Streets of Philadelphia, Billy.
Batson is running.Running wildly, panting, exhausted, but not daring to stop.Behind him, several guys were chasing him.That's a couple of bullies, bad students in his school.I heard that there is still some unclear relationship with the gangs outside.Billy is an orphan who has always lived on his own.It stands to reason that he will always choose to protect himself and will not provoke these troublesome guys.But...
Sometimes, impulsiveness can interfere with emotions and thinking, especially for a 15-year-old, who can't control themselves when anger is up.Today is the 10th day since Father Paul's death.During these 10 days, Billy's life was no different than before, and he was sent to another foster home.There was something different about that family.It was a family of two orphans who had grown up, and they had adopted six children, the seventh with Billy.That family was unlike any foster home Billy had ever been with before.There is no deception, no conflict, and no hidden dangerous elements.A family of 8 people live in one house, which is very crowded and the quality of life is average, but everyone lives happily.Happy...
Billy was only 15 years old, but he really didn't see the heartfelt joy on the faces of those children.It made him panic a little.It's like a person who has been witnessing the dark side of society and is suddenly pulled into the warm sun.The sun was great, it was warm, but it still made people feel overwhelmed.He didn't know how to accept it all, like a hedgehog to protect himself, trying to keep himself from being hurt.Until today.The school bully bullies Billy's "brother", so he explodes, impulsively, and gets into trouble."
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
”Billy waved his hands to get out of the way of everyone else in the subway station in front of him, and he fled all the way to the subway as the bullies chased him.He had to get rid of these guys.Young people will always do a lot of bad things regardless of their enthusiasm.If he's unlucky, Billy will probably end up in the hospital with these little riffraff.After the dissolution of the Heroes Guild in Philadelphia, law and order returned to what it used to be.Without the helpful vigilantes, the officers were stuck in a barrage of bad things, and they simply had the time and energy to manage a group of teenagers fighting.Billy's luck wasn't bad, though.He rushed into the car just before the subway door closed, the closing door separating him from the chasing riffraff.Panting Billy sat in his seat, and he didn't want to pay attention to the guys who banged on the door and threw harsh words at him."
It's stupid."
Holding his head, Billy whispered, "How could you get yourself in such trouble!"
Billy.
Butson, are you having a brain twitch?
You shouldn't be so impulsive. ”The child held his head and looked unhappy.He's reviewing himself.It's a good habit.Especially for young people, being good at self-examination always allows people to find a lot of shortcomings and then correct them.Make yourself better out of it.Or become more cunning."
Why should I be nosy?"
Billy leaned against the speeding subway, looking at the glass across from him, and at the lights of the billboards that shone beyond it.He could have left it alone.He had only known the "brother" in his foster family for a few days, and he couldn't even speak more than 20 words, and their relationship was not good enough to make Billy work for him.Why was I so angry at the time?
He lifted his wrist and looked at the bracelet he had tied to his wrist.and the red cross hanging from underneath that bracelet.In the dim light of the subway, the cross shone with a strange refracted halo, which looked unusually beautiful.Billy stared at the spinning cross and said, "It's all because of you...
The priest said let me open my heart to the world...
This is the consequence of accepting other people's feelings. ”Billy pouted, "Trouble, bad trouble." ”Although it is said that it is so.But the boy didn't take the bracelet off or throw it away.He carefully removed it from his wrist.It's a bracelet made for adults, and it's long enough to hang around the neck of an emaciated Billy for a beautiful pendant.He put it snugly.The coldness that touched his skin made Billy blink.Exhausted from the run, he leaned back in his seat, intending to take a nap.But just as the child closed his eyes, a wave of magic suddenly reverberated in the carriage.It's like some weird circle has been activated.The light in the carriage shone brightly, and between the lights turned on and off, everyone else in the carriage became eerily transparent like smoke, and then disappeared.This wagon, which has become odd, carries Billy.
Butson rushes into another world alone.The rapidly spreading ice lingered on the glass on both sides of the carriage, and the eerily twisted text on the LED signs above the carriage that marked the station.The halos of those lights distort into special symbols.There are 7 unknown symbols...
Repeated beatings.The vibration of the "bang" carriage in a few seconds will be the sleeping Billy.
Batson woke up as if the carriage had arrived, and as if he had hit something.He opened his eyes blankly, and in the dim light, Billy found that he was the only one left in the entire carriage."
Hey, is anyone there?"
He stood up with his bag in his hand, and he looked in amazement at the frost floating on the glass of the carriage.He felt scared.Although he knew he could see things that others could not, Father Paul also told him when he left that he had some kind of gift.But at the end of the day, he's just a 15-year-old.The strange scene in front of him made his heart furious, and he wanted to leave and return to the outside world, but he didn't know what to do."
Bang" is right in Billy.
When Butson was at a loss, the closed car door in front of him suddenly opened, revealing a dim mountain wall, and in the mountain wall in front of him, there was a strange cave.And light shone out of the cavern.Orange, warm glow."
You're letting me in?"
