Assassination career from full level

"Why are you looking at me?" Jill said with a big sigh.

"As you can see, the lives of Gretel and I depend on your thoughts. Naturally, we dare not make any decisions without authorization. Although Ingram is a top-level magician, it is obvious that you are the only one to follow. The three of us naturally It's up to you to make up your mind." Hansel had a relaxed expression on his face, and even lit a cigarette.

"Generally speaking, there is no adventurer team that uses a killer as the captain..." Jill complained in a low voice.

"Because generally speaking, there is no killer profession in the adventurer team." Hansel said.

Jill was speechless. Anyway, he grew up in Marklia, and he only knew a little about adventurers. His impression of them was a group of people who wanted to die and things that would be dealt with if they got in the way.

"Okay, let's go down, no matter what, it won't be more difficult than the pile of unkillable filthy people outside." Jill said, with his hands on the ground, he jumped directly, and Ingram saw this He also wanted to go down, but his skills were not as good as Jill's. Looking at the rather deep cave, Ingram crouched by the entrance and hesitated how to go down. When he looked up, Jill stretched out his hand to him, signaling him to go straight jump down.

As soon as Ingram's eyes lit up, he jumped directly in Jill's direction, and threw himself into Jill's arms. Jill didn't seem to expect that Ingram would jump directly, and took a few steps back to stabilize. A few lessons, but seeing Ingram rubbing back and forth in his arms with a happy face, the lesson turned into a sigh when the lesson came to his mouth, and he rubbed Ingram's hair.

Hansel glanced at Gretel, who had a gritty expression, and asked with a smile, "How about it, do you want me to pick you up like this?"

"No, I'm not a child." Gretel rolled his eyes at Hansel, and jumped down by himself.

Hansel clicked his tongue and extinguished the cigarette in his hand: "What a pity."

This tunnel is not narrow, and it is barely enough for three people to walk side by side. Except that the slope of the road is downward and a bit steep, it is quite comfortable to walk. Ingram and Jill walked in front, and Ingram put a lighting permanent The continuous light was on the wall of the tunnel, enough to envelop four people in it. As Hansel expected, the tunnel led to the west, and there were also recent footprints on the dust on the ground. At least five or six people had recently left here. walk by.

Although it is basically certain that the members of the Round Table escaped from Alderaan through this passage, this tunnel still makes people feel a little uncomfortable. As Ingram said, this secret passage must be something from the Baroque period.

In the language of the Nimitz people, Baroque refers to incomplete pearls, and also represents chaos and distortion. The magic practitioners headed by the Papal States usually follow the principles of creation, trying to find and complete the pearls that are applicable to everything. The unified formula, which is the root, the way they touch the root is to simplify, organize and trace the source from the laws of everything.

But the Baroque faction did the opposite. The way the Baroque faction approached the root was similar to that of the demons in the shadow world. They kept accumulating and merging. They believed that the reason why they could not touch the root was not because they failed to master a unified formula. , the root is not like one life two, two begets three, and three begets all things. It can be obtained only by tracing the source. Baroque believes that one is all and all is one. That is to say, the root is the sum of the whole world, not just the reason. level, but the sum of the two worlds of the level of reason and the level of shadow. They think that the magic we have mastered at the level of reason is incomplete. If we want to get in touch with the root, we must learn the magic of the level of shadow. Only by mastering Only by mastering all the magic and reaching the 'full' state can we really get in touch with the root.

However, I also want to know that even if the Baroque theory is the truth, in this world where the Papacy is in power, it will not last long. Many magicians carried out a large-scale search and massacre, so that the Baroque School disappeared completely after less than 100 years of existence. Although there are also magicians who are interested in the Baroque School, they are only studying in private. Public release is not possible.

And just as the name Baroque symbolizes, although this secret passage is neat and gorgeous, whether it is the murals on the ceiling or the walls, they are all distorted and messy patterns, with countless interlaced and irregular lines and shadows. People were dizzy, and even vaguely disgusted. Jill frowned after only one glance. He would rather stare at the dark road ahead than take another look at the murals around him.

"This seems to be the root technique of the Baroque school." Ingram looked at it and said suddenly.

"This is a magic formula? I thought it was a mural, and it's too far from the root formula you painted." Jill said.

"The Baroque school believes that it is possible to get in touch with the root through accumulation and fusion, so their root formula is much more troublesome than the root formula I drew, because the Baroque root formula is the accumulation of countless magic formulas, and the principle of the Baroque school comes from Shadow World, so many symbols are in the language of the demons, which seems a bit uncomfortable." Ingram explained to Jill while studying the spells around him.

