The Last Alchemist

Underground maze.

Mobius, Lightning Messenger Max, Sage Niya, and a young female magician were all waiting in the hall for Rosen to return.

Max and Niya were both sitting motionless on the bench, eyes closed, looking like two statues. The young female magician was nestled in the corner of the hall, holding a book in her hand and reading it with gusto. She would chuckle "Jil~" from time to time.

Mobius, however, was never at peace. After sitting for a while, he would get up and pace back and forth. After a while, he would turn to look at the unconscious Veronica, his eyes unblinking in a daze.

Every ten minutes or so, he would shout to the young female magician sitting aside: "Miss Wei Ge, please help me check Veronica's injury."

The young female magician was Nerogard's most talented illusionist and Sage Niya's most proud disciple, Wei Ge Tiramis. The first few times, she followed the instructions.

After more than ten hours passed like this, she finally got impatient: "Why go to all this trouble? Can't you just go and see it yourself?!"

Mobius smiled awkwardly: "I can't. There are differences between men and women. If Veronica wakes up and finds out about this, she will come to trouble me."

"It's really a lot."

Wei Ge rolled her eyes, but still put down the book in her hand, walked to Veronica, lifted her clothes, and carefully inspected the injury.

In the state of suspended animation, the spread of the green and black color around Veronica's wound has indeed slowed down greatly, but this does not mean that it has stopped developing. After more than ten hours, the area of ​​the toxin had expanded several times, and the farthest end of the toxin was about to expand to the lower end of the left lung.

After taking a closer look, Wei Ge turned to Mobius and said, "The poison has expanded a little, but it should still last for a long time."

"That's good." Mobius breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as he finished speaking, Niya, who was sitting quietly beside him, suddenly said: "No, the situation is already very serious. The toxin is not far from the heart. Once the toxin reaches the heart, its expansion speed will increase several times!"

"Really?" Mobius was frightened and stood up directly.

Niya glanced at him lightly: "The heart is the gathering center of the body's blood. After the toxins enter the heart, they will easily flow throughout the body with the blood. This is common sense!"

Mobius swallowed uneasily, turned to look at the sleeping Veronica, and then looked back at Niya: "Sage, how long can she last?"

"Based on the current situation, it will take up to 4 hours."

"It's only 4 hours. Didn't you say you can last for at least 3 days? It's only been half a day now!" Mobius said excitedly. He felt cheated. Isn't it harmful that the estimated time is so different?

Niya closed her eyes and hid quietly on the bench, her expression as calm as ever, as if Mobius didn't exist.

Mobius became more and more angry, and he asked: "Niya, I respect you because of your wisdom, not because of your reputation as a sage! If you are not sure, you should not have said nonsense in the first place!"

Niya smiled faintly: "The flesh and blood body is the most complex and exquisite existence in the world. No one in this world has ever been able to fully understand the mystery of the flesh and blood body. What's more, this is also my first time dealing with the destructive poison. I guess It’s normal for the poison to spread at the wrong time.”

"You" Mobius was speechless.

"Okay, okay." Max, the messenger of lightning, came out to smooth things over: "Niya, just stop saying a few words."

"Hmph~~" Sage Niya turned around without saying a word.

Max looked at Mobius again: "Man, there is no point in arguing. The situation is already like this. The most important thing you should do is to get Rosen back as soon as possible. You have to understand that every extra second of time is wasted, this Dragon Girl’s life is one step closer to death.”

Mobius nodded repeatedly: "What you said is that I have to get Rosen back immediately."

He turned around and walked towards the stone wall: "Max, take me out. Wait!"

Mobius stopped suddenly, with a trace of struggle on his face. After a while, he suddenly turned around and stared at the sleeping Veronica, his eyes flickering. A few minutes later, he actually walked back to the bench and sat back down.

Miles was startled when he saw it: "Mobius, what are you doing?"

Mobius lay down on the bench, put his hands under his head, and crossed his legs: "What's the use of me asking Rosen to come back? It's just one life for another. With this method, even if it's true, After rescuing Veronica, not only will she not accept my kindness, she will also fight for her. I will not do such a thankless thing. "

"." Max was a little confused. He didn't expect Mobius to have such an idea.

