Allen and his little bones [Western Fantasy]

The ability to control elements is not a unique skill that cannot be seen by outsiders, but anyone who can use the power of elements can be counted as having the ability to control elements.

Jiu Lisa used the term "knowledge" very politely, but due to her current form of existence and the way she speaks, her words were polite, but her tone of voice sounded less polite.

Hall raised his eyebrows at this "twist", walked forward from behind, patted Eli's shoulder, which was still holding Allen's hand, and motioned for him to let go - because Allen had already accepted this "knowledge" "invite.

Eli was in a daze when he was photographed. On the one hand, he hadn't figured out how the matter got to this point. On the other hand, he didn't hear the senior reminding him in a low voice, "You should Let go", he later realized that the "thing" he was holding and pinching for a long time was Alan's hand.

His right hand was grabbed and held with absolute force for a long time, but Allen acted quite okay, there were still bluish and white marks on his fingers that would only be left after being pressed hard, and the blood in that small spot was After a while, opposite to the blue and white part, the knuckles of both ends showed a kind of purplish red after congestion.

However, Allen didn't seem to feel any of this at all. He just moved his fingers casually, turned his head to meet Eli's unconcealed apologetic gaze, and patted Eli's head very calmly and skillfully.

From letting go to looking at each other to touching the head, this series of actions didn't take much time.

Eli, who had been silently comforted, retreated a distance with Hall, leaving room for Ellen, who was about to "see" and Jiulisa, who was floating.

There is no specific designation as to who calls the start, nor is there agreement on what to use as the start signal.

Changes seem to happen in an instant.

First, the energy field around Jiu Lisa trembled violently, and the "black mist" that made up her body suddenly seemed to be splashed into the water, and the dark element aura so thick that it could not be ignored immediately spread into the surrounding air, filling every air gap with arrogance. .

The rippling "fog" spreads around at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seems that it intends to replace the original natural elements with itself.

Allen used his ability almost at the same time. With him as the center, the natural elements shrouded in the energy field on that side were all driven, and quickly entered an active state from a static state.

He spread out the energy field faster than Jiu Lisa, but he didn't directly use his own energy field to confront Jiu Lisa's power. From the perspective of Hall and Eli, the two spectators, Allen's strength is like a pair of big hands with the heels of the palms and fingertips carefully closed, leaving a gap in the middle.It intentionally bypassed Jiu Lisa's power range, surrounded the other party's energy field at high speed, cut off the possibility of the dark elements extending further in the surrounding air, and then slowly began to retract the "encirclement", using a At a very slow but steady speed, the energy of Jiulisa's teeth and claws was pressed back step by step.

And amazing suppression succeeded.

"Excellent indeed."

When her energy field was suppressed back to a certain range, and the black-haired young man on the opposite side also stopped, as if she had reached her upper limit of suppression, Jiu Lisa gave this comment softly, and she was not stingy in giving praise.

However, her tone was still somewhat complicated, making this compliment sound less than sincere.

Fortunately, Alan didn't mind this little problem. He heard that Jiulisa's compliment was sincere, and that was enough.

"Thank you for your affirmation." He said sincerely.

Jiu Lisa waved her hand——she probably made such an action similar to "waving her hand", a wisp of black mist was drawn from her side, and condensed into a very abstract and artistic palm shape, replacing today's The master, who lacked a human form, waved in front of him.

It's a "stop here" signal.

Allen stopped his ability the next second he understood it, and the power that had confronted him for a long while disappeared simultaneously with his energy field.

The surrounding dark elements released by Jiulisa are like water being drawn back along the same path as the invisible pipes. They flow in the air and rush towards Jiulisa, but in a short while, the surroundings become clean again. Apart from Jiulisha herself standing in front, there was no other dark elemental aura to be found.

After confirming that the "sightseeing" was over, Hall pushed Eli forward again, and Ellen and Jiu Lisa gave them sideways glances at the same time.

"Mom." Eli called out his still unprofessional title, and almost asked "Did you test Alan because of me?" that was circling in his heart just now.

Fortunately, his shame stopped him from letting the words escape in time.

He changed his voice: "You...have you stayed here all this time?"

"Yes." Lisa replied.

Her body made of "black mist" seems to have not been completely reorganized, and there is a flickering light effect at the edge. If you look carefully, you can still distinguish the "dark element silk" that is entangled with each other. "Weave" this body that was partially collapsed due to the use of energy just now like a weaving cloth.

Jiulisa, who was waiting for the complete reorganization of her body, seemed to understand the child's unfinished words from afar. She and Eli "looked at each other" for a few seconds, and sighed softly: "What you really want to ask is actually the Is the nearby monster also me, and the increase in the dark element aura that the surrounding residents have fed back upwards is also due to me, right?"

