The Witch and the Doll Swear

Back in the urban area floating on the lake, the women took the girls to the roof of a bungalow in the urban area, and then left to prepare for the banquet that would welcome them.

"Do they usually sleep looking at the sun?"

The fact that these Sinai people spread the blankets directly on the roof of the bungalows as a bed made Tina a little bit dumbfounded.

Before the woman left, she suggested that they could take a nap, but lying here, even if they closed their eyes, the blue sky and the golden sun's light would pass through their thin eyelids. Not only that, but also the hustle and bustle of the street It was transmitted to the ears without hindrance, unless one was drunk or the sleepiness swelled to the limit, otherwise no one should be able to fall asleep in such an environment.

Taking the dew-stained bouquet away from the pillow, Tina took off her sandals, sat on the open-air bed prepared for them, and rubbed her sore calves.

"...For them, it may be a kind of happiness to be illuminated by the sun while sleeping."

The witch sat down, put Alice beside her, and set a few invisible "wizard eyes" around her.

After setting up some basic precautions, the witch squinted her eyes and looked at the sun in the sky. The golden ball didn't seem to respond to all this, but was still floating low on the top of the obelisk made of gold. .

"...Now, let's sort out what we know so far."

The women's departure gave them a quiet time, and they needed to use this time to sort out the status quo.

First of all, what is certain is that the place where they are now is the secret realm established in Sinai by the magic emperors of the ancient magic empire by setting up magic that covers the entire Sinai to suppress the sand damage. A place that cannot be set foot by grace.

The stone slabs in the hands of the corpses in the deserted temple leading to the entrance gap are the most powerful proof.

"But how should I put it, this place is really beyond Alice's and Lily's expectations... Whether it's this city, these Sinai people, or the unknown god shrouded in light on the throne..."

Alice raised her little feet and looked around.

There is nothing on the roof that obstructs the line of sight, and the scene of the city is unobstructed in her eyes.

Those palm trees, flowers, and papyrus clusters by the water are swaying with vitality in midsummer. Pedestrians on the street drove their carts to carry wine jars and pieces of meat, as if they were talking excitedly about the feast that would be served to them next.

It was the first time for Alice to see such ancient magic empire ruins.

The empire that compared itself to the gods has disappeared on the mainland for a long time, and the ancient magic they are proud of has become the past introduced in three chapters in the history of magic.

These ruins are scattered all over the land, and only ancient treasures, terrible magic traps and violent golems are passed down from adventurer to adventurer.

In order to find out what happened to Liliana and herself that day, she and the witch have been to the ruins of many ancient magic empires. Those ruins and hidden secrets are scattered all over the mainland. In the silence of time, it became one ancient tomb after another.

But this secret realm is still alive.

Perhaps the people in charge have perished with the fall of the empire, but there is still a golden sphere in the sky that clearly belongs to some kind of magic—or perhaps a divine creation, and the residents still believe that it should be just some heretic It was a god conceived by the pharaohs to suppress the increasingly powerful priesthood. They even faced it at a very close distance, but they were blocked by the brilliant light and couldn't see the true face clearly.

Is that god the key to the vitality and vitality of this secret realm?

Thinking of this, floating on the girl's bent knee, the little doll asked this question.

"Did Miss Tingna see the true face of that god? At that time, Miss Tingna showed a very frightened expression."

"...well, I'm freaking out."

Through a layer of linen fabric, Tina stretched her arms around Alice's slender waist, feeling the cool temperature of the doll's chocolate-colored skin, and recalling what she saw at that moment, the girl couldn't help but He shuddered a bit, and buried his face in her arms.

Alice hugged Tina, and her body temperature reassured the girl, allowing her to show fear without embarrassment when she recalled "that" she saw in the sacrificial hall.

"...It's a mummy."

After organizing her words, Tina took a deep breath and raised her head from Alice's embrace.

"On that throne sits a... mummy with ornate decorations all over its body."

The blessings of Light Elemental Elf Laite and Dark Elemental Elf Knight endowed her with eyes that can see through strong light and darkness. So far, this power has not failed even once.

