Otherwise, you can find another savior.

Both the army and Morse became smaller in the sight.

Xi Jian did not stay in the sky, but fell to the center of the battlefield at an extremely fast speed. Looking at the earth that was enlarged again in his vision, Jian almost instinctively hugged his head in his arms.

boom--!

The roar of the moment of crashing to the ground set off a shock wave, but the army of a hundred or so goblins staggered backward, and the Morses were unable to move forward for a while.

Chapter 8 The First Battlefield

After being taken down from Shiomi's arms, Ash walked a few steps to the side with his hands folded and his hat tilted.

Vivian, who had just arrived at the front line with follow-up support, screamed in surprise when she saw the clear figure in the scattered snow dust.

“Zhen?!” She rushed over, “And Sage? Aren’t you—”

At this time, Xijian took off his robe and threw it into Vivian's hands, revealing his figure in a short shirt and long pants that made it easy for him to move.

The clothes given to him by the Rain Clan were divided into two parts: a robe and cloak for warmth, and formal clothes to wear underneath.

"Help me take off the clothes. Then lead your fellow tribesmen to maintain the formation and don't move forward." Shiomi rolled his shoulders. "Next is the time for Ash's practical training. If you barge in, I can't guarantee that you won't get hurt by mistake."

Vivian glanced at Jian, who was gripping his wand tightly, ready for battle, and nodded silently: "Jian, don't force yourself."

After Vivian retreated, Ash asked, "How do we fight?"

After all, she had never thought that she and Shiomi would have to face these dangerous Mors alone.

"Don't worry, I'll try it for you first." Xi Jian stretched out his hand, and a scarlet magic spear appeared in his hand.

"Gun?" Jian was stunned.

"I'll explain it to you later." Xi Jian smiled and rushed towards the Morses who were just around the corner like an arrow.

A strong magical aura emanated from him, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of these Mors. When he entered among these Mors, they began to wriggle, and suddenly long and sharp claws grew out of their bodies and pressed down from above Xijian.

It was so fast, but Xijian dodged it with a single move. He then swung his spear, and the sharp blade of the red spear cut through the claw, but there was no real sense of hitting the target.

Morse, who was attacking him, seemed to be unconcerned and extended his second claw again, sweeping over from the side.

While avoiding this second attack, other Mors continued to attack Shiomi in the same way.

The body made of black fog has no substance, so weapons such as bows and arrows cannot effectively harm it. Instead, projectiles that can produce flames and explosions can effectively hinder it.

Even with the cursed red spear, purely physical attacks would not be able to hit it; instead, the attack might miss.

Not only that, Shiomi also confirmed that these disasters, who were once fairies, were not afraid of the curse on the gun.

After all, these guys themselves are the embodiment of the curse.

"So--"

Shiomi flashed to the outside of the Mors group and changed the way he held the gun.

This is 6000 years ago, a strange place.

The True Aether in the air did not dissipate, just like in the Age of Gods, which made Shiomi less hesitant when performing magic.

"Piercing heaven and earth, it is the steadily approaching thunder... 'The Noble Holy War'!"

Originating from the red spear, the blue lightning of a completely opposite color headed straight for the Morses.

Morse, who would not sit still and wait for death, instinctively accumulated the magic power of the curse, transformed it into a huge magic ball, and launched the magic to counter him.

The power of the two is incomparable. After the lightning mercilessly tore the magic ball apart, it penetrated the bodies of some of the Morses and tore their bodies apart. The Morses, which suffered a fatal blow, squirmed and dissipated.

At this time, Shiomi retreated back to the vicinity of Ash.

"As expected, only magic attacks are effective." He turned around and told Jian, "It's your specialty."

“Hey…Okay…!”

Jian quickly came to his senses

Shiomi has superb marksmanship, graceful body movements, and magic to match.

After combining these things together, Jian was fascinated by the natural fighting posture and almost forgot that this was his first battle.

I really want to fight alongside him, Jian said silently in his heart.

