In the chess and card room of the Spear District, Thales looked at the Qi Magician in front of him in astonishment: "We have only had a few classes in total? And most of the time we were doing incomprehensible questions and answers, and then you told me
,Are you going to 'disappear for a while' now?"
Forget about being naughty, it’s her menstrual period...
Forget about Putilai, the old man has been playing nervously and missing...
Forget it about Lisban and Nicolai, that's it anyway...
but……
But you...
The prince took a deep breath and stared dissatisfied at the man in blue: "According to you, are you really my 'guide'?"
Waiya and Justin, who were standing at the door, noticed the prince's gaffe when "talking to himself". They looked at each other and both cast strange looks.
Thales noticed their behavior, coughed, and pretended to read aloud the lines from the drama book in his hand.
Huaiya and Lord Justin both looked away.
"Quiet," Asheida, who was sitting in front of Thales, hummed softly: "Now you are like a river shrimp jumping up and down in boiling water. This is not a good thing, especially for a magician."
Thales took a deep breath, put down the book, and adjusted himself.
The magician raised his gaze slightly: "Your condition today is worse than last time. What happened?"
what happens?
Thales thought of Selma's performance a few days ago and shook his head with an ugly expression:
"It's nothing, it's just an old problem."
The prince didn't want to say more. He adjusted his attitude and brought the topic back: "So, what's the reason for you to leave in such a hurry?"
Asheida paused for a long while, during which time his eyes were focused on Thales' face, as if he doubted what he just said.
Staring at him, Thales felt a little inexplicably flustered.
But the Qi Demon Master did not pursue the question any further. He said calmly: "Do you know about the Tower of the End?"
Tower of the End?
Isn't that just Wyatt and Cohen...
Thales raised his eyebrows slightly: "Have you heard of it...the swordsman camp that claims to be independent of power and only inherits skills for the future of mankind?"
The magician nodded.
Thales frowned: "So what does it have to do with you and us?"
Aixida chuckled: "As a group that has tried its best to suppress disasters more than 600 years ago and has been alert to disasters for more than 600 years, what do you think the Tower of the End has to do with us?"
Thales mouthed "oh".
"Well, let me think about it..." Thales shrugged: "Tom and Jerry?"
"Or the farmer and the snake?"
Asheida ignored Thales' deliberate teasing, and his tone became solemn: "Recently, a suspicious piece of information circulated in the Tower of the End, and I must travel far away to check its authenticity.
"
Teresi asked curiously: "What information is so important?"
Aixida gently stroked the chess piece in his hand, her eyes shrinking slightly.
"Although that information is very interesting, it's even good news for us..." The magician nodded gracefully and said, "But for your own good, I can't risk telling you the details."
Thales heyed twice and put on an "I knew it was like this" expression on his face, leaving Asheida with a roll of her eyes.
The Qi Magician was unmoved. He gently tapped the pieces on the chessboard: "But I can tell you that this is information that will shock both the two magic queens."
Teresa paused.
Let the two emperors...
Shocked?
Thales stared at Asheida's face, trying to read something from the magician's expression just like everyone else.
But after a confrontation that lasted more than ten seconds, he finally gave up.
"It doesn't matter," Thales sighed, retracting his chair with a slight sense of frustration and self-mockery, and waved his right hand to Asheida, whose face was indifferent: "Anyway, I'm used to you only telling half of your preferences."
Aixida snorted from her nose, not knowing her emotions.
The two fell into silence.
Thales shook off the bad mood the bad news brought him, frowned again, and thought about the current situation: "How long will you be gone?"
"have no idea."
"Maybe a long time," Asheida shook her head: "It's not easy to get close to the Tower of the End."
Thales frowned and stared at the qi magician in front of him, exhaled angrily and helplessly, and rubbed his forehead in frustration.
"But at this time..."
How bad.
When Longxiao City was in the most trouble...
"Alas," Thales sighed softly: "You don't seem to be worried. In the days when you were away and Longxiao City was not peaceful, I suddenly became unlucky and was assassinated?"
The air magician narrowed his eyes.
"Why did you come out to play chess, Thales?"
Thales's heart tightened.
