Chapter 82: Their Past
Rinon got his credential......s? He is so young...... Sonny stared at the intermediate magician qualification certificate in surprise, and thought silently with his fingers: one, two, three...... In just three weeks, he got the Flower of Life and completed the exam. This...... This kid is four days ahead of Erica back then. Finally found a chance to hit Erica, the arrogant flat-chested woman.
"Hey! Ronon, Sonny. What a coincidence! You're here too. A sweet voice reached the ears of the two of them. It's Erica's sister, Renon thought to herself.
"Yo, Erica, you're just in time. ......Ahh
"yes! I just checked out. Ruinon, what are you holding in your hand? Erica said as she approached Rynon.
"Yes! ”
Hearing Erica and Rinnon's calm tone, Sonny suddenly felt the sky fall: the twelve-year-old imp had completed the intermediate exam in just over three weeks, and the sixteen-year-old girl had completed the Grand Magician qualification exam in just over three weeks. The siblings broke the record for the Kevin Russ Wizard exam in a row...... Are all the people who come out of the Konstantin family monsters?
As it darkened, Artemis climbed into the sky, shyly baring half of his cheeks, looking at the brightly lit land of Middle-earth under the cover of thick cotton-like clouds. People are hurrying through the streets, toiling and toiling, hugging happy reunions, or smiling at the table like Renon and waiting for the food to arrive.
"Ronon Erica, congratulations on your mage certification. Arroyo Konstantin said with a smile as he stroked his white beard.
"Thank you, thank you!" said Renon and Erica at the same time.
Mopra respectfully approached them, elegantly laid down the napkin and set up the dishes, and then Anne Field pushed the food cart to the dining room.
"Sister Anne, what did you eat today, it's so delicious!" Renon asked Anne when she turned around.
Anne tapped her finger on the metal lid of the dining cart and said, "Guess what?"
Renon craned his neck and sniffed, "This smells like cheese baked snails? Wow! I like it the most." I can't wait!"
"That's right!" said Anne, narrowing her eyes and laughing like a silver bell, "Hehe!
"Xie Lu, Sister Xie Anne. ”
"You're welcome!hehehe!" said Anne with a smile, serving a series of delicacies to the family.
"Wow! It tastes so good! Sister Anne's cooking is delicious. Renon swallowed one in one gulp, and said with a smack of his lips.
"Ruinon, you're ruining the food by eating like this. Erica said with a frown.
"Hehehe!" Arroyo squinted his eyes and smiled, "I think he must have not eaten fresh food in weeks." Be careful not to eat snail shells. ”
Seeing Ruinon gobbling up, Arroyo also persuaded Ruinon to eat slowly. Suddenly, there was a crisp sound in the dining room, and Arroyo and Erica looked up at the source of the sound in unison, only to see Rainon grinning with a sad face, "Oh my teeth!"
"Haha!" "Hehehe!" burst into laughter in the restaurant. As time passed, Artemis had crept up to the center of the sky, leaving the clouds to show his wonderful figure to the world.
The food in front of Renon had changed plate after plate. After a comfortable hiccups, he finally put down his knife and fork.
"Would you like dessert?" Anne's voice rang in Renon's ear like a silver bell.
"Wow!"
"Give your dessert. ”
"Wow! Cheesecake, it's my favorite. ”
"It seems like there's no food in my mind that isn't your favorite. Erica shook her head.
"Anne, I want a cup of black tea. Arroyo Constantine said to Anne.
"It's good. ”
"Milk tea!" Erica said with a wave of her hand to Anne.
"A cup of black tea and a cup of milk tea, what do you want from Ruinon?"
"100% freshly squeezed apple juice!"
In this way, Renong, Arroyo, and Erica talked about their exam experiences over the past few weeks while sipping the refreshments after dinner. Erica brows of eyebrows twitching about how she easily passed the test of her magic skills and defeated a formidable opponent.
Arroyo clapped his hands and said, "Good!" as if it were all taken for granted.
Rainon described his experience in the Black Forest in a bland way: he was besieged by a group of gibbon monkeys, and after fighting them off, he was seriously injured himself, and then he was lucky enough to meet an elf looking for water in the Black Forest, and with the help of the elves, he found the flower of life. Due to the Nightmare's repeated insistence on keeping it a secret, Rainon did not say anything about the Nightmare.
Arroyo raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay! But should you say that you are unlucky, or should you say that you are lucky? It's rare to encounter a group of magical beasts in the Black Forest, and you can actually meet the legendary elves and let the human-hating elves help you find the flower of life?"
Upon hearing Arroyo's words, Rinon immediately lowered his head and munched on the cheesecake.
Erica took a sip of tea and said, "It's not difficult to find the flower of life, the key is to bring the flower of life out." ”
"Yes! When I came back, I met two or three teams of people fighting for a flower of life. It's good that I snuck through with invisibility. ”
"Really, your luck is really good, it's just the so-called blessing and misfortune!" Arroyo said with a smile narrowing his eyes.
