There was silence in the darkness, and in the darkness there seemed to be a terrified scream. Ari woke up slowly, only to feel weak, his eyelids were heavy, and he closed his eyes in a daze and fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but the boy in bed seemed to be dreaming, dreaming of the dark time in the demon world, dreaming of the helpless days here. Suddenly, he heard the sound of ticking water, and the young man opened his eyes in a bit of confusion and looked around. I saw myself lying on a small bed, in a dark room, and the mottled water stains on the wall made it look very old.

I heard another creaking sound on the door, and a trembling old man walked in outside the wooden door. The old man was horribly old, as thin as dry wood, and his face was full of wrinkles, as if there was only one skin left. The old man came to the bed on crutches and sat down, looked at the young man who woke up, and smiled kindly: "You are awake!" But this kind smile touched the old skin on the old man's face, revealing a toothless mouth, shaped like a dry-pickled carrion.

Ari was taken aback, and turned his head to look at this terrible old man in a daze, not knowing what to say.

The old man checked Ari's injuries and said with a smile, "It's not a big deal." ”

Ari tried to stand up, but suddenly felt that his right arm was empty. The young man looked at his severed right arm in a daze, and sat still, not knowing what he was thinking.

When the old man saw the young man's expression, he smiled again: "Isn't it just that the right hand is broken, it's nothing." ”

Ah Rui turned his head sharply, stared at the old man and asked, "Who are you?" You saved me? ”

The old man didn't answer, but said, "I want to tell a story first, how about it?" ”

Ari struggled to move his body to make himself more comfortable; He also knew the current affairs, and he knew that he had no choice at this time, so he said, "You say." ”

The old man's eyes were gloomy, as if he was recalling something, "Once upon a time, there was an incomparably powerful empire on this continent, called the Perus Empire. However, because of some cataclysm, the empire came to an end. Later, some people who claimed to be descendants of the Perux Empire came to the fore, quelled the war, unified the country, and changed the name to the 'Dross' Empire. But ah, the real descendants of Perux were surrounded and suppressed and killed by those fake descendants. So the true descendants want to rebel and want to restore the honor of Peruz......"

Ari's eyes widened and he shouted angrily, "It's you, it's you who hurt me?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "Where I hurt you, everything is your own choice, isn't it?" After another pause, he continued: "But when Nai's luck is not good, the real descendants have also been slaughtered, and now I am the only old man left, hey......"

Still unconvinced, the boy cried out, "So you want to restore the country!" But what are you doing to me, and am I of any use to you? ”

The old man grinned, revealing the roots of his gray teeth, and said, "Why is it useless, otherwise what would I do to save you?" ”

"You just want me to be grateful to you." The boy shouted.

"Boy, you know what? It's not good to have too many eyes, and sometimes you may be more chic if you pretend to be confused. The old man laughed.

"Don't you want to do anything and let yourself die?" The young man said fiercely, "You better tell me your purpose, I don't know where you started to calculate me." But you'd better get straight and skip those curves. ”

"I'm old, I'm old, and my temper has gotten better!" The old man sighed, "If you had talked to me like this when I was young, I would have killed you!" ”

"Even now you wouldn't kill me, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered so much to save me." Ari analyzed, "According to your words, I am useful, so you will not kill for this little thing." ”

The old man laughed, and the laughter was like a crow chirping in the night, which was creepy. The wooden door creaked again, and a bearded man came in from outside the door. Ari fixed his eyes and saw that the bearded man was none other than the blacksmith of the blacksmith's shop, the father of the young girl Rennie.

Ari was frightened and said in a trembling voice: "It turns out that you calculated me in the first place!" But I don't understand, why, why, why on earth are you doing this? ”

The big man in the blacksmith shop didn't answer, looked at the young man on the bed with a pleasant face, and introduced himself: "My name is Reg, and I am the general of the Restoration Army!" Oh, boy, don't come unharmed! ”

Ari glared and muttered, muttering words like 'Restoration Army, Restoration Army'. The young man squinted his eyes again and raised his head, shouting, "Are you trying to pull me into your so-called Restoration Army?" Hehe, but the way I am now, it's useless! After the boy finished speaking, he shook his broken arm.

