There was silence outside the rain, as if the Legion of Heroes had disappeared.

"You're afraid I'll just give up."

Ash said confidently, "Yes, the contract stipulates that I am not allowed to abandon the destruction of the 'Summoning' spirit, but the mandatory nature of this contract is reflected in the fact that the virtual world will immediately punish me. In other words, when I think I can bear the risk of being punished by the virtual world, this contract is nothing more than a piece of waste paper that I can't even use to wipe my ass."

"The Void Realm can only punish me after the fact, but cannot stop me midway. The most it can do is kill me after the dust settles. But if destroying the 'Summoning Soul' spell means death, and being caught by you means death as well, I would definitely rather die at the hands of the Void Realm than be eaten up by you, my lover."

There was silence between heaven and earth, and the golden rain fell silently into the sky. After a moment, Denzel's voice slowly rang out: "There is only one thing that needs to be corrected."

"In the 'generous plan' I prepared for you, there is only one spot left for you to leave alive."

Ash frowned, his expression slightly cold: "I am definitely going to die, which means..."

"You have to choose someone to die." Denzel could no longer hide the smile in his voice. "One alive, one half dead, and one completely dead. This is the ending I prepared for you. Do you like it?"

"...I heard that the heroic spirit can only gradually restore its emotions by retrieving soul fragments from hell." Ash said, "I'm curious, how much of your charm in your heyday is there in this disgusting and disgusting posture of yours?"

"You know us well. If we calculate the ratio, it's one in six." Denzel said cheerfully, "Have you decided who to choose to die? Your lover or your sister?"

"By the way, let me remind you that if you kill your companion with your own hands, it will mean that she will leave the virtual world early, violating the condition of "staying in the virtual world for three hours", and she will be killed by the virtual world. I will not recognize such a death! You must leave it to us. I want you to see with your own eyes how your companion is dismembered and devoured by my lovely followers."

"...Did the incarnation of Gospel find you in the trash?" Ash said with disgust, "Fortunately, you like God. If you liked a human, you would have tortured him to death. Being liked or hated by you would have been a disaster."

"Hate it, I'm not that nice." Denzel laughed. "By the way, I like smart people who know the situation, and I hate stupid people who say, 'No, I'll die before you get what you want.'"

"So...are you a smart person or a stupid person?" The Queen's tone was full of arrogance: "Even if you guessed my plan, what? Do you have a choice?"

Yes.

Ash's situation did not improve at all because of his cleverness. This was an open conspiracy. If Ash was frightened by the Queen and his mind was broken, he would naturally choose the latter based on emotion; and if Ash was smart enough to see through the Queen's trick, he would also choose the latter based on reason.

When there are only two options, there is no freedom of choice at all. No matter who you are, you can only choose the less bad one.

When Ash fell silent, both Sword Lady and Witch looked back at him.

Especially the witch, her hair color quickly turned dirty, the lines between her fingers were faintly visible, and the emotions in her eyes became more and more turbid, just like a kitten with its fur standing on end. Once there was something wrong with Ash, she would definitely react violently immediately.

"It's hard to make a decision, after all, he's your companion, and you have to sentence him to death yourself." Denzel suddenly said kindly, "I'm not a bad person, my love, why don't you let me help you?"

"I think you must be thinking about the possibility of a frontal breakout, right? So, when you break out, I will have my followers focus on attacking your two companions. You just need to give them a look or gesture to indicate which companion you want to abandon, and my lovely followers will do it for you, tearing and devouring the companion you abandoned. Your companions will think they died in battle, and you can comfort yourself that this is the outcome of a failed breakout plan, which you didn't want."

After these words came out, the witch's shoulders trembled slightly.

Although she immediately turned her head and looked away so that her teammates could not see her expression, Ash and Sonia knew that the breakout plan had been completely aborted.

