During the second interval of unloading, Lu Yu told Huo Gu his guess.
Realizing that the mist demon was not around, Huogu surprisingly admitted frankly.
"I entrusted her to you with the intention of driving her away, but it is also true that I want her to grow."
Lu Yu answered: "Because this is how your family treats you?"
Huo Gu was silent, looking at each other for a long time. It was not until Huo Gu's back relaxed, and everyone led by Chen Xi happily packed the broken magic crystal and stored it in the warehouse, that he looked at the lively crowd and lowered his head little by little.
, the vertical pupils with a strong sense of pressure rippled with tenderness visible to the naked eye.
"Lu Yu, you should know that the society of the Dragon Clan is completely different from that of most races. The true meaning contained in these words, family, affection, and friendship, can only be felt when you get along with beings other than the Dragon Clan."
"When talking about family ties, you may think of your family members in your distant hometown. Lulu will never forget the two people who tried their best to let her realize her talent even if they burned themselves."
Huo Gu shook his body, and the soil attached to the dragon's scales fell. After the sand and rocks fell, he controlled a magic power to wander on the scales around the dragon's spine, from the chest and abdomen to the hind limbs, and finally on the tailbone.
Stop nearby.
"There used to be ugly scars here. As time went by, the scales changed again and again, and they have long since healed. However, occasionally, my body still hurts. In the long dream, the burning pain will still come, like a tide,
Keep slapping my body."
Hogu paused and continued.
"Only when I have vague memories, my parents gave me a touch of warmth. When I began to distinguish the things around me, endless whipping followed. Knowledge and training never stopped, bathing in their dragon flames.
Underneath, it is common for the skin to be torn by their sharp claws."
"I can't call them father or mother, but must call them by their first names; I don't want to hurt those monsters who are already afraid of me, but they ask me to get a name from their mouths, a name that is born out of their fear and fear.
title, and this title will replace my original nickname."
"When I am exhausted and ask for some tenderness from them, what I always get is indifference, which seems to be a shameful thing."
"I endured all this, and finally came the day when I was driven away by them. As you can see, they left fatal scars on my body mercilessly, and I had to carry the bloody scars on my body in fear.
As my body moved away from me and I crossed the sky, I roared angrily, but it was just a meaningless howl."
Perhaps because of the passage of time, Huogu's tone was very calm, as if he was telling someone else's story, and he was just playing the role of a bystander day in and day out for thousands of years.
"I observe, I think, and I try to understand, but those gains cannot teach me to do something I don't know how to do, because I have never experienced it."
"So, I chose to escape."
The arrogant dragon took the initiative to admit his weak side. At this moment, he felt relieved.
"But you care about the mist demon."
"It's useless to care. Just like the magician's 'inertia' you observed, I have also been infected with inertia. The things flowing in my blood and memory are about to move. It is very difficult to learn to love, even if you are really good at it.
I like her, but I can't express it correctly. Instead, my destructive desire and indifferent words and deeds take over. The memories of the past come back in the middle of the night, seeming to correct my behavior and make me look like my parents... The more cute and well-behaved the mist demon is.
, the more irritable my heart becomes, only deep sleep can relieve it."
"Is this the case now?"
Huo Gu shook his head: "Different from them, I can restrain myself and am learning. Dawn Leader is the best academy for me."
Before setting off again, Huo Gu whispered: "Don't tell the mist demon. Sooner or later, I will express my inner thoughts in the right way. This will be a surprise for her and me."
After Huo Gu left, the slow-moving Xiao An drifted to Lu Yu's side.
The mist demon who turned into a slime and jumped around in Xiaodang's body was no different from a ADHD patient. While bouncing, he asked: "What did you say to him?"
Lu Yu heard that there seemed to be expectations in Wu Yao's words, and he was about to leave with a tray, but when he thought of Huo Gu's appearance before leaving, he smiled and lied: "Discuss the diversified applications of the magic-breaking crystal."
As he spoke, he recalled Lulu's hand tightly wrapped around his waist in the Sligo Palace in her sleep, as if she were using him as a big pillow to seek a sense of security. Lulu, who had been cured, showed a happy smile in her dream.
For Huo Gu, the mist demon may be the pillow and wound medicine that he finally found.
Even though the scars on his body have long been healed, buried deep in his memories and dreams, the scars that have not been healed since childhood are still bleeding. They are wounds that he cannot lick when he lives alone.
A few days passed, and while Yucao was in full swing polishing and transforming the Demonic Crystal, Lu Yu, who was participating in the "handicraft work" of Quan Chenxi, suddenly felt a very familiar feeling in his heart.
After recalling it in doubt for a moment, he suddenly realized that it was the impulse in Blue Water City that attracted him to meet Orkus!
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Yu quickly made a guess. He returned to the room, closed the door, and stepped into the magic circle that could lead to the Summoner's Temple.
Under Xu's gaze, the magic circle glowed brightly, and the dim light that filled the entire room enveloped her and Lu Yu. Boundless magic filled their bodies, and the feeling of falling followed.
"Why is it falling again? Is the new version still such an uncomfortable transmission method?"
Lu Yu, who fell heavily on his face to the ground, could not feel the pain, but still complained.
He couldn't wait to look around, intending to see what happened to the reopened Summoning Temple, but he was shocked to find...
"Why is it still so white and empty all around?"
Not only that, the ruins of the original summoning temple seemed to have been wiped out. Lu Yu walked around, but couldn't find the sign. He called out Segro's name as usual, expecting this guy to suddenly come from a certain direction.
Show up and scare yourself.
A white light suddenly appeared in the distance, and Lu Yu floated forward with the thought of "I've been waiting for you", but he saw Orkus, who had the same face as himself, and the dragon slayer with his arms crossed.
