Magic world

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"What's wrong?" Ito Cheng, who was a little confused, sent his doubts into the heart of his cousin Chen Xichen through telepathy and asked. Then, when Chen Xichen's eyes widened due to the sudden voice in his heart, and his face showed surprise, he continued, "You don't need to speak, just say it in your heart, and I can hear it."

"Where have you been these past two days?" Chen Xichen, who knew it was not the time to be surprised, quickly asked, and then continued without waiting for Ito Cheng's answer, "Grandpa was very angry at you for leaving without saying goodbye! Fortunately, I used to You suddenly have something urgent, please ask me to help convey it to Yuan, and don’t reveal the secret when you talk later."

"I understand." Ito Cheng replied from the bottom of his heart.

The speed of the direct conversation between the minds is so fast. Only three or four seconds passed before the two of them finished the above conversation.

"Xicheng is back." After Chen Xichen, aunt Liu Xiaohua greeted with a smile, "How are you? Everything has been taken care of? Do you need any help from your uncle?"

"It's just some minor issues. Just explain them clearly. It doesn't have to be so troublesome." Ito Cheng, who took off his shoes and walked into the house, replied with a smile.

"That's it." Liu Xiaohua said with a stunned expression, and then continued to ask, "Then you won't be leaving in the next two days?"

"Yes, if there are no other things on the way, I probably won't leave again until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year." Ito Cheng replied.

"That's good, that's good." Liu Xiaohua said with a happy smile.

Ito Cheng left the UK at around ten o'clock in the morning. According to the time difference, Beijing at this time is around 17 o'clock in the afternoon, which is the time when most people have dinner. However, there is an unpopular deputy director in the old Chen family. Although he has no power, he cannot stop in the past few days before and after the Chinese New Year. Therefore, the time for dinner has naturally been postponed, and the preparations have not started until now, so in the next few days After chatting with Ito Cheng for a few words, Liu Xiaohua turned around and entered the kitchen to start preparing dinner for the whole family.

"Brother. What have you been doing these two days?" After Liu Xiaohua left. Chen Xichen quickly sat next to Ito Cheng and asked in a low voice with curiosity on his face. Then without waiting for Ito Cheng's answer, he speculated to himself, "Is it like what is described in TV series and novels, where he went out to help people slay demons?"

"What are you thinking about in your little head?" Ito Cheng raised his hand and patted Chen Xichen's forehead. He said angrily, "And even if I want to slay demons, I have to have demons and ghosts come to make me succumb."

"Are those all fake?" Chen Xichen asked with some disbelief.

"It's so fake. It's just that times have changed, and monsters and monsters have also kept pace with the times. There is no strategy at all. Guys who just come out to do evil are the kind of cannon fodder that will be exterminated in a few days and will not become a climate. ." Since Chen Xichen asked, Itocheng simply explained it in order to explain it appropriately so that he would not be put in danger due to curiosity in the future.

"So the monsters that are still alive now are all smart monsters. Those who can get along with five or six people are not the ones who can attack casually."

"That's it..." Chen Xichen nodded thoughtfully.

"Brother, can you take me to see a real demon?" After four or five seconds of silence, Chen Xichen looked at Ito Cheng expectantly and asked.

Ito Cheng frowned when he heard this. Mentally, he didn't want Chen Xichen to come into contact with these things, but since Chen Xichen had asked, it wouldn't be good if he didn't take her there. Maybe she would meet her because of this curiosity. Rather than being in danger, it would be better to fulfill her wish and let Chen Xichen dissipate her curiosity about monsters and continue to be an ordinary girl.

"Okay. I hope you can bear it when the time comes." Ito Cheng glanced at Chen Xichen beside him and said.

"Haha~haha~" Hearing what Ito Cheng said, Chen Xichen couldn't help but recall the content of ghost movies that he had watched since he was so old, either by himself or with his classmates and friends, and laughed dryly with a slightly pale face. . At the same time, a feeling of regret emerged from the bottom of her heart for suggesting that she wanted to see the demon. However, because of the curiosity and stubbornness in her heart, she still did not say the words "I won't go."

