the cup - please marry me?

Living and dying together, and surviving the disaster always brings unspeakable shock to people. Ulier only feels peace in his heart. He thought that the two of them would support each other after the disaster and go through the next years. They would get married and perhaps have descendants. Even if hardships come, they would embrace each other in the trough of the night and spend every difficult and precious moment together.

The apprentice finally understood why he could not shake his temptation in the face of Sauron's temptation. He was born to be part of the most inconspicuous class in the world, in the past, in the present, in the future.

For him, the most important thing is not a wonderful life, but staying with Cecilia forever.

However, there was no response.

"Cecila?"

Uriel lowered his head and faced the girl's eyes.

Her red hair was scattered behind her, and water droplets flowed softly. The expression on her face was quiet and gentle, and the flames were jumping in her pupils.

The apprentice didn't know what she was thinking, and felt that she must be abrupt. Annoyance came to her mind, and Uriel wanted to slap herself in the face.

It's really hell, he should have thought of it long ago. After all, Cecilia is a girl, and he should be more tactful...

Snap.

A long black nail, like a chisel, poked his abdomen, and the tip was stuck in the gap.

Uriel froze. He stared at the girl's pupils, and the flames inside became weaker and weaker.

“…Cecilia?”

Unexplained chills up to his brain along his spine, and Uriel shivered. He raised his head suddenly and saw a fragment of a broken bottle in front of the bar door.

The Ginva in the black gauze dress did not melt, and her empty eyes were still looking at the apprentice.

During the fight, the moment the girl swung the wine bottle and smashed it down, the apprentice saw the scattered gold powder through the thin ice armor.

...The ignition of fire requires a special environment, and it is carried out in a hurry. The biggest possibility is to turn the soul into ashes

"No, no--" The terrible guess hit his mind, and the apprentice moaned.

"Cecilia...Cecilia!" Uriel stood up and shook the girl's shoulders. His voice was hoarse, but he kept saying: "Look at me, Cecila, look at me! No, don't do this Cecilia--"

Suddenly the girl raised her head and grabbed the apprentice's arm. The force almost broke back the dislocated part.

Uriel looked at her dumbly, unable to even sense the pain.

Kakka...

A pale hand penetrated Cecilia's chest and turned her into an ice image. The girl stood in front of him, her ten fingernails were black, and her eyes fell directly on the apprentice.

Joey pulled back his hand, "She's dead."

“…”

The silence is even more painful than the extremely cold dark night.

Uriel was stunned for a while and said hoarsely: "What did you say?"

The young man ignored it. He quietly looked at the ruins intertwined with red and black. With a hooked finger, the ring Sauron flew out from under the ashes.

The rune rings are not stained with dust, layers of frost bloom, and tiny snowflakes fall from the air.

They fly and condense into words:

Sorry, Uriel, Cecilia ignited the fire.

A silent declaration is like a heavy hammer.

The apprentice lowered his head, stroked the thin ice on the girl's face, and looked confused: "Then why am I alive?"

"I should be with her-" At this time, the apprentice suddenly stopped. He trembled and touched his chest, which was covered with a layer of ice armor that had not yet been dissolved.

Sauron's magic, Cecilia's magic protected him, and the potion did not enter his body.

"No……"

He knelt down and covered his face. Every beat of his heart drowned out the endless regret. The apprentice could not say anything and could see nothing. He heard that the unburned wood turned into coke in the residual fire, and his heart seemed to be burned out.

Whispering cries echoed in the empty streets.

...

"What happened, Sauron," the messenger asked with a frown. The law of chaos had subsided, and his outline was no longer looming.

Someone spreads potions in Four Leaf City, which will make people ignite the fire

The ring was silent for a moment. Sorry, sir, the accident at the bar was my dereliction of duty.

Joey didn't blame it, and young people never started to blame others before things were over: "The dead will become corpse eaters and there will be activities that can be organized. This is not like a natural mystery... Are there any undead mages in the city?"

Uriel raised his head.

He repeated the term:

“…The Necromancer?”
Chapter completed!