Both questions undoubtedly hit hearts.

Eli didn't answer immediately, but he obviously hesitated, wanting to ask something, opened and closed his mouth, and finally showed a complex expression mixed with various emotions.

Jiulisa turned her eyes slightly, and her eyes swept over Alan and Hall who also wanted to know the answers to those two questions.

"Yes." She nodded, asked herself and answered, "What you want to ask is not wrong, it's all about me."

Allen heard Eli take a light breath.

The reason why the place of practice is set in this canyon is not because of the news that there are monsters in the vicinity and the content of dark elements in the forest has continued to rise recently?

Otherwise, the team from Alberta College wouldn't be heading here.

And Jiulisa was undoubtedly telling them that she was the source of the team's lure here.

She opened the root of the alienation incident for Eli.

And according to her statement that she "stayed here all the time", she may have also faced Eli's alienation process...and the time when Eli was most panicked.

"I don't understand." The people around him were stunned and speechless. Allen put his hands behind Eli and pressed his back, and spoke for the other party.

He thought about asking the question in a more tactful way, but in the end he used the most straightforward way and said, "Did you bring the team here on purpose?"

Jiu Lisha's answer was specious: "Yes and no." After she finished speaking, she was silent for a while, "... After all, I have no other choice."

What is "no other choice"?

Allen put a question mark in his heart, and before he could ask, Jiu Lisa once again condensed an abstract hand, and made a "please" gesture at him—and Eli Hall next to him, And turned sideways at the same time.

The other party was signaling them to come forward.

This scene coincided with the content of Eli's dream, and his half-day memory resumed again, reminding him that as long as he took a few steps forward, the three of them would stand up to the point where his mother wanted him to stand, just like in his dream. place on.

If you continue to walk forward, what will you meet and see?

Eli hadn't forgotten the sudden weightlessness in the dream, and he wasn't sure if that scene would reappear on them, so he hesitated, and before he even realized it, he grabbed Allen's wrist.

The pulling sensation from his wrist made Alan lower his head slightly. His eyes slid over Eli's restraining hand, and he found another inconspicuous gaze was also falling on that hand.

At most ten steps away, Jiulisa seemed to sigh again.

"It's impossible for me to harbor ill-will toward you." The female voice, which softened but still seemed a little cold, said, "Especially you."

She accentuated the last few words emphatically.

The emotions contained in it did not seem to be fake, and Eli finally realized that he had unconsciously made a defensive posture.

Jiu Lisha didn't name her name in her words, but he knew that "you" was referring to himself.

Allen flipped his wrist calmly, and easily broke away from Eli's loose hand.

Eli's hand, which had lost its grip on the target, was hanging in mid-air. Before the owner could decide whether to stop or stretch it out for a while, it was held back by the hand that just broke free.

Allen accurately grabbed Eli's hand back without lowering his head, and changed the dominant positions of the two. He cast his eyes far away, and cast a far distance down the canyon that he couldn't see clearly from his current position.

"I still have a few questions." He took over the conversation and said very politely, "Can I ask you first before we go there?"

Jiu Lisha didn't urge them to come forward, she probably nodded: "Of course."

"Why do you say, after all, you have no other choice?"

When asking this question, Alan's eyes fell on Jiu Lisa right and wrong. His tone and demeanor were extremely focused, but with his extraordinary perception ability, Jiu Lisa just noticed that the black-haired young man was serious Asking questions, on the other hand, he was making small movements with his hands.

The other party slowly parted her son's slightly stiff fingers, and inserted his own into Eli's fingers.

Without changing his face, he adjusted the way the two held hands.

"..." Because of the details she noticed, Jiu Lisa was in a complicated mood. She wanted to shake her head a little bit, and wanted to accuse the black-haired young man of disregarding time and place, and because of her child, she didn't feel anything at all. Feeling helpless due to the wrong posture, she also wanted to nod a little bit, feeling relieved, because she could feel that the other party was indeed sincere to his child, and Eli really liked this person, so she would have nothing to do with the other party. Defensive, full of trust.

In addition to the two emotions of affirmation and negation, Jiu Lisa actually had a little regret and sadness that was hard to express.

If she simply came to see these two children, to see if her grown-up child is doing well, then she can go to accompany her partner who has been waiting for her for many years with peace of mind, and let this person rely on absorbing others The body sustained by life and dark elements collapsed between the heavens and the earth... How wonderful that would be.

There is no if.

