Through the treacherous Bone Swamp, the convoy came to an endless black wasteland. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky was covered with black clouds, the ground was green and yellow, and the stones were a dark color. Occasionally, Phil could see a few broken stone altars of unknown soil, with dirty curtains woven of colored cloth, fluttering in the wind in the cold air.

The weather is getting colder and colder, but fortunately, with Miranda's reminder, Phil has prepared thick clothes very early. It is said that during the apprenticeship of a wizard, the temperature changes brought by the weather environment can still give people a lot of trouble, but this situation will dissipate at the moment when he becomes an official wizard, only a very special extreme environment can affect the wizard's body, and ordinary temperature changes cannot break through the wizard's force field at all, nor can it affect the wizard's physique. However, this situation is better for some wizard apprentices with high elemental affinity, such as fire, or advanced ice of water.

There are always some darlings in the heavens, and some people are born with special physiques, and this special physique will bring extraordinary help during their wizarding apprenticeship, and more broadly, wizard qualifications are actually a special physique, but on the basis of the entire wizarding world, this is really not worth mentioning.

But those who are extremely high in terms of affinity for a certain element are indeed very rare, and Phil has not seen one yet, but he has a vague guess about Miranda.

The weather is getting colder, but strangely enough, the atmosphere in the convoy is also getting colder.

Miranda walked towards Phil from the front of the convoy, wearing only a thin red coat and not looking uncomfortable with the current temperature.

"How does it feel?"

"It's good. Phil replied, "Why are you here?"

Miranda smiled at him: "It's almost time to get to the academy, I'll come to see you." ”

Usually we have always been together, so why is it necessary to come to see it? Although Phil has such doubts, there is no need to refuse Miranda's company.

So Miranda jumped into Phil's carriage and sat on the roof of the carriage with Phil to enjoy the unique scenery of the wasteland.

The escort knight in front of the carriage flicked his whip as if he didn't see it, but Phil felt the cold gaze coming from Elaine's wizard's carriage in the middle of the convoy, but he couldn't care so much now.

The carriage was a bit bumpy, and it was not an easy task for ordinary people to sit on the roof of a moving carriage, but it was not worth mentioning for the two official knights, Phil and Miranda.

"Hey, I think you should know, has something happened to the team lately?" Phil decided to ask Miranda directly.

"You mean?"

Phil glanced at the convoy of almost everyone hiding in the carriage, and the entire convoy was silent except for the occasional sound of the escort knight driving the horse.

"Isn't the convoy a little too quiet?" Phil said.

Instead of answering directly, Miranda asked Phil, "Why do you think Elaine Wizard specifically picked up our group of freshmen?"

Phil heard her question and quickly realized that something was wrong.

Why did Wizard Elaine escort all the way?

In fact, in the past few months of rushing experience, except for the accident of the wolf night, the rest of the convoy distress situation did not exceed the guardian ability of the escort knight, except for a few more accidental deaths, there were no casualties in the entire circle of preparatory students (except for the matter of the Bone Swamp, of course), so such a dangerous level of rushing actually did not need Elaine Wizard.

Why did Elaine Wizard escort all the way?

Miranda saw Phil's face and knew he had figured out the key.

"Although Elaine Wizard didn't do anything, the academy thinks that there must be a wizard who takes over the task of picking up new students in Victoria Harbour......"

"That said, the presence of Elaine is necessary," Phil took Miranda's words, "and the moment when Wizard Elaine is needed hasn't come yet, but we're close to the Academy...... Then only before reaching the academy, there must be something that needs the help of Wizard Elaine. ”

"It's coming, not tomorrow, or in the next few days, or the next moment. Miranda said.

So, the danger of that thing makes you feel that you have to stay by me all the time, in case I can't protect myself when the danger comes?

Phil looked at Miranda's flushed cheeks, a little distracted.

"What are you looking at?" Miranda thought Phil's eyes were a little strange.

"No, it's nothing," Phil was a little flustered, but he quickly diverted the other's attention, "Look, there's an eagle there!"

Phil pointed to the sky in the distance.

"Eagle, what eagle?" Miranda looked at him.

Phil didn't lie to Miranda, there was indeed a huge white eagle there.

At first, it was just a small white dot, but it quickly approached and turned into a huge end, full of tens of meters in size.

It was a very strange white eagle, not only huge, but also extremely fast, and Phil could even hear the wind howling as the white eagle flapped its wings.

But Phil soon knew that he was wrong, it wasn't a white eagle at all, and the whistling wind wasn't caused by it flapping its wings.

