From Prisoner to Si Chen

Gillan and Lady Crow spent a relatively pleasant morning chatting on the lawn of Chessboard Manor while dining.

They talked about the current situation to the mysterious circle, and from the mysterious circle to alchemy.

What surprised Ms. Crow was that Gilan Iros actually had an extremely profound knowledge of alchemy, and some of his unique insights inspired her a lot.

Originally, at the party when they first met, Gilan didn't say a word, which led her to mistakenly think that the young man was just a beginner with a weak foundation and was unable to integrate into everyone's discussion.

But now it seems that the other party is just hiding it and keeping a low profile.

This made Ms. Crow secretly sigh in her heart, she was worthy of being a student of the alchemy master Para Celsus.

She also had a strong premonition.

Perhaps not long after, the young man in front of him will emerge in the mysterious circle and gradually become a legendary figure like Parra.

Near noon, Gillan said goodbye to Lady Crow, left Chessboard Manor, and returned to the world.

He stepped through the small aperture door and returned to the master bedroom of the apartment.

As soon as he came back, the first thing Jilan did was to activate "Beautiful" and once again conduct the deduction of the fifth-level essence of the player's path.

This time I got the "Lighting" secret from Ms. Crow. With this key blueprint, it will definitely be much easier to deduce it.

Jilan closed his eyes, concentrated his attention, and kept recalling the three fifth-level secrets of "Doll", "Monster" and "Light" in his mind.

Soon, Jilan's eyes sparkled with color, and "Bailan" was aroused to continue making deductions.

However, this time it still failed.

'Um? Is the mysterious energy still not enough...'

The luster in Jilan's eyes slowly faded, and a look of regret appeared on her face.

He noticed that the color number "1112" became translucent, and a gray "3000" appeared above it.

‘It seems that even with the “light” secret, the energy required for deduction is still huge. But it's not bad, at least the 2000 points gap has been reduced. ’

Gilan sighed secretly.

Only by providing "Panlan" with the secrets of each path as a reference can it have enough basis to deduce a new essence.

Although Gilan felt it was a pity, he had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being. Either continue to collect secrets, or accumulate enough points and then perform deductions.

‘Hmm… In “Legend of the Invincible”, I also collected a lot of Kingdom Brands. Let’s burn them all in the Cross Sword bonfire first. ’

He thought for a while, walked to the chair by the window, sat down, leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Breathing gradually calmed down, and consciousness sank.

Jilan soon came to the Dream Sea under the night, and the island of his soul was still quiet. Only in the open-air stone hall in the center, the cross sword bonfire burned endlessly.

He walked on the stone path and quickly came to the bonfire. After stopping, he raised his hand, spread his fingers, and lifted it out of thin air.

Buzz.

Buzz buzz——

Colorful marks appeared one after another, suspended in Jilan's palm, spinning continuously.

The imprints of these kingdoms all bear the same pattern, with a sword embedded in the center of concentric circles and the faint outline of a beast.

There is also a slightly larger brand with a more complicated pattern, which is slightly different. It is a combination of concentric circles and the Holy Grail, and the emerging outline is a twisted human body.

'Nine level 4 "beast" brands, and one level 5 "rotten corpse" brand...'

Gilan counted the number, looking thoughtful.

‘I have never swallowed so many brands at once, and I don’t know what changes will happen to my spiritual kingdom. ’

Thinking to himself, he no longer hesitated and directly threw the ten Kingdom Brands on hand into the Cross Sword bonfire at once.

Puff puff!

The fire of the Cross Sword bonfire was low at first, and then became more vigorous and vigorous with a roar of a bear. As if adding oil to the fire, the flame was quickly catalyzed and burned violently.

Jilan noticed that those kingdom brands became distorted and deformed in the flames, as if being torn left and right by some force, emitting colorful lights.

The familiar spiral pillar of fire appeared again, rising into the sky. But this time the intensity was even more intense. The fire tornado continued to rotate and raised strong winds.

Swish——

Jilan soon felt that the island beneath his feet was shaking slightly, like an earthquake.

The rumbling sound is endless.

He saw that new carved stone slabs were beginning to be dug out of the soil outside the open-air stone hall, further expanding the area of ​​the entire stone hall.

