Chapter 307

Even Yiel, who proposed revenge against the Corridor of Dust, walked at the front of the team as before and did not speak again.

They should have realized it when they met again in Novis Town.

The entire Qiming Star team can only maintain its overall state when Will is by his side.

The current Qiming Star lacks his entire soul as the "captain", and is not even a piece of loose sand. At best, it is just a shell with a name left.

But they are still moving forward, walking step by step towards the deepest part of this deserted underground city.

The setting sun, synchronized with the world outside the underground city, hung on the edge of the desert, stretching the shadows of the three people on the sand. Their footsteps were buried by a gust of wind.

——Why did you go into the dungeon?

Leah raised her hat slightly, looked at the sunset on the side, and asked herself.

——Why do you want to conquer it yourself?

Treya looked down at her hand that was holding the sword hilt tightly, and asked herself.

——Why do you keep moving forward here?

Iel looked at the "door" leading to the next level standing at the end of the desert and asked herself.

They seem to still have a little bit of hope...

Even if he is gone, maybe... the "Qingming Star" that carries his memories can still fight as before and remain...

hope?

…

The fifth floor.

The three-story sand castle monster revealed its claws and fiercely raised its palms made of sand towards the three people under it.

"Fire Bullet·The third fire form."

Leia stretched out her hand and raised the "Staff of Ancient Flame". The fire bullet shot from the middle of the staff hit the front of the sand castle. This blow specifically chose the position of the "eye" as the core. Hit it and it will instantly turn into a plate of loose sand.

This kind of thing is easy for her.

She held the staff and felt the sound of falling sand on its big witch hat.

She remembered something Will had said to her.

——"Teacher Leia. Of course I believe that your firepower is the strongest. However, the strongest firepower should also be used in the most appropriate place."

——"To put it simply, if our team encounters a monster that needs you to defeat the core in the future, we will have to rely on you."

——"Bang! Boom! Use your magic to make their cores disappear directly!"

She smiled.

He habitually looked to his side, where Will should have been standing.

See, it's very simple, very easy, and for a witch like her, it's nothing.

So, praise her, acknowledge her, look at her!

Now she is a magician who can stand alone and can serve as the most reliable damage dealer in the team.

The wind and sand slowly blew past her, and she turned her head...

There was no one in that position.

Iel and Treya are the ones in the team who need to attack forward. Qiming Star has always used her and Will as the long-range ones at the end.

She was the only one left in this position now.

Thinking about it carefully, Qiming Star, as a team of adventurers, doesn't seem to have experienced many battles, but...why is she already used to this?

It’s a difficult question to answer. Obviously... as a "human", he can only be a small part of her long life at most. Those three years are fleeting...

Her thumb rubbed the ring finger of her left hand, where she held Will's ring together with her own, feeling the metal texture of the two rings relying on each other.

But now, those memories keep coming back.

…

The fifteenth floor.

The red scorpion suddenly emerged from the sand, and its segmented tail swung across the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Treya moved extremely fast on the sand, dodging left and right and easily dodging all the scorpion's attacks. She pulled out the sword from her waist and jumped from the front to the back of it.

"cut."

The huge scorpion was broken in the middle by her slash, and the blood spurted out and splashed a long trace on the ground.

She also took a long step on the uneven soft sand, and the bloody sword left a mark on the ground.

She looked back and saw that the threatening red scorpion that suddenly appeared had died suddenly.

——"Because your agility and flexibility are the highest, if you encounter an unexpected monster, you have to react first to solve it."

——"You don't need to think too much, and you don't need to wait for my instructions. Just rely on your own intuition to kill it in one move."

——"Don't worry, I trust your sense of fighting."

Treya's sword turned in her hand, and then sheathed it back in its scabbard.

She raised her head and looked at the position where the priest would stand in the team. Every time she killed a monster, she would get a look of approval and a nod of approval from there.

But, these are gone.

That place was empty, and no one would nod or smile to her anymore.

Treya was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched the white earring on the other side, and then her mood calmed down a little.

She rarely...

She felt "empty". From the first time she met Will to now, she had not felt such an emotion for a long, long time.

…

Floor twenty-fifth.

