A strange world

The mage floating in the hall screamed and fell, and the sudden darkness made the guests who were slightly calmer burst into fear and scrambled to escape.

Ruth took advantage of the chaos to escape from her fiancé's control, picked up the oil lamp that fell on the ground, and ran to the basement to look for traces of Jack.

A dense swarm of rats filled the basement, and a waiter was wading painfully through the swarm of rats that submerged his calves to escape back up the steps.

"My friend is locked in the basement..."

"I don't...I can't..."

Ruth appealed to him for help, but the waitress, overcome with fear, shook her head and fled upwards.

Only Ruth was left in the basement corridor. All she had to do was take a deep breath, step into the tide of rats that terrified her, and call Jack's name with rapid breathing.

Jack, who was handcuffed underground and struggling, heard the noise and responded, asking Ruth to follow the sound to find him.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have suspected you of stealing the gem necklace."

The reunited lovers embrace each other, and the purest love blooms in the filthiest rat tide.

The key to Jack's shackles was in the tide of rats, and Ruth had no choice but to push aside the tide of rats that reached her knees, retching while groping for the rats.

They couldn't understand how this scene was recorded... Are the rat tides real?

Fortunately, Rose found the key and opened the shackles. Jack and Rose grabbed each other and fled back to the hall in the waist-deep tide of rats.

A real wave of rats has poured into the hall from outside the mage tower. The guests screamed and fled to higher places. Some mages clumsily waved their staffs at the ratmen who rushed in, and were jumped down and their throats were ripped open by the ratmen.

The mages frowned slightly, but they thought it was reasonable that mages could not cast spells in the Forbidden Magic Realm. Only Michael was not very happy - what is the difference between mages who do not know combat skills and magic scrolls?

Jack and Rose fled up the stairs, and when they reached the second floor, the upper window in the hall suddenly broke, and countless scarlet eyes poured into the hall, flooding everything in the hall.

"The Mage Tower is finished..." Ruth whispered desperately.

Jack pulled her: "We have to go, Ruth."

Not long after they left, the surging tide reached the second floor.

Jack and Rose follow the crowd upwards, but soon they are joined by a group of guests who have escaped, and they say that the Ratmen are also swarming above.

At this time, a stone brick fell from the top of the head and shattered into pieces in front of a guest.

They looked up at the same time, and a crack was forming under the wall where dust was falling.

"The mage tower is going to collapse!"

Screams from nowhere made the crowd crowd again. Jack and Rose held each other tightly and continued to move with the panicked crowd. A deep pit formed by a broken gap lay in front of everyone.

The rat tide is pressing behind you, and in front is a safe area that has not yet been invaded by the rat tide. To get over, they must jump into a pit filled with rats.

A mage jumped down and fell into the tide of rats with a shrill scream, struggling to swim to the other side.

"Ruth, we have to jump down..."

Jack persuaded the frightened Ruth: "Remember what I said? If you dance, I will dance too."

With her lover's encouragement, Ruth mustered up the courage to jump into the rat pit with Jack, disappearing completely as if falling into water.

After a brief silence, Ruth's head emerged from the tide of rats, breathing rapidly and shouting: "Jack! Jack!"

"I'm here! Ruth! Swim forward!"

Jack's voice sounded from behind, and Ruth stretched her neck hard, pushing the rats to climb up the steps.

After kicking away the mouse that was brought up, Jack and Rose continued forward, and voices sounded from behind the door panel of the room next to them.

Ruth slapped the door and begged to be let in, but Jack held her back: "This kind of wood won't keep out rats. We need to find a sturdier room."

The mage tower under their feet suddenly shook, and the violent shaking caused them to grab each other.

The theater audience saw the most shocking scene - the mage tower that was cracked from the middle began to tilt.

Amidst the music played by sad musicians, they saw an elderly couple lying on the bed hugging each other; several mages fighting bloody battles with rat teeth and table knives; and women coaxing children to sleep on the bed.

The tower owner was like an ordinary old man, standing quietly in front of the window, watching the rat tide gathering into a huge wave higher than the mage tower...

…

Breeze City has entered a state of martial law.

Patrolling and running city guards can be seen everywhere, residents are driven back home, scavengers come out in droves, and the mage tower has been activated.

Olmedo led the city guards to seal off the theater, and at this moment his confidants came on horseback: "The scavengers have confirmed the hole underground in Breeze City. If it collapses, the entire Breeze City will be destroyed..."

"Didn't the Mage Tower stop it?"

"There is no way. The rat people have deployed evil energy underground. They will be discovered by them if they get close. They have to wait for the tower master to come back."

But the tower owner obviously couldn't rush back as quickly as he did that night...

"Lord City Lord, we'd better move the residents out before the rat people react..."

"Annan is still underground, right?"

"I know you believe Lord Annan, but he is only one person, and..."

"Relocating the residents will only let the Skaven hiding in the city know that we have discovered them, and have you ever thought about what would happen if the Skaven attacked the city while we were relocating?"

Olmedo reminded his horrified cronies: "Leave these problems to them, our problem is this theater."

"Lord City Lord, what should we do next?"

"You guys stay outside, I'm going to question him..."

Olmedo takes a step toward theater.

"You know... I won this invitation from a dwarf... At that time, I thought this was the luckiest moment in my life..."

Entering the theater, Annan in the magic image stood against the door and said weakly:

"It's the same now, because I met you...live and promise me...you will get rid of the shackles, and you will have a freer life..."

"promise me."

This touching scene near the end was untouched by the fact that Olmedo had already seen it. After passing through the sobbing audience, he returned to his father.

The cronies began to quietly evacuate the nobles in the theater with soldiers.

"What do you think of this story? Father." Olmedo tried to maintain his composure.

"Novel story, wonderful idea..."

"You no longer resist the chaos Annan will bring?"

"Each of us will change... We measure our surroundings with our own shallow understanding. The boy thinks that the village beneath his feet is the world, and the woodcutter includes the forest in it."

The magic lights gradually turned on, and the audience, who knew nothing about what was happening outside, stood up and applauded without hesitation in their praise. Honoratan Mays clapped his hands red with tears in his eyes.

Amidst the applause, Augusta looked at the pair of eyes that originated from him and were filled with complexity and sadness at the moment.

"Get started, kid. Don't let your determination turn into patience."