"A mage is a person who pursues the mysteries of the world. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" On the empty podium, a crisp and pleasant voice sounded, "And the mystery of the world is simple and simple, complex and complex - since the creation of heaven and earth, the primordial spirit woke up from chaos, and there was an indescribable thing that incarnated all things, and built the world itself in which we exist, and its name is Aether." It is one, it is ten thousand, it is the beginning, and it is the end. Whether they are as noble as the Creator or as low as us, they are all one of the things that are born of the ether, and they are all children of the ether. And its existence itself is the origin of the world, the mystery of the world, and the truth of the world. ”

"But the aether is so vast that mortals like us can only peek into it. Some people are interested in the mediocre world, but others are not, their curiosity about the origin of the world is far greater than their care for the earthly world - the mage is one of these people, they are eager to know more, they are eager to unveil the mystery of all unknowns, they are eager to have a long life to follow the truth of all things that do not exist. ”

"This is the original mage, and the mage who has disappeared in the ages."

"As the years passed, the mages were no longer simply pursuing the mysteries of the Aether. The advent of the gods has changed so much that scholars who once stood on the towers and are forced to raise their staffs and cry out their own cries to discern the appropriate laws from the ocean of unknowable laws, and to change them into powerful spells that will burn the heavens, freeze the earth, and destroy all the enemies who come to attack. ”

"When the mage has power, the mage is no longer the original mage, they are more like warriors than scholars, and they are more hungry for power than for knowledge. However, I would like to warn you to never be blinded by power, and never to forget the initial emotion. A mage who pursues the mysteries of the world is not necessarily a powerful mage, but a strong mage must be passionate about pursuing the true nature of the world. ”

"Because we are so insignificant compared to the world itself, and to be able to perceive the vast world with this insignificant body, how fascinating, this is so ......fascinating."

"I'm sorry, teacher," a delicate elf about seven or eight years old who couldn't tell the difference between men and women raised his hand and stood up, "Didn't you say before that those mages who stay in the alchemy lab every day are otaku?" Are they all poor people who don't love their fathers and mothers, and can only be accompanied by their right hands? ”

A moment of coldness.

"Did I say that?" Hesitating, the voice on the podium asked.

"You said that when you mentioned the difference between a combat mage and a school mage, you sneered at the school mage who would only hide in the alchemy laboratory, and ridiculed it to the fullest." Another elven student answered the question, and he also asked in a curious voice, "But why did you change your mind today and have such a high regard for the otaku mage?" ”

"I see......"

Although there was no lecturer in sight of the lecturer blocked by the lectern, the cute nodding of the little teacher came to the mind of each apprentice.

"I want to correct your misunderstandings," the voice on the podium was silent for a short time, "Exploring the mysteries of the world cannot be done in the alchemy laboratory, the data that the experiment can provide is insignificant, the real appearance of the world is for you to measure with your feet and witness with your eyes, for a mage, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books." ”

"Teacher, how should we travel thousands of miles, I heard my parents say that the outside world is very dangerous, full of bad people, one of them will be abducted by human slave traders if they are not careful, and if they are not careful, they will be killed, and in some places, we will be slaughtered like cattle. Teacher, is what Mom and Dad said true? ”

An elven apprentice raised his hand and asked.

Then there was a moment of silence, and the eyes of all the elven apprentices were focused on the obscured figure on the podium.

"You don't have to worry about that," said the voice from the podium after another silence, "because, whether it is your parents, or teachers, or even many uncles, aunts, grandparents, and grandparents you know or don't know, are trying to make these words a lie, so please believe us, you will never face such a future, and you can also gain the right to walk in the sun." ”

"That's not something you should be worried about."

"Teacher, I once heard you say that we had a glorious civilization and a huge empire a long, long time ago, but it was destroyed by the arrival of the gods...... I want to know, what are the gods who destroy our homeland, who destroy our civilization, and where did they come from? ”

The elven apprentice didn't sit down, he continued to ask.

"I can't answer the first question, we still know almost nothing about the gods, as for the second question...... "Under the podium, a hand was stretched out, and it fell into the blackboard with difficulty, and drew a circle at the bottom of the blackboard, "This is our world, our world is made up of ether, it is everything for us, but for the world in the broader sense, it is only a part of the world, just the world as we know it, just a circle. Outside the circle is the world that we affirm exists but know nothing about, and we collectively refer to it as the outer lands. ”

"The gods come from the outer worlds that we know nothing about."

