Hawk got straight to the point.
He wouldn't beat around the bush, nor play any word games.
And there was no need to beat around the bush.
Direct and straightforward.
Hawk didn't even tell the Supreme Mage what he wanted the Time Gemstone for.
Again, there was no need for that.
Because, whether it was The Ancient One directly calling him Phoenix at the beginning, or just now saying that with Hawk around, there was no need to worry about whether the Witch Heart Demon would create a new Hell Dimension.
It was very clear.
The Ancient One had already proven one thing with her actions.
She didn't mind using the Time Gemstone; in fact, she not only used it herself but did so very skillfully.
So...
Hawk believed that even if he didn't say what he wanted to use the Time Gemstone for, the Ancient One likely already knew.
Moreover, she probably already knew the promise he would make to get the Time Gemstone.
After speaking, Hawk's mind was racing, while he calmly looked at The Ancient One in front of him, waiting for her answer.
After a while.
The Ancient One still looked at Hawk with a calm expression, then nodded: "Okay."
Upon hearing this, Hawk's face showed joy.
The next second.
The Ancient One then said, "But not now."
Hawk furrowed his brow slightly.
"Reason?"
"The smell of alcohol on you hasn't dissipated; using it now would be counterproductive."
The Ancient One picked up her teacup and said with a smile, "At this time, the scenery of Kamar-Taj is still quite nice."
Hearing this, Hawk nodded and said nothing more, picking up his teacup and drinking all the tea in it.
Gwen, seeing this, also drank all the tea in her cup.
After a while.
Hawk stood up, took Gwen, and walked out of the hall behind them.
Before their eyes.
A complex of buildings combining Tibetan, Nepalese, and Eastern temple styles appeared in front of them.
The structure was simple and solid, and the colors were very vibrant.
Looking around.
They were surrounded by towering snow-capped mountains, seemingly perfectly integrating the building complex into the lofty mountains.
The air was cold and thin, but perhaps because of the tea they just drank, Gwen, who wasn't wearing much, didn't feel the expected coldness here at all.
Gwen blinked, curiously looking at a training ground paved with bluestone not far away.
In the space, magic apprentices wearing dark brown robes were diligently practicing Kamar-Taj's basic magic—the Spark Teleportation Gate—under the guidance of mages wearing yellow coarse cloth.
As more than a dozen magic apprentices, uniformly holding brass magical artifacts, began drawing circles in the air, the sparks that burst forth created an exceptionally stunning scene.
Gwen watched this scene and turned to Hawk beside her.
"Hawk?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know magic?"
"No."
Hawk shook his head, then looked at Gwen, who was smiling up at him, and laughed, saying with certainty, "I follow the physical route."
What is a Saint Warrior?
A warrior—playing the arena mode with fists making real contact.
Magic?
If my punch, weighing tens of thousand tons and faster than the speed of light, lands, which mage can resist it?
Hawk mused internally, looking at Gwen, and chuckled: "Why the sudden question?"
Gwen shook her head, her gaze falling on the magic apprentices in the training ground ahead, and after thinking, looked at Hawk again.
"Then, do you think I can learn?"
"Uh..."
Hawk raised an eyebrow, quickly realizing why Gwen asked this, and laughed again: "If you go to learn, you'd become a hostage for the other side."
Gwen blinked.
Hawk smiled slightly, took Gwen's hand, walked down the steps, and as they walked along the stone steps leading to the peak of the snow-capped mountains, he explained to Gwen the extraordinary energy system of this cosmos.
Simply put.
An ordinary person can never achieve beyond imagination abilities through their own efforts.
Which is why there's the famous saying: the poor rely on mutation, the rich rely on technology, and the Divine Spirit depends on bloodline.
It's like magic.
Do you think you can just say you want to learn and self-teach with a magic book?
Stop dreaming.
Who will provide you with magic energy?
Isn't it all the major extraordinary dimensions?
Just like The Ancient One.
She's undoubtedly a genius, but the reason she can cast magic is that she has a contract with the Supreme Dimension, namely Emperor Vishanti, allowing her to draw energy from the Supreme Dimension to cast magic beyond comprehension.
Black magic is the same.
The black mages signed contracts with a series of dimensional lords such as Dormammu and Hogos while borrowing their energy.
Even the witches did the same.
For instance, Carrie.
It's true that Carrie awakened her magical power after being stimulated.
But first of all, Carrie has the bloodline of the Salem witches, which is why the Hell Witch said that all Hawk needed to do was find a witch who understood the daily life of a witch, and as for the rest, once Carrie controlled her own magic, she would naturally acquire the spells and magic she needed from the Salem Dimension.
