Dark. Endless darkness.

Kane felt like his eyes were weighing a thousand pounds, and he was struggling to open them, but to no avail. He couldn't open his eyes to see the outside at all, and he was even deprived of the right to feel the presence of people outside. At this time, he was completely plunged into endless darkness.

Kane is trapped in a cage, his body full of energy and power. He was not willing to be swallowed up by this darkness, he remembered the two men who tortured him, and the father who wanted to kill him. His power is back, and he's become stronger than before, and while he doesn't know why, he doesn't care about that.

His throat and lobes of his lungs thirst for the nourishment of blood, and the blood of his enemies can excite him. The "butcher" tempted his body to find blood to satisfy his cravings. He began to become manic, and his limbs twitched at his restless heart. Kane was tempted to rip open his throat and chest and pour blood into it.

Suddenly, someone helped him put an end to the difficult process. A needle was inserted into his arm, and the syringe was squeezing, and the liquid inside entered his body. The needle stabilized his mood like a tranquilizer, he was no longer manic, his limbs no longer twitched. He was completely quiet, like a sleeping baby. Is this blood? His doubts were unanswered.

I don't know how long it took, Kane seemed to be a black walker, walking alone under the black night sky, his feet on the soft sand. He is aimless, like a flat boat in the sea of sand, like a lonely soul without a grave wandering alone.

After walking for a long time, the black night without starlight was like someone had cut a hole with a knife, and a beam of light came in from this opening. Kane stretched out his hand to grasp the light, he was like the shadow of the moon on a lake, he couldn't hold the light, he was everywhere, everywhere.

A giant hand came out of the beam and grabbed him. Kane couldn't resist the force, he was as small as a grain of sand. What is the end of the light? Kane opened his eyes, and the surrounding alchemy tables and the strong smell of medicine told him the answer.

He sat on his feet, and he sat naked in a basin of water—a basin of red water, which smelled of blood and unknown herbs, and it was disgusting.

"Ahh You're finally awake. It's exactly the same time as I estimated, and it's going well now. A familiar voice, Kane turned his head to look at the source. Kakirech leaned up to him and looked at him naked, showing no embarrassment. Kane was a perfect test subject in his eyes, and perhaps he didn't even treat him as a human being.

Kane didn't have the habit of showing people naked, not to mention that it was a man, and to be precise, a woman, an old woman with an old age and an ugly face. He grabbed a long cloth on the table next to him and covered his lower body.

"What is this place, and how am I here?" Kane asked warily. From the moment he saw the old woman, he was already vigilant. The old woman was a medicine seller on the black market, and this was the black market, and Kakirech was here. They just left him, I don't know how to use it, life can be happy, but the situation is not quite right now, and it can't be too early to be happy.

Hammer couldn't believe it, and Kakirech couldn't believe it, they were all using him like a pawn, and he knew it.

"Don't be nervous, we saved you. We are your saviors, so why be afraid? Mr. Kane. We're already familiar with it, so let's let our guard down. Kakirech laughed at Kane and said that his eyes were unbelievable and that he had to be on his toes at all times.

"Okay, okay. In that case, I'll get straight to the point. Kakireć said.

He then told Kane about his purpose from beginning to end, including the fact that he had chosen him when Wilkin brought him to the alchemy lab, and what he was asked to help with next.

"You want me to help you go to that barren land and take out that magic sword? ... What would you do if I didn't agree? The feeling of being used as a pawn again really annoyed him, and it also provoked his rebellious mentality, and he was tired of Kakireć looking like he was winning.

"You will agree, and if you refuse, we will hand you over to your sworn enemy, Viscount Bailly. He's been looking for you, and if you fall back into his hands, you'll be worse off than dead. You know that best. After giving you to Bailly, we can spend another time cultivating someone who can help us, and if I have the ability to train you, I will have the ability to cultivate another person like you, no, even better than you, more obedient than you. We spend time, you lose your life. Think about it before answering. ”

Kakireć's confident appearance made Kane feel like a punch in the face, and he would show the old madman what it was like to smash the bridge of his nose with a punching bag. But he couldn't do that, he had to think about his life.

