When A Mage Revolts

Chapter 944 Michelle
Jessica recently met a new friend.

Not long after she was ten years old, she moved with her stepfather to the narrow road in the north of the capital, next to the newly built road, and the family of two made a living by opening an inn.From the capital to the former site of Pearl Lake, there are many more pedestrians than a few years ago, but there is still only one family nearby. Jessica is extremely lonely, and it feels like she hasn't seen a child of her age for a long time.

Therefore, when she found "Michael", she was as happy as getting the first box of candy in her life.

"Uncle George, I'm going to play with Michael!"

Greeting the two travelers to the front desk again, Jessica turned her head and shouted to her stepfather, then quickly turned around and disappeared from everyone's sight through the back door.

Looking at her disappearing back, the stepfather couldn't help sighing.

"Hello, we want a big room with two beds. Is there any room here?" The two travelers walked up, wearing some mysterious cloaks. The red-haired woman at the head smiled and walked towards he asked.

The stepfather turned around and said, "...Okay, please register your identities and names here."

"No problem." The other party nodded, took the small notebook he handed over, and murmured in a low voice while writing, "Joanna Hall, Lila White... Don't worry, brother, we have a clear path , is a member of the New Warfare Alliance, and will not cause trouble for you."

The stepfather took the book and looked at it twice, and then confirmed the badge on Joanna's chest. He nodded and showed a warm smile.

"Several welcome, don't worry, we still have quite a few rooms left here."

Immediately, Joanna breathed a sigh of relief.Laila glanced at the back door where the girl disappeared, and said casually, "Is that your daughter? Such a lively little girl."

"She is my stepdaughter." The stepfather sighed again, looking a little helpless, "Usually she is naughty, and... not long after her mother passed away, her behavior began to become a little strange. If you offend a few adults , please forgive me."

"I'm sorry," Laila said immediately.

Joanna was a little curious: "What kind of strange method?"

"It's just... she can talk to the air. Not long after we moved here, she announced that she had met a new friend named 'Michael', and she stayed in the backyard every day, but you know, our family is only around here , I have never met her friend."

Hearing this, Joanna laughed a few times and said, "I fantasize about a friend, I did this kind of thing when I was a child!"

Laila quickly poked her on the back, reminding her not to make a mistake, but fortunately, Jessica's stepfather didn't care, but smiled in relief, and said, "Is it... I'm just worried that something is wrong with her, But seeing how she finally cheered up, I couldn't bear to tell the truth."

"It's okay." Joanna comforted. "She's just a little lonely because no one is with her. It will be fine when she grows up."

The stepfather nodded and said nothing more.

Soon, he turned around, led the two up the stairs, and led them into the guest room.The guest room looks very simple, except for a window, two beds and a lamp, there is nothing else.But it was clean, the two of them were not picky, and accepted it with a smile.

With a creak, the stepfather left the room and closed the door.Joanna and Lila lay down on their respective beds, finally able to relax.

"This task is really troublesome." Joanna sighed, "Going to the Pearl Lake ruins again... Why do we still have to wipe the church's ass after ten years? I don't know what happened under the Rift Valley. The monsters popped up, and they couldn’t be killed.”

Laila didn't take it seriously: "It's okay, it's all killing monsters, where is it not killing."

"Well, after all, ten years ago... Anyway, I don't really want to go to that place." Joanna shook her head, sat up suddenly from the bed, and said, "You know? The way out of the king's capital is the road under our feet."

"It seems so."

"I don't know where the dean has gone... I really can't stand the new dean. The last time we met, she even said that my hair looks like red tumbleweeds."

"It's good to get used to it." Laila showed a helpless look, "Anyway, we are not teachers of the college anymore, so we don't see each other every day, and the students there are miserable. I heard that she only scolded and cried more than 30 students last month. People, already very friendly."

With that said, she also sat up from the bed and walked slowly to the window.

Outside the window is the backyard of the inn, which looks quite spacious, with clothes, sheets and the like hanging out to dry.And in a clearing at the edge of the backyard, she saw Jessica again—the little girl who welcomed them in.

