It is impossible for the girl to find the evil god in the textbook

"I don't think we have any bloody feud, do you? I can let the townspeople go, but I want you to help me escape from this damn cave. I know how to get rid of those plants with human faces, it's easy, I I found out that they seem to hate gunpowder, if you agree, I can save you. How about it, is this a good deal?"

"How is Monsieur Andre?"

"Andre?"

"The couple you snatched from the second floor of the Golden Sunshine Hotel."

"You mean the man with curly hair? Coincidentally, he is here. I always thought it would be useful to take a hostage. It seems that my judgment is still correct."

Ella turned her head and glanced at Gower's feet with her peripheral vision. There was a man whose head was covered by a black cloth. He seemed to be gagged and could only struggle uneasily, but could not make a sound.

Ella was silent for a while, lowering her head slightly, as if she was thinking about something.

Gore was relieved, he felt that it was necessary to give the witch in front of him some time to think, if he got her help, the success rate of leaving this ghostly place would be much higher.

But the thinking time seemed to be too long, which made Gore a little irritated. He vaguely heard a strange sucking sound, which was weak at first, but soon became louder.

Goyle finally heard the voice clearly, it seemed to be made by the witch in front of him.

"what are you doing!"

He raised the revolver and kept his finger on the trigger.

The corner of Ella's mouth was pierced by a thorn. She spat out a mouthful of dirt mixed with blood and mud. The silver hair at the back of her head glowed dimly. Goyle squinted his glasses and found that it was almost invisible paleness. flame.

"Finally...the day I've been waiting for so long."

The girl sighed softly.

Goyle felt his heart tightened by fear. He noticed that the voice of the witch in front of him was slightly different from before. It should be the same person's voice, but the tone was completely different. It became cold and indifferent. There is also a mocking smile, which makes people unable to connect with the young girl who was still young before.

The strange scene made cold sweat drip from his forehead.

The gray flames spread, and the human faces on the thorns let out screams. They twitched and wanted to leave the girl, but turned into pale ashes little by little.

The girl turned and floated in the cave.

Goyle raised his head and found that the girl's pupils were burning with pale flames, with an indescribable indifference.

A bone-chilling chill completely enveloped him, and he couldn't feel a trace of heat from those strange white flames. On the contrary, the temperature of the entire cave was dropping drastically!Gore no longer hesitated, raised his hand and used the revolver to empty the entire turntable!

The bullet was burned into pale sparks in mid-air, scattering bits of ice.

A bronze mirror fell to the ground. In the dark, Goyle could not see it clearly. If he observed it under a light source, he would find that it was an old bronze mirror inlaid with a large amber. In the amber was a shriveled The back of the mirror is a strange bird with broken wings, and everything in the cave is reflected on the blurred mirror surface, but the place in the center of the mirror that should be a figure is empty.

It was an alchemy tool called the Eye of Hermes.

After overusing it four years ago, Ella's shadow appeared almost entirely on the mirror, and now, it's gone, leaving only a few tiny cracks.

The smile on the silver-haired girl's lips deepened. She fell back to the ground, took a step forward, and stepped hard on the mirror!

……

Ling scurry around in the cave like a headless chicken, she rubbed her arms up and down,

"I seem to be lost. Why did it suddenly become cold here? And this kind of cold... always feels familiar."

She raised her head, her gaze seemed to penetrate the thick rock wall.

"Is that you? Ella."

Chapter 19 Ella's Shadow

When the cold, bitter, sticky juice flowed into Ella's mouth, she felt her mind explode.

The burning sensation flows from the esophagus into the stomach, spreading and impacting every cell in the body.But this kind of pain has nothing to do with Ella. All her thoughts are like shattered reflections in the water, falling apart in an instant.

Countless images emerged in the girl's mind uncontrollably, including when she was in Henry's factory when she was a child, when she first met Ling in Glamis, the white rose garden in Kleist, Anderson's The game lodge, Jack's "The Old One" broken-down pub, the plague in London four years ago, the countless corpses, the poisonous yellow-green clouds covering the sky and the pale flames above the church, the melting snowmen and graves in the yard... and Her parents with blurred faces, and some even more blurred and almost indistinguishable images of grotesques.

Pale and cold flames spread upward from the corner of her field of vision, eventually occupying her entire world.

Crack, a crisp cracking sound came from her pocket, it was a bronze mirror in black fabric.Along with the thought of the crackling sound, it seemed that someone hugged the girl from behind her and became one with her.

Ella felt that her perspective had become strange, she seemed to have fallen into a lightless darkness, it was not the environment in the cave, but a narrower but extremely open place.It is like a small box, and it seems to be floating in the dark and boundless universe.

She can feel her body, but feels that it is not her own.

She could see the crippled Goyle raising his pistol with a frightened face, but it was as if through thick glass, "Ayla" sighed and suspended in mid-air, but it was not of her own will.

It seemed that a separate will had taken possession of the vessel named "Ella Williams," squeezing her into a corner of consciousness.

An indescribable sense of fear began to spread in the girl's heart, no, even that heart does not belong to her alone now.

The only good thing is that Ella can feel the magic of re-activating and beating. She tried to enter meditation and began to resist.

Ella, floating in the darkness, slowly closed her eyes and sketched a snowflake in her mind. The exquisite details began to take shape, but the feedback she received was minimal.

The pale flame-like magical power no longer obeyed her orders, which made her feel extremely strange.Ayla tried to communicate another kind of molten red magic that she hadn't used for a long time.

