The weather in Ionia today is very good, at least in the area where this forest is located.

The wind is light and the clouds are light above the sky, and the blue is as blue as washing...

The sun shines in from the branches and branches of the lush towering ancient trees, bringing that essential light to this dark, dark, shiny magic elves, as well as the dense forest environment that hides and vegetation that are active with countless wild animals and low-lying areas.

However, at this time,

In this forest full of magic, a sea of ​​flowers, various wild creatures, forest vegetation and towering ancient trees, a bald man with a blue skin, long beard and energetic spirit was leading a little girl who looked listless, groping slowly on this forest path that was stepped out by human vendors or by other nearby Vastalians.

The one who had been leading the way forward and stopped to sense or confirm the direction from time to time was the blue-skinned bald wandering teacher Ryze! Following him, he was carrying a plush toy bear with a look of reluctance and impatient look on his face, and he was pouting. He stopped from time to time to kick various wild flowers and weeds on the roadside, or suddenly made a sound to scare someone who came out of the bushes to observe her wild animals because of curiosity. It was obviously the little Anne who was pulled by a bald master!

“…”

(~ｏ;)

Obviously,

Anne didn't want to follow some old man with a naked head on this beautiful Ionian island in a hurry and purposeful way... Her Queen Anne just wanted to go crazy and play hard, wander around, or cause trouble for others?

Of course, you can also eat all kinds of cute little animals on this large island full of native magic aura?

Anyway, she just doesn't want to be restrained, especially a little old man who is naked and fools her with such great principles as "for the world", "for countless creatures", and so on, just to let her help for free!

“…”

(′°°)

"Hey! Grandpa Riz... Such a big world, how troublesome is to find someone... Can you find it? Otherwise, let's just stop looking for it, right? Anyway, I think that Miss Ali is pretty good, maybe she will return to normal in ten days and half a month?"

(＾＾)

That's right, Annie is so bored now that she doesn't want to save money at all to follow this old man Ryzeza to find the fox lady with nine furry long tails who had taken the opportunity to escape and had long disappeared!

Of course, if she really wanted to find her, there would definitely be a way to easily find the escaped Miss Ali! But she didn't want to do that, because... the old man Ryze once said: 'For the safety of this world, all the rune stones found must be sealed!', 'If it cannot be sealed, then it must be destroyed (her)'?

Although, under normal circumstances, rune stones will definitely not be destroyed easily...

Because, they contain some mysterious rules and extremely powerful forces in this rune world. If they rashly destroy them, the power they burst out will definitely cause great damage to the world. That situation is almost equivalent to launching a rune war that almost almost destroyed the world from a thousand years ago!!

but,

It is obviously not the ordinary situation now.

“Um…”

Ryze, who was leading the way in front, responded casually without comment, and continued to lead the way in front.

The reason why the situation is different now...

That's because the rune stone has been destroyed by itself. For some reason, it was engraved into the body of a nine-tailed demon fox named Ali, and gave her extremely powerful power... Of course, the other party's brain must be a little abnormal... Maybe it's crazy, maybe it's controlled by power, or maybe it's a certain emotion that is extremely magnified?

Anyway, after hearing that kind of thing, Reitz always felt that the situation seemed a bit familiar?

Remember the past,

Tarez has a disciple who once swore to find and protect the stones with him and protect this beautiful runeland world...

However, it is a pity that although they were on the same path at the beginning, in the end, their direction was completely opposite?

At that time, that person was originally a very ordinary resident of the Frelljode barbarians, but at that time, after being tempted by the powerful power of the world runes, he quickly became another terrifying creature!

It was a kind of flame monster controlled by world runes...

So, after learning about another tragedy, Rez had to take action immediately and plan to deal with the nine-tailed demon fox who was said to have been frightened by a little girl, and still doesn't know where it will appear!

"Anne..."

"Do you know, I have seen it, and I know better than anyone else... Thousands of years ago, the reason why that war started was simply because of the powerful power brought by the runes of the world... Because people's hearts are greedy, and after they gain a part, they always want to get more..."

“…”

"I have also seen terrible scenes where those greedy flames burned the entire city and the people under that terrible power..."

"The annihilation of a majestic city and the annihilation of people, and the demise of countless creatures, only in a blink of an eye..."

The former disciple of Ryz became such a terrible cursed monster because of his greed for rune stones... The other party's soul had long been completely burned out, and his originally strong body had also become a container of flames, leaving only a twisted body walking on the earth.

And now, the same thing happened again in the peaceful land of Ionia, which happened to a Vastaya fox woman? Therefore, Tarez must find the other party before he became familiar with the terrible power and used them to cause greater disasters, and strive to seal the other party!

Or, if you are unable to achieve strength, you will completely destroy it?!

"oh……"

(lllw)

Little Annie also responded listlessly,

Because, Rune War, she actually heard Rizke's nagging old man say it many times in the cold and icy world of Frelljord... Almost every time it was about the same content, and then she made a variety of tricks, and her ears were almost calloused!

so,

If she could, she just wanted to stay away from this old man and never play the boring game of saving the world with the other party! After all, there are so many powerful guys in this world, and there are many stronger people than the other party. Does he have to worry about being full all day long and have nothing to do, so he just scattered around and care about those irrelevant things?

