Anthony walked slowly in the dark, his speed was not fast, but it made Tang Jie feel that he was always difficult to catch up, no matter how many steps he had under his feet.

The two men walked out of Prince Luther's palace one after the other, and came to a secluded and uninhabited place, and Anthony stopped.

In front of Anthony was a heavy black stone door, covered with dust and cobwebs, as if it had existed for thousands of years without anyone caring about it.

"Where is this?" Tang Jie couldn't help the curiosity in his heart no matter how open-minded and comfortable he was, he asked.

Anthony didn't speak, just turned his head and glanced at him lightly, and then made a gesture with his hand at the stone door, and the heavy stone door shook violently, and the thousand-pound stone door rumbled to both sides, making a deafening sound.

Tang Jie was startled, and couldn't help but look around, he felt that in this well-guarded palace, it seemed that countless soldiers wearing heavy armor would rush out in the next second.

Anthony seemed to know what he was thinking, and smiled faintly: "Don't worry, you are now a person who is blessed by the god of freedom, and besides, this is where I live, and no one dares to break in." ”

Tang Jie shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips, his appearance did not have the bearing of a martial arts master displayed in the gladiatorial arena.

Anthony put five fingers in the air with one hand, and a red fighting spirit suddenly ignited in the palm of his hand, and then walked into the stone cave by the light of this fighting energy.

Tang Jie was stunned for a moment, and also painted the scoop according to the gourd, his palm shook, and a flame ignited with a bang, and then followed in.

The two of them passed through the stone gate, passed through a dark and narrow stone corridor, and then came to a stone cave of about 20 square meters.

To Tang Jie's surprise in this stone cave, there was a candlestick full of candle tears all the time, this candlestick was about the size of a fist, and the candle tears were piled up, layered like waves, and a dim and dim flame spirit jumped and twisted on the candlestick.

Although the flame was not large, it was just enough to illuminate the house hazy, like a light yellow veil, and it was barely possible to see the surrounding things clearly.

Apparently this is a stone cave that has been closed for a long time, full of thick dust and intertwined cobwebs, and the dim candlelight shines on the thick blue-brown moss on the stone wall, showing an eerie glow.

Rows of bookshelves stand around the stone cave, there are some books scattered under the feet of the bookshelves, and there are all kinds of thick books wrapped in cowhide on the shelves, messy and messy, Anthony walked to a bookshelf, after dissipating the fighting spirit in the palm of his hand, he bent down and picked up a book from the ground, patted it with his hand, and blew the dust on it, Tang Jie clearly saw a few elegant and classical words on the book cover, "On the Magic Mystery of the Survival of the Major Races".

Tang Jie showed a strange look on his face, and then he eliminated the fighting spirit in the palm of his hand, picked up one himself, patted off the book on it, and looked at it, but it was a magic theory book that discussed water magic.

Tang Jie put the books on the shelves, and then looked at the other books a little, all of them were profound and obscure magic books.

How could there be so many magic books in the vault of the sword saint Anthony?

Tang Jie was very puzzled.

"Where is this?your place?hasn't anyone been here for a long time?" Tang Jie couldn't help but ask a few more questions.

Anthony did not speak, he bent down and took a light from the candlestick with an old lighter, and then lightly lit it on the extinguished candlestick that hung on the other wall.

"This is not my place, I have only guarded this place for people for so many years......" Anthony said slowly after lighting a candlestick, his voice echoing in the stone cave, humming, and very low, like the voice of the elders in the ancient history.

After Anthony lit the candlestick, he looked at the small bean-like flames dancing on the candlestick, and was a little stunned, and after a while, he let out a long breath: "If you feel impatient to stand, find a place to sit down, and you will hear a long, long story......

Tang Jie's heart moved, he picked up a few books on the ground, patted them, and then put them together and sat on them.

These books are all the most profound and hard-to-find precious texts in the wizarding world, as well as many classics left by the former famous archmages, which not only record many forbidden spells of magic that have been lost, but also include how to break through the bottleneck of magic.

If these books were to spread outside, they would immediately cause an uproar in the wizarding world, causing countless mages to snatch their heads.

