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Just when Lucy was about to enter the basement to inform Kiki about the visit of senior magician Amir, Kiki was entertaining another uninvited guest——Moriarty Lucifer .

Keech hadn't seen Moriarty since "witnessing" the scene where Sirius shot Fillion.This incident disappointed Kiki, who wanted to do further research on space magic, for a while, but after learning about the possible limitations of space magic, Kiki thought it might be because space magic exists like a microphone and a communicator The distance limit, he was too far away from Moriarty, so that he couldn't "teleport" to his side at all.

But today, when Moriarty's joking voice sounded behind him again, Keech knew he was wrong.

"Long time no see, Kiki little magician."

Hearing this long-lost voice, Kiki couldn't help but froze, stopped the few gems he was fiddling with, and turned to look behind him.

Moriarty was standing there with a relaxed expression, dressed in black formal attire, playing with a slender cane with a crystal handle in his hand.

Keech bit his lip and didn't respond. He just stood there silently, waiting for Moriarty to reveal his purpose.

"How is it? Do you miss me a little bit?" Moriarty chatted with a smile on his face, "I hope my arrival didn't disturb your... work? It seems that you are doing something, um... magic weapon ?”

"Don't you know what I'm doing?" Keech couldn't help asking.

"I remember I told you that I can't read minds, and I can't see your mind." Moriarty shrugged with a smile, "However, just like you can see some wonderful things, I And to see something even more marvelous—or at least it will seem marvelous to you—things.”

"Like?" Kitsch stared intently at Moriarty.

"For example, no matter what you want to do, you will definitely not be able to do it." Moriarty raised the corners of his lips.

Keech opened his mouth, wanting to ask him why he was so sure, but after a little hesitation, he decided to ask another question he wanted to know more, "Why did you appear here?"

"Just like last time, because something interesting will happen here." Moriarty smiled slightly, "So, I came here myself to make sure I can witness it with my own eyes."

"I'm asking how you got here—teleportation? Are you a space magician?" Kiki's eyes widened.

"I'm not a magician." Moriarty raised his index finger and shook it solemnly in front of Kiki twice, "However, from another perspective, your guess is not wrong."

"Space magic? Do you have a magic weapon that can move instantly?" Keech asked again.

"Unfortunately, the answer is wrong." Moriarty smiled and shook his fingers again, "Maybe we can continue this topic when we meet next time, but now, I have to go, and you should also concentrate on receiving A guest."

"Wait……"

"One last piece of advice: It's better to leave this room as soon as possible!" Moriarty disappeared in front of Kiki's eyes before he finished speaking.

——Is it really teleportation?

Keech clenched his fists and was about to think about the meaning of Moriarty's last words when the door to the basement was knocked, and then Lucy's voice came from outside the door——

"Mage Kiki, there is a very important guest that you need to personally receive."

"Who?" Keech asked unhappily.

"Senior magician...Your Excellency Amir." Lucy replied a little nervously.

—Amir? !

—Is that why Moriarty asked him to leave here?

— because Amir would come here to catch him?

Keech's heart tightened, but he immediately realized that there was no other exit from this basement, and he didn't know the teleportation spell like Moriarty, that is to say, he had no way to escape.

—Forget it, sooner or later you have to face it.

Kitsch took a deep breath, and was about to ask Lucy to bring Amir to the basement, but he couldn't help but think of Moriarty's advice again.So far, Moriarty has not deceived him. Although there is some ambiguity about whether Hill will marry, it is indeed not a deception.

After hesitating for a while, Keech decided to accept Moriarty's advice, walked to the door, opened the door, and said to Lucy outside, "Take me to see him."

"Please follow me." Lucy turned around and led Kiki to the living room above.

In the living room, Amir was standing in front of an old painting with his hands behind his back. When he heard the sound of the door, he turned back expressionlessly, and looked coldly at Kiki, who was also expressionless at the door.

——Calm down, control the surrounding elements, and never use wind spells in a fight.

