Akasha looked even worse than during the day. Roddy asked with some uncertainty: "Can't you sleep?"

Such questions often carry ambiguous emotions, but Roddy obviously had no ambiguous thoughts at this time - Akasha's mood was not right during the day in the ruins, and at night, this person who once almost lost her life in the ruins

I'm afraid the young pastor will be under greater psychological pressure.

"Um...I, I--" Akasha lowered her head and replied: "Can I sleep next to your tent? That way... I feel more at ease."

This request surprised Rody. He wanted to refuse, but he swallowed the words. Rubbing his eyebrows, Rody then asked: "Are you scared?"

Akasha nodded with panicked eyes, and her hands holding the bed tightened.

"Why didn't you find someone else? Didn't you ask Nata?"

This question made Akasha bite her lip. She whispered something, but it was completely lip language. Roddy couldn't hear it even if he turned on the "Environmental Sensitivity". He frowned: "...you said

What?"

"I...I just want to be by your side..."

Akasha's voice was muffled, and her cheeks turned red in the embers of the campfire, "Because you are different from them..."

Rody thought for a moment. From the time he met Akasha to the time he saved her life twice in a row, the first thing she saw when she woke up in times of crisis was herself. Maybe this gave her a sense of dependence?

Roddy knew very well that the little priest in front of him was definitely not a patient with "princess disease": she was afraid of heights and the dark, and even had difficulty falling asleep at night in the forest. These psychological pressures that ordinary people did not have were all caused by her past experiences.

From a modern perspective, Rody doesn't find these psychological flaws funny.

On the contrary...he understands it very well.

So Rody sighed: "You can just sleep in the tent, I'll be fine outside."

"But--"

"Nothing but, go to bed quickly, this is an order."

Akasha choked on Rody's words and struggled a few times. Finally, she gave in and carried her bed into Rody's tent.

When psychological pressure approaches the critical point, people tend to do things that they would never do at ordinary times - and when Akasha was lying on the uncomfortable bed, feeling that all the oppression around her had dissipated, she kept thinking

The tense body and brain finally calmed down...

Then, Akasha finally realized what she had just done.

People who do things impulsively will regret it later - Akasha is no exception. She almost instantly felt like her whole body was burning with shame...

Idiot! You can't control anything when your head panics! How can you ask Roddy for such a request?!

What would he think? Would he think I was seducing him?

Akasha wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it: as a "follower", she drove her "master" out of the tent. This was too much for her!

And what will others think when they see it?

"Ro, Roddy...are you asleep?"

After much hesitation, she sat up and tentatively spoke outside the tent.

"explain."

"I...I was a little confused just now, so - I didn't mean to be like this..."

This is so stupid. Can't I find a better excuse?

Akasha complained to herself feebly, but after a long time, she didn't hear Rody's response.

Her heart was in her throat, fearing that Rody would scold her next - but then, Rody's slightly calm reply came from outside the tent:

"If it were me in the past, maybe when you said the first sentence, I would have thought that what you did was excessive, unreasonable, and even had evil intentions..."

"But now, it won't be like this."

Rody sighed: "I believe you are really scared, and I believe you have no other purpose, but just want to calm down, right?"

Akasha sat blankly in the tent, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"I believe you are not joking, so...get some rest."

"…Um."

Akasha's response was a little more choked. For a moment, she wanted to say a lot, but in the end she just whispered "Thank you" with red eyes, and fell asleep peacefully.

Mutual understanding and mutual tolerance.

Outside the tent, Rody rubbed his cheeks hard and could only sigh in response to these words...

Now that we understand this, what’s the use?

****

June 1st.

Early in the morning, in the eastern part of Quiet Forest.

In the ruins belonging to the high elves, the ruins that had been peaceful for more than seven hundred years suddenly heard a rumbling sound - outside the ruins, dozens of "steel-backed wild boars" as tall as hills broke through the small obstacles in front of them.

The trees rushed straight towards the intruders who entered their territory.

Although the wild boar sounds like a "pig", it is far more dangerous than most other beasts in the forest... The defensive power of the steel-backed wild boar is comparable to plate armor, and it is difficult to be injured even if it is hit by an ax in the front.

Wild boars are even more dangerous than "giant elephants in bone armor".

This momentum was far more terrifying than that of wolves, but just when they were about to approach the intruders in front of them, a dazzling blue light suddenly flashed, and the subsequent explosions frightened countless birds...

"boom!"