Ella freed her mind and sketched a new shape, which was slowly flowing and spreading lava.

When she opened her eyes again, the pupils were filled with flowing hot lava.

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The witch looked down at Goyle who had fallen to the ground, stretched out her left arm, raised her palm, and a pale fireball began to emerge among them.

Gore smelled a strong smell of death, he hurriedly got up, and limped towards the fork in the cave.

The silver-haired witch gently folded her fingers together and made a grasping movement. The moment the movement was about to take shape, her other hand suddenly grabbed the wrist of her left hand. The fireball began to disintegrate and turned into scattered flames. Gore It was only slightly affected, and he howled in pain, disappearing into the depths of the cave.

As the light emerged in the cave, the witch who had recovered her magic power seemed to feel something was wrong. The mountain wall seemed to be moving silently, and a transfer similar to that before would occur.

The girl involuntarily took a step back, but at the same time, the snow in her pupils began to flash with the color of lava.

The girl's doll-like face began to distort, showing a struggling expression. Finally, she picked up the bronze mirror bitterly, and stretched out her hand to hold Andre, whose hands and feet were bound by Aso, before she grabbed Andre's collar. At the same time, their figures disappeared, leaving only the black lacquered rock walls and the wreckage of thorns in the cave here.

Time seemed to be erased for a moment in a weird way. When the girl came back to her senses again, the surrounding environment was completely different. This seemed to be an underground river in a cave. The almost transparent pool contained fluorescent ores and Broken gold that flickers on and off.

She threw Mr. Andre, whose hands and feet were bound and his head covered, on the ground, and asked in a voice that only she could hear,

"You're actually still conscious?"

The voice was exactly the same as Ella's own, but the tone was completely different, even if it was full of surprise at this time, it still had a kind of arrogance and mockery.

Ella understood that this was a conversation with herself. She acquiesced to the other party's question and raised her biggest question at this time.

"Who are you?"

The silver-haired girl raised the corners of her mouth and showed a playful smile.

"Of course I'm Ella Williams, it's not the first time we've talked, when was the last time, let me think - maybe four years ago?"

"I thought you were going to say you were Yaphum."

"No, I am not--"

The silver-haired girl answered in the affirmative, and then added a more vague second half of the sentence,

"At least not yet."

Ella was silent for a while, a little surprised by this answer. She originally thought that the consciousness that occupied her body belonged to the evil god named "Aphem", but the answer did not seem to be correct, at least not completely correct.

She suddenly thought of the eyes of Hermes and the cracks on the mirror, and became aware that the reflection on the mirror that was about to be formed had completely disappeared, and the consciousness occupying her body was expressing to the eyes of Hermes. There was obvious disgust.

"I understand, you are the consciousness born in the eyes of Hermes, what Professor Roger said 'when the reflection on the mirror becomes complete, the user will die'" Death does not refer to physical death, Rather, the consciousness born of the mirror will replace its owner, and I'm right—you are my shadow. "

Shadow did not deny her answer, but showed a mocking expression again.

"I can be sure of your guess. You guessed more than half of it right. The consciousness born in the mirror and the magic power of Yafum together constitute me. But in return, you should also answer me a question."

"what is the problem."

"Why are you still 'alive'?"

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Chapter 20 Transactions

"Why are you still alive?"

"Why am I still alive..."

Ella thought about it seriously for a while, yes, why did she still maintain consciousness? Maybe it was the breath of the evil god that mutated the mirror, or some other reason, Ella herself could not explain this phenomenon , so she answered truthfully:

"I do not know either."

Shadow was stunned for a few seconds, but finally accepted the answer.She even knew the girl better than Ella herself, so it was impossible for Ella to fool her on this matter.

The consciousness of the shadow was born very early.This can be traced back to when Ella first obtained the Eye of Hermes. When the girl tirelessly used the mirror to acquire knowledge, the prototype of the shadow was born.

Ella's precognitive dream in Glamis, where she could find the room where Anderson hid the dead animals, was a hint from the shadow.

During the magic ceremony four years ago, the shadow had a relatively complete consciousness. Since then, Ella's so-called illness will fall into paralysis when her emotions fluctuate strongly.Its essence is because the control of Ella's body fluctuates to the side of the shadow.

Taking the juice of thorns on the human face gave the shadow the perfect opportunity to seize control. When the magic power began to recover, Ella completely let go of her consciousness due to the pain and the influx of knowledge, which was equivalent to letting go of the shadow for the last time A line of defense.

The positions of Ella's consciousness and shadow's consciousness were completely exchanged at that moment.

But here is what the shadow cannot understand. The shadow can rely on the Eye of Hermes before seizing control. This is the proof of its birth and its survival.But what about Ella?How did she retain her consciousness after losing her body?

Any spiritual life is composed of spirit and body. The spirit controls the body and is dependent on the body. The body supports the spirit and is controlled by the spirit.

The shadow is extremely certain, she has expelled Ella Williams' consciousness from this body, this body now belongs to her, whether it is limbs, torso, heart or brain, they all belong to her alone!

but why?Why is Ella's consciousness, which is not attached to the body, still able to influence her actions?

She tried to ignite a pale flame to kill Mr. Andre lying on the ground, but soon her other hand stopped herself, which made the girl's actions look very funny.

"How about we make a deal?"

Shadow said that this was just a soliloquy to outsiders, but Andrei was covered by a hood, and maybe his ears were stuffed with cotton, so he didn't respond at all.

"What deal?"

Ayla asked, raising her guard.