The battle with the pirates ended as soon as Chast's sudden intervention began, and except for the fifteen pirates who died at the beginning of the arrows, everyone else was very honored to be turned into ice sculptures by Chast, and none of them survived.

The two archers who followed Talos's orders shot a total of five pirates, and the soul fire also absorbed five souls at the moment of the pirate's death.

Miraculously, the souls of other pirates who died from the arrows of the Black Sea Knights and later died pirates were not absorbed by the soul fire.

This is the biggest breaking point for Talos to draw preliminary conclusions, without a doubt.

"In this battle, there are two causes of death for the pirates, Chester's Winter Ice Ring and the Black Sea Knight's arrow shot. Talos followed Emma forward to greet Chast's arrival, and quickly analyzed, "But only five of them died from the arrow's shot pirate souls that I absorbed!"

The soul fire that absorbed the five souls again radiated a faint halo outside the bright red flame light, and it sank into the void, and Talos's entire body was indescribably relaxed, like the comfort and satisfaction of the moment when he soaked his body in the hot spring in the cold winter.

If the pirates on the Freeman continue to be subdivided, they can be divided into three control groups:

The first group, the pirates whose souls were absorbed by Talos, numbered five;

the second group, pirates who died from the arrows of other Black Sea knights, dozens of people;

The third group, the pirates who were turned into ice sculptures by Chest, numbered about eighty.

Comparing the first and second groups, digging deeper into the differences, it quickly becomes clear that there is actually only one difference.

The first group of Black Sea Knights who were in charge of shooting followed the orders of Talos, and the second group of Black Sea Knights who were in charge of shooting were under the orders of Emma.

As a result, the souls of pirates who were shot by the Black Sea Knight at the orders of Talos were successfully absorbed by the soul fire, while those who followed Emma's orders were not.

After comparing it with the third group, Talos finally came to a preliminary conclusion: when there is a direct causal relationship between the cause of the target's death and himself, the target's soul will be absorbed by the soul fire.

Using the conclusion to verify the previous case, Ax died in the True Worm Repair Module that protected the safety of the sick body (Talos), the first Seagate Crocodile was killed because the Black Sea Knight did not want it to threaten Talos's safety, and then five Seagate Crocodiles died on the direct orders of Talos, and the executioner was the Black Sea Knight.

The twelve souls absorbed since the soul fire was ignited can be explained by this conclusion!

As for other influencing factors, such as the maximum range (distance) that Soul Fire can absorb Soul Fire, whether the target's strength has an effect on Soul Fire absorption, etc., before Talos sets up more control groups for experiments, the test subject is depleted and becomes an ice sculpture.

"If the preliminary conclusion is true, it means that the cause of death of Naga, who was killed just now, has no direct causal relationship with me, and the cause of the shipwreck has nothing to do with me. In other words, the other party's target is not me. ”

"If so, who would he be targeting?" Talos's gaze swept over the survivor and finally landed on the girl from the Mithriel family, "Is it possible that the other party's target is this girl with the blood of a prophet?"

The chief court archmage Flory already had a lot of political enemies in the Naga Kingdom, not to mention that the kingdom was now in a critical period when the eldest princess and the third princess were competing for the throne, and it was not uncommon for the identity of the eldest princess to be a strong supporter of the other party's eldest princess to bring disaster to the clan.

"So, Tár, are you okay?" a somewhat serious-sounding voice landed in his ear, pulling Talos back from detective mode to reality, it was Chaste.

Talos shrugged, "Not bad, I don't think I had a chance to command four Black Sea knights before. ”

As the backbone of the Black Sea armed forces, the Black Sea Knights are directly under the leadership of the Black Sea Lord Sandra, and there are no more than ten people in the entire Black Sea who have second-class command.

Even as the youngest son favored by the Black Sea Lords, Talos did not have the authority to command the Black Sea Knights.

However, after he lost his ability to cast spells, he was unexpectedly protected by four Black Sea Knights.

Chester frowned, looking dissatisfied with Talos's answer, and said in a tone peculiar to an elder:

"Meditation space shattering is a devastating blow and disaster for other mages, you are different. The Immortal Whale Bloodline is one of the best bloodlines of the Sea Clan, and it will make you truly glorious and powerful after your ordeal. The important thing is that you are still young and have more room for improvement than we do. ”

Somewhat flattered, Talos took all of Chast's affirmations of him.

He never knew that Chast, a high-level mage, was so confident in him to activate the Immortal Ancient Whale bloodline, as if his strength would reach the seventh order of black iron on the second day after returning to the Black Sea, and then directly activate the bloodline.

Seriously, Talos thinks that he will become a great bloodline knight in the future, not because he is completely sure, but because of an indescribable honey confidence.

According to the survey data released by Eternal Tide a year ago, among the 100 professions in Sainz, there are 50 bloodline knights, 30 clerics, and 20 spellcasters.

It seems that becoming a bloodline is the easiest thing to do, but the truth is that activating bloodlines has never had anything to do with "easy".

No one can guarantee that Talos will be as good as he is a Bloodline Knight while he has extraordinary mage talents.

Talos's confident and free mentality is all based on the identity of the mysterious soul fire and the young son of the Black Sea Lord, if he didn't have enough retreat and confidence, he would have collapsed in the other people's mentality, after all, the gap between formal professionals and ordinary people is very large.

Moreover, Talos was too far behind the others on the path of the Bloodline Knight, and when he dedicated ten years from the age of seven to seventeen to the mage, they chose to practice their martial arts, sharpen their will, and prepare for the activation of the bloodline.

- He needs to work exponentially hard to catch up with the Bloodline Knights of the same period!

At this moment, Talos truly established his own faith and determination on the basis of Chast's straightforward confidence, and faced the reality head-on.

It's a pity that Emma didn't give Talos more time to communicate with Chast: "What about the family mage, why didn't you come with you?"

Chaster looked away from Talos and nodded to Quintu before falling to Emma, the first in line to the Black Sea Lord, to answer her question:

"I received the summons from the lord and immediately rushed over according to the coordinates, for fear that you would be in danger and have been moving at full speed, it turns out that my worries are not unreasonable, these damn pirates! The family mage is behind me for a while, it will take about twenty minutes, don't worry, I will definitely send Tal home safely." ”

PS: Go home tomorrow and the first episode ends.