The King of Elden does not die alone!

“They’re afraid of fire!”

Suddenly she heard Wilden's voice.

Without thinking, Mia clenched the spear in both hands, poked the motionless fireball on the ground, and pushed it towards the door.

"Let go--" Wilden said.

Mia immediately drew out her spear, and the soldier reached out to the human-faced bat that was burning all over, grabbed its neck, and threw it out of the door with force.

Wherever the fireball flew, all the mice avoided it.

Wilden held the door open with one hand and watched the receding tide of rats.

Just like that, it's over.

This sudden battle came and went quickly.

"It seems that the bat is their leader." Wilden thought.

Bats are mice with wings.

This sentence is generally correct.

Mia wiped away the beads of sweat on her forehead.

"Oh, right, Kale!" She immediately ran towards the businessman who was still lying on the ground.

Kale took off his hat that looked like Santa Claus and stared at the corner of the night sky through the gap in the roof.

"Are you ok?"

Mia's head appeared on the edge of the night sky.

"I..." Kale finally recovered from the previous battle.

He sat up, looking at his hands over and over. The sleeves of his arms had long been torn and even stained with blood, but his arms? They were as smooth as new.

He picked up the sword he used for self-defense. There was a gap on the blade, and the severed claws of the human-faced bat were still lying on the ground, emitting residual warmth.

The merchant, who came from a nomadic tribe, looked up at the two people beside him. The effect of the prayer had not yet worn off. He could see the golden light surrounding Mia, Wilden, and even himself.

And, you can feel the power exerted on yourself.

"what is this?"

"My prayer."

Mia still hasn't figured out why Kale is so surprised.

"...your prayers..." Kale murmured.

"Thanks to the blessing of the golden tree, I prayed in time." Mia said thankfully.

The moment the blessing was applied, Kale was pinned to the ground by the human-faced bat. If it were not for the effect of prayer, this wandering merchant who dreamed of finding a large caravan would be dead now.

"..." Kale stood up without saying a word: "I'm going to find Amiya."

"Wait, let's go together."

"I'll go alone. I know how to find it, and it's just been frightened. It's best not to go looking for it together."

Mia was about to retort out of concern for Galie's safety, but was met with his determined gaze.

"Okay..." Mia agreed: "But you'd better take this with you!"

The girl handed the bell and the box containing the ashes of the stray wolf to Kale: "If you are in danger, ring this bell. I don't know if it will work... You can also shout. Wilden and I will go there immediately."

"Thank you."

Kalie took the bell and the urn.

"Be careful," Wilden warned him as he walked out the door.

Kale nodded and walked into the night holding a torch he picked up from the campfire.

He walked forward for a while, then suddenly stopped and looked back at the dilapidated house which looked even more pitiful after the attack.

"Your prayers...?"

He muttered to himself, turned around again and began to look for the donkey's tracks.

Chapter 14. Traveling through time? Again?!

The human-faced bat must be dead.

The rats all retreated, and the entrance of the dilapidated house was covered with the corpses of rats killed by Wilden.

Blood flowed out from the broken pieces of meat, coupled with the strong stench of the rat itself, the two smells mixed together, and for a moment the smell in the substance was unusually beautiful.

Mia pinched her nose.

But there are still some smells that penetrate through the nose.

It made the girl's stomach churn.

I haven't even had a bite of dinner...

"yue!"

I can't hold it anymore.

Even without describing the huge rat corpse, one can imagine how ugly it is.

It has to be cleaned up.

Fortunately, the floor of this house is made of stone slabs, the walls are made of stone bricks, and only the beams supporting the roof are made of wood.

Wilden helped throw out all the dead rats, and Mia simply set a fire.

As for the bloodstains on the ground, they were also caused by a fire. After the flames passed through, the burnt smell replaced the stench of the animal.

Although it is also pungent, at least it won't make people sick.

Mia was a little worried because Kale hadn't come back yet.

However, on second thought, as a nomadic person who has been traveling in this world for so long, Kalie must have some way to save his life.

Mia yawned, the warm campfire made her feel tired.

"Why is that bat picking on us?" she suddenly asked.

"Maybe this is its territory," Wilden replied, sitting at the door and looking out.

The pile of rat corpses had not been burned completely, and he did not see any signs of other rats.

Wilden took a look and then retracted his head: "That bat was once a citizen of the Golden Tree."

