"Shadow Eater"?is the magic that devoured half of the inhabitants of Vank City thousands of years ago!, Cassius thought in horror. He couldn't disable it with a spell of isolation, because his body had already begun to merge with the shadow, unless he didn't want his feet that had been trapped in the shadow. For this reason, Cassius can only struggle desperately, trying to get rid of the shadow that consumes him little by little. But he stopped struggling until his knees were drowned in the shadows. Because Cassius knew that since this magic could kill half the people of the city, there must have been people who had struggled blindly like him, but in the end it was in vain, and at this life-and-death situation, he had to do everything he could to calm himself down and come up with a solution.

The short period of time from his knees to his waist was the key to Cassius' survival, because inadvertently, he raised his head slightly, and his eyes touched the fire plate of the huge statue behind the black fox.

Cassius closed his eyes, raised his hands above his head, and silently chanted a spell in his heart, and a thick amount of magic gushed out from him, and the water elemental condensed between his hands formed a dark blue ball of energy.

"Pointless resistance. The black fox scoffed. By this time, the shadow had already flooded Cassius's chest.

However, Cassius was unmoved, and he continued to concentrate his magic without distraction. This was due to the fact that he had developed a habit of replenishing his mana in time after a battle, otherwise he would not have been able to summon such an abundance of mana after unleashing a mentor-level magic like "Diamond Stardust".

As the shadow reached his jaw, Cassius' last life-saving spell was finally unleashed. The dark blue ball of energy between the two hands burst into a winding waterspout that spiraled into the sky.

The black fox smiled coldly, he made his body shadow, in this state he can be immune to most attacks, even if there is a few magic can still hurt him in the shadow state, but obviously the magic of the water system is not in his scope.

However, the Black Fox's efforts to shadow itself did not work as well as it should, because the target of the waterspout was not himself at all, but the four fire disks on the giant vampire statue.

When the fire is attacked by a waterspout, it is extinguished almost instantly, leaving only rising white smoke and the sound of "sizzling". After extinguishing the flames in a fire tray, the waterspout, which has shrunk in a circle by canceling out the fire elementals, continues to pounce on the next target. In the blink of an eye, the flames in the four fire trays were extinguished one by one by the waterspouts, and by this time the dark shadow had already flooded Cassius's eyes, leaving only the top of his head and his hands still outside.

But that's enough. The light was born from the fire, and after the water extinguished the fire, the red light that illuminated the school grounds disappeared, and the surroundings returned to darkness. Cassius lay on the ground, panting incessantly, he almost suffocated from drowning in the shadow, but fortunately, the shadow disappeared with the light, and Cassius's body was freed. At the last moment, although he was gambling, it was clear that Cassius was lucky to win in this game of gambling with his own life at stake.

"You're smart enough to discover that the downside of shadow magic is the light source. The voice of a black fox rang out in the darkness.

After clearing his breathing, Cassius got up from the ground and said to the darkness, "Where there is light, there is shadow, this is common knowledge that even a three-year-old child knows. It's a pity I found out too late. If I had thought of it earlier......"

"You could have beaten me if you thought about it earlier?hahahaha...... You're naïve enough. From the darkness came the unbridled sneer of the black fox.

Indeed, Cassius realized that although he had just eliminated the light source and freed himself from the shadows, it did not mean that the situation had been reversed, because in the pitch darkness, the enemy could not be seen with the naked eye, and the vampire's ability to see in the dark was far superior to that of humans, which put him in another predicament.

And the black fox saw through Cassius's thoughts: "I know what you're thinking. Are you worried that I'm going to sneak up on you in the dark? Don't underestimate me. Out of respect for being a genius of magic, I will not kill you by such a despicable means. ”

"Genius?" Cassius didn't know why the Black Fox had suddenly mentioned such an unrelated matter.

