Whispering Verse

Chapter 3034 Intermission on a snowy night

"Let's go, let's meet up with Vanessa and the others first."

Shad pulled the hands of the elf girls. Emilia certainly had no objection, but the big elf let go of Shad's hand, then smiled and stepped back a few steps with his hands behind his back:

"I said I would only help at the end."

"But it's not convenient for you to leave the city and return to the ship now, right?"

Shad asked, and the elf girl nodded with her hands behind her back:

"Including the arrow from the Fisher family, you found five arrows for me, and I have one myself, so that's six. Now that the Bennet family has completely disappeared, I think I can go find their arrow.

You guys go and get busy You can do your own thing. I will be there when you are ready to leave the city. "

"What are the functions of those arrows? Do they really have special killing power against the ancients?"

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 left yet, and the ancients in the forest had not been born yet. These arrows were born for more noble reasons. Although there is no way to completely know them, I still hope to get more arrows, so that at least I can..."

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 the matter clearly, but the elf girl shook her head slightly and nimbly avoided Shade's hand that was grabbing her wrist:

"The road tonight will be long, remember to take good care of Emilia. Then we'll see each other later."

After that, she walked into the chaotic night without looking back. Shade stared at her back, and the elf asked in a low voice:

"Shade, who is she?"

"You really didn't recognize her?"

Emilia shook her head blankly. She felt that she had shaken her head more times tonight than before. The number of times she shook her head the previous week was even more:

"She looks familiar, but I haven't recognized her yet. But I can see that she has a lot on her mind, and is she going to leave us after what happened in Vista Forest? Shade, can you keep her here? I like her very much, and so does Little Lianna. I want to ask her how to take care of the Chocobos in the future."

After saying that, Xiaoxiao yawned a little sleepily. She didn't feel uncomfortable when she was extremely nervous just now, but now she suddenly felt that she couldn't open her eyes.

Shade held her hand:

"I will keep her here, Emilia, I swear to you that I will."

The witches of the [Witch Council] were very happy to be able to enter the city to help the church. After all, the "Thirteenth Ring" witch was born in the council, and the Thirteenth Ring is still the strongest level in this era.

For this reason, the church allowed the witches to set up their camp in the center of the city and the Golden Music Hall on the commanding heights. It was also the headquarters for the city defense battle tonight, and the witches were assigned to the entire area of ​​the two performance halls, including the backstage.

The Golden Music Hall has been transformed into a real battle fortress. Under the light from the top of the side tower, even every brick and stone on the outer wall has the imprint of divine runes.

Shade actually thought it would be better to put the headquarters in a church in the city, but the five churches currently serve as the five most important nodes for the defense ceremony of the city. In order to prevent the entire battle command sequence from being damaged when one node is destroyed, the church finally chose this ancient building in the city center.

Vanessa, Xiwei and Megan sisters who entered the city in advance have already arranged the base of the parliament. Vanessa also arranged in advance for Hillis to take people to meet the returning Shade and the elves on the west side of the concert hall. Specifically, Hillis brought two girls from the Central Ring to wait for them in the tea shop on the street.

After Shad carried the already asleep Emilia into the tea shop, and both parties confirmed their identities, Hillis hugged Shad excitedly:

"Things are going well, right?"

"Bennet has lost to Emilia. Although there were some twists and turns in the middle, Emilia performed very well. But she used the sublimation words one after another and even summoned the sword of light. Now she needs to rest for a while." Hillis immediately looked at the underage elf behind Shad with a loving look. Most of the girls on the boat regarded Emilia as a little sister:

"Let's go to the church to meet up with everyone first. The situation is very complicated now, but Vanessa and the others are all safe." Hillis held a permit to enter and exit the concert hall at will. When Shad carried Emilia into the concert hall with the girls, he did not hide the elf, so soon everyone knew that the elf of St. Byrons had returned.

Shad's plan was also revealed to the church, so the church realized that Thomas Bennett had lost to the elf. So when Shade saw Xivi, who stayed in the concert hall temporarily and did not go out to fight, the church had already sent someone to ask for the news.

Siris was responsible for informing the church of Emilia's good news, and Shade temporarily placed the elf on a chair in the front row of the performance hall and continued to sleep with her head tilted. The maid brought a blanket and carefully covered her. Shade hugged Xivi on the stage, and then went backstage with her. The maids were still preparing Emilia's bed. Everyone prepared everything, but they didn't expect that someone would 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 '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 insects sleeping deep in the forest should be awakened in batches. "

"Can the battle line still hold up 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 wearing down humans' will to fight. I'm afraid the real melee won't happen until late at night."

"So what's 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 had already left above Lake Ulen. The ship observed that the situation in the woods was more complicated than that in the city, but the intensity of the battle also did not meet original expectations. The professors of the college who are currently staying in the woods are trying their best to explore what is happening underground. After all, those bugs will appear sooner or later. If they don't appear now, it means that everyone will face greater trouble later. "

Except for the long-anticipated Paradox Bug, there are currently no other enemies near the city, but the reconnaissance ritual 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 still uncertain when the relics controlled by the Paradox Bug will move towards 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. As you said before, an unstable time rift was formed directly in the place after the tree hole was destroyed. At that time The terrible thing that emerged from that crack almost wiped out a containment team of 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 in addition to 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 fog in the night sky, and the number of strange time cracks found in the forest is also increasing sharply.”

"It seems that the time has come when 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 cracks with small openings. 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 overhead suddenly shook, and then the earth trembled. A sudden earthquake interrupted the witch's words, and then amidst the humming sound coming from the depths of the earth, the gas lamps in the backstage corridor flickered twice before all 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 lamp lit up again after several consecutive flashes. Just looking out the window, I can see that only the core urban area and the east and north districts of the city have returned to light.

Emilia was really exhausted. She fell asleep and was not even woken up by the earthquakes that followed. After Xiwei heard that the girl had used the Word of Sublimation and the Sword of Light one after another, she also complained a little to Shade. After the bed was arranged, he asked Sirius, who was in charge of the logistics command here, to send Ai Milia was carried to the small bed to rest.

"I want my unicorn pillow"

The sleeping elf was still talking quietly in her sleep. Xi Wei 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.