The Imperial Tower.

"Lord Tower, students from all over the country have started school one after another, but Dean Tianquan has not yet returned. ”

“...... Can you not tell me in the middle of the night about this kind of trivial matter in the future, he is a grandmaster who is almost two hundred years old, and he will have his own opinions. "In the center of the circle, there is not the slightest magic overflowing from his body, like an ordinary old man's Tavasis floating in it, just awakened from meditation.

"I'm sorry to disturb your practice, but the tower's monitors have lost their sense of Lord Tianquan. The mage in the snow robe said apologetically.

"Alas......" Tawasis sighed helplessly, "rest assured, no one can unconsciously harm the grandmaster from the Tower in His Majesty's kingdom of Annu. I already know about it, so go down. ”

And not long ago, in the southern province of Doronte, Tianquan followed the strange aura that caused him to perceive all the way here, and in the process of tracking, he found the mysterious genius who could give birth to a lotus.

"Strange, how can such a vision not be detected by the tower?" Those flowers are graceful and lifelike, but with the eyes of Tianquan, you can still see that the lotus flowers are actually constructed with magical power. Therefore, although Tianquan was suspicious, he still did not act rashly.

The child seemed to be born to walk, but he was still a little rusty when he walked, and the old man beside him was not impatient, so he took him leisurely in the wild.

And after a few days of observation and subtle temptation, Tianquan thought that the old man with an alien face was at most as strong as himself, so he appeared in the setting sun and stood in front of them. He wanted to try to negotiate and get the master and apprentice to follow him to the Tower to serve the Empire.

Then he saw the old man take a lotus flower from his hand.

"Create life!" Tianquan saw that the lotus flower was not an illusion, but a plant that truly possessed the breath of life, and at this moment, his heart was shocked, and the flow speed of the magic circuit had reached its peak in an instant.

Since the dawn of magic, the creation of life has been the biggest task of all mages, and only exists in the legendary elves that have not yet deteriorated.

And the old man in front of him has already done it in just a snap of his fingers.

It's just that before Tianquan's mind settled, he saw the change of things in front of him, and he was trapped in the lotus flower and could not get out.

The man smiled and bowed slightly to the lotus.

"One flower is one world, one tree is one Bodhi. Although we should not be contaminated with cause and effect here, the donor goes first, and I have no choice but to resolve it. After that, the old man walked slowly, and he didn't know who he was talking to.

Anyway, the people in the lotus flower are unaware of this.

"Eh, have you ever heard of the 'Upside-Down Hanger'?" Karna sat in the library, which probably won't leak anymore, and suddenly asked his roommate, who looked drowsy.

Mu En pondered for a moment.

"The folk mercenary organization seems to be similar to the witchers, but they have no bottom line. Not recognized by the Empire. ”

Karna nodded, and whispered in his ear, pretending to be mysterious, "I heard that they have been making a big move lately. ”

"Do they have the capital?" Mu En never paid attention to the news, so he looked a little surprised.

"They are said to have killed a team of adjudicators...... It is said that I don't know if it's reliable or not. Karna lowered his voice, "I just heard about it, and guess what, when I was back home, I heard that they had been recognized by many human empires. ”

"There are sorcerers among the hangers. How dare you take this?"

"It should be that humanity has started to fight civil strife again. ”

Mu En rubbed his hair, looked at the "Fundamentals of Formation Learning" in front of him, and said in his heart that the books with the word "foundation" in their names were not basic at all.

"It doesn't have much to do with us, let's read a book. "The length of study in the college has been compressed from four years to two years, but the content to be studied has not been reduced, and the theoretical part of the exam is also one after another, Rao is Muen also feels very headache, not to mention that he is not as energetic as he was now.

"But the academy is going to organize a month-long demon slaying experience before the summer vacation, and it's very likely that you will meet them. ”

"It's okay not to go west, and compared to what will happen in three or four months, the big exam in a few days is what you should be worried about, your current compulsory theoretical grades plus the total number of credits have fallen to more than thirty years in the grade, and there are only sixty-four people in total. ”

"Isn't that because there was a little accident in the winter!"

"There were only about thirty of them. ”

“...... Okay, stop hurting each other at this point. ”

On a sunny afternoon two months after the start of school, Muen was taking a nap when she was woken up by Karna in a daze.

Reluctantly, he got up, pushed open the window, and said to Karna with sleepy eyes, "I find that you are particularly fond of waking up others while they are sleeping. ”

"That's because you like to sleep too much now, hurry up and get up, someone is looking for you at the school gate. Karna was sweating and seemed to have just returned from a workout, and he now enjoyed a ball game that required magic, and he would team up with his fellow players every day.

Mu En didn't think of who would make a special trip to find him, could it be his parents?

Thinking of this, he suddenly became happy, and quickly put on his clothes and ran to the door of the academy.

But the result was a big disappointment for him.

Because he knew the man, and although he used a magic mask to hide his true appearance, he had also seen this face.

"Senior brother, why are you...... I thought my parents were finally trying to come and see me. Mu En pursed her lips and wrote her displeasure on the door of her head.

