Elden Clergyman

"I don't regret it."

"That's it."

Lord bent down, rubbed Torret's head, fed him some food, and then spoke.

"But don't worry, I know your reminder is definitely out of good intentions. I will keep it in mind and remain vigilant towards her."

"If he's a really bad guy, I won't show any mercy."

At most, it's just a bad guy side quest, and according to the tradition of the Soul series, the last link of the bad guy side quest is often to kill the bad guy, and you can get all the rewards.

Otherwise, if you kill it in advance, you will miss a lot of things.

He is very familiar with this routine.

As for Melina's sudden silence, he didn't take it to heart.

Melina and Alice, these two are really taciturn. Not to mention taking the initiative to speak, even if he tries to talk to them, he may not get a response.

The reason I can talk so much with him at once is probably because from what he said it seemed that he didn't want to fight for the magic ring anymore and he was a little anxious.

Now that he has confirmed that his goal is correct, it is understandable that he would keep his mouth shut.

But it's okay. After all, he has been in the simulation world for so long that he has become accustomed to being alone. If you really throw a few chatterboxes at him at the beginning, he might be a little uncomfortable.

Just keep it like this, we can chat for a few minutes whether there is anything or not, but not too much small talk, that's good enough.

Thinking of this, the calf ran all the way, and after a while, in the dark night, it caught a glimpse of a ruin where monsters gathered.

After clearing out the monsters and killing a boss with a pumpkin head, a blessing lighted up in the room. After lighting it up, Lord walked to the iron gate and rubbed his hands.

After a period of exploration, he had roughly figured out that this should be an open world, and it was filled with many small-scale dungeon copies.

Here, there were a bunch of monsters and a boss guarding the place. After defeating them, I only got Rune, and behind it was a door that was just locked by golden mist...

Treasure chest? Or some important item?

He stretched out his hand, full of anticipation, and slowly lifted the iron gate in front of him.

Then, after seeing the scene inside the door clearly, he stood there in a daze.

How can it be a person?

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Chapter 14: The Mouth of the Kaliah

"Oh, it's the Fader? It's rare to have such a unique guest."

Seeing Lord appear, the barefoot woman in the room, wearing a blue robe that looked like a bachelor's robe and a strange mask on her head, turned around.

"My name is Selian. As you can see, I'm a magician. So, what can I do for you?"

Magician?

Listening to the other party's speech and taking a look at the environment inside the room, Lord suddenly had an extremely subtle sense of déjà vu.

Wait, you're not...

In order to confirm his guess, Lord spoke tentatively.

"I want to learn magic."

"Oh, you want to learn pyroxene magic?"

The magician named Seren looked him up and down and nodded slightly.

"It does appear that he has the most basic qualifications."

But after a pause, she spoke again to add.

"However, one must be careful in choosing a disciple. I was expelled from the Rhea Lukalia Academy. I was shunned by everyone, the so-called heretic witch."

"Even so, do you still insist on becoming my disciple?"

Hearing this, Lord was shocked and almost had a PTSD attack.

She's a witch, a heretic, and teaches magic. She's tough on the outside, but she's also soft-hearted...

"persist in."

Lord looked directly at the witch in front of him, his tone firm.

"I was very persistent."

"...Ha, you're such a weirdo."

Se Lian sighed and continued.

"Okay, I'm willing to take you in as my apprentice and teach you pyroxene magic. But I have to warn you in advance that I'm very strict and won't teach you gently. Don't regret it."

Stop talking, stop talking. The magic boy teacher will at least be tsundere for a while. You act like this right from the start. If you keep talking like this, he is really afraid that she will die in the next second.

In order to shut up Seren, Lord quickly came over and said that he was eager to learn and hoped that she would focus on teaching and talk less.

"What an anxious student, but... I don't hate him."

Se Lian smiled and shook his head, then picked up his pyroxene staff.

"Please introduce yourself first, including your name, identity, and your understanding of magic, so that I know where to start teaching you."

"Lord, the Faded One, has zero knowledge of Borderland magic."

Lord said honestly.

"What is pyroxene magic?"

Throwing stones with a staff?

"Pyroxene magic is the magic of finding the power within pyroxene and unleashing it."

"What is pyroxene?"

"You don't even know about pyroxene?"

The expression under Se Lian's mask was a little subtle.

Pyroxene is not a rare commodity in the border area. After the royal family of Kalia married the hero of the Golden Dynasty, pyroxene magic became widely spread in the Golden Dynasty. Not to mention humans, even the demi-humans on the roadside knew about the existence of pyroxene, and there were even people who were good at pyroxene magic.

——Though that is closer to 'Stone Swing' magic.

"I have lost my memory." Lord once again gave his universal excuse.

"No wonder."