The old man coughed lightly and motioned to the blacksmith Regg to explain. I only heard Reg say, "You are useless now. We have a few questions for you, though! ”

"You saved me just to ask a few questions? Not really, right? ”

The old man said angrily: "Boy, tell you to have less eyes and don't talk too much!" ”

Ari bowed his head, "Just ask!" ”

Reg asked, "Where did you learn your 'lightsaber mastery'?" ”

Ari instantly realized: "Is it a problem that I can use a lightsaber?" Hehe, it seems to be true. Haha, I just learned it at home. The boy casually talked nonsense.

"Learned at home? Hey......" blacksmith Reg sneered, "Then why do you call Master Ivan, the eldest prince, when you are in the stands?" ”

"It's just a mistake, what's so strange about that." Ari laughed.

"Mistaken? Hey, then why don't you look at Ivan with a fake look? Then why doesn't Ivan recognize you again? Reg asked two questions in a row.

"Didn't you say it all? I admit my mistake! The boy pretended to be very sure.

Rag was a little angry, grabbed Ari's neck violently, and shouted, "Are you fools for us?" Ask you anything, you'd better be honest! ”

Ari was choked and breathless. The young man's face was purple, he clapped Reg's big hand, and shouted, "I said, I said......"

Only then did Reg let go of his palm and sneered: "If I knew this, it would be better to say it happily, maybe I will suffer less!" ”

Ah Rui clutched his neck and gasped, and after a long time, he said quietly: "I come from a small mountain village, and I only have my parents in my memory, and I have not seen anyone else in the family. The lightsaber techniques and some simple sword techniques were taught to me by my father. But when I was about ten years old, my parents suddenly disappeared, and I searched the entire mountain village but couldn't find them. Later, I joined the League of Adventurers and searched for their traces while adventuring. ”

Reg was a little stunned when he heard this, and turned his head to look at the old man. But the old man shook his head, as if he was not sure whether what the young man said was true or not. The old man pondered for a long time before he said, "If what you say is true or false, we will investigate it." If what you say is true, then we will give you an honor. If what you say is false, then don't blame us for torturing you! ”

Ari looked scared and nodded, "What I said is true!" ”

The old man got up tremblingly, and Reg on the side hurriedly helped him. Listen to the old man say again, "You stayed here until we finished investigating. Rest assured, it's safe here, and three meals a day will be delivered, so you can recuperate with peace of mind. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he and Reg went out the door. The chains rattled and clicked, and the wooden door was completely locked.

Ari lay on the bed and sighed, not knowing what to do next—his right arm had been cut off, and he could no longer hold a sword; He was also seriously injured, making it even more difficult to escape.

The magic sword Faqira jumped out at this moment and said with a smile: "You kid, you don't blush when you lie, it's the same as the real thing!" ”

"What can I do, hey! When they find out, it may be my time to die! ”

"Don't! You're dead, but you're dead, but you're dead! ”

"Facella, what do you think I should do now?"

"Why don't you let me swallow it, I can still repair your body, and I can help you kill it."

Ari looked at the water-stained walls and sighed, "If there is no way, this is the only way." ”

The magic sword smiled happily. Ari asked again, "After being swallowed by you, am I still conscious?" ”

"Yes, but it's not you who control the body, it's me who controls it!" The magic sword is also honest.

"Isn't that like dead?"

"It's better than actually dying!" The magic sword grinned.

"Let's see......"

Time passed in this damp, small stone room, and Ari sometimes felt that his right arm was still there, but when he looked up, he had to accept the reality in front of him.

Another day, the trembling old man opened the door of the stone room and said to the young man who was meditating inside, "Come out and follow me!" ”

Ah Rui didn't ask much, knowing that blessings and misfortunes were inevitable, so he followed the old man out. But I saw that I was in a long stone corridor, and there were oil lamps inlaid every few meters on the wall of the corridor. The faint glow of the oil lamps makes the corridor even more eerie.