"Didn't anyone tell you? You don't need to chant spells to cast magic below the rank level, which shows that your magic cultivation has reached the level of a three-ring mage, and you can learn and use mentor-level magic, which shows that at least the water system has reached the level of a second-ring mage. In addition, your combat experience and battlefield adaptability are very strong, and it is not impossible to fight against someone with the strength of a first-ring mage. You look like you're only 20 years old at most, and it's not a genius to be able to do such a thing at this age?" the black fox praised Cassius for a round, but suddenly changed his words, "However, genius has a price. ”

"Don't beat around the bush, what the hell are you trying to say?"

"I just want to tell you that the price of genius is 'loneliness', and there can be no companions at all. The so-called 'companions' are not needed, they approach you with their own evil intentions, either fear, covet, or take advantage of you, that's all. ”

"Loneliness? I don't feel that way. If that's why you despise 'companions', then I sue you for being very wrong!"

"That's because your genius is not enough! The more capable the genius, the more profound the loneliness you feel. You're a genius at freezing magic at best, and I'm a genius in the whole department, and who knows 'loneliness' better than I do?"

A burst of magic suddenly pierced Cassius's brain, leaving his consciousness blank.

A thousand years ago, Alexei Romankovich was born into a family of magicians in the city of Živan in the Snowy Federation.

Alexei's parents are both Ring Mages and have excellent genes. Not only that, but in order to make the child's starting point much higher than other peers, his mother drank a lot of magic-boosting potions when she was pregnant, so when Alexei was born, he possessed supernatural magical powers.

But there is a saying in the world called "too much". Alexei's parents never expected that the magic brought by the birth of their son was far beyond the scope of their control. The end result was that Alexei was born and took his mother's life. Then, like a curse, misfortune continued to befall those around Alexei. The second unlucky was his father, when he was two years old, when he was playing with his father, the wind that blew from Alexei's mouth unconsciously turned into a wind blade and cut off his father's head, and the next victim was the nanny, who was in charge of taking care of him, and after a tantrum she lost her temper, the nanny exploded and died, less than half a year after the death of the child's father.

Immediately afterwards, his grandfather, uncle, aunt, classmates, mentors, and the woman he loved most in his life, all the important people who grew up with Alexei, were also taken by his unconscious magic one after another.

After losing his cherished love, Alexei, disheartened, stopped associating with anyone and completely sealed off his heart. On the one hand, he didn't want anyone to die for him, and on the other hand, he was seen as a monster, and as soon as he approached, the crowd would collapse on its own, leaving him with only a background of fear and a look of exclusion.

Having no relatives or friends, Alexei devoted himself to the study of magic in order to relieve the loneliness in his heart. Due to his innate strong magic power, coupled with a good comprehension ability, in less than five years, Alexei mastered all the elemental magic that had been developed at that time in the four major systems and twenty branches, from the entry level to the mentor level to the forbidden spell, almost all of them. However, when he had learned all the magic, Alexei felt extremely empty again, and the loneliness of being temporarily forgotten tormented him again.

Every morning, Alexei wakes up with only his own shadow, when he reads, he can see only his own shadow except books, before turning off the lights and going to bed, when he walks into the street, pedestrians avoid him, shops are closed, and only his own shadow is followed by him...... "It would be nice if you could move on your own and become my friend." Alexei said to his shadow.

As a result, the powerful shadow magic was created by this lonely genius.

However, the shadow is always a shadow, and even if Alexei can make the shadow become a physical entity and move like a human, he will always be a puppet controlled by his magic, without a soul, without a mind, without consciousness, and cannot be equated with words like "friend" and "companion". Alexei still could not get rid of his loneliness until that day came......

It was an opportunity. At that time, Alexei was testing new magic alone in the wild, but he never expected to encounter a wave of demonic beasts that was rare in a century, and a huge group of demonic beasts surrounded him alone, no matter how strong Alexei's personal strength was, it was just a drop in the ocean in front of these thousands of demonic beasts. There is no doubt that Alexei was finally buried in the Warcraft Tide, but fortunately, there was another person who was deeply involved in the Warcraft Tide back then.

