The Witch and the Doll Swear

Speaking of which, the witch picked up a handful of slightly hot water and sprinkled it from the top of her head. The crystal water drops fell down the golden hair to the platinum hair tip, leaving a gleam of water on the brown skin. mark.

In the corner of the bathtub, Liliana looked at the flower-shaped window on the wall covered with blue porcelain mosaics.

At night, a blizzard came, coming fast and hastily, as if the body hadn't soaked in the fragrance of the bath agent, snowflakes had already piled up on the window sill, and large swaths of goose feathers were blown down from the sky by the strong wind, slapping against the on the glass.

Just a few minutes ago, a pine tree in the hotel atrium was broken under the ravages of wind and snow, making a creepy crackling sound. Liliana, who did not stop talking even then, was silent now.

"……And after that?"

Ting Na, who had been listening silently, asked.

"...After that, I lost consciousness."

Looking at the snowflakes piled up on the window sill and the faint magical light on the window frame, Liliana spoke calmly, as if everything she just said and what happened next had nothing to do with her.

"...The moment Alice used [Death Decree], my heart stopped beating, and my consciousness as a human also disappeared. If you want to know what's next..."

"You should ask Alice, right?"

Wrapped in a bath towel and still wearing a nun's turban for some reason, Alice raised her head in Tina's arms and looked up into the girl's eyes.

"Well, Miss Alice, are you sure you don't want to take off the scarf? It looks heavy after absorbing water... You can't wash your hair like this..."

"No, clothing is an important prop to define Alice's personality and character. Without these, Alice would have no personality and character. Simply put, if all the clothes and accessories on Alice were taken away, Alice would just be A puppet that is nothing."

"Yes, is that so..."

"That's right...but...well..."

Alice lowered her head and looked at the golden sun that was passed through her neck with a thin gold chain.

"Only this one might be able to maintain it... Let's try it out, did Lily leave any safe decorations on this body?"

The witch nodded.

"Then..."

After receiving Liliana's response, Alice hesitated for a while, and took off the hood that had become wet and heavy due to water absorption.

Just taking off the headscarf, the warmth of the sun on the doll's body has become much weaker, just like a person who has lost his iconic features.

"Hmm... barely, I can still maintain the personality of the Sun Princess... um..."

She rubbed her eyes, put the golden sun on her plump chest again, raised her head and smiled softly at Tina.

"In this way, Miss Tina can ask Miss Tina to comb Alice's hair, um, and then... what happened after Alice used the spell of [Death Law]?"

"Yes, after that..."

"After that, Lily's heart stopped beating. This is one of the most vicious spells of speech magic that all living creatures in the range have a high probability of being dragged to death. Alice still doesn't know why at that time The original Alice has such a function, but in short, under the spirit of speech, the huge firebird died directly, and its body collapsed into flames, triggering a big explosion."

"Miss Liliana..."

"Thanks to the fact that Longhua's body still has strong self-preservation and survival instincts even when there is no air and the heart stops. Even if Lily is unconscious, her body still jumped a long way with the help of the totem pole before the explosion. After reaching the rear of the explosion point, with the help of the impact of the explosion, it flew to the top of the central temple in one breath, and finally fell into the waterway with good luck."

"That's it... that's it? Those firebirds didn't continue to attack Miss Liliana and Alice, and, after Miss Liliana..."

Tina, who was applying shampoo to Alice's long blonde hair, was in disbelief.

Such a desperate situation, perhaps even more dangerous than being caught in the Holy Church...is it resolved like this?

"If it is used by a magician, the scope and target of [Death Law] can be set, but at that time, Alice only triggered Alice's function of using [Death Law], the target and range are all It was uncontrollable, and because of this, Alice didn’t dare to use it until the situation was so critical. In the end, that range should cover the entire lava lake, because I didn’t see any firebirds after that.”

Alice, who was sitting on the edge of the bath with her hands on her lap, nodded.

That's how it resolves, that's all.

"...Since I'm here now, it means that I still rely on the body of the dragon to survive the round of instant death. In a way that Miss Ting Na can understand, it probably means... I cast a round of instant death in that round of confrontation. Nice numbers."

Leaning against the wall of the round-bottomed bath, dipping her shoulders into the lavender-colored hot water, Tinna actually heard a touch of luck from the words Liliana uttered.

Even after so many years, would Miss Liliana still feel lucky?

"...so far, is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Well, even if I have something to ask... well, what does the magma taste like? Also, the dragon potion... is it really that powerful?"

Liliana raised her dark eyes slightly.

Ting Na was also a little embarrassed, the questions she asked were really... irrelevant.

"...the smell of magma...has no smell at all. Although the skin that is in direct contact with the outside world has melted, but the taste nerves and the like are still human beings. They were burned out in that high temperature in an instant, and the teeth That's true, but the gums were not injured, it's just that after I woke up, the teeth that were originally neat were all melted and deformed, and what Liliana saw now..."

But the witch didn't care.

