The King of Elden does not die alone!

Se Lian was waiting for her reply.

However, what I heard was Mia's counter-question: "As an origin magician, if I want to explore the root, do I have to become a magic block?"

It seemed that he had never expected to hear such a question.

Se Lian's eyes, hidden under the pyroxene stone cover, trembled.

Her shoulders drooped, and she raised her hands and then put them down again, looking so at a loss.

"Apprentice," she said in a voice that suddenly became weak.

"In fact, you have always known my past and my wishes...but you still chose to take me as your master?"

"Yeah." Mia nodded calmly.

"Huh..." Se Lian let out a breath. She took a few steps back and moved her feet uneasily.

"I thought I could hide it from you...but...I'm sorry." The female mage under the hood gave a bitter smile.

"I'm actually pretty scary, right? I'm a witch who killed countless magicians and explored forbidden areas..."

"There's no such thing." Mia shook her head seriously.

At least, Teacher Se Lian has always been gentle towards his disciples.

This border area is not friendly to the faded ones and is full of dangers.

Teacher Se Lian is one of the few warm people.

Even if she really is a witch who has murdered countless magicians, so what?

In front of the Faded Ones, she is always the gentle, patient, and willing-to-accept-the-protagonist teacher, Se Lian.

She never told our A-Ti why she was called the Cube Witch and what the Cube was.

Only when the Faded One saw the familiar call from the magician ball in the great library of the magic academy, who spoke incoherently and made painful moans from time to time...

Emotions such as shock, confusion, sadness, etc. rushed into the players' minds.

Why did Teacher Se Lian become like this? Why did she become like this?

Can all this be changed?

"Teacher Se Lian, why did you choose to become a magician ball?"

Mia's tone was questioning as she thought of that scene.

"That's a way to explore the origin..." Se Lian didn't dare to look at Mia, so he turned his eyes away and answered.

"Ever since the demigod, Latan, shattered the laws governing the rotation of the stars, the inherent rotation has come to an abrupt halt. The fate of those who pursue the life of the stars will naturally rotate with the stars, but that man is the seal of the stars."

"The stars have stopped moving. This is undoubtedly the worst news for us magicians of the Origin School."

Se Lian was visibly angry.

"Just to prevent the one in a million chance of a falling meteorite from harming life on earth, they chose to seal the movement of all the stars... This is undoubtedly an extreme display of selfishness and hypocrisy on the part of the Kalia royal family, and an evil act that deserves the condemnation of all men!"

"After all this... what else can we mages who are exploring the origin do?"

"Just because of the pursuit of origins, they turned themselves into pyroxene. Just because of this matter, this matter is what should be done on the road to seeking the truth. The origin mages who are tabooed and despised by Kalia, in an era when the stars have stopped, where should they go?"

She sighed and turned away.

When the planets have stopped moving, they are magicians who want to explore the life of stars and the origin of stars.

The only way is to use a more extreme and horrifying method than turning yourself into pyroxene to transform yourself into a star seed - the magician's ball.

I hope that by doing so, I can get closer to the stars that no longer flow, like a dead sea.

"But even so... they are still not satisfied."

"The academy manipulated by the royal family of Kalia even expelled my teacher, the Grand Mage of Origin, Azrael of Comet, and another Grand Mage of Origin, Luther, who represented the meteor."

"Throw away the origin of pyroxene magic, their roots, like dirt!"

"And until now, the origin magicians who still adhere to the original intention of pyroxene magic and are unwilling to give up exploration even under the sealed starry sky are being hunted by the running dogs of the Kalia royal family."

"Disciple, may I ask you, who is the real perpetrator of the crime? Shouldn't the Kalia royal family, who are so arrogant and domineering that those who obey them prosper and those who disobey them perish, be expelled? And those scums of the academy who blindly worship the strong and abandon their original intentions to become accomplices of the evil, should not be eliminated?"

Se Lian clenched her hands, her whole body trembling. She walked around the room, unable to sit down, unable to calm down, as if she had lost control of herself.

"Yes...I am the Cube Witch."

Ever since that queen unreasonably conquered Lienia's magic academy with the beautiful full moon, the end of origin magic has begun.

And all of this is grievance, resentment...the loss and confusion of not being recognized and abandoned.

"I am the scourge of the 'Realukalia' Academy. I killed countless magicians and was expelled from the academy... the Cube Witch."

There was a sob in her voice.

Then, at a moment like this.

Soft and slender arms wrapped around him from behind.

"Se Lian...Teacher."

Mia moved her face closer to Seren's back.

