A small lamp had been lit up in Notre-Dame Cathedral, and the hall was filled with a solemn and calming voice, and a large organ player in a white robe was leading a line of children singing hymns.

They nodded to each other as Karting led us by, and as we entered through the side door on the left side of the organ, and turned to the right, Karting said, "It's Father Aven here who is playing there, and I want to see your Father Buckley as the main and your Vice." ”

When passing by this corridor to the right, I noticed several portrait paintings hanging on the wall of the corridor, one of which caught my attention the most, only to see this person with red hair curled and scattered on his shoulders, between his eyebrows revealed a deep and intelligent charm, a slightly curled nose, two round lips closed together without a smile, a full square face of heaven, with a golden signature - Newton, 1643.1.4 - 1727.3.31.

Karting obviously noticed my surprised expression after carefully examining this painting, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it, in fact, the person who discovered the law of gravitation in history, Sir Newton's scientific giant, turned out to be an alchemist, and his achievements in alchemy are definitely no less than you know his famous theory." ”

When we came to a large room with a fireplace, we finally saw the priest again, and saw that he was dressed in a black robe, with a kind smile on his expression, the sparse and staggered silver hair on his head neatly combed, the eyebrows on his chubby face were all white, his blue eyes flashed with sincerity, and his broad lips under his big nose were immediately smiling: "Old friend, I knew that you must have a way to invite these two." ”

Karting said solemnly, "If it weren't for that crucial sentence you gave me, they would have thought we were going to harm them." ”

My expression became unnatural, and it was obvious that Karting's sentence was sarcastic for me to live his gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain.

Karting immediately patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't care, I'm joking, haha, it's good that you're here." ”

Father Buckley said, "Sit down, sit down and we'll talk slowly, I do have something of great importance to tell you." ”

Alice and I sat across from Father Buckley, Karkin sat next to me, and the four of us sat around a brown glass round table supported by metal, and Father Buckley said, "This time I invited you here because of a magic book. ”

I wondered, "What does the magic book you are talking about have to do with us?" ”

Father Barkley was still in that slow manner, and said unhurriedly: "Don't be in a hurry, please listen to me slowly." ”

At this moment a man in an earth-gray robe walked in through another door in this room, and after offering tea on the small coffee table, he stepped back again.

Father Buckley's expression suddenly became serious and said: "When you came here before, I didn't have any intention at the time, but when you passed by the statue of Adam, this statue obviously flashed a light, not because of anything else, in fact, I put a magic book inside the statue, it was glowing. ”

When I think back to that time, there was indeed such a phenomenon, but I thought it was caused by the reflection of sunlight outside the window, and I knew that there was something else inside the statue.

Father Buckley reached out in his arms and took out a thick black book with a dark purple light that was still emitting at this time, the front of the book was composed of a golden line drawing of a six-pointed star overflowing with light, and the back pattern was a gold line drawing of a five-pointed star.

When Alice saw the magic book, she exclaimed, "The light from this book is so beautiful." ”

Father Buckley took out the book and looked at the reflection, as if he was very happy, and pointed to the book and said excitedly: "This is it, this light tells me that you are the one who can activate it." With that, he handed me the book.

I held the book in my hand, and the magic book of about ten centimeters shone brighter, and when I was about to open it, Karting pressed my hand from my side and said nervously, "Don't open it yet, please listen to Father Barkley's words, and then it's not too late to read." ”

Father Buckley had a serious expression again, and said: "In the current world of advanced science and technology, magic does not exist, but in fact, many ancient legends have appeared in magic, but with the progress of science and technology, people have forgotten the original magical power, Kading and I both know the fact that magic exists, the reason why I put this book in the statue of Adam is to hope that it can find its own master, many people come to visit this church every year, But no one provoked the response of this book, I waited for more than ten years, and today I found out people like you, because in the history of human development, there are no more than ten people who really have magic power, the biggest difference between magic and magic is that the former is a false and deceptive thing, and the latter is a spell that can only be used by people who have magic power, you must know that such a character may not appear in a thousand years, so you can see how rare it is for you to be such a person! ”

I asked, "If Father Priest says so, then who wrote this book, given that there are so few people who can possess magical powers?" ”

Father Buckley recounted: "These questions were told to me by my master, my master was told to him by his master, and this knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation here, until I discovered you, since the oldest civilization on earth there have been people born with magical powers, and they are people with special abilities, who have created the age of mythology, and finally gradually evolved into myths and legends that have become unreal, and the civilization at that time was not yet developed, and there are not many written accounts that can be used, But the magic of their group of people who are known as gods can be transmitted to another person, and it continues in this way, maybe some of the branches have been broken, and some have never been interrupted, until the advent of the Common Era, my Lord, who has the power of salvation, was killed by ignorant people, and then gradually many people came forward to record all this in writing, and at the same time, people with magic also joined Christianity, although they passed on the magic of their ancestors from generation to generation, However, because this transmission also diminishes the remaining magic power, several people with strong magic power wrote this magic book, and once someone with strong magic comes close to this book, it will react, and it has been looking for a new master. ”

