L030◇The legend of the bell tower

Not long after the establishment of the Mage Country, before the establishment of the Magic Academy, and even before the living historical legend of Levitra was born, the small town of Gler, west of the Tower of Babel, was thriving in the land of the Mage Country.

At that time, the world had just experienced the devastation of the century of disconnection, and the cultural level of the whole world had collectively regressed for countless years, and the whole world was about to experience the revolution of the glorious century again, repeating the darkness that was laid out on the surface of that century.

At that time, the country of mages was very happy every day, and this country could be said to have been forced to be established. Many powerful races are gradually declining in the century of disintegration, and the human race with the monkey as the overlord can be said to be very unfriendly to the mages, and there are even many human countries that regard the mages as demons and the truth as evil. If you are unlucky enough to encounter a country where your home country is an anti-demon alliance, the lightest thing is to be expelled from the country, the heavier is to be reduced to a slave, and even worse, there is a lot of abuse on the spot, abuse and anger, etc., and the result is that it is difficult to escape death or life is worse than death.

After the mages seized the Wheel of Regression and declared their independence, many mages in the main continent were excited and couldn't sleep at night, wishing that they would be in the country of mages tomorrow and not be discriminated against. This is indeed the case in the later developments, and more and more lonely mages poured into the country, each finding a sense of home, and discovering more happiness and beauty.

In that era, witches were often used to describe a special group of people, who were extremely talented in magic, so high that they could also have a magical flow between breaths, and a word could also touch people's hearts. It is not untalented among male mages to this extent, but in this era, women's rights are generally low, and the genius enjoyed by male mages is called female mages.

The Akalomin Bell Tower already existed at that time, but at that time the bell tower was not called Akalomin, but was named after the town - Glare.

The construction of the Gleyre Clock Tower was very fast, and everyone was looking forward to opening it for use when it was completed. But what I didn't expect was that less than a month after it was built, eight mage apprentices died intermittently in it, and the bell tower was regarded as an ominous place, and few people entered it since.

Later, there was a witch who was expelled from a certain country, and she lived in the bell tower when she was homeless, and the bell tower barely recovered a little bit of life.

The witch's name is Akali, and like many mages, she is also a mage who has been driven out of her homeland; The difference is that Akali has mermaid blood, inherited her father's magical singing voice, and usually has the magic power to affect her soul even when she speaks.

Not surprisingly, no one can tolerate a "mermaid witch who may eat people" by his side. Once the horror reached the extreme, even the men who were bewitched jumped out one by one to slander themselves as being bewitched by magic, and Akali fled her hometown in the most embarrassed way when she was most innocent, and came to the land of mages and lived in the Gleyre Clock Tower. Akali is not discriminated against in the Land of Mages, on the contrary, she is very popular when she is out and about. But Akali, who was accustomed to loneliness, did not take the initiative to integrate into the country, and still lived silently in the bell tower.

It is against this background that the story of the bell tower began.

The Duchy of Locke was probably the only country in that era that did not discriminate against mages, but it was only the royal family, and for the people, if a mage lived next to them, the daily prayer content would probably change from "God is everything, God please bless me" to "That mage is probably studying some witchcraft again, God please bless me".

In order to win the powerful mage as a protector and promote the relationship with the mages, Locke's royal family selected a group of people who did not discriminate against mages like the royal family to form an envoy group to go to the country of mages, and then stayed in Gleyre temporarily. One twilight day, the witch Akali and the envoy Amin got to know each other.

Warm, cheerful, upright, and kind, the withdrawn Akali slowly fell in love with this sunny person and gradually opened up. Naturally, the two became a couple, which brought the relationship between the two countries closer a lot. At the same time, this is also a very optimistic pair, just the conjecture of the onlookers has already made up the future happy life of the two, and there are groups of four men and five girls.

But the good times were short-lived, and Locke was at war with the surrounding kingdoms that wanted to annex him.

The royal family let go of the country of mages, whose relationship had taken a slight turnaround, and recruited all men over the age of 12 and under the age of 70 into the army, and the patriotic Amin naturally put down his love to go to war, leaving Akali alone to wait in silence for the bell tower.

Locke is only a small country after all, under the oppression of many countries, he is unable to retreat, Akali receives letters from the front line more and more late, and Akali, who misses him too much, washes his face with tears every time, and sings in the direction of Locke every time the moon is full.

Years later, Akali no longer received letters from Amin, and the caravan came from the east, bringing news of Locke's demise and the death of all the warriors on the banks of the Yulan River.

Akali fell silent in the bell tower for a month after hearing the news, and just as others thought that Akali had died in the bell tower, the emaciated Akali left the bell tower and announced that she would change her name to Akalomin. After that, Akalo rushed to the Yulan River where Amin died in battle day and night, I don't know whether it was calculated in advance or accidental, the first night when he arrived at the Yulan River was the night of the full moon.

Legend has it that Akalomin sang a song for the whole night that night, singing a requiem that calmed the warrior spirits of the entire river, and all creatures who came close could feel the peace from the soul...... Until dawn the next day, Akalomin was nowhere to be found, but the song seemed to be recorded by the river, and the song of the requiem has been echoing in the river to this day.