Disperse thoughts, disperse thoughts.

Shaking his head, Ash raised the wand high in his hand.

Immediately, a vast water mirror appeared above the Morses, covering all the hundreds of Morses on the battlefield.

The enormous amount of magic power that followed the magic was noticed by the Morses, who immediately concentrated their attacks on Ash.

"Life barrier."

The barrier formed by runes blocked the attack of the thick curse.

From the moment their eyes met, Jian felt a surge of encouragement. She had been a bit nervous about her debut, but that feeling vanished, leaving only the confidence she felt after completing a grand magic trick.

"Purifying rain, flood the earth!"

Heavy rain that does not belong to this season poured down, and each raindrop was as sharp as a blade and full of magic.

The bodies of the Morses were riddled with holes and began to wriggle and dissipate.

Seeing this scene, Jian, who thought the battle was over, suddenly showed a happy expression.

The remaining Morses gathered together and merged with each other. In the blink of an eye, they turned into a giant Morse that was three or four times larger than the previous one.

Those orange eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is that really the case?" Xijian spoke calmly, opened his hands, and the original rune ritual was completed.

These Mors are both groups and can gather into stronger individuals. Their survival instinct drives them to complete this transformation at the moment of being eliminated.

Those eyes can bring curse to any life they see.

The sixth of the original runes, the rune that returns the curse.

The Mors, who are the embodiment of the curse, are naturally not afraid of the return, and Shiomi still uses this technique to prevent the curse from falling on the fairies of the Ash and Rain clans.

"Use purifying magic to bombard that guy and give him a big blow!" Shiomi maintained the ritual and reminded Ash with a smile.

Ash nodded vigorously and stood beside Shiomi, her magic power flowing through the magic circuits throughout her body and converging on her wand.

Having never tried to control so much magic power in one breath, Ash's hands trembled slightly, but then, Shiomi's hand fell on the hand holding her wand.

"Remain calm, follow my breathing, and adjust the frequency of the flow of magic."

His voice was quiet and steady, his magic full of affinity, removing the burden from his magic circuits at the moment.

The giant Morse's body suddenly tore apart, and it stretched out a dozen slender tentacles to stab the two people, but they missed the target, and the nearest one was some distance away from Jian's feet.

The tentacles were surrounded by Rune and lost their accuracy.

There was clearly a limit to the number of split attacks. Morse began to shake, causing the earth to shake as well, but after a brief struggle, he stopped.

Ash's attack pierced through Morse's body. Unable to maintain its shape, the giant Morse stopped moving and slowly dissipated in the wind.

"Well done, you are worthy of being called Ash."

Shiomi supported her as her legs went limp.

"Yes, but I'm still far inferior to you... So, please teach me how to fight."

Jian showed a proud yet shy smile and whispered his wish.

Chapter 9: The witch knows martial arts and is unstoppable

For goblins, fists are far more convincing than reason.

This was the conclusion Shiomi came to after she and Ash resolved the disaster that was heading straight for the Rain Country.

Before that, although he called himself a sage, he also demonstrated magic in front of the princess and gained the trust of the Rain Clan leader in his abilities.

However, among the Rain Clan, the fairies always believed that Shiomi was just a human picked up by Ash, and was there to serve her.

The so-called sage is just a nice way of saying it.

Although in the process of pacifying this not-so-small disaster, Shiomi tried his best to give the highlight moment of the battlefield to Ash, allowing her to use two kinds of magic successively to achieve the final outcome of the battle.

But the fairies who participated in the battle were not blind. They could see the important role played by Shiomi, especially when the remaining Mors gathered together and turned into giant Mors. Without Shiomi's action, the Rain Clan on the battlefield would have suffered heavy casualties.

After this battle, the sage's title was recognized within the Rain Clan, and no fairies dared to attack Xijian anymore. Even when they met fairies on the street, their attitude was completely different from that towards other humans.

"Isn't that a good thing?"

