Richard didn't understand Gordon's words, but after half an hour, he realized that meeting his siblings was really interesting. The deeper meaning was only understood after a few years, and it was extremely profound.

At the moment of the meeting, Richard sat in a high-backed chair, his body stiff like a statue, his eyes slightly turned to the sky, and the focus of his gaze fell on the mural above the door, motionless.

This is a small parlor in the inner fort, located in the other wing of the building opposite the dinner room, and is used only for the interior of the family. The décor is opulent and extravagant, a far cry from the gloom and coldness of the castle. The living room is warm and bright, with a fixed lighting magic that provides daylight and a large number of candles in a gorgeous large hanging candlestick, adding just the right amount of warmth in addition to the visual effect. On the couch to Richard's left and right, sat his siblings. Specifically, two younger brothers and six sisters. Richard never imagined that he would have such a number of siblings, and this was only half-siblings. If it is a cousin with Akmund blood, the number must be even larger.

The brothers sat on Richard's left, the sisters on the right, and Richard was in the middle, under the gaze of a hot gaze, like a rare monster waiting to be dissected. Unlike the statue-like Richard, the siblings were much more arrogant and presumptuous.

Both boys were younger than Richard, but they looked at them with naked curiosity, contempt and hostility, everything but no family affection. Their gaze made the fluff on the back of Richard's neck stand on end, only when Richard felt the murderous intent. The six sisters are of different sizes, the eldest has already declared her identity as a girl with a bulging **, and the younger one may not be five years old. Their gazes were much more complicated, curious, more scrutinizing and hesitating. The two eldest girls were even more together, whispering something, glancing at Richard from time to time, occasionally bursting into a somewhat presumptuous and ambiguous laugh. There was more bare things in their eyes, and Richard didn't understand what it was now, but it certainly had nothing to do with siblings. But it didn't take long for Richard to know that that kind of gaze was the look of a woman looking at a man who wanted to sleep with him.

Richard didn't say a word, and he didn't know what to say. The brothers and sisters didn't mean to talk to him, but kept staring at him with hot eyes, some of them were sharp and cold, and some of them were eager to poke a hole in him, and some were eager to swallow him in one bite.

The meeting was not long, only ten minutes. Richard felt like a whole day, still a very long day. When the butler led him out of the parlor, he realized that his linen shirt was already soaking wet.

It was only later that Richard learned that the ten minutes he spent with his siblings were actually a ritual that meant that he was recognized as having the Akmund bloodline and became a member of the Akmund family. And this ritual also provides an opportunity for the members of Akmund to recognize each other and choose each other.

At noon the next day, Richard left the Black Rose Castle and headed west, surrounded by a small group of cavalry. After dinner that day and until he left Ashan, Richard did not see Gordon again. The meeting with my father seems to be simpler and more indifferent than I imagined. Richard had no expectations for the meeting, but when he left Yashan, he was faintly disappointed for some reason. The many siblings made him understand that he was just an ordinary child of his father.

But Richard quietly clenched his fists, and his nails even pierced his palms. Two images overlapped before his eyes, one of a large number of brothers and sisters, and the other of a raging flame.

He suddenly felt that his mother's death was so unworthy.

The team made its way to the west, and it was Mordred who escorted Richard. On this journey, the knight talked a lot less, and often could not say a few words of gossip throughout the day.

The silent journey lasted twenty days, longer than when it came. On the way, we passed through the dark forest, crossed the Roman River, the second longest in the continent, walked along the Pale Mountains for another ten days, passed through the territory of more than a dozen nobles, and passed through a grand duchy before arriving at the destination of this trip, the territory of the legendary archmage Su Helen, the magic tower dark blue.

Space has power, and a huge space will always give people substantial pressure.

When he really stood in front of Deep Blue, Richard knew how magnificent a magic tower more than 500 meters high was. This is not a single building, the whole dark blue main color of the building complex is against the back of the Hengdong Mountains stretching to a branch of the ice bay, the main building is typical Gothic style, the flying buttresses are decorated with intricate carvings, eye-catching minarets, pointed arches stand tall and tall, colorful elemental clouds and arcane energy swirl around the spire, and the whole magic tower seems to be soaring into the sky.

Soon, Richard met Helen Su, a legendary mage, guardian of the Holy Alliance, and a dragon slayer, and the mentor Gordon had chosen for him.

It was only when Richard really stood in front of Su Helen that he realized that he had never promised to teach him at all, and this trip was completely Gordon's wishful thinking.

