Awakening of Rebirth

She forgot who she was, and felt as if she was drifting away from the whole world, seemingly aimless, running wildly in the chaos, unwilling to stop.

just like,

It's as if you're looking for something that doesn't exist.

……

No, she said to herself, that's important, it's not just something that happens.

But, what is it, what can make her so unable to let go?

——During your absence, I am afraid that you will never come back.

So where to go back?

——Azheng!

She heard someone calling a name in her ear, with a bit of anger, pain, and almost choked up.

Don't cry, don't cry... I can't stand the little girl crying in front of me.

She reached out to touch it, but it was in vain.

Who is crying in the ear?Who is there to accompany you?

I almost found it, and it was gone anyway.

She continued to run wildly, in the chaos, trying to recall everything she had forgotten.

……

Suddenly there was a bird on fire not far away. In her vague memory, that creature seemed to be called a phoenix.

She stepped forward, but the phoenix was gone, only the figure of a young girl stood in the flames, the girl turned to face her, her face was faintly visible in the heavy flames, extremely blurry, but she felt faintly familiar.

There seemed to be tears in the girl's eyes, and she suddenly stretched out her burning fingers, wanting to touch her face.

The moment the flame got close, she subconsciously wanted to dodge, but she couldn't dodge, but unexpectedly she was not burned by the raging fire.

"Go, don't stay here."

"Where are you going?" she asked blankly.

"Go where you want to go and protect the people you cherish."

"I don't know anything, how can I protect her..." She couldn't help being dazed as she spoke.To protect "her", who is "her"?

"I entrust my power to you completely, and you can protect her."

She was pleasantly surprised but couldn't believe it: "Really?"

"But you have to promise me one thing."

"Okay, tell me!" As long as you have enough power, you can help "her", protect "her", and stop making "her" sad.

The girl was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Send her a message for me."

***

Taran, on the cloud tower.

Chang Sheng tightly grasped Jiang Zheng's unusually hot hand, his eyes were full of anxiety.

Baozi squatted aside, counting with his fingers, leaning against the left window blindly with his bow in his arms, staring at the gradually brightening window with his dull eyes, his thoughts had already drifted away.

"Why hasn't she woke up?" "Is the injury really serious?" "What's going on..."

During the period from dusk to dusk, Chang Sheng asked these three sentences 21, 36 and [-] times respectively.

"Soon." The old protector of the country slowly closed the book in his hand, took a sip of the wine on the table, and said nothing.

Jiang Zheng was not seriously injured, he had already said similar words many times, but Chang Sheng couldn't hold back and kept asking anxiously, so he had to say the phrase "soon" a dozen times more.

From what he saw, Jiang Zheng was not seriously injured. The reason why she remained unconscious was only because she suppressed the keel with the power of the phoenix, and was suddenly affected by the magic energy, which caused a certain mental shock. The phoenix instinctively thought He wanted to fight back, but was unable to succeed due to the limitation of the host's own ability. In order to protect the host, he chose to close all the senses of the host in time, and dragged his consciousness into an absolutely safe spiritual shelter.

Logically speaking, after sensing the safety around her, Jiang Zheng should wake up soon, but a few hours later, she was still in a coma, and Chang Sheng couldn't help feeling anxious about it.

Obviously at the bottom of the hopeless sea before, Jiang Zheng joked that she was afraid of death and asked Changsheng to protect her. Who knows how long before she finished speaking, she was attacked by the demons.Chang Sheng couldn't help but attribute Jiang Zheng's injury to his own negligence.

Knowing that the demons had sneaked into the bottom of the sea first, but because they had fought against each other before, they thought that the enemy was only two people, and even if they met, they could handle it, so they didn't think too much and took precautions.

In this regard, all we can do is helpless comfort.

"It's not your fault. No one would have thought that those two cunning guys would use the giant's magic circle."

Maybe……

The two demons who followed all the way ambushed beside the giant's receiving formation, and while they were meeting with the undersea underworld, they set up a dark teleportation formation leading to the demon world, trying to send them to the demon world together with the keel.

Anyone with a little knowledge of magic knows that such long-distance teleportation conditions are very difficult to achieve. Even if it is only a small magic circle that is only enough for a few people to pass through, it requires the formation to have a very powerful magician. There must also be a sufficiently powerful usher, and both parties must consume a lot of mana at the same time to be successful.

