Throne Steps

In fact, Li Chen felt that he had mastered the "time wandering" two years ago.

The reason why I say feeling is because there is no way to try this stuff at will.Once the formation is established, the space where the caster is located will be "closed" by the formation, and the caster cannot leave this space.But when there is an external force to destroy it and open it up, even if only a small hole is drilled, the formation will collapse, and all the things in the space where it is located will be reduced to dust, including the caster who stays in it. .At present, the only way for the caster to safely escape from this formation space is to use the teleportation formation to pass it out before the formation is destroyed by external forces.After directly destroying the formation, the "finishing" work can be easily completed.

When Lichen wanted to experiment, he asked Akeye to explain in private, but when Akeye heard it, he disagreed with everything.

"It's too dangerous. The speed of time flow is uncertain, and it's uncertain whether it can be transmitted successfully. If it fails, how do you get out? What if you haven't come out yet and the formation is destroyed, what should you do? I don't agree."

Therefore, in order to find someone to replace Lichen, Menzel stood out from all the "auditions" of black swans, the "re-election" of all magicians and alchemists, and the "finals" of the final background check.

But choosing this person was just the beginning, and Li Chen also spent a lot of time letting him master the "time wandering".For safety reasons, Li Chen did not teach him a non-common language, but asked him to memorize all the pronunciations of the spell.This difficult teaching process, coupled with the secret establishment of the experimental group, the making of the experimental plan, the selection of the experimental site, etc., dragged on for nearly three years.

Until recently, Menzel's first experiments finally began.

In fact, Akye still felt that the process was too fast.What he was referring to was not the experiment, but the speed at which Menzel approached Lichen.But Li Chen really needed a candidate for the experiment, and also imposed all the restrictions that could be added on Menzel, such as the loyalty contract and the oath of secrecy. Apart from letting Menzel do it, there is no better way for the time being.

After Menzel successfully teleported out of the experiment house, he sent a message to Black Swan that he was safe. On the one hand, Black Swan sent people to pick him up in Samir Forest, and on the other hand, Li Chen personally took them to the experiment site. Do the finishing work.Of course, Li Chen also scanned it with "Reappearance of Time" by the way, at least confirming that "Wandering in Time" has indeed taken effect. It is impossible for Menzel to lie on such a fundamental issue.

After they met in the resident, they discussed the matter of "time wandering" almost every day when they met, but a few days later, Li Chen suddenly raised a new question.

"Do you understand the power of Cang Hei?"

"...As you can see, I come from a very low-level branch, are you sure you want to ask me this kind of question?" Menzel rubbed his forehead, "I only know that the Patriarch is a genius in alchemy. Always choose the head of the family in this way, it is said that it can reduce fighting."

He seemed to mean something, Li Chen glanced at him and said: "This system makes it easy to choose a patriarch, but the selected patriarch may not be easy to survive among the major forces."

"You mean..." Menzel paused, "What happened to Cang Hei?"

"It's not a secret, it's okay to tell you." Li Chen said, observing the other person's expression calmly, "The nobles who have a close relationship with Cang Hei Zhise have betrayed Cang Hei Zhise."

"...Huh?" Menzel looked rather dazed, "I'm sorry I don't quite understand... what does 'betrayal' mean?"

Li Chen was silent for two seconds, and then replied: "This is really a secret."

"Well, secret, I can only apologize for not being able to help." Menzel shrugged, and then remembered another thing, "I heard that you are going to enter Samuel again?"

Li Chen glanced at him.

Menzel leaned closer to him: "Take me?"

"Take you? No way." Li Chen looked at Menzel who came up to him, feeling a little headache, "Go and play with your experimental group."

"Why can't you take me?" Menzel replied, "It's reasonable, I'm better at magic than you, at least I can protect myself."

Li Chen glanced at him: "There are a lot of people who can protect themselves, do you want to take them all?"

Menzel sighed, propped his elbows on his knees, his palms on his chin, and stared at him with an upward gaze slightly below Li Chen's eye level: "I still don't make you feel at ease, do I?"

When he speaks in this posture, he is making it clear that he puts himself in a lower position, which is a gesture of surrender.

"You know, I used to be a small role in Cang Hei Zhi Se, and I never thought that I would reach this position one day." Menzel looked at Li Chen, "You have already put a chain on me, so you can't rest assured Give me a chance?"

Li Chen looked at him.

Menzel said: "If you want, you can continue to give me any constraints - as long as it makes you trust me more."

After all, Menzel was brought into Samuel again, because he finally said that Li Chen would follow him if he didn't take him, and Li Chen was too annoyed to argue with him.

But bring it home, Menzel is still not clear about the purpose and route of this trip.He followed the party for two days, and finally found that the team had camped in a nondescript place and stopped for a day.

Surrounded by lush forests, there are two water sources not far away, and the stopped team did not feel ready to go.Menzel even felt that this group of people came here for a picnic rather than an adventure in the Samuel Forest.

