Atlas Double Star Book

Pelias didn't remember much about what happened after the glare, he only knew that he was very tired.Before losing consciousness, he vaguely saw a person——

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

Who?

The Faceless Mage came over and grabbed him, as if he wanted to take him somewhere else.

They stood on a narrow winding staircase.he tried to escape,

Is it a dream?When he touched his right hand, the Venus ring was gone.The sticky black shadow followed him unhurriedly, as if crawling.

A strong sense of oppression.

intruder.Peleas noticed it.

Mages usually build high walls in their dreams to prevent prying or intrusion.Well-trained warlocks can even maintain their will and act freely in their dreams.However, Peleas had exhausted his physical strength in the previous fierce battle. He was too tired and couldn't remember the cause and effect clearly. He could only climb the white ladder circling up in the dark with great effort.

The thing followed closely behind, staring at it.

Pelias gasped, his body ached and heavy.At this moment, he discovered that there was another white ladder on the other side of the darkness—a man was resting on the white ladder, almost in the same position as him.

The two faced each other from a distance, and the two spiral staircases were like symmetrical bones.

Who is that?

Pelias couldn't help but glanced at the back of his hand, and the man in the dark did the same.He continued to go up, and the man went up too.The same goes for when he waves.

It was an image, thought Peleas, or it could be another person.

But the faceless monster is different, it has a will of its own.The monster seemed to be quietly looking away, staring at the man in the distance.

what does it want

The way back was blocked, so he had no choice but to think about countermeasures while walking up... I don't know how long it took, but a second ago, Peleas felt that the long ladder was infinite.But in a blink of an eye, the surroundings suddenly became bright, and there was no more darkness and stairs.

The Great Temple stands majestically ahead.

Pelias was stunned, this was a scene he was familiar with...

He looked to the other side - in the distance, the man was also facing the temple, talking with the scholar holding a sparrowhawk.After a while, the scholar handed the man something...

"hiss……"

A stranger's voice came from behind, startling him.Pelias turned his head abruptly, the monster behind him disappeared, and a man without a face stood there!The face without facial features is empty, but it seems that it is so excited that every hair is trembling.The thing suddenly opened its mouth and said:

"Look...it's him."

Peleas was terrified, and a sense of foreboding hung over him.

"It's... a snake," said the monster, stretching out its hand, like someone long out of sight longing to touch daylight.

no!Peleas fought hard, unable to let the invading monster get what it wanted, no matter what.With the last of his strength, he forcibly cut off his will.

"!"

He woke up, and suddenly great pain seized him.If it wasn't for someone's call, he would almost fall asleep again from the pain.Someone was wiping his forehead with ice water, and gradually, he regained consciousness.

"Where am I?" Pelias tried to sit up, but had no strength.

"Great, you are safe and sound!" The boy was so excited that he was about to cry.

Pelias paused for a while before he remembered that it was Walter in front of him, the boy who bravely defeated the monster.He also gradually recognized the faces around him, people from the small town.They were looking at him with concern, trying to offer all kinds of help.

"It's the same scene," he pondered for a moment, "the three rivers."

After recovering a little bit of physical strength, Pelias insisted on checking the wreckage of the monster.The rain was still falling, and there were still traces of battle, messy footprints and bloodstains of giant beasts on the open space in front of the meeting hall.

"They have turned to ashes." The boy said, looking at the weak scholar worriedly, ready to help him at any time.

Pelias didn't answer right away, leaning on his cane, he carefully explored the giant beast's footprints.According to his understanding of monsters, after death, monsters will rot at several times the speed.He speculated that this was due to the energy stored in the monster's body burning the corpse until it completely dissipated.However, Pelias had found tiny red crystals in some bones, and still had a faint magic power left.However, Pelias has not yet been able to determine whether these crystals are leftovers after the death of monsters, or the reason why animals turned into monsters.He still needs more experiments.

Walter had good eyesight, and immediately found the remains covered by the mud, and handed them to the scholar.Pelias looked at this bone, it should be a vertebra, it was as clean as if it had been dead for a year or two.Judging from the size of the bones, it is indeed a giant pig-shaped monster.But the bones were full of cracks, as if they were quickly stretched and healed. This sign was rare, probably because this was the first time he had the opportunity to obtain such a huge monster sample.Peleas took out his knife, and with just one tap, the bone shattered.So crispy?Scholars were a little surprised that it was impossible for such brittle bones to support a body as huge as a hill... This did not conform to the laws of biology.Moreover, there are also red crystals growing inside the broken bone, like cement bonding the bone and the bone fragments.

"Could it be... Walter, help me find the remains of the monster!"

The boy nodded, and immediately called the other boys to explore together in the heavy rain and mud.

In the end, they gave the scholar what little heap of bone fragments they had.

Peleas immediately immersed himself in his work, sorting the broken bones into categories, and then chose a relatively complete part, the occipital bone.He compared it carefully, trying to identify the location of the broken bone according to the foramen magnum.The children held their breath and watched the teacher work intently from behind.Finally, a remaining occipital bone was recovered.

"You can roughly see the shape..." Pelias paused for a moment, then turned to explain to the children what part of this bone was and what its function was.

Then he selected a small knife from the tool bag he carried with him, and scraped off the accompanying red crystals on the bone.Little by little, the red powder rustled down.He was light in the hand because the bone was very brittle with tiny cracks all over it.

