Sky blue [green blue]

【22--】

After receiving her daily supplies from the teleportation point, Xiao Lan suddenly realized that she had gotten used to it unconsciously.

The others had already retreated to a safer rear, and only Xiaolan was left on the front line—this was Xiaolan's own decision, and it was also his strong request.

Of course there will be people who raise objections, both good and malicious, but Xiaolan doesn't care about all of them.After all, whether performing spells or forming a team, there are distance restrictions.If the character's physical distance is too far, this team and spell will generally automatically fail.

As for the automatic triggering spells...the level gap is too large, and the damage is equal to nothing.Maybe Xiaolan needs to be distracted to guard when setting up. What is the essential difference between throwing a stone and shooting yourself in the foot?

Whether it is out of consideration for the safety of other people, or not wanting to be burdensome, Xiao Lan has repeatedly declined the willingness of many support professions to stay and fight side by side with him.

He didn't want anyone else at risk.

It's just that you don't want others to take risks, which means you have to bear all the battles alone.

However, Xiaolan doesn't mind.

Before he knew it, he was used to fighting.

Xiaolan didn't know whether this was good or bad, and after thinking for a while, she could only come up with a soft sigh of "inertia is terrible".

Then he sighed nonchalantly.

Strictly speaking, Xiao Lan is not alone—there is also a blue-eyed black cat left behind.

In fact, Xiaolan wanted to take this little guy to the teleportation point to send him away, but every time Xiaolan turned his plans into actual actions, no matter how he threatened or lured him, this little guy just didn't show up, which was really annoying.

After several times like this, Xiaolan had no choice but to give up, and had no choice but to pray that the little guy could take care of his own safety.

But that's fine too.

This little guy was able to help share his own food.

This is also a matter that Xiao Lan has been reluctant to mention to the people behind - because it feels like a waste of everyone's good intentions: his recent needs for food seem to have become dispensable.

Not only that, but Xiaolan unexpectedly discovered that with the increase in the value of the Holy Sword [Proficiency], even if the intensity of the battle increases, he seems to be able to cope with it now, and he doesn't feel that he is incompetent at all.

Although she didn't know what was going on, Xiaolan was more thankful before she felt uneasy and panicked by the unknown strangeness.

——In this way, I can probably hold on longer.

Although it would be self-righteous for me to say this, if I have this ability, then as long as I am here, the human world will be protected.

This is Xiaolan's decision.

The sword is also held for protection.

(—Actively instigate war for the sake of peace...? Can’t understand.—)

(—If you want peace, prepare for war.—)

Those two sentences rang in her mind at the right time, and Xiao Lan really wanted to tell the other party: There is still a little difference between the two.

Although she couldn't figure it out at the beginning, Xiao Lan knew this intuitively; and today, Xiao Lan feels that she understands it.

If they are not evenly matched, and cannot fight back in time in the face of the crisis, then this unilateral peace is at best a charity.

The confidence to start a war, in disguise, is also the confidence to maintain peace.

Only with enough confidence can one be qualified to stand against court.

Xiaolan, who was in deep thoughts, found a place to sit down at random, and embraced the icy long sword at her waist without saying a word, as if hoping to draw strength from it.

Just because he felt it again, from the fragility of sensibility.

Thinking of her own feelings for that existence, Xiaolan is also well aware: the positions of the two races, the current situation, and even the strength of the two sides are all inappropriate.

However, feelings are almost unreasonable.All external factors are to emotions, just like wind is to fire, which can blow out the weak ones, but fuel the strong ones.

So the knight found sadly: this feeling of his has not become the part that was blown out.

Not only was it not blown out, on the contrary, the unyielding selfishness seemed to be tempered by the flames and then born from the ashes, and finally took root in the tip of his heart, blooming into a red rose.

It was too late when my dull self realized it, and the feeling I had for that existence—this rose, had been quietly swaying in the most secret corner of my heart, emitting a soft light, even if it would never see the light of day.

It's so sweet and dazzling.

It's a pity that the only thing he can do now is to cover the rose with a glass cover silently.

Xiaolan felt that she didn't have that much ability to say everything, she just wanted to catch a few glimpses occasionally and quietly before this feeling withered quietly, or before he stepped into the grave. Take a few glances...

Already, very satisfied.

The sky-blue eyes darkened with the loss of mood, Xiaolan exhaled dirty air, let go of the long sword's embrace slightly, and looked up at the sky as if she wanted to get rid of that melancholy.

Now in the summer, the clouds are so dense that it seems that a torrential rain may fall at any time.

——But the color of the sky...is too uncomfortable, too wrong.