Kiki took a deep breath, closed the door of the living room with his backhand, and walked to Amir.

"You've got a lot of skills." Amir raised his chin, looked at Kiki with a condescending gaze, and his tone was full of sarcasm.

Keech pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Don't want to explain your behavior? That's fine, I'm not interested in listening to your explanation anyway." Amir raised his eyebrows and smiled coldly, "Pack up your things immediately and leave with me!"

"I won't go." Kiki immediately straightened his body and stared stubbornly.

"You've even grown a lot of courage!" Amir snorted coldly, "How much ecstasy soup did that bastard give you to make you follow him so wholeheartedly that you dared to deceive your mentor?"

—Of course he knew that he should not deceive Amir, let alone Tina, but he really couldn't think of a better way.

Kitsch bit his lip and became silent again, but his body stood firmly in place, refusing to move.

Seeing that Kiki remained silent again, Amir sneered again, "Since you can't give a reason to stay here, then go pack your luggage and follow me..."

Before Amir finished speaking, he was interrupted by a sudden violent vibration under his feet.In an instant, the whole house shook like a rocking chair being violently shaken. The picture frames on the walls, surrounding furniture, and flowerpots on the window sills also left their original positions due to this shaking, crackling. fell to the ground.

Kiki was dumbfounded all of a sudden, but before he could continue to think about it, Amir's expression on the opposite side changed drastically. He didn't care about explaining, he hugged him directly, and rushed out of the living room like flying.

Keech still didn't understand what was going on, but behind them, the heavy furniture that kept falling and the walls and windows that were cracking made him realize that whatever it was, it must be very scary, even, enough fatal!

The moment Amir ran into the yard with Kiki in his arms, the vibration suddenly stopped.Amir also stopped, put Kiki on the ground, turned around, and looked at the cracked house.

"Magic...?" Kiki murmured.

"Earthquake." Amir replied sternly, "The most terrifying earth magic comes from the earth itself."

"The earth itself?" Kiki raised his head in a daze, and was about to ask further questions, but the ground under his feet shook again, and the shaking was far stronger than the previous one, as if the earth was shaking and the sky was shaking, making people dizzy instantly dizzy.

Amir immediately put Kiki in his arms again, and dragged him to the open space in the courtyard.

In just a few steps, the violent shaking made it impossible for them to move forward smoothly. Amir could only squat down and hold Kiki firmly under his chest.

There was a series of loud bangs, and the surrounding houses began to collapse one after another, mixed with the neighing of horses and the barking of hounds, as well as the screams of women and wailing from nowhere.

The house where Keech temporarily lived was not spared either. The cracks caused by the last shock grew bigger and bigger, and eventually the whole house was torn apart and quickly collapsed in the flying dust.

At the moment when the house collapsed, Keech suddenly understood what Moriarty's advice meant—it had nothing to do with Amir's arrival. He asked him to leave the basement to avoid being buried alive. doom!

—But how would Moriarty know what was going to happen next?

Keech stared blankly at the ruined houses in front of him, and suddenly realized that Hill was still in the government affairs hall in the center of the town.

"Hill!" Keech pushed Amir away and was about to run into the street, ignoring the still shaking ground under his feet.

"Don't look for death!" Amir quickly caught him back, "You still don't understand? It's very dangerous now!"

"I have to save Hill!" Keech anxiously wanted to break free from Amir's arms, but he was far less powerful than Amir.

At this time, the shaking ground finally stabilized again, and Amir also understood that continuing to block would only make Kiki more irritable.If the noble boy was really allowed to die in the earthquake without going to the rescue, Keech would never let him be at his mercy as he did in the past—the possibility of turning against him and letting him be buried with that stinky boy is extremely high.

Thinking of this, Amir immediately asked, "Where is he?"

"The center of the town, the east side of here." Keech replied anxiously, and raised his hand to point in a random direction.

"That's the north!" Amir shook his head helplessly.