Therefore, at that time, when Tingna followed the example of that woman and raised her lowered head, her eyes passed through the shining light curtain and saw the withered figure on the throne.

On the shriveled body that could be described as skinny, most of the skin was wrapped in yellowed cloth strips, but in some uncovered places, wrinkled skin could still be seen.

Wearing such a corpse is a set of golden armor, under the double crown of Sinai engraved with the sun, the empty eye sockets are like two deep black holes, gazing at everything. It's like not looking at anything.

"Mummy? It's not Osiris, why is there... a mummy sitting on the throne?"

"That must be a mummy, in the name of the true god."

Ting Na bit the word "mummy" very firmly. The girl looked at her serious expression, and did not continue to complain. Instead, she stroked one of her eyes and lowered her head in thought.

After a while, Ai suddenly raised his head.

"What are the characteristics of that mummy?"

"Features? I only glanced at it, and then I didn't dare to look any further. What are the characteristics—"

--some.

Tingna shuddered suddenly, looking at Ai with a look of horror in her eyes, Liliana also stared at her apprentice, her eyes flickering deeply.

Distinctive features that would be remembered even with a brief glance were present in that mummy.

"...its head is very thin and long, like..."

"It's like the stone statue seen in front of the gate, isn't it?"

The dark-haired girl slowly lowered her hands from her eyes.

This is really a crazy idea, but considering the empty coffin of the pharaoh in the buried tomb before entering the secret realm, it does not seem to be an absurd assumption.

Where did the mummy go?

Generally speaking, it should be that the ashes of the temple class that was looted from the tomb were raised. During the reign of this pharaoh, the temple forces in Sinai encountered unprecedented suppression. Since they did not leave even a single burial object, they will not let it go. Walking over corpses is also conceivable.

However, since the entrance to the secret realm was placed in his mausoleum, considering that Sinai was still a vassal state within the territory of the ancient magic empire at that time, the success of the early stage of the Sunlun religion reform was due to the connivance of the magic emperors... When the closed tomb first After being opened for the first time, when those angry priests and believers came here, was the coffin already empty?

Could it be that the mummy awoke from repose sometime soon after the burial? It stood up staggeringly, covered with cloth strips soaked in medicinal liquid, it held the stone slab it was buried with, and squeezed into the narrow gap, at the other end of the world, continued to rule the kingdom built for him by King's Landing, continued to rule His subjects—

——As a god.

shudder.

Tingna rubbed her arms, trying to smooth away the goosebumps that had arisen. The scene that popped up in her mind uncontrollably reminded her of hiding under the blanket and watching the horror in the dark with the help of a small magic lamp. The thrilling feeling of the novel.

"There's a lot more that can't be explained, these golden suns that have been hovering over our heads, those wrists, and the oracle that the woman heard."

Ai didn't look excited at all, and then she asked a series of questions, and the answers to these questions are still unknown.

"...And most importantly, the significance of the existence of this secret realm. Most of these secret realms created by the ancient magic empire are secret testing grounds. What kind of experiments are they doing here? Why did they put the mummy in the place of great religious significance? In the position, why is this secret realm still operating..."

The witch let out a long breath.

In the situation where she doesn't know much about everything here, even she can make extremely limited guesses.

"……have a rest."

"Eh?"

"...The current situation is not suitable for us to take the initiative to explore. I'm not sure whether the mummy is a real mummy. The sun in the sky may also have a monitoring function. We have broken into a weird and strange place. Now, more than Instead of racking your brains to think about the lack of necessary clues, why not take a break now and recover your strength... After a while, there will be a banquet waiting for us."

After finishing speaking, Liliana habitually reached for the buttons of the long skirt, but before touching the buttons, her movements stopped.

"...For the time being, this place is still in the city, so it might be seen..."

This time, the witch really sighed. She lay down on the blanket and turned her body sideways.

