Marcus watched the ball at his feet being stolen by Kenneth, while his team members were still standing motionless like wood, easily allowing Kenneth to score, and ran to them angrily and shouted, "What are you guys doing?!" Hurry up and run for me! ”

Then Marcus heard Robert speak indifferently, "Didn't you say that the number ten could only be handed over to you to deal with?" So why should we get in your way? ”

"What did you say?!" Marcus shouted as he glared and grabbed Robert by the collar.

"What if I said that?" Robert said dismissively.

Marcas glared, then raised his hand to signal the referee to call for a substitution.

Seeing this, Robert sneered and ran straight out of the field, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in his thigh and fell to the ground. All the McGee players on the field were stunned at this, and then gathered around Robert.

Robert only felt a heart-piercing pain in his thigh as if it was broken, and he lay on the ground and raised his head to point at Marcas, and said in disbelief: "You even attacked your teammates?!" ”

And the other McGee players also looked at Marcus with shocked expressions, but they didn't expect Marcus to be so vicious. They were so completely disappointed with Marcus that they took off their jerseys, threw them at him hard, and then left the pitch with Robert.

"What are you doing?! I'm the captain! You guys, get me back! Marcus shouted, but the McGee players just walked off the pitch without looking back.

On the huge field, only the six members of the Phil team and Marcas were left.

It was the first time for the referee to encounter this situation, and he was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do, so he blew the whistle to stop the game and quickly went to discuss what to do with a few referees.

The rest of Team Phil stepped into the rest area to stand by, while Kenneth ran up to Marcas, expressionless, "Looks like even your teammates don't want to play with you anymore." ”

Marcus glared at Kenneth when he heard this, and after seeing the disdain in Kenneth's eyes, he felt a rush of blood in his brain, and he didn't even think about it, he threw a punch, wanting to use his dark energy to give Kenneth a little color.

But to Marcus's surprise, Kenneth once again showed a look of disgust in his eyes, and lightly wrapped Marcus's fist with his right hand, and then felt the strength of his punch, and then the coldness in his eyes was even worse: "It seems that you used this move to seriously injure Auston, right?" ”

"I should know I'm the head of security for the student union, right?" Kenneth continued.

"So what?" Marcus tried to draw his fist but couldn't, gritted his teeth and asked Kenneth.

Kenneth snorted coldly and said, "I'll let you get the punishment you deserve." After saying that, he didn't care about Marcas's disdainful face, and ran straight back to the rest area of the Phil team.

"Hey, who's scaring you? But those bastards dared to betray me! Are you impatient?! Marcus walked back to the McGee team lounge with a gloomy face, sitting alone in a chair, all about how to get revenge on Kenneth and his roommates who had betrayed him.

Fifteen minutes later, the referees collectively declared the end of the match, and the Phil team advanced to the next round with a score of 12-0. Marcas snorted coldly as he looked at the cheering Phil team, and then got up and left the pitch in defiance of the game procedure.

Kenneth looked at Marcus's back, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes, but this was not the time to scruple about Marcus, and he still had many questions to ask Hephaestus.

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The third game of the Phil team can be described as anticlimactic, but in any case, a win is a win, and they are now in the top three of Group C, just one or two steps away from the group stage title.

Just as everyone was about to go to the infirmary to tell Alston the good news of the victory and visit his injuries by the way, Kenneth clutched his stomach and pretended to be in pain, and asked everyone to go first under the pretext of going to the toilet, while he sneaked to the office of the Ministry of Security, which was absolutely empty at this time.

After confirming that there was no one around, I saw a flash of red light from the Yanlong ring on Kenneth's finger, and then Hephaestus appeared in front of Kenneth, but it was an illusory figure, and the figure was not the adult man when I first met, but an eight-year-old pink boy, but the handsome and bewitching face was still the same, red hair, red eyes, and the red robe on his body, which was extremely flamboyant.

Kenneth looked at the red-clothed young man in front of him with his bare feet suspended in mid-air, and a pair of crimson sun-shaped earrings on his ears, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "You're Hephaestus, right?" ”

The boy looked at Kenneth fixedly, noncommittal, "I can say that. The voice is still as mature as it was at the beginning, full of disobedience to this pink appearance.

Kenneth was confused by his statement, but he didn't dwell on this point anymore, and grabbed the point and asked, "What state are you in now?" ”

Hephaestus floated to the couch and sat down, "Hmm...... How to say, as a freshman, I am still in my infancy, and I am still a little short of the growth period, so I can only appear in front of you in the state of a spiritual body. Originally, I was still in suspended animation, and as soon as I entered adulthood, I would die completely after receiving all the memory inheritance. ”

Kenneth sat down slowly, nodded and pretended to be pensive, "I see......"

