There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"Let's go," Lu Qing said as she stepped out of the basement.

"Ah."

Fang Qingrou nodded, and the two walked side by side down the stairs out of the basement.

"By the way, did you force your way in?" Lu Qing suddenly turned to Fang Qingrou and asked.

"Huh? No, that's not it." Fang Qingrou explained, "I sneaked in using the power of the wind spirits."

"Wind Spirit......."

Lu Qing repeated the name to herself, then suddenly remembered something.

"Oh right, I have something to do after we go up. Let's go to the final script location after we finish that." Lu Qing said, pinching the snowflake pendant on her chest.

It was only at this moment that she remembered the Ice Elf was still locked up in prison. If she were to leave, it would be better to release the Ice Elf as well.

This can be considered as fulfilling the promise made to the other party.

Fang Qingrou, though unaware of what Lu Qing was referring to, nodded in agreement based on her trust in her friend:

"Okay."

"Don't worry, it's nothing troublesome," Lu Qing said with a smile.

Following the stairs upwards, the two soon arrived at the entrance to the castle's basement.

Here, Lu Qing encountered one unexpected person after another, or rather, a group of people.

Vina and another maid whom Senar called Seele stood at the front, behind them a group of demons in armor and armed with weapons.

The two collided, and Fang Qingrou instinctively wanted to draw her holy sword, but Lu Qing stopped her with a gesture.

"Wait a minute, there's no need to take action."

Lu Qing glanced at Vina with a complicated expression, feeling the ram horn headdress on her head was a bit heavy. She whispered to Fang Qingrou, "Just charge straight ahead, they can't catch up with us."

"Ok."

Although she didn't quite understand why Lu Qing wanted to give up the counterattack, since Lu Qing had said so, Fang Qingrou could only put away her weapon and, together with Lu Qing, burst forth with an extremely terrifying speed, disappearing from the sight of the demon soldiers.

As she left, Lu Qing brushed past Vina and whispered something:

"Senael is not dead."

Vina's pupils contracted involuntarily as she turned her head, but she couldn't see the two of them at all.

"Lady Vina, should we give chase?" the demon beside her asked.

In reality, he was just putting on an act. Anyone with eyes could see that if he couldn't even see the other person's shadow, how could he possibly catch up?

After taking a deep look at the spot where the two had disappeared, Vina said, "No need to chase them. You can all disperse. hope and I will go into the basement together."

"Yes!"

..........

"I've come to this place again."

Lu Qing led Fang Qingrou to the prison gate. Looking at the heavy stone gate, she raised the Wind Elf Bow in her hand and blasted the gate into pieces with a single arrow before walking inside.

The warden was startled by the sudden explosion. He then looked towards the door and, upon sensing the terrifying aura emanating from the two people who entered, immediately cowered under the desk, showing no intention of going out to resist.

Lu Qing and Fang Qingrou ignored him and walked down the stairs. Soon they arrived at the floor where she had been imprisoned.

"Xiao Rou, wait here for me for a moment." Turning to Fang Qingrou, Lu Qing said softly.

"Okay, don't rush things, just take your time," Fang Qingrou said nonchalantly.

"Okay." Nodding, Lu Qing turned around and said, "Then I'm leaving."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Qing ran towards the depths of the corridor and soon arrived at the cell where the ice elf was being held.

She tiptoed to the cell door and looked into the cell. The ice sprite was facing away from her, with an unfinished ice sculpture in front of her.

Upon seeing the ice sculpture, Lu Qing's expression immediately turned strange, because the ice sculpture looked exactly like her!

At that moment, the Ice Beast suddenly noticed that the ice surface of the ice sculpture seemed to reflect a human figure. He turned around and saw Lu Qing standing in front of the prison door.

"Are you going to be locked up again...?"

The Ice Demon Beast looked at Lu Qing's exquisite and gorgeous armor and the longbow in her hand that kept releasing the aura of the wind spirit, and asked in surprise, "You awakened your bloodline? And you even ran into that wind spirit guy, right?"

"Mm." Nodding, Lu Qing smashed the lock on the cell door with an arrow and said, "I'm here to fulfill my promise. As for more things, I'm a bit busy, so I won't say. I wish you a happy life after you're free!"

After Lu Qing finished speaking, she turned around and left.

Watching Lu Qing leave, the Ice Beast suddenly thought of what was behind it, turned around and looked at its unfinished ice sculpture.

"........."

"This is truly a sad thing," said the Ice Beast, the Ice Elf, with some distress.

.........