Se Lian shook her head, thinking that teaching this apprentice might be more difficult than she thought.

But she didn't mind. After a pause, she picked up a piece of light blue crystal on the table and showed it to Lord.

"This is pyroxene, and pyroxene is amber formed from stars."

"Golden amber contains the power of ancient life fragments. Similarly, pyroxene also contains the power of star life fragments."

"The meaning of pyroxene magic lies in exploring the stars and their lives. You must keep this in mind."

Amber formed by stars? Golden amber? Exploring the life of stars?

What is this all about?

Lord was completely stunned.

Although he didn't understand what Seren said, looking at the crystal in her hand, Lord always felt that it looked familiar.

Wait, isn't this a Soul Crystal reskin? Compared to other items, the reskins are almost identical to the originals.

Thinking of this, Lord cut his own big piece and casually pinched out a piece of soul crystal.

"Is that so?"

Se Lian: “?”

"Don't you know magic?"

"What I meant is that I don't know the magic of the borderland, but I know a little bit about other places."

Lord said honestly.

"But I just compared them. Although they look a bit similar, the essential difference seems to be quite big..."

After saying that, he dispersed the soul crystal in his hand, causing Se Lian to raise his brows under the mask.

"Wait, show me what you just saw."

"No."

Lord pinched out the soul crystal, originally just wanting to compare it with the pyroxene to see if it was just a skin change, but after seeing Seren's reaction, he suddenly had an idea.

As we all know, in the Souls series games, the fate of a magic teacher is either to die from research, to go crazy from research, or to be beaten to death by the protagonist after going crazy from research.

The best way to prevent them from dying is to block the mission props and not give them the props to advance the side quests. Then they will stay there and will not die.

In reality, Lord certainly couldn't do that. After all, he wasn't an NPC. If he really blocked the mission items, it might cause suspicion or even lead to enmity.

But if it wasn't about blocking the props, but finding a reasonable excuse to bring out some novelty to distract her and thus slow down her research progress...

"Although I've lost my memory, I suddenly remembered something when I looked at that crystal just now. The teacher who taught me this magic went crazy while studying it. Before he went crazy, he warned me that this thing was very dangerous."

Looking at Seren in front of him, Lord said sincerely.

"So, I can't share this with you until I know for sure it's safe."

Although Lord was not good at lying, this was not a lie.

As the top magic in the world of Dark Souls, even if we don't talk about the shocking price behind its birth, and just talk about those who went crazy and died because of it after it was researched, if we were to make a list, we might even be able to write a book.

"you......"

For a moment, Se Lian didn't know what to say.

But recalling the appearance of the crystal just now, she felt itchy again.

Secondly, if it were an ordinary magician, even if he saw the crystal, he would probably just think it was a trick played by Lord.

But as the witch Seren, even with just one glance, she could see the brilliance emanating from it. It was a symbol of wisdom, the knowledge accumulated over many years by countless masters...

si “Just take a look, just give me a look.”

０ “Just one glance…”

㈣ Lord approached Seren and showed her a wave of 'crystallization' at close range.

After looking at it for a few seconds, Se Lian's expression changed slightly.

Wu: "Put it away."

6 If she had doubted the other party's words just now, thinking that he wanted to keep it for himself, or use it to exchange for some benefits from her, then now, she has no doubt at all.

⑷The crystallization of pure soul...

Even though it was called a 'witch' and even though its hands were stained with blood, after seeing this thing and figuring out its composition, Se Lian was still greatly shocked.

The Origin School had conducted soul research before. The most extreme ones, such as herself, had used a Sourcestone knife to dig out their own hearts and merged their souls into the Sourcestone.

She originally thought that this behavior was extreme enough, but after seeing this crystal, she realized that compared with studying the existence of this kind of magic, the School of Origin was probably a little too gentle.

The exquisite structure that makes one's scalp tingle at a glance, the extremely elegant soul lines, and the crystallization of wisdom contained therein.

You don't need to think too deeply about each of the items behind it, you can smell the bloody smell hidden behind it.

That is definitely not something that can be researched by a few, dozens, or even hundreds of souls. Each of them contains a painful price that is enough to shake the world.

The most immoral thing Serlian had ever done in his life was to kill a group of Kalia wizards, and use some of their corpses for pyroxene research.

But this matter is actually a mess.

The Kaliah School and the Origin School, or the Academic School, were originally in opposition, and there had been more than one war between the two.

Although there was a period of forced peace later, the blood feud had already been formed. The peace was only superficial. There were countless provocations and fights behind the scenes, and some people even died.

As a mage in the School of Origin, she certainly couldn't stand on Kalia's side. Coupled with her excellent talent and personality, she naturally became the target of Kalia's attack.

Originally, she was able to suppress her anger at the beginning, but what about Kalia and her gang of pushers...