The wild boar at the front flew up in mid-air, and its entire body turned into countless pieces of flesh and blood. The spreading shock wave completely blew away the entire group of wild boars. Their strong bodies could not withstand the shock at all, and most of the wild boars were shattered in an instant.

The internal organs, mouth and nose were bleeding and he died...

The wild boars that fell to the ground and wanted to get up had not taken a few steps before they were knocked down by several rays of light that followed them. The violent movement lasted for less than half a minute, and the battle had not "started" yet.

when it is completely "over".

The "Holy Assembly" team slowly entered the ruins. The four arcanists cleared the fragments of the wild boar carcass aside, and then made way for Lucius, who was standing behind. The silver-haired elders of the Holy Assembly slowly walked through the place.

Looking at the ruins full of blood, he stopped and raised his scepter:

"Dragon Tracking."

This skill specifically used to lock the dragon's breath is far beyond the ability of ordinary arcanists. Only Lucius, as an elder, is qualified to learn such tracking skills from the core level of the "Holy Society".

At this time, as he cast the spell, rhythmic elements faintly emerged in the air, and finally an arrow with complicated patterns condensed on the ground under his feet...

"The location is confirmed."

Lucius breathed a sigh of relief: "The guy we are going to face is nearby...it--"

Before he finished speaking, Lucius discovered that the pattern condensed by the tracking technique suddenly became chaotic, and the original clear direction gradually disappeared. Before dissipating, Lucius discovered that it seemed to be faintly twisting in another direction.

A little bit…

Such a thing was unheard of. Lucius immediately cast "Dragon Tracking" again, but this time there was no abnormality - the pattern on the ground remained clear and stable until it disappeared.

Lucius had no way to confirm why this problem occurred. Although he was a high-level arcanist, the level category of the "Dragon Tracking" skill really exceeded the current "Arcane" research by the "Holy Society".

At the highest level, and therefore, Lucius completely "knows it but doesn't know why" - he will release it, but he doesn't understand the principle at all, so that he has no idea what this situation means at this time.

However, in order to ensure that the skill was correct, he still released "Dragon Tracking" seven times in a row, and the results of these skills were the same as the second time he cast them, so he finally no longer doubted the correctness of the direction of travel and ordered: "

Keep moving forward and get ready to fight!"

****

Time continued to pass, and on June 10th, the team that had never gained more in the forest finally made Roddy feel unprecedented pressure.

There are only a few more months left before the countdown given by Camilla, but Rody has only found ninety-three crystal stones so far - in addition to the first ruins in the plan, the second and third ones that arrived later

Everywhere in the ruins... not even a single crystal was found.

In other words, for the remaining two hundred or so charging crystals needed, we can only hope to collect them from the last two ruins.

At this time, the team was close to the second to last target in the plan, but in Rody's mind, he still recalled the "tragic" scenes in the two ruins: Camilla once said that the high elves would use crystals to explode.

A way to kill the enemy together, and two days ago, Roddy did understand the true power of the crystal explosion...

In the ruins that the team found, all the stone buildings had almost disappeared. The fragments were arranged in a radiating pattern from the inside to the outside. Many stones had even turned into glass-like crystals due to the high temperature. These scenes reminded Rody of

The scene when it comes to the "nuclear bomb test explosion".

The pressure of the time limit made Roddy more and more impatient, and his expression became worse and worse, so much so that Akasha, who was always following him, secretly blamed herself for disturbing Rody's sleep.

"The combat team is speeding up and the engineering team is ready to respond."

It's not that Roddy didn't sleep well, he just felt that the speed of his team was still too slow, so he simply let the main combat team separate from the rear - he felt a little nervous at this time, it was like

A gamble, and what Roddy hates most is handing over his fate to the "unknown".

But a few minutes later, Roddy finally confirmed that he was lucky: just as the team entered the ruins, the soldiers in front sent good news: a large number of crystals were found in the basement of the center!

“Confirm the quantity immediately!”

Rody's heart beat a little faster. He looked back at Nokia, which was always following the team not far away, and waved for it to follow him into the ruins. Then he said to Soderol, who picked up his shield not far away: "Pay attention to the building structure when entering.

, be careful of landslides!”

"clear!"

Soderol knew that Rody was in an anxious mood and was talking no nonsense. He turned around and shouted to the team behind him: "Teams 1 and 2 will advance with me, conduct a fan search, and the reconnaissance team will light the torch!"

He led the team into the underground area from the north of the ruins. Roddy did not follow him in immediately, but out of caution, he carefully searched for every item left here above and around the ruins.
Chapter completed!