feed on dragons

Carter squinted and looked up at the sky.He stood in the narrow alley, the bright blue sky was squeezed into a thin gap by the buildings on both sides.Thinking about it carefully, this narrow alley is like his current situation. He seems to be stuck in the crack, unable to get up or down, struggling but unable to get out, and can only let the absurd reality continue to squeeze himself.

Sooner or later, it will die.he thinks.

Either get squeezed to death, or compromise into this reality...

Either way...anything is annoying.

Carter clenched his fist and then loosened it, watching the light red crescent moon imprint slowly disappear on the thin white palm.

The descendants of his Aigles family have fallen to this point.

He still remembers the day his father lost power.

It may not be quite right to say that day, as this is a continuum.Carter felt that no matter what happened, there must be clues before this, but they were just ignored... However, no matter what, the matter is a foregone conclusion.Several major cases were uncovered, and all the evidence was laid out in front of them. The witnesses stood with their heads bowed and whispered the facts they knew.

The royal guards entered his home and almost emptied his father's study room. He remembered that when he received the news that day, he hadn't finished class yet. The father and friend who came to send the message asked him not to go back, but to go to his mother for a while... This avoidance is After more than a month, when he saw his father again, he was already outside the trial court.

When Carter recalled these things, his heart was unexpectedly peaceful.It has been heard from time to time that nobles fight for power, not to mention that the little pigtail is caught without knowing it, that is stupid.Especially after his father got his hands on the salt, not to mention the magic wine, Carter secretly felt that it was going to be bad—salt is fine, but magic wine is a very sensitive thing, which has huge benefits and is extremely dangerous. No one can save it.

Does he have any resentment in his heart?Of course there are.Carter has been a proud son of heaven since he was a child. He has ability and family background. When he leaves, he will raise his head and chest out and call out Bainuo. Even the principal of the school has to look at his face.However, with the collapse of the family, his originally bright future was immediately shrouded in shadow, and his life was shortened a lot, and his life almost changed drastically.

He did have grievances, blaming his father for being so stupid, and blaming Heron's family for being vicious, but these grievances were so insignificant compared to another matter.

honestly.What Carter cares most about is that when his life fell to the bottom, the skinny young man who had stepped on his feet was reborn at this moment, becoming an existence equal to or even surpassing him.

He was stunned when Julian passed the make-up exam.Later, Julian, who had no magic power at all, suddenly became a top student with full marks in the actual combat test, and Carter was almost full of astonishment.

What happened to this skinny poor man?

A little bastard whose parents don't even know who it is, why should I stand in the same position as me?

Carter really felt humiliated. He wanted to find out what happened to Julian, but he couldn't figure it out.The people who helped Julian were so monolithic. They knew that Julian would go back to the basement at the back of the school every night, but they couldn’t find out who lived there and what their names were. He even went to ask the principal directly. The talkative headmaster sent him away in an unusual way.

Carter gritted his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't continue to investigate.The change in the family made him have no time to care about Julian for a while, until he was able to focus on his studies again, and he heard that this kid skipped a grade and was admitted to the Elite Academy...

Skip a grade and get admitted to the Elite Research Institute.

When he knew this, Carter was at home and almost dropped everything in the room that could be smashed.

He was actually stepped on the head by that little bastard.

Julian!

Carter could barely stand the situation, and it had reached its highest point when he failed the graduate exams in his graduate class—and then dropped silently.

Carter calmed down.

He is too busy to take care of himself, how can he have the energy to control others?

His father collapsed, and although his mother's influence here was relatively small, it still took a lot of effort to send him into Manderon's school.

He had thought that everything would settle down temporarily.He can continue his studies, perform better, and maybe rely on Manderon's relationship to directly enter the National Research Institute. After all, this upright mage in his prime is the most popular candidate for the next chief of the research institute...

But he soon discovered that things were not as he imagined.Either way.

Manderon is not as glamorous as it appears.He was very suspicious, and he was very happy with his achievements. On the surface, he did a good job, but his actual results were only mediocre.Carter tried his best to please the teacher among several disciples, but found that the closer he was to Manderon, the more disappointed he felt.

However, he has no chance of turning back.Riding a tiger is hard to get off.

"Boss, I brought it to you. Please give me instructions on what to do, and make sure it will be done neatly..."

A slightly flattering voice reached his ears.Carter recovered from his emotions, and saw a crooked old man standing in front of him with a wretched man.He frowned in disgust, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "I heard that your skills are very good."

"Don't dare to take it, at least [-]% of it." The man rubbed his hands and laughed.

