I want to be a faded person for life

Turning around, she saw that all three wolf spirits were huddled in front of the girl, their hair standing on end. Except for the largest one, Dolores, who was baring her teeth and growling menacingly, the other two had their tails tucked between their legs and were trembling all over.

"how come..."

They have never retreated when facing large numbers of soldiers or powerful enemies. What are they afraid of when they have died and turned into ashes?

Even the swordsman Dririas was not in a normal state. He tensed his muscles and took a few steps back. He should have been unable to see, but he was afraid of something he could not see.

"Xiang, let them all come back."

Melina's voice rang in Xiangzi's ears, and the one-eyed girl stood back to back with her.

"Mad fire... These flames can harm spirits and completely destroy the soul."

Melina's voice was no longer as calm as usual, and one could even hear a strong sense of disgust in her tone.

With his eyes twitching slightly, Xiangzi immediately rang the soul-calling bell to disperse the ashes that had been summoned.

"Melina, you should hide quickly and leave them to me. You should be a spirit too, right?"

Melina didn't hear the advice, and she took out a curved dagger, which looked very similar to the dagger of the chapel witch.

"Don't worry about me... This place is close to the Malika Church and the little golden tree. I can at least borrow some of the remaining power."

Xiangzi and Melina leaned back against each other, and could almost feel the heat coming from each other through the armor... No, this was not the normal body temperature of a girl at all, this was already feverish, right?

Xiangzi thought it was a bit ridiculous.

How high a body temperature would make me, who was wearing the Fire Dragon Emblem Amulet and could temporarily resist the dragon flames after Greg's limb grafting, feel hot?

Could it be that even his carapace has been burned red by now?

Xiangzi attributed this to the strange dark yellow flame and didn't think much about Melina.

"Come to think of it... these things are probably targeting Miss Irena."

"How strange... Why didn't they take action just now? They had to wait until I refused to deliver the letter and was ready to send her to a safe place before they became like this."

"ceremony."

Melina explained quietly.

"Despair will lead to the arrival of the Madness Fire. Compared to being killed directly by the hybrids—after receiving your help, dying in torture while waiting with hope is more despairing, isn't it?"

Xiangzi was speechless for a while, and his eyes gradually became sharp.

"What a bad taste... The Sacrifice Bridge? The name is absolutely perfect... Could it be the same with Stonewell? Are these things related to the dead prince Gotok mentioned?"

"It's nothing to do with it. It's something else entirely."

Melina replied.

"...Nimgufu has been plagued by many disasters."

Xiangzi couldn't help but complain.

First there was the Reattachment King, then rebellions broke out among the subordinates of the two lords, and then there were the Dead and the Mad Fire.

Irena was a sacrifice offered on the altar, and her appearance was just a part of the sacrificial ceremony.

Shoko Toyokawa, who was involved in the cruel ritual as part of the plan, is now very unhappy.

[Don't...interfere]

Xiangzi and Melina were gradually surrounded. In other words, all the enemies had entered Xiangzi's attack range.

Instead of using the Kalia Greatsword, which required charging, or the Storm Blade, which couldn't cover all enemies at once, Xiangzi suddenly grabbed the sharp blade of the Hound Fang with his hand.

"Such a flame should be extinguished."

She suddenly swept her hand across the blade, unleashing a bloody slash that covered five enemies simultaneously.

All enemies splashed with blood have their blood stimulated at the same time. They were already covered in blood during the battle, so the blood slash can also produce a bleeding effect immediately.

More than half of the blood gushed out wildly from the wounds they already had, but what should have been blood had been stained a dirty dark yellow, as if covered with a layer of turbid oil.

Although it was unknown what principle allowed these severely damaged corpses to stand up immediately, the instantaneous loss of a large amount of body fluids caused them to fall silent again.

"Xiang, move."

Hearing the reminder behind him, Xiangzi flew back without hesitation, grabbed Irena's collar and brought her to a safe place.

The bulging eyeballs of the fallen corpses exploded at the same time, sending streams of sticky flames flying in all directions, igniting a large area of ​​the ground.

"Be careful, there's more."

Melina immediately reminded him. She was faster than Xiangzi and had already retreated to a place where she would not be affected by the flames.

Upon hearing this, Xiangzi supported himself on the ground with one hand and jumped several meters away.

Several streams of flames instantly pierced through the place where she had originally stayed like arrows.

Several wild boar-sized rats rushed out of the jungle, their eyes also flashing with liquid dark yellow flames. It must be these rats that had just shot flames at her from a distance.

Xiangzi gave up the idea of ​​fighting this thing in close combat. The exploding flames were difficult to avoid, and she didn't want to be contaminated by the flames. Her intuition told her that there would be terrible consequences.

She instantly changed into a staff and a rapier, and launched a blue-green star arc and a light blue crystal sword together.

The giant rats that were cut off or pierced burst like punctured balloons, bursting into pieces of corpses and pus and blood on the spot. The ground touched by those filthy things once again caught fire.

Before Xiangzi could breathe a sigh of relief, heavy footsteps were heard again from deep in the woods.

Trees as thick as bowls broke and fell to the ground, and footsteps were gradually approaching.

Without even looking, Xiangzi fired several brilliant swords into the woods.

When the huge creature rushed out of the jungle, Xiangzi realized that it was the giant demi-human he had seen in Hyde Fortress, with a huge body, long limbs, and a wolf-like appearance walking upright.

