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"I suspect that the secret techniques that we have been using arefrom the warlocks froenetic abilities via a special stie, excitement bubbled in his mind

While Garen had witnessed the olves, demon hunters, telekinesis and secret techniques with ridiculous effects, he thought that he was currently in a world where the ically advanced as earth Now Andrela told him that warlocks once existed in this world and that the secret techniques were traces that they had left behind

"Do you have proof!?" He directly asked

"Of course I do" Andrela nodded "Technically, my Blink is not a secret technique from the Celestial Circle Gate It was obtained from an ancient sect To learn this secret technique, one would require the blood of a prime male lion and draw 81 special characters onto the body"

"Isn’t this superstition? Did you really do it?"

"Of course I thought it was superstition as well, and I ignored this step to go directly for the steps to learn the secret technique However, there was no effect" Andrella recalled and said "I thought that the secret technique had complications, or that the physical body of the ancient people had soht difference with that of ours However, the effect showed itself within a short time after I’d decided to try it once!"

He continued as he saw Garen focusing all of his attention on him

"After that, I saw the same characters in a fairy tale’s history The same characters I used to learn the technique"

"You could have tried to see if there are still any effects if you changed the character slightly"

"Of course I’ve tried it There won’t be any effect if Ito the fairy tale, the characters represented the lions in their time I’ve been interested in the fairy tales related to the warlocks ever since, and I’ve started collecting infor theory about when the first secret method came about"

"What theory?" Garen listened carefully

"There is a high chance that warlocks once existed in this world I have seen a record in an ancient book that does translations of ancient fairy tales" Andrela paused

"It ritten that: the warlock had enslaved species that were not their kind, and called them demons They have ruled the world for a hundred million years"

Garen churned his brain as he tried to recall the legends of warlocks of this world

"If they really did exist, how did theycreatures?"

"I’m not so sure about that However, I still suspect that our secret techniques originate froic spells"

"What’s your plan?" Garen looked at Andrela, "If it’s true, what do you plan to do?"

"I haveto us I plan to invite soether Although these ancient ruins have been explored countless of tiet in mind"

"Furthermore, The sea is vast, that there a lot of areas that hu for us to discover" Andrela spoke softly to Garen as he looked at him "On another note, I suspect that the i for the truth of the history, and a solution to go beyond the li the Eternal Blood of Life in the ancient ruins as an excuse"

Garen pondered for a bit

"How ree, there will be 2 including me" Andrela answered in all seriousness

"Stop the nonsense" Garen was speechless since Andrela rarely joke "I have no probleo on Who else are you exactly trying to recruit?"

"The proof is siathered All of the information can be traced and validated from the Federation’s library, and some private libraries as well The information of the secret techniques and the history of the non-human species can also be validated There are no falsification in the infory to connect theether"

"As for who else to recruit, I have one in mind that is qualified to pursue what’s beyond the lith as well The humans from the Stonecliff Continent have sworn loyalty to the I people with potential so that they can attempt to train them themselves There are still a few Grandmasters of Combat ere not on friendly terms with the Behemoth Gate and Immortal Palace" Andrela reached out his hand and carved a name onto the floor

‘Stephan Ralph’

Garen looked at a name that was unknown to him

"Who is he?"

"He is mentally ill, and is not froest andhypnotist Ru his voice and be caught in an illusion if you interact with hi nine one four incident in Galantia, which resulted in a few thousand deaths He had also once founded a terrorist organization in the Fivestar continent and has been listed as the fourth erous individual by the three major countries

He was able to hypnotize both others and hihtmares, when his body was hypnotized his physical body would reach the ut this person, he had a faintly co look in his eyes