boy and bone

In the middle of the night, in a dark and closed library of the Knight Academy, a small light was quietly lit up in the corner.

The mottled and crystal raindrops on the hexagonal glass froze the faint candlelight in the window, like the rain stream winding down from the vines intertwining a quiet encounter.

The figure of a ferret looks among the rows of towering bookshelves.

The young man held the bronze candlestick, and he tried to lift the candlestick as high as possible to keep the candlelight away from him.The boy's overlong linen coat hung down on the ground, and he was barefoot, following closely behind the ferret, the coat dragging across the floor as he walked.

The library in the college seldom locks the door after closing, and the old man who watches the night in the library has inconvenient legs and feet, and is forgetful.The key to the library was lost at the beginning of the old man's work, and he forgot to reset it.Few people in the academy knew about it, and the ferret only found out by accident because he often helped him clean the bookshelves and organize the books.

The old man sitting behind the manager's long table was wrapped in his robe and piled up in the armchair, dozing off, not noticing that someone had sneaked in.

"Cosmoto..." the ferret muttered silently, scanning the spines of the old books neatly arranged on the bookshelf.

"Did you find it?" The boy held up the candlestick, his arms began to ache.

"You don't need to illuminate it for me." The ferret said: "There is a tapestry with a world map on the wall over there. You can see which territorial area the place you mentioned belongs to. Tell me, it's easier on my side." turn up."

Gray followed his instructions, bypassing the many bookshelves, and walked to a huge tapestry. The long table in front of the tapestry was piled with various types of books. Behind the long table, the old man dozing off at night, Gray moved lightly He didn't dare to be alarmed, but he was more worried that the candlestick he was holding would burn himself, and most of his eyes were fixed on the candlelight.

Unexpectedly, he didn't pay attention to his feet, and the boy accidentally tripped over among the books, but with his good balance, he still held the candlestick in his hand rigidly in the air, and did not ignite the flammable things around him.

Seeing this scene from behind the bookshelf, the ferret was also terrified.

The young man felt relieved, he was moving the candlelight closer to the tapestry, when suddenly, a pair of old and dry hands grasped the young man's wrist.

Gray was startled, and looked directly at the old man who seemed to have woken up.

Staring at the young man for a few seconds, when both the young man and the ferret were about to be caught, the old man unexpectedly loosened the force that restrained the young man: "It's you, you're here..."

Speaking inexplicable words, the old man gradually closed his vicissitudes of eyelids again, as if he fell asleep again with peace of mind.

The ferret's ups and downs all night finally calmed down for a short time. Fortunately, the librarian is an old school director. His mind is a little demented, and sometimes he is confused. Who was confused with, and escaped unharmed.

Gray didn't pay much attention either. After calming down his guilty conscience, he put all his attention on the tapestry. The patterns on it were no different from his old memories: Western Continent, Southern Continent, Sighing Continent, The night forest and the tiny islands around them...the world has not changed in any way.

He remembered that Cosmoto's position was in the lower left corner of the Western Continent, and he moved the candlestick to the position he remembered, but there was a blank space there, and looking at a wider area, the name of a clan was imprinted on it .

"Have you found it?" The ferret came to the boy.

The boy pointed to an empty spot on the map and said, "Here."

The ferret looked carefully: "It's the territory of the Fandia clan."

Knowing the general idea, the ferret turned to look for information about the Furdia clan.According to the boy's tone, the ferret originally thought that Cosmoto was a place of interest, and generally places of interest have special records in books, but he searched around and couldn't find any records about Cosmoto.However, Fandia is a large clan with a very wide range of domains, and the introduction about it is very easy to find.The ferret dug out Fandia's history book, with a hand-drawn map at the back.

The ferret spread it out, finally saw some light, and he handed the map to the boy.

"Here." Gray pointed to a place almost without thinking.

The ferret glanced at the location on the map. It was almost the border of Fandia. There was a sign of a forest, but there was no signature.

The ferret thought about it for a while, and then turned the pages of the book. Seeing that the records on it were indeed consistent with what he knew, he got a headache. He just thought that he could send this troublesome boy away, but unexpectedly...

"Are you sure?" the ferret asked.

"It will take a few days to send me back here." Gray asked bluntly.

The ferret explained embarrassingly: "I'm afraid it's not a matter of a few days... First of all, I can tell you for sure that this place is not called Cosmoto. The place you are going to is the border of Fandia, where is A relic of an ancient battlefield, the outside world calls that place the 'Forbidden Forest'. You should know from the name that it is forbidden to set foot there."

Gray was puzzled.

"It was 266 years ago, the place where the eight heroes of Rao fought the devil to the death during the Rao period. It was also the lair of the devil. The devil has been entrenched there for many years. It is rumored that the curse there goes deep into the soil. People will be infected with the curse even if they take a step forward. The curse there is like a chronic disease, which can only restrain its development, but cannot completely eliminate it. In order to prevent people from trespassing and killing people, the original Yechiduoan clan planted a giant sequoia forest around the ancient ruins to isolate the ancient ruins. The ruins are in contact with the outside world."

"For a long time, people have entered the Forbidden Forest out of curiosity or other thoughts, and no one came out alive. There are even rumors that even the monsters and emissaries formed by the curse itself dare not approach there. It is conceivable , How terrifying is the amount of curses accumulated in the ancient ruins."

"I'm not scaring you, no one dares to go to that place." Then, the ferret looked at the young man, whose youthful appearance would indeed be the age of a heroic dream: "If you told some adventure stories because of hearsay, Then I can assure you that there will not be a hero's sword, there will not be countless treasures, only a group of bare trees."

Ferret found that the ancient sounds are not difficult to pronounce. After mastering the rules of conversion, he seems to be able to completely transform the language into the sound of the ancient West.

