Kingdom’s Bloodline

Thales stared dumbfounded at the "invitation" in his hand, thinking in confusion. Lewen Mobile Network

No way.

Is it true or not?

He blinked in disbelief, confirming that everything in front of him was not unreal.

Anyone up for a prank?

After a few seconds, he put down the invitation and took a deep breath.

Trying to sort out the situation now.

First of all, isn't that guy given to... by Yordle?

Then, Ada is next door.

Wyatt and Rolf took turns guarding the door.

There are also other soldiers and guards in the mission, as well as countless guards in the entire Palace of Heroes, and even those cool-looking so-called White Blade Guards, how could they let that guy...

That rascal……

Suddenly, a palpitation rushed into Thales' chest.

His breath stopped.

Thales felt something.

He turned his head numbly.

Turn your gaze to the window.

At that moment, the prince's heart skipped a beat.

His "long-lost friend" - Ahida Sacon, was standing by the window with his hands behind his back, looking at him silently with those seemingly indifferent eyes.

Just like when they first met, the magician was wearing a thin but neat blue robe, with a tall and straight figure, and a mysterious but confident smile on his handsome face.

Elegant as ever, as self-assured as ever.

At that moment, Thales' mind went blank.

Okay... how about fifteen minutes?

"Hello," the magician of Qi nodded slightly to him, with a gentle tone, "I am a smart, mature and mischievous kid."

Thales opened his mouth,

Take a deep breath.

"From now on, all the voices between us can't be heard a foot away," Ashida slowly raised his right index finger as if he knew what he was thinking, and shook him with a smile: "Others won't bother us."

Thales heard that, like a deflated balloon, he spit out the breath that was sucked in again.

He dismissed the idea of ​​calling for help.

Ashida's smile was obviously so warm, but in Thales' eyes, it made him feel chilling.

etc.

He and the magician were not the only ones in the room.

Thales' heart skipped a beat.

"Of course, your lovely little maid." Following Thales' line of sight, the magician glanced lightly at the sleepy little slippery boy next to the bed: "You won't be woken either."

Little Slick's mouth was still slightly opening and closing in the dreamland, but Thales could no longer hear her murmuring or even breathing.

Thales sighed softly, he turned his head, pulled up the corners of his mouth, and showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "You are still the same, so caring."

Ashida nodded politely.

Thales forced himself to think about all the information about this magician.

However, the first memory that popped up was the three people squeezed into a ball in the chess and card room in the center of Hongfang Street.

The second prince swallowed, laughed dryly, and tried to imagine some acceptable scenes.

Like - compare him to the lovely Giza?

"By the way," Thales shrugged pretending to be relaxed, raised the invitation card in his hand, tried his best to use the most ordinary tone, and said nonchalantly: "I thought you wouldn't be here until fifteen minutes later."

"You know," Ashida showed her white teeth, "I like to get in early."

Thales tried his best to hold back his thoughts, and swallowed the complaints that came to his lips.

"Really... I thought you wouldn't appear so soon," Thales changed his sitting position and smiled awkwardly: "They...everyone said that you will disappear for a long time."

Ashida looked straight at him, her eyes were as calm as water, which made Thales feel a little nervous.

"The weapon in your masked friend's hand is obviously incomplete," the magician of air said slowly, "otherwise, a legendary anti-magic weapon that is in good condition and activated at full strength can seal the power of a magician. The deadline should be..."

Ashida's eyes remained calm, but Thales was slightly taken aback by the words he spit out:

"permanent."

Legendary Anti-Demon Armor.

seal.

Magician.

permanent.

"Even so, that incomplete armament can still seal me—for at least ten years." Ashida raised the corner of her mouth and continued to smile, "But I got some little help to be able to get out so quickly." prison'."

I don't know whether it was the curiosity inherited from the memory fragments of the previous life, or the natural character, or the anxiety about the mystery of himself. At that moment, Thales's strong thirst for knowledge about the magician overwhelmed him Fear of Calamity's identity - he longed to know more.

"First of all, I would like to congratulate you," Ashida put her hands behind her back, and walked towards Thales with an obviously friendly but inexplicably scary smile: "Thales... Your Highness? Although from your performance I know that you are definitely not ordinary, but I must admit that this identity surprised me."