Although it is difficult to say that you know your opponent well in a fight, Lilith is a melee-type dark slave trained by Evans, the lord of the demon world, and given to his sister Aeglorin. She has never been proficient in spells. Such a teleportation array was successfully activated.

No one expected that these two demons would use the power of the moment when the giant activated the ancient formation to attract them, forcefully activated the teleportation formation, and made the impossible possible.

After a moment of distraction, the four of them were imprisoned by the outer barrier of the teleportation array. They wanted to interrupt Aeglorin's singing, but they were entangled in close combat by Lilith, and they were unable to break through for a while, let alone interrupt the operation of the array.

Almost, just a little bit, they will be sent to the Demon Realm, and the keel that left the seal will join the part in the Demon Realm, and the power of the black dragon will inevitably increase a lot, causing huge pressure on the remaining seals.

Fortunately, the spirit in the distance noticed this strangeness and hurried over. However, the formation had already been completed and the transmission could not be stopped, so it had to be reversed forcibly.

At that moment, Changsheng clearly saw the shock and anger in the eyes of Lilith and Aeglorin. They almost retreated to the outside of the teleportation formation in a hurry. After the aura around the formation completely dissipated, they were already in the cloud tower , the eyes of the familiar elder in front of him were full of shocking surprise.

Ron Bernard, Ainota's current protector of the country, after regaining his senses, bowed slightly and said: "Your Highness, welcome back."

Under the blank stares of Changsheng and Baozi, he said that he suddenly sensed a distress signal from the far north. The person possessed great power, but his tone was extremely anxious. Her Royal Highness is in danger and needs help.

As soon as the words fell, the surroundings were surrounded by a powerful spiritual force, and a teleportation array that did not know where the other end was connected appeared in front of his eyes. He hesitated for a moment, and saw the spiritual light in the center of the array flickering on and off. The magician's aura became weaker and weaker, as if he was about to run out of fuel. When he remembered that the man said that Chang Sheng was in danger when he asked for help, he didn't dare to think anymore, and hurriedly cooperated with him.

During the process, he clearly felt that the teleportation array was forcibly reversed to Ainota, because there was another strong force that was always trying to pull the final teleportation point to the direction of the Demon Realm.He no longer hesitated, and tried his best to help, and finally took Changsheng and his party back.

And when he went to search for the spiritual breath of the mysterious seeker at the other end, he found that he could no longer find it.

Such a result made Chang Sheng feel extremely guilty, even though he knew that the spirit under the sea was running out of time, but at the moment when he sacrificed for himself, he felt more or less unbearable.

Probably she will never forget that the thin figure that was tottering in the deep sea sent them back home with all her remaining strength.

——For the future, please.

Those were Ling's last words, and it was too late to say goodbye, leaving only her life-and-death trust that was more important than a mountain.

Changsheng was in such a mess, he could only hold Jiang Zheng's hand tightly, hoping that she would wake up soon, and stop lying motionless, like the younger brother in his arms in countless nightmares, never again. open your eyes.

I thought that if I died once, there was nothing to be afraid of. As long as I can stop the black dragon from harming the world, I don't care about life or death.But now it seems that loss is a more terrible pain than death.

The tightly clenched hands trembled slightly, Chang Sheng was overjoyed, and carefully helped Jiang Zheng sit up.

Seeing the mist in Jiang Zheng's eyes, she couldn't help but reached out and rubbed her hair, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't protect you well, and I won't let you get hurt easily again."

Baozi also got up and ran over a few steps, muttering in a low voice: "Great, I'm awake."

Jiang Zheng shook her head, didn't speak, and didn't act like a big sister like usual, telling her little sister not to touch people's heads.She looked around calmly, and realized that she might have returned to Taran, and said, "What's going on? Why are we here?"

Chang Sheng briefly told her what happened after she fell into a coma, and Jiang Zheng couldn't help frowning after hearing this, as if thinking of something.

Ron also suddenly said at this time: "Your Highness, since your friend is awake, I really want to know what kind of trouble you have gotten into."

Only then did Chang Sheng realize that the Protector of the Nation has been by his side since he came back. Perhaps he wanted to take her emotions into account. After explaining the whole story of how he took them back and inspecting Jiang Zheng's injuries, he unexpectedly She didn't ask much about what happened behind this sudden call for help, and the origins of these strange companions beside her.

