"You want to come with me?" Shen Fei looked at the determined Ryu before him and could not help hesitating.
"I still clearly remember what happened back then. I can serve as a guide. I promise I won't do anything else."
"A guide? All right."
When Ryu mentioned being a guide, Shen Fei, who had originally intended to go alone, considered it for a moment before immediately agreeing. Although he had already heard about those events from Ryu, having her there as someone directly involved would indeed make some matters simpler.
Of course, there was another reason he agreed to bring Ryu along: her experiences over the years had taught her that she could only protect the people before her and could not save everyone.
If it had been Bell, he absolutely would not have brought him along. The Great Strife of seven years ago had been Orario's darkest hour, with countless dead and wounded. If Bell saw it, he would definitely intervene. But this was the past—the more they did, the more likely something would go wrong.
"Let's go."
In a valley somewhere within the mountain range far from Orario, Shen Fei and Ryu vanished from the valley floor as light descended from the sky. Before this trip, Shen Fei had conducted some experiments and roughly calculated the magic power required to return seven years. Using the Magic Water Mirror in an uninhabited place would have the least impact.
"So this was Orario seven years ago. What a desolate sight."
Standing atop a mountain peak and looking down at distant Orario, Shen Fei could not help feeling emotional. Though he had yet to enter the city, the conditions outside alone had already shown him the damage caused by the Dark Faction. Seven years later, there were quite a few