From that time on, my father began to pay close attention to me, never letting us out of his sight when teaching us spiritual magic in the basement. He said that there are some things that we should not care about now, and that when we grow up and have enough knowledge, we will naturally be able to join the church and participate in their adult topics.www.biquge.info He always spoke of joining the church as if it were our only option, as if we were born into a family of churches and had to serve the church for the rest of our lives. I kept asking myself: What is the church and what is the mission?

During his studies in spiritual arts, my father discovered that my younger brother Jack had a much better grasp of this than I did, and that Jack was very gifted and was able to quickly accept the abstract and obscure principles that my father said. It's always hard for me to understand what it means to feel the flow of blood in my body, to gather energy in my mind through spells, and then to spread out my whole body, but Jack was able to do it every time before his father's demonstration. I saw disappointment in my father's eyes as he watched him walk his hand through the stone wall after using what his father called the void spell, and I could barely reach into half of the plank.

A year after I started studying spiritual arts, two strange things happened to me. The first thing happened was that I was playing with Jack and I accidentally ended up running to the outermost "garbage market" in Lori. The term "garbage market" is only used by the nobles in the center of the city, including the adults of our Cross family, because our family usually only goes to the specific material purchase point in the center of the city, and the market on the edge of the city only buys old goods and cheap goods for the poor and some villagers who live outside the city. The presence of Jack and I in such a place immediately attracted people's attention, for we were wearing noble waistcoats bearing the coat of arms of the Cross family, and I saw that look in their eyes again, but there was a jealousy in their eyes unlike the reverence we had seen in the city. And that's when the strange thing I was talking about came to me.

That day I saw a woman in the market with a little blonde boy, who was only 5 or 6 years old, looking up at the woman and asking, "Mom, why don't we go to the city to buy something?" Dad always goes to the center of the city to buy research materials. ”

The woman crouched down and replied to the little boy, "Son, mother doesn't want to go to the city because ...... Because it makes me uncomfortable there, and it's not bad!" "When I saw the woman's face crouching and talking to the little boy, I suddenly felt that she looked very much like my Aunt Alia, but my father told me that Aunt Alia had died because of the mission, and with the vague memories of her childhood, I couldn't remember her face clearly, so I couldn't be sure if she was Aunt Alia or not. So I called out to her from afar, "Aunt Alia!" but she didn't respond, took the little boy by the hand and said, "Let's go home." ”

When I got home, Jack and I were scolded for coming home too late, and I couldn't let go of what had happened, so I asked my father, "Is Aunt Alia really dead?" I remember my father's face suddenly turning blue and his anger all written on his face, I had never seen him so angry before, and he roared that I had misseen it and told me not to go to that kind of place again. I haven't asked that question since.

The second strange thing happened in the family's castle. After living in the castle for so many years, I knew almost everyone in our family, and I could name the servants, but that day I met an uncle in front of the statue of the goddess Bella in the courtyard. The uncle seemed to want to enter the basement of the castle, but I bumped into Jack, who also concluded that he was not from the castle, so he was about to call the adults over, but I stopped him.

"Jack, don't call someone yet, I don't think this uncle is a bad person. ”

"What do you think? What do you think is the use? He just wanted to go into the basement, what if he was an enemy?"

"York, and Jack, don't be impulsive, I have no ill will. The uncle raised his hands and said to us, I don't know why I feel a sense of affection for this uncle.

"Uncle, why do you know our names?" asked Jack. I looked at the uncle, and then at Jack beside me, and was surprised to see that there was a slight resemblance between their eyebrows.

"Maybe it's fate......," he said, slowly walking up to me, when Jack shouted beside me, "York, be careful, I don't know what he's going to do to you!"

I was startled when I saw him suddenly walking towards me, but I didn't back down. He bent over in front of me with his hands on his thighs, his raunchy beard almost piercing my face, and when I looked him in the eye, he gave me the feeling that he had known us for years. He whispered to me in my ear, "York, you must know that your Cross family is far from being as simple as it seems, and the Church of Light also has darkness opposite to the light, so don't be bound by the so-called mission they told you, just choose the path you want to take." He took a few steps back and suddenly recited the incantation.

"It's a spell of the Void Technique!" Jack immediately heard the spell he was chanting, and before I could react to the fact that he could also do psychics, he saw his whole body become transparent, he smiled at us, and rushed into the basement behind him.

"He can actually be completely virtualized!" Jack was surprised, you must know that we can only blur an arm to retrieve objects through the wall, and my father also said that it is already the top level of spiritual art to reach the level of full-body void when he showed us at the beginning, and even he can only blur his whole body for a second or two, and it depends on the object that passes through. But that uncle's level of spiritual magic has obviously surpassed that of his father, if he can use spiritual magic, then he should also be a member of the church, could it be someone from other families?

I was guarding the door of the basement, and Jack immediately told my father about it, and my father told my grandfather, and my grandfather came with a group of people, and they went into the basement to search, but found nothing, and when they came out of the basement, my father asked my grandfather if he wanted to continue to send someone to search more carefully, but my grandfather said no, and asked us to leave it alone.

When I was fourteen years old, I saw in the castle again the same mage who had been there when I was five years old, and since our family had never visited a mage except him, I was impressed with him. I know that Vasilian's mages are supposed to be from the Kingdom Church, the enemy of our Cross family, so I am very surprised by the arrival of this enemy. I met him at the gate of the castle, and this time the man guarding the gate must have been instructed not to let any enemy in, so he was blocked from the iron gate. I had just finished my spiritual practice when I passed the gate of the courtyard and saw that his face was full of grief, a stark contrast to the joy I had last seen him. His hands were firmly on the railing of the gate, and he leaned limply against the door, and when he saw me passing by, he begged me to let him in. I didn't know what he was trying to do, and I didn't have the power to do it, so I had to ask him what he wanted to do. He said he had something important to ask my grandfather, Neil Cross, and he pleaded with me, his eyes full of despair, and I couldn't bear it, so I agreed to give him a message.

I went back to the castle and explained the situation to my grandfather, who said, "I won't see him, tell him to get out." So I had to go to my father, who told me to stay in the castle and he did it alone, and he sent some servants to guard me and not let me go out of the house. I was anxious to find out what was so important to the mage, to understand why he was so grieved, but I couldn't get out of the barrier that my father had set up at the door before he left. And Jack witnessed me being locked up by my father in the corner, and he immediately learned what I was thinking, so he secretly followed his father to the door and overheard part of their conversation. Later, Jack told me that he heard his father tell the mage to leave, saying that he had to keep his previous agreement, or the whole church would make him look good, but the mage suddenly roared and said, "Don't you have any affection for her? Is she just a tool and a servant for marriage and childbirth to you?Why didn't you even give her a decent funeral?Why didn't you help me find out the truth...... Jack didn't know about the conversation, because he found out that his whereabouts were exposed, and immediately fled.

I didn't know who the mage was, I didn't know who he was missing, I just knew that I hadn't seen him since.

A year after that, on my fifteenth birthday, my grandfather said to me, "It's time for you to take on the mission of the church." "My grandfather and father took me to the basement where we practiced spirituality, and that was the first time I entered the restricted area outside of that storeroom, and Jack, though much more gifted and talented than me, was not old enough to join the church. I vaguely remember when my father first brought me and Jack to the basement five years ago, saying, "This is the hidden truth of the church and the mission of our family." And now I can finally learn part of the truth about the church and the mission of the family, but the strange uncle's words that day rang in my head again: "Don't be bound by the so-called mission they told you. "Once again, I asked myself: what is the mission, and what is the truth?