"Sorry, Lord Ron."

"Your Highness doesn't need to apologize. You don't need to report to me what your Highness is going to do and where you are going." Ron put away his usual kind gesture and replaced it with a serious and serious one: "It's just that this matter has something to do with the demons." , may be detrimental to Ainota, I know, so I have to ask, and I hope Your Highness will understand."

Chang Sheng couldn't help hesitating, the whole incident was too complicated, and even involved the secrets of herself and her younger brother, she didn't know how to say... drag out the whole thing, or half-truth?What is the most beneficial?

"I……"

"Master Ron, I have seen you." Jiang Zheng suddenly interrupted Chang Sheng, and said under Ron's surprised eyes: "It was almost a year ago, Chang... His Highness came here and asked if you knew anything about it." The technique of bringing the dead back to life. In fact, His Highness wanted to save me at that time, and I was just a wisp of soul back then, and you couldn't see me."

The surprise in Ron's eyes turned into hesitation, and he looked at Chang Sheng, as if he wanted to get evidence.

Chang Sheng nodded, looked at Jiang Zheng, and said, "A-Zheng is kind to me, so I will save her."

Jiang Zheng continued: "At that time, you said that Wodo had the legend of the tree of life and the phoenix, which might bring people back to life. On the way to Wodo, we discovered the conspiracy of the demons."

She told the whole story carefully, but subtly and calmly omitted the part of the past time and space and Chang Sheng's life experience. Chang Sheng knew that Jiang Zheng was protecting her. After all, the world's prejudice against Long was too great , Not everyone can accept her identity like Blind and Baozi.

If she had to say these words by herself, if she insisted on subtracting the key points, it would be full of loopholes.

After hearing this, Ron pondered for a long time, clenched his staff tightly in his skinny hands, stood up slowly with his feet on the ground, looked at the gathering and scattered clouds outside, and said, "Time is running out, there is no delay, Your Highness."

"I don't understand." Chang Sheng lowered his head.

"Before this, although I didn't know what was sealed under the tower, I could feel its power getting stronger and stronger, and I was very worried about it." Ron looked solemnly, looked at Jiang Zheng, and said: "Thousands of years , that priest survived by the power of the phoenix. Although she has cultivated such a powerful power with her long life, what cannot change is the fact that she is not immortal. Now she has passed the power of immortality to you It's a miracle that he's still alive."

"You mean..."

Ron stopped talking, just sighed softly.

Blind opened his mouth lightly, and said: "The priest is very clear that her time is numbered. Without the blood of her heart, she should have died quietly without any pain, but because she couldn't let go of the unfinished business of the black dragon in her heart, she spent thousands of dollars to die. Years of practice to forcibly maintain my divine consciousness... The price for doing this is that every sunrise, I have to endure a pain that makes life worse than death."

"..."

"She said that there is no need to tell you, because the last meaning of her life is to wait until the day when all the keel bones are collected, to give up everything, and drag the black dragon to hell with her." Blind couldn't help closing her eyes, no one knew that she was feeling tired, I still want to hide the tears in my eyes.

"The head of the black dragon is sealed under the tree of life. If that priest can't hold on anymore, the consequences will be disastrous." Ron said.

I must hurry to find the next seal... Eggert, where will the keel seal be hidden in that dwarf kingdom that has been friends with Ainota for generations?

"Pack up, let's go as soon as possible..." Before Changsheng finished speaking, Ron said, "Your Highness, I have an old friend who is in Eggert. You might as well wait a day longer. After discussing with His Majesty, I will send him a letter. With his help, I will be able to send you to Eggert, and save a lot of time."

Chang Sheng couldn't help being taken aback, and after thinking for a moment, he shook his head again and again: "Lord Ron, please tell Father about this matter after I leave, please!"

The royal father has always doted on her and Mingluo, if he knew everything, he would definitely not want her to take risks and would condemn others.But this matter involves her unspeakable life experience, the hatred in her heart, the trust of Qianye Liusha and Hai Haimingluo, all of which she must face personally and cannot escape.

Ron pondered for a long time, then leaned over to salute, and said, "Tomorrow, I will send His Highness away."

