63. Magician in the Herb Garden

Behind the Royal Academy of Magic is a large and very secluded lake, a few hundred meters away from the lake, there is a circular artificial island in the middle of the lake, the whole island has been transformed into an ecological garden, in addition to the lush tropical plants, even a part of the lake around the island is enclosed in the energy cover, it is said that the entire island is a large water gathering element magic array. Every day, there will be special maintenance personnel on the www.biquge.info of the pen & fun & pavilion, taking a canoe boat to go to the island and replace the magic crystal on the core center of the magic circle with a new one, which consumes about two magic crystals every day.

Because there are not many water magicians in the magic academy, a certain dean in the magic academy thinks that this ecological garden is really too luxurious as a meditation place for water magicians, so he planted some rare tropical plants on the island in the middle of the lake, and later this small island in the middle of the lake was taken by a magician at the level of a magic pharmacy scholar, and opened up this place into the college's private magic herb garden, the pharmacist's move, completely turned this ecological garden into a profit, and became the only self-sufficient magic herb ecological park among the several ecological parks of the Royal Academy of Magic。

Almost every year, the magical herbs produced here flow into the various laboratories of the Academy of Magic, and directly go through the domestic route. Because of the cultivation of some precious magical herbs, it has become one of the few ecological gardens that need to be inspected and controlled in and out, and over time, the water magicians who often meditate here have chosen another ecological garden that is relatively close to the dormitory and library for meditation, and the ecological garden is a comprehensive ecological garden, and there is also an arena in the park, where there is a small water elemental magic circle to provide sufficient water magic elements for various vegetation in the garden, and these water magicians are gradually used to meditating here。

Of course, in order to appease the originally small number of water magicians in the academy, the academy also chose to build a large pool fountain in front of the dormitory building with the best location in the dormitory park, close to the small square of the park, not only to beautify the entire dormitory park, but also to provide a more comfortable living environment for the water magicians, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for the academy's encroachment on the water ecological park.

Another reason why few of these magicians studying at the Royal Academy of Magic are willing to come to the lake behind the academy is that the magicians who often hang out here will always be caught by the university scholar in the water ecological park, and the scholar often goes in and out of the water ecological park, and he likes to look for those wandering students along the way, and enter the ecological park to work, usually this kind of work lasts for an afternoon.

For these magicians who only know that they only hold a large magic book and read books all day long, it is a very bitter thing to work in this plant-type ecological garden, and slowly, the students who have suffered enough are gradually staying away from here, and writing this into a manual called "Guide to Daily Life in the Academy of Magic", so that now the entire Houhu Lake has become extremely deserted, and gradually becomes a quiet place.

In the Academy of Magic, there will always be all kinds of strange manuals and guides, and this kind of booklet with a private print is actually very popular with students, and there is enough soil for survival here, just like Noah had a "Guide to the Daily Life of Tutor Qige" before.

There are many kinds of pamphlets like this, and I can't help but buy a life guide, although the binding is very simple, but the content written in it is very practical, this booklet divides the entire magic academy into five areas: the teaching building area facing the square in front of the main entrance of the academy, the dormitory living area located west of the library, the four ecological parks on both sides of the square, the laboratory building area on the west side of the academy, and a large lake garden area behind the academy.

I sat on the grass by the lake, holding my legs with my hands, resting my head on my knees, quietly looking at the blue sky in the distance, the thick white clouds like cotton kept changing shapes in the sky, it was rare to have such a clean afternoon, the Institute of Magic had a regular meeting at the end of the month this afternoon, both the Yerkes scholar and Kig needed to attend, and Ying Li's class today was full, it was said that in a few days she would follow the adventure group organized by the academy to explore the Swamp of Sorrow, it would take about half a month, before that, she needed to make some full preparations, so she has become very busy recently。

......