Xiangzi's Huijian pierced its arm, but due to its huge size, it failed to cause serious damage.

The giant demi-human wore a silver crown and a tattered mail shirt on his head, and held a slender iron rod with a pyroxene inlaid top in his hand, but his eyes were also dyed a strange dark yellow.

It did not rush towards him as Xiangzi had imagined. Instead, it raised the iron rod and roared out several different syllables.

The bright starlight gathered around it, and a blue-green light shot straight towards it.

"Varied--"

Xiangzi turned his head to avoid it, and was shocked when a few strands of his hair were scratched off by the thick gravel.

She never expected that the iron rod in the other party's hand was actually a pyroxene staff - the giant demi-human was actually a wizard.

The girl's expression changed from confusion to anger.

"I don't know what's going on. How dare any monster pretend to be a magician in front of me!"

Xiangzi, dressed in heavy armor, began to curse.

Chapter 33: Madness

In the battle of magic, Xiangzi suppressed the giant demi-human in just a few seconds. The pyroxene magic of the two was not on the same level in terms of casting speed or power.

The giant demi-human rammed the iron rod, which was more than three meters long and could hardly be called a staff, into the ground. A snowflake-shaped crystal as big as a wheel and constantly rotating condensed in front of it.

With a bang, the crystal ball exploded into dozens of spikes and was fired out like shotgun.

Xiangzi raised the shield that had not been used for a long time, squatted down, and the metal shield covered with magical fluorescent skin completely covered her body.

The violent collisions continued, Xiangzi's left arm was numb from the shock, and the surface of the shield was covered with a layer of blue-green pyroxene crystals.

But nothing more.

The most powerful spell the giant demi-human had used so far was still not enough to break through the girl's defenses.

Xiangzi stood up and pulled the shield off the ground.

The fragile crystal layer that had bonded the shield to the ground was instantly shattered.

Seeing that even the most powerful magic he could use was unable to cause any damage to the enemy, the demihuman roared in anger.

Xiangzi's appearance was undoubtedly the biggest provocation in its eyes. Even though its eyes were already full of madness and intense anger made it violent.

The demi-human waved his arms exaggeratedly, and even gave up casting the spell and threw the iron rod that looked like a staff hard.

This time, Xiangzi's expression changed.

The iron rod spun rapidly in the air, making a fierce sound of breaking wind. Xiangzi lay down with his head in his hands without thinking.

The iron rod passed over her head and hit the mountain wall heavily, splashing countless dust and gravel.

Even the several-meter-high mountain walls began to shake, and the falling dirt and rocks almost buried people alive.

——This magic is much more powerful than the magic used by the Ya people.

"It's still a beast..."

Still frightened, Xiangzi jumped up from the ground. The demi-human had completely given up casting spells and was running towards her on all fours.

"I'll show you some real magic."

Xiangzi threw down her staff and grasped the lower end of the rapier with her left hand - Roger's weapon was more suitable for this move than any weapon she had used before.

"three."

Xiangzi counted down in his mind.

The starlight suddenly made the originally slender sword blade suddenly become wider, and its length expanded to more than three times.

"two."

The length of the sword blade has reached more than five meters, and the giant demi-human has entered the attack range. Having lost its mind, it has no intention of dodging at all.

"one."

Xiangzi suddenly swung down the Kalia sword, and the mail shirt could not provide any defense, and the silver crown rolled off its head.

The blade raked across the demihuman's shoulders and back, practically splitting it in two like a cow in a slaughterhouse.

The swollen and transformed orange-yellow internal organs fell to the ground and burned fiercely.

The surrounding environment became hotter, and the space at the end of the bridge was engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

Countless flames left the burning remains and corpses, left the ground and gathered towards the sky, gradually converging into a sun with a black core, overlooking the earth like a huge eye.

The entire space was painted with strange orange and dark red.

Xiangzi tried to raise his head to destroy the unformed object, but his steps suddenly became weak.

She felt dizzy and an unbearable burning sensation in her eyes. She covered her eyes to try to suppress the terrible burning sensation but to no avail.

The Fire Dragon Emblem Amulet, which was capable of suppressing Dragon Flame, seemed to have no effect at all.

She began to hallucinate again, but this time it was not the voice of oblivionis, but the screams and cries of countless lives melting in the flames.

Don't want to separate

[I don't want to be born in this world...]

[You don't have to let... accept... the fate of being burned]

【May chaos fill this world! 】

【——! 】

But suddenly, the noises started to grow louder, and the burning sensation deep in my eyes began to subside.

Xiangzi forced himself to open his eyes, but found a thin line spreading in the unformed sun. Something that had not yet been born was struggling but could not escape the fate of death.

The sun gradually became transparent and fell, and a brown cloak fell from the sky.

The phantom of a golden tree rose from the ground, followed by a golden holy rain, which extinguished the remaining embers of fire on the ground.

"Thank you for buying me enough time."

"My power here is very weak. I can only seize the single opening... Fortunately, the messenger of the Mad Fire was unable to truly descend."

Melina supported the staggering Xiangzi, who drank two big gulps of Holy Grail Dettol before he recovered from his weak state.

"Let me see your eyes."

Melina pried open the girl's eyelids and brought the single brown eye closer.

At this distance, I can feel the other person's warm breath and the sandalwood-like fragrance on his body.

Xiangzi was stunned for a moment, then turned his slightly red face away and pushed her away forcefully.

"...too close."

Melina didn't care, instead she seemed relieved.