The "Mad King" who was originally sitting on the throne of the thumb stone pillar seemed to have received some kind of power and slowly raised his arm.

Its skeleton crown burning with green flames became more dazzling, and the translucent scarlet cloak on its shoulders burned and swayed like flames.

Ji Lan's eyes suddenly hardened.

He noticed that behind the "Mad King"'s throne, a huge beast figure slowly emerged.

It seemed to be a white male sheep with ferocious horns. The corners of its mouth were rotten and there was a wound extending behind the ear.

It looked like he was grinning.

The body of the oyster is also covered with a gray stone skeleton armor similar to that of the "Mad King", and its four legs are burning with green flames.

'It seems that after swallowing ten Kingdom Brands, my mind not only became stronger, but even gained an extra monster...'

Ji Lan was quite surprised.

But soon, he thought of something.

'The essence of the "beast" belongs to the path of the "Gladiator" in March, and this Si Chen symbolizes the "Aries" in the zodiac... After absorbing a large number of homogeneous imprints, the monster looks like Appears in the form of an oyster. ’

'Well, there is also the influence of the "rotten corpse" essence, which causes the appearance and strength of this sheep-shaped monster to also change. ’

‘On the contrary, it can be used as the mount of the “Mad King”. After I cast “King’s Coming”, it will appear in the world together. ’

Jilan looked at the giant oyster behind the throne, which was two rounds larger than a regular horse. He couldn't help but laugh and said softly:

“Let’s name it ‘The Laughing Sheep’.”

The monster that had been given a name opened its big mouth, revealing its densely packed fangs.

It seems to be laughing.

Jilan felt the changes in her soul and was quite surprised. He estimated that according to conventional standards, his mental strength might have touched the ceiling of Level 5, almost reaching the new height of Level 6.

‘The psychic strength is one or two levels higher than my own original level. Maybe it can be used as a trump card to trick enemies who don’t know the truth into killing them. ’

Gilan lowered his eyes, brewing bad news.

It was precisely because the ninth pigeon Dedel didn't know this that she broke into his spiritual kingdom and was caught by the "Mad King".

According to the common sense of occult science, the human mind is generally fragile and is a recognized weakness.

Once someone invades the mind and forcibly destroys the brand, it is equivalent to directly destroying the person's spirituality and source of strength.

This is also the most feared place of the secret society "Chorus" and "White Dove Tower".

They seem to have the secret method of invading the soul.

If you are hostile to it, you will capsize in the gutter if you are not careful. They don't have to fight you head-on. Instead, when you are careless, they take the opportunity to sneak into the depths of your heart and destroy your kingdom brand.

But now, Jilan doesn't have to worry about such dirty tricks at all. On the contrary, he wished that these enemies would come to his door.

‘After devouring so many kingdom brands at once, there is also a fifth-level one among them... I believe that the four members of the "Hand of Dawn" have also been instilled with power, right? ’

Jilan looked up at the shrinking fire tornado and thought to himself.

And the facts are consistent with his conjecture.

At this moment, the four people - the blue stork, the black snipe, the white gull and the red sparrow - who were scattered around the world, all shared a powerful force.

Among them, Red Sparrow Aurora crossed the third-level threshold on the spot, catching up with the progress of Cang Stork and the other three.

With the help of this power, the four secret society members all completed their accumulation in an instant. Once the Shenxiang Brand is completed, you can be directly promoted to the fourth-level Kusei.

While they were extremely shocked, they all thought of the leader of their secret society, Mr. Gillan.

It must have been him again who hunted down the new Kusei and devoured the opponent's kingdom brand, which made him "drink the soup".

However, the power obtained this time was too huge, so the four of them were surprised and wondering how many Kusei Mr. Gillan had killed...

The power comes so frequently, why is it like killing a chicken when Mr. Gillan kills the Kusei? !

Gillan didn't know what the four people were thinking.

After he finished all this, he woke up from his sleep and returned to reality.

Right now, it's early afternoon.

Gilan walked out of the room, went downstairs, and after speaking to old Charles, drove to the Triumph Building alone.