Jessica was there alone, dancing and looking excited.

Laila frowned slightly.

"About that imaginary friend...do you really notice anything wrong?" She suddenly turned around and asked.

"What's wrong?" Joanna was puzzled.

Laila looked serious, looking at the little girl playing alone outside the window, and slowly said: "Maybe I am overthinking, but... when that little girl led us in, I could feel a faint trace of weakness on her body. breath of the dead."

"Undead?"

Immediately, Joanna's expression became serious.

She went to the window, and they looked at Jessica together.At dusk, the backyard of the inn looked very peaceful, and they didn't feel anything amiss.But the appearance of a little girl talking to herself in the corner still looks a little weird.

— as if she was really talking to someone.

"Are you sure it's the undead?" Joanna looked at it for a while and said hesitantly, "In the world of the living, the undead will destroy themselves after a short period of time, and there are very few things that can cross the abyss and come from there... …If there are undead active here, it must not be simple."

"I just sensed a vague breath." Laila replied, frowning.

The two looked at each other, and their eyes were very serious.In the end, they decided to get closer to confirm again.

Down the stairs and into the backyard, both Joanna and Lila were ready for battle.They clenched the pendants on their respective chests, inspired the runes inside, and built an invisible wall of spiritual power around them to ensure that they would not be attacked by any hallucinations.

Jessica was squatting on the ground, fiddling with things like doll mirrors in her hands...

So, the two put away their serious expressions, acted as if nothing had happened, and walked towards Jessica.

"You are... two big sisters, why are you here?" Jessica was stunned when she saw the two, and soon showed a bright smile.

Joanna walked in the front and smiled at her.

"Jessica, what are you doing here?"

While saying this, the two of them stretched out their mental strength and scanned towards this corner.I have to say that the corner of the backyard is really gloomy at dusk, surrounded by bare flat ground, but behind Jessica, a clump of grass grows in the ground very conspicuously, lush and green, there is a subtle incongruity .

But...they didn't find any trace of the undead.

This made Laila hesitate a bit.

"I'm playing with Michael." Jessica raised the knight rag doll in her hand, showed it to the two, and said happily.

"...Michael?"

The two looked at each other with strange expressions.

Could it be... The little girl said that the new friend she met recently was this doll?
It was a doll that looked [-]% new. It was rough in workmanship and looked like a knight. It could be bought in many places.And from the doll, they didn't feel the fluctuation of mental power, nor did they feel the death energy unique to the undead, it was just a very ordinary doll.

Lila also became more and more uncertain, because the undead breath she smelled on the little girl before had disappeared again at this time.

Is it really her illusion?

The last time she went to the world of the undead was more than ten years ago.Since the incident more than ten years ago, the huge bone dragon has been guarding the edge of the ghost abyss, and no one can get in. As a result, the academy's research on the undead has gradually stagnated, and no one has the opportunity to contact the undead.

So she really wasn't sure.

"Can you show me this doll?" Laila asked after some hesitation.

"Okay." Jessica agreed without hesitation.

Lila took the doll and looked at it several times with Joanna, but finally found nothing.For a while, the scene was a little awkward.Jessica looked at the two of them curiously, but Joanna had no choice but to cheekily return the doll.

"That...very cute doll." She bit the bullet and squeezed out the words.

"Thank you." Jessica smiled, took the doll, and said, "By the way, what's the matter with the two big sisters? Is the room unsatisfactory? If you want to change the room, go to Uncle George, but you will need to pay more. "

"No, no, we're just wandering around."

Just like that, the two lifted their guards, chatted awkwardly with Jessica, and then turned back to their room.There is no doubt that the little girl just gave her doll a name and called it a friend, and it has nothing to do with undead or anything like that.

They are indeed overwhelmed.

"Go to bed early, we have to hurry tomorrow morning!"

As night fell, after meditating, the two felt extremely tired, so they turned off the lights early at around nine o'clock, lay down on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.There were not many passengers in the inn today, and as the time got later and later, the whole building became quiet, and the last few open windows also darkened.

