In the dead city, everyone trained with the ruins of the church as the center.

Igula placed Gwen on a nearby platform and used her to observe whether the zero-hour hourglass would have any other effects.

Then he exhaled his magic spirit, gently rubbed, teased, and stroked them, and took out gold and silver coins to feed them.

The relationship between magic and spirits has always been a rather ambiguous subject. If you say it is useful, no matter how much the magic spirit hates you, as long as you are willing to consume your magic power, it will still have to surrender and serve you; if you say it is useless, if you encounter a situation where your magic power is exhausted, and you have a good relationship with the magic spirit, it may be willing to pay out of its own pocket to trigger the magic spirit resonance and help you.

However, magicians generally tend to maintain good relationships with magic spirits, because most of the time, magic spirits will accompany the magicians for several years or even decades. Even if you don't try to please them deliberately, such a long time together is enough for the magic spirit to develop a trusting relationship with you.

Because of his experience in Broken Lake Prison, Igula has benefited from the resonance of magic spirits many times, so he is particularly concerned about this aspect. And even for him, it is impossible for him to wear a mask all day long. Only when facing the ignorant magic spirits can he completely let down his guard.

Playing with magic spirits and taking a bath are his only two ways to relieve stress.

After all, Ash can talk to him about his psychological pressure, but the Trickster has no one to share the pressure with - maybe there is, but Igula will never expose his weaknesses to anyone, and this is a weakness he cannot tolerate.

“La la, la la la…”

The relaxed smile on the face of the Trickster while playing with the magic spirit was something that not only Harvey but even Ash had never seen. Only Gwen, who was frozen in time, could silently appreciate this unknown scene.

boom!

Hearing the explosion, Igula looked to the west and saw the orc Chikara studying his fire magic miracle.

To the east, Harvey found a basement, saying that he wanted to take advantage of the time to make a comprehensive and detailed transformation of Alice. As for why it was a basement, Igula thought it was because of the atmosphere, but the necromancer said that it was to prevent the corpse fluid from splashing everywhere.

When Igulla thought about the many times he had bathed with Harvey, he felt like he was smelling like a corpse.

In the north, Ash and Black Crow were fighting. Although Black Crow said he would teach Ash everything he had learned, after Ash's repeated persuasion, Black Crow finally gave up this terrible idea.

Just as Black Crow himself said, "What I have to work so hard to achieve, you can do easily, and do better", so there is no need for Ash to learn those complicated techniques. What he really wants to learn from Black Crow is combat awareness.

Igula's training does not require him to move around. He continues to perfect his "Visualization Overlap" miracle and think about how to use his new magic "Change of Heart".

"Change of heart"

"Psychic Faction, Three-Winged Spirit"

"Active effect: Change the target's mind for a moment. The more focused the target is and the more critical the situation is, the easier it will be to take effect."

"Passive effect: The magician's will will become stronger and harder to change."

"Your mistake is thinking you still have a chance to make mistakes."

The appearance of the 'Cheat' spirit is a neutral beauty wearing a white tuxedo, looking like a groom at a wedding. In fact, he had obtained this spirit in the Gospel Kingdom as early as before, and had used it to make the enemy fight themselves, but it was generally idle.

Because this magic spirit cannot penetrate the holy land.

For those below the Sanctuary, Igula only needs to use the killing miracle, and most of the time he doesn't even need to take action, just let Harvey and Ash bite people; for Sanctuary magicians, "Change of Heart" cannot penetrate the Sanctuary, so it is equivalent to ineffective.

However, after seeing the series of "miracles of chaos" by Silver Lantern, the Trickster had some inspiration. Perhaps this magic spirit was not used for attack, but for defense...

After 12 hours, Gwen did not wake up, and Igula no longer doubted the effectiveness of the Zero Hour Hourglass.

He took out a coat from the space card, put it on Gwen, and continued to study miracles.

On the fifteenth day, Chikara, who was obsessed with socializing, had run out of topics to talk about with others. There was no progress in the miracle, and his magic power was exhausted. He could not bear it anymore, so he triggered the zero-hour hourglass and fell into a deep sleep.

On the thirty-second day, Harvey came out of the basement, his magic power completely exhausted. He moved the coffin out, squeezed in with Alice, closed the coffin lid, and warned Igula not to sit on it.

