Outak is only found on the four southern islands of the archipelago: Jouk, Ansmo, Padi, and Wasau. The body is small and muscular, with a wide face, large, bright eyes, and dark brown or brown spots. They don't bark or make any noise, but their teeth are ruthless and they have a fierce temper, so no one keeps them as pets. Gede stroked the one lying in his hand, so it woke up and yawned, showing its little brown tongue and white teeth, not afraid of Gede at all. "Outark." Gede called as he recalled the thousands of beast names he had learned in the Isolation Tower, and finally, he called the animal by his real name in the prime-speaking language: "Brother Hou! Do you want to come with me? ”

Outakian sat down in Gede's open hand and began to lick and wash his fur.

Gotta put it in the hood of his shoulder and let it straddle there. During the day, it sometimes jumps down and scurries into the woods, but always comes back eventually. Once, when he came back, he had a wooden rat in his mouth, and Gede laughed and told him to eat it, because it was the night of the festival and the fasting period for him to fast. In this way, Gede passed by the Rouke Round Hill on a rainy evening, and saw that above the roof of the Hongxuan Pavilion, there were many false lights shining in the rain. When he entered the Hongxuan Pavilion, the masters and brothers welcomed him in the brightly lit hall. Gede, who had no home to return to, felt as if he was returning home, and he was very happy to see so many familiar faces again, especially to see Fei Rui's dark brown face with a deep smile and come forward to welcome him. Gede realized how much he had missed his friend this year. Fei Hui had been promoted to the rank of master in the autumn and was no longer an apprentice, but this did not become an obstacle between the two, and they chatted freely as soon as they met. In the first hour of his reunion, he had said more than he had in an entire year in the Isolation Tower.

As the big guys sat down at the long table in the hearth hall and prepared for the dinner of the celebration day, the Ou Take was still riding on Gede's shoulder. Fei Hui was surprised to see the little animal, and once reached out to touch the ground, but Outak opened his teeth and bit him. Fei Rui laughed and said, "Sparrowhawk, I heard that people who are favored by wild animals, even rocks, flowing springs and other primordial forces will speak to them with human voices. ”

"It is said that the wizards of Bow Island often domesticate animals," said Jia Yipo, who sat on the other side of Fei Hui, "and our master Ni Moore raised a raven." It is also mentioned in the poem that the Red Mage of Ark Island led a wild boar with a gold chain. But I haven't heard of a warlock who would keep a rat in his hood. ”

Hearing this, the big guys all laughed, and Gede laughed with everyone. It was a joyous night of festive season, and it was a joy to spend the festivities with my companions, in warmth and joy. However, the jokes Jia Yipo told this time were the same as the jokes he told before, which made Ge unhappy.

That night, the owner of the island was one of the guests who came to the academy, and the owner himself was a well-known artist, who was once the apprentice of the ** master of the Jok Island, so he sometimes came back at the festival of the day or the long dance festival in the summer. He was a guest with his wife, who was slender and young, bright as new copper, and wore a crown of opal in her jet-black hair. Since it was rare to see a woman sitting in the hall of the Hongxuan Pavilion, several masters squinted at her disapprovingly; But the young men stared wide-eyed.

Fei Fei said to Gede, "I am willing to use all my might...... for such a beauty," he sighed and laughed.

"She's just a woman." Ged replied.

"Princess Yephruan is only a woman," said Fei Hui, "but because of her, the island of Yingillard is in ruins, the heroic mage of Hefnoe Island has died, and the island of Soria has sunk to the bottom of the sea." ”

"That's all old stories." Even though Gede said this, he also began to look at Mrs. Evendao, wondering if the beauties in the world told in ancient stories were like this.

The chanting master has finished singing "Shaowang Xingyi". Then, the masters and apprentices present sang "Ode to Winter" in unison. Jia Yipo took advantage of the short gap before everyone stood up, quickly got up, walked to the table closest to the fireside where the ** master, all the masters and VIPs were sitting, and paid homage to Mrs. Puppet Island. Jia Yipo was already a young man, burly and handsome, with a silver clasp on the collar of his cloak, because he was also promoted to a warlock this year, and the silver clasp was the mark of a warlock. The opal on Madame's crown makes the black hair shine brightly. She smiled and listened to Jia Yipo's speech, and the masters present were also kind and took the lead, and agreed that Jia Yipo would perform an illusion for his wife. Jia Yipo let a white tree emerge from the stone floor, its branches extending upwards and touching the high beams. The small branches on each branch are hung with shining golden apples, and each apple is a sun, because the tree is a "tree of years". Suddenly, a small bird flew out from among the branches, its whole body was snow-white, and its tail was like a snow-white waterfall. Then, all the golden apples darkened and turned into seeds, each of which was a small drop of crystal, which fell from the branches and made a sound like rain.

