Kingdom’s Bloodline Chapter 5: Brother Truth

To Ashida's surprise, Thales raised the index finger of his right hand before their class started, indicating that he wanted to ask a question.

The magician raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded at him.

"Six years ago, I asked you the same question: what is a magician," Thales shook his throat, carefully observing the expression of a magician, even though he knew that in the conversation, Ashida rarely When there is movement: "But at that time you said that you could not tell me the answer to the question."

Ashida squinted her eyes. "Go on."

"You also said that you can't tell me what the magician you understand is," Thales said puzzled: "But you now..."

The prince looked suspiciously at the magician.

Aishida stared at him for a long time, and finally nodded when Thales felt his scalp numb: "Good memory."

Thyls raised his eyebrows and lowered his head subconsciously.

Yes.

Six years ago, on that thrilling day, everything was vivid and unforgettable.

But Thales, who was waiting for the answer with bated breath, received an unexpected answer.

"So," Almost instantly, Ashida's hands were interlaced, ten slender fingers overlapped exactly, her expression was indifferent, and her voice was cold, as if she had returned to that rational and ruthless anger. Magician: "It’s up to you to tell me today what a magician is."

Thyls's eye sockets were slightly enlarged, a little surprised: "Me?"

"Yes," Ashida nodded, as always disturbing: "This is especially important, what do you think is a magician?"

Especially important?

Capturing the strangeness in the other party’s words, Thales subconsciously asked: "Why is it so important?"

Ashida's eyes flicked slightly.

"It's still too early to say this," he scanned Thales with his calm eyes, his eyes faintly with scrutiny and reminding: "But I need you to answer my questions first."

The prince looked suspiciously at the Qi magician.

But the other party still stared at him seriously and calmly.

Three seconds later, Thales finally suppressed the doubts in his heart and took a deep breath.

"Um, I have some thinking and reasoning, and I also did some research." He recalled the six years of reading and searching in the library, although there were still many books he had not had the opportunity to read carefully.

What is a magician...

"I have only met two magicians," Thales lowered his eyes, staring at the motionless chessboard, reminiscing while organizing the language, and tentatively said: "You and Giza, you can do whatever you want By controlling the air, Giza can control the flesh and even the plants incredible."

Ashida is noncommittal.

"So, I have a guess. Your so-called threshold name shows the nature of your strength, doesn't it?" Thales' expression became more and more serious: "Qi and blood?"

Ashida still did not respond, but continued to clasp her hands. This reminded the prince of the bald Grand Duke Lecco in the city of Vigil. He also liked to put his arms on the table and clasp his hands.

"A magician can fundamentally control things in a certain category, such as qi, blood, etc., as long as it is an objective existence covered in this category," Thales continued his words carefully:" For example, the blood magician can control the roots and flesh and blood, perhaps because the category of'blood' includes..."

But Thales’ voice slowly diminished, and at the same time he brought a lot of doubts. He suddenly remembered the book "The End of the War: The End of the World: The World’s Falling apart" that he had read a long time ago in Mindis Hall, and the page.

【The most famous record... After the power of the magician appeared, it was destroyed overnight. 】

But... the magician of power?

Just when he was confused by what he said, Ashida said softly.

"The ultimate form of objective existence."

The handsome man in the blue robe spoke with a gentle and pleasant voice: "A long time ago, when the first batch of magicians were born, many wizards thought the same way. Among them, the most famous is the "material" of the tower of alchemy. School'."

Thyls frowned slightly: "The first group of magicians?"

He even forgot to ask what "material school" is.

"Yes, electricity, water, blood, and many other examples. The threshold names of this group of magicians are very convincing." A faint blue light appeared in Ashida's eyes: "There are even wizards. I came to the conclusion: "Magic energy is the ultimate gain after we see through the objective truth and the laws of all things. It is the most advanced form of our control of foreign objects, and the threshold name is the representative of it."

"We thought this was the truth about the magician."

Thyls nodded and pursed his lips.

But the next second, the light in Ashida's eyes disappeared.

His voice became cold again:

"Until those two people appear."

"Breaks our initial and shallowest understanding of the magician."

"Two people?" Thales was taken aback: "Who?"

Aishida turned to the street outside the terrace with a serious expression: "Two apprentices from the Tower of the Ascetics."

"The Tower of the Ascetics?"

