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In fact, not long ago, the three spots of light had already called Rafa by the term lich, but their tone of voice was too casual, neither Kiki nor Zoe listened carefully, let alone took it to heart. At this moment, I heard Fernando mention it again, and then I remembered it.

At this time, Rafa was no longer in the embarrassment when he was played by Kiqi with his supernatural power just now. He raised his chin and looked at the mirror proudly.

— will put on a show.

Kiki secretly slandered, but he didn't open his mouth to expose it, allowing Rafa to show off in front of the magic mirror.

Kitsch originally thought that with the knowledge of Fernando and others, it was impossible to be fooled by a superficial ghost, but the reaction on the other side of the mirror surprised Kitsch, and the great magicians were all emotional , even Fernando showed fiery eyes, asking Rafa endlessly.

——Is it because the lich is extinct?

Kiki was guessing in his heart, but Zoe sighed softly in his ears.

Kiki looked at Zooey suspiciously, and Zooey also felt his gaze, smiled, and sighed in a low voice that only the two of them could hear: "Oh, eternal life!"

--eternal life?

Hearing this sentence, Kiki suddenly understood why those great magicians paid so much attention to Rafa.What they cared about was neither Rafa's knowledge nor Rafa's strength, but why he became what he is now.

Back then, the reason why the underground palace was strictly kept secret by the Magic Association was not only because there were a large number of ancient magic weapons hidden in it, but also because the owner of that palace was a lich.However, it was obviously a lich that failed to transform, its consciousness and brain were all gone, leaving only a rotting body that acted on instinct.

But Rafa in front of him is a living lich. Although he has no body, his consciousness and memory are the same as those of normal people. It seems that he may even use magic. How could this prevent those old magicians from flocking to him? , especially Fernando, who was already dying.

But, is it really meaningful to continue life like this?Keech figured he'd rather die than be like Rafa.Of course, this may have something to do with him being only 16 years old. He has no reason to worry about death, and he doesn't think there is anything in this world worth his nostalgia.

——The only person who could make him miss him no longer wanted him.

Kiki lowered his eyes, forced himself to withdraw his thoughts, and when he raised his head again, he heard Fernando invite Rafa to the Magic Association of Yuan Island as a guest.

But Rafa refused without hesitation, "I'm really sorry, Fernando is a magician. I made a solemn oath the moment I became a lich, and I will guard this castle forever. Take half a step away from it."

"That's such a shame." Fernando said regretfully.

The two exchanged a few polite words, before Fernando finally turned his attention to Kiki. After a ceremonial discussion with several great magicians around him, he announced with a smile that Kiki had completed the project. The second trial task.

Hearing the words "completed", Kiki finally breathed a sigh of relief, no longer caring about the time they wasted before, and began to think about when to go to the Abyss of Nightmare to meet Amir.

But Fernando on the other side didn't discuss the third mission with Kiki, nor did he immediately close the magic mirror. Instead, he contacted Rafa again and asked him to discuss magic with him.

"I'm really sorry, Your Excellency the Great Mage." Rafa smiled, and once again politely declined, "Although I am also very curious about the current magic system, considering that the castle has just returned to its master and many places need to be taken care of, I just I kindly ask you to make another appointment—maybe you can consider visiting the castle in person, and my master and I will definitely give you the sincere hospitality like a distinguished guest."

"I will seriously consider your invitation, Lord Rafa." At this point, Fernando couldn't continue to insist, and briefly explained a few words to Zoe and Loren, and asked Kiki when he planned to start the next one. task, and then turned off the magic mirror and ended the communication.

Seeing that the magic mirror had returned to its normal mirror shape, Rafa turned around and bowed to Kiki, "Please forgive me for my rudeness before, Mr. Kiki, the new owner, if I have really been rude."

Kich twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling the urge to squeeze Rafa into a ball again.

The three light spots seemed to have sensed Kiki's mood, and they immediately flew around, but Kiki didn't want to hear them yelling, so he used his supernatural power to push them back to the side before they could open their mouths.

