Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 991 45. Magical Journey--Adding more for the Silo brothers [47]

On the streets of Philadelphia, Billy Batson is running.

Running crazily, out of breath, exhausted, but dare not stop.

Behind him, several guys are chasing him.

Those were some bullies, bad students in his school.

I heard that it has some unclear relationship with the gang outside.

Billy is an orphan, and he has always lived alone.

Logically speaking, he would choose to be wise and protect himself at all times, and would not provoke these troublesome guys.

but...

Sometimes, impulsiveness always interferes with emotions and thinking, especially for a 15-year-old child, when anger surges, they can't control themselves.

Today is the 10th day since Father Paul died.

During these 10 days, Billy's life was no different from before, and he was sent to another foster family.

That family was a little different.

It was a family of two grown-up orphans who had adopted six children, Billy being the seventh.

That family was unlike any other foster home Billy had ever been in.

There is no deceit, no conflict, no hidden dangers.

A family of 8 people lives in one house, which is very crowded and the quality of life is average, but everyone lives happily.

hapiness...

Although Billy is only 15 years old, he has rarely seen the kind of genuine happiness on the faces of those children.

This made him panic.

It's like a person who has been witnessing and watching the dark side of society is suddenly pulled into the warm sunshine.

The sun was great and warm, but it still felt overwhelming.

He didn't know how to accept all this, just like a hedgehog protecting himself, trying to keep himself from being hurt.

until today.

Billy's "brother" is being bullied by school bullies, so he explodes, impulsively, and ends up in big trouble.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Billy waved his hands to let the other people in the subway station in front of him get out of the way, and he fled all the way into the subway under the chase of those bullies.

He has to get rid of these guys.

Young people will always do a lot of bad things regardless of their enthusiasm.

If he was unlucky, Billy would probably be thrown into the hospital by these little ruffians.

After the disbandment of the Heroes Association in Philadelphia, social security has returned to what it used to be.

Without those helpful vigilantes, the officers get bogged down in so much shit that they don't have the time or energy to deal with a gang of teens fighting.

Billy was lucky, though.

He rushed into the carriage just before the subway doors closed, and the closed doors separated him from the chasing little ruffians.

Panting, Billy sat on the seat, he didn't want to pay attention to those guys who were banging on the car door and throwing harsh words at him.

"Too stupid."

Billy held his head and said in a low voice:

"How could you get yourself into such trouble! Billy Batson, are you out of your mind? You shouldn't be so impulsive."

The child held his head with a displeased expression on his face.

He is examining himself.

this is a good habit.

Especially for young people, being good at self-examination can always make people discover many shortcomings and then correct them.

Make yourself better with it.

Or get more cunning.

"Why should I meddle in my own business?"

Billy leaned on the speeding subway, he looked at the glass opposite, and the lights of the billboards shining beyond the glass.

He could obviously ignore that.

He and the "brother" in his foster family have only known each other for a few days, and they haven't even spoken more than 20 sentences. Their relationship is not good enough to make Billy work hard for him.

Why was I so angry at that time?

He raised his wrist and looked at the bracelet that was tied around his wrist.

And the red cross hanging from the bottom of that bracelet.

In the dim light of the subway, the halo of strange refraction shone on the cross, which looked unusually beautiful.

Billy stared at the spinning cross and said:

"It's all because of you...the priest said to open my heart to the world...this is the consequence of accepting other people's feelings."

Billy pouted:

"Trouble, bad trouble."

Although it says so.

But the child didn't take off the bracelet, or threw it away.

He carefully removed it from his wrist.

It was a bracelet made for adults, and the chain was long enough to hang around Billy's emaciated neck as a beautiful pendant.

He put it next to him.

The coldness against his skin made Billy blink.

Exhausted from the running just now, he leaned back on the seat and planned to take a nap.

But just as the child closed his eyes, a magical power suddenly reverberated in the carriage.

It's like a weird magic circle is activated.