He entangled Li Chen who seemed to be doing nothing again.

"Why stop here?"

"Why do you have so many questions?"

Li Chen glanced at him, then pointed to the place where the pot was being poured in the camp: "If you're bored, you can help boil the water, peel the skin, or just do nothing. The sky is buzzing for me."

"Okay." Menzel shrugged, "Then where are you going?"

"Go pee." Li Chen raised his eyebrows, "Why, do you want to go together like a little girl?"

"It's not impossible..."

Li Chen didn't listen to him at all, turned around and left.Menzel looked at his back and wanted to catch up, but the black swan grabbed his shoulder and said, "The little mascot asked you to boil the water, but you still don't come?"

"...Mascot?" Menzel raised his eyebrows interested in the nickname, and asked casually, "Just let him go alone? Samuel is too dangerous for him."

"There are guards on the outside, he won't go out." Black Swan didn't care, "And he has more ways to save his life than anyone else, it's not your turn to worry about it."

"All right……"

……

On the other end, Li Chen was doing the training he would do every time he entered Samir.

Simply put, it is to capture or kill small, flexible, and concealed prey.

He used to practice from the jungle gray rabbit, and now he can successfully kill this kind of agile creature.However, the big reason why he was able to easily take down the jungle gray rabbit was that Li Chen had already gotten used to this prey's behavior pattern, so he could react faster and more accurately when he shot.In order to continue to improve a series of perceptions and behaviors such as his prediction, speed, and accuracy, he must constantly change targets, and even pursue targets that are smaller, more flexible, and better at hiding.

This time, he chose the first small animal he encountered - a lynx.

Bobcats are smaller, faster, and more ferocious than gray rabbits, and they can climb trees.When Li Chen's wind blade chased it in a panic, it jumped up a big tree, stood on a branch in the blink of an eye, and was about to jump to the next tree!

Sa——

The moment Shan Mao took a step, Li Chen's wind blade also arrived!The sharp wind magic that was as sharp as a knife slashed at the tip of the lynx's tail. It missed the lynx, but cut off the branch it was on!

slam-la-

The lynx fell against layers of vegetation. It didn't scream shrilly, it just kept adjusting its posture in the air, and even hugged a branch at one point.It's a pity that the branch was dead, and the next second it hugged it, it broke and fell.

Bang!

Li Chen stared at the direction where the lynx fell and the movement of the pile of dead branches and rotten leaves. When the leaves there were suddenly lifted in a certain direction, Li Chen reflexively threw a wind blade.

But his prediction was wrong, it was just the cyclone brought by the lynx's tail, the moment he threw the wind blade, the lynx jumped up and fled from the opposite direction!

hum-

Meow! ! !

It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, only to hear something coming through the air with a slight buzzing sound, and instantly nailed to the bobcat who was about to escape, almost piercing it through!

The lynx screamed and was brought down by the force of the wind and disaster. At this time, Li Chen took a closer look and found that it was an arrow that was stuck on the lynx, and the tail feathers on the tail of the arrow were still trembling slightly.

Li Chen looked in the direction of the arrow flying.

A man with long black hair tied behind his head and black pupils was standing on a tree not far away with a bow, looking down at him.

In the next second, a mutation will occur!

On the one hand, no, a thick wall of ice suddenly erected quickly in front of Li Chen, and a trace of coldness fell on Li Chen's face, cutting off the sight of the two black men and Li Chen, and also cutting off the most direct relationship between them. magic and arrow routes.

When the ice wall stood up, Menzel also rushed to Li Chen's side in strides, holding his staff to protect Li Chen behind him: "Who is it!"

No one answered.

After a few seconds, the wind gently passed through the woods, and when there was a rustling sound, the light and fluttering voice of the man opposite was heard.

"And you... who are you?"

Li Chen sighed, and patted Menzel's shoulder from behind: "It's okay, let's leave."

Menzel glanced at him sideways, a little suspicious, but he followed his advice and removed the ice wall.

But he didn't move away from his protective position.

"Who is this? Your new guard?" The two black men jumped down from the tree, their movements were extremely light, and their movements towards them were like strolling in a garden, but the words they said were not so elegant, "This level of I can also be your personal bodyguard, is Black Swan about to go bankrupt?"

Li Chen smiled: "Then you came back to save the black swan that was on the verge of bankruptcy?"

The double-black man narrowed his eyes: "I hope you don't leave a mess for me to clean up."

"It's the current situation that's wrong, not me." Li Chen spread his hands, and then took a step forward until the two black men stood still at an arm's length away from him, and then continued, "Okay, now I will give you mutual help." introduce."

"This is Menzel, who has recently been rumored within Black Swan as a 'quick up' guy."

Faced with this adjective, Menzel could only smile helplessly.The double-black man on the opposite side looked at him without hesitation, and he didn't show any discomfort or displeasure, on the contrary, he looked very frank.

Li Chen also introduced the double black men.

"This is Fordhi, my... Well, you know who he is."