Shade pulled the hands of the elf girls. Of course Emilia had no objection, but the big elf let go of Shade's hand, then took a few steps back with a smile behind his back:
"As I said, I will only help at the end."
"But it's not convenient for you to leave the city and return to the ship now, right?"
Shade asked, and the elf girl nodded with her hands behind her back:
"Counting the arrow from the Fisher family, you found five arrows for me. I have one of my own, so that's six. Now that the Bennet family has completely disappeared, I think that arrow from their family I
You can go find it.
You go and do your business, I will show up when you are ready to leave the city."
"What is the function of those arrows? Do they really have special lethality against ancient beings?"
Shade asked again. The elf girl pursed her lips and shook her head:
"It has other functions. When the tree father made them, the ancient gods had not yet left, and of course the ancient ones in the forest had not yet been born. These arrows were born for a more noble reason, although there is no way to completely sum it up.
I still hope to get more arrows, so at least that will be enough"
At a certain moment, a sad expression appeared on her face. She thought she concealed it well, but Shade still saw it.
Shade wanted her to explain things clearly, but the elf girl shook her head slightly and nimbly avoided Shade's hand grabbing her wrist:
"The road will be long tonight, remember to take good care of Emilia. Then we will see you later."
After saying that, she entered the chaotic night without looking back. Shade stared at her back, while the elf asked in a low voice:
"Shade, who is she?"
"Did you really not recognize it?"
Emilia shook her head blankly. She felt that she had shaken her head more times tonight than she had in the previous week:
"She's very familiar, but I haven't recognized her yet. But I can see that she has something on her mind, and is she going to be separated from us after the incident in Vista Grove? Shade, can you keep her?
? I like her very much, and little Liana also likes her very much, and I would like to ask her for advice on how to take care of the chocobos in the future."
After saying that, she yawned a little, still a little sleepy. She hadn't felt any discomfort when she was extremely nervous just now, but now she suddenly felt like she couldn't open her eyes.
Shade held her hand:
"I will keep her, Amelia, I swear to you I will."
The witches in the [Witch Council] are very happy to be able to come to the city to help the church. After all, a new "Thirteenth Ring" witch has been born in the council, and the Thirteenth Ring is still the strongest level in today's era.
Therefore, the church asked the witches to place their camps in the center of the city and the Golden Music Hall at the commanding heights. It was also the general command post for tonight's city guard battle, and the witches were assigned two performance halls including the backstage.
all areas.
The Golden Music Hall has been transformed into a true battle fortress. Under the light from the top of the side tower, even every brick on the outer wall is imprinted with magical runes.
Shade actually thinks that it would be better to place the general headquarters in a certain church in the city, but the five churches currently serve as the five most important nodes in the defense ceremony of guarding the city. In order to prevent one node from being destroyed at the same time
The entire battle command sequence was also broken at the same time, so the church finally chose this ancient building in the city center.
Sisters Vanessa, Xiwei and Megan, who entered the city in advance, have already arranged the base of the parliament. Vanessa also arranged in advance for Sirius to lead people to meet the returning Shad and Elf on the west side of the concert hall. Specifically, Hope
Reese took two girls from Central and waited for them in the tea shop facing the street.
When Shade entered the tea shop carrying Amelia, who was already asleep, and after both parties confirmed their identities, Sirius hugged Shade excitedly:
"Things are going well, aren't they?"
"Bennet has lost to Emilia. Although there were some twists and turns in the process, Emilia performed very well. However, she used the word of sublimation one after another and even summoned the Sword of Light. Now she needs to rest for a while.
."
Sirius immediately looked at the underage elf behind Shade with loving eyes. Most of the girls on the boat regarded Emilia as their little sister:
"Let's go to the church to meet everyone first. The situation is very complicated now, but Vanessa and the others are all safe."
Sirius held the permission to enter and leave the concert hall at will, and when carrying Emilia and entering the concert hall with the girls, Shade did not cover the elf, so soon the elf of St. Byrons had returned.
The news was known to everyone.
Shade's plan was also revealed to the church, so the church realized that Thomas Bennet had lost to the elf. So when Shade saw Xi Wei in the concert hall, who had stayed here temporarily and was not going out to fight, the church
Someone has been sent to ask for information.