Thyls moved in his heart.

On the way from Black Sands to Longxiao City, he once heard Ramon introduce it in the camp.

"Hmm."

"The first of the three towers, the oldest magic tower, the most mysterious face, and the most detached magic tower," the magician's eyes seemed to float away again: "Also known as the Obelisk."

Thyls was about to ask about the Tower of the Ascetic, but Ashida seemed to know what he wanted to say: the magician raised a hand to signal him to be quiet, and suppress his curiosity.

"The two apprentices of the mage are all orphans adopted since childhood by the tower of the ascetics. Under those careless old mages, they don't even have normal names. Each has only one letter as a substitute."

"For example, one of them, codenamed ‘l’."

"They even laughed at themselves for this: the name is like the truth, no need to repeat."

Thyls frowned heavily.

l.

The magician turned his head slowly, his eyes were directed at Thales’s eyes, and his words slowly became solemn: "So, when the two apprentices who have met both find the threshold name and become the magician , Peers gave them an interesting nickname."

"Brother Truth."

Brother Truth?

Thyls was puzzled: "Why do they break your understanding of the magician?"

"Because of one of the truth brothers." Ashida looked at him quietly and uttered a strange word: "His threshold is called Idea."

"Idea Magician, l."

For that second, Thales was stunned firmly.

Li...

In the chess room, Wya behind them whispered to Rolf, but Thales had no time to pay attention.

"Idea?" He subconsciously repeated the other party's words in a low voice.

Not the easy-to-understand existence like qi, not the profound term like blood...

But...the idea.

What is this special thing?

Tyles' eyes widened, and he didn't know why he immediately raised his right index finger, trying to interrupt Ashida.

"It's hard to imagine, isn't it?" As if she had anticipated his reaction, Ashida curled her mouth slightly to indicate that he could ask questions.

"What kind of magician is he...what can he do?" the prince asked eagerly.

"You are free to imagine the appearance and ability of the ideal magician," Ashida shook her head: "But even me, even my colleagues who have seen him countless times, can use the most absolute and most The affirmative tone tells you: Even if you exhaust your brain, you can't imagine it."

Ashida said with a deep meaning: "Because we are not l, and you are not l."

Thyls got stuck again.

So that means... They don't know either?

The magician who only listens to the breath said quietly: "If the magician is some kind of ultimate form of objective existence, then how do you explain the appearance of the idea magician?"

"Now, try to rethink my question."

"What is a magician?"

Thyls sighed, and the brain that had just thought about the magician became a mess again.

"If the magician is not limited to the objective existence..."

"That is, a collection of related concepts?"

Thyls frowned in anxiety: "Existence, Qi, and blood are all concepts...but..."

Ashida snorted again.

The prince was interrupted by this soft snort, and he couldn't help raising his head.

"So, what exactly is a magician?" Thales, who didn't want to guess anymore, asked eagerly: "Qi and blood, and ideas? This is too far away, right."

Ashida looked at the prince quietly, and after three seconds, under Thales's gaze, he still spoke.

"The appearance of l shows that our understanding and imagination of magicians are still extremely superficial, and the interpretation of the'material school' has been beaten to perfection."

"But he is not the only one."

"It is no exaggeration to say that the appearance of every new magician has more or less promoted our understanding of ourselves," At this moment, Ashida is like an accountant carefully calculating the numbers. Patience and seriousness: "l is not the most amazing magician. When you know b, Jilai and Solovsky, and even the destiny twins... you will be even more amazed that the magician world is so interesting. ."

"Every magician is different, and even the world in the eyes of each magician is different." The next moment, Ashida returned to his rational and indifferent expression. : "There are so few commonalities among the magicians."

"It is undoubtedly far from enough to just classify us as the same kind of'person' or'life' or even'existence'. It is undoubtedly not enough to understand us in this category and try to conclude what a magician is."

"And reality has overturned again and again the models and theories we have built to explain magical energy and understand magicians," he seems to be a little emotional: "In history, anyone who thinks they have mastered or understood magical energy People who know the whole picture and the truth, think that people who can explain'what is a magician', whether it is the mages or ourselves, have proved to be naive and ridiculous."

"If you hold on to the idea of ​​‘ask clearly what a magician is’, you will be disappointed l is an example."

The magician looked at Thales again: "Do you understand?"

The prince looked at each other and couldn't help gritting his teeth.