His name was Gukin, and he was the Minister of Research that year, and he was ranked eighth in the Council of the Power Core. Gu Jin traveled thousands of miles from the Silver Mountain to the outskirts of Urging Fan Ke City for the purpose of hunting demonic beasts and collecting the magic crystal nuclei used in his research. The two silently fought back-to-back against the Warcraft horde, fighting together, bleeding together, encouraging together, and facing death together...... I don't know if the bond of life and death made them burst out with far more combat power than usual, and the two actually fought their way out of the encirclement in the group of monsters that overlapped like a tide, and successfully escaped.

The two of them who collapsed lay on the ice field, but they laughed in unison. Gukin kindly extended a hand of friendship to Alexei. Alexei was still a little distrustful of this "friend" who fell from heaven at first, but Gujin's sincere smile and eyes without fear and rejection made Alexei, who had long longed for his companion, unable to refuse. And Gu Jin's strength is very strong, he is a strong man who can match himself, and he is not worried about being hurt unconsciously by his magic power, so the two became friends. Alexey opened his heart completely, and they talked almost nothing. In this way, the friendship between them lasted for several years......

However, the closed life buried in the stacks of books for a long time made Alexei lose the most basic vigilance when interacting with people. The phrase "the heart of defense is indispensable" was completely forgotten by him. He cherished this hard-won friendship and didn't want to doubt this only friend at all, so he turned a blind eye to the many doubts in the fact that he "coincidentally" met Gu Jin in the Warcraft Tide. However, the truth of the matter does not change due to the subjective preferences of the parties.

After gaining full and unreserved trust from Alexei, Gujin revealed his true colors. It turned out that Gu Jin had heard many years ago that there was a genius with extremely high magic power in the city of Urge Van Ke in the southwest of the Federation, and his unconsciously released magic power could take people's lives, and almost everyone avoided him, which also made this genius's character extremely withdrawn, but in Gu Jin's eyes, that lonely genius was a treasure trove. The real purpose of Gujin and Alexei's friendship is the almost inexhaustible amount of magic in his body.

After years of in-depth correspondence, after knowing Alexei well, Gujin finally carried out his long-planned plan: a forbidden thing forbidden by federal law - summoning demons.

Compared to Kasenlov a thousand years later, Gujin's approach was simple and straightforward. He used the magic shackles to control Alexei, and through the séance ritual excerpted from an ancient book, he detonated the magic power in Alexei's body, trying to use the body of his "friend" as a sacrifice to open the door to the demon realm.

This real yàn ultimately failed. Alexei, who was betrayed by his best friend, seemed to lose a qiē in an instant. Compared to the pain caused to Gu Jin's body when he was doing it, the trauma of mental collapse was the reason why he was completely out of control, sadness, anger, unwillingness, hatred, and all kinds of negative emotions occupied his heart, so that he did not vent his hatred even after breaking Gu Jin's body into ten thousand pieces, and the uncontrollable magic rushed to the streets, frantically venting his revenge on the innocent citizens......

Mind Reading is a mental magic that reads memories in people who are less mentally powerful than themselves, and when used in reverse, it can also transmit their own memories to the other person's brain, just like Black Fox did to Cassius just now.

experienced the life of the man named "Alexei Romankovich" from a first-person perspective, and although the actual time was only less than 1 second, Cassius's heart was still in a deep shock, and he did not immediately wake up from Alexei's emotions, and he was stunned for a while.

At this time, his eyes had fully adapted to the dark environment, and under the faint moonlight, Cassius could vaguely distinguish the figure of the black fox. Now that you can see it, the situation is not as bad as before. Cassius straightened up and said solemnly to the black fox, "Why do you want me to see this?"

"I want you to come to your senses, the so-called 'companions' are not needed at all. ”

"No! it's you who should be sober. Don't impose your misfortunes on others. ”

"Hmph," the black fox sneered a few times, "since you don't accept it, then I'll let you know what despair is." ”