Ansher pretended to be heartbroken and said that his senior brother was too a failure, and he was so unpopular.

"Eh, forget it, maybe every junior brother's growth will inevitably be accompanied by the sadness of the senior brother. Three things, I said you listen. The first one, I don't think you will see me for the next five years, because I will go to Avalon to teach, and the mentor and the elven king agreed to exchange excellent teachers. ”

"You're a good teacher, too?"

"You kid want to be beaten, right?" Ansher angrily chased after Mu En and gave two brains.

"Second, every two months, you have to go to the provincial tower organization of the province where you are located, and ask the magister there to check your body, this is a token. Of course, if you are in school, you can go directly to your dean. With that, Ansher handed out an ice-blue amulet and handed it to Muen.

"The third thing, you will have a college competition at the end of this semester, and the tutor means that you can not participate, but the specific way is up to you. ”

Mu En took the token, sighed and said, "My situation is actually very serious, isn't it that the master can't solve it?"

Ansher smiled slightly and comforted: "When you are poor in manpower, your situation is a little special, and it will take a long time to heal yourself, but it is not a big problem, don't worry." ”

"Thank you for comforting me, brother. ”

"Don't scare yourself, but this incident should also give you some warning, think more, observe more, and be more prepared when you are outside in the future, and retreat in time if you feel that it is dangerous. ”

Mu En didn't look up at Ansher's eyes, just a little perfunctory, and then he seemed to have discovered something.

"Senior brother, are you injured?"

Ansher seemed a little surprised, but he didn't expect to be seen by his junior brother.

He had many wounds on his body, some of which were scabbed over and some were still spilling blood.

"Good observation, but don't worry, it's not a big deal. ”

"Hmm......" Muen asked, looking up, "Is it true that you haven't been able to come back for many years?"

Ansher nodded, "I think it should be like this." ”

"I'll miss your brother. You have to work hard to cultivate, don't wait until I have surpassed you in five years, you have nowhere to put your face. ”

Hearing this, Ansher laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to be a little guy with a small breath. Let's make a bet, if you can be half as strong as me in five years, I will call you senior brother in the future. ”

"A word?"

"It's a deal. ”

At the time of parting, Ansher gave Mu En three more magic instruments, and Mu En accepted them after a few words.

Ansher said that the world has often been scattered since ancient times, and there are many separations in the world, which is really sad, and Mu En teased the senior brother that he is still so hypocritical when he is in his forties.

But looking at the back of Ansher carrying his bags, Mu En was still a little sad for no reason, because he suddenly thought that if he really died outside this time, he might never see his senior brother again, and his life was so fragile.

So Mu En suddenly stopped him, and watched Ansher turn around in some surprise, revealing his trademark bright smile to himself.

"Life is not what it is written in the books...... The protagonist of the book can always help him overcome difficulties with the right thing at the right time and place, but I don't seem to be prepared for anything. ”

Anschel laughed, "A poet once said: Literati write broken thoughts, and broken thoughts are always short of dust. Why bother? ”

"You're talking like that again. Mu En was not interested in rhetoric and fancy martial arts, he always thought that those things were complicated and superfluous, and it was a waste of time to learn what to use, and then the senior brothers looked at each other for two seconds, and Mu En asked again: "By the way, senior brother." Would you be sad if I died?"

Ansher looked at his junior brother, the smile on his face slowly converging in the bright sun, making the whole world seem to dim a little.

"I never thought about it. He said, "I never thought you'd die before me, and I wouldn't let that happen." ”

"But this time I almost died, and I don't know if I'll be so lucky next time. Mu En's eyebrows were sad, and the occasional spring breeze could not blow it away, "I have been thinking lately that if I die, I will never see my parents again...... I'll never see you again, I can't hug all the things I like anymore, and I can't keep the people and things I want to stay around. ”

"I really...... Really scared. ”

Ansher put down his bags and walked back slowly, taking the child who had experienced hardship before he was thirteen years old into his arms and gently patting him on the back.

There was a lot he wanted to say to him, but in the end Ansher couldn't say it. Just pretend to be relaxed and tell him to practice well, and no one will be able to take away what you cherish.

When a person understands the meaning of loss, he will no longer take the beauty around him for granted, even if he is still not sure how lucky Qingzhu himself is.

The senior brother left, but Mu En still didn't tell him about the dreams that made him unforgettable.

Far South Black Sea.

Looking at the nearest island on the mainland from the bell tower of the highest temple of the Poseidon Order, it is almost clear that the Deep Sea Clan is entrenched on it, and their strange eyes always covet this continent that is close at hand but cannot be reached.

Although the Pope has been staying in this desolate and cold place for many years, he has no intention of getting bored at all, he looked at the wisp of soul floating in the soul cup in front of him, which was Muen's lost memory, and was taken out in order to prevent Muen from knowing what was wrong with him and scaring himself.

It was also this small fragment of his soul that was the most fragmented.

