June 3, 17th year of Daliang Taiyuan

Adrian reclined on a wicker chair and he would turn his back to Andrew and not look at him. Andrew sat quietly on the bluestone steps in front of the door, his hands around his legs and trying to bury his head in his knees. An old man or a child did not speak, as if they were all waiting for the bloody sunset of the moment to cast its last rays of afterglow.

"Andrew, Andrew, home for dinner!" an old woman's voice broke the silence.

The child didn't mean to get up, Adrian rolled over and sat up, his face crawling with the marks of time, his eyes were misty, his sunken cheeks were slightly red, and his hair was clumped. "Your grandma told you! Quick, go back. ”

The child struggled to stand up and glanced at the old man, his thin face like a burning flame in the glow of the setting sun.

"You're going to have a coming-of-age ceremony in a few days, aren't you?

"I don't have any spiritual power in my body now, my classmates' spiritual power has emerged, and even Ryan can control all kinds of small things, but I ...... I heard my grandma say that you used to be a great hero, can you teach me?" Andrew asked, almost pleadingly:

Adrian reached under the wicker chair and grabbed it, as if he couldn't believe it. The child smiled at him with a wine pouch in his hand.

Adrian sighed: "How many times have I told you, our dwarven magic is no one can teach, we must practice it personally, we see the same book is different, this is different from the warlocks and summoners outside." ”

"What warlocks, summoners out there, inside the water?"

Adrian knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly explained: "I'm just making an analogy, anyway, I can't teach it, I don't believe you can ask your good friend Eric!"

"Then show me the magic you practice, old fellow!" he shook the wine pouch in his hand, unplugged it and made a gesture of collapse.

Adrian said angrily, "You dare!"

As soon as Andrew leaned his hand, the wine flowed down the mouth of the skin, Adrian's heart tightened, and he stretched out his right palm and waved it in the air, and the wine that flowed out swirled up with the movement of his palm, spinning around Adrian non-stop. Adrian opened his mouth, and the wine slowly entered his mouth, and half a jug of wine entered his belly. He burped and looked at Andrew with an angry expression. "Little bunny, you're getting the old man drunk!"

Andrew smiled and said, "Wonderful!" He turned away, "But you're still an old drunkard!"

Adrian patted his stomach and shouted at his back: "There will always be something that should be, what's the use of you being in a hurry?"

In a few days it will be their coming-of-age ceremony, a chance to change their fate that people all over the world will experience. It is as if people are born in the hands of the gods, and something that cannot be seen or touched by people is called "spiritual power", which determines the identity, status, and dignity of all people. The higher your spiritual power, the stronger and more powerful the magic you practice. And spiritual power is placed in everyone's body by the gods from the moment a person is born, and spiritual power will emerge at the age of 18, but many people already have their own spiritual power before the age of 18. Andrew is 18 years old, his classmates have already possessed their own spiritual powers, and the coming-of-age ceremony will be in a few days, and these days will be his last chance.

Eric didn't know where he heard the news, and suddenly comforted him beside Andrew: "I heard that Ryan's grandfather, Chief Elder Aaron, also had spiritual power on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony, don't worry about yourself!"

Eric has a handsome face, a slender body, and enviable blonde hair, and a pair of large dark blue eyes that always have a smile. They were table mates and best friends, and of course Ryan, the prettiest girl in the world, was sitting in the front row of the classroom looking out the window in a daze.

The three elders in the council hall sat solemnly at the round table and looked at the map on the table. Aaron spoke first, "Elder Rahman, let's talk about the outside first!" Rahman stood up: "Elder Aaron, Elder Aruf, I have been searching for the other three major tribes of our dwarf clan for the past few years, but I have found nothing. During this time, the whole HannStar has changed so much!". He pointed to a point on the map and continued: "When the Great Liang Empire reached the third generation of emperors, the barbarians who had taken refuge suddenly rebelled, and the tiger and leopard cavalry of the barbarians took Changping City, Guling City, and our hometown Cliff City one after another under the leadership of King Wei Wu's victory!" He knocked the cliff city on the map hard. "Emperor Xuan Wujian of Daliang sent a generation of famous generals Youran to lead the dragoons to meet the attack in Sunset City, and now the two armies are facing each other in Sunset City. And the two vassal monarchs and the city lord of Moon City have become the targets of both sides, and it seems that they have no possibility of getting involved at present. And as far as I've observed, the Illuminator has never appeared, either being hunted down by swordsmen like us, or choosing to go into hiding. ”

Rahman finally put his hand on a black area of the map, "I even went to the Dark Forest, the dark magician has set up a powerful circle in the center, I can't get into it with my ability, but I can hear a terrible scream from inside, although I don't know what terrible thing they have summoned, but it must be a terrible army!"

Aaron stood up: "Elder Rahman, you have worked hard, and the current situation is probably much more serious than outside! The enchantment under the sages has begun to fade, and Elder Aruf and I have tried our best to find a way to solve it, but we have found nothing. We took a closer look at the enchantment above, the two-tiered enchantment!"

"Two floors?" Rahman asked, surprised.

"Yes!" Elder Aruf nodded, then continued, "The outer layer is an invisibility barrier that makes the outside invisible to the inside, and the second layer is a strain barrier, and anything that enters this layer will naturally change its size as a result of entering. And now both layers of enchantments have reached the tipping point of disappearing. ”

"Elder Aaron and I took a look at the outside environment, we actually live in a backwater swamp, and the surroundings we see inside are like the sea, but in fact, it is a lake, and the land under our feet is actually an island in the middle of the lake, with our spiritual power, even if we have a portal to teleport, we can't teleport to the shore so far. And there are still 30,000 people in the clan, once the enchantment disappears, everything in the enchantment instantly returns to its original size, and it is undoubtedly a catastrophe on this isolated island of less than ten zhang! I inspected the surroundings and found that there are many heavenly beasts in the water and on the shore, I thought that this kind of divine beast was just in the legend, but I didn't expect that there really is such a thing in the world!"

Aaron looked around at the two elders, his face pale, and took out a heavily framed book from the shelf, "I hope someone can read through this year's coming-of-age ceremony!" He carefully placed the book on the table, the flickering candlelight shining on the bronze cover, and the four large words "Supreme Magic" shone brightly.

According to the laws of the dwarf race, once someone has penetrated this supreme magic book, they will immediately accept the worship of the whole clan and directly become the patriarch, so this book is also called the book of the patriarch. Several large tribes had to worship the new patriarch and accept leadership. There are four copies of Supreme Magic, one for each of the four major tribes, and the new patriarch can sense the location of the other three books when he sees through any of them, so as to open the portal to practice the other three Supreme Magic Books.

Chief Elder Aaron has reached his twilight years, and the years are like a sharp axe, mercilessly carving all kinds of marks on the old man's face. He slowly opened the thick book of the patriarch, the pages were a little yellowed due to the age, and there was no other text in the whole book except for the four large dark black words "Supreme Magic" on the cover. He sighed and closed the book, "Sure enough, it's still like this, it seems that only the patriarch has the ability to subordinate such a powerful enchantment." ”。

Elder Rahman whispered, "What if there is still no patriarch for this year's coming-of-age ceremony?"

Aaron looked up at him and turned away, "Then we don't have to worry about it anymore!"