Billy gripped the door of the carriage, and with a gaze that was a mixture of wariness and fear, the subway would not have been possible under normal circumstances.And the meaning of the self-opening door is already clear.He had to pass.If he wants to leave.Billy took a deep breath as he tried to calm himself down.Carrying his bag on his back, he stepped out of the carriage that had crashed into the mountain wall, and walked along the twisting mountain path into the cave.To his surprise, the cave was huge.It's like a palace carved out of the rocks.At the top of the palace, there were flickering candles, those lit candles suspended in the air, and the dancing fires were active, and they refracted the light of a fireplace on the smooth mountain walls.This place is definitely a secret place.Billy looked at the ground, and there was a very unique pattern there, full of some kind of mystery, maybe it was a magic circle.But this mysterious place is like it has been ransacked.The ground was covered with shattered glass and rocks that had fallen from a great height.There are also some broken statues, strange statues, thrown on the ground like scattered stones, but some hideous sculptural limbs can still be seen.It's like some demons.A delicate astronomical ball was toppled to the ground, and brass signs were scattered everywhere.The candle-lit stars above the dome also dimmed, so that the religious frescoes carved around the dome lost their solemnity and solemnity.It is a ruined temple.Well, probably.Billy cautiously walked around the shattered objects on the ground, not daring to touch any of them.He walked forward, and after going around a fallen statue, he saw the end of the temple.There is a stone platform above the ground, and on top of it, seven chairs are placed.And in the center of the chair, a gray-haired man wearing a red robe with a yellow lightning bolt symbol and a black staff in his hand was lying.Blood was dripping from his wounds and he looked like he was unconscious.He is the only life in this temple.And he undoubtedly needs help.Billy hesitated, grabbed his bag, took the bandage he had with him from it, and threw it at the unconscious, wizard-like old man.The bandage smashed on the ground, waking the unconscious old man up.He struggled to prop himself up with his staff, and he looked ahead.He said, "Don't hide...
Come out!
”Hiding behind the shattered statue, Billy looked up like a groundhog.He bared half of his head and cautiously said to the old wizard, "Who are you?"
I was sent here, did you do it?
”"There's no time for that."
The old wizard didn't look at the bandages on the ground, he stood up, his staff in hand, and walked towards Billy.But the closer he got to Billy, the stranger the old wizard's expression became."
No, that's not right!"
In a weak voice, he said, "You have a magical physique, and it looks like a good fit, but your soul...
Not so pure!
”"You're not what I'm looking for...
Detection magic went wrong?
How is that possible—" He stared at Billy hiding behind the statue.
Batson, his dim eyes shone with some kind of aura of magic, like a ring of ashes in his pupils.Soon, the old wizard discovered the anomaly in Billy's body."
That thing!
Something hanging around your neck!
Give it to me!
”The old wizard gritted his teeth and said to Billy, "Quick!
”"There's no time!""
No!"
Holding the bracelet around his neck, Billy stepped back and said, "The angel told me not to give it to anyone!"
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”"Angels?"
The old wizard narrowed his eyes, and he said, "Heaven is watching you too?"
No, you don't have any magic left on you. ”"Give it to me!"
The old wizard's tone was a little heavier, and his wand was on the ground.The orange, flame-like magic burned open, enveloping Billy as he fled in terror.But the fire of magic did not hurt the child.The moment the light of fire touched Billy, it was as if it had been swallowed up by some unseen beast.The addition of pure magic gave Billy a faint glow from the cross hanging from his chest.It's like a sign being activated, or a door being opened.The soul fragments sealed in the bracelet were stimulated, and Merlin, who was far away in hell, also felt the sting.He surged his consciousness along with the Dao Marker that bloomed with his magical power, as if he had jumped into a curtain of light that shone with runes.The next moment, in the strange temple of the old wizard, between the filling of magic and the reverberation of the hum, Merlin opened his eyes.Like an illusory ghost, he was removed from Billy who fell to the ground.
Batson's chest hovered.He was dressed in black robes, and the moment he appeared, the shadow that existed in the temple was like a floating wave of water, enveloping the soul."
Snap" Merlin flicked his fingers, and a wave of magic power gushed out, easily dispersing the flame light curtain blooming in front of him.In the streamer of flames dissipating, he lowered his head.Looking at Billy, who fell to the ground, holding his bag, with a frightened face.He said to the boy, "Don't be afraid...""
You, who are you?"
Billy looked at the black ghost that suddenly appeared in surprise, and he asked in a jerky tone.Merlin didn't answer, he looked at the red cross that Billy held in his hand.Confused, he said, "I don't know why Paul gave it to you...
Are you his grandson?
Or someone else?
”"I—" Before Billy could reply, the frail old wizard stepped out of the shattered streamer and looked at Merlin suspended in mid-air.He said, "You...
You're the one I'm looking for!
”"Come, one of pure souls!
Hold my staff tightly, chant my name, and carry on my mission..."
Merlin stared at the somewhat crazy old wizard in front of him.He could feel that this wizard must have been strong in his heyday, but he was old, old, and wounded.The man who did it must have hated him.There was a surge of strange magic that pierced his heart and soul.Definitely going to kill him.But the person who started it was like a rookie with little magic experience.The surging magic did pierce the old wizard's body and soul, but it didn't make another stab to completely cut off the vitality.Tsk, that's interesting."
I refuse!"
Merlin was suspended in the air, and he looked at the old wizard with his staff in front of him.He said, "It's already a big loss for me to accept power of unknown origin, let alone this..."
He looked up at the dome of the palace in the mountains, the murals, the magical nodes hidden in them, which constituted a rather fantastical figure in Merlin's eyes."
I've never seen anything like this, but I can probably guess.""
Look at these circles that attract power, they remind me of some memories from a long time ago, magical dualism...""
The other extreme of the traditional magic system relies on external forces to forge extraordinary bodies."
Merlin said to the surprised old wizard, "The so-called power of the gods...""
If I'm not mistaken, this is the Rock of Eternity?""
You—" The old wizard's eyes sparkled with shock, and he pointed to Merlin suspended in the air, his fingers trembling and speechless.Merlin shrugged his shoulders, he put his hands together on his abdomen, and said, "Don't look at me like that, Your Excellency, don't look at me like I'm miserable now, but...""
I used to be a great wizard anyway..."