Kingdom’s Bloodline Chapter 128: Call by name
The candlelight was bright, and the silence in the study lasted for several seconds.
Ashida looked at Thales blankly:
"This question is so important that you want to know so eagerly?"
Thales smiled:
"Not necessarily, it depends on how much you want to see my "juggling"."
Ashida lowered her head and looked at the crumpled sky blue invitation on the ground.
"This is not a deal," his tone faded, "not to mention using your magic power as a bargaining chip."
"Then this is not a deal," Thales did not change his smile, and his reaction was extremely kind, "but the teachers and students help each other and teach each other."
The voice of fell, and Thales immediately felt wrong: the air around him slowly stagnated.
"And this is not a joke."
The magician has no expression on his face and speaks very slowly:
"Your magic power is weird and unpredictable, and the consequences are unknown. A careless step may endanger your life——"
Thales raised his left hand gently.
Ashida's words stopped abruptly.
The sky blue invitation on the ground has disappeared.
At this moment, it is caught between Thales’s fingers.
"Yes," Ashida's eyes flashed blue, "Impressed."
"A few months ago, when I was forced to knock on the door to learn this trick," Thales put down the invitation card in his hand, his smile gradually disappeared, "I'm in the dungeon, and I was too strong to speak. The reasonable mental patient carried a knife to chase and hack, and played hide-and-seek all night."
The magician said nothing, but Thales continued quietly:
"Because he stubbornly believed that I was the product of the conspiracy of the "Three Plagues Alliance" that you back then, even though I was born five years after the Scarlet Year."
Ashida's eyes moved!
He spoke slowly, his tone was cold:
"He discovered your secret?"
My secret.
Thales looked at Ashida faintly.
Damn secret.
"Don't worry, he's dead." Thales shook off the vicissitudes but lonely figure in his head, and didn't care about it.
a long time ago, he died.
The tone of the boy changed:
"But before that, he was not ‘possible’, but actually, endangering my life."
"The reason why I can sit here and listen to you condescendingly, instead of turning into a prince brand cake..."
Thales lifted one side of his forehead, revealing a bald scar on his scalp.
"It's all because I lowered my head fast enough."
Ashida looked at him silently, silent as before, not knowing what to think.
"So this is indeed not a deal, not a bargaining chip," Thales snorted coldly, held up the invitation and shook it, "but I was entrapped by your'brilliant past', by the evil you once created. It’s a proof that I was driven into desperation all the way by an ignorant old grudge and I almost lost my life!"
Thales’s seemed to alarm the residents on the ceiling, and the rattling noise came sporadically, but neither of them paid any attention.
"This unlucky thing made me realize that magic energy is not only about itself, but also about magician."
Ashida did not speak, but the lines on his face became sharper and more serious.
Thales took a deep breath: "Compared to the so-called'unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable' magic power, maybe the things you hide from me are more threatening to me?"
"So, for the sake of my life, I need to know, I must know, I want to know."
Thales held up the invitation card and flew it to the other end of the room with a chic gesture:
"Now, who is Flelan?"
's voice fell, and the study became quiet, and the two faced each other in silence.
The Duke stood in front of the window, letting the moonlight cover his shoulders, leaving a shadow on his face alone.
The magician stood in the room, the candlelight was bright, but he couldn't cover the faint blue in his eyes.
Only the sporadic noise on the ceiling proves that this is not a dead silence.
After several minutes, Ashida moved slightly and said:
"You are indeed different."
Thales hummed softly.
"No matter how many times you repeat, you are still the twentieth," the Duke shook his head, "No prizes."
窸窸窣......
The more tense atmosphere was a bit choking, and the noise on the ceiling became more disturbed.
"If I refuse?"
The magician said lightly, his voice still elegant and pleasant.
Thales shrugged helplessly with such an expression.
"Then I can't help it either."
"After all, you are the powerful magician, and I can't force you."
In the next second, the Duke of Xinghu took down his smile and focused his eyes:
"But for the sake of my life, in order not to be entrapped by your old debts, I can only try to save myself and use various means and channels to spy on that period of history."
Ashida was silent, and the only response to the Duke was the increasingly anxious noise from the top of his head.
Thales curled up the corners of his mouth:
"And you know, there is an ancient library in the sunset temple of the royal capital, and the royal guards of the Fuxing Palace keep various records. Of course, don’t forget the secrets of the kingdom——"
Thales hadn't finished speaking, the magician of Qi moved his eyes, and the blue light was released!
"Ah! Damn it!"
The dazzling light forced Thales to turn his head and avoid him, raising his hand to block in the curse.
