The Dean Has Arrived

There was once a nobleman who loved his daughter so much that he spent countless gold to find the best painter at that time to paint an oil painting for his daughter who had just turned fifteen, as a mark to record the girl's growth.

One day, his mother died of illness.

The nobleman rushed to his hometown to see his elderly mother for the last time before her burial.

The beautiful and kind face in the memory of a long time ago has become old and wrinkled, completely without the shadow of the past.

After returning from the cemetery, the nobleman looked at the beautiful oil painting from time to time and fell into an uncontrollable anxiety.

Will that lovely daughter whom I dote on become like that in the end because of the erosion of time?

No, how can this be possible!

So he dug out the black book he had seized from the cultists when he was young.

According to the cult member who was tortured, this book is called "The Black Hell City Teaching Book", and it is a magic book that can communicate with hell, make deals with evil spirits in hell, and fulfill your inner desires.

On that day, he killed all the prisoners imprisoned in the underground dungeon, and used their blood and flesh as sacrifices to awaken the magic book that had been sleeping all along.

Then, he made his own wish—hoping that his daughter would always look like the oil painting and never age.

Since then, the growth of girls has really stopped.

Time can no longer leave any marks on her face.

The nobleman was very satisfied with this, and shelved the Hell Prison City textbook and the oil painting—anyway, his daughter would not age anymore, and the oil painting was unnecessary.

The young girl's inability to grow and age naturally aroused the suspicion of others. There were endless rumors about witches and witches, but the nobles didn't mind it. He didn't have the slightest remorse until his death.

Although the girl is always the object of suspicion and is always pointed at by others, but because of the protection of the nobles, her life is not inconvenient.

Several years later, the girl suddenly got up and cleaned the old house passed down from her ancestors by herself. Hidden black books and oil paintings wrapped in brown paper were found in the attic.

When she opened the kraft paper outside, she was startled by the oil painting inside.

No one noticed that while the young girl stopped growing, the "she" in the oil painting gradually grew up, aged, and died.

And now it is shown to her in the oil painting. It was a rotting corpse. From the face of the corpse that was riddled with holes, you could barely see the traces of a girl...

The girl who had a certain understanding of what her father did immediately guessed the truth. The oil painting in her hand fell to the ground, and she sat slumped in the dusty attic.

She didn't realize it until now, from the summer when she was fifteen. He is already dead.

Afterwards, the black prison city textbook turned automatically to the page with the huge three-headed dog drawn.

Heart-pounding evil pervades the pages of the book, and the light swallowed by black shadows makes the entire attic extremely dark. A three-headed monster walks out of the black mist, and its rough and hoarse voice bombards like thunder. Touching the girl's tympanum.

"The eternal value is far beyond your imagination."

"I'll collect the fees owed by your father back then."

"Your body, soul and everything, I accept."

After speaking, the monster swallowed the girl in one gulp...

Not long after, the great war that ended the Age of Myth broke out suddenly.

--Dividing line--

"Woo..." Holo slowly opened her eyes, shaking her dizzy head, "I had a boring dream."

Immediately afterwards, she found herself in a very simple tent built with branches and leaves, lying on a simple bed made of leaves, and covered with an old sackcloth quilt.

"Hey, are you awake yet?"

At this time, the boy holding a pile of leaves came slowly over from not far away.

"Where is this place. Boy?"

Holo lifted the sackcloth, stood up quickly, and slapped off the leaves hanging from her body.

"The border of Kankit, the outskirts of the Silent Forest."

Clarkson replied, probably to prevent the girl from being confused. He also specifically added: "Across the river from here is the famous Principality of Latuk."

It's a pity that this is obviously playing the piano against the cow. Holo still hasn't figured out how many empires there are in the eastern plains, let alone the principality...

"You helped my concubine, right? Let me thank you in advance. If I have the opportunity, I will repay you."

She closed her eyes and felt the message from the main body. After confirming that the contract was still there, indicating that Xi Wei was not dead, she planned to meet the students of Edric College first.

"But, aren't you hurt?"

The boy stammered and said: "My home is not far from here, you can go to cultivate for a while..."

"No need, boy." Holo shook her head, put the hood back on, covered the pair of dog ears and refused: "The existence of a concubine is not a good thing for ordinary people. If you stay together, you may invite unnecessary disasters."

After all, Cerberus was originally considered a kind of recruitment of natural disasters. Even in hell, the existence of a three-headed dog is not a mascot.

For this reason, Holo didn't even bother to ask the other person's name.

As for the injuries, Holo was just a clone. As long as the main body continued to provide strength, no matter how serious the injury was, it could recover and heal in a short time.

This time it was really a shipwreck in the gutter. The avatar of Cerberus and a great mage were actually beaten by a mere goblin. Even if Xi Wei's mage hadn't called the police, he would have subconsciously launched it when the other party attacked. Defensive, I'm afraid Holo will have to kneel if they meet each other...

This is a great shame to Holo, who is the avatar of Cerberus, who is proud and arrogant. If the main body hadn't been unable to show up now, she might have beaten the goblin with the main body.

"But, but..." Clarkson secretly glanced at Holo, his face flushed red, as if he wanted to say something.

At this moment, Holo's ears in the hood twitched.

She pointed to the southwest and asked Clarkson, "Is the village you mentioned in this direction?"

The boy blinked and nodded hurriedly.

"Sure enough."

Holo raised her pointed chin, squinted her eyes and looked towards the southwest covered by trees. There was an inexplicable fluctuation of magic power there. Although there was no way to know its body, Holo subconsciously felt that the fluctuation was a bit like hell. in the magic.

On the main material plane, the fluctuations in the magic power of hell undoubtedly represent that something bad is happening.

"It seems that the favor owed to you will be repaid immediately."