From Prisoner to Si Chen..

Chapter 407: Fierce Sheep
Gilan and Ms. Crow spent a relatively pleasant morning dining and chatting on the lawn of Chessboard Manor.

They talked about current affairs, the occult circles, and then alchemy.

What surprised Ms. Crow was that Gillan Iros actually had extremely profound knowledge of alchemy, and some of his unique insights were a great inspiration to her.

Originally, at the party when they first met, Jillian didn't say a word, which made her mistakenly believe that this young man was just a beginner with weak foundation, so he couldn't integrate into the discussion.

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

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

She also had a strong premonition.

Perhaps in the near future, this young man will emerge in the mysterious circle and gradually become a legendary figure like Pala.

Near noon, Jilan bid farewell to Ms. Crow, left Chessboard Manor and returned to the mortal 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 "Colorful" and once again deduce the player's path to the 5th-level essence.

This time I got the secret of "Light" from Ms. Crow. With this key blueprint, it will definitely be a lot easier to deduce.

Jilan closed his eyes, concentrated his attention, and kept recalling the three fifth-level secrets of "doll", "monster" and "light" in his mind.

Soon, colorful light shone in Jilan's eyes, and "colorful" was aroused, constantly carrying out deduction.

However, it failed again this time.

"Hmm? Is the mysterious energy still not enough...?"

The colorful light in Jilan's eyes slowly faded, and a look of regret appeared on his face.

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

'It seems that even with the secret of "light", the energy required for deduction is still huge. But it's not bad, at least it reduces the point gap of 2000.'

Gilan sighed secretly.

Only by providing "Banlan" with the secrets of various paths as references can it have a sufficient foundation to deduce new essences.

Although Jilan felt it was a pity, he had to put the matter aside for the time being. Either he continued to collect secrets, or he accumulated enough points to deduce.

"Hmm... I collected a lot of kingdom seals in the Unbeaten Legend. Let's burn them all in the Cross Sword Bonfire."

He thought about it, walked to the chair by the window, sat down, leaned back, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

My breathing gradually became calmer and my consciousness began to sink.

Jilan soon arrived at the sea of ​​dreams under the night sky again. His own spiritual island was still quiet, except for the cross sword bonfire burning in the open-air stone hall in the center.

He walked on the stone path and quickly came to the campfire. After stopping, he raised his hand, spread his five fingers, and lifted it up in the air.

hum.

buzzing-

One after another, colorful imprints appeared, suspended in Jilan's palm, and kept rotating.

These kingdom seals all have the same pattern, with a sword embedded in the center of concentric circles and a faint outline of a beast.

There is another slightly different, slightly larger, more complex brand, which is a combination of concentric circles and the Holy Grail, with the outline of a distorted human body emerging.

"Nine 4th-level "beast" brands, and one 5th-level "corpse" brand..."

Jilan counted the number, looking thoughtful.

"I have never swallowed so many marks at once. I wonder what kind of changes will happen to my spiritual kingdom."

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and threw the ten kingdom seals in his hand into the cross sword bonfire at once.

Puff puff!
The fire of the Cross Sword Bonfire was low at first, then it suddenly grew stronger. It was as if adding fuel to the fire, the flames were rapidly catalyzed and burned violently.

Jilan noticed that the imprints of the kingdoms became distorted and deformed in the flames, as if they were torn left and right by some force, emitting colorful light.

The familiar spiral column of fire appeared again, rising into the sky. But this time it was even more intense, the fire tornado continued to spin, and even raised a strong wind.

Swish——

Jilan soon felt that the island beneath his feet began to tremble slightly, as if there was an earthquake.

The rumbling sound continued.

He saw that new carved stone slabs began to appear in 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 thumb-thumbnail stone throne seemed to have received some kind of power and slowly raised his arm.

The skeleton crown burning with green flames became even more dazzling, and the translucent scarlet cloak on the shoulders was flaming and swaying like flames.

Jilan's eyes suddenly fixed.

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

It seemed to be a white ram with ferocious horns. The corner of its mouth was rotten and there was a wound extending behind its ear.

It looked as if he was grinning.

Aries was wearing a gray stone skeleton armor similar to the one worn by the "Mad King", and green flames were burning on all four of his feet.

"It seems that after consuming ten Kingdom Marks, my mind has not only become stronger, but also given rise to a monster..."

Gillan was quite surprised.

But soon, he thought of something.

'The Beast Essence belongs to the Way of the Gladiator in March, and this Hour symbolizes the Aries in the Zodiac... After absorbing a large amount of the same essence, the monster appears in the form of Aries.'

"Well, there is also the influence of the "corpse" essence, which has caused the appearance and power of this sheep-shaped monster to change."

'It can be used as the mount of the Mad King. After I cast the King's Presence, we can appear in the mortal world together.'

Gilan looked at the giant ram behind the throne, which was two wheels larger than a regular horse, and couldn't help laughing. He said softly:
"Let's name it 'The Grinning Sheep'."

The monster that was given the name opened its big mouth, revealing densely packed sharp teeth.

It seems to be laughing.

Jilan was quite surprised at the changes in his mind. He estimated that according to conventional standards, his mental strength had probably reached the ceiling of level 5, and was almost reaching a new height of level 6.

'The strength of the mind is one or two levels higher than my own essence level. Perhaps it can be used as a trump card to lure in the unaware enemy and kill him.'

Gillan lowered his eyes, planning something bad.

