"ah"
As the dim candlelight swayed, Talia opened her eyes and felt her head groggy, as if she was hit head-on by a heavy punch.
She subconsciously moved her arms, but found that she was tied up, her hands were trapped behind her back, and cold handcuffs tied her wrists. She was tied to a pillar, and in front of her, the guy in a black wizard robe was facing his back, and as the candlelight was jumping, she was busy on a table filled with various herbs.
A smell of herb mixed with the smell of earth is spreading in this dim house.
At the end of Talia's sight, her baby son, Demian, was bound to a flat bracket with twisted steel, and beside him were three large spiral glasses filled with strange and sticky liquid that was emitting bubbles.
It looks like an evil experiment conducted by wizards in third-rate fantasy movies.
Talia did not alarm the dark wizard in front of her. Her fingers were moving, her fingers intertwined, trying to break free from the shackles on her wrist.
"Yo, are you awake?"
Instead of looking back, Merlin continued to fiddle with the herbs on the table. He placed a delicate small crucible on the stand aside, and waved his fingers lightly, and a ball burned under the crucible.
He put a few prepared herbs into the crucible, pouring in some black pungent liquid, and said in a deliberate and hazy tone:
"Beautiful Miss Talia, I haven't seen you for a few years. Your style is still so dazzling, but I have changed, forever. It's a pity."
"His Excellency Colson."
Talia tried hard to make her tone gentle. Over the years, she had also met other dark wizards. She knew that these guys who were excluded by the mainstream were mostly a group of lunatics who did things without regard for consequences. In 1998, after Voldemort's Death Eaters were completely killed, these dark wizards who lost their last hiding place in Europe became more and more extreme in their style.
She tried hard to prevent herself from irritating the "Colson" in front of her, she said:
"I remember, there should be no grudge between us, right?"
"Oh? You mean, we are actually friends?"
Merlin picked up a glass rod and asked calmly while stirring the liquid of night in the crucible:
"You mean, everything I do now is wrong?"
"No, I mean"
Talia's left finger quietly pressed on the thumb of her right hand, and she said softly:
"We helped each other back then, you helped me hide the news, I gave you the information you need, and the transaction was perfect. If I or someone else offended you, then you should tell me the reason and I can compensate you, whether it is money or anything else, I can give it to you."
"The perfect deal? Hoho!"
Merlin laughed mockingly:
"I risked exposing myself to kill an Auror, and you are repaying me again, Talia? You are a beautiful snake hiding in the dark, you used a pile of tattered parchment to dispel me. You thought you could escape, right? You thought you could leave with your baby son?"
"Dream!"
Merlin gritted her teeth in a tone of hatred, saying word by word:
"Today, you will pay back what you owe me twice!"
"Click"
With a light sound, Talia's face immediately turned pale, but her thumb, which was forcibly dislocated, also let her right hand be pulled out of the shackles.
The female assassin, who had become more powerful over the years, endured the pain, like a female leopard hunting, rushed towards Merlin with her back to her like a shadow at this moment.
If she was here, she might be in the mood to have a deceptive conversation with this dangerous dark wizard.
But now, this guy kidnapped her son, and she was in no mood to be silenced with him.
Talia's left hand clenched into a fist. The ring on her finger was jumping in a strange light under the light. There was a spike popping up in the center of the ring. The Assassin Alliance inherited some ancient secret techniques, which could allow the assassins to effectively kill the wizards.
But there is only one chance.
Just as Talia's raid was about to attack, Merlin turned around, and a hint of surprise flashed in his embers-like eyes, which made Talia feel that his attack was sure to win.
However, the next moment, the surprise in Merlin's eyes turned into a sarcasm.
With a light bounce of his finger, the gravity around Talia immediately changed direction, like a thrust exerted on her body, causing Talia's body to leave the ground strangely at this moment. The spike that stabbed Merlin's neck also rubbed Merlin's face and hit the air.
Merlin's other hand stretched out, like a lover's touch, and placed it on Talia's belly without any fat.
The Ald Seal, which specializes in the explosion of air, exploded at this moment. Talia's body floating in the air was like being hit by an invisible heavy punch, and was thrown away and smashed on the wall behind him.
At this moment, Talia even heard the moans from her bones.
She felt her spine was about to be broken.
This bastard is really merciless!
"colloportus! (Confinement Curse)"
Merlin picked up the wand on the table, and in the shining of magic, four dark red chains evolved from magic, bound her body to the wall, bound so tightly that she could not even struggle.
"Tsk tsk"
Merlin walked to Thalia's eyes, and he stretched out his hand to wipe off the blood stains from the corner of his mouth.
He looked at the female assassin and said:
"Why do you have to?"
His fingers touched Talia's smooth cheeks, then down the shattered skin, finally stopping on her delicate collarbone, he said:
"I don't know which lucky one is. I got the heart of Ms. Talia, and I don't know how outstanding that man is. I even make you willing to give birth to a baby for him, but it doesn't matter. This is a grudge between you and me, and I don't care about other people."
"I gave in with the loss of Mr. Colson."
Talia raised her head. She didn't care about Merlin's slightly frivolous fingers on her collarbone. She said to the masked black wizard in front of her:
"Please let my son go. I fooled you out of selfishness, and I will definitely compensate you."
"Oh, oh, it's too insulting to say this."
Merlin retracted his fingers and returned to his temporary alchemy table. While pouring the last few pieces of medicinal herbs into the crucible, stirring the liquid that looked like it was not a good thing, and said:
"You and I are friends too, Ms. Talia, why do you think so stubbornly that I will definitely hurt your Damien?"