"Speaking of which, I heard Gretel say that you are the Son of the Root." It seemed that walking in the passage was too boring, but Hansel also began to intervene in these magical issues: "Since you are the Son of the Root, you must Can you make a judgment? The traditional theory of creation and the Baroque school, the way the two approach the root, which one is correct?"

"It's all correct." Ingram replied in seconds.

"They're all correct?" Hansel was a little surprised, and even Gretel on one side couldn't help but squeeze the staff in his hand: "But the understanding of the root and the way of pursuing the root are different between the two?"

"The root is not something that can be defined. If it can be defined, the concept has long been extracted by the monster race with definition magic. Since it cannot be defined, how can we understand it? What's more, if you just touch the root, no matter it is Any method is fine, but what they can touch is only the part of the root that 'they understand', just like the blind man touches the elephant, no one really understands the whole of the root, maybe the root doesn't have all of it in the first place. It’s impossible to say.”

"Hey, hey, you are the son of root, don't you even know what your own father looks like?" Hansel said with a joke.

Ingram exploded at a visible speed: "The son of the root is just a title! The title! How could Ingram really be the son of the root! Besides, there are too many children who don't know what their father looks like! So I say! You incompetents!"

Hansel was not angry when he saw Ingram cursing himself angrily, but he smiled a little. Anyway, he was just teasing the child on the road. The dog's tail, it doesn't scratch you twice with its paw or bark at you a few times, that's really boring.

Gretel was about to say a few words to tell Hansel to stop his boring behavior, but Jill suddenly stopped, as if seeing something strange, Ingram followed Jill's gaze, and saw that the original attached The light on the wall near them suddenly became far away, as if it had come to some wide place, Ingram made a seal on his hand, and the eternal light moved forward, expanded, and illuminated the entire space in front of him. At the end of the passage is a vast circular hall. There are four doors in the hall, of which the east, west, and south directions are door openings. Jill and his party entered the hall through the east door opening. There is only the north door opening in the hall. There is a huge stone gate inlaid on it. The stone gate is four or five meters high. The stone gate is densely carved with overlapping figures of squares or circles. In the center of the gate is a huge blood-red gemstone.

"It seems that this secret passage was only borrowed by the round table." Hansel squatted down and glanced at the traces on the ground, and said, "After those round tables passed here, they went straight forward and walked into the west door. , Ximen should also be a secret passage similar to the one we have seen that is sealed with a magic formula. It seems that the original function of this secret passage should be to allow people living in three places to gather here at any time. Others find out, and then treat it as a secret passage.”

"Then what is this? Haven't they ever thought of opening this door?" Gretel said, as if being tempted, he stretched out his hand involuntarily to touch the door, but was suddenly caught by Ingram voice called out.

"If you don't want to die, don't touch that door," Ingram's voice has always had the soft feeling of a child, except for this time, his voice was as cold as ice, and Gretel suddenly He withdrew his hand and stared at Ingram with wide eyes, only to see him looking at himself expressionlessly, as if he was looking at a dead person: "That's not a door that an incompetent like you can push open. devoured."

Gretel almost thought he was dreaming just now, anyway, when he came back to his senses, he took a deep breath, his ears were full of sharp tinnitus, as if he hadn't breathed just now, Hansel on the side Seeing Gretel's pale face, he seemed to be asking what was wrong with him. Gretel didn't answer, but just looked at Ingram dully.

Ingram regained that child's expression, holding Jill angrily because Jill ignored him, and pouted as if complaining about something.

dream?Gretel thought blankly.Was I dreaming just now?

"What's up with him?"

Jill also seemed to notice something was wrong here, and came to ask Hansel, Hansel shook his head: "I don't know, he just looked at that door, and suddenly it happened like this, I said, let's leave quickly or something , anyway, our main task is to escape from the Filth, and it’s not some kind of magical chronological survey.”

"Yes, let's go, this place is not very comfortable."

Gretel didn't hear what they were talking about, he just looked at Ingram behind Jill, and Ingram looked at Gretel, and then he smiled, just a smile, neither to show politeness nor Not to express pleasure, just a little smile, a meaningless smile.

But Gretel flinched involuntarily, too strong fear grabbed him, he hugged his head tightly, squatted down, screamed and cried at the same time.