The light in the carriage was shining, and between the on and off of the light, the other people in the carriage became transparent like smoke, strangely, and then disappeared.

This weird carriage carried Billy Batson alone into another world.

The rapidly spreading ice lingered on the glass on both sides of the car, and the LED light board above the car was used to mark the station, and the words dancing on it were strangely distorted.

The halos of those lamps twisted into special symbols.

Unknown symbols, there are 7...

Repeated beating.

"bang"

The vibration of the carriage awakened the sleeping Billy Batson a few seconds later, as if the carriage had reached a stop, and it seemed that it had hit something.

He opened his eyes blankly, and in the dim light, Billy found himself alone in the entire carriage.

"Hello, is anyone around?"

He stood up with his bag in hand, he was surprised to see the frost floating on the glass of the carriage.

He felt scared.

Even though he knew he could see things that others couldn't, Father Paul left telling him that he was gifted with something.

But at the end of the day, he's just a 15-year-old kid.

The weird scene in front of him made his heart tremble. He wanted to leave and return to the outside world, but he didn't know what to do.

"bang"

Just when Billy Batson was at a loss, the closed car door in front of him suddenly opened, revealing a dark mountain wall. In the mountain wall in front of him, there was a strange cave.

A light shone from that cave.

Orange, warm glow.

"You let me in?"

Billy grabbed the door of the carriage, and he looked at the mountain road in front of him with a mixture of vigilance and fear. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the subway to drive here.

And the meaning of the door that opens automatically is already very clear.

He has to go.

If he wants to leave.

Billy took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

With his bag on his back, he stepped out of the carriage that hit the mountain wall step by step, and walked into the cave along the twisted mountain path.

To his surprise, the cave was huge.

It's like a palace carved out of rocks.

On the top of the palace, there are swaying candles, those lit candles are suspended in the air, and those dancing fire lights are very active, and they reflect the light like a fireplace burning on the smooth mountain wall.

This place must be a secret place.

Billy looked at the ground, there was a very unique pattern, full of some mysterious feeling, maybe it was a magic circle.

But this mysterious place looks like it has been ransacked.

The ground is covered with shattered glass and rocks that have fallen from great heights.

There are also some broken statues, weird statues, thrown on the ground like scattered stones, but some hideous sculptured limbs can still be seen.

Like some demons.

A delicate astronomical ball was pushed down on the ground, and those brass road signs were scattered everywhere.

The stars lit by the candles above the dome also dimmed, making the religious murals around the dome lose their solemnity and solemnity.

This is a ruined temple.

Well, probably.

Billy carefully walked around the broken things on the ground, he dared not touch any of them.

He walked forward, and after rounding a fallen statue, he saw the end of the temple.

There is a stone platform above the ground, and there are seven chairs placed on the stone platform.

And on the chair in the center, a white-haired man in a red robe with yellow lightning symbols dotted on it, holding a black staff in his hand, was lying there.

Blood dripped from his wound and he appeared to be unconscious.

He is the only life in this temple.

And he undoubtedly needs help.

Billy hesitated for a moment. He grabbed his bag, took out the bandage he was carrying with him, and threw it at the unconscious wizard-like old man.

The bandage hit the ground, waking up the comatose old man.

He struggled to prop up his body with his staff, and looked forward.

他 说:

"Don't hide... come out!"

Billy, hiding behind the broken statue, looked up like a groundhog.

He showed half of his head, and cautiously said to the old wizard:

"Who are you? I was sent here, did you do it?"

"There's no time for that."

The old wizard didn't even look at the bandages on the ground. He stood up, leaned on his staff, and walked towards Billy.

But the closer he got to Billy, the weirder the old wizard's expression became.

"No, that's not right!"

He said in a weak voice:

"You have a magical physique and look fit, but your soul...isn't that pure!"

"You're not what I'm looking for... Something went wrong with the detection magic? How could it be..."