Niya looked back at him and sneered: "This dragon girl is your friend after all, so you just watch her die? Undead, you are really heartless."

"Rosen is also my friend, and I owe him a big favor. If I really have to make a choice between Veronica and Rosen, I would rather Rosen live." Mobius raised his head in the air. His legs were swaying, and although his posture was casual, his tone of voice was not even the slightest bit joking.

Niya found that she had no words to refute. After being silent for a while, she finally said: "Have you never thought about how Rosen will treat you after knowing that you deliberately concealed Long Nu's condition? Don't forget, Luo Sen. When Sen left, he entrusted Long Nu's life to you, is this how you repay his trust? "

Mobius was silent, his feet stopped dangling, his body remained motionless, his eyes were wide open, staring at the gray ceiling without blinking.

Max on the side helped to persuade: "Go and find Rosen quickly. Whether it is to save people or give up, he has to make his own choice, right?"

Mobius still didn't speak.

The underground hall fell into silence, no one spoke, only some faint breathing was left.

Wei Ge's voice suddenly sounded: "The situation seems not to be good, the toxin seems to be expanding a little faster than before."

Mobius's body trembled slightly, and he wanted to turn his head to see Veronica's situation, but in the end, he held back and remained in a stalemate for more than half a minute. He turned over in his chair and turned around. He turned his face towards the cushion of the chair, and then said nothing.

Seeing him like this, Max asked in disbelief: "Man, are you really ready to give up?"

A muffled voice came from the cushion: "You asked me to get Rosen back and let him make his own choice. But in my opinion, he has no choice at all. He will definitely sacrifice his life to kill Veronica. I owe him a life, so let me face this cruel decision for him."

"He'll kill you!" Max shouted.

"He won't! The most he can do is let me leave!"

"You just watch the dragon girl die?" Illusionist Wei Ge looked surprised.

"Life is like dew, it will disappear one day, but sooner or later. It is Veronica's own choice to get to this point. Don't talk about it. I won't go to Rosen anyway!"

"you"

"Forget it." Sage Niya's voice sounded, as calm as water: "Max, Mobius has experienced at least a hundred years. He sees the meaning of life more clearly than you and I."

Mobius breathed a sigh of relief: "What you said is quite sensible."

Niya's next words came out: "Max, go get Rosen back. I left a mark of time on him, so you should be able to find him easily."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mobius jumped up from the bench and looked at the female sage with an angry look: "Niya, you are despicable!"

This undead's eyes were red and there were obvious tears on his face. For him, the decision just now was extremely difficult, and it was almost the cruelest choice he had faced in his century-long life.

As a result, Niya's light words turned his efforts into naught, and Mobius felt a violent anger rising in his heart.

"Niya, you will pay for your actions!"

Before he finished speaking, Mobius's body turned into a black phantom and shot towards Sage Niya like the wind, and he took action directly.

"Enough!"

It's Max!

Accompanying this loud shout was a blazing lightning as thick as a thumb.

No matter how fast Mobius was, he couldn't be faster than lightning. He was hit hard by lightning, and terrible energy was poured into his body in an instant.

"Crack~~Boom~~Bang~~"

Mobius was thrown to the ground by lightning for more than ten meters, knocking over several chairs before rolling to the ground. He looked very miserable, with large areas of his body burned, his clothes burned into a beggar's costume, his eyes turned white, and his body was twitching uncontrollably.

"Weige, create a cliff-fall illusion to trap him." Max said.

"clear."

Wei Ge nodded, his thoughts moved slightly, and the air around Mobius immediately distorted, and then returned to its original state, looking no different from before.

But Mobius couldn't help letting out a shrill scream, and his hands and feet were still scratching on the ground, as if trying to catch something.

"Okay." Wei Ge looked at Mobius sympathetically.

Max turned and walked towards the exit: "I'm going to find Rosen now."

Niya said: "Be careful when you go out. There are a lot of tree demon puppets in the dock area."

Max laughed: "Don't worry, although I am old, these puppets are still no match for me."

Niya said solemnly: "Not a few, but hundreds, and one of them is a powerful tree demon slave."

Max's expression immediately became solemn: "Oh~~~I will be careful."

If it were in the past, he would still have no fear, but the Tower of Wisdom is no longer there, and he can no longer squander his power as unscrupulously as before.

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