A cold breeze by the stream blew through Avi and the Imperial Knight, and Avi's eyes had lost focus, and he lowered his head motionless after the Imperial Knight's words.

"My mother... Joni she... Already..."

"As you can imagine, she has been sentenced by Chief Judge Talon on charges of harboring and nurturing a murderer, and knowingly failing to report it. Wood, who was far behind the Imperial Knight, began to walk to the side, and the angle was already able to shoot Avi.

Avi's eyes filled his sockets with tears, but at this moment he didn't let the tears flow. The memories of being dependent on his mother Joni for more than ten years are vivid, and these memory fragments make Avi's heart feel suffocated, and Avi's spirit becomes a glass ball, which keeps spilling on the cold stone slabs.

"Humans are cruel and they don't care if your mother is innocent or not. "Suddenly, something came from the direction of the Imperial Knight, and the head of the Imperial Knight's became the head of an owl!

"Humans are ruthless, they will only act in their own interests. Another word came from the owl's beak.

"That's enough!! "The white lion sword in Avi's hand, which was about to be released, suddenly stabbed at the Imperial Knight, and the Imperial Knight with the owl's head immediately raised the knight's sword to block. Who would have thought that the long sword that Avi stabbed at that moment perfectly avoided the knight's sword that wanted to block, and broke through the defense of the knight's sword in that extremely small distance, broke through the protection of the covered helmet, and stabbed the owl's eye through the gap in the helmet!

"Ah!" the owl wailed, but the Imperial knight, who had fallen to the ground, immediately came out of the owl's mouth, "your mother is dead, she died because of a murderer, poor fellow. ”

Avi didn't know how he had cut off the head of the Imperial Knight's owl, but when the Imperial Knight's head rolled to the grass along with the covered helmet, the owl vanished, leaving only Wood standing in the distance with a stunned expression.

Joan's cry came from afar, "Great! Kill the other one too! It's almost impossible to hold it here!" Joan used all his strength to press the axe-wielding man, but he was also about to reach his limit, and one of the axe-wielding man's hands had already been pulled out from under the rectangular wooden shield and was pulling at Joan's clothes.

A cold, silent iron bolt struck Avi in the abdomen, sending Avi to his knees in a sharp pain. At the same moment, the axe-wielding man also turned over from under the wooden shield and stood up, and with a violent axe, the wooden shield used to resist the attack was split!

Wood pulled a dagger from his waist and rushed at Avi, "You damn bastard!

The sharp pain in his abdomen made Avi break out in a cold sweat, but the pain couldn't be compared to the heartache of losing his mother - after killing the Imperial Knight in an instant, Avi seemed to have lost his soul, and the sorrow in his heart was like a flood bursting the embankment, making Avi feel suffocated again.

"Avi, this is the wooden riding spear I picked up from the stable," Avi, who was propped up with a white lion sword, suddenly heard his mother's voice! "Although it is a little damaged, I can ask the master of the blacksmith to repair it, and maybe it can still be used." ”

Avi looked up, and everything around him changed—he was no longer wearing an iron crossbow and arrows, just a normal groom's clothes, behind him was no longer the night of Mallot, but his home, his eyes were no longer Imperial knights and Wood, but his mother with a wooden lance in both hands, and in the distance it was not the axe-wielding man and Joan, but the training ground of Goldhoof, where "Winter" was still watching him from the stable.

Looking at his mother's kind face, Avi couldn't hold back any longer, he let go of his hand holding the sword, rushed forward and hugged his mother, and then there was a cry of pain. The color of the dusk was a bit miserable, and Jonny just gently swept Avi's hair with her hand without saying a word. She also stole a glance at a man on the training ground, who was riding on a black horse, Ben Nicott, who had "borrowed" Avi's spiritual plane.

Avi buried her head in Joni's arms and continued to cry loudly. His mother was shorter than himself when he left Golden Hoof City, but now she seems to be very tall.

"Don't cry, you've grown from a boy to a man, and if you keep crying like this, the horses will laugh at you. ”

"But... But... Mother..."Avi couldn't stop sobbing, he hadn't forgotten the words of the Imperial Knight just now, but he didn't know why his mother Joni was standing in front of him now, he just wanted to hug her tightly and not think about anything.

