Rune Magic, which is not limited by roots, is a magical system that Skaha is researching and perfecting - it can already be called Rune magic again.

Ethan was really interested in something that could enrich his knowledge base and expand his magical knowledge.

Shadow Country...... What's in it for him?

"Although the Shadow Nation is now nothing but a barren land, it is not really nothing, and there is something that you will definitely be interested in in that place. ”

"What?"

Skaha didn't sell it, and seeing that Ethan was indeed interested, he immediately gave an answer.

"Energy!" Skaha curled the corners of his mouth, "lots and lots of energy." ”

"Oh?"

Ethan does need a lot of energy, and he has already made preparations to connect the arcane, holy light, and other planes, and will wait for a while to extract it.

I didn't expect Skaha to be willing to take the Shadow Country as a reward - I just don't know how much to give myself? If he drains too much energy, will there be any bad changes in the Shadow Country?

"Aren't you afraid that the Shadow Country will be affected by this?"

"The Shadow Nation should not exist for a long time, even if it is destroyed, what can it do?"

Skaha's name is the Queen of the Shadow Country, the Guardian of the Demon Realm, but in fact, she has never taken this identity seriously.

The so-called kingdom of the dead is also only for Celtic mythology, and Celtic mythology ......

"When you say that, I don't have any scruples. ”

Since Skaha is willing to pay the entire Shadow Country, what else is Ethan pretentious? and even gave Skaha an extra small stove in the next few days, helping her to brush up the basics, so that she can perfect the rune magic faster.

Time passed day by day, there were many things to do every day, and Diana was always by her side, which made Ethan feel that life was very fulfilling and not boring at all.

The only regret is that whenever he wants to do something, Diana will refuse every time, and what makes him even more depressed is that the reason for refusal is the same every time.

"Wait until you're older to think about this kind of thing!"

“......”

Frustrated, Ethan really wants to get back on the field during combat training, but the result will only be educated by Diana in turn - as for Ada, she will never agree to train with Ethan, this woman is too shrewd to know what this guy is up to.

After a period of calm and stability, Ethan had roughly figured out the condition of his body and the 'upper limit' of his magic.

In general, he is indeed weaker now than he was at his peak before, whether it is physical fitness or magic level - strictly speaking, he has no magic now, and any magic condensed or absorbed by means will be absorbed by that black spot in his spiritual universe, leaving him no one at all.

Ethan now uses magic to consume the divine power in his body to release, some simple small magic is not affected in any way, but the consumption of relatively large magic is a little difficult, which means that the 'reserves' of divine power are not as deep as their own magic reserves.

However, due to the higher quality and the particularity of his divine power, the speed and cost of his magic release will be lower.

Overall, his strength has decreased, but it has not affected much, and he can return to his original level of strength when he is older.

"The question is...... When will I grow up?"

He now knew why Merlin had that expression in the first place, because his divine body obviously wouldn't grow as fast as ordinary people, and the growth of this body required a huge amount of energy.

And he also found that this kind of large consumption is not simply a brainless pile up with a certain kind of energy.

Just like Ethan originally had a fairly deep understanding and mastery of arcane energy, the deep magic power he had accumulated before itself had arcane properties, and after these huge magic powers became the nutrients of this body, this body itself also developed a certain degree of 'resistance' to arcane energy, which made his idea of using arcane energy to quickly give birth to a body bankrupt - It's not that the arcane energy has completely lost its effect, it's just that this effect will slowly decrease, and when it reaches a certain level, although it can still be absorbed by him as a nutrient, the effect on growth is not as good as the new energy.

"Looks like we're going to receive the energy of the Shadow Country. ”

Speaking of which, it actually requires 'fresh and huge energy', which is quite in line with Ethan's original cultivation route, and he just needs to continue what he has done before.

Sitting on the clean and still a little hot beach, Ethan looked at Diana not far in front of him, and suddenly wanted to put a phantom to tease her.

When releasing the phantom clone, Ethan suddenly had a strange feeling that he could make some modifications to the phantom clone.

He didn't think much about it, he just followed his feelings, and then something magical happened.

Ethan created a clone that was very close to the entity, and this clone was completely condensed by energy, and other than that, it was completely indistinguishable from his other self.