But despite this, Chen Xichen was no longer in the mood to talk, and absentmindedly watched the program on TV.

Seeing this, Ito Cheng smiled slightly, turned over his hand and took out the task center that can connect to the Bounty Guild's webpage, logged into his account, and posted a request for "Book of the Law", "Equinoxes" and "Magic - Theory and Practice" on it. Three volumes by Aleister Crowley.

Among them, "The Book of the Law" is known as the Book of Curses. Every time it is published, it will trigger a war around the world. Even the editor's family who wrote the book died of illness afterwards.

"The Equinox" is a book that has almost destroyed most secret societies. It fully discloses various secret magic rituals and specific operation methods! You know, magic associations rely on these secrets to survive for a long time. Therefore, I don’t know if this book is due to the pressure from those high-level people in magic societies (at that time, many well-known people in society joined secret societies), or for other reasons. This book only covers the five years from 1909 to 1913. After publishing ten volumes, it was completely discontinued and has not been reprinted to this day.

The last "Magic - Theory and Practice" is the most basic and normal book among all Aleister Crowley's books. It explains in detail what magic is, how to learn magic, and what to do. How to cast magic and more. In particular, some of the content was described using scientific theories that were just emerging at the time.

Because of this book, modern magic began to gradually get rid of the shackles of rituals, making the method of casting magic simpler and faster. It also prompted subsequent magicians to think about magic, thus triggering the development of modern magic. So much so that the current magic system was formed.

However, although this book is normal, it may be because it was written by Aleister Crowley, or because the ideological storm it triggered is too strong, Ito Shigeya is not an apprentice in the Merlin Library. If you find this book in the three-level book section of official level and one-star mage level, you may need a higher mage level certification to see the original version of this book.

However, if it takes less than half a year to break through the apprenticeship and advance to the official mage, it can be considered as having excellent talent, but the speed of the exam without waiting, directly breaking through one star, two star, or even approaching three star is still too eye-catching, and I don’t want to let it go. Ito Cheng, who exposed himself to the eyes of the [Demon Realm] high-level officials who were stationed by the legendary mage. The only way to find out the true content of this book is by posting a purchase quest on the Bounty Guild's webpage.

After posting the mission, Ito Cheng browsed the web page again for the missions that his current level could browse. After searching for any tasks such as exorcising ghosts and exorcising demons, he turned off the task terminal in his hand and put it away again.

"What were you doing just now?" Chen Xichen, who couldn't help but be curious, asked after Ito Cheng put away the mission terminal.

"Look for some information." Ito Cheng explained with a smile.

"Oh." Chen Xichen curled her lips, not quite believing his explanation. He responded nonchalantly.

"Dad, the meal is ready. Come out to eat." Half an hour later, aunt Liu Xiaohua walked to the room where Mr. Chen was and greeted him, then turned to look at Ito Cheng and Chen Xichen and said, "Xicheng, Xichen. It's time to eat."

"Where's my dad?" Chen Xichen asked as she stood up from the sofa.

"Your dad just called and said that he was going down to express condolences to the employees in the bureau. He was not coming back to eat." Liu Xiaohua explained to Chen Xichen as he walked towards the dining table.

"You're back." At this time, Mr. Chen, who came out of the house, looked at Ito Cheng and said softly.

"Yes." Ito Cheng responded politely.

Mr. Chen didn't say anything when he saw this. He walked to the main seat of the dining table and sat down, enjoying dinner with Ito Cheng, Chen Xichen and Liu Xiaohua who sat down after him.

The atmosphere of the meal was rather dull. Although the aunt Liu Xiaohua also tried to lighten the atmosphere by chatting during the process, under the influence of the silent Mr. Chen, it was in vain and he could only finish the dinner.

After dinner, Ito Cheng suddenly winked at Chen Xichen beside him, then stood up and walked towards the door.

"Mom, I'll go out with my brother for a while." Chen Xichen was stunned at first, but then he immediately understood. He stood up and walked quickly to the door, while shouting to Liu Xiaohua who was washing the dishes in the kitchen.

"I know. Remember to come back early." Liu Xiaohua's voice came from the kitchen.

