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"Frieren!"
Just as the two were about to step into the deep spring water, a purple light on Yulian's body suddenly flickered, and he woke up, quickly shouting and pulling Frieren.
"Bang!"
But Yulian, who had just pulled Frieren back, hadn't had time to catch his breath when the next second a terrifying impact force slammed heavily onto his body!
Magic: Gaze Suppression Magic!
"Are you okay!"
At this moment, Frieren also woke up, instinctively moved away from the deep spring, and quickly ran to Yulian's side to check his injuries.
"Cough, cough."
Yulian coughed and waved his hand, looking at Frieren with a somewhat wronged expression.
However, Yulian also knew that Frieren couldn't be blamed for this, after all, it seemed that Frieren's Gaze Suppression Magic was similar to his own Counter-Magic.
Both are self-activating autonomous defense Magic that awaken the main consciousness during danger.
"Let's go."
Frieren helped Yulian up and looked deeply at the deep spring inside the cave.
Frieren felt a bit ashamed; not only did she fail to protect Yulian, but she was also the culprit who injured him.
"I'm fine."
"Since we're here, let's take a look."
Yulian roughly sensed his injuries and found that there was no serious problem except for being briefly immobilized, then he said.
Yulian knew the attraction of the Fountain of Youth Magic to Frieren, and it would truly be a pity to give up this hard-earned opportunity because of his injuries.
Furthermore, Yulian was also a little curious as to why the Fountain of Youth appeared here; shouldn't it be on the other side...?
"But,"
"I'm really fine, don't worry."
"Hurry and go."
Yulian interrupted Frieren's hesitation and urged her to go towards the spring.
Frieren hesitated for a moment, then nodded, silently cast dozens of Magic spells Yulian couldn't understand around him, and then slowly and cautiously approached the Fountain of Youth.
In this kind of weather, the inside of the cave was very dark.
Visibility was severely obstructed, and they could only grope their way forward with difficulty.
Fortunately, Frieren happened to know a small light Magic. As the white fluorescent Magic power flowed, a small ball of light condensed in Frieren's hand and was then released by Frieren to the top of the cave.
At this point, the situation inside the cave was finally revealed to their eyes.
Skeletons, various kinds of skeletons, countless skeletons were scattered throughout the cave.
Under the light, that deep spring finally revealed its true color. The dark red spring water strangely and quietly surged with a unique frequency.
Red turning purple.
It's not quite the same as the Fountain of Youth he had seen.
Yulian pondered.
Although the Fountain of Youth he had seen was also in a cave, that Fountain of Youth water was clear and the cave was full of vitality.
Frieren pursed her lips; she was still a few meters away from the spring water but no longer wanted to get closer.
It was hard to imagine that such disgusting spring water emitted an intoxicating aroma of wine. Coupled with the skeletons inside the cave, a chill quietly rose up Frieren's back.
However, Frieren still gritted her teeth and continued to approach.
There was an inconspicuous stone tablet above the spring water.
The stone tablet was carved with mysterious symbols.
"!( &*@... &%&%%! &*..."
Frieren tried to follow along and read it aloud, but found that the characters after that were obscure and difficult to understand, and she had never even seen them before.
So Frieren thought for a moment, used Magic to record the characters, took out a glass bottle from her person, collected some blood-like water, and turned to walk towards the cave entrance.
As for why she collected blood-like water?
Frieren vaguely sensed that although this blood-like water looked disgusting, it strangely contained a small amount of Magic power and abundant vitality...
"How is it?"
Yulian looked at Frieren, who had returned with a small bottle of Fountain of Youth water, and asked curiously.
Yulian naturally also sensed the vitality of the blood-like water and had a vague inference in his heart.
"Is this... truly the Fountain of Youth?"
Frieren just held the glass bottle in her hand, her gaze deep.
"Of course it is."
"How do you know?"
Yulian blurted out, and was met with Frieren's questioning.
Her emerald-like eyes looked at him like that, and Yulian knew Frieren was looking for an answer.
However, Yulian naturally wouldn't give Frieren a chance.
"I guessed, after all, it matches what's in the legends."
Yulian shrugged.
"Rainy day, spring water, in the mountains."
"Isn't it?"
"Mm."
