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Zhang Jue's blade came out from behind Duruk.

Time seems to be frozen at this moment.

In the next second, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.

The dazzling light even covered up Dunlop's forbidden spell of light.

After the lightning, the three of Zhang Jue, Druk Dunlop and others all disappeared from the sky.

……

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Chapter 317 The Truth

As far as the eye can see, there is a piece of green water and green mountains.

Zhang Jue didn't know why he came to such a place all of a sudden after stabbing Du Luke in the heart.

Surrounded by birds and flowers, and a brook gurgling, there is no sense of danger.

A butterfly flew by before Zhang Jue stretched out his hand, and the butterfly landed on his fingertips.

If Yang Xue was here, she would definitely like it very much.

But Zhang Jue would only feel bored.

I don't know who created this place.

Zhang Jue walked all the way along the stone steps, and saw a thatched house by the stream halfway up the mountain.

In front of the thatched hut, there is a lawn on which a man with white beard and white hair is meditating, covered with birds, as if he is a tree.

If it weren't for this white-haired old man wearing a medieval mage's robe, Zhang Jue would have thought that some Taoist master was living in seclusion here.

"I said, can a magician practice like this?" Zhang Jue asked.

The white-bearded and white-haired old man opened his eyes, smiled, and said slowly, "In the final analysis, magicians also use the power of nature."

His voice is ethereal, and one can tell that it is not ordinary.

As soon as he raised his hand, a stone appeared in front of Zhang Jue.

Zhang Jue sat on the rock and looked the old man up and down: "Old man, who are you?"

The old man said: "I am a magician, you can call me Merlin."

really.

When seeing him for the first time, Zhang Jue had already guessed the identity of the other party.

It's just that I didn't expect to see him at this time.

The wizard Du Luke claims to be immortal, others cannot kill him, but Zhang Jue may be able to.

And Merlin actually stepped in at this most critical moment, making Zhang Jue doubt his intentions.

Legend has it that Merlin has surpassed the level of a magister and evolved into a grand magister or a higher-level holy magister.It is the highest height that human beings can reach below the gods by relying on their own flesh.

Zhang Jue did not act rashly, but planned to listen to what he had to say first.

He asked: "Student Merlin, haven't you been dead for thousands of years? Why did you appear when I was about to kill Du Luke? You must not be pretending to be him now."

Merlin smiled: "I'm indeed dead, and now I'm just a little bit of consciousness remaining in Duruk's body. What I'm waiting for is the moment when you kill him."

"We?" Zhang Jue noticed his choice of words.

"Yes, you." Merlin said, "For more than 1000 years, there have been three people who have the ability to kill him, and you are one of them."

"Wow." Zhang Jue opened his mouth, trying to understand something, and sneered, "No wonder it is said that Duruk is immortal. It turned out that the people who killed him all came here. You stopped."

"Yes." Merlin nodded. "I cast a forbidden spell on his body to keep part of my consciousness here. As long as his life is threatened, I will automatically bring you here."

Zhang Jue raised his eyebrows: "If what I expected is correct, although you can pull our consciousness into this space, you should not be able to control our physical body, so I am a little curious, how did you persuade the first few people to give up?" The one who killed Duruk."

Merlin suddenly looked a little lonely: "I didn't convince them, I just told them a story."

"Stop." Hearing this, Zhang Jue quickly waved his hand, "I've heard enough stories, I don't have time to listen to your ramblings, please use the shortest few words to explain the story of Du Luke. situation, otherwise I will leave here immediately and cut him into [-] pieces in reality—”

Probably no one had ever talked to Merlin like this before, he was slightly taken aback, then smiled wryly.

"Okay, then I'll just say one thing——Duke, he's a good man, and all the history of his evil deeds are all fabricated by me."

"Oh?"

Mei Lin's words successfully aroused Zhang Jue's interest.

He said just now that he didn't want to hear the story, but now he suddenly became curious.

With his legs crossed on the rock, he hooked his fingers: "Tell me in detail."

Merlin's face was full of guilt, and he spoke again after a long time.

"Druke is proficient in dark magic, it's true, but he never used dark magic to do anything harmful to humans. On the contrary, he has prevented many wars."

Zhang Jue snorted, "So why do you fabricate history?"

"Of course there are reasons to do so."

Merlin sighed.

"At that time, he and I awakened to become a magister at the same time. Since then, we can see some things that humans cannot see."

"We fought those things, some of which could be easily defeated, but some of them cost us some trouble."

"Finally, we found it."

"It?" Zhang Jue raised his eyebrows.

He had heard the pronoun more than once.

Merlin said: "Because we don't know what 'it' is, we have fought against it for many years, but we know that those who never know its true nature are just a medium for its existence. It is very strong, and Duru and I Ke was almost cornered, and we mobilized almost all the magicians to deal with it together, but it became stronger and stronger, and later, we finally realized the source of its power."

Zhang Jue tilted his head: "What is it?"

"It's people's understanding of it." Merlin said, "When Duke and I first discovered it, it was only one step stronger than the two of us, but when we gathered all the magicians to declare war on it, it has become invincible exist."

"Wait a minute, let me think about it." Zhang Jue squeezed his chin, "You said that its power comes from cognition, the more people know its existence, the stronger it will be, then if you put all the people who know it Kill them all, won't it become a weak chicken again?"

