"Hey, where has your memory recovered?"
On the way to the water demon residence, Arecio was a little surprised when he heard the memory recovery of the neuropathy.
"I thought you had to think back a little slower. For example, it takes more than a hundred years for a memory of more than one hundred years to recover like that."
Ruzius smiled, "How could it be so slow, it's just picking up what I once had."
He even wanted to hurry up and retrieve that dream-like memory. In my memory, there will be countless carnivals, countless Aresi, and even if there will be a rain of fire at the end, they were harmonious at that time, like a flower blooming in a rock crevice, even if it is difficult, it is still growing.
"I don't know if it's the reason for the recollection. Some fragments that were not clearly remembered in the past have begun to become clearer again."
"Like?" Arecio asked.
"For example, since that era, light and darkness are not completely opposite." The saint closed his sky-colored eyes slightly. His expression at the moment was very peaceful, and his walking movements were almost in a relaxed state, enough to see He was in a really good mood.
"I remembered the time when I had not been taken away by the temple and raised, and my situation was not very good. I was the kind of child who was raised by the village collectively, without parents. But even then, I still felt that in life It's hopeful, I once knew a water demon..."
Arecio hadn't heard of this, so he listened very intently. I don't know if it's a racial hobby, but the female water demon in the memory of the neurotic also likes to pick up star-shaped shells under the water and glue them into beautiful rings. Arecio seemed to see the scene, the water demon straightened up from the water and waved the ring at the young platinum-blond boy.
"Then you must have no prejudice against dark creatures at that time." Arecio Ren smiled, "The water demon is very sensitive to emotions. If you were as fearful and disgusted by her as the adults in the village, she would have run away long ago, no Take the ring to coax you."
"Is that coaxing?"
"Of course, she likes you very much and treats you as her own child."
Ruzius suddenly stood still and looked sideways at Arecio.
"Water demons will coax me, when will you coax me?"
Arecio stayed for a moment, but the years of mutual confrontation exercised his quick thinking, and he reacted in a second.
"The kind that father loves? I can do it now."
He showed his fangs to the neuropathy, embraced every minute, and became a father and son every minute.
"… "
The lunatic seemed to be angry and stopped talking to him, so he stepped up to the front. Arecio felt that he was very annoying now. He happily pursued the question all the way, taking advantage of it, and only stopped at the gate of the stadium where Zelita lived. There is a huge pool here, and the awakened Zelita is resting here. At this moment, the water monster is swimming flexibly in the water. Except for a bush of shadow roses growing on her chest, she looks like other healthy young dark creatures. the difference.
Hearing the sound on the water, the shadow of the water monster swimming in the water paused for a while, and slowly approached the edge of the pool. When it was close to the edge of the pool, it suddenly appeared, smiled at Arecio, and called at the same time.
"Alessio! Sir!"
Noah on the side smiled. He happened to be here today to follow up on Zelita's recovery.
"Zelita is still learning the language. She only has this title at the moment, but she can recognize you."
Arecio stretched out his hand, and the water demon rubbed affectionately under his hand like a kitten, suddenly sank into the water, and then suddenly popped up again, playing with Arecio in this form.
"Is there any other problem with your body?" Arecio pressed the overly lively water demon and carefully checked the blooming condition of the shadow rose, and found that Zelita's body was much better than when the rose was first planted. Rose should not have such a function.
The saint also leaned down beside him, and the water demon seemed to be a little afraid of him, so he didn't reach out.
"Don't forget, the general environment has changed." He said, "The recovery of Behemoth has brought about a huge change, not only the frequency of haze has been significantly reduced, but also various measures against actinic diseases. , and has a more pronounced effect.”
He turned to look at Arecio with a gentle expression.
"This just shows that we are committed to changing the entire environment, which is a very correct choice. When the three pillars are fully recovered, the light-dark balance in this world will return to normal, and there will be no more haze and actinic diseases, just like... The world we used to be."
Arecio's heart was also touched. He looked at the water monster swimming happily in the water in front of him, lowered his eyes and smiled.
"Well, I'm looking forward to that day too."
The water demon Zelita was confused and couldn't understand what they were saying. She dived back to the bottom with a flick of her tail. When she came up, she held a ring made of star shells in her hand. She raised the ring over her head and waved it, wanting to show it to Arecio, but she lost control of her body and fell back, spinning like a small wheel in the water before re-floating and blinking.
Pfft, Arecio smiled rudely. He played with Zelita for a while, and the neurotic watched him play with Zelita for a while. After the water demon yawned sleepily, today's visit came to an end.
But Arecio thought that he might have to come again a few times.
He quietly looked at the neuropathy next to him. The neuropathy stared at the star ring several times. He also said that he had encountered water demons when he was a child. Arecio thought that if possible, he would learn how to glue this thing with Zelita, and make a ring himself, as a carnival gift for the insane.
After making up his mind, Arecio remained calm. On the way back, they also met Lucy who came up from the Emerald Inner Sea. The two sides greeted each other, and the lich girl hurried away.
Arecio: ...
Whether it was an illusion or not, he felt that Lucy was holding something in his hand.
