Volume VIII, Chapter 3

It took Lovian two days to completely implement Tiansu, although perfection does not exist, but at least within the limits that Lovian himself has given himself, he thinks that he has achieved perfection.

Due to the need to remove all the elements I had before and replace them with dark elements and sub-attribute elements of higher purity in the Tiansu process, the feeling that every demon child who has just finished the Tiansu process encounters is extremely tired. Almost all of the energy in their bodies is completely drained from their muscles and nerves, and at first, when the elements have not reached sufficient concentrations, the neural activity in their brains tends to be almost stationary. That being said, the physique that was far more sensitive than the dark elements before made their recovery speed astonishingly fast. Of course, Luo Wei'an could let their self-healing ability only make up for all the dark elements they had lost in the Heavenly Plastic in a few hours, but they had just changed their position, and Luo Wei'an didn't know whether the fragile meridians were safe under such a high-intensity elemental flow, so he posted a scroll under the bedding where each child slept to restrict the flow of elements.

However, even the children who had already sobered up to the time when they had received Tiansu earlier, in addition to being mentally sober, their mental power had not yet recovered enough to be able to control their own bodies. So in the past few days, Lovian and Mastema can only feed them porridge and drink one by one, and they also have to take care of their various problems, such as excretion (forehead...... )......

From the grove behind his teacher's small clinic, Francis had just completed the cultivation task that Lovian had assigned him a long time ago. A dark aura glowing blue coiled around him, slowly swirling around his master. At a certain moment. The seemingly slow-flowing dark spirit expanded outwards rapidly, coming to an abrupt halt at the moment when it was very close to a pine tree. The black gushing is still and no longer flows. A jade stone that looks like it is carved from blue-black crystal.

The pale blue essence shield slowly faded from Francis's left arm and disappeared into his meridians. Immediately, he looked out into the woods with great anticipation, hoping that his teacher would give him some guidance or praise at this time.

That's what he thought for the previous three days. Every time I walked out of the grove after my hopes were shattered, I saw the former commander of the Third Legion of the Dark Legion hanging the freshly washed sheets on the newly built hangers, waiting for them to dry. And the demon girl he should call his wife did the same thing with his teacher. Then it was often one of them who ran to the tent on the other side and began to prepare for breakfast this morning.

It should be Masterma's turn to cook today, Francis deduced from their routine for the previous days. Sure enough, he saw Lovian speak a few words in Masterma's ear. Mastma fluttered her wings and flew out of his sight.

The sun had just risen, and the few of Francis' retinue were still snoring loudly in their military sleeping bags. Luo Wei'an, who finally found free time, reached out and drew a dark element condensation circle under him seemingly casually, and sat in the center to prepare for the daily tempering of the dark essence.

"Teacher, you don't seem to have been practicing your essence technique lately. "I thought about it for a moment. Francis begins with these words.

I saw my first disciple come over. Luo Weian patted the dirt on his pants and stood up gracefully, "Those things that have almost become instinctive no longer need to be studied deliberately. Otherwise, it's easy to be overjoyed by the fact that you've found something you can improve and lose sight of the best choice of a technique that your ancestors have had for thousands of years. While we should keep our techniques innovative, it's best to be proficient in the known routines until the results are accepted by the majority. He said, waving his hand. "Since you asked such a question, it seems that you have not been very satisfied with the total amount of your dark essence technique lately, do you need me to broaden your horizons?"

Francis immediately looked very sincere. He patted it and said, "Actually...... I've been working on your tracking technique lately - I've made some improvements to it, and I think the reason for this is because I'm not of the same bloodline as my teacher, because I'm a pure-blooded human after all...... Look—" As he spoke, the color of the dark essence around Francis suddenly changed from blue-black to purple-black, and with a flash of dark purple light and a stabbing sound of the air being cut, he had already appeared more than twenty meters away.

