HP's Adagio Minor

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"...You don't have to pull it so tight."

"It's dark in here."

"I know."

"So hold tight so you don't get lost."

"..."

"..."

"Anos?"

"Ah."

"There are no other exits here, and 'getting lost' is difficult."

"For now, but better just in case."

"..."

The warm palm tightened again, and Lola sighed silently. Someone has become extremely 'sticky' since waking up. If she hadn't watched his vitality recover with her own eyes, she really thought she was dreaming— —He has become a little different from before, but when he thinks about it carefully, he can't tell what has changed.

For three days, they were trapped here.

In this dark and desolate mud cave, the roots of the magic tree pass through it, and it emits faint fluorescence, absorbing everything as nutrients—there is only a dilapidated stone staircase left in the entire dungeon, and one room after another. And out, the stone chamber was sealed tightly.

According to legend, the ancient Wende people once lived in the Black Forest. They are the descendants of the gods. They came from the center of the ground and guarded the magic tree for generations. The creator bestowed upon them powerful innate power and the source of all magic.Until fate came, the gods fell, and powerful tribes such as the dragon tribe and the elf tribe also perished due to weakness, but Wende's tribe was unwilling to leave with the creator, because they loved this homeland and ordinary people. everything of.

The continuation of the bloodline shortened their lifespan and weakened their strength. They gradually became mortals and could no longer compete with the magic tree.By fate, the last Wende tribe chose to leave. He took away the magic source peeped by the magic tree, and blocked the road between the entire underground world and the mortal world.

[I will not come back, this will be the end. ]

Afterwards, the beginning of the entire Barodis family, Lola has already known in the narration of the portrait of Ladi.

So, the Wind family lives here?

No, rather than a place of residence, it is better to regard it as the place where the Wende people belong.Although the place is now in ruins, it is not for nothing.Lola and Anos found a broken magic circle in the withered well.

The ever-heating 'Wend Key' told them that there is the only channel connecting the two worlds.

There was nothing to hesitate, the two of them went down to the bottom of the well, the entire well spring was already occupied by the magic tree, and the roots exuding faint fluorescence were on the verge of withering, and they entangled themselves into extremely thick knots, which seemed impossible to untie - Lola He and Anos easily crossed the obstacle - the magic circle in the center of the well spring was not damaged by the magic tree. After wiping away the thick soil, one can vaguely see the hard stone surface and the complicated patterns carved on it thousands of years ago.

The structural design is exactly the same as the remaining magic circle, so they are very sure that this is a teleportation magic circle, but how to open it?

"There is a groove here, which is the same size as the 'key'."

Anos searched carefully, and finally found the mechanism under the decoration. He turned his head and saw Lola pushing away the dead branches on the wall directly in front of the magic circle—there were faded murals and strange Characters - Lola's eyes are blurred, and her fingertips are wandering on it little by little, whispering a beautiful language in her mouth.

"Lola?"

Anos approached suspiciously. When he stood by her side and looked towards the wall, a strange feeling arose spontaneously—it was a text that he had never seen before, but it lit up with every call. together, like beautiful stars, transforming the entire wall into a rippling screen of light...

They saw millions of years ago—

The first branch of the demon tree seed sprinkled by the king of darkness pulled out the first branch, and its root system closely connected different worlds... In the fierce battle day and night, the black god and the white god cut off the root system connecting the god world and the mortal world, and the gods lost their lives. Most of the power of faith... The blood sprinkled by the gods was absorbed by the magic tree, and the Wende people were born from the fruits of the magic tree... The world was in chaos, and the creator ordered the Wende people to water the magic tree with the magic source, and use it to grow stronger root system to stabilize the world, and ordered them to keep cutting off the overgrown branches of the magic tree, so as to prevent the energy of the whole world from being absorbed too much... Every 1000 years, new Wende people are born from the fruit, and dead people are born from the fruit. Then it turns into the nourishment of the magic tree, and it goes round and round, and the reincarnation continues. The Wende family and the magic tree coexist and live...

until—

The retrograde disk of fate changed its trajectory, the source of magic dried up, the magic tree could no longer bear new fruits, and no new clansmen were born... The God Realm collapsed, the Creator left, and the Wende people chose to live with the mortal world. Intermarry and multiply... The magic tree is sealed in the center of the ground, and one day, it will shed its last dead leaf and die completely along with the destruction of the whole world...

