Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 295 20. Legend of Tomorrow

"boom"

Outside the city of Nandarbat, on the cold and dangerous snow-capped cliffs, there was a crisp sound of weapons clashing in the vast snow.

The long sword in Damian's hand traced a circular arc, trying to break through Merlin's defense, but when the blade fell, it was once again blocked by Merlin with a very short Hidden Blade.

He swung his wrist outward, just like the result of the previous dozen attacks, Damian's attack was broken again, and he took several steps back.

Merlin only defended but not attacked, and with only one hand on his left arm, he perfectly blocked Damian's onslaught again and again.

This undoubtedly made Damian feel frustrated.

Because the magic power circulating in his body was sealed, Damian felt a little weak now, and the child's breathing became a little rough.

Fortunately, these few minutes of attack made his cold body warm up, but he will not be affected by the surrounding environment for the time being.But this is not a good thing in the snow-capped mountains. The increase in body temperature means the consumption of calories. In this cold climate, if Damian cannot break through Merlin's defense before his physical strength is exhausted, what will follow is Rapid hypothermia.

No doubt it would have endangered his life.

"Feel like you're losing? Son."

Merlin flicked his left hand, and the Hidden Blade made a howling sound of breaking wind in the air. He said in a mocking tone:

"Your grandfather didn't tell you that in this situation, once you think you are going to lose, then you are really going to lose."

"what!"

Merlin's talent for sarcasm is simply outstanding. This sentence made Damian's thoughts that had just calmed down become intense again.The child made a wrong step forward, clenched his fist in his right hand and dragged the long sword in his left hand. At this moment, his figure was approaching the extreme. The whistling fist hit Merlin's arm fiercely, while the long sword in the other hand slammed into Merlin's arm. From the other direction, he swung towards Merlin's waist from bottom to top.

This is a very good strategy.

No matter whether Merlin wanted to block the punching fist or the blade, there would be loopholes in his one-handed defense.

Damian himself knew that relying on him, there was no way to defeat Merlin.

But he also knew that in this completely unfair battle, as long as Merlin's defense was broken, or he was forced to make an offensive move, he would be considered a winner!

"Little elf ghost."

Merlin laughed. Facing the attacks coming from two directions almost at the same time, he swung his left arm, ignoring Damian's fist, but once again blocked the long sword that the child cut.

When the Hidden Blade collided with the sharp blade, Merlin's wrist shook strangely, and a shock force was transmitted along the long sword to Damian's wrist, and then to the child's body. When he attacked with both hands at the same time, The balance of the body, which was already difficult to maintain, was completely destroyed.

"Snapped"

The moment before his fist touched Merlin's body, Damian lost his balance and fell headlong into the icy snow.

"Ha, you lost."

Merlin squatted down, looked at Damian who got up from the snow, and said with a smile:

"Do you want to continue playing? It's actually quite interesting to watch you fall over and over again."

"what!"

Damian screamed and stabbed the long sword at Merlin's head, but this time, Merlin fought back.

His right hand swung up and hit Demian's sword-holding wrist. With a light pinch of his left hand, he pinched the edge of the decorative sword, and within a flick, the sword was thrown to different places. Under the cliff in the distance.

Damian, who had lost his weapon, didn't stop there. On the contrary, he roared and continued to pounce on Merlin. He clenched his fists and struck fiercely at Merlin's abdomen like a mad tiger.

While beating, he let out a piercing howl.

It no longer looks like a fight at all, but a simple vent.

Under Merlin's deliberate guidance, the exhausted Damian finally couldn't hide the pain and bewilderment in his heart. At the moment when the wall of indifference collapsed, he was like a child who couldn't control his emotions. Out of control.

"Ah ah ah"

Like a boxer, he crazily hit Merlin's waist and abdomen, which was the highest point his size could touch.

Merlin stood up straight and allowed Damian to "beat" him with his fists.

Uh, for Merlin who can be atomized, this kind of purely physical attack is meaningless, he can't even feel a trace of pain.

