You don't cast spells by the rules at all, do you?

Jim joked, "Why don't you go and try to fish it out?"

"Forget it then." Johnson said, "I'm too dirty, don't pollute the spring water."

"What should we do now?" Wilson asked expectantly, "Can we just drink it?"

Johnson nodded: "Yes, drink it directly."

"My uncle said that as long as you are not particularly stupid, you can immediately awaken your cognition and gain magic power after drinking the spring water, and see the different colors of this world."

As he spoke, he took out a disposable plastic cup, squatted down, filled it up, and handed it to Jenny.

"Here, baby."

It can be seen that he truly loves this girl and will give her the good things first.

"Thank you, Aqiang." Jenny smiled sweetly and suggested, "How about we drink together?"

"I think it's possible." Wilson was eager to try, "Let's compete to see who awakens first."

"That has to be me." Johnson was full of confidence, poured another glass, and called Jim, "Come on, let's drink together."

"Dry!"

After the three of them clinked their glasses, they drank the spring water in the plastic cups.

As holy water that had helped countless mortals become wizards, the Fountain of Enlightenment had an immediate effect. When the sweet and refreshing liquid flowed into their throats, Johnson and Jim's consciousness immediately became blurred, their eyes unconsciously closed, their muscles relaxed, the cups in their hands fell to the ground, their bodies staggered, as if they were drunk, and they fell into a strange state.

Seeing that they all drank it and it seemed to be really effective, Jenny gritted her teeth and mustered up the courage to drink the spring water.

Sean arrived a little later than them. When he followed the footprints, the four people had already begun to reshape their cognition under the influence of the Fountain of Enlightenment. It was obvious that they were all very smart - at least not stupid, otherwise they would not be able to enter the "meditation" state after drinking the spring water.

As long as they close their eyes, it means they will be able to awaken successfully.

Unfortunately, this may not be a good thing.

Sean sighed softly.

He didn't bring a cup, so he had to use his hands.

He looked up at the black crows that were still circling overhead like a dark cloud. His expression became calm again. He walked to the pond, squatted down, scooped up the spring water with both hands, and put it into his mouth.

next second.

The scene in front of Sean changed.

Everything in his eyes began to fade rapidly, as if an invisible eraser was erasing the green shade of the forest and erasing the branches of the tree trunks. They turned from emerald green to withered yellow, from withered yellow to gray, and finally turned into a pile of yellow soil, as if they had experienced hundreds of springs, autumns, winters and summers in the blink of an eye, and were washed into an endless desert by the passing time.

Sean had been to this desert before.

He saw the cactus again.

This time the shape of the cactus was more anthropomorphic than before, and there was even a human face on its head—not the Quill in his imagination, but himself.

Sean's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked down as if possessed by a ghost, and was shocked to find that his body had also turned into the shape of a cactus!

They are two identical things.

When he eats the cactus, he is eating himself.

At this moment, Sean understood.

“Cellular autophagy!”

It turns out that the dream I had in the car was not a dream, but meditation.

He ate cactus when he was hungry, which was the process of cell autophagy. He should have eaten it raw, but he chose to roast it in the sun. Unlike the normal way of swallowing, his body produced extra energy, so after waking up from the dream, he had half a lak of magic power.

As Sean thought about this, the scene in his eyes changed again.

The yellow sand under his feet began to tremble and float, and was rolled back into the sky as if weightless. Countless gravel gathered from the bottom up, covering the sky and the earth, accompanied by a gust of wind that made Sean almost unable to open his eyes.

He subconsciously raised his hand to protect his eyes, and vaguely saw through his fingers that the sand had gathered into a huge vortex, with a black void in the center. At first, there was only a small dot, but as the yellow sand vortex grew larger, the black spot also grew rapidly, as if it had torn the sky apart, and a huge pulling force erupted, sucking him in while spinning.

Sean's vision was swallowed by darkness, and when the light came back on, he saw a familiar girl's face.

This is a long street with vague outlines, like a painting immersed in water. The lines are twisted and floating, and the color tone is dark, giving people a very unreal and illusory feeling.

The girl was walking on the street, looking at the figure that suddenly appeared, her eyes slightly widened and her expression was surprised.

"Sean??"

Sean was also stunned: "Ms. Flame Crow?"

"You don't even have magic power, how can you enter the virtual space?" The girl said as if she had thought of something, and her tone suddenly changed, "Don't tell me you went to the Black Fruit Rain Forest."

Sean was silent for two seconds and replied, "Yes, I am in the Black Fruit Rain Forest now."

Girl: "???"

"Are you going to die?"

"Have you forgotten how your friend died?"

"The Fountain of Enlightenment in the Black Fruit Rain Forest is a trap! Once you complete your awakening and gain magic power, they will kill you!"

"I know."

Ever since he heard the name of the Floris family from Johnson, Sean knew that this was a trap. Thinking deeper, he, an ordinary person, could infer the location of the Fountain of Enlightenment through Chris's life trajectory, so how could the powerful Floris family not know?

"You knew you were going?!" The girl was furious. "No one can save you this time!"

She was tens of thousands of miles away from the black fruit rain forest, and even if she set off immediately to fly there, it would be too late.

Sean laughed instead. Meeting the Flame Crow Girl here made him feel very happy. What was more important was what the girl said, "You cannot enter the virtual space without magic power." The "magic power" here should refer to the smallest unit commonly used in mysticism, 1 Lak. This means that the "perception" brought to him by the Fountain of Enlightenment has been completed.

In other words, at this point, he has truly become a first-level wizard, possessing enough magical power to perform the spell of truth.

and so--

"You misunderstood, Miss Flame Crow." Sean smiled easily, revealing a sense of relief. "I'm not here to ask for help."

He doesn't need anyone to save him.