This was the first thing that came to mind when Ash heard Shiomi talk about these experiences.

"...Well, it's a good thing indeed." Xijian felt something was strange, but couldn't describe it well.

This was the first time in his life that he coexisted with a race with such different values.

Shiomi knows very little about fairies, who originally only exist in legends and only a few of them appear in the world as servants.

Morgan, in particular, rarely mentioned this aspect, almost never asserting her identity as a fairy. Naturally, Shiomi had no reason to delve into it.

“There’s a flaw—!”

Seeing that Shiomi was distracted, Jian suddenly raised the wooden spear and changed his target. He no longer attacked the dummy, but went straight for Shiomi's chest.

No matter how you look at it, it should have been a sure-shot attack, but Xi Jian deflected it without warning. Jian used a little too much force, and she flew forward.

If Xi Jian hadn't caught it, she would have fallen to the ground in the snow in a very embarrassing manner.

"You're using your strength incorrectly. Even though it looks fast, it's difficult to sustain." Xi Jian chuckled and explained the problem. "If you can't kill the enemy with one strike, you'll be left with a fatal flaw and won't even be able to handle the enemy's counterattack."

Jian lazily hung in Xijian's arms, looking at the long stick that fell to the ground. "It's obviously Tianxi. It's so strange. Even if I'm not concentrating, I can still defend against it."

"Your intention to attack has been exposed even earlier. Even if my back is to you, I can still defend against it."

"what is this……"

Shiomi spoke in a somewhat stream-of-consciousness manner to Ash.

She is a natural born magician, but not a natural born warrior.

So after defeating the disaster that attacked the Rain Country, Ash made up his mind not only to learn other schools of magic from Shiomi and expand his knowledge of magic, but also to learn other fighting skills.

Now, she is asking Shiomi about spearmanship.

Originally, Jian thought that he would be reluctant to teach such a special skill, but when he heard Jian asking, apart from being a little surprised at the time, he began to prepare very patiently and carefully.

For example, a flat and wide open space was planned next to the library, and several dummies were placed around it for practice; or we went to the forest to find solid wood and made a handy wooden gun.

Compared with Ash, the one seeking advice, Shiomi, the one teaching, was obviously more enthusiastic.

"Don't think, feel." Xi Jian smiled as he helped Jian regain her footing and handed her the wooden spear. "Unlike a magician, a warrior relies more on intuition."

"It's really not easy." Jian held the gun and practiced every move according to Xijian's instructions. "Did Tianxi get here this way too?"

Xijian suddenly let out a dry laugh: "Ahahahaha... My master is not like that..."

"Eh? Is Tianxi's master very strict?" Jian became interested and asked quickly, but did not stop his actions.

"It's more than just strict, it's downright deadly." Shiomi spread her hands. "How can a beginner start with actual combat and practice until they bleed every day? And they even say things like 'If you already have the basics, just skip that part'? Sigh..."

Jian, however, saw something different: "Even though he complains, Tianxi must have been very happy during his time studying, right?"

"Why do you say that?" Xijian was very surprised that Jian could see it.

"Because you are laughing, and you are laughing from the bottom of your heart." Jian stopped and looked at his face and said.

It turns out that when I talk about the past in the Shadow Kingdom, a smile will unconsciously appear on my face.

Xijian touched his face in realization and nodded in acknowledgment, "Yes. After all, at that time, apart from fighting, there was nothing to think about. All we had to think about was how to become stronger and suffer less."

"Hmm..." Jian's eyes flickered.

He was always happy when he was with her, but there was always a lot of heaviness in his smile.

Jian could feel that Xijian regarded her as too important, so that even the slightest mistake would not be tolerated.

"Tired? Why don't we stop here today?" Shiomi said, "Even if you have magic to strengthen your body, you still need to take your time to train in this area."

"No, it's okay." Ash shook her head. She wasn't too tired. "I find piercing the mannequin a bit boring."

Xijian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Is that why you tried to sneak attack me just now?"