She wasn't sleepy, but she didn't have to be asleep to be rested. Ting Na and Ai, who had nothing else to do while sitting, also lay down on their own blankets and began to close their eyes and meditate.

"Speaking of which, Miss Liliana."

"...?"

"After a while at the banquet, can we really eat what they prepared? I don't seem to have seen farmland and pastures. I remember reading that some pharaohs' funeral objects included mummies of livestock and wine. If they took What should we do if we feed that kind of food..."

"...I will test the poison first, and if there is no problem, Miss Tingna and Ai will take it later."

"Master Liliana, what if there is a problem?"

"Alice and Lily can't let Miss Tina and Ai eat something that will kill them."

"But in that case, there might be conflicts, right?"

"...There will always be a way."

Liliana said so.

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Fortunately, the food served at the banquet was fresh and harmless.

The main meal is fish. The fresh lake fish salvaged from the lake so clear that you can see the soft sand are roasted on a pine wood fire until it is crispy and golden. It is delicious enough to simply use salt for seasoning, even without A little fishy.

In addition to fish, there are also grouse, wild boar, and antelope, all of which are equally fresh and delicious.

Obviously, there are no breeding farms in the city, and there is only long yellow sand blocked by the water outside the city. Where did these foods come from? Even if Tina asked them, the answer she got was "these are the gifts of God Aten".

...Is it really not a problem to eat these things of unknown origin?

With such doubts, and it was not too long before breakfast, the girls who were not considered hungry only took a few skewers of grilled fish, biting them in small bites, feeling the slightly sweet fish bouncing on the tip of their tongues.

The Sinai people didn't have any objection to their "partial eclipse". They embraced the wine jar enthusiastically and stuffed the golden glass into their hands. The indifferent witch suddenly took a deep breath, and a strange light flashed in her pupils.

"Ferdyga?"

She spoke the name of a wine that Tina had never heard of, brought the wine glass to her lips, shook the bright color, and took a sip.

Then, Liliana showed a surprised expression. She put down the grilled fish, picked up the wine glass with an almost pious expression, and sniffed the rich aroma of the wine slowly awakening in the sun and air, taking a sip, a sip.

A blush crept up her fair cheeks, and the witch slowly relaxed, squinting her eyes and showing an intoxicating smile.

...Miss Tina, Ai, try it, this is a wine used to worship the gods that was only brewed during the reign of Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, the last bottle on the mainland when I was the queen At that time, it was drunk at the palace banquet, but I didn't expect to drink it here...

After drinking the glass, the witch handed the glass to the young man holding the clay pot. The muscular young man who was filling the glass in front of everyone grinned, and lifted the wine jar to refill it for her.

Ting Na picked up the wine glass and took a sip. She was still a novice in wine appreciation, but she couldn't find any adjectives to accurately describe the wine that hung between her lips and teeth like honey. Touching the wine with a strong taste, I can only drink the second sip after the first sip slips into my throat.

"... Delicious! This taste... so powerful!"

——However, compared to Ai who only drinks because of the delicious taste, she is still more cultivated in this field.

Tingna's somewhat complacent eyes were quickly noticed by the keen little black cat. Ai looked at Tingna suspiciously, as if he could see that Tingna's deliberate collapse of maturity and composure was trying to express something, but he didn't know what to say. He didn't understand where Ting Na's sense of superiority came from, so he looked at her suspiciously.

Just when the conflict of eyes was about to escalate, a clay pot fell between their sights.

It was the young man who just poured wine for Liliana. He and a young woman came in front of Tina and Ai, and placed a jar of wine and bread decorated with flower petals in front of them.

"Drink to your heart's content. Although you are not from Sinai, under the light of God Aten, we are indistinguishable from each other."

He smiled heartily and poured golden mead for himself and the woman. They toasted to Tina and Ai together. After the golden liquid disappeared in the cup, the man wiped the powder from his lips. , singing loudly.

"Praise God Aten, drink and sing, in his kingdom we need not worry."

"In its kingdom we are free from pain."

"Sing and dance, traveler from afar."

"Let us be comforted by God Aten."

