Your Excellency Nicholas, what are you...... Got it thought about? ”

Bernardino's spirit was still in a wheelchair, tilting his head slightly and smiling warmly at Nicholas.

Nicholas II frowned slightly, but did not say much.

But he still regretted it a little in his heart...... When he saw the remnants of Bernardino's spirit, he was not able to kill him directly.

It's too late now.

Today, Bernardino's limbs and head had been restored—his spirit had been fully restored.

And after Bernardino's spirit was restored, he was even able to put pressure on Nicholas II.

This surprised Nicholas II.

Most of the gold-level transcendents are because they have only advanced to gold; But the reason why Nicholas is the Golden Order is because he doesn't have the Book of Truth, so he can only stop here.

In Nicholas's memory...... In the entire civilized world west of the desert, there are less than five transcendent beings who can confront him.

One of the strongest is the man in the mirror who has now successfully become a god.

Master Michelangelo, the Lord of the White Tower of the Wind and the "Eye of Lag", is recognized as the strongest wizard in the world.

He is able to directly create artificial lifeforms (his stone statues), and is able to travel through time at will—seeing the future years from now, and entering the timeline of the past to change the world.

Just the spell he gave power to him could go back in time to a certain extent. He himself was able to enter the "past" to attack an enemy who was unaware of it at the time and therefore defenseless, and then became invincible.

It can be said that the "Eye of Lag" is the apex of wizard power.

It was only in the event of a long and protracted battle that Nicholas in his heyday had the confidence to defeat him, and in that memory, Nicholas was the one who held the Philosopher's Stone.

The reason for the short lifespan of the Golden Rank is that if they want to use the power of the elements, they must burn their souls; And the more you use the power of this element, the deeper its awakening will become.

But obviously, people can't live after burning out their souls.

That's why you need to replenish your soul from nightmares, rituals, or all kinds of rare spells, or increase the depth of your element's awakening.

With the Philosopher's Stone, you can't replenish your own souls that have already been consumed, but you can burn them instead of souls. And the combustion efficiency can be said to be very high -

A Philosopher's Stone made by a bronze wizard can replace about one-tenth of the soul of a gold-level wizard for consumption; As for the wizard of the silver rank, he can burn almost 50%.

It's not just that the resource bar has gone up dramatically.

- This means that all elemental awakening levels can be easily increased to 100% depth.

In fact, the four elements that Nicholas has awakened have all been raised to 100% by him. This is an advantage for ordinary gold-level transcendents, which is a crushing-level advantage.

But when he faced Michelangelo, he still had no chance of winning.

That's Michelangelo's strength.

It was an old man who could play with time and soul.

He's even stronger than the Skeleton and the Rotter.

Of the only three gods who were forcibly canonized by the Book of Truth, neither the Skeleton nor the Rotten Man were actually complete - the Skeleton Boy was already more or less a god, but half of the truth was missing, and the Rotten Man was only half a god.

And Michelangelo, the man in the mirror, is the first god in the true sense of the word who does not rely on the Book of Truth and is perfect as a god.

Not only is the ritual complete and perfect, but his ritual is sealed in the distant past - to break his ritual one must travel back in time.

The power that can travel to the past is in the hands of the person in the mirror.

The only difference between using the Book of Truth and ritual is that the Book of Truth exists in the body and merges with the soul; And the ritual disc is not only outside the body, but even fixed somewhere.

As long as the ritual is violently destroyed, the false gods who rely on this way to become gods will fall.

For example, the ceremonial plate of the Bone Gong is the bones buried in the Principality of Mourning Song - as long as these bones are dug up and reburied, the Bone Gong will lose his strength and fall directly.

And in this sense, the rotten man is more powerful than the bone man.

Because of his ritual disk, it has not yet been completed...... His strength was far inferior to that of a normal god, and even a saint who had just inherited the holy bones could directly confront him.

…… So it's very difficult to target him.

After the person in the mirror accumulates the newly acquired truth for a while, he may be able to jump directly to a higher position than the Skeleton Gong and the Rotten Man.

- but Bernardino is different.

In the memory inherited by Nicholas II, there is no trace of this person at all. I haven't even heard of it.

Originally, Nicholas II thought that this was because Bernardino was not powerful and kept a low profile, so Nicholas knew nothing about him......

But now, after Bernardino's spirit was restored, Nicholas II felt a clear pressure on him.

- This is not at all a strength from his soul crippled state.

In the previous state, I am afraid that it was accumulating strength, or simply sealing itself.

…… This is definitely a level of pressure that can cause a life-threatening level to Nicholas.

This not only made Nicholas II somewhat doubt his memory, whether something was wrong.

- Nicholas has been on the world for more than 100 years.

How could it be that he had never heard of such a strong Gold-level transcendent at all?

Or is it ...... Did Nicholas deliberately erase all the memories of Bernardino?

It's because of the "father" that he ...... Don't want me to have a relationship with Bernardino?

"If you say yes, I'll tell you...... Secrets about your father and your origins. ”

Bernardino had a mysterious, gentle smile on his face.

He said slowly, "It's something you absolutely don't know and can't recall."

"I can swear. If you don't know about it, you'll regret it one day. ”

“…… Then if I know about it, I won't regret it? ”

Nicholas II asked rhetorically.

The old man just smiled and said nothing.

The gentle white-haired young man stared at the old man's spirit, thinking quietly and silently.

Perhaps, this is a trap.

Maybe Nicholas didn't want to know this person.

…… But perhaps, that's why.

I also want to-

“…… I promise you. ”

Nicholas II replied: "But one of the raw materials of the Stone of the Hermetic Magosophers is the fresh bone marrow of the wizard. It's not an easy material to come by. ”

Knowing that this could cause huge trouble, knowing that this might be detected by Father Shi...... Even Father Shi released his soul just to fish and enforce the law.

But he had a very definite intuition in his heart -

If you don't promise each other here, you will definitely regret it.

"It doesn't matter."

Bernardino said slowly: "By the way, before you tell me the recipe, I will kindly pay you a deposit." You can also give it as a giveaway.

"—[How many Nicholas are there]?"

The corners of the old man's mouth rose slightly: "You'd better think about this matter carefully."

"Think with your heart, Nicholas."