Chapter 17: Is This Magic?
Turks thought that Jack didn't understand, and said again: "I said, don't worry, I will help you speed up your swordsmanship and help you realize your hero dream as soon as possible." ”
Jack replied, "I understand, but I don't believe it." What a quick fix."
"Hey, I'll leave this to me, you don't have to worry about it. Turks said mysteriously.
"I don't care about anything, I learn, of course I do!" Jack argued.
"Okay, let's go back to dinner first, and we'll come here again after dinner. "Turks are hungry.
The two returned to the island together, Coren was in the palace at this time to deal with affairs, and the meal was made in the palace for the attendants to eat, Tex felt that his father was not there, and the meal was not interesting, so he asked the attendants to cook some dishes, and brought them to his room to eat with Jack.
After the meal, after resting for a while, the two of them came to the back mountain woods under the sun for an afternoon, and Turks summed up his usual training experience and used the quick method on Jack's body. An afternoon passed, and Jack summed up his experience: "I'm so tired!"
"Aren't you talking nonsense, you have to know swordsmanship, and you have to learn it without effort, how is this possible?" Tex was a little speechless.
"Brother, didn't you tell me, quick, quick!?" said Jack anxiously.
"You think too much, even if it's fast, it will take a year of hard training at the earliest to catch up with mine. Tex was helpless.
Jack was a little dizzy after listening to it, and it would take a year at the earliest, so what does it mean to learn. Seeing that the ten-year covenant is coming to an end in three months, in case it is a big battle, I don't want to miss it, but I can't stand by, isn't the purpose of my stay to solve the secret of this Tana?
But, in other words, what will you do in three months?
"Okay, I'll admit it, learn as much as I can, you teach me all the moves you know, I'll try to learn!" Jack admitted.
"That's right! Isn't that what it takes to study, how can you succeed overnight, don't you have to have a savings?"
"Don't talk nonsense, practice for a while, we'll go back when it's dark. Jack said, glancing at the sun hanging from the treetop.
So, Jack and Tex continued to wield the Soul Eater in the wooded clearing until the sun went down over the mountain.
After dinner, Turks arrives at Jack's room and reminds him of his promise to Doug tomorrow morning. Jack also happened to remember last night, and he forgot to tell Tex during the day.
"By the way, Tex, Luthor said, he found someone who could save the world, do you mean, someone who can resist Gabo? Do you know who?" asked Jack.
Turks shook his head and said, "I don't know, even now, I still can't figure out whether the ten-year covenant is true or false." ”
"Well, anyway, I don't think that Luthor is really a divine will, how can there be such an ordinary person who can understand divine will. Besides, God, you haven't seen it, so how can you really believe it?" said Jack.
"Hmm...... What you said has some truth, but we all see Luther's previous predictions, and they are not false, they are accurate, and they cannot be denied. Turks was also skeptical of Luthor at the moment, after all, prophecy could sometimes use methods that others didn't know.
Tomorrow is the day of the appointment with the mysterious Doug, this Doug, it seems that he knows a lot of secrets of the Miss, and even many secrets of this continent, and Jack Turks wants to know his true face.
It was late at night, and Jack was tired enough during the day that he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he touched the bed.
When he woke up the next day, Tex was ready, Jack washed up, ate something, stepped on the morning dew, and went to the bamboo forest to the south with Tex in the faint morning light.
At this time, the sky was just dawning, and the misty mist rendered a mystery to this bamboo forest.
"Are we coming too early?" asked Jack.
"I don't know, it's better to come early than late anyway. Turks said.
Crossing a small stream, the two saw a small house built on the edge of the lake, which must be Doug's residence, so they walked briskly over it.
There is a fence in front of the house, planted with flowers and vegetables, and a cobblestone path leads to the main entrance of the house, which is all made of bamboo, simple and creative.
"This Doge is so enjoyable, the scenery here is comparable to the scenery in front of the palace!" said Tex.
"I guess let's come so early, this old man hasn't gotten up yet. Jack smiled snuckly.
"Who said I hadn't gotten up yet! I've been waiting for you for a long time!" came a voice from inside the room, and Jack chuckled in his heart: Bad things have been heard, old man.
"A young man is a young man, and he has no concept of time at all", as this sentence came out, Jack saw the bamboo door being pushed open.
"If I hadn't been optimistic about you, you would have been so disrespectful to the elderly, I would have closed the door and gone to sleep." After finishing speaking, I saw Doug wearing a coarse cloth uniform and walking out of the bamboo door.
Jack looked at him and felt that something was wrong, yes, his hairstyle and clothes had been changed.