Thales looked at Ashida who was approaching him, his heartbeat slowly accelerated, he shrugged reluctantly: "I remember there are chairs for guests in the room, we can sit down..."

"Don't bother." Ashida shook her head and said indifferently.

The next moment, Thales watched with tingling scalp as Ashida walked in front of him, and then bent his knees—"sat" down in the invisible void.

Ashida grinned on the transparent "chair" and smiled brightly: "I brought the chair myself."

Looking at this weird scene, the traverser desperately controlled his face to prevent them from twitching too much.

"Let's talk about your future," Ashida looked at Thales' performance with interest, "Your Highness?"

Thales knew in his heart that although he called himself His Highness, the man in front of him actually didn't care about this special status at all—this made Thales, who had been exposed to all kinds of eyes after becoming a prince, suddenly had a strange feeling.

Thales took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down so that he could recognize the situation and protect himself—even if the existence in front of him was a disaster that could not be understood with common sense.

"Of course," he recalled his conversation with Ramon, and pondered: "During this time, I tried my best to investigate some things about...uh, magicians and magic."

First of all, in this asymmetrical conversation, he must seize the initiative of the topic.

"Very good, this will save us a lot of time." Sure enough, Ashida's eyes lit up: "What do you know?"

"Not much, but not too little," Thales carefully chose his words: "For example, what is magic, and there are three magic towers——I met a person who has a lot of research on magic."

Ashida looked interested.

After Thales nervously and briefly repeated what Ramon said to him, even Ashida couldn't help sighing slightly: "After the magic tower collapsed for a thousand years and magic was banned for six centuries, there are still believers in magic. It really exceeded my expectations.”

Thales observed Ashida's expression while desperately thinking of ways to escape him.

The other party is a magician - don't even think about non-peaceful means.

Delaying time-this can be considered, but can he really delay the rescue, or can the rescue really work?

The purpose of the other party should be to hope that I can become one of them, the damn magician that everyone shouts and beats.

Then his best choice is to deal with the other party on this issue, and achieve some results with concessions and a low profile...

"So, is magic the kind of existence he said? A kind of meaning, a kind of belief?" Thinking of this, Thales said cautiously, and at the same time he was really curious about this question: "What do you think?"

But the magician of qi did not answer right away.

Ashida's downcast gaze remained motionless.

Under Thales' curious eyes, he crossed his hands and remained silent for a long time.

"No."

"Magic...it's not like that, not only that, it doesn't have to be that way," finally, Ashida shook her head slowly, her speech slowed down, "Everyone has their own understanding of magic in their hearts, and they believe in the magic they understand."

Thales was taken aback when he heard this.

Ashida raised her left hand and looked at her palm with complicated eyes.

At that moment, Thales felt that the Ashida in front of him looked more like a normal person than ever before.

rather than a dreadful catastrophe.

"Magic is a choice." Ashida looked at the palm of her hand and slowly clenched her fist: "And these choices are neither unique nor mutually exclusive, nor are they superior or inferior—this is the 'Seat of Magic' in the Tower of Soul." The basic concept of one line.”

Thales was shocked.

etc.

He heard special words.

"It's also one of the magical concepts that I agree with and recognize." Ashida said lightly.

Thales raised his hand subconsciously—this was his habit in his previous life in the memory fragments.

He soon realized that this was not the previous life, and it was only the two of them, when they were ready to let go...

To Thales' surprise, Ashida stretched out her palm very skillfully and naturally, slightly upturned towards him, and then nodded.

Questions allowed.

That feeling, like doing this action hundreds of times.

Looking at each other's actions, the two were stunned for a moment.

Ashida came to her senses and smiled slightly: "Very well, it seems that I don't need to teach you the classroom etiquette and habits of mage apprentices."

Thales put down his hands and asked eagerly:

"The Tower of Soul? I know this, but what kind of magic tower is it? Origin?"

Thales didn't even realize that he had completely forgotten that Ashida in front of him was an extremely dangerous inhuman existence.

He even forgot his original intention.

At that moment, his desire for unsolved knowledge completely outweighed his consideration of reality.

"The Tower of Soul?" Ashida narrowed her eyes and smiled mysteriously, as if she knew Thales would ask such a question.

This time the magician didn't whet his appetite, and answered happily:

"In 618 Years of Kings, shortly after the end of the battle for survival between humans and the three races, the 'teacher' Yili New Moon, who returned from the battle, left the Tower of Ascetics with his five students because of disagreements. .”