Fortunately, the bright light in Ashida's eyes only lasted for a moment, and then immediately weakened.
Thales raised his head embarrassedly, blinking constantly, waiting for the afterimage of the line of sight to disappear.
"What are you doing--"
As soon as Thales spoke, he was stunned.
Ashida just stood still, gracefully and calmly, looking at him quietly, as always.
But...
Thales realized something and slowly raised his head.
Quiet.
No, it's dead silence.
I don’t know when, there is no extra noise in the study, only a deadly silence.
Thales stared at the ceiling blankly.
"Cleaned up," Ashida's eyes slowly returned to normal, her tone erratic, "A total of fourteen rats including those in the den and those passing by."
"No thanks."
Clear, cleaned up?
Thales took a few seconds to understand this sentence, and couldn't help swallowing.
Damn it.
This, how do I explain this to everyone?
A new wild cat in Star Lake Fort? The kind that catches mice?
"If you want to be more thorough, the surrounding area of the castle, including the rat dens in the fields, I can..." the understanding Ashida continued.
"Wow, uh, thanks, thanks," Thales quickly stopped, "Well, it doesn't need to be so thorough, I have to let my subordinates do something..."
Ashida nodded cheerfully:
"Excuse me, I was distracted by this, and what were you talking about?"
Thales clapped his hands.
"Oh just the one, in short, I mean, respected Mr. Sackern," the high-ranking Duke's His Royal Highness smiled, with a kind attitude, "We are teachers and students, guides and apprentices. It’s a long journey of being able to be partners, so it is necessary to strengthen communication and trust each other..."
Thales looked at the leader he respected and admired from the bottom of his heart, with full of expectation in his eyes:
"What did you say?"
The room fell silent again.
Until a few minutes later, the magician spoke softly:
"His Royal Highness, you mean, you just wanted to use yourself to blackmail me in exchange for my compromise?"
Thales coughed and removed his smile.
"Sorry, I just discovered it recently."
Thales exhaled and tried to be as sincere as possible:
"It’s pretty effective to use yourself as a bargaining chip."
Thales weighed the "covenant" in his pocket and thought sarcastically.
After all, everyone loves Thales.
Ashida's eyes moved, staring at Thales closely.
But a few seconds later, he suddenly smiled.
"You should look in the mirror to see yourself at this moment."
The magician's smile—it felt like a puppet with an arc in his mouth—made Thales panicked.
"The bedroom mirror is broken, I don't know when it will be replaced." Thales grinned reluctantly to match the magician's smile.
depends on Julio's ledgers.
"Wait, besides killing rats, you don't happen to know how to repair mirrors, do you?"
In the next second, Thales's smile has not disappeared, and Ashida's eyes flashed blue again!
Thales only felt a surge of power, and he was caught off guard, being lifted up in the air and falling again!
Damn!
Looking at the fast approaching ground, Thales stretched out angrily to protect his head and face: I knew this grandson’s small belly chicken intestines——
咚.
There was a muffled noise, Thales opened his eyes and came back to his senses:
He landed on his legs and hung up on his back, "sitting" in the void in an embarrassing manner.
And Ashida had already "sit" side by side with him, enjoying the night outside the window leisurely.
"Then, let's talk." The magician said calmly.
"Old rules, no notes."
Talk?
try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){} Thales reacted, frowning and touching the "air chair" under his ass.
He soothed his pounding little heart, and looked at Ashida who had suddenly become more talkative in disbelief.
Okay, it seems that he is not that way either, um, little belly chicken intestine?
"Very good."
Thinking of this, the boy crooked his mouth:
"But before you ask me to sit down, maybe you should ask--"
Plop!
Thales fell heavily to the ground. He touched his butt, grinning in pain.
ah ah-it hurts-the grass!
"Then, please," Ashida looked at him calmly, and a blue light appeared on his left side, depicting the outline of a chair, "His Royal Highness, do you want to sit?"
Thales clutched his butt, gritted his teeth and got up.
take a few of you!
But as soon as the word "no" reached his lips, he caught a glimpse of the old crooked chair that belonged to the Duke behind the desk.
The noble and majestic Duke of Xinghu finally had to smash his mouth unhappily, and with a sullen expression, he sat down on the "chair" that Ashida had prepared for him.
Made.
small belly chicken intestines.
"Frylan Sanchet."
In the room, Ashida looked at a small piece of night sky locked by a window, her eyes dim.
"This is her name, at least the part I know."
Flelan Sanchet.
Thales chanted the name silently in his heart.
"She was born very early, and it is said that she has witnessed the empire in its heyday. I guess even among the magicians, very few can surpass her in terms of qualifications."