"Doug, you've changed," said Tex, "The clothes you wore that day were really shabby, and your hair was dirty and dirty." ”
Doug walked up to Jack from the door, laughed and said to Tex, "If I don't do that, will people think I'm crazy?
Jack didn't understand for a moment, how could anyone in this world want others to call him crazy, why would he dress like that when he was idle. Moreover, if it weren't for the fact that he knew so much, he wouldn't have paid attention to it.
"What do you mean", Turks felt that this old Doug was much more "arrogant" than before, a little active, but it was not easy to say, so he had to follow his words and ask.
Doug smiled mysteriously again, and said, "Come, you two come with me to the lake." The two followed.
Doug pointed to the lake and said, "How deep do you think?" Jack and Turks stared wide-eyed, not knowing how to answer, was he testing them? This is too cliché, in human history and culture, such things are common.
Both refused to answer.
Doug waited for a long time without responding, a little embarrassed, but he still smiled as if he was laughing and said, "I have a way to let you know." Would you like to see what method I use?"
Both shook their heads.
Doug, who had been waiting for him, was once again left hanging.
"We just want to know, where did you learn about the secrets of the Missiles?Did someone leak the secrets to you?" Turks changed the subject, trying to steer Doug to what he was asking.
But this Doug didn't say a word, and pursed his lips. Tex's was a little anxious: "Didn't you tell me? I'm already here, why didn't you say it again?" Of course, this situation was not expected by Tex, but Jack had already expected it, because half of the purpose of his coming was what Doug called "stunt".
"Haha, I knew you were in a hurry. Wait a minute, I'll show you something, and then I'll tell you. Doug was still holding on to Tex's appetite, but Tex's was impatient and couldn't do anything about it.
The two men stared at Doug intently.
Seeing this Douge, after standing still by the lake, he closed his eyes, put his hands flat at his sides, pointed forward, muttered something in his mouth, and kept waving his hands, as if there was a window in the air, and he was opening.
After a long time of brewing, Doug suddenly opened his eyes, and at the same time raised his hands up quickly, and with a "drink", the originally calm lake began from the lake like an explosion, and opened a big mouth to the center. The water of the lake was lifted from the middle like a piece of cloth, and the wall of water hung in the air, so that you could clearly see the plants at the bottom of the lake because there was no water hanging down!
Jack and Turks, who had looked indifferent a minute ago, were so frightened by what they saw before them that their jaws were almost dropping! This scene was truly incredible! This was definitely not a hallucination! How did he do it!
From the water curtains on both sides, Jack could even see aquatic creatures swimming inside, eager to burst out of the water. It's so true!
“amp; amp; amp; amp;***%amp; amp; amp; amp;%" was another series of inexplicable words, and Doug's raised hands were lowered, and the split lake gradually fell and closed, slowly returning to its previous tranquility, as if nothing had happened.
"Well, awesome, hahaha!" Doug was confident that this trick had scared them.
"Uh, this, this, how did you do that!What kind of spell did you chant?Are you a human or a demon!?" Turks was the first to speak, looking warily at triumphant Doug.
Doug heard Tex's panic, and felt more and more funny, and kept laughing there, unable to stop.
"Doug, you tell us honestly, you're not human, are you!" Although Jack can't explain the phenomenon just now, he knows that humans can't do such things, only gods and demons can.
"You're wrong," said old Doug slowly, "I'm not a demon, I'm not a god, I'm just an ordinary person." ”
"Then what kind of spell did you just chant and what kind of magic you did to make the river stand in mid-air! You are not a demon, what are you!" Tex still didn't believe it, and he didn't bring the soul devouring sword at home, otherwise with that thousand-year-old sword, even if you were a 10,000-year-old demon, you would definitely be able to kill it.
"Spells, what spells?" Doug was puzzled.
"Don't pretend, when you cast the spell just now, you kept talking about it in your mouth, we all heard it, don't deny it!" Jack replied. Jack thought to himself, this Doug, from the very beginning of the sight, knew that there was a purpose, I didn't expect to reveal his true form so quickly! But what was his purpose, and why did he find the two of them in the first place?
"Legend has it that only when demons cast spells, they will chant incantations in their mouths, no wonder, you have to ask us to come to you and say what your purpose is!" Turks was actually a little panicked in his heart, but he saw that Jack had no intention of retreating at this time, and he couldn't retreat, so he took a step forward, and he was still very afraid that this old man Doug would do something unfavorable to him.
But what Jack thought in his heart was that Tex's was not panicking at all, I must stabilize myself, so that the demon Doug would not see the weak handle in my heart, so as to have a chance to control me.
Doug looked questioned, thought for a moment and said, "I...... I...... The words that came out of my mouth were 'Come and see, stand closer, not so far,' and 'Don't stand closer, see how I do the movements of my hands,' ......"