After not returning for many days, the newspapers he hadn't read had been piled up in a thick pile, and Samuel had always had the habit of reading the newspapers before going to bed. By the time he finished reading the last newspaper, it was already late at night.

Exhausted, Samuel slipped his shoes and lay down on the bed, but found that he could not sleep, and he found the ticking of the bell extremely annoying as he tossed and turned in the bed. Just as I was about to get out of bed and stop the wall clock, I suddenly heard a soft "click".

Samuel was stunned for a moment, and looked around, trying to figure out where the sound was coming from.

"Click"

Again, Samuel finally found the source—the ovoid gem he had retrieved from Governor Harlan's palace.

Samuel approached the oval gemstone and found that two visible cracks had appeared on the surface of the priceless gem.

"Click"

Under Samuel's gaze, the gem produced a third crack. Subsequently, more and more cracks appeared on the gem, and finally, the gem could no longer maintain its form and shattered into several pieces, revealing the ...... hidden within A frog?

Unlike other frogs, this frog is completely black, including its belly, which is supposed to be white. While Samuel was looking at the frog curiously, the frog was also looking at Samuel.

Before Samuel could figure out what was going on, the frog opened its mouth and shot its tongue lightning at Samuel's forehead. Samuel couldn't react and was licked on the forehead by his tongue. He instantly felt a cold force invade his soul. Samuel was shocked, he knew what power it was—it was the master-servant contract that humans used to enslave magical creatures, and he was on the servant side of the contract at this moment.

Samuel couldn't react, his own weak spiritual power was vulnerable in front of the opponent's powerful force, and this power instantly came to the deepest part of his soul, as long as he captured here, Samuel would become the other party's servant. At this moment, Samuel felt a sharp pain in the depths of his soul, and his consciousness quickly blurred, and just before his consciousness completely disappeared, he saw the frog also stiffen, and then fell to the ground on all fours......

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The door to the Pig and Rose Tavern was pushed open, and the December wind rushed into the warm room. The drinkers tightened their clothes with a little disgust,

By the way, I saw the seeker - a man wearing a large felt hat.

The same night, the same tavern, the same people, and if Samuel had been awake at this time, he would have realized that he had had that strange dream again. It's a pity that he is in a dream at this time, and he is now not the former Imperial Vice Admiral Samuel, but the bartender

Samuel, a man of dreams. As in previous dreams, the man in the felt hat first spoke with Samuel's adoptive father for a moment, and then the three of them entered the bedroom together.

After another brief conversation, the felt hat reached into his pocket, and after a little fumbling he took out something.

Unlike previous dreams, the man in the felt hat took out a black gem this time. At first glance, this gemstone is no different from the common dark crystal, which is a common type of energy storage crystal. The man in the felt hat placed the crystal next to the flame of the candle, and Samuel immediately noticed that something was wrong. Under the light of the candle, the gemstone was not illuminated - how bright it was before, how bright it is now, and no more light is reflected because of the illumination of the candle. The man in the felt hat saw Samuel's curious look and threw the gem to Samuel.

Samuel took the gem in his right hand and was about to play with it, when he suddenly felt that the originally cold gem began to become a little warmer.

"Huh?"

The temperature of the gemstone rises rapidly, and in just a second or two, it is already out of the category of "warm" and becomes a little hot. Samuel instinctively wanted to put the gem

He threw it away, but the gem was attached to his hand, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't throw it away. By this time, the gemstone had become piping hot. Samuel screamed at the burn and stretched out his left hand

Attempting to break the gem off his left hand, he found that his left hand was also attached to the gem.

"Help me get this out of the way!" Samuel called for help from his adoptive father and the man in the felt hat, only to find them looking at him with strange eyes, or more precisely, at Samuel's hand. Samuel followed their gaze to the gem in his hand, and saw that by this time the gem had turned into a puff of black smoke that had penetrated into his hands---- if they were still handed. Samuel's hands had been assimilated by the black smoke, and they had also turned into a black fog, and the form of his hands could only be faintly seen. What's even more terrifying is that this assimilation continues, and the black smoke spreads up Samuel's arm, soon reaching the shoulder, then to the chest, lower body, and finally to the head.

