Aegis had a habit of being reviled by his apprentices, and that was to turn day and night upside down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 As an archmage of the Tasman School, Aegis should have been a popular mentor, but because of his bad habits, he has the fewest apprentices among the archmages every year, and his experimental assistants are always in a state of shortage.

After all, not everyone can adapt to life that turns day and night upside down.

Tonight, as usual, he was alone in the alchemy laboratory trying to make gold. Gold refining is one of the most important topics in alchemy, and with the efforts of alchemists for thousands of years, this alchemy array is close to completion, and only the last few formulas have not yet been overcome, and once overcome, it will be an invention that spans the ages.

Aegis is recognized as a great alchemist, and although he is relatively weak as an archmage, he is definitely a first-rate person in terms of understanding the aether. This imbalance between the realm and combat power is a common problem for the mages of the school. In order to make up for the shortcomings of his combat power, he was armed with spell items up and down to the teeth, and in the vicinity of his residence and laboratory, he arranged warning enchantments and defensive traps on a large scale.

Even if a strong person who has reached the end of the path of the archmage, it is absolutely impossible to come here silently.

But today, a man walked into his alchemy laboratory without alarming him, and came less than five steps behind him. If he hadn't modified his nose so that it had a keen sense of smell that could distinguish any kind of spell material, he probably wouldn't have been able to smell the disgusting smell of the uninvited guest.

"Friend, you're getting a little closer to me."

Aegis said this, his mind was unprecedentedly concentrated, and several spell items on his body were slightly heated, which was a premonition before the excitation. As a mage of the school who is not good at fighting, none of the spell items he intends to activate are aggressive, one is a spatial jump, one is a high-strength shield, and the last one is a distress signal that connects to the genre's headquarters.

From the very beginning, he had no intention of facing the enemy, and being able to enter his alchemy laboratory silently was already very clear about the difference in strength between the two sides. At this time, instead of thinking about the possibility of defeating the other party, he should pretend to meet the enemy and prepare a spell to escape behind his back.

"Don't worry, I didn't come to you with any ill intent, Aegis."

The uninvited guest spread his hands and said in a gentle tone. But the archmage didn't intend to trust the other party, and a guy who infiltrated private territory without permission had no credibility in his words.

However, just as he was about to activate the spatial jump, the counter spoke again.

"Aegis, I'm familiar with you, the bracelet on your left wrist is a spatial item, the necklace around your neck is an absolute defensive shield, the earrings on both ears are mirror earrings on the left, the short distance disorderly jump on the right, and the unilateral eye on your left eye is not a spell to enhance vision or true vision, but a distress device. Of course, that's not all, when transforming your body, you implant a lot of useful props in your chest cavity and abdomen, and if necessary, you can activate them at the risk of injury. You say, I'm right. ”

There was a brief silence.

"All right," Aegis turned, staring at the visitor—the uninvited guest was slightly taller than him, dressed in black, with a black iron mask, and his face was not visible. Under the other party's gaze, he raised his hands in resignation, "You are really careful about my investigation, who betrayed me, can you give me, a dying man, a chance to understand the ghost?" ”

"Didn't you set up a lich-transformed circle at the Tasman Sect's headquarters? Once you die, isn't the soul immediately returning to the school headquarters under the protection of the amulet, starting the ritual of lich transformation, and becoming a lich? Even if you fail, you'll become a ghoul, not an understanding. The uninvited guest smiled a little sarcastically, and the look that seemed to see through everything made the archmage feel terrible, "Alright, I won't play with you anymore." Aegis, I'm looking for you to do me a favor. ”

"You are?" The archmage asked, the other party's overly familiar with him made him faintly think of a name in his heart, but he hadn't already ......

"Didn't you already guess that? But don't get excited, I'm worse than dead right now. Having said this, a faint smile appeared under the visitor's mask, "I'm here to do you a favor, Aegis." ”

"What is it?"

Although it is very exciting to see the reappearance of old friends who have passed away, after all, the friendship between the two parties has passed so long, and he has no idea about the time when the other party has disappeared for decades. At this time, it is not a rational thing to blindly agree to the other party's request.

