The mulberry flowers are blooming, the ice sea is melting, and it is the season of the opening of the magic academy for another year.

Ice Island is as busy as in previous years, and more and more new students of the academy are flocking here to start the first test of their lives.

Dressed in elaborate magic robes, they walked through the misty forest together, chasing their prey with magic wands, while the monsters and elemental elves fled or fought in a variety of tricks, making the sky of the entire ice island reflect the colorful light of magic, dazzling.

But this qiē has nothing to do with Su Ya.

She was patiently luring the angel cats out of the tree nest made of broad-leaved blue palmetto and flying into the delicate and small gilded bronze cage, there were too many magicians these days, and these little ones were selling very well, and she had to catch more.

Yes, she is just a stall owner on the ice and snow island, and she raises and sells the island's unique magic pet - angel cats, which are snow-white, have angel-like wings, and fly with snowflakes, so they are called angel cats. They know the terrain well, and can lead their masters gracefully and quickly in the misty forest, and almost all magicians who come here will buy one.

Business has been very good recently, Su Ya has been busy almost from morning to night, and when the sun sets, she has to rush home to feed the little ones and prepare for the next day, and she is so tired that she is a little in a trance.

An angel cat tried to escape from the top of her head when it flew out of the tree nest, Su Ya came back to her senses and waved her hand, reciting the word "knot", and a small stream of hailstone appeared out of thin air, smashing it dizzily and falling into Su Ya's other hand, erecting a tuft of stupid hair.

Su Ya looked at its wolf appearance, kissed its silly hair, stuffed it into the cage, and sighed softly: "Little guy, you can really get out of the cage when you get out of this island, do you understand?"

It's a pity that the little guy doesn't understand, and he angrily covers his eyes with his two wings, which provokes Su Ya to shake his head: "What a little villain, I hope you can meet a good master." ”

This time the little villain simply turned his snow-white ass around her.

“……”

Su Ya laughed, and after laughing, she felt that it was very stupid for a person to be like this, so she stood up happily, gathered the cages one by one, strung them with silver silk and grass ropes, and turned back to the house not far from her, well, maybe it would be more appropriate to call it a shack.

This is a hut built by the same broad-leaved blue palmetto, and then poured with ice water, but also strong, six years ago Suya was still very naïve, specially asked Susan's mother to help build a pagoda on the roof of her house, the octagonal spire looks blue from afar, and it is also very beautiful, but it is a little nondescript. Until now, they have been ridiculed by the village.

What did I say at the beginning: "You don't understand, this is a code, my parents will come to pick me up when they see it!"

When the villagers heard this, they all dispersed quietly, and they didn't even let her see the pity in their eyes.

Su Ya put the cages under the eaves, returned to her cabin, collapsed on the bed, helplessly covered her eyes with her hands, and the scene of parting appeared in front of her eyes again: the scarred parents supported each other, desperately and fearfully comforted themselves, and said many promises that they would not normally be able to agree to, just to let their young selves stay obediently on this isolated island and wait for them.

Those promises, that gentle, trembling tone...... It means they won't come back at all...... "I'm stupid!"

"Su Ya~, Su Ya baby~, are you at home?"

The shouts from afar pulled her back to reality, Su Ya rubbed her eyes a little wet, got up and responded, "Hey, Susan's mother, I'm at home!"

"You're here—" The voice that was still in the distance just now, hearing Su Ya's answer, quickly leaned over, and when the word "ah" came out, Susan's mother's strong body had already appeared at the door, "It's good that you're here, baby you're here, Susan's mother has good news to tell you!"

"What's the good news, Mother Susan?" asked Suya, who obediently poured her a cup of mulberry tea.

"Very good news," Susan's mother stretched out her hand and touched Sua's hair, she had always been straightforward and straightforward, and she rarely showed a little reluctance, "You have grown up, Susan's mother has found you a good opportunity, you can ...... Leave the island. ”

In an instant, the fear of abandonment struck again, and Susan's face turned pale: "Susan's mother?"

"Don't be afraid, baby, it's not what you think," Susan's mother knew what she was afraid of, and said softly, "If you feel that the outside world makes you unhappy, you are always welcome home to the Ice Island." ”

"Why?"

"Because you're not like us, baby, Ice Island is our cage, but it's also our refuge, it's our choice. But it's not your choice, you want to go out, you want to go to your mom and dad, right?"

Su Ya bit her lip and said softly, "But, they asked me to wait for them here......"

"You're fifteen years old, you're no longer a child, and you should already understand why they say that. You already knew they weren't coming back. ”

Su Ya's tears finally flowed: "Yes, I grew up. ”

Susan's mother smiled softly, her eyes long: "Baby, everyone will grow up, this is God's will." Do you know what it means to grow up?"