The only doubt in his heart is getting stronger.

"I don't understand."

Thyls said with deep suspicion. "You did not answer my question."

Aishida shook her head: "On the contrary, this is what I plan to tell you."

Thyls can still only be puzzled.

"First of all, I am not here to answer questions'for you', but to answer questions'for you'."

"Secondly, you still didn't think about every word of mine as I said," Ashida's gaze tilted slightly: "I have shown you what a magician is to the maximum. "

The prince opened his mouth to speak, but the words reached his lips and there was no way to speak.

Consider every word of his seriously?

What do you mean?

Finally, the prince stared at the opponent for ten seconds and gave up the idea of ​​asking a clear answer.

"Just like six years ago, you just don’t plan to tell me what a magician is, do you?" Thales weakly covered his forehead, somewhat discouraged: "You want me to say my opinion , I said it, but you said it was wrong, and told me that you didn’t answer correctly..."

Thyls' words suddenly stopped.

Wait.

Think carefully about every word of his...

The prince's pupils began to shrink slightly.

A thought came up in his mind.

"I seem to understand a little bit."

"You didn't tell me what a magician is," Thales put down his hand on his forehead, looked at Ashida blankly, and subconsciously said: "But you told me what a magician is."

The magician of Qi's eyes lit up.

"Your progress is much faster than I thought," Ashida nodded in satisfaction, "Comprehension is also good."

Thyls was encouraged to start thinking again.

"You said, my opinion is very important. You also said that taking l as an example, every magician is different, and even the world in the eyes of every magician is different... "He murmured and repeated the other party's words: "So, Ashida."

"What is the world in your eyes?" The prince raised his head and looked at Ashida solemnly: "What is the difference from the world in my eyes?"

At that moment, Ashida's eyebrows raised slightly, as if she couldn't hide her surprise: "Oh, it seems that the progress is a bit too fast."

Thyls stared at him eagerly.

At that moment, Thales didn't think of anything else, but the last moment he faced Giza and the blood magician six years ago.

It is his experience of "knocking the door".

The kind...

That kind of wonderful feeling.

That... the feeling that he himself is the whole world.

"I can't tell you," Ashida's tone suddenly became mysterious: "But this time, it's because of magic power."

At that moment, Thales's originally irritable heart seemed to instantly become silent.

Tyles squinted, feeling like he heard these words somewhere.

Wait.

Thyls looked at Ashida, who was expressionless, but with a sense of dignity, and began to think back to six years ago.

That night, after a thrilling duel in the Palace of Valor, Ashida visited him abruptly.

That night, he also learned for the first time the existence of the magic initial appointment.

[The magician has three rules that must be followed, which are called the three major contracts...The first, the first appointment with magic...]

[Always, never, never ask another magician's understanding of magic power...]

[This is ‘Do not study each other’...]

So, Ashida can’t tell me what the world looks like in his eyes...

Because of the ban on the initial appointment of magic energy, because of...

Because...

"Aishida, you are a magician of qi," Thales looked like a drowning man who had caught the straw, he looked at each other solemnly: "I remember, six years ago, we were in Red Square When you first met on the street, you said that you can perceive all the air in the entire block, such as everyone’s breathing."

"In Longxiao City six years ago, you could even track our breath across an entire city..."

Asida squinted slightly.

"Those people...their breathing, those airflows, if you can clearly perceive them one by one," Thales was a little incoherent at that moment, "Is that the world in your eyes?"

He eagerly searched for words: "It's like, like everyone is... breathing air in your body?"

Ashida's face changed.

"As I said, metaphors and analogies are not welcome." The Qi Magician said coldly.

Ah.

This kid.

Exceeded expectations.

Thyls looked at Ashida blankly, and the response of the other party had given him some inspiration.

That means...

Those who breathe...Those people...

"Giza Drilman, the blood magician," Thales continued in a daze: "What is the world in her eyes?"

Ashida frowned, which was a great move for him.

And during the time he knocked on the door... the world in his own eyes...

"Also," In that second, Thales suddenly remembered Giza's words before being sealed, and asked softly: "She told me that becoming a magician is not a kind of luck, but a curse. Why?"

This time, the magician was silent for a long time.

"Asida?" The prince raised his head and looked at Asida with a different expression in confusion.

"Power always has a corresponding price. The question is how do you treat this price." The blue-robed man said silently.