Ashida's words are tight:
"Before becoming a magician, she used to be a magic apprentice in the tower of alchemy. After becoming a magician, her threshold name is ‘Senses’.”
"The tower of alchemy, I know," Thales raised his hand excitedly, "'The path to omniscience,' right?"
But Ashida did not give him a positive answer:
"What did you say?"
"Alchemy Tower, their motto," Thales recalled and repeated, "'The path to omniscience,' right under the sign of that strange eye."
Ashida narrowed her eyes and looked at him strangely.
"Well," Thales had to stretch out his hand when he saw this, and drew out an ancient imperial sentence in the air, "Way, go, omniscient?"
The magician was silent for a long time.
"Do they teach you Imperial Chinese?"
"Of course, how?"
"So, you failed?"
Thales' face turned black.
eight days a week, would you try?
What, where did you ask the extra day?
of course was squeezed out of sleep time!
Thales was puzzled:
"What's wrong? Or is it better to translate ‘omni knowledge’ into ‘omnipotence’?"
"The languages in this world are not one-to-one," Ashida said coldly, "If that's the case, then why don't we just learn a noun, when we use it, we just need to say,'You, study, grammar , Class, idiot' is enough?"
Thales retracted into the chair and folded his arms vaguely.
You, actually, you really don’t need to be so mean.
"And if you can be a little generous and magnanimous, the noble, eager, and knowledgeable Prince, who is more motivated."
Ashida's quiet way:
"Slightly release some of your diligent government affairs, worry about your family, the country, and the world, and the people’s well-being. Squeeze a little bit out of you standing in front of the window feeling the magnificent kingdoms and the magnificent fragmentary time, or slightly differentiate some of your grandeur and fierceness. The heroic courage who treats death as home and bargains with me, and then generously and compassionately give them to some boring grammar class that seems to you to be insignificant, then you may be lucky, coincidentally, unexpectedly, Moving, miraculously from the sky, I noticed a trivial point in an inconspicuous corner: what you call "toward" in this sentence is a simple combination of nouns and verbs in the ancient imperial text."
Thales was dizzy, and finally digested this long section. Then he twitched the corners of his mouth and said:
"Well, you, you only need to say the last sentence."
Ashida ignored him.
Therefore, the ancient imperial motto of the Alchemy Tower is not literally "leading to omniscience."
For the sake of his academic dignity, Thales had to cheer up and start dragging in the air again:
"Then'leading to' is a noun, then it is not'leading to', but'path', or simply'road'."
"Plus the verb, "The road leads to omniscience"?"
Thales looked at the leader expectantly.
Ashida doesn’t even look at him, and speaks indifferently:
"Look at the word pattern of'All-knowing'."
Thales scratched his head and continued to draw:
"Well, let me see—oh!"
Thales reacted: "So'The Way to All Knowledge' is a separate modification of'Road'! Well,'The Way to All Knowledge'?"
Ashida snorted coldly.
"Look at the word pattern of'Lu' again."
Thales frowned.
"Look again? But there are only a few of them—oh," the boy's face changed again, "I understand, ‘lu’ is a passive object, and it has a corresponding subject and predicate!"
But Thales immediately became confused:
"But there is no such thing as a subject and a predicate..."
Ashida snorted again.
This time, Thales had an idea without reminding:
"I remember, in ancient imperial literary poetry and proverbs, according to context and logic, certain elements will be omitted, such as-‘I’ and ‘I’m in’."
Thales patted his thigh and said excitedly:
"So what the Tower of Alchemy says is ‘I’m on the road, and the road knows everything’?"
Ashida has no expression on her face:
"Do you usually talk like this?"
Thales coughed, adjust his language:
"'I am on the road to omniscience', not simply'to omniscience', right?"
This time, Ashida did not make a sound.
leads to omniscience.
I'm on the road to omniscience.
Thales muttered these two sentences silently, thinking of the strange eye sign on the Tower of Alchemy, and felt: "They are different."
"It's a big difference." Ashida said suddenly.
Thales said silently for a moment, then nodded.
"I understand."
"Towards omniscience-this is like a house number on a door."
"Just open it, and behind the door, you will know everything."
Ashida is noncommittal.
"But,'I'm on the road to omniscience'-it's more like a long road, a sign in the middle of the road," Thales' eyes lit up, "You have walked past it, you know you haven't arrived yet , But you know the direction is right, and then you continue forward."
The former is a proud master, guarding the door carefully.
The latter is a traveler who travels with a heavy load and has a long journey.
They are not the same.