"Let us be in the warm wrist of the sun."

"Sing, laugh, sing, dance, drink!"

First another young man, then an old man with a fake beard, then a boy and a girl biting a small pastry, and an old woman surrounded by Liliana with loving eyes, and finally, all the Sinai people present were drinking During the interval, they all opened their voices and sang loudly.

The girls who failed to hold back the enthusiasm of the people put down their wine glasses and danced with them around the bonfire amidst the singing. On the way, Tingna couldn't help laughing when she saw Liliana and Ai being dragged and danced by a group of children, but when she saw a robust young man who was taller than her in high heels and invited her to dance, she smiled. The sound stopped abruptly, and almost dropped the wine glass in his hand on the ground.

Fortunately, these Sinai dances to please the gods are just stretching out their hands to the sky, and then the two of them face to face and turn in circles. After dancing around, the girl only felt that some of her upper head became more dizzy because of the constant rotation. , as soon as she sat down, she fell on the lap of Ai who had the same red face and mist in her eyes, which shocked Ai greatly.

"What, you, what are you doing, lying on someone's lap all of a sudden!"

Ai, who also drank a lot of alcohol, even changed his name.

"A little dizzy... dizzy..."

"You, you are an adult drinking alcohol, you are not as good as others!"

"No... there's no way, because it's delicious, I drank too much before I knew it, and I danced that circle dance... Gu..."

"You, if you spit on someone, they will definitely want you to lick it clean! Take your hands away and don't hesitate to touch them!! Your wine is too bad!!"

Tina made a few guttural noises, which made Ai scream, but the girl still didn't push the girl lying on top of her away. After screaming, she asked for a glass of water while babbling Complaining, he stroked Tina's back and fed water into her mouth.

Obviously, banquets are the same no matter where in the mainland, there is good wine and a warm atmosphere. Songs are sung in this atmosphere. People dance in the reverberating songs, and then continue to drink and taste delicious food.

I don’t know how much time has passed, but the sky is still shrouded in the dawn light, and the light of the golden sun shines on the scattered wine glasses. The bonfire was still crackling, but the sound of wine glasses rising and falling gradually became less and less, the young singing voices of children and the aged voices of the elderly no longer sang loudly, and messy snoring continued one after another.

In the center of this scene, which was like a scene from drunken hell, the witch gathered her long hair and stood up unsteadily.

Now, beside her, a pile of clay pots was empty.

After the dance, Liliana, a taciturn and good drinker, quickly attracted people's attention.

These Sinai people who grew up in wine gathered around Liliana and praised her good drinking ability. In order to drink heartily, those Sinai people took out all their best wine.

Then jars of wine were emptied one after another, and confident people fell down one after another. Sweat and the wine spilled from the cups wetted a large area of ​​the ground. In front of the wet mountain of drunkards, Lilia Na shook the last real red wine syrup in the glass, stepped over the piles of "corpses", and came to Ai's side.

Her fair skin was glowing a beautiful pink color due to the large amount of alcohol. The aroma of wine was so strong that it couldn't be dissolved. She was surrounded by sweat. Every part of the black linen was wet with sweat, making this mysterious and gorgeous robe stick to her body. .

Liliana pulled up her clothes. Under the rolled up skirt, large drops of water slid down her calves. The wet little footprints spread on the carpet. The witch took a long breath and was reluctant to leave. He looked at the wine in the glass and hesitated for a long time without drinking it.

"... After drinking this glass, unless the recipe for brewing this wine is dug out from the sea of ​​​​sand in Sinai, otherwise..."

"Master Liliana really likes drinking...and she has a good capacity for drinking. She actually drank everyone by herself..."

"The Einhart family has been a drunkard for generations. When Ai grows up, he should be able to drink as well as Lily."

All the Sinai people were already drunk. Even Tina was lying on Ai's lap with half-closed eyes. Alice, who didn't have to worry about being seen by others and causing unnecessary problems, got up and stretched. Waist, said this to Ai who showed a surprised expression.