However, Hephaestus said in one sentence: "You don't understand at all, do you? I can feel a blank space in your head. ”

Because of the contractual relationship of the Flame Dragon Ring, the spirits of the two are closely linked, and the thoughts in Kenneth's mind Hephaestus can feel at any time, but strangely, Kenneth can't perceive Hephaestus's thoughts.

"So, there are two Hephaestus alive now?" Kenneth blushed after being told by Hephaestus, and then asked as he tried to sort out his current situation.

Hephaestus snapped his fingers and said: "That's right, it's okay for you to understand it this way, its essence is the differentiation of the soul, now I only carry less than one-third of the dragon soul, and I need to slowly accept the memory inheritance to complete the transition of the soul." ”

Kenneth's eyes widened in disbelief and asked, "Can souls also be divided?" ”

Hephaestus nodded as a matter of course, and said with a look of pride on his face: "For a dragon that is a higher life, the quality of the soul is naturally far from being comparable to that of humans, and this kind of thing can certainly be achieved. ”

"Uh...... So what is the soul? Kenneth wondered.

Hephaestus blinked, "It's what you humans call 'psychic power'." ”

"What?!" Kenneth was shocked, "Spiritual power is a person's soul?" ”

Hephaestus said as a matter of course: "That's right, it's just that you human beings have not understood the nature of life thoroughly enough to divide the spiritual power and the soul into two, thus questioning what the soul is, and then many philosophers have discussed these issues, for example, a human being put forward the idea that "the soul produces spiritual power, and spiritual power expresses the soul". I still seem to have two or three of your human philosophers in my head about the soul, and I have to say, quite interesting. Humans are much cuter than filthy orcs. ”

"Yes......" Kenneth lowered his head, it turns out that in the eyes of the dragon, humans are just cute?

You don't have to be so depressed, you are only one step away from the truth. Now that you have discovered that the essence of the world is the four elements, it is not difficult to imagine what the essence of life, the soul, is. After all, it's just a blind eye. Hephaestus shrugged.

"Today I was only awakened by your strong mental fluctuations, and I thought that you were in some danger before I woke up from my slumber temporarily, and since you are safe and sound, then I can continue to sleep with peace of mind. Although only part of the spirit body is separated, it will still have some impact on the soul inheritance. Kenneth, you are brave, but sometimes you are too impulsive, I am not awake now, I can't stand by your side, you have to take care of yourself. Hephaestus put on a small face and educated Kenneth in a serious manner.

Kenneth felt a little guilty in his heart, it turned out that Hephaestus only woke up briefly because he was worried about him, so he nodded and said, "I understand, I will definitely be cautious." ”

Hephaestus, on the other hand, raised his lips and smiled, "With your personality, do you think I will believe you?" But don't keep a low profile, remember, you are my contractor of Hephaestus, and you have the capital to lose to all human beings, and you don't need to bow your head to anyone. When I wake up, you'll be a true dragon hero! ”

Kenneth felt a stirring in his chest, nodded vigorously, and said, "I know!" ”

Hephaestus smiled, and his figure gradually dissipated, leaving the last sentence: "Kenneth, because of my temporary awakening, you should have gained enough strength to protect yourself, but the world is sinister and the human heart is unpredictable, so don't just die......"

Kenneth heard this, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile very similar to that of Hephaestus: "Don't worry, how could I die so easily in this empire?" I'm going to be a hero! ”

Perhaps Kenneth was delusional, as if he heard Hephaestus laugh heartily.

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In the infirmary of the sophomore student activity hall, when the five Brandons walked into Auston's hospital bed, they found Auston lying on the bed like a nobody, flipping through a thick book with the words "A Detailed Examination of the Life of the Great Wizard" written on the cover in human language.

Seeing the irrepressible excitement on everyone's faces, Auston raised his eyebrows at Mona and asked, "Win?" ”

"That's right, we won!" Mona smiled excitedly and nodded loudly.

Brandon cared about Auston in his heart, but as soon as he said it, "Didn't you break three ribs?" How is it the same as being okay? ”

Auston rolled his eyes and said, "That injury is only a matter of more than forty seconds before the recovery operation, if the doctor didn't ask me to rest for a while, I could go back to the dormitory directly." But you stupid, you shouldn't be holding back, right? ”

Brandon sneered: "I don't know who dragged our feet, so that we only have six people left to play on the field!" If Kenneth hadn't been here, I'm afraid we would have lost the game! ”

Auston just snorted, but he ignored Brandon, looked at everyone and asked, "What about Kenneth?" ”

"He's gone to the bathroom." Brandon replied nonchalantly.

A look of contemplation flashed in Auston's eyes, and then he said to the crowd, "Don't you think there's anything strange about Kenneth?" ”