"I know." Chen Xichen reached out and took off the white fur-collared down jacket from the hanger and put it on, replied.

"Bang~bang!" Following two sounds, Ito Cheng left together with Chen Xichen, who was wearing black trousers, a white fur-collared down jacket, and white warm boots. Her long black hair was casually tied into a ponytail. door.

"Don't you need to prepare anything?" Chen Xichen, who was nervous and anxious, looked at Ito Cheng in front of him and asked in a low voice.

"No, I'm just taking you to see the monster, I'm not taking you to fight." Ito Cheng replied without looking back.

"Oh." Chen Xichen responded with some relief after hearing that he was not going to the battlefield. Then he silently followed Ito Cheng, walked out of the gate where his family lived together with him, and walked towards the corner of the community.

"Where are we going?" Chen Xichen, who had no idea what he was doing, asked again.

"Okay, this is it." Ito Cheng stopped in a dark corner of the community and turned his head to look around and said. Then he greeted Chen Xichen, who looked a little nervous and scared, "Come here and grab my arm."

"Oh." Chen Xichen walked to Ito Cheng's side and grabbed Ito Cheng's arm tightly with both hands.

Seeing that Chen Xichen had captured Ito Cheng, he looked around again and confirmed that there were no national security surveillance personnel around. Under Chen Xichen's gaze, Ito Cheng formed a seal with one hand, activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, and disappeared from the corner of the community with Chen Xichen. , and the next moment appeared on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, which had been transformed into a country of monsters.

"Ugh..." As soon as he appeared, Chen Xichen, who couldn't bear the space transformation, turned pale and opened his mouth to retching.

"Where is this place?" Under the soothing energy from Ito Cheng's palm on her back, Chen Xichen, whose face returned to rosy, looked around curiously and asked.

"Kyoto, Japan!" Ito Cheng said quietly.

"Japan, Japan? You mean I'm in Japan now?" Chen Xichen turned around and looked at Ito Cheng with shock on his face.

"Yes." Ito Cheng confirmed. Then, without waiting for Chen Xichen to continue asking questions, she spoke again, "Follow me, and I will take you to see the real monster."

After saying that, he walked forward. Chen Xichen tensed up when he heard this. He no longer cared about such inconsequential matters as why he suddenly came to Japan. He quickly caught up with Ito Cheng and followed him step by step into the distance.

The two of them were in the suburbs of Kyoto, surrounded by well-protected forests. Against the background of Kyoto, which had completely transformed into a country of demons, with no modern products or lights, and only some firelight, it seemed quiet and strange. Except for the special object left by Ito Cheng in his body, Chen Xichen, who was completely an ordinary person, felt extremely nervous and frightened. He subconsciously reached out and grabbed Ito Cheng's arm and leaned his body towards him.

In this way, under the leadership of Ito Cheng, the two walked towards one of the locations where the fire came from.

"Ah ha ha ha ha." Just when the two were about to reach the fire, a strange laughter like a night owl suddenly came. Chen Xichen was so frightened that she quickly tightened her body into Ito Cheng's arms and closed her eyes tightly. Dare to see things.

"That's great! That's great! I didn't expect that after such a long time, I could eat human liver again!" The voice said loudly again.

"Ah!" The moment the voice fell, a painful and pitiful scream echoed in the night sky, frightening Chen Xichen's body to tremble again, and hugged Ito Cheng's body tightly with his arms, He said in a trembling voice, "Brother, I, let's go back, I don't want to watch."

"Have you really decided?" Ito Cheng, who held Chen Xichen's waist with one hand, asked softly.

"Well, let's go quickly." Chen Xichen moved his head up and down on Ito Cheng's chest twice and said repeatedly.

"Okay, but you have to promise me that you won't contact monsters without permission in the future, okay?" Ito Cheng said with determination in his tone.

"Only a devil wants to come into contact with something like this!" Chen Xichen said anxiously with a pale face.

"Okay, let's go home." Ito Cheng nodded and said, then turned to look at the location where the sound of chewing and screaming could be heard faintly, activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, and returned to the corner of the community in the capital with Chen Xichen. (To be continued...)