Chapter 174: The magician

Red Fox Castle, backyard courtyard.

"Welcome back, Young Master Lu En."

"Don't call me Young Master; I don't belong here," the magician said coldly.

He turned around abruptly and saw the old man in front of him, whose hair and beard were all white and who was already too old to look like himself, and his cold expression loosened.

"Uncle Seris, the wrinkles on your face are already so many..."

Lu En's tone carried a bit of sadness.

Looking at the tall figure who had accompanied him as he grew up become like this, Lu En had a sense of confusion as if a lifetime had passed.

"After all, it has been nearly twenty years since you temporarily left home," Seris said gently, while respectfully bowing to the magician.

Lu En wanted to refute that this was not his home, but looking at the old butler's vicissitudes, he opened his mouth several times but still couldn't say it.

"Lord Lu En, Earl Masha wants to see you. She asked me to tell you, are you willing to accept the invitation of a sister who has been waiting for her brother for more than twenty years?"

Seris said softly, and a clear plea appeared in his increasingly turbid eyes.

It seemed that for this old man who didn't have a few years to live, hoping for the reunion of these two siblings was his dying wish.

"... Take me there."

Lu En stood in place and was silent for a long time, but finally, looking at the beautiful memories of the old butler who had taken care of him as he grew up, he hesitated and agreed.

Main building, reception hall.

A huge crystal chandelier hung from the high arched ceiling, and the falling prisms split the candlelight into countless fragments, casting flowing light and shadows on the dark red velvet curtains.

A roaring fire burned in the fireplace, the pine wood cracked in the heat, and the warm fragrance of resin carbonization floated in the air.

Seeing the old woman with silver hair who was standing quietly in front of the wall, looking at the world-famous painting "The Knight's Last Whisper," even Lu En, who had already turned into a devil, couldn't help but feel a trace of restraint at this moment.

"You are here, Lu En."

After hearing the sound of pushing the door and footsteps, Rosa broke away from the artistic conception of the portrait, turned around, and saw the handsome young man wearing a black top hat, and a trace of joy appeared on her face full of gullies.

"Sit down."

The two sat down in front of the sofa, and the maid brought them two cups of evening tea.

"This is the highest quality evening tea, have a taste," Rosa said gently.

Lu En gently shook the teacup, and the tea inside presented a deep twilight purple, as if the last ray of light at dusk had been condensed into liquid.

He took a light sip, and a familiar taste surged onto the tip of his tongue.

The taste of this tea was exactly the same as the tea he often drank when he was a child. Would the man who didn't recognize him and imprisoned him be willing to provide him with such precious tea leaves?

Lu En was stunned. He knew very well that even for the Masha family, which dominated the entire Southern Region, the highest quality evening tea was still a rare treasure.

Thinking of this, the cold expression on the magician's face gradually eased.

"I haven't seen you for so many years. I didn't expect you to still look the same as when you left, but I have become an old woman,"

Masha looked at Lu En's still young face and couldn't help but sigh.

Lu En wanted to explain, but was stopped by Masha shaking her head.

"I know you have many secrets, but I don't want to explore them."

"To me, you are just a brother who has returned after a long trip, nothing more," Masha said calmly.

Lu En was silent. He wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing.

For this biological sister whom he had actually only met a few times, his feelings were quite complicated.

On one hand, he was grateful and respected her, because the Monster Circus, where all members were deformed and the leader had heterochromatic eyes, could tour and perform smoothly throughout the Southern Region, which was inseparable from Rosa's secret care.

Even the Masha family crest in his hand was secretly sent by his eldest nephew Roy at Rosa's request.

But on the other hand, because of that man, he couldn't accept his bloodline and surname, so he had been avoiding this biological sister.

"Would you like to go to the tombstone of the former Earl and take a look?"

Looking at his silent appearance, Rosa thought for a moment and said.

In order to avoid stimulating her brother, she didn't even dare to mention the word father.

