Soon, Louis no longer had the mind to ponder the conversation with the Black Swan.
Because when those shriveled large hands pressed down on the back of his hand, he felt his body suddenly lighten, and his soul seemed to detach from his body, soaring into the sky.
The surrounding scene spun wildly.
A firm and unparalleled will enveloped this world.
Louis had never seen such a solid will.
That will was like the emerald fire spreading across this land, engulfing his body.
He even thought he was facing a legend.
No, perhaps even legends might not have such a solid will.
Of course, it could also be that the Sapphire Dragon couple had not displayed the power a legend should have in front of him.
But at least one thing was certain, Fox was much stronger than he imagined.
In the void, Fox's spiritual form gradually became transparent, as if a gust of wind could blow him away.
He slapped himself.
An emerald green flame appeared in his palm.
"Inheriting our emerald fire will be very stressful."
He offered the emerald fire in front of Louis.
"Touch it, and you'll understand, okay?"
Louis: ???
Why did it feel like this person was being suggestive?
Louis looked up to see his teasing smile and spat inwardly.
Old but not dignified!
Still, he reached out and touched the flickering flame.
At that moment, he felt like he was being sucked into the flame.
In a trance, he seemed to land back on the ground.
In front of him appeared a vast black storm.
That was something Louis had never seen even in movies.
A soaring twisted spiral swirled between heaven and earth, rolling everything into it.
Wherever it passed, houses collapsed with a roar, forests were leveled, and rivers dried up instantly.
It was as if invisible giant hands in the void had swallowed everything.
Louis instinctively took a step back, only to realize he wasn't affected at all.
Fox smiled and said:
"Don't worry, this is just a scene from my memory."
Only then did Louis slightly straighten up, and he said solemnly:
"What is that?"
Fox, with a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth, said:
"This is a space storm; this used to be my hometown, but one year a space rift suddenly opened here."
"The siphoning effect of the space rift swallowed everything around it."
"I watched helplessly as my hometown disappeared before my eyes."
His voice was very calm, even without any ripple.
Louis watched a boy below trying to rush over to grab a younger girl.
But as the lead-gray storm swept over, he had to take half a step back, and the girl was eventually swallowed by the storm while he fled in panic.
Fox pointed to the boy and said:
"That was me back then, and the one swallowed was my sister."
Louis cautiously said:
"I thought you would be a bit more sad."
Fox shook his head:
"The tears that needed to be shed were all shed back then, and it was from that time that I firmly embarked on the path of a mage."
"Because only mages can efficiently utilize space."
"Most space-related magic on Star Continent is the work of casting professions."
"Even abilities like the Wanderers slipping into shadows were initially improved by Wanderers who were part-time casting professions."
As the two chatted, the surrounding scene began to change again.
Louis saw a familiar area.
It was exactly where Fox was sealing the space rift in reality.
But here it looked even more desolate.
Fox's spiritual form stood beside him, his gaze looking at a young man ahead.
Louis followed his gaze and vaguely made out some of Fox's current features from the young man's face.
Louis tentatively said:
"Is that you in your youth?"
Fox nodded:
"By that time, I had already gone to Saint Louis Academy for studies, and had some insights into space magic."
"When I came here back then, I found something wrong with the situation."
"I stayed for the purpose of doing my graduation thesis."
Louis: ???
Black Swan, see how messed up your intel is?
"It is said that after Mr. Fox passed through this area, he noticed something wrong with the surrounding space nodes and stayed to attempt fixing them."
His mind in a daze, he recalled what Black Swan had said about Fox back then.
The aura surrounding Fox shattered loudly.
Perhaps seeing Louis's funny expression, Fox finally couldn't help but burst out laughing:
"You wouldn't have expected it, back then it was just to complete my graduation thesis."
The corner of Louis's mouth twitched: "And the outside world says you attempted to fix the space nodes..."
"I was indeed fixing them, but definitely not as gloriously as they say."
Fox chuckled and said:
"Mainly because there was a silly mage who plagiarized his graduation thesis, causing the duplication check requirements for our cohort to skyrocket."
"My initial thesis was scrapped, so I thought might as well do something big."
Louis looked at the meditative Fox below, with a drawing board on his back sketching magic models, not knowing how to retort.
Turns out there are such things in other worlds too, huh?
Just when they were chatting merrily, a massive explosion suddenly occurred below.
Another vast black storm swept in.
The young Fox leapt up, almost rolling and crawling as he ran towards the outer circle.
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