He looked down at the howling Damian. This precocious child has received too much knowledge and teachings that should not be exposed to children since he was a child. He learned to hide his true emotions very early. Lars Al Ghul will Damian regards him as his true successor, and his ardent hope has caused Damian to bear heavy pressure since he was a child.

This is a child without childhood...

Facing the death of a loved one, he didn't even know how to deal with the sudden grief.

Without the leader who has been teaching him all the time, his heart is at a loss for the future, which also makes him accumulate too much pressure in his heart.

He needs to vent all these pressures.

as it is now.

"huh, huh"

In the cold snowy mountain, there were no bystanders except Merlin. In such a quiet atmosphere, Damian did not continue to pretend his calmness. He was panting, but he was still waving his fists, as if he was training hard. like a boxer.

"Okay, kid."

Merlin reached out and put his hand on Damian's shoulder, but was thrown away by the sensitive child.

He stared at Merlin viciously, his eyes were red, and tears were rolling in his eyes, but he was stubborn and unwilling to show his weakness.

"Do not touch me!"

Damian screamed like a hedgehog.

But Merlin ignored the child's fierce resistance, he stretched out his hand, firmly and stubbornly hugged the struggling Damian into his arms, just like comforting Eric who couldn't sleep because of the thunderstorm in the night.

Patting Damian on the back, he whispered:

"It's okay, it's okay, kid, it's all over."

"Do not touch me!"

"You let me go!"

"Merlin, I order you, let go!"

Damian kept struggling in Merlin's arms, but the strength of the struggle became weaker and weaker. In the cold snow mountain, he felt the not-so-warm temperature on Merlin's body. Driven by his body's instinct, the exhausted Damian finally fell silent. down.

On his face, the tears that had been accumulating all this time finally couldn't be restrained, and they flowed out like that crazily.

"He's gone... woohoo, he's gone just like that."

Just like all sad and sad children, amidst the tears, Young Master Damian said inarticulately:

"I was not prepared at all, and he saved it."

"He said let me protect my mother, let me protect myself, he told me not to think about him, and bravely move on."

"I can't do it, woo hoo."

"I can't do it, I don't know how to do it, no one taught me, no one told me how to deal with it. Isn't he never going to lose? Why? Why did he lose... why did he Will be defeated? Woohoo, it's not true, it's not..."

Merlin listened to Damian's jumbled cries, the content was not important, what was important was the emotion expressed.

Just as Merlin guessed, when Master Ninja passed away suddenly, Damian, who was completely unprepared to face the departure of his relatives, fell into a dazed and helpless situation at this moment.

As he said, since childhood, Master Ninja will arrange everything for him. All he has to do is train, train, and train.Do everything in your power to train yourself as the most dangerous weapon.

And at the moment Lars al Ghul died, Damian suddenly realized that he seemed to know nothing but fighting.

He has strength far beyond that of his peers, but he still cannot be immune to this kind of human instinctive mood swings.

The sudden disappearance of a person he thought would never leave him would inevitably make it difficult for a child like him to adapt, and the collapse of the invincible idol also made Damian at a loss as to what to do.

"It's all right, kid."

Merlin patted Damian's back rhythmically, and he whispered to Damian:

"We can feel pain, distress and sadness when a loved one dies. We can accept our weakness and sadness. We can tell ourselves that no one wins forever, and that's okay."

"No one will force you to continue to be a soldier in this situation... You can cry, you can miss him, and you can resent him for leaving you suddenly, but boy, whether he is a good person or a bad person, Be a hero or a villain, believe me, he loves you both."

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief. He stretched out his hand and put it on Damian's shoulder. He straightened his body and looked at Damian, who was sobbing in front of him. His face was like a little tabby cat. He said:

"I also believe that you are destined not to let him down... Your grandfather told me that you will be a rising legend tomorrow. Now I believe it...as long as you can go on firmly and find your own The way of the hero, then you will definitely become a legend of tomorrow."

"Just like your grandfather... be remembered by the world, of course, don't learn from his bad side, I mean, he has many advantages, such as never lying, such as firmness, such as calmness and overall perspective, etc. wait."

Merlin took out the black Hidden Blade left by Master Ninja from his pocket, and in this cold, snowy and inaccessible place, he fixed the Hidden Blade on Damian's left arm bit by bit. .

At the moment when the last buckle was fastened, Damian followed Merlin's example, moved the middle finger of his left hand lightly, and accompanied by a bright sound of machine spring, a sharp sword edge popped out of the cuff.

"He left you his master mark."

Merlin said to Damian who lowered his head:

"This represents his expectation of you. Compared with your mother, you are his real hope. But Damian, this is the expectation of the ninja master, not the shackles of your life..."

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to inherit all this, I mean... your life is still very long, don't make such a hasty decision."

Merlin said to Damian:

"Why don't you go to other parts of the world and see how other children spend their lives. Go and see your father... Although he doesn't know you exist, I believe he will Just like your grandfather, pouring unreserved love on you."

"Of course, based on what I know about Bruce, there may still be a running-in period between the two of you."

"That..."

Damian withdrew the Hidden Blade, he wiped the tears from his face, he looked at Merlin:

"Will you come with me? Will Mommy go too?"

"Ah."

Merlin nodded. He took out a thick velvet cloak and put it on Damian. He and the child stood on the edge of the snowy mountain cliff, looking at the only silhouette of Nandarbat city in the falling snow. He whispered: :

"I'll go to Gotham with you..."

"After all, there are still some unresolved matters waiting for me."

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While Merlin was patiently enlightening Young Master Damian, another matter closely related to him was going on in another secret place.

It's a pretty bad thing.

"Your Excellency Daniel, the results of the actual combat analysis of the 'Dragon' serum have come out."

In a bright laboratory, a researcher handed a document to a tall, thin, middle-aged man dressed in simple clothes, with a pair of black round-frame glasses on the bridge of his nose, and short gray-white hair on top of his head.

The middle-aged man with a strong researcher temperament took the document, flipped through a few pages, and his expression became a little playful.

After a moment he said:

"The performance of the 'Dragon' serum is in line with our expectations, but it seems to be a bit worse than what we imagined to be a truly mature super soldier. Some of its data do not seem so stable."

"This is what it should be, Mr. Daniel"

The researcher, with the black skull octopus badge on his arm, quickly replied:

"After all, what we have obtained is only an initial research result. We have not even been able to figure out the principle of the biological fusion of the 'dragon' serum."

"Moreover, the amount of dragon blood in our hands is not large enough to support our continued research, but judging from the performance of the current experimental body 'Death Knell', the potential of the 'dragon' serum is great. Once we enter the deep research, we will In a short period of time, its potential can be fully explored."

"Um..."

The middle-aged man called Mr. Daniel put down the documents in his hand. He reached out and pushed the pair of round-frame glasses that looked like a product of the previous era. After thinking for a few seconds, he said:

"Then continue the research. I will allocate enough research funds and an independent research laboratory for you. The research cycle for you... 24 months, is it enough?"

"enough."

The researchers who were still on tenterhooks were completely relieved at this moment.

In the research system of Hydra, His Excellency Daniel can be said to be the big man who holds the lifeblood of these researchers. After getting the approval of His Excellency Daniel, the "Dragon" serum project that has just completed the first phase of the test is finally not going to work. There was a risk of dying.

"Uh, there is one more thing, Mr. Daniel."

The researcher hesitated for a moment, and finally told the immediate boss about the troublesome matter at hand.

Under the somewhat impatient gaze of His Excellency Daniel, the researcher quickly explained the whole story.

"The recovered 'Death Knell' subject woke up a few hours ago, and he asked us to inject him with a higher concentration of 'Dragon' serum, but..."

"Then give him an injection!"

Daniel waved his hand indifferently, and said calmly:

"Take this as the data collection work for the second-stage biological experiment. As for the mercenary whose brain is no longer normal...he is our friend, isn't he?"

"How can we cruelly refuse a friend's request?"

(End of this chapter)