Helbo has never forgotten her.

Even if he and her have neither the fate of mentoring or apprenticeship nor other fate; even if he and her... seem to have seen only two sides from beginning to end.

But for more than two thousand years, Helbo still couldn't forget her.

The staff she gifted had long since been lost, and the piece of paper she left behind had long since turned into nothingness.

"If you can use it to cast a magic someday, come to me, and then I may reluctantly accept you as an apprentice."

This is a paragraph of text handwritten by Kern letter at that time.

In order to complete this agreement, Haierbo, who was actually not outstanding at the time, spent a lot of time and energy.However, when he finally walked in front of her after all the hardships, the other party no longer knew him.

That's right, when the two met again after a few decades, Kern no longer "knew" Helbo.

You know, Kern is a witch, but also an extremely powerful genius.If she has a bad memory, how can she achieve that kind of achievement?

If a wizard forgets something, it undoubtedly means that the memory of that thing has been completely erased in some accident.

Until now, Helbo still remembers that night-it was the second time he had spoken face to face with Kern.And at the same time, it was the last time.

...

It has been five years since the magic war against the goddess of death ended.

In the past five years, the central area of ​​the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, which was originally the main battlefield, has remained barren and ruined due to violent and protracted warfare.

The sand and gravel, which was engulfed in the abnormal storm, ran wildly on this endless wasteland.The power remaining due to many powerful magics has made this place no grass and no birds.

The conquest coalition composed of many wizards and magical creatures withdrew all of them back to the Greek region four years ago. Only Helbo remained in this harsh environment.

He was waiting silently... hoping that the witch who had somehow disappeared at the end of the war would reappear in front of him and fulfill the unfinished promise that year.

Therefore, Haierbo lived in the ruins of the original royal city for five years.

In addition to doing magic research every day, he spends the rest of his time in the nearby area or stop and look around, or wander around.

In the morning, he ran around looking for every trace of Kern's disappearance; in the evening, he climbed the last remaining section of the city wall and was dazed by the yellow sand and wind.

Perhaps Haierbo, two thousand years later, actually doesn't quite understand why he did such a stupid thing back then.But Helbo at that time knew very well that his ideal was in the witch Kern.

Ok!

Speaking of it, it may also be that destiny itself wants to give him an answer that is persistently waiting.After five years of waiting, on a certain night when the sandstorm subsided slightly, an abnormal magic wave suddenly appeared in the ruins of the royal city, which instantly attracted Haierbo's attention.

Under the moonlight that was clearer and brighter than usual, he followed the source of the magical fluctuations all the way to search, and finally saw a strange black phantom among the ruins of a broken wall with a strange depression.

It was a shadow that was difficult to explain in words, as if it were a phenomenon that did not belong to this world, and Haierbo dared not approach it at will for a time.

However, besides Na Kern, who else would create such a mysterious and unknown magic phenomenon in this place?

Helbo didn't think about it...Although he didn't dare to approach, he didn't want to retreat.Even if he could clearly feel the great danger from the phantom, he still reluctant to leave.

So, about a few minutes later, he finally saw another familiar figure stepping out of the inexplicable phantom.

"Click."

The sound of the soles of the shoes touching the hard ground was particularly clear in the quiet environment tonight because there was no big storm.And when the graceful figure that had been feared by countless people was finally fully revealed under the moonlight, the phantom shrank silently into one point and disappeared into Haierbo's vision.

"...Kern...Miss."

God knows how hard Helbo had used to squeeze this out of his throat, so that the tone became a little strange, containing many complex and subtle emotions.

But after hearing Haierbo's soft call, he just stood facing him on the sunken clearing, and after appearing, he kept silent, and gradually turned around.

"K, Miss Kern?"

At that moment, Haierbo didn't even understand what he saw!

The side of her body that was facing him was still as graceful as five years ago, making her a "goddess" even though she was cruel, powerful, crazy, and terrifying.

But the other half of his body was pitch black, possessing the flesh that the most ferocious and strong beast would possess.The half of the face was terribly hideous, and the blood-colored eyes released a faint red glow, which could not even cover the bright moonlight.

Of course, perhaps the most important thing is that her physical fitness is constantly rising, and the magical power fluctuates. The overwhelming power makes Haierbo almost a little breathless.

In the next moment, Kern, the inhumane witch, finally spoke.

"who are you?"

It was like the special voices of a man and a woman overlapping each other, which immediately made Haierbo's scalp numb and got goose bumps on his body.

"I...I am your student, Miss Kern...I finally waited for you! Do you...don't remember me?"

Perhaps it was the years of obsession with Kern that made Haierbo put aside the fear in his heart.Seeing him hurriedly took out from his pocket the note he was still carefully storing decades ago, and let it go to the direction where Kern was standing.

However, Kern did not even reach out to pick it up.Haierbo saw that she just glanced at it casually, and a black flame ignited on the piece of paper immediately, which swallowed it up.

"I don't know you." Kern's dull voice sounded again, and it pierced into Helbo's heart, "Stay away from me, otherwise, you will end up like that boring piece of paper. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Kern never went to see Helbo again, turned and walked towards the barren sand dunes outside the ruins.Helbo originally wanted to chase, but his two legs seemed to have rooted on the ground, and he couldn't lift it up.

After a while, Kern disappeared at the end of the horizon.