Understand humans!

By the time she finally rushed out of the jungle and reached a road where humans were passing by, her physical condition had reached its limit. She tripped over a rock and fainted.

"I think... I must have fainted on the side of the road. I wonder if there is any kindhearted person who saw me and could help me."

Volame's consciousness slowly recovered. She found it difficult to open her eyes, and the first sense to recover was hearing.

Click, click, click——

There was a sound of something gnawing on something hard beside her, like a rodent, small and fast.

"what?"

Volame opened his eyes and saw at a glance a strange person with his head covered, gnawing on something. The red cloth covering the head hung down, covering the body of the person, but from the round thighs that were occasionally exposed, it could be seen that it should be a woman.

"You... hello..."

"Hello."

Volame's throat was very dry and his voice was very hoarse.

She was immediately relieved when she got the weirdo's response. This non-hostile reply meant that he was most likely not a dangerous person.

Water - drink some water first.

After roughly confirming that the surrounding environment was safe for the time being, Volame responded to her body's first desire. She remembered that she had brought drinking water in a bamboo tube and some dry food with her.

"Eh? Where's my water? And my dry food? Why are my clothes so messy? Has anyone taken them off?"

Her eyes turned to the weirdo who had been eating something.

"Ah? Did someone go through your clothes and take away your water and food? I've always been by your side and I've never seen anyone do this."

Aula took a sip of the water in the bamboo tube and chewed a piece of dry bread in big mouthfuls, responding with a puzzled look on his face.

Fulame stared at the water and dry food in Aura's hand in silence for a long time before speaking:

"Is that thing in your hand yours?"

"I picked it up."

"........."

"You're very hungry, do you want to eat too?"

"think."

"Oh."

The atmosphere fell into a long silence. Aura continued to bite off small pieces of dry bread and eat them with water. She kept staring at Volame. Her purple eyes were very cute, but she didn't make any movements.

Finally, Volame couldn't help but speak:

"…So you're not going to give me some?"

"Why should I give it to you?"

"Then why did you ask me if I was hungry?"

"curious."

"What happens next, out of curiosity?"

"That's enough."

How can there be such a shameless person in the world! ?

Volame stood up with difficulty. He did not show any expression of resentment or anger. He just calmly supported his body, which was on the verge of collapse, and walked forward in one direction along the road.

One must never test one's human nature in a dangerous situation. Given her current physical condition, even if she wanted to turn against this weirdo with his head covered, she couldn't. It would be better to turn a blind eye and treat the food as a gift.

She, Volame, considers herself unlucky!

Click, click, click——

Aura squatted on the side of the road, biting his teeth like a little hamster, and soon he finished a small piece of bread, and then took out another one. He just watched Volame stagger away with difficulty.

It was not until she walked more than a hundred meters away that she spoke:

"You're going the wrong way."

"what?"

"I just came from that way. If you want to go to town, you have to go this way."

"Why didn't you tell me ahead of time?"

"I forgot."

"It's intentional!"

"It was intentional."

Aura nodded. She, Aura, had an advantage that other demons did not have, and that was honesty.

She simply admitted whatever humans suspected, unlike other demons who had to make up excuses.

She has always played with humans openly.

"you!!!"

The human girl looked furious, but even so, she didn't throw stones or spit at him. She was very patient.

Aura observed her expression with pleasure.

What can a mere human kid do to her even if he is angry? No human magician can catch Aura's eye. She is a great Seventh Sage, and she has mastered the magic of forcibly manipulating the obedience of those with inferior magic power by using her magic power advantage. In a short life of a hundred years, no matter how much a human accumulates, it is impossible to surpass her magic power of five hundred years.

Among human magicians, the only one who can scare all demons is the legendary ancestor of human magic, Volame. The magic barrier she left behind a thousand years ago has not been broken by any demon until now.

That is an unimaginable magical attainment, a magical talent bestowed by God.

Sa - Come and hate me, you nameless little human devil. No matter how hard you try, you can't pose a threat to me. Instead, your pain will become my spiritual food.

"What's your name?"

Humph, it doesn’t hurt to tell you. Even if I give you a hundred years, can you still catch up with me, Qi Bengxian?

Who do you think you are? The ancestor of human magic, Volame?

"Aura."

"I, Volame, will never let you go, Aura!!"

"........."

After a long silence, Aura spoke with difficulty:

"Can we reconcile?"

