Chapter 119: A New Direction
"April, I don't know how to transliterate, I can't translate it as April, I'm here......"
Stephen, who fell on the top of the snowy mountain, used his last strength to turn over, looking at the blue sky overhead, his thoughts had drifted back to seven or eight years ago.
It was Stephen's first operation, the one he had been looking forward to for half a year, and the pale girl lying on the operating table was his sister April.
It's been almost two years, I've seen all the doctors, none of them are willing to operate on April, and for this terminal illness that April is suffering from, all the doctors recommend conservative treatment to try to keep her alive for a long time. But Stephen was unwilling to let his sister, who was not yet twenty years old, die like this, so when he was qualified to do surgery, the first object of surgery was April.
Until now, seven or eight years have passed, and Stephen remembers vividly the words before the operation, when he took his sister's hand and cheered her on.
"I'm ready, when you wake up, you might feel like throwing up, but everything will be fine, I promise!"
Stephen still remembers that his confident smile at that time also infected April, and he still remembers April's trusting eyes before anesthesia and the sentence "Brother, I believe in you".
But everything did not go as Stephen expected, and the surgery he risked on his sister did not make her better, but left April forever, and even the months of her life that should have been lost to Stephen's gambling operation.
Lying in the snow and ice, Stephen was no longer conscious, it felt like he was lying weakly on the floor of the operating room after the failed operation that day, and it seemed that the surrounding environment had also changed, no longer the ice and snow, but the operating room that took April's life.
"God is really cruel, this kind of sorrow, do you want me to go through it again?" Looking at the operating table in front of him, Stephen muttered to himself, "Maybe this is the punishment for me......"
Suddenly, there was a twist in front of the operating table, and a dazzling light made Stephen unable to open his eyes.
"Love, loss, pain, these are the walls that block your path." The Ancient One mage suddenly stepped out of the dazzling light.
"To ...... Supreme Mage? Stephen's eyes widened as he looked at the Ancient One mage who appeared in the operating room.
"Stephen, what you have to do is see the wall in front of you and tear it down, because the truth is waiting ahead." The voice of the ancient first mage was neither sad nor joyful, and he could not hear any emotion.
"What facts?"
"The truth is, your sister won't survive anymore."
Hearing that the Ancient One Mage actually said this, Stephen was furious in his heart, and he didn't care how much shock the Ancient One Master had brought him before, and said angrily: "How can you say that! She died on my operating table, and she trusted me so much! How can you take April! ”
"Stephen, you're born to be a healer." The Ancient One's tone was still so calm, not changed in the slightest by Stephen's anger: "But not all lives can be saved, and there are some things that you can't control. ”
"No, I don't believe it! It's all my fault, April shouldn't have gone so young! ”
"It's because of your disbelief that you're here. Accept the facts, break through the shackles, Stephen, you are already standing under the corner, and the next step is to stand there forever, or break through the wall that is blocking your path, it is up to you. ”
The voice of the ancient mage became farther and farther away, and when the last word was finished, Stephen suddenly found that the operating room was gone, and he had returned to Mount Everest in the ice and snow, and the strength he had just exhausted seemed to have been replenished, although he was only wearing a thin shirt, he could not feel the cold brought by the wind and snow at all.
At the same time, the Ancient One mage in the Temple of the Ancient suddenly coughed violently, and the king hurriedly stepped forward to help him.
"It's okay, I think Stephen has figured it out."
"You helped him?" The king glanced at the ancient master with some reproach, and said, "Master, your current body is ......."
"It's okay, just a little help."
Although Bucky on the side didn't quite understand what the Ancient One Mage and the King meant, he also knew that just now, Stephen had received some kind of guidance from the Ancient One, and he should have returned to Kama Taj by now.
Sure enough, ten minutes later, Stephen returned to the solid wall, and without coming to meet the Ancient One, without saying a word, he began to dismantle the wall again.
"I think Stephen is ready." Looking at Stephen from a distance, who was struggling to carry two buckets of gravel, the Ancient One mage smiled with satisfaction, turned his head to Bucky and said, "Mr. Barnes, I think Stephen is ready to begin to understand the world of secret methods, if you are interested, you might as well come and listen to it." ”
Bucky was overjoyed in his heart, how could Bucky, who had long been curious about secret spells, miss this opportunity, and quickly nodded in thanks.