Even demons are like this.
But whether they are mages or witches, what makes these people extraordinary is not their talent. Talent only determines their upper limit. What truly drives them is that they have already sold their souls to the dimensions that provide them with energy.
"So..."
Walking along the stone steps with Gwen, Hawk said this and looked to the side at Gwen, smiling, "Now you know why I said that if you go to learn magic, it would be like sending yourself as my hostage to the other party, right?"
Although, at the moment, the Supreme Dimension seems to hold no malice towards him.
But nothing lasts forever.
Who can say what the future holds?
After all...
Better safe than sorry.
His sister accidentally died and ended up in the Hell Dimension, about to become a tool for Mephisto to coerce him.
Now it's going to happen to his fiancée.
How could that be allowed?
After listening to Hawk's explanation, Gwen nodded with a sense of realization.
In the next second.
She paused, seemingly remembering something, and looked at Hawk, "Hawk, then you, which dimension did you sell your soul to?"
While speaking, Gwen recalled the phoenix's spectral image that had appeared behind Hawk before, and couldn't help but blink.
"Is it the Phoenix Dimension?"
"Haha!"
Hawk was initially taken aback, then couldn't help but laugh, and seriously said to Gwen, "I don't need to borrow power from anyone; in fact, I am the energy. Moreover, outside, some people will ask me to borrow energy."
Forty-eight... no, the Phoenix Holy Armor is already exclusively his, so it's forty-seven Bronze Saint Warriors.
Twenty-four Silver.
The Zodiac.
And the 108 Demon Stars in the Netherworld.
Hawk's thoughts turned, thinking about the amount of energy he would provide in the future, shaking his head, and looking at Gwen, "A lot, a lot, and right now, you already have my energy."
Gwen was slightly stunned upon hearing this, looking at Hawk with some confusion.
"When did I get it?"
"This."
Hawk's gaze fell on the Christmas gift he gave Gwen this year, which was now hanging as a necklace around Gwen's neck.
Gwen reached out her right hand and took out the Christmas gift Hawk had given her from her neckline.
In sight!
It appeared pink on the outside, but in reality, it was the vividly lifelike Pleiades Holy Armor.
This was also made by Hawk using the first batch of Holy Armor materials, created alongside his spare Phoenix Holy Armor.
His Sixth Sense Little Cosmos is now ranked above the Fifth Sense Little Cosmos, and with the support of the Reality Gemstone, he already has the ability to light up the remaining forty-seven Bronze constellations.
Simply put.
Once his Phoenix Parallel Cosmos completely overlaps reality, then, if there is a second person to practice the method of Little Cosmos, the Little Cosmos ability he gains will be obtained from him.
However, Hawk does not plan to do this.
At least not currently.
But this doesn't stop him from making a Holy Armor as a gift for Gwen.
The reason is that Gwen is his family.
Although Gwen is not a Saint Warrior, under the blessing of the Phoenix Heart, this Pleiades Holy Armor will automatically protect Gwen when she is in danger.
Like this——
Hawk's thoughts moved.
In an instant.
The Pleiades Holy Armor, hanging around Gwen's neck as a necklace, suddenly detached and then appeared in front of Gwen, rapidly expanding.
The next second.
Bang!
The nebula of Andromeda unfolded behind the Holy Armor, and then the Pleiades Holy Armor disassembled, turning into countless tiny fragments.
Star-like armor plates.
Elegant arm guards.
Links of the chain.
The disassembled components of the Pleiades Holy Armor, under the breathing of the Andromeda Nebula, first and foremost, was that iconic round lock that traced a graceful arc through the air before gracefully suspending around Gwen's slender waist. Then, two chains glittering with a cold light, radiating the nebula's brilliance, twisted out from the light stream, lightly winding around Gwen's arms, spiraling from the wrist to the upper arm, with the linked rings clinking softly like star fragments colliding.
The shoulder pads followed, covering Gwen's shoulders like spread wings, gently yet seamlessly.
Finally was that luxurious and majestic helmet.
Decorated on both sides with abstract wings symbolizing the Andromeda constellation, as if formed from starlight.
The helmet gently descended, lightly enveloping Gwen's head, with the front guard like a veil of stardust unfurling, protecting her face while keeping those expressive green gemstone-like eyes clearly visible.
When the helmet finally merged perfectly with the neck armor, a breath of icy blue, representing Andromeda, burst out from Gwen's center, with an invisible shockwave lifting her fringes (couldn't find a suitable picture, just imagine it.)
Gwen was stunned.
Hawk, however, looked at his fiancée, who was now donned in the Pleiades Holy Armor, with eyes full of gentle smiles.
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