"Of course, I'm carrying you into Castrum Kremnos. Derick, your speed is too slow. Also, you're too short; what if there's a wall later you can't jump over? Wouldn't that be awkward?"
Cipher picked him up and easily ran towards the interior of Castrum Kremnos.
"You don't have to carry me!"
"Too late." Cipher had already used the crumbling walls to run hundreds of meters high. "If I let go now, you can experience the feeling of freefalling from a hundred meters."
"Never mind then."
Derick quickly clung tightly to Cipher.
"Hmph hmph, just hold on tight. If there's a safe distance later, I'll take you to see that Discord Titan." Feeling Derick's 'obedient' action, Cipher was very satisfied.
Previously, she had always worked silently alone; after a long time, it inevitably felt boring.
If she could bring someone along to be a thief, chatting while working seemed quite interesting.
Cipher carried Derick, swiftly traversing the ruins, leaping from wall to tower spire, then climbing another wall dozens of meters high. Cipher's feet barely touched the ground. Compared to her, the extreme sports Derick knew from his past life seemed like a child learning to walk.
Three and a half flips in mid-air, then a kick against a falling rock, using the force to fly dozens of meters to another path.
"How about it? Exciting? Derick, why don't you become a thief with me in the future? I guarantee life will be even more exciting than this. How about we form a lifelong thief partnership?"
Cipher ran while carrying Derick, laughing loudly as she spoke.
"Something like that, no way!"
Derick just wanted to see Castorice now, then return to Okhema and live peacefully for a couple of days. Going out into the wilderness with Cipher to be a thief?
How desperate would he have to be to do that?
Faced with his answer, Cipher wasn't surprised and muttered under her breath, "Looks like this wasn't exciting enough, need to take you on a few more adventures."
While the two conversed, Derick didn't forget to pay attention to his avatar.
After a series of escapes, the avatar finally reached the place where Nikador's main body was. And just as Derick's avatar arrived, the Flame Reaver also caught up.
Nikador's avatar was inherently weaker, and lacked Nikador's immortality; delaying the Flame Reaver for a while was already quite impressive.
After a fierce battle, Nikador's avatar was killed, and he charged towards Nikador's true form.
Derick controlled the avatar, glancing at Nikador, then at the Flame Reaver. Then, before he could do anything, Nikador charged towards the Flame Reaver.
The Flame Reaver killed so many of His minions, and even one of His avatars; if he wasn't the enemy, who was?
That pitch-black fellow who arrived first was also a bit strange, but its strength was insufficient. After finishing off the guy behind, He would deal with it.
Nikador's desire for slaughter and war was very strong; anyone entering His territory would be killed by Him.
Derick didn't know Nikador's thoughts. Even if he did, he wouldn't care.
Are you kidding? You want to deal with the Flame Reaver first, then come after me? If it weren't for your immortality, you wouldn't last long against the Flame Reaver.
Seeing Nikador approach, the Flame Reaver found he didn't feel much anger at this moment.
He was used to it, numb to it.
"Don't any of these guys have brains?" he muttered to himself, then gripped his weapon and clashed with Nikador.
Although this wasn't his original plan, since things had reached this point, he would just fight Nikador for a bit and see what happened.
Then he would give that pitch-black fellow a good thrashing.
...
Okhema.
Castorice and Trianne returned, disappointed.
Trianne looked at Castorice's anxious and worried expression and couldn't help but say, "Little Castorice, we will definitely find clues to Little Derick's whereabouts."
"Mm, I know." Castorice nodded stiffly.
Trianne continued to persuade, "Little Castorice, go back and eat something first. You were worried about Little Derick not eating earlier, but you haven't eaten anything either. Little Derick would feel bad if he saw you like this."
"Lady Trianne, I know you're right. But, I really can't eat," Castorice replied to Trianne.
"Sigh..." Trianne shook her head helplessly.
Just then, an arc suddenly flashed across the sky. Trianne looked up at the sky and shouted loudly, "Little Castorice, that's a Condemnation Hunter from Castrum Kremnos."
Castorice's eyes narrowed. With a flash of her scythe towards the sky, the Condemnation Hunter was knocked out of the air.
After doing this, Castorice looked towards the Condemnation Hunter, preparing to clean up its corpse. But after taking a few steps, she saw a letter on the Condemnation Hunter's body and immediately reached out to grab it.
Opening the letter, Castorice's breathing instantly quickened.
"Little Castorice, what's wrong?" Seeing Castorice's expression, Trianne quickly rushed over and asked her.
Castorice tightly clutched the letter and said to Trianne, "Lady Trianne, this is a letter from Derick."
As she spoke, she carefully handed the letter to Trianne. Trianne also cautiously took the letter, avoiding contact with Castorice's body.
The words in the letter were brief, just a few.
[I am in Castrum Kremnos].
"This is from Little Derick?"
Trianne asked Castorice.
"Yes, it's his." Castorice nodded affirmatively. "I recognize his handwriting."
Derick had arrived in Amphoreus. Although the language was the same, the writing was different. So, Castorice had taught Derick the script here, character by character, from the beginning. Now, seeing the characters written by Derick, Castorice naturally recognized them at a glance.
Derick's letter was written by his avatar, but since his avatar had no consciousness, only Derick's consciousness, the writing naturally matched Derick's main body.
"Little Derick still had time to write?" Trianne was somewhat puzzled.
But Castorice's gaze was already fixed on the direction of Castrum Kremnos.
"I don't know how Derick managed to write this distress letter. But since he wrote it, I must go immediately."
Derick, wait for me, I'm coming to save you right now.
"Really can't do anything about you two. Alright, Little Castorice. Let's go, let's go together." Trianne stood beside Castorice and said to her.
"If we fall into an ambush, I can open a gate immediately and bring you back."
"Thank you, Lady Trianne."
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