Billy Batson is running on the streets of Philadelphia.

Running wildly, panting, exhausted, but dared not stop.

Behind him, several guys were chasing him.

Those were a few bullies and bad students in his school.

I heard that I have some unclear relationships with the gang outside.

Billy is an orphan, and he has always lived alone.

Logically speaking, he always chooses to protect himself and will not cause trouble.

but...

Sometimes, impulses always interfere with emotions and thinking, especially for a 15-year-old child, when anger surges, they can't control themselves.

It is the 10th day since Father Paul's death today.

During these 10 days, Billy's life was no different from before, and he was sent to another foster family.

That family is a little different.

It was a family of two orphans who grew up and adopted six children, and Billy was the seventh one.

That family is different from all the foster care families Billy has been to before.

There is no deception, no conflict, and no hidden dangers.

A family of 8 lives in a house, which is very crowded and has an average quality of life, but everyone lives happily.

hapiness...

Although Billy is only 15 years old, he has rarely seen the kind of inner happiness on the faces of those children.

This made him a little panicked.

It's like a person who has been witnessing the dark side of society, suddenly being pulled into the warm sunshine.

The sun is great and warm, but it still makes people feel at a loss.

He didn't know how to accept all this, it was like a hedgehog who protected himself, trying to keep himself from being hurt.

Until today.

The bully in the school bullies bullied Billy's "brother", so he broke out, and he was impulsive and caused a big disaster.

"Get out of here! Get out of here!"

Billy waved his hands and asked everyone else in the subway station in front of him to get out of the way. He fled all the way to the subway under the pursuit of those bullies.

He has to get rid of these guys.

After being passionate, young people will always do a lot of bad things regardless of their concern.

If you are unlucky, Billy will likely be sent to the hospital by these little gangsters.

After the disbandment of the Heroes Association in Philadelphia, social security returned to its former situation.

Without those volunteers who are willing to help others, the police officers are stuck with a lot of bad things, and they are all in time and energy to manage a group of teenagers' fights.

But Billy's luck is pretty good.

He rushed into the car just before the subway door was closed, and the closed door separated him from the little gangsters who were chasing him.

Billy was in his seat, and he didn't want to pay attention to the guys who slapped the car door and threw harsh words at him.

"It's so stupid."

Billy held his head and whispered:

"How could you get yourself into such trouble! Billy Batterson, are you crazy? You shouldn't be so impulsive."

The child held his head and looked unhappy.

He is reviewing himself.

This is a good habit.

Especially for young people, being good at self-examination can always make people discover many shortcomings and then correct them.

Make yourself better.

Or become more cunning.

"Why should I meddle in other people's business?"

Billy leaned against the galloping subway, looking at the glass opposite and the lights of the billboards shining outside the glass.

He could clearly ignore that.

He had only known the "brother" from his foster family for a few days, and he didn't even talk more than 20 words. Their relationship was not so good that Billy could fight for him.

Why was I so angry at that time?

He raised his wrist and looked at the bracelet that he had tied to his wrist.

and the red cross hanging below the bracelet.

In the dim lights of the subway, the cross shone with a strange refraction halo, looking extremely beautiful.

Billy stared at the spinning cross, and he said:

"It's all because of you... the priest said that I opened my heart to accept the world... This is the consequence of accepting the feelings of others."

Billy curled his lips:

"Trouble, bad trouble."

Even though he said so.

But the child did not take off the bracelet or throw it away.

He carefully took it off his wrist.

This is a bracelet made for adults, and its chain is long enough to hang around the thin-bodied Billy's neck, treating it as a beautiful pendant.

He put it close to his body.

The coldness that touched the skin made Billy blink.

The run just now exhausted him, and he leaned against the seat, intending to take a nap.

But just as the child closed his eyes, a magic power suddenly echoed in the carriage.

It's like some weird magic circle being activated.

The light in the carriage shone. As the light disappeared, the others in the carriage became strangely transparent like smoke, and then disappeared.

The strange carriage carried Billy Batson alone and rushed into another world.

The rapidly spreading ice lingered on the glass on both sides of the carriage, and the LED light signs used to mark the station above the carriage, and the words jumping on them were strangely twisted.

The halos of those lamps are twisted into special symbols.

There are 7 symbols that are not known...

Repeated beating.

"Clang"

The vibration of the carriage woke Billy Batson, who was sleeping in a few seconds, woke up as if the carriage had arrived at the station, and it seemed that it 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 here?"

He stood up with his bag, and he looked at the frost floating on the glass of the carriage in surprise.

He felt scared.

Although he knew he could see something that others could not see, Father Paul also told him that he had some talent when he left.

But after all, he is just a 15-year-old.

The strange scene in front of him made him feel scared. He wanted to leave and return to the outside world, but he didn't know what to do.

"Clang"

Just when Billy Batson was at a loss, the closed car door in front of him suddenly opened, revealing a dim mountain wall. There was a strange cave in the mountain wall in front of him.

A light shone out from the cave.

Orange, warm light.

"You let me in?"

Billy grabbed the door of the carriage and looked at the mountain road in front of him with a mixed look of vigilance and fear. Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for the subway to drive here.

The meaning of the automatic opening car door is already very clear.

He must pass.

If he wants to leave.

Billy took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

He carried his bag and stepped out of the carriage that hit the mountain wall step by step, and walked along the twisted mountain path into the cave.

To his surprise, the cave was very large.

It's like a palace carved out of rocks.

At the top of the palace, there are shaking candles, the lit candles floating in the air, the beating fire is very active, and they reflect the burning light on the smooth mountain walls like the burning fireplace.

This place must be a secret place.