It was precisely because the ninth pigeon, Didier, was unaware of this that she broke into his spiritual kingdom and was caught by the "Mad King".

According to the common sense of mysticism, the human mind is generally fragile, which is a recognized weakness.

Once someone invades a person's mind and forcibly destroys the imprint, it is equivalent to directly destroying that person's spirituality and source of power.

This is also the most feared aspect of the secret societies "The Choir" and "The Dove Tower".

They seem to have mastered the secret method of invading the mind. If you are hostile to them, you will capsize in the gutter if you are not careful. They can completely avoid fighting you head-on, but take the opportunity to sneak into the depths of your mind and destroy the imprint of your kingdom when you are careless.

But now, Jilan doesn't have to worry about such tricks. On the contrary, he hopes that these enemies will come to him.

"Having swallowed so many Kingdom Marks at once, including a Level 5 one... I believe the four members of the Hand of Dawn have also been infused with power, right?"

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

And the facts are consistent with his conjecture.

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

Among them, Red Bird Aurora even crossed the level 3 threshold on the spot and caught up with the progress of the three people including Cang Guan.

With the help of this power, the four secret society members all completed their accumulation in an instant. Once the Divine Homeland Mark is completed, they can be directly promoted to the 4th level Jiushi.

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

It must have been him who hunted down the new Jiuze and devoured the opponent's kingdom mark, so that he could "drink the soup".

However, the power they obtained this time was too huge, so the four of them were wondering how many Jiushi people Mr. Gillan had killed...

The power comes so frequently, how come Mr. Gilan kills the Kushiro like killing chickens? !

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

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

At this moment, it was already a little after one in the afternoon.

Gillan walked out of the room, went downstairs, said something to old Charles, and then drove to Triumph Building alone.

As soon as he knocked on the door of the chairman's office, he explained the situation to teacher Pala with an apologetic look on his face:
"Sorry, teacher, I didn't come to class this morning because I had an appointment with Ms. Crow for a commission."

"No problem." The old man sitting behind the curved desk smiled and waved his hand. "How is the commission going?"

"It has been successfully completed." Gilan came over and sat down at Pala's signal. "Fosaka and his team, I successfully obtained the commission target, a real film called "The Legend of the Unbeaten"."

"The film has been delivered to Lady Crow, and I got the secret of 'light' from her."

"Very good." Pala nodded and smiled.

"Oh, right, 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 Fosaka royal family on my way back."

"Hmm..." Pala took the two items and looked at them. "A 'Saar Card' and a 'Taunus Stone Statue'."

"The Sar card is quite precious and is only circulated among the upper echelons of the esoteric circle. If you really want to measure its value, it is roughly equivalent to about 1000 Caesars."

Pala explained to his students.

"As for this stone statue, do not try to activate it unless necessary. This will cause the March Apostle to sense it."

"The head of state has no relationship with Si Chen, and the two sides do not interfere with each other."

Gillan nodded to show that he understood.

"I understand, teacher."

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

"Yes," Gillan responded.

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Study life is always peaceful and time flies by unnoticed.

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, Jilan studied with teacher Pala step by step every day.

For Para Celsus, who had thoroughly mastered the new stages of body building, meditation and secret swordsmanship, after the initial shock, he gradually fell into a state of numbness and familiarity.

Pala, who originally considered himself a genius, occasionally felt emotional after meeting Gilan, and thought to himself that in every era, there would always be some unreasonable legendary figures in this world.

And will I, by chance, be able to accept a student who will eventually become a legend?
He originally thought that Jilan was a young man with some talent, whose character and beliefs were trustworthy, so when his own life was about to end, he accepted him as his successor.

As long as the other party can learn a little bit of knowledge from me, I will have no regrets.

But Gilan's performance time and time again gradually made Pala change his mind and gave him more hope.

Perhaps, this student could surpass me...

Ultimately, he would replace himself, do better than himself, and lead the empire into the peaceful and prosperous era that the Knights had dreamed of.

Pala is looking forward to it.

Jilan felt more and more pressure during the learning process. The "Secret Pattern of the Sage" taught by Teacher Pala was extremely profound, much more profound than the general "Decomposition and Reconstruction Technique".

The difference between the two is like the difference between the four arithmetic operations and the Stokes equation. Even though the metaphor here is exaggerated, the "decomposition and reconstruction" technique is not simple.

But this still made it quite difficult for him to learn.

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

Just like this, the original remaining "1112" points of mysterious energy finally became "112" after multiple consumptions, with 1000 points invested in it.

Gillan's savings were once again emptied out.

Of course, he didn't regret it. After all, he paid so many points, so the gains were naturally not small.

He has now gained a preliminary understanding of the "Secret Marks of the Sage" and can formally communicate in depth with his teacher Pala about some of his own ideas.

So, on March 3st.

Parra announced that classes would be suspended.

The master and disciple entered the conception and testing phase, specifically to design a unique "Sage's Secret Mark" for Jilan.

Seven days later.

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

Pala was holding a red crystal prism pen and was seriously engraving extremely detailed lines and symbols on Gilan's palms.

The tip of the pen was so sharp that it cut through Jillan's skin, allowing the special red alchemical elixir it was stained with to seep into it, before closing it with a scarlet arc of electricity.

These lines are so fine that they are difficult to see even through a high-power microscope.

Time passed quietly and it was evening.

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

"Jilan, your 'Secret Mark of the Sage' has been engraved."

(End of this chapter)