A huge cactus stood in the middle of the road. Its body was covered with needles so densely that it was impossible to see how many there were. It continued to expand and expand until all the thorns on its body shot out of place.

Yiel took a deep breath, thrust the shield into the ground, and raised a high wall from the bottom of the shield.

"Su Bing Array·Sky."

The needles falling from the air were all blocked by the ice wall she built in the air.

She raised her head and looked at Leia's light and Treya's sword light, directly destroying the cactus in front of her.

——"Yes. Although it sounds heavy to say so..."

——"But during the battle, our lives are all entrusted to you. Although you can't cause direct damage, you are a support that we can't live without."

——"Especially for a weak priest like me, it will be over as soon as I leave you."

Yiel smiled happily and turned around. Her maid skirt flew up and turned into a circle, and her tail waggled happily.

"Master, you don't have to be afraid now..."

Then, behind her, where Will should have been standing, she saw nothing.

The things that I was used to were in vain at this moment.

Elle lowered her head, stretched out her left hand, and touched the collar on her right wrist - where she now placed the collar that Will had taken off.

Where does she want to go from here?

This "mission" that had been by his side since birth seemed to be taken away all of a sudden.

She had wanted revenge since she walked in here, so she should have accepted this result, but now she just feels so sad.

…

The thirtieth floor.

"Well...if I remember correctly, other adventurers should have been banned from entering here. You..."

When they arrived there, the "Glory Knight" who seemed to have entered earlier than them had just arrived and was about to have a battle with the empress of the Corridor of Dust - Sha Zhiyan, but was interrupted by them.

"Sorry, I can borrow it for a moment. Leave it to us."

Iel stopped each of them in their tracks with a shield.

"You just stand by and watch."

Leah directly raised the staff and looked at the monster in front of her.

"Anyway, do you recognize this? This place is now occupied by the royal family."

Treya took out the classic royal family crest and walked past them.

Then……

The three of them faced Sand Queen riding a pyramid-shaped carriage and began a "crusade" calmly and even coldly.

On the dark desert where the sun had set, Sand Queen lost her "human" form, starting from her feet and turned into gravel, eventually blending into all the sand on the ground.

After she ended her start as a "BOSS", in an instant, Iel, Leia, and Treya started a new "attack".

Yiel very accurately used her own ice wall to seal off the escape route of Queen Sand Queen on the opposite side. Even such an ice wall was more than ten meters down from the ground, sealing off the passage for her to move with the help of sand!

——"If we encounter a BOSS and it is very flexible, you will have to control its path."

The light in Leia's hand was aimed at Queen Sand Queen's heart, and the flames burst out instantly, blasting the heart that had her power to control the gravel into a hollow.

——"Teacher Leia, after Yiel is able to control the enemy, it will be time for you to use your firepower. This is the key to our victory."

Treya quickly pressed from the back to the front row, and used her fastest sword skills to chop off her head.

——"Trea, Teacher Leia will definitely create a gap. During this period, it's up to you to hold off the BOSS and give her the final blow."

…

It's not like a crusade "against the BOSS". Everyone who has watched the battle between the three of them will feel this way. This is more like a "venting of anger".

I don’t know why I am “venting my anger”.

Complete control leaves no room for escape, bombardment with the strongest firepower, and slashes that cut into pieces.

The further the fight goes, the more restrictions there are, and I just want to use all my skills to show my anger.

but……

It can be seen that they seem to be missing something during the battle.

Regardless of whether it is a Holy Shielder who has no protection object.

Still a magician without any bonus.

Or a swordsman who has not recovered from his injuries.

The three of them are fighting as if "someone" still exists.

at last……

In the moonlit desert, they stood, looking down at the loot that fell to the ground.

Accompanied by the sound of the dungeon being "captured", the three people's revenge-like venting of anger finally came to an end.

Then, in the desert, they finally realized...

Will is dead.

And "Qiming Star" is a real team formed with him as the core.

Without him, all battles would have a void that cannot be filled.

Even if he conquers this place, he can't go back to the past and has to face a future where he is not around.

No matter how much "revenge" and "venting anger" are, they can't make up for the "Qiming Star" that exists in name only——

"That's it."

Yiel spoke first.

"...you all feel it too, right?"

Leah smiled to herself.

"Well. Let's... say goodbye now."