It was actually a body without temperature or heartbeat, existing in the form of a phantom with substance.

But even with such a body, the back was heaving due to the intense breathing.

Se Lian lowered his head and held the small hand around his waist.

"Disciple," she called softly, her breathing slowly calming down.

Mia responded softly: "I am willing to revive the origin of pyroxene magic with you."

"..." Se Lian was silent for a long time.

Mia snuggled up to Seren in the dim basement.

And Se Lian held the girl's hand tightly.

"Sorry, please ask you for such a weird thing..."

"No, I mean it. I am willing to go with you." Mia leaned her head against Se Lian's back and said, "If I can restore the stars to normal operation, you don't need to be in that state anymore and you can explore the stars, right?"

Se Lian nodded slightly, agreeing with Mia's idea.

"Thank you, my apprentice, I'm very happy." Se Lian held the girl's hand and put it down gently, then turned around.

Then, the pyroxene stone cover that gave people a bit of the uncanny valley effect was taken off.

She shook her head, letting her long black hair sway lightly after regaining its freedom, and her neat braids hung down naturally.

"This should be easier to talk about, right?"

The female magician smiled and lowered her head, looking at Mia in front of her.

Mia looked into those blue eyes that were as bright and beautiful as gemstones.

I couldn't help but be mesmerized.

Se Lian stared at Mia intently: "Actually, I'm not a good teacher, am I? It's so ugly to show such an ugly face in front of my apprentice."

Mia shook her head.

“You are a very gentle teacher.”

"I am very happy to have a disciple and confidant like you."

Se Lian looked at Mia with affection, as if she was looking at a piece of art carved by her own hands.

He reached out and touched the girl's head.

"My first apprentice has grown into an excellent and considerate magician in such a short period of time."

"You're the Fader, aren't you."

Although Se Lian asked the question, there was no questioning tone in his voice.

"I know that the Faded One came to the Junction in order to become king."

"To let a child like you kill a demigod and become a king... that golden tree is really as unreasonable as the royal family of Kalia."

"But I believe you have the potential to be king. So, apprentice, please become the king of Elden."

"If you can't become king, come back to me."

Se Lian smiled, like the bright North Star in the sky after the dark clouds.

"...Don't worry." Se Lian's fingers brushed Mia's earlobe and tidied her messy blonde hair. "Even if the apprentice is not talented, the master will still prepare a place for her to stay."

The magician took a step back and put the pyroxene headdress back on his head.

The witch's hooded eyelids drooped and the corners of her mouth were smiling, as if she was having a beautiful dream.

And Se Lian's charming smile, like the North Star, disappeared like a dream.

But it will definitely always linger in the girl's eyes.

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Just like what Seren said.

It is common for a master and his disciples to go their separate ways.

When Seren recognized Mia's magic, it meant that Mia had achieved her original purpose of going south.

Now that she has become a pyroxene magician, she can set out again, heading north to Stonewell to fulfill her destiny.

Become the King of Elden.

Mia also wanted to let this brisk daily life continue.

She, Selin, Caleb, and Wilden lived a relaxed life in the remains of this post station street, ignoring the disturbances of the outside world...

There will surely be successors of the Faded who will challenge this path, become the King of Elden, and restore order to the borderland.

Until then, it's better to just stay in this corner...

However, Mia still hopes to be saved by herself.

She hopes that if one day the border area regains its former vitality, she can say: I have done my best for this day.

Instead of waiting for others' charity like a beggar and enjoying the fruits of others' efforts.

Whether it's Serenity, Wilden, Curry, or even Patch, they all deserve a better future than spending the rest of their lives in the same old routine in the ruins of Post Street.

Mia hopes that Seren can see the stars again.

I hope that the people of Kale will no longer wander around. I hope that countless soldiers like Wilden on the border will have different colors in their memories that are filled with the grayness of war.

Even Patch...

Mia also didn't want more Faded Ones to come to the border for unknown reasons like him, fighting for their lives because of the so-called big plan of someone she had never heard of.

Although, Mia should also be considered such a fader.

But even if it is just for the purpose of becoming a superior person, being respected, being admired, and becoming the leader that one could only look up to in his previous life.

Such a childish and selfish idea.

Mia wants it too, to become the King of Elden.

So, it's time to say goodbye.

The girl took a breath and said, "Teacher Se Lian, I think I have to leave."

Se Lian nodded and looked at the face of the girl in front of her.

Eyes are supposed to be the windows to the soul, but Se Lian couldn't see her covered eyes.