"They spread their ideas along the way, taught their own methods, and brought together many mages who were exiled due to wars in the world. As time went on, their team became larger and larger, and their theories and methods became clearer."

"In the end, Master Yili—we later honored him as Master—and a group of mages led by 21 other sages came to the "stumbling peninsula" on the coast of the mainland, where the mages built a twin tower, And settle down here to study magic."

Ashida's eyes passed through Thales in front of him, as if he saw the past many years ago, but Thales had no time to care about the other's expression, because he was already fascinated.

With perplexed eyes, Ashida continued: "Soon, this newly-born magic tower attracted many mages to visit. The land forms a small enclave of mages centered on the Twin Towers."

"Different from the hard thinking and protection of the ascetics, and the fanaticism and destruction of the alchemists, this settlement soon became the frontier of theoretical research in the magical world. After various magical theories and hypotheses were put forward, after endless debates and During the demonstration, it was gradually improved, and the branches of magic that were not recognized by the two major magic towers were established one after another, forming the magic system of the soul tower that we have come into contact with today."

"In this way, the sages jointly established the third branch besides the Tower of Ascetics and the Tower of Alchemy. It is also the youngest, most special, most active, most prosperous, and most influential mage inheritance in the world."

Speaking of this, Ashida lowered his head and let out a sigh that only he knew.

"After Yili Xinyue passed away, his urn was suspended in the center of the Twin Towers, and a sentence was engraved with iron elements on the box: 'May every mage have an independent and free soul'. "

"The Tower of Soul got its name from then on."

Ashida closed her mouth gently.

Thales came back to his senses and let out a long breath.

Kings Ji.

Battle for survival.

"The Facilitator" Master Yili.

The youngest mage inheritance.

The origin of the Tower of Souls.

These are taboo knowledge that he could not easily obtain from books, and Thales' heart beat faster when he heard it.

It seems that an unprecedented world has opened up since then.

If Ramon was here—Thales thought to himself: Would he be so excited that he would kneel down and cry?

He continued to raise his hand eagerly: "Also, the Seat of Ten Thousand Laws you just mentioned? What is this?"

"'The Seat of Ten Thousand Laws' is an important research branch in the Tower of Soul." As if she didn't see Thales' expression, Ashida continued to speak slowly, with a clear and pleasant male voice here It echoed in Fang’s small space, narrating the most taboo lost knowledge in the world:

"It originated during the first civil strife in the empire, officially established in 373 of the imperial calendar, and flourished between the 5th and 7th centuries of the imperial calendar. At its peak, even half of the mages in the entire Soul Tower came from the Ten Thousand Laws. Every time there is a seat, there will even be apprentices and mages from the Alchemy Tower and the Ascetic Tower to listen, comment, and confront each other."

"I can't use simple words to summarize and generalize the characteristics of this line of branch theory - that is irresponsible to students - but I can list you a bibliography, including dozens of books with the greatest influence in this line, No, to be precise, it should be twenty-three important books, if you want to learn more about the 'Seat of Ten Thousand Laws'."

Thales listened to the magician's words with a rapid heartbeat, and an inexplicable excitement filled his brain.

But he quickly calmed down and realized a problem.

"Mr. Ashida, you are a mage, right?" Thales looked at Ashida in amazement: "Before you became a disaster?"

He didn't even think about whether his words violated the taboo of the other party.

"Mage?"

"That is a title that can only be obtained by people who have achieved recognized achievements in a certain magical field—at least the Tower of Soul." Ashida crossed her hands, grinned slightly, and shook her head slightly: "I was just a little girl back then. Just a little apprentice."

Thales' heart moved: "Ah, so sure enough, you used to be..."

"Well," Ashida nodded, and there was a strange color flow in her eyes: "The apprentice of the Tower of Soul."

Thales frowned: "But you just said... the magic tower has collapsed for a thousand years?"

so……

"I know what you want to ask, since I was born," Ashida looked at him and smiled slightly: "One thousand one hundred and ninety years old—this is my age this year."

Thales was startled.

One thousand one hundred and ninety?

That is.

This guy……

Thales stared blankly at the young and handsome Ahida Sacon, who hadn't changed at all since the first time they met.

But he is nearly 600 years older than the revival king Tormund Canxing and the hero Nakaru Xing more than 600 years ago!