Even the magical genius Fiona would be filled with ecstasy and amazement when she saw it, and then bury herself in these ancient magic texts to delve into the lost magical knowledge.

However, now these priceless magic books are sitting under Tang Jie's ass like this, like a pile of waste paper.

Although Tang Jie knew that these ancient magic books should have a certain value, because he didn't understand magic, he didn't know how valuable these magic books were, just like a chicken eating stone grain but disdainful of diamonds.

Anthony didn't care that these precious classics were used by Tang Jie to pad his buttocks, his silver hair revealed a sense of historical vicissitudes in the dim candlelight, Tang Jie looked at his not surprising face, and suddenly found that the corners of his eyes were wrinkled.

"I don't remember a long time ago, ah, when. I only remember that I was an ordinary little gardener, running my little flower garden every day, and giving the most beautiful and best flowers to merchants and nobles...... "Anthony said slowly, "I lived an ordinary and ordinary life, just like any person you see on the street, without any special place, and I didn't even know how to use a sword at that time. ”

Tang Jie listened quietly, and did not interject because of the doubts in his heart.

"This life lasted until the day of my fortieth birthday, when a person suddenly broke into my ordinary and peaceful life, completely changed my life and changed history. The corners of Anthony's mouth curled slightly, and he sighed with a faint smile at the wonder of fate: "A tall young man broke into my little garden, covered in blood and armed with a long sword, and trampled my flowerbed to pieces. He was followed by three ninth-level magicians and two ninth-level sword fighters in gray robes, who fought fiercely in my flower garden, and then this man, who looked like he was dying at any moment, used the long sword in his hand to kill four pursuers, and then glared at the last pursuer viciously.

"This pursuer was already frightened at this time, he did not know that if he took another step, the man would be unconscious, and he would cut off the man's head. But he didn't, he fled in a hurry like a lost dog. And this man looked at this fleeing figure, looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, his laughter shook the sky, and it shook my soul!"

"It's a cliché story, isn't it?" Anthony said, suddenly turning his head and smiling at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie nodded: "Quite cliché!"

Anthony smiled, and he let out a long breath, "But the world is made up of such cliché stories. This man later fainted in my flower-bed, and was revived by me, and in return for saving my life, he left me his long sword and drifted away himself. ”

"And I, an ordinary little gardener, also changed my life because I witnessed an unprecedentedly fierce battle. After seeing that battle, I felt as if another world was slowly opening its doors to me, and I suddenly found that there was a fanatical and ambitious devil buried under my ordinary and calm heart, I wanted to be a strong man, I was not willing to live so peacefully all my life, so I took the long sword left to me by this man, left my wife and son, and embarked on a path that seemed incredible to others. ”

Anthony smiled slightly: "Can you imagine? A middle-aged man in his forties, carrying a long sword on his back, went around asking those famous sword fighters for advice and learning, begging them to accept me as an apprentice to learn fighting qi and swordsmanship......

Tang Jie listened in a daze, as a person who has been martial arts since childhood, of course he knew that he only started learning martial arts at the age of forty, what did it mean!

"At the beginning, countless people laughed at me in front of me, sarcastically mocked me, spat at me, and said that I was the most self-conscious and whimsical person in the world......" Anthony smiled faintly, and the wind was light, "A middle-aged man in his forties also wants to be a sword fighter? Ha, at that time, I myself thought it sounded incredible, and sometimes I thought I must be crazy!"

"But you know what happened now...... Anthony said with a look of pride on his face, "Those who mocked me have now become a pile of dry bones, some of them died by my sword, some of them died in the arms of the god of time. When I became famous and lived in seclusion in the palace, the man who had led me to this world of sword fighters suddenly appeared in front of me again. ”

"Like the last time, he was still covered in scars and blood, and it seemed that his whole life had been spent on the run and in pursuit. He said to me, "I wish I could keep his treasure until one day, when his heir comes here and inherits his wealth." ”

Tang Jie listened to Anthony's slow narration, his heart suddenly moved, a thought flashed quickly, and he couldn't help but say: "Who is this man you are talking about......?