The bell tower where Akalomin once lived was renamed Akalomin Bell Tower.

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…… Don't ask Lin Xiaoxu why he remembers it so clearly, because this story is not just a story, but also history! Even if you don't take the "World History" exam, you have to memorize it!

Because two hundred years later, that Akalomin came out again!

214 years later, the former Akalomin transformed from a witch to the Emperor of the Dead, using the unique song of the merman to confuse the living beings, and at the same time unleashed an army of the undead to attack the countries of El, Taria, and Ohu, and it took only 5 years to destroy the lives of several countries.

At that time, everyone felt an atmosphere of despair, and even the gods who lived in the kingdom of God couldn't help but want to intervene to stop it. Miraculously, the unstoppable Akalomin suddenly gave up and retreated westward with his army to the underworld without saying a word, which made many politicians who had made war predictions choke and almost lost their breath.

Later, some researchers dug through the clues and found that the undead emperor wiped out the countries that attacked Locke two hundred years ago; After digging again, the identity of Akalomin, who had not said a word from beginning to end, was dug up, and humans had to re-look at the word "witch" and this group of people.

And then? And then there was no more, and now the former witch's Undead Emperor is still living a comfortable life in the underworld, where no one dares to disturb him.

Under the Akalo Ming Bell Tower, the afternoon sun made the clock hot, if it weren't for Lin Xiaoxu's high resistance to high objects, his hands would definitely be burned.

The Akalo Ming Bell Tower is a bronze bell made of perpetual motion gears, and if you want to dismantle all its parts for maintenance, it will require a huge amount of manpower to support the disassembly and assembly of the giant parts. There are no tower cranes or anything like this in this world, and normal people can't lift such heavy things, the best solution is to send an advertisement to recruit a few powerful people like Lin Xiaoxu, and there is no shortage of such resources in this world.

Like Lin Xiaoxu, there were several strong men and a few metal creations who took over the maintenance task of the bell tower.

Except for the fire demon, who is not afraid of heat, the others all put on armor, and the one who has cultivated ice magic can't use ice magic to reduce heat, and the maintenance staff said that this will damage the molecular structure of the parts and shorten the lifespan......

As for those metal creations, there are men and women, old and young (mainly depending on the age of the creations), but no matter how relaxed they behave, the visual stimulation and contrast are not as strong as Lin Xiaoxu's 12-year-old Lori.

The task of the bell tower does not require much brains, all the work is just to disassemble the parts weighing 1~5 tons, and then return them to their original places after a series of maintenance measures. The penultimate thing that needs maintenance is the heaviest, about 25 tons of things that everyone has to lift together to be stable, and it takes a lot of effort to remove and install them.

After the work was over, Lin Xiaoxu left after receiving his salary like everyone else.

A strong person or an experienced person like Lin Xiaoxu will have a mystery-like intuition, Lin Xiaoxu doesn't know if there is an official name for this kind of consciousness, and can only vaguely call it "sixth sense".

Now that the sixth sense told her that someone was following her behind her, Lin Xiaoxu walked a few steps and suddenly turned around, just in time to see the hand that person stretched out and wanted to pat her on the shoulder.

The man was embarrassed by Lin Xiaoxu, and said haha, "You are Lin Xiaoxu, right?" I'm Orvira, Year 2, and we were the ones who moved the bronze bell together, do you remember? ”

Lin Xiaoxu nodded and shook his head.

Ovira was a little disappointed, but still continued: "I have been hearing about your deeds since you entered school, and this time I met you by such a coincidence, I wanted to get to know you, such as making friends or something...... If I could, I'd like to ask you something. ”

Lin Xiaoxu is inexplicable, has she done anything worthy of fame since she entered the school? Except for that time that time it brought down someone's underground palace.

"If I'm not mistaken, your next mission should be the Dragon Wrangler mission at dusk, there's still a little time to start, right? Don't look at me with such horrible eyes, I happened to be there when you went to register, and I just accidentally saw it. ”

Lin Xiaoxu was noncommittal about this answer: "Let's talk straight, what are you looking for me?" ”

"Since you're so straight to the point, okay then." Ovira shrugged: "Actually, I have two children who can't make people feel at ease and want to ask you." ”

Lin Xiaoxu frowned: "Child? I hate kids the most. Especially the bear kids who are younger than me."

"Oh sorry, kids is my idiom. In fact, they are two metal creations like me, and one of them was entrusted to me by the master before his death, but I have something to leave the academy for a long time, and it is inconvenient to take her with me on the road; The other is a newborn born that has been produced in the past few years, and his owner has gone back to his hometown, and before leaving, he has been temporarily placed with me until he goes back to school, and I am also inconvenient to take with him. ”

"You can't be annoying, right? I really hate bear kids. ”

"Don't worry, the big one is an introverted little tsundere, and the small one is an innocent young man with a glass heart dressed in a cold skin. It looks like the trouble is actually very easy to raise. The small one is called Roderick, and the big one is just called Leah. ”

“…… I don't know if you have a grudge against them, but I accept it. ”

"There's no revenge." Ovira waved her hand.