Whispering Verse

Grandma Siam looked at the pit of bones under the sand dunes with them, her body trembled, and then she slowly sat on the sand dunes with a cane.

The cane landed on the sand and she covered her face and sobbed.

"Mother-in-law, what's wrong with you?"

After asking, Xia De felt that his question was silly. Of course, Siam Nord's mother-in-law was sad because she saw the tragic death of so many compatriots.

But the truth is more complicated than he thought.

"These, these are the elves of the Yuexi clan. I saw that necklace, that scar, and the resonance of the blood. I left them waiting, and I and others went out to find a new place to live. They all They are still children, they are still young people. How could it be possible, how could it be possible?"

She was crying and talking intermittently, and Shade could only understand a few of the words.

"But no matter how you think about it, you know that this must be false. How could so many elves appear together in this desert, and let us encounter them?"

Shade comforted her from the side, glanced at Miss Meister who didn't speak, and then tried to help Grandma Siam Nord up:

"This is an illusion. Even if the other elves of the Yuexi clan really encountered something unexpected, their skeletons should not appear here. This desert is not a cemetery, and this is not the only way to death. Obviously this It’s all false.”

It stands to reason that a thirteenth-level witch should not be mentally defeated so easily, so it is obvious that this hallucination is specifically for her, and more mental pollution Shade cannot feel.

As expected, his consolation had no effect. Although Siam Nord's mother-in-law was helped up by him, she still covered her face and sobbed desperately. She probably heard what Shade said, but she didn't believe it at all:

"It's all real, those bones, those ornaments, those traces. The Yuexi clan is dead."

Those bones were indeed very lifelike, at least Shade couldn't tell that they were the product of illusion.

He looked at Miss Meister again, and the light brown-skinned lady also looked at him with a smile, and the voice appeared directly in Shade's heart:

"What, do you want to ask me for help?"

"No need for the time being. I'm not coveting any rewards, but this matter has just begun. I don't think it can't be solved."

Shade thought in his mind, and helped Granny Siam Nord try to move forward:

"Anything can happen in this desert, mother-in-law, maybe you need to calm down, I mean physically calm down, to figure it out. Let's go back first, back to the temple, okay? We can't stop here. Or, I can provide evidence to prove that the Yuexi clan is not destroyed, can you listen to me carefully?"

The old elf tried hard to control himself not to tremble, but he couldn't listen to Shade's words at all. He obviously thought that Shade was comforting him.

She tried hard to use a cane and relied on Shade's support to continue moving forward. The drastic change in mood made her look even weaker under the hot sunshine, and her pale skin also made her already old face look older.

Of course, this could also be the result of an illusion.

[How are you sure this is an illusion? 】

"She" asked in Shade's ear, and when he heard "her" voice, Shade, under the dazzling sun, actually felt the coolness of the night:

"Because isn't that why I'm here?"

The sand pit full of bones was the only way to move forward. It would take more time to go around it, but what they lacked at this time was time.

Therefore, despite Siam Nod's mother-in-law's incomparable resistance, in the end the three of them slowly slid from the top of the dune to the bottom. Although he knew it was an illusion, Shade still said sorry softly, and then helped the elf mother-in-law into the bones.

Miss Meister followed them, watching the old elf tremble with every step he took. When the bones came into contact with their legs and feet, Granny Siam Nod's body softened and fell to the bones even though she was supported by Shade. , and sobbed again.

She knew her emotions were wrong, but the fact that the clan was destroyed lingered in her mind.

She tried to stand up, but the familiar corpses of her juniors around her made her want to stay here to accompany them forever.

Suddenly, he felt his body light up, and then found himself being carried by Sha De.

"Mother-in-law, hold my neck tight."

Shade said, leaning on the relic crutch, he greeted Miss Meister behind him, and then continued to walk through the pit of bones:

"Mother-in-law, let's talk about something else to distract our attention. Don't think about what's under our feet. It's all fake.

You just said that you came here to find the heart of the oasis for the witch academy St. Byrons in the far north, in exchange for that powerful witch academy to protect the Yuexi clan. I actually understand the Witch Academy you mentioned. What happened to St. Byrons and why is the Heart of Oasis needed? "

Although the Far North may sound uninhabitable, the land of St. Byrons was once the city of the Night God. Shade has personally set foot there and knows that that area does not need the heart of an oasis. As long as the darkness is dispelled, it is a very suitable place for human survival.