"That's good." Carter clenched his fists and then released them, took a deep breath, and said, "I'll tell you what the target looks like, and where they are at the moment, you follow, and if you have a chance, bring them over... "

When a person is abroad, it is really a very lucky thing if there is a local person to play with.Dylan took Julian and Dai Ning back and forth in Hong Kong, and nothing was missing.The two of them had just eaten the berry ice, and then they were taken to taste the freshly fried whitebait, and the fish pie next door was not missed.After eating enough, Dylan took the two of them for a walk, to the other side of the sea market, and saw many boatmen auctioning the fish that had just arrived at the port.A very large fish with sharp spines was placed on the crushed ice, and a group of people surrounded it and yelled.After Julian asked, he realized that the manatee at the banquet refers to the meat of this fish. This fish is very big, but it is rare to see such a big fish, so there are so many people competing to bid.

"Usually they are sold in pieces, and the price of the belly piece is the best, and the oil is more expensive." Dylan said with a smile.

The three did not leave until the fish was successfully photographed.They saw a lot of fish auctions along the way. Julian and Dai Ning lived in Ainos, which is not near the sea. Many seafoods were eaten for the first time at the banquet, and the appearance of them when they were alive was even more unbelievable. I haven't seen it, and almost every time I see it, Dylan is responsible for explaining it to them.

"I don't even know how to eat this thing." Dai Ning stared at a bucket of black balls covered with spikes, tilting his head in doubt, "Is this really edible? Cut the spines off. ? By chewing?"

Hearing what he said, Dylan laughed and said to the woman behind the stall, "Boss, help me open two sea urchins for these two children to try."

The woman responded, and wearing thick gloves, fished out two thorn balls, pried them open neatly under the curious gazes of Julian and Daining, washed them in the basin next to them, and cleaned the black thorn balls inside. After clearing everything, he handed it to the two of them.

The two mages stared blankly at the thing, then at Dylan, not knowing what to do with it.There were five petals of orange paste attached to the opened shell, Dai Ning looked at it for a long time, and was the first to see the trick.

"Wait, you said it was a sea urchin? So this is that sea urchin?"

"Yes, I think you have eaten at the palace banquet?" Dylan blinked playfully, "It's very expensive, it should be served at the banquet."

"Yes..." Dai Ning took the wet shell and the small spoon that the proprietress handed him, staring blankly at the orange meat inside, "I didn't expect it to look like this."

"This, can this be eaten directly?"

Julian was at a loss holding the sea urchin.

"Okay, scrape it off and taste it?" Dylan urged.

The little magic apprentices glanced at each other, then scraped the meat inside with a spoon, and carefully put it into their mouths.

"...!" Dai Ning's eyes widened, "This taste...better than the ones at the banquet."

"After all, it is freshly opened." The fortune teller smiled, "This kind of raw food is the best to eat like this."

It was delicious, but both of them were taken aback when they paid for it.Such a small one cost three silver coins, which was fine for Dai Ning, who was used to spending money, and Julian felt heartbroken for a moment.

"It's only two bites..." Even though he had already walked away, he still muttered to himself.

The three of them walked for a while before reaching the end of the sea market.Dai Ning looked at the time and felt that it was almost time to go back, but Dylan said that there was still a place he wanted to take them to.Pointing to the bright moon in the sky, he said, "Today is three days before the full moon, so the day is just right."

What day is right?

Dai Ning asked for a long time, but the fortune-teller just smiled mysteriously and said that he would find out after walking with him.The three left the sea city and walked towards the edge of the harbor.

"...The more people go, the fewer people there are. You're not going to take us to some strange place, are you?" Dai Ning looked around as he walked, and couldn't help but speak.They had already left the lively place and walked on a somewhat narrow path.Beside the path were some old sampans and boats, some covered with tarps, others left to rot.Not far away, the sea beat against the beach, and there was no one on the stretching coastline.

"Don't always doubt me so much, sooner or later you will find that I am the most trustworthy one. Believe in a fortuneteller and you will live forever." Dylan replied with a smile on his face, and continued to move forward.

"This is too thick-skinned, I have nothing to answer you..." Dai Ning heheed twice to express his disdain.

Julian, who was walking behind, always felt a little strange watching the two of them coming and going.At first, he thought that Dai Ning didn't like Dylan, so he always responded to what Dylan said; but he soon realized that Dai Ning didn't seem unhappy, and occasionally laughed, he seemed to be just... He just likes to talk back to Dylan.

Strange, has Dai Ning been like this before?

In Julian's impression, this friend he made only after he entered the research institute was shrewd, capable, talented in magic, and good at socializing.Dai Ning doesn't like social occasions, but after all, as a nobleman, even if he doesn't like it, he can deal with most people with ease and courtesy, and often helps Julian out of trouble.Julian has seen that kind of business-like smile and deliberately polite way of speaking many times, and he also knows when Dai Ning is coping and when he is sincere.

