As she spoke, she mixed the potion in her hand and fed it to the few earthworms she had captured before and had been carrying with her. They also expanded rapidly, becoming more than one meter long and about twenty centimeters in diameter, and spread out all over their bodies.
A giant worm with a reddish copper color.
There was a discussion among the crowd. This huge worm, or mutated creature, seemed to have aroused dissatisfaction and disgust among some people. However, they were aware of the current situation and only talked about it in low voices without explicitly objecting to Lin's actions.
Lin lowered her head and let out a sweet and melodious chant. Yuffie had never learned the language of the dragon clan, but she could understand the meaning of her friend's expression without any obstacles - "Get out from here, all the way to the outer edge of the city, from the soft soil.
Leave the ground."
The earthworms seemed to understand Lin's meaning, and scrambled to drill into the ground through a lifted stone slab, leaving behind a tunnel filled with soft soil. Yuffie walked over there, pressed the soil tightly with magic power, and constructed a
A slightly narrow tunnel, but large enough for one person to pass through.
A team of dozens of people walked slowly along the passage opened by earthworms and completed by witches. The passage was only more than one meter high. Instead of standing and walking, many people could only choose to bend down and crawl. Yuffie said to herself
A levitating spell was cast to free up the hands to shape the soil in front of them.
The whole team walked for more than an hour on a journey of about two kilometers. When the slope gradually turned upward and finally returned to the earth, everyone felt the refreshing breeze and the clear light emitted by 'Tess' at night.
She couldn't help but exhale, straighten her body, and soothe her sore and stiff limbs along the way. Yuffie was no exception. Casting spells for a long time almost exhausted her physical strength. She closed her eyes and felt the power of the Lord of Heaven.
It circulated in her body, slowly restoring her physical and mental losses.
"...Thank you for your help, Miss Witch." A black-haired middle-aged man with a goatee on his chin walked up to her and bowed respectfully, "May I ask, is there anything we can do in return?"
"About this." Lin was the last to leave the tunnel and skipped to her side. She didn't look tired at all. "Your original work... shouldn't be able to continue, right?"
The man was silent for a moment, shook his head with a wry smile, "As you can see, we are just a group of fugitives now."
"In that case, I know a relatively safe temporary residence for you within the empire." Yuffie thought for a moment, recalling the information she had received from Eskar not long ago, and calmly narrated, "If you trust
"Me, you might as well go there with me. As for the reward -" she pursed her lips slightly, "I want to hear what you have seen and heard before being imprisoned. These things, we can do after we get there, or
I said it slowly on the road."
"Before that, it's best to find a small town to rest for a while, otherwise you will be too conspicuous in your current attire." Lin interjected, "Let me think about it... we can pretend to be businessmen and guards, or a larger mercenary group.
——By the way, uncle, who are you?"
"Just do what you want." The man nodded and replied decisively, "You successfully rescued us. I trust your arrangements for the rest of the journey. As for me..." He revealed a somewhat self-deprecating smile.
Laughing, "The former foreign minister of the empire was also the teacher of the fourth and fifth princes... It's a pity that your majesty is addicted to the illusion created by Cullen Dar and no longer listens to any objections."
Yuffie turned back and looked at the panoramic view of the imperial capital from a distance. The current Glow City is just as its name suggests. Even at night, the city is still brightly lit and a bustling scene. However, she understands that beneath this gorgeous surface, something may have been dug out.
There is a huge hole, and as long as there is a source, it will trigger a raging undercurrent.
She didn't want to be the one who brought the flood. In her eyes, there wasn't much difference between the Kamal people in the empire and the Elna people in the kingdom. Kill 10,000 lives to save another 10,000.
Life is not a choice that anyone is qualified to make.
However, many times, the answer to the best of both worlds may not exist. The only thing she can do is to try her best to find the cause of the current war and try to solve it. As for what kind of reaction will be caused inside and outside the empire after that, and how will it be dealt with?
It's not yet on anyone's radar.
If it were a mother, how should she deal with this situation? Thinking of this, she put her hand on her chest, feeling the power belonging to Ada in her body - or in other words, the fragment given to her by her mother, and whispered
with her name.
Everything seemed to be expected. The scene in front of her was blurry and clear. She once again became her mother, sitting in the warm little house before. Opposite her was still the woman named Mei Lin. Her mother didn't know
Friends from origin.
"Maybe what you said before is right, the best time has yet to come." Mei Lin brushed her long purple hair away and said softly with a hint of regret, "Heroes have accelerated the process of history, but they cannot bring about
The ideal ending. I can see the outcome, but I don’t know how to change it.”
"This is their own choice, and they can only bear the consequences." She comforted the other person softly, "You don't have to blame yourself too much, Merlin. Everyone will fail, even heroes."
"So, Sister Alicia." Mei Lin asked softly, "You won't agree to my request?"
She nodded, "Now is not the time. You can't convince Bayard, right? No one can make him change his mind until he actually makes a mistake and realizes it. After all... he also has human nature
common problem."
"I understand." The purple-haired woman smiled softly, stood up, and her eyes gradually became firm, "I will not give up on them. Maybe the meaning of all this is to prove that even if humans do not rely on gods, human beings can
Anything can be achieved."
"What happens next?" There was a hint of concern in her voice, "Don't think that I will take over the mess you left after you are gone."
"There will always be someone to do it." Mei Lin replied softly, "This world has never lacked heroes - even if they don't think so."
"Well, goodbye, Sister Alicia."
She watched as the purple-haired woman stood up, opened the door, and disappeared into the heavy snow that was flying in the sky.
Everything returned to silence again, just like the same winter night ten years ago.
"It's just that I will feel lonely when you are not around." She murmured to herself, "How long will it be until the next meeting -"
The brief illusion dissipated, and a friend's soft inquiry came to his ears. Yuffie opened her eyes and found that she was still on the edge of Glow City.
In my memory just now, the time when the purple-haired woman met her mother should have been on the eve of the disbandment of "Brigade". As the real founder of "Brigade", she never gave up on her ideals. So, in the end, she
Did the efforts she made succeed or fail? Has the hero she recognized found a suitable successor?
——Only time can probably give the answer.
She doesn’t know what kind of fate she will usher in and what traces she will leave on this continent. But she understands that change can never be caused by one or a few people. She only needs to do her own thing well and leave the rest to history.
It is enough to judge.
"Let's get going," she said calmly, "before the poor guards are discovered."