We only see her once every two days, sometimes I go to her, sometimes I sit in the library, sometimes I chat on a quiet bench in the small square of the park, or we take a magic caravan to the unknown little pier on the shore of Weiyang Lake. In short, Ying Li likes to pull me and observe this prosperous imperial capital from her perspective, we walked through the streets and alleys here, and saw the lives of some civilians living in the imperial capital, among those people were the night watchmen of the city, there were coachmen, craftsmen, craftsmen, etc., they lived in a small civilian area, usually several families living together in a decent looking wooden attic.

At that time, I laughed and said: This style of loft can only be afforded by high-paid people like Ryan and Fanny in El City, but here in the imperial capital, it is a commoner's house, and the life in the imperial capital is really luxurious!

Ying Li shook his head, frowned and said to me: If you were to go into any of the wooden attics here, you would not say that, each of these seemingly decent wooden lofts probably had at least four or five families, each of them had almost only one room, and several families needed to share a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a bathroom, and the house did not belong to any of them, but only to the owners of those houses. It was rented from some of the great nobles, but the commoners here had to face such a life, maybe they were used to it, or maybe they had been bent by life and didn't know how to fight.

I looked at the beautiful wooden attics in amazement, and there would be an open lawn in front of each attic, and there would be some plainly dressed children running on the lawn, but I never thought that everything here seemed to be a beautiful scenery, but it turned out to be a layer of colorful foam, and maybe the next moment, it would be completely shattered by a finger. Suddenly, I wanted to take a closer look at this beautiful city full of flowers, and wonder what was hidden under the bright night.

On the weekend, we climbed an ancient site in the Majaro Pass, which is already the military area of the imperial capital, although it is an abandoned and dilapidated ruin, no one will live here, but because it exists in a special location, where you can see the whole panorama of the imperial capital, it is usually not accessible to ordinary tourists. There is also a quarry in the vicinity, which is the only one in Majaro that has legal procedures.

However, there are still some small regrets in it, and I finally failed to kiss Ying Li's gentle lips on the quarry with the afterglow of the setting sun. Every now and then, Helena will become a stand-in for Ying Li, and then we will hug in front of Ying Li, although I enjoy Helena's sweet kiss, but for me, my heart is always very conflicted, there will be a fresh and exciting feeling and a sense of guilt that washes deep in my soul like a wave.

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There was still the booklet "A Guide to Daily Life at the Academy of Magic" beside me, and the pages were blown by the lake wind, and there was a crunch of "popping" sounds.

Entering the meditation, I can feel the water elements floating like fine dust in the air, they are like the microbial community wandering in the ocean, slowly drifting in a certain direction with the current in the sea, and in my microcosm, those water elements are attracted by a huge whirlpool, looking along the direction of the water element's drifting, I found that on the island in the middle of the lake a few hundred meters away, there is a huge water element vortex that is constantly rotating, although it is an extremely slow speed, but the huge vortex is like an eternal magnetic field, constantly absorbing the surrounding water elements to the island in the middle of the lake。

Looking at Sister Guoguo's increasingly clear translucent body, she stood silently in the lake, looking at the huge water element vortex not far away, as if she was contemplating.

The Minotaur Ruka stood knee-deep in the lake, holding a huge oak barrel high in his hand, which was filled with clear lake water, and poured it head-on, there was a trace of cold lake water that made his breathing become very rapid at this moment, Minotaur Ruka took a few breaths in a row, and then fiercely fluttered the water vapor standing in the thick sweat hair of his body, and shook his body dry, and then, he ran to the shore of the lake, and sat on the grass next to me, as if he was a little excited.

He was wearing only a pair of leather shorts, and in the cold spring, he stood shirtless in the lake and took a casual shower, seeing the joyful smile on the face of the minotaur Ruka, I was also infected by his optimistic mood.

He had been locked up in the underground cavern for too long, and when I opened the portal in a quiet place and retrieved Ruka from the underground cavern, he was like a child who had found a new toy, laughing and jumping happily in the same place, but he still had a huge oak barrel under his arm, but the wine had been drunk, and he still had a claw hammer in his other hand, and a few iron nails in his mouth, and it seemed that the minotaur who stayed in the underground cave was bored and was mending the empty barrel.