"As I said, I'm not interested in you or this castle, and you don't need to call me master." Kiki glanced at Rafa expressionlessly, then turned to Zoe and said, "I want to go earlier Start the last mission, Mage Zoe, I hope you can arrange an airship for me to leave here as soon as possible."

"I will." Zooey nodded happily, "However, if possible, I hope to stay in this castle for a few more days, so that I can study a few magic weapons here."

Kiki hesitated for a moment, but after thinking about it, he felt that it would take a lot of time for Amir to reach the Abyss of Nightmare, and it was meaningless for him to go too early, so he said: "I hope this time will not be too long, and, This castle doesn't belong to me, if you want to do something here, don't ask for my opinion, please discuss it with this Hasari or that Lich."

"Please don't be humble, new owner. As a descendant of Chimera, this place belongs to you of course. You can do whatever you want here." Rafa immediately answered.

"If I tell you that I have a brother, a sister, and a brother, do you still take it for granted?" Kiki asked impatiently.

Although he has confirmed his bloodline and identity, Kiki still can't produce the desire and sense of responsibility to bind the Chimera family with himself.Keech always feels that this is what his elder brother Xiu Qi should do, and that everything in Chimera should belong to Xiu Qi as a matter of course.If Xiu Qi didn't want it, then he... had no need to add an inexplicable burden and responsibility to himself.

Hearing Kiki's words, Rafa was also obviously taken aback, as if he didn't expect that this generation of Chimeras would be so flourishing.

"The ancestors of the Chimera will be proud of your mother." Rafa bowed quickly and said meaningfully.

——Unfortunately, the mother didn't know the power of the Chimera, and she didn't think there was anything to be proud of having four children with her own brother.

Keech lowered his eyelids, did not respond to Rafa's self-righteous compliment, turned to Avella and said, "I want to go to rest."

Avella was stunned for a moment before realizing that Kiki was talking to herself, and quickly walked to his side, preparing to accompany him back to the guest room.

"Hasari, why don't you send off Master Kiki as well." Rafa immediately said, "As for these two great magicians, they will definitely like my hospitality even more."

"My honor." Zooey and Loren smiled and nodded in unison.

Kiki looked at them, did not answer, turned around, and walked straight to the gate of the Harrier Hall.

After returning to the room, Kiki didn't go out again, sent Hasari and Avella away, put the monkey back into the bracelet, and then sat on an old bench, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that everything he was doing now was boring and meaningless.

He tried very hard to complete the trial of the great magician, and Amir was paving the way for him at all costs, but Fernando, another stakeholder, did not trust them, but he would choose to extend his time if there was still a chance. life instead of trusting him and Amir.

Of course, Fernando's behavior is not incomprehensible, but as a party who has been entrusted with important tasks but is not trusted, Keech really can't be generous.What's more, from the beginning to the end, Keech didn't understand why Amir was so obsessed with the position of the president of the Magic Association, and he didn't understand what this position could bring to Amir.

—Is it the so-called power?

— But what is power?

—— Just having a title can make everyone obey. Is this magic or delusion?

Keech couldn't understand, just like he couldn't understand why Hill wanted to marry a wife and have children to continue the so-called family inheritance while saying he loved him.

Although he was touched or even moved by the confirmation of his bloodline, but after that, when he thought that this bloodline was at the price of incest, and his mother was so painful that she committed suicide because of it, Kiki felt that such a It's not bad to cut off the bloodline.

However, how much nobler is the self who has had a relationship with a man than the incestuous ancestor?

Keech thought to himself mockingly, closed his eyes unconsciously, and fell asleep on the bench.

After an unknown amount of time, Kiki was woken up by the sudden noise in his ears. He opened his eyes and found that the transparent Rafa was sitting calmly on the high-backed chair opposite him, surrounded by three people named Ah. Fa, Beta, Gamma points of light.

"Ahhh, we seem to have woken up the master!" A light spot shouted.

"No, no, he said he doesn't want to be the master, so we can't call him the master!" Another point of light retorted immediately.

"Even if he doesn't want to be the master, he is still our master!" The third light point followed.

Keech ignored the meaningless clamor of the three light spots, straightened up, looked at Rafa opposite, frowned, and said coldly: "I don't like unnecessary interruptions."