Opening her mouth, Liliana pointed to the two rows of neat and beautiful teeth like shells, and then picked up a strand of hair that gradually changed from gold to platinum.

"...These all came out after undergoing expensive treatment. As for the dragon transformation potion...it is indeed a dreamlike potion that can temporarily transform a human being into a half-dragon body with negligible sequelae. My father spent a lot of money to buy three bottles from the auction house in the capital of the empire in order to overcome the age and regain his glory, but his mother forbade him to do so after only using it once - the dragon is not completely transformed, and there are fine scales on the skin, according to My mother said that it felt like being stabbed by a stick with a knife... [1] But it is said that there is no such side effect when using dragon blood directly, but the medicine concocted by Peifang has been lost for a long time, and I don’t know. The rest after that Two bottles, my brother and I got one bottle."

The shame of this witch in front of me is completely different from that of ordinary people... Or rather, is there really such a thing?

Although it is already very clear, but up to now, Tingna still has received a cognitive shock, and even the action of grooming Alice can't help but stop.

"...Then, Miss Liliana and Alice came to the temple, did you find Miss Alice's hands?"

"No, although Ms. Tingna may think that Alice and Lily finally got through such a dangerous situation, and then they can achieve their goals smoothly, but the reality is not like novels, no author will consider whether the continuous crisis will make people feel happy. Readers are tired."

However, Miss Tina seemed to be tired.

Alice and Liliana, smiling, looked at Tina.

"Ah, that..."

No fatigue...that would of course be a lie.

Serious listening is not much easier than serious talking, and she yawned——but Tina, who hadn't realized it until now, quickly wiped her face and pulled herself together.

"I, I'm still in good spirits—wow!"

The foam on her face—or to be more precise, in her eyes was irritating, and the girl screamed.

"... Tired."

"Looks like I'm tired..."

But obviously, the Witch and the Doll does not intend to let the girl get away with it.

"For the time being, let's stop here?"

"Hmm..."

"...Well, and I'm really not good at telling stories, maybe it would be better for Miss Tingna to see it with her own eyes."

"Huh? Huh?"

The wet long hair spread out in the bathtub, the witch looked at the confused girl, the corners of her mouth slightly curled up.

"...after coming to the square in front of the temple, we got some breathing time, though..."

"That's just a short break before the next difficulty..."

Before Tingna's questioning words came out, she skipped the topic indiscriminately.

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The accumulated fatigue from a tiring day, after a comfortable bath, was washed away by the water flow together with the foam of the shower gel.

"call……"

Drenched in the fragrance of lavender, her body was wrapped up in soft goose feathers. Lying on the big bed, Ting Na felt a little uneasy.

The hot skin in the bathtub is in contact with the smooth quilt, which is cool and comfortable. After the heat is taken away from the body by the goose down in the quilt, the whole quilt becomes warm, and the soft and thick feeling is like being applied. With the magic called laziness, once people get into it, they never want to come out again.

This is the luxury suite of the hotel.

Yes, Tina told herself.

He was huddled under the blanket naked.

Although in Liliana's mage tower, I developed the habit of going to sleep directly after soaking in the hot spring, and I haven't worn my favorite pajamas for a long time, but is it because the environment has changed? There's always a subtle sense of shame about sleeping naked in a hotel suite.

"Miss Tingna, could it be that the quilt is too thick?"

Leaning against a big pillow at the head of the bed, Alice, who had put back on the nun's clothes that emphasized her breasts and just took off her headscarf, looked at Tina who was twisted and twisted, and couldn't help showing a gentle smile.

"Ah, no... just... a little nervous..."

"Ah, Alice understands, the environment is different, the atmosphere is different, so even the mood will be different."

"That's right, and..."

As always, the tension was seen through by this puppet whose sharpness never changed even though its appearance and costumes were constantly changing. In this way, Tina felt a little relaxed.

"Now, the swap is over..."

Looking at the witch who was wearing a white silk floral nightgown by the bed and was drying her beautiful long hair, Tingna felt a little complicated.

Although Liliana Einsteins is a staunch naturist, most of the occasions and time regard clothes as cumbersome, but occasionally when she is resting, she will change into a nightdress with a very light texture.

For example, in the ancient castle of Salt Sand City, and now.

What is the pattern in this, Ting Na has not discovered until now.

However, Tingna, who usually wears clothes, and Liliana, who is celestial, [2]—but now, she is sleeping naked and Liliana is wearing a nightgown. Such a change makes the girl a little surprised, The mood is also a bit subtle.

Noticing the girl's gaze, the witch who was combing her hair stopped what she was doing.

She looked at the girl's expression, followed the sea-blue gaze to look at her body, as if she didn't quite understand the meaning of the gaze, Miss Witch tilted her head in doubt, and looked at the puppet beside the pillow.

Alice couldn't help but sighed, and spoke helplessly in the spiritual link.

— Lily must have heard the conversation just now.

...I know what Miss Tina is thinking...but what should I do...

— Lily decides for herself.