Alice and I understood, I looked at the magic book that seemed to be a summon to myself, and asked, "Even if this is the case, I may not understand the words in it?" ”

Father Buckley laughed, "That's right, because the text inside may only be understood by us, but you need to open it, otherwise it won't be of any use to us, and as for what is written in it, even I don't know, that's why we are so eager to ask you to come here." ”

Karting continued, "Remember that we were alchemists? ”

Alice and I nodded at the same time, and Karkin took an empty teacup and said to us, "Look carefully." ”

I saw that the teacup in Karting's hand first seeped water from the bottom of the cup, and after a while, the water overflowed, and then the whole teacup disappeared, and all turned into water in Karting's hand and splashed, his hand raised, and the water sprayed upwards like a fountain, and then disappeared like a silk mist.

Alice watched Karting's wonderful performance and asked, "Is this magic?" ”

Cardin shook his head and said: "No, this is alchemy, as the name suggests, some people used to say that they used stones to make gold, although such a technology is difficult to achieve, but it is not impossible to change the structure of matter and the change of molecules, and alchemy is developed on this concept, modern chemical research is actually what I call alchemy, my alchemy is to make different substances into water." ”

Father Buckley also said, "Look at me." After speaking, he also showed his hand, only to see that he also took a teacup and put it in his hand, and gradually the teacup was replaced with a layer of metallic color, and when the teacup was shown to us again, it had become stainless steel.

Alice was amazed, "How did you do that?" ”

Father Buckley explained, "My ability is to convert matter into metal, because we use the magic patterns carved on our bodies to achieve alchemy, which is only made with the remnants of the magic of our ancestors, and is far less powerful than the current child's ability. ”

Karting added: "The so-called magic pattern is a simple way to use a magic carving knife to carve a magic pattern with the same attributes as oneself on the body, and at this time you can use alchemy to change the matter. ”

When they say magic patterns, I keep wondering if the tattoos on my body are what they call magic patterns.

Fr. Buckley introduced; "Magic is different, it is divided into three stages: primary, intermediate and advanced, as far as I know, people who can use high-level magic have never appeared on this earth at all, this statement may be a little wrong, in other words, people who have used high-level magic are dead, and now we all know that only people who are born with magic can use magic, and when using intermediate magic, there is no threat to life when only magic power is exhausted, and high-level magic will not only exhaust the user's magic power but also destroy the person's life, People with magic power store mana every day, which is about the same as physical strength, but it is not as fast as physical recovery, and the reason why magic is higher than alchemy is that magic is faster than alchemy in terms of destructive power and casting speed. ”

Karting looked at me solemnly and said, "So you have to think carefully about whether or not you want to accept such a thing as magic, because in some way, it could cost you your life!" ”

I looked at Alice, then at Karting and Father Buckley, and the reason why they were saying so much was nothing more than to tell me that magic, an unknown magical power, could cost me my life if I accepted it, and I had to think carefully.

If none of the four of us were curious, it would be impossible, Karting and Father Buckley had been looking forward to someone opening this book for many years, and Alice and I had many wonderful experiences, and the endless curiosity drove my hands to slowly open the magic book with black skin.

At this time, the book of magic, which had not been opened even for a thousand years, was finally opened, and the four of us came over to look at the contents, and the first page of the page was like a sheepskin, and on the page was written an ancient text, which Father Buckley translated and read: "All things are for my use, all things are subject to me." ”

Then a miracle happened, and we saw that the magic book, when Father Buckley read it to us, turned it into English, so that we could read it without difficulty.

Karting saw that I had opened the magic book, and he wanted to read it in his hand, but as soon as he took it, the magic book immediately closed and flew back into my hand, and everyone saw that strange things had happened, and the book had been recognized.

Father Barkley laughed and said to Karting, "It seems that we won't have the opportunity to read the magic in person, but it doesn't matter, as long as you can understand it, you can tell us some things that you think will be useful to us in the future, or if you don't understand, just ask us." ”

I was also wondering that the book seemed to have spirituality, so magical, that Alice reached out and took it, and the magic book was still back in my hand.

Karding sighed and said, "Who would have thought that the magic book that was fought over thousands of years ago would fall into the hands of an outsider and refuse to come back?" ”

I've always been too curious about the specifics of Karting and Father Buckley, because they don't seem to be as simple as one being a priest and the other being a magician and an alchemist at the same time.

Father Buckley, who often interacts with people, saw my questioning look and said openly: "Karting's identity is not only a member of the World Magic Research Society, nor am I just a priest of the world's most famous church, we all belong to the same sect, maybe you have never heard of it, but today you will know that we are both members of the Secret Cross Cult of the Dark Pavilion, and everyone who knows our sect calls us the Dark Cross Cult. ”

I couldn't believe it, "What!? ”