Chi Yan couldn't bear to continue listening, and quickly pulled Andy away with the excuse of "the lecture is about to start".
The Steffen Academy is a relatively special existence in the school. The students in it are all magicians, warriors or scholars who already have a certain level of cultivation or even a small reputation, and are inextricably linked with various imperial forces on the continent. The Steffen Academy was designed by a famous design master on the Western continent. From the outside, it looks unremarkable. The overall building is in the shape of a "Sun", and it is only four stories high, which is quite traditional. But when you walk into it, you can find that there is something special. The "mouth" part above the word "Sun" has been dug four stories down, and the ground floor is completely hollowed out, that is to say, there is a whole open-air courtyard on the ground floor. You can directly see the whole sky and receive sunlight.
The academy often invites famous people from all walks of life to give some lectures. As long as they get news, other students can also register to attend.
Today's keynote speaker is the great court magician of the Omega Empire.
Chi Yan saw Leiyun, and sat next to him with Andy, but was stunned when he heard the speaker's opening - he remembered the sound he heard on the altar that night, outside trying to enter the Chaos Gate. One of the group of people, because it is very sharp and distinctive, he has always been fresh in his memory.
At the same time, Chi Yan found that Andy's body suddenly froze.
"What's wrong?" he asked his friend.
"It's okay." Andy pursed his lips and shook his head gently, but his face was still pale.
It was not until the end of the lecture that Andy took the lead and hurried to the secluded place in the back mountain, and used magic to cast a barrier around him and Chi Yan, then covered his eyes as if he collapsed, and said softly: "That person... That person, I remember his figure and the sound of the spell as he killed my mother."
His father was only a minor noble in the Omega Empire, but his mother was the only daughter of a famous imperial minister who had just retired at the time. He was only nine years old at the time, and his parents were separated due to emotional discord. He and his older brothers and sisters took advantage of the rest to come to their mother for vacation. He was wronged when his brother and sister were playing outside that day, so he ran back to his mother's room alone to seek comfort. His mother is also a magician, but her talent is relatively mediocre. After finding out that the situation was not right, she hid him under her bed and cast a hiding spell to hide him.
He just watched helplessly as a magician wearing a black robe covering his head and face broke in from the window and killed his mother with a high-pitched voice chanting a spell.
What made him even more desperate was that after that, all his relatives, including his father, hurriedly covered up the incident, and even knowing that his mother had died, they only symbolically traced the murderer, but did not really pay attention to it. Find the real murderer.
It has been ten years in the blink of an eye, and this incident has become a thorn buried in his heart, a haze, but he did not expect to meet the murderer again on such an occasion.
Chi Yan comforted his friend for a long time, then sent him back to the dormitory and returned to his room with a heavy heart, and told Heibird what he had seen and heard that day. He didn't expect it to be so coincidental. He stayed at the altar for eight days without finding any clues, but he found the suspect in the lecture, and the other party happened to be a blood feud of a friend.
"I changed my mind. I don't want to just report it to Teacher Tulong anonymously. I want to check it out in person. What is the purpose of the altar and statue that they are trying to approach."
"Whatever you want," the black bird said, it doesn't matter how much you toss, "but you can consider bringing in your friend named Andy, I believe his goals are the same as yours. You can also seek pictures Teacher Long's help, I think he will support you."
After learning that Tulong was a believer of the Goddess of Time, the black bird vaguely guessed that the old man might already know the relationship between Chi Yan and Lord Aimer.
With the help of the black bird, combined with the information from Andy and Mr. Tulong, Chi Yan gradually gained a more comprehensive understanding of the lower realm.
The world is not as peaceful as he sees it. There are two main continents in the lower world, called the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent. The empires on the continent are intriguing and corrupt. At the same time, each empire is ambitious and tries to annex others. The country, rebuilding the glory and glory of the once unified Holy Empire, and under such circumstances, people of different classes see great differences in life and extremely unequal opportunities, the narrow and backward small village where Chi Yan was born is not Case. In addition, there are some small continents, such as the Alpha Continent where they are located, which is relatively neutral and out of the way, and the contradictions in all aspects are not as sharp as those of the two major continents, so Chi Yan in the academy has never felt the reality. those issues.
Realizing all of this, Chi Yan suddenly thought of his mother, the woman who had been blurred in his memory. His heart became heavier and heavier for no reason.
