CHAPTER 440: SHADOW REALM (4)

Only Silas and Leon were left.

The two of them looked at each other.

"It seems that you have gotten closer to Senior Patrick during this period of time," Silas said calmly.

"You can say it like that..." Leon didn’t want to talk about his miserable appearance after following Patrick out of Wansu City.

He had to say that Patrick was like a child who had never seen the world and didn’t know how to take care of himself. This made Leon wonder how Patrick was able to survive for so long.

Leon didn’t know how many times he has lost his temper to Senior Patrick because of this in the past.

"Can you help me, Teacher?" Leon turned his head to look at Silas with a hopeful look.

"I’m in Central Magic City and the distance to three cities are not close," Silas replied calmly. Though, he purposely neglected the fact that Aya could directly use teleportation formation to bring them all back to Wansu City if she wanted to.

After all, there was still that formation in Wansu City.

"Central Magic City?" Leon was petrified.

He knew that Aya was strong and had reached rank 7, but he didn’t know that Silas was actually that strong.

As Leon looked at his teacher, he had the feeling that these two people were both hiding their strength when they were interacting with him and the others. After all, it was impossible for them to advance so quickly to the point that he dared to go to the Central Magic City if he was not strong enough.

"Yes, I’m in Central Magic City." Silas had no plan to explain about his strength to Leon. It was enough to let Leon know that he had reached rank 7.

As for the details...

Let’s leave it be.

He didn’t want to show off his strength in front of Leon, especially not in this shadow realm.

"If you want to control the shadow realm, you have to follow your heart," Silas replied slowly. "The shadow is basically the reflection of yourself, but it can even be said to be only one side of yourself. And how much you can use the shadow realm depends on your connection with the shadow."

Connection with the shadow?

Leon looked at Silas with confusion written on his face.

But Silas didn’t know how to explain clearly.

The shadow realm is part of himself and it was also reflecting what was in his heart. All kinds of shameless behaviour, immoral thoughts, and many others were laid bare in front of him. It let him face his true self and accepted it.

Because only when he accepted it would he be able to interact with the shadow realm completely.

To accept that he’s not perfect and that the shadow realm is basically reflecting both his ugliness and his goodness.

But how it was represented...

It depends on how they first contacted the shadow.

"I..." Leon looked at the shadow around him.

"You can take your time. I’ll give you a potion to help you recover part of your lifeforce that you have lost." Silas has this potion from Aya. Aya told him that she knew about the shadow magic and the fact that his magic could consume his life force.

Silas had told her that his fusion was perfect.

The shadow realm basically didn’t take his life force and he still has long to live, but she ended up force feeding him with the potion.

Well, the taste was not bad.

*cough*

In any case, Aya made several of them and stuffed them for him. He was told to use these potions immediately if he lacked in life force.

The problem is...

Silas felt that he really didn’t need these potions.

"Really?" Leon’s eyes lit up.

"Not for free."

That was like a basin of cold water poured on top of Leon. He looked at his former teacher bitterly but could only nod in agreement.

After all, Leon could guess that such potion was definitely very expensive.

"But still... try not to lose more than half of your total life force before you start entering the shadow realm. Otherwise, it’ll be difficult for you to live past 30 years old as the shadow realm will continue to suck out your life force," Silas warned once more before he disappeared.

Half of his life force?

Leon had also heard it from Patrick before.

He was basically forbidden from staying too long in the shadow realm.

After all, when they came out, the time difference between the shadow realm and the real world could be years and a moment.

It was not fixed.

So Leon calmed himself down and looked at the shadow realm in front of him.

For a moment, he thought about those ghost masters, who were basically trading their life force for the sake of power.

In a way, isn’t he also similar?

He was basically trading out his life for the sake of getting stronger. The means might be a bit different, but the essence was actually very similar to each other.

Leon thought for a moment before calming himself down.

No matter what, his method would never harm others while the ghost master method would basically cause other people around them to become weaker. Because of the ghost energy that they basically emitted from time to time.

Swish!

After going out of the shadow realm, Silas acted as if nothing happened.

He knew that Leon had to undergo everything by himself.

Because from the moment he chose to stay in the ghost realm to strengthen himself, he was basically betting with his own life.

And Silas could not interfere with this.

Because this is their magic path.

This bet might put his life in danger, but it was also the fastest method for Leon.

Because only in this way would it be possible for him to become stronger at the shortest time possible and finish his goal.

He had no right to stop the other party.