"That sentence only needs to be understood literally, there is no other ambiguity." Jiulisa said, "I must stay here all the time, and I must appear briefly at that time, releasing dark elements, attracting Alberta The academy's practice team must also use targeted driving force after the team arrives at the canyon to destroy the seal in Eli's body, and then they must stay aside to watch him alienate into an undead and escape, and must continue to wait here until he finds you , and come back here with you again."

The series of "musts" seemed to hint at something, Jiu Lisa said it calmly, but Eli's heart couldn't help but lift up following her words.

From these words, he felt a more profound powerlessness that could not be revealed.

And Allen not only felt the same as him, but also more acutely aware of something extremely important.

"here……"

It was Hall who spoke first.

This senior who had been a "wall grass" quietly for a while took the lead. He was not a complete dark creature, nor was he a spirit body in the traditional sense. He was not worried that Jiulisa's weird body that could extract dark elements would It is not the physical body that hurts him, so naturally he is not afraid of being knocked off the cliff by something sudden.

Hall was the first one in the team to go to the edge and look down. He leaned his head to the bottom of the cliff before continuing to ask: "Is this the last place you arrived at?"

Back then, Julisa left the Anduru Valley and sent Eli to the Dimando Orphanage in Angelo, and then she met her husband who had returned from playing Calbi at the border of Angelo, and the two finally arrived I entered this canyon and entered the bottom of the cliff that is said to be very dangerous.

"Omega and I also stood on the place I want you to stand on." Jiulisa said after affirming Hall's inquiry, and the black mist that made up her body leaned forward. corner, as if making a "head down" movement.

She looked at the large stone wall in front of her that had been polished smoother by time, then straightened up and looked at Eli: "I can only show you the scenes that have actually happened, let these pictures and events show you Take a reminder, the collision you felt in your dream is the experience your father and I had here."

Eli looked up sharply.

Allen squeezed his hand silently.

"What brought you so many 'musts'?" Alan asked softly, "This is the same reason you sent Eli one after another dream reminders, but couldn't tell him the answer directly, and asked to come here Is it?"

"Don't you already have the answer in your heart?"

Jiulisa asked Alan back, sounding like she was not going to give a redundant answer to this question, but after asking such a sentence, she paused and continued: "...It's the same."

She turned her body slightly sideways so that she could face Allen more intuitively.

The body that is not based on flesh and blood can't even tell where the face is, but Alan felt that he saw the turquoise eyes that belonged to Julisa Winter in the depths of the black mist.

They stared at him with a little unspeakable emotion, and said: "And the root of this series of 'musts' is also the same as the reason you came to this world."

Allen was taken aback.

Hall looked back at him quickly.

Eli has not recovered from the fact that his parents died here back then, and the bump he felt in his dream was the impact of his parents' real experience back then. This news hit him unexpectedly, and he could only I can go to see Allen in a daze like my predecessors.

Allen quickly recovered from the stupefaction, and put away the strange look at that moment.

He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "The prophecy?"

"That prophecy." Jiu Lisa repeated Alan's words, using a positive statement tone.

Allen seemed to still be able to feel her complex eyes that seemed to be real.

He heard the other party continue to ask: "You came here with Eli all the way, and the original intention was to help him. At first, it seemed that the incident had nothing to do with you. You got involved entirely because of him, helping him. But I found that I had already been implicated in it, so I never thought that all this might have been arranged by someone long ago?"

Of course Allen thought about it.

It's just that there is too little information, and the clues are intermittent. He has changed from a helper who participated halfway to a hope with a heavy responsibility...but he doesn't even know what responsibilities and obligations Hope should take. You can follow the limited clues one by one, like playing a decryption and exploration game.

Jiulisa Winter is like a key npc who gives the last important information before the boss point after most of the game progress has passed.

A participatory reality cannot be equated with a game after all.

In the game, you can reveal the secrets, take on the headache tasks, and laugh and laugh. If you fail the first game, you can read the file and start again in the second week.

Every step in reality is a one-way single choice, there is no turning back, and there is no strategy.

"'Hope' is a word that sounds very bright and can bring hope to people."

Jiulisa answered such a seemingly endless sentence.

But no one in the room dared to ignore this sentence as meaningless emotion.

"But when the hero who symbolizes hope appears, he stands up and bravely saves the world from fire and water, there is also one well-known thing—"

"Heroes will not save the world without being injured. Saving the world requires sacrifice, and the sacrifice always starts with the hero who represents hope."

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This part stuck with me for a few more days. When I was struggling to figure out how to present it, I remembered that this article died halfway, as if it was broken in the marriage part before the secret was revealed. Now it is finally difficult to move forward. Promoted.