Chapter 4: Escape to Where You Can't Be Found

"Put me down."

"Don't let it go."

"I can walk by myself."

"How can you walk? Your feet are covered with blisters and your legs are shaking. If I ask you to walk, you will probably faint within a kilometer."

"I'm so hungry and I don't have the energy."

"Who can you blame? Me? It was you who didn't bring any food with you."

"........."

"I've eaten up all the dry food I found, so I can't share it with you."

"........."

On a dirt road trampled by human footsteps, two figures, one tall and one short, overlapped one above and one below.

Ah, actually, to be precise, the taller one is also relative. Apart from the exaggerated bulge on her head, her figure is petite, and her frame is not much bigger than that of an ordinary human girl.

Aura carried Volame on his back and walked step by step towards the human town.

"You are so shameless."

"Ah, thank you."

"I scolded you, why are you thanking me? I should be thanking you."

Eh--

In fact, Volame did not expect that her only hope in the end would be the weirdo who stole her food and refused to admit it.

He had just been standing by and watching, gloating over her miserable appearance, but for some reason, after hearing her name, he immediately became a different person and became kind.

He refused to leave her alone no matter what. He carried her on his back despite her resistance and wanted to take her to the human gathering place.

"You're such a weird person."

“There’s nothing I can do about it.”

Aura glanced at the human girl on her back. She could never have imagined that the ancestor of magic, who would leave great achievements in the history of human magic development, was actually such an ordinary... village girl when she was a child?

So, talent is something that makes people jealous.

Eh--

Lord Demon King, it’s not that I, Aura, have betrayed the demon clan, but Aura wants to survive.

You can't let me risk the magic backlash and die together with Volame, right? !

I can’t do it. I can’t do it. Aura really can’t do it!

Aura confessed her guilt in her heart, but she was powerless in reality. With the order of "not harming humans", she could not kill Volame to silence him, but Volame remembered her name.

For the future Volame, the legendary magician, the magic of tracking with names and memories is just a piece of cake. If she doesn't eliminate Volame's hostility towards her now, she will be doomed in the future.

So I can only sacrifice the future of the demon clan and find a chance for myself...

No, no no no, no no no no!!

Actually there is a way.

Aura suddenly thought of a good idea. Although she couldn't kill Volame, Volame was now like a piece of white paper that had not been stained!

Although she did not have the ability to tear the white paper into pieces, she still had the courage to leave dirty colors on it.

"Volame, do you want to learn magic?"

"magic?"

This is what Aura came up with. For a magician, the basics of beginners are the most important, and everything that comes after that is built brick by brick on this basis.

As long as she deliberately misleads the young and teaches Volame the most backward part of the human magic system, even if Volame meets the mythical elf Celia later, Celia will be powerless against Volame whose basics have already been established.

After all, this is how humans are as a short-lived species. Once we do something wrong, we don’t even have the chance to regret or the time to change it. Our tolerance for error is extremely low.

"Please beg me, beg me, and I will teach you."

"…Then I won't learn it."

"I'm just kidding, just listen."

As they walked, Aura talked about the oldest human magic system she knew - the human magic system that was passed down when she was still a child five hundred years before Fulilian ordered her to commit suicide.

Thanks to the "Obedience Magic", Aura manipulated many human magicians in the process of developing this magic, and also learned about the human magic system from them - for strategic reasons.

"Magic is a technology based on imagination. In most cases, you don't even need to understand the principles behind a new magic to learn it. As long as you observe its rules clearly, you can reproduce it. As for the details that you don't understand, your imaginative brain will fill in the gaps on its own..."

When Aura finished the third basic chapter, the sun set, the moon rose, and then set again, and a new sun rose on the horizon, the human girl who had been silent from the beginning finally spoke:

"Why did you teach me magic?"

Aura's breathing couldn't help but hitch.

"Boring, huh?"

This was her answer.

Aula looked up at the sky. She seemed to have overestimated the population density of that era. Traveling between the two towns on foot without a horse would probably take two or three days.

If Fulame had been left alone in the previous position, she would have been more likely to starve to death or be taken away by wild beasts. If Aura had known this earlier, she would not have taken her away.

Let Volame die in the previous place... Without the guidance of this legendary magician, would Fulilian not be able to have the upper hand in the battle with himself, and he would not be subdued by Fulilian's magic?