On the sixty-eighth day, Black Crow had already integrated what he had seen and learned in the past few days, and created a new technique. Ash and Igula were both surprised. Generally speaking, shouldn't this kind of summary and creation be calculated in years? But according to Black Crow himself, excluding the time he spent hunting evil crows and training his body in the past, he actually studied combat skills for less than three years, and created an average of one special technique every month.

This time it took two months, because I had to **Ash, and I really benefited a lot during this period and needed to take it all in.

With Black Crow as his sparring partner, Ash not only improved his combat awareness by leaps and bounds, but also thoroughly mastered his own long-range attack system with the 'Heart Sword' as its core.

Black Crow spent three days wandering around the Dead City, but couldn't find the escaped Silver Lantern, so he triggered the Zero Hour Hourglass and fell asleep. But before he fell asleep, he curled up and pressed his hand on the Black Crow mask, obviously to prevent Ash and Igula from removing his mask after he fell asleep.

On the ninety-fifth day, Igula found Ash who was still practicing.

“No wonder the others were forced to live and die…” Igula said, “Our bodies follow the normal passage of time. We were full of energy when we were pulled in, so we still don’t feel sleepy now. After all, not even a second has passed in reality, so how can we feel sleepy?”

"But not consuming the body does not mean not consuming the soul. Our souls have been consuming at a high intensity without any recovery, so living death is almost inevitable. If we really stay here for three years, I'm afraid our lifespan will be greatly shortened."

Ash, who is proficient in the time faction, has a deeper understanding of this: "All activities will produce golden river water, and aging is the corrosion of the golden river water to the spirit body. The "Sanctuary" only prevents the golden river water from corroding the body, but the corrosion of the soul is inevitable."

"I have solved the problems I can solve here. If you want to go further, you have to recover your magic power before you can test it." The trickster asked, "Do you want to continue practicing?"

"Yeah." Ash flicked his tongue and said, "I feel like I still have room for improvement."

"You weren't so diligent before."

"I was inspired by Tamashi. He taught me so hard. I have to work hard even if it's just to beat him." Ash said with a smile, "Can you please stop bullying him?"

"Who are you bullying? Where's the evidence? Don't frame me."

Ash suddenly pointed at the Trickster, and the Heart Sword weaved a warm yellow barrier on the latter's head like a helmet. This was the result of Ash's work over the past few dozen days - the "Sword Body Barrier Armor".

Igula was stunned - why are you putting a helmet on me?

Then he saw Ash take out a frying pan for cooking in the wild from the space card.

"Rhetorical question, right? Evidence, right? Framed accusation, right?"

Every time Ash asked a question, he would hit him hard with a frying pan, and the bottom of the pan hit his helmet with a loud clatter. Igula couldn't dodge it. He was just a trickster in the back row, how could he avoid the cult leader who had been trained by Black Crow?

"Okay." Igula reluctantly agreed, "I won't bother him anymore."

In fact, even if Ash didn't say it, Igula wouldn't continue to tempt Black Crow. Firstly, they lived and died together in the dead city, and Black Crow had the merit of copying the "Zero Hourglass" pattern, deceiving his master; secondly, even the secret of "Senluo Zhanzhu's Choice of the Age of Gods" couldn't defeat Tamashi, and Igula felt that he could no longer destroy this Black Crow through ordinary means.

"Then you should give him psychological treatment," Yaxiu pressed on, "Just like you have been leading him to depravity these days, you should guide him back to the right path."

"I don't know how to train birds." Igula said, "If the crow has psychological problems, why don't you let it eat more corpses?"

Seeing Ash picking up the frying pan again, Igula rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think I'm just trying to fool you? Tamashi has always been determined, and he might have almost recovered by now. The reason he lost his defense at that time was just because he knew too much information at that time... If you ask him to kill more bad guys, he will naturally find the meaning of his life from killing again."

Ash thought that was right, so he put away the frying pan: "Then...good night."

Igura glanced at him.

"Go to bed early, good night."

After Igula also lay down, Ash began to practice on the platform where they slept.

On the ninety-sixth day, Ash was practicing swordsmanship.

On the ninety-seventh day, Ash was parkouring on the roof, training his agility.

On the ninety-eighth day, Ash found a building and carved all the intelligence they found on the building's outer wall. Although key intelligence was missing, it could at least save some effort for those who came later.

