Atlas Double Star Book

The boy's name was Walter. He carried a bow and arrow and climbed out of the courtyard from the second floor of the conference hall.From the dark place to the bright sky, the boy couldn't help covering it with his hands... After the wind blows, dusk appears in front of him.

The village seems to be asleep, the buildings are shrouded in dusk, and so are the sheep on the opposite hillside.The wood seems to have turned into a tree again, and the stone wall has returned to its unexplored posture... Everything he was familiar with is gone, and the houses, paths, fences, windmills that have been carved by hand... are all swallowed up by nature and silence again , like a sailor drowned in the waves.

Only the twilight, only the mountains and forests are still alive, and under his bitter gaze, they are still breathing tremblingly.

The boy wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.When people woke up together this morning, his town was still intact, still flowing with the laws of birth, old age, sickness, and death, like an old goat chewing hay slowly.But now, the lives and deaths of the men are uncertain.His uncle, the neighbors, the master who taught him to hunt... the monsters should have eaten them all.

Walter stood on the roof.A semi-enclosed terrace surrounds the roof like a city wall.The cog-shaped edges of the roof were easy to step on, and the boy was free to walk on top of the big house if he wanted to.The silver-haired mage said that it takes time to prepare magic, and you can't let monsters get close.So he set a trap and let the monster fall into the trap.The mage asked Walter for help, and the boy agreed without hesitation.Grandma was worried and didn't want to let Walter take risks, but how could he hold back... Could it be that he was a coward like the big-bellied miller Tupi, who pushed his wife forward first in danger?

The silver mage came to the terrace, but he was not in a hurry to find Walter.The man held on to the wall, quietly looking towards the west.

The boy quickly wiped away his snot and tears, and the mage came to him only after he calmed down.

In the dim light of the chamber before, Walter didn't look at the stranger very much, but thought the long platinum hair of this man was very weird.He had heard that the ice barbarians had light hair, and the women were as strong as men, and the men could fight bears with bare hands.It is true, although this mage has light-colored hair, he is about the same size as Walter, and his figure is not like a northern man.

It's really strange, this man has a kind of... Quanjing's temperament.Stones, wet moss, and cool reflections in the dark.

"Teacher." The boy treated the mage respectfully according to the old mayor's instructions.The mayor always likes to mention his experience in the academy when he was young, and whenever there are scholars passing by, he will entertain them.

The mage was stunned for a while, then asked softly, "How old are you this year?"

"You'll be an adult next full moon."

"15 years old..." The man smiled slightly, "You remind me of my student."

Seeing the sad look on the Master's face, Walter couldn't help feeling sad himself.Maybe the apprentice is no good, just like he broke Granny's heart.He doesn't like being a farmer, and he doesn't want to learn the stonemason's craft from his uncle...

"You can change another student to teach, there is no need to waste time on him, no or no... There are 900 million 670 three boys in the world, and only 42 of them are stupid. You just pick one of these 42 I'm in there too, uncle said." Thinking of his uncle, the boy couldn't help but choked up again.He was the best stonemason in the neighbourhood, and it was he who built the new mill.But uncle died, just today.

The rain has lessened, but it hasn't stopped.

The mage said: "Yes, there are three boys from 900 million to 670... I will choose this one. You can use a bow, so your eyesight should be very good, right?"

The boy nodded.

The mage nodded, he looked at the strange dials on the wristbands, and then pointed to the open space in front of the meeting hall.

"Can you shoot the arrow into the middle of the clearing?"

Naturally, this did not bother Walter.

"Very good, then I will first write Abelwen on the first arrow, so that it temporarily mimics a monster that can store energy. You shoot the first arrow into the center of the open space, and then shoot the second and third arrows." Branches, their distance should be close, so that you can create the illusion that the power is gradually superimposed. The monster will detect this fluctuation, thinking it is an animal that is being transformed into a monster, and will rush to eat it."

"You want to lure the monster into the chamber?! Are you crazy! What if it rushes in!" Walter was shocked.

