In the lord's mansion of Ardan, Medanzo knelt on the ground panting, his expensive clothes shattered by the aftermath of the collision of magical powers.

"If you don't do well, you will be punished. Isn't it?" the figure in front of him dropped the words before leaving.

In the center of Ardan's tower, all the magicians who have the ability to activate the circle have all fainted. But it's fine.

In a desolate woods dozens of miles away from the province of Ardan, several magicians of the Poseidon Order urged the mana to protect the scene day and night.

It was as if it had just happened, and everything was stuck at the moment when the mage of the Poseidon Order arrived. This makes this murder actually happened more than half a month ago, and the corpse did not stink in the wind of the late summer heat.

"What's the situation?" the Pope's long black hair had hung down to his waist, giving his otherwise resolute and cold temperament a neutral beauty.

"The gold and silver on the deceased's body are gone, and there is no special sign of magic around him, it seems that it is just an accidental murder and robbery. One of the mages in charge of the survey said, and he didn't know why this incident had disturbed the Pope, who was already traveling the world.

Diasun's dark eyes jumped back and forth between the severed limbs, as if he was thinking quickly.

After a while, he raised his hand and signaled that the instructor in charge of protecting the scene could leave, and then he ordered the man standing beside him: "Bury them all, remember to inform all parties." ”

The mage replied, and the Pope turned and walked off into the distance.

In the far north of the empire, Grandmaster Umash, the crown of the sun, is reading a book in his office.

"Is there anything big about the Pope coming thousands of miles to look for me in this dry land, and for this purpose, he also used a teleportation circle?" he asked with a smile.

The window creaked open, and Diaxun walked in.

"I came across a very strange way of looping in one place, very shallow, and I used almost all of my senses to rub this circuit. The Pope opened his hand, and the magic in the air began to flow the way he felt it.

"If it's a matter of learning, you can ask Lord Tavasis or the old gentleman in the Tower Library, why did you think of me?" Umash closed the book and turned to look at the Pope.

The Pope did not speak, but only increased the flow rate of the circuit he simulated. Then, a hot breath slowly seeped through the air.

Sensing this power, Umash frowned and said, "It's actually a fire attribute circuit. ”

Diaxun nodded and asked, "Your family has used fire as the first circuit for generations, and I think if anyone has ever seen this kind of circuit, the biggest possibility is you." ”

Umash pondered for a long time, then he slowly stood up from his desk and said to Diasun, "I think I've seen a similar circuit, but I don't remember what it was, it seems to be in a book in my family library. ”

"I hope you can find it and tell me what is written in the book. Diaxun put away his magic.

Umash shook his head lightly and said, "I'm sorry, Pope, but I have to stay here at all times to prevent the side plug from failing. ”

Without even thinking about it, Diashon said to Umash: "The situation is urgent, please go and return quickly, and before you come back, I will take care of the fortress for you." With that, he took out a bag of crystal discs and placed them on Umash's table.

"This is my thank you. ”

Umash glanced at the money bag, nodded and said, "Your Excellency is generous, and you are willing to pay so much money with one message, forgive me for being presumptuous, can I know what happened?"

Diaxun shook his head and said, "Tavasis said that there are two people who must not know about this matter. ”

"I'm so honored to be one of them?"

"No, but you're close to one of them. ”

Umash shook his head with a smile and said, "I've been fighting for the empire for so many years, can't I keep a secret?"

Diaxun didn't back down, but just bowed slightly and said sorry.

Seeing that the Pope was willing to condescend in this way, Grandmaster Umash must have something really important, and he no longer insisted, but only asked: "Then I will be wronged by the Pope, and I must not leave the fortress until I return." Umash will go back as soon as she goes. ”

Diaxun nodded, bowed again, and said, "There is the crown of the burning sun." ”

Mu En relied on his own memory to draw the division of forces on the main road, if he wanted to go back to his hometown before going to the Forest of Avalon, although he took a detour, it would not be too far away, but he thought about it for a long time on horseback, and finally dispelled this idea.

Before parting with Naboo, he gave the Starshatter Ring to Nabu and asked His Royal Highness the Prince to keep it on his behalf, but now he feels that something is on his neck, which is really uncomfortable. He opened his suitcase, which was neatly packed with a change of clothes and a few letters, from Princess Inanna, Tavasis, Roventon, and his brother Ansher.

He opened the letter between his husband and his husband's husband and read it, Princess Inanna's letter could not be opened because it was not yet time, and Anschel's letter said that opening the letter in case of danger was probably another surprisingly powerful magic.

