Knight with Wand

The rushing river water completely scattered the three teenagers, and they floated further and further down the river in the waves.

With his whole body surrounded by icy water, Leon felt bad. He still underestimated the powerful thrust of this rapid.

The waves kept hitting his body, with nowhere to use it, making everything around him blurry. There was only constant chaos between the ups and downs. Soon, he inevitably started to choke on the water, and he felt a sense of deprivation from being able to float up. It's becoming more and more obvious.

No matter how he kept calm, held his breath, and maintained his balance, his little physical strength was still gradually exhausted, and the turbulent current swept him completely into the deep water like a ruthless hand.

As he was completely swallowed by the river, his consciousness and physical strength slowly faded away.

What happened to Azarian and the others? Are they still in the water?

Are you going to die?

pain, depression, silence

The river water poured into his body slowly solidified Leon's remaining spirit in suffocation, and he began to feel that this might be his end.

A passer-by from another time and space is about to drown in the deep bottom of the river. It is really a funny ending that ends abruptly.

Unable to struggle any longer, the boy's body sank deeper and deeper until he slowly fell to the bottom of the river.

"Should I say you are lucky? Or unlucky."

"Leon" opened his eyes again.

But the originally black eyes were now shining with bright gold in the deep gloom.

"We can only decide quickly."

"Leon" nimbly turned over in the water, his hands skillfully swept the river water to draw runes, and the unknown power quickly isolated the surrounding water flow.

In the next moment, he flew out from the bottom of the river, swimming as fast as a fish.

In the river where he couldn't even see his fingers, "Leon" almost ignored the rapid undercurrent under the water at this moment.

"Found it." His golden eyes swept through the darkness, he turned around and broke through the river water, flying through it.

Reaching out to fish, "Leon" grabbed Lohark by the collar accurately, then turned suddenly and swam towards another boy who was still rolling on the river at high speed——

On the river, Azarian was still struggling in the turbulence.

He had tried his best, but no matter how good the water was, he could not resist the cruel reality that his physical strength was about to be exhausted.

Suddenly, the young man felt a huge force hitting him. Then, he was pushed away from the turbulent water by this force and flew up.

——Bang!

The river suddenly exploded, and "Leon" soared into the air among the splashing waves. He held Rohark in one hand and Azerion's arm in the other. He jumped high from the river, and landed lightly on the river bank. On the cliff.

As soon as he stood firm, "Leon" loosened his hands and threw Rohark and Azarian down. His body swayed, and the golden luster in his eyes suddenly dissipated.

"Ugh!—Ugh!" Leon, who suddenly regained consciousness, fell to the ground in pain, lowered his head and vomited.

The gurgling river water seemed to open a floodgate in his throat, and spurted out in large spurts onto the ground. He felt as if he was about to vomit out his stomach and lungs.

Azerien, who was in shock, had confused eyes. His brain had not yet figured out the situation. After all, one moment he thought he was about to die, and the next second he was somehow thrown to the shore.

But soon after seeing a fallen comrade whose life and death were unknown, Azarian woke up from a dream and hurriedly ran to Rohark to give him first aid. He hurriedly peeled off the chain armor and lining on the opponent's body. After working hard for a long time, pouring water and compressing the heart and lungs, I finally heard the painful coughing sound of the other party waking up.

"Ugh~ cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough" Lohark was so uncomfortable that he choked out the river water in his stomach. He tilted his head and vomited for a while before opening his eyes weakly.

"Huh~ are you saved...?" Lohark gasped and glanced at the chain armor that was taken off by his companions. His helmet had been lost long after falling into the water, but he failed to successfully remove the chain armor in the water. The armor was taken off in time, allowing him to sink to the bottom of the river first.

"It's a miracle that you were able to pull me ashore. I will never be stupid enough to go into the water wearing armor again in my life."

Azarian's legs were weak and he slumped on the ground. After hearing Rohark's thanks, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, pointing at Leon who was lying not far away in an even more embarrassing state.

"I can't protect myself. How can I save you? I don't even know where you were washed away by the river. It was Leon who dragged us up."

Azarian couldn't understand how he flew the two of them from the water to the shore, but he wisely chose not to delve into the secrets of his companions.

Leon, who finally recovered, raised his hand to wipe his face, and collapsed on the ground exhausted. After escaping from death, he barely managed to laugh twice in response.

Leon still remembered the process he had just experienced in the water. The magical power that controlled his body to shuttle through the river all showed that he was saved again by the unknown existence that had previously helped him.

She's here, she must have been paying attention to her

Unable to suppress the gratitude and curiosity in his heart any longer, Leon silently called to his heart: "Are you still there?"

After waiting for a while, there was still no response.

He couldn't help but wonder if he had taken it for granted. Maybe that existence couldn't communicate through spiritual consciousness?

This time, unlike the last time he was escorted by mercenaries, he was not afraid of others hearing him. Leon simply opened his mouth and asked loudly into the air:

"Hey!.Hello~? Are you still here?"