Suya shook her head.

"Growing up is about learning to face things that you don't want to face, to recognize the outcomes that you don't want to recognize, to deal with responsibilities that you don't know how to take. Growing up is a strong will, winning it, you will win glory, so you should learn to harvest it~"

"I understand, I'm fifteen years old, I'm no longer a child, I can't pretend to be ignorant, I shouldn't run away from ......" Every time Su Ya said a word, she bit her pale lips hard, like squeezing out those pains from memory, chewing, and aftertaste.

"Baby Suya, my poor child. Susan's mother hugged her with pity, but could not comfort her, growing up is a painful and lonely thing, like a butterfly struggling out of a cocoon, if it does not succeed, it will die, it will not be able to fly.

After a long, long time, Su Ya wiped away her tears, and raised her head in a choked voice: "I know that there is a special collection of outside news on the island, you can know about my parents, Susan's mother, you sue me, they, are they already ...... Dead?"

"Don't despair so quickly, baby, we haven't confirmed their deaths. In fact, they've only been missing for a long time, and I've heard that the last time they were seen was in Time City. That's why we feel like you should get out of here and go outside looking for them. ”

Hearing this not good news, Su Ya's heart was relieved, the confirmed result was better than she expected, and since Susan's mother supported her to find it, then there must be a way: "Then how can I find them?"

"If they go missing somewhere else, it might be hard for you to find clues, but the City of Time is different, it's so named because it has a magical Book of Time, and if you look through it, you can see what happened in the city. Of course, there is a premise for this, first of all, this matter must be closely related to you, and secondly, you must be a high-level magician to have enough magic to flip through. ”

The first point is naturally fine, but the second point, Su Ya smiled bitterly: "I'm not even a magic apprentice, with the help of the power of the ice and snow island to cast simple ice magic, to become a high-level magician, you must not only have a good teacher, but also integrate great treasures to attract magic, right?"

Almost all high-level magicians come from nobles and magician families from various countries, because after the fall of the gods, the magic power of this world has been very thin, and humans cannot directly use the summoning of magic spells to use magic, but must sign a contract with precious treasures with magic power through guò in order to open their own magic power, so as to start practicing magic.

Moreover, the quality of the treasures also determines whether the magician is strong or not, and the so-called treasures in the magic store will at most make people become beginner-level magicians, and this is why the Ice Island is not sold.

"That's right, all the treasures that have been handed down since ancient times are in the possession of those nobles and families, and it is too difficult for ordinary people to have a powerful treasure. Susan's mother sighed and said, "But, Suya baby, you have." ”

"Me?" Su Ya was surprised, how could she not know that she had such a valuable thing?

Susan's mother didn't answer, just stretched out her finger and pointed to it, showing a mysterious smile: "Your roof." ”

Her roof...... Pagoda ...... She did this because her parents gave her a pagoda pendant when they parted!

"That's why they won't let your parents go, baby. Your parents discovered it during an expedition to an ancient ruin, and were hunted down by nobles and families. ”

"I see. Her parents tried their best to keep the best for her, but she never knew it, and she was saddened by her loneliness.

"Don't cry, be happy, baby, your parents love you so much, and you have to believe that they were able to protect you and the treasure to get here safely, and there must be a way to hide after leaving. The most important thing is that you have to grow up quickly and become strong enough, they may be waiting for you too!" Susan's mother comforted.

"If I hadn't run away, I would have known earlier!" "The sooner I knew that my parents needed her, the sooner I knew that I had a powerful treasure by my side, and I ...... sooner

"It's just right to know now, do you think that in the past six years, we have let you waste your time raising angel cats in vain?"

"Isn't it?!" she always thought that everyone was afraid of her crankiness, so they gave her the delicate and difficult angel cat to raise to pass the time!

"......" always thought that this child was well-behaved, but it was actually an illusion, and why did he have the urge to beat her up now!

"Mother Susan, don't be angry, I know everyone is very good to me......" Su Ya saw that her face was wrong, and she pitifully redeemed it.

Forget it, the fat on Susan's mother's face trembled, took a deep breath, and then gritted her teeth and said: "If you don't have enough understanding to open a powerful treasure, you will only be eaten by the treasure and become a puppet, not a great magician!"

"Well, that's right!"

“…… In short, this realization should be achieved by now, and after all kinds of benefits, you will naturally understand, you try to find a way, make a contract with your treasure, and when the contract is successful, we will discuss the issue of your exit from the island, your identity, I have helped you prepare. After saying that, Susan's mother slammed the door and left.