...Even so...

— Lily, decide for yourself?

The little puppet blinked and cut off the conversation unilaterally.

Although both Tingna and Lily had some problems in this relationship, it was her little master who had the bigger problem.

Ms. Tingna just felt frustrated because of being preempted by Ai, but the appearance of that child also ignited her sense of crisis. As long as this period of low ebb is over, maybe she will become positive.

But on Lily's side... if she doesn't make some changes when facing ordinary humans, then the girl will still have a long way to go. [3]

Tina is not those people who travel with witches in the past and can laugh at fate. Compared with those girls in ordinary life, she is destined to be not strong enough.

After thinking for a while in distress, the witch still didn't know what to do. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and untied the ribbon of her nightdress.

The white silk cloth slipped off her beautiful brown skin, Liliana maintained her most natural posture and slipped into the embrace of the girl who had been captured. [4],

"……Awaited."

"Ah - no, no!"

Ting Na's voice trembled, and the complex emotions disappeared from her eyes, replaced by a kind of high-spirited emotion that seemed to declare to someone somewhere that she had won back a city, holding her hand also Much bolder than usual...

Well, in fact, it doesn't matter if you are a little bolder.

Human emotions are indeed wonderful.

The eyes like the night sky imprinted the girl's expression. Thinking of this, Liliana did not forget what she planned to do tonight. She looked at Tingna, took out a small bag of dust from the space storage ring, and placed it in the Sprinkle on the pillow.

"This is?"

Embracing Miss Witch, Tingna looked curiously at these seven-color scales. [5]

"The scale powder of the dream elves, the special product of the dream kingdom guarded by the witches, is the material needed for many spiritual magics that involve dreams and memories. As for what to do next..."

The little puppet winked playfully at Tingna.

During this conversation, Liliana chanted softly in a language Tina couldn't understand, letting the dust that sparkled like stars fall on the pillow.

The language is soft and illusory, if you don't listen carefully, it seems like a burst of light breathing, and you haven't waited for Tina to listen carefully.

"【Ysera's Dream Blessing】"

Interpretation has been broken.

As a result, the drowsiness is like soft and warm, gently wrapping the quilt of the two of them, unknowingly, with the tiredness of a girl.

into dreamland.

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"...Miss Doll, how many functions do you have that I don't know about?"

After pouring down a bottle of healing potion, Liliana looked at the head of the puppet in front of her and questioned her every word.

"[Pupil of the Coordinating Leader], [Skull of Wisdom], [Tongue of Words], [Power to Hear All Things], [Revenge of Eternal Pursuit]."

The puppet, which was as wet as a girl, uttered five nouns, and then explained the functions of these functions one by one.

[Pupils of the Coordinating Leader] are those lava-like pupils, which allow the puppet to control and use spare parts that are not installed on its body.

[Skull of Wisdom] is the head with a lot of knowledge, and it is also the carrier of other parts.

【Spiritual Tongue】Gives her the ability to use two kinds of magic, but those magics are solidified on the tongue, all the puppet can do is drive and cannot be controlled, that is, it can only cause damage and influence indiscriminately .

[The power to listen to all things] allows her to understand all the languages ​​recorded in the [Skull of Wisdom], and to a certain extent listen to the voice of the heart.

【Revenge of Eternal Pursuit】Gives her the ability to remember the scent of the soul and track it down almost forever.

These are all recorded in the doll's knowledge, but just like she doesn't know why she is here, why she has these functions as a doll, and what is the meaning of being given these functions, she doesn't know at all. This part of memory and knowledge is also blank.

"……why did not you tell me?"

"Miss Liliana didn't ask..."

The puppet looked at Liliana aggrieved.

"..."

The girl opened her mouth, but said nothing.

The lava lake is still churning, but the firebird is no longer visible.

Even the elemental monsters, even the firebirds like the mythical phoenix, were torn apart by irresistible power under the [Death Law], which says that life and death depend only on luck. Talk about those little firebirds.

The scope of this language is incredible, and their rapid regeneration is meaningless before this magic. On the lava lake, only the black iron pillars still stand.

If he hadn't drank the dragon potion, or if he was unlucky, at this moment, he would be one of the silent ones.

The puppet's judgment was not wrong. When it was caught by the huge firebird, she had already fallen into death anyway. Instead of being turned into ashes after consuming the potion of dragon transformation, she would be submerged in the water forever. Among the lava, it is better to gamble with [Death Law].

Anyway, even if it fails, it won't get any worse.

Recalling that when she was bombarded by lava pillars on the black iron totem pole, her whole body was covered by magma, only the finger with the ring was engulfed by the puppet——after a short thought, Liliana made a decision in conclusion.

The puppet did nothing wrong, on the contrary, it was the puppet who saved itself and protected the most important ring.

"...That's right, Miss Doll is not obliged to tell me this."

Reason accepts this conclusion.

But.

Emotional, but still pedigree.