"I'm a junior brother and not a junior sister, why does my senior brother spoil me so much......?" Mu En shook his head, feeling that he had been damaged by his unorthodox senior brother over the years.

Revington's letter was nothing special, it was the kind of chattering letter that an ordinary grandfather would write to his grandson, and his own master's was different, instructing Muen not to inscribe the magic circuit on his own until he met the Elven King, and to strengthen his ability to talk to others before going to the Forest of Avalon.

Alas, I obviously didn't teach myself.

A few days later, Umash finally returned to the fortress.

"I found a similar loop in the notes of the successive heads of the family. ”

"Who owns it?"

"It doesn't say anything in the book, but according to investigation, they seem to be the source of corrupting power. However, they are not sorcerers per se, and this group has always been small in number, but it can be found all over the world. Umash smiled and handed Dialson a letter that read Pope's personal message.

After delivering the Poseidon Order's letter to Diasun, Umash continued, "It's as if they had crawled out of the ground, and the number is really pitiful. But even if they are killed, there will be a few pop-ups every few years, so no matter what the situation is, I guess it's just an accidental situation, this kind of person seems to be more numerous only when the artifact is in the world, but now there are no intact artifacts in the world that are worth fighting for. So, my opinion is that the Pope does not need to be nervous. With that, Umash raised his hand, motioned not to disturb the Pope to look at his confidential documents, and left.

Diasun pondered for a moment, but his uneasy instinct did not subside, and he opened the letterhead, which said that the changes in the South China Sea were becoming more and more obvious, and it did not look like a ghost made by the fish-man and Naga.

Raising his hand and thanking Umash, Diaxun left. But instead of returning to the South Seas, he traveled from north to east, apparently intending to go to the Forest of Avalon.

After that, the Pope traveled sleeplessly for seven days before finally arriving at the Forest of Avalon.

"The greedy soul will never be able to walk into Avalon. At the edge of the forest, whoever enters from any direction will "coincide" to see this stone tablet written in Elven language.

Exhausted, the Pope sat down in front of the stele and began to sleep in preparation for his subsequent audience with the elves.

The stele is not a lie, the Forest of Avalon itself is the largest magic circle in the world, he seems to be not offensive or defensive, but it seems that he can indeed identify the soul of the comer, there have been countless treasure hunters who want to find the treasure of the elves sent out by the forest, if it is a cruel and violent person, they will be trapped in the forest forever and ever, and occasionally there are those who venture into the forest to save their relatives and friends, if they have withstood the test of human nature, they can go out of the forest with the wealth they need。

Diaxun slowly walked into the forest, everything around him gradually became quiet, and the light was obscured by the huge trees that were hidden from the sky.

And before he actually reached Avalon, the Elven King, who was reading a book on his throne, suddenly smiled and said, "A man with a breath like crawling out of the deep sea has come to me." The queen, who was sitting beside him gently, was a little puzzled after hearing this, and it was not until Di Yaxun saw the stone tablet that the queen finally felt Di Yaxun's breath. She smiled and said, "Your Majesty's power is wider than the forest, and it is as gentle as a hidden orchid. ”

The elf king closed the book, leaned over and kissed his queen, and said softly: "This tenderness is because of you, and it lasts forever. ”

Instead of urging the magic, Diason walked through the forest. In this way, I walked for another three days and three nights. In the process, when you are hungry, fresh berries will occasionally appear in the bushes at your feet, and when you are thirsty, you will find a spring in the next place hidden by trees.

Early morning on the fourth day......

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Lord Dia. The Elven King, who was still not wearing the crown, stepped down from the tall wood and came to Dialhoon.

The two saluted each other, and Di Yaxun spoke: "Walking here, I feel a lot calmer. ”

The Elven King smiled slightly, "You are as calm as the deep sea. ”

"Your Majesty, I wonder where this power comes from. Diasun spread his palms, and the same circuit he had shown Umash reappeared.

The smile on the Elven King's face faded away, replaced by some solemnity.

"I can't say," said Help Polestar Crown, "but I can tell you that in the long history of our elves, we have fought all life in this world, even higher than the heavens and deeper than the earth. ”

"You don't even dare to name them?"

