"What do you mean?"
Mo Tan stared straight at the old man in front of him, his two round eyes filled with words - Are you kidding me?
"Literal meaning."
The ancestor of the Dawn Sect nodded vigorously, looked at Mo Tan affectionately with his eyes full of wisdom and vicissitudes, and highlighted one thing - my special I'm not kidding you.
"Your Majesty Luke Tephiro."
Mo Tan narrowed his eyes and glared murderously at the old man with a goatee and a serious face in front of him. He gritted his teeth and said: "Don't forget that you came to me and said you wanted to find a way to deal with this world. Hidden dangers, and even extreme measures must be taken if necessary. Now that I have a clear clue, you, the old boy, are telling me not to do it! "
Tifilo shrugged and pinched the tip of his beard with some embarrassment: "Well...how should I put it? You know that plans can't keep up with changes. I have my own difficulties..."
Mo Tan looked at the other party coldly, and said with a smile: "I dare you, the youngest pope, the best genius, the most shameless scumbag, and the most powerful priest in the history of Dawn Sect, now you have There are difficulties for a super strong person who has entered the realm of mythology, but I, a newcomer to this unfamiliar world, have no difficulties, right?”
“Ahem, that’s not what I meant. "
Tiphilo cleared his throat, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I know very well how high your expectations are for me. In fact, I had the same idea before and felt that for me, For people who are able to break common sense, there is almost nothing that can be called an 'obstacle'. Unfortunately, the reality is far more skinny than we previously imagined."
Seeing that Tifilo had no intention of joking with him, Mo Tan suppressed the anger that was not even raging, leaned back in the chair and frowned: "Then please tell me about those 'difficulties'. "
"Of course, but I hope you can be patient for a while, because this is not something that can be explained clearly in a few words."
Tiffero took a sip and was not used to it. Coffee, in his voice that has been washed away by time but is still clear and magnetic, said: "I will probably talk some nonsense, but if I don't start from the beginning, it will be difficult for me to convince you Luke Ti Philo has indeed tried his best."
Mo Tan nodded noncommittally and changed to a more comfortable position to lean on the chair: "Then please make the nonsense more pleasant. I am very interested in the story. The requirements are much higher than those of ordinary people."
Tifiro chuckled, and then did not start telling stories directly, but asked: "You mentioned the name Shamar Pratt before. Can you tell me first how much Xia Lian told you about our past?”
"Not much, but certainly not too little."
Mo Tan twitched the corners of his lips and said dryly: "Anyway, all the bad things you did when you were a teenager were exposed, oh, by the way. "Tip, it seems that the young saintly lady didn't realize until recently that you had already seen through her disguise."
Tifilo chuckled and said leisurely: "That's normal. That's it." It’s not like women lose their strength every day or two.”
“So…”
Mo Tan knocked on the chair impatiently and frowned: “Can you please start talking about business. ”
"Okay, okay, alas, young people nowadays really have no patience at all."
Tifiro smacked his lips, then suppressed the smile on his face, turned to look at the fireplace next to him, He said with a fascinated look: "Since you already know what happened during that initial period Well, let me start from a little later.
I am a smart person with self-awareness, and I am relatively precocious, so I was aware of it as early as the Battle Sisters. By the time I developed a hopeless crush on her, And that fool obviously didn't notice at all at the time
After that, I started to come into contact with some taboo knowledge, such as the knowledge of the undead and the science of the soul. Fortunately, I was not alone. In fact, there were others. Two of my very close friends have always You are supporting me and helping me, just to bring me closer to that illusory fantasy."
Mo Tan frowned and couldn't help but interrupt: "Two people? I only know that you are in Academy City. There is someone named Elephith Sulk..."
"Ah, Effie, what a nostalgic name."
Luke interrupted Mo Tan with a chuckle, and then slowly turned his head to look at the latter, and when the two met their eyes, At that moment, Mo Tan felt dazed for a while, and then found himself in a spacious open-air cafe. Judging from the surrounding scenery, it should be a dusk in Academy City.