When he cleaned it up and put the occiput fragment back together, Peleas understood.He asked, "Walter, can you see what's wrong with this bone?"

The young man was suddenly stopped by the question, and said falteringly: "It...it has become so small? It feels...it was quite big before, but it's much smaller now."

The teacher said: "The answer is very good. Judging from the size of the bones, this monster was originally very small, maybe even a little bigger than an ordinary wild boar. But it became very large... it was supported by some kind of force Open, like a water bag filled with water. You see the cracks in these bones, this force tore the original bone, so it is full of cracks. Then in order to maintain life, the red substance fills the cracks in the bones, Rebonding the bones."

"Like building a wall?" a girl asked.

Pelias nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "In short, the reason why the monster grows bigger may be because of the injection of magic power, which changes its original physiological structure, and then all the cracks that were opened are filled by magic power. This is so rare…”

So where did these swiftly injected magic powers come from?Pelias speculated about various possibilities.He thought of the giant deer of the Dienrians, which could happen if the "beast" with great magic power was eaten by monsters.But they stopped the monster's attack the night before, and there is no sign of the "beast" dying... He couldn't find a reasonable explanation for the time being, so he could only collect samples first.He swept the red crystal powder out of the bone residue and put it in a vial that was absolutely clean.

Peleas stared at the crystals in the bottle, the scab-like crumbs...

He remembered, the monster that had invaded his dream!Only mages can do this.Who is that and what does he want?The guy didn't succeed, and probably will come again.Pelias weaved a mental defense technique, but this is not enough, he still doesn't know the origin of the opponent.So he closed his eyes and added a triple wall on the edge of sleep.This should be no problem, no matter how much the shadow spies, it won't be able to take advantage of it.Peleas is very confident in his spells, as long as he does what he does, there will be no flaws.

There are too many strange things that have happened recently, and they must be investigated one by one.But before that, Peleas rushed to the small town of Itil.Shinan was waiting for him there, saying that there was a critically ill patient and continued his treatment.So Peleas bid farewell to the villagers and continued on his way.The young Walter escorted the silver-haired mage until the pass out of the mountain.

It's time to say goodbye.

"Sir..." Walter almost cried.

The mage touched the boy's head and said, "You are going to help everyone get back together."

"Yes, I will be an adult soon! When the time comes... I will protect everyone!"

Peleas smiled: "Good boy, if you need help, you can come to me. Or you can go to the academy to study in the future."

"Where can I find you?"

Pelias hesitated, obviously he is also a person who has nowhere to go now.He thought for a while, then said:

"Then... remember this name, Neil Bernhard, the Seventh Knights of the Empire. He will know." Peleas lowered his head and stroked the ring.

The two let it go.

The boy stands on a rock with a bow on his back.When Pelias looked back again, the distant figure was blurred by the rain and fog, and somewhere in his heart was stabbed again.His life can only be farewells again and again, there is nothing he can have.Pelias thought he was used to it, but whenever he thought of Neil's smile...

"No, I don't miss it," he told himself.

The mage rode forward, and the Polaris wristband suddenly reacted, and the compass turned slowly——is there a monster?

"It shouldn't be. It should have been cleaned up just now, and it can't be dropped." Pelias felt strange, so he turned around and went to investigate.He didn't go far, and he came to the place indicated by the compass.

It was an open space by the river, with sparse trees and only sporadic shrubs.The compass showed that there was a magical reaction here, but there was nothing around, not even a hare.

"?"

It's too weird, the Polaris wristband is impossible to fail, it can detect the slightest magical reaction.And judging from the value of the compass, it can only be a monster, not any other carrier that stores energy.

Peleas became alert, drew out his short tin staff, and surrounded him with wind blades for self-defense.He walked lightly, inspecting carefully...

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the leaves are pattering, and the forest is full of shadows.Only then did it become clear to Peleas that he was alone.

The snake was alarmed and quickly slipped away from the rotten leaves and muddy water.Peleas was chilled all over, and he found the place where the North Star showed, and there was only one stone there.

"Could it be that the compass will recognize the stone as a monster? Impossible. In that case, Shaar and the others will all lose their jobs."

He knelt down and carefully turned over the stone——

It was a small magic circle he was not familiar with: a circle surrounded by a triangle, with an eye in it.The pattern seemed to be painted with blood, emitting an ominous red light.The linseed oil bubbles of the compass pointed here, and the monster responded.

Peleas inserted the tin rod into the magic circle, and the flame-like texture spread all over the tin rod in an instant... This is the same as that of the wild boar monster!He understood that someone was creating monsters by arranging magic circles, and the situation might be more serious than he thought.

"I don't know if Trande has received the letter, I have to..." Peleas said to himself.

Suddenly, someone patted him on the shoulder.

?

He turned his head and saw a wolf-masked man standing behind him.

monster!Pelias backed away in fear, and for some reason, all spell winds failed!He fought back.But the burly man hit a blow—

Consciousness gradually blurred, the headache was about to split open, and the voice seemed to be getting farther and farther away... He felt as if he was being lifted up, and the sky was spinning.

"Neil..."

Darkness followed, and he was terrified.

The author has something to say: that's it for this time!Thank you everyone~ I have added so many advantages in one breath.I hope that every update is a complete story, so that the reading experience will be comfortable.

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