Lu En didn't speak, just nodded lightly, his movements were minimal, but it still made Rosa show a brilliant smile.

"Let's go."

After the two finished the tea in their cups, they got up and walked out of the reception hall together, but there was still a not-so-small distance between the two.

Backyard cemetery.

Under the bright moon, rows of gray-white tombstones were neatly arranged on the gray grass.

Rosa led Lu En through the tomb group and finally stopped in front of a row of tombstones that were larger than other tombstones.

"This is it. The heads of the Masha family through the ages will be buried here, including me, who will also be buried here in the future," Rosa said softly.

Then, looking at a bunch of violets blooming in front of the last tombstone, the old woman's eyes couldn't help but be dazed.

The flowers grow so fast!

Even though she hadn't planted them for long.

Leo, are you protecting this bunch of violets in the dark?

And Lu En didn't notice her absent-mindedness. At this moment, all his attention was focused on the text on the penultimate tombstone.

"The eleventh head of the Masha family, Luo Feng Masha, a father who failed his child."

Lu En stared at the last line of text, his heterochromatic purple-gold eyes full of disbelief.

A father who failed his child... is he referring to me?

The cold-blooded and ruthless man who hated him, imprisoned him, and regarded him as the family's shame, would actually feel guilty about this?!

The magician was in a mess for a while, and the memories of the past rushed toward him like a flock of butterflies.

He was born in the most noble family in the Southern Region, but was regarded as a disaster and shame by his Earl father.

The reason for everything was that he was born with a pair of purple and gold heterochromatic eyes, and because of dystocia, he caused his mother's death.

As a result, he was erased by his angry father, and no one knew that the Masha lady who died of dystocia had actually left a son.

He was not even given the surname Masha, nor was he given the name starting with "Luo" like other direct descendants.

As a baby, he was just left alone in the backyard courtyard, and the only people who took care of him were an old maid and the butler who came to visit and take care of him from time to time.

He didn't have the right to leave the courtyard, so he could only lie blankly under the big oak tree in the center of the courtyard when he was a child, looking at the lush canopy and letting his mind go, thinking wildly in his mind.

That man came to see him about once a year, and each time he just glared at him coldly, then put down some food and toys and turned away.

Fortunately, the butler once brought him a book explaining magic, which he read with great interest, so his childhood was spent in various magic practices, which could be considered a little light in the darkness.

Later, when he was eight years old, when he learned that his biological sister was going to hold a wedding, perhaps because he was too lonely, or perhaps because he had stayed in this small courtyard for too long, he begged the butler if he could secretly take him out to attend the wedding, he just wanted to secretly take a look at his sister...

It was like a miracle, the butler agreed to him.

So after he put on an eye patch to cover his right eye, he ran to the wedding scene excitedly.

A beautiful girl with purple hair in a wedding dress, a tall and heroic strong young man, when he saw the two walking together hand in hand, how proud he was and how much he wanted to tell everyone loudly—"This is my sister and brother-in-law, I am their brother!"

Unfortunately, he couldn't do it, and could only try to attract the attention of the two by performing magic for the guests.

He succeeded. The guests were amused by the cute little boy with an eye patch, and even his sister covered her mouth and smiled, holding his hand and getting him candy.

Sister's hand, so warm~

That was the happiest day of his childhood, but soon, during the magic performance, his eye patch accidentally fell off, revealing his right eye that was as dazzling as molten gold.

The guests were scared and looked at each other, and some whispered because of his left eye, which was the same violet color as the bride.

The Earl Masha, who heard the news, was furious, grabbed him by the collar and threw him back into the backyard courtyard, and ordered him never to leave again.

However, even so, he was already very satisfied.

Because that short moment of beautiful memory was enough to support him through the empty life that followed.

Time passed for several years, during which he had grown into a handsome teenager and received the gift of the God and was employed as a variant profession, Real Magician.

And on that day, that man passed away.

The sister who became the new Earl Masha came to the courtyard with full guilt. She said, Lu En, you are free from now on, I will tell everyone that you are my brother, you are a member of the Masha family.