"Whoever holds a long sword, a person who wields a spear, and a person who shakes a chain hammer, the weight they bear is different, the range that the sword, spear and chain hammer can reach, The enemies they face are also different, and those who wear a crown and hold a scepter, they have to bear another weight, and they are in another environment..."

Aishida's eyes are a little gloomy, and the blue light deep in the eye sockets is surging slightly:

"As for the weight that the magician has to bear, you can imagine for yourself."

The magician must bear...

The prince was startled.

Thyls took a deep breath: "You just said that metaphors and analogies are not welcome to explain the problem."

"Oh, that rule," Ashida raised her eyebrows lightly and hummed indifferently: "It only works for you."

Thyls was stunned.

"Now, you should have some concepts, Thales," Ashida's eyes began to become oppressive: "Magician, this is not a precedent for you to refer to, just ask clearly, "Magician is What's, can be'learned' or'teacher' knowledge and power."

"What is a magician?" His tone was light, but there was an inexplicable heaviness in what he said: "This question can only be found, answered, and finally confirmed by each magician. , What is your threshold name alone."

"I can only carefully guide you from the side."

"Because, when you really understand what a magician is," Ashida paused for a long time, but after all she spoke: "You are already a magician."

Or almost became a magician.

The magician looked at the boy in front of him and said silently in his heart.

The ends of the chessboard fell silent again.

Thyls lowered his head and began to think about this sentence.

"In the process, don't let the known examples like me and Giza, or even the examples of l constrain your mind, Thales," Ashida said lightly: "Be more humble. , Don’t be like the mages of the material school, let arrogance and self-righteousness drag you down."

Just now.

"Aishida," Thales took a soft breath, and said in a puzzled and serious voice: "How did you become a magician? How did you find the threshold name? You've been'out of control' too Right?"

The air seemed to freeze in an instant.

"This question has exceeded the scope of our discussion today," the Qi magician said with a blank expression: "It's time to change to the next topic."

"The position and position of the magician."

Thyls looked up in amazement, spread his hands to express his puzzlement:

"But this topic is not over yet?"

"We haven't even figured out what we are, so we should start looking for a position and position?"

Ashida snorted coldly.

"This world is like this, isn't it?" The magician said coldly: "People often start acting pretentiously before they recognize their position."

"Regardless of humans or other races, we can't even know ourselves well, but we can distinguish between ourselves and the enemy without hesitation, and engage in confrontation and fighting."

"It is both ironic and funny."

Thyls frowned: "What you say is always so boring."

Aishida ignored his words.

"Do you think, why are we called disasters?" The man in the blue robe put down his interlaced hands and leaned back on his seat: "Why are you hated by the whole world?"

Tyles looked at Ashida and couldn't help but remember the first time he saw him.

"Because you almost destroyed the world six or seven hundred years ago?" The prince remembered what Gilbert had told him, and whispered softly: "To ring the death knell for the final empire?"

Ashida was silent for a while.

"Ah, the end of the battle, a topic that cannot be avoided," he said silently: "Speaking of which, I have to mention another person among the truth brothers."

"Is the'brother of truth' again?" Thales asked strangely: "Anyone besides l?"

"If l broke our understanding of magicians," Ashida nodded, and the speed of her speech began to increase slowly: "Then his brother, completely changed the status of magicians."

"Nearly seven hundred years ago, he led the other five magicians and set off the battle for the end."

At that moment, Thales breathed tightly.

This is the first time he has heard the news of the end battle from a place other than books and legends.

And...

"Which side in the end battle, there are only six magicians?"

"Who is it?" Seeing Ashida slowly nodded~IndoMTL.com~Thyls said in shock: "Brother of l, who is it?"

Aishida's usual indifferent expression became serious for the third time today. His back left the seat, his hands were closed again, his jaw was slightly closed, and his eyes were sharp as if facing the most terrible enemy.

"He is the most powerful magician in history after Toros."

"It was also the first magician to be dubbed ‘disaster’."

"The destroyer of the three magic towers."

"The mourner of the final empire."

"The culprit of the'Great Rift'."

"The enemy of the Holy Sun, the nemesis of the gods."

Hearing the title above, Thales couldn't help but widen his eyes and opened his mouth.

Just listen to Ashida very solemnly and authentically:

"There is a magician, b."