This is the story of a magician and an elf girl.

The elf girl opened her eyes and found herself lying on the ground. She used her night vision to find her location, and it seemed that she was in a room whose outlines were so difficult to trace with her fingers.

Where is this? Is this all a dream? Haven't I escaped from that room yet... No... Calm down... Impossible... Impossible...

"...Wendy...Xiaobi..." There was no response to her call. Not knowing what to do, Linna stood up from the hard floor and walked in the direction where the rubble fell. However, no matter how hard she moved forward, she could not see the end of the road. The girl, who had no idea where she was, gradually became uneasy.

But at this moment, the sound of footsteps of boots was heard from the depths of the darkness.

"Uh……"

In the darkness, people always yearn to see the existence of light. If stimulated by other reasons, it will only turn into anxiety and fear - but she still remembers.

Yes, that is the sound of the person walking who is always not blessed by the light.

He is not pursued by anyone.

He is not recognized by anyone.

He is not admired by anyone.

He is not understood by anyone.

Wandering in the depths of darkness, like a lost ghost, he continues to curse everything in this world.

"This...this is..."

At this moment, Linnae accidentally kicked a white bone skull and lost her balance. She fell to her knees on the ground and looked in the direction of the rolling skull.

The front of the passage was filled with a large number of skeletons. She didn't know how many people had to die to create such a scene. She felt extremely nauseous at the first moment and was also tortured by her conscience.

What on earth is going on? What on earth happened here...

"Forward... forward... forward..."

"Uh?"

"The light... is..."

"Ugh……"

"Searching... for... the light..."

"Light……"

A vague voice lingering beside her came, and Linnae became more and more uneasy. She thought that there might be another way if she turned back, but for some reason her eyes were fixed on the floor.

The shoe prints that had been seen in the desert extended straight into the passage filled with bones.

"..."

Take courage.

Be determined. Haven't you made up your mind?

Protect that person and don't let him be alone anymore.

Go forward, the answer you are looking for is ahead.

"elder brother……"

The elf girl stood up again and brushed off the dust, trying her best to suppress her uneasiness and ran in the direction of the road. No matter what she saw or heard along the way, she did not stop, she just kept running, running, as if she was walking on the road that the man had walked before - she only wanted to shorten the distance between them and bring him back from that world.

"elder brother!!"

Just as the light was getting closer to her eyes, Linnae, who had successfully escaped from the road, came to an extremely huge cave, which was filled with a river of bones that was even more abundant than before. It took the remains of at least tens of millions of people to create such a spectacular scene.

However, rather than being surprised by this, what she saw was a beam of fire shooting through the top of the cave.

"!"

A huge black snake emerged from the river of bones, and it kept releasing its breath everywhere, shooting through the earth and burning the sky. It attacked randomly everywhere as if it was fighting someone.

"Bang!!" At the same time, a dark figure fell from the gravel in front of her eyes, and the light of the knife reflected in his hand awakened Linna's memory and recollection of the weapon.

"That is……"

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

Scorching flames spurted out from the giant snake's mouth. Facing the enormous heat, the black shadow did not flinch and took one big step after another wearing a cloak that was not affected by the breath, until the power of the breath was exhausted.

The black shadow that disappeared from the snake's eyes had already come to its head and swung the dagger.

“Ho ga?!”

“Drinku ...

"Snap!" The blade that penetrated into the eye socket cut off the black snake's eyeball with one stroke. The black shadow reached out to grab it and dragged it out. With smooth body-holding techniques, it fell into the river of bones and opened its mouth - it wolfed down the eyeball.

"!"

The elf girl didn't know what his intention was, but at that moment a ripple of magic accompanied by powerful waves spread all around, and the black shadow kneeling on one knee let out a painful wail in an extremely painful posture, as if it had absorbed something that the human body could not bear.

A huge darkness engulfed that world, and even the world seen by the elf girl was affected.

"here it is……"

Linnai, who saw herself returning to the world above ground, looked everywhere for the figure that matched her memory, but no matter how hard she looked, she could not find that person in this countryside that looked like a small village in the jungle.

Just when she was a little at a loss, a black-haired boy walking past her caught her attention.

"Hey, wait for me!"

"Too slow! Hurry up! Hahaha!"

"That's... no way..."

For some reason, the other party seemed not to notice her existence. The elf girl who was secretly watching the boy found that he was as cheerful as other children. There was no difference at all. He could laugh, play tricks on people, work hard, be diligent, and like someone - it was really normal. She couldn't help but doubt her own judgment.

However, those eyes attracted her attention.

"Well, we'll always be friends, right?"

"Of course. It always will be."

"You and I will always be friends when we grow up, forever."

"Ok!"

"Ok!"

"..."

Signing impossible contracts with friends, cultivating relationships with friends, laughing together, and working hard together, young people are too naive and casual during their youth.

Until the scene suddenly changed, and the reflection of a person sitting alone on the swing made Linnae feel sad.

"..."

Just after the reflection left the swing and walked towards the building, the dark shadow that walked out from the other side of the door frame had grown taller and developed into the physique of a teenager, and his round eyes gradually became sharper.