He stared at Billy Batson, who was hiding behind the statue. Some kind of magical halo shone in his dark eyes, just like the ring of ashes in his pupils.

Soon, the old wizard discovered the abnormality in Billy.

"That thing! That thing hanging around your neck! Give it to me!"

The old wizard gritted his teeth and said to Billy:

"quick!"

"Time is running out!"

"No!"

Clutching the bracelet around his neck, Billy stepped back and said:

"The angel told me not to give it to anyone!"

"Angel?"

The old wizard narrowed his eyes, and said:

"Heaven is watching you too? No, there is no magic left in you."

"give it to me!"

The old wizard's tone became a little more serious, and his wand touched the ground.

The orange-yellow, flame-like magic power ignited, wrapping Billy, who turned and fled in terror, like a ring of fire.

But the magical fire did not harm the child.

The moment the firelight touched Billy, it was as if it had been swallowed by some invisible monster.

The addition of pure magic made the cross hanging on Billy's chest glow faintly.

It's like a certain beacon is activated, and it's like a door is opened.

The soul fragments sealed in the bracelet were stimulated, and Merlin who was far away in hell also felt this sting.

He followed the surging consciousness of the beacon of magical bloom, as if jumping into a light curtain shining with runes.

The next moment, in the strange temple of the old wizard, between the filling and humming of magic power, Merlin opened his eyes.

Like an illusory ghost, he floated out from the chest of Billy Batson who fell to the ground.

He was wearing a black robe, and the moment he appeared, the shadows in the temple were like floating water waves, enveloping that soul.

"Snapped"

Merlin flicked his fingers, and a burst of magic power spewed out, easily breaking up the flame light curtain blooming in front of him.

In the light of the flames dissipating, he lowered his head.

He looked at Billy, who fell to the ground, holding his bag, with a terrified expression on his face.

He said to the boy:

"Don't be afraid..."

"You, who are you?"

Billy looked at the black ghost that suddenly appeared in surprise, and asked in a jerky tone.

Merlin didn't answer, he looked at the red cross in Billy's hand.

He was a little puzzled and said:

"I don't know why Paul gave it to you... Are you his grandson? Or someone else?"

"I..."

Before Billy could answer, the frail old wizard stepped out of the shattered streamer, and he looked at Merlin suspended in mid-air.

他 说:

"You...you are the one I'm looking for!"

"People with pure souls, come! Hold my staff tightly, shout my name, and inherit my mission..."

Merlin stared at the somewhat crazy old wizard in front of him.

He could feel that this wizard must have been strong in his prime, but he was old, old and wounded.

Whoever did it must hate him.

A surge of strange magic pierced his heart and soul.

It was definitely aimed at killing him.

But the person who started it seemed like a rookie with no experience in magic.

The surging magic power did pierce the old wizard's body and soul, but it didn't make another cut to completely cut off the vitality.

Tsk tsk, this is interesting.

"I reject!"

Merlin was suspended in the air, and he looked at the old wizard with the staff in front of him.

他 说:

"Accepting the power of unknown origin casually has caused me a lot of losses, let alone this kind of..."

He raised his head and looked at the dome of the palace in the mountain, those murals, and those hidden magic nodes formed a rather fantastic figure in Merlin's eyes.

"I haven't seen this kind of magical structure, but I can probably guess it."

"Look at these magic circles that attract power, they remind me of some long-term memories, magic dualism..."

"Another extreme opposite to the traditional magic system, relying on external forces to create an extraordinary body."

Merlin said to the surprised old wizard:

"The so-called power close to God..."

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the Rock of Eternity?"

"you..."

Shock shone in the old wizard's eyes, he pointed at Merlin suspended in the air, his fingers trembling, he was speechless.

Merlin shrugged, put his hands together on his stomach, and said:

"Don't look at me like that, my lord, don't look at me in a miserable life, but..."

"I was once a great wizard anyway..."

(End of this chapter)