"Perhaps you can hide it from others, child," Aixida snorted coldly and said meaningfully: "But look around: you already know where you are going."
Thales coughed awkwardly, knowing what he was talking about.
In the box, he turned his head and glanced around at the Grand Duke's guards and patrols who had surrounded him on the street, upstairs across the street, and at the door. Then he turned back and gave the magician a deliberate and ugly look.
Fake laugh.
The afternoon sun shines on the platform of this open-air box, dyeing the prince with a forced smile golden.
"how?"
Even though she was under the sun, Aixida, who strangely did not change her color, raised her chin slightly and raised her voice slightly: "It seems that you still have expectations for me?"
Thales rubbed his increasingly tight brows and spread his hands helplessly.
"yes."
"There's nothing hard to admit," the second prince thought hard about the news from Qiyuan City: "I do regard you as one of my trump cards: if things really get to the point of no return, at least I have one last piece of advice.
road."
"But now it seems..."
Thales shook his head and said nothing further.
"In fact," Asheida's eyes lit up slightly, and the tone that Thales had experienced countless times, trying to seduce people's hearts, appeared again from his mouth: "You can choose the 'last way' now."
"As long as you want, the door to the magician will be open for you at any time. Do you want to follow me to the Tower of the End?"
But Thales coughed slightly, as if he didn't hear him, nodded sternly, and waved his hand:
"It's easy to leave without seeing him off."
Aixida looked sideways at his disrespectful student, not angry or angry, but slightly raised the corners of her mouth.
"Tiles," a blue light flashed in the magician's eyes: "During the time I am gone, you can only rely on yourself."
Thales, who was still worried about the situation, let out a breath: "It sounds like you have been of great help to me in the past few years."
Asheida snorted softly.
"Very good, as a parting gift, Thales," the Qi Magic Master said softly, "Let's finish the first lesson."
"first lesson?"
"Tales," Asheida nodded: "You once asked me how the Queen of Magic betrayed us."
His expression became serious: "It's time to tell you: our biggest enemy and threat."
Seeing this unusual teacher's unusual expression, Thales also became a little nervous.
"Oh, then this is really a surprise."
Thales nodded awkwardly at first, then looked around suspiciously: "Wait a minute, you're not going to 'end get out of class' suddenly again in the next second, are you?"
The corners of Aixida's mouth curved.
He sat upright and put the queen's stone that he had been caressing for a long time back on the chessboard "with his own hands". This was really rare for a Qi magician. Afterwards, he said quietly: "Speaking of the final battle, Thales, this is not the case.
It is not a one-sided quick war, but a ten-year fierce tug-of-war about beliefs and positions, about resistance and compromise."
Thales concentrated his attention, and he couldn't help but notice that Asheida did not name whose beliefs or positions.
And who is resisting and who is compromising.
"On the one hand, the battles between soldiers and armies, politics and conspiracies on both sides of the war came and went. On the other hand, the melee between the two Confusers and the six Radicals never ended. That war even involved gods and demons.
Even dragons and magic towers."
"I have read some incomplete records," Thales nodded thoughtfully as he listened to the magician's narration: "About how the Renaissance King and the Dragon Rider King mediate in complex political situations, gather people's hearts, and how the Holy Sun Church repeatedly
Warrants and appeal notices."
"I think that the war that decided the fate of the world might not be as simple as we thought?"
No.
According to the discussion with Xixer a few days ago, no war is simple, regardless of whether it is the enemy or the enemy, or the outcome.
Aixida was noncommittal. He crossed his fingers habitually, his eyes slightly focused:
"After the magic tower was destroyed, their remnants were still working tirelessly to study the weaknesses of the magic masters, and the results were achieved: warriors wearing anti-magic weapons could more or less be exempted from some of the magic masters' abilities, but they
Still at a loss as to how to restrict the magician's actions."
Anti-demon armed force.
Thales grasped this familiar yet unfamiliar word.
The next second, Aixida's tone suddenly changed.
"However, the real turning point came in the eleventh year."
The surrounding atmosphere was like a secret room with the curtain drawn, becoming dark and obscure under Asheida's gloomy tone.
Even Thales couldn't help but frown.