"...No, although I know that all of my mother's family members are Noble Phantasm-level powerhouses in the wine shop, but even they..."

Looking at the people lying in various shapes a few meters away, Ai shook his head vigorously.

She drank a lot, relying on the fine bloodline inherited from her mother, and now she was just slightly tipsy. But even the most famous elders in the family have never heard of any of them having the feat of defeating more than forty people.

Although these are not all the people in this secret realm, according to these residents, there are more than thirty priests in the temple, and there are also a similar number of people in the city on the other side. Counting the guards inside the temple, Tina and the others are going The guards I saw when I met the god, there were more than a hundred residents in the kingdom of Aten.

This banquet is not really a banquet. The truly grand reception banquet is held when the morning light is the haziest - perhaps that is the night time in this demiplane.

"...I usually get drunk on this rare opportunity, but where we are now doesn't allow me to enjoy the wine, so I cheated a little bit."

Liliana shook her head, stared at the wine glass in her hand, and then drank slowly, bit by bit, as if stirring each drop between her lips and teeth several times.

But there was only one glass of wine left, and no matter how slowly she drank, it would only make the end of the booze slower. In the end, the witch stared at the clear wine glass in her hand with a sense of loss, and put it down after several minutes.

"...I tried to inquire about some things while drinking, but I didn't get any useful information. There is no alternation of day and night here. These Sinai people don't even know how long a long time is."

Putting down the wine glass, the witch had a translucent test tube made of gum in her hand. She pulled out the oak stopper and fed the potion into Tina's mouth with the help of Ai and Alice.

"..."Bitter Wheat Potion" is a masterpiece of the dwarves. Although there is no sour bitter wheat from the mountains of Omaz, so the onset of effect is slower, but it is enough in many cases. I found out that these wines are Foti I secretly drank a tube of this after eating Tiga, so I can enjoy it now. "

Ai opened his mouth blankly.

Shaking her hair, facing the expression of her apprentice, Liliana's voice took on a self-deprecating tone.

"...are you disappointed that I cheated on the drinking thing?"

"No, no, how can I be disappointed because of such a thing! It's just, I have a problem."

"……question?"

"Just, no matter how good Liliana is at drinking, she actually drank a lot of water after drinking so much wine. However, Liliana didn't seem to be in a bad mood, and she never went to the toilet. That , if you just sweat, there should be no way to expel so much water quickly..."

Ai stared at the witch's sweat-soaked body.

Under the top of the breasts, she has drank so much wine, but her lower abdomen still has no obvious bulge. So far, Liliana has not gone to the toilet. It is really curious to drink so much wine. Where did you go...

"……that."

Liliana also lowered her head, looking at her flat belly, her gaze stretched from the sweat-soaked dress to her toes, she always knew everything she wanted to answer, but this time she just revealed a mysterious With a smile, he answered like this.

"...This is a lady's secret."

"To be precise, a real lady would never go—well."

Covering the lips of the talkative little puppet, the witch shook her head expressionlessly, then she stood up, walked through the messy banquet hall, and came to the edge of the river in the city.

"...As a result, I went to a banquet before conducting a formal investigation. Are you still drinking like this... After Tingna wakes up, while these people are drunk, let's conduct a little investigation. If we As the builder of this secret realm, I will definitely hide important magic structures and monitoring facilities of the testing ground in hidden places...such as deep in the foundation, such as the bottom of the water..."

The foundation of Baishi is thick. In the clear lake water, you can see swaying lotus flowers and fine sand at the bottom. Fish swim in the waves, spit out a string of fine air bubbles from time to time.

"Or, what's inside the three big golden balls."

The Witch gazed at the water and the earth, while Alice looked up at the sun that had been above them since entering the city.

However, this is not the original one.

There are three golden spheres in the sky as the sun, except for one that seems to be constantly moving along the bridge, now hovering on the top of the temple, and the remaining two are suspended above the city, projecting from a position higher than the obelisk Financial light.