It may also be because of the overly hot temperature, like walking under the midday sun in midsummer, the floor of the white stone and the running water in the waterway are all hot. Under such a temperature, Liliana poured water without saying a word. He poured down the second and third bottles of healing potion, took out dry food and drinking water, and began to eat.

She is very hungry.

Very very hungry.

The principle of healing medicine is to stimulate the body's own self-healing ability, so it will consume physical strength and stored nutrients. The scales grown on the body by Longhua medicine are also proliferated by consuming the same nutrients under the effect of the medicine.

Now, after losing the power of the dragon transformation potion, those silver-white scales fell off quickly, and the wounds caused when the skin was pierced and drilled out were slowly scarred under the action of the healing potion. The only remnants of the dragon transformation were the dragon claw transformation nails. Platinum that still hasn't faded with the tips of the hair.

…These are also tissues without nerves. Why does the hair degenerate, but the nails of the hands and feet do not?

...Also, if it's due to the dragon potion that my hair didn't even burn off the lava, this doll...

Liliana looked at the hungry puppet in front of her, and used this question to divert the hunger in her stomach, while devouring dry food.

Not a single hair of this doll has been burned off... Is it really just an ordinary living doll?

What kind of puppet has these jaw-dropping abilities, can use such a terrible word spirit as the law of death, and is completely unafraid of lava?

Before being made into a puppet, what was she...

The little puppet didn't say anything in front of the girl, just like that, looking at her calmly with those lava-like pupils.

"This, in the end is..."

The halo of the strange moon shines on the girl's face, floating in the air, overlooking the earth, the lava is churning, and the night is lonely.

Because the scenery described in the story was so clearly reflected in front of her eyes, Ting Na was stunned for a moment.

She couldn't help stretching out her hand to pinch herself, but she didn't feel her hand, not only that, except for her eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin, she could clearly feel the comfort of the night wind, other than her body, It doesn't seem to be anywhere.

"Miss Liliana? Alice?!"

"Don't be afraid, Alice is here."

"...It's very dangerous for ordinary people to look at my memory rashly, so I just let Miss Tingna's perception connect with my memory."

The voices of the puppet and the witch sounded from the ears, and their figures also appeared in front of Tina.

"...Welcome to my past, Miss Tina."

Calmly shifted her gaze to the platform below. Under the moonlight, the witch, who looked like the goddess of the night, hugged Alice. She raised her hand, and the frequency of lava rolling suddenly became higher below.

She hastened the passage of this memory.

"Now, let Alice and Lily continue to tell Miss Tina the story: After escaping from the firebird group, Alice and Lily rested for a while on this white marble platform."

Alice said softly, looking around at the night sky that hadn't changed in the rapidly passing time scale.

"Even if you are mentally prepared, what happened to this group of firebirds was beyond Alice and Lily's expectations, so it took a long time and we talked a lot, all of which were long talks about magic. Miss Tina would probably find it boring. ,so."

"...So, let's start when we set off."

After Liliana finished speaking calmly, she lowered her hand.

She hesitated for a moment before putting her hand next to the doll's head.

After the blood scab was removed, the healed wound was covered with tender skin, but the sharp and thick nails at the top of the fingers did not fall off, and the ends of the long hair were still covered in platinum color.

Compared with directly using dragon blood, dragon medicine has almost no side effects.

almost.

Thinking about it carefully, the day after my father drank the potion, the best hairdresser in Fei Leng Cui came to visit, and when I saw him again at the dinner table, my father's hair was half short.

"Miss Liliana?"

"...No, nothing."

After hesitating for a while, Liliana opened her palm as far as possible, lifted the doll's head with her palm, and embraced it in her arms.

"Let's go."

The temple was built with the same stone as the floor, and its magnificence and heaviness were displayed in the eyes of the girl as the steps in front of her continued to decrease.

When I looked at it by the lava lake, I felt it was a bit exaggerated. When I got close, the white temple that was reflected in fiery red seemed even more exaggerated.

At the end of the stairs, Liliana turned around, and the platform of the oriental style seemed a bit small here. The thick stone pillars that needed several people to surround supported the dome of the temple. Inside this circle of stone pillars, thick The walls are built of stone walls with many arches.

Since the Elegant Period, the style of the temple has been common near the ocean. However, Liliana gestured at the nearly one-meter-square stone bricks that make up the stone wall, and felt that it was more like an indestructible fortress than a place dedicated to gods. palace.

Even so, what is enshrined here is not a god.

"...Miss Doll, come here, can you feel which part of you is here?"

"It's the torso. Even so, the doll doesn't know which torso it is."

"...Which one?"

"The doll has many, many replaceable parts, although the doll doesn't know why there are so many parts that can be replaced."

The little puppet thought for a while, and finally answered by shaking its head.

"Only the body has [Certificate of Imperial Power], [Queen of the Night's Veil], [Seraphim], [Earth Mother of Dragon Snake], [Piety of Brilliant Saints]...there are so many."

"...These names..."

"name?"

"...It sounds amazing."