After speaking, she wanted to hug him, but was gently pushed away by the teenager.

"I have never been a member of Masha," he said calmly.

In the lonely life of more than ten years, his last trace of identification with Masha had long been erased.

He denied the bloodline on his body, he was not Lu En Masha, he was just Lu En, a commoner magician, nothing more.

And, he already had an ideal—he wanted to open a circus, accommodate people like him who were not accepted by the world, provide them with a place to stay, and be lively, just like a big family, and the name would be Monster Circus.

"Earl, thank you for giving me freedom."

After bowing elegantly, he turned into flying petals and left the courtyard that had always bound him.

Afterward, it was more than twenty years of displacement. He gradually had a group of cute members and family. In a sense, he also became a father...

The memory came to an abrupt end.

Lu En noticed that the old woman beside him was staring at the violets blooming in front of the last tombstone.

The love story between the Red Fire and the only daughter of Masha was known to everyone in the Southern Region, so he could naturally guess who the owner of that tombstone was.

For the greatest knight in history who used his life to exchange for the wish to exempt from food tax and saved all the people in the Southern Region, Lu En's heart was also full of respect, even saying that he was the person he admired the most.

He couldn't do this, but it didn't prevent him from admiring such a person.

Sometimes in the past, he would even be proud that the Red Fire was his brother-in-law.

Thinking of this, Lu En hesitated for a long time, and finally used Magic Trick to conjure a thick wool cloak and gently draped it over the old woman's shoulders.

"I think, if the Red Fire were still here, he wouldn't want to see his wife standing in front of his tombstone in the middle of the night and being blown by the cold night wind," Lu En said softly.

Rosa wrapped the cloak tightly around her, feeling the warmth, and a touch of emotion appeared on her vicissitudes face.

"My bro—"

"Wait!"

She just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Lu En, whose body immediately tensed after hearing that word.

"At least for now... I don't want to hear that word," the magician hesitated.

"It doesn't matter, I've waited for you for more than twenty years, so I don't mind these days," Rosa smiled slightly.

I just hope that before I go to the underworld to accompany Leo, I can hear you call me sister.

Rosa added silently in her heart.

Afterward, the two left the cemetery together, but the distance between their shadows under the moonlight was obviously much closer than when they set off.

They really looked like a pair of siblings.

Starfire Hall.

Under the crystal dome, twelve prisms stood on the bronze earth, and the torches on them were burning fiercely.

A torch carrying a black-haired figure appeared in the hall, and the three who had been waiting here showed joy when they saw this scene.

"Good evening, Your Majesty." x3

"Good evening," Xia Mingyu said gently.

At the same time, his heart was also a bit helpless. He actually slept from morning to night in one breath, and now he was even in a dream...

"Your Majesty, yesterday, did you summon Tamerlane across space to your side to kill the enemy for you?"

As soon as he sat down at the bronze long table, Hagek Kesi asked impatiently.

After Xia Mingyu nodded slightly to admit it, this giant, who looked like a brave and fearless hero in the age of gods in the eyes of everyone in the City of Slaves, showed a thick sense of loss on his heroic face.

He felt that His Majesty summoned Tamerlane instead of himself, it must be that there was a problem with himself, such as he was too weak, looked too fierce, or couldn't speak, etc.

"Ahem, Hagek Kesi, next time I encounter an enemy, you will block it for me,"

Looking at Hagek Kesi's dejected expression, Xia Mingyu roughly guessed what he was thinking, so he comforted him softly.

The next moment, Hagek Kesi's pupils contracted sharply, and then burst into amazing light.

His head, which was originally drooping like a withered branch, lifted up, and his scorching eyes stared tightly at Xia Mingyu on the main seat, saying loudly:

"My lord, swear to the gods, when you summon me, I will definitely crush your enemies into blood mist. Anyone who wants to hurt you must step over my corpse twelve times!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 175 =====