"You misunderstood, Lord Dia, it's just that in the elven books, every time the name is mentioned, the seal weakens a little. It's like...... When you call out to the gods, the gods will respond to you. Thousands of years ago, in the battle to destroy the Eternal Empire, humanity would not have succeeded if it weren't for them. My ancestors have sacrificed so much to separate our worlds from each other, otherwise we elves wouldn't have been able to gather even a hundred holy magisters to defend against the rebels. That time, we lost all of our Holy Magisters due to internal and external troubles. You should know how many Holy Magisters we had in the heyday of our elves. ”

Diaxun nodded: "Five hundred...... Thirty-seven. ”

The reason for the fall of the Eternal Empire has been unknown in history, because even if it loses the Tears of the Stars, the Eternal Empire still has the most powerful fighting power in the world. In fact, every detail of that war was too strange, why the three races suddenly united, why they seemed to know in advance that the elven saint magisters were no longer there, and why they almost slaughtered the elves who had been waiting for them for a long time, and where the dragon that said it was dead but never found its body.

After being silent for a while, the Elf King showed his gentle smile again: "But don't worry, they have been sealed, and occasionally some kittens and puppies sneak out of the cracks, and they can't form a big climate." ”

"The seal...... Won't it be debilitating?" asked Diaxun.

The Elven King shook his head and said, "Every Elven Grand Magus who has entered the twilight years will use his last strength to maintain that seal. If the seal is loose, I'll sense it right away. ”

Diaxun was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "No race in the world is so ugly compared to the elves. ”

"Don't say that," the Elven King patted Diason on the shoulder, "and you are a worthy Pope. ”

"Huh...... I just protect my own one-third of an acre of land, but Wang Jia is guarding the world. Diaxun, it's hard to look back. ”

"You already know what you want to know. Now, it's time for you to go back and deal with the monster that just woke up. It's called Leviathan, you have to be careful. With a wave of his hand, the Elven King dispersed the circuit of Diaxun's simulation.

"Do you know the name of that monster?" said the Pope, surprised.

The Elven King smiled: "I sensed a movement in the South China Sea, and it probably could only be it." Unfortunately, I don't know the weakness of this monster, and I can only rely on the Pope himself. ”

Diaxun nodded, intending to leave. At this time, the Elven King seemed to suddenly think of something and stopped him: "I'm sorry, but I suddenly remembered a question, and I asked the Pope to satisfy my curiosity." ”

Diaxun stopped, turned around and asked, "Wang Jia, please speak." ”

"Bishops can hear oracles. But...... Do gods really communicate with mortals?"

Hearing this, Diaxun lowered his head and thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "The gods will not communicate with us, but as long as they surrender all their faith to their gods, they can bow to their sides and hear their small talk." ”

The Elven King lowered his head, as if thoughtful.

"Maybe it's - the long years have made me forget the feeling of faith......" The Elven King looked subtle, but still nodded in greetings to Diaxun.

Diason saluted the Elven King: "The king himself is faith. I don't need to be in the company of mortals like Diaxun. By the way, Diaxun still has a reluctant request, can you please ask Your Majesty to send me out of the forest. If it is really a monster whose Majesty does not know its weaknesses, I am worried about the safety of the sect members, and I have to rush back as soon as possible. ”

The Elven King smiled, and he raised his hand to signal Diaxun to look behind him: "Well, isn't this at the end of the forest?"

Diason turned to look and saw that the end of the forest was indeed a few hundred meters behind him. He didn't look back again to thank the Elven King, for he knew that the Elven King had returned to his throne.

Walking past the stele again, the inscription on the stele changed to "Beware of the 'real' lich." ”

"The real lich...... What does that mean?"

A few days later, the Arctic South Ice Sea.

"Why are you here?" said Diaxun, frowning as he looked at Anschel, who had come to see the excitement.

Ansher sneered at the Pope: "That...... The family master meant to let me come over and observe and learn, and a few grandmasters from the tower arrived later. ”

The Pope looked at him twice: "Even the high-level magus has not yet arrived, and you were slapped to death when you were careful to watch." After Di Yaxun finished speaking, he went to the front line to understand the situation.

Ansher smiled and said yes, and then looked at the wide sea, wondering why he, a fire attribute magister, would come to this ghost place to observe and study, and still count on him to burn the mountains and steam the sea.

Isn't this just as nonsense as the water-attribute Pope insisting on going to the Great Desert to harden the orcs?

In the extreme north of the empire, Umash looked at the battle report and asked in disbelief: "Lord Pope, did he really kill the two orcs with one enemy and two archmages?"

The senior mage under him bowed his head and agreed, saying that one of them had actually just advanced to the rank of Grandmaster.

"Our Pope...... Old Beamon was going to be angry this time. Umash put down the report and rubbed her temples. Helplessly, I sighed that the Pope didn't understand politics, and it seemed that the orcs were about to take revenge.

Half a year later, it was said that he was traveling all the way, but in fact, he should have wandered all the way to the edge of the Avalon Forest.

