Otherwise, you can find another savior.

Xijian was relieved but also sad.

He raised his head and looked at the guards who were once again slightly hesitant because of the death of their comrades. They slowed down the encirclement.

When Shiomi raised his feet and walked forward, trying to avoid stepping on the bodies of the human soldiers who died in battle, the surrounding soldiers slowly retreated.

The man still standing at the front of the team, Queen Mab's lover, was now leaning on a spear, his body covered with scars.

Kenrak is the strongest among these human soldiers.

"Are you still planning to continue?" Xi Jian pointed his gun at them and said calmly, "If you still care about your life, give up immediately."

He didn't feel tired, but in order to delay time and prevent the soldiers from interfering with the battle between Ash and Mab, Shiomi also relaxed a little.

Without using any magic or enhancing his attacks with mana, he killed 357 enemy soldiers with just one man and one gun.

It would not be impossible to ask him to re-enact the battle before Cu Chulainn's death.

But the only difference is that Shiomi won't need to tie himself to a rock to fight.

He will continue to kill until the northern goblin army is completely destroyed or surrenders.

"It's not over yet." Kenlak pulled out the spear stuck in the soil. "For Mab, and for the goblins of the north, I... we must defeat you."

"Then come on."

Following Shiomi's calm words, Kenlak roared and rushed forward with his spear raised, leading the charge with the tip of the spear pointing directly at Shiomi's throat.

Sharp and ferocious, using all his strength.

However, Xijian did not dodge, but just watched the spear getting closer and closer, but stopped just a few feet away, unable to move forward.

“…Ah…Is that all it takes…” Kenlake laughed weakly.

"Do you really think that's all that's missing?" Xi Jian didn't move.

Kenlake's head gradually lowered, and under the shadow of the backlight, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.

There were no fatal injuries, and he was not attacked by Shiomi.

But this man's life had come to an end.

The humans on the island only have a lifespan of about thirty years, and even Queen Mab's husband cannot avoid this fact.

"I thought I could hold out until the end of the war..." Kenlak's voice and breathing gradually faded away, "...present victory... to the Queen..."

After his last words, the man died while still thrusting his spear.

Amidst the originally noisy battle, the sounds of killing gradually faded away. The guards around stopped their actions, silently watching the scene, and solemnly seeing their general off.

At the same time, there is no need to continue the battle.

Mab, who had just been fighting a life-and-death battle with Ash, suddenly fell into the encirclement, next to the dead man.

"Kenrack?"

The magic patterns on Mab's body gradually faded, and she looked at the man in disbelief as he maintained the posture of raising his spear to thrust.

The moment her hand touched the man's body, her tenuous balance was broken, and Kenlak fell among the corpses on the ground. He had already closed his eyes, with a smile full of regret still on his face.

"Have you...left?"

Slowly squatting down, caressing the body that had not yet lost its warmth with intimate movements, Mab's voice was full of confusion.

It lasted for a long time, or just a moment.

Shiomi watched this scene silently without looking away.

It wasn't until Mab finally realized that this was reality and not an illusion that she hugged her body and cried out in grief:

"Ahhhhhhhh... Why? Why?! Why didn't you wait for me? Why didn't you keep your promise? Why... did you betray me?!"

Shiomi was about to say that this man never betrayed her until his death, but suddenly realized that for the fairy, this "betrayal" has another meaning.

Failure to keep one’s promise and dying first is also a form of “betrayal”.

"Tianxi."

Jian also landed next to Xijian. She reached out and grabbed Xijian's blood-stained robe. Only when she was sure that the blood was not Xijian's own did she secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

She immediately looked at Mab, who was consumed by sorrow, with compassion, and asked in a low voice:

"Did you kill him?"

"If inducing him to fight the Imperial Guards to the death counts... then it's indeed my fault." Shiomi shook his head, "But if I said that, it would undoubtedly be an insult to him."

"Has the life span run out..." Jian gradually understood.

She remembered what she had heard before the war and knew the reason.