Speaking of this exam, Renon remembered one person, and that was Aldrich Green. He looked up at Arroyo and asked, "Grandpa Konstantin, do you know Aldrich Green?"
"Acquaintance, so you've been talking to the old man at your Black Forest gate?" Arroyo said with a smile, still squinting his eyes, "He's a taciturn man, and you can talk to him." ”
"Aldrich Green, who is he, the old man at the entrance to the Black Forest?" asked Erica curiously.
"He's an old friend of mine, and he's been guarding the entrance to the Black Forest for all these years!" said Arroyo's smiling eyes.
Old friend? Hearing Arroyo say this, Renon shuddered and thought to himself: Grandpa Konstantin is actually friends with that old monster, and they are old friends? By the way, I never asked Grandpa's age...... Don't?
"Grandpa Green, he's been an exam registrar at the entrance to the Black Forest for a long time, hasn't he?" asked Renon curiously.
"Yes, it has been for more than 200 years. ”
"For more than two hundred years, he has been guarding the entrance to the Black Forest as a registrar?" "Rinon grew his mouth in surprise, "What is this for?" (Author: Explain the age problem, the human life span on the Middle-earth continent was not very long, but when the person's mental power is increased to a certain level, the life expectancy will become longer. Taking a magician as an example, when his strength is refreshed to the level of a magician, his mental strength is already beyond ordinary people, and his average lifespan is between 150~200. Magister Level: 200~400 or so. The longest-lived magus on Middle-earth, Cyril Nicholas, is the longest-lived mage in the living records. Gender: Male, 101 B.C. ~ 332 A.D. Nationality: Masea. The strongest water battle mage in the history of the country of Massea. The lifespan of samurai and demon warriors is also related to their cultivation, and the higher the cultivation, the longer the lifespan. The longest-lived warrior recorded was a native of the eastern Andes: Lu Leishen: a native of Liao Xin in the eastern Andes. The longest-lived samurai in the living records. Gender: Male, 249 B.C. ~ 237 A.D. Author: "The Luray Knife Method" has been handed down to later generations. The strongest god of war in the history of Liao Xinguo, weapon: heavy knife. )
"yes, what is this for? I don't understand his reason for doing that. But I think he must have had his own troubles, right? Only he knows the way. ”
"Grandpa Constantine, can you tell us a little bit about you and Grandpa Green?" asked Rainon, and Erica looked at him wistfully.
"Well, I don't have anything to do tonight anyway. Konstantin took a sip of his teacup and said, "I met him more than a hundred years ago. At that time, I went to take the Intermediate Magician Certification Exam just like you, but I didn't take the Intermediate Certification until I was twenty-three years old. Constantine shrugged, looked at the empty teacup and said to Anne, "Hey, good Anne! ”
"Hey, Grandpa, don't stop. Erica urged.
"You know, I'm not very talented, what does it mean to be at the age of twenty-three to take the intermediate qualification? I'm the oldest of all the candidates, and no one wants to team up with me like you. ”
"This ...... It's true that no one wanted to team up with me when I took the test. Erica tapped the cup lightly with a teaspoon.
"It's different, you are because you are too young, and others are afraid that the strength is not enough. And at such an age, I knew that Lu Dao's talent was not good, and he was a crane tail. To be honest, I didn't have any faith at all. When all the teams had entered the Black Forest to begin their exams, I was at a loss for what to do, when a kind old man came over. He was the old man who was in charge of the registration of the exam report, and he patted me on the shoulder and asked me: Why don't you set off yet? I replied, "I don't know if I can pass the exam alone." I said, "I'm twenty-three years old this year, and I've never been a person with outstanding talent, and when I was fifteen years old, I took several exams to get the junior magician qualification...... I...... I couldn't have passed the exam alone. Forget it, let's come back next time. ”
"Grandpa, how many times have you attended?" asked Renon.
"Just like you! Alone to take the Intermediate Magician certification and pass it is a proud tradition of our Konstantin family. Hahaha!" Arroyo laughed for a while and continued, "I wanted to give up, but the old man didn't. He took my hand and led me to the gate and said, "Take the exam, it is indeed possible that you will not pass, but if you give up, you will never want to pass this exam!"
"Grandpa......" Erica and Renon both looked up in surprise at the white-haired and white-bearded Arroyo Constantine.
"Isn't it weird? There's nothing strange about me, I'm just an ordinary person with no talent, and I also need the encouragement and help of others. At his instigation I entered the Black Forest, and before leaving I asked his name, and it was the first day we met. ”
"Yes, if Grandpa Green can live that long, he must be a powerful magician, right?" said Erica, with her big shining eyes.
"Yes, I couldn't have gotten to where I am today without the help of my old buddy Aldrich Green. ”
"Then Grandpa Green is your teacher!" said Ruinon with great interest.