"How did it become like this?" Xiao Lan muttered inexplicably, frowning.

Right now, I haven't started to defend against a new enemy attack, and the black cat hasn't appeared yet. Xiaolan is rarely alone, so she takes this opportunity to calm down and sort out her thoughts: "Speaking of which, the speed of blood and mana recovery of those monsters is getting faster and faster recently, it seems Someone added a buff to it."

Xiaolan is sure that her hunch is correct.

Perhaps it should be said that it is precisely because his level has been raised to a certain level that he can have a better understanding of these things at the level of consciousness—now he is at level 310 and five.

Half-closed her eyes and stared at the chaotic sky filled with ominous dark clouds, Xiaolan remembered: she had seen it a few times before, most of the scenes were around the Demon King City, and there were...

And, the other two times, it was on the World Tree side.

In an instant, as if being hit by a lightning strike of inspiration, Xiaolan's eyes widened and she exclaimed, "World Tree!"

——Oh my god... why did I ignore that map! ?

In an instant, Xiaolan wished she could grab the ground with her head.

I shouldn't, I shouldn't, the last thing I should do is ignore that high-level map!

Although his current level is probably enough to step into the world tree map dignifiedly, the problem is that Xiaolan really doesn't know how to get to the world tree for a while.

I do know a shortcut.

It is the cliff that lost the air wall because of a BUG.

Although it doesn't sound like a good idea to run over and take another leap of faith—not to mention not knowing when the Demon King's army will come again, but the matter is urgent, and now I can't take care of so much, so I can only hurry Go back!

Anxious Xiao Lan ran to the teleportation point while checking whether she had a scroll to return to the city, with both hands ready to reach that place in the shortest possible time.

However, before he could run far away, a cluster of dark sickle blades flew towards him, causing Xiao Lan to subconsciously stop and raise her sword to block.

"Shadow magic!?"

Recognizing the category of this spell at a glance, Xiaolan raised her head as if feeling something, and couldn't help but thump when she saw the black feather figure descending from the sky.

The visitor flapped his pitch-black wings and landed, raised his hand with a normal smile, and greeted Xiaolan familiarly: "Long time no see, Sir Knight."

It's the demon king's bodyguard, Hui Yu.

Since she didn't know what the visitor meant, Xiaolan stared at him closely, not daring to act rashly for a while.

Compared with before leaving the Demon King City, the level of the current demon guards has improved, and it is now level 370.

The reason why they are both on the battlefield, but the progress of leveling up is slower than Xiaolan, probably other than the props factor, is more because of the huge disparity in levels between the two sides in the battle, so that Huiyu's experience points acquisition is not so effective efficiency.

At this moment, looking at Xiao Lan's face as if he was facing a big enemy, the demon guard grinned his trademark cruel smile and asked pretendingly, "What's the matter? Goodbye, I don't feel touched at all. I'm so sad."

For a moment she was uncertain about the other party's attitude, but even with the situation at this point, seeing that the leader of the Demon King's Army finally had a sign of communicating with her, Xiao Lan still did not give up trying to negotiate a peace first: "Mr. Huiyu, I have something to ask Xiao... cough , Talk to the Demon King, please let me pass!"

"Talk?" Hui Yu stood with his hands behind his back, talking nonsense with a playful smile, "Actually, I don't think there is any need to talk. As long as Sir Knight, you can come to the Demon Race to make peace with the Demon King, I guess it will be fine without talking about anything."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere around them fell silent instantly.

Having said that, what is one of the characteristics of honest people?Easy to be true.

In the most secret corner of my heart, that rose has long been silently blooming, even though this rose has been covered by a glass cover by Xiaolan herself and hidden—even if she is sensible and remembers the issue of position, she also knows that Huiyu probably just mentioned it casually ,However!

however……

Hearing Hui Yu's unimaginable question of which pot should not be turned on and which pot should be lifted, Xiaolan not only felt embarrassed about being suddenly punctured, but also couldn't help brainstorming about this possibility...

boom--!

Seeing that Xiaolan's face was red with smoke, her head was smoking, her whole body was trembling, and she looked completely spoiled, Hui Yu, who was just talking casually to tease others, was stunned, and after a little thought, she was instantly blessed, and nodded firmly. Muttering to himself: "It seems that the candidate for the position of princess has been secured."

"Don't make trouble, young master."

Another voice fell from the sky.That calmness was also familiar to Xiaolan.

Xiaolan looked up subconsciously, and it was indeed the devil's adviser who came after him, fanning his white feathers and landing beside the guard.