Ben Nycott, who was still on the horse, had already stood beside the two, and he looked at Avi and Jonny, "Actually, I can't bear to interrupt you, but in order for me to continue to live on your spiritual level, I still have to remind you." The light of the setting sun shone on the pale yellow hair of Jonny and Avi, and when Bennicot had said this, there was only one person left who was touched by the light.

Avi slowly opened his eyes, and the scene in front of him did not change in the slightest, except that his mother was gone, and only Bennicott was left in a mage's robe.

Avi immediately rushed in front of Ben Nicot, grabbed the other party's clothes, "What about my mother! Did you use a spell to make her disappear!"

"That's not the case, Avi," Avi suddenly found himself clutching a piece of rag while Bennicott stood behind Avi, "This is another level of your spirit, and I was brought here by you all of a sudden, perhaps that's why your mental strength is so different." ”

Avi still had tears streaming down his cheeks, and he couldn't listen to Bennicott at all. However, Avi has gradually realized that this is indeed only his own spiritual world, and his mother Joni does not really exist here.

"I can wait for you to calm down a little before continuing to explain some things to you, after all, the time and space on the spiritual level are not realistic, so you..."

After a long while, Avi said, "Say it, I'll listen." He sat down on the floor, looking at "Winter" in the stables with a dejected expression, but he did not want to look at Ben Nicott.

Ben Nicott touched his eyebrows with a finger, "Ordinary people only have one spiritual level, but you have two, this is your second spiritual level, and I only discovered it today." ”

"Oh. ”

"I don't know why there are two, but I haven't met two human beings who have two spiritual planes, either because they were sensible and had a great stimulus, or because of something terrible in their childhood. ”

Avi shook his head slightly, "Really?"

"That's right, those owls are proof of that. Ben Nicott pointed to the racecourse, where suddenly a row of owls, eight of them, stood on the wooden railing.

"Humans are cold and selfish. ”

"Humanity is lonely and sad. ”

"Humans eat losers. ”

The owls suddenly let out a terrible cry, but when the cries reached Avi's ears, they immediately became a language that Avi could understand.

When Avi looked up at the row of owls, the owls disappeared immediately, and there was no sign of their existence at all, not even a single owl feather was gone.

"How so..."

"These owls are just fragmentary illusions created by your own spiritual plane, they may have actually appeared in your world, but they all end up becoming things in your spiritual plane," Ben Nicott slowly raised a hand, and an owl was standing on the back of his hand, "and that's what surprised me, because in this second spiritual plane, the silver-white mare has always been here." That is, this second spiritual plane existed before it appeared. ”

Avi stared blankly at "Winter", "Winter" was the first horse to be able to communicate with Avi, and the horse was also the first animal to be able to communicate with Avi, "Mr. Bennicott, is my mother really dead?"

"I am not an all-knowing God, how can I know the life and death of someone far away. Bennicot took his hand back, and the owl flapped its wings and disappeared suddenly. Hearing this, Avi lowered his head again, a trace of reason reappeared, and some realities that he had to face slowly appeared in his mind. "But I can guess from what is happening right now that the reason why your spirit body suddenly hid in this second spirit plane is because there are some stimuli that you can't face, and your spirit body is collapsing, shattering, or even destroying at the same time. ”

Avi asked in frustration, "Then why haven't I died?"

"That's what makes you interesting," Ben Nicott smiled proudly, "if you were an ordinary person, you might have gone crazy because you couldn't stand such mental stimulation, and you would have become a madman who lost her sense of self, and those were the result of the death of the mental body." But at the moment when the spirit body was about to collapse, you let the spirit body return to this second spiritual plane, which is like a refuge to protect your spirit body at this moment. ”

“...”

"Maybe something has caused you to create this second spiritual level in your spiritual world, and I can't dig into the reason for it for the time being, but what is certain is that this second spiritual level has saved you, and this is the most peaceful place for you, and it has allowed you to avoid the grief of the real world for a while. ”

Avi couldn't help but cry when he heard the word "temporary", because he realized that the Imperial Knight had no reason to deceive him, so his mother might have really been sentenced to death by Daron because of him.

Ben Nicott looked at Avi, who was sobbing and wiping his tears with his sleeve, "If you don't calm down in a short time, you may lose everything, because I seem to feel that someone is about to take your life." ”

"I don't know if I can face it..."The glow of the setting sun sprinkled on Avi's body, warm and comfortable.

Ben Nicott walked up to Avi, squatted down on one knee, and hugged Avi with both hands, "I'll help you." ”