Just as Ian was planning to prove himself, suddenly, a massive hand appeared from the hole above the palace, clearly belonging to the War God, Ares.

"You all are really noisy!"

War God Ares grabbed Merlin and Ian directly and threw them both far away, "It’s fine to disturb me, but you can’t wake those who slumber..."

Without fully hearing what this War God was saying, Ian and Merlin were tossed very far away, so far that it was like they were "expelled" from Helheim.

A dizzying whirl of sky and earth.

Ian shook his head, once again seeing the colorful Merlin. However, Merlin was lying in front of the Bronze Gate, his butt sticking up, slowly waking up, taking the time of three stout men taking turns.

"It seems Merlin’s soul just entered Helheim, perhaps when we passed through the Bronze Gate, his soul had already completely separated from his body..."

Ian looked up at the Bronze Gate, seemingly lost in thought, watching Merlin struggle to get up from the ground and even showing signs of vomiting, while he himself didn’t feel any discomfort.

This might just be the difference between soul travel and body travel.

"I want to leave this place!" Merlin, who got up from the ground, almost ran outside the ruins without looking back, as if this place brought him too many bad experiences.

Ian followed closely behind.

However.

Just as they were about to completely leave the underground ruins, stepping out of this underground palace.

"Don’t forget your promise to the gods, Medivh." A sudden authoritative voice rang by the Little Wizard’s ear, as if the War God Ares was reminding him through time and space.

"What promise?"

"Are you scamming me?"

Ian couldn’t help but ask.

But he didn’t get a response.

Perhaps as he stepped out of the underground palace, War God Ares could no longer project his voice to his side, after all, he was not in his full form, just the shell of War God Ares.

Some divine power still existed, that’s a definitely vague question.

"Alright, Great Mage, we visited the tomb, now let’s discuss the previous wager." As soon as Ian exited the tomb, he immediately wanted to demand what he won from Merlin. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He knew in his heart.

After recent experiences.

Merlin may plan to keep his distance from him.

"Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten." Merlin sighed, pulling out a stone and a delicate box from his chest and tossing them both to Ian.

He seemed to still be catching his breath, leaning against a tree and retching repeatedly—which indeed polluted the environment, but it could be considered as fertilizer for the forest.

Though the forest might not need fertilizer, surrounded by lush vegetation, birds singing happily in the branches, starkly different from the mysterious and dangerous Helheim just now.

"Great Mage, you do have some integrity." Ian got what he wanted and breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn’t help but look back at the cliff wall which had returned to normal.

If nothing unexpected happens.

This would definitely not be his last time coming to this place.

After all,

The magic of Evil Energy Burst hasn’t been set up, which surely means he would return one day, but he couldn’t imagine what situation would lead him to set up such magic here.

"In your eyes, what kind of image do I have, don’t tell me future evaluations of me are poor?" Merlin finally couldn’t resist asking Ian.

"How do I say this, I love reading, everyone in our academy loves reading, so in our academy’s lounge, I’ve read ’Merlin’s Secret Lover: A Legend of Magic and Betrayal’, ’Merlin and the Forest Witch: A Cursed Love’, ’Forgotten Wife and Children: Merlin’s Dark Secret’, ’Merlin’s Seven Loves: From Mortal to Legend’ and ’Merlin and His Beastly Men’..." Ian continued to spew out these historical stories.

With each book title mentioned.

Merlin’s eyelids twitched even more violently. Just while Merlin was speechless and helpless, Ian opened the box to examine the Ancient Time Converter.

"Oh! My god! Are you wizards?"

A voice suddenly appeared.

It turned out.

Somehow, a handsome young man had appeared in the forest, staring at Merlin and Ian dressed as wizards, he directly cried out in surprise.

"Hmm?"

Ian’s gaze wasn’t on the young man’s appearance, but on the bird perched on the young man’s shoulder—a fiery red bird, watching him and Merlin vigilantly.

"Whoa! A Phoenix!"

He exclaimed in surprise.