The light interweaves into a brilliant light curtain covering the sky, which is even more sacred against the backdrop of the morning light. The slender wrists of light float in the atmosphere like tentacles, floating gently.

……Um?

Alice, who was drifting towards the witch, stopped.

When looking at these golden spheres before, are there these things in those ethereal light curtains?

The arms that once fell on the woman's head, conveying the oracle of Aten, fell like rain from the light, falling to the house, falling to the grass, falling to the tall trees and the drunken crowd .

It is like the supreme and good god who created all things stretches out his hand from the sun that shines on all things, and caresses every plant, every tree, every human and every beast in the world equally. The light wrist passes through the distance between the sky and the earth, as if there is a solemn chant echoing, from the long-lasting rocks, from the water surface reflecting the sun, the ancient words convey the mercy of God, extremely solemn and sacred.

"The Sun Wheel of Thousand Hands"

It turns out that this is how the symbolic pattern came about...

This magnificent scenery was deeply engraved in Ai's eyes. As a magician, she immediately connected this scene with the city and the ubiquitous pattern in Akhenaten's tomb.

The girl's curiosity is a little ready to move.

Even though she already knew that this secret realm was built by magic emperors, and that the wrists of light should be some kind of magic effect, and it is best not to touch them rashly for safety reasons, but she still couldn't help thinking, if this is really What is more is magic, then how to weave it, and what effect it has.

This curiosity ends at the moment when the hands of light reach into the skulls of those drunk and unconscious.

"—Ai! Lily!"

When the expression on the girl's face was replaced by panic, Miss Doll's voice exploded on the street at the same time.

More light wrists touched the drunken people. The bodies of those who were first penetrated by the light wrists twitched violently. At that moment, their bodies became transparent, and even the clothes on their bodies faded from color. The living, still snoring contentedly, was transformed into an unreal, flickering shadow.

This scene was like a sharp needle pricking the girl's short-lived nerves.

The invisible barrier erected instantly surrounded her and Ting Na, who was still drunk. Regardless of the additional consumption of spell slots, Ai made the most instinctive response of a magician at this time. Alice's voice rang out again - that's useless!

Compared with her apprentice, the witch reacted faster, the spell sequence was triggered, and the magic, physical, and spiritual three-layer defensive shield protected the witch.

She also threw the magic shield at those who were drinking together for a moment. But after the shield was erected, Alice immediately found that whether it was the hands of light that had penetrated into the heads of the Sinai people or those that had not yet touched, they all passed through these walls without any delay, which was enough to resist the magic bombing for a few minutes, even Including those on Liliana.

They were not affected in the slightest, and the magic barrier that could block most attacks seemed to be completely non-existent in front of them. In such a short period of time, Guang's slender wrist had already broken through Ai's shield.

"Miss Tina! Tina! Damn it! You drunkard, get up!"

Ai vigorously pulled her legs out from under Tina's head, but it seemed that the girl who had fallen asleep became heavier than a big rock at this time, and her legs were numb because of being pillowed.

"Tina!! Get up for me!!!"

But Tingna, who was sleeping drowsily, didn't respond at all. The hand of light that passed through the magic shield was about to fall on top of her head. a roll.

The distance was not long, but the wrist that was thrown into the air did not change its direction and continued to extend. Instead, it was on the top of the two people's heads, and more bare wrists fell.

If magic is ineffective, then even Liliana Einstein's apprentice is just a weak girl with no power to restrain her. Ai raised her head and looked around, but there were light wrists coming down everywhere in the city !

This city, the city on the other side of the bridge, that temple... God Aten is called the sun wheel of a thousand hands, but there are more than a thousand wrists protruding from the sun at this moment?

"……cut!"

Can't let weird tricks get into the brain of a stupid woman who doesn't know how to drink and how much she can handle!

But at the next moment, the hair that gradually changed to pure white brushed against Ai's face.

"Master Liliana!"

"Flash"

Tearing the distance of the space, the Witch stood beside Ai. Those light wrists penetrated the Witch's shield, but stopped when they were only a little away from her body.