"Really? The doll doesn't understand, and the doll doesn't even know its name. But, uh... well, let's go inside the temple anyway. The record of supplies clearly states that some spare parts for the doll are stored here, and Some scrolls of mind flame are used to purify some biological raw materials..."

"……before that."

Before entering these doors, Liliana gripped the sapphire around her neck.

After being besieged by a flock of firebirds and drinking the dragon potion, Liliana still had the strength to put the necklace and clothes into the space to store the ring, and put the ring in her mouth to hold it, but after being swallowed by the huge firebird If it wasn't for the protection of the ring with the help of the puppet during the attack, now...

Thinking of this, the girl felt a little guilty about the unreasonable guesses welling up in her heart.

But even so, there was no expression on her face.

"Ah, the puppet understands the puppet understands."

It seems that the puppet didn't even notice the slight change in the girl's mood. She chanted the incantation that drives the "power of seeking truth and seeking truth". Soon, the blue magic light illuminated the field of vision, countless complicated and incomprehensible Liliana's magical structure was revealed before Liliana's eyes, and she told the girl about her functions.

There seems to be nothing wrong with it, except...

"...I suspect there is something hidden in the pillar..."

Liliana cautiously poked her head into the door and looked around, and found that this place is also like an opera house, with a round platform of gold and emerald in the center, and strange crystals and crystal-attached objects can be seen everywhere around the round platform like offerings. After releasing it, turn your gaze to the walls around the temple.

After passing through the door, and attached to the wall, those thick columns are still eye-catching, and reveal their true colors under the [power of seeking truth]—these are part of the magic system added to the temple, the power of magic In the transmission mechanism, unimaginably huge magic power gathers and flows in the pillars, and is transmitted to each magic circle.

The extremely pure blue light was also extremely dazzling, almost burning the girl's eyes, making Liliana unable to see clearly at all.

It's perfect if you want to hide something.

"Miss Liliana thinks so too? This is indeed a common trick in design, hiding certain key things where they can be seen, but for various reasons they cannot be seen..."

The puppet also held the same opinion, and then, she signaled Liliana to look at the two sides of the central god seat, draw the stairs leading to the upper floor of the temple through the beautiful curve, through the fence, there are several standing on the second floor The liquid in the glass jar has dried up, and only some purple and green stains remain.

"It looks different from the opera house that simply keeps the puppet's head and represents the earth. There are other functions here. If the scroll of the mind flame is probably placed on it?"

"... Well, first of all, get rid of the remaining souls in my body."

No more hesitation.

Knowing that there might be danger, Liliana gave up for the time being and thought about it in the long run. Liliana didn't have the time to spare. There was almost no expectation of when the rescuers from the family or the academy would appear in front of her. She knew very well that the only thing she could rely on was herself and... …

"..."

with this puppet.

Shaking her head, Liliana walked through the door opened on the stone wall, walking cautiously and quickly towards the stairs.

The ground of the temple is covered with the same carpet as in the opera house. The temperature of the lava is suppressed by unknown magic, so that the expensive decoration made of cashmere is only full of dust that emits a pungent smell. The bare feet step on it, vaguely You can also feel the luxurious touch.

Stepping up the stairs step by step, the girl left shallow footprints on the accumulated dust. When she reached the second floor and looked back, the temple was still silent.

"……no response……"

Liliana whispered to herself.

Just like the opera house at the end of Shinto, do you want to completely prevent approaching, or activate the final protection method after the placed parts are taken away?

Could it be that the protection systems of these temples where doll parts are placed are so extreme?

But if you think about it carefully, if the intruder can break through the first defense line with greater depth and greater freedom, there are limited and need to worry about the preserved object and the power to suppress the preserved object. It is really hard to expect any effect from the protective means that can be stuffed into the space. It is better to activate the magic of destroying jade and stone when the intruder succeeds.

Anyway, Miss Doll seems to be extraordinarily strong and will not be damaged at all.

Even knowing this, she was still careful not to hurt the soft face of the puppet with her sharp nails transformed into dragon claws. The obvious contradiction between what she was thinking and what she was doing made Liliana a little troubled, and this trouble lasted for a few minutes. Seconds later, because of the voice of the puppet, she walked to the long table next to the wall on the second floor.

"This is the scroll of the Heart Flame Technique."

The second floor of the temple is a long corridor close to the wall. The alchemy experiment utensils were piled up near the railing, and there were long tables on the side of the wall. The sorted documents were piled up in different categories and sealed tightly with magic glass boxes.

Scrolls of different colors were neatly stacked on a small wooden shelf, and under the guidance of the puppet, Liliana took out a scroll with a whiter color from it.

White, lambskin tanned with magical plants and spices, fiery red ribbons, a more red wax seal seals the scroll, and another seal affixes it, writing the name of magic in complex arcane terms.

[Ability to Seek the Truth] Used again, the arcane terms that the magic emperors painstakingly created were translated into the lingua franca that has been passed down in the mainland for thousands of years.