"There is only one way, if you go there, you will definitely get there!" Kiki angrily wanted to break free from Amir's grip.

"Maybe there will be aftershocks, don't walk on the ground, let's fly over—remember how to fly?" Amir said loudly.

"Yeah." Kiki nodded, took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then gathered a large number of wind elements around him to his body surface, making himself gradually float under their wrap.

Amir next to him also chanted the lengthy incantation of flying, and soon followed into the air, then took Kiki's arm, and took him to fly towards the center of the town.

But as soon as the two of them took off together, there was a shout from the next step, "Kiki!"

— Hill's voice!

Kiki immediately looked down, and saw a dusty young man waving vigorously to them on the street not far away, and a taller and stronger man followed beside him.

- It's Hill and Kevin!

Kiki immediately turned around, drove the wind element, and sent himself to the ground.

Amir also recognized that the person waving below was Hill, so he had to follow Kiki down.

"Hill, are you alright?!" As soon as it fell to the ground, Kiki didn't care to disperse the wind element on his body, and ran towards Hill in a staggered manner.

"I'm fine." Hill quickly reached out to support him, "How about you?"

"I'm fine." Keech twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to squeeze out a smile, and then asked, "Why are you here?"

"Lucy asked Kevin to find me, and asked me to come back to entertain..." Hill was about to explain, but Amir who was on the side interrupted first.

"Stop rambling, since you are all fine, then go to other places to save people." Amir said with a frown.

Hill suddenly woke up, sobered up quickly, and bowed to Amir, "Thank you very much for your reminder, Your Excellency Amir, but I have to ask for your help..."

"Put down the noble talk!" Amir interrupted impatiently, "Where is the mayor? Who is the most prestigious person here?"

"The town hall, when I left there, the mayor was inside." Hill replied quickly.

"Go there first." Amir immediately stepped forward and continued to walk towards the center of the town.

"Kevin, go back and see Lucy, and help the others by the way." Hill quickly ordered to his driver, then pulled Kiki and followed Amir.

"And take a look at my coachman by the way—" Amir said without looking back.

But before he finished speaking, a rough voice came from the side, "I'm fine, you can go help others at ease!"

Hill glanced back, and saw a middle-aged man in black standing beside a simple black carriage, holding a rein in each hand, trying to control the two obviously frightened horses. dark horse.

--Musha?

Hill was suspicious, but he couldn't pay more attention to it, so he could only stride behind Amir and hurried towards the center of the town.

After walking a few steps, the ground shook again, but this time the vibration was extremely short and less severe than the first time.

The three of them stopped for a while and then headed towards the center of the town again. After a while, they had arrived at the gate of the town hall.

At this time, Hill couldn't help but thank the town for its small size,

The town hall did not completely collapse like the other houses in the town, but the highest spire has also collapsed, and the part in the northwest corner has sunk into the ground. The sound of smashing was constantly coming from there along with howling and crying.

Two men in militia uniforms had already begun to move rocks at the cave-in. Seeing Hill bring two magicians over, they immediately shouted, "Come and help, Mayor Grove and many people are inside !"

"Tell these two people to get out of the way!" Amir asked Hill to pull away the two men who were still carrying the gravel, and he pulled out the wind magic wand inlaid with emerald green jade at the top from his waist, and said Recite an enhanced version of the whirlwind technique, first clean up the bricks and tiles at the gate, so that the people inside can come out smoothly, and then turn the direction of the wind to the ruins, removing large pieces of walls and sand from above.

After the sand and rocks were cleared away, Hill and the others also understood why the two men didn't open the gate to let more people out, but were eager to clean up the collapsed ruins.

The mayor, Grove, was lying there covered in blood. The wall pillars that were originally on his body had been removed, but his calf was still under the pressure of a pile of broken wood mixed with paper scraps. It used to be a bookshelf.

"Mayor! Mayor!" The two men rushed forward together with a few people who had just come out of the town hall, wanting to test Grove's life and death.

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook again.