Mia looked at the blessing in the center of the hut and nodded.

The reason for all this is the breaking of the Dharma Ring.

Then she yawned again.

Having not slept well for two consecutive nights, the girl was now feeling extremely sleepy after finally arriving at a shelter with a ceiling.

She originally wanted to wait for Kale to come back before going to bed, but she seemed to have overestimated her energy.

Especially at the interface where neither mobile phones nor computers exist, waiting is even more of a torture.

I huddled in the corner of the house, hugging my legs. Before I knew it, sleepiness had blurred my vision.

-

Mia had a dream.

I dreamed that the mice became very big, especially big.

Maybe it's because of the saying 'what you think about during the day you dream about at night'...

Mia, who fought off bats and rats, also dreamed of rats.

The rats in the dream were even bigger than the ones she had just encountered. They even stood up, holding weapons in their hands, and turned into an army with their screams.

This was an extraordinary army. The torches of the ratmen flowed in their underground castles, drilled into the sewers of human cities, and then transformed into an evil army wrapped in plague.

Mia couldn't describe the perspective from which she dreamed of this scene. It was as if she was watching a movie.

Watch these ugly and dirty creatures spread like a black tide.

Then, Mia felt a sharp fall.

The girl woke up suddenly.

It was pitch black.

She subconsciously touched her eyes and found that the blindfold that had been covering her eyes and allowing her to see things was gone.

Just like a severely myopic patient who wakes up in the morning and finds that he can't find his glasses, Mia fumbles around on the ground in a panic - in fact, Mia's condition is more serious than this example, because without the strip of cloth, she really can't see anything, just like a blind person.

But there was no touch of cloth where it could be touched.

Fear and anxiety instantly enveloped her along with darkness.

'Where did you go? Where did you go?'

Where did her vision go?

The girl saw a cluster of golden light floating in the darkness, as if guiding her somewhere.

It is exactly the same as the guidance of the blessing.

Mia reached out her hand and tried everywhere. She touched the cold wall, and holding on to the wall, she tried to follow the guidance. It was the only thing she could see, and it gave her some hope.

She had just taken two steps when she was tripped by something lying under her feet.

Mia fell heavily to the ground, but still couldn't see anything, which made her more anxious and her breathing became rapid.

She tried to grope around, trying to figure out what had tripped her. Her hands crawled on the ground, and her nose smelled a stench that belonged to the sewer. Finally, she touched a cold limb covered with rough hair and skin and bones.

It clearly belonged to some non-human animal, and the sticky dirt on that limb gave Mia a chill.

It was obvious that she was no longer in her little hut.

Mia quickly withdrew her hand from the filthy thing and heard a series of footsteps. She wanted to call Wilden, but immediately realized that the footsteps did not belong to the tall and strong soldiers of the King's Army.

But her senses were so confused that she couldn't tell where the footsteps came from.

Perhaps, most people have a stereotype about blind people, thinking that blind people who have lost their sight can focus more on receiving information from other senses - such as ears.

But Mia is not a blind person. When she wears the blindfold, she looks no different from a normal person.

So now she is no different from a normal person who suddenly became blind.

I feel panic because I can't see anything.

All she could hear was the sound of footsteps getting closer. In the pitch black vision, the girl quickly dropped to the ground and controlled her breathing.

She didn't want to get involved in an incident without knowing anything about it.

The complex stench of the sewer became stronger as the footsteps approached.

The footsteps stopped, and Moyo noticed Mia, but Mia still had no idea what was happening in front of her.

"Human stuff!"

Mia heard some sticky, hissing voices coming and going beside her.

"Yes, yes, human thing! Dead, dead. Fresh meat."

“Aromatic meat~”

"Female human thing, yes, yes... I'm hungry, I want to eat."

There was something familiar about the way those things spoke.

Mia tensed up, she squeezed her left hand, she swore that no matter which direction it touched her, it would only be greeted with fire.

The tension of trying to get away with it actually eased some of her anxiety and fear about suddenly going blind.

"No! You rat—" A voice screamed: "Fresh meat, for the Grey Seer, for Grey Seer Tsanquilo! It's good for us."

"But if we eat it, Tsanquilo won't know... He can't see here, he can't see!"

"Hiss, yes, yes, Tsanquilo can't see!"

"We ate the female human stuff, eat, eat!"