Suddenly there was a burst of fragrance, the leaves of the trees swayed into rose-like flames, and the white flowers were like stars...... The illusion faded away. Lady Dojima cried out happily, her dazzling head bowing to the young warlock in praise of his mana. "Why don't you come and live on our island—yes, sir?" Madame childishly asks the serious husband. But Jia Yipo only said; "Madam, when I have mastered the skills taught by my masters, and am worthy of your praise, I will be glad to go, and I will always be willing to serve you."

Jia Yipo pleased everyone present - except for Gede. Ge echoed the praise of the crowd, but his heart did not echo it. "I can still play better than him." Ged said to himself in sour jealousy. From that moment on, all the joy of the night was dark and gloomy in his heart.

Chapter 4: Unleashing the Shadows

In the spring of that year, whether it was Fei Rui or Jia Yipo, Gede rarely saw them, because they had been promoted to the level of art, and they could follow the "Xingyi Master" to study in the secret heart forest. Apprentice-level students are not allowed to enter the Heart Forest, so Ge has to stay in the Hongxuan Pavilion and learn the skills that warlocks must learn from the masters. A "warlock" is a disciple who has learned magic, but has not yet held a staff. Warlocks must learn the following skills: Wind Calling, Climate Control, Search and Bondage, Spell Fabrication, Spell Writing, Fortune Telling, Chanting, Healing of All Souls, and Herbs. Alone in his dormitory at night, Gede would always conjure up a small cloud of false light in the place where the lamp or candle flame was placed above the book, and study the "advanced runes" and "Oia runes" - these runes are used for macro-depth**.

These skills were quickly learned, and the apprentices spread rumors that some of the masters had said that the young man was the most agile student Rouk had ever had. The rumor spread so much that it even brought the Outak in, saying that it was an elf disguise that would whisper wisdom in Ged's ear. There are even rumors that when Gede first arrived at the academy, the raven of the ** division once paid tribute to Gede with the vision of "quasi-** teacher".

Whether or not Otsuka believed these rumors, and whether they liked them or not, most of the students admired Gede and longed to follow him as he led everyone to compete for fun, after all, the twilight of spring was getting longer, and the wildness of Gede's early sight was also in full swing. However, Gede mostly focuses on his homework and tries to maintain his arrogance and temper, so he rarely joins the big guys' competitions. Although Gede is between his brothers and sisters, but Fei Yuan is not there, he has no friends, and he never thought that he wanted to have a friend.

Gede is fifteen years old. To learn the advanced skills of a wizard or mage, he was still young. But Gede learned all kinds of illusions so quickly that the young "Transformation Master" soon began to teach Gede alone, teaching the true method of transformation. The Transformer explained why when one thing actually became something else, it had to be renamed in order to maintain the effectiveness of the spell; He also told Gede how the names and nature of the things around Shuxi would be affected by the transformation. He also mentions the dangers of changing spells, the biggest of which is that a wizard is likely to be frozen by his own spells after changing his or her personal shape. Because of Gede's self-confidence in understanding, the young master of transformation could not help but be motivated, and little by little he taught more; Gradually, he not only taught Gede the transformation technique, but even instructed Gede to "transform**", and lent him the "Transfiguration Book" to study. The ** master doesn't know about these things, and although the change master does this out of intent, it is actually unwise.

Gede also studied with the "summoning master". The summoner is a serious elder, and he has been infected with depression because of the difficult and depressing witchcraft taught for many years. He taught not illusion, but real magic, the power that summons energy such as light and heat, and the power that pulls magnetism, and what humans understand as weight, form, color, sound, and so on. Those are the real "forces" that come from the eternal, enormous energies of the universe. That kind of power, no matter how much human beings cast spells and used them, could not exhaust or make them unbalanced. Although the apprentices had long known the skills of the Celestial Master and the Sea Master, he was the only one who had ever shown the apprentices why a true wizard only used this kind of spell when he needed it: because to summon these earthly forces is to change the world, and these earthly forces are also part of the world. He said: "It rains on Jouk Island, which may lead to drought on Ousco Island; The east is calm and waveless, and the west can be flattened by storms. So unless you know the effect of casting, don't act arbitrarily. ”

As for summoning entities and living people, awakening gods and dead souls, summoning the invisible, etc., those spells are the peak of summoning human skills and the power of ** masters, and he rarely talks about them to his students. Once or twice, Gede tried to guide the master to reveal a little bit of this secret technique, but the master was silent, and instead looked at Gede with a stern expression for a long time, and Gede gradually became uneasy, and said no more.

Gut did occasionally feel uneasy when he performed the minor spells that the summoner had taught him. There were a few pages on the folklore book with runes that looked familiar, but I don't remember reading them in any book. He also did not like to say certain phrases that must be said when performing summoning. This kind of thing always reminded him of the dark shadow in the dark room, and the dark shadow approached him from the corner of the closed door. He hurriedly put these thoughts and memories aside and continued to cast spells. He told himself that the reason he had encountered such moments of fear and darkness was purely due to the shadows of his own ignorance. The more he learned, the less he feared. When he finally had all the power of a wizard, he had nothing to fear.