With the court mage as the entry point, they found through investigation that the purpose of those people trying to enter the altar was to use the power of the rare evil god in the world to realize the ambition of launching a war to annex neighboring countries and finally unify the continent. During this period, after Mr. Tulong's suggestion, Freida, an orphan who was adopted and raised by a martial arts master on the street, and Leiyun, the fifth prince of the Lanqin Empire, were also recruited into Chi Yan and Andy's team to join them. Do these surveys.
Because of the maintenance of Chi Yan, the old Dean Tulong was questioned, but at the same time, he did not trust the colleagues around him so much in the process. This has already involved the imperial forces on the mainland, and he is worried about making a fool of himself, so he prefers to point the children to "mischief" without a trace—perhaps it's not a joke, they found a lot of problems, these young people still have the most simple of justice and the most vigorous enthusiasm. Moreover, behind them stood the most powerful, and perhaps some unreasonably guarding gods.
Chi Yan slipped quietly to the altar in the evening. He asked Teacher Tulong for other ways to summon gods, but the teacher said that he had no other way. In fact, after hearing his question, Dean Tulong's expression was still strange for a moment, but it was quickly covered up. So Chi Yan still had to use the old method to summon Ye Yingzhi all the time.
Today, because of something in his heart, he has not fallen asleep all the time, so he quietly rubbed against Ye Yingzhi's chest without speaking, as if he was very melancholy.
Looking at his appearance, Ye Yingzhi almost broke his heart into pieces and held it to him. He would give Chi Yan anything he wanted, and he just wanted to rub people into his heart and coax him.
But Chi Yan didn't say anything, he could only coax a little patiently: "Baby, Ah Yan, what's the matter? You don't seem to be happy today?"
Chi Yan buried his face in his arms, put his arms around his waist, and said sullenly, "I'm thinking, if I were a king, I would definitely make my people live well."
This was naive and childish, but Ye Yingzhi couldn't bear to laugh at him, instead he said, "Then I'll take you somewhere."
He said, directly holding Chi Yan's hand, embracing him away from the altar, transforming into a black giant dragon in the sky, carrying him and flying away into the distance.
Ye Yingzhi took him to the northernmost part of Dongyuan Continent, Chi Yan looked down, and gradually appeared in the field of vision, the continuous snow-capped mountains, the black hard and fortress, and the large pine forests.
In the end, they stopped in front of a black and solemn castle, Chi Yan slipped off the dragon, Ye Yingzhi regained his human form, and led him forward. The castle was built on a mountain, covering an extremely wide area, majestic and imposing, with no end in sight. All the soldiers in black armor on the way kneeled on one knee respectfully and bowed their heads in salute to them.
"What place is this?" Chi Yan asked curiously, looking around at the decorations and furnishings in the castle.
"This is the palace of the East Dark Empire. The hobby of the Dark God is to be an emperor in the world, so he established this empire and made himself the supreme ruler of the country. You said that you wanted to be a king, and I just took this country with him just now. Borrow it. Now I am the emperor of the empire." Under the influence of divine magic, the human beings in the lower realms could not find out that their emperor had been replaced, nor would they notice anything unusual.
"what about me?"
Ye Yingzhi leaned down slightly and looked at his lover: "You are still too young, and there are too many things to learn. I won't let you fool around in the lower realm. You should follow your father to study hard and then talk about it. "
"Father?" Chi Yan looked at Ye Yingzhi and widened his eyes.
"Well," a smile appeared on Ye Yingzhi's lips, "In my setting, I am a young king who has always been single without marriage and no children. You are my heir from the clan, the lower realm. I am your uncle and your adoptive father in the eyes of the people in your life. So whatever you want, uncle, father, godfather or adoptive father, these names can be called, my little prince."
There was a hint of teasing in his black eyes: "Don't forget."
Chi Yan was about to cry at his shamelessness. Obviously, there are a lot of gods who are old and don't know how long they have lived. They have to set themselves up as "young kings", and they have to take advantage of themselves in terms of relationships, which is completely bad.
Ye Yingzhi looked at him indignantly and couldn't say anything, smiled and lowered his head and kissed his eyes lightly, then reached out and picked him up and carried him directly to the study: "Come on, godfather will give my little prince first today. Tell us about the situation in our country, Your Highness."
Part 2: The Devil's Game