Crown Master

Hokkaido, Japan.

The fifth magician, Aoko Aozaki was receiving a rare guest under the falling snow.

On the short light brown hair are a few crystals that are gradually melting into water droplets, and the silver eyes are as beautiful as snowflakes falling from the sky at this time. Although he is a man who does not know how long he has grown up, his thin figure is The slender fingers and the neutral outfit make it hard for people to notice his gender in the first place.

Steve Ronald was born as a magician in the Clock Tower. When he was young, he had a relationship with Aozaki Aoko. It is still difficult to explain the original entanglement, but whoever can convey the needs of the Clock Tower The message to the fifth magician is clearly stated, that person must be him!

He's also one of the few people who won't be knocked over by the "human rocket launcher" at the first sight.

Coming all the way from afar, exhaling the rapidly cooling air, Steve looked at the woman with wine-red long hair in front of him, his eyes showed fluctuations of emotion.

"Long time no see, miss Qingzi."

Aoko Aozaki blinked her water-blue eyes, and opened her arms generously.

"Long time no see, Steve you old bastard!"

"Please reflect on your wording immediately! Damn it, I'm not old at all!"

Seeing that this guy who can be called a good friend was stripped of the gentleman's skin by himself in an instant, and became annoyed, Aozaki Aoko immediately showed a satisfied expression.

"That's right. Since we all know that we haven't seen each other for a long time, who are you showing that look to?"

Steve threw her a helpless look, and when he cleaned up his expression, the cigarette was lit between his fingers.

Hokkaido Park is close to the vast sea. You can hear the sound of waves hitting the coast by leaning on the railing. The modern buildings standing around have a kind of lack of enthusiasm in the snowy weather. No matter what Steve and Aozaki Aoko say, there are no idlers to eavesdrop.

In fact, Steve throws a few extra defensive magic tricks just in case, and Aoko laughs loudly at him for being too careful.

Steve shrugged in the mocking eyes of the cyan magician: "After you hear what I said, you will realize that no matter how careful I am now, I can't be too careful."

Aoko Cangzaki waved his hand disapprovingly: "Okay, okay, I'm not a kid anymore, the big wind and waves I've seen these years won't make me lose my temper in front of you."

"Are you serious?"

"Of course!"

Facing the conceited gaze of Aoko Aozaki, Steve smiled and said, "Well, since you said that, I will clearly convey the meaning of the elders to you."

Aoko Aozaki: "OK.~"

Steve took a deep breath, regained his old friend's softened expression after meeting him, ignored Ao Qi Aoko's surprised exclamation because of his change, such as "stern face" and other rhetoric, he seriously conveyed the clock The higher-ups of the tower must allow themselves to inform the fifth magician.

"They decided to use a huge amount of energy to resolve this mutation that affects humans all over the world. Within the known range, no spiritual vein is enough to support this conflict, so they hope to obtain the fifth magician, With the help of Aoko Aozaki."

"I refuse!" Cang Qiqingzi's eyes widened: "Just kidding, those old guys want to dig a hole in the body of restraint, so don't pull me in, it's almost Christmas, and I want to have a good New Year! "

Steve smiled bitterly: "I guessed that you would say that, but the situation is too critical for you to shirk..."

"Why!" Aoko Aozaki was unhappy, "Although I am a magician, I don't have the ability to change the rules of the world. Not to mention being a magician, even a god can't do that kind of thing! Why is such a crazy plan? Might work, Steve, don't hurt me!"

Three exclamation marks were used in a row in one sentence, and those who knew her had already realized how much Aozaki Aoko disagreed.

Steve certainly falls into that category, but he can't help it.

"Qingzi, you have lived in seclusion for too long. I don't know how much shock this change has brought to the magic world."

The Blue Magician, who lived in seclusion in Japan all the year round and traveled around the world for fun, could not refute Steve's accusation, but she still missed the point.

Aoko Aozaki: "Huh? What happened?"

Steve pursed his lips, and told what could be called a scandal in the magician family recently.

"It's an unbelievable situation, and the evil consequences that directly affect young magicians. You can't imagine how devastated the parents of those children were when they discovered this situation. The more pure-blooded children are, the less adaptable they are to magic. And On the contrary, some children with good looks have inhuman talents. If this is the case, it will not make those big figures in the magic world panic, but in fact, they are losing the blessing of magic power when they are old."

