Son of Light and Darkness

Day will dawn.

The cool wind passes through the forest and blows over the treetops, blowing away the tranquility of the night, and the birds in the forest spread their wings and shuttle in the wind.

The village of Lante also started a busy day.

The burning stove in the blacksmith's shop brought scorching air waves to the surroundings, reflecting the small workshop in a bright red.

There is only one blacksmith's shop in the village, and when old Kawen couldn't do it anymore, his son took over.Although Little Calvin is not young anymore, he is almost 20 years old, but his skills are much worse than his father.

Therefore, you can often see old Calvin instructing his son what to do in the shop. His son doesn't talk much, but he is very serious when he is working hard.

A crisp sound of horseshoes came from the road outside.

Little Calvin looked up and saw that a dozen first-level deacons of the empire passed by on horseback.Those horses are all very handsome, and there are several exquisite black iron headgears on the horses' heads, which look very majestic.

Lante Village is located on the border of the Western Yuan Empire, and it is rare to see outsiders appearing on weekdays.Except for those mercenary groups and adventurers who wanted to enter the Moonfog Forest, they basically never saw anyone else.

However, few of those mercenary groups could come out alive after entering. As time passed, this place became more and more desolate.

"These horses are much prettier than the horses raised by Grandpa Steven's family." Little Calvin looked at them with some fascination.As boys, they always imagined that one day they would become glorious knights of light, standing majestically at the height of everyone's admiration.

Steven's family also has a few horses, but they can't compare with the official horses that ran over just now.

There is no way around this, old Steven only has him and a 15-year-old grandson Eli at home, how could he take care of so many horses?

"Hello, Calvin, I'm here to pick up the iron tools made by my grandfather." A soft voice came from outside the door.

A slender teenager stood outside the door, wearing some old but clean simple clothes.The half-length black hair covered his eyes, revealing only half of his fair face.The delicate jaw and beautifully lined lips are slightly bluish white.

"Eli?" Calvin was taken aback when he saw the quiet little guy at the door, then turned around and picked up some saddle accessories and other things from the corner of the workshop.

Calvin didn't dare to look into Eli's eyes. He lowered his head and hugged the iron tool in his hand, and said in a low voice, "I'll send it to you."

After hearing this, Eli twitched the corners of his lips slightly, turned around and walked back.Calvin followed behind Eli, striding towards their home.

There were many children in the village, but none were half as good-looking as Eli.

The boys liked to bully Eli at first, because Eli's parents were gone, and he was the only one living with his grandpa.Although such a life experience is pitiful, it can always arouse the common interest of the children.

Eli, who was bullied, never went home to complain. He always stared quietly at each other, at the children who bullied him, without saying a word.

Those dark eyes often make those ignorant children feel uneasy, and then bully him even more.It seems that this can prove that their courage that has dissipated is still there.

Until one day, the big kid who likes to bully Eli, as usual, pranked and snatched away the mushrooms Eli collected and a small beast caught with a trap, and pushed Eli to the ground.

Eli didn't resist, watched them do it all in silence, and then dug a trap on the kid's way home alone.

The terrified cry for help of the child who fell into the trap did not attract the expected rescue, but only Eli with his head sticking out of the trap.

Eli looked down at the falling child, then raised a stone and smashed it down expressionlessly, breaking his leg bone.The crisp bone cracking sound made the child who bullied him have nightmares for a long time.

Although the child's leg was healed by the therapist later, he always avoided seeing Eli from then on.Those deep black eyes became his lingering nightmare.

Little Calvin had never bullied Eli, and he even liked this little quiet kid a little bit, but he didn't have the courage to go up and talk to Eli either.

And Eli is busy with his own and grandpa's livelihood all day long, and has no time to make friends.

All in all, Eli and his grandfather moved here and lived in this village for more than ten years, but they didn't even have a single friend.Thinking about it, Calvin secretly turned his head to look at Eli who was following behind him without saying a word, with some sympathy in his eyes.

Eli still followed Calvin unhurriedly.

He had noticed that the big man Calvin was looking at him secretly, but he didn't want to pay attention to it.

As long as it doesn't disturb him, what other people do has nothing to do with him.