The witch's eyes froze, and then quickly grabbed the spell-casting materials from the space storage ring, and cast two spells in succession, consisting of "Essos' three-phase anti-magic barrier" and "Alan Jia's spiritual protection force field" Ting Na and Ai's body were covered by the protection.

This is already the fifth magic that the witch has used instantly through "Instant Spell".

Although the consumption of the magic power of these spells is not too large, the skill of instant spell casting is at the cost of several times the magic power. After shaking her dizzy head, the witch narrowed her eyes slightly and stared at the hands of light. It collided with the edge of the mind protection force field, causing waves of ripples.

These light wrists are spiritual magic - at least for the mind and heart.

"...Don't panic, Ai, and don't rely too much on the magic shield. I remember that although you haven't learned the "Alan Jia Mind Protection Force Field", you can still use the basic "Mind Blessing Technique". "

After unscrewing a bottle of magic potion, Liliana's voice didn't fluctuate at all.

She paused, then nodded slightly towards Ai.

"...But for the first time, you did a good job...at least, you didn't leave your companions behind."

"How, how could it be possible to leave this drunk and escape on my own, I am Liliana's apprentice—and as a nobleman, cough, cough, this, this is a matter of course..."

"...a noble reason."

Liliana smiled silently, but at this moment Ai's expression suddenly turned pale.

"Master Li, Liliana! Those hands... those hands seem to have taken something from their heads!!"

"...?!"

Liliana turned her head sharply.

The wrist of light that fell first slowly withdrew.

After they leave the human body, those figures that seem to disappear in the next gust of wind are re-colored like afterimages, and they emerge from the heads of unconscious people on the way to retract their wrists to the huge golden ball in the sky. What was taken out was finally seen clearly by Liliana, Alice and Ai.

A shimmering talisman of life.

Immediately, this scene was connected with another mural in the witch's mind. It was a carved stone slab buried in yellow sand in front of Akhenaten's mausoleum. On the slate, two people worshiped on the left and right sides. The sun disc in the sky stretching out its wrist, and in those hands are held...

It is the talisman of life.

On the ancient land of Sinai, there are always ancient symbols used to make amulets.

The meaning of this symbol, even the scholars in Sinai are arguing endlessly. Some people think that it represents life, just like its name, but some people interpret it from the ancient name "Anka" of this symbol, and think that it represents some kind of spirituality. "Card" - the power that the noblest and most fragile "soul" can safely exist in the human body. Some people think that this symbol represents memory and represents people's lofty belief in God...

Liliana could think of more than a dozen of these contentious theories. But no matter which of these theories are adopted, what is presented to them is a silent plunder, or it can be called a grand sacrifice, and the sacrifice is everyone here at the moment.

Of course, including them, as the hand holding the Talisman of Life retracted to the golden sun, more and more wrists of light fell towards them concentratedly, and the ripples on the edge of the spiritual protection force field gradually turned into waves , some wrists began to approach, this endless attack almost dyed everything the girls saw golden.

"It's not okay to go on like this, Lily, do you want to fight? Or retreat and see the situation first?"

After Alice finished speaking, she looked at the golden sun above her head.

She raised her hand, and the strong wind whipped up the water, rising from the lake to the top of the obelisk, crashing into a spray of water mist on the golden sun.

can hit.

Not even magic for defense.

After confirming these two points, Alice floated to Tina's side, and made two slaps unceremoniously, making the face of the girl who was still sleeping in a drunken state due to the anti-alcoholic drug that had not been effective for a long time Two small palm prints were left on it.

"Wow! What, what, what's going on..."

"...Let's retreat first, this sphere can't even see the protective magic, if it is broken, it may lead to some unexpected consequences, and..."

Expanding the self-centered "Ellenka Mind Protection Force Field", Liliana pulled Ai up from the ground without the slightest hesitation. At the same time, she didn't understand the situation at all, as if she was still intoxicated by the aftermath of the banquet. Tina, running towards the stairs leading to the bridge.