"Just trust me, Walter." Peleas didn't explain much. He took out an arrow and held it in his hand, speaking a language that the boy couldn't understand.

The mage's fingers began to glow, and the faint green light spread like a snake on the arrow... After a while, the arrow was covered with textures.Walter found that the pattern was very similar to the one on the mage's wristband.This is commonly known as the magic pattern, and Peleas told him that it can be used as a structure for temporarily storing energy.The principle is similar to monsters.Scholars found this texture on the horned green branches of the "beast", and applied it to the "Polaris" wristband for warlocks.

The boy took the enchanted arrow. It was numb and hot to the touch.When things came to an end, Walter was still a little scared, he murmured: "I'm afraid I won't be able to shoot..."

The mage held the boy by the shoulders and whispered to him.

Strangely, Walter couldn't understand the string of notes, but he knew its meaning clearly, as if people knew that night would be followed by day before they saw it.With a clear mind, the boy pointed his bow at the rainy and foggy grass.His back was tense, his arms were more stable than ever, and it was strange that he was breathing so lightly, and his heart was as steady as a pendulum clock.

The rain soaked the cowhide and the handle of the bow, making Walter's fingers stiff with the cold.But it doesn't matter, he already knows it.

"Go, Walter." The silver mage said.

In response, Fei Shi plunged into the soil, and a circle of green light spread like ripples.

"The second one!" Encouraged by himself, the boy happily took the second arrow from the mage.Like a seasoned soldier, he drew his bow, drew his bow, took aim and released his arrow, and his movements were done in one go. If Uncle Domon, who taught him how to use a bow, saw the boy's performance, he would be surprised.

Sure enough, the second arrow was firmly next to the first one.The olive halos were superimposed and swayed, and the pattern was a bit more complicated than the first time.And the third arrow was also ideal. Walter looked at the completed magic circle in the open space, and the rotating circle was reflected in his pupils.The boy stepped on a high place, his chest was full of excitement.

"You can do amazing things, you just don't know it yet," Peleas said.

After the bait was finished, the two began to wait.The mage's eyesight is not very good, so the work of looking out is completely entrusted to the young man.Walter climbed higher, staring at the pulsating magic circle... It didn't take long for him to discover that the rings were subtly changing. They were forming edges and corners, gradually resembling snowflakes with complex structures.

"Southwest!" Walter went down from the roof to the terrace and returned to Peleas.He gets another enchanted arrow.

"When it swallows the three arrows, you will shoot it." The mage made a silent gesture.

The two waited with bated breath.It was getting late, and the sun had already set... But Walter still saw the huge outline of the thing, with a pair of animal eyes the size of oil lamps glowing red.The boy's legs were weak and his hands were trembling, and he could already hear its heavy panting.A man-eating monster... He looked to the mage in panic for encouragement, and this time Peleas gave him no more morale-boosting spells.

The sound of stout hooves was getting closer, and the ground tightened uncomfortably.

Walter's tongue was numb, and he secretly prayed to "Nu".Luna seemed to listen to him, and he felt his fingers were still numb, but they were gradually getting warmer.

The figure of the monster gradually became solid, and a big wild boar was walking towards the three arrows in the center of the magic circle.It was so big that if Walter had just stood there, he could probably have swallowed it in one gulp without hindrance.The giant beast walked leisurely, as if he was not interested in the magic circle, but came to see it for fun.As it walked, it sniffed with its nose.

Walter saw that there seemed to be something stuck between the boar's tusks and its upper lip, and it kept shaking.When the monster got closer, he saw clearly—it was a severed arm.

human hand.

The teenager retched.The mage stretched out his hand to guide, and Walter quickly looked down.I saw that the giant beast had already come before the three arrows, bowing its head and sniffing.It felt the power contained in it, and instinctively planned to swallow this little magic power.

Broken arm, Walter glared, whose hand is that?It could have belonged to the dead knight, it could have belonged to Uncle Trumond, it could have been... unforgivable.As long as he thinks of his uncle, the boy's tears can no longer be controlled.Debts must be paid in blood, and they must be paid in blood!