Ninety-ninth day.

Ash sat on the edge of the platform, looking out over the entire dead city.

The night was as dark as ink and everything was silent, as if he was the only one left in the world.

He sat there for a full six hours before he patted his butt and walked to Igulla.

Speaking of which, their sleeping positions were quite strange: Black Crow curled up, Harvey squeezed in the coffin, Chikara lay in a spread-eagle position, and only Gwen and Igula were relatively normal.

Ash lay gently on the cold floor, exhaled a long breath, touched the hourglass pattern on the back of his left hand with his right hand, and his body was completely motionless.

One second, two seconds, fifteen seconds, one minute... five minutes... ten minutes.

Ten minutes later, Ash suddenly spread his wings and flew up, quickly inspecting all the surrounding buildings. After a circle, he returned to the platform, lay down and stretched.

After being in a daze for a while, he suddenly drew out the sword, inserted it next to his hand, and then started the hourglass at zero o'clock, and the spirit fell into silence.

Half an hour later, Weisser climbed up the tower carefully and stuck her head out to observe the situation. Even though she knew that no one would wake up due to external forces, she still crept to Ash's side.

She carefully looked at Ash's sleeping face. It seemed like this was the first time she had observed him up close. His lips were a little thin, his nose was a little straight, his eyelashes were a little long, and his eyebrows had not been trimmed... He was just an ordinary person. It was really strange. He was obviously just an ordinary person, so why...?

She looked at the sword in Ash's hand, reached out to touch the hilt, and then drew her hand back as if she had been electrocuted. Although the injury on her right hand had healed, when she touched the sword, Black Crow's voice rang in her mind again, causing her hand to ache.

You don't deserve it.

Weisser stood up and found Black Crow. Even though she knew it was pointless, she still kicked him hard on the head a few times.

Then she went back to lying next to Ash, lying on her side and staring at the sleeping man.

"Actually, I learned how to make Lala Fei cuisine."

Weisser said softly, "I have studied the games you like, I have tried the women you like, and I have tried everything you are interested in."

"I actually feel like we still have a chance, but I know better than anyone that we have no future."

She sat up and looked up at the lightless night.

"It shouldn't be like this," Weisser said, "but it has to be this way."

She raised her hand and grasped the hilt of the sword beside her. She was obsessed with the sword because she wanted to take it away as a souvenir, or to pray for the non-existent companionship from the remaining body temperature on it.

But the non-existent pain in her palm still told her a fact strongly.

"Maybe I'm not worthy of it." Weisser took a deep breath, released her hand, raised her chin and looked up, "What's the big deal? It's all an illusion anyway."

She leaned down and kissed Ash's forehead. A drop of crystal fell from the corner of her eye, frozen in time.

"Good night."

…

…

When the sunlight penetrated into his eyes, Ash's first reaction was: Is it raining?

He sat up and wiped his slightly wet cheeks with his hands, then immediately grasped the sword, spread his wings and flew - not only him, but other awakened magicians also immediately spread their wings and flew high, even Black Crow jumped up and climbed onto Ash's back!

Long before they fell asleep, they had discussed the Four Pillars of God - the camp of the Four Pillars of God was just outside the Dead City! It should be dawn in 12 hours. If they were lucky, the Four Pillars of God would find them at dawn. Then, when they woke up, they could use the "Zero Hourglass" to gain 10 minutes of invincibility, and let the Four Pillars of God experience what it means to be grumpy when you wake up.

If they are unlucky and the Four Pillars Divine Sect fails to find them, they will have to take advantage of their invincible time and kill their way through the Four Pillars Divine Sect's camp!

However, when they flew up and looked in the direction of the Four Pillars Cult's camp, they only saw a burning camp.

Harvey stared at the camp for five seconds. I don't know what miracle of reconnaissance he used, but he said, "There are no living people there, but there are quite a few corpses."

Everyone was silent, and everyone knew whose masterpiece this was.

"Igula, Harvey." Ash suddenly asked, "How do you feel?"

The two were startled, then realized what he was asking. After careful sensing, they said, "The blood curse is gone." "Me too."

"That's good." Ash breathed a sigh of relief: "The only problem that needs to be solved is my semi-tactile identity... In this case..."

"Let's find a way to leave Senluo."