As the first exploration of the secret realm, their actions were bold and aggressive enough. While finding out the identity of the "god", they also enjoyed a feast of fine wine. From various perspectives, it was the harvest of the initial exploration Both are big enough.

Now, they should be more cautious, or at least retreat outside the city to have a look.

"Agreed, I haven't seen these hands outside the city. No matter what happens, it's better to reason first. Run away, Miss Tina, Ai, give yourself the "Feather Fall" spell, and Lily will use the magic of acceleration! "

"Eh? Okay, okay... Wait, wait a minute, where are those Sinai people?"

"There's no time to deal with them now, and they're not normal! There must be something wrong!"

"Okay, okay!!"

Tingna, who hadn't figured out what happened, saw the wave of light wrists that was overwhelming them, and her intoxicated brain was more than half awake in an instant.

Although she didn't know what happened during her drunken stupor, she dared to touch the ring on her hand, and wanted to add "feather fall" to herself.

But the next moment, the girl let out a scream.

A thick stone slab suddenly appeared in front of the girl, fell under the force of the earth, and hit Tingna's left foot wearing a sandal.

"hiss--!!!"

Heartbreaking pain spread from the toes, and Tingna, who was about to start running, fell directly to the ground. The sudden pull caught Liliana and Ai off guard, and the witch, whose arms were no different from ordinary girls, also fell to the ground. And Tina, and Ai collided.

"Miss Tingna used the wrong ring! It was a space storage ring!"

Alice stopped abruptly, causing rocks to rise from the ground, preventing Tingna, who hugged her feet and moaned in pain, from rolling out of the range of the spiritual protection force field, and then, seeing everything that happened, she landed beside Tinna , Immediately took Tina's hands away and pressed her ankle.

On Tingna's left foot, a shocking bruise is emerging, and blood is seeping from the seam of the thumbnail. Whether it is broken or not, the current lady doll can't tell, but looking at the girl's distorted expression due to pain, she must resume her movement Ability obviously takes a long time.

"Tsk, Lily, Alice will support Miss Tingna with the wind, or get out of here as soon as possible..."

Alice's voice paused.

The atmospheric elves summoned by her circled around the little queen a few times, and without receiving any further orders, these free and easy little fellows rolled up the breeze and ran away laughing.

Everything suddenly became silent.

"……what happened?"

Alice wasn't the only one showing a surprised expression.

Liliana and Ai, who got up and squatted beside Tina, looked at the gradually thinning light with the same puzzled eyes.

If you want to use a metaphor, those slender glowing wrists seem to have changed from ferocious and dangerous poisonous snakes to harmless ribbons for humans and animals. The light wrists that were originally chasing them seemed to suddenly lose interest in their heads. Retracting toward the orb of gold in the sky.

In just a few minutes, they were no longer visible between the sky and the earth.

Only Tina's painful cries were still in Liliana's ears, which reminded Liliana. The witch quickly took out the emergency bandages from the space storage ring—if it was the heroes who traveled together in the past, they would have told her that it was okay and asked her to find out what happened, but the girl who is traveling with her now, Just an ordinary person who is not used to the pain.

"...Miss Tingna, bear with me, I will give you the medicine to relieve pain immediately."

"Yes, I'm sorry, Miss Liliana, at this time, I have such a problem."

"...No, don't worry, we are safe, at least it seems safe, although I don't know why..."

In order to better check the injury, Liliana and Alice let Tina lie on the ground and lifted her injured foot.

"Master Liliana!"

Subconsciously, Liliana and Alice looked along Ai's exclamation, at that moment.

The witch's pupils shrank slightly.

Because she turned around and lay down, the stone slab that hurt Tina's left foot and caused her to fall reappeared from under the girl's body—but the slate itself is not the point, it is like the witch from the hands of the gods in the desert. When I received it, it was generally old and heavy, and the collision just now didn't make the slightest scratches on its corners.

The point is, the notch on the slate.

At this moment, some words that had not been seen on the slate before were faintly flickering.

Like the sun at dawn—