The anger of the bow and arrow has skyrocketed.

The giant pig opened its mouth, and the severed hand slipped into its mouth, and was swallowed by the monster together with the three arrows on the ground.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Quiet is irrelevant because the end is near.

He shot the big wild boar in the back, and the wild boar didn't hurt at all, and continued to walk around.Useless? !Walter couldn't believe it, and stared at the calm mage sadly and angrily.

The Silver Mage looked down.

I saw the giant beast took another two or three steps, and suddenly turned over and fell down.The green rune grown from that arrow has spread all over the body and merged with the magic circle.The monster was chained to the ground, howling.The people hiding in the meeting hall witnessed all this in horror, and the children were hugged tightly.The harder the giant pig struggled, the deeper the curse strangled on its body, and the spider web-like ring array would not let any prey go.The howl resounded through the valley, shaking the chest of the listener, and Walter lost his mind for a moment, thinking that time would no longer turn.

What the mage cast was not an ordinary restraint technique.The giant pig stood up, trying to break through the bloody runes strangling it.The three arrows it swallowed earlier and the arrow pierced on its back interlocked with each other, like a resonating spiral.The big wild boar is grinding its teeth and sucking blood, and the real power of the entire magic circle is about to explode!The magic pattern as a wire penetrated deeply into every inch of the monster's texture, instantly detonating the power stored in the monster itself——

When the monster had countless slits of light, the old man hurriedly covered the children's eyes.

Bright lights, roars, noises, rain.

Walter would dream of this moment repeatedly in the future.Peleas closed his eyes, holding two gold snake rings in his hand.

The light dissipated, and the young man's heart beat wildly. He opened his eyes carefully, for fear that a bloody scene would suddenly come into view.The magic circle was still spinning, and there was no corpse of a giant pig in the middle.Two thick fangs fell into the ashes, and the four arrows with magic patterns were intact.

Just as Walter wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, the Silver Mage grabbed his arm.

"Don't worry, it's not over yet."

The people in the room held each other's hands tightly, their slack spirits were about to cry, and another sharp-eyed child shouted!They saw approaching shadows again, and monsters were attracted again.

Pelias drew out the arrow: "The energy of the dead monster is absorbed by the magic circle, which means it is more attractive."

"Then... that monster is endless..."

"How could it be?" The mage looked at the young man puzzled, as if he was the student, "It's just a pile of graves, and it just happens to be cleaned up at once."

There was a noise in Walter's mind, and he suddenly thought of a scene: he was walking up a hill full of bones.On the top of the mountain there is a temple built of bones, the door is open, and there is a little golden light in the black hole.Those who are greedy, those who are guided by desire, and the giant beasts that come with the smell of blood all lined up to walk in... The massive gate of bones swallowed the queue, and at the same time, the palace became more magnificent, and the spiers made of shin bones straightened Prick the sky, it's growing.

The mage's words interrupted him: "Get ready, boy."

The next thing is to repeat.Just like the fantasy that Walter saw, every time he killed a monster, the magic circle became more complicated, forming a stronger bait, and the monster killed itself.The boy kept receiving the arrows handed by the mage, his arm was sore, and his head became more and more hot.The bubbles in the compass of the warlock watch gradually disappeared, which meant that the nearby monsters had gradually died.Peleas breathed a sigh of relief, there was only one last bubble left.Kill it and the job is over.

The bones and ashes of the seven monsters were scattered all over the place, and the magic light was as noisy as day.The last beast has come, and Peleas understands that it is the chief.

The big wild boar didn't call out, but made a strange gesture of looking up to the sky and roaring.Crimson scales stood up on its back, sharp as a blade.Dark red stripes extend from the abdomen to the long nose, and even the two poisonous giant teeth are also wrapped with red stripes.And it has a long python-like tail.

Walter, eager to fight, climbed over the terrace and stood on top of the toothed roof.The mage told him to be careful.It doesn't matter, the boy strode skillfully, this is the final revenge.