As soon as he knocked on the door of the chairman's office, he explained the situation to teacher Parra with an apologetic look:

"Sorry, teacher, I had an appointment with Ms. Crow this morning, so I didn't come to class."

"It doesn't matter." The old man sitting behind the curved desk smiled and waved. "How's the commission going?"

"It has been successfully completed." Gilan came over and sat down at Parra's signal. "Fosaka and his party, I successfully obtained the entrusted target, a real film called "The Legend of Invincibility"."

"The film has been delivered to Ms. Crow, and she has exchanged it for the 'light' secret."

"Very good." Parra nodded and smiled.

"By the way, teacher." Jilan suddenly thought of something and took out a blue minotaur stone sculpture and a white card. "This is what I got from the royal family of Fosaka when I returned."

"Hmm..." Parra took the two things and looked at them for a moment. "A 'Sal Card' and a 'Taunos Stone Statue'."

"The Thrall card is quite precious and is only circulated among the upper echelons of the mysterious circle. If we were to measure its value, it would be equivalent to about 1,000 Caesars."

Parra explained to his students.

"As for this stone statue, if it is not necessary, do not try to activate it. This will cause the March Apostle to be affected."

"The head of state has no friendship with that Si Chen. There is no conflict between the two parties."

Gillan nodded, expressing understanding.

"I understand, teacher."

"Yes." Parra handed the two things back to Gilan. "Since you are here, let's continue with today's class. We don't have time to waste."

"Yes," Gillan responded.

…

…

Study life is always peaceful and you don’t realize how fast time flies.

In the blink of an eye, it is already the end of February.

Nearly a month has passed since Jilan returned to China.

During this period, Gilan studied step by step with Teacher Parra every day.

After the initial shock, Para Celsus, who had completely mastered the new stage of body building, meditation and secret swordsmanship, gradually fell into a state of numbness.

Para, who originally considered himself a genius, occasionally felt emotional after meeting Gilan, thinking that in every era, there would be some unreasonable legendary figures in this world.

And would he accept a student who would eventually become a legend by chance?

He originally thought that Gilan was a young man with a little talent, and his character and beliefs were worthy of trust, so he accepted him as his successor when his life was about to end.

As long as the other party could learn a little knowledge from him, it would be no regrets.

But Gilan's performance again and again gradually made Para change this idea and gave birth to more hope.

Perhaps, this student could surpass himself...

In the end, replace himself, do better than himself, and lead the empire to the peaceful and prosperous era that the Knights dreamed of.

Para is full of expectations for this.

Jilan felt more and more pressure during the learning process. The "Sage's Secret Mark" taught by Teacher Pala is extremely profound, much more profound than the general "Decomposition and Reconstruction Technique".

The difference between the two is like the four arithmetic operations and the Stokes equation. Even if the metaphor here is too exaggerated, and the "Decomposition and Reconstruction Technique" cannot be described as simple.

But it still made him learn quite hard.

As a last resort, Jilan had to use "Colorful" to speed up. By consuming mysterious points, he mastered the key nodes of the "Sage's Secret Mark" step by step.

In this way, the original "1112" points of mysterious energy that were left eventually became "112" after multiple consumptions, of which 1,000 points were invested.

Jilan's savings were emptied again.

Of course, he did not regret it. After all, he paid so many points, and the gains were naturally not small.

He has already mastered the "Sage's Secret Mark" initially, and can formally communicate with teacher Pala in depth about some of his own ideas.

So, on March 1st,

Pala announced the suspension of the course.

The master and apprentice entered the conception and testing stage, specifically for the design of the "Sage's Secret Mark" for Jilan.

Seven days later.

Jilan and his teacher mixed the materials in the office, and then Pala personally engraved the "Sage's Secret Mark" for him.

Pala was holding a red crystal-like prism pen, and engraved extremely detailed lines and symbols on Jilan's palms with a serious face.

The tip of the pen was extremely sharp, cutting Jilan's skin, infiltrating the special red alchemy into it, and then closing it with a scarlet arc.

These lines are very fine and dense, even through a high-power microscope, it is difficult to see clearly.

Time passed quietly, and it was evening.

Pala stopped writing, let out a long breath, and said with satisfaction:

"Jilan, your "Sage's Secret Mark" is engraved."