"Those who can't suspend their own time, and those who can't win the wrestling with time, they all become losers, and the status maintained by relying on magic power will fall apart within half a month! And some don't care about the restraint of the body. The guy who turned himself into a monster has already become a scum that is more discriminated against than a monster half a month ago, you can't even imagine how chaotic the clock tower was when all this happened, and how nervous the magic world was."

The eyes of the young magician fell on the magician whose expression remained unchanged.

"Qingzi, not everyone can stay young like you. Everyone will grow old one day, but the current situation has made this rule a mess. Before I left the house, I heard that some people don't care about it. The old friend of the face, asked someone to find a mysterious ointment for beauty, which in my opinion simply distorted the will of the magician. Face! It is never something that a magician should consider!"

For the root, what is the face?

Aoko Aozaki seemed to see such a sentence from his upright and handsome face, she actually wanted to say, shameless magician, let them go shopping?

Perhaps because she is a female magician, although most of the time she is used to living in a slovenly manner, she still has the skill of "looking at faces".

Staring at Steve's handsome face that was willing to dedicate himself to the truth at any time, Aoko Aozaki spoke for the sake of his handsomeness.

"Even if you say that, what can I do? For the topic of immortality and immortality, you might as well go to the Holy Grail or Einzbern, those artificial humans are more researched than me."

Steve shook his head vigorously: "No, no, no, the reason for our troubles is not how to adapt to this trend, we want to reverse this trend, I can't accept that on the way of pursuing the truth wholeheartedly, I still need to find time to apply a mask , Think about the formula of skin care products."

Aoko Aozaki couldn't help laughing: "This sounds very interesting."

"I don't think so!" Steve grimaced.

Aoko Cangzaki put away her smile and said seriously: "I probably understand the dilemma of the foreign magic world. To put it bluntly, magic power now prefers good-looking children, while those old and decrepit magicians are afraid, afraid that when they will become magicians. The mortals they despise..."

She said it so bluntly that Steve had to interrupt, "It happened."

Aoko Aozaki was noncommittal: "Yes, you are right, but Steve, I have to remind you that no matter where this 'wind' blows from, it has the power to have an impact on the entire world. Think about it Well, just relying on magicians, even if we press the foundations of the entire magic world, there is no strength to change the status quo. Unless we can find the root cause and start from the root cause. Otherwise, you are like holding a shotgun and aiming at the open space. Shooting, wanting to hit a target that doesn't exist."

"According to my personal opinion, if you want such a dream to be successful, you must add a dozen or even dozens of guns on the basis of one gun to ensure that the entire open space, including the place where the target may escape, must be supported. It is completely shrouded, and the result of doing that is undoubtedly destructive. How many resources will be wasted and how much 'order' will be disrupted, these are issues that must be considered by the magician who makes this thing."

Speaking of this, Qingzi pondered for a while: "I don't like your plan very much, even if the old guys in the clock tower have always tolerated sacrifices, as long as they don't sacrifice themselves, but if you want this plan to succeed, what you need The magic power consumed is no longer supported by one or two spiritual veins. I am afraid that I have to use the magic power of the whole world to gamble on an unknown result. This kind of rash approach, in my opinion, is impulsive. If it is my student, I will Blow his head off before he brings it up! There's no other option."

The female magician looked at Steve. She thought that her blunt remarks were enough to make the other party blow her head off, but Steve's calm performance was obviously beyond her expectations.

Aoko Aozaki realized that there might be an inside story in this matter.

After listening to Steve, he pondered and said: "Very sharp evaluation, you are right, the plan itself is indeed reckless, impulsive, and bet on the future of all mankind, but we also have our own opinions."

Aoko Cangzaki: "Tell me about it?"

Steve sighed: "Now the magic world is divided into two factions, one is the young faction who intends to continue to gain status after gaining power because of this accident, they regard this 'crisis' as an 'opportunity', and one is the young faction who have lost their power The older generation of magicians, who are worried about losing their status, are the ones pushing this plan hard. As for neutrality, needless to say, some of them have no power but are lucky, thinking that they also have a chance to get "opportunity", so they crazily plastic surgery on themselves Some speculators who have been reformed, and some are worried that one day they will suddenly lose the favor of magic power and become one of the latter swingers."