After answering this question, the voice on the podium asked a little tiredly, "What else do you have to ask...... If not, that's the end of today's lesson. ”

"Goodbye, teacher."

The elven apprentices stood up neatly and bowed.

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Monia packed up her textbooks and lesson plans on the floor and left the classroom. As a lecturer, she has been teaching at the Elven Forest Mage Academy for almost a month, and during this time she has lived a full and happy life - the elves who are not yet adults are really a very interesting thing, and the mage is very passionate about ruining people's teaching career. As a teacher who knows the teacher and teaches the puzzle solver, she has always liked to pour out the interesting knowledge of her past life to the children in the Elven Forest, and then explain it to the students in their unaware eyes.

This kind of thing, it's really fun.

Walking on the road, she remembered that when the students used the otaku mage she created to replace the school mage today, she suddenly looked forward to it - when those children grew up, they used the familiar vocabulary of their previous lives, calling the school mage an otaku mage, and dividing the school mage obsessed with alchemy into a technical otaku...... All of this really brought her closer to the world in her previous life that she didn't know where it existed.

Of course, she also encountered a lot of problems in the teaching process, such as students' distrust of her teaching qualifications, such as the confession of some little children, but these are not big deals, the only thing that makes her frown is her height.

Standing on the podium, she couldn't see the people below at all, and her presence was completely blocked by the large podium on the podium. To make matters worse, every time she tried to write on the blackboard, she had to stand on her tiptoes to get there, and sometimes even jump to finish the pen...... It's a sad story.

As the mage summed up his educational career, he walked towards Lahuana's treehouse. After the Elven Archmage ruthlessly rejects her offer of custody, she finally chooses to let Lahuana register again and become her nominal guardian - after this is done, the first thing she does next is to go to the Elf's home market and buy a large soft bed for Lahuana's treehouse - from then on, she will not have to worry about insomnia for a long time.

What she didn't know, though, was that someone didn't belong for days after that—not everyone could quickly get used to having someone cuddle around them like a koala in the middle of the night.

The Elven Forest's Mage Academy is located at a distance between the Mage Guild and Lahuana's Treehouse, which allows for both elven apprentices who live mainly in the ancient trees and allows elven mages who come to teach them to meditate in the Mage Tower after their lessons.

Monia chose to go back to Lajuana's treehouse after class, not because the mage didn't care about the meditation opportunities in the mage tower, but because she habitually accumulated these and waited for the whole day to meditate, so that she could clearly feel her progress.

She had been in the Elven Forest for nearly forty days, and had meditated in the Mage Tower seven times, and each time she could feel her spiritual power growing, getting closer and closer to the line that existed between middle-level mages and low-level mages. She had reason to believe that if she was given a few more months, she would be able to cross that line and become a mid-level mage with a mage's shield and no longer die so easily on the battlefield.

Frankly speaking, the spiritual power of middle-level mages and low-level mages is only a difference in quantity, but there is only a slight difference, which divides a stage of mages. As far as mid-level mages are concerned, they who have the ability to engrave the mage's shield inscription on their bodies no longer have to care about the lower ranks, nor do they have to care about the sudden attack of the enemy, and their ability to survive does not know how many orders of magnitude they have improved.

To be able to step into this level, in the early years of the Age of Chaos when the various mage schools had not yet been born and the gods were still looking at the clouds, they already had enough ability to protect themselves. And when she left Lorena, the City of Eagles, and the Mughal School for the Elven Forest, the most optimistic estimate she made was that it would take a few years for her to cross that line and become a mid-level mage.

And now, she is close to the goal she set at the beginning. This is not only due to the mage tower, but also the battles on her way to the Elven Forest, as well as the incredible experience on the path of her true name. The battles along the way promoted her spiritual growth, and the sights and hearings along the way helped her settle her soul, and the stable environment and resources provided to her by the Elven Forest at the end were the last help she received from digestion.

In less than ten years, he was promoted from a low-level mage to a mid-level mage, which is really a bit terrifying. It's just that the mage's tense nerves have not yet been completely loosened - the Age of Chaos is gradually coming out of the memories of her previous life, showing her a hideous face, the elves' restoration war is only a trivial prelude at the beginning, and in the next hundred years, the war will ignite the entire continent at a jaw-dropping speed, and no one can stay out of it.

Monia can't either, so, she still needs to get stronger, get stronger.

Only in this way will she be able to protect the people she holds dear and the warmth of her forest, which is gradually making her feel at home.

She wanted to protect it all, to protect this last of the elves' paradise in the midst of war.

This is her decision.

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