Thales was in a daze.
"Muscle guys may be rigid and stubborn," Ashida said quietly, looking at the moonlight outside the window, "but they are also mages."
Thales recovered.
"Muscle guy?"
Magician turned his head too far.
"The Soul Tower is used to mock their derogatory name."
"Understood, what do they call you?"
"Thinker."
"Thinker?" Thales raised his eyebrows, "Why not a nerd?"
"Because this is irony."
Thales narrowed his eyes.
Ashida snorted coldly:
"We use the most direct and simplest, and they will not confuse misunderstood derogations in any way."
"And what they use to insult us is the irony that must be connected with context, history and reality, and separated by a layer of meaning."
Thales is in high spirits:
"Interesting, even if it is a contempt for each other, the soul tower and the alchemy tower, they use very different logic! Right, thinker?"
's voice fell, and Ashida looked at him blankly.
The surrounding air is heavy.
Thales reacted and had to cough vigorously.
"Ahem, go back to the topic," the Duke scowled, "So, Mr. Sackern, Flelan, she is a very experienced magician-the senses?"
"Farewell."
"What else?"
Magicist’s tone instantly became cold:
"Don't call her that."
"You can either call her by her ordinary name or use the full name ‘sensory magician.’ You can even mention ‘senses’ inadvertently in a paragraph."
The blue light in Ashida’s eyes is extremely sharp:
"But only, don’t use such a pure, simple, and crude way to call a magician by the threshold name alone, knowing who you are calling."
Don't call directly... Threshold name?
Thales was puzzled:
"Why?"
The magician of air was silent for a while, seeming to be considering something.
But he spoke up after all.
"Because we don’t know the current situation of Fleyland: Whether she is sealed, whether she is intact, what is her condition, whether she is still walking freely and living in the world is unknown."
try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){} "If you know what your words are referring to, you call the threshold name of a certain magician wholeheartedly—if the other party has everything If you are normal, you will feel something in your heart."
Thales looked down.
Seriously, alone, and deliberately calling the threshold name, the other party feels it?
That means...
"One or two times, maybe it's okay, but it's more frequent... Believe me, no matter how quietly it is, no one wants to be knocked on the window inexplicably." Ashida ended the sentence in a warning tone.
Thales had an idea:
"So amazing? Then I will try yours, angry—"
At that moment, the surrounding air was compressed like a mountain and an ocean!
"No, no, no—" Thales flushed with difficulty breathing and waved wildly, "Ha—ha—"
The next second, Ashida put down her finger, and Thales resumed breathing, gasping for pain!
草!
He definitely did it on purpose!
"First of all, this move is not friendly."
Ashida snorted coldly:
"Secondly, remember that the Queens of Magic are standing at the apex and peak of the magic power. I deeply doubt that they can perceive and monitor the known threshold name in some way beyond imagination. If the master is called out and reacted, **** can spot the abnormality."
The Queen of Magic.
is monitoring the threshold name?
Thales pulled off the collar, unhappy and authentic:
"So evil?"
The magician did not answer, but just stared at him coldly.
Thales had to continue to ask:
"So, the threshold name is like a web address—I mean, the address? Once you call, it's like throwing a rock on the window of his house?"
"The twin emperors lived in the tallest villa. They were a hunter holding a sniper rifle—a hunter standing on a commanding height with a crossbow. When the window of someone's house rang, he would pull the trigger and take it away?"
Hearing these words, Ashida sighed deeply, seemingly dissatisfied.
"Parables, analogies, analogies, always like this."
But he only paused for a few seconds, and there was a blue light in his eyes:
"No."
"In a sense, the threshold name is more like a gate with a sign, using signs to distinguish our territories and boundaries, to warn others," Qi magician has bright and dazzling eyes, not knowing where to look, "With Prevent us from conflicting, fighting, and fighting with each other."
distinguishes territory and boundary.
door.
Thales frowned and asked:
"However, if you call the threshold name directly and the other person will perceive it, then this is like a door that has been deliberately stood up to attract people to knock?"
Ashida turned her head:
"Isn't this the reason why the ‘door’ is stronger than the ‘wall’?"
"It is a warning to separate, and to prevent invasion," the magician's voice is as if it is thousands of miles away, unclear, "also leave a gap for the visit."
Thales blinked in pain: "Something complicated?"
"You will understand."
The blue light in Ashida's eyes slowly disappeared: "When you understand."
Thales clicked, and made a smirk.
Thank you for your nonsense.
But he suddenly discovered that after he showed that hand of magic power, and crackled and resolutely expressed the opinion that "I don't want to be affected by your old debts", this time, what Ashida was willing to teach him, Seems more, deeper, and more difficult to understand?