He casually twirled the tail ring on his little finger. On his white and slender finger, the ancient ring was a snake connected head to tail, with a small ruby ​​in the snake's eye.

No one knew that sleeping in this humble ring was the soul of the God of Darkness.No one knew that Eli, who looked so weak, was actually a dark magician.

Steven placed his home in the village closest to the Moonfog Forest. Although it is more dangerous, there are often low-level monsters, but no monsters have ever appeared to hurt people.So he and Eli's life is fairly peaceful.

But Steven didn't know, it was all because Eli drove those monsters away.Those magical beasts who refused to leave were very unlucky to be skinned and cramped by Eli, and the magic core was dug out.

These first- and second-tier monster cores are very common, but they can be sold for two or three silver coins, which is enough for Steven and Eli to live for a week.

As soon as he walked outside the yard of Eli's house, he saw a dozen or so horses tied outside the yard. They were the ones that Cavin saw just now.

Eli's eyes darkened, and he quickened his pace and entered the yard.

In the yard, old Steven sat on his usual wooden chair, carefully weaving the basket in his hand.These baskets are beautifully made and can be taken to the grocery store for something they need.

The dozen or so first-level deacons beside him did not urge them, but just stood by. The deacon at the head saw Eli enter the yard, and with a perfunctory smile on his expressionless face, said: "This You still need to consult Young Master Eli for his opinion, don’t you?”

Eli frowned slightly, and habitually looked at the deacon with his eyes hidden behind his black hair, sizing him up.

The deacon was dressed in the most rigorous clothes from head to toe, and the buttons on the cloak were buttoned up very neatly on his feet, and the silver metal texture buttons were shining with a cold light.

The twelve people are all neatly dressed in the same way, clean and tidy, and unreasonable.Their black robes have only a silver star on the chest, and they are the lowest deacons.

Eli felt that even the hearts of these people were the color of cold metal.

It's just that even such a lowly deacon is highly respected in the empire, because it means that he is the servant of the God of Light.

The God of Light is the guardian of the entire continent, and its attendants are also respected by the entire continent.

On the contrary, the God of Darkness is not only the enemy of the God of Light, but also the dark mage who believes in the power of darkness is the public enemy of the whole continent.The Church of Light had already cleaned up the entire Worm continent more than 50 years ago.

After ten years of crazy trials, there are now very few dark mages on the mainland, even fewer than the legendary dragon knights.

The symbol of the God of Darkness is black hair and black eyes. Therefore, Eli was doomed to be abandoned as soon as he was born.

It is none other than his grandfather, the current Pope Phillips Christopher, who decides this point.

And now, the Pope's daughter, Eli's mother finally got her father's consent to send her youngest son to the Imperial Academy of Magic to study magic.

Although Eli's identity is still not recognized, as long as he can learn magic, Eli will always be better than the descendants of a wandering priest in the future.

Steven smiled and roughly told Eli what happened.

When he took Eli out of the church, Eli was already seven years old and had already started to remember things.

At that time, through her mother's doting on her elder brother, her regret and helplessness in her treatment of him, and her grandfather's hatred, Eli already understood the warmth and coldness of human relationships at a young age.

At first, Eli thought that he was not as sensible as his brother, so he was not liked by his grandfather and mother.So he worked hard to do his best, and to win the same praise and love as his brother.

But later, he gradually understood.Not because he is ignorant, but because he is a person that no one likes him.because

With his weird black hair and black eyes, he will be rejected by everyone.

Gradually, he got used to cold eyes and indifference, and he also used indifference to repay all strange eyes.

Finally, at the end, Steven, who had traveled the entire continent, returned to the empire to visit his two grandsons, but saw two completely different treatment.

So he decided to take away Eli, who had gradually become indifferent and alienated. He hoped that his grandson could grow up like a normal child.

But how could a frozen heart be unsealed overnight?It is impossible to plant the seeds of hatred and be obliterated in the darkness.

When Eli decided to go with him, he didn't even show any hesitation.

So now, he is not worried that his grandson will leave with these people.

What he worries about is that Eli will walk away with a hatred that has settled but never disappeared.

In this way, he would have no face to see his dead son.