The old man took Ari through the corridor and walked and around, and came to a large hall. This hall is a little empty, the bluestone wall is erected, the four corners are embedded with oil lamps, there is no other decoration, only on the ground in the center of the hall are painted four magic arrays. These four magic arrays stood in all directions, one after the other, one after the other, and one up and down. Two of the magic circles were located on the outside, glowing with a faint blue light; The other two magic circles were located on the inside, glowing with scarlet light, and in the middle of the array lay two people each.

The two of them, one fat and one thin, seemed to be asleep with their eyes closed. The fat Ah Rui is also familiar, it is the person named Tianling of the Void Motherland; The thin one I didn't know, and I looked about thirty years old, tall, with knotted muscles, and long brown hair in front of me, and looked very handsome.

Ah Rui stood still with the old man, and did not ask, just waiting for the old man to explain. When the old man saw the acquaintance of the young man beside him, he smiled, pointed to the fat man in the magic array and said, "This fat man is the younger brother of Lord Xuzu Fuzheng, you played tricks with him, you must have known him." He pointed to another magic array and said, "This person is the general of the Imperial Army of the Dross Empire, and he is a subordinate of the second prince. ”

Ah Rui was very puzzled, so he said, "Why are you telling me this?" ”

The old man coughed a few times, and his breath was a little weak; He stared at the young man's severed arm and smiled, "I don't care who you are or what purpose you have now, for now, I can help you get a new body." ”

"Why?" Ari wondered, wondering why the old man was like this.

The old man did not explain, nor was he in a hurry; He sat down on the ground slowly and said, "I am the only one left in the royal family of Perus, and I am also old, and I can't stand the toss, and I am afraid that the restoration will fail." ”

"What does that have to do with me?" The boy was shocked.

The old man did not answer, and continued, "So we have created a kind of magic, a magic that allows two people to replace souls. As long as this magic is successful, I can get a young body, so why worry about returning to the country? ”

Ah Rui was taken aback and thought to himself: Isn't this old man wanting his own body?

The old man seemed to see what the young man was thinking, and laughed: "What is the use of your rotten body? My hands are broken, my body is crippled, and my body is not as good as my own old body! ”

Although Ah Rui said that he wanted to kill the old man here, he was unpredictable and had to endure it, so he had to ask, "Then what do you want?" ”

"Boy, I'll be honest with you, I could have forced you. But it doesn't have to be like this, if it succeeds, you have to thank me, and we have to cooperate! The old man smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were all huddled together.

I heard the old man continue: "To be honest, this replacement magic is not mature, but it can be done in theory. I'm also afraid that this magic will fail, so I've called you to be the first person to experiment. ”

"Aren't you afraid that I won't agree?" Ari asked.

"You don't have a choice, do you?" The old man smiled, "If you don't agree, I'll kill you, just find someone else." You promised, hello everyone! ”

Ari was still confused, "Then why are you looking for me?" There must be a lot of subordinates like you, so why not look for them? ”

"I allow you to ask, you can ask!" The old man suddenly changed his face, fierce and hideous. He waved his hand at Ari sharply. Ari felt an invisible force attack, instantly crushing him to the ground. The wound on the boy's chest and abdomen cracked open, and the pain made him grin his teeth, but he did not say a word.

The old man said with a smile: "Oh? There's still some backbone! Then I'll tell you about it! I don't feel at ease with those people, it's not that I can't believe them, but after they get these two new bodies, there may be some changes, and I can't afford these changes. Although I can't trust you, I will leave your original body in my hands, and if you are disobedient, I will crush your original body and let your soul in your new body dissipate. But most importantly, you'll use a lightsaber, hehe, won't you? ”

Ari calmed down and pondered the old man's words. Finally, he said, "Heh, you mean that after the replacement, crush my original body, even if my soul is in the new body, it will be affected and dissipated, right?" ”

The old man nodded.