Although it is also level 370, it is a little different from Hui Yu who led the troops at the beginning. Yongle only led the troops to join the battlefield in the later stage. The experience points he needs to level up are more from the monitoring and management of the reinforcement monsters—— If any monster got out of control and had a negative impact on the situation, he would first deal with that one, or those monsters that disturbed the formation, completely ignoring Xiao Lan who was also on the battlefield.

Compared with killing the enemy in battle, the demon staff is more like controlling the progress of the experiment, and he is meticulous.

Even without the friendly special training in Demon King City before, Xiaolan still knew that Yongle and Huiyu were both very strong, but she never thought that facing monsters approaching level [-], they would not be able to beat any random move by either of them .

Seeing the addition of another high-level demon confronting her, Xiaolan's turbulent mind immediately forcibly escaped from the unrestrained brain, panting and trying to calm down, even a little bit of a trance like rolling and crawling.

Forcing herself to concentrate, Xiao Lan made a request to the demon staff not far away: "Mr. Yongle, I need to talk to the demon king face to face about something, I hope you will let me go there!"

Hearing this, Yongle looked over, uncompromising and unmoved, but asked another matter directly: "Dare to ask Sir Knight, can you give up that sword?"

Xiaolan was taken aback for a moment, subconsciously clenched the sword in her hand, hesitated for a moment.

"It seems that the answer is no." The demon staff watched calmly, and then concluded, "Then, please forgive me for not allowing you who hold that sword to approach the demon king."

As soon as Yongle's inhumane words fell, Hui Yu casually raised his hand, and a magic circle appeared out of thin air in front of his palm, summoning a circling shadow howling, rushing towards Xiaolan's place .

Only Xiao Lan, who was at the fifth level of 310, didn't dare to be careless, and without thinking, she raised her sword and swung a light blade.

However, the protruding light blade is not a strong confrontation with the shadow flow, but cuts the mid-air wherever it goes like a cracked mirror surface, and a seam that is suspected to be misplaced appears out of thin air.

The menacing shadow was artificially folded into several sections, lingering in the split small-scale space like a vortex, and gradually dissipated and annihilated within a short time.

Seeing her surprise attack being stopped in this way, Hui Yu was so surprised that she blew a whistle.

"Split space?" Interesting tone.

Xiaolan was so nervous that she almost didn't bring it up, but now she was gasping for breath with lingering fear, and naturally she didn't have the energy to answer the other party's question.

To deal with shadow magic, one must either devour it with deeper darkness, or exterminate it with extreme glare - the former, Xiaolan, is naturally no better than Huiyu, and the latter might be counter-killed by Yongle, who is good at lightning spells.

However, that only assumes the same space.

If the space is divided, then whether it is light or shadow, they are all things in the parallel world, which can only be seen from a distance but never reached.

Of course, this is not absolute.Because in theory, as long as there is enough energy, any existence can be broken down, and the boundary of space is no exception.

In fact, Xiaolan was just trying to use his fighting instincts—before this, he had never tried to divide an invisible object with the power of the holy sword.

Fortunately, it was successful just once before the battle, thanks to the Valkyrie for her blessing.

Hui Yu seemed to be aroused, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, eagerly looking at the knights who were waiting in battle.

Bite the bullet and endure the feeling of being stared at by predators, Xiaolan finally deeply understands Yongle's consideration.

Suddenly--

"Let me go, professor, don't make a move!"

Hurriedly leaving these words without looking back, Hui Yu, with a cruel smile, has already dodged in front of Xiao Lan, swaying left and right smoothly, with the shadow blade like a long and narrow knife at his fingertips.

"Since the long-distance will be cut, so what about the close-up!"

Although startled by the speed, Xiao Lan instinctively raised her sword to block it.

The moment the blades met, there was a bang, and sparks were wiped off and even swung out of the wave field.

The shadow blade in his hand shattered with a bang, Hui Yu let go of it indifferently, his eyes were locked on the target and he never left, his five fingers in the air stretched and grasped in the void, and he had a new weapon that appeared out of thin air, and he could play with it freely. Affecting the close approach, the successive attacks were dizzying.

The short combat continued continuously, and Xiao Lan's arms were numb due to the vigor of the demon.Even so, Xiao Lan was still able to seize the opportunity to attack back, paying attention to her pace not being disrupted by the opponent, and she was no longer as embarrassed as before.

Hui Yu and Xiao Lan fought so fiercely that the demon staff actually stood by and watched.

If you ignore the current location, this scene is quite similar to when the three of them secretly conducted special training in the Demon King City training ground.