"The bottom line is that the people who promote the plan are the majority, and power is still power. Few people are willing to give up after trying it. Even if their status is only slightly unstable, they will do their best to eliminate the germ of the crisis. After all, the magic world is the same as the root cause. One of the inextricably linked top-level human forces is also one of the barriers to protect the future of mortals. If these people really go crazy, the threat they bring is no less than the evil consequences of the success of the plan or the failure of the plan. Qingzi, We have no other choice. Some people have already set their minds on the souls of ordinary people. They want to transform two-thirds of the world's people into pure energy and use the "Kainzlanda Theory" to reverse the formed past. Resurface now."

The well-known "Kainzlanda Theory" in the magic circle is a concept proposed by the color magician Tom V. Kainzlanda 200 years ago.In his theory, the past has the "nature" rewritten by a powerful force. When the force is strong enough to reverse the law of cause and effect, then all intellectual individuals living under this "rule" will also be changed at the same time. ".

Through his description, the later magicians can conclude that "nothing happened" is equivalent to "no change happened", when the transformation that happened is not "captured" and recorded by any form of consciousness , then approximately equals to no occurrence.

According to his theory, when the "record" is changed from the root, and affects all subsequent branches, then the word "covenant" will also be removed.

In Kainzlanda's theory, the position of change is very erratic, and a strong force represents all possibilities that threaten plus or minus.

In Cang Qi Qingzi's understanding, as long as the power is strong enough, even the positive and negative numbers in the mathematical sense can be changed. The principle is very simple, and the environment that constitutes the positive and negative values ​​has been modified. Naturally, it is no longer so accurate, and if even the records left by the conscious body can be distorted, the conclusions drawn in the past are of course as if they never existed, which is the so-called 'never changed'.

This common-sense theory that fish flies in the sky and birds swim in the water is a matter of course. It was derided as heresy in the first 30 to [-] years, but after modern magic was recognized squarely, the surname Kainzlanda officially became Inside the Clock Tower is an influential family of magicians.

Although Aoko Aozaki and the friend in front of him are quite disapproving of this, because they can clearly realize that in order to achieve this theory, they need to consume energy equivalent to the energy value born after destroying the earth, but some magicians who can't stand it are simply lunatics !

When they found out that their status was in jeopardy, they did not hesitate to drag the whole world along with them!

Steve said mockingly to Aoko Aozaki: "They don't even care about their own lives, let alone others'."

Cang Qiqingzi is also a selfish and cold-blooded magician in essence, but compared with those guys, he is nothing compared to the big witch.

"Uh," looking at his friend's tired and sarcastic face, the magician couldn't bear to say, "Since you know it well, you should try to stop it, right?"

Steve: "Of course I did." Anyway, he is also a magician who is expected to advance to the crown level in a few decades. He is definitely better than most people in terms of right and wrong. "But those guys are already crazy, although there are sober people Containment, but if they still can't give a result, I believe they don't mind dragging everyone to try."

Aoko Cangzaki twitched his eyes: "Is this why you came to me?"

Steve didn't reply, but said humorously: "Magicians are always more foresighted than ordinary magicians like us on issues related to the root cause."

Aoko Cangsaki: I believe in your ghost!You are a very bad old man!

Rubbing the center of her eyebrows with a headache, let alone Aoko Aozaki has been in Japan for so long, and she really hasn't worked behind closed doors to the point where even her old friends can find a chance to taunt her, but she still hesitates...

"Actually, I do have a solution. Have you heard of the Dresden Stone Plate?"

Steve raised his eyebrows, and the angle of the raised eyebrows made him look even more handsome.

"You mean the thing that was almost designated by the seal above?"

Aoko Cangzaki: "Yes! Yes! Yes! I took the time to investigate a few years ago. That thing is not a known mysterious creation, but more mysterious from the outside world. It contains huge energy inside. If I can find a way If it is developed, your plan may still be possible."

Steve thoughtfully recalled the rumors of the Dresden Stone Disk in the magic world.

"It's too difficult. First of all, the rules it has are not within the known and handleable range. Since the Age of Gods, the mystery brought by the Outer Gods has always been regarded as a taboo. What's more, the energy level required this time is very large. Start from scratch. Mining technology, not to mention that time is too late, and those people can't wait."

Aoko Cangzaki waved his hand: "You are still too honest. Of course, it is impossible to discover the method of attacking the Outer God system from scratch, but it has been a long time since the Dresden stone plate was excavated, and it has obviously been adapted to us. The rules of the world have changed."

Steve was taken aback for a moment, and the expression on his face gradually turned into disbelief.

"You mean...the 'kings'?"