(Not once does he show Dylan that socially exclusive attitude.)

Looking at the two people who were still walking back and forth, the little magician always felt that something wonderful was quietly sprouting.

After walking for about 10 minutes, the path finally came to an end.At the end is a small cliff that is not high, and on the edge of the cliff stands a small building that looks abandoned for a while.The fortune teller took the lead in jumping up the decaying steps, stepped on them vigorously, and after confirming that there was no problem, he stretched out his hand to Dai Ning who was hesitantly standing below, and said, "Don't worry, although it sounds creaky, it doesn't matter. It will collapse."

The red-haired boy looked at him suspiciously, hesitated for a moment, and finally held the hand, stepped on the place where the young man stepped, and climbed up cautiously.After placing Dai Ning, Dylan stretched out his hand to pull Julian up, and motioned for them to continue climbing.

A little moonlight came in through the windows of the small building. Because there were some holes on the roof, the area illuminated by the moonlight was not small and not very dark, so Julian didn't call out fireballs to illuminate it.The fortune teller led them to climb to the balcony on the highest floor of the small building. Standing here, they could see the bright sea market not far away, as well as the dots of fishing fires on the sea.

"Is this the place?" Dai Ning looked around for a while, then looked up at the night sky, and said, "The starry sky is quite beautiful."

"This is indeed a good place for stargazing, but what I want you to see is not the starry sky." Dylan leaned on the railing and looked down, then turned around and said, "It's coming soon, when I count to three, I will A miracle happened."

"Miracle…?"

"One...two..." Dylan counted in a serious manner.

"three!"

"...No...huh?"

Dai Ning was still suspicious, but Julian immediately pulled his shirt off.The boy pointed at the sea, and raised his voice excitedly: "Over there, Dai Ning, it's on the sea!"

Looking at his friend's finger, Dai Ning could see where the change happened.It seemed that something slowly floated up from the sea. The thing was round and glowing, and it floated up very fast. In the blink of an eye, a lot of bright blue light spots emerged from the dark sea. .Julian and Dai Ning opened their mouths slightly in surprise, and Dylan pursed his lips into a satisfied smile after watching their reactions.

The blue light was still pouring out and spreading to the side.The sea water swayed slowly, wave after wave, and the light spots flickered on and off.The dark sea shone like the night sky, and it was breathtakingly beautiful.Dai Ning was stunned for a long time before he murmured, "This is... what?"

"Glow bugs. They are round and a bit like jellyfish. In this season of the year, three days before the full moon, they will float up to lay eggs." Dylan narrowed his eyes again, smiling brightly, "Are you satisfied, little one?" Master?"

"It's amazing... very beautiful." Dai Ning replied truthfully.Not only him, but even Julian was stunned. The young man took two steps forward and wanted to get closer, but Dylan quickly stopped him: "Hey, don't go any further, you're going to fall, the one over there The railing is broken. If you lose a piece of skin, I might get burnt."

"H-I'm sorry. But it's really beautiful..."

Julian didn't pay attention to Dylan's strange speech. He said sorry, but his eyes were still fixed on the bright blue sea. Looking at it, as if remembering something, he curled the corner of his mouth and smiled slightly.

"I don't know if Lord Hal has seen it... If not, I really want him to see it too..."

He whispered to himself.

Hearing this, Dylan raised his eyebrows.Staring at Julian's face, rolling his eyes around, he asked, "Who is Hal?"

Hearing this question, Julian froze for a moment.He turned to look at the young man and replied, "Yes... my benefactor."

"Is it just a benefactor?" Dylan asked, with a sly light in his eyes.

"this…"

Julian couldn't answer.

Just a benefactor?

Lord Hal...

"Not only... not just a benefactor."

The boy turned his head to look at the sea again.Dylan's question seemed to pick out something he didn't want to face, and Julian found himself unable to give a definite answer in a mess of mind.

It's not just as simple as a benefactor.

What word should I use to describe Hal?

Julian was at a loss for words, and he couldn't think of anything.In the end, he could only answer lightly:

"I don't know what to say. But... he is very important."

"Is it more important than yourself?"

"Um."

Regarding this question, Julian didn't hesitate much, and nodded vigorously, "It's more important than myself."

Dylan rested his fingers on his chin and thought for a while.

"...I wanted to play for a while before changing the target, but with you like this, I can't keep playing."

He muttered to himself in a low voice.

"What did you say?" Dai Ning turned to look at him suspiciously.

"nothing."

The fortune teller smiled at him, and looked back at the sea, without saying another word.