"Ahh If he hadn't met some kind people, he might not have been able to break through on his own and walk to the Forest of Avalon.

He sat down at the edge of the forest with the horse that had accompanied him from far and bound, and had lost much of his weight from hunger.

He opened Princess Inanna's letter and smiled.

"Wishes come true. There is only this one sentence on the letter, but there are many marks on it, it seems that Her Royal Highness the princess has changed the content of the letterhead many times, and "coincidentally" forgot to change a new piece of paper, so that Mu En can learn some of the original content from the imprint tube.

After a short rest, he continued his walk into the forest.

He saw the stone tablet he saw when Di Yaxun came before, and he was worried in his heart, and silently recited: "I was not damaged by my senior brother, I was not damaged by my senior brother, I was not damaged by my senior brother, and I was not damaged by my senior brother......"

And on the outskirts of the forest, two very good mages with hidden figures were stopped outside by the Elven King with a smile.

"I have promised Lord Tavasis that I will not let him be harmed in the Forest of Avalon. ”

The two protectors retreated.

"Aren't you going to pick him up?" asked the queen with a smile.

"Don't worry, as long as his heart is pure enough, he can naturally come to me quickly. ”

"He's only a ten-year-old kid, and he's already past the purest days of humans and sub-elves. Are you sure he can resist those temptations?" the queen seemed worried.

The Elven King nodded and said, "I may not believe him, but I believe in his teacher, after all, Tabasis is...... I have laid in front of him all the dangers that may be encountered in the forest, and I am sure he can do it. ”

In the forest, Muen swims up the trickle to prevent herself from dying of thirst because she can't find water. The book says that the Avalonian Forest is very evil, and it is said that as long as the soul of Fuzhi sleeps in place for three days, you can go to Avalon, and if this forest has brain cramps, you may not be able to go back after just one step in.

It didn't take long for Muen to find that he had reached the end of the creek.

"Pile of gold coins?" Mu En opened his mouth wide as he watched the spring water gushing out of the gold.

"You can only take what you need. He looked at the stone tablet next to him, read it word by word, and after reading it, he complained and said: "How is this elven text dancing with dragons and phoenixes, isn't it good to write the board on time?"

Then he looked at the pile of gold coins and scratched his head: "I don't seem to need money...... " Then he thought carefully for a while, patted his head and said: "I understand! This is the elf king's euphemistic reminder that I want to pay tuition!" ”①

This brain circuit may have really been damaged by Anschel.

In the city of King Avalon, the Elf King was drinking water, and after sensing Muen's approach, he instantly choked and coughed uncontrollably. The queen hastened to say a word of concern, and he smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

"This kid is funny...... "Help laughs.

In the days that followed, Muen began to get lost and kept spinning in circles. If it weren't for the abundant forests providing him with food, he felt that he would probably starve to death here, and in the process, he also found a lot of poisonous fruits, which he might have died of eating by mistake if he hadn't discerned them carefully.

Eventually, he managed to discern the stars in the sky through the dense leaves of the forest every night.

"Learning is useful!" was his favorite phrase for a while.

But Mu En didn't understand why there were no animals in such a vast and fertile forest.

The Elf King heard this and smiled slightly.

"It's coming right away. ”

For the next three days, Muen did not find anything to eat, but his horse was fatter than when he first entered the forest, because he had plenty of grass to eat every day.

On this day, Mu En sat by the stream, watching his horse leisurely drinking water and grazing, and suddenly felt very unbalanced.

"You fellow, if I hadn't raised you with affection, you'd be my food by now!" said him, throwing a stone at the horse that could not understand human speech and was still grazing leisurely.

He felt very tired, but fortunately he lay down on the ground, and shouted to the sky, "Lord Elf, I am Mu En! You also gave me a book! I am going to starve to death now! Please save me!" After shouting, he felt even more hungry, and turned into a small mutter, "I can still hold back and not curse after walking for so long, and my temper is too good." Then he thought about his vocabulary accumulation, and it seemed that there were no cursing words except "big villain", but how this sentence sounded like coquettishness, there was no deterrent effect at all. I thought that I should be able to learn some vulgar words during this study tour so that I could go back and scold my senior brother, but it turned out that it seemed to be the will of God, and I didn't hear it at all.

There was a rustling sound in the grass, Mu En immediately sat up, paying attention to the surrounding movements, and at this time a hare jumped out!

The surprise came so suddenly, Mu En didn't even think about it and started chasing the rabbit.