"Hmm...... Looking at you, something suddenly occurred to me. Looking at the fragment of his soul, in the darkness, the bleak moonlight could only outline his silhouette, and I didn't know who he was talking to.

""Wolves", hmph, I don't know if he has such good blessings. ”

There was a knock on the door, and a teenager walked in.

It was the seventh and most mysterious apostle of the Pope.

"His Excellency. The apostles addressed him no differently than others.

Diahoon threw the soul cup in front of him and told him to sew it up.

The boy was a little embarrassed, because he was not a mage of the spiritual circuit, and he did not have enough spiritual power to sew such a small and fragmented soul into the soul.

"Go back and take your time, and give it to me before you enter the new tower courtyard, so that you don't have to go out and embarrass the Order. Diason stood up and disappeared into the darker darkness.

The boy sighed and left with the Soul Cup.

After the monthly exam, Mu En's comprehensive ranking was still very high, but as a magician, he could only rank tenth, which made many people who were jealous of his talent ready to move. The teachers of individual classes are also using him as an example to motivate their classmates, saying that he is just more diligent than the geniuses here, and in fact it is not a big deal, which also makes the progress of Muen's students in this class slightly improved overall.

The most unexpected thing is the group of people who are about to go to school in the second grade this year, seeing that there is a twelve-year-old magician in the first grade, everyone is under pressure and desperately trying to improve the level of magic in the inscription circuit, and in the past two months, there have been two unlucky people who can only start all over again because the circuit is accidentally carved wrong.

"Eh, Muen. "This familiar beginning, you can't be wrong, it must be Karna who has come to talk to him again.

"What's wrong? I want to celebrate my fall to the 40th place in cultural achievements today?"

"Hiss-I found that you have changed, you are not the shy boy you were when you first came last year, where did you hide Mu En, give it back to me!"

"It's troublesome to talk about things, I'm not in good spirits now, and you still disturb my study every day. Mu En began to give the eviction order.

Karna leaned over to him and shook a little, showing the Tower newspaper of the day.

"You're so boring......" Muen took the newspaper, and there was an entire page on it that said one thing.

"A new teaching model for the new tower academy?"

"That's right, it's to refine the combat teaching, they will train that kind of special type of fighters, divided into various positions, and the specific division will be marked on it. Karna leaned over to Muen's side and marked out the part that explained the position of the battle.

"Moreover, the length of study has been changed to six years. ”

Muen listened and read, then returned the newspaper to Karna and asked what he was most often telling the other party. It also hits the soul the most: "What does this have to do with us?"

"......" Karna was full of question marks, holding the newspaper in his hand and said in disbelief: "Big brother, this is a question related to what we want to learn in the future, and when the time comes, we need to choose and compete by ourselves." ”

"Let me remind you, Mr. Jun Zhu said that if you can't even reach the top 60% of your cultural achievements, you will definitely not be able to enter the New Tower Courtyard, even if you rank first in battle. Unfortunately, your cultural performance is close to the danger line, and your combat performance is not out of the blue. Mu En poured salt on his wounds mercilessly.

“...... You're getting more and more poisonous now, Muen. ”

"I'm just reminding you that you should care about what's important first, the new tower is open to everyone, as long as you don't qualify to graduate from a top college, our competitive pressure will be greater than you think. ”

"It's okay, it's close to the area of half a province, and it's impossible for them to accept less than a hundred people in one grade. I mean, if there's a position you'd like to choose, you might as well start training consciously now and you'll be able to keep up with the pace a little bit later. ”

Hearing this, Mu En leaned back in his chair with a sigh.

"Alas, I'm not in the mood, my current physical state is not suitable for going to the new tower, I guess I should go back to the imperial capital tower. ”

"You're not serious, are you? a genius like you wouldn't go to the New Tower Courtyard, it's a ruin!"

"Not every genius is gifted for battle, Karna. A warm male voice rang out from behind him, and Karna felt his hair being rubbed.

"Mr. Junzhu. When Mu En saw it, he got up and saluted.

Jun Zhu smiled at the two of them and made a gesture of silence.

"You guys were a little loud just now, and you should try to be as quiet as possible in the library. ”

Karna smiled and apologized to the teacher.

"I'm here to find you this time, the wild hunt at the end of the semester needs to be divided into sixteen teams, that is, a group of four, although you and Mu En have the ability to be captains, but I estimate that you should be in the first team, and this captain and team members need to report to the academy in advance. So any of you have the idea of being a captain?"

Karna slapped his hand and pointed at Jun Zhu, "Tsk, look, the teacher still understands me, when it comes to the captain, then our Mu En is really the best, both civil and military are delicate, of course it's him." But do the players have to be from their own academy?"

Jun Zhu nodded, "Yes, and the route of the wild hunt will also be specially planned according to the strength of the team members." ”

"I don't know anyone else well, and my classmates have been prejudicing me lately, so I don't think it's appropriate for me to be the captain. Mu En leaned back on the table and offered his opinion, "Let Karna come, I can help." ”

Jun Zhu patted Mu En's head and told him that he didn't care about other people's opinions, and then they chatted a few more words and left.