In the study room lit by candlelight, two people, one large and one small, hang side by side in the air.
"Then the Purification Project 700 years ago was designed to wipe out the record of magic from history. Does it have anything to do with this?" Thales thought of something and asked immediately.
The magician turned his head.
"When there are fewer and fewer people who remember you, the number of people who call you becomes more and more limited," the teenager slowly sorted out the logic, and gradually became reasonable, "Then when your threshold name sounds, it will be very conspicuous, convenient for both The emperor hunts and kills?"
Ashida was silent for a short while.
"Maybe," the magician said quietly, "but it doesn't stop there."
Thales is waiting to ask a question, and Ashida has already spoken:
"Whether it’s demons bewitching people’s hearts, the victims should call their names out loud, or when religion spreads their beliefs, let believers repeat the admonitions of the gods, or even when the emperor is ruling the Quartet, tens of thousands of people and people will be sent over and over again. Long live the empire."
Magician seems to be immersed in his own world again:
"Calling symbols is always the most direct way to strengthen connection, build habits, and build authority."
"Magic energy is also the same, and even it has gone before."
Thales was in the mist.
"I actually, um, don't quite understand."
Ashida raised her head, very sure:
"You will understand."
"Sooner or later."
Thales had to hold his arms tightly and laughed.
Thank you.
Another nonsense.
"And that’s why, Mr. Sackern, you have been reluctant to tell me the reason for the double emperor, including the unsealed magician's threshold name?"
"This is one of the reasons."
Ashida said solemnly: "And you have to be careful, especially you have been exposed to magic power, and even knocked on the door-a mortal calling a threshold name is completely different from a magician calling a threshold name. Level."
Thales hummed, rolled over on the air chair, and turned to the guide.
"You know, you could have told me earlier-you just said what you can do and what you can't do, then it's over," the prince curled his lips, "this has nothing to do with magic itself."
The magician was silent for a while.
"Trust me, Thales."
Ashida spoke quietly, but Thales was a little nervous:
"Everything, everything, everything..."
"Everything is related to magical energy."
Strange, he has been so naive today.
Thales frowned, but decided to turn back and look to the ceiling—no, thinking of the corpse of fourteen mice on top, Thales had to turn to the other side, facing Doorway.
"So, even the magicians themselves do not usually call each other by their threshold names?"
"One."
Thales frowned: "What?"
The magician's ethereal voice sounded again. This time, his tone was mechanical and indifferent:
"As far as I know, there has only been one and only one magician since the advent of magic power. He has no hesitation from beginning to the end, he is accustomed to even faithfully calling his colleagues by their threshold names. "
"As if that is our only name."
"As if that is his creed for survival."
For some reason, Thales shuddered when he heard these words.
He turned around subconsciously and looked at Ashida.
"And every time, the feeling of being called by him..."
I saw the magician of Qi lying in the void, his eyes flickering in blue, staring at the ceiling.
but it doesn't seem to be staring at the ceiling.
but above that, beyond that...something else.
Thales rarely sees Ashida like this.
"Who is he?" the boy couldn't help asking.
Ashida did not move.
But the next moment, I saw a flash of blue light, and the blue light of Qi Magician had already locked him.
This surprised Thales.
is like a comic book flipping through a book~IndoMTL.com~ It changes to the next page in the blink of an eye.
"Fortunately, he and his brother have been confirmed to be sealed."
The blue light in the magician's eyes overflowed from his eyes and climbed onto his face like cracks.
"Before they destroy the world."
Those two blue lights made Thales extremely uncomfortable, and he subconsciously turned his head to avoid it.
The next moment, the Qi magician instantly turned to the sky, indifferently and stupidly, calling out a word:
"Exists."
exists.
exists...
exists, exists, exists...
The word seems to have a certain power, and under Ashida's call, it echoes like nothing.
In the next instant, Thales seemed to have an illusion-all the sounds and colors in the world disappeared!
Even his thoughts stopped.
Everything is over.
I don't know how long it took, what he felt was a movement.
Soon, the ceiling, the ground, the wall, the door... everything in front of my eyes and ears, gradually, slowly returned.
In the next second, the boy took a deep breath, turned over and sat up!
Thales came back to his senses and found himself dripping in a cold sweat.
And Ashida sat next to him, as before, calm and graceful, looking at him indifferently.
Thales panted quickly and blinked desperately.
Everything is normal.
normal?
is the only one that is extra, or rather, left over...
is a burst from the inside out, everywhere...
Deep heart palpitations.