The person even curled his lips when Orkus stood up, looking like he didn't want to see his embarrassing summoner.
"Have you also had that impulse?" Orkus stood up and asked impatiently. After looking around, his reaction was exactly the same as Lu Yu's, "Why are there no ruins left and no changes at all? This is my first time entering the temple.
This is what it looks like now.”
After waiting for a while, the two people frowned when Segro didn't show up. They each began to confirm whether the other facilities provided to the pioneers in the Summoning Temple were functioning normally.
Lu Yu summoned the projection of the summoned object, and had already called out the name of the summoned object he planned to ask. Without any warning, a white light broke through the layers of clouds in the sky and hit him next to him.
Segro walked out of the light curtain, looked at Lu Yu and Orkus, smiled and said hello.
As "His" mouthpiece, Seguero's mere presence means everything goes well.
Orkus went straight to the topic: "What can I reveal? My plastic summons have been completely unable to be summoned. The regular summoning channels fluctuated violently. Little Bread learned to summon from me. Under my step-by-step guidance, her failure rate was as high as
Sixty percent, it has become a game of probability for ordinary summoners to complete the summons normally at this point in time. Does this mean that after the 'living water' was injected into the summoning ceremony, earth-shaking changes took place?"
After asking several questions at once, Seguero could only smile politely but awkwardly, looking at the two people with very complicated eyes.
"All changes related to the summons can only be explored, summarized, and condensed into your own experiences. I cannot provide any reminders. As pioneers, you should open up a new path for future generations."
"In about ten days, the violent fluctuations of the summoning ceremony will return to stability, and then continue to rise and fall with the magic tide. The only thing I can tell you about this is... I am very envious of you, really... very envious."
"Summon this dry river, the water has begun to flow, and what you have is a brand-new power that is more stable, more worth exploring, and mastering."
After saying that, Seguero stretched out his hand with a lonely look on his face and touched the two of them unexpectedly.
"We will meet again eventually. Before that, Pioneer... go, guide, explore, and fulfill the wishes of generations of summoners."
"Let the call of silence return to the stage of the new era."
Lu Yu smelled something strange in his words. He stretched forward, trying to grab the outstretched arm of the smiling young man, but found that his body was turning into a point of light and quickly dissipating.
Seguero raised his right hand, showing the palm of his hand, and moved it toward Lu Yu and Orkus, saying "goodbye" silently.
"Wait, what exactly is this?"
As the two beams of light shone on Lu Yu and Orkus, their consciousness quickly moved away, and the people who came and went in the Summoning Temple in the past began to appear in their field of vision.
Summoners from different races and different identities gathered here by chance and worked hard for a common goal, but they all fell on the hopeless road in the end. It was not that they were stupid, it was just that they were helpless. They ran into the times.
of barriers.
As time passed, the temple was in ruins and desolate, and the simple dreams they held disappeared with the call.
After a brief blur of consciousness, in the empty Summoner Temple, the sky full of light points rose from the ground, briefly condensing to reveal their original appearance, which corresponded to the past appearance they had witnessed in that brief moment.
Orkus, who already understood what happened, choked up and said: "We should say goodbye..."
"There is no parting in the world that can be properly prepared. You are still a little younger." Segro's voice was fading away, "Goodbye, lucky guy."
"Lu Yu, Orkus, this is the temple of the pioneers of the old era. Our mission is over."
Strange voices sounded in the void one after another.
"Like Seguero, we are all jealous of you, but since Lu Yu can say, 'I am just the luckier of you,' it seems a bit too rude for a senior to show jealousy. In short,
Please continue on this path for us."
The light particles gathered into a river and rushed to the sky, like a mighty crowd holding torches.
"What follows is your story and your time."
Watching the passing summoner return to 'His' embrace, Lu Yu bowed respectfully.
In the white Summoning Temple, Lu Yu and Orkus sat on the floor, silent for a long time, each thinking about something.
Lu Yu stood up first. He stared at the sky that was once again closed by layers of fog and bubbles wrapping the summoned objects, with firm eyes.
"We are the only ones left, Orcus."
"Yeah...this time, it's really just us."
It seemed that he had been sitting for a long time. Orkus staggered a little when he stood up. A pair of strong hands helped him in time and quickly pulled away.
Glancing at the dragon slayer, Orkus smiled and thanked him, and then joked: "It seems that I have also entered old age. If this road takes a long, long time to bring 'him'
Changes come out of nowhere..."
Orkus stared at Lu Yu: "Maybe you should be prepared to be the last one standing."
"Everything in the world is unpredictable. Exploring new knowledge is always full of dangers. Even if we are pioneers, we may not receive more preferential treatment."
"Don't think wildly. You are only in your early forties. Why do you always talk like you are going to the grave? Look at those old evil magicians who are still full of life and vigor. Look at yourself..."
"What you said makes sense. When I get home, the bread is still waiting for me. By the way, where are you going to start exploring?"
Lu Yu hesitated for a moment and replied: "Fusion summoning?"
"Fusion?"
"I've long had the idea of making a gigantic thing out of a piece of plastic summoning. If 'He' really constructed multiple 'descriptions and depictions' to assist with the summoning ritual, it would really be a big help!"
As he spoke, Lu Yu punched hard, and the heroic figure of the elemental fusion giant standing on the earth appeared in his mind!
"But you're only at level five... Do you need me to remind you that your magic power can't even summon four summons at once?"
"It's always right to imagine the future, right? Do you dare to say that you don't expect fun things like fusion summons to appear?" Lu Yu clicked his tongue, expressing dissatisfaction with Orcus's untimely reminder, and then waved goodbye.
After saying goodbye, the two of them turned around and left. Then they both froze on the spot, hesitated for a long time, and then raised their heads at the same time, looking at each other with embarrassment and confusion in their eyes.