In that blue light, Liliana also saw the souls that still existed in her body that had lost their human form, like fat maggots.

Aversion to cold.

She hurriedly took the scroll and wanted to tear it open, but the puppet stopped her when she spoke.

"Wait a minute, Miss Liliana, do you know the mechanism of action of the heart flame?"

Shake your head, shake your head.

Of course she wouldn't know, Liliana didn't know the existence of this magic before she fell into this place, and of course she didn't know anything about the mechanism of action.

"Inner Flame, 'Your heart will eventually ignite a fire', this is the magic that endows the caster's spiritual power with the power and nature of the fire, and makes the spirit burn. Since ancient times, both fire and water have symbolized purification, but Compared with water, fire is more powerful. It is an explosive and destructive power. This magic will turn Miss Liliana's spiritual power into a raging fire, and burn the mark of [Sandro's Road to the Underworld]... also It is those spirit bodies, but just like the ashes left behind by a flame, those souls may also retain some feelings, memories, knowledge... The main purpose of mind flame is not to expel the possessed spirit body, so..."

"……I see."

Even though she understood the mechanism of action, Liliana still knew nothing about the heart flame technique, which even had a different magic system. The disadvantage of the scroll was that once it was used, it could not be terminated.

If it was to provide credible evidence, that would be enough. Although until now, these so-called imprints of the underworld had not shown any harm, Liliana did not want any other souls to occupy her body for a moment.

From a realistic point of view, once it shows up, it may be too late.

She placed the puppet on the table top of the long table, and after looking at those fiery red eyes for a while, she tore open the scroll.

Immediately, the blue magic light burst into her body, and Liliana felt an injection of magic power from outside, and then, a scorching heat pierced through the bone marrow.

A flame of the same color as the magic light fluttered from the girl's body, and she was ablaze.

Those fat, translucent disgusting souls twisted and squirmed in the pale golden firelight like fat thrown on an iron plate, becoming shriveled and fragmented, and the translucent pieces swayed from Lilia Na's body peeled off and drifted away.

"Different people have completely different magical powers. This is unimaginable in the era of the magic empire."

The puppet looked at the scene in front of it, and its thoughtful expression was quickly occupied by an impulse.

A world different from the one I'm familiar with.

A world different from the world described by those materials in my head.

There are different moons, different night skies, and even everyone's light is not the same.

It's...fascinating.

The golden fire powder fluttered, and the puppet looked at Liliana, gently, gently showing a smile, in order to make the girl feel at ease, it activated the [Ability to Seek the Truth] again.

But Liliana didn't have the extra energy to look at her body and those wrinkled souls.

She was standing on the top of a high tower, blaming the ruthlessness of the Arcane Ministry and the ruthlessness of the councilors to the crowd gathered on the street. She shouted loudly that in the eyes of those magicians, only those with magical talents are human, and Working hard to provide them with food, clothing, money and wine, they are just experimental animals that can be thrown into the pool of blood after they are used up. She roared, but the people under the tower seemed to have never heard of it. Ah, that's right, she understood that it was the magicians who did it. It only took a few tricks to prevent the sound from coming out, but she would not give up. That's why she spent all her savings in the past few months. It turned into this blood-stained cloth. She violently stretched the wide vertical banner downwards, but the cloth had just dropped one meter, and the end was burning, and the bright red fire snake quickly spread along the cloth, killing her before she wanted to let go because of panic. engulf.

She pushed open the door of an old wooden house again, and the stench and musty smell filled her nostrils, so she couldn't help but take out a handkerchief sprinkled with perfume to cover her mouth and nose. In the corner of the room, there were a few shivering children hiding in tattered clothes and bedding. Seeing her approaching, these children screamed in horror. She felt that it was really noisy, so she made several gestures, A blue lightning flashed across, the children stopped moving, and there was a burning smell in the air of the house.

……This is……?

After cleaning up the rubbish, she turned and walked towards the door, and ran, out of breath, stepping on the excrement and the corpses of rats in the sewer.

The rotten stench was filled with the rusty smell of iron, which was indelible in the darkness, and she ran wildly in the darkness. She is familiar with every fork and every wellhead here, even more familiar than the rats that give birth here. In the past, she only needed two minutes to disappear without a trace in this territory that belonged to her, but not this time. An invisible curseblade on her back was draining blood from his body, and in two minutes she would be dead. She should have known that when the difficulty of the work is far lower than the amount of remuneration, the extra things will be repaid with other things, but this time she actually listened to those sweet words of human loyalty without doubt, it is so ridiculous, so ridiculous up!

Suddenly, she gracefully knocked on an exquisite and luxurious door. The wind chimes jingled, and the door was opened by the hot summer sun. He hugged her, said sweet words, and asked her about tonight's dinner and tomorrow's holiday reservation...

"Uh... ah..."

Time becomes extremely long, or thinking becomes extremely fast.