Around one o'clock in the morning...

With a soft creak, the door of Joanna and Lila's room was gently pushed open a crack.

A short figure came in through the crack.

At this time, the two were still lying on the bed, soundly asleep, without any vigilance.The moment the door was pushed open, it was as if an invisible force field covered the room, and the air was subtly reddened.That force field descended on the two of them, making them sleep more deeply than before.

——Even if someone walked to her bedside, Joanna couldn't wake up.

"Are we...really going to do this?"

Looking at Joanna who was sleeping soundly, Jessica held a wood-shaving knife in her right hand, lowered her head, looked at a badly worn tooth in the palm of her left hand, and asked.

Her teeth didn't move, but Jessica's expression became more hesitant as if she had heard someone's answer.

"But... but... I don't think they are bad people." She struggled and said, "Michael, they haven't really found you, and they won't threaten you. The two big sisters will leave early tomorrow morning, They don't care about what happened today."

After she finished speaking, she stared at her teeth again, as if she was listening patiently to something, and the room fell into silence.

After about half a minute, Jessica sighed.

"You're lying to me, aren't you?" She looked down at the tooth in dismay. "Michael, you like to lie too much. They are not bad people at all, but very powerful wizards. Just because they may sense you , you are going to kill them to silence them... This is too much!"

"Michael, be sober, this is not the you I know at all!"

"Why do you hate them so much? Did you know each other before? If you don't know each other, why do you hate them? I don't believe you hate everyone, do you hate me too? No, no... You are a good person, I Believe that you are a good person, you don't want to be bad..."

She stood by the bed, arguing with the teeth in her hands as if talking to herself, and she became more and more excited as she talked.On one side, Joanna and Laila slept like dead pigs. The scene was extremely weird.

After a while, Jessica wiped away tears.

"Michael...why do you say that about yourself? You're not a bad person..."

However, just as she was sobbing softly, the dead teeth suddenly moved—as if being pulled by an invisible force, it jumped up, jumped out of Jessica's palm, and went straight to the sleeping Joanna. And go!

Jessica screamed at that moment.

"don't want--!"

What she didn't realize was that the moment the teeth jumped out of her hand, the power covering the room suddenly faded, and the red vision returned to its original state.Joanna and Joanna, who were sleeping, suddenly woke up from their dreams after the force field faded away.

Joanna opened her eyes, and saw the tooth that fell head-on.

She summoned the flame almost instinctively.

flutter!A small ball of flames appeared out of thin air, blocking the tooth, and the tooth made a muffled sound under the roasting of the flame.Joanna was still a little dazed at the time, she didn't know what happened, she just cast a spell subconsciously, releasing the large amount of fire element she had stored in the rune.

Afterwards, the teeth were completely submerged in the flames, and waves of waves came out from inside.Joanna stared blankly at it, and a strange feeling arose in her heart, as if the flame was wrapped in a living thing.

It was as if...a soul howled in pain.

Laila who woke up was also stunned.

"Mike, Michael..."

Jessica looked at the white fire with tears on her face, she was stunned.She saw the teeth melting little by little in the flames, and she felt Michael's soul dying, and that familiar feeling was passing away rapidly with time.

Why……

A few seconds later, a vague shadow rose from the flames.

It seemed to be a young woman. She couldn't see her face clearly, but she could see those golden pupils that were as sharp as a cheetah.Jessica looked at the figure. In fact, this was the first time she really saw the true face of her "friend", and it was also the first time she realized that "he" turned out to be "her".

She was stunned, but there was unreasonable sadness in her heart, just like the day her mother was buried.

"Why do you want to……"

She tried to ask something, but the shadow in the firelight began to dissipate.Soon, the teeth burned cleanly in the flames, and Joanna withdrew her magic in confusion.Then, the flames dissipated, and the dark room returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

A deep female voice sounded in Jessica's ear.

"I'm leaving," said the voice, "and you, too, should grow up."

It was the first time she heard her friend's voice—and, of course, the last.

(End of this chapter)