Elden Clergyman

"Rather than a cold, dead ember."

“I need to borrow the warmth of others to pretend that I am still burning.”

Even she was part of the pretense.

......

Lord woke up again.

But this time, he didn't wake up in someone's arms.

On the contrary, when he woke up, he felt heavy all over and wet in some places.

After opening his eyes and looking, he found that it was the person who was next to him before. He didn't know when he fell asleep and even drooled.

Of course, except for a certain golden retriever.

When Lord opened his eyes, she was still moving her fingers, with a focused look, weaving something on his chest with golden silk thread.

After he woke up, Alice raised her head, pointed at the children sleeping beside him, and made a 'hush' gesture.

Lord understood what he meant, and did not make a sound or try to wake them up. He remained mostly still and gently adjusted his posture so that they could sleep more comfortably.

Then, Alice lowered her head again, concentrating on fiddling with something on his chest.

However, although the atmosphere was warm, after a while, Lord, who had been maintaining this posture, looked strange.

How should I put it...

After getting used to a life of running around and killing people, it was a bit difficult for him to adapt to being suddenly fixed like this and unable to move at all.

But the problem is, a bunch of people are leaning on him now. Not to mention his arms, even his hands are stuffed into their arms, and he can't even move a finger.

this......

But just when Lord was in distress, a familiar touch brushed the corner of his mouth and then reached in.

Alice was still fiddling with something on his chest.

But only one hand remained.

As for the other one, it was now placed next to his mouth, with two fingers in his mouth.

Lord hesitated for a moment.

Isn't this not good?

But as he hesitated, something ran across his tongue.

Hiss.

The soft fingertips stroked across the tongue coating and scraped it lightly, revealing a fragrant and tender scent.

A little itchy.

Lord raised an eyebrow and then fought back decisively.

Then, Alice's work began to become more intermittent.

The breeze blows and the fallen leaves scatter.

Under the swaying, mottled shadows of the trees, lonely travelers huddled together and lit a fire.

Everything looks so beautiful.

Except for a certain figure that paused.

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Chapter 95: Really High and Mighty

Melina had a dream.

In the dream, she was wandering in the endless darkness, unable to see the direction clearly, with no companions around her. There was only endless coldness and empty confusion.

At this moment, a ball of fire appeared in front of her and attracted her over.

The warmth of the flames dispelled the coldness from her body, and the hand that reached out from it tried to touch her again and again.

If this was outside, if she was still conscious, she would definitely reject that hand without hesitation and try her best to prevent him from getting closer.

But this is just a dream.

So she also reached out her hand, held it in her arms, and after a moment's hesitation, she lowered her head and gently bit the hand.

Just think of it as a small revenge for when he played a trick on me before.

But the hand seemed to have misunderstood.

After a moment of confusion, the hand seemed to think she was hungry, so it condensed some soul on it and extended its fingers in front of her.

If she were eating normally, Melina would probably take the soul with her hands and eat it herself, or at most she would lower her head to accept the feeding.

But again, this is a dream.

Looking at the soul-like finger emerging in front of her, Melina opened her mouth and swallowed it whole.

And after swallowing it, he bit it lightly as if in revenge, while licking the soul on it with his tongue, satisfying the desire emanating from the depths of his soul.

It's not just hunger, it's also a reflection of certain things in reality that you can't get.

Since I can't touch her when I'm awake, then at least let her be a little willful in her dreams.

Thinking of this, she hugged the hand in her arms even tighter.

Then, time passed.

After an unknown amount of time, Melina finally had enough.

After eating, she fiddled with her arms for a while, doing some things that she would never do when she was awake, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

Then, she saw it.

The hand that she held in her arms was covered with her saliva from fingers to arms.

There were also minor bite marks on it that were not serious and were disappearing quickly, but they did exist.

silence.

After an unknown amount of time, Melina turned her head stiffly, trying to confirm the situation around her.

Then he saw Millicent who also looked embarrassed.

But the other person did not bite his fingers, but just stubbornly held the hand against his chest.

And every time the other person tries to leave, they will try to stop him/her and hug him/her tighter.

After much pulling and tugging, the hand was covered with a lot of decayed debris, which was why Melina could tell what had happened at a glance.

