At first there was nothing, no time, no space, darkness and chaos, nothingness.

Then a special wave wakes up from the darkness, and under the stimulus of darkness and chaos, a certain perception is born, and the perception leads to an idea, so he opens his eyes.

A continuous stream of information, images and sounds from the outside was collected, analyzed, and defined, and he found that there was a myriad of brilliant magical lights reflected around him, and it was a pool of elements, and he was suspended on it.

The Elemental Pool, the full name of the Elemental Energy Pool, is the most critical and core device in the Mage Laboratory and the Mage Tower, which often draws energy from the six inner planes - the four elemental planes of earth, water, air, and fire and the positive and negative energy planes - as the energy center of the entire mage tower, maintaining the operation of the magic array and charging the golem.

It was the first time he had seen the elemental pool, but the moment he saw it, he understood its name, origin, and function.

Before a thought called doubt was born, a person appeared in front of him.

The other party is young and handsome, with long blond hair and a pair of emerald eyes.

"How do you feel?" asked.

"Good. ”

He replied subconsciously, an instinct from the depths of his soul driven to answer the question of the young man in front of him, any question.

"I am your creator!," said the man, in a tone of claim to property, "you are the most brilliant work and creation here." ”

He looked at himself, the upper body was a naked man, muscular, full of masculinity and strength, with two pairs of arms, and a cloud-like swirling vortex below his waist, which indeed met the definition of "perfect".

He looked at the man and asked the first question after awakening consciousness: "My name?"

The man seemed a little surprised by this question, but he quickly reacted and calmly threw the question back: "You can choose one you like as a gift for you to come into the world." ”

He began to think, trying to draw inspiration and ideas from the room and the pool of elements, when a fragment suddenly flashed through his consciousness.

It was a creature that looked very similar to him, with the same four arms, but instead of a cloud vortex, the lower half of its body was a thick, slender, scaly snake tail.

"Talos. He said.

He didn't know where the word came from, but the moment his consciousness discovered it, he liked the name, as if it belonged to him in the distant past.

But this is clearly illogical and factual, because he has only just been born.

The conflict tingled his brain, and in order to alleviate the discomfort, he stopped studying the problem.

I don't know if it's an illusion, the moment he said his name, the smile on the man's face paused.

However, the other party did not comment on the name in the end, and only never mentioned the word again in the later conversation.

"Do you see this elemental pool?" the man pointed to the magic pool where the four elements of earth, water, air, and fire, and positive and negative energies converge, "The purpose for which I created you and the value of your existence is to be a part of it and run the entire elemental pool." ”

"Now, slowly integrate your body into it and become the center of the place. ”

To the man's command, Talos gladly complied, submissively lowering his altitude, and the cloud vortex was the first to connect with the elemental pool.

Spells, chanting, magic circles, spell aura......

A strange connection flowed through his body and the elemental pool, and he could feel the four elements and two energies in the elemental pool in the form of pure energy, rather than gravity, rocks, frost, waves, storms, lightning, or fire from which they were derived.

The man waved his wand and continued to chant the incantation, and the operation of the elemental pool entered a higher level, and the elements and energy actually liquefied, turning into a blue liquid, each drop containing a terrifying power that made the heart palpitate.

That's remarkable, because there isn't a single pool of elements in the whole of Sainz that can liquefy elemental energy - what Sainz is, another question flashes through it - that's something that only one of the most famous architectural elemental wells in magical creations can do.

In the entire Sainz, the number of elemental wells is only a handful, and it is generally in the hands of the Council of the Nine Rings, which is the foundation of the floating cities that can hang in the sky and be shrouded in confusion.

In a tingling, he felt a feeling of weakness, something indescribable slowly flowing from his body into the elemental pool, becoming a part of it.

He felt uncomfortable and knew that kind of thing was very important to him, but the vocation and existential value that men had bestowed upon him kept him from moving, and his connection to the elemental pool was even stronger.

