"You can't break it." She looked almost crying, "Please don't do this."

"I'm sorry." Uriel jumped down quickly, "I don't know this tree means a lot to you. I won't touch it, don't cry."

"Do you promise?"

"I'm doing this." He stepped closer to her, but away from the trunk. The girl hesitated for a moment and stood there without running. "Are you the Four Leaf Leader?" said Ulier. He changed several syllables of the common language. Although the language of the nobles and the common people was the same, they could hear the difference as soon as they opened their mouths. The church needed children to recite hymns, so they taught them divine texts and the words of the superiors, and forbid them to speak ill of evil words. It was a past event a thousand years ago.

The unique affectionate voice of the South effectively soothes the girl's spirit. "Yes, sir." She gradually calmed down, "We are from Siye City."

"This place is definitely not Siye City." The girl didn't answer. Be careful. You must not be too hasty. "Is that your sister? She looks easy... to encounter danger. You are too young to run around."

The girl glanced at the canopy behind him. "We are about to go home."

"You yourself?"

"I can take care of Ruth." The girl retorted uneasy. In front of Uriel, this was not much convincing.

"Her name is Ruth? Miss. Can I call her that?"

"We are not a lady." Her face turned red, "What do you call you, sir?"

"Urial." Finally, it worked a little. The child was too alert and always thought about slipping away. "I guess you know I have a problem and want to ask for advice."

"Oh." The girl looked at Mizui with her eyes. Her sister gave up chasing the poor dog and ran towards the shade with her hands and feet. The apprentice finally realized something was wrong with her.

"You don't belong here, right?" Uriel pulled her away before Ruth approached the well so that the other party would not fall. "Rus?" The girl grabbed him without fear, so the apprentice raised her arm and let her giggle and swing on it.

Another girl looked at them in surprise. Ulier paid attention to her expression, and immediately kept a distance when she showed displeasure. Unexpectedly, she got closer instead. "You—"

The loud bang drowned all the sounds, and the dust poured down like a summer storm. A thick smoke rose from the tall crown of the ash tree - first there was smoke and then fire, the fire grew in the wind and spread to the roof where he had settled before. Curled leaves and burnt branches poured down in the smoke and dust, and Uriel picked up the two girls at the moment of the loud bang and jumped to the side. His movements were as light as picking a bunch of grapes from the treetops, and the girls screamed and landed on the ground, only with dust.

"It seems that this tree can see us." Uriel muttered. He turned his head, "What's going on here?"

"I don't know! This is not our dream." Ruth sat blankly on the ground, but her little sister started crying. "I can't go back!"

Dream? "We have to leave here for the time being." Uriel saw the fire stretching, and the ash tree was whisking and about to fall down in the flames. He pulled the two little girls back to the exit of the alley, but immediately stopped.

The streets were full of people running around, two carriages blocked the corner passage, and flames burned on both sides. A group of cavalry was rushing back and forth in the middle of the road. They were wearing simple leather armor and mail, but their spears were iron tools, and they were stained with blood. These people chased the fugitives, and were not too slow. The woman selling crabs was cut off, and a cavalry was picking in her cart. Three people riding horses to tease a man. He first rushed left and right, and finally knelt down in the siege and begged for mercy, taking out all his money. A spear pierced his back. Most of the cavalry were slashing the locals, and they did not dismount, and poked the corpses with spears, looking for those who were dying and pretending to be dead. When they swept the entire street, the archers released rockets and lit piles of corpses and straw roofs. The flames rushed up, but not as fast as the ash canopy.

There was no warning that the war broke out. During this period, no one noticed Urial and the two girls at his hands, and he could not risk causing them to be hurt to try to stop the massacre. Urial pressed their faces in his arms and watched as the flames gradually connected together, reflecting half of the sky as orange as the sunset.

He hugged them to the collapsed pool, which was no miserable. Then the apprentice placed Ruth on a stone and grabbed the other girl's shoulder. "What's this place? Who are they fighting with? Tell me." Uriel didn't know how ugly his face was, but she was indeed scared by him. "Don't be afraid, they beat him, you're safe."

"This is a dream." She gasped for a moment in a hurry, "I'm here to find my sister... She can't wake up in this dream." The apprentice felt that she grabbed her arm in reverse. "I don't know how to fight! Sorry, I don't know! Save us! Please... it wasn't like this..." She cried.