As the light curtain dimmed, Lola and Anos woke up in a trance. They felt the loneliness and loneliness brought about by the time and space that traveled through the eternal light-years——birth and destruction are originally the source of fate— ——But even so, tiny human beings still live in the incomparably real present.

They must leave before their strength is exhausted.

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"This space suppresses the magic power." Anos took the key out of the mechanism groove, "Without the introduction of magic energy, the key cannot open the teleportation circle."

"It sounds a bit bad, but we still have hope."

"?"

"For example, pray for the protection of the gods-do you have faith?"

"Does the magic god count?"

"Of course, I don't think the old man will be stingy, giving two poor 'mortals' a little bit of high-level energy to break through obstacles."

"Unfortunately, he didn't."

"Maybe……"

After a brief silence, Lola stood up suddenly.

"Lola!" Anos held her tightly, "You'd better forget about this idea completely, I won't allow you to do stupid things."

"It's not stupid, we have no choice now."

"That's not up to you!" The veins on Anos' forehead were throbbing, "If this is really the only way to activate the magic circle, then bring the 'power of evil god' back to me— "

"No, I don't want to see you getting old again, you've already done it once!" Lola tried to pull back her hand, "And, don't forget, the power of evil spirits exists in my body now ...so, until I succeed, you'd better play it safe."

"Lola!!"

Anos felt that he was going crazy, he couldn't help turning her face away, the two of them pressed their foreheads together, in the faint fluorescent light around them, the same stubbornness was reflected in each other's eyes.

"You know, no matter what you look like, it's hard for me to look away. I'm willing to accommodate you in everything—but not this time, I can't just watch you put yourself in danger..."

"Come on!" Lola said nonchalantly, "We're just going out from here. It's not as scary as you think. Besides, haven't the two of us been in danger too often?! Oh, yes, obviously I'm more Suitable for 'container', isn't it?"

Lola's understated ridicule reminded Anos of how he couldn't help himself in the ice and snow. He was in more pain and helpless——

"Can't my insistence make you change your mind?"

"Respect my decision, Anos. I promise, the magic tree will not harm me, we just need to open the key again with the power of evil spirits like a 'sacrifice'."

"..."

"Have I convinced you?"

"No."

"Looks like we're deadlocked again."

"No, I will do it the way you want, if... something unexpected happens, I will not live alone.

"You don't have to do that." Lola laughed. "It's not the Middle Ages, and we're not rehearsing Tristan and Iser."

"A truly chaste and ardent love will not rely on any magic potions, but is like lava in the deep sea, never extinguished from beginning to end—Lola, promise me that you will never leave me again, okay?"

"I'm the one who should make the request at a time like this, right?"

"Please don't reject me..."

"Let's talk about it, it depends on your mood."

Pretending not to notice Anos' disappointment, Lola took off his collar pin and cut her wrist. Wende's blood prevented her from being actively attacked by the magic tree, but when the tiny branch was embedded in the wound, the sacrificial ground This action caused the roots of the magic tree to grow tiny roots, stretching upwards, and soon found a target wrapped in low-level magic power in Lola's body.

Layer after layer, the roots of the magic tree pierced Lola's magical power, and the power of the evil spirit was slowly stripped from it. With its recovery, Lola's consciousness became blurred, pain, cold sweat, and all perceptions Being pulled away again - just when she was about to fall into the illusion, Anos' words pulled her back.

"You know, for a moment, I feel that I have been by your side for centuries. Everything you have experienced, the present and the future, are both familiar and unfamiliar to me..."

"Sounds... wonderful."

"Yeah, wonderful, who would have thought that Senior Romanov would be your knight, Professor Mandeln once proposed to you, even those 'Watchers' are your companions...you know, you mean to me How important it is, what you like, what you care about, is what I like and care about... You will not be alone anymore, I will always be by your side..."

