Over the next month, Zaix taught Mu Yan all aspects of magic, and the latter greedily absorbed all kinds of knowledge like a dry sponge in water.

It has to be said that the wisdom and erudition shown by Zaix, who let go of the knot, are not at all like the mad lich of the future. Mu Yan guessed that the reason why his level was so low was mostly related to Leorik. After being betrayed by his brother and lover at the same time, this former king did not want to trust anyone, and naturally he would not trust the talented Zayx, so he secretly manipulated and turned him into a level 60 lich.

Although this necromancy can bring eternal life and infinite power, it also cuts off all possibilities for the latter to seek the truth, and will not make any further progress in this life.

Now that this possibility has been ruled out by Mu Yan, he is secretly happy and a little worried at the same time - will this attract Leorik's revenge? And where is the former king now? Now that he's out of the River Styx, where will he hide?

When the army of the dead reappeared in the world in the 3rd year of twilight in history, Lokan was in a state of chaos, there were wars everywhere, and there were unjustly killed souls and corpses everywhere, no one knew where the undead with anger and resentment came from, but the entrance to the fallen palace appeared in the barren land north of Jialan and south of the Kadra Heights, so the group of mages of Jialan were the first to discover it and established a floating city in the barren land, Dalaran, which became the second temporary stronghold for players to launch a counterattack against the dead. (The first is Kansa's Wish of Light)

In this regard, Mu Yan thought of two possibilities. First, Leorick had colluded with Garden behind his back, otherwise the two would not have been so coincidental at the same time, one set off a battle of faith and let Lokan enter the Twilight Age, and the other took the opportunity to create a war to enrich and strengthen his own team. It's just that I don't know why, the two later turned against each other, and Garton stabbed Leorik in the back, allowing him to be wiped out by the Human Alliance without making a move, while he stayed in Hogarth to digest the plundered power of faith.

Second, Leoric was waiting for an opportunity, and it happened to be in time for the battle of faith. This explains why Gardenton later ignored him - the two were not teammates in the trenches at all.

He prefers the former because the latter is too coincidental.

I don't know how long it has been since the first era of the old gods spread their faith, and more than 700 years have passed since the age of faith after they retired, why did all the major events happen in these years? There are indeed many coincidences in history, but so many coincidences have happened together, and it has to make people think deeply.

One more point, why was Leorik able to come to Lokan from Heru? Has anyone summoned him? A necromancer who can afford this kind of reward and sacrifice his life to summon a level 80 legendary deceased can't be obscure, right? In that case, why hasn't one of the tens of millions of players found out who this dead necromancer is?

These are mysteries, waiting for him to unravel. But the top priority was to take advantage of Zayx's retreat to go to Ashenvale to participate in the beast tide.

That was the only way Mu Yan could think of a rocket upgrade before the troubled times came. If nothing else, with his understanding of the habits of Warcraft and the ability of the Prophet of Unknowns, coupled with the innate skill of "Sincere Heart", it shouldn't be difficult to gain the trust of the druids, right? And then it's time to go crazy under their protection.

"Greasy Technique" and "Wall of Fire", this is a monster weapon. He seemed to see the experience tips that filled the screen.

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"Bell, bell, bell—"

"Please come in."

Surya pushed open the door and saw Mu Yan packing his luggage.

"Mr. Jones asked you to come over, and he seems to have something to say to you."

"Hmm."

Mu Yan nodded and put away his clothes.

"What's wrong with you? Seems to have something to say? He looked at the girl as if she wanted to say something.

"I didn't ...... Nothing, there you go. Surya shook her head, but her face didn't look like "nothing" at all.

Mu Yan didn't ask any more questions, and pushed the door out.

Looking at his back, there was a hint of struggle in the girl's eyes.

Three days ago, she learned of Mu Yan's next plan, but there was no place for her in the plan.

Also three days ago, during a conversation between him and Zaix about enchantment, she learned that the other party didn't know that the phrase was engraved on the inside of the ring. She still remembered that he opened his mouth wide in surprise and exclaimed, "Isn't this a cheater?", while looking at herself with an embarrassed look.

At this point, the truth is revealed, and all the misunderstandings between the two have been explained clearly.

But the truth seems to have come a little too late......

……

"Sit down, this is my last lesson for you before the retreat." Zaix said.

A month has passed, and the necromancer has been living younger and younger like the legendary Tianshan Tong Grandma, to say that he was still a slightly gloomy young man before, and now no one doubts that he and Mu Yan are brothers.

The two of them wore the same black dresses and white bow ties, and they were also tall and handsome, not at all like the researchers of the Necromantic School.