It seems that he doesn't have to worry about tomorrow's ancient book essay exam.

Gray is also used to the man's awkward pronunciation, but he didn't understand anything useful in the series of explanations given by the other party just now, because when his ears heard that what the other party said was a rumor, Gray started from the first sentence. I started not wanting to listen anymore.

"What did you say? Demon King?" Grai didn't believe in these nonsense legends since he was a child. He always believed in what he saw with his own eyes. Grai even bit his tongue when he pronounced the name 'Devil King', which was obviously foolish. He snorted and said, "What demon king? Who gave the title so pretentiously..."

Seeing the corner of the boy's mouth curled up in a very disdainful and old-fashioned way, the ferret felt that the boy was not as 'dreamy' and 'unrealistic' as he thought.The boy bluntly said that he was going to the Forbidden Forest, and he spoke an unusual ancient language. For a moment, the ferret thought that the boy was infected by some heroic drama, and ran away from home here in pursuit of excitement and legendary stories.

But seeing the young man's expression on this aspect he didn't understand at all, even unfamiliar, the ferret found it strange.

"The devil, before he became the devil, was an executioner named Ashyugin, a sinister villain. It is rumored that he is the devil who brings disasters to the world through the skin of human beings." The ferret explained patiently, While observing the listener's expression: "He was once the illegitimate son of a powerful kingdom during the Chaotic Kingdom period. After the death of the old emperor, he was criticized because of his identity and missed the throne. After the new emperor succeeded, he was expelled from the kingdom. He held a grudge. , vowed to destroy every kingdom, and then he disappeared for a long time, and when he came back, he was covered in curses. He awakened the source of the curse at the cost of his soul, obliterated all conscience, and let the curse ravage the world. All the lives were devastated, and in the end all the kingdoms were destroyed, and he became the only ruler of the darkness, so he was called the Demon King...uh..."

Only halfway through the ferret's words, the boy suddenly rushed towards his abdomen. He fell backwards, his back was pushed against the wall with great force, because the boy's height was only a little above his waist , so no matter how vicious the young man is, he can only grab the hem of his clothes and vent: "You are talking nonsense!"

Ash Eugene is Curris's given name.

At first, Gray just didn't care much about the similar names, but the life experience of Ash Eugene described later was so consistent with his lover, and the more he said it, the more outrageous it was!

What annihilation of conscience, what devastation, is completely slander!Spread rumors!

"No, it's not that I'm talking nonsense, it's just written in the book." The ferret leaned on the wall, and he pointed at the bookshelf next to him in embarrassment.

"what book!?"

"All books." Ferret said.

The young man's eyes were extremely bright because he was struggling to suppress the anger rising in his heart. He opened his mouth and swallowed the curse that was about to blurt out several times. He resisted it, and finally asked through gritted teeth: "What happened to the devil?"

"Uh... Under the joint efforts of the eight Rao heroes, the devil king was defeated, his head was separated, his body was torn apart, and he was sealed away, with no possibility of resurrection. After about ten years, various forces spread across the world. The curse has been cleaned up on a large scale, although it has not been completely eradicated, it has effectively suppressed the growth of the original curse."

The blood in Grai's body flowed back, and his fingertips turned blue and white: "The body is torn apart?"

"It's just dismembering the body. The curse contained in the demon king's body is too powerful. If it is not dispersed, it will not be easy to seal." The ferret explained bluntly.

Little did he know that these few words, which were only statements of fact, fell into Gray's ears, and it was like a blow to him.

"Who was it that cut... the devil king's corpse?"

"The eight people with the most powerful magic power during the Rao period, including the founders of the six major clans. I remember Rufeng Nuasuo, the Lord of the Jungle, Phil Daowuman, the Queen of Syracuse, Xia, the Spirit of the Deep Sea · Oni Ranji, King's Heart Jonard Lane, Ice Son Brukaner Tiqi, Great Priest Gal Sa, Night Forest Witch Beris Lidami, and Dragon God of War Mo Ka Xia." After the ferret had finished reciting, a little self-confidence emerged spontaneously, and it seemed that he would have no problem with tomorrow's history review.

"It turned out to be them, a group of scum, perverts, bastards..." Gray castigated darkly.

However, venting his anger verbally did nothing to help the growing emptiness in his heart.

The irreversible reality seems to remind him all the time: he has nothing left.

Those who loved their whole life were dismembered and died tragically, and there was no possibility of resurrection; the achievements they had fought for for half their lives were wiped out by a long time; the person who killed them not only spent their old age peacefully, but even made history, and he, now, is like a stray dog, Fleeing here and there, I can't even find a home.

Since the resurrection is such a ruined scene, why let him be resurrected!He has missed nearly 300 years, he listened to those unfinished careers he had experienced being ruined into tragedies, he stared blankly at a pair of resurrected eyes, irretrievable, powerless, he wanted revenge, but there was no revenge He wanted to love, but no one could love him.

What else could he do?

The ferret looked at the boy as if he had changed, from irritability to calmness, from madness to deepness...

Why did the teenager have such a big reaction when he heard a history that was known to everyone?The ferret was puzzled: "Are you okay?"

The boy lowered his head, and let go of the little hand pinching the corner of the ferret's clothes.

In front of the ferret, the boy slowly arched his body, covered his abdomen with his hands, curled up into a ball, and murmured: "...the stomach hurts."

Oops, could it be that rotten box of chow mein that played a role?The ferret was secretly annoyed, and he said apologetically, "Do you want to go to the toilet, there is it over there!"

The boy didn't say a word anymore, he just held back.

The ferret helped the boy up guiltily, and at the same time cried out in his heart that he was not good. He had a premonition that something would really happen to him this time.