Violet Orchestra

Ventus was left in his study by Hayden Woods, and he was unconscious for several days. When he woke up and found the servant in a daze to understand the situation, the situation had developed to the point where he was completely out of control.The summoned "one-time familiar" has long since disappeared, but when he arrived in Maitlen again, he found that his army had surrounded the entire city tightly, and it was too late to learn more about the situation. He couldn't find it, and finally he could only find out the place where Gracis and Violet were dating from his unclear memory, and hurried there.

With just one look, he knew he had done something completely wrong.

The red-haired poet sat unconsciously in the small garden holding Glacis' body, his face was bloodless, his fingers were cold and pale and blue.When he saw them for the first time, Ventus almost thought that he was also dead, but after careful inspection, he found that he still had a heartbeat and breathing.

And the beautiful blonde with a smile on her lips, like Sleeping Beauty who will never wake up, lies in the arms of her beloved poet, never dreaming again.

"Gracey went to Violet and told him about Hayden Woods. Maybe she wanted to elope with Violet, maybe she wanted him to run away immediately, but either way, they ended up alone. They couldn't escape either, and Hayden Woods found them."

The god of the region easily incited the city lord of the valley city, and in the name of Ventus, soldiers surrounded Maitron, demanding that the lord hand over his daughter.After hearing the news, Glacis ran out of the palace in a hurry to find her lover, but she didn't expect that Hayden Woods had already followed them.

It was too late when Ventus found them.

He didn't know what Hayden Woods did to the poet. He only learned from Violet's few words that Glacis died because of Hayden Woods' curse, and the surviving poet could not escape.Of course, Mettlen would not accept the poet who indirectly killed Glacis, so in the end Ventus brought Violet, who neither spoke nor paid attention to others, back to Valley City, looking for a place to settle down.

Violet lived in Dale City for about five years, and almost never communicated with others. Only Ventus would visit him regularly, but he found that his appearance hadn't changed a bit during this period.He gradually remembered the agreement between Glacis and him, and remembered that Hayden Woods said that he could only live to be 50 years old and that he would die in great pain, so he decided to complete the agreement with Glacis before he died.

He left a letter for Ventus, and then left alone with his bag and his piano, and began to travel around the world.

"I didn't know what Hayden Woods did until I read the letter—he cast a death curse on Violet, but he didn't expect that Glacis would block the blow for him, and she immediately Died, and Violet, who was supposed to be cursed, was not spared."

"...What's going on?" Elaine frowned.

"Hayden Woods is only the regional god of the eight cities in the north, and his divine power is not so powerful in places other than the valley city." Ventus drew a circle on the map, pointing out to him the general effect of Hayden Woods' divine power Strictly speaking, Mettlen is not his jurisdiction. The spell he is going to use to deal with Violet is a death spell, which cannot be used a second time for a long time, so he only Can cast another spell on Violet.

"Violet was 19 years old when he was cursed, and he will not grow old in the long years after that, until that day - 30 years later, he will start to age, far faster than ordinary humans, waiting for him After experiencing the aging process of ordinary people in 30 or even 50 years in the middle of the year, he will face death at the age of 50."

In a way, this is a more vicious spell than the Death Curse.

No one can calmly face the sudden collapse and aging of the youthful beauty that has been maintained for many years. For most people, the pain involved is absolutely unbearable.Violet is also an ordinary person, of course no exception.

Elaine suddenly understood the reason why the poet cared so much about his appearance, and why he said "If I don't look good, the premise that most people like me doesn't exist".

It is precisely because beauty has been maintained for too long that people have formed a habit, so they feel uneasy and more afraid of losing it.

He couldn't imagine how Violet had spent the years, how he faced his unchanging appearance, and how he viewed death.After all, Violet had been alone for so many years that no one else in the band could count as a passenger on his travels—including him.

"Now do you understand what I mean?" Ventus said, "You are too young, maybe meeting you earlier, Violet will have renewed hope because of you, but now he has no time. "

The suspended time began to run fast, as if trying to catch up with the past 30 years in one breath, and what was waiting at the end of the road was the god of death who would never be late.

It was almost dawn when Elaine returned to the hotel, but Violet was still asleep.