What's even more amazing is not this, Ethan feels that he can control this doppelganger at will, just like the feeling of a part of his body, what the doppelganger sees and touches, the feeling will also be fed back as soon as possible, and even if there is one more doppelganger, Ethan does not have a feeling of 'schizophrenia'.

Two completely different perspectives appeared in his consciousness without conflict, and his strong spiritual power ensured that he would not have any discomfort or be unable to cope with even if he performed a double-open operation.

"Igo's kind of energy clone?"

It seems to be very similar, but Igo's main body is usually rested, and he doesn't know what it feels like when Igo operates his clone, anyway, he thinks this kind of doppelganger is pretty good.

While he still remembered that feeling, Ethan split into two more clones, three identical Ethan stood in front of his own body, and then Ethan's mind could clearly distinguish which doppelganger he and the visual picture of the three doppelgangers belonged to, and he could easily control the three doppelgangers to make all the actions that the body could do, and completely different.

"It's interesting. ”

Seeing that Diana had already turned around and looked over, Ethan immediately asked the three clones to rush over and besiege Diana, in addition to scaring and scaring Diana, he could also take the opportunity to test the combat effectiveness of this kind of clone.

The results were not long in coming...... The combat effectiveness of these clones is very average, although Ethan's own mental power is strong enough, and the reaction speed also ensures that he can 'operate' three clones at the same time, but the power carried by the clones themselves is not strong, if you want the clones to have stronger power, you need to use more energy, and the use of magic is to mobilize energy from Ethan's body, and the transmission of this energy will cause a momentary delay, and the change of direction weakens the strength.

Therefore, although the three clones were not phantoms, they were all entities, and they all had combat effectiveness to catch Diana off guard, but they were soon knocked to the ground by Diana, who came back to her senses.

"Hey~ You're really heavy. ”

"No, it's about the same as the strength used in the past few days. ”

I watched as the three clones lay motionless on the ground, while Ethan himself sat there rubbing certain parts of his body - all of them were the parts of the clones that had been hit.

Diana amusedly walked over to check on Ethan.

There were no scars on her body, but her memory was good, and the places where Ethan felt particularly painful happened to be the same positions of the different clones she had just hit.

As soon as he told Ethan about the situation he found, Ethan immediately understood what was going on, for the clones it was just a hit, but for the ontology that had endured all the perceptions, it was equivalent to being attacked continuously in the same position, of course, it was more painful.

！

Ethan's head suddenly appeared with a golden exclamation mark (it was really a golden exclamation mark, condensed by divine power), and a bold idea suddenly popped up.

Although there was no one around, Ethan still covered his mouth and leaned into Diana's ear, and told Diana his thoughts in a very small voice.

Then he was beaten, and he couldn't even maintain those clones after the beating, and turned into pure energy and returned to his body before stopping.

The days that followed were uneventful, no different from before, and after Ethan was sure that nothing would change in the short term, he immediately called Skaha to prepare to go back to Illya, and went to the Shadow Country to collect Skaha's promised payment.

"Would you like to check it out?"

Diana still hasn't gone back to her own world, it seems that her promise to spend more time with Ethan is not a casual talk, and at the same time she is very unhappy with a certain god who is watching her boyfriend.

She knew that with her current strength, there was no way to teach that main god any lessons, but being able to observe the 'opponent' up close could give her a clearer direction to work towards and work harder to improve her strength.

"Let's go!"

Diana and Skaha stood next to Ethan, and instead of going to the teleportation room, they teleported directly from the island - this kind of shuttle was only a matter of moments for the people here, and there was no need to worry about someone suddenly looking for him.

To be on the safe side, he greeted Logan and Banner and told them where he was going, and if something special happened, at least someone would know what his captain was doing, and not suddenly disappear, let alone leave the crew and run away.

With a wave of his hand, the teleportation spell that had almost turned into instinct was released without warning, compared to the beginning when the magic array appeared, then brewed for a while, and then the light bloomed and disappeared, and now Ethan was much less mobile when he carried out dimensional teleportation.

In the blink of an eye, there was no brilliant light and shadow effect, and they were already standing in the courtyard of the Emiya family.