"The first magician to fall was Bane," Asheida said calmly, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her, but Thales clearly felt that his state was different: "After him
Once again, he used his terrifying ability to appear in the nightmares of tens of thousands of people, but the only enemy who was awake stabbed his chest with an unusual anti-demon weapon."
Bann.
Thales vaguely remembered that Giza also mentioned this name a long time ago.
"Then," Asheida narrowed her eyes slightly, "Bane disappeared."
Disappeared.
A magician, after being stabbed in the chest by a weapon...
Disappeared?
The magician's words were simple, but they made the prince shudder.
Thales looked at Asheida, thinking of what he had known and heard in the past, and uneasily had a premonition of the ending of the story.
"This news is terrible..."
"In those few days, almost all magicians raised their thresholds, knocked on doors, and ascended to their original state, just to find Bane who disappeared from perception." Asheida's face remained the same, but her tone became deeper: "But we
There is no trace of Bane anymore: in the threshold that originally belonged to the Nightmare Magician, there is only a dead mass, without consciousness."
A dead mass.
No consciousness.
Thales couldn't help but think of the moment when he "knocked on the door" and all the strange things he encountered in that intoxicating darkness.
"Whether we are radicals on the battlefield or we in seclusion, we are all at a loss in shock and confusion."
Aixida looked into the void, her expression unchanged, but the rhythm in her tone became more and more unsettling:
"Giza and Arek believed that humans had hidden Bane by some means, so they destroyed nine cities overnight and interrogated nine kings and lords, just to find Bane;"
"Lebra, who was still relatively sane, put aside his usual arrogance and complacency and tried to contact us, but was forced to leave by Solovsky's cynicism;"
"Freland was determined to go to Toros for help, but nothing happened;"
"Sura has a good relationship with the Confusers, but according to her, neither Old Sagar nor Ji Lai know what happened."
Thales blinked in surprise, forgetting to even ask who these names were.
As Asheida's tone deepened and deepened, the rhythm of the story became more and more rapid.
"Until b discovered that such a big thing had happened, except for Toros, two magicians had not responded."
A strange blue light slowly overflowed from Aixida's eyes: "They seem to be very busy, and they don't even bother to knock on the door to check on Ben."
Thales couldn't help but hold his breath: "They are..."
"Ah, Blood Thorn and Black Orchid."
Aixida's eyes were frozen in the air, and he nodded slightly: "The later Queen of Magic."
Blood Thorn and Black Orchid.
Two emperors.
Thales' eyes widened slightly: "That is to say, that weapon and the Queen of Magic, they are..."
Asheida turned her head and glanced at Thales' face with a pair of emotionless eyes, making the latter's heart skip a beat.
"Yes."
"Under the table that we don't know, two magicians who have always seemed to stay aloof and remain neutral have already begun to cooperate with humans and the survivors of the magic tower," the Qi magician said in a cold tone:
"And finally based on the existing anti-magic weapons, we created the magician's biggest nemesis."
The temperature in the chess and card room seemed to drop instantly.
The next second, Asheida opened her lips slightly and coldly spit out the combination of words that Thales had heard countless times:
"Legendary Anti-Devil Armed Forces."
The silence between the two lasted for a while.
Thales struggled to digest the information he had just received.
Legendary anti-demon force.
Two emperors.
"So, legends...are they the creations of the two emperors?" Thales couldn't help but ask.
Aixida looked at the chessboard intently, as if there was some scenery on it that could not be missed.
He nodded slowly with an extremely slow rhythm.
"Every legendary anti-magic weapon in the world was made by the two emperors. Each has its own corresponding abilities, as if they were born for every magician to restrain us."
"At the same time, once we are harmed by these weapons, as magicians, we will suffer huge damage at least, and disappear without a trace at worst."
The blue light in the magician's eyes turned into stars and disappeared into the bottomless eyes:
"This is proof that the so-called 'Seal' is a traitor."
"From then on, the magic master's 'Three Deaths' commandment," Aixida looked at the empty void, as if watching the scenes pass by, said quietly: "It became the 'Three Deaths and One Forbidden'."
What?
Thales was stunned again.
"Three deaths and one ban?"
The prince asked doubtfully: "I seem to have heard this somewhere a long time ago?"