“#*&&#&！！!@”

Samuel was speechless at this point, his vocal cords had been largely assimilated by black smoke, and he could only utter some meaningless syllables at this time, but Suffron and the man in the felt hat always watched coldly.

Just as Samuel felt that he was about to be completely assimilated, the black smoke suddenly stopped moving forward, slowly retreating towards the hands holding the gem, and finally even the hands returned to their normal form.

But that strange black gem is nowhere to be found.

Samuel, who had never died, knelt on the ground, gasping for air, his pale face already covered with beads of sweat. It took a few minutes for him to break free from the grip of fear and regain control of his muscles. As the fear in his heart gradually receded, anger quickly took over his heart.

"This.... What the is this?!" Samuel almost snarled at the two of them.

"It's the power of the Void," the man in the felt hat replied, his voice inaudible to any emotion.

"It used to be your power," Safron said, "and the future is still yours, but it doesn't seem to be yet."

"The power of the void belongs to me?", Samuel stared at the two coldly, "this joke is not funny at all".

Samuel was about to say something, but a sharp pain suddenly came from his chest, and he fell to his knees again after finally getting up from the ground. Black smoke, the terrible black smoke that was pouring out of his heart and spreading around. The pain caused Samuel to curl up on the ground like a shrimp. Fortunately, this time the black smoke did not last long,

The spread is also very small, and everything is back to normal after a few minutes.

Sweat had soaked Samuel's shirt, and the sweat on his face squinted his eyes, making him feel his eyes hurt hotly. But he was in no mood to care about these little things, he could feel that the black smoke had just emerged from his body, and it had not completely disappeared now. It is sleeping somewhere in its body and could wake up at any moment.

"Believe me now?" said Safron as he took a sip of his coffee and said with a gloating expression.

Samuel, who was suffering from severe pain, did not speak, but nodded.

"In fact, I knew from the day I picked you up that you weren't human," said Safron, taking another sip of coffee and clearing his throat, "of course I'm not human, we're each other." ”

"Our race has many names, and in many worlds, the aborigines call us gods. For the higher races, they sometimes call us artisans, travelers. But we prefer to call ourselves Loya, which in our language means Creator. ”

"And your race, at some point, was the enemy of our race, and even the culprit that led to our near extinction, we generally call you Void Creatures. Saying this, Safron raised his eyebrows, "But strictly speaking, the demise of the Loya civilization is more self-inflicted, and you don't really have much responsibility for it. And it's a rare opportunity to study the creatures of the Void up close, so I picked you up. ”

"You don't have to be nervous, I don't have a good relationship with the other people, and I have no interest in revenge," Safron comforted.

Samuel's mind was on the verge of going down by this time due to the amount of information. He had a bunch of questions in his mind to figure out, but he didn't know where to start.

"I know you have a lot of questions to ask, but now is not the time. ”

"You haven't really awakened at the moment, and maybe you won't in this life. These questions can be saved until the moment you truly awaken, which may be decades later, or even in your next life."

"Now we need you to forget what happened tonight, and since you are not awake, what happened tonight will only add to your troubles. The moment you wake up, it's natural to remember what happened tonight. Safron added

"Forget, how to forget?" Samuel asked with a slight sarcasm, first the strange stone, then what void energy, and finally he realized that he was not human at all, could he forget what happened tonight after he slept well?

Safron didn't answer, but showed a weird smile, he raised his hand and pointed at Samuel's head from afar, Samuel was instantly surrounded by sleepiness, he fought against this sleepiness, but only a few seconds later he disarmed and surrendered. He closed his heavy eyelids and lost consciousness......

Samuel sat up from the ground with a snort, and it took a moment to remember what had happened. The frog was already lying on all fours, its long tongue hanging on the ground, and Samuel poked its belly, but the other person did not respond. Samuel could feel that the master-servant contract had been completed, but the strange frog had become a servant. I don't know why, the other party was repulsed by the contract and became Samuel's pet.

