Among the thorns.
Blore stood in the center of the Chainthorn Forest, the chains on his wrists trembling slightly, as if responding to some ancient call.
His memory has been fully restored - he is the forest ranger, the maintainer of order, and his companion black fog, Si Weijun, is now standing beside him, with black hair like night and deep eyes.
"So..." Broll whispered, "You made me disappear so I could avoid the fight between Shibadanmaru and Severus?"
Si Weijun nodded slightly, his fingertips entwined with black mist, and said in a low voice, "The Forest Ranger cannot disappear, but you can be reborn."
Blore closed his eyes. He remembered how he looked when he was picked up from the depths of the glacier by his current father, Serrance. The baby's body contained a soul that had experienced many hardships.
He plunged into reincarnation and forgot his past, until today, when everything was reconnected.
And Si Weijun... took on everything alone.
While maintaining order in the Chainthorn Forest, he searched for Broll's reincarnation over the long years.
"You are so... stubborn that it's a headache." Blore sighed, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
Si Weijun chuckled softly upon hearing this, a black mist swirling around him. "Mutual."
The sound of chains clashing was like ancient whispers.
Blore stared into Si Weijun's eyes, deep as the night, and memories came flooding back - they had patrolled the edge of the forest side by side at dawn, Si Weijun's black mist wrapped around his chains, reflecting a strange halo in the morning glow;
They guarded the barrier together in the middle of the night when it was pouring rain. Raindrops dripped down Si Weijun's hair, mixed with Blore's blood and seeped into the soil.
"Remember that polar night?" Blore said suddenly, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the chain around his wrist. "You blocked that lightning for me on the ice cliff."
Si Weijun's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the black mist flowed between his fingers: "Later, you had a high fever, but you still insisted on dragging me to see the aurora."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
The years we spent together have long been engraved in the deepest part of our souls, deeper than any contract.
Blore suddenly reached out, and the chain wrapped around his superior Weijun's wrist like a living thing - no longer a restraint, but a familiar, long-lost connection.
"We'll stay together, won't we?" Blore's voice was soft, yet firm and undeniable.
Si Weijun looked down at the intertwined chains and black mist between the two people, and suddenly remembered the look on his face when the young ranger first reached out his hand to him countless centuries ago.
He raised his eyes, a genuine, no longer restrained smile playing on his lips: "The world has changed."
The black mist suddenly spread, and countless star projections appeared around the two of them. "Let's go see it together."
Amidst the shifting light of the stars, Blore saw himself reflected in Si Weijun's eyes—no longer the woods ranger burdened with a heavy responsibility, but a brand new being, free from the shackles of fate. Chains and black mist swirled between them, like the rebirth of an ancient oath, the beginning of a brand new journey.
In the distance, the first rays of morning light penetrated the thorns, illuminating the tangled chains.
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Meanwhile, Bai Di sat on top of a high tower where ancient books were scattered all over the floor, he stared out the window at the sharp and towering dark black building.
His fingertips gently stroked a piece of dry tea leaves.
His memory has long been clear - he is not an ordinary human, but Dilin, the white tea grass guarded by the Dragon Lord Severos of the Dark City.
When Severus was betrayed by his subordinates and on the verge of extinction, he gave him the final royal authority and power.
Dilin, with the help of the forest ranger and Atasha, returned to reincarnation and continued to exist as a human.
But Severus did not disappear completely.
With the intervention of "Zhi Tuan Wan", he was sealed into the form of an ancient god, wandering in the reincarnation, constantly searching for the reincarnation of Di Lin - the current Bai Di.
"What a troublesome fate..."
Bai Di rubbed his eyebrows, thinking of Sefros's eyes as deep as the abyss, and the other party's complex and persistent eyes every time they met in reincarnation.
Bai Di pinched the dry tea leaves between his fingertips and gently turned them. The spire of the black tower outside the window pierced through the clouds, casting a long shadow.
He turned his head to look at the man sitting in the shadows - Lou Xun, or rather, Severus.
The other person's slender fingers were tapping the table unconsciously, and the rhythm was consistent with the ancient war drums of Darkness City.
"So," Bai Di suddenly said, "should I call you Lou Xun or Severus?"
Severus paused, his golden pupils gleaming faintly in the darkness. He leaned forward, his shadow wrapping around Bai Di's wrist like a living being. "When you were little, you called me brother."
Bai Di snorted and pulled his hand back. "Back then, you didn't stare at me like that all day long." He gestured, "Like now, as if I could disappear at any moment."
"You did disappear." Severus' voice suddenly deepened, his dragon power leaking out uncontrollably, causing the ancient books in the room to tremble without a breeze. "Countless reincarnations, and each time I was a step late."
Bai Di was stunned, recalling those vague dreams - there was always someone knocking on his door on stormy nights, and every time he opened the door, he saw a pair of golden eyes filled with pain.
"Not this time." Severus suddenly grabbed his wrist, almost bruising it with such force, "I have taken the blood of the betrayer..."
"Stop." Bai Di blocked his mouth with tea leaves. "Don't talk about those bloody things in front of me." He sighed helplessly. "You are Lou Xun now, remember? You are the ruler of the empire, and you are also my eldest brother."
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