Changsheng didn't say yes or no, and when he left the cloud tower, he felt unspeakable worry in Jiang Zheng's eyes.

"Time flies so fast." It took Chang Sheng a long time to say this with emotion.

That's right, those hard days in Wagron completely blurred the concept of time, so before I knew it, it was already autumn...

***

The night in Taran is far from silent, but the autumn moonlight is unavoidably a bit cold.

Tafil fell in love with the feeling of sitting on the roof and watching the moon. This is a bit hypocritical and funny for a big man, but in fact, this habit originated from a girl.

Fengling said that she likes to eat sweet things, and Aunt De's cakes are delicious, better than Vodo's. She wanted to learn, so he accompanied her to "help" make trouble in Aunt De's kitchen. In the afternoon, the bears were like two children.

Fengling loves to laugh. When we first met, she always smiled shyly. Her rosy face looks like a jade carving, which makes people want to feel sorry for her.Later, after getting acquainted with her for a while, she became a happy elf, generous and unrestrained, and when she laughed, it made people want to dedicate the whole world to her.

Fengling likes to stand in a very high place, because it can see more scenery.She said that in Wodo, she could climb tall and tall trees, but in Taran, there were too many rules, so she could only climb the roof of his house, which was not comfortable at all.He didn't speak at that time, just sat beside Fengling, after a few seconds of silence, Fengling pointed to the moon in the sky and said: "But it's the same, whether it's in Vodo or Taran, it's the same... come out These days, when I feel homesick, I look at it, and the familiar feeling is the same as in Wodo."

Ten days ago, Tafil sent the wind chime to the city gate.After getting along for half a year, finally ushered in the day when I had to say goodbye.

The night wind was very light, the moonlight was very light, and the hearts of the two parting parties were also very confused.

"I believe in love at first sight." Tafil rarely spoke softly, as if he was afraid that he would offend the beautiful woman.

Feng Ling couldn't help but clenched the sleeves as thin as gauze, raised her eyes and pretended to look back at him indifferently, and asked, "Love at first sight?"

He nodded and said: "The first time I saw a person, I decided that she was the only one in my life, just like I treat you."

The tone was extremely serious, the handsome silhouette as sharp as a knife, and the resolute expression like a soldier, even if there was nothing new, and even a somewhat rigid confession, all of them moved her.

She also believed in love at first sight.

Maybe this is fate, since the stupid mistake she put the dagger on Tafil's neck, she has put her heart in it.

There has never been anyone like him, a big stupid man. Every sentence that sounds like an understatement has made her yearn for it uncontrollably, and every seemingly trivial and boring movement has made her follow her eyes unstoppably.

But so what?She has stayed here for too long without authorization, and it is time to go back.

"Fengling, you understand what I mean." Tafil didn't know where the courage came from, and suddenly held Fengling with both hands, and said: "I know that your elves have a long lifespan. Maybe when I get old and die, you will still be here now." This look, but I still can't help liking you."

"Your Highness..." Fengling frowned, and then quietly withdrew her hands. The two stood in the night wind and were speechless. After an unknown amount of time, she said, "I'm from Wodo, one of the three major families. One of the spiritual girls, I have my own responsibilities, just like His Highness, as a soldier, needs to protect Ainota, I...I also need to protect Vodo and my people."

She saw that the smile and expectation in Tafel's eyes gradually turned into a trace of unspeakable bitterness, and finally turned into a faint smile, as if forcing herself to let go, she couldn't help feeling extremely guilty, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

How is she going to appease others?It's the same for me, obviously reluctant to give up, but insisting on giving up.

One day, Tafil will marry a wife and have children, and continue to have children for the Ainota royal family, and she is still the spiritual daughter of the Feng family, and she will forever bury the love that she had first opened in her heart forever.

Forget it, doomed to have no future feelings, it is enough to just want to have it once and never forget it.

Silence enveloped the other two, and in the end it was Tafil who spoke first.

"Well, what I said just now, I just don't want to hold it in my heart forever." He said, took out a letter from his body, and said: "I have to trouble you to bring this letter to the priest for me, and hand it to her."

Feng Ling took the envelope with downcast eyes and said, "I will."

"Then, be careful all the way."

"En." Feng Ling nodded, rode on the white deer, gritted her teeth, and embarked on the return journey destined to part.