"Okay, I promise you, but I have to go back to Rand. I'll be back after reading Rand's situation, and that's always going to be okay. ”

It stands to reason that Kakirech would have agreed to this small request, but he refused. Rand was now in ruins, Abydes had seen it, and Wilkin had revealed that fact. He couldn't let Kane know, and it wouldn't be good if he found out and changed his mind. After all, he can't really hand Kane over to Bailly, it took most of his life to find Kane, a suitable person, and he was just scaring Kane just now.

He made up a reason to prevaricate. "Rand's condition isn't as bad as you think, and you don't have to worry about Hammer here. It's not safe for you to be in the right situation, Hammer doesn't care about your personal vendetta with Bailly, he's looking for you like crazy. Going back is undoubtedly self-defeating, and when you help us bring out the magic sword, we will secretly help you, and there will be more opportunities for cooperation in the future, and friendship can develop for a long time. ”

Kane pondered for a long time, "Hammer doesn't even care if I live or die, how can he let Rand go?" ”

"Rand isn't just your domain, he's Hammer's property. Bailly's destruction of Rand is destroying Hamer's property, and as a loyal dog, do you think he would do that? ”

“..... All right. Kakireć managed to convince Kane to discourage him from going back. He told Kane to wait here and not go anywhere, lest Bailly's eyes see him.

Kane gladly acceded to Kakireć's request, and his three meals a day were provided by the old woman, during which time he was bored looking through the books - mostly on herbs and medicine, and a few that piqued Kane's interest were the Northland Geography and the Alchemist's Primer's Guide, which were presumably left behind by Kakireich.

In the corner, he also found a dirty book that had been used to pad the legs of the table, and he looked a little old. "The World of Magic" is all about some of the most basic magical knowledge, which is like a book of heaven to Kane, and he doesn't think he has any magical talent. He just flipped through a few pages and lost interest.

The only things that aroused his interest were those books about the scenery of the Northland, and he only lived by turning books day by day. After looking through it all these days, he learned more about the Northlands, a frozen land of perpetual cold, and on that harsh frozen soil lived hundreds of tribes, large and small, who did not interfere with each other and lived alone.

The tribes, large and small, lived like primitive races, and he relied on magic to fish, hunt, gather, and farm. Many ethnic groups there reject technology and alchemy, but recently many have embraced new ideas and experimented with technology and alchemy. These groups of people who changed their minds were called "heretics" and "traitors of the ancestors." The conservative race despises them for relieving their pride and sees them as a race that spreads evil.

The Northlands began to divide into three broad factions, namely the improvers who accepted technology, the conservatives who followed the old ways, and the neutrals who kept silent. Looks like Kakirech and they should belong to the reformists, are they going to take that magic sword to unify the Northlands? Kane thought silently. This is really a primitive and complex barbaric tribe.

Time passed, and it was so uncomfortable to be trapped in this small house, unable to do anything, and being around the smell of stinky herbs all day was an ordeal! He really hoped that Kakireć would come back soon, and he really couldn't stay any longer.

Fortunately, when Kane was about to run out to breathe by himself when he couldn't bear it anymore, a new person came. Abydeus suddenly appeared in the room, which startled Kane, who was reading a book, and he immediately jumped out of bed.

He looked warily at the stranger in front of him, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity flashed. He seems to have met this guy in front of him somewhere. Where is it? I can't remember it for a while.

Abydes had taken advantage of a different face when she appeared on Hank Street, and Kane had never seen him before. At this time, another person appeared out of thin air.

"Abides, can't you just wait a little longer? Wait a little longer and you'll die, right? You bastard! Yelika scolded him dissatisfied.

Abidis! Kane remembered the name. Carlo had mentioned him - the leader of the Northland mages, the culprit of the murder on Hank Street! And the sorceress who, despite her beautiful appearance, has a beautiful figure. He had seen her on the black market, and had fought indirectly, and he was almost caught by her, but fortunately he ran fast at the time.

"Hey, don't be nervous. Kakirech has probably explained it to you very clearly, we are friends now, not enemies, so there is no need to be so defensive of your friends, right? Besides, we saved you from that damned Bailly. ... Remember? Abidis said.

"Okay, there's no need to get in and pull the relationship." Yelika folded her arms around her chest and said coldly.

"Well, although it's a fact." Abidis said.

"Are you here to take me there? Find the Dark Altar and take your Relic Sword. Then I went my separate ways. Kane's gaze shifted back and forth between them.