"Although you could have been a teacher a long time ago, I don't want you to go to any academy." The mage explained, "The deceit and distractions of the human world are not conducive to meditation research, if you really want to learn systematically, I recommend you to go to some white-robed wizards' mage towers to study, and occasionally help them do experiments." ”

Mu Yan nodded.

In Lokan, anyone who wears a white robe, that is, a mage above level 70, can have his own mage tower, which is like a castle, with various sophisticated traps and alchemy creations, as well as a meditation house with the highest concentration of elements. It is said that a mage is only as powerful as he is in his own tower, and that's true.

"Of course, your status as a necromancer is another reason. Although I am surprised that your soul has not been marked since you returned from Styx......" Zaix's brow furrowed slightly, but he was relieved. "But that's fine, lest your identity be revealed and you be expelled. In the future, if it is not particularly necessary, never perceive the Styx again. ”

"Understood."

He guessed that after coming out of the River Styx, the system spent a lot of money (20,000 experience!). The "contamination of the soul from Heru" that is expelled is the so-called imprint.

After explaining this, the mage's eyes softened, and he seemed to be a little reluctant.

"This is a graduation ceremony, and you are not allowed to say that I slammed the door in the future." He smiled and handed out a Frostwood Staff with a royal blue crystal diamond at the top. "It's called Ebony, and it was used when I was an elementalist, and I can see that you don't like water magic, so you can make up for it somewhat."

Mu Yan took the ebony staff, and his attributes jumped in front of him.

“

Ebony Cold (Bind)

Part: Two-handed staff

Attributes: -50% cost of ice spells below the five rings, +20% cast speed of elemental spells, 320% bonus to damaging spells, and 110% increase in mana recovery speed when continuous cast.

Skill: "Enhanced Blizzard" has not yet been learned.

"Strengthening the Frozen Earth" has not yet been learned.

"Strengthening the Extreme Cold Domain" has not yet been learned.

"Enhanced Ice Crystal Blast" has not yet been learned.

Inherited from Chris Coldwind, a white-robed Coldtalker who has lost himself. ’

”

Chris Coldwind, Zaix's mentor at the Elemental Tower, is also the mage he calls a great soul tainted by his faith.

Finally collected the two weapons, Mu Yan was excited. Although he has not yet learned the following spells. "Blizzard" and "Frozen Earth" he knew could be learned at levels 25 and 34 respectively, but the latter two seemed to be exclusive to the Cold Whisperer.

The so-called advancement and transfer in "Twilight Era" belong to career refinement to a greater extent, not that changing jobs is necessarily better than not changing jobs. Didn't Bali Stink kill a number of fourth-order professions in the arena with the identity of an arcane master (mage-arcanist) back then?

But that's not all, Zaix pulled out more.

"This is my notebook from my early years......"

"Item: Damien Jones' Study Notes: Total XP Storage: 350,000. Extraction method: Reading. Draw Speed: One-third of the experience gauge of the current level/day. ”

"This is my 'ivory room', which has a study and a meditation room, and you don't seem to lack space rings, so I didn't prepare ......"

"Item: Damian Jones' Ivory House: Pay 100 mana/hour to unfold a mage house made of sculptor magic, which can accommodate four people, and self-heals when the crystal ball is retrieved, and the mana cost depends on the damage."

"It's ......"

Mu Yan was stunned and carried something into his arms, he vaguely understood that he should have completed a series of hidden tasks, but the reward was too rich, right?

"This seems to be an adventure material I translated from ancient books when I was young......er," Zayx sighed as he looked at the densely handwritten notebook in his hand, as if he was not a parting gift to his apprentice, but a spatial ring removal?

"Take it and take a look, you might find some clues. Let me find ...... again."

Mu Yan felt more and more that this was the work of removing the old, but the moment he took the notebook, a different prompt sounded.

"Get the Item: Damian Jones' Adventure Plan: It records the secondary two fantasies of a young mage."

"Mystery Item Pure White Ball Clue Collection Open, Current Progress: 1/11."

Pure white balls? Isn't that the treasure of the legendary sea god Calypso, how could it appear at this time? He was about to open his notebook when he was interrupted by something else from Zaix.

"Let me ask you a question." The mage's expression was a little serious.

Mu Yan hurriedly closed the book and sat upright.

"Even though that Rhein guy is a bastard, his granddaughter is not bad, what do you think about that?"

"You say...... Surya? Mu Yan frowned, why did the topic get to her?

Ever since he learned that there was a word engraved on the inside of the ring, he regretted that he hadn't made it clear that day, and there was a lot of embarrassment between the two, but fortunately, this embarrassment didn't last a few days.