"Don't worry, Aegis. Although there is a certain danger in this matter, the reward is very rich. The visitor looked at the archmage as if he had read what he was thinking, and said word by word, "I know the whereabouts of the Codex of Euqtrasil. ”

"You...... Just...... Say what! ”

"The Codex of Yggtrasil."

"Do you know its whereabouts?" Almost forgetting the archmage's demeanor, Aegis strode up to the visitor, grabbing the other's shoulders with both hands. He can't be blamed for his excitement, Yggdrasil is one of the primordial gods of the world, the creator of the elves, and the pioneer of the path of the mage. His Codex for the Elves is definitely the closest thing to the origin of the Aether in the world, and there is no one. With it, he has the hope of going one step further and getting a glimpse into the realm that belongs to the legendary.

"Of course I know, and you don't look at who I am?"

The visitor replied in a very relaxed tone, making the archmage feel the long-lost cordiality. So Aegis responded half-jokingly: "That's right, you and Adeis almost got to that point......"

Contrary to his expectations, upon hearing the name, the visitor covered his head, hunched over, and shouted in a voice that bordered on pain: "Don't mention that name, don't mention that name in front of me!" ”

"What the hell is wrong with you, you and Ah ......" the archmage swallowed the name at the right time, looked at his old friend with worried eyes, and said in a low tone, "I thought you would laugh it off, but I didn't expect that even now you still can't let go of her." ”

"It's not a question of letting go or not letting go, it's that I'm no longer me." The visitor's state improved slightly, and the expression under the black iron mask was not real, but his slightly pale face could be seen, "Aegis, you don't have to care about our previous friendship, this time it's just a transaction, I pay the price, you complete this matter, we ...... No longer friends. ”

"What the hell is wrong with you? Reinsmann......"

The archmage furrowed his brows deeply and said the visitor's name.

"Reinsmann? I'm not anymore......" The man under the black iron mask said in a bitter voice, "Aegis, don't ask any further, if you don't want to die inexplicably. ”

"But ......"

"Nothing, this is my last advice to you as Reinsmann."

There was silence again, the eyes of both sides were staring at each other, and neither of them spoke.

"Okay......" Finally, Aegis gave in, he sighed, lowered his head, and collected the complicated emotions in his heart. After a moment, he raised his head, and his serious face was not discerning, "Say, what do I need to do for you?" ”

"You help me help this ......" The visitor looked at his business-looking old friend, a relieved smile under his mask, and his slender fingers cut through the space, taking out a small, even inconspicuous black bead in appearance, "and put it on the seedling of the Elven World Tree." ”

"It's ......"

Although it was inconspicuous from the outside, in the eyes of the archmage, it was a ferocious existence more ferocious than any flood beast. Just looking at it, I feel that the whole person has been pulled into the abyss that will never see the light of day, even the soul has been gnawed clean, and there is not even a little residue left. However, when he came back to his senses, it was as if nothing had happened, as if everything he had just experienced was just a dream.

But it wasn't a dream, and Aegis wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, ignoring his instinct to warn him to leave immediately, and looked away from the black orb, looked directly at the visitor, and asked in the most gentle tone possible, "What is this?" ”

"Something you shouldn't know."

Beneath the cold voice of the visitor was an unprecedented seriousness.

"I see."

The archmage responded in a deep, powerful voice.

"The Codex of Yggtrasil is under the guardianship of the Ancient Tree of Elven Knowledge, and the knowledge recorded in it is all the most basic and the most direct to the essence of the ether." The visitor placed the black orb on the round table in the alchemy laboratory, "Don't try to parse it, or you won't even have a chance to regret it." ”

After explaining what had happened, the visitor turned to leave, and the cool breeze of the night brought his last words: "If you don't become a legend, don't ask me so many whys." Knowing too much will only bring you closer to death. ”

"Yes...... Aegis's voice was a little low, "I have one last question for you before you go." ”

"Say it."

"Don't you really have any feelings for elves?"

The visitor, who was fading in the night, paused slightly, and then continued on his way.

"You're asking a boring question, Aegis."

After the other party's figure was completely engulfed by the night, the archmage withdrew his gaze and stared at the black beads in the alchemy laboratory with a complicated expression, as if looking at his old friend through this surging darkness: "You still haven't changed at all, Reinsmann......"

PS: Does anyone know who the visitor is, it should be easy to guess.

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