Rafa smiled slightly and explained: "I'm sorry, I just heard your maid 'say' that you didn't have dinner..."

"She's not my maid," Keech corrected angrily.

"I misunderstood, please forgive me." Rafa apologized calmly, "Do you need me to prepare dinner for you?"

"...Whatever." Kiki hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to nod because of the hunger in his stomach.

Rafa immediately clapped his hands, "Alpha, Beta, Gamma, stop messing around, and quickly bring dinner to Master Kiki!"

"Immediately! Immediately!" The three light spots flew up immediately, and quickly disappeared into the wall.

After dismissing the three noisy dots, Rafa continued to say to Kiki, "Of course, besides dinner, there are some things that I have to talk to you alone, for example, where did you bring back the magic monkey?" ?”

"The Abyss of Nightmare." Keech didn't hide anything. Seeing that Rafa didn't seem to have heard of this place name, he continued to explain, "It seems that it was once called the Crackland."

"Ah, I know, the master's laboratory is there." Rafa suddenly realized, "Master really went there in the end!"

"Yech?" Keech asked, tilting his head.

"Yes, yes!" Rafa nodded in surprise, "How do you know the master's name, what... did he leave behind?"

"It can be regarded as a suicide note." Keech briefly explained the contents of the parchment.

After hearing Kiki's words, Rafa had a sad expression on his face, and it took him a while to speak again, "Master has always wanted to obtain eternal life, but unfortunately, human beings cannot live forever like gods."

"Can't you?" Keech asked suspiciously, "Then what are you now?"

"Can I still be regarded as a human being?" Rafa asked self-deprecatingly, "And, even if I look like this, I can't guarantee eternity. You don't know, when Master Yeqi is here, the castles such as Alpha, Beta, Gaga Castle elves like horses—well, they are just ghosts—are numerous, but after Master Yeqi left here with the magic monkey, the castle cut off its source of magic power. In the end, everyone could only choose to sleep in order to extend the Life, waiting for the return of the master."

As he spoke, Rafa sighed, "Even so, everyone still couldn't survive the ravages of time. In the end, only me, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma were left in the magic circle. If you hadn't I brought the magic monkey back to the castle and provided a new magic core here, I believe it will not take long before my soul will be scattered and I will completely sleep in the castle."

"The so-called source of magic power is the magic core, right?" Kiki asked.

"Yes." Rafa nodded, "Perhaps you can also see that this castle is actually a huge magic weapon. In order to prevent it from being controlled by people other than the Chimera family, the owner added One limitation, and this limitation is the magic monkey you brought back—only the magic monkey can put the magic core into the magic circle and provide it with a source of magic power. And although I can manage this castle, I can only be the same as the castle Absorbing magic power from the magic circle cannot exist alone in this world."

"Is this the real reason why you can't leave the castle?" Keech said indifferently.

"It's more appropriate to say one of them." Rafa smiled slightly, "You should also know, Master Keech, that the light element is the natural enemy of the dark element, whether it is an ordinary soul like Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc. , or a lich like me who has been carefully tempered, cannot survive in the sun for a long time, only the dark place deep in the castle can provide us with limited eternity."

Kitsch bit his lip and couldn't help but ask, "Is it meaningful to live in this way?"

"Life is meaningless, Master Keech." Rafa smiled disapprovingly, "When I realized this, I decided to dedicate everything to Master Yeech as the symbol of my eternal existence. the meaning of the world.”

"I don't understand." Keech frowned.

"You don't need to understand." Rafa replied with a smile, "That's my business, and it has nothing to do with you. In fact, although I have served many members of the Chimera family since Master Yeqi left, but In my heart, there will always be only one master, whether he is dead or alive, whether he is alive or not. From this perspective, I am actually very happy that you can refuse to be the master of this place and my service."

"That would be great." Kiki said indifferently, "However, I also want to remind you that I am not the only Chimera descendant, nor the only one who has inherited this power."

"This is also one of the reasons why I came here late at night." Rafa's smile remained unchanged, "Please tell me about your brothers and sisters, little master Kiki, so that I can know myself and my enemy, and keep them out of the castle in the near future." outside."