Chapter 23: The Mysterious Child
At the moment when the big knife in the man's hand was about to pierce the boy's chest, a golden halo suddenly enveloped the boy completely.
The broadsword slammed into the golden halo as if it had stabbed an iron plate, making a dull loud noise.
The big knife not only didn't stab the boy, but the entire blade shattered in response, and the strong rebound force shocked the man's mouth, and the big knife and the boy both fell to the ground.
The other two men on the side, obviously looking at his horse's head, saw that the leader was injured, and immediately stepped forward to help, looking around with a vigilant face.
The man with the knife injured his palm, and he was immediately angry, and cursed around him, "Who is meddling, get out of here!"
After a while, a lazy voice suddenly floated out of the darkness not far away, and at the same time, a man in a mopping robe walked towards them unhurriedly.
"You don't even let go of the children, it's too vicious!"
Seeing the man in the robe appear, the knife-wielding man suddenly had a surge of murderous intent, and ordered the two people beside him: "Chop him up for me." ”
Although they were a little jealous of this mysterious man, they didn't dare not listen to the leader's words, so they immediately stiffened their heads and drew their knives and rushed forward.
The man in the robe didn't say a word, his arm just raised slightly, and the man who rushed to the front was suddenly shocked, and then a stream of golden light burst out from his body like a sharp sword, leaving his bones in pieces.
Seeing this, the other man was frightened and ran away in panic.
The man with the knife obviously also saw the comer, it must be a powerful elemental messenger, how dare he continue to be arrogant, like a lost dog, he turned around and fled without a trace.
The man in the robe did not chase after him, but walked up to the boy, bent down and touched his head, and then said with a smile: "Come with me!"
The boy glanced at the other and asked him in a very strange tone, "They killed my parents and killed everyone here, why don't you help me kill them?"
The man in the robe took off the turban covering his head, revealing the appearance of an ordinary middle-aged man, and he also asked in a strange tone: "Your parents, hehe, are you really their son?"
The usual composure on the boy's face was suddenly a little panicked by these words, and he glanced at the man in the robe with great vigilance, and was silent.
The man in the robe smiled and continued: "Don't pretend, everyone is smart, you deceived others, but you can't fool me." ”
Hearing this, the boy's face suddenly changed, and after a long time, the boy's face raised a cold arc that a child should not have, "Who are you?
The man in the robe smiled and hugged the boy up, "I don't want to do anything, I just want to accept you as my apprentice." ”
The boy tried his best to resist, but he was never able to break free of the other party's arm, "You want me to be your apprentice, it's impossible, you quickly let me go." ”
The man in the robe continued to laugh, "Stop struggling, come with me obediently!"
"Let it go, you shameless fellow... ”
In this way, the man in the robe held the boy in his arms, quarreled with each other, and disappeared into the night.
"Hey, old fellow, I'm starving, is the meal ready?" In a quiet dense forest, a handsome young man was sitting lazily in front of a stone house, yelling inside.
Originally, the sound of metal knocking that constantly reverberated in the stone house came to an abrupt end.
After a while, a man over half a hundred years old, sweating profusely, walked out of it, crying and laughing: "Little guy, you can't do anything else, you know how to eat, eat, eat!"
Despite this, the man walked up to a stone pile with a smile on his face and began to fiddle with the grill.
The man and the boy in front of him were the man in the robe more than ten years ago, and the children he rescued.
For more than ten years, they have been living in seclusion in this stone house deep in the mountains, not asking about the world.
Although the relationship between the two was extremely awkward from the beginning, they actually got along quite well.
Neither side even knew what the other was called, so the old guy was long and the little guy was short.
The man was obviously much older than before, his sideburns were gray, but his smile was still the same as before, full of unpredictable feelings.
He set up the grill, lit the bonfire, and skilfully put a skinned hare on it, and then said, "How is it, little one, is there any sign of awakening in your strength?"
The young man looked at the bonfire blankly, and said with some disappointment: "No, I really didn't expect that the soul power seal in my body was so powerful, it has been more than ten years, and I still can't fuse the two elemental powers." ”
After speaking, the boy's eyebrows jumped, and three fist-sized energy balls appeared above his head like ghosts, and continued to hover according to a certain trajectory. The man looked at the three energy balls, his eyes showed a little envy without concealment, and he smiled, "This is normal, after all, magic prayer is much more difficult than magic summoning, looking at the whole world, it is estimated that few people will be as perverted as you, to try this kind of thing that ordinary people can't succeed at." ”
The world of magic is full of magic and mystery.