She ...... Except for the occasional road idiot, face blindness, and inexplicable anger, it's really not bad. ”

Zaix raised an eyebrow.

"That's why you didn't take her on an adventure?"

“…… Have you ever seen a gray-robed mage take a gilded swordsman on an adventure? Mu Yan said with a smile, after the battle with the White Bone Colossus, Surya estimated that he had touched the threshold of the realm, and he was still only level 11, and there was a whole distance of experience books between the two.

"That is, if she agrees, you don't have any opinion?"

"Yes, very opinionated." Mu Yan replied honestly: "She has a marriage contract with the third prince, although I am curious about the story behind this, but I don't want to be hunted down by the entire Morning Star royal family yet." ”

"But you didn't admit it yourself—"

"Ahh "Don't say it, that's a lie to your old man."

"Oh, yes." Zayx's face turned cold in an instant. "I don't know if you remember that Rhodes who called himself 'Wind Sword Hero'?"

"Huh?" Mu Yan was shocked, what happened to that guy?

"I let him go." The black-bellied old mage carefully picked his nails and said lightly. "You seem to have brought him food, right, I don't know what happened between you, but before he left, the guy said to himself, 'I'm going to make that kid regret being born' or something. My dear apprentice, my master is about to go into retreat, and if there are any mercenaries or anything like that in ambush around this White Rock Mine, I don't have time to take care of it, so you must take care of yourself. ”

"You ......" Mu Yan wanted to cry without tears. I have no grievances with you, why do you want to mess with me like this!? That kind of careful-eyed gold-rank mercenary who will be revenged, I have to be at least thirty levels to beat it...... Not to mention that there is a dwarf named Thorin next to him, that kind of long-lived race, as long as he is not an idiot, he will have a strong body of at least level 50 when he lives to be five or six hundred years old, and he is also immune to most earth-based spells, how can I play?

"By the way, I asked Rhein's granddaughter, and she said she hadn't decided where she would go next." The mage's words are no longer implied.

"Tell me straight, what do you want to do with her?" Mu Yan got straight to the point.

"What do I want to do?" Zaix smiled: "Can you see the 'shameless Imperial people' deflated, especially if the other party is still royal, is there a more critical reason than this?" What's more, do you think I can't hear your Salin accent? Everyone is Turing, what's wrong with finding fault with the Morningstar royal family and the Edwards family? ”

Mu Yan couldn't help but be stunned. He's right, perhaps because it's his birthplace, and his lingua franca does have a slight Saalin accent.

"Besides, a lone mage is a problem after all, the elementalist has a puppet, the arcanist is more powerful than the monster in the wild, not to mention the necromancer, when I came here with three bone spirit knights, otherwise how do you think I broke through the layers of encirclement and passed through the misty forest? What about you, what do you have? I gave you Manny, do you want it? ”

"That's a good feeling!"

"It's good that you're big, and you don't weigh yourself." Zaix said angrily, "Do you think the undead minions are equipment that can be sent around?" ”

Mu Yan seemed to be persuaded by him that although he saved a lot of trouble by himself, thinking from another perspective would also bring countless troubles. And after you come out of the valley of the ashes? If you want to go back to the Horse Plain, you have to have a referrer, otherwise your identity is a problem. So, from now on, you still have to curry favor with Surya? Are you kidding......

"Think about it, pack it up and leave tomorrow, and go say goodbye to Manny, it has been looking for revenge on you." The mage gave the order to evict the guest.

"Okay." He put his things away, bowed earnestly, and left.

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"Bell, bell, bell—"

"Please come in."

Mu Yan pushed open the door and saw Sulia packing her luggage.

The two looked at each other, and they both felt that the scene in front of them was somewhat familiar. Don't say it, even the author wrote these three lines and copied them.

"What's the matter?" Surya asked.

Mu Yan's usually eloquent mouth was a little stiff at the moment.

So he said, "I have good news or bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?" ”

"Bad one." The girl seems to be in a bad mood.

"The bad news is possible...... I'm going to trouble you for a while. ”

"What?"

“…… In other words, you have to bother with your thighs and take me with you. Mu Yan went straight to the point, and explained the reason for the matter with a wry smile, but omitted the purpose of Zaix's subjective emotions, and said that he had not thought about it before, and there were many inconveniences on the road alone, and he also asked the beautiful, dignified, elegant and generous lady Surya to carry him for a while regardless of the villain, and there will be heavy thanks in the future.

Surya skipped the part of his flamboyant tongue and asked directly with a frown: "That means that guy named Rhodes is now ambushing around the White Rock Mine?" ”

Mu Yan nodded.

"And what about the good news?"

