Mage's Secret

I don't know if it was because of Traphael's words of persuasion, Elvis, who fell into grief, locked himself in the room for several days, and began to frequently enter and leave the temple of Karen.

He prayed to the God of Light, also chanted scriptures in his residence, and began to observe the commandments of the temple.He tried to exchange his piety for the chance to meet his father again in his dream.During the years when he left his hometown, he has seen many different landscapes and stories, and he has accumulated a lot of words that he wants to tell his father.All his expectations were shattered after Traphael's words.

The only memory he could think of about his father was that his father's blond hair was the same as his own, shining brightly in the sun.It was the light source that could illuminate everything in his childhood memories.

In fact, even he himself is not sure whether it is useful to pray to God, or whether his father's soul can return to God's side, but his teacher comforted him in this way, and the priests in the temple also comforted him in this way, eager to find someone Elvis, who was venting, took this as his sustenance.

It is impossible for other people in the mage tower not to notice such an obvious change in him.Even Murphy expressed his concerns to Trafael more than once.

"He is wasting his time, and his begging cannot be realized." Murphy said.

"But you've got to give him something, or the grief will kill his spirit," Traphael replied.

So Murphy also remained silent about Elvis' behavior, and everyone else couldn't bear to puncture the blond apprentice's hope.

But all of them do not include elves who have lost their memories and become unknowing.

Probably because of the same hair color, Roy is always very close to Elvis, although Elvis has always clearly expressed his disdain for being close to him, this still does not affect the enthusiasm of the elves, so Roy also quickly noticed Elvis' abnormal behavior.

After learning from other apprentices that Elvis' father had passed away, and that he frequently left the tower to go to the temple, the simple elf stopped the apprentices who were about to leave the tower one morning.

"What are you doing?" Elvis asked, his eyes drained, and sadness took the smile off his face—although he had rarely smiled at others before, he was always airy, and It's not as weak as it is now, as if it will faint in the next moment.

The elf didn't answer him, but asked instead: "Why are you going to the Temple of the God of Light?"

Because my father passed away and I miss him.Elvis thought so, but bit his lips tightly and didn't say a word, he didn't want to repeat this thing again, just like he didn't want to accept the fact.

So he walked around the elves without saying a word, and walked towards the gate of the mage tower, but Roy followed behind him relentlessly, and said to him: "It's meaningless for you to do this, because the God of Light doesn't care at all." does not exist."

This sentence made Elvis stop, turned his head to look at the chasing elf, his wide eyes were full of anger: "How dare you say such a thing? If it is not the God of Light, then our world Where will it come from?"

"This world is..." Roy was eager to defend, but he got stuck there after only half a sentence, and the anxiety on his face turned into confusion: "I don't... I don't remember."

Annoyed, Elvis didn't care about the elf who was stuck in memory and started to have a headache. He walked out of the mage's tower, boarded the carriage that had been parked in front of Yadunis, and set off for Nakalun's temple again.

The driver was the knight named Vader, who was always by Elvis' side during the most difficult days.

Although he didn't believe Roy's words, those words undoubtedly planted the seeds of doubt in Elvis' mind.In addition, Traphael taught him not to be credulous more than once, but the seed finally survived and took root deeply in the soil of thinking.

If there is no God of Light, if the temple is a scam, where will the soul go?

The confused apprentice reduced his visits to the temple, but plunged headlong into Traphael's collection.But these books did not give him an answer. Due to the different research directions, none of these books is about souls or gods.

Until that day, a traveling merchant came to the door with the magic materials needed by Traphael, and also brought the turning point of Elvis' fate.

The weather was not so good that day, and it was raining lightly. Elvis took Traphael's list and checked the goods with the merchants in front of the gate of the Mage Tower.

"This weather is really hellish. It hasn't cleared up recently. It hasn't been like this for many years! Nai grass can't be preserved for a long time in this weather. They will be broken before I go to the next mage tower!" The businessman looked at the list. Complaining to Elvis.

Elvis didn't pay attention to him, although he rarely talked with these businessmen in the past, but these days he has obviously become a lot more gloomy.

After the businessman unloaded all the materials on the list from the carriage, Elvis threw a bag of gold coins to him.

The businessman just weighed it, and put it into his arms with a smile on his face: "Master Trafael is still so generous."

It was probably Traphael's tip that satisfied the traveling merchant, and he gave Elvis a booklet as a gift before he left.

"I picked this up in a dilapidated mage tower ruins, maybe it will be of some use to you." After leaving these words, the traveling merchant hurried to his next customer in his carriage.

This is a booklet similar to a mage's handbook. In the past, Elvis would not have had much interest in this booklet.There are too many such books in Traphael's Mage Tower, and there are countless profound magic books.Some of these classics were collected by Traphael, and some were copied by him from other mages. Elvis, who grew up in Yadonis, had seen too many such notes.