Another fragment flashed through my mind, a piece of parchment with a little story of a lion and a sheep......

This story is like a key, opening doors in his mind, and more fragments keep flashing back.

A gargoyle with a burst grenade, an iron knight with a broadsword, a meteorite falling from the sky......

In the end, the picture is frozen on a pair of emerald eyes, and a strong killing intent boils in the bottom of the heart, erupting like a volcano, and instantly sweeping the whole body.

"Bruce!"

He shouted the name of the man in front of him and came back to his senses.

All this in front of him was nothing more than Bruce relying on the advantages of the dream master and the high-level mage to create an illusion to encircle and suppress him, an intruder, in a vain attempt to completely eliminate his thoughts.

"Sure enough, as soon as I begin to absorb the power contained in this thought of yours, it will cause you to rebound. Bruce grimly pointed to the fact, "But that's okay, in a few seconds you'll be part of the elemental pool." ”

Maybe he can use this as a connection to spy on the power in Talos himself, the power that he has tried to claim in his sleep.

Talos looked at his weakened body and didn't panic as a pitch-black vortex appeared above his head and quickly collapsed, becoming a singularity between being and nothing.

As soon as the singularity appeared, it immediately generated a terrifying suction force that Brus had never seen before, constantly spinning, distorting space, and becoming a black vortex.

All the visible and invisible matter and energy around it were all attracted by the black vortex, and even the light could not escape, and it bent from all angles, becoming a spherical vortex of light that surrounded the pitch black in the middle.

The elemental pool beneath Talos was the first to suffer, the blue liquid and the materials used to build the elemental pool were thrown into the black vortex almost simultaneously, vanishing and annihilating.

Boom –

Everything in the dream begins to crumble around the vortex, including the earth and the sky, and Bruce's thoughts fall into it without incident, turning into nothingness.

For Talos, dreams are a place where idealism reigns supreme, as long as his will is firm enough, his imagination is rich enough, and he understands the effects of spells, he becomes a fantasy of all kinds of spells, such as the previous group immobilization and liquid protective film.

And now, a black hole that Talos imagined—he didn't know how it was born, and the only thing he could give was a terrifying suction that even light could capture—destroyed Bruce's dreams in one fell swoop.

Wishing comes true, probably similar to this.

Bang!

Everything is nothing.

At the moment when only a little consciousness was ejected from the dream, Talos saw rounds of clear, pure flames illuminating Chaos.

And the source is a flame hanging in the void, bright butter and bright!

It was a soul fire, but it wasn't his.

The second soul fire!

In an instant, all the things that Talos had wondered about before were figured out.

Why did the soul fire tremble slightly the moment he saw Bruce, why did he have a killing intent that wanted to break the bones and scatter ashes for a man he had never met, and why did he say the same thing when he saw the Inga Plane Killing Arena......

Because Bruce also has a soul fire in him!

Previously, Talos had always thought that the soul fire came from the accident on the battlefield of Strasbourg, and it was unique because it was sublimated from the soul, but now that he thinks about it, it is not that simple.

Although he didn't want to admit it, the second drawback of Soulfire was officially in front of Talos, and the inevitable fight with another Soulfire holder was the fundamental reason why he decided that Bruce was his mortal enemy in the first place!

Neither Talos nor Bruce would have decided that letting each other live was the right decision after meeting each other twice.

Kill the other party, capture the soul fire, and strengthen himself - when he saw the Bruce soul fire, Talos knew that he could strengthen his soul fire in this way, it was a hunch and a fact - it was imperative to complete the duel that was destined the moment the soul fire was ignited, and there was no way to avoid it.

In fact, in the City of Fortune, Talos has already been attacked by Bruce.

In retrospect, the parchment on which the Seven-Day Bible was written at the feast was the simplest of temptations, for those with soul fire would not die after reading the Seven-Day Bible—at least that's what Talos thought.