On the one hand, the Queen's Heroic Spirit's words were almost at the level of a spiritual miracle, which easily alienated their relationship. On the other hand, the bond between the witch and them did not reach the level of unconditional trust after all.

A chill ran down his spine, and Ash finally realized what kind of enemy he was facing. Although they were only dealing with three magicians, the Queen's Heroic Spirit had dispatched a large number of troops at all costs, and used the terrain to force them into a dead end. In order to increase their chances of winning, she kept digging into the cracks in their team... Although they hadn't officially fought yet, and Ash hadn't even seen her troops, he knew they had already lost.

The magician's battle was over before it began.

Ash exhaled a breath of turbid air: "Witch."

"Um?"

"I know that nothing I say will be of any use, because you think that I have a better relationship with Sword Princess, because you know that you and I have not yet established a bond that is strong enough for unconditional trust - and perhaps there will never be one in the future, after all, bonds are something that depends on fate."

"Um."

"But I need you to believe me." Ash said seriously: "We must work together to--"

"Do you think these are useful?" Sonia suddenly interrupted Ash: "Witch, please tie a string around my neck."

"Um?"

"If you feel that the Viewer has abandoned you, you can cut my neck immediately. This serious injury is enough to take me directly to the virtual world, resulting in violation of the contract and being punished by the virtual world." Sonia said seriously: "I will not ask you to trust the Viewer like I do. If you think he will only save me, then I will bet my life on you."

"Give me one too." Ash suddenly said, his tone as relaxed as if he was asking for a cigarette.

Diya looked at them and nodded heavily: "Yes!"

The witch kept her word and wrapped two transparent water lines around their necks. The witch held one in each hand, like holding two human-headed balloons. Although Ash and Sonia did not feel any discomfort, they always had the illusion that their heads were not stable.

"Okay." Sonia took a deep breath and gripped the hilt of the sword: "Then let's fight our way out—"

"Who said we were going to kill our way out?"

The Witch and Sword Lady were stunned, only to see the sports car suddenly move. The strong push on their backs drove away all their unnecessary thoughts.

Denzel's voice, filled with shock and anger, sounded like thunder: "My dear, come back soon. Do you want to die?"

"No, even if I die, I won't let you get what you want!"

Yaxiu responded slowly, and as the Heroic Soul Legion roared and charged, he drove his sports car into the Golden River area!

The moment it passed through the rain, the "refraction curtain" of the sports car quickly collapsed, and even the sports car itself began to decay and fall apart. At this moment, Ash stretched his hands back, and the Sword Witch immediately understood and held his hands.

Red and blue colors appeared on the magicians' bodies, forming fairy tale armor that looked like a crayon painting.

Armed Forces: Two-Color Anchor!

At the moment the sports car fell apart, the three of them jumped forward at the same time. The heavy golden flow of time fiercely washed over their souls. Ash and the other two felt that their souls were falling down as if filled with lead, and their thinking abilities were sluggish as if they were rusted.

However, when they rolled to the edge of the Golden River, the three of them felt great joy in their hearts at the same time.

Anchored launch!

[Anchoring: When you encounter any external influence (physical attack, mental shock, curse weakening, etc.) or spontaneously change yourself (consume magic power, buff yourself, etc.), there is a chance that the anchoring effect will be triggered. Once the anchoring is triggered, you will not be affected by the outside world for the next 5 seconds, nor can you affect the outside world. ]

Although the probability is only 20%, the Golden River area is accelerating the aging of the magician every moment!

In the 'anchored' state, they could no longer feel the erosion of time. The Flowing Gold River was vividly presented to them, the golden water stirred up the waves of history, the time spirits bathing and swimming in the Flowing Gold River curiously watched the uninvited guests, and the rare spirits such as 'Ni Ri', 'Ting Yue', 'Ding Nian', etc. were far away, but they couldn't help but stick their heads out of the river, not afraid of the magician at all.

"Let's go." Ash found that his voice became more attractive: "We are going to cross the Golden River."