The rabbit ran very fast, but Mu En had the blessing of the free magic that escaped in the air, and after ten minutes, he found the right time to pounce forward, and finally caught the gray-brown rabbit.

"Don't blame me, if I don't eat you, I'll starve to death, don't blame me. Mu En looked at the rabbit in his arms, and the hare remained motionless, as if he had resigned himself to his fate. At this time, he suddenly remembered that he didn't have a knife, and he relied on a large amount of gold coins given by his senior brother along the way, and he didn't need to hunt to make a living, so this seemed to be his first time killing.

"How am I going to kill it......" Muen was a little embarrassed, in fact, he only needed a little force in his hand to strangle the soft hare. But it was so cruel to him, and he touched the rabbit, and the touch from his hand made him very sad at the thought of killing it, and a kind of physical nausea. He decided to go back to the creek to find a stone and smash it with his eyes closed.

He waded through the grass to return to the river, a few bits of red looming in the bushes he walked.

"Is this a berry?" Muen crouched down to check, "It's really a berry!, it's still edible!" The discovery made him ecstatic, but he looked carefully, and found that the berries were only enough for him to eat this meal. Mu En was a little embarrassed, if he brought these berries and ate this rabbit first, he could have at least a day's energy. So he kept looking at the rabbit in his hand, and then at the berries.

"Ah!!h

"Don't let me see it in the future!" said Mu En, pointing to the hare's nose with a free hand. With that, he rounded his arms and threw the rabbit out.

In the end, compassion came to an end.

"What a hell forest, I must burn it with a fire when I have a chance in the future!" Mu En hummed and chirped and ate the berries and stood up.

"But this berry is quite delicious, it seems to be a 'honey fruit'. He tasted a faint taste of honey from the crisp fruit.

"Roar—" A low roar came over, as if to express his displeasure.

Mu En looked in the direction where he had just thrown the rabbit, and a demon bear that seemed to have just come of age walked towards him. Mu En swallowed his saliva, stepped back slightly, and he trembled and stretched out his hand to the demon bear and said, "That...... There should have been a rabbit that didn't run far in the direction you came from just now......"

"Roar!! Demon Bear roared and rushed towards him.

"I!" Mu En shouted, but didn't know what words to use to express his emotions, so he turned around and ran.

"Ansher, there's a bear, let's run!" said Muen, running towards his horse. That's right, he named his horse "Anschel", so that he would have a special feeling when he whipped it.

When he reached the river, he was dumbfounded, and found that the horse had gone somewhere.

"You're as unreliable as my brother!I should have eaten horse meat in the first place!" Mu En was very indignant, but he could only say incompetently and angrily.

He ran across the creek and found that his box was still there.

"Hurry up, this is the Aurora Barrier, it's not useful, this is the Burning City Flame, you can't use it, what is this envelope? ”

As he spoke, he opened the letter from his brother. There was a string of things in the letter that looked like secret orders, saying that if he shouted this, someone would come to his aid.

Mu En read it out, and then he looked up at the bear.

One second...... Two seconds...... Three-second ......

"There's a fart in this! Human life is at stake, why are you playing with me?!" Mu En was less than five meters away from the bear, Mu En dropped the letter, turned around and continued to run.

"There is a magic lock around this demon bear! I only have one chance, if not, please forgive the elf king for burning this ghost forest in advance!" Mu En gritted his teeth, took two steps on a tree trunk, and then turned in the air, holding the pocket watch in his left hand, and the palm of his right hand emitted a silvery-white electric light.

On the throne, Help stood up and nodded, "Almost, he's doing a good job." As he spoke, he raised his right hand, as if to end the operation of the circle.

"This is what you want to kill me, offended!" Mu En's gaze was obscured by the arc, and he just slapped it with all his strength in the air.

There was a muffled sound.

Mu En's heart was not good, such an attack could not seem to be fatal to the adult demon bear, he used all his strength to cheapen the center, and aimed the pocket watch in his left hand at the demon bear, intending to inject his last magic power into it.

But someone grabbed his left hand, and with a slight twist, all his magic power was shattered.

The arc was hidden, and Mu En realized that his right hand had hit the mouth of the Elf King's right hand, and his body seemed to have descended from the sky directly above the throne.

"Gentle and generous, with perseverance in body and mind. Always merciful, but also know how to fight. You're doing well, even though later in life you'll encounter a lot more complicated than that. But as long as you are calm and good at thinking, you can always find the trick. The Elven King smiled at Muen and put him down.

Mu En's mind was still confused at this time, but he felt the handsome and gentle Elven King rub his head and said to him, "Welcome to Avalon." ”