"Is everything settled?" Fang Qingrou asked, looking at Lu Qing who was walking out of the corridor.

"Yes, it's all done," Lu Qing nodded.

"Then let's go," Fang Qingrou said.

“It’s time to end this opera,” Lu Qing said.

"Yes, it's finally going to end." Fang Qingrou stretched and said with a relaxed expression.

Seeing that Fang Qingrou had relaxed, Lu Qing shook her head helplessly and said, "Don't relax too soon. Isn't there still a secondary objective to eliminate the assassin and become the focus of the banquet?"

"Huh!?" Fang Qingrou let out a strange cry and said:

"Is it not over yet!?"

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Chapter 106: Hold Me Tight!

"It won't take long." Hearing the voice behind her, Lu Qing chuckled softly and said.

They left the prison via the stairs and headed towards the final scene in the script.

That was the edge of the Demon King's Castle, the place where Fang Qingrou landed.

Along the way, they passed the abandoned clock tower that Vina had taken Lu Qing to.

Lu Qing deliberately stopped here and stared at the clock tower meaninglessly for half a minute.

He then left with Fang Qingrou.

........

The entire opera house was dark, and even the young man sitting in the first row could only barely see what was happening on stage through the light streaming through the windows on the top floor of the opera house.

The figures arranged the necessary scenes on the stage, creating a scene that looked like the edge of a cliff.

At that moment, a male mage walked out from behind the stage.

This person is Scott, and only he can do what's coming next.

Scott came onto the stage, holding a magic book in his hand. On the cover of the magic book, one could see a special symbol representing knowledge.

He opened the magic book and chanted some strange incantation.

The young man sitting in the front row couldn't hear what the other person was chanting, but he could see the stage beneath Scott's feet constantly changing in response to the chanting.

To the young man's astonishment, the stage gradually softened and began to sink. Clear, transparent water gushed from the ground, spreading across the area below the cliff. In no time, the entire stage turned blue!

Scott, on the other hand, floated on the water and, after the stage was completely renovated, quietly retreated to the back of the stage.

The next moment, the lights came back on, revealing the scene on stage to the audience.

A series of gasps came from the audience, followed by some quiet discussions.

The sounds disappeared after two figures appeared on the stage.

Ella and Laura walked side by side to the edge of the Demon King's castle.

Below was a vast ocean, and above was a clear blue sky. The sea breeze, carrying the scent of the ocean, blew in my face, sending pebbles and sand flying.

Closing her eyes and enjoying the sea breeze, Ella remarked with a sigh:

"When I came here, I hadn't really seen this sea much."

“It’s okay to look at it now,” Laura said, clinging to her sister Ella’s arm.

Shaking her head, Ella looked across the sea and said, "That's the direction of the Elf Forest, and also the direction of home."

A flicker of reminiscence crossed her eyes as Ella continued, "I have traversed swamps and deserts, fought against tigers and giant birds, and challenged the trials of the Holy Sword Stormbreaker. Now, it is time to return."

Laura looked at Ella's face, and after hearing what she said, her face was full of heartache for her sister.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, she let go of Ella's arm and asked, "Did you bring your birthday present, sister?"

Ella paused for a moment, wondering why Laura would ask such a question, but she nodded nonetheless and took the flower umbrella out of the armor's alternate dimension.

Seeing this, Laura smiled mysteriously. She took the parasol from Ella's hand, opened it, and placed it in Ella's right hand before snuggling into her embrace.

“Hold me tight!” Laura said.

The audience below the stage looked completely bewildered, wondering what Laura was trying to do.

Logically, the story should have ended when the Demon King was defeated, but the opera did not announce the end, instead creating the current scene.

The young man sitting in the first row also looked bewildered. Although he knew some of the inside story—that Shanara had planned a very romantic ending—he had no idea what exactly made the ending romantic.

"Could it be that I'm here holding a flower umbrella and looking at the sea?" The young man thought to himself, a thought he didn't even believe.

However, what happened on the stage the next moment was both unexpected and extremely shocking to the young man.

Then, Laura jumped off the cliff with her sister!

However, the scene the young man had imagined did not appear. Instead of falling from the sky, the two people on the stage continued to fly upward with the airflow.

An unseen current of air lifted the parasol, and Ella, looking on in surprise, floated in the air with Laura in her arms, while Laura waved her arms excitedly.

"Success!"

“If we just keep drifting like this, we’ll eventually get back home, right?” Laura pointed to the distant sea.

Ella just said that direction is the direction of home.