Looking at the slender figure who didn't look back, Tafil couldn't help feeling a sense of loneliness welling up in his heart.

Suddenly, Feng Ling seemed to have made some kind of decision, turned around and shouted to Tafil: "Wodo is not as noisy as you Talan, and he is very self-cultivating. Your Highness, would you like to take time to see it in the future?"

Tafil was astonished, suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and replied: "I will definitely go!"

"It's a deal, I'll wait for you!" Feng Ling smiled happily, and the arrow hit the bowstring, and a curved arrow shot through the air, almost falling into the soil at Tafil's feet.

He bent down to pick it up, and there was a string of wrist bells hanging on the arrow, and only the last promise before leaving was left in the wind.

She said: "When the time comes, take it to find me, and no one will stop you!"

Tafil raised his eyes again, and the wind chime had disappeared into the long night of parting.

"I will definitely go." Tafil said, looking at the direction she was leaving, silent for a long time, and whispered to himself: "If there is still a chance..."

If there is still a chance, I really want to visit Vodo.

Tafil clutched the wrist bell in her hand, feeling that she had been away for a while before she knew it.

When he misses her, he goes to the roof to look at the moon.After watching too much, I found that Talan and the moon on the border are actually the same, but the feeling is different from when she is by her side.

"Second brother."

Tafil was awakened by this soft wake, and Chang Sheng sat beside him at some unknown time.

"you……"

Chang Sheng glanced at the things in his hands, smiled, and said, "What are you thinking about so preoccupied, if I don't call you, how long will it take you to find me?"

I haven't seen her for a year, but my sister has become taller and thinner. Her eyes reveal a little tiredness, but they are full of determination. She is completely different from the last time I met last year.

Tafil hid it calmly, and said, "Why are you back?"

"I'm leaving at dawn, let's make a long story short." Chang Sheng said: "Second brother, what kind of person do you think Ron Bernard is?"

"Our guardian mage of Ainota is a wise, great, noble, holy and selfless existence." Tafil recalled what the teacher said in class when he was young.

Chang Sheng shook his head and said, "Speak the truth."

Tafil looked serious, looked at Chang Sheng, and said, "Are you my sister?"

Chang Sheng was stunned for a while, then smiled wryly, "Maybe."

Tafil couldn't understand the deep meaning behind this wry smile, but he could feel that this was Chang Sheng, the worried sister who came to ask him to help send Mingluo to the southwest.

This child's wry smile is the same as before, it hasn't changed.

Seeing that Tafil was silent, Changsheng pinched the corner of his clothes, and said: "As I said in the letter, I went to Wagron, it is a good place, the giants there are not as scary as those recorded in the book, They are simple and kind...the Guardians of Wagron are gone, and I want to...help them."

Help them, and help yourself.

Tafil couldn't help but ponder. From Chang Sheng's short words, he could probably guess that Chang Sheng had experienced some bad things, but he didn't know how to comfort him.

He looked into the distance, lowered his voice, and said, "I can't see many things clearly. If you ask me, I don't know either. No matter what, just remember that there is no trust in Taran today. From now on, don't trust no one."

Chang Sheng couldn't help lowering his head.

When leaving the Cloud Tower, Jiang Zheng told her not to trust Ron too much. She didn't understand, but blindly agreed with Jiang Zheng's words.She was afraid that Jiang Zheng was worrying too much, but it turned out that Tafil felt the same way.Originally, he wanted to talk to the second brother who knew most of the truth, but after hearing him say this, Chang Sheng didn't know where to start.

"Second brother, I..."

Tafil interrupted what Chang Sheng was about to say, and said, "I've always ordered someone to take care of the flowers and plants in your garden, but they are always not as good as when you and Ming Luo were still there. I heard that the elves Said that flowers, plants and trees are spiritual, and they will be sad when the person who took good care of them leaves, especially the one in Mingluo's study room. I heard that you and Mingluo raised it together the year before last. It looks like it lost its master and lost its soul... You take care all the way, come back earlier to take care of it."

"..."

"Don't be afraid, do what you should do, Taran has me."

Chang Sheng nodded, jumped off the roof, turned and ran away.

Tafil looked at the back of his sister leaving, with a flash of determination in his eyes.

He knew that when Frange came back with the man, it was time for those loving thoughts to stop.

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