Anos kept talking, trying to keep Lola awake, and at the same time paying close attention—when the roots of the magic tree surrounded the power of the evil spirits, he slowly and firmly moved the hideous energy, together with The roots of the magic tree were ripped out—the blood gushed out, and he quickly cleaned up the remaining roots, and wrapped her wrist tightly with a pocket square.

The power of the evil spirit was constantly struggling while being absorbed by the roots of the magic tree. Before the magic tree started to absorb and transform, Anos cut it off and threw it into the center of the magic circle. He stuffed the 'Wend key' into the concave In the tank——

The magic circle was opened, and in the refracted familiar blue light, the centrifugal force threw them up. Anos held Lola tightly in his arms again. When the junction was at its peak, he whispered in Lola's ear:

"I would like to swear with every waking breath of my life that I will give you all my love and honesty, until death, until the next reincarnation..."

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Germany? Black Forest? Black Castle

Juno has always thought that he is a very caring person. After the rare thunderstorm half a year ago, he found a strange animal under the cliff in the deep valley. It looked like a horse and sounded like a horse, but it was long. With a deformed back, broken gray scales all over his body, and a mouth full of fangs, he looked very ferocious.Although he rescued this poor and innocent animal for free, it did not make him feel relieved at all, because his good friend and owner of Castle Black—Alan Laertes disappeared in a thunderstorm.

At first there was a search party sent by the police, but in the face of a terrible disaster, no one was optimistic that any survivors would be found.Later, the government withdrew the search, and only Mr. Housekeeper organized people to search spontaneously. They still did not believe that their employer would disappear without a trace.

This thunderstorm and hurricane brought great losses to the tourism industry in the Black Forest. The 500 highway was almost beyond recognition, and the alpine cherry orchard was almost destroyed. Fortunately, relying on the exchange rate import and export and the brewery, it was hard to avoid bankruptcy. .

"Well, I've done enough for you, man!"

Juno sighed, he was so busy with business affairs, and the strange horse has been screaming and screaming since this morning. If it goes on like this, he might be sued for animal cruelty.He came to the stable in a hurry, but as soon as he opened the door, he was thrown aside by a huge momentum—the strange horse broke free from the wooden fence and ran out, jumped into the air in a few steps, and flew towards the direction of the cliff.

This horse can fly? !

Juno was stunned, and rubbed his eyes vigorously, he could barely see the deformed bump on the back, it turned out to be the right wing? !He even jumped into the jeep and started the engine to chase after the strange flying horse without bothering to call out. He was an atheist before, but what he had seen and heard did not prevent him from exploring that novel magic The world—now, he had a premonition that something terrible must have happened near the cliff.

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The space-time gap opened and closed again.

After a flash of blue light, Anos and Lola both rolled down in the soft grass. At the bottom of the cliff formed by the collapse of the big lake where the water elves once lived, they finally returned to their homeland full of vitality.

The dragon horse hovering in the air burned with magic flames, and the mottled gray and black turned into pure white wings. It landed lightly and let out a long and clear whistle.

"Villes, she needs to rest."

Anos held Lola in his arms, her eyes closed tightly, as light as a feather.Under the acquiescence of the flying beast, he jumped on the horseback, hugged his beloved in his arms, and tapped his fingertips—the walnut wand that fell into the marl showed his figure, and flew back into the hands of the master.

"Ellen!!!"

As Ryoma flew over the cliff, Juno's jeep arrived, screeching on the brakes, poking his head out of the car window, waving his hands excitedly, "Hey, man! I knew you'd be back! You're not here In the past six months, I have worked hard to keep both of our property, and my life is simply horrible!"

"Thank you, Juno."

The dragon horse passed over the head of the jeep, kicking up a cloud of dust that covered the sky and the sun. Juno coughed a few times, but saw the face of the person lying in his friend's arms clearly with sharp eyes.

"Isn't this...Miss Vance? Hey, wait for me!"

The jeep started again and rushed towards the path in the forest.

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