Richard was standing in Helen Su's magic hall at the moment, a dreamlike space. The four walls and the ground are not known to be made of what material, with deep blue as the base color, crystal moist, like jade and crystal, at a glance it seems to be able to see very deep, and it seems that nothing can be seen through. From time to time, there are various bands of light swirling on the ground and the four walls, and they are irregular, like a group of frolicking fish, as agile as life.

On the high platform at one end of the hall sat a throne carved from a single piece of natural crystal, and Helen Su sat on the throne, and the horizontal position of her feet was close to Mordred's chin, and it was above Richard's head, which was really high. But with her legendary status, no one would find it rude. Su Hailun's long golden hair was pulled at will, and the palace-style low-cut long skirt exposed her entire shoulders and a large area of snow-white **. Her skin is incredibly white and tender, and any part of her skin makes you feel the urge to bite hard. Of course, the place where I want to put my mouth first is **, followed by the face. Her appearance looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old at most, her small face was calm and solemn, full of classical beauty, and she sat on a crystal throne, like a goddess for the first time.

Anyone who saw her for the first time was completely unable to associate such a young and beautiful woman with a legendary mage. But even the youngest magician knows that Deep Blue has been built for more than a hundred years.

Her hands were staggered in front of her knees, each with long cuffs of magical adamantite gold, studded with gems and patterns. In fact, those patterns are all micro-carved magic arrays, and the gems are all inlaid on the arrays, all of which are all kinds of rare magic gems that only exist in legends. In the eyes of those who know the know, each of these finger crests is an incomparably powerful magic weapon, perhaps close to an artifact. But Su Helen actually covered all ten fingers! And her earrings, necklaces, and even the silk ropes that tied her hair were all similar to the magic equipment of the finger gloves!

The Crystal Throne is extremely dazzling, even Richard, a child who doesn't know anything, can see its preciousness, but in fact, this magic hall is a hundred times more valuable than the Crystal Throne. The Abyss Crystal, which the magician used to set his staff, is used here to pave the ground and build the wall!

Standing in the magic hall, Richard suddenly felt his perception greatly expand, and a trace of energy began to follow some strange passage into his body. When the filament-like power entered his body, it was gradually absorbed by Richard, and at this moment, the sound of glass breaking suddenly appeared in Richard's consciousness, as if some barrier had been broken at this moment, so that his restrained perception completely dispersed.

So the next moment, Richard touched a sea of magic!

This is a dark sea, without light, the undercurrent of the sea is surging, and it can swallow a giant whale silently at any time, and if Richard falls into this sea, he will be swallowed in an instant, and there will not be a ripple. But at this moment, Richard is standing on the sea!

The momentary confusion of perception immediately made Richard's face pale, and his body began to tremble involuntarily, but the feeling was so real that he couldn't judge.

At this time, Mordred and Helen Su were seriously discussing the issue of Richard's tuition.

"My lord said, please look at the past and teach the young master carefully. ”

"Well, I remember, the marquis of your family still owes me a lot of materials that have not been paid!"

"The principal has already been paid, right?"

"What about interest?"

It would be unwise to discuss numbers with a legendary mage, so Mordred immediately changed the subject and threw a second card: "Master Richard has a great talent for magic. ”

"Hmph, there are dozens of geniuses who want to learn magic with me every year! I have to refuse three or four even the gods. ”

Mordred threw out his hole cards with a stern face: "The young master has the blood of Akmund flowing in his body, and his purity is almost the same as that of adults, at least among Akmunds of this generation, there is no one to compare." ”

The eyes of the legendary mage, who was originally calm and solemn, suddenly lit up, and actually made the entire magic hall flicker, like a dragon seeing jewels. Her tone was still calm, but everyone could see that it was just pretending: "So what can I do?"

"You can ravage as you please!" it didn't seem like Mordred, who was stern and bloodthirsty, could say. In fact, these are the exact words of the Marquis. However, Mordred still had that solemn expression when he spoke, and perhaps his heart was slightly different from his appearance.

At this moment, Richard's strangeness was also noticed by Helen Su and Mordred.

Su Hailun thought for a moment and said slowly: "It's not easy for the little guy to be able to establish an induction with the mana pool of my magic hall. Well, if you learn magic with me, you're barely qualified. ”

"That's!" Mordred said with a smile. But what he thought in his heart was that this was a magic hall made entirely of abyss crystals! The strength of the magic power could even be felt by a knight of pure force like him, what was not easy? This kind of excuse was too far-fetched.

"But that's not enough. Su Helen said, "The two planes in Gordon's little guy's hands are good, I want ten years of income, any one can be." ”

"Plane time?"