This was the first time that Jian witnessed the death of a human being whose lifespan had run out, and she couldn't help but feel shocked.

"There's no time to waste here." Xijian turned around. "You sensed it, the aura of a great disaster. Perhaps it's the influence of the war between the North and the South goblins... The great disaster that happens once every thousand years is coming again."

"Can you still fight?" Ash was very worried about Shiomi.

"I should be the one asking you this." Xijian smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He glanced at the soldiers around him and they automatically made way.

These soldiers knew very well that if even the queen had lost her will to fight, continuing to fight would lose its most important meaning.

Mab, who was obviously angry but also extremely sad, looked at the sky blankly while holding the body of his lover who had come to the end of his life.

Originally, Jian wanted to ask whether he wanted to help her suppress the disaster, but seeing Mab's condition, Jian knew that he couldn't ask for anything at this time.

She wanted to say that Xijian's action of taking her away was a bit too heartbreaking, but she still couldn't bear to break free.

Suddenly, Jian felt that he was actually quite lucky.

The first person I fell in love with was a human being, but not an ordinary human being.

Two thousand years passed like flowing water, but she didn't have to consider at all...that she would lose him and be separated from him by life and death.

"We won and ended the war, but I still feel bad." Xijian said helplessly.

"Yes."

Jian agreed softly.

Chapter 68 Results

The war is over, but that doesn't mean that Ash and Shiomi have finished everything they needed to do.

Gloucester rashly went out of the city to meet the enemy and fought with the northern goblins, suffering heavy casualties. The remaining soldiers retreated back into the city, almost unable to hold on.

If it weren't for Shiomi and Ash who disrupted the army's formation and finally won in this extremely special way, Gloucester would have been captured first.

"So, the Winged Clan of Gloucester can no longer be relied upon?" Xi Jian asked Bawan Xi who had rushed over.

After the war started, she followed the instructions of Shiomi and Ash, observing the situation from outside the battlefield, writing down as much as possible what she saw, and then telling them.

"Yes……"

Bawan Xi, who was also from the Wing Clan, felt inexplicably ashamed.

"Don't worry, it's not your fault." Ash stroked Bawan Xi's hair. "The most urgent thing now is to reunite with our companions."

"Not only the Wing Clan, but the Earth Clan has also basically lost its combat effectiveness."

The black knight Hector followed their footsteps and headed towards the direction of the aura of great disaster.

"Were they forced out of the city by the Winged Clan to meet the enemy?"

"If it weren't for my unfulfilled duties, I really wouldn't have the face to see you two." Hector also apologized.

Shiomi smiled and said, "Compared to those, can you still fight, Black Knight?"

"No problem. Even if facing the giant Morse, I can still fight." Hector raised the hammer and expressed his fighting spirit to Xijian.

"That's enough." Shiomi looked southwest and east first. "I wonder how the battle is going on on both sides that tricked the northern goblins into splitting up?"

To suppress the great disaster, the military forces of the fairy clans are not needed. Shiomi just wants to confirm to what extent the power of the southern fairy clans has been weakened by the war launched by Mab.

"Don't count on the Wind Clan. The fight was ugly." Grimm walked out of the forest. He looked like he had been waiting for a long time.

"Both sides suffer losses, or... it's all over?" Xi Jian asked.

Grimm found a large rock to use as a stool. "It wasn't all over. We were just beaten all the way back to Salisbury. If the northern goblin army that was chasing us wasn't a major force, I'm afraid we would have lost even our lair."

"As expected." Shiomi helped Ash sit down on a wooden stake by the roadside and gestured for everyone to rest for a while. "This time, the northern goblin army has mixed in a large number of human soldiers."

Ash nodded again: "It seems that the northern goblins have realized the power of humans?"

"But after all, there were already quite a few stray fairies who left their clans and lived among humans," Shiomi said. "They established their own villages in the southeast."

There were fairies who neither wanted to flee to Mab in the north nor wanted to stay in the clan. A very small number of fairies who lacked the fighting spirit by nature started their lives again with humans in a place that did not belong to several clans.