Thales opened his mouth wide.

"Don't be surprised, every magician is immortal, indestructible and immortal." Looking at Thales' expression, Ashida didn't care: "This age is very normal—the oldest magician It has even existed for more than 1,600 years."

Thales subconsciously wanted to find a notebook, until Ashida stopped him with gestures.

"It's not in a hurry." Ashida raised her head and stared at him with burning eyes: "We still have a lot of time to spend together, and I have enough patience. I will teach you from the beginning, from the basics...from magic , to the magic tower, and then to the magic energy, everything about the magician.”

"From ideas to power, from history to the future, all the secrets of the magical world will be open to you," Ashida's tone was full of temptation: "Then, you will get the higher-than-average knowledge about magicians." Secret and power."

"Until you truly become a magician."

At that moment, Thales seemed to be pulled back to reality from a dream world.

Become a magician.

Thales swallowed hard.

He remembered Gilbert's attitude towards the "disaster" and the drama of the final battle in the Night Temple.

And that... crazy, unreasonable blood magician.

The magician that everyone shouts and beats?

Can you say no?

But a voice also said in Thales' heart: But I'm curious.

I want to know more, learn more, understand more.

Thales realized that the knowledge previously described by Ashida had captured his thirst for knowledge and desire.

What's more, his obviously abnormal body - he must understand his current situation better.

Thales frowned bitterly, and tentatively said: "About this... If, uh, I mean if I don't want to become a magician..."

The magician of qi did not speak.

But the traverser felt that the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Thales tried hard to control his breathing rate, anxiously waiting for an answer.

"Thales," Ashida put away her smile, looked at him seriously, and said softly and seriously: "Becoming a magician is your destiny, you can't, and you can't avoid it."

"There is no second choice."

Thales took a slight breath.

It looks bad.

"Well, you might as well tell me first." The tension and pressure returned to Thales' heart, he tried his best to smile, and asked cautiously: "Magic masters—you...what are we?"

This time, Ashida stared blankly at his face for a long, long time.

Bearing the gaze of the magician who seemed to contain no emotion, but was full of pressure, embarrassment and bewilderment climbed up Thales's face.

Until Ashida slowly spoke:

"I can't tell you the answer to this question, because you are not a magician yet," Ashida's eyes remained fixed on him, but her tone and words became cold and mysterious, as if returning to the red Night at Square Street: "Only when you truly become a magician, a magician that only you can understand - can you finally know what a magician is."

Thales frowned slightly.

He doesn't want to tell me?

"But, before that, you have to tell me some basic information first, right?" Thales scratched his head, thinking about his escape plan, and said, "At least tell me your understanding, the magician you know what is..."

However, before he finished speaking, Ashida's expression changed, and he spoke suddenly, interrupting him in an unprecedentedly solemn tone!

"No!" Ashida said seriously, her expression became indifferent again, and she added a serious sentence: "Absolutely not!"

"You are not allowed to ask this question again."

That way, it was like encountering the most terrifying thing.

Thales was taken aback by Ashida who suddenly became nervous.

Did he ask the wrong question?

Thales carefully observed Ashida, and only after confirming that he would not skin himself just because he opened his mouth next time, he asked carefully:

"Why, why?"

Ashida narrowed her eyes, but her expression remained serious.

"Because this is one of the three major covenants." The magician said softly.

Thales was stunned for a moment.

Three... three... what?

"Remember, what I'm going to tell you next is a top secret that only us magicians know," Ashida knew what Thales was wondering about. Seeing the dignified expression and solemn tone, under Thales' frightened eyes, he said the following words:

"Leaking them is tantamount to betraying all the magicians in the world—trust me, you won't like that kind of ending."

After finishing speaking, Ashida's eyes stared coldly at Thales.

Thales froze for a moment.

A top secret that only the magician himself knows... top secret?

At that moment, it seemed that the surrounding air also froze.

Thales only felt his heart beating faster and faster.

He could only squeeze out a smile and nodded with difficulty.

After seeing Thales' reaction, Ashida nodded slowly.

"Magicians have three rules that must be followed, known as the Three Covenants." In the eerie silence, Ashida said softly: "What I just said is the first rule."

I saw the young man in blue with a solemn expression and sharp eyes: "The first appointment with magic energy: we don't get to know each other."