The young man sneered: "Then why don't you use this as a threat to let your subordinates replace and let your subordinates obey orders?" ”

The old man's face was gloomy.

The boy continued, "It can be seen from here that there are not many of your subordinates, and they are all your henchmen. Also, your subordinates must be involved, so they must know how to get rid of it, right? ”

When the old man heard this, he smiled in his heart and laughed at the foolishness of the young man. But his face was silent, and he said in a deep voice: "Boy, you are quite smart!" ”

Ari smiled confidently.

The old man pretended to sigh: "Say, what do you want?" ”

"I want to know what body I'm going to go into, and I want to know what I'm going to do?"

"Don't worry, when you agree, I will explain it to you. That's it? ”

"I also want to know who the man who cut off my right arm is."

"Oh, he! His name is Barn Basheut, and he is the head of the Imperial Iron Wolf Knights. What, want revenge? ”

"Okay, I'll promise to be your experiment, but I want all the information about Barn Bashut."

"Done!" The old man smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were pasted together again.

The old man looked a little happy, got up and clapped his hands. I saw a gray-robed man come in from outside the main hall, and the gray-robed man held a stack of papers and put it in the young man's hand, and then turned away.

Ah Rui sat on the ground and flipped through it, and this stack of papers recorded all the deeds and character relationships of the fat man named Tianling. Ah Rui looked at the age of the fat man on the paper and exclaimed, "This fat man is only 19 years old? ”

"yes, can't you see it?" The old man laughed.

"This fat man looks like a man in his twenties and thirties."

"That's too fat, just lose it."

The young man looked up at the old man and said with a smile: "Why don't you let me choose another one, the other one looks much more handsome!" ”

The old man squinted his eyes and said, "Hehe, the other is the general of the empire, those intricate relationships, can you be a little ghost?" Besides, do you have a choice? ”

Ah Rui smiled with him, and then heard the old man say, "You go back first and memorize all the records on the paper." It takes some preparation to cast the magic, and I'll call you out when I'm ready. ”

Ari returned to the stone chamber under the guidance of the gray-robed man outside the hall. And in the main hall, the old man looked at the two people in the magic array, and his face was cloudy. Footsteps sounded, and a person came in from outside the hall, it was the big man of the blacksmith shop and the general of the Restoration Army-Reg.

Reg walked up to the old man and saluted, "Chief, is this good?" ”

The old man pointed to the brown-haired man in the magic array, his eyes were bright, and he said excitedly: "Wait until I get the body of Dawn Lift, and wait until I get the military power of the Imperial Army." Haha, why worry about recovering the country, why worry about recovering the country, hahaha......"

The old, hoarse laughter echoed through the hall like the whispers of demons.

Reg waited for the old man to finish laughing before asking, "Chief, I mean that kid." ”

The old man coughed a few times, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Rege, I know what you think. But it's useful to experiment with that kid. ”

"Leader, please!"

"Hehe, I can't tell you clearly, I'm afraid you won't be willing, right?"

"No, subordinates will always be loyal to the leader!" Reg got down on one knee.

"Get up, get up. With that kid, I have a few tricks. First, it is used for experiments to ensure my safety; Second, after the boy's soul enters the new body, we can stay with the old body to study and master the secret of using the lightsaber; Third, that kid is just an experiment, and when he succeeds, he will kill the fat man with that kid's soul and provoke a war between the empire and the Void Ancestor. ”

The old man paused, and then said, "In this way, we will kill three birds with one stone." One is safe, and the other is the secret of using a lightsaber; Sande completely killed that kid to prevent future troubles, hehe, and also killed the fat man of this false ancestor and provoked a war. And I, haha, can take advantage of the situation to enter the battlefield, make military achievements, and master military power, hahaha......"

"LinkedIn, visionary!"

The old man's laughter was a little crazy, a little excited, and he floated quietly in this empty hall.