In the second month of summer that year, all the teachers and students of the school gathered again at the Hongxuan Pavilion to celebrate the Moonlight Festival and the Long Dance Festival. That year, the two festivals came on the same day, so the festival would last for two nights. This happens only once every fifty-two years. The first night of the festival is the full moon night, which is the shortest night of the year. Flutes played in the wilderness, and the town of Suir was filled with drums and torches, singing across the moonlit waters of Rouk Bay. At sunrise the next morning, the chanter of the Rocco Academy began to recite the long poem "Erria's Friendship". The poem tells the story of the construction of the White Tower on the island of Hefno; And how Eryabai set out from the ancient island of Iasia, passed through the archipelago and the border, reached the westernmost part of the western region, and met Omron at the edge of the open sea☆, his bones were covered in broken armor, lying between Omron's keels, and abandoned together on the lonely shore of Kaledo Island, but his sword hung high on the top of the tallest tower on Hevervi Island, and still flashed red in the sunset glow on the surface of the Inner Pole Sea. After the poems are sung, the long dance begins. Townspeople, masters, students, peasants, etc., men, women, and children crowded the streets of Joker Island, in the hot dust and twilight, dancing to the sound of drums, wind pipes, and flutes, and jumping along the way to the beach and the sea. The full moon hangs high in the sky, and the sound of music blends with the sound of broken waves. When the east was white, the big man climbed onto the beach and walked back into the street, where the drums stopped and only the flute spoke softly. That night, each of the islands of the archipelago celebrated like this: a dance, a music, that connected the many islands separated by the ocean.

At the end of the festival, many people sit down the next day and gather together to eat and drink in the evening. There was a group of young lads, apprentices, and warlocks, who brought out the food from the dining room and gathered in the courtyard of the Hongxuan Pavilion for a private dinner. The group were: Fei Rui, Jia Yipai, Gede, and six or seven apprentices, as well as a few children who had been temporarily released from the Isolation Tower, because this kind of festival had also brought Kerika Murray out of the tower. The young men frolicked and ate and drank to their heart's content, and for pure fun, they also played magic tricks like a fantasy show in the palace. A boy conjured up false light and combined it into a hundred stars to illuminate the courtyard, and these lights were scattered in the air between the group of apprentices and the true stars in the sky, and a handful of them slowly moved forward. The other two apprentices turned the bowl into a ball of flame and a roller, which bounced off as soon as the fireball came close. Fei Rui has been sitting in mid-air with her legs folded, desperately nibbling on roast chicken. A younger apprentice tried to pull him to the ground, but Fei Fei floated higher and couldn't reach him, and then sat calmly in the air and smiled. From time to time, he threw chicken bones to the ground, and the chicken bones he dropped turned into owls, cooing in the midst of the false light constellation. Ged turned the crumbs into arrows and shot them into the air to catch the owl. As soon as the owl and the arrow hit the ground and turned into chicken bones and breadcrumbs again, the illusion was gone. Gede also flew into the air to be with Fei Rui, but since he had not yet learned the secret of this spell, he had to keep flapping his arms in order to float in the Lord. The big guy laughed when he saw the strange way he was flying and shooting. In order to make everyone continue to laugh, Gede continued to play treasure and rejoice with everyone. After two long nights of dancing, moonlight, music, and spells, he was in a high, wild mood, ready for whatever came his way.

Finally, he stood lightly beside Jia Yipo. Jia Yipo, who had never laughed out loud, shifted his position and said, "A flightless sparrowhawk......"

"Is Jia Yipo a real gem?" Gede turned around and grinned, "Oh, Warlock's Treasure; Oh, Jade of Hefno, shine for us! ”

The boy who operated the fake starlight and made the light jump in the air moved a ray of light and wrapped around Jia Yipo's head and jumped and glowed. Although Jia Yipo was not as cold as usual that night, she frowned, waved her hand, and breathed through her nose to breathe the starlight away. "I'm fed up with the little boy's noisy stupid tricks!"

"Young man, you're about to enter middle age." Fei Fei commented in the air.

"If you want silence and gloom now," interjected one of the younger boys, "you can go to the Isolation Tower at any time." ”

Gede said to Jia Ru, "Then what do you want, Jia Yipo?" ”

"I want to have someone of equal calibre as my company." Jia Yipo said: "Fei Rui, come down and let these junior apprentices play with toys by themselves." ”

Gede turned to look at Jia Yipo and asked, "What does the warlock lack in his apprentices?" His voice was calm, but all the boys present were suddenly silent, because the hatred between the two of them was as clear and distinct as a sword unsheathed from the tones of Gede and Jia Yipo's tones.

"Strength." Jia replied.

"My strength is no less than yours, and we are evenly matched."

"You're challenging me?"

"I challenge you."

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