But fate is always wonderful and irresistible. When he took the notebook in his hand, a thought arose from nowhere and drove Elvis to open the old book.

After only turning a few pages, he quickly closed the booklet and put it into his arms with the sound of a thunderous heartbeat—this is a notebook that records research on the soul, and the whereabouts of the soul is just now. That's the question that's troubling Elvis today.

This notebook may become a key to answer all his questions, but there is a bigger problem that Elvis needs to face - the research on the soul is the research category of the black robe mage.

Once he started research in this area, it was equivalent to embarking on a point of no return.He might be expelled from Yadonis, and he might fail Traphael's high hopes.

For several days, Elvis was in a state of ecstasy. In the end, he still concealed the news about the notebook from Traphael, and he left the key to the unknown realm in the room. under the pillow.It was like a whisper from the devil, whispering seductive words to him softly every night, tempting him to open it and go deep into it.

Perhaps it was because his mental state was not very good during this period of time, and no one noticed his abnormality.

On the surface, Elvis's daily routine returned to normal. He still attended classes with other apprentices and cooperated with Traphael in research.But his inner struggle became more and more intense.

In the end, in a dark night, with the lucky idea of ​​"I only conduct this small part of the research, maybe I won't be infected with evil", he lit up the small lamp beside the bed, opened the The first page of that notebook.

The days passed slowly in such a seemingly calm state, and Elvis' state became more and more normal.He returned to his usual haughty and taciturn appearance, but this time he even slowly began to distance himself from Traphael.

In this regard, Traphael is sincerely happy that his students can get out of the predicament, and understands that people always need an opportunity to grow up, but just like seeing his children slowly becoming independent, the mage feels that Feeling both blessed and disappointed.

The matter of Elvis came to an end temporarily, and his relationship with Murphy was brought back to the present.

Besides Elvis, Murphy was the one who had obviously matured.

Trafael had worried that Murphy would suddenly lose his patience, but his worries did not happen. Murphy proved his words with his own actions.With patience, Murphy infiltrated Traphael's habits bit by bit.

Perhaps in his heart, Traphael had this idea more than once in such an ambiguous relationship.He would not refuse Murphy's hug, but he still couldn't make up his mind to hold Murphy's extended hand.

What he needs to consider is the unsolvable death problem.

The peaceful time is fleeting, and two years have passed since the death of Elvis' father.In the past two years, with the help of Murphy, Traphael has made some achievements in research.The concept of science and technology was passed to his ears. It is a technology that ordinary people can use, but it has the same miraculous effect that is different from spells.

It was also at this time that mages began to combine technology with spells, so that they could break through the limitations of magic patterns and create more props with strange functions that ordinary people could use.

Contrary to what the mage had achieved in research, they still hadn't gotten any news about the demon brother.

However, Murphy did not show a very anxious look, "My brother is not in any danger. Even if he is in danger, our connected blood will pass the news to me." He explained to the mage in this way.

Everything seemed to be going in a good direction, and Traphael always thought so, until that day when Murphy told him that Elvis might also have stepped into the field of black magic.

Murphy learned this news from the elves.

That night, when Elvis opened the notebook, he also stepped into a new field.These theories, which are completely different from everything he has ever learned, made him unable to stop, and one after another wonderful ideas were breeding in his mind.He began to conduct secret research in the room, and from then on, he seemed to be dragged by an invisible hand, walking deeper into the darkness.

It is an objective fact that Elvis is very smart and has an extraordinary talent for magic, and even Traphael admires his talent.

And his talent in black magic is even better than his other spells.Even without more theories about black magic as guidance, he still explored a feasible path with his own thinking.

But this enviable talent may sometimes not be a good thing.

With the improvement of his research, when he was 20 years old, he finally touched the barrier from apprentice to spellcaster.The evil breath began to gradually become impossible to hide, and he did not know how to cover up his own magic fluctuations, so his independent research was finally captured by the elves who were extremely sensitive to evil magic fluctuations.

The elf who has lost his memory is very inexperienced in human affairs, but he has lived in the mage's tower for a long time and he also roughly knows what it means for human beings to study black magic.Without thinking too long, he planned to tell the mage about it.

Generally speaking, Traphael spent most of his day either in his study or in his research room.But the research room is a forbidden place for apprentices, and no one else can enter at will unless there is permission from the mage.So Roy first came to the mage's study.

But there was no mage in the study, only Murphy sitting at the desk.

"Master, he is not here, do you know where he is now?" the elf asked, he just lived in the mage's tower temporarily, and did not become the mage's apprentice, so he did not call Traphael a teacher.

"No, what's the matter with you? Maybe I can tell him." Murphy said to the elf who was about to leave. Traphael was conducting an ulterior experiment in the laboratory at this time, and the elf could not go there.

"Ah, yes." The elf said with a distressed expression, "I think Elvis is doing forbidden research."