Chapter 40: Escape from Death

At this time, I only heard Xiao Jia hurriedly say: "Kane didn't deceive you, it's because the cultivation process of "blood magic" is too cruel and bloody, so the Holy Court and the Magicians Guild have long listed it as a "forbidden technique", and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to cultivate or spread it, so when I found out that the professor was studying this, I was immediately frightened, and my first reaction at the time was that I had to report this matter to the guild leaders, but when I was about to leave with those documents, I looked up and found that the professor was standing at the door and looked at me in surprise..."

"Did he use force against you?" Ellie asked.

"No," Xiao Jia shook her head.

"He just asked me why I was here, what I was holding in my hand... At that time, out of respect for him, I did not hide it, I found something to him, and asked him why he wanted to study the "forbidden technique", at first the professor was very excited, flatly denied my accusations against him, but in the end he bowed his head in the face of undoubted evidence, it turned out that the professor's research at that time fell into a bottleneck, and the guild management was unwilling to invest too much manpower and material resources in this project, in order to put his years of hard work into the water, the professor hoped to make some sensational progress, In exchange for the support of the guild leaders, in the end, in this mentality of quick success, the professor set his sights on the "blood magic" that is regarded as a "forbidden technique", because our topic was originally the collection and sorting of ancient magic files, so it naturally also contains a large number of "forbidden techniques", originally these could only be submitted to the guild leaders as academic materials for proper sealing, but the professor used the convenience of his work to secretly copy and copy a large number of relevant materials and study them, For fear of being discovered, he deliberately separated these things and sandwiched them in some old books that he didn't usually use, and by the time I found out that night, his research had been secretly going on for months and had made some progress... At that time, the professor himself admitted that he was also very conflicted in the process of conducting research, on the one hand, the scholar's love for the research he was engaged in, and on the other hand, the conscience of a person, looking at the professor's painful appearance at that time, I was a little soft-hearted, as his student I knew better than anyone how difficult his situation was at that time, so I persuaded him to take the initiative to surrender to the guild leadership, hand over all the research materials, and strive for leniency, and the professor finally agreed after weighing it again, And said that I would go with me to surrender to the senior management early tomorrow morning, out of trust in him I agreed, and handed over the documents in my hand to him, and then went back to the dormitory, for this I didn't sleep well all night, seeing that the sky was dawning, so I decided to get up to see the situation on the professor's side, but I didn't expect that at this time, the door of the dormitory was suddenly kicked open, and then a group of "supervisors" rushed out directly..."

"Overseer?" Ellie wondered.

"The full name is the "Wizarding Conduct Supervision Committee", which is an internal oversight body under the Wizards' Guild, which is responsible for supervising the moral conduct of magicians, and has great power, somewhat similar to the Holy See's Inquisition."

"Oh...", Ellie couldn't help but nod her head when I explained it.

"And what happened?"

Xiao Jia sighed when she heard this: "At that time, before I could react, they directly pressed me to the ground, unable to act at all, and then they launched a search in the dormitory, and finally somehow found a lot of research materials about "blood magic", I don't know where these things came from, and then I was taken back by them and imprisoned on suspicion of "studying forbidden techniques", at first I didn't understand what happened, until a few days later I was taken to the "Supreme Council of Leaders" Appearing in court for trial, only to see Mr. Mefilas appear in court as a witness, and testify that I had long used the opportunity to help him sort out ancient documents to secretly engage in the study of "blood magic", and after he found out, he tried to use hue to buy him, and the professor finally came forward to report me out of the rationality and conscience of a scholar... At that time, I was stunned after listening to his words, this is clearly a complete slander, reversing right and wrong, I naturally tried my best to refute it at the time, but all the evidence was against me, those documents were found out of my dormitory, and there were even witnesses and the so-called note written by me "myself" to the professor with the intention of bribing him, at that time I couldn't tell even if I was full of mouth, and finally the court ruled that I was guilty of "studying forbidden techniques", and was sentenced to "burning" according to the guild code, and was publicly executed in the guild square three days later... I was terrified, I felt as if the whole world had collapsed, I didn't know how I survived those days, until the night before the public execution, just when I was about to despair, the guild somehow infiltrated the spies, and after being discovered, they had a fierce confrontation with the guards, maybe my life should not have been killed, the explosion during the battle happened to collapse a corner of the outer wall of the cell, out of the instinct to survive I risked escaping from which gap, and then knocked out a guard, I found the key from him and opened the "Charm Chain", but at that time, the entire wizard's tower was closed and martial law, and I couldn't get out at all, just when I was desperate, I suddenly found that there was a room in the corridor with the door not closed, I sneaked in with the mentality of trying my luck, and it turned out to be a professor's room, there was no one in the room, and there were drinks and open books and notes on the table, I felt that the professor should have left in a hurry for some reason, but I didn't care so much at the time, As soon as I saw that there were still his robes and wands on the hanger next to me, I had the idea to dress myself up as a professor and pretend to go out to chase the enemy, because the battle was fierce at that time, so no one noticed me, and finally I took advantage of the unpreparedness to escape from the "Wizard's Tower" through a gap created by the invaders..."Speaking of this, Xiao Jia's face couldn't help but show an expression of the rest of his life, which can be imagined that the situation at that time was urgent.

"So the book and all the tools you had in your bag were brought out of the professor's room at the time?" At this point the princess asked.

"Well, I wasn't sure if I would be able to escape the guild at the time, so I left with some props that I might need just in case, which is considered theft, but it doesn't seem to matter to me now that one more crime is charged."

"And after that? The Wizards' Guild is hunting you down as a "defector?"

"Well, I've often heard this kind of thing talk about it before, but I never thought that it would happen to me one day, because the internal information of the guild members is exchanged, so I can't contact any of them at all, even if I don't know the book, and because I was expelled from the guild and cancelled my qualification as a white-robed mage, I didn't even dare to use magic in front of people easily, and if I didn't get it right, I would be arrested as a "heretic" or a "witch", so I had to wander around while escaping the pursuit of the "wizard hunters", It's hard to survive."

"Wait, what do you mean by 'Wizard Hunter'?" At this time, Ah Zi couldn't help but ask.

"The Wizards Guild has its own set of quite strict rules, once the offense is small, it will be expelled, and the big one will be executed, of course, there are many cases like Xiao Jia who have not been arrested for the time being, this kind of person is generally called "defector wizard", because many of these people are powerful people, once left unchecked, it is likely to cause great harm, so the "Wizards Guild" has set up a special team to hunt down these people, and this team is called "Wizard Hunters". This time, the princess answered her.