When Francis ran back quite expectantly, Luo Weian just nodded slightly: "Good job, judging from your current appearance, your choice should be correct, I don't seem to have any guidance you need to listen to." ”

The disciple was obviously a little overwhelmed by the teacher's answer, so Francis's expression was a little stiff and embarrassed. "Let's talk about something else, I've been living a fulfilling life these days, so much so that I'm a little tired of my cultivation - this is not a good sign...... Francis, you don't want to talk about that again, do you?"

Francis's brow furrowed, he was visibly a little uneasy by the words, and he paced back and forth in front of Lovien with his hands behind his back, "Really...... Teacher, you should know that unless you or I can reach the level of level 4 or above in a short period of time, I am afraid that I will bring you a considerable unstable factor. What's more, now you're not just one person, teacher, but also Mastma and a lot of demon brothers and sisters you just found for me......"

"I haven't told you for the past few days, but I actually knew about your situation earlier. Luo Weian walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "A few days ago, the Heavenly Wolf Clan brought me a cross coin...... So I went to one of their strongholds and made some forced agreements with them - and that involved you. ”

Hearing the term "Cross Brigade", Francis's footsteps suddenly stopped, and Lovian's eyes narrowed, and he could feel the dark essence flowing through the meridians around Francis's body begin to become disordered—a clear sign that his emotions were out of control.

"Teacher...... I'm sorry - I ask you a question, don't you think? Is the Rebel Organization capable of fighting the Black Wings?"

"Of course not. Orka's organization will go to extremes, and only extreme people can stand up to her. Rebels? They are far from enough, they don't even have a third-level powerhouse. It's just a group of second-level players to pretend to be too fake. For a long time I wondered what it was to hide under the rebels, and then Haring told me that it was the Cross Brigade - you remember her, right?"

Francis nodded, his expression visibly darkening at the hearing of Orka's name. Lovian walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Ahem...... You don't have to worry about that. Although I am certainly not a good character in the eyes of you humans, since you are my disciple. Then whatever problem you have, I will try to help you solve it as much as possible. Your parents are threatened by the six mercenary groups, so I'll help you remove this threat. If the situation is more dire than imagined. We'll leave for Edelstein in the afternoon to pick up your parents and Xuemo. Well...... There are many more things, and now in this atmosphere, I will not talk about them...... How about we go out for a drink in the evening?"

Francis was visibly surprised that Lovien had changed so much from his former habitual image of majesty that only someone like him, who had not seen Lovian's face in a long time, could feel it. Perhaps this change is just a remnant of a farewell ritual from that time during the war! Time has long passed. The current world is not the period of war between demons and humans, there is no smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, and there is no ruthlessness of pure exchange of interests between people. In the past, as demons, they were all trying to live, but now, for the first time, Luo Weian has come into contact with how to live. These two terms that seem to have very similar meanings are completely different, the former, he only needs to hold up the doomsday vane in his hand when solving the problem, and now. He can relax and manage their shared time with his former lieutenant. Discuss together to develop a plan for the future.

Perhaps, such a change made him gradually move away from the battlefield, and gradually began to have the ability to look back on his past wrongs and rights.

The rest, like the past few days, was a waste of time according to Lovian's original view of life. Dominita and her brother are barely able to stand up and walk, but they still need someone to help them. During this time of the afternoon, Mastma began to receive the wounded from the wolf clan, and from them, she learned that the third wave of troops carrying the current wolf king of the wolf clan would probably arrive tomorrow. This meant the start of another plan, because after consulting with Forrest Gump, he had arranged the last wolf army in the reservation where a small demon village called Libi was located, which was a demon village that was protected by the Terrans, or rather protected and bullied. With the rights given to the wolf clan by His Majesty Shinas, those humans who are still controlling the Libi tribe will of course be driven out, but at the same time, the small village of only more than 200 demons will also be completely occupied. The demons who have lost their living space will inevitably come out of the reservation where they have lived for five hundred years and thus be included in the open space between the first and second stations of the wolf clan arranged by Luo Wei'an.