However, this is clearly not an occasion for nostalgia for the past.Their fight at this moment is no longer the same as it was in the training ground of Demon King City.The guards of the devil are no longer under the level-restricted spells, so they can fight as much as they want.

What finally separated the two of them was the afterglow of a fire dragon—the fire dragon's body was counteracted by Yong Le's timely shot of thunder and lightning, leaving only wisps of fire that were blown by the hot air that had not yet cooled down.

"Brave!?" Seeing someone suddenly blocking her, Xiao Lan, who was finally free, was so surprised that she forgot to move for a moment.

While guarding against the two high-ranking demons in front of him, the brave man who never turned his head said to Xiaolan quickly: "Now you can use the sapphire of the holy sword to launch a fixed-point teleportation spell—the demon king is under the World Tree! "

As if hearing clues from these words, the demon guard raised his eyebrows, and the demon staff also raised his eyes silently.

Xiao Lan also heard it with disbelief, "How do you, brave man..." Know so clearly?

——And why did your attack suddenly become so powerful? Haven't you always been level one? What kind of magical super upgrade potion did you drink? !

These wild thoughts were immediately interrupted by the impatient loud urging of the brave man: "Leave this to me! Go!"

Before the brave man could finish speaking, the shadow suddenly sprang up from the ground, engulfing the brave man with a bang, completely engulfing the figure of this character.

Before Xiaolan could exclaim in surprise, the dazzling thunder broke out forcefully from the strangulation of the shadow, tearing away the remaining darkness while expanding its scale.

However, with the sudden ups and downs, an evenly matched situation was formed on the scene.

Seeing that the situation seems to be controlled by the brave, Xiaolan stopped talking nonsense, and directly raised her sword to start the teleportation, taking the time to ask in the light of her eyes: "Brave, I'm counting on you here!"

Just when the fixed-point teleportation technique was launched using sapphire as the medium, Xiaolan faintly heard a crisp sound of "ding--".

It was as if something had lifted the restriction and broke out of the cocoon.

After confirming that Xiaolan had left, the impatience on the brave man's face instantly faded away - not only the impatience, but all emotions faded from that face at the same time, as if there were no emotions that humans would have .

In connection with the previous domineering resistance, the demon guard seemed to have a sense of it, but for a moment he put away his usual hippie smile.

But at the next moment, he turned his head slightly and stared at the character in front of him, and suddenly showed a brighter, or more ferocious smile than usual, and asked half threateningly and half provocatively: "Little cutie, where are you hiding the genius?" gone?"

"Who are you?" Yong Le asked a more straightforward question after Hui Yu.At the same time, several lightning thorns also flashed around the body of this demonic staff officer, with an aggressive aura.

A brave man would not use those attacks so boldly and simply, nor would he be so calm and silent after casting them.

Then the problem is coming.

——Who is this existence in front of me?

[Brave] did not answer.

He even stood on the spot without making any movements.

But Wanjun Thunder appeared out of thin air in front of him and lined up, aggressively trying to snare the two demons.

*******

After the dazzling light of the teleportation technique disappeared, Xiao Lan realized that she was directly teleported to the World Tree.

At the same time, the [proficiency] of the sapphire holy sword is also full.

The attribute item that came to Wuying before has disappeared without a trace.Xiaolan moved her hands and feet curiously, feeling that something was different, and muttered hesitantly after a while: "It seems... nothing special?"

Then she raised her eyes inadvertently, and Xiaolan immediately felt that this trivial matter should be ignored for the time being.

Speaking of which, this is the third time Xiaolan has set foot on this map, and it feels like it's been a long time.

Seeing the scenery in front of her, Xiao Lan knew that there was no room for negotiation.

The once clear sky is now covered by ominous dark clouds.At this time, most of the magnificent world tree has been swallowed by darkness, leaving only a small bunch of light gathered under the tree, weakly struggling to support it, and it is especially shining in this overwhelming darkness.

Xiaolan was airborne in this corner of light, as if she was in a corner of a misty paradise.

However, Xiaolan knew that the scene in front of her, which was quite eerie and intrusive to human beings, was a beautiful and peaceful scene in the eyes of the demons.

The reminder in his heart made him lower his gaze, and inadvertently turned around to look back.

Four eyes facing each other.

Xiaolan always thought that he was clear enough, calm enough, and firm enough in this battle, but when he saw the familiar figure under the tree, he still couldn't help the heat in his eyes for a moment, like a pimple in his throat.

That existence has been staring at him quietly, still with a smile in the corner of his eyes, and his eyes are gentle.

"You're finally here, Xiaolan."

Once upon a time, it was also this existence who prophesied to Xiaolan personally——

"Your sword must be pointed at me."