Billy looked at the ground, and there was a very unique pattern, full of some mysterious feeling, which might be a magic circle.

But this mysterious place seemed to have been sacked.

The ground was covered with broken glass and rocks falling from high places.

There are also some broken statues and strange statues that are thrown on the ground like scattered stones, but you can still see some hideous sculptures.

It's like some demons.

An exquisite astronomical ball was pushed to the ground, and those brass-made road markers were scattered everywhere.

The stars lit up by the candlelight above the dome also became dim, causing the religious patterns-like murals carved around the dome to lose their solemn and solemn taste.

This is a ruined temple.

Well, probably.

Billy carefully walked around the broken things on the ground, and he dared not touch anything.

He walked forward, and after he walked around a collapsed statue, he saw the end of the temple.

There is a stone platform higher than the ground, and there are seven chairs placed on the stone platform.

On the most central chair, a man wearing a red robe with yellow lightning symbols and holding a black staff in his hand, and a gray-haired man was lying there.

Blood dripped from his wounds onto the ground, and he looked like he was in a coma.

He is the only life in this temple.

And he undoubtedly needs help.

Billy hesitated for a moment, grabbed his bag, took out the bandage he carried with him, and threw it at the coma old man who was wizard-like.

The bandage hit the ground, awakening the unconscious old man.

He struggled to support his body with his staff, and he looked forward.

He said:

"Stop hiding... come out!"

Hiding behind the broken statue, Billy raised his head like a groundhog.

He showed half of his head and said to the old wizard carefully:

"Who are you? Did you do it when I was sent here?"

"There's no time to say this."

The old wizard didn't even look at the bandage on the ground. He stood up and walked towards Billy with a stick.

But the closer it gets to Billy, the more weird the old wizard's expression becomes.

"No, it's not right!"

He said in a weak voice:

"You have a magical physique and look good, but your soul... is not that pure!"

"You are not what I'm looking for...Is there a mistake in detecting magic? How is it possible..."

He stared at Billy Batterson, who was hiding behind the statue. His dim eyes were shining with a magical aura, just as a ring of ashes lit up in his pupils.

Soon, the old wizard discovered an abnormality in Billy.

"That thing! The thing hanging around your neck! Give it to me!"

The old wizard gritted his teeth and said to Billy:

"quick!"

"There's no time!"

"No!"

Billy covered the bracelet hanging around his neck, and he stepped back and said:

"The angel told me that I can't give it to anyone!"

"Angel?"

The old wizard narrowed his eyes and said:

"Heaven is paying attention to you too? No, there is no 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-yellow, flame-like magic burned, wrapping Billy who turned around and ran away like a ring of fire.

But the magical fire did not hurt the child.

The moment the fire touched Billy, it was swallowed up by some invisible beast like water.

The supplement of pure magic gave Billy the cross hanging from his chest a faint light.

Just like a certain road mark is activated, or like a door is opened.

The soul fragments sealed in the bracelet were stimulated, and Merlin, who was far away in hell, also felt this sting.

He continued the Taoist signs that bloomed with magic power and surged into consciousness, as if he jumped into a light curtain shining with runes.

The next moment, in this strange temple of the old wizard, Merlin opened his eyes between the filling of magic and the buzzing echo.

He floated out of Billy Batson's chest like an illusionist ghost.

He was wearing a black robe, and the moment he appeared, the shadows in the temple were like floating water waves, wrapping up the soul.

"Bang"

Merlin flicked his fingers and a magic power gushed out, easily dispersing the flame curtain that bloomed in front of him.

In the stream of flames, he lowered his head.

Looking at Billy lying on the ground, holding his bag, and looking frightened.

He said to the child:

"Don't be afraid..."

"You, who are you?"

Billy looked at the black ghost that suddenly appeared in surprise, and he asked in a terrible tone.

Merlin didn't answer, he looked at the red cross held by Billy.

He said in a little puzzled way:

"I don't know why Paul gave it to you... Are you his grandson? Or who else?"

"I..."

Before Billy could answer, the weak old wizard walked out of the broken stream of light, looking at Merlin floating in the air.

He said:

"You...you are the person I'm looking for!"

"Come on the one who has pure soul! Hold my staff tightly, shout my name, and inherit my mission..."

Merlin stared at the crazy old wizard in front of him.

He could feel that the wizard must have been strong at his peak, but he was old, old and injured.

The person who started the attack must hate him very much.

There was a surging weird magic that pierced his heart and soul.

It was definitely for killing him.

But the person who started the attack was like a rookie with no magic experience.

The surging magic power did pierce the old wizard's body and soul, but it did not add another knife to completely cut off life.

Tsk, that's interesting.

"I refuse!"

Merlin was floating in the air, and he looked at the old wizard with a stick in front of him.

He said:

"I have suffered a great loss by accepting powers of unknown origin, let alone such as this..."

He raised his head and looked at the dome of the palace in the mountain, the murals, and the magic nodes hidden therein, forming a rather fantastic figure in Merlin's eyes.

"I've never seen such a magical structure, but I can probably guess it."

"Looking at these magic circles of induced forces, they remind me of some long-standing memories, magic dualism..."

"The other extreme opposite to the traditional magic system is to rely on external forces to create an extraordinary body."

Merlin said to the surprised old wizard:

"The so-called power of God..."

"If I'm right, this is the Rock of Eternity?"

"you..."

The old wizard's eyes were shining with shock, and he pointed to Merlin, floating in the air, his fingers trembling and speechless.

Merlin shrugged, put his hands together on his abdomen, he said:

"Don't look at me like this, sir, don't look at me now, but..."
Chapter completed!