The frog was still alive, but unconscious. Samuel tried for a while, but he couldn't wake up his new pet, so he sighed, picked up the frog, and threw it aside.

As soon as he finished dealing with the frog matter, Samuel felt a sharp headache, and the scenes from the dream reappeared in his mind. It took a while for the headache to go away

"The power of the Void, the creatures of the Void...... Awakening?"

"Am I awake now?"

Samuel looked at his left hand, and in the dream, the strange black smoke began to produce from his hands, and then spread throughout his body. Samuel closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and then as soon as his mind moved, he found that his left hand turned into a cloud of black smoke, Samuel did not control the black smoke, and let it quickly spread along his left hand to Samuel's body, left arm, torso, and then the whole body. Samuel fought back his fear, wanting to see what would happen if he was swallowed by the black smoke.

Soon, Samuel's entire body was engulfed in black smoke and turned into a ball of pure void power. He had lost his sight and hearing—his head was gone, so how could he still see or hear?

Despite this, Samuel was able to perceive his surroundings clearly. His spiritual power has become extremely powerful, and his perception of magic and laws has become extremely clear. Previously, Samuel could only barely feel the existence of magic and the laws of the world, but at this moment, he could clearly perceive every flow of magic in the room, every thread of law. Even an archmage could not compare to Samuel at this time in this regard.

I don't know how long it took for Samuel to feel his sight and hearing return, and he felt his limbs again, but it was a strange feeling, or rather a very awkward feeling.

Samuel turned his head to look at the floor-to-ceiling mirror beside the bed, where a huge monster was clearly reflected.

It was an octopus-like creature with a pitch-black body and six thick tentacles on its lower body. On the head on top of the upper body, there is a huge, round eye, and the monster's body is completely untouched, and the huge head and 6 thick tentacles float in the air together

Samuel blinked, the monster in the mirror blinked, Samuel twisted, and the monster in the mirror twisted.

Then he finally reacted, and that monster was himself at this time!

Samuel was shocked, he was just licked by a frog, and he became such a tentacle monster with both ferocity and stupidity?!

I still want to be an ordinary human being!!

Samuel only moved a thought, and the black smoke enveloped his body again, and he once again turned into a ball of pure void power, and then the void power twisted for a while, and then formed a humanoid silhouette. After a few moments, the black smoke dissipated, revealing the person inside, officially Samuel...... of the human form

Samuel was stunned for a moment, then tried a few more times, and found that he could freely switch between human and monster form, and finally breathed a sigh of relief—since he could still maintain his human form, he could have other headaches later. He checked his body again, and found no problems, except that he could transform into a tentacle monster, that is, his mental power, magic affinity, and law affinity became stronger;

Although this mutation has not been found to be harmful to him for the time being, it has left a series of mysteries, what is that frog, why did it appear in the Hawa Governor's Palace, and what is going on with his dream......

The frog next to Samuel who might answer his question was now unconscious, and there was no sign of waking up for the next few days, and it seemed that the road was out of sight for the time being. So now there is only one person left who can answer the question—and that is Samuel's adoptive father, Safron.

Both Safron and Samuel were Guregs, and Samuel spent his childhood in Guleg before coming with Safron at the age of 10 to run a tavern in Kalin, where he subsequently became a naturalized Carin. Samuel was admitted to military school at the age of 16, and after Saffron's tavern soon closed down due to poor management, Saffron returned to Gureg to continue running a tavern in Nurence Tower, and the two never saw each other, only contacting each other a few times a year by letter.

The mutation in his own body should not be written into his letters—the ghost knows if his letters are being monitored by the Carlin authorities, so the best thing to do is to go to Nulent Tower and ask his adoptive father for the truth. He was about to leave for Nulent Tower with Toft to dispose of the company's remaining assets in Gureg.

With a few days left before the day of departure, Samuel felt for the first time that time was running slowly. Samuel, who knew that he was about to leave Carlin and would not be back for a short time, had been lamenting how fast time had passed while feeling reluctant about Karenta. But at this moment, he was anxious to find out the truth about this series of abnormal changes, and instead began to complain that life passed too slowly.