The scenery in front of Liliana kept switching and intertwining. When she returned to the foul-smelling sewer for the third time to struggle in a puddle of excrement but was unable to get up, she suddenly returned to a magic laboratory to remove the filter paper in the funnel. At this moment, the girl finally took a deep breath to break away from the changing scenery.

She gasped heavily, and her mouth seemed to still smell of sewage and blood. There still seems to be the touch of the tight rubber gloves on the hands.

Incomparably real, incomparably clear.

Hallucination? This can never be an illusion, these are memories, the memories of these souls.

...the ashes left behind by the so-called flames. Is that all?

Happy memories with lovers, romantic affairs between knights and earls, despicable meetings where money was murdered, scavenging work for ruthless slaughter, pointless escapes of death and despair, disobedience to orders from superiors, quarrels with family members, people who were beaten up Body, cut face, skill of poison concoction, knowledge of gem appreciation, meticulous magic research, dark and evil teachings, betrayed mood, tender happiness with lover, numb emotion, anger, pain, suspicion, joy ,pride……

Liliana looked at her body at a loss. The disadvantage of the scroll is that once it is used, it is almost completely uncontrollable. She can't stop the magic from absorbing her spiritual power bit by bit and turn it into a flame that burns her soul. The shrunken soul was shattered by the flames, and then most of the fragments were blown away by the invisible "air current", while some small spots of light disappeared in the body, and then, in the presence of the existence named Liliana Einsteins The memory, knowledge and emotions that do not belong to her are stuffed into her soul.

She seemed to have a fever on her face, and her limbs were stiff and uncontrollable. When her hands were finally able to move, her first movement was to reach for a certain knife that "should be there" behind her.

She can't do anything, she can only passively accept all this, allowing herself to absorb the anger, memory, mission, and knowledge of others.

"Miss Liliana?"

"Miss Puppet, it would be like this... I don't know!"

"Hold on!"

The girl's shout echoed in the temple, she herself couldn't even distinguish the emotion contained in the voice and almost forgot who she was for a while, but the puppet just nodded, encouraging her to persevere, those used as The soul marked by the underworld is about to disappear.

Just after the puppet spoke like this, the golden flame disappeared, and Liliana's body shook, and she fell straight to the floor of the corridor, breathing in pain.

"Puppet, miss...this...too unreasonable..."

Yes, pain.

Even the suspicion that was inhaled into the nasal cavity was mixed with anger and incongruous happiness when it was exhaled. The hand that was stretched out to support the chair to support the body, trembling with despair one second, seemed to be strangled the next moment. The enemy's throat will tear the solid wood with the dragon's nails.

Countless memories and emotions scrambled in the girl's mind. She struggled to stand up, took out the sobriety potion from the space storage ring, and suddenly lifted the spirit that had been consumed by the heart flame technique, and finally cleared up these messy things. Things are temporarily excluded.

"……What exactly is going on!"

"This, this is... unavoidable..."

The corner of the chair exposed the rough wood because of the sharp nails.

Is it because of the too ferocious expression and the almost roaring question? A flustered and confused expression appeared on the doll's face. She opened her flame-like pupils and explained the mechanism of the heart flame technique to the angry and painful girl in front of her again.

This is not magic used to purify the attachment state of the spirit body. If you want to compare it, it is not a clever and painless removal but a rude and violent destruction. Many kinds, not all fragments will be repelled.

"So, so, this is completely unavoidable..."

The puppet placed on the table stammered and repeated what it had said before. The girl holding the long table with a history of hundreds of years just looked down at her like that. In the black pupils, those chaotic emotions Slowly and regularly with the shortness of breath, it gradually subsides.

"...It's true...it's inevitable..."

She looked at herself, and the effect of [Power to Seek the Truth] hadn't disappeared. In the girl's immature body, there are no spirit bodies that have been magically processed and used as marks.

And the puppet did not have any changes or abnormalities, it was just that I had such an experience for the first time, so I made a fuss, not that the puppet missed the explanation of this link... Hey.

The girl shook her head and forced her to remain calm for a few minutes. After the effect of the medicine that can resist mental attacks passed, the side effects of several key magic plants used in the medicine gradually came up. scrub.

Here, there is something more suitable as a mattress for a sound sleep than the dusty carpet. The girl wiped the tabletop with her hand, and lay down on the long table that was still relatively solid.

Although the countless emotions—the love, hate, joy, anger, suspicion, fear, and laziness that do not belong to her are still accumulated in her sensibility, but after the dangerous signs are dealt with before they cause harm, The sense of security gradually overwhelmed these messy emotions.

"...In general, it's going well, isn't it?"

"Well, that's right..."

Seeing that Liliana's mood calmed down and the relieved puppet was held in her arms, she said with certainty that she just needed to find a way to get her body, and any escape would be fine.

And before that, let her, who doesn't need to rest, help keep watch.

"...Even if you don't treat me like this..."

"Miss Liliana? Already sleepy?"

"Hmm... the drowsiness from just one bottle is tolerable...but for safety..."