Aoko Cangzaki snapped his fingers: "That's right, the kings themselves are guys who are between the outside world and the inside world. It can be said that their bodies and their strength are the most perfect fuel. I can't think of a more suitable one than them." The guy who put it on the altar. If you have other recommendations, you can tell me, but I don't think those old guys are willing to listen to your nonsense."

When he saw Steve open his mouth, Qingzi had the foresight to attack him. Sure enough, Steve was speechless, and he could only hold back his disapproval.

Realizing that decades had passed, the old friend still had the same temper, Aoko Aozaki couldn't help softening his tone.

"Steve, you have such a kind heart. Sometimes I really can't think of the reason why you went to become a magician."

Steve smiled wryly, rubbing his nose in embarrassment.

"Didn't you say that I was a good candidate to be a magician?"

Aoko Aozaki: "You misunderstood, I was saying you were handsome at that time."

Steve: "..."

Washington 100 years ago.

The young man in a white vest was standing on the stone bridge, unable to think about it. The bustling lights in Washington seemed to have nothing to do with him, so that the magician passing by couldn't help but talk to him.

"Handsome boy, do you know that you are very suitable to wear a black windbreaker and walk on the mysterious avenue?"

It was just a chance encounter, but after that, Steve Ronald was found to have a rare magic talent. After sweeping away the haze of being discarded by his family, he entered the Clock Tower to become an excellent magician and began his further studies.

I didn't expect that I would make a friend for myself when I approached him back then, and the true interpretation of the blue magician who had few friends was filled with emotion, completely unaware that he was about to be thrown off the boat of friendship.

Steve tried his best to put on a polite smile, but the corners of his mouth were frozen, and 90% of his brain began to think about the question of friendship.

However, after many years of reunion, the atmosphere between the two is always relaxed and happy, but another place where the same issue is discussed is full of depression.

Since the dispatch of Steve Ronald, there have been many discussions inside the clock tower. Specifically, the number of unhappy breakups is quite high, but it is not without discussion.

Aoko Cangsaki's proposal was already going around in the heads of these gangsters, but they didn't want to tear their face off so early.

But as the development of the situation became more and more uncontrollable, the most important thing is that after these important figures in the magic world were horrified to find that their power began to drain, the voice of promoting the plan suddenly became louder!

today!They are ready to give up their hypocrisy and promote this inhumane plan!

One of them said: "Originally, I planned to use the magician as firewood to rekindle the world."

Someone replied: "The magician's bond with the source is enough to make this wind evaporate in the fire."

Another said: "There are too few magicians, and they are definitely not easy to deal with! In contrast, we have cheaper alternatives."

These magicians, who hide their appearance and voice, use different means to convey their opinions. The voice lacking emotion directly determines the fate of everyone. They seem to describe themselves as the masters of human beings. It's time to serve them!

Not to mention how arrogant this idea is, but magicians are always arrogant, so derogatory words such as cold-blooded, brutal, and inhumane can be used to the top of their heads, otherwise they will easily cause discomfort when they hear the content of the next meeting .

As they determined what the cheap alternatives were, a discussion ensued.

"The 'heterogeneous' who inherited the power from outside the territory."

"They are originally the 'contact points' where the two rules test each other, and their effect is only more durable than one-off."

"Oh? Your evaluation is very interesting. Those 'royalties' probably don't think so."

"They are branches of extraterritorial forces, but the carrier belongs to our rules. The good news is that leaving them alone will cause them to lose control, but using them can bring good news, and 'regeneration' is a good attribute, which is indeed A better idea than using conjuring."

"So that's what everyone's opinion is?"

"of course."

"affim."

"..."

After a rustling sound, everyone expressed their opinions, and then the leader present made the final speech.

"Then let's start the test with the Red King Kagu Tsu Hyunshi first, to determine whether the experiment using the king as firewood is feasible."

"My lords, the power of kings belongs to the world and belongs to us!"

The author has something to say:

After sleeping for two days, I finally got this chapter out. I thought I could finish it in one chapter, but I didn’t finish the [-] words. I underestimated the amount of information in this chapter_(:з」∠)_, see Readers who came here should be very shocked, because I started to ambush when Gudazi inherited the position of King of Silver. What is more painful is that I have been recuperating for more than a month, and I have forgotten many details, so I can only say that I cheated myself, but I still have to continue to review the previous article, fill up the pit, heartbroken, open the pit for a while, fill the crematorium, and never bury so many foreshadowing next time, beep beep...

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