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In 1899, two orphans were sent to the church.

But that church worshiped not God, but the demon Koth. Two orphans were offered as sacrifices, but the demon Kos refused because he felt that innocent souls were of no use to him. Instead, the demon Kos slaughtered all the believers.

Zato, one of the "Seven Sages", rescued two orphans and eventually sent them to the East. In a mysterious castle, the "Seven Sages" took in two orphans, named Doc and Rose. They were also taught the secrets of the East, demon-slaying swords, magical cloaks, and "Seven Sages" badges. After reaching adulthood, the "Seven Sages" gave the two their real names of Sage Ochi and Rose Sage (meaning Rose Spirit).

In the 20s, the two left the East and came to New York. In 1935, they opened a detective agency and began their exorcism career. They joined the "All-Star Squadron" and helped the "Seven Sages" defeat the demon Koth. In 1945, Sage Oz fought against the "Soulless Stalkers" after joining the "Justice Society of America" ​​and eventually died in battle. In order to save her lover, Rose bound their souls and disappeared into the star realm.

At this point, both of them are Ochi Sages.

Tim Hunter's first mentor after he really started his magic career was the Sage of Oz. The Sage of Oz was also the only magician who really didn't want to kill Tim.

Now, Rose shows up. It seems that Sage Oz secretly returned to Earth a long time ago and has been hiding in a school in London. He transformed into Rose and became a...

"History teacher." Rose sat in the chair and looked at Constantine and said, "Do you have any questions?"

"Just like my empty stomach, there is no problem." Constantine lit a cigarette and crossed his legs on the sofa, as if this was his doghouse, "So, you are a peer."

"Sorry, Mr. Constantine, in my opinion, you are not a magician at all." Rose said with a smile, "You are just a first-rate liar and an arrogant bastard."

Chen Yu wanted to give Rose a thumbs up.

"Whatever, if you just want to quarrel with me, you'd better have another bottle of wine and pizza." Constantine replied with a smile. This scumbag didn't show any anger at all, and even started to sneeze at his face, " I will stay with you until the end, or in bed."

Rose's face darkened, few people could argue with Constantine, the gangster.

This will never end.

"I believe you, Ms. Rose." Chen Yu took over, "We are really in a hurry, and the enemy seems to be coming for us. As long as we can leave as soon as possible, Ms. Heidi may be saved. So... …If you could tell us the address of Roderick Burgess’s secret estate, you would be saving Heidi’s life.”

The Sage of Oz became famous after 1935, and Roderick, the "Devil King" who imprisoned the dream god Morpheus, was also a relatively famous black magician in Britain at that time. Maybe they had crossed paths.

"Roderick..." Rose thought.

It feels like there is drama.

Chen Yu stood up, walked to the desk in front of Rose, took out the cut-out old newspaper from 1916 from his pocket and handed it over. There was a blurry old photo on it.

"Hey! Boy, that's my thing!" Constantine recognized it.

"Maurice Burgess Brocklesby...it turned out to be him." Rose seemed to recognize it. She looked at the contents of the newspaper carefully and nodded, "Yes, a Preston." A descendant of the old aristocracy, he is also from a family of black magic. He established the 'Brotherhood of Secretaries' in the early 20s, which is located in his old home, 'The Ring'."

Sage Ochi indeed recognized this black magician whose alias was Roderick.

"Do you know the address of his old home?" Chen Yu asked calmly.

Rose put down the newspaper and shook her head, "Sorry, I only met him once, at a magic exchange meeting. He was very young and ambitious at that time, but for us, he and Constantine over there There is no difference between you sir, they are all lunatics who are spying on the power of magic."

"Thank you for the compliment!" Constantine puffed out smoke.

"Why are you looking for him?" Rose rolled her eyes at Constantine, then looked at Chen Yu seriously, "You are also a magician, right, kid?"

"That's right." Chen Yu readily admitted and pointed at Constantine behind him, "I'm just a fledgling, just like him."

"You call me master!" Constantine waved his fist in protest, "Once a teacher, always a father!"

"Shut up, Constantine!" Rose yelled unbearably. She felt that she seemed to have lost her composure. She rubbed her temples helplessly and took another sip of wine. "Answer my question, kid, why are you looking for me?" The old house of the black magician? He should be dead."

"Dream." Constantine said while holding a cigarette and staring at the ceiling. "You saw it. It recorded that he wanted to be imprisoned and died. He obviously failed, but he still got an unexpected gain."

"What?" Rose frowned and stared at Chen Yu in surprise, "Is what he said true?"

"If you are a great magician, you should know more than me. I noticed something strange at the beginning and collected a lot of reports about strange illnesses and suicides. But it was too long ago, the information was not detailed, and there were no strange traces on the deceased. , just let it go." Constantine said quietly, "I made a big mistake. Those incidents were not caused by manipulation of death at all, but dreams. Insomnia and nightmare erosion brought death and pain, Roderick He’s the one who started it.”

Rose hurriedly took out a silver compass from her pocket. The characters on the compass were seal characters. Chen Yu even noticed that the five elements, heavenly stems, earthly branches and eight trigrams were engraved on it.

The secrets of the East.

White light seeped out from Rose's fingertips, and after they merged into the compass, Rose let go of her hand. After the needle positioning was completed, the compass began to rotate and finally trembled.

Rose's face became more and more ugly, and finally she grabbed the compass and stuffed it into her pocket again.

"Damn! I should have expected this!" Rose took a deep breath and slowly regained her composure, "Sorry, kid, I can't locate the specific location of the old house. The dream interfered with my astral compass. ', and... there is also a dark force watching, and Heidi may have provoked that force because she approached you in her precognitive dream."

Could it be that Heidi saw the true face of her enemy? Is this the real reason why Heidi is being hunted?

"We have to find Heidi. Once she falls into the enemy's hands, she will expose us." Instead, Constantine took off his coat and lay down on the sofa. "Things have come back to the original point. So, let's set off tomorrow morning. I wish you a good dream."

"The nights are long and the dreams are many, Constantine." Chen Yu turned around.

"No, he is right. At least you are safe here. Get some sleep, kid, you need to rest." Rose Chong smiled again, "There is no need to rush, and I also need to find Heidi through the stars and compass. 's hiding place. And... I think it appeared because of you, and I was attracted to London because of this. It seems that it is you I am waiting for."

Chen Yu watched curiously as Rose turned around and pulled out a book from a hidden compartment in the low cabinet at the back.

Black cover with no text.

"The Book of Magic will always find the greatest magician." Rose looked at Chen Yu seriously, "It has found you."

Chen Yu glanced at Rose, and then took the second "Book of Magic".

The consciousness became restless.

Immediately afterwards, countless blood-colored chains seeped out of the "Book of Magic" in his hand, and they wrapped Chen Yu in it, as if they were going to devour him.

Rose's eyes widened in surprise.

But soon, the red light disappeared.

Chen Yu looked at his empty palms.

A huge bloody spider web appeared in his consciousness, with the original book in the center. Bloody palms appeared at the end of each thread connected to the center of the spider web. The second "Book of Magic" was now being held in one hand. Only bloody hands.

There are still five bloody hands empty.

It seems there are seven "Books of Magic" in total.

"The darkness in you is stronger than when I saw you before." Rose frowned and said, "You must be careful, child, I don't want to see you become an enemy."

"Will you kill me for this?" Chen Yu asked curiously.

"Maybe, but not now." Rose sat in the chair and picked up the wine glass. She turned to the window and looked at the endless darkness in the night and said softly, "Let's wait until the future. Now, go to sleep, child."

Constantine turned over now.

Chen Yu glanced at the guy with his eyes open.