It was an eagle-like flying creature made of countless white bones, whether it was the head, wings and body, there were all white bones, faintly, Phil could even see the heads of many people on it, and the whistling sound was shouted by these heads opening their mouths.

The entire white bone eagle tens of meters in size roared, lingering in this deep shadow.

Phil looked to the middle of the convoy, where Wizard Elaine had come out and was standing on top of the carriage.

The convoy had gradually come to a halt, forming several concentric circles, and all the escort knights were standing outside the convoy, clenching their weapons with solemn expressions. The rest of the freshmen hid in the concentric circles of the convoy, cautiously.

"You have to be careful. Miranda solemnly instructed Phil.

This is what Miranda and the others have been waiting for and worrying about, intercepted by a wizard from another hostile academy.

That's why you need an official wizard to escort you.

Phil thought of what he had heard in Victoria Harbour, and there was one word that stuck in his mind: College War.

The war between the academies is not a small fight between ordinary people, and even the war between the empires of ordinary people seems a little bland in the face of the academy war.

Because this is a war in the wizarding world, for a certain resource, countless official wizards in the two academies are all dispatched, and when the time comes, countless witchcraft will be overwhelming, and the impact caused by it will not be comparable to that of ordinary soldiers in the ordinary empire?

After all, the influence of a wizard is far greater than that of an empire's wizarding world, and the academy war is not just a wizard.

The wizarding world is not as good as the folktale legend, as long as there is enough interest, the struggle cannot be avoided, the loser has nothing, and the winner gets everything. The stake-in academy wars are also so simple and straightforward, and even because there is less checks and balances between ordinary people's empires, the academy wars in the wizarding world focus more on simple power.

And this is the wizard power.

Of course, even a simple confrontation of forces has certain limitations.

In the famous wizard first code, it is marked that the academy war must not affect the survival of ordinary people, the power of the wizarding world is too huge for ordinary people, as long as the slightest leakage of power may affect the survival of ordinary people in several empires, after all, although the status of wizards is much higher than that of ordinary people, but wizards are also from ordinary people, if ordinary people even survive is very difficult, then the possibility of being born with wizard qualifications is greatly reduced, which ancient wizards have a great experience.

It is also not allowed to wreak havoc on the living environment of the wizarding world, the living environment of the wizarding world is the guarantee of the source of wizarding power, although every academy war is tried to choose to be carried out in some barren places, but it also inevitably affects the living environment of wizards, once the ecosystem is destroyed, then the loss of benefits to the wizarding world is also unbearable.

The final restriction is that the victor must not completely exterminate the vanquished. Each academy represents a myriad of knowledge and resources, and these knowledge and resources are the manifestation of the prosperity and diversity of the wizarding world, and the things that each academy represents are extremely precious, and the wizarding world cannot afford to lose them, and these knowledge and resources are also part of the relevant interests in the academy's war.

Phil was definitely far from the point of participating in the Academy War, and everything the appeal said was quite far from him, but Phil could see the tiny corner of this massive chessboard now.

In order to weaken the strength of the rival academy, it is a very effective small means to send high-level official wizards to intercept and kill the opponent's preparatory students.

And in order to prevent such interceptions, it is impossible for the academy to be indifferent, so there is Wizard Elaine to escort him all the way.

Even if there is the protection of the wizard, it does not mean the absolute safety of Phil and the others, otherwise Miranda would not have come to Phil's side to remind him to be careful, you must know that even if it was the dangerous wolf incident, Miranda did not pay special attention to him.

There is only one circumstance that speaks to Miranda's caution and concern.

That is, even under the protection of Elaine Wizard, Phil and the others will still encounter life-threatening situations.

Phil soon saw danger coming.

Seeing that the white bone eagle dozens of meters large suddenly swooped down and rushed towards the convoy, Elaine Wizard casually shot out a red light, which hit the sharp beak of the bone eagle, and the bone eagle was immediately scattered into a large piece and fell to the ground one after another.

But Wizard Elaine didn't immediately rejoice, but still stared at the scattered white bones with a serious frown.

Soon, the white bones scattered around made a move, as if they were being led by invisible threads, they all consciously gathered together, and finally formed a humanoid skeleton with a pile of white bones, these skeletons emitted black shadows, let out a terrifying cry, and rushed towards the escort knight with teeth and claws.

Neither Phil nor Miranda moved, because when the white bone eagle spread out and fell down just now, they clearly saw several black figures also jumping down, hiding around, and they were careful to guard against the impending danger.

Elaine Wizard in the center didn't move, like Phil and Miranda, very careful to be on guard.