When the big monster came, it first looked up at the boy on the roof.Pelias thought badly, and quickly called Walter.How could the boy listen, he was already ready, just waiting for the big wild boar to enter the magic circle.It stopped for a moment, then lowered its head and walked towards the pile of arrows in the center of the magic circle. Those are the cores of energy, and they will become stronger if they are eaten.While Walter was concentrating on waiting, the giant beast suddenly accelerated and charged towards the big house. It was not driven by pure desire like ordinary monsters, and it changed its target.

The giant beast slammed into the wall violently, and the shaking of the house made the children scream.Walter staggered, but luckily his feet didn't miss the ground. In desperation, he shot an arrow in the nose of the big monster.The monster was frightened, and suddenly stood up and waved its front hooves, it was too high!The hooves just touched the edge of the roof.The mage reached out to pull Walter, trying to hug the boy, but the giant beast quickly hit the roof again, and the brute force of a siege vehicle shook the wall, and a part of the roof collapsed——

The boy couldn't step on it steadily and fell down.

"Neil!" Peleas exclaimed.

Walter hadn't fully reacted yet, he just felt like his whole body was in pain... He lay down on the ground, unable to move.In a daze, he saw a huge darkness approaching him, and the beast's eyes were bloodshot.Stink, he smelled the rotten fish guts, hot breath on him... what?The young man stared intently.

It's a monster.

Just less than ten meters away from him was that nightmarish monster.Walter wanted to scream, but his throat was blocked by sobs, and he wanted to run away but his whole body was weak, so he could only move his body backward.

The big monster seemed to be enjoying the fear of its prey, and approached slowly.

Just as Walter was waiting for the pain that was about to happen, a person came down from the roof and stood in front of him.

"Teacher...?" With tears in his eyes, Walter recognized the mage's silver hair.

Peleas stood in front of the young man, pointing his tin staff at the monster with its bloody mouth open - the instant wind blade slashed at the back of the big boar's neck!Blood splattered, but it was too big for the wind blades to completely slice through the animal's head.

The monster roared and took a few steps back, then rushed forward unwillingly, and the magic wind blade was activated again.Pelias was covered in cold sweat. The magic circle consumed him too much energy, which weakened the power of the wind blade.And now I can't use the spell group weaved in my heart, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with that thing in the future...

The two sides were deadlocked.The monster is scarred but undiminished, and the mage is almost exhausted.The flame pattern on the wild boar is unusual, and the binding spell cannot bind it at all. This situation is extremely rare, but the "beast" believed by the Dienrians also has a similar ability-the nullification of spells.The textures on the green branches will disrupt the spells prepared by the mage and divert energy to ineffectiveness.

so troublesome……

Panting, Peleas took a step back.Barely standing up, the boy was about to step forward to fight, but was stopped by the mage's right arm.The monster was no longer afraid of the damage from the wind blade, and rushed towards humans, and the wind wall rose out of thin air to block between it and the mage.

The mage took the opportunity to hand over the short tin staff to Walter: "I'll attract its attention, and when I give the order, you put this tin staff in the center of the magic circle...ah!"

The giant beast hit the wind wall like crazy, and Pelias was so painful in his chest that he couldn't speak for a while.The mage paused for a moment, then continued: "Phew, then randomly...uh, um, randomly take one of the four arrows and shoot it."

Walter nodded quickly and took the golden tin rod.It was originally smooth, but now it is covered with flame runes, which glow like charcoal fire, and Walter recognized that the lines were very similar to those on the big pig.

The two exchanged glances.

The moment the mage lifted the wind wall, the boy ran fast.

Just as the monster was about to chase, a ball of golden light suddenly burst between its eyes, and thousands of rays of light pierced into the monster's eyes like thin needles.It was blinded for a moment and circled around in place.

Walter's back was turned to the light, so his eyes could see clearly.He almost fell to the center of the magic circle, thick ashes rose and fell.The boy roared, and slammed his tin stick into the ground——

In an instant, the structure of the magic circle was rewritten.