I tossed him a towel and asked him to dry himself, and Ruka smirked as brightly as the sun.

At this time, I looked up and asked him, "Hey, have you really thought about it? Maybe your life will change a lot after you enter there, maybe you will have a hard time being free for some time in the future, and you will have to do some manual work all day, maybe you will be more constrained than in an underground cave." ”

"Well, think about it!" Karoo replied affirmatively, and at this moment, I could not see the hesitation in his eyes, he knew exactly what he needed.

Looking at the minotaur Ruka with a slight stubble on his lips, at this moment, Ruka gave me the feeling that this young minotaur young man had grown up completely.

So I kept silent, and I heard Noah's voice calling my name in the distance, and I don't know how he found this place. I looked for the source of the sound and turned my head to see that the guy had come out of a low bush with a few scraps of dead grass on his head, and he looked a little embarrassed.

I looked at Noah, who was trying to adjust the rhythm of his breathing, and casually asked Noah, "How are you trying to enter prison these days, Sword and Rose, and has things turned around?"

"Not to mention, it's been three days since the application was written, and I haven't waited for any reply, so it looks like there is little hope. I've tried to get in touch with some other clubs, and I'm looking for a club to study combinatorial magic together, and I've tried to find two clubs in the past two days, but unfortunately there is no clear reply!" Noah looked a little frustrated and sighed.

But obviously, Noah failed to find a club that suits him, although he was repeatedly defeated, but this did not stop Noah's enthusiasm to join the club, and then looked up at the surrounding scenery, only to be surprised to see the quiet beauty of the lakes and mountains here, and sighed twice, and said to me: "Jijia, this place is really good." ”

The next moment, there was a sudden silence, and we sat side by side on the pebble grass by the lake, silent, and no one spoke.

After a while, Noah said, "...... Maybe it's our brother who was targeted, and Dennis secretly told us in the morning that Ivan and Jimmy and the others almost everyone in the academy would talk about their grievances with us. The president of the Alchemy Society secretly told him that if he hadn't had some real information, there would be no need for the president of the Alchemy Society to risk offending the people of the Ming Literature Society and recruit Dennis into the society. ”

"But, Jijia, what are you doing here?" At this time, Noah suddenly came back to his senses, looked at me with a suspicious expression, and asked.

Then he looked at Ruka, who was sitting next to him, with some envy, and said to me with great certainty: "However, this minotaur looks strong, and it is really cool!"

As soon as I was about to explain to Noah, I saw an old magician wearing a lotus lotus robe, walking slowly from the lake to this side.

Before we could get closer, he was already waving to us, and although I couldn't hear his call, I was secretly happy in my heart, and thought, "It's finally here!"

I slid up from the grass, patted the crumbs of dead grass on my body, and quickly glanced at Ruka, so he and I ran slowly towards the old mage.

Noah saw the old mage from a distance, his mouth grew up, as if he remembered something, his face changed suddenly, and then he wanted to hold me back, but when he stretched out his hand, it was a step too late, and I had already taken Ruka to meet the old mage.

"Hey, Jijia, come back quickly, don't go over unless you want to go to that medicine garden to work as a coolie......" Noah's voice was lowered and said urgently.

But at this time, I didn't mean to stop at all, I just turned back to Noah and smiled 'hehe', and then said to him, "I'll go over and have a look first, you still have a little time to decide to stay......"

With that, I walked with the Minotaur Ruka with a cheerful step towards the old mage......

I left the stunned Noah in place, his eyes widened as he looked at my departing back, I guess he must be shouting in his heart at this moment: Jijia, I'll hold your lungs!

Also left in place was the "Guide to Life in the Academy of Magic", the rough booklet, which was 'crackling' as the snow-white pages were turned in the wind of the lake......