Ordinary elemental messengers, after mastering the control of the elemental power of heaven and earth, have the ability to use themselves as a medium to attract the elemental power of heaven and earth into their own body, and then release it through various ways, this process is called magic summoning, popularly, it is the so-called skill in people's mouths.
Magic Call, however, is different.
Magic Invocation is quite demanding on the caster, he is not simply to sense the elemental forces around him, what he needs is to seek the elemental spirits that exist in the magical world.
According to legend, the record of the elemental elves is as follows, "It is the source of the elemental power that the gods put in this world, with the wind elves, this world has a violent wind, with the fire elves, this world has light, with the ice spirits, this world will snow... ”
However, in the real world, no one can capture their existence at all, not even the most powerful elemental messengers.
At first, the man thought so, but it wasn't until the boy actually captured them and summoned them to him that he believed that this thing that only appeared in legends was actually real.
Of course, sensing and capturing the elemental spirits is only the first step in the magic invocation.
The hardest part is for the caster, who uses these elemental spirits as a medium and asks them to unleash the magic they need according to their own wishes.
Compared to magic summoning, which uses itself as a conductor, magic invocation is obviously much more difficult than the former.
Let's not talk about how difficult it is to capture elemental elves, even if they are captured, it is no easier to control these elemental elves who already have their own intelligence, help, or coerce, and do what they are unwilling to do, than threatening an iron-blooded warrior and kneeling to beg for mercy.
The reason why the man saved the boy's life in the first place was that he sensed that there seemed to be an extremely terrifying power hidden in his body.
For more than ten years, the man also knew more or less about the secrets hidden in the boy.
When the boy was born, a terrifying power was sealed in his body.
At first, perhaps because of the boy's frailty and sickness, this power seemed very weak, and it hardly had any effect on the boy.
But as the boy grew up and his physical fitness continued to improve, this power in his body also exploded.
It tried to swallow up the boy's soul, which directly caused the boy to fall ill and fall into a long coma.
The anxious father, Loki, after searching for a cure to no avail, chose an extreme way, he wanted to buy a tree sacrifice for the boy to try.
Luckily, Loki's family was very powerful at the time, and after spending a huge amount of gold, he finally bought a Tree Sacrifice from one of the forces.
The day after the boy swallowed it again, he woke up from his coma, as if the energy in the tree sacrifice had a significant suppressive effect on the power in his body.
However, the price was huge, and Loki spent almost most of the family's fortune on the purchase of this tree sacrifice.
A large amount of money has passed, and Loki, who was originally ranked number one in the local ranks, has gradually become a third-rate family.
The decline of the family soon caused many clansmen to gradually leave, but some heartfelt servants still guarded his side.
But Loki doesn't regret it at all, he just wants to see his son get better, even if he wants him to die, he will not hesitate to do it.
However, the boy's illness lasted only a few years before he fell into a coma again.
Seeing this, Loki had to spend almost all of the family's remaining possessions to buy a Tree Sacrifice.
However, before Loki could give the Tree Sacrifice to the boy to swallow, the news leaked out, and this is what happened before.
Only this time, Loki's son fell into a coma again, not in any danger to his life, but his soul, which was in some kind of strange fusion with that terrifying force.
During the time he was in a coma, the teenager dreamed a lot and saw a lot of strange pictures.
After waking up, the young man suddenly found that the power in his body had been completely refined by himself and integrated into his soul.
Through mutual induction, the boy also knew that this power was actually an evil spirit from a certain period of time in ancient times, but for some reason, the evil spirit would enter his body.
Although the boy kept his soul, the evil spirit's anger was too heavy, and it completely changed the boy's character.
The teenager begins to become withdrawn, aloof, and indifferent to everything around him, even when he sees his parents being killed for a vendetta.
It's just that although he has lost some of the emotions that human beings should have, the benefits he has gained are also extremely huge.
He has mastered the abilities of the evil spirits in life, and he has a powerful elemental sense that far surpasses that of humans, which also lays a solid foundation for him to capture elemental spirits in the future.
The reason why the man in the robe saved him that night was precisely because he noticed that the young man seemed to have a trace of aura that should not exist in humans.
He firmly believes that this young man, with this ability that ordinary people do not have, can definitely change the whole world.