"Your Excellency Nicholas, have you...considered this?"
Bernardino's spirit body was still sitting in the wheelchair, tilting his head slightly and showing a warm and kind smile to Nicholas.
Nicholas II frowned slightly, but didn't say much.
But he still felt a little regretful... When he saw Bernardino's remaining spirit body, he failed to kill him directly.
It's too late now.
Today, Bernardino's spirit body's limbs and head have been restored - his spirit body has been completely restored to integrity.
After Bernardino's spirit body was restored to integrity, he was even able to put pressure on Nicholas II.
This surprised Nicholas II very much.
Most gold-level transcendents are because they have only advanced to gold; but the reason why Nicholas is gold-level is because he does not have the Book of Truth, so he can only stop here.
In Nicholas's memory... in the entire civilized world west of the desert, there were less than five extraordinary people who could confront him.
The strongest one among them is the man in the mirror who has now successfully become a god.
Master of the Howling White Tower, Master Michelangelo, the "Eye of Time", is recognized as the strongest wizard in the world.
He can directly create artificial life forms (his stone statues), can travel through time at will - see the future several years later at a glance, and can also enter the past timeline to change the world.
Just the spell that gives him power can go back in time to a certain extent. He himself can even enter the "past" to attack enemies who were unaware and therefore defenseless at the time, and then become invincible.
It can be said that the "Eye of Delay" is the pinnacle of the wizard's power.
Only after being dragged into a long and protracted war, did Nicholas in his heyday have the confidence to defeat him - in that memory, Nicholas held the Philosopher's Stone.
The reason why the gold level has a short lifespan is that if they want to use the power of elements, they must burn their souls; and the more they use the power of this element, the deeper its awakening will be.
But obviously, people can no longer survive after burning their souls.
Therefore, it is necessary to replenish souls from nightmares, rituals or various rare spells, or to increase the depth of awakening of elements.
Having the Philosopher's Stone cannot replenish the soul that has been consumed, but it can replace the soul for burning. And the burning efficiency can be said to be very high——
A Philosopher's Stone made by a bronze-level wizard can replace about one-tenth of the soul of a gold-level wizard; while a silver-level wizard can burn almost 50%.
This not only means that the resource bar has greatly increased.
——This means that the awakening degree of all elements can be easily increased to 100% depth.
In fact, the four elements that Nicholas has awakened have all been improved to 100% by him. This is a crushing advantage for ordinary gold-level extraordinary beings.
But when he faced Michelangelo, he still had no chance of winning.
This is the strength of Michelangelo.
That is an old man who can play with time and soul.
He is even stronger than Skeleton King and Fu Fu.
Among the only three gods who were forcibly canonized without relying on the Book of Truth, Bone Bones and Fufu are actually not complete - Bones Duke is more or less a god, but half of the truth is missing, and Fufu
My husband can only be considered a half-god.
And Michelangelo, the man in the mirror, is the first god in the true sense to achieve perfect apotheosis without relying on the Book of Truth.
Not only is the ritual complete and perfect, but his ritual is also sealed in the distant past - if you want to destroy his ritual, you must travel to the past.
But the power to travel to the past is again in the hands of the man in the mirror.
The only difference between using the Book of Truth and the ritual is that the Book of Truth exists in the body and is integrated with the soul; while the ritual disk is not only outside the body, but is even fixed somewhere.
As long as the ritual is destroyed by violence, the false gods who rely on this method to become gods will fall.
For example, the ceremonial plate of Bone Master is the skeletons buried in the Principality of Funeral Song - as long as these bones are dug out and reburied, Bone Master will lose his power and fall directly.
In this sense, Fu Fu is even more powerful than Bone Man.
Because his ritual plate has not been completed yet... His power is far inferior to that of normal gods. Even the saint who has just inherited the holy bones can directly confront him.
...So it is very difficult to target him.
After the man in the mirror accumulates the newly acquired truth for a period of time, he may be able to directly rise to a higher position than Skeleton Lord and Rofu.
——But Bernardino is different.
In the memory inherited by Nicholas II, there is no trace of this person at all. He has never even heard of him.
Nicholas II originally thought that this was because Bernardino was not very powerful and acted in a low-key manner, so Nicholas had no idea about him...
But now that Bernardino's spirit body has recovered to its integrity, Nicholas II feels an extremely clear pressure on him.
——This is completely different from the strength he had when his soul was incomplete.
The previous state was probably a matter of accumulating strength, or simply sealing oneself.
...This is definitely a life-threatening level of pressure on Nicholas.
This not only made Nicholas II doubt his memory, but also whether there was something wrong with it.
——Nicholas traveled the world for more than a hundred years.
How is it possible that I have never heard of such a powerful gold-level transcendent?
Or... did Nicholas deliberately erase all memories of Bernardino?
Is it because "Father"... doesn't want me to have a relationship with Bernardino?
"If you agree, I will tell you... the secrets about your father and your life experience."
Bernardino had a mysterious, gentle smile on his face.
He said slowly: "It's something you absolutely don't know and can't recall.
"I can swear that if you don't know about this, you will regret it one day."
"...Then if I know this, I won't regret it?"
Nicholas II asked rhetorically.
The old man just smiled and said nothing.
The gentle white-haired young man looked at the old man's spirit body and thought quietly.
Perhaps, this is a trap.
Perhaps Nicholas didn't want to know this person.
...But maybe, that's why.
I want, too--
"……I promise you."
Nicholas II replied: "But one of the raw materials of the Hermetic Philosopher's Stone is the fresh marrow of wizards. It is not an easy material to obtain."
Knowing that this may cause huge trouble, knowing that this may be noticed by Father Shi... Father Shi even released his soul just to fish for law enforcement.
But he had a very clear intuition in his heart——
If you don't agree to the other party here, you will definitely regret it.
"It doesn't matter."
Bernardino said slowly: "By the way, before you tell me the recipe, I will pay you a friendly deposit. You can also use it as a gift.
"——[How many Nicholas are there?"
The corners of the old man's mouth raised slightly: "You'd better think about this matter carefully.