"No, I'm not trying to hurt him. This kid has some kind of talent. Ms. Talia, I'm trying to give him strength. I'm going to help him, do you understand?"
"What the hell are you going to do? Colson!"
Talia was a little depressed by the dark wizard who was obviously mentally abnormal.
She knew that her father would not let Damian disappear like this. Now, it is estimated that the best assassins in the entire Assassin League are looking for her and Damian. She is very confident in her organization, so now, she needs to delay time.
"I've been studying ancient witch hunters recently."
Merlin suddenly turned the topic to another direction, and he smelled the weird smell from the cauldron, he said:
"Did you know that ancient witch hunters would adopt children who were only 15 years old and train them to become new witch hunters?"
"I know."
Talia, bound to the wall, spoke up and said:
"At some stage in the Middle Ages, the Assassin League had worked with the Demon Hunter for a while, but in this era, the inheritance of the Demon Hunter has declined to the extreme. Do you need some information about the Demon Hunter? I can give it to you, and it will be stored in the Assassin League."
"No, I don't need it."
Merlin waved his hand to interrupt Talia's persuasion. He stretched out his fingers, manipulated the boiling liquid in the crucible, and poured the green medicine into three crystal cups.
He extinguished the flames and shaking the three crystal cups, while saying in a relaxed tone:
"I have found the ancient heritage of the witch hunter. I don't need you anymore, and I don't trust you. Talia, you are a beautiful woman, and beautiful women are the best at lie. I've been fooled once."
He walked to Demien, and as Talia watched, he connected the three hoses attached under the spiral glasses fixed to the bracket to the needles, and inserted them into Demien's wrist.
The moment the needle entered the body, Merlin noticed that Demian's eyes moved. This kid was indeed pretending to be asleep.
Demian's body has the magic power of the Three Palaces Demon. Although it is weak, it is enough to make his physical fitness far exceed that of a child of the same age. He probably woke up earlier than Talia, but the child could not break free from the shackles that bound his body, so he was waiting for an opportunity.
Well, this kid is not ordinary.
As the red blood flowed backwards along the hose, Talia's mood became intense.
"Enough! Colson, stop!"
"Are you ordering me? Madam."
Merlin took the crystal cup at hand indifferently and prepared to pour the green liquid into three large glasses, he said:
"What I found is the formula of the most primitive mutant potion for the witch hunters. This thing can transform the child in front of him and give him a truly extraordinary body. Of course, it will cost a little bit of a small price."
"He may lose his emotions, maybe he may lose his memory, but it doesn't matter, he will have the power he wants."
"Demian doesn't need these! Stop, Colson, let me do it! I'll take his place!"
Talia struggled, and when she saw her son was about to be hurt, the power of the mother burst out, causing Merlin to thump her magic chains that bound her.
"No, he needs it! I saw the child's eyes. He is a warrior. He longs for all the power that can be controlled. I will satisfy his desire."
Merlin said calmly:
"As for you, Talia, I don't need you anymore. You are not pure anymore, and you are too old. By the way, dear Talia, have I told you that the survival rate of this primitive potion is only 30%?"
"Well, it's okay."
Merlin raised her arm and poured the green liquid into the glass bottle, like pouring a ball of ink into the stream of water, he said:
"I believe that the child Demian, who has inherited the fine bloodline of Ms. Talia, will definitely survive with good luck."
"Shh"
He turned his head and made a ban on the voice of Talia who was struggling behind him, saying:
"Be quiet, Talia, this is what you owe me. Now, leave some strength and pray for your son."
"Colson!"
Talia gritted her teeth and shouted:
"He is the only grandson of Lars Al Goul! If you dare to hurt him"
"So what?"
Merlin interrupted Talia's threat, poured the second bottle of green liquid into the second glass, and said in a relaxed tone:
"The black wizard was born to be hostile to the whole world. It was just one more enemy. I don't care about this anymore. Let his grandfather come, I forgot to tell you that your assassin friends are looking for you outside this house. They are so many, but as long as I don't want them to come in, they will never find this place."
Merlin looked back at Talia and said:
"Call me, shout, and ask for help as much as possible. Let me take my revenge, and have a little more fun. This may help dishonest people like you learn, and don't provoke wizards in the future, and don't deceive us!"
"The drawings I gave you are true! The legend of the Furious Warrior's Cane is also true."
Talia's tone was filled with an undisguised plea:
"The remaining drawings are in Nandalbat. I can give you the rest. The Assassin League also has many powerful magic weapons. If you put Damian and Colson, I will compensate you. You can do whatever you want! I was wrong. I apologize for my reckless behavior back then. Please let my son go!"
"I just realized that I was wrong now?"
Merlin waved the crystal bottle in his hand in a cold tone, and he said:
"It's too late!"
Merlin held the last crystal bottle and looked back at Talia. When he saw the despair in Talia's eyes, Merlin suddenly changed his tone and said playfully:
"But this matter is not something that cannot be discussed."
"Tell me first, who is the father of this child?"
"Why ask this?"
Seeing the dark wizard stopping, Talia suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but she was confused by Merlin's question again, she said:
"Is this related to you?"
"Of course not."
Merlin made a move to pour the green liquid in his hand, he said:
"But I'm just curious whether you'll say it?"
"Okay, I said."
Talia gritted her teeth and she replied:
"But you definitely don't know him. He has no connection with the magic world. He is called Bruce Wayne, a heartless man."
“???”
Merlin's expression became very exciting at this moment.
He looked down at Damien who had been pretending to be asleep, and looked at Talia again. After a few seconds, he rubbed his ears and said in confusion:
"I might have heard it wrong just now and you said it again."
"Who is Damien's father?"
Chapter completed!