"The good news is that I'm not as cumbersome as I used to be!" He snapped his fingers, and the ebony staff instantly took his hands, and then put on a pose that he thought he was pulling the wind.

"I'm a glorious gray-robed mage now, and although I'm a little far from you, I'm more or less a help."

He still thinks about the problem with the player's thinking, the first premise of teaming up with others in the game is the level, as the saying goes, the level is not in the same range, how to risk together? However, this clearly does not apply in Lokan.

"I've never treated you like a burden." The girl argued: "A teammate is someone who can entrust his back to him, and it has little to do with strength." ”

"No, no, no—" he retorted with a wagging finger, "the objective gap between man and man is not narrowed by subjective feelings, this is a fact and a cruel reality. If it weren't for the golden apple, if it weren't for the teachings of Mr. Zaix, I wouldn't have come to you even in the same situation. Sensible enough, that's one of the few good things I have. ”

"Sanity?"

"That's right, sanity. Calmly analyze and recognize yourself. ”

"In other words, if in the future, your strength far surpasses me, and I become a burden to you, will you decisively abandon me and go on the road alone?" The girl asked calmly.

For some reason, when questioned again, Mu Yan had the same feeling that day in Night Town-his heart was beating fast, and he was a little weak. Even if he thought he was calm enough, he couldn't avoid the anomaly.

"Will the answer to this question affect your decision?" He asked.

Surya shook her head slightly.

"No, you've helped me a lot, and I have no reason to refuse you."

"That's good." He breathed a sigh of relief. "Yes. The answer is yes, but—"

"That's enough."

"Huh?" Mu Yan was slightly stunned: "Why don't you listen to my supplementary explanation?" First of all, your question is not strict—"

"I've said enough." Surya said softly, but resolutely.

"Okay then." He shrugged. "I'll go say goodbye to Manny, you sort things out, and we'll leave tomorrow morning."

"Hmm."

……

Early the next morning, the two set out on the road to the west. They will climb over the Hengduan Mountains, through the Dusk Swamps, across the Milky Way of Water, and finally reach the Ash Valley.

When he walked out of the Baiyan Mine and climbed halfway up the Hengduan Mountain Range, Mu Yan couldn't help but look back and look at it nostalgically.

Now it seems that Zaix's fate has been changed by himself, but in reality? Will it be futile to intervene on your own? If Leorik insists on turning him into a lich, or finds Grace's soul before him in other ways, will his cheap teacher finally be able to escape the clutches of fate? All this is always unknown.

Just as he finished sighing and turned around to continue his journey, the Baiyan mine behind him was quietly changing......

In the lab, the necromancer wields his wand like an elegant conductor, green rays of mana emana emanating from the tip of the bone wand attached to a muscular, bald male corpse.

"Tsk, this guy has done a lot of good things."

Admiring the experience of the corpse before his death, even the cruel Zayx was slightly stunned. Compared to the other party, he seems to be kind? What are you kidding, why did you read a few necromantic notes, he was about to be kicked out of Morningstar when his soul went to the River Styx, and this kind of scum who abused prisoners and humiliated low-level female mercenaries could still live well, and even served as a prison warden in Morningstar?

But now that the other party has become a corpse, it is useless to say anything.

"If you hadn't messed with the wrong people, I really wanted to let you out and harm the Imperial people of the Misty Forest."

He chuckled and searched Rhodes' memories and threw his soul into the container, stripping his body clean, leaving a neat skeleton sealed in a glass container.

"This is the last necromantic experiment conducted by the necromancer Zaix, and I didn't expect to get rid of a scumbag. From now on, I will be Damian Jones the Whisperer, but I only have Mia in my heart, and I will not trust any elemental goddess. Lily, I will welcome you with a new face, and wait patiently, as we have all experienced over the years. ”

After saying that, a chill emanated from his body, and soon swept through the entire castle.

Layers of ice crystals and frost quickly condensed, covering the mine and stretching to the ground, even the entrance of the future dungeon and the main entrance of the mine were shrouded in cold ice, and the terrace halfway up the mountain was surrounded by white gas, looking white from a distance, like a fairyland.

At the same time, Mu Yan, who was in a hurry, suddenly shook and stood motionless.

"What's wrong?" Surya asked with concern.

"No, nothing." An irrepressible joy appeared on Mu Yan's face, and at this moment he suddenly remembered a favorite song of the bards of "The House of Warriors".

“

If you've been like me,

Full of confusion about life.

If you've been like me,

Full of desire for heroes.

Stride forward, friend,

Because of the first chapter of all the saga,

It's all unrealistic fantasies.

……

”

(End of Volume 1)