Sitting in front of him was someone who had returned to his early twenties, with a pair of beautiful blue eyes and smooth blond hair. His facial features were exquisite and attractive, and his appearance could almost crush the level of Idong. He is two levels of super handsome. Although he is not as good as Ji Xiaoge in terms of absolute appearance, he is still considered the most handsome man Mo Tan has ever seen in his life, a young man named Luke Tifilo.
"What does this mean?"
Mo Tan picked up the fragrant cup of black tea in front of him, took a sip and asked expressionlessly: "Prevent eavesdropping. ?”
Tifilo, who had returned to his youth, laughed, shook his head and said: "No, no, no, the reason why I opened the inherent barrier is simply to see my past partners again. Other than that... at least I can do this here. You have the right to choose your drink freely."
Mo Tan turned his head noncommittally and looked at the guests at the table next to him who were not paying attention at all and were chatting eagerly. : "When did this happen?"
"When I was fourteen years old."
Tiffero lazily put a sugar cube into his cup and spoke in a brisk tone He said quietly: "If nothing else happens, there should be only one person at this table whom you don't know, right?"
Mo Tan nodded slightly: "That's right."
At the table next to the two of them, there were a total of four people, one man and three women. Among them, the little white-robed priest with long blond hair who was already very attractive even though he was still a boy was naturally Luke Tefero, and The human nun next to her, who was carrying a cross with long sleeves, had a slender figure, and had a three-thirds resemblance to the Saint of Dawn, Charlene, was a vest named Shamar Pratt. Sitting opposite Tifilo, a human girl with long dark green hair, some freckles on her face but a pretty face, and wearing a seventh-grade uniform of a certain college, looks better than she did in Xia Lian's memory. Elephith Sulk has matured a lot. If Mo Tan remembers correctly, when Luke Tifilo was fourteen, this girl should be exactly seventeen years old. In Academy City [Na The Undead Department of Kesamas Comprehensive College is in seventh grade.
As for the half-elf with waist-length black hair and light red eyes sitting opposite Shamar, Mo Tan had no impression at all.
But judging by the costume...
“Is that person also from our Dawn Sect?”
Mo Tan looked at the half-elf woman who was wearing the Dawn Sect's signature white-on-gold priest robe, with the same silver cross hanging on her chest as Shamar and Luke, and asked curiously.
"Yes, this girl with a quarter of the dark elf blood was indeed a member of our Dawn Sect at the time, and she was also a student of Academy City. However, although she was one grade below Effie, she was A sixth-grade student from [Tianhui Theological Seminary], but he is older than the two of us combined.”
Tiffero drank down the cup of black tea in front of him without any image, shrugged and said: "but Margaret had been living a hard life in the Mirkwood for the past forty years, and the total time she had been formally exposed to civilized society was less than twenty years, so in terms of mental age, she was almost a short-lived species, less than twenty years old. "
Mo Tan nodded and said casually: "So...wait, what did you say her name was?"
"Margaret"
Tifilo was not surprised by Mo Tan's reaction. He just continued to throw sugar cubes into the cup that had been refilled for some time, and said leisurely: "Margaret Duzhi, because she doesn't like her very much." His last name is his surname, so he usually lets others call him by his first name."
Mo Tan twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at the figure intently. Although not as good as Yuchen, but enough to make Xia Lian and others feel desperate, the black-haired half-elf with a calm temperament is holding the Dawn Scripture with a smile: "If I remember correctly, there seems to be a person named ..."
"Just the second year after this small gathering, I received a full scholarship as the best student in the past two hundred years. Jin left [Tianhui Theological Seminary] and Margaret disappeared mysteriously on the way to the Capital of Light. Although the United Holy Church deployed a large number of manpower to search, Margaret's whereabouts were still not found."