From the perspective of those demons who have lived for five hundred years, this is definitely not a plan with half a benefit. Although the demons have lived on the Edelstan Plateau for the past 6,000 years, the remnants of the demons who think they are lucky to be alive can still put their roots there.

He also didn't know what kind of impression his own people would have left in their minds when they learned that it was his own who caused this qiē. But he was sure that such an impression would not have a positive impact on his future plans - although his next plan had not yet been formulated, the former commander of the Lovian Legion was such a demon who made plans while acting......

"How does it feel, don't let go of your mind completely, it may have temporary damage to your nerves. Lovian said, holding Julian's wings lightly.

Julian didn't speak, in fact, as any demon race, when he suddenly found that his vision had become much brighter and clearer than before, his perception of the guarding elements had suddenly increased several times, and he even had a clear feeling of the natural elements flowing in every meridian in his body that he had never felt before-in general, after experiencing the Heavenly Plastic. The world in front of you suddenly becomes so clear and so wonderful that you have a dreamlike feeling of unreality. A time to immerse yourself in this unprecedented feeling of nature. It's a natural situation to ignore someone else's words.

This young demon stared at the bright yellow eyes, and every qiē in his field of vision was so clear, every layer of consciousness was clearly recognizable, and even the natural elements that could only be distinguished by the magician's extremely sensitive eyes were no longer mysterious in their eyes.

However, the mental power that supported this sense of perspective was indeed consumed quickly, and within a few minutes, Julian began to feel a wave of exhaustion begin to hit him. Meanwhile. The power in the limbs and wings also began to flow back into his brain in order to replenish his mental energy. As soon as his legs went limp, he collapsed into Lovian's arms.

"Really...... It's so ......."

"Actually, I want to experience what you guys feel like. Lovian said lightly. "But it doesn't seem like my talent needs such a reinvention - oh, I'm sorry. ”

Standing in front of Julian was Dominita, who was paranoid more than her brother, and now she was holding on to the skeleton of the tent. Slowly move towards your tent.

Francis stood next to her. I hope to be able to help Dominita for a moment with my dark spirit. However, Luo Wei'an, who is of the same race, is a certain wary of her for the time being, and she will not feel any sense of security for a human because of him, so his senior brother can only prepare to deal with special abnormal situations next to her, ignoring Dominita's vigilant eyes by the way.

Now they still need about 20 hours of sleep a day, so that their mental space is gradually filled with natural elements. So Lovian and Mastema still have a lot of free time every day, but when he says that he and Francis are going to go to a human town, Mastema still has a very rare temper tantrum.

"Be careful now, Halmaniah...... And the dragons are staring at you, Legionnaire!" Masterma said the last sentence after many words that ended in exclamation points. She leaned against the doorframe and said to him with her arms folded.

It's fairly close to the nearest human village. At night, they can even see the lights of human villages. After this period of cultivation, Francis is not far from the second-level intermediate level, and there is no problem in applying some short-distance acceleration. Neither of them spoke along the way, and it was only then that Lovian realized that there seemed to be more to Francis's thoughts. Lovian may not have supported Francis's city too deeply in some ways, but sometimes, it was a necessity to survive in the world.

"Nuvi Province...... It's about the same as Edelstein's. Half an hour later, Francis spoke first as he entered the nameless town, which had been financed entirely by providing food and lodging for passing caravans.

Most of the buildings in the town were inns and taverns, and in the Terran society, where the means of transportation were more developed, there were not many logistics methods for transporting goods entirely through horse-drawn carriages and manpower, but because of the numerous checkpoints along the regularly numbered roads, their goods shrank by a large part after passing through layers of taxes, both legal and illegal. Freight rates through flying vessels do not have these checkpoints, and freight rates are too high. Of course, this was not something that mercenary merchants wanted, so such an informal route of carriage and manpower became the preferred route for merchants in Nuvi Province, where there were few horse thieves along the way.

“...... Oh?"