The gentle green light and the ring twisted and deformed, like a gust of wind and rain, turning into a flame!The polluted energy spread rapidly, the thorny magic circle stretched out minions, and the red light illuminated all the restless faces.Even young and ignorant children can feel the violence, cruelty and pain of that power.

In the center of the magic circle is a pattern of blood-red eyes.

The boy, the mage and the monster were stunned at the same time.Walter was the first to come back to his senses, and he hurriedly groped among the thick ashes, looking for the crucial arrow.The giant beast shook its head, and its vision had almost recovered. It could probably see the wriggling figure in the red light, stomping its hooves to sprint.The mage clutched his chest, he estimated the timing of the monster's action, and silently recited the incantation.Walter's hands were shaking all the time, he kept pushing away the pile of ashes... His hand seemed to have been scratched, and he touched it—finally!

Walter groped, his hands were exhausted, and the arrow feathers had just caught the bowstring.

The monster roared—just as it was about to attack the boy, the bow and arrow shot the monster's ass.Someone is attacking it from behind!

An old woman came out of the house at some point and was aiming at the monster with a bow.She was short and thin as if she had only an old bone left, and God knows how she still had the strength to draw her bow.People in the house were frightened and shouted the name of the old woman.

"Fat pig! Stay away from my grandson!" roared the fierce old woman, and drew a second arrow tremblingly.

Walter was dumbfounded: "Grandma..."

The big wild boar who was teased by humans became angry, turned around and rushed towards the old man.The incantation was ready, and Pelias cast the spell.

And the arrow with the flame magic pattern, carrying all the anger and fear of the young man, carrying the prayers of the survivors and the will of the dead, pierced the night in a blink of an eye——

Walter hit it!

The pounce of the big monster failed to tear the old woman apart, because it hit the strong wind wall.The strong wind also blew the thin old woman down on the grass.

The arrow pierced on the back leg of the big wild boar was shining red, and the flame pattern on the monster's body echoed with the magic circle!The energy of the previous seven monsters stored in the magic circle was poured into the big wild boar's body in an instant with the arrow as the medium.Its power suddenly increased, and the bulging scales on its back became bigger and harder, like dragon wings; its fangs were like reforged weapons, and the monster itself became stronger, with bulging muscles.

People were dumbfounded, and the moment of victory they had expected only brought them down.

Walter was gasping for breath, his legs were trembling uncontrollably, and fear also haunted him.But the boy convinced himself to be firm and trust the mage.

The monster that had obtained a large amount of energy was so unhappy, it gasped, feeling the absolute fullness.But in the blink of an eye, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the huge flow oppressed it, and the monster itself as a vessel could not bear it at all.The two eyeballs of the big wild boar bulged until they exploded like fully inflated leather bags.It's about to burst.

Pelias leaned on the wall, watching the flame pattern on the monster's body overflowing with light, making the pig howl endlessly.

He suddenly remembered that Neil played by the river when he was a child, the midday sun was rippling in the waves, so was the child's blond hair, the forest was shining brightly, every leaf seemed to be oiled, the heat was transforming into colors, and the space was warm and noisy.The boy was wearing shorts, fishing for shrimps by the river, his skin was snow-white.And he was reading under the shade of a tree, looking up at Neil from time to time.They brought apples and boiled eggs, and they ate them together when the boy had had enough of playing.Suddenly, the boy pointed at his reflection and smiled:

[Teacher, there are two Neils here! ]

Aye, children of the shore, and children of the river.He clearly remembered that the boy went on to ask:

[In the teacher's heart, will there also be a Neil reflected there? ]

"In all the memories, in my fragments." Peleas closed his eyes.

The monster exploded like a balloon.

Then the light came behind the eyelids.Pelias didn't remember much about what happened after the glare. He was very tired, and his spells exhausted his stamina.Before losing consciousness, he vaguely saw a person——

A man without a face, a shadow, another mage.

The man grabbed his arm and turned the darkness upside down.