I want to be a faded person for life

"Fortunately...Xiang, you are not parasitic."

"parasitic?"

Xiangzi patted the dust off his body and found that the pattern on the surface of the armor was slightly deformed, as if it had melted due to high temperature.

"The seeds of the insanity fire will parasitize in the human eye like insect eggs, causing the eyeball to gradually swell and mutate, eventually becoming like rotten grapes."

Melina was holding a severely mutated eyeball in her hand. If it weren't an eyeball, it would look a bit like a ripe fruit with a purple skin and yellow flesh.

Just as Xiangzi was observing this thing, it suddenly turned and met Xiangzi's gaze with its festering pupils.

"Ugh! So disgusting, throw it away!"

Melina, however, installed her eyeballs.

“It needs to be handled properly, otherwise it will leave hidden dangers.

Xiangzi sighed deeply and felt speechless. First, the lamp inexplicably turned into some corrupted companion, and now it was a parasitic seed of crazy fire.

"Why are there so many bugs..."

"By the way, how is Miss Irena?"

Although he had been protecting the other party in the previous battle, when the sun with a black core rose, Xiangzi lost the remaining strength.

Even the surface of her armor was melted a little. Could it be that Irena—

Thinking of this, Xiangzi quickly looked at the noble girl lying beside him.

After checking, it was found that the other person had fainted, but his breathing was normal and he should not be injured.

Just now, those creatures parasitized by the insane fire called Irena a witch. If we leave this child outside, she will probably be targeted again.

Xiangzi decided to send Irena to the Round Table Hall first, and then go to Moren City to deliver the letter to her father.

However...with such an incident, I'm afraid we can't expect reinforcements to be sent to Moren City.

Chapter 34 Remembrance

Xiangzi first went back to the Round Table Hall, but found that none of the other members who had gone out had returned yet.

This made her feel somewhat relieved. It seemed that she was not delayed for too long because of being involved in other incidents.

Xiangzi first took Irena back to his room, and then went to the library to meet Sir Baizhi who was there.

A knight wearing a skull mask was guarding the door with his back against the wall. Even when he called out, there was no response. He seemed to be a servant of Orfnir.

"Hmm...there are traces of the Dianhuo appearing in the direction of Moren City."

"Although it's not the information about the demigod I want, it's still of some value. In exchange, you can take this."

Sir Baizhi gave the girl a scroll, but the spells recorded in it were not pyroxene magic, and she seemed to be completely unable to understand it.

Faced with Xiangzi's confusion, Ofniel did not intend to give an explanation, but only suggested that she could ask the clergyman Colin to help interpret it.

Colin, who was blind, touched the uneven handwriting with his fingers, as if he could read the contents of the scroll in this way.

"It seems to be a pagan prayer... It's a bit complicated and will take some time."

Colin did not refuse and temporarily accepted the scroll, saying that the interpretation should be completed before the arrival of reinforcements.

After asking Roderica to look after Irena in the room, Xiangzi immediately used the power of blessing to teleport back to the end of the bridge.

The place where the battle took place before is the new blessing point, which saves her from having to go back the same way again.

"Xiang, did you hear any noise during the battle?"

Heading towards Moren City, Melina, who was sitting behind Xiangzi, suddenly spoke. This seemed to be the first time she took the initiative to start a conversation by asking a question.

"sound..."

The first thing that came to Xiangzi's mind was of course the buzzing auditory hallucinations in her ears after the crazy sun rose, but the content was so vague that she couldn't hear clearly what the auditory hallucinations were trying to express.

"It felt like a lot of people were talking to me at once. I heard words like 'separation' and 'birth'... The voices were all mixed together. It was so noisy that I couldn't make out much more."

"—The Mad Fire is a chaos that will devour all life and all thoughts. Don't try to understand what it says."

Melina's speech speed suddenly became faster, and she even sounded a little impatient. The content of her words also increased a lot, which was completely different from her previous behavior of wanting to keep her sentences to no more than three words.

“Even if this world is on the brink of destruction, filled with pain and despair, as long as life still exists, as long as the world continues to thrive... everything is still beautiful.”

"I hope you will never deny this, and never let your heart turn to madness."

Xiangzi burst out laughing.

"Why would I let my heart turn to something so weird? Is it fun to make my eyeballs swell and turn into grapes?"

Melina was stunned for a moment, then smiled as if relaxed.

"Yeah, that's not fun at all."

"Laughed."

Melina turned her head in confusion.

Xiangzi rode on the horse, looking straight ahead.

"This is the first time I've seen you smile. I used to have an inseparable companion... a half-body, so to speak."

"She's very similar to you in some ways, and her expression rarely changes significantly."

"When my friends saw her smile for the first time, they reacted the same way I do now, as if they were thinking, 'Oh, she can smile, too!' It's a natural thing."

Although it seems a bit shameless for her to bring up the good times of crychic, because it seems like she is unilaterally letting go of it.

Toyokawa Shoko doesn't have that qualification.

After all, it was she who ended that beauty with her own hands. By now, Su Shi and the others should hate her to death, right?

However, whether it is laughter or quarrel, for her now, it is already a beauty that she can hardly hope for.

If she could return to Earth safely with Deng, she would definitely apologize to everyone she had hurt.

At that time, she could be asked to kneel down or apologize in other ways.

As long as I can be forgiven——

......Even if she can't forgive, she probably won't give up.

"Then we can add Chuhua... and form a band with more than seven members, right?"