But at the same time, Millicent also saw saliva and teeth marks on the other hand.

Then, the two looked at each other, and then looked away at the same time, and the atmosphere gradually became subtle.

As for why not go and see if someone is awake?

In this situation, who would dare to look at them?

In short, while pretending that someone was not awake, the two of them dealt with the marks on their arms.

After cleaning up the traces, he slowly withdrew from his body. After getting up, he glanced at Lord who still had his eyes closed. After breathing a sigh of relief, he helped him clean up the clothes where he had slept just now, and then quietly left.

After they left, Lord, who was pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes and rubbed the golden retriever who was also pretending to be asleep in his arms. After she left, he prepared to put the two little ones on his shoulders back into the inventory.

But this time, the purple flower, Torina, who had never responded no matter what he did, rejected his instructions for the first time.

And after refusing, the hand holding his arm tightened slightly.

this......

He turned his head to look at the delicate little face that was still sleeping, and felt the faint meaning coming from the arm in his hand.

After a moment's hesitation, Lord reached out, hugged her, and kissed her forehead.

The pledge of friendship is strengthened.

Afterwards, Torina can retrieve her inventory normally.

After taking Tolina back, Lord turned his head to Ashmi on the side.

The latter blinked and offered his head, his beautiful pupils full of anticipation.

The pledge of friendship is strengthened.

After kissing her forehead and feeding her some souls, Lord also put Ashmi back into the inventory.

After finally dealing with the pendants on his body, Lord stood up and checked his condition.

After confirming that there was no problem and dealing with the saliva a little, he didn't hesitate any longer, took out the spirit horse whistle, called out Torret, and continued to explore the map.

This time, he found a ruin not long after walking.

It was a ruin occupied by demihumans, and originally only ordinary demihumans roamed there.

But after Lord passed by, accompanied by the surge of filth and the flash of gold, this group of originally ordinary demi-humans instantly changed their appearance.

The filthy body brings more blood, and can also recover blood by leaving the battle, making the weapon in the hand more powerful to wield.

As for gold, although it did not bring any numerical increase to them, it gave them an additional skill like the Crazy Fire in the Sky, which could shoot out a beam of golden fragments by condensing the runes in the eyes.

However, although they were strengthened, they were still just sub-humans after all. Lord left a few of them unkilled. After getting familiar with their skills, he took out his famous sword Yueyin and killed them with his sword.

After clearing out the demi-humans outside, Lord found an entrance leading downwards. After walking down for a while, a golden mist door appeared in front of him.

But just as Lord was about to push the door open, a golden symbol lit up on the side of the fog door.

[Summon the helper 'Demihuman Berk'?]

When Burke was called out, he became very excited.

After chatting with Lord for a while and exchanging some recent news, Burke also explained the purpose of his visit.

"Master, I, I don't have much ability..."

"But Mr. Edgar said before that you were willing to take in demihumans and that I could help you..."

"I was just wondering if I could help you with something besides tailoring..."

"There's the aura of a queen in here. I want to try to communicate with her, maybe it will be of some use..."

Hearing what Burke said, Lord did not object. He nodded and took it into the fog gate.

But communication did not take place right from the start.

Because after pushing open the door, Lord found that there was something wrong with this demi-human queen.

【Demi-Human Queen Kirika】

It was a tall subhuman queen, like some kind of humanoid beast.

But unlike ordinary demi-human queens, she is now affected by three forces at the same time.

Two of these Lord had just seen: gold and filth.

But the remaining one was the first time Lord had seen it.

It was a light blue color, surrounded by light blue light, like some kind of broken crystal.

But it was not a pyroxene crystal, nor a soul crystal, but something closer to sky blue.

Under the influence of that power, the demihuman queen's body was deformed.

But this distortion seems to be incompatible with that filthy power, and even conflicts with it.

When Lord entered the room, the two forces seemed to be fighting for dominance over the subhuman queen's body, and almost half each, were fighting against each other.

After Lord entered, it seemed that they sensed the danger. The two forces temporarily put aside their struggle with each other, and together with the gold, they manipulated the demi-human queen to attack Lord.

boom--

The filthy claws slammed down, and then another hand wrapped in a light blue light also swung the magic wand across.

Lord dodged sideways and took out his shield.

bang bang bang-