Merlin was silent.

"You really did that, didn't you?" Zhang Jue laughed.

"Yes." Merlin sighed again, "Druke... is smarter and more courageous than me. He put forward this hypothesis and put it into practice. He used dark magic, and he knew what he knew at the time. Kill all the magicians in the world."

Zhang Jue said thoughtfully: "That's why later history described Du Luke as a heinous villain."

"Yes, we...have to."

Zhang Jue asked again: "What about 'it'? After killing all the magicians who knew about it, although its power has been weakened, it should still be impossible for you to completely eliminate it."

"Yes, so Duruk... at the price of his own soul, sealed that thing in his body, and I suppressed his body under Mount Kazitala, and part of my consciousness Store it in his body in case of a rainy day.”

……

Having said that, the ins and outs of the whole matter already have a clear context.

Brothers Merlin and Du Luke told a big lie, and even falsified the history, just to seal that "it".

Duruk who has lost his soul is no longer Duruk, he is just a puppet—or to be precise, it is more like a container, storing the resentment of 'it'.

'It' in Duruk's body is at most the strength of a magister. Although it is still powerful, it is already the limit of what the two brothers can do.

And all people's love and hate will be reflected on Duruk, and no one will realize the existence of "it".

It's a good strategy to kill birds with one stone.

But it's a pity that Duruk, a hero who did not hesitate to sell his soul for the sake of mankind, eventually became the object of scolding by thousands of people because he killed those magicians who knew about it.

Mei Lin's words also solved one of Zhang Jue's doubts.

When he first came to the magic school, he had a dream about a very powerful existence.

When Zhang Jue saw Duruke, he felt a little strange, because Duruke's strength was not enough to scare him.

Thinking about it now, what he dreamed of should be the 'it' that Merlin said.

So here comes the question, what exactly is this 'it'.

The two brothers Merlin Duruk and the person who built 087 chose to seal it underground at the same time.

According to Merlin's judgment, the power of 'it' comes from human cognition, and it is very powerful.

In Zhang Jue's impression, there was only one thing that fit this description - the Phase Screamer.

In the documents that Zhang Jue had seen, the Phase Screamer was considered to be non-existence beyond existence.

It is not any entity, but true nothingness.

It hates what exists, so it sends out a scream that tears the soul, and takes revenge on the existing universe, space-time and dimension and the life in it.

Phase Screamers come in many different forms, depending on how they choose to manifest - such as Issippy-2528, Issippy-3930, or even Issipy-000.

These manifestations have little effect on the Phase Screamer itself, but do affect its appearance and strength.

Shape Screamers' power is based on perception, and the more people observe and know about Shape Screamers, the stronger they become.

When a civilization grows strong enough, people will start noticing the Screamer, and the Screamer will kill those watching, and the entire civilization will be reduced to ruins.

This has happened at least twice, once with an alien race (Aisipee-1980) and once with humans themselves (Aisipee-1795).

No matter how strong Zhang Jue was, he couldn't break away from the category of "human".

There is no good way to deal with such mysterious and mysterious things.

Fortunately, the materialized entity of the Phase Screamer has been sealed in the body by Duruke, otherwise it would definitely be another fierce battle.

After figuring this out, Zhang Jue knew why those people gave up killing Duruk.

If 'it' is released, human beings will surely usher in another bloodbath.

See Zhang Jue lost in thought.

Merlin didn't interrupt him either, but waited quietly.

Until Zhang Jue sighed.

"Consultant Zhang, you seem to know about 'it'?"

Zhang Jue didn't answer his question, but asked in surprise, "You know me?"

Merlin nodded: "I'm in Duruk's body, and I can sense what's happening around the magic school."

It turned out to be the case.

Zhang Jue said: "I only have a rough idea of ​​'it'. If you want to use my hands to destroy it, I'm afraid it won't work."

Merlin was silent for a moment, and also accepted this reality.

It's powerful, no one knows better than the two brothers?

After everything is explained, there is a very real problem.

Zhang Jue looked at Merlin and asked, "What should Du Luke do?"

Merlin said: "Consultant Zhang, your long knife is very powerful and has already caused great trauma to Duruk's body. I just used a space-time magic to temporarily seal the three of you. After a while, the magic will be released. As long as you put him back on the mountain behind the school, I will suppress him at the bottom of the mountain again."

"Oh, it's easy." Zhang Jue had been here for a long time, and he yawned, "If there is nothing else, then I'll go back."

Zhang Jue was about to leave, but Mei Lin stretched out his hand to stop him: "Consultant Zhang, please wait a moment."

Merlin leaned on crutches and walked slowly in front of Zhang Jue.

"Consultant Zhang is not from the magic school, not even a magician, but I know that if there is no consultant Zhang today, many teachers and students will die under Duruk's black magic. Here, I represent them, thank you Consultant Zhang came to help."

Merlin said, bowing deeply to Zhang Jue.

"Hey, what do you mean by that?"

Zhang Jue hurried forward to support the old man.

Just kidding, this great magister is more than 1000 years old, and he did this for the sake of all mankind. He saluted himself, probably because he wanted to shorten his life.