"Take it and take a good look, come to me every five days, and I'll check your progress..."

Omega raised his hand and pointed at it, and the thorn flower in the air turned into reality and landed on Shunan's hand with a click.

It was heavy, cold, like a metal model of a thorn flower, with a bronze glow.

After a few moments, Shunan and Floe Ice, respectfully exited the study and walked towards the southeast side of the core area.

In the study, Omega picked up his pen and began to re-work his draft. But as it was written, he stood up a little irritably and walked all the way to the bookshelf next to him.

I don't know where I pulled out a dusty black thick leather book and made it back into a chair.

He slowly opened the book, and the yellowed pages were the runes that had been passed down from generation to generation by the Omega family, as well as various forbidden and secret arts, knowledge of the whole world, and the suspected location of some mythological relics.

Among them is the Thorn Flower Rune, which Omega's ancestors found in a mysterious ruin.

It has been passed down from generation to generation as the core of the Omega family, and the Thorn Rune has a powerful effect that can be continuously improved. From one flower to nine flowers, there are a total of nine steps, and the further you go, the stronger the increase, no matter how you learn to fight.

As a result, the Omega family is one of the best in the world. But there are gains and losses, and the Omega family has gained great power, but each core member seems to have been cursed and very short-lived.

Basically, not long after entering the glorious period, in the stage of the fastest progress, he bizarrely chose to commit suicide.

Someone may have been spared, but Omega's father and grandfather both committed suicide in their glory days.

In his time, Omega thought it wouldn't be able to escape this fate. Because the cause of suicide cannot be touched or seen, there is no way to explain and avoid it.

But in the course of an outing, he met Bai Sheng. Omega asked the sage whose abilities and virtues rivaled those of the sages of the Age of Mythology.

I didn't expect the White Sage to really answer him.

The root of all the problems lies in the Thorn Flower Rune obtained by the Omega family, which does give Omega a terrifying learning ability and combat boost, but everything that is given comes at a price. At first, there was nothing to practice the Thorn Flower Rune, but as I learned it step by step, the number of flowers bloomed more and more.

Thorn Flower Rune Masters will become more and more extreme, and their ability to regulate their emotions will become worse and worse. And it is inevitable that self-destructive tendencies will occur, and even suicide.

Bai Sheng said that if the runes also had attributes, then the thorn flower runes represented "evil". It can bring certain benefits to the master, but also charge a certain amount of interest.

The other two are "sacred" and "demonic", one is purely a law, and it can seek huge benefits after use. The other pure is the trap, which is biased towards chaos destruction.

Normal runes do not have this kind of guiding attribute, and they are often the legacy of the mythological era obtained from the mysterious place, which will have such an alternative atmosphere.

And the way to adjust yourself is very simple, that is, to stop studying the Thorn Flower Rune, you must let go of the thirst for power. Instead, focus on other things and regulate your emotions.

At that time, Omega had already reached the realm of six flowers, and it was only half a step away from the next big leap. But he still resisted the longing and followed Bai Sheng from then on.

In the years that followed, Omega focused on rune crafting. And with his strong learning ability, he has climbed all fields of rune making to an extremely high level, and has won the reputation of a saint.

He also asked Bai Sheng to modify and delete the Thorn Flower rune, and the limit was changed from the original nine to the current six.

While the various effects have dropped dramatically, so have the effects of the runes for new learners.

Omega began to accept disciples again, and successively had nine disciples. And began to found the Milodalen school with some like-minded people, forming an idle organization. He also slowly broke away from the Omega family.

Everything was fine, but things changed after a megameteor shower five years ago.

His apprentices began to commit suicide one after another, and one by one they self-destructed. In just a few years, there have been only three left, from nine at the beginning. Under the guidance of the White Sage, Omega began to enlighten his disciples.

Cultivate a hobby for them to vent their emotions...... Brother Floe Ice became more obsessed with mutant runes, and Green Vine began to create all kinds of strangely shaped flesh system monsters.

Green bats, on the other hand, indulge in primitive ways of eating.