Originally, a rather warm conversation was accidentally made like this by herself, and Su Ya felt a little sorry: it is estimated that in the eyes of Susan's mother, she is the same as the angel cat who doesn't know what to do.

Although she was eager to contract the pagoda left by her parents, Su Ya still decided to have dinner first, since the preparations had been done for six years, she couldn't fall short because of a temporary lack of effort.

My mother once said: A person must be able to take care of himself, and he must be able to distinguish what he should do and what he should not do.

She washed her face, took out the bread she had baked before going out, fried another snowbird egg, sandwiched sausages and sherry leaves, and ate it in a big gulp, feeling a little choked, so she took a sip of Susan's mother's undrunk mulberry tea and poured it down.

The slightly cool tea is a little bitter, but it has a familiar and quiet floral fragrance, just like her mood at this time.

Wiping her mouth, Su Ya climbed back onto the bed, took a deep breath, and pulled out her pagoda pendant from her chest, she has carried it since she was a child, she will touch it when she misses her parents, and kiss it when she cries happily, but today is the first time, trying to study it, studying the secrets on it.

The pagoda is dark red, the unknown material is carved, each layer of octagonal, a total of nine layers, the body of the tower feels very smooth, but look closely, but there is a star-like golden light circulating on it, the line out of a gooise, drill into the tower, and drill out from the tower base.

Su Ya's heart moved, stretched out her index finger, tried to put it on the tower stop, did not feel the suction, and touched the base again, but there was still no reaction, too, if it was so light, then after so many years, she just accidentally touched it, and it should have been opened.

What was it that she hadn't done to it in all these years? Throw it on the ground and trample on it, put it in a pot and boil it?

Well, it shouldn't be, it's a very powerful treasure, and she won't like such a rough contract, and besides, it has nothing to do with her raising an angel cat.

The understanding of raising an angel cat......

Su Ya tried hard to recall that the process of keeping these little things in captivity, angel cats are only of the first order, but they are full of spirituality, difficult to domesticate, and it is not easy to survive when they are young.

When he was nine years old, when Grandpa Fili began to teach himself to raise them, he could only raise two, because if he wanted to take them to the jungle to domesticate, he had to establish a spiritual connection, and the action of remotely controlling the two at the same time was his ultimate, but later, as his proficiency grew, there were more and more angel cats that could be spiritually connected, from two to four, to ten, to hundred...... By the beginning of spring this year, a total of 1,346 of them had been raised in her tree nest, and they were pulled to the Lost Forest for a walk, running or flying in unison, and the scene was quite spectacular.

So, if you want to make a contract with a treasure, you must first establish a spiritual connection?

Thinking so, Su Ya closed her eyes, calmed down, and tried to feel the existence of the pagoda, and sure enough, she felt its "consciousness", and it was cold as if it had an invisible "tentacle" handed to herself.

Su Ya responded to it cautiously, establishing a spiritual connection, and in an instant, the pagoda lit up, shining with blood-red brilliance, and the star-like golden light simply came out of her body, hovering around Su Ya's body, and gradually enveloping her.

Su Ya, who had her eyes closed, couldn't see the strange scene in the hut, she only felt more and more "tentacles" sweeping towards her from the tower, she took out the spirit of walking the angel cats, and handed over a steady stream of spiritual connections: ten, hundred, thousand...... 2,000 shares......

Oops! Her spiritual connection is not enough, her head is so dizzy, it seems that Susan's mother knows that the pagoda has an extraordinary origin, but they still underestimate its strength, Su Ya desperately supported it, but the whole person still fell uncontrollably, before she fell unconscious, she thought nonsensically: Can you still eat if you become a puppet?

However, the truth was not as bad as she imagined, almost at the same time as she fell, the pagoda wrapped around her "tentacles" took the initiative to retract, and the golden light also escaped from her body, only the pagoda was still bright, and the original dark red tower body completely turned blood red, and it became bigger and bigger, until it reached the roof, and then stopped.

Immediately afterwards, a figure floated out from the top of the pagoda, which was strange to say, the moment he suddenly appeared, it was only the size of a baby's fist, but when he stood in front of Su Ya, he looked taller than ordinary people.

It's clear that this is a man.

He was wearing a delicate blood-red robe, his long pale blonde hair was casually draped behind his head, his face was as handsome as a god, and his pen and ink were difficult to describe, but his expression when he looked at Su Ya was so strange and unpredictable, he stood in the dark like this, and he didn't move for a long time.

It wasn't until the first rays of sunshine in the morning playfully drilled in, and the snowbirds began to sing, that he slowly squatted down and stretched out his hand to reach out to the petite figure that seemed to be sleeping: "Finally, I finally caught you......"