Anthony glanced at Tang Jie, and a funny smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Yes, you guessed it." This man is none other than Athos!"

Tang Jie was shocked, his eyes suddenly dilated, and his whole body jumped up from the pile of books like a spring, and then his eyes scanned the surroundings like electricity, as if he was looking for the treasure of Athos.

Tang Jie looked around, and suddenly remembered a question: "Wait...... Hasn't Athos been dead for more than a hundred years? How old have you lived? I remember Agatha once told me about you, and she said that you became famous after Carl Potter, the king of sword fighters, and that Carl Potter retired only a dozen years ago!

Anthony smiled: "You're right, I really became famous after Carl Potter retired, and I hid in the palace to cultivate secretly, and the time was so long that I can't even remember." However, when I first met that man, I was forty years old, and when I met him again, I was already sixty years old at that time, and I was a ninth-level sword fighter......"

"It took me a full twenty years to go from an ordinary human being to a powerful ninth-level sword fighter, and it took me nearly a hundred years to break through to the realm of the ninth-level sword fighter, and from the realm realm to the realm of the gods...... "Anthony let out a long sigh and sighed with great emotion, "Athos found me, he asked me to keep some of his treasure for him, I didn't refuse him at that time, I agreed to it in one bite, and I didn't care what kind of trouble these wealth might cause me." Because I knew that without Athos, I would not have been able to have this awesome Anthony ......"

"In order to fulfill my promise, I have been guarding this treasure, and until today, I can finally trust it to you......" Anthony patted the cobweb-covered bookshelf gently.

Tang Jie was confused, feeling as incredible as listening to a magical story: "Wait, I didn't understand!"

Tang Jie looked around and nodded to himself: "You mean, I am the heir of Athos? Why do you also think that I am his heir? Where did you come to this conclusion? You can't say that I look exactly like Athos, right?"

Anthony stared at Tang Jie with blazing eyes and said, "Also, did anyone say that you look like him?"

Tang Jie pursed his lips, he didn't want to tell him about Octavier: "You don't need to know this, answer my question first." ”

Anthony said: "I don't think you look like him, but what makes me judge is that your momentum and shadow are almost exactly the same as Athos! And with that in addition to the things that happened to you before, so, I feel that this treasure should be inherited by you!"

Tang Jie tilted his head and thought for a while, then looked at the bookshelves around him, and said with a strange face: "The treasure you said is this room...... Books?"

Anthony smiled: "I don't know about this, I'm only responsible for protecting this batch of treasures, I never care what exactly is there, as for what is here, it's up to you to dig it." ”

Speaking of this, Anthony slowly turned his head and looked in one direction of the stone cave, his eyes seemed to look through the thick stone wall, looking at a distant place, his gaze was very penetrating: "I'm going to have something to do now, you can take your time here...... No one will bother you. ”

Tang Jie was stunned for a moment, and was about to open his mouth to continue asking questions, but saw Anthony's figure already walking towards the outside of the stone cave.

"Hey...... Don't go, I still have something to ask you!" Tang Jie's voice echoed in the stone cave, but he watched Anthony's figure disappear in front of him, leaving only a quiet darkness.

Tang Jie sighed, turned his head, and looked around, the treasure of Athos, which had disappeared and cut off the clues, appeared in front of Tang Jie's eyes again, but this time, he felt that his heart was full of strangeness and weirdness, as if Athos could anticipate where he would appear, so as to bury the treasure in this place, and as if there was a hand in the dark, constantly pulling him, so that he intentionally or unintentionally came to Athos's treasure hiding places one after another, to open the treasure that had been buried for more than a hundred years.

This time, what treasure did Athos bury?

Tang Jie didn't know, and what he didn't know was that the reason why Sword Saint Anthony would leave was because in the eastern suburbs of the city in Garcia, there was a person who was calling out to him with a spiritual aura that could only be sensed by a realm-level powerhouse.

This man Anthony is very familiar with, it is in the imperial capital of Garcia, the king of sword fighters who has been looking at him from afar, Carl Potter!

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Transition chapters, transitions......