"Sisters, that's the Holy Mountain!

Hakara screamed and let out his joy. Many young witches stood still, shocked by the strange scene in front of them, and some reacted, hugging and crying with their companions around them.

Red Hitomi furrowed her eyebrows, "Is that really the Holy Mountain?"

"What's wrong, is there something wrong?" Ye Zi leaned forward and asked in a low voice. She had the same question in her mind, the city in the sky did not look at all like the ancient books, glittering and magnificent. The minaret, though magnificent, is grayish-black in color and dull even during the day. Not to mention the red mist that permeated the city, as thick as blood that could not be dissolved.

"What's the matter...... Squeezed into those holes," Akatomi's voice was a little dry, "I can't see clearly, but those things, not quite like gods......"

Ye Zi felt a layer of goosebumps floating all over her body, and the farthest person in the mutual aid club was the red pupil, and her statement made Ye Zi faintly uneasy. It's a pity that Lightning has followed the nightingale away, otherwise she could have flown closer to see.

"Sisters, the holy mountain is at hand," shouted the Mentor with his hands raised, "and with more effort, we will soon find eternity!"

After saying that, she immediately urged the stone girl to carry her forward. Ye Zi wanted to step forward to dissuade him, but he stepped forward and took it back. She remembered what happened to Wendy half a month ago, at this time, I'm afraid that any dissuasion is meaningless, and if you don't go to see it in person, the mentor won't stop.

The group began to speed up. After leaving the base of the mountain, the snow cover unexpectedly decreased, and the surrounding temperature also rose. This is the legendary forbidden land, and it is also an area that humans cannot set foot in, Ye Zi thought, but now they are imprinting their footprints on this no-man's land. She would be happy if Lightning was here, right?

Looking back, the majestic mountains behind him are undulating, like an impassable barrier. This made Ye Zi wonder if it was precisely because of the Desperate Mountain Range that the evil beast could not directly attack the hinterland of the continent, so it was necessary to make a detour to the extreme north?

In any case, if you can really find the holy mountain, you don't need to wander anymore, and you will be satisfied...... She sighed softly, and to be honest, she was moved when the nightingale told what she had seen and heard in the border town in the camp. When Wendy asks who wants to leave with Nightingale, she can't help but want to take a step forward and say her name out loud. But until the end, she still failed to cross the threshold in her heart and lost to the shadow left by her past.

Ye shook his head, so that he could stop thinking about these things that had passed, and keep up with the pace of the group, speeding through the yellow and white fields.

But strange things soon happened, and no matter how fast they tried, the city always retreated as if it were keeping the same speed as them. After an hour of walking, the "place of the sacred mountain" was still suspended in the clouds, neither getting bigger nor shrinking, like ...... They hadn't moved at all.

"Tutor, please rest, the sisters are tired," the stone girl said. During this period, there have been several waves of people carrying mentors, and she is the one who has persisted the longest.

"No, how can we stop now!" Hakra rejected her suggestion without hesitation, "This is the test of the gods, sisters, without a firm will, we will never be able to reach the Holy Mountain!

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the group had no choice but to move on.

But the situation did not change, and the witches encountered two waves of evil beasts on their way, and in the second wave there were two deformed hybrid beasts, and the weed restraint of the leaves did not last long, and one sister was caught off guard by the fact that his neck was cut open by sharp claws, and blood was scattered all over the ground.

After finally dealing with these monsters, everyone found that the sky was gradually getting darker, and it was obviously dusk. The city was still in front of them, but the outline became more blurred, as if it was about to disappear.

In the past, they had to find a suitable place to camp and set up camp, but this place was completely different from the Desperate Mountains, it was almost flat as far as the eye could see, and with the evil beasts that could roam at any time, they couldn't spend the night in such a place.

"Mentor, let's retreat to the foot of the mountain first! Let the red pupil lead the way, and the red pepper will illuminate it, and maybe we can rush back before midnight. ”

"No!" exclaimed Hakhala, "it took us an afternoon to get here, and we barely stopped on the road. Now that everyone's physical strength is consumed, it is impossible to return at the same speed. Sisters, hold on a little longer, and only then can we truly settle down and rest when we find the holy mountain. ”

"What about Sherry?" someone asked, pointing to the lifeless witch on the ground.

"We don't have time to bury her," the mentor shook his head, "leave her here, the earth will contain her." ”

Ye Zi closed her eyes sadly, and another sister left, if she had been a little stronger, she would not have died in this desolate place, and she would not have been able to leave even a tombstone.

Just when everyone was hesitating whether to move forward or retreat, Shi Nu suddenly exclaimed: "Look at the sky, the city is gone!"

The leaf opened his eyes and looked up, only to see that the sky had turned gray-black, the clouds were hidden in the night, and the city had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

Everyone froze in place, and for a moment there was a terrible silence.

A city that can never be approached, an illusion that floats in the air, disappears when the sun sets...... Ye Zi's mind suddenly remembered the adventure stories told by Lightning, those bizarre fantasy realms seen on the sea. She shuddered and whispered, "We have been deceived...... and soon she shouted, "We have been deceived, it is not a holy mountain at all!

"Mirage?" Hakhala jerked back, his hideous look a little terrifying, "What's that?"

"As mentioned in the story of lightning, this phenomenon is often encountered on long voyages, but it is much rarer on land. What we see is just an illusion, the real city may be far away from us, and it may not even be in front of us at all!"

"Does that at least mean that it really exists, and that it's not gone?"

"This ......," the leaf choked, "I don't know." ”

At this moment, the red pupil suddenly issued a warning, "Be careful! Something is coming!" She stared at the left side of the group, her face looking very ugly.

"Evil beasts again?" Chasing Wind made a gesture to meet the enemy, "How many are there?"

"No......" Akatomi took two steps back, "I don't know what that is......"

As he spoke, a black shadow shot straight at the red pupil from far and near. She saw the light, but she couldn't dodge it—unlike the crossbow, it was too fast.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the black shadow pierced through the chest of the red pupil, sending her flying out, and nailing her to the trunk of the tree behind her.

It was a spear.