It's all quirks, but it's really emotionally stable.

Afterward, Omega asks White Saint why this happened. The White Sage, who claimed to be omniscient, was rarely silent, and only helped him modify the Thorn Flower Rune again.

It was this Thorn Flower Rune that Shunan obtained.

"Ahhh......h

He copied down a numeric auxiliary rune, closed the book again, and stuffed it back into its original place.

Omega turned back to the desk, behind him, in the thick cracks of the black book.

A rune silently flashed red.

On the other side, in a separate room.

Xiu Nan looked at the thorn flower rune faintly flashing red in his hand and frowned. Why does he always feel that this rune is a bit weird, and it is not very comfortable overall.

He sat at his desk on black wood, and at the top of the house was a fist-sized white stone ball. These stone balls act as lighting effects and mimic natural light. To light or turn off, just press the rune on the wall.

In the light, Shunan pressed his hand to the rune.

He began to try to observe the underlying structure of learning the Thorn Flower Rune, and Xiu Nan's mind quickly sank into it.

The effect of self-discipline allowed him to study at a rate of thirty times, and he didn't pay much attention to the thirty-five day deadline that Omega had mentioned, because Shunan felt that he would be able to figure it out if he worked hard for a few days.

As his mind sank, it was pitch black in front of him.

Gradually, thorns grew in the darkness. I don't know how long it took, but the whole space seemed to be overgrown with thorns. They make up the earth, the oceans, the sky, and even the sun and moon.

Off-white, emerald green, lava-colored ......

There are thorns of all shapes, and it's like a hodgepodge, wrapping all the combinations together.

In this way, Shunan was surrounded by a sea of thorns.

The thorny branches wriggled like waves, pushing him in layers to the center of the ocean.

The thorns dispersed. Shunan also opened his eyes dimly, and he was instantly attracted by the beauty in front of him. It was a brazen flower cast in bronze.

Huge rhizomes plunged into the darkness, surrounded by dense branches that spread out. On the only thick trunk, a total of four thorn flowers are budding.

He looked at the first one on his left, and immediately felt a large amount of complex information rushing into his mind.

Shunan closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged.

I don't know how long it has been, the still standing thorn flower began to tremble, and a faint red light spread out.

Quietly, another one grew next to the fourth thorn flower. This was followed by the sixth and seventh...... Until the nine thorn flowers appear in their entirety.

The red light slowly faded away.

After a moment, Shunan opened his eyes.

"It's such a complicated structure, it feels completely different from the normal Ring Beast rune." He has a contrast in his heart.

"Huh? I remember that at the beginning, there were only four thorn flowers, how did they become nine? Shunan blinked, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk...... Tuk Tuk ......"

There was a faint knock on the door outside.

When he realized this, his entire vision instantly withdrew from this black area.

"Don, let's go have a meal and take a bath by the way...... Let's have a good talk then, and I might be able to help you..."

There was a cold sound of ice floes outside the door.

"Okay, senior brother, I'll come now."

Shunan put down the model in his hand and stood up.

This is the benefit of being able to set up a close one, and people who see you pleasing to the eye will naturally help you. Although Shunan was confident that he would complete the test, he did not recommend a shorter time.

The experience of ice floes allowed him to learn faster.

After tidying up casually, Shunan opened the door.

The cloaked ice floes glanced at him.

"Let's go, I'll take you to identify a place to eat..."

The two of them followed the passageway, and in a short time they came to a wide hall. When the meal was approaching, there were a lot of people in the hall, at least more than 100 people.

As soon as Ice Floe and Shunan Fu appeared, many Mystic Ring Masters of the Milodalen School were watching them. Some of them focused their eyes on the face of Shunan, while others looked at the ice floes in a complicated way.

Neither of them took these eyes seriously, and Xiu Nan followed the ice floes straight to today's lunch.

Two pieces of yellow bread, a large lump of white mashed radish? Suspicious Black Meat ...... And a piece of jelly?

"What the hell is this?!"

Xiu Nan hesitantly stretched out his hand, and hesitated for a while before picking up the bread he was most familiar with and taking a hard bite.

