The sky is misty; the streets are groggy. The more I walked there and saw more, it felt like I had accidentally stepped into some faded old photo, which made me feel more and more out of breath and tight in my chest.
Perhaps it must be said here - this is not Hermione leaving her broomstick alone and having to walk on the ground. In fact, when she chased Sarah from a distance to the central neighborhood of Preston, a sudden dizziness made her almost fall from the air!
It wasn't until she landed back on the ground that the inexplicable dizziness subsided slightly, barely reaching a level that she could accept.
To be honest, she still didn't understand why Sarah seemed to be fine after entering this area before. But a few seconds later, the situation was completely different when he came next to me.
However, it is obviously not the time to ponder this now. Seeing that Sarah had flown all the way to Preston with a clear goal and landed in a certain street in front of her, Hermione knew that she had most likely found Safina and Ursula. Where they are.
And...there is something really wrong with this neighborhood.
When she thought that even the now powerful Safina seemed to be in some kind of trouble and couldn't get out of it, Hermione couldn't help but get more alert. While wary of her surroundings, she headed towards the direction where she had seen Sarah fall. Go on a quick walk.
"There seem to be very few living corpses here?"
From the time she landed on the ground until now, Hermione has only seen single digits of living corpses. For someone like her who has seen several waves of living corpses, this situation has become very strange. It got weird.
But comparing the density of living corpses along the way here, it's no wonder she felt strange.
"call-"
However, the dizziness in her head still hadn't completely disappeared, which made Hermione feel very uncomfortable and even affected her alertness.
After walking for a while, she had to temporarily stop moving forward and stand on the side of the road to take a breath.
At this moment, an explosion without warning suddenly sounded from somewhere, followed by a black flame that rolled into the air from the street in front.
"over there!"
Seeing this scene, Hermione had no intention of resting anymore and ran towards the direction of the rising black flames.
…
What made Hermione feel dizzy and uncomfortable was naturally the power of the soul tide that permeated the neighborhood. Just because she had no actual contact with or specifically studied the soul rules, she didn't even know what the problem was.
Compared with her, Sarah was different.
As an artificial human created by alchemy, especially after further completing her soul with Maka's assistance, she has a considerable degree of resistance to such influences even if she does not master any branch of soul rules.
In fact, as soon as she flew into this area, she immediately noticed something unusual here. However, because this soul shock was nothing to her, she didn't pay too much attention to it.
"Geolfin!"
After following the black flame wizard who led the way into an alley, Sarah immediately followed. Soon, she saw Safina, who was helping Ursula forward in the alley.
"Miss Hohenheim," Ursula motioned to Safina to stop, then turned to Sarah, "I'm sorry, please come this way - Safina said she saw you just now."
"Yes," Sarah said, glancing at the black flame wizard who was leading the way, and then nodded, "So, can you tell me what happened here? I'm here... I really feel it. Something weird."
"Oh, it's an... old man? I don't know if I should describe it this way," Ursula said hesitantly, "In short, there is an enemy watching us around, and its magic is constantly affecting me. —I must say that I was the one who dragged Safina down."
"Ursula!"
When Safina on the side heard this, she couldn't help but look at her with some complaints, and then finally said:
"Hohenheim... Miss, as you can see, I can't take Ursula away easily in this situation. So, I have transferred half of my men over to help me look for that entangled guy around. . To be honest, I personally don’t feel like inviting you over, it’s just—”
"Just can't find where 'he' is?"
Sarah helped her say the last words, then subconsciously glanced left and right, and then nodded again.
"I have roughly sensed it," she frowned, "but the other party seems to be able to move freely in this area. It is not easy to catch him."
"I just wanted to take Ursula to get rid of that guy," Safina said immediately, "Of course, actually 'he' had already raided us once, and I tried to fight him. I think, even if It’s not easy to catch him and deal with him.”
"Really? Then-"
Sarah nodded slightly thoughtfully and was about to express her proposal. But at this moment, a sense of threat suddenly appeared from behind her, making her feel trembling.
At the same time, the two alchemy dolls, one tall and one short, who had been following her since just now, suddenly turned around.
I saw the short puppet lift the broom handle like lightning and slam it onto the ground. Several stalagmites taller than a person rose up from the ground and stabbed straight into the wall behind Sarah; while another big man Ou, on the other hand, blocked Sarah with his body very decisively, and the broom handle in his hand was also placed in front of him, ready to attack.
"boom!"
The next moment, I saw a dark hole just appeared in the wall, which was then bombarded by stone thorns. Before it could even be fully opened, the brick wall collapsed.
When the dust filled the air, Sarah raised her eyebrows and immediately turned around.
"Geulfine, be careful."
"I know."
Without Sarah's reminder, Safina immediately noticed the sudden abnormal magic fluctuations on the wall next to her. She suddenly raised her hand, and the black flames that had been flowing silently on her body immediately separated and flowed silently towards the brick wall beside her.
Perhaps the long-term entanglement has made Safina very irritable, and now Sarah has come to help. In an instant, the black flames suddenly swelled up, and with an unrestrained release, the bursting flames completely engulfed the nearby alleyway.
When the alley could no longer hold so much black flame, it rolled up and rose with a silent explosion. Sarah, who was swallowed up unexpectedly, got out of it and flew into the air.
Although under Safina's control, the black flames did not hurt her at all, but this feeling was obviously not good.
"What a random guy!" Sarah couldn't help but shook her head and muttered as she looked down.