Wizard of All Souls

at night.

Sophia, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly felt her body tremble.

"It's cold."

Subconsciously tugged on the quilt, but still couldn't get rid of the extremely cold chill that came from the surprise attack.

"call--"

Sophia opened her eyes immediately, and her pupils were extremely bright.

"Did you change my quilt?"

Sophia turned her eyes to Will's bed, which was empty.

"Will isn't there?"

"It seems that the quilt has not been changed?"

"But why is it so cold? Has the fire gone out?"

Even if the flame is extinguished, it shouldn't be so cold, right?

Sophia put on a thick sweater and got off the bed with her trembling shoulders in her arms.

"Will, where are you?"

In her sight, the whole world was gray, as if there was a thick layer of fog.

When he came to the fire plate, "Have you run out of firewood? Go downstairs and find firewood."

"Kuu-kuu-kuu-"

Suddenly, the window vibrated violently, as if someone was hammering outside the window.

"This is the second floor?" Sophia was very puzzled, "Could it be the wind? The windows are not closed tightly?"

Go to the window, open the window a little, and try to close it again.

The howling wind blew into the room fiercely through the gap, and the wind with snowflakes hit Sophia's face.

"It's cold."

Sophia wiped off the snowflakes on her face, opened her eyes, and found a familiar figure standing outside the window.

Although the hair is a bit messy, the eyes are a bit hollow, and the skin is too white, but it can't be wrong, it is the father she has missed for a long time!

Her father waved to her.

"Father, are you here to pick me up?"

Sophia jumped out of the window and threw herself on "father".

"Father" held her in both hands, and slowly opened his mouth.

"It's so cold, father, why is your body like an ice cube?" Sophia felt that she was about to freeze, "This is the second floor, why are you standing here?"

Sophia looked down, and there was nothing under "father".

It seemed to be cut in two from the chest, only half of it was floating in the air, and the stinky blood kept falling from the wound.

"Father?"

Looking up, "Father"'s mouth has been opened, and it is still opening like a snake's mouth.

In the mouth, there is no tongue, no teeth, only wriggling maggots.

"Wow-"

Sophia screamed and jumped back into the house, rolling around on the ground.

"Ka Ka Ka..."

"Father"'s body was shaking like a rusty machine, every time it moved, cracks would appear on the body, and smelly flesh and writhing maggots fell from the wound.

Maggots crawled along the boat and into the house.

There were more and more maggots, and after a while, the whole room was covered with maggots.

As if absorbing the heat in the room, it became bigger and bigger.

But Sophia could only watch all this happen, her body was stiff and unable to move.

Maggots crawled towards her, arms, thighs, waist...

The bug bit a hole from her body, and then burrowed into her body. She could clearly see moving bulges under the skin.

"No! No no—"

Sophia screamed, and at the end of her consciousness, she saw "Father" smiling coldly outside the window.

"Wow-"

Sophia sat up from the bed at once, covered in cold sweat.

"Is it a dream?"

Although it is a dream, it is so real.

especially--

Sophia raised her slender and tender hands, "Just now?"

Under her gaze, there seemed to be something agitating under the skin of her palm.

"Could it be..."

Sophia's face turned extremely pale all of a sudden.

With a "poof", several toothpick-sized worms came out from under the skin of her palm, wriggling on the skin.

"Ahhhh—"

Sophia screamed instantly.

At the same time, he slammed his hands against the wall.

"no no no……"

The more it was smashed, the more and more bugs she felt on her body. After a while, even her eyes felt like bugs came out.

Her hand stretched toward her eyes, getting closer, closer...

"Are you okay?" A warm voice rang in my ear.

"ah?"

Sophia's body swayed, her mind suddenly became clear, and the dense fog that originally covered the world disappeared all of a sudden.

At this moment, her hands were covering her eyes.

If it was later, she would have had her eyes gouged out.

"Is it a dream?"

Sophia stared at her hands in a daze, where were the figures of bugs?

"It's so big, you're afraid of being like this if you have a nightmare?" Will yawned, "I'm going back to sleep, don't make any noise."

"etc!"

Sophia reached out and grabbed Will's skirt at once.

"What's wrong?"

"I, I... tonight I will show mercy and allow you to sleep with me?"

"No need..." Looking at Sophia who was about to cry, "Then I'd rather be obedient than respectful."

Sophia laughed all of a sudden, and made an empty seat on the bed, "Here, here."

As soon as Will was in bed, Sophia stalked like an octopus.

"Sure enough, she's still a little girl."

Will stroked Sophia's hair, humming a soft, hypnotic tune.

After a while, Sophia fell into a deep sleep with a smile on her face.

"I thought she was twenty years old, and she should be very strong-willed. Am I overestimating?" Will looked down at Sophia, who looked like a seven or eight-year-old girl.

"Forget it, we can treat her as a seven-year-old girl from now on."

...

At breakfast the next day.

"I want to learn how to sword!" Sophia said to Will, drinking hot porridge.

"Swordsmanship is not that easy."

"I want to learn!"

Sophia finished the porridge in the bowl in one go, staring straight at Will.

"You still have cultural lessons..."

"As long as you are willing to teach me swordsmanship, then I will obediently listen to you and take the class seriously!"

"real?"

"real!"

"Don't you think that studying is just four hours from 8:00 to 12:00 in the evening?"

"What's the meaning?"

"Oh, it's okay." Will smiled, "I will get up at five o'clock in the morning to practice swords for two hours, have breakfast and rest for half an hour at seven o'clock, study until twelve o'clock, and then have lunch and sleep for two hours. Afternoon nap, class starts at two o'clock in the afternoon..."

"Wait." Sophia quickly stopped, "Why do you hear more and more strange later? Did you say something wrong?"

"how could be?"

Will put his hands gently on Sophia's shoulders, "As my student, it doesn't matter if I'm not good enough. If I can't improve my study level, wouldn't I be ashamed?"

"What level do I need to be qualified?" Sophia asked, raising her hand.

"Based on your current kindergarten level, six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, and three years of high school, a total of twelve years."

"Twelve years?"

Sophia took a deep breath.

In the next second, she thought of a more terrifying possibility, "According to what you just said, the twelve years of studying from early to late?"

"What do you say?"

Will smiled.

Suddenly, Sophia only felt a chill enveloped her body.

She knew that the hell called "learning" was waiting for her ahead.

"Can I regret it?"

Sophia said weakly, Will's strength is nothing more than a knight, and it's not worth paying such a high price to learn swordsmanship from a knight.

She felt that if she got a little more serious, Will might not even be her match.

"no."

Sophia lowered her head depressed, "For twelve years, the bleak doomsday of Will has come."