Erica stared at Zach silently for a long time, her red lips slightly opened, as if she wanted to say something, but finally turned around and left silently.

"Thank you." Zach nodded slightly to her back.

Without hesitation, he stepped out of the edge of the floating city, his body rose from the ground, and flew towards the south with a violent sound.

Top of the Santa Tower in the Floating City.

An old man hunchbacked looked at Zach who was leaving the sky and laughed: "If it weren't for the application of Master Hunyuan, we wouldn't have known that he was hiding here, haha. Erica, thank you for your hard work this time."

The female mage was already standing behind the old man: "I know that many people have been sacrificed to save him, including a second-level mage." She paused slightly, and asked tentatively: "The will of the Holy Tower is my meaning. But why is this Zach Stuart so important? We need to take such a great risk to forcefully break through the world wall?"

"Didn't you investigate him?"

"He did make many advanced research results during his time as a wizard, but that was a hundred years ago. After he escaped from Planta, he has been unknown and has long since become a common person..."

"Actually, you know the importance of him more than anyone else." The old man interrupted her directly: "And about that girl, why did you lie to him?"

“…”

"Old acquaintance, aren't it?"

Hearing what the old man said, Erica knelt on one knee on the ground.

"Forget it, hahaha." The old man smiled: "It was you who found his trace in the vast application. After the war, when Xingshu announced that he would send thirteen holy masters, I also paid attention to your expression. After coming to this world, you volunteered to save him..."

"Do you think all teachers are fools?"

"The Holy See forgives sins..." The female mage lowered her head and her black hair fell to the ground.

"But I don't understand why you kept urging me to reject his application? Isn't it just your wish to let him join us?"

After thinking for a moment, Erica said carefully:

"The students just feel that this time the mage civilization has encountered an unprecedented blow, and the enemy is very difficult. It is inevitable that a full-scale war will occur once in a thousand years. Looking at his sentimental appearance, an arcane mage like him has lived a long-standing life and can only drag him back in the cruel battle of civilization."

The old man obviously didn't buy into this loophole explanation. He shook his head meaningfully and smiled even more: "Hahaha, that's great. Doesn't this mean we have fresh blood?"

He ignored his student's helpless look and continued to ask, "Erika, how old are you?"

"One hundred and thirteen years old."

"Haha, it's great to be young."

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Beneath Zach were layers of floating clouds and a sky of thousands of feet high.

The flight technique directly changes the kinetic energy of the object and also carries the surrounding air. Therefore, although Zach is flying at three times the speed of sound, there is no breeze around him and his body cannot feel any acceleration.

After a night of flight, Zach finally entered the Zakalander Corps.

This place is no longer what it is like in memory, only the dry and withered earth, and there is no trace of civilization.

Under the ravages of the High Ring spell, even the shape of the continental shelf has changed significantly.

Zach found a city site southwest of a giant crater.

Port Zakaland.

The city that should have been completely flattened has a lot of ruins left. The damage to the city is smaller than Zach expected, and it seems that the power of the disaster was deliberately reduced.

But it's still a mess.

The entire city was completely destroyed under the ravages of shock waves, and the remaining ruins were also hidden under gravel and dust. Only the Mage Tower collapsed in the middle of the city shows that this was the capital of the former principality.

Zach landed in the city and walked along the Kingdom Avenue in memory.

The ground was covered with gravel and charred bones.

There are humans, and there are flesh and blood.

The dark bones are no longer able to identify gender and age.

He came to the place where he had separated from Agesha in his memory, which had long been buried in ruins.

Pieces of gravel were removed under the action of spells.

He was not lucky. After all, so long has passed. Even if Agesha survived the siege of the flesh and blood demon and escaped [Patto's Pseudo Moon], he would not have survived a month of burial.

But even if only the body is left, Zach needs to bury her well.

However, as the ruins were dug up, Zach did not see any remains except the ashes that occasionally drifted in the wind.

When all the ruins were removed, a broken wall appeared at the bottom.

The broken wall was covered with entangled and twisted black shadows.

That is the trace left by organisms being vaporized by high temperatures.

They were entangled together, unable to tell whether they were their original owners, or even humans or flesh and blood demons.

Zach stood there for a long time until the mage pendant on his chest lit up, and an old voice came from the pendant:

"All mages and Patos battle officially ends, and all those who are performing missions outside will return to the floating city immediately."

"Patos will perform the No. 1 crash program after fifty hourglass."

After pausing, the voice continued: "The coordinates of the flesh and blood world have been discovered, and the mage civilization will launch a full-scale counterattack in ten years."

Hearing this, Zach slowly closed his eyes, as if mourning everything in front of him.

After a long time, when he opened his eyes again, his eyes became much more firm.

He turned around and walked towards the city, and soon arrived at his mage tower.

The giant tower that was originally a hundred meters high had already collapsed, leaving only a foundation of more than ten meters high.

A figure was standing in front of the door that had been melted into black glass.

It was a burnt and dry skeleton, standing quietly on the broken stairs in front of the door of the Mage Tower, with charred rags hanging on it.

Zach walked silently to the scorched bones, leaned over slowly, and sat aside dejectedly.

‘Tyros, have you been waiting for me here...’

I don’t know if it was because of the breeze brought, or because of something else, the bones collapsed beside Zach and scattered into pieces.

Boom...

Thunder sounded in the sky and heavy rain poured down.

The mages are leaving this world that is about to be destroyed.

With the end of the magic, the ocean evaporated by the holy wizards is returning to the embrace of the earth in the form of heavy rain.

The black-haired mage sat quietly on the broken stairs, allowing the rain to wet the whole body.

There is only one last resident left in this world.

He watched the rain wash the street corpses and ashes, and wash away the gravel and dust.

He also took away the broken bones around him.

Maybe I have already known my destiny.

On this day, it rained all night.
Chapter completed!