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"...Fade, what can I do for you? Do you need me to help you convert runes into power? Or are we going to leave here and continue traveling?"

According to Melina's thinking, there are only two possibilities for the Faded One to find her in such a hurry.

It's just that her words made the faded person a little embarrassed, scratching the back of his head.

"Uh... no, I'm looking for you for something else today."

To be reasonable, among so many reincarnations, it is really only this reincarnation that has never asked Melina to improve her strength, which is quite distressing to say the least.

It is clear that improving strength and guiding faders are the duties of the Finger Witch, but he directly saves half of it.

It is also the reason why he hasn't experienced the feeling of his big wife increasing his strength until now in this reincarnation....

"...okay."

Melina nodded in understanding.

Then, the Faded One took out the Destroyer from his backpack and placed it in front of her.

Melina: (○_—)?

"I want you to help me see if this thing can be used as firewood, as a kindling to guide the ashes to extinguish the flame."

"...OK, all right."

Although she didn't understand the meaning of the Fader's actions, she still stared at the Destroyer for a long time, and then stretched out her hand to gently cover the surface.

A golden flame suddenly ignited on the back of the hand and scorched the metal surface, as if probing and calling.

This is the proof that Melina found the fire before her death and used her own body as firewood.

This flame can't help but bring back many memories of him...

After a long time, the golden flame in Melina's hand finally extinguished slowly and took it back.

Then, he turned his head and stared at him with one eye, shook his head slightly, and said in a regretful tone: "Sorry, fader."

"Although the energy possessed by this golem is very powerful, it cannot be used as a kindling to guide the fire of ashes."

"Really...thank you for your hard work, Melina."

His tone was not as lost as expected, but rather calm.

Since it can't be used as firewood, forget it, anyway, there is still enough time, and you can look for other alternatives.

The most important thing is that Melina just needs to be alive.

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213. The Most Desperate and Desolate Place in the Borderlands

After Melina told him that the Destroyer could not become a fire, he gave the Destroyer to Rani in the Great Library.

Commission her to study this and see if it can be incorporated into the technology used to create Golemguards.

Then, he and Melina teleported to the volcano mansion, embarking on the second half of the journey to become King Elden.

Originally, he asked Lani if ​​she wanted to come together, but Lani shook her head and rejected his proposal.

For the first time, she graciously gave up this period of time, allowing Melina to accompany him on his trip alone. As the guardian of the Magic Academy, she wanted to protect the safety of the academy when he went out.

He didn't force it anyway, so he brought Melina back here, along with a cute little guy—Kulala, the cutest of all ashes.

Kurala slowly floated around him, like a girl dancing to waltz.

However, when he came to the crater, he encountered a particularly strange thing...

"How is this going?"

While holding Melina in his arms, the faded man suddenly strangled Torret, looking around the crater with a solemn expression.

Since the bridge leading to the volcano's mansion was destroyed, it has become the only way to reach the volcano's mansion, and the most critical position of this road is the crater where he is now.

Originally, this pressure should have a star beast that is completely different from Estee and can use gravity lightning.

However, now it has disappeared.

And there is no sign of any fight around...

We were already preparing to roast the star beast... no, we were preparing for a battle with the fallen star beast. Now tell me that the star beast has disappeared on its own?

"Tsk, weird things happen every year, especially this year..."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help complaining again.

"Fader, what happened?"

Melina, who was sitting in front, asked with some doubts.

From just now, she heard the fader whispering something behind her, and it sounded very unhappy...

"Nothing, let's move on..."

The faded man waved the rein lightly, and while Torret was taking a step, he shouted backwards: "Kurala, follow up."

"Okay, my master."

Kurala slowly swayed her tentacles, floating around and dancing around him, like a little girl who was happy to go on a trip.

Afterwards, they turned back and successfully reached the Broken Bridge from another route.

However, the scene in front of him made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

The smoke and fire smoked the sky, the crows hovered in the air and neighed, and the corrupted wild dogs gathered in twos and threes on the side of the road to eat unknown corpses. Countless mummies were hung upside down on the gallows like sinners, scorched and weathered. , swaying slowly with the breeze like the branches and leaves of the forest, and there are many corpses of mountain monsters among them.

It doesn't take much thinking to know that these corpses belong to King Rodel City, and the one who committed these acts was Racade.

The purpose is that Lakad wants to convey a message to Montgotte——

"The Volcano Mansion is not something you can get your hands on."

At the same time, bonfires were lit everywhere to burn the corpses, exuding a scorching smell mixed with the rotten smell in the air, which made people sick.

A dizzying number of weathered corpses were scattered on the ground.

Dead bodies everywhere?desolate?

These words alone cannot describe the tragedy. The corpses piled up under the feet are like mass graves and mass graves.

How many people died here?several thousand?tens of thousands?Hundreds of thousands?

He had no way of knowing.

Just from the number of corpses on the ground, one can imagine how fierce the battle between King Rodel City and the Volcano Mansion was.

From the corpses that hang upside down on the gallows and cannot be buried, we can know why Lakad's followers are dissatisfied with him.

