When alone, Ian walks faster than when leading the group.

Immovable City, Fairies and Dead Kings...... Who can add the power of the triple lineage?

At this moment, he showed far more strength than anyone could have imagined, the defense and attack of the Rock Forge Knight, the agility and swiftness of the elves, and the terrifying lethality of the Dead King, all the phantoms and demonic beasts that tried to stop him were wiped out.

Every time Ian stepped forward, a ring-shaped frost nova spread in all directions, destroying the weak phantoms, and the slightly stronger ones would be frozen in place, and then slashed by him with a single sword.

The power of the souls was condensed in his eyes, allowing him to directly see the veins of the subspace, as if there was a map of a labyrinth, and he could choose his own path of action at will.

And with the blessing of the prophet, Ian literally walked straight all the way to his goal.

The experimental center of the Grand Duke of Thorin's researchers, which is also the final battle place he foreshadowed.

Along the way, there were more and more powerful phantoms, and an army of phantoms rushed towards him like a tidal wave, as if trying to drain his strength and hinder his progress - Ian could see that these phantoms seemed to have sanity, and they stood firmly in front of Ian's body, like warriors who blocked the progress of the demon king.

- You can't be allowed to influence our Dead Lord to carry out divine revenge!

Such a belief can be vaguely heard in the hearts of these phantoms.

He didn't care about that. Everyone has their own beliefs and positions, and Ian never felt like he could be recognized by everyone, but no matter what, he did what he chose.

With a swing of his sword in his right hand, Ian turned the dead ice into a crescent moon-like arc of light, slashing all the phantoms of these 'warriors', while raising his left hand to condense essentia into a shield that blocked countless incoming arrows.

His steps were unstoppable, like a reef standing in the middle of the tide, and all the phantoms that attacked him were like some kind of inferior illusion, and they would even be turned into ashes at a glance.

Ian had thought that this pace against the current would continue for a long time until he reached his destination.

However, he suddenly heard an empty voice.

[Let him come over]

The voice contained the same power as Ian's, and the original Dead Lord gave the order, so all the apparitions stopped moving.

They stared at Ian, then stepped back.

A path was open to him.

Ian raised his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, the other party, as the original and longest-holding power, seemed to be able to grasp some of the power of this subspace made up of the wails of countless victims—at least he couldn't do it in the air.

In a sense, this is also a kind of 'master of the labyrinth'?

Perhaps, he was not very interested in the Dead Lord's command to ask the phantom to stop attacking, and now, even the second-level alien beasts and phantoms were nothing more than a matter of a sword in hand.

I believe that the other party also saw this, so he let himself pass at will.

And just as he was approaching the end, Ian felt it again.

A strong 'emotion' calls for the power of 'looking back'.

It's another person's life.

[I am the illegitimate son of a nobleman, my birth was an accident, I was disgraced from the beginning when I couldn't inherit the bloodline, and I even needed to be 'exterminated', but my father was not a villain in the pure sense of the word after all, he hid my existence from the family elders, but never recognized my identity]

[My mother runs a small jewelry store, and she broke up with her parents for me, if it weren't for the occasional child support from my father, I might not be able to grow up]

So I don't actually hate him. Although this group of bitche-raised aristocrats think that they will not have offspring with ordinary people and always do not use contraception, at least it is not a bad thing that I can be born]

[My mother always thought that I could become a talent, and she secretly saved a lot of money, hoping that I could become a bachelor, preferably a bachelor in alchemy, so that if I made money in the future, maybe I could become a sublimator, so that I could be recognized by my father's family - although it is impossible to become a direct line, it is very likely to become a side branch]

[This is how many side branches of big families come from...... After all, if you can become a sublimator, admitting it as a side branch is something that the nobles are happy to see.]

[That is the easiest and fastest way for me to change my future and fate, and I have always worked towards this]

It was a somewhat hoarse, but rather gentle-sounding man's voice.

His voice was very calm, with a kind of tenacity and optimism in his bones, and he whispered about his life: "I am a genius, really. I'm really smart, especially in biological alchemy, I can learn it as soon as I learn it, and the tutor also recognized me very much, and even introduced me to study at the St. Roch Alchemy Academy]

[Of course, I learned later that the St. Roch Alchemy Academy is not an alchemy academy of the Grand Duke's lineage, but an academy that is a joint venture with the imperial capital, and it is impossible for the Grand Duke to value it if you enter that academy...... Looks like I'm a threat to his children.]

[But I'm still grateful to him for laying a pretty solid foundation for me]

[In the Alchemy Academy, my grades are good, but not the top. After all, I haven't learned the principles of alchemy since I was a child, and I have enough money to do experiments, and my progress is more than a little behind those noble students...... But for some reason, there is a mysterious fund to support my studies and experiments]

[The dean told me not to ask who gave it, I just need to be grateful and study with peace of mind - I had a guess in my heart, but I still suppressed my excitement and concentrated on laying my own foundation in the academy, instead of doing some high-risk and high-cost experiments in order to catch up with the progress of my classmates]

[I can't disappoint. Whether it's the mother or 'that person']

[In the end, I graduated in the top ten of the academy, and I was the only one in the top ten of civilians]

[On the day of graduation, a mysterious silver-haired man invited me to tea]

[The dean was also in the tea room, and from his humble expression, I knew the identity of the mysterious man...... Yes, Thorin the Silver-Blooded, the Night-Keeper, the Ruler of the Night Sky...... Who else but the Grand Duke himself? 】

[It is true that the St. Roque Alchemy Academy is not a descendant of the Grand Duke, but how could he miss the talents in his own territory? 】

[The Grand Duke said that he was very optimistic about me, and he thought that my talent should not be used to learn those potions and alchemy that could only make money...... He told me that I had the potential to change the world, and I had the ability.

[I was very moved, but I was very inferior, I said to the Grand Duke, I am just a commoner, I have no family knowledge, and I have no background, so I am not worthy of such praise...... I didn't inherit my father's ascension bloodline at all]

[And the Grand Duke told me that the blood of the sublimators can indeed make their offspring have a better constitution than others, but this does not change the character of the person and the aura in the mind, and there are many foolish retards among the nobles.] Of course, there are many ordinary people, after all, the empire has a population of almost two billion, how can there be fewer fools? 】

[All in all, there is no significant gap between human intelligence and stupidity in this world, don't take yourself too seriously because of a little boring blood, and don't take it too lightly]

[He told me that all the nobles were the first to rise to high positions because their ancestors were wiser, more powerful, or more fortunate than the others—they came up with such a garbage-like system in order to maintain their power, so that their families could perpetuate for generations.]

[The Grand Duke smiled and said to me, he actually has nothing to complain about, after all, he is the Grand Duke who has been replaced for generations, but even if this is the truth, I can't look down on myself because of this stupid system]

[He invited me to join his lab, where my ingenuity would be brought to the fullest]

[I have sworn since then that for the rest of my life, I will be loyal to the Grand Duke alone]

More tomorrow! There will be a long-lost big chapter update!

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