However, both the number and scale are too small to be worthy of attention, and this kind of separation from the clan is not a recent occurrence.

The fairies no longer found it strange and regarded it as a "boring" thing.

"What are you thinking about?" Grimm smelled a subtle scent.

"The fact that the northern elves, now possessing human soldiers, have swept across most of Britain will sooner or later spread." Shiomi looked at Ash. "Perhaps in the future, humans will break away from their status as vassals of the elves and gain a true foothold on this island."

"In that case, it's not a bad thing." Ash knew that Xijian was asking for her opinion.

I wonder what she thinks of humanity rising as a force someday.

"Whether human or fairy, I think it's fine for us to live in peace without fighting," Hector said. "I originally chose to follow you two and accept the name of the Black Knight so that I could see peace come to Britain as soon as possible."

"Yes." Bawan Xi nodded.

She actually didn't quite understand the profound meaning of this topic, but she just felt that if there could be more peace, the Sage and the Witch wouldn't have to work as hard as they do now.

"What are you talking about?" Tetrot also rushed back from the east. "Reinek of the Fang Clan repelled the northern goblin pursuers. However, they retreated first, so they were not completely wiped out by Reinek and the Fang Clan."

Teterlot, Bawan Xi and Grimm were responsible for monitoring the battlefield in three directions respectively.

Shiomi did not let them directly participate in the battle. Except for Tetrot who was a little dissatisfied, everyone accepted this responsibility.

"After all, we have Yaling here. If we don't face the main force, we will perform much better than other clans." Xijian smiled faintly, looked at Reinek, and gave him a bland compliment.

"You flatter me, sage."

Reinek, who had come alone with Teterlot to join them, knelt down and saluted before Ximen.

"You abandoned the clan and came here on your own?" Xi Jian cleaned the blood from his robe and asked casually, "As the clan leader, isn't this inappropriate?"

"An ominous aura is coming from the direction of the Great Void. I came here to consult the Sage." Reinecke replied calmly, "I wonder if this is—"

Xijian smiled. "You guessed right. The once-in-a-millennium catastrophe is about to strike. This time, it seems to be emerging from the direction of the Great Void. This is a rare opportunity, so I'll let you join the battle to suppress the catastrophe."

"Yes." Reinek suppressed his desire to fight and simply accepted Shiomi's instructions.

Jian looked around and said, "Having so many companions is more than enough to deal with the great disaster."

"We'll set up camp here today. After that, we'll head towards the Great Void, confirm the disaster's form and status, and then carry out routine suppression."

Finally, Shiomi announced the next course of action.

【history】

In the year 2000 of the Fairy Calendar, Queen Mab initiated a full-scale war between the Northern Fairies and the Southern Fairies, which was later called the "Summer War". It ended abruptly with the intervention of the Savior and the Sage.

The Wing Clan, the Wind Clan, and the Earth Clan suffered heavy losses, while the Fang Clan suffered the least. However, because their leader Reinek was defeated by the sage, the Fang Clan did not grow further because its strength was preserved.

However, the Mirror Clan's inaction in this war planted the seeds of "dissatisfaction" among other clans, but no one knew when they would sprout.

Mab, who was "betrayed" by her husband, led the northern elves back to Edinburgh, and accepted the proposal of the savior Ash to establish the "King's Clan", becoming the new sixth clan of Britain.

Afterwards, the millennium-long catastrophe that came immediately after the end of the war was once again suppressed by the hands of the savior and the sages, and Britain ushered in peace after the war.

Chapter 69: Rest at the Camp

A great void lies in the heart of Britain, and no goblin knows what lies within.

On the other hand, all British fairies almost instinctively reject the act of "approaching the Big Hollow".

After suppressing the disaster, Shiomi and Ash's next stop was naturally the big void where the investigation had been put on hold.

Especially this time, the disaster was obviously accompanied by war and arose from near the big void.

When the group stopped to camp and wait for the next day's dawn just a short distance away from the Big Hole, Shiomi asked the core question in view of this.