War is naturally cruel, like a huge meat grinder, no matter how many people fill it in, they will be crushed into pieces, but Lakad's behavior is to defile and desecrate all of this, and desecrate his men for protecting the volcano. The long-cherished wish to die in battle for the official residence.

But the faded person has no feeling for this kind of scene, because they have seen and experienced too much, and they have already been completely numb.

Not only him, but even Kurala didn't have any feelings or fear.

Instead, he tried his best to spit out the venom to clean up the wild dogs eating the corpses on the side of the road.

The faded man drove Torret across these corpses, jumped off the broken bridge and continued to set off on this road towards King Rodel's city. Virgins turned into runes.

However, seeing the misery along the way caused Melina to experience rare emotional fluctuations. While a touch of sadness rose in her heart, she seemed to be mourning for the dead.

Although she supports the plundering and killing of demigods, because that is a necessary process.

But she really couldn't understand the meaningless blasphemy at the moment.

Immediately thinking that the faded ones were also planning to launch a siege campaign against Rodel King City, they subconsciously asked:

"Fadeer, if you launch a war against Rodel King City, will the Altan Plateau become so desolate?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

The faded one gave an ambiguous answer in a flat tone.

Because he doesn’t know what it will look like by then, but the only thing he knows is that it won’t turn into a mass grave full of blasphemy like this road for transporting criminals.

"..."

Melina didn't speak, she just sat silently in his arms, lowering her head slightly and wondering what she was thinking.

But having said that, walking this familiar sinner's road this time is a little different from the past.

It seems that because of Montgomery's gathering of troops, the Rodel soldiers who were still fighting the iron maiden like a meat grinder on this battlefield have all disappeared.

Only the stumps and broken arms on the ground and pieces of broken ruins were left.

Even those mountain demons who pull carts to transport supplies are no longer seen.

In the end, they finally passed the Sinner's Bridge and left the Miguel Volcano, officially stepping into the Yatan Plateau.

The golden tree that can cover the sky and the sun is close in front of him, and his heart gradually becomes a little restless.

He was afraid, afraid that Melina would die again in this reincarnation.

"If this time, there is no other way to break the thorn of rejection of the Golden Book, and if Melina still has to be sacrificed to guide the Ash Fire to burn the tree, I will simply give up and become the King of Elden!"

Make such an oath in your heart.

He's really had enough of this shit going back and forth.

That being the case, let this broken boundary continue to rot, and don't let anyone save it, because it doesn't deserve to be redeemed!

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214. Is Wood Enlightened?

"Look, over there is the magic tower built by the assassins from the magic town of Selia in the Fertile Forest."

Near the dilapidated Creepblood ruins, he pointed to the magic tower in the south that looked like a fairy tale and introduced it to one person and one jellyfish.

But in fact, the owner of the magic tower has long since died, and it can be deduced that the owner's origin is also based on the magic once obtained inside the magic tower——

I learned it only through the two night magics of Invisibility and Invisibility Blade.

Because these two magics are only used by Selia's assassins, they are used to assassinate magicians.

And sitting on this magic tower also has a nice name - Mirage Magic Tower.

Just like its name, not only did it look illusory in appearance, but under his gaze, it turned into little stars and disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

The seal of this magic tower is composed of three sealing points, which are guarded by little devils, but he has no intention of going in this reincarnation.

After all, the maggot-faced men in the Plenty Forest look too low-value, comparable to those of the old rulers in Call of Cthulhu.

By the way, in the basement of the wriggling blood ruins near them, there is still a blood nobleman hiding, but now he is too lazy to bother about it, there is no need.

Anyway, their boss, [Blood King] Mengge is like a grasshopper after autumn, he will be able to jump around in a few days.

And Melina just nodded at his introduction, and after a brief glance, she turned her head and looked into the distance, watching through the small golden tree at the majestic city wall covered by overwhelming gold.

On the tall city wall, traces left by the baptism of broken wars can be vaguely seen.

There is the Royal City of Rodel, the most prosperous and magnificent city besides the Eternal City, and it is also the location of the Golden Tree——

Covered by gold all over the sky, the big tree that illuminates the beam of light at the source of the junction, the source of all life is the golden tree.

"...the golden tree is almost here. The foot of the tree mentioned in the terms of exchange is almost there."

As if to remind him, he brought up the never-forgotten transaction again, as if he was afraid that he would forget.

But he didn't care, instead he asked suspiciously:

"Melina, don't you already know your mission? Why are you going back to the foot of the golden tree?"

"..."

Melina did not respond immediately. After a moment of silence, she said in a calm voice mixed with emotion:

"...some... nostalgic, ever since my mother gave me the mission and left my birthplace, I have never been back, so...this time has nothing to do with the mission, I just want to go back and have a look."

Speaking of this, Melina's tone suddenly paused, as if thinking of something, she added:

"...Moreover, our trip isn't over yet, and I don't want to leave just yet."

There was a firm belief in the voice, as if he had already depended on him.

This is also what makes the fading people look at her differently.