*****
Lucy hurriedly returned to her room in the childcare center. She was basically able to take care of herself now. Darph only occasionally helped her to clean the room together, and all the lovely and gorgeous decorations were taken down. Lucy was going to have a carnival. Give your room a style change before the holidays.
These are all digressions. The top priority now is the thing she is holding in her hand.
Lucy walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, filled the sink with water, and then gently put the things in her hands into the sink. As her hand loosened, the creature gradually stretched out in the water, the whole body was translucent milky white, with a colorful flowing piping around the edge. The mysterious creature is like a small jellyfish, fluttering in the pool.
[Ah, thank you, my guardian, I feel much more comfortable.]
The mysterious creature made a sound, and every word seemed to sing. His voice sounded female, but Lucy instinctively knew that this was a male god, and such a voice was only because he symbolized the sea where all things multiply.
"I didn't do anything either." Lucy shook her head lightly, not expressing her merit, "I want to ask, what you said before, the deal that the lich made with you ten thousand years ago..."
[Could it be that you are interested in that ancient story?]
The jellyfish-like look shuddered, as if excited.
[I can tell you, I like to tell stories, or twists and turns, or romantic, those stories...]
The god was much more approachable than expected, and Lucy slowly relaxed. The god began to wiggle his long whiskers, and he exuded a strange soft light, slowly drifting up from the pool, and swimming freely in the air. Seeing the lich staring at him with wide eyes, the god laughed.
[For me, anywhere can be the sea.]
[In fresh water, in the air, in the wind, in the fragrance of flowers, or even in…]
He slowly approached the lich, and the colorful rainbows on the edge kept flowing.
[Even... the Sea of the Dead.]
He got taller and began to cruise over the lich's head. The female voice fell, Lucy raised her head, and the words seemed to fall into her soul-burning black eyes one by one.
[A long time ago, there was a princess...]
The story told by God, Lucy knows the first half, that is what Arecio said during the live game. How the princess died in the dungeon and became a lich, how the dragon-slaying feast was staged on the boundless flower sea, she listened, and as the story of the gods went up and down, the gods soon spoke of the chapters that Arecio had never told.
[After Behemoth was destroyed, she might have realized something, that smart girl. She knew that the dream was also my sea, so she went deep into the dream to find me, and when she saw me, she knelt down.]
God's voice was cold and soft.
[I can't tell you what she wants, but I can tell you what I want her to do. I hope she will open up the sea of the dead for me to hide and shelter from, instead of the ruined Behemoth.]
[She agreed, those who are determined to destroy the three pillars really can't find me for a while.]
[However, I finally found it.]
God stopped fluttering, He was hanging upside down and approaching Lucy, obviously without facial features and expressions, but the heavy sadness was sensed by Lucy.
[How beautiful she is with a determined look, the king of skeletons and undead. She told me that she is the guardian, and she will be killed; but I am a god, I should live, and the three pillars must not collapse completely.]
[She also said that she has a powerful friend who will definitely end everything and avenge her.]
[After saying this, she… went to die.]
Lucy's eyelashes trembled, she thought she was crying, but when she raised her hand to wipe her tears, she found that she was not crying. She turned her head to look at the mirror beside her, a girl with black hair and black eyes was reflected in the mirror, the soul fire slowly burned in her eyes, and the girl's expression was calm and determined.
She was a little stunned for a while, she didn't know that she could still show such an expression.
[This is the whole story, this is the story of the lich.]
God let out a long sigh, and submerged himself into the pool again, and his whiskers spread softly.
[In the end, no one came to rescue her, and I couldn't rescue her either...]
[Will she feel resentment in her heart at the end?]
"No!" Lucy didn't know why she was so excited. After she finished speaking, she slowly softened her tone. "No, she won't do it. She said that, she has a friend."
"His name is Arecio, a powerful vampire, and... and my friend."
Thinking of Arecio, the lich girl's eyes gradually filled with tender feelings.
"Alessi will take the scepter in her hand and move on. Not long ago, he took us and revives Behemoth of the earth."
[… If you say that, I really want to see him.]
"...I'll take you there."
God finally completely fell silent, at least for the past few days, after telling the story, He will no longer speak. When the Lich completely controls the sea of the undead and grows into a new qualified guardian, he will usher in the true resurrection.
At the same time, Arecio opened his eyes. Although it was late at night, he couldn't fall asleep. The fundamental reason was the vague singing that kept ringing in his ears.
He sighed and sat up, unable to remember for a moment what he was going to do. After sitting like this for a while, he remembered Lucy's recent need for bones, so he ordered a new batch of bones through a special channel. After he did this, the singing stopped, but he didn't plan to continue to sleep.
He came to the window and looked at the roses that gradually opened their buds under the moonlight.
Unconsciously, he put his hand on the neckline, where there used to be a silver cross, but unfortunately it was damaged in the decisive battle with Theo. He is still too impatient. If he is not in a hurry to resist Theo, he may be able to catch up with the battle in the Sea of the Dead.
His fangs bit his lower lip.
That way, maybe the lich wouldn't have to die.