The girl thought Sean was being stubborn. Under normal circumstances, she would have argued with him. But now it was a matter of life and death. She suppressed her temper and said calmly, "Return to reality right now. Run as fast as you can. Don't waste any more time."

Every extra second Sean stayed in the virtual space would give him one less second to escape. By the time those guys surrounded the woods, he would not be able to run away even if he wanted to.

"Row."

Sean didn't argue with the girl, he was going back quickly anyway. Entering the virtual space was purely an accident, but it was a good experience. Not only did he meet the Flame Crow girl, but he also understood one thing - in the witch hunt, every wizard was in a dangerous situation and could be killed at any time, but the virtual space connected the wizards, maybe they were not alone.

After Sean left, an illusory female figure walked over. She looked at the place where Sean disappeared and asked the girl curiously, "Your friend?"

"An idiot." The girl said angrily.

She briefly recounted the incident of meeting Sean in Holko before, and the woman's face changed slightly when she heard it: "Then he is dead, right?"

"He deserves it! Who told him not to listen?" The girl was so angry that her teeth were itching.

The woman asked, "Do you want to rescue him?"

"No. He said he doesn't need anyone to save him." The girl refused.

But that being said, what she did was different.

"I have something else to do, so I'll go back first."

She returned to reality after saying this, picked up the hotel phone, and called the insider she had arranged in the Floris family. She gritted her teeth and said, "Find a reason to make the hunters in the Black Fruit Rainforest stop their actions, or at least slow down their net closing. The longer the better. Do it now."

"Yes."

……

In the woods.

Sean has regained consciousness.

When meditating, a person's muscles will relax automatically and the body loses its strength support. His posture changed from squatting to lying down. When he opened his eyes, he saw a funnel-like swirling storm in the sky, colorful and magnificent.

The crows have all turned colorful.

Sean heard heavy and dense footsteps.

They are coming.

……

Chapter 13: The Truth Spell

"Hahahahaha! I did it!"

A burst of excited laughter rang out in the woods.

Johnson, who successfully completed meditation and awakened his magic power, was very excited. His uncle was right. After drinking the spring water, he really saw different colors. Even the crows above his head changed color, becoming dreamy, like an inverted circular rainbow.

"Hey, Sean?" Johnson noticed Sean under a tree in the distance and greeted him, "You're here too?"

Sean leaned quietly against the tree trunk, nodded, and said nothing.

Johnson, immersed in joy, didn't mind. He raised his head and stretched out his arms as if to embrace this mysterious world.

"It's so beautiful..." he exclaimed.

Where else can you see such beautiful crows?

Jenny, Wilson and Jim also woke up one after another. The latter spread out his palms, and a ball of fire burst out from his palms - this was the magic that Sean performed in the car before, and now he can do it too!

"This is the feeling of power." Johnson also picked up a fire and said intoxicatedly.

He also learned to control fire.

This is a skill that every wizard will learn without a teacher when they have magic power.

Fire is the origin of all things and the cornerstone of civilization. Over the long years, it has been deeply engraved in the bones and blood of human beings. Every person who first learns about mysticism and becomes a wizard always first masters the flame that symbolizes life.

"Azhen, how do you feel?" Johnson did not forget to care about his girlfriend's situation.

"I..." Jenny wanted to say that she had awakened, but suddenly she heard footsteps coming from far away, and she vaguely saw many dark shadows approaching rapidly in the dim shade of the trees. Inexplicably, Jenny remembered Sean's warning, and a strong sense of uneasiness emerged in her heart. She stammered and changed her answer: "I, I am not awake."

Johnson was stunned for a moment, then comforted him: "It's okay, you take a rest first, and try drinking some spring water later. You are so smart, you will definitely wake up."

"If all else fails, I'm here."

He patted his chest and promised solemnly: "I will protect you from now on. As long as I am here, no one can touch a hair on your head!"

Before Jenny could answer, a sudden clapping sound came from the woods.

"Clap clap clap."

"What a touching pledge of love."

A man walked out from the shadows, smiling and applauding the beautiful love of the young couple.

He was wearing a brown and black leather jacket, with a revolver on his waist, his hair was a little messy and his beard was not clean-shaven. However, even with such an unkempt face, he had a pair of cheetah-like eyes, and his whole body exuded a wild and dangerous aura.

He has killed people.

This was Sean's first feeling.

Wilson looked wary, but Jim felt that the man looked familiar.

"Who are you?" Johnson asked unhappily. His mind was all on the magic power he had just obtained and his girlfriend Jenny, and he didn't pay much attention to the approaching footsteps - or maybe he noticed it, but didn't take it to heart, and he didn't expect this guy to be so rude.

He was just about to teach the man a lesson when he saw that more and more people were coming.

Dozens of figures walked out of the forest one after another, lined up and stood behind the man in leather jacket.

These people were dressed in very recognizable clothes, like believers of a certain church, wearing long robes with black outer layer and red inner layer. Their faces were obscured by the shadow of their hoods and could not be seen clearly, but one could clearly feel the fierce murderous aura from them.

Because they have guns.

"Shh!"

As soon as the man in leather jacket raised his hand, everyone immediately raised their guns and pointed them at the people in front of them.

The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Even the most obtuse person would have realized that the other party had ill intentions.

Being pointed at by dozens of black gun muzzles, Johnson, who was always brave and had just gained magic power, couldn't help but feel a little scared. But Jenny was watching him, and love and face could give people courage. He still spoke up and pulled the girl behind him: "Who are you? Why are you pointing guns at us?"

The man noticed his action and said in an appreciative tone: "You really do what you say, like a man."

Johnson tried to act tough: "Tell your men to put their guns down!"

"Sorry, that won't work." The man smiled and shook his head, "Killing you is our duty."