Frieren softly replied, gave Yulian a complicated look, and then led the way out of the cave.
The rain was already very light, but the mountain road was still muddy.
Before long, golden sunlight pierced through the dark clouds, and the rain completely stopped, giving a feeling of seeing the clear sky after the clouds disperse.
Yulian didn't know who said that climbing a mountain is hard and descending is easy; Yulian only knew that both he and Frieren fell several times while descending the mountain.
It wasn't that Yulian hadn't hinted to Frieren that she could fly down the mountain, but Frieren's answer was: "Using flying Magic on a rainy day is too dangerous."
For a moment, Yulian also fell silent.
By the time the rain completely stopped, they had already descended the mountain, so there was no longer any need to use flying Magic.
"Let's take a bath."
On the way back, Yulian looked at the two dirty people and suggested, Frieren squinted her eyes, thought for a moment, and then suddenly refused.
Yulian also silently closed his mouth after thinking about the last experience and prepared to go back and heat water for a bath himself.
However, just as Yulian's water was ready, a knock on the door sounded.
"Who is it?"
Yulian shouted towards outside the door.
"It's me, Brother Yulian."
Nico's voice came.
Yulian looked at the dirty upper garment he had taken off beside him, hesitated for a moment, but still put on his clothes and opened the door.
"Nico, is something wrong?"
"Well, Grandma asked me to ask Brother Yulian if you have time today,"
"Yes,"
Yulian thought about it and realized he really didn't have anything to do today.
What's more, he woke up early today, and even after being busy with Frieren for so long, it was only close to noon when they returned.
There was plenty of time.
"Just say what's wrong, no need to hide it."
Yulian just felt that this little girl was a bit strange today; her cheeks looked slightly red.
"Could it be a fever?"
As Yulian spoke, he couldn't help but reach his hand towards Nico's forehead. After a startled cry, Nico jumped far away like a frightened fawn.
"Then, Brother Yulian, please call Sister Frieren over for lunch later,"
After saying that, Nico ran far away without waiting for Yulian's answer.
"After eating, we'll go sell pumpkins in the village!"
"Okay!"
Yulian shouted in Nico's direction, scratched his head, and returned to the wooden house, closing the door.
Looking at the open window, he seemed to understand something in an instant.
"This is Magic that cannot be deciphered, cannot be replicated, and belongs solely to the Goddess."
"Frieren, where did you see that?"
"My hometown."
"The Elven homeland?"
"Truly a blessed race~"
After washing herself clean, Frieren, wearing a white cotton nightgown, lay on the bed looking at the ceiling. The conversation she once had with her teacher Flamme appeared in her mind.
The symbols on the Fountain of Youth stone tablet are Magic unique to the Goddess, Magic that is not allowed to be deciphered or learned.
But Frieren found it difficult to accept that such evil Magic would be written by the Goddess who is praised and admired by humans.
The specially made small glass bottle was now quietly placed on Frieren's bedside table, except that what remained inside was a little less than half a bottle of spring water that had become clear and transparent.
The composition of the blood-like water had also been analyzed by Frieren.
Through the means of Magic, the lives of living beings were stripped away and merged into the mountain spring, creating the vigorous vitality in the blood-like water.
And this blood-like water, containing vigorous vitality, after being processed, could then allow those who drank it to prolong their lives and be reborn.
Compared to the stone tablet that blessed the Elven race with innate Magician talent, it was hard to imagine that such evil Magic was the work of the same person.
What kind of person is the Goddess after all?
Frieren didn't understand, and she couldn't understand someone she had never met.
Frieren suddenly realized that the past thousand years, this millennium of time, had passed by not as meaningfully as these short few days.
Frieren turned her head, her gaze seemed to want to pass through the wall to look at Yulian on the other side.
From the moment she was pulled back by Yulian in the cave, she knew Yulian was of the Demon Race.
Although the Magic power fluctuation was only for an instant, how could such a brief, undetectable instant escape her notice?
Isn't the Demon Race an incommunicable beast?
Why would he save her?
Isn't the Goddess beautiful and praised?
Why would she create such malicious Magic?
Frieren didn't understand.
Outside, the rain had stopped and the sky was clear, the sun was shining brightly.
Frieren pondered, and quietly fell asleep...
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