"The Hanged Man"
"Wheel Tower"
"The Fool Reversed"
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The echoing voice in her mind woke the girl up from her nightmare. She opened her eyes slightly tiredly, and what she saw was the vast blue sky, without a single cloud as far as the eye could see.
The sound of the wind in her ears made her realize that she was high in the sky. She looked sideways and looked into the distance, overlooking the rolling sea of clouds all around, as if she could touch the edge of the sky with just one hand.
"It's almost as expected. The time to wake up is just right." Seeing the girl wake up, the one-armed man who had been waiting here for a long time smiled. At the same time, the girl also noticed him.
"Congratulations Artoris, you did it!"
With his white hair dancing lightly in the wind, exuding indifference and calmness, the man named Baron Bokar stretched out his hand to the girl and expressed his heartfelt approval.
There were also encouragements and thanks, which made Artolis feel a little moved. She wanted to take the other person's hand, but her raised arm unexpectedly froze in mid-air.
Artoris felt that her vision was a little narrow, so she reached out to touch her left eye pupil. She touched an eyepatch, and it was this eyepatch that blocked the sight of her left eye.
"The rupture of the Eye of God will cause permanent blindness in your left eye. I'm afraid it will take you some time to adapt." Baron explained this.
Artoris took the opponent's hand and got up from the ground. She looked around and found that the position she was on was the back of a huge goshawk. They used it to soar thousands of meters in the sky. Here In addition to the two of them, there are several other targets.
Elena, the Snow Witch, the Old Wind King, the Rebel six-person adventure team headed by Joseph, and a young girl sitting alone with a sad expression.
Each one of them seemed to have their own thoughts, and except for Baron, it could be said that no one noticed Artoris's awakening.
"Everyone..." Atoris opened her mouth and attracted everyone's attention. They all turned their heads and focused on the girl who had just woken up.
As Artoris expected, except for Elena, the Snow Witch and the Old Wind King, who showed relieved smiles, the few people with whom she had only a superficial relationship did not show any more concern for her.
But for Atoris, this was enough.
From the conversation, Artolis learned that two weeks had passed since she fell into a coma. Not surprisingly, these two weeks were filled with arrangements for the aftermath.
Although the Final Beast won the battle, the price paid was quite heavy.
The 100,000-strong army of the Empire's First Army headed by Nerubana was almost completely wiped out. The Second Army and the reinforcements sent by Fastina were also mostly destroyed in this war. On top of this, there were also troops from Kremlin. The brave and fearless warriors of Lenia.
They sacrificed their precious lives one after another, with a total of 1.1 million sacrifices, in exchange for the final victory. The people who survived attributed the credit for saving the world to the "Moonfall Knight", but Artolis believed that everyone accomplished this great cause together.
Although the final result looked like she ended the war by herself, in fact Artolis knew that without those touches, she would never have been able to take that step, so the people present were missing a No, victory belongs to everyone!
Artolis closed her eyes and listened to the wind from above, remembering the experiences of the past and those who were willing to persevere even in the face of great personal sacrifice.
Suddenly, she recalled something.
"Where's Senior Villafa, how is he?"
"Don't worry, I'm here." A flickering light spot peeled off from the back of Barong's neck, and Villafa's steady voice came from it.
"Senior, it's great that you are still alive!" Seeing that Villafa responded safely, Artolis's eyes turned red, as if she was crying with joy.
"Surviving is the result, but the process..." Villafa hesitated for a moment, then turned into a human body and appeared next to Barong.
"To be precise, you and I both died once. When the dust settled at the end of that battle, we both fell in a pool of blood and lost our lives." Villafa explained, his aged eyes showing surprise. The lustful Artoris looked at Elena who was silent at the side.
"As for why we were able to survive in the end, although no one is willing to tell us, I can see that it must have something to do with this person."
After Villafa said this, Artolis noticed the abnormality of Elena's state. Her pupils lost their highlights, and her long hair seemed to have lost its color and turned pale.
Her eyes were full of exhaustion. The ears that once had the iconic characteristics of an elf have now transformed into a human-like appearance. Her face looks more than ten years older. The only thing that can make people identify her at a glance The confident smile still filled her face.
"What's going on?!" Seeing Elena's appearance, Artolis was shocked and speechless for a moment.
On the contrary, Elena showed a happy smile.
"I guessed that using excessive overdraft of magic power to explain the symptoms that happened to me was destined to be impossible to hide from you."
"So, what did you do at that time?" Looking at Elena's state at the moment, Baron knew it well, but after all, he did not witness the scene with his own eyes. He knew the result, but he had no idea about the process.
Elena looked at the witch, and the witch turned away to avoid her gaze. The two remained in this state until the witch couldn't help but make a compromise.
"After all, he is the only witness, so I will let him explain." The Ice Witch looked at the crowd with an indignant look and said, "Have you ever heard of the "upside down evergreen tree"? "
"That is……?"
The people in front of them were all confused after hearing it, and the old man Feng Wang felt that the name was familiar, but he couldn't tell what kind of plant it was.
"There is such a tree in the "Forbidden Zone of Life" guarded by the elves in Fastina. "
"What do you mean?" After hearing the witch mention it, Baron immediately understood what she meant.
He remembered that there were records in ancient classics that the birth of elves in the mythical era was not the development of mammalian embryos like most creatures in the world, but the fruit of a mother tree of life. Through the mother tree of life, he absorbs the essence of heaven and earth day and night, and finally evolves into the original elf.
Baron believed that if he guessed correctly, the "upside-down evergreen tree" mentioned by the witch should be the so-called mother tree of life recorded in the classics.
What the witch wants to say is that Elena's former residence - "Fastina" where the Mother Tree of Life grows - is one of the birthplaces of forest elves. The elves living here are not Asians of the elves of the Gods, but direct descendants of them. bloodline?
No, there is no need to go back to that point. Baron denied the thoughts in his mind, and then looked at the witch and Elena solemnly.
"A miracle from the Mother Tree of Life?"