Liliana once again reminded herself that the clear potion must be used at the most critical moment, gave a vague hum, rested her pillow on her arm, and closed her eyes.

However, fate didn't seem to want the hard-working girl to have a moment of rest. The girl's breathing had just stabilized and became soft when a shrill alarm sounded in the temple.

The alarm sound of Austrian terminology caused the sleepy girl to roll off the long table and fall on the ashes-covered carpet. The long table made of expensive wood was scratched by the hand she stretched out to support her body, leaving a few Road paw prints.

"what happened?!"

The sharp and hard nails and the flesh under the fingernails that were made by the dragon potion seemed to be torn apart. Liliana was about to cry from the pain, but it was also because of the pain that her tired mind He quickly woke up and heard the puppet's instant translation of the alarm.

"An unapproved use of magic has been detected, please stop the magic user immediately and accept the review of the security personnel-this is what this alarm means!"

"Unsanctioned magic? What does that mean?!"

"In some laboratories, researchers are forbidden to use magic without approval, but the puppet doesn't know if this temple will have such regulations, because what function does the puppet have here except for the parts of the puppet? have no idea!"

"What?"

"And, since it doesn't make sense, why didn't the alarm sound when Ms. Liliana used the [Ability to Seek the Truth]? Although it is the function of a doll, it is also magic...ah!" When the girl fell off the long table, the puppet fell along with her, and the astonished expression suddenly became a little... dumbfounded.

"……what happened again?"

The sound of the alarm echoed constantly between the walls and stone pillars of the temple. The girl who noticed that the sound of the alarm changed after repeating it twice, stood up from the carpet while blowing on her fingertips, and silently recited the magic words in her heart. read.

"This alert is saying that the use of unapproved magic has been detected for the second time... Could it be that..."

The small head of the puppet lying on the ground has a subtle expression.

"……Could it be that?"

The girl who added a magic shield to herself looked around vigilantly.

"The puppet guesses, it's probably a delay. It doesn't mean that all magic can last for hundreds of years without making mistakes. It is very likely that the alarm should be activated when Miss Liliana and the puppet use the [Ability to Seek the Truth]. It sounded, but where in the magic circle has been delayed due to no one maintaining it all the year round..."

"……ah."

"And until now, the alarm finally sounded or something... The possibility of this seems not low..."

"...In other words, a false alarm?"

Summarizing these conjectures can probably draw such a conclusion.

Relieved, Liliana picked up the doll and stood by the railing on the second floor. No matter how much she looked around, she couldn't see anything wrong with it from the place where she could see the whole interior of the temple. The security guards showed up.

"...Now there won't be any security personnel here anymore."

"Yeah, the personnel stationed in Sith were completely evacuated in the end, so it was probably a false alarm..."

"...How long will this alarm last, I can't sleep like this."

"Maybe it will be turned off automatically after a period of time, maybe it needs to be controlled by someone to turn it off, does Miss Liliana really need a rest?"

"...This level of exhaustion can be tolerated, but it is completely impossible to calm down and meditate. Although I rested for a long time before entering the temple, I did not confirm the spell position, so I dare not take Miss Puppet at all. body..."

"That's right..."

The puppet thought for a moment, and sighed in distress.

This place is not like the opera house she is in. The ultimate method is to directly trigger the loss of control and rampage of [Sandro's Road to Hell], and there is still time for people to escape before it completely erupts... No, not necessarily.

Thinking about it carefully, if it is a means to prevent the intruders from taking the head away from the opera house, there is no reason why there is such a gap of nearly five or six minutes. Maybe it is also because the magic has not been maintained all the year round that caused the magic to run wild for some time.

But here is different. This is the center of the lava lake. If you want to leave, you can only use the same method as when you came here.

What is needed for this is sufficient spell slots.

Without this condition, no matter how close the puppet's body was placed on the stone platform covered by the curtain, they would absolutely not be able to touch it.

The alarm sounded for a long time.

"...It seems that I can't take a good rest..." The girl who was staring at the ceiling depressedly exhaled a little irritably. The pronunciation of Austrian terms poured in from the right ear, even if you wanted to stick your fingers into the ear to block it, the non-stop noise would still be transmitted from the desktop, from the skin, muscles and bones into the mind.

Liliana scratched the long antique table with her nails irritably, but this only made her more irritated.

"Ah, the sirens have changed again."

The alarm did not go away.

After the depressed Liliana climbed onto the long table again, the same alarm was repeated several times, and then changed again. Compared with the previous one, the difference between this alarm and the "second" The word becomes "third".

"Will it be better if you go outside..."

Originally, it should be like this.

Helplessly enduring the torment of the noise together, being placed next to her face by the girl, looking at the murals of mortals stealing fire and the dolls in the chandelier on the top of the temple, she was easily interrupted by the words drowned by the complicated noise.

"Li, Miss Liliana!"

Then it turned into a panicked cry—although, even if she didn't do this, Liliana had already fully seen the existence that made her panic.

Those thick stone pillars were cracked.