Sirius was responsible for telling the church the good news about Emilia, while Shade temporarily placed the elf on the chair in the front row of the performance hall and continued to sleep. The maid brought a blanket and carefully covered her body.
De hugged Xi Wei on the stage, and then walked backstage with her. The maids were still preparing Emilia's bed. Everyone had prepared everything, but they didn't expect anyone to need to sleep tonight.
"Emilia has already won the qualification from the third candidate, but the process is very tortuous."
He told what happened just now as simply as possible. Xiwei didn't expect that such a thing would happen again, but he won anyway:
"Now the only ones left are the Paradox Worm Watcher, who represents the 'Earth', and the watchmaker who has regained his qualifications. I came back ten minutes ago, and Megan took my place to cooperate with Vanessa to intercept those bugs above the city.
insect.
According to the church's estimation, this can only be regarded as the first wave of the insect swarm's offensive. According to the spiritual signals fed back from the underground after the mine veins were blasted, the awakening of the insects sleeping deep in the forest should be carried out in batches."
"Can the battle line be held now?"
"No problem for now."
The big witch nodded slightly and continued the introduction:
"I'm sorry, we haven't found any trace of the watcher yet. The church feels that at this stage, it's just those bugs that are killing humans' will to fight. I'm afraid the real melee won't happen until late at night."
"So what is the situation outside the city now? Can communication within and outside the city still be carried out?"
"Okay, before you come in, I just sent the ship the current situation in the city.
The Radiant Messenger has left above Lake Ulen. The ship has observed that the situation in the woods is more complicated than that in the city, but the intensity of the battle has not reached the original expectations. The professors of the college who are currently staying in the woods are doing their best to explore
What happens underground, after all, those bugs will appear sooner or later, and if they don’t appear now, it means that everyone will face greater trouble later.”
Except for the long-expected Paradox Bug, there are currently no other enemies near the city, but the reconnaissance ceremony arranged in advance in the forest area has detected a large number of abnormal whisper element reactions. Everyone knows what this means, but it is not known yet.
Determine when exactly the relics controlled by the Paradox Worm will move toward the city.
But in fact, none of the above are the most dangerous things at present. The biggest trouble now is the time crack:
"Approximately not long after you entered the time transfer station, a tree hole contained by the Church of Nature destroyed itself. Just as you said before, an unstable time rift was formed directly in place after the tree hole was destroyed. At that time
The terrifying thing that emerged from that rift nearly wiped out a containment team from the Church of Nature."
Xiwei is quite worried about this:
"The tree holes were not destroyed by humans, it was more like they were destroyed by themselves. Now our tree holes have been temporarily moved from the ship to the forest to prevent accidents. But apart from the time rift formed by the tree holes
, I don’t know if you have noticed that there are more and more black cracks behind the white mist in the night sky, and the number of strange time cracks found in the forest is also increasing sharply."
"It seems that we have reached the point where we can no longer hold on."
Shade pursed his lips and said, Xiwei nodded:
"The guardians of the earth can only go to the forest to survey the situation first. The guardians can rely on the power of the earth to temporarily seal some small cracks. However, Sister Devlin is still in the city. I don't know what you saw just now.
Is it a 'bolide'? That is"
The chandelier above the head suddenly shook, and then the earth trembled. The sudden earthquake interrupted the witch's words, and then amidst the buzzing sound coming from the depths of the earth, the gas lamp in the backstage corridor flickered twice, and everyone
It went out.
Shade raised his hand to hold up a silver ball of light. The girls in the corridors and various rooms backstage also used light spells of different colors. No one was too panicked.
About half a minute later, the extinguished gas light came on again after several consecutive flashes. But when looking out the window, one could see that only the core urban area and the east district of the city were restored, while the north district was restored to light.
Emilia was really exhausted. She fell asleep and was not even woken up by the earthquakes that happened one after another. After hearing that the girl used the Word of Sublimation and the Sword of Light one after another, Xiwei also became a small child.
After complaining to Shade, after the bed was arranged, he asked Sirius, who was in charge of the logistics command here, to carry Emilia to the small bed to rest.
"I want my unicorn pillow"
The sleeping elf was still talking softly in her sleep. Xiwei and Shade watched from the sidelines as Sirius covered her with a quilt and left someone to take care of her, and then they left the dressing room together.