The aging elf answered in Shade's ear:

"It's not what St. Byrons needs. Zarath Literary Academy, which has risen to the sky in the form of a floating city, has encountered some problems and needs some precious materials to maintain the ecology of the floating city. The principal of St. Byrons promised to help them find some of them. Materials, Heart of Oasis is one of them.”

Shade continued to ask while struggling to find a place to put his feet among the bones. Even in the pit under the sand dune, he did not feel cool at all. It was even hotter here:

"Then the Yuexi clan, why don't you join the Zarath Academy of Literature? Wouldn't it be more direct to use the Heart of Oasis to go directly to the Floating City?"

"Elves are a race that lives on the earth. Trees without roots can never live long."

She explained this way, closing her eyes behind Shade, but her body was still trembling:

"The Yuexi Clan itself has clues about the Oasis Heart, so it took on this mission. It's not because St. Byrons is making things difficult for us. After I bring it back, the Yuexi Clan will officially become St. Byrons." It’s part of Sri Lanka Comprehensive College.”

"Mother-in-law, then you are from the clan"

"Before I set out, I was the leader of the clan. When I set out, I left the responsibility of the clan leader to my daughter. She is my most important person."

"oh!"

Shade interrupted her with a exclamation, because under the white bones, two hands clearly grabbed his feet. Even though he had been alert to the danger from the Bone Pit, he didn't expect the attack to come so quickly.

The power of those two hands was so great that Xia De accidentally carried Granny Siam Nord and fell into the bones. But after he fell, the two hands holding his feet disappeared, and they were not attacked later.

"Really, mother-in-law, how are you? Oh, thank you."

A hand stretched out from beside him. Shade grabbed the hand and climbed up, only to realize that it was Miss Meister.

Just now, Grandma Siam Nord slipped from his back to the side. When Shade wanted to pull her up, he found that the old elf was staring blankly at the white bones beneath her body.

There was a silver bracelet on the wrist of the white skeleton, and a corolla made of fresh flowers on the skull.

The other white bones around did not have these things, so Shade immediately understood the meaning of this white bone, and gained a new understanding of how disgusting this illusion was:

"this"

"Leah."

Grandma Siam hugged the bones and cried again. Shade scolded the illusion in his heart and held his forehead while holding his forehead. The feeling of heatstroke made him feel slightly dizzy. They Must go back as soon as possible.

Seeing that Grandma Siam Node was holding the bones and unwilling to get up, Shade bent down and picked up the bones, and then carried the stunned Grandma Siam Node on his back:

"If you think this is true, let's take it back. Miss Meister, let's keep walking and you lead the way. I don't believe we can't get out of here."

"Okay, follow me."

The smiling lady then walked in front. Shade held the elf skeleton and carried the old elf on his back, stepping forward on the spot where Miss Meister had landed every time. Sure enough, there were no hands to grab him from the ground anymore.

"I actually admire you."

He was talking while walking, hoping to distract himself and keep himself awake:

"For the future of an entire clan, I came here alone. Your persistence and kindness are worthy of my respect."

"Moon Creek."

The hoarse voice was interrupted by Shade:

"Believe this is an illusion, and then follow me back to the temple. It's okay, don't think too much, mother-in-law, do you know elf nursery rhymes? I'm too tired now, can you sing me a nursery rhyme to make me feel more relaxed? "

He was breathing heavily, unable to speak complete sentences. The Siamese mother-in-law on his back looked at the skeleton held by Shade in his arms, so the skull rested on his shoulder, and looked at the sweat on his head:

"no problem."

Then an old but gentle voice sounded behind Shade. It was a song describing the young elf playing with the unicorn in the summer afternoon, taking a nap on the grass together, and finally saying goodbye by the lake in the evening.

This song did not bring coolness to Shade, nor did it even make him sober. On the contrary, the Elf's lullaby made him even hallucinate before his eyes. He always felt that Emilia was riding a little unicorn and jumping around in front of him.

So they continued to move forward. Although it didn't look like a big pit of bones from above, they seemed to be unable to reach the end.

Nursery rhymes echoed in the pit of bones. Shade, who was already a little confused with the heat, found that the bones around him seemed to be piled higher and higher. But in a daze, he saw that Miss Meister in front of him was still walking, so he gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.