Merlin has lived for more than 900 years, and his understanding of magic has long surpassed that of all modern magicians except Rob, but his realm has not improved even slightly compared to 900 years ago.

At that time, magic had just been enlightened, and a third-order magician led by Roland represented the highest combat power in the wizarding world, but as time went by, magic was also developing, and more and more masters emerged in human beings.

That's why when Lois wanted someone to help protect Dragon's Tooth, the latter refused.

It's just that in the eyes of the female archer, Merlin, the teacher, is omnipotent, and she subconsciously doesn't believe that this guy is really an out-and-out weak chicken as he himself says, and the fox mask man doesn't seem to have any intention of explaining.

"Don't you wonder why I chose you?" Merlin put down his glass.

"Because I'm the strongest?"

If someone else said this, it would probably be considered arrogant, but Rob would not think he was arrogant when he said this, because he was just explaining the simplest fact, and now he is the strongest in the world.

"Well, of course it's important to be strong, after all, you have to fight against the entire kingdom of God on your own, but that's not the reason why I chose you, or it's not the main reason. Merlin paused, "Do you know how I became a god?"

"Oh?"

"After coming out of the dungeon of the Endless Sea of Trees, I returned to Goodris, and told Roland what I found there as soon as possible, which is also our old habit, in the early days when we studied magic together, we would share our feelings with each other, because we are pioneers, founders, every step is groping forward in the dark, we use this method to discover and correct our own misunderstandings, make up for each other's misses, although we later parted ways because of different ideas, but we still have the same blood flowing in our veins, so I will still go to him to discuss after encountering major events。 ”

"It was Roland who suggested that I hide this matter, and the reason he gave at the time was also very convincing, because humans were not ready to turn against the gods, and I believed in his judgment and agreed with this statement, so in the end, only the two of us in the entire Wizards' Association knew about it. The corners of the fox masked man's mouth lifted and a mocking smile rolled into him, "But what I didn't expect was what happened afterward. ”

"What happened after that?"

"About a week later, Roland invited me to his lab, saying that there was a major discovery to announce, I didn't think much about it, and brought him a gift, but as soon as one foot stepped into his lab, I stepped on a magic trap, and I was paralyzed by lightning, and the funny thing is that at the time I thought it was just Roland's prank, but then he took my staff and put me under house arrest, and then I realized that he wanted to get eternal life from me. ”

Merlin sighed, "He has been hiding well before, I didn't find any clues, but the main thing is that I didn't expect him to be this kind of person, or I underestimated the allure of eternal life to him, I thought I knew him very well, we grew up together, although I am the elder brother and he is the younger brother, but he is often taking care of me, he will let me have any fun and delicious things, never fight or grab, only this time...... After I was under house arrest, he talked to me a few times, about my wife and son, about the development of humanity and magic, that bastard was my brother, he knew my weaknesses well, I was more curious about the mysteries of eternal life, but the desire to possess was not really strong. ”

"I've been hesitating since I got the method of becoming a god, because I am more afraid of loneliness than death, and you must admit that he is a natural leader and orator, and every word will make you feel very reasonable, and from a racial level, he is indeed more useful than me to get eternal life, so at one point I really wanted to tell him the way to become a god, but the night before I was about to promise him, his wife came to me, and she told me that Roland had lost his patience and tied up my son, intending to threaten me with my son, and his wife couldn't stand it anymore, so she ran to me before him and told me。 ”

"When I heard the news, it was like a thunderstorm, I didn't expect him to do this kind of thing in order to get eternal life, and it was also at a moment that I realized that I could never tell him the method of sealing the gods, I never denied his greatness and contribution to magic, and now everything he does is indeed based on the interests of mankind, but his methods make me feel extremely uneasy, I have a strong intuition that once he gets eternal life and has a long life, he will lose all his feelings in endless time, gradually lose himself, and eventually become the same existence as those things in the kingdom of God, and then it will be the end of the entire human race。 ”

"With the help of his wife I escaped from captivity, I didn't dare to go home because I didn't know if there was Roland's eyeliner there, not long after the end of the First Magic War, it was when his personal prestige was at its peak, the wizarding world was his followers, and the whole human world was also caught in the mad worship of him, in contrast, few people knew my name, for the vast majority, I was just a perennial dispensable vice president of the Wizards' Association, so from that day on I lived a life of fugitives from hiding in Tibet, in order to make a living, I found someone to co-found the Haifa Chamber of Commerce, to make a living in a small business of reselling, but Roland never gave up on the hunt for me.

"After I have some savings, I began to form my own intelligence network, as well as armed forces, but I know very well that no matter how much I struggle, I will not be his opponent, so if I want him to give up the pursuit of me, there is only one way, that is, to use up the half of the soul flower, completely extinguishing his hope of eternal life, it took me a long time to finally collect the remaining one hundred and nineteen materials, and successfully became a god before I was caught by him, but at that time I had survived in the dark for too long, and I couldn't return to the sun. ”

Merlin looked at Rob, "You now know why I chose you, right? you're the guy I've been looking for, someone with a talent comparable to Roland's, but completely different from him. ”

(End of chapter)