I wonder if Melina can play any musical instruments...I seem to have become a little greedy without realizing it.

Melina heard nostalgia in her tone, the pleasant tone unique to those who were lost in reminiscence, as if in a brief moment, they had returned to the old days worth remembering.

The one-eyed girl nodded, and the upward curve of her lips became more pronounced.

"It sounds like a very pleasant company, and I certainly can laugh."

"Yeah... Of course you can laugh too."

Xiangzi repeated this sentence in a low voice and suddenly came to his senses again.

Although this smile alleviated the wooden and inhuman feeling on Melina's body, she also temporarily let go of some of the haze.

However, the words of the fallen knight still remained like a thorn in her heart.

Melina didn't want to explain.

And she couldn't ask any further questions.

For Xiangzi, the greatest reward of saving Irena may not be that he thwarted some crazy sacrifice conspiracy, but that Irena seems to be a finger witch.

If Irena also had the means to transform runes into power, then she might be able to start investigating Melina.

"We're almost at the outer walls of Morn City."

Melina reminded them that now was not the time to dwell on memories.

Xiangzi nodded and rushed to the bottom of the city wall in one go.

But unlike what one might have imagined, there were no defenders at all. The city walls and watchtowers were all empty, with no one in sight.

Xiangzi rushed through the gate under the outer city wall and seemed to see something strange in the distance.

The inner city wall in the distance seemed to be moving.

Wait...is the city wall something that moves?

She squinted her eyes and carefully observed the thing shrouded in mist. Finally, Xiangzi saw the source of the abnormality.

It was a giant who was at least twenty meters tall. He was slowly stretching out a terrifying bow, putting a huge arrow thicker than the temple pillars on the string, and aiming in his own direction.

I'm afraid this arrow alone must weigh hundreds of tons, not to mention the power it would have if shot from a kilometer away.

Xiangzi had no idea of ​​using a shield to block it. If he was hit by such a thing, he would probably turn into a puddle of mud in an instant and return to the blessed point to wait for rebirth.

Chapter 35: The Determination of the Knight-King

Is there any place to avoid——

Xiangzi quickly looked around. From here to the gate of Moren City was an open plain, and there were no hills or other terrain that could block his view.

A white wall suddenly appeared in Xiangzi's sight. It was an arched relic stone!

There are ruins scattered all over Nimgfu, like fragments of a castle fallen from a high altitude, with weathered stone carvings and inscriptions still vaguely remaining on them, but they are unrecognizable because they are too old.

Some of these relic stones are only the size of a table, but some are more than ten meters long and wide, so they were used by Kenneth Hyde at the time as eye-catching vantage points.

Although the relic stone a few dozen meters away is not that tall, it should be able to serve as a temporary shelter.

There was no time to think further, my intuition was practically screaming a warning.

With his superb horsemanship, Xiangzi squatted on Torret's back, and thanks to the horse's ability to ignore gravity, he temporarily changed the direction of his jump in mid-air.

She ended Torret's summons in an instant and curled up as much as possible to make herself a smaller target - this was not the first time Xiangzi used this trick.

"boom!"

A black shadow passed by, and the huge impact caused the ground to shake. Something like an iron pillar appeared under Xiangzi's feet.

The ground it hit cracked and sank, and waves of soil spread out in circles.

This is not the sound an arrow should make at all.

The experience from the battle with Greg came in handy. The demigod's fighting style of shaking the earth with his battle axe was impressive. Thanks to this, Xiangzi knew the consequences of losing balance on the shaking ground.

In this case, staying airborne is the right choice.

Xiangzi quickly glanced at the giant below the city wall. A row of spare arrows like siege stakes were leaning straight against the city wall. The giant was already making a move to take out the arrows.

Xiangzi landed on the ground instantly and started running with big strides. Each of her steps covered several meters, and it only took her a few steps to roll to the back of the relic stone.

"boom!"

There was another loud noise like a landslide, and the vibration spread from the ruins stone to Xiangzi's back, almost making her stagger.

Rubble and bricks fell from above with a crackling sound along with dust, but fortunately the relic stone still maintained its intact shape and was not destroyed by the arrow.

Xiangzi poked his head out from the side of the ruins and found that the giant had stopped moving.

Looking closely, it should not be a living thing.

An orange-red core was burning on the chest of the copper-brown giant, and the movement of taking the arrow was to rotate the waist directly. It looked more like a man-made thing than a natural life.

—Statues cast in the shape of ancient soldiers.

"The colossus... the puppet, is it a golem?"

Xiangzi was stunned. Although she liked dolls very much, she obviously didn't mean the kind of dolls in front of her.

This is a weapon of war. One can imagine what kind of disaster the army attacking Moren City will experience in this short distance of one kilometer.

Even Greg wouldn't be able to wrestle with something like this, right?

Xiangzi imagined for a moment, imagining the demigod old man in the picture spreading out his hands.

“…It’s very difficult.”

That’s right.

The girl was speechless. The city of Moren, which possessed such weapons of war, was plunged into chaos because of the rebels, and even the city lord's daughter was forced to flee.

Well, after all, the rebellion took place in the city, and the people controlling the golem couldn't let it bend its bow and shoot arrows into the castle, or in other words, this thing had actually fallen into the hands of the rebels, and was now blocking any reinforcements coming from the direction of Moren City.

“…What a hassle.”

Xiangzi stuck her head out from the other side of the relic stone to avoid having her exact location known, although at this distance her head would probably look no different from a piece of gravel in the eyes of others.