Haierbo has never forgotten her.
Even if he and she had neither a master-student relationship nor any other relationship; even if he and she... seemed to have only seen each other from beginning to end.
But for more than two thousand years, Haierbo still couldn't forget her.
The staff she gave him had been lost long ago, and the note she left behind had long since turned into nothingness.
"If you can use it to cast a magic one day, come to me. Then I may reluctantly accept you as my apprentice."
This is a piece of text written by Kern at that time.
In order to fulfill this agreement, Haierbo, whose talent was not outstanding at the time, spent a lot of time and energy. However, when he finally came to her after all the hardships, the other party no longer recognized him.
Yes, when the two met again decades apart, Kern no longer "recognized" Herbo.
You know, Kern is a witch and an extremely powerful genius. If she had a bad memory, how could she achieve such achievements
If a wizard forgets something, it undoubtedly means that the memory of that thing has been completely erased in some accident.
To this day, Herbo still remembers that night—it was the second time he spoke face-to-face with Kern. And at the same time, it is also the last time.
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It has been five years since the magical war against the Goddess of Death ended.
In the past five years, the heartland of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, which was originally the main battlefield, has remained desolate and dilapidated due to fierce and protracted wars.
The flying sand and gravel, carried by the abnormal storm, ran rampant on this endless wasteland. Due to the remaining power of many powerful magics, there is no grass growing here and no birds.
The conquest coalition, composed of many wizards and magical creatures, all withdrew to Greece four years ago. Only Herbo remained in this harsh environment.
He was waiting silently... hoping that the witch who had mysteriously disappeared at the end of the war would reappear in front of him and fulfill her unfinished promise back then.
Therefore, Haierbo lived in the ruins of the original royal city for five years.
Apart from doing magic research every day, he spent almost the rest of his time in the nearby area either stopping to look at it or wandering around.
In the early morning, he ran around, looking for every trace of Kern before he disappeared; in the evening, he climbed up the remaining section of the city wall, staring in a daze against the yellow sand and strong wind.
Perhaps Haierbo, two thousand years later, doesn't really understand why he did such a stupid thing back then. But at that time, Haierbo knew very well that his ideal lay in the witch Kern.
All right!
Speaking of which, it may be that fate itself wants to give him an answer as he waits persistently. After five years of waiting, one night when the sandstorm subsided a little, an abnormal magic wave suddenly appeared in the ruins of the royal city, which instantly attracted Haierbo's attention.
Under the clearer and brighter moonlight than usual, he followed the source of the magic fluctuations and finally saw a strange black shadow among the ruins of a strangely sunken wall.
It was a shadow that was difficult to explain in words, as if it was something that did not belong to this world. For a while, Haierbo did not dare to approach it at will.
However, besides Na Kern, who else would create such a mysterious and unknown magical phenomenon in this place
Haierbo didn't think so... Although he didn't dare to approach, he didn't want to retreat. Even though he could clearly feel the great danger from the shadow, he was still reluctant to leave.
So, about a few minutes later, he finally saw another familiar figure step out from the inexplicable shadow.
"Ta-ta."
The sound of shoe soles hitting the hard ground was particularly clear in the quiet environment tonight because there was no big storm. And when the graceful figure that had been feared by countless people was finally fully revealed in the moonlight, the shadow silently shrank into a point and disappeared from Haierbo's sight.
"...Kern...Ms."
God knows how hard Halbo had to use to squeeze the words out of his throat, so that the tone became a little strange, containing many complex and subtle emotions.
After hearing Haierbo's soft call, he just stood on the sunken open space and faced him sideways. After appearing, he kept his silent figure and gradually turned around.
"M-Miss Kern?"
At that moment, Haierbo didn't even understand what he saw!
The side of her body that originally faced him was still as graceful as five years ago, so even though she was cruel, powerful, crazy, and terrifying, she still earned the name "goddess".
But the other half of the body was completely black, with a body that resembled that of the most ferocious and powerful beast. That half of the face was terrifyingly ferocious, and the blood-colored eyes emitted a faint red glow that even the bright moonlight couldn't cover.
Of course, perhaps the most important thing is that the magic power of her body is constantly rising. The overwhelming power makes Hai Erbo almost breathless.
And at the next moment, the inhuman witch Kern finally spoke.
"Who are you?"
The special voice, like the voices of a man and a woman overlapping each other, immediately made Haierbo's scalp tingle and goosebumps appear on his body.
"I... I am your student, Miss Kern... I have finally waited for you! You... don't remember me?"
Perhaps because he had been thinking about Kern for many years, Haierbo suddenly put aside the fear in his heart. He hurriedly took out the decades-old note from his pocket that he had carefully kept at that time, and let it drift towards the direction where Kern was standing.
However, Kern didn't even reach out to take it. Haierbo saw that she just glanced at it casually, and then a black flame ignited on the note, swallowing it up.
"I don't know you." Kern's dull voice sounded again, piercing straight into Haierbo's heart, "Stay away from me, otherwise, your fate will be the same as that boring piece of paper. "
As soon as he finished speaking, Kern stopped looking at Haierbo, turned around and walked towards the deserted sand dunes outside the ruins. Haierbo originally wanted to chase him, but his legs seemed to be rooted in the ground and he couldn't lift them up.
It wasn't until a moment later that Kern disappeared at the end of the horizon.