"Teacher, he never taught me magic. ”
"What?" Erica and Renon shouted with wide eyes at the same time, and even Anne, who had just come in with black tea, was surprised.
"After I passed the Intermediate Wizard certification, I often went to the door of the Black Forest to look for him, and every time I arrived, he would prepare a cup of tea for me. He often asks me about trivial things in life and study, and encourages me not to give up the pursuit of the mystery of the elements. When I learned that he was a powerful magician, I begged him to be my teacher, but he always smiled and shook his head and said, "You have surpassed me, and I have nothing more to teach you." Arroyo took a sip of the tea that Anne handed her and continued, "The habit of drinking tea was developed at that time, and I prefer the tea of the eastern Andes to the coffee here. ”
"Master, can you say that he did not leave the border of the Black Forest because he had his own grievances...... Anne asked.
"Yes, the reason for this is known only to him, and I have guessed but cannot be sure. ”
"Let's talk about it. ”
"That was when I was studying as a wizard at Phelps Academy. As always, go to the old guy once a week and talk to him about the day. But this time he seemed a little uneasy. Suddenly, he diverted from the subject and asked, "You're a magician now." I replied: No, I am still studying. He said: Do you want to have a real combat test to test your strength? I don't know how to answer for a while, so I can only ask: What kind ......of actual battle? Before I could finish my sentence, he immediately interrupted me, grabbed my hand and said, "Time is running out, follow me." I can't help but drag me into the Black Forest with flying skills. During the flight, I felt strong telekinesis and fluctuations in fighting energy, and it was clear that there was a fierce battle going on in the middle of the Black Forest. ”
"What is this battle?" asked Rainon and Erica at the same time.
"A battle between human slave traders and elves. Arroyo glanced at Mopra, who was standing by the door, and said, "It's around Lake Neckar." ”
The battle between elves and humans...... Could it be that Rainon remembered something.
"That's right! It's a battle between elves and human slave traders. In that battle, Shalong lost her husband, which is why Aldrich Green was stationed in the Black Forest. The voice of the nightmare rang in Renong's head.
"It was a terrible battle, and the army of slavers had already stormed into the elven village of Lake Neckar. They burned, killed, looted, and did everything they could, and even as a human being, I couldn't help but be angry. Then the old fellow Green asked me, "Which side do you want to help?" It's a really difficult decision to decide, on the one hand, the humans of the same race but they are full of crimes, and on the other hand, the elves of the other race but they are being bullied......"
"Grandpa Constantine, you must have chosen to help the elves, right?" asked Rynon expectantly.
"Yes, the host he helped us. Standing at the door, Mopra came to the table and bowed slightly to Rainon.
"The heinous behaviour of the slave traders...... I can't tolerate it. Konstantin sighed and continued, "But it's easier said than done. This difficulty is not because of the strength of the army of slave traders, but because of the ...... of their own hearts."
Hearing Konstantin's words, Ronon clenched his little fist.
"With Aldrich Green's help, the fight ended quickly. The army of slave traders left behind thousands of corpses and fled Lake Neckar in panic, but the elven village was also devastated like never before. The few remaining elves have taken us to their sacred place: the site of the Tree of Life. The soil and water were polluted with death and blood, a large number of flowers of life began to wither, and the branches and leaves of the ancient tree of life took on a sickly ...... They asked me and Grimm to find a pure soil for the Ancient Tree of Life to grow, and as long as the Ancient Tree of Life survived, their life could continue. At that time, there was also an elderly elf who wanted to protect the ancient tree of life forever and was reluctant to leave, even though he had lost his life and was only a mass of souls that were about to dissipate. ”
"Is it Grandpa Mopra?" said Ryanon as he looked back at Mopra.
Mopra bent over again.
"Ahh
"You never asked me, and I never said. Arroyo smiled and took a sip of tea, "So I think the reason why he is willing to be stationed in the Black Forest is probably a matter between slavers and elves......"
Nightmare, do you know the specific content of the Tao? Ruinon asked Nightmare in his heart.
"It's because of his son...... There have been two major clashes between elves and humans in the Black Forest, the second in Lake Neckar. The first was a conflict in the village of Kawa in Lake Glen, where humans killed Sharon's husband and kidnapped him and Sharon's daughter. Shalon's husband is human...... It was Grimm's son. ”
Listening to the nightmare words was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and Ruinon was dumbfounded. At this time, both Erica and Anne are fascinated by the story told by Arroyo Constantine, and they do not notice the strangeness of Rinon.
Arroyo sighed again and said, "Although my old fellow Green and I saved a lot of elves, at the same time we also killed a lot of ...... A lot of human beings. I've been thinking about the question: Am I doing the right thing? I've solved the problem with violence, but can it solve the problem at the root?"
Listening to Arroyo's words, Rainon remembered the first day he met Arroyo: violence is the easiest way to solve problems, but not the most fundamental way. Didn't you get the answer in the first place, Grandpa? Are you confused again? Can't you find a better way to do it?
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