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

Just as Jie Si and the black shadow started fighting, the audience in the venue no longer cared about winning or losing and fled. After all, all the contestants except Ao Jun and Jie Si were dead. The black shadow of unknown origin killed the contestants indiscriminately. If they died too, it would be the audience's turn next.

Only Richard felt unhappy, wondering why the magician hadn't died yet? Why hadn't the elf been brought to the stage yet? What were the backstage staff doing? In this case, it was up to Jess and Aojun to buy some time and seize this opportunity to catch the elf, otherwise it would be troublesome to face the magician.

Being beaten like that and still being able to fight as if nothing had happened... Impossible. Ao Jun has already crippled his entire body. He can't even hold the hilt of a knife anymore. Why? At this point, he has already lost his magical power. It is impossible for him to regain his power. The sepsis in the magic veins is incurable. But apart from this possibility, there is really no other explanation for why the magician reappeared. What is needed now is no longer a reliable fighting force. If he has regained his magical power, no one can be his opponent. It will only be a one-sided massacre...

No, wait, the power of magic can even annihilate all life in this area, why didn't he do that? Was it because he was worried about the elf? If he was fighting against Jie Si alone, he could have killed him with just one move, why didn't he do it? Why did he use that kind of weapon to fight?

Judging from his movements, he has undoubtedly recovered completely. How did he recover? Is there any mystery? Or is there a limit? Judging from the previous power, the humanoid opponent would have died long ago. The magician can freely interfere with the cell division cycle of all intelligent life forms. With just a small injury, the self-healing ability of the cells carried by the body functions of the organism can be affected, causing it to self-destruct. Just now, Jie Si's shoulder had been pierced by the blade, but he was not dead yet. This shows that the magician's power is indeed limited by some kind of power. As long as the mystery is found, his weakness can be clearly determined.

Although the biggest weakness is still the elf, there is no doubt about that.

"Foolish do-gooder, drown in your own hypocrisy. You have always had the naive idea that others are more important than yourself. Today, I will make you remember the pain and suffering of losing everything. Then, if the almighty magic eyes have not lost their power, I will personally present them to that lord."

Richard turned around and left the arena and immediately went to the cage where the slaves were imprisoned. He wondered if the elf was still trembling in the cage. It would be even better if it had already leaked out.

But the unexpected situation happened out of nowhere.

"What..." Stunned Richard found the guard with his pants half taken off in the cage, and realized that the elf might have used seduction to knock the guard unconscious.

Richard, who had never thought that she would have the courage to resist, quickly headed for the most likely escape route to chase her. During the process, he also discovered that many guards had also been deprived of consciousness by some means and fell to the ground in a coma.

The slaves who were supposed to be in cages were also all gone.

I thought she was just a flightless fledgling.

Who would have thought that in such a short time, she would transform into a bluebird, a symbol of freedom, and lead the other baby birds to spread their wings and escape from the cage.

Underestimating her was Richard's biggest mistake.

But it should still be in time. There is only one exit ahead. If they go to the ground, they will be discovered by other demi-humans. There are also many guards guarding the gate, so they have nowhere to escape.

Where, where exactly.

I have to find it. If I can't find it, where on earth is it...

"Give up, little cutie. What can you do by yourself?"

"...I...still..." The pitch-black hyena standing in front of the elf girl looked down at her with the eyes of a strong man. The girl, who only had a bow as a weapon, could not hurt it at all. The reason was that this was the world of the goddess Hecate. It was neither the underworld nor hell, the entrance nor the gate. This was just such a place - on the path to death, Hecate was the invincible goddess.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

"Ouch..." The elf girl who was hit directly by the roar finally understood how terrible it felt to be roared at by such a huge monster. As a petite human, it was natural for her legs to be weak in front of the huge creature, but why?

Now, all she could see in her eyes was the back of that person looking up at the Hellfire Monster.

Aren't you afraid?

What makes you so powerful?

His legs didn't weaken, his heart didn't beat faster, he just looked up at his opponent.

Is this what it means to be strong? Is this how the strong behave?

No, in fact he is also afraid, but he has given up believing in his own choices, given up cherishing himself, and given up respecting his own ideas.

Such a person will not feel fear, because he has nothing to lose and nothing worth protecting. The reason why he chose to fight at that time was because he finally saw the dawn of the answer.

"So, what will you choose? ...Aren't you afraid? Strange... Most of the living people who are yelled at by this child will be mentally shocked and confused...Is the spirit of the elves so tenacious? Forget it, no matter what, it won't change the result. Anyway - you can't defeat it."

“——I will win, I will save my brother, and I will not let you guys use his power anymore!” Linna pulled the arrow out of the scabbard and changed the appearance of the spirit bow.

"Swish, swish, swish!" The spiritual bow that turned into a hidden weapon crossbow released several arrows with skill effects, but the black dog, who did not take it seriously, just let out a breath as if sneering, and the arrows with distorted trajectories immediately lost their aim.

"Weak people have no right to say such irresponsible words. It is natural for the strong to plunder each other's interests. Eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. In such an environment, still wishful thinking of protecting someone... In the end, it will only drive the person involved crazy."

"That's because you destroyed his ideals, the things he believed in, the dreams he believed in, the feelings he believed in, the people he believed in - everything was destroyed by this world and you."

Linna restored the spirit bow to short bow form and placed the arrow on the arrow path again. The arrowhead filled with spiritual power glowed with emerald green light and shot out.

"Swoosh, bang!" A harmless arrow fell to the ground under the slap of the big black dog. At the same time, the foothold of the elf girl was affected by the aftermath. She fell to the ground and quickly got up, her eyes still staring at Hecate with a bright look.

It was that look again, that unpleasant look. He was clearly at a disadvantage, clearly would gain no benefit, and was clearly just an intelligent being at the mercy of his emotions. Yet, he stared at the god who was not affected by emotions with that look as if nothing had happened - how arrogant.