"Little Lucy, did you ...... just now?"

Carl remembered the fiery spiritual power that had just erupted from little Lucy's body like half of magma, and suddenly thought that little Lucy also had the secret imprint of the Magic Empire on the back of his hand, and suddenly awakened the skill of using spiritual power, and suddenly understood that little Lucy probably accepted the knowledge inheritance of the Ancient Magic Empire like him.

"Mr. Karl, you mean this?"

Although he was still shy, he noticed that Carl's gaze suddenly fell on the back of his hand, and he immediately carefully pulled out his hand from behind his back and showed Carl the silver key rune mark on the back of his hand.

"Mr. Karl, I seem to have had a long, long dream that I was in a very large classroom, studying magic with many, many people......"

Little Lucy told Carl about her experience in the dream just now, and like Carl, she also found herself becoming an apprentice from the era of the Old Magic Empire, constantly attending classes, listening to lectures, and spending an unknown amount of time, and finally being woken up by a piercing bell.

"Sure enough, we're all the same, and I've just had the same dream as you......"

Karl sighed, took little Lucy's hand again, and gently stroked the silver key rune on the back of her hand.

Little Lucy couldn't help but twitch her hand, but when she saw Mr. Karl gently touching the silver rune mark on the back of her hand with his fingertips with a serious face, as if she was studying something, she suddenly stopped struggling, and let Mr. Karl touch and study it with a red face.

Little Lucy's little hands are soft and warm, and the back of her white hands is as smooth as silk, soft to the touch, slippery, and very comfortable.

Carl held little Lucy's hand seriously and studied it for a long time, and found that the back of little Lucy's hand was smooth and smooth, without any traces of etching, and the silver rune mark seemed to have been integrated into the flesh and blood, and there was no reaction to the touch.

"Mr. Karl, what the hell is this?"

Little Lucy was no longer a little girl after all, and being touched by a strange man like Mr. Carr in the palm of her hand made her very shy and awkward, and it took her a lot of energy to suppress the urge to punch her.

But seeing that Mr. Karl had been stroking over and over again, as if he was going to study it all the time, she couldn't help but remind Mr. Karl a little shyly.

"Uh, I've got it!"

Carl did make it clear that the silver rune sigil appeared to be an abstract key symbol made up of zigzag strokes. But in reality, the symbol is made up of countless more subtle runes.

I don't know if it's because of his knight's bloodline or because of the awakening of his spiritual power, when he focused his attention on the silver rune mark, he could see that the rune was not static, but a huge three-dimensional rune that was gathered together by countless smaller, three-dimensional runes, like a flowing river.

Carl's current shallow knowledge of runes could not make him understand the meaning of this rune mark, but the knowledge he had just learned from the basic class of magic runes made him understand. These tadpole-like curves of twisted and flowing runes are the notches of magic in space, the circuits of energy in the void, the definition of concepts, the form of solidified materials, and each stroke has a specific meaning—some in a practical sense, some in an energetic sense, some in a spatial sense, some in a conceptual sense, and some even in a symbolic sense.

Magic is more complex than Carl originally thought, and even if it is a simple rune, it can manifest a variety of meanings, governed by many complex elements. Every magic can be said to be an incomparably profound science.

"This is the arcane seal of the Ancient Magic Empire!"

Carl sighed, let go of little Lucy's hand, and explained to her, "In the era of the Ancient Magic Empire, every apprentice who received the Imperial Mage's inheritance would be marked with such a secret mark, which was the symbol of the Ancient Magic Empire Mage. ”

"Still, I think it's another name you're more familiar with - the Demon Mark!"

"Ahh

Little Lucy couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise, and then quickly covered her mouth with her hand. It's terrifying, how could it be, how could she be suddenly marked with a demon mark on her body.

In the stories that little Lucy has heard since childhood, those who bear the mark of demons are evil and bad monsters with sores on their heads and pus on the soles of their feet, some of them are evil witches who like to eat raw baby livers and bathe in the blood of young girls, and some are terrifying wizards who spread plagues, death and natural disasters.

In countless legends, valiant knights and glorious priests have fought against these evil sorcerers with demonic marks. In the propaganda of the Radiant Church, these sorcerers, who make deals with the devil, sell their souls to evil, and are branded as demons, are the source of all calamities and sufferings in the world, and are the common enemies of all mankind.

Almost every year, everyone can hear that a certain church in such and such a place has seized a wizard with the mark of the evil devil, burned him at the stake, and the noble lord and the glorious priest have presided over the purification ceremony to purify him.

"Don't be afraid, the so-called demon mark is nothing more than a malicious slander by the Radiant Church, this is actually just an ordinary magic mark, representing the mage inheritance of the Ancient Magic Empire, neither evil nor terrifying!"

Seeing little Lucy's surprised and shocked appearance, Carl couldn't help but smile bitterly and hurriedly comforted her.

The continental hegemony of the Radiant Church was built on the ruins of the collapse of the Ancient Magic Empire, so it has always relied on and is harshly strangling all the remnants of the empire that bear the imprint of the Ancient Magic Empire. The dark millennium that has continued to envelop the continent for thousands of years is not only the Holy See's nominal propaganda of fighting dark creatures and eliminating alien heretics, but also the main purpose is to completely defeat all the remaining magical organizations on the road, and completely extinguish all the seeds and flames that may be revived in the ancient magic empire.

The mages with the imprint of the Ancient Magic Empire have always been at the forefront of the purification sequence of the Holy See's Inquisition, higher than the descendants of evil gods, followers of ancient gods, demon sacrifices, devil apostles, bloods, werewolves, orcs, and demons.

Although Carl didn't want to be on the heresy purification list of the Radiant Church, he didn't want to be on the Radiant Church, a behemoth that had ruled the continent for thousands of years, and he didn't want to become an evil villain that everyone shouted at in public opinion.

However, there is no way, who let him accidentally get on the thief ship! The secret seal of the Magic Empire, although it is only an ordinary mark for magic apprentices, is also the glory and majesty of the Magic Empire, and it has the conceptual characteristics given by the Magic Emperor himself, even if it is a legendary powerhouse, it is too late for him to get off the ship now.