The bed in the room was not big, but the poet curled up into a small ball and slept quietly on one side, leaving a place for Elaine.He took a shower before going to bed, and his face had not been re-disguised, but it was so pale that it was almost transparent, like precious porcelain that would shatter when touched.Elaine sat on the edge of the bed and watched him for a while, rubbed his cheek with the back of her hand lightly, felt his unsteady breathing, and finally sighed silently in her heart.

He didn't plan to rest anymore. Petra and Birkins would arrive in Icethorn City at dawn, and after entrusting Violet to their care, he would set off for the Xanthium Fortress and find a way to find Hayden Woods' weakness.

"Humans cannot easily defeat gods, and Hayden Woods' divine power has continued to expand over the years, which is no longer the same as before. Even Angelita can't pose any threat to him." Ventus told him , "It is not easy to fight against a god at its peak, but only when Hayden Woods falls, the curse on Violet will disappear as his divine power declines."

"How can we deal with him?"

The mage thought for a long time, and it seemed that the answer he wanted to say was not so feasible, but he finally said: "Humans cannot defeat gods, but gods can."

As the name suggests, Icethorn City is surrounded by frosty forests, and there are no prey or people in it. There are only clumps of dry thorns and dead trees, leaving a not-so-obvious path leading to the farther north. Cocklebur Fortress.After Mettlen died under the curse of Hayden Woods, people did not move its ruins, but restarted an ancient fortress near it. It was originally hoped that the cocklebur fortress, which had been abandoned for many years, could replace Mettlen as the new northern fortress , but eventually gave up for various reasons.

After the fortress was abandoned again, a group of rogues of unknown origin occupied the place, redeveloped the fortress, and started an intelligence business. Because of their clever means, they could find out almost anything, and even Ventus would sometimes get it from them. Buy intelligence.According to the information he has learned, the leader of the group of rogues is a warlock. His hobby is to collect all kinds of beauties and weapons. There is an entire treasury in the fortress, which is specially used to store his collection.

He is the backbone of this group of rogues. The reconstruction of the Cang'er Fortress was almost entirely carried out under his plan. He commanded his subordinates to actively cut off the road from the fortress to Icethorn City. It was deserted and deserted, and soon it was covered with thorns.And not only Icethorn City, Cocklebur Fortress hardly has any business dealings with other cities. No one knows how this group of people obtained information, but the accuracy of their information is still high, even surpassing several famous cities on the mainland. an informant.

"Beasts are entrenched on that path, and civilians don't want to pass there, and they don't want to go to the fortress to die. The cost of unilateral maintenance is too high, so we gave up there." Before parting, Ventus told Elaine, "But if You are going to the Xanth Fortress, that is the only passage, wild beasts are not to be feared, what you have to be careful of is the cold weather and the people in the Xanth Fortress."

"I see, thanks."

Elaine went to the cocklebur fortress alone from this path, without a companion, and hunted wild animals for food along the way, and arrived without any injuries.However, due to the delay of more than one day on the road, it was already dusk of the second day when he arrived at the Xanthium Fortress. When he came out of the Icethorn Forest, he found that the gate of the fortress was closed, and it seemed that it was already the closing time.

This is different from the information Ventus told him, and the Xanth Fortress does not seem to be a place where the door will be closed early, Elaine thought, there may be other reasons.

He rested outside the fortress for a while, seeing that the sun was about to completely sink below the horizon, after thinking about it, he decided to find a way to enter the fortress.It's too cold here. Due to the high terrain and constant wind, the temperature is lower than in the icethorn forest, and he only brought simple luggage, so it's obviously unrealistic to sleep in the open air for one night.

Since it is a fortress, the outer protection is naturally very tight. Elaine walked half a circle around the city wall, but couldn't find the second door.He walked a long way with his luggage on his back, and finally found an abandoned fort on a high place. He threw his things on it first, then took a few steps back, and after a run-up, he kicked off the city wall and climbed up to the gap in the fort.

The current cocklebur fortress does not use turrets. They have all kinds of weird weapons made by warlocks. These turrets have not been fired for many years.If he hadn't inquired about these situations from Ventus in advance, he wouldn't have dared to climb from the position of the fort even if he had ten more guts——

Thinking of this, Elaine climbed over the city wall and landed lightly on the ground.

The fortress wall was as quiet and deserted as he had imagined, which made him secretly relieved.

But in the next second, a large-scale flame suddenly lit up in front of his eyes.