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When he awoke, he was silent and murderous

。 () Replica site visit hp:// O'Gian never spoke to him, but gave him meat and water, and made him sit hunched by the fire, like a weary, cold, and displeased eagle. When night came, he slept again. On the morning of the third day, he walked up to the Venerable Master who was sitting by the fire and gazed at the fire, and said, "Master......"

"Welcome, kid." O'Gian said.

"I'm coming back this time, just as stupid as I was when I left." The young man spoke, his voice hoarse and thick. The mage smiled, motioned for Gede to sit across from the fire, and began to make tea.

The snow is drifting. It was the first winter snow on the lowland slopes of Bow Island. The windows of O'Gian's house were closed, but they could hear the sound of wet snow falling gently on the roof, and they could also hear the esoteric tranquility of the snow around the house. They sat by the fire for a long time, and Gede told his master what had happened over the years since he left the island of Bow on the Black Shadow. O'Gian didn't ask any questions, and when Ged had finished, he was silent for a long time, calm and deep in thought. Then he got up and gathered bread, cheese, and wine, and set them on the table, and the two of them sat down to eat together. After eating, Ojian said, "Son, those scars on your face are uncomfortable. ”

"I don't have the strength to fight that thing." Ged said.

O'Gian didn't speak for a long time, just shook his head. Finally, he said, "Strangely, on the island of Ousco, you have enough strength to defeat the Warlock's spells in his territory. You have the strength to resist the Underground Primary** and dodge the attacks of its servants. On the island of Beaudo, you also have enough strength to face the dragons. ”

"On Ousco Island, I have luck, not strength." Gede replied, remembering the ghostly coldness of the Tie Ruo Neng Palace, and he shuddered again. "As for the dragon, that's because I know its name. But the evil thing, the dark shadow that pursues me, has no name. ”

"Everything has a name." Ojian said, his tone so certain that he didn't dare to repeat what Master Gengser had said to him: there was no name for the kind of evil power he had unleashed. However, Beaudolon did say that he wanted to tell him the name of the Shadow, but he didn't trust its offer at the time. Gede also didn't believe Xi Rui's assurances, saying that Taikoo Shi would tell him all the answers he needed.

"If that shadow had a name," said Ged at last, "I don't think it would stop to tell me the name." ”

"No, it won't." "You have not stopped to tell it your name," said Ugian.

In the countryside of Ousco Island, it calls your name, which is the name I gave you. It's weird, it's weird......"

Ogian pondered again. Gede finally said, "Master, I have come back to seek advice, not to take refuge. I don't want to bring this shadow to you, but if I stay here, it will come soon. One time you just took it out of this room......"

"No, that time was just an omen, a shadow of a shadow. Now, I can't get rid of the shadow, only you can get rid of it. ”

"But I have no power in front of it. Is there any place ......" Gede's question was not finished, and the voice was gone.

"There is no safe place." O'Gian said mildly. "Gede, don't change your body next time. The shadow was determined to destroy your true existence in order to force you to become a figure, and it almost succeeded. But where you are going, I don't know.

But I have an idea of what to do, but it's hard to tell. ”

Ge was silently asking for the truth, and Ou Jian finally said, "You have to turn around." ”

"Turn around?"

"If you keep going, keep running, wherever you go, you will encounter danger and evil, because the dark shadow controls you and chooses your path

。 So, you have to choose it again. You have to take the initiative to pursue what is after you; You have to actively search for the shadow that searches for you. ”

Ged didn't speak.

"I have named you the source of the river Ear, which flows from the mountains into the sea." The teacher said: "A person will one day know the end point he is heading to, but if he does not turn around, does not return to the beginning, and does not put the beginning into his own existence, it is impossible for him to know the end." If he doesn't want to be a branch in a stream that rolls and floods, he wants to become the stream itself, a complete stream, from the source to the sea. Grace, return to Bowte, come back to me; Now, you have to go back more completely, to find the source, to find the starting point before the source. There is hope that you will gain strength. ”

"Master, where?" As Gede spoke, his voice was filled with fear: "Where? ”

Ojian didn't answer.

"If I turn around," said Gott after a moment, "if, as you say, I hunt down the shadow that pursues me, I don't think it will take much time, for it only wants to meet me face to face." It's been reached twice, and it beat me both times. ”

"The 'third time' has magical powers." O'Gian said.

Gede paced back and forth in the room, from the fireside to the door, and from the door to the hearth. "If it breaks me," said Geder, perhaps retorting to Ogian, perhaps to himself, "it will take my knowledge and power and use it." At the moment, I am the only one who is threatened, but if it enters me and takes possession of me, it will do great evil through me. ”

"That's right, if it beats you."

"But if I run away again, it will definitely find me again...... All my strength was spent on escaping. After pacing for a moment, Ged suddenly turned around, knelt before the mage, and said, "I have traveled with great wizards and lived on the Isle of the Wise, but you are my true master, Ogian. His tone was full of love and gloomy joy.

"Well," said O'Yen, "it is better for you to understand now than never." However, you will eventually become my master. Ojian stood up and let the fire burn hotter, hung the kettle on it and boiled, and then took out his sheepskin coat. I've got to take care of the sheep and help me watch the kettle, kid. ”

When he entered the house again, his sheepskin coat was covered with snowflakes, and there was a rough yew twig on his hand. In the short afternoons and after dinner that day, Ojian sat by the lamplight, trimming the yew branch with knives, grindstones, and spells. Several times he touched his hands down the branches, as if looking for a flaw. When he was immersed in his work, he kept singing softly. Gede, who was still tired, listened, and his sleepiness grew, and he felt like the little boy in the witch's hut in Shitachi Village. It was snowing that night, the room was dimly lit, and the smell of herbs and smoke was thick in the air, and he listened to the soft and long chanting of mantras and the friendship of heroes, who had been triumphant or lost in the battle against the dark forces on a distant island long ago, and his whole heart floated as if in a dream.

"All right," said Ogian, handing the finished staff to Gerd. "It's a good choice for the ** teacher of the Rouk Academy to give you a yew cane, so I follow the precedent. I came out to make a long bow out of this branch, but it was still good. Good night, my child. ”

Ged couldn't find the words to express his gratitude. As O'Giang watched him turn back to his alcove to rest, he said, "Oh, my little eagle, fly well." The voice was so soft that I didn't hear it.

When Ojian woke up in the cold morning, Ged was gone. He only used runes to leave silver scrawl on the bottom stone of the furnace, full of wizarding style. As O'Gian read, the trail almost faded: "Master, I'm going to chase it." ”