Anyway, Anne thinks that there are so many powerful guys in this world. If you want to destroy the world by relying on those runes stones, you may be a little short of it? Besides, this runes world is the home of her omnipotent Queen Anne, and she will definitely not let anyone destroy this place!

But she wouldn't be like the old man Ryzs in front of her, staring at all times, and working hard all day long. At most, she would only help the moment before the destruction came, and beat all the bad guys down?

"That's how it is..."

(*^^*)

Little Annie responded casually, but she didn't listen much at all, because she was now considering whether she should sneak away while the naked and hateful guy in front of her was not paying attention? If she put a real magic mirror to follow the other party, waiting for the Ryze to discover it, it might have been several days or more time since time of the time she discovered it?

Of course, she is not in a hurry to do that now. She plans to bear it and see... When she really can't bear it anymore, she will definitely do it as she thought she just now, and she also promises that she will not be easily discovered by the other party!!

"cough……"

"Anne, those world rune stones, they are something that shouldn't have appeared in this world..."

Ryze, who was walking in front, probably didn't notice the face of a little girl behind her, and was still talking nonsense...

Or maybe he had already figured it out, but he didn't show it at all, and didn't care too much?

Because, Riz himself seemed not sure whether he would be the opponent of a nine-tailed demon fox who had absorbed the power of the world rune. If he wanted to destroy or seal the other party, he would probably have to rely on the power of the little girl behind him and get the help of the other party!

And this was just before him, he tried his best to squeeze the other party with words, asking the other party to follow him, help him, and chase the fox creature with nine tails that was said to have escaped before his teleportation arrived.

The reason why he is so nagging now and just talking on his own is nothing more than planning to forcibly instill some of his own ideas and the concept of maintaining the world into the powerful and special little girl behind him... As for whether the other party accepts it, he actually doesn't mind much. He just needs the other party to hear it.

When needed, he believes that those ideas will always affect the other party's behavior without realizing it.

"actually……"

"We are all fools... In the past, we thought we could control those runes and use their power to seek better welfare for us and our world?"

"but……"

"Facts have long proved that the power of mortals can never control them..."

"Even the most powerful warriors among us, the most knowledgeable scholars, and the most determined mages can't resist their temptation... So those arrogant and greedy human bad natures almost pushed the world to the brink of destruction..."

As he was talking, Ryz couldn't help but mention the terrible rune war of that year...

He also knew that he had mentioned it many times...but he felt that mentioning the terrible disaster was not something worth laughing at, because only by experiencing it myself can you know how painful it is...

Even those with the strongest will may not be able to withstand what he has seen in his eyes.

"I would never allow that kind of thing to happen again..."

"So Anne, please be sure to help me find the nine-tailed demon fox, and then help seal or destroy her as much as possible! Otherwise, if you let the 'a moving world rune' wander around this land of Ionia, no one can predict what kind of disaster will happen at that time."

Speaking of this, Rez stopped again and began to observe and sense carefully...

Unfortunately, two days have passed. From yesterday until now, they have searched in the surrounding forest for a long time. Apart from letting him intermittently sense the vague power fluctuation of the "moving rune stone" power fluctuation, he has not discovered anything, and has never been able to successfully capture the other party's exact direction... Anyway, every time he arrives at the place where the other party has once appeared, he is always one step too late?

"Grandpa Riz..."

(_)

"Don't worry, Miss Ali is not that kind of bad guy. She is just not in a stable state now. I guess she will recover by herself in a while... Because I have scared her once. If you continue to chase her like this, if you scare her again, it will not be fun!"

Annie had been in contact with Miss Ali for half a day. She knew that the young lady was different from ordinary Vastalians, so she firmly believed that the other party would be able to escape from the control of the rune in the end, recover and become very powerful!

Of course,

She doesn't know when she can recover... Maybe it's a few days, maybe it's ten years, maybe a hundred or a thousand years?

Anyway, no matter how urgent that thing is, it is useless. She didn't want to take this old man named Ryz to trouble Miss Ali in the chaotic state now... If it weren't for some things, or if she was worried that this old man Reyz would really find that young woman and fight each other, she would probably have run away now, so she wouldn't have followed an old man to scatter around like a headless fly in such deep mountains and forests!

"recover……?"

"No...she will never recover..."

"A person who has touched that power and wants to get rid of its control, he can only make up his mind to get rid of that powerful power at the same time!"

"That kind of thing..."

"I have seen it many times over the years. Once someone has gained that power, there is almost no one who can take the initiative and willingly give up on it!!"

certainly,

Not really there isn't one...

In addition to Tarez himself being able to resist the temptation of those runes and successfully resist the temptation of their whispers and power, there was also the little girl Anne behind him who was following him slowly! He was sure that the other party had held the world rune for at least half a day, and until she handed it to the hands of the nine-tailed demon fox named Ali, she had not been corroded by the rune stone.
To be continued...