Wizard of All Souls

After returning from Tujia Village, Sophia's whole person has changed.

The little princess Sophia, who was originally lively and cute, bouncing around and shouting "Hello Brother", "Hello Sister" and "Hello Grandpa", has completely disappeared.

He became a taciturn martial lunatic who practiced and studied all day long.

He didn't even go to his favorite adventure guild, and he didn't clamor all day to do missions.

Will persuaded Sophia many times, but it didn't work at all.

People from the Adventure Union have also visited Sophia many times, but there is still no improvement.

"Well, Sophia is just a ten-year-old girl after all."

"Who would have thought that an ordinary D-level mission would encounter such a thing? For a novice little girl, the excitement is too great."

"I hope Sophia gets well soon, no one has eaten the pastries I baked."

Sophia is indifferent to what is happening outside.

Every day, she exercises herself until she is almost exhausted. Even if she is too tired to move in bed, she still reads books on the bed.

"Sophia, don't study so late." Will rubbed Sophia's head and said with a bit of heartache.

"Um."

Sophia nodded, her mind still on the book in her hand.

not for a while.

"Haha...haha...haha..."

Will's even breathing sounded in her ears.

Put bookmarks in the book, close the book and put it next to the bed.

He looked up and glanced out the window.

The moon, which was originally full of warmth and radiance, gradually turned red under her gaze.

Under the radiance of blood, the whole world became extremely lonely, stinky blood oozed from the walls and floors, disgusting maggots crawled out of the walls, quilts, and pillows, and crawled on her body.

The branches of the big tree outside the house twisted in pain, and a disgusted face appeared on the trunk.

Familiar and unfamiliar figures emerged in the air, begging, threatening, and howling to her.

Stretching out her hands, she found that her skin was rotting, and the rotting flesh and blood fell off one by one.

The whole world has become so weird.

These hallucinations have occurred frequently since the day he was seven years old, but since the incident in Tujia Village, they have occurred more frequently and more seriously.

Especially when it is clearly an illusion, some injuries will actually be reflected on the body.

A few times when she woke up, she found that some parts of her body were scorched, bleeding, or rotting...

She even once saw several wriggling maggots on her thighs, and the maggots actually built a nest in her body.

Although Will said that it was just an ordinary parasite, dig out the maggots and eggs, and apply some medicine, but she always felt that it was not that simple.

Facing all kinds of illusions, Sophia held the pendant on her chest tightly with both hands.

It was carved out of the gemstone that Will gave her before, and for some reason, it has a stabilizing effect when facing the illusion.

Feeling the warmth from the jade rush, Sophia's distorted face gradually calmed down.

"It's all an illusion."

"It won't hurt me, and I'll be fine."

Sophia lay down and covered herself with the quilt.

The quilt suddenly turned into countless entangled long snakes covered in disgusting mucus. The long snakes were constantly wriggling and climbing all over Sophia's body.

Sophia's body trembled slightly, and she put the jade on her chest.

"Will Paladin, please protect me."

She imitated those pious believers and prayed for the title of Will Paladin.

I don't know if it's a psychological illusion, but I always feel that when the name of Paladin Will is called, the jade emits more heat, and her eyes also see the real thing under the illusion through the warmth.

Suddenly, she fell asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly opened her eyes.

All the illusions have disappeared, and the world in my eyes is the ordinary world, except for the white mist that is everywhere.

"Aww-"

The loud howling of wolves came from afar and drifted into Sophia's ears.

"that is?"

Sophia shook her body, and she felt that the howling of wolves was calling her.

"Who is calling me?"

Sofia sat up from the bed, put on her clothes and headed for the stairs.

Halfway there, he stopped, turned back to the second floor, and poked Will's cheek beside Will's bed.

"It's warm, it should be true."

Then she plucked a beard.

"Ouch!"

Will opened his eyes and patted Sophia's little head, "What are you doing up so early? Even if you want to do morning exercises, don't bother me."

"You're going to fatten like a pig while you're sleeping."

Sophia breathed a sigh of relief, so she went down the stairs and walked in the direction of the wolf howling.

Along the way, she saw many people getting up to work.

Although it is only five o'clock, Winter City has already begun to wake up.

She asked a few passers-by specifically, and it seemed that only she could hear the howling of wolves, and no one around them noticed.

"what exactly is it?"

She felt that she shouldn't go, but she couldn't resist the temptation from deep in her blood.

while walking.

She walked out of Winter City and came to the outskirts. In the thick fog, she saw a familiar figure.

Familiar appearance, familiar breath.

You can't be wrong, it's her father!

Not those fakes in the hallucinations!

After three years, her father finally found her?

"Father, I miss you so much—"

Sophia yelled and rushed towards "Father", running, her pace gradually slowing down.

"Father?"

No matter how you look at it, this man is his father.

But what's with that trembling breath?

Why are his eyes so cold?

Eyes full of hatred for her?

"I'm not your father." Erkeze looked at Sophia coldly, "Your father is dead, I am your father's younger brother, your uncle."

"died?"

Sophia gasped for breath and almost shed tears.

She wiped her hazy eyes, looked at the person who claimed to be her uncle and asked, "What about the mother? Could the mother..."

"Your mother is in the clan, and I will protect her."

"T-really?"

This fairly good news made Sophia barely hold back the tears that were about to burst.

Later, she said to Erkeze: "Since you are my father's younger brother, that means you came to pick me up? Did you take me to see my mother?"

If it was her before, she would be very happy to go with the other party.

But after what happened in Tujia Village, she got tangled up.

Between humans and clansmen, which side should I choose?

It would be nice if the two could love each other.

"Pick you up? Hehe." Erkeze sneered, "Don't think about it, you will never return to the village, and you will never see your mother again."

"What's the meaning?"

"Mix with humans and kill your own clansmen, you traitor, everyone in your clan wants to kill you!" Erkeze stared at Sophia with hatred in his eyes.

"I, I didn't do it on purpose." Sophia shrank her head in fear, "But they are bad people, they killed a village, they..."

"Shut up!"

Erkeze roared suddenly, so frightened Sophia took a few steps back and fell to the ground.