"No, Norland time. ”

The corners of Mordred's mouth twitched slightly, and finally nodded. This has slightly crossed the bottom line of Gordon's confession, but it is barely acceptable. In the entire world system, Norland is one of the most high-level main planes, if not the only main plane. According to the laws of world space, Norland's time flow tends to be slower than that of the secondary planes. Norland's ten years may be hundreds of years in other planes. Originally, the Marquis's bottom line was already incredibly rich, which was half of Gordon's income, which would inevitably affect his future expansion plans. You know, Gordon's next goal is to enter the legendary city of Faust, the capital of the Empire. To gain a foothold in that kind of place, no amount of material preparation is excessive.

It was only then that Mordred remembered a prefix title that Su Helen had quietly circulated among the top figures of the Alliance, "Blood-Sucking ......"

And another of her aphorisms is widely known: "I am not necessarily the strongest, but I must be the richest." ”

However, Su Helen went on to say, "At the next prayer ceremony in the Eternal Dragon Temple, I will provide some help to little Gordon. ”

Mordred's heart was relieved, and this was consistent with the bottom line of the marquis's explanation. But he immediately had a strange feeling that such a heavy thing had not gone through much of the process of temptation and bargaining, and the two sides quickly closed the deal on the bottom line.

It's really a tacit understanding!

The most important task had been completed, and Mordred was gone. As he was leaving, he finally couldn't help but glance back at Richard with a complicated gaze.

When stacking together the total benefits of a certain plane for more than a hundred years, no matter what the shape is, anyone who sees it will have a complicated gaze.

Su Helen waved her hand lightly, and the eighteen mages above level 12 standing in the hall immediately quietly retreated, leaving only Su Hailun and Richard who were still struggling to resist the magic power. Although the sweat had already soaked through his clothes, Richard still supported and did not fall, and the toughness he had cultivated since childhood finally showed its effect at this moment.

The legendary mage on the Crystal Throne flicked his fingers slightly, and the two finger cuffs collided with a ding. The tide of magic hidden in the underground pool of mana slowly subsided, and the endless illusions in Richard's mind were dispelled. When the focus of the entire magic tide is on little Richard, he is a magical idiot, and he can also show his 'superb' magical talent. This is a small means, Mordred must have seen it, and Su Helen has no intention of hiding it. It's not that there are other more subtle and subtle means and excuses, but she really doesn't bother to use them.

No matter how clumsy the reason is, it can be considered a reason. Even if Mordred saw through Su Helen's wrist, he didn't dare to say it. That's the key.

Richard calmed his breath and slowly raised his head to meet Su Helen's gaze. He was slightly stunned, although Su Hailun was high, and her awe-inspiring momentum was far more powerful and dangerous than the most ferocious demonic beast he had ever seen, but this stunning little woman who looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, so white and plump that people wanted to take a bite of it, was his future teacher?

"Your father has 'sold' you to me for the next few years. "The word 'sell', the legendary mage said very vaguely, forgive Richard, who doesn't have listening skills above level seven, can't hear it clearly, and even if he hears it clearly, he won't understand what it means for the time being. When the Grand Magus and the murderer were bargaining just now, the boy was struggling to endure the washing of the tide of magical power, and he had no idea what was happening outside.

"From today onwards, you are my student. All my commands, you are to carry them out in full, word for word, whatever they may be. Su Helen's voice was majestic and cold.

"Yes. Richard replied. On the way, he had already learned the duties and obligations of a magical apprentice.

Su Hailun flicked her nails again, and two high-level mages walked in and took Richard down. From the moment Helen Su recognized his status as a student, Richard showed enough respect and humility as an apprentice to look up at the legendary mage again, because it would be rude. So Richard didn't see the strange gaze radiating from the legendary mage's beautiful and cold demeanor with a hint of childishness.

This kind of gaze is very similar to that of the Alaskan Polar Bear, when it sees its favorite delicacy, salmon, which is very drooling and drooling.

Finally, only Su Helen herself was left in the magic hall. If it was a little while, she didn't even know if she would burst out laughing. Undisguised pleasure appeared on the legendary mage's beautiful little face, and a magic scroll was opened with a swipe. The images projected on the scrolls form a three-dimensional magical map, densely packed with magical symbols that identify hundreds of dimensional coordinates.

Su Helen scanned the markings of more than a dozen dragons on the plane map with great interest, and decided to loot a few dragon nests to celebrate today's beautiful mood.

"What are you going to do tonight, do you want to grab a dragon, or a dragon, or several dragons!?" the beautiful legendary mage froze in her own way.