Battle of the Two Cities: Begins with the Mage

Inside the embassy.

The corners of Ryan's mouth rose slightly, he shook his head with a smile, put down the scroll in his hand, and looked out of the window, which was the direction of Zaun:

"Silco, the stage is in place, I'm looking forward to your performance."

Tonight is an unusual night.

Far away in Demacia, the Rether garrison is marching towards Piltover, the immortal fortress of Noxus is surging, and the people of Piltover are awakened from their dreams again by the explosion after two months. Zaun, on the other hand, is developing in full swing, even in the middle of the night.

Bang bang.

Hearing the knock on the door, Ryan moved his gaze to the door and raised his palm slightly.

With the palm of his hand toward the door, he gently pulled it back.

squeak~

The stream of water attached to the door handle and pulled the door open, revealing Seraphine and Katerina standing at the door.

Katerina got down on one knee and reported:

"Your Excellency, the mission is complete!"

"You did a good job tonight, but I think you should look at the fourth book from left to right on the third floor of the bookshelf. You should try to learn the real secret trail." Ryan smiled.

Katarina responded, walked to the bookshelf, and glanced at the row of books on the third floor.

"Shadow Stream"

She looked at the large characters on the spine of the ancient dossier, with a hesitant expression on her face.

"If you don't want to go that way, you can consider the one on the left."

It seemed that she knew she was hesitating, and Ryan's voice came from behind.

"Your Excellency, thank you very much."

Katarina decisively took the notebook called "Assassin's Creed", bowed slightly to Ryan, and walked to a corner of the room where the candle was not illuminated, trying to reduce her sense of existence as much as possible.

When Katerina's episode ended, Ryan smiled and looked at the cramped girl holding a book in front of him:

"How do you feel about that book?"

"Mr. Ryan..."

Seraphine lowered her head and hesitated:

"I hear the wailing of the souls inside all the time. It is like a cage, keeping those souls in it."

"It's a very sharp feeling."

With a flick of Ryan's hand, the Soul Stealing Scroll flew into the air, and the pages kept flipping, many of which were glowing with light blue light, but more pages were silent.

"This is a fake I made by imitating a great magic item. Compared with the perfect genuine item, you should be able to feel its flaws."

Seraphine pursed her lips and nodded slightly: "As long as I hold it in my hand, every time I sing, the souls imprisoned inside will dissipate, and their wailing will be even more tragic."

Facing Ryan's encouraging gaze, Seraphine plucked up her courage:

"I understand what you mean, teacher, my innate special ability just means that I have a good starting point. By constantly listening to their complex soul songs, my ability can passively grow rapidly, but it will affect me by itself. I Make sure you don't sink into it!"

"Nice eyes." Ryan showed a faint smile, "Only by staring at the abyss can you understand the abyss faster. You have the right to choose, whether to learn and grow normally, or believe in your own will."

"Mr. Ryan, I believe that I can do it. One day, I will let the whole world hear my singing!"

Seraphine tightened the Soul Stealing Scroll in her hand, her expression full of determination.

"Okay, don't be so serious, I'll help you too, I don't want my first student to fall into darkness. It's still early, so I'll give you the first class."

Ryan motioned for the other party to sit in the guest seat of the study. Seeing the other party's obedient listening expression, he asked his first question:

"You know I'm a mage, so what do you think magic is?

"Magic..."

Seraphine pressed her pink lips with her fingers and pondered for a while, before she answered uncertainly:

"Everything in Runeterra is composed of four elements, earth, water, fire, and wind, and the way to manipulate these elements is called magic."

Her birth was very ordinary, and she never entered an academy or other places to study. But the ability that God brought her enables her to hear a lot of knowledge from other people's souls. When she encounters new knowledge, she will record it in her mind, thinking that she might be able to use it in the future.

"Good insight, these four are the most basic magic elements."

Ryan waved his palm lightly, and clods, water droplets, flames, and whirlwinds appeared in his palm at the same time.

"amazing!"

Seraphine covered her mouth wide and couldn't help but exclaimed:

"I heard that mages only have one attribute of magic."

"Since it's called a mage, it should be all of them. Otherwise, it should be called a water ability person and a fire ability person." Ryan said with a dumb smile.

However, he really didn't think of those juggling clowns who didn't reach the hero level as mages.

He has seen countless mages, but only a few whose strength does not depend on the knowledge of runes, those who are born with powerful mana that is shocking.

"In addition to these four elemental magics, there are many other rare attributes. For example, light, darkness, ice, time and space."

Seraphine blinked and raised her slender hand:

"Teacher, what about the soul?"

"It belongs to the derivation of darkness, but in the past thousand years, too many creatures and undead have tirelessly studied it, and the essence of soul magic has changed from before." Ryan explained.

"Oh! It seems that what I want to study is still very popular, is it too late to change careers now?" Seraphine smiled mischievously.

"Of course, I majored in water attributes, and I am very happy to have a student who can inherit my mantle. Xiao Sa, you have an excellent soul talent. You can learn any rune with half the effort." Ryan said with a chuckle.

As soon as these words came out, Seraphine shook her head like a rattle:

"Mr. Ryan, I was wrong! I still want to be a soul singer, but I will spend time minoring in teacher's water attribute magic."

"As long as you have the heart, I have to correct you first. You are studying soul magic, and you can only study water attribute runes as a minor." Ryan corrected.

"Runes? Magic?" Seraphine blinked in confusion, "Is there any difference between the two?"

"Magic is an innate talent, just like your soul talent. Rune is acquired knowledge, it is an expansion of the mage's follow-up path. The only thing I can really master is water, and the other three are simply created by using runes. Elements."

Ryan pointed to the four basic elements in the air and briefly explained the difference between the two.

"Then how do I learn... um, magic?" Seraphine asked curiously.

"Generally, there are three ways to strengthen one's own talent, study relevant runes in depth, and use precious magical props with extremely high similarity many times."

Seraphine knew everything, and raised the "Meredith's Soul Stealing Scroll" in her hand:

"The magic props are already there. Strengthening talent can be improved by singing songs of the soul. As for the last rune..."

When she said this, she stopped, looking eagerly at Ryan in front of her.