Tiffero shrugged, and while stirring his black tea that was too sugary with a spoon, he said calmly: "Just One day a year later, when Margaret reappeared in people's sight, she had become the favored one of the Dark Goddess, the contemporary saint of the Dark Night Sect, and the youngest half-step legend."< br>
Mo Tan took a breath and said softly: "I remember you guys had a fight afterwards."
"Yes, just one year after Margaret appeared as the Dark Saint, Xia Lian and I encountered an ambush force led by her and the Dark Knight Commander Gregory on the way to the Ember Valley. Although we There are also Knights Templar of our sect around us, but they still paid a very heavy price."
Tiphilo sighed silently, and then laughed again: "Let's not talk about that, anyway. At least for the moment, the relationship between us is still very harmonious. Although Effie is a necromancer, she is a somewhat reckless and good-natured person who has a good relationship with everyone around her. Although Xia Lian and Margaret They are a bit difficult to deal with, but their relationship is actually not bad. As for me...how should I put it, when Xia Lian hides her identity, I play the role of the leader most of the time, whether it is academic research or entertainment activities. . ”
Mo Tan nodded, did not speak, just turned his attention to the table next to him again...
Under the sunset, Elifes, with the bone staff in his left hand and the reagent in his right hand, was standing. He was gesticulating enthusiastically, his expression full of excitement and excitement; Shamal was lying lazily on the table, reaching out to grab the butterfly full of hazy light on Tifilo's fingertips, and asking Margaret cast a jealous look at her breasts; while Margaret spread the Book of Dawn on the table, her body slightly tilted towards the fourteen-year-old Luke Tefero, with a touch of light on her fair cheeks. blush.
The man who was discussing with Effie and Margaret the application of the improved version of bone transplantation and the metaphor in the seventh section of Chapter 2 of the Holy Book of Dawn focused most of his attention on the light butterfly on his fingertips. The smiling eyes of the young man on the bed hid a subtle, fleeting bitterness and exhaustion.
Mo Tan was very familiar with the bitterness in the eyes of the fourteen-year-old Tifilo, because every time he thought of Yu Chen under his current personality, he would also look like this in the mirror.
"Hypocritical."
As an unknown fire ignited from the bottom of his heart, Mo Tan became more and more interested in the twenty-year-old Luke Tefero in front of him. Not friendly anymore.
“Haha, if I hadn’t been pretentious, I wouldn’t have reached this stage today.”
Tifiro smiled casually and casually said Mo Tan’s explosive comment. After taking it, he shrugged and said: "Let's go back to my fantasy. You probably already know it by now. That is to break through the shackles of life, increase your life span ten times, and be able to easily live for more than a thousand years."< br>
Mo Tan nodded and glanced at Shamar, who was still grabbing the butterfly on Tiphilo's fingertips at the next table: "In this way, we can legitimately pursue the female tyrannosaurus, right?"
"Haha, who says it's not?"
Tiffero grinned and said cheerfully: "I have been a very open-minded child since I was a child. Who would live so long without that stinky bitch? Time? All in all, I had been exchanging information with Effie and Margaret in private. As for the reason why I kept it secret from Shamal, I told them that I was afraid that the careless woman would accidentally let it slip and I would be punished by my godfather. , Effie should have believed it at the time, but as for Margaret...it turned out that she didn't believe it from the beginning, but even so, those two guys were quite cooperative with me."
" Then what?”
“Effie is a master of necromancy. Although she was only seventeen years old at the time, if it was just theoretical knowledge, many expert professors at [Naxxramas Comprehensive Academy] were already inferior. At my request, she spent half of her time investigating the legendary Eternals who can freely switch between life and death, while the other half of her time was used to deconstruct the undead creature [Lich] and its relationship with life. The existence with the least barriers.”
"Then Margaret..."
"She studied soul science for me, trying to find a way of existence that is opposite to ordinary life, but has the same goal."
"Finally..."
"Effie's deconstruction and investigation failed, and Margaret disappeared the day after she wrote to me telling me that she had made a breakthrough."
Chapter 1913: End