The mage floating in the hall screamed and fell, and the sudden darkness made the guests who were slightly calmer burst into fear and scrambled to escape.
Ruth took advantage of the chaos to escape from her fiancé's control, picked up the oil lamp that fell on the ground, and ran to the basement to look for traces of Jack.
A dense swarm of rats filled the basement, and a waiter was wading painfully through the swarm of rats that submerged his calves back up the steps.
"My friend is locked in the basement..."
"I don't...I can't..."
Ruth asked him for help, but the waitress, overcome with fear, shook her head and fled upward.
Only Ruth was left in the basement corridor. All she had to do was take a deep breath, step into the tide of rats that terrified her, and call Jack's name with rapid breathing.
Jack, who was handcuffed underground and struggling, heard the noise and responded, asking Ruth to follow the sound to find him.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have suspected you of stealing the gem necklace."
The reunited lovers embrace each other, and the purest love blooms in the filthiest rat tide.
The key to Jack's shackles was in the tide of rats. Ruth had no choice but to push aside the tide of rats that reached her knees, groping for the rats while retching.
They couldn't understand how this scene was recorded... Are the rat tides real?
Fortunately, Rose found the key and opened the shackles. Jack and Rose grabbed each other and fled back to the hall amid the waist-deep tide of rats.
A real wave of rats has poured into the hall from outside the mage tower. The guests screamed and fled to higher places. Some mages clumsily waved their staffs at the ratmen who rushed in, and were knocked down by the ratmen and their throats were ripped open.
The mages frowned slightly, but thought it was reasonable that mages could not cast spells in the Forbidden Magic Realm. Only Michael was not happy - what is the difference between mages who do not know combat skills and magic scrolls?
Jack and Rose fled up the stairs and when they reached the second floor, the upper window in the hall suddenly broke, and countless scarlet eyes poured into the hall, drowning everything in the hall.
"The Mage Tower is over..." Ruth murmured desperately.
Jack pulled her: "We have to go, Ruth."
Not long after they left, the surging tide reached the second floor.
Jack and Rose followed the crowd upwards, but soon they met a group of guests who had escaped, and they said that rat-men were also swarming above.
At this time, a stone brick fell from above the head and shattered into pieces in front of a guest.
They looked up at the same time, and a crack was forming under the wall where dust was falling.
"The mage tower is going to collapse!"
Screams from nowhere caused the crowd to crowd again. Jack and Rose held on to each other tightly and continued to move with the panicked crowd. A deep pit formed by a broken gap lay in front of everyone.
The rat tide is pressing behind them, and in front is a safe area that has not yet been invaded by the rat tide. If they want to get through, they must jump into the deep pit where the rat tide is surging.
A mage jumped down and fell into the tide of rats with a shrill scream, struggling to swim to the other side.
"Ruth, we have to jump down..."
Jack persuaded the frightened Ruth: "Remember what I said? If you dance, I will dance too."
With her lover's encouragement, Ruth mustered up the courage to jump into the rat pit with Jack, disappearing completely as if falling into water.
After a brief silence, Ruth's head emerged from the tide of rats, breathing rapidly and shouting: "Jack! Jack!"
"I'm here! Ruth! Swim forward!"
Jack's voice sounded from behind, and Ruth stretched her neck hard, urging the rats to climb up the steps.
After kicking away the mouse that was brought up, Jack and Rose continued forward, and voices sounded from behind the door panel of the room next to them.
Ruth slapped the door panel and begged to let them in, but Jack held her back: "This kind of board can't stop mice. We need to find a stronger room."
The mage tower under their feet suddenly shook, and the violent shaking caused them to grab each other.
The theater audience saw the most shocking scene - the mage tower cracked from the middle began to tilt.
Amidst the music played by sad musicians, they saw an elderly couple lying on the bed hugging each other; several mages holding rat teeth and fighting bloody battles with knives; and women coaxing children to sleep on the bed.
The tower owner was like an ordinary old man, standing quietly in front of the window, watching the rat tide gathering into a huge wave higher than the mage tower...
…
Breeze City has entered a state of martial law.
Patrolling and running city guards can be seen everywhere, residents are driven back home, scavengers come out in droves, and the mage tower has been activated.
Olmedo led the city guards to block the theater, and at this time his confidants came on horseback: "The scavengers have confirmed the hole underground in Breeze City. If it collapses, the entire Breeze City will be destroyed..."
"Didn't the Mage Tower stop it?"
"There is no other way. The rat people have deployed evil energy underground. They will be discovered by them if they get close. They have to wait for the tower master to come back."
But the tower owner obviously couldn't rush back as quickly as he did that night...
"Lord City Lord, we'd better move the residents out before the rat people react..."
"Annan is still underground, right?"
"I know you believe Lord Annan, but he is only one person, and..."
"Relocating the residents will only let the Skaven hiding in the city know that we have discovered them, and have you ever thought about what would happen if the Skaven attack the city when we move?"
Olmedo reminded his fearful cronies: "Leave these problems to them, our problem is this theater."
"Lord City Lord, what should we do next?"
"You guys stay outside, I'm going to question him..."
Olmedo moves towards theater.
"You know... I won this invitation from a dwarf... At that time, I thought this was the luckiest moment in my life..."
Entering the theater, Annan in the magic image stood against the door and said weakly:
"It's the same now, because I met you...live and promise me...you will get rid of the shackles, and you will have a freer life..."
"Promise me."
This touching scene near the end was untouched by Olmedo because he had already seen it. After passing by the sobbing audience, he returned to his father.
The cronies began to quietly evacuate the nobles in the theater with soldiers.
"What do you think of this story? Father." Olmedo tried to maintain his composure.
"Novel story, wonderful idea..."
"You no longer resist the chaos Annan will bring?"
"Each of us will change... We measure our surroundings with our own shallow understanding. The boy thinks that the village under his feet is the world, and the woodcutter includes the forest in it."
The magic lamp gradually turned on, and the audience, who knew nothing about what was happening outside, stood up and applauded without hesitation in their praise. Honoratan Mays clapped his hands red with tears in his eyes.
Amidst the applause, Augusta looked at the eyes that originated from him and were filled with complexity and sadness at the moment.
"Get started, kid. Don't let your determination turn into patience."