The two teenagers next to him stared at Leon suspiciously, wondering who he was talking to.

However, a voice that only Leon could hear sounded from his heart:

"Hey~ I'm here~, why are you shouting so loudly?"

The girl complained in a faint voice, but this time, her voice sounded clearer and smoother.

Finally, he heard the real response he had been looking forward to, and Leon was overjoyed.

"Sorry, I just want to try whether I have to speak louder so that you can hear me."

As he said this, he scratched his wet hair, and his heart was excited. Not only because he finally confirmed the guess that had been bothering him since that day, but also because he was excited about the friendly existence with extraordinary power in his body.

If he was the protagonist of those online novels he read in his previous life, could this be his portable grandfather. Miss?

But who is she?

Is she the soul of a local in this world?

Or is she the soul of a "traveler" from some different time and space like himself?

Many speculations jumped into his mind.

". There is no need to shout loudly. I can always hear your call without you speaking. I just ignored you before." The pleasant voice replied lazily.

Leon was a little embarrassed by the other party's blunt statement that he ignored him, but he didn't have any resentment. After all, the other party had saved his life twice.

"I'm sorry." Leon shut his mouth obediently and returned to the consciousness level to talk: "I just want to thank you for your help."

"Okay~ Don't think too much, I don't have any opinion on you."

The girl's voice continued: "You have a lot of questions, and it happens that I have a lot of questions too, but I'm too weak. If I hadn't fallen into this kind of place, I'm afraid I can't even maintain a conversation now. Speaking of it, I really didn't see that you that day..."

Before the mysterious consciousness finished speaking, Leon heard Azerien's exclamation.

"Leon! Leon!"

The spiritual communication was interrupted, and Leon pulled his consciousness back to the reality in front of him in confusion.

"What's the matter?" He hurriedly looked at his companions.

I saw that Lohak was staring up at the sky for some reason, and Azerien spread his hand and pointed around.

Leon then noticed the abnormality of the environment around him.

He had escaped death and was eager to communicate with the voice in his heart, so he had no time to pay attention. Now that he had recovered his spirit and looked around, he found that the visibility around him was clear and everything was visible near and far!

If it was in broad daylight, this would not be strange.

But if his brain had not been accidentally flooded with water, he would remember that it should be midnight with a crescent moon in the sky.

Whether it was the fierce battle that broke out when encountering the wild goblins not long ago, or the subsequent desperate escape from the giant bear of the mountain, even if the experience of falling into the water just now was added, these processes were far from enough to advance the time to the degree of dawn.

You know, when the three of them fell into the water, even if they ran to a place with sparse trees, it was still difficult to see the forest and the fatal river under the moonlight.

But now. Leon swallowed his saliva and staggered to his feet from the ground. The surroundings were neither day nor night.

The forest was still a forest, and the river in front of him was still the river that almost swallowed them.

But everything around him showed an extremely indescribable strange clarity.

It was not the bright and visible scene under the sunlight during the day, but all things seemed to be covered with a layer of faded filter. Everything seemed to be rendered by hazy and strange colors.

Following Lohak's stunned and shocked gaze, Leon raised his head, and then he couldn't help but be dumbfounded like him.

There was no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky.

The entire sky that was out of reach was an endless dark and colorful scene. Turbid shadows intertwined and surged in the sky, like a dark ocean made of pure crude oil.

"What is this place?"

Lohak's brain was about to crash. Even the terrifying forest beast before was not as frightening as what he saw now.

Lohak looked at his companions blankly: "Have we actually been drowned? Is this the world after death?"

Lion's eyebrows were twisted into a ball: "Calm down, don't talk nonsense, we are definitely still alive."

Azerian seemed to have regained his sanity. He suddenly spoke in an uncertain and hesitant tone: "You, should have heard the story of the Land of Despair?"

Lohak's eyes widened, and then he looked around repeatedly before confirming: "You mean, we broke into the cursed land?!"

Lion's memory surged, and he immediately understood what Azerian meant. It was a bedtime story that his parents had told him over and over again since he was a child.

The Land of Despair that Azerian mentioned is not some unknown rare mystery, but a well-known folk legend in the Kingdom of Serian.

The legend describes a cursed land that exists in various uninhabited corners of the continent.

There are countless treasures and man-eating monsters hidden in it.

Sometimes the cursed land is deep in the vast forest, sometimes in the uninhabited wilderness or desert, but the common description without exception is that in that desperate land abandoned by the gods, there is no sky, no sun, moon, stars, and no boundaries. Once you accidentally walk into it, there is no possibility of returning alive.

". The name of the cursed land is quite appropriate."

"Do you know where this place is?" Hearing the voice of the girl in his heart, Leon felt relieved for no reason.

He realized that compared to his blind guess, the mysterious consciousness in his heart that can use magic obviously knows more about the current strange environment.

“Spirit-like land, this is the real name of this area.” The girl’s voice suddenly became a little low, and there was an inexplicable sadness in her ethereal voice.