"Ahh He almost knocked out his front teeth.

The bread was ridiculously hard, like a stone.

"Haha, Don, what are you doing?"

Ice Floe smiled and picked up his bread.

"It's the seasoning, you need to order it in the middle."

With a single touch, a gray-brown powdery object fell, and a fragrance suddenly spread through the air.

He picked up another loaf of bread and tapped on the runes.

A strip of liquid, similar to cream, slowly fell, forming a Z-shape on the black steak and going down.

"This is the seasoning? So why make it in a fluffy loaf shape? Xiunan was puzzled.

"What is bread?"

The ice floes were equally puzzled, but he went on to explain.

"The reason why it looks fluffy is that the outer layer of skin can absorb the seasoning directly and lock in the inside. Throw it into the spice jar, and it will suck up the seasoning in half a second, and it will stay for a long time. But in reality, its outer skin is quite hard..."

"Okay." Shunan lowered his head and began to eat.

"You haven't told me what bread is?"

The delicate face of the ice floe was full of curiosity.

"Hmm...... Bread is ...... A special food in my hometown......" Xiu Nan casually made up for it, and the ice floe didn't keep tangled in digging into the roots.

The two of them talked for a while, most of them were floes asking questions, and Xiu Nan was bored and cooking. Don't say that this black steak is delicious, the meat is very tender.

As soon as he finished drying the steak, he looked up and suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. Half of the people in the entire hall looked at this side, and their eyes were slightly terrifying.

Love? Afraid? Eat one's heart out? Envy? Sympathize?

There are all kinds of emotions, and all of them are men.

"No... Could it be that my brother is really a courtesan? Shunan looked around over the head of the ice floe.

There are young people, there are bald middle-aged people, and there are elderly professors......

"What are you looking at?" A smile appeared on the delicate and white face of the ice floe, and the eyebrows and eyes were like those of a fox.

"Nothing, I'm full." Shunan replied.

"It just so happened that I was also full. Let's take a walk and take a bath. Ice Floe slowly stood up.

"Take a bath!?" "This kid ......" "Lao Tzu is also ......"

Shunan faintly heard someone next to him repeating certain words, in a sound that sounded like gnashing his teeth.

He quickly stood up, followed the emaciated back of the ice floe, and walked quickly out of the hall with a strange atmosphere.

Ten minutes later, the fog was steaming and the water was vaporizing.

In a table filled with hot water, Shunan and Ice Floe have their hands on the edge, and they bathe with towels around their necks.

The structure here is a bit like real-world Ancient Rome, with many tall columns visible at a glance.

"Don, wipe my back for me."

Ice Floe handed the towel to Shunan and said.

"Okay." Shunan agreed very simply.

The ice floe turned his back, revealing a slender and white back, and his skeleton was a little smaller than that of the average boy. The skin was covered with blue-black twisted runes, which looked like dense grasshopper bites on the surface.

"Huh? Senior brother, where is your secret ring? ”

Xiu Nan suddenly found that there was no trace of the secret ring behind the ice floe, it was an unusually smooth piece downward.

"You touch it."

The ice floe turned his hand behind his hand and pointed to his back.

Xiu Nan tentatively pressed it, and there was a bulge in the place that was originally empty. After a quick scan left and right, a ring formed in his mind.

The ring of ice floes is still there, but it's gone.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, my ring hasn't been visible since that explosion. You've just touched it, and you know that my ring has even been shattered..."

Floe Ice grabbed his right shoulder with his left hand and turned his head with his back to Shunan. There seemed to be a hint of sadness in his expression.

"The Ring is broken...... That's not ......"

Shunan said with a frown.

"That's right, the teacher said I was dead, and I was dead at the time of the explosion more than ten years ago. It's just that my death was left in that mysterious space, and some strange force brought my consciousness back to life..."

The ice floes said word by word about what happened to him.

"The teacher once took me to meet Bai Sheng, and Bai Sheng said that I am soil. A seed has been planted in my body, and I want to wait for the right time to sprout..."