When he followed the Ancient One Mage slowly to the stone wall, Stephen had just refilled the two wooden barrels with gravel, picked them up with difficulty, and slowly moved forward with his head down, not seeing the three Ancient One Mages coming over, and almost crashed into the Ancient One Mage.
"I'm sorry, Supreme Mage, I didn't see you. The gravel was so heavy that I couldn't lift my head a little. ”
"Why is it so heavy?"
The Ancient One's question made Stephen a little confused, scratched his head, and said hesitantly: "Probably because of the mass of these gravel itself and the gravity of the earth." Or did I put too much gravel in the barrel and I just wanted to get the job done as quickly as possible. ”
The Ancient One Master came to a bucket of gravel with his hands behind his back and said to Stephen, "You think these stones are heavy, so they are heavy, but try not to think so much, the weight becomes meaningless. ”
As he spoke, the Ancient One mage lifted it lightly, and the wooden barrel full of broken stone was lifted up by the ancient one, and it seemed that it had no strength at all.
"You...... How do you do it? ”
The Ancient One placed the barrel in front of Stephen and said to him, "Learn to accept what you can't accept, come, lift the barrel, and I'll help you." ”
Stephen struggled to lift the barrel with both hands, but gradually, he noticed that the barrel was getting lighter and lighter, and finally he didn't feel any weight at all.
"This ...... This ......"
"When you realize that the barrel in your hand has no weight, it becomes weightless." As he spoke, as soon as the ancient mage raised his hand, a long sword appeared out of thin air, floating in midair. Holding the sword in his hand, the Ancient One mage then said to Stephen, "Matter is an energy, it is everywhere, and the secret method is the art of using this energy. Conjure weapons out of thin air, so tell me, is this true? ”
As he spoke, the Ancient One Mage handed the long sword in his hand to Stephen, who reached out to take it, but the long sword turned into a puff of smoke in his hand and disappeared.
"It doesn't seem to be true."
The Ancient One mage smiled slightly, and another long sword appeared in his hand, slashing at the barrel behind him, cutting the barrel in half with the gravel placed in it. Then, he stabbed his sword towards Stephen's face.
Stephen subconsciously put his hands together, just caught the long sword of the ancient mage, and the chill from his hand told Stephen that this was definitely a long sword that could kill.
"Now you think it's real again?" As he spoke, the Ancient One mage withdrew his long sword, and the long sword turned into a puff of smoke again and disappeared. Stepping forward to hold Stephen's hands, the Ancient One Mage said, "Control the various forces around you, and there will be nothing suspicious to bind you." ”
A faint light enveloped Stephen's hands, and a sense of comfort that he had never felt before made Stephen moan. When the Ancient One mage let go of his hand, Stephen shook it so hard that he no longer felt the sharp pain of his injury, and his hands were healed by this time.
At this time, Stephen was surprised to find that the stone wall that had been against him for more than 20 days had disappeared, and he hurriedly asked the ancient mage, "Why is the stone wall gone, what happened?" ”
"You think it exists, it exists. Now that you have accepted the unacceptable, the wall can no longer stop you. ”
More than thirty years of outlook on life collapsed in an instant, and Stephen needed to digest the words of the Ancient One Mage. And the Ancient One Mage also gave him this time, and no longer bothered Stephen, but said to Bucky: "Mr. Barnes, although your power is not the same as our secret mage, everything is the same way, and you can do what the secret spell can do. ”
After speaking, the ancient first mage took the king and returned directly to the main hall.
The words of the Ancient One, like a morning bell and a dusk drum, opened a new door for Bucky and pointed out a new path for him.
Bucky ignored Stephen, who was stunned and reciting the words, and quickly returned to his room, closing the door and beginning to think about every word the Ancient One had said.
"By the way, matter is energy, so energy is not also matter. The arcane mage can use energy to conjure substantial weapons, so according to the ancient mage, I can also use the energy of aether particles to conjure substantial matter. Yes, the Aether Particle has another name, the Reality Stone, the Infinity Gem that can change reality, and it should be easier to do that! ”
It was only then that Bucky realized that he was too influenced by the movie, and was very stupid to only use the aether particles as an energy source to provide energy, and not pay attention to its other uses.
Bucky said just do it, although using aether particles will cause him to take some damage now, as long as he controls the output energy and suppresses this damage to a minimum, it shouldn't have any effect on him. (To be continued.) )