"Nuvi, like Edelstein, is not the so-called governor of a province who really holds the power of the province, but the Flying Flower Courtyard. ”

"Flying Flower Temple?"

"An underground organization, I don't know much about. Francis said all that and walked into the nearest small bar. One of the visual characteristics of human culture that has brought to bars is darkness, but silence is not a tradition of bar culture. Obviously, such a bar is one such place that does not fully adhere to tradition.

As the saying goes, it's not the alcohol that's really intoxicating in a bar, it's the atmosphere inside. Wine in the demon clan is a cherished material, and Luo Wei'an's drinking experience in his former career as a horse was collected from human society, so for such occasions, he can still be at ease.

"Teacher, when are you going to do it?" asked Francis first after a moment of silence.

Lovian shook the not-so-clean glass in his hand and stared through the wine into the dim kerosene light, "I don't know about that side either, IMHO, I'm more worried about the threat in front of me right now." Without Haring's reminder, I don't even know that Harmaniah has always been a threat to me. ”

"That's nothing," Francis seemed to accept with ease, "you seem to know what I'm trying to say here, don't you?"

Luo Wei'an didn't answer this question directly, he just said simply: "After you and I separated, you have been to Nanyang, right?"

Francis nodded.

"Well, I'll be straight to the point," Lovian's purple nails slashed across the tabletop, leaving a burning mark on the wooden tabletop, "Your experience may make you know a lot about humans, but you certainly won't know about demons. He stared at the dim Dignity Ring on his left index finger and said, "Orka Ivey Cybaneswan, the Winged Demon Twin Supreme, the Commander of the First Army, is the most feared army of the Dark Legion ever. The First Army's record was not as good as that of my Third Army, because after the first few battles, no Terran commander dared to face Orka and Swu. ”

When the once magnificent history was told in such a tone by one of the parties, Francis felt a strange feeling, "Winged Demon Clan...... Gemini Supreme...... What's that?"

"Siu was the Demon Emperor at that time, and most of the battles were actually fought by Orka himself. "Her army has never left prisoners of war. Everywhere they passed, there were only white bones. Her hatred of the Terrans had already given her the courage to do things that were the enemy of the whole world even when she was still alive, let alone now. Lovian sighed heavily, "Francis, tell me, what is the purpose of the Black Wings?

"Resurrect the Dark Mage and rule Osiria—"

"Ping!-" Luo Weian slammed the metal cup in his hand on the table, causing a loud noise, and the people around looked at the two of them. Francis could clearly see that the metal cup had Lovian's fingerprints printed on the surface, but the cup was not half deformed.

"Is she still deceiving herself?" Lovian seemed to say to himself at the same time, "In the whole world, I dare say that there are not many people in the world who can hate the Dark Mage more than me, and she must be one of them." Her twin companion died in the Dark Mage's machination—" he looked up, staring Francis into the eye, "There is no hatred greater than the loss of a twin companion. ”

"I ...... Teacher, I still don't understand......"

"Please don't think I'm striking you, my disciple. Orka, with the exception of her twin brother Siu, could not have chosen anyone for the rest of her life. ”

Francis seemed to be frozen in this sentence, maybe he knew that Lovian had already noticed his fruitless unrequited love for Orka, maybe he didn't believe that there was anyone else in the world who knew Orka better than him, a cadre who often came into contact with Orca's Black Wings, but when he knew that Lovian was not a demon in this world, and that Orka was not, he found that his vision was actually so narrow...... But that's not a reason for him to give up, or even a reason not to give up on himself. Of course he had imagined what Lovian had just said, but he would never want it to come from anyone's lips in such a conclusive tone, and when this person was really qualified to say it.

He knew that the only person who had the ability to say it was Lovian. And now, Lovian did so in an irrefutable tone.

Lovian imagined Francis's reaction, and he didn't speak, quietly waiting for Francis.

Then he saw the disciple crush the cup in his hand, directly picked up the wine bottle next to him, and poured half a full bottle of wine into his stomach.

And then another half bottle. (To be continued......)