God, Uriel found that none of his problems had been solved, but he had to comfort the little girl first. "Don't cry." Ruth also ran over nervously. She was actually her sister. The apprentice quickly asked the two sisters to hug each other in order to relieve her emotions. Sure enough, after realizing that the smirking Ruth was comforting her, the girl quickly wiped away her tears.

Can't stimulate her. "Would you like to tell me your name, Miss?"

"Sitarian." She replied with a voice, "Sitarian Ringot."

"Then I call you Hitarian." Uriel patted her on the shoulder. "Shitarian, these people can't see us, right?"

"right."

"Not for a moment? Is it okay to detect magic?"

"No." Hitarian twisted his curved red hair, "We do not belong to this dream, so all life in the dream does not exist." The apprentice remembered the stray dog ​​chased by Ruth, who was just spinning in the clearings and ignored her at all. Ruth soon became bored. "But we may be affected by... something else."

"I understand." People cannot see but will be affected by matter, which proves that they do exist here at this moment. What kind of dreams can be so clear-cut? Needless to say, Citarian is a little girl after all, and her words are probably excuses from someone who told her. "Since this is a dream, how do you wake up?"

"Rus can't wake up. It's not her dream. She's trapped here. I came in with magic and passed through the tree."

"Now it's coke left. Is there any other way?" Ulier glanced at Ruth, the pretty girl biting her nails intently. He decided to put the question about her back.

"I don't know. Lord Lord asked me to find the ash tree so that I could return to reality. But I only found one." Hitarian cried, "Now I am also trapped here, right?"

"No. Miss Ringot, you just need to find another ash tree." What do I need to find? Hell, he didn't know how he came here by himself. Obviously, not everyone could pass the exit. Ruth Ringot was trapped here, and although she had no idea and was having fun... But Uriel had to return to reality, if it was really a dream, he couldn't help but recall his feelings when he stopped on that tree, hoping to discover something.

"I searched all over the city," said Hitarian. "It's really only one."

The apprentice came back to his senses. "Then let's go out of the city to look for it."

"...I haven't been out." This proposal made her retreat.

"The battlefield is indeed dangerous." The cavalry did not find them. A huge rock or a carriage could cause irreversible obstacles to the two girls. Maybe the archers would not aim at them specifically, but the ramiya was still fatal. Will the damage in the dream come true? This is not "spiritual vision", Uriel is not sure. It is better not to try anyway. "But the danger will not affect you, Chitarian, I promise you."

She sniffed. "Are you a night watchman?"

The cavalry of the city defense team patrolling at night? What does this have to do with them? "No." Uriel keenly realized that they had different understandings of the term. The veto could not give her a sense of security, so he had to find another way. "Do you know the cross knights of Gaia? They will protect children like you..."

Hitarian stared at him in disbelief.

Uriel couldn't continue. Could it be that this child was hurt by the church like Manet? He racked his brains to weaken the credibility of the Gaia church, but now he suddenly realized that the goal is not far away. "...but it may also be sold." He coughed. "Of course, not all clergy are like this, but you'd better be careful. Fake believers have occupied the goddess' temple and they will be punished."

His arm sank and was grabbed by Ruth. "Sister." Hitarian couldn't stop her and couldn't help frowning in distress.

"Come on, Citharian," said Ulier, "Go to find your ash tree. Sleeping too long is not good for your health."

There is a massacre in this city. There is no sheriff or city defense team, civilians are slaughtered and nobles are captured. The cavalry burned, killed and looted the city, doing all kinds of evil. Uriel took the iron sword from the waist of a soldier who was raped by a woman and cut off his neck. Her head fell to the woman's chest. She was so scared that she cried and screamed, but she couldn't see the apprentice behind the body.

It was useless, he thought to himself, you can't communicate with her, you can't help her. Taking Chitarian and Ruth is already the limit, and Uriel only has two hands. The people in the city are different from them, and he can't kill so many cavalry. After all, this is their war, not mine.

"The city gate is on the east." Hitarian pointed out the direction.

Uriel threw down the bloody blade, pulled up the two Miss Ringot, and headed east without looking back.
Chapter completed!