Soul echo

Chapter 538 Leave
After the battle, the players tactfully left the Demon Hunter's Castle. After all, those Demon Hunters looked very sad. Many of them could not feel any sadness and sadness. After a hearty battle, They just want to celebrate.

After the players left, the demon hunters supported each other and looked blankly at the devastated plain outside the city, filled with melancholy.

They won the war, but most of the demon souls can return to the abyss to be reborn, waiting for the next invasion.

And the witcher... suffered heavy losses.

They still haven't been able to count how many people died in the previous battle, how many people didn't even have their bodies left, let alone how many people couldn't be resurrected.

Demons can take away human souls, even their demon hunters are not exempt. If you want to prevent your soul from being taken away by demons, it is best not to be killed by demons.

After being killed by a demon, the probability of being resurrected is much, much lower...

"Is there any injury?" Zhong Ye walked towards Lily and Lilian and asked in a low voice.

Lily took a deep look at Zhong Ye. She was fascinated by Zhong Ye's strength and gentleness. It was because of Zhong Ye's strength that he left many legendary deeds during the journey, so she paid attention to him and became curious about him. .

However, she didn't realize until now that Zhong Ye's strength was beyond her reach.

—she couldn't even come close!

Zhong Ye was able to kill a big demon alone - she could tell that even without the assistance of those demon hunters, it would not be difficult for him to kill the 'skinless man'.

No matter how hard she chased, she couldn't catch up with Zhong Ye's footsteps. This feeling made Lily very uncomfortable.

She doesn't care about her 'weakness', she just cares that she can't help Zhong Ye at all!

Lilian is Zhong Ye's student, but what is she?
"...It's okay, it's just some minor injuries." Lily let out a foul breath with a complicated expression.

Greeted by the remaining two chiefs, the demon hunters began to gather at the castle.

There is not a single living demon left on the battlefield outside the city, the war is over, and the next step is treatment.

Inside the castle was also a pool of blood. Demon corpses were piled up next to the mage tower of the Northland Witch into several hills, with stumps and broken arms all over the ground.

Among the three forts, only Bear Fort remained intact, and more than half of the other two forts were destroyed in the war just now.

But the place with the most complete medical resources and the most abundant medical resources will always be the residence of the witches of the Northland.

The main body of the castle surrounded by three fortresses was not damaged at all, and the space expansion spell was cast on this place, and the internal area was large enough to accommodate all demon hunters.

After entering the mage's tower, the demon hunters discovered that the mage's tower was also invaded by demons, and the Northland Witch was also sacrificed.

The sacrificed witches of the Northland were gathered in one place to park, preparing to perform the resurrection ceremony with those sacrificed witchers.

——The corpses of all the demon hunters have been brought back. If they can’t be found, it means that there are no dead bodies, and even resurrection is impossible.

Injuries caused by demons may cause the consciousness to be corrupted and the body deformed, so after fighting the demons, the injuries must be treated.

Zhong Ye was one of the few who didn't need treatment for his injuries. He didn't suffer much damage, and the 'Legend' was already immune to 'Distortion'.

So, he leaned against the wall and watched the witchers pour the holy water into his wound without even frowning—Lily's face wrinkled into a ball when she was doing this.

Zhong Ye roughly counted and found that the number of demon hunters was less than ninety, which still included extraordinary demon hunters.

They sent all the apprentices to Quintuyate in advance, but everyone knew that there would inevitably be incidents of cultists attacking the city in Quintuyat.

Why didn't the clergy come to help?Why did the paladins who came to Quintuate with those players not leave the city?

Although this is a war between the demon hunter and the army under the Lord of Pleasure, the abyss is the enemy of this world, and the clergy are naturally allies of the demon hunter, so they can naturally participate in this war.

However, when the players gathered in Kuntuyat, believers in the Lord of Pleasure, those who simply believed in the Abyss, and even the Abyss believers who believed in the King of Conspiracy and the Lord of War also gathered.

They were purely for the purpose of destroying the city and killing lives. The priests needed to protect the city, so they did not rush to participate in the war outside the castle.

In fact, the priests are also fighting, but their battlefield is Quintuate, and their enemies are heretics.

When the demon hunters sent their apprentices to Quintuate, it meant that they decided to let their apprentices participate in another war, and those apprentices would inevitably suffer casualties.

In any case, after this battle, the demon hunter's vitality was severely damaged.

Thinking of this, Zhong Ye couldn't help sighing, and lowered his eyes.

…………

"You want to leave?"

Looking at Lily standing in front of him, Zhong Ye pursed his lips slightly.

"Yeah!" Lily smiled forcefully, "I think...it's time for me to leave."

Lily Lieber looked up at Zhong Ye's face, and after she finished speaking, she had to bite her lower lip, feeling a heart-wrenching pain in her heart.

She couldn't bear to leave—of course she didn't want to leave!

Just, just...

Thinking back carefully, she was by Zhong Ye's side, hardly helping him at all, and only adding to his troubles.

Lilian is Zhong Ye's student, it is only natural for Zhong Ye to take care of Lilian, but what about her?Who is Zhong Ye?

When Lily began to think about this question carefully, she realized that she had been avoiding this question before.

She is not someone like Zhong Ye, she only has a "transaction relationship" with Zhong Ye, she paid some funds to help save some factories and workshops, and what Zhong Ye paid was to "take her out of Paris".

The deal between them has been completed long ago, but she has been following Zhong Ye's side with a stern face.

Along the way, she would only do Zhong Ye a disservice, and had never really helped Zhong Ye.

"……why?"

Hearing this question, Lily's heart trembled violently, and she couldn't hold back her tears any longer, so she cried aloud.

"I'm too weak...have no strength..."

Lily choked up and uttered her reasons. She finally knew that Zhong Ye still cared about her. He regarded her as a friend, so he asked the phrase 'why'.

Hearing this, Zhong Ye fell silent again.

He didn't know how to comfort Lily. Could it be that he didn't care if she was strong or not?

No, that kind of answer made Lily's heart hurt even more.

"...We are friends." After a long silence, Zhong Ye only thought of this answer.

At this time, Lily had put away her tears. Although she was still choking and her eye circles were red, she had stopped crying.

"Because we are friends," Lily grinned, her tear-soaked eyes seemed to be shining brightly, "that's why I can't drag you down!"

After a pause, she whispered again: "Although I really want to continue traveling with you, the joy of traveling with you is more than what I have experienced in the past 20 years, but I also know that my weakness has dragged you down. ——Like this time, Lilian and I were controlled by the big demon to kill each other. No matter which one of us dies, you will feel extremely painful and blame yourself.

"After this incident, I knew it was time for me to leave. After becoming stronger, I will return to your side and launch a love offensive against you again...but not now."

After finishing speaking, Lily patted Zhong Ye's chest pretending to be relaxed, "Although I can't stop you from falling in love with other people, after all, love is always fierce and no one can resist it, but I also hope that when the time comes Can you still give me another chance... No, if that is the case, it won't be you...

"Forget it, forget it, I'm in a mess, I don't know what I want to say, but one thing is for sure!"

Lily took two steps back, took a deep breath, and stared into Zhong Ye's eyes.

"Zhong Ye, I like you!"

"I know." Zhong Ye nodded heavily.

But this time, Lily left the witcher's castle without asking for an answer.

When saying goodbye, he also pretended to salute.

— Lily Lieber, leaving the team.

(End of this chapter)