But Aixida just shook his head and said in an understatement in his usual attitude: "You are not at the stage of knowing it yet. Understanding it too early will be harmful rather than helpful."
Thales raised his eyebrows dissatisfied.
But the prince, who knew the other party's temper well, finally just sighed and gave up the idea of finding out.
"So, what is the principle of the legendary anti-magic weapons? Moreover," Thales suppressed his divergent thinking and brought his curiosity back to the current topic: "Since it is a 'sealing', that is to say, the sealed magician
Not dead yet? Just like you were in Yongxing City six years ago, just temporarily?"
Ever since she brought up this topic, Asheida's tone has become very low, and this time is no exception: "The secret of the legendary anti-demon armed force has always been in the hands of the two emperors, and we still don't know it."
"This is a shackle that has been weighing on our shoulders for nearly seven hundred years."
"It's still hard to figure out."
Thales looked at the magician who seemed to be uninterested and didn't know how to talk to him.
"Wait, I thought of a question," but the prince's eyes immediately changed: "If the legendary anti-magic force is the biggest nemesis of the magician..."
Thales looked at his guide with doubtful eyes: "Where are the twin emperors?"
"Won't the weapons they made themselves pose a threat to themselves?"
Thales took a deep breath and recalled all the legendary anti-magic weapons he had seen: the dagger of the masked guard, the black coffin of the Corleone sisters, the shield of the flower of the fortress, the silver and black bow of the kingdom's wrath, the meteorite
The sword with a white handle, the soul-killing spear of the Walton family, the golden saber of the Burning Knight...
They probably all have their own abilities, and...
as well as……
【My blood brother.】
Thales forcibly suppressed the voice in his memory and said thoughtfully:
"Will someone use the legendary anti-demon weapons they created to deal with the two emperors themselves?"
At that moment, Aixida's eyes lit up.
"That's a good question," the magician chuckled: "You are getting closer and closer to the truth of the world, Your Highness."
Thales opened his eyes wide and expressed confusion.
However, Aixida just smiled rarely, and her figure gradually faded.
"Take care, Thales," the Qi Magic Master lightly pressed his left chest and bowed gracefully: "get out of class is over."
"See you in Yongxing City."
A few seconds later, Thales was the only one left in the chess and card room (again?) who was stunned.
He blinked, trying to digest today's knowledge.
Legendary anti-demon armed forces...
Two Emperors...
traitor……
And Aixida who is traveling far away...
Thales let out a heavy sigh and threw his head on the chessboard as if he was giving up on himself.
However, the prince's thoughts were quickly interrupted.
"Prince Thales," the voice of Lord Justin, the former deputy commander of the White Blade Guards and Nicolai's deputy, came from behind him: "Are you finished?"
"What's wrong?"
Thales breathed out with difficulty, raised his head with difficulty, stretched out his hand, and put the queen on the chessboard back into the chess box: "I remember that the time has not come yet?"
Lord Justin came to the prince and nodded politely and indifferently.
"But the official delegation from Qiyuan City has already arrived in front of Longxiao City," the Lord's words cheered up the prince: "The Grand Duchess and the Prime Minister, I mean the Regent, have invited you to go to the Palace of Heroes... to welcome Qiyuan.
A group of guests from the city attended the welcome banquet."
"I?"
Thales' brows slowly furrowed: "Why? It seems inappropriate for an enemy prince to be present in this kind of thing?"
"Because this is a request from the guest," Justin said calmly: "It is a strong request from His Excellency Ian Ronny, the eldest son of Grand Duke Ronny, the heir to the Knight Code, and the next Grand Duke of Qiyuan City."
Thales paused for a few seconds.
"Ian Roney?"
"I don't understand," the prince said in confusion, "I don't know him."
Justin said nothing because another person answered for him.
"I guess so."
Putilai, who had not seen him for a long time, walked in from the door of the box. He chewed his pipe and said hello to Wyatt and Rolf. Then he turned his head and said to his prince with a smile: "However, regarding the invitation to you,
I heard that Mr. Ronny said so..."
Thales looked at his former deputy envoy and his heart tightened.
"He said," Putilai exhaled a puff of smoke and shook his head with emotion: