Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 352 33. The Ravens. The Destiny of Twins

In the ruins of Azaras, which had been destroyed by the burning flames, Merlin stood there with his hands down in front of the tombstone of Ruiwen's mother Angela.

What Raven told him hit like a bolt of lightning in the corner of his heart where the deepest secrets were buried.

He seemed to be back in 1989, that night 12 years ago.

He thought he had escaped his fate in the wilds of Wisconsin, but he didn't.That heavy fate just fell on another person.

The 11-year-old girl in front of him.

His sister, on a symbolic level, carried it all for him.

Merlin turned his head, the magnificent and majestic city of Azaras in his dream, now in front of his eyes was just a ghostly ruined wall, just like Rui Wen's life just started.

He didn't know what to say about the matter.

He didn't know how to evaluate the connection and bond between the two.

Is this a coincidence?

Maybe.

"How did it get destroyed here?"

Merlin asked in a hoarse voice, he actually didn't care much about this issue, but the atmosphere between him and Ruiwen was too heavy, and he wanted to change the subject to relieve the pressure on both body and mind .

"It was destroyed because of me."

Raven said softly in an unwavering tone:

"When my mother was pregnant, the cult group she belonged to was smashed by the police, and she escaped. Sannomiya's minions have been looking for her. The big devil is eager to get a real devil princess or prince, which will make it A force that has stalled is once again seeing the possibility of a breakthrough."

"My mom was a...well, stupid woman, but she was really lucky."

Ruiwen looked at the tombstone in front of her, and she said:

"When I was about to be captured by Sangong's son, the high priest of Azaras predicted my fate. He descended to the earth and took away my mother and me who was not yet born."

"You mean, the priests of Azaras, they have the ability to hide from Sangong's perception?"

Merlin asked.

"Ah."

After telling Merlin the most important news, Ruiwen seemed to no longer hide these details. She stroked the dark red dotted crystal on the back of her hand, and said:

"Azaras is a race with a highly developed spiritual civilization. They are very good at spiritual and sacred magic, and their high priest is absolutely divine... just like this."

Ruiwen stretched out her five fingers, a ball of white light turned into a nimble little crow in her palm, flapped its wings and flew around Ruiwen, landed on Ruiwen's shoulder chirping again, and then tilted its head , looking curiously at Merlin beside him.

Merlin could feel that the ball of white energy that Ruiwen threw was full of indescribable positive power, like the scorching sun piercing through the haze, and even made Merlin feel burned.

That was a warning from the dark magic power in his body, instinctively keeping him away from this holy power.

"I have studied sacred magic with the high priest since I was a child, so as to suppress the other half of my body's original darkness."

Ruiwen stretched out her other hand again, a mass of black and red, almost purple magic power was shaking.Not to mention the quantity, but the purity of the power of darkness is far better than the magic power in Merlin's body at this time.

"I learned very well, the high priest likes me very much, people in this city also regard me as the future successor of the high priest, my mother also enjoys this world very much, she even indulges in it, everything here is beautiful , but...as I grew up year after year, a dark voice grew in my heart."

Raven looked back at the ruins behind her and said:

"Have you ever had that feeling? There's an inner voice that's been urging you to do something...like an instinct, a mission, a...bait. A moth to a flame."

"You responded to it?"

Merlin asked.

"Yes, on my 10th birthday, I answered that calling."

Ruiwen said in a low tone:

"As if in sleep, I responded to the inner voice...and then it came."

"Sangong descended here from its lava hell, following the magic power I inherited from it. It said it came to welcome its daughter home. Right in front of me, it summoned the flames of the world, and in one night , burn down this world that raised me..."

"Everything is gone."

Ruiwen's tone became more and more bleak:

"The teacher who is always serious, my friends, those kind uncles, those ladies who like to enjoy singing and dancing... My mother is gone."

"The price for me to find 'father' is the destruction of a world."

Ruiwen fell to the ground, she knelt and sat in front of her mother's tombstone, she lowered her head and said:

"Its weight is on my shoulders, and my whole life will atone for it."

"Every year you grow up, Sangong's call to you becomes heavier. As long as you are always in the material world, Sangong can always find you."

Merlin tentatively stretched out his hand and placed it on Ruiwen's shoulder. He half knelt down and said to the girl beside him:

"I can't say it's not your fault, but no matter how prepared you are, there's very little you can do to face an illogical life like Sangong's."

"If you still want hands..."

Ruiwen turned her head and glanced at Merlin's hand on her shoulder, she said in a cold tone:

"open!"

Merlin immediately withdrew his hand, he shrugged awkwardly, and said:

"So you have been hunting the Son of the Three Palaces in order to accumulate strength to avenge it? Just for everything around you?"

"I've had my revenge."

Ruiwen said in a cold tone:

"The mighty Sannomiya thinks he can do whatever he wants, but I will remember what it did. It brought me back to its hell, it thought I was powerless to fight, but it ignored... I not only inherited its Power, also inherits its potential."

"I sealed it with the crystal left by my mentor... My mentor spent 10 years teaching me the most powerful sealing spell in Azaras. Perhaps, he has already predicted all this."

"The power seed of the son of Sangong contains the most original power mystery of Sangong...I want to destroy it completely!"

"I want to end all this with my own hands!"

Behind Ruiwen, Merlin was silent.

In his wildest fantasies, he never thought that anyone could fight against Sangong, but right in front of his eyes, this 11-year-old girl had accomplished a feat that he could not have imagined.

But Ruiwen's explanation afterwards made Merlin feel a little crisis.

He rationally didn't speak, but after a while, Rui Wen stood up and was re-suspended in the air. She looked back at Merlin, and in those blue eyes, there was a pulsating, veiled murderous intent.

"I'll kill you eventually, Merlin."

"It's not because I hate you, nor is it because of the fetters of fate between us, it's not a personal grievance... That sliver of power in your body is necessary to end the existence of Sangong."

"But you, you're not a bad person..."

Ruiwen looked at Merlin calmly for the first time, and she said:

"So I will put you in the last one, you can enjoy your life until I appear in front of you next time, I hope you can face your death in peace."

"No, we don't need you to die between us! Ruiwen."

Merlin shook his head and said:

"I know a way to isolate the power seed in my body without harming my life... I have seen the separated power with my own eyes, and it exists in the most primitive physical entity."

Merlin took a deep breath, looked at Raven, and said:

"I can separate it now if you will help me."

"really?"

Ruiwen looked at Merlin suspiciously, the girl looked like a little fox when she rolled her eyes, she hesitated for a moment, then said:

"If it's true...it's not impossible."

She stretched out two fingers and gestured:

"I only need a little bit to study the nature of that power."

"fur"

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, he noticed the dissipated killing intent of the girl in front of him, and he immediately felt like he had saved his life.

"I'm curious, Raven."

Merlin squatted down so that he could be at eye level with Rui Wen, and he said to the girl in front of him:

"You have been taught by the wise high priests of Azalas since childhood, and it stands to reason that you should know better than anyone the threat of responding to your inner call...Why do you still do that? Because, some kind of Desire?"

Merlin's question caused Ruiwen's expression to change. She seemed a little hesitant to tell Merlin the truth.

At this moment, Ruiwen no longer had the indifference of the past, but was replaced by a childlike cover-up, as if this question from Merlin had touched her heart.

At the same time, the dark red gem on Ruiwen's finger suddenly lit up.

She looked at the gemstone in her hand, and the expression on her face immediately became gloomy.

"what happened?"

Merlin noticed this change, and he asked:

"What happened?"

"Three palaces!"

Rui Wen said in a cold tone:

"The power of Sangong is changing. It is escaping from the dimension of hell. There is only a trace...but it is still escaping. My seal seems to be invalid."

"How could this be?"

Merlin says:

"We have clearly killed all the Sons of the Three Palaces in New York, and the ceremony to summon it has failed."

"I don't know, I'll go and see."

Ruiwen disappeared in front of Merlin's eyes in a flash. The latter was a little worried about the situation on the earth. After a while, he took out the page of the Dark God Book from his pocket, picked up a pen, and wrote on the yellowed page:

"Why does the Sangongmo change?"

A line of words appeared on the page.

"To give, or to give back?"

"pay."

Merlin didn't draw with a pen, he said directly:

"Tell me what you want me to do again?"

"Swish"

Another line of words appeared before Merlin's eyes.

"Little Ruiwen needs a warm hug, and you can grant her this trivial wish."

"Damn it!"

Merlin complained:

"Raven will kill me."

"No! She won't."

A line of words appeared in front of Merlin's eyes, as if to encourage him.

"All right!"

Merlin breathed a sigh of relief, and accepted the task. With the binding of the magic lock on his arm, the contract was established, and the answer Merlin needed quickly appeared on the parchment in front of him.

It wasn't words, but a weird graphic.

The 14 seemingly unrelated points are connected to each other, just like a moving flash animation. Under Merlin's gaze, as the connection becomes more and more complicated, finally, a strange circular magic circle appears In front of Merlin's eyes.

Under the 14-point magic circle, there is a simple note:

"Passive summoning type cross-latitude power projection ceremony, which requires a weak soul to activate."

Seeing this magic circle, Merlin was a little dazed at first, but soon, a cold light lit up in his eyes.

He quickly took out his mobile phone, called up the aerial map of New York, and compared it with the graph composed of 14 points.

"14 places of death for half-devils, plus a maze of streets between each other."

Merlin looked at the bird's-eye view, and he used the drawing tool to slide back and forth on the map of the phone. After a while, a complicated and slightly deformed circular magic circle appeared on the map.

Merlin turned the phone 90°, the circular magic circle on the map, and the 14-point magic circle on the parchment...

Almost exactly the same.

"..."

Merlin's hands trembled a little.

He knew why Sangong sent those not powerful 'sons' to die.

That's right, those 14 victims were indeed an important part of the summoning ceremony, but they were just raw materials. The complete summoning array was completed by Merlin and his agents.

But now, knowing this is useless.

Merlin heaved a sigh of relief, he put down the parchment, the mistake has been made, and there is no doubt about the remorse, it is better to think about how to do things well.

"Swish"

Ruiwen's figure appeared in front of Merlin in a flash of light, and she said in a hurried tone:

"Quick, let's go back to New York, the seal is not broken, the one going to Earth is just a projection of a weak force, we just need..."

Before Ruiwen finished speaking, Merlin opened his arms and hugged her into his arms.

Ruiwen was startled immediately, she pinched her left hand subconsciously, and a mass of creepy sharp force began to beat at her fingertips, with just a light flick, Merlin in front of her eyes would be blown away.

but she didn't...

"I was told..."

Merlin whispered:

"You always wanted a warm hug."

Ruiwen's lips moved. The next moment, she gritted her teeth and pushed Merlin away. She screamed like a little hedgehog:

"Do not touch me!"

"Who told you I'm lonely? I'm happy every day!"

"I don't need you to pity me!"

"Swish"

When Rui Wen waved her hand, a rapidly expanding dark vortex appeared behind Merlin, swallowing him like a devouring beast, and in a whirl, Merlin was thrown back to the earth.

Riven stood alone in the ruins of Azaras, she gritted her teeth and cursed:

"Merlin! Bastard!"

"It's not sincere at all... Do you really think that I can't read your mind?"

"Swish"

Ruiwen's figure also disappeared among the ruins of the stars at this moment. When she reappeared, she was already standing on the ground of New York, and Merlin was standing beside him. There was a slightly embarrassing scratch on his forehead. Obviously, The posture in which he landed just now was not so stable.

"Its puny projection of power lies ahead!"

Rui Wen said in a cold tone:

"I'll fix it!"

"Wait, I'll go with you."

Merlin quickly caught up with Ruiwen, who was floating forward. He looked at the somewhat familiar abandoned pier in front of him, and said:

"Sangong spent so much energy, it must not be just to project a power, I suspect..."

"It has another purpose."

(End of this chapter)