The result was obvious, Talos's safety and well-being, so Bruce immediately made up his mind to strike first, and on the day the city of wealth was attacked by the Illuminati, he set up a heavy killing situation on the outskirts of Bolingham, interlocking and meticulous methods, and executed people to death.

If it weren't for the hole card of the watch world and the large number of spell scrolls that Sandra gave him before leaving the house, his soul fire would probably have been transferred to Bruce and become an indispensable energy for him to become a fourth-order archmage.

"The City of Fortune is the territory of the Golden Empire, and I can't compete with you with my own strength, but since I've come to the Caspi Sea—" With a thought in his mind, Talos's consciousness had already returned to his body across a long time and space in an instant, and he quickly thought about countermeasures, "The water is the place where the Tidal Naga can best exert its combat power. ”

"I just don't know where he's hiding now, and how many guards he's bringing with him?"

As the second prince of the Golden Empire, Bruce will definitely travel with a certain number of escorts.

What's more, the gargoyles, iron knights, and other constructed lives in the suburbs of Berlingham and in the dream just now made Talos very memorable.

"Nothing to worry about. Talos opened his eyes and saw the stars in the sky through the river, and his mood gradually calmed down, "This time I'm walking with two third-order and two fourth-order professionals!"

"It will work!"

"What's on your mind, Tar? ”

Suddenly, the voice of Dolores was heard not far away, and when Talos looked, he saw the Naga witch swimming towards him.

Talos's eyes lit up, and he explained vaguely: "When I went to the City of Fortune to attend a grand event, I was attacked by the second prince of the Golden Empire and was almost killed by him. He was very interested in the Frost Crown, and I had a hunch that I would meet him on the Caspi Sea. ”

"How do you want to get revenge on him?" Dolores replied very cheerfully.

Talos thought for a moment and decided to put it mildly, but by the time he was organizing the language, Dolores had already thrown out two suggestions: "Do you kill them or capture them and imprison them in the abyss?"

The abyss, the depth is above the trench where the Naga live in the deep sea, except for magic or some special substances, there is no sunlight in the abyss, it is pitch black, it is the residence of the legendary creatures of the deep sea, the sea magic fish, the forbidden area that the Naga Kingdom and the Mermaid and the Fish-Man United Kingdom dare not easily set foot in.

Dolores's righteousness made Talos very happy, but in addition to the joy, he was a little puzzled: "But he is the second prince of the golden empire of the human world, Sarafus?"

Will it cause a diplomatic dispute between the Naga Kingdom, the Temple of the Snow Mountain, and Saraphos, or even cause a world war?

"But we're Naga. Dolores chuckled lightly, and the snake coiled beside Talos in the current, "The most crucial point is that the second prince of the Golden Empire you just mentioned, Bruce - it should be the name, if I remember correctly- is not a priest, and it is impossible for him to become the Emperor of Saraphos. ”

Unless there is a holy war, or if they are inherently hostile to each other, people generally do not attack priests and priests who believe in gods in public.

After all, this is a theocratic world, and behind every church stands the most powerful existence in the entire universe, the gods!

"Moreover, this is neither the Golden Empire nor the Human World, and in fact the Caspihai does not belong to any of the kingdoms of the Pampas or the Kingdom of Gainya, and even if the murder is found with the help of prophecy spells, there are only a few diplomatic disputes that can be caused by finding the murderer. ”

"What's more—" Dolores described the fact in a tone of rare pride, "you are the son of the legendary mage Grand Duke of the Black Sea, and Albert I, who founded the Golden Empire, is long gone. ”

"A royal family without an epic knight would never clash with a legendary mage because of a prince who could not become emperor, if Blaise II could keep a clear head. ”

"Actually, that's what I thought. Especially the last point, "So, you're going to help me deal with Bruce?"

"Of course, it's not just me, I think Mural is also very willing. ”

That was the joint action of the three fifth-order powerhouses and the heirs of the Medusa generation.

Bruce, Bruce, Caspihai is where your corpse sinks.

With the confidence and hope of victory, Talos closed his eyes and fell asleep contentedly.