"That's all I can do so far," said Joe Duo, who looked haggard and pitiful as he stood in front of Feige with bloodshot eyes, unkempt hair, and disheveled clothes. He brought with him a seven-hundred-page book, "Learning Magic from Scratch." "If there is another year...... No, half a year is almost there, and I can make this book better. ”

"You have one more important thing to do in half a year. Feige pinched his temples and looked at the book carefully, and said, "I am going to erect a statue at the entrance of the school to fix your image forever." I'm only responsible for paying for it, and you'll have to do the work of finding a carver. ”

Jo Duo's eyes suddenly lit up: "Really? I have a statue? Wait, it's not a trap, is it? Where is your statue?"

"I'll be teaching in it for a long time after the school is built, so I'm not going to ask for a statue – I'll feel awkward if I look at my statue all day. I heard that you're going to be traveling for a while after finishing this book, and you don't know when you'll be back, so ......"

"You told him?" Jo Duo looked at Anne and suddenly became annoyed, "What did I tell you?

Anne shrunk her neck and leaned back slightly, and Bennie pulled her behind her. "What Annie told me, I told Shanny, and Shani told Feiqi. Joe Duo, you've grown a lot of temper with Anne since you got together!

"Who's going to fight you!" Jo Duo shook his hand, looked left and right, and dragged an empty box from the corner of the tent and sat under his ass. "I don't like to say goodbye, and I wanted to sneak away, but I was told by Anne again. I told you not to say it, just go back and write a letter for the caravan to send it. The three of you will cry when you get together, and then Anne will cry to me for days on the road, upset!"

"You're going to sea, and you don't know how long you're going to go, and it's understandable that they're reluctant. Feiqi didn't raise his head, and looked at the textbook in front of him intently, making a tsk sound from time to time. "The formulas are really well written, the rhythm and the knowledge points contained are perfect. Joe, you're better suited than me to teach magic, stay. ”

"I have a 'stay in one place for a long time and you die', and if it weren't for the fact that magic is really interesting, and the title of co-founder of magic is attractive enough, I simply wouldn't have been able to stay in Ice Peak Fortress for so long. Even so, look at my state?" Jo Duo tugged at his hair with his hand, falling it down one by one. "I'm pretty handsome, I don't want to be bald. ”

"You already have Sister Anne, what else do you need to be handsome?" Bennie squinted.

"I've got to keep my image for her, too!" Jo Duo waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to talk to the three girls who had joined forces. "Feiqi, I don't want to stay and make a statue anymore, I'll paint a portrait of myself, and you can find a craftsman to look at it yourself. This time I'm going to go to sea, go back to Elven Island and then go east, I don't know when I'll be back, so don't worry. ”

"What is east of Elven Island, is there still a continent?"

"I only know that there are a few islands, and the mainland has not yet discovered them. , but there are rumors of dragons in that direction, so I'm going to check it out. Now that the ship is ready, and there are enough adventurous sailors, I am ready to sail. ”

Feige finally looked up, and he saw that Bennie was constantly glaring at him. She and Shani thought that Jo Duo's plan was too crazy to let Anne leave, so they had secretly come to Feige before, begging him to convince Jo Duo. "The kind of 'you will die if you stay in one place for a long time' you said is not perfunctory to me, do you want me to treat you?"

"Don't think about it, it's impossible to cure, and it's definitely not perfunctory. My hair fell out on its own, and if it was a hard tug, there should always be blood, right?" Joe Duo said, "I'm sick, don't talk about you, even the great druid on the elven island can't cure it." Adventure, only by constantly adventuring, that is the destination of a troubadour!"

"In that case, you won't get sick when you look at the sea all day?" Feige threw the fatal blow, "It's the same scenery every day, the endless expanse of the sea, exactly the same in all directions." Not to mention the islands, not even a single bird to be seen, and you have only two options: the view from the outside and the cramped cabin - I couldn't find a more drab picture. If your illness is real, then you don't have a single hair left on your head, not to mention the hair on your head. ”

Joe Duo was stunned for a moment, his mouth opened and trembled slightly, and he finally slowly deflated: "It is very likely that what you said is that I may suffocate to death on the ship." But I really want to know if there are dragons in the depths of the ocean to the east of Elven Island. ”

"I want to know, too, but you can't use this brute force method to explore. Fei Qi sighed and said, "The east side of the Elven Island is unknown, everyone knows about it, but why doesn't anyone know? It's not that no one goes, but they can't go." How much better are you on the boat you are using now than before? How much better can you carry the supplies? What improvements have you made in controlling the ship and increasing the range? If there is no progress in this, why do you think you can be more advanced than others? Do you rely on dreams?"

"You're pretty good at pouring cold water!" Joe Duo glanced at Feige, "If there is no danger, how can it be called an adventure?"

"If there is no danger, there is no death!" Feige looked left and right, picking up a palm-sized whetstone from the table. If you use a quill pen too much, you also need to re-cut and polish it, and you can also use it as a paperweight with this next side, plus it is used to demonstrate spells at this time.

"Well, that's progress. Feige pinched the whetstone with five fingers of his right hand, and then opened the magic matrix. The runes on the glowing disc had noticeably increased, and Joe Duo had come to this conclusion with just one glance. "Are you going to cast any spell?" Jo Duo snorted, "Do you have a way to make the stone float on the water? ”

"Stone has a way of floating on water, even iron. With a flick of his fingers, Feige slammed the magic runes into the whetstone. "What I'm going to do isn't that kind of trick, it's real progress, and I'm optimistic. ”

Fei Qi used at least three hundred magical runes on the whetstone, which were also supported by mana, so that they could persist and glow slightly. Jo Duo also knew some simple magic spells, from a few runes, the most difficult was no more than thirty or forty runes, so he only felt his scalp tingle when he saw the spells of three hundred runes. Moreover, maintaining more than three hundred runes at the same time is not a matter of how much mana is consumed, but how to make one's attention be able to spread one's attention on three hundred runes at the same time and then maintain concentration. Joe Duo knew very well that he would never be able to do this at the moment.

The whetstone was flicked forward by Feige, and it was obvious that he wasn't using much force. The round stone flew out about five centimeters or so, and suddenly disappeared from everyone's view. "Is it invisible? What's so strange about that?"

Joe Duo pursed his lips, and suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him, and looked back to see that it was the whetstone just now. "It's not invisibility but teleportation, a spell I just recently completed. It would have worked better on myself, but the mana it consumed was too much, and I didn't want to make myself tired. Oh, if I teleport with all my strength now, I can throw myself out about two thousand meters. ”

"What's the use of two thousand meters? You need to know the summoning ......"

"Summoning can cross worlds, and the same goes for spatial passages, do you think I don't know?" Feige would become very serious when talking about magic, and his brow furrowed with an unusual sense of oppression. "Whether it's a summoning or a spatial passage, you must first determine the location of the two points, in other words, you can only go to the places you have already been. At first, I could only teleport half a meter, but now I can reach the level of two thousand meters, and there is still room for further improvement. I've noticed that a very large amount of mana escapes at the end of the teleportation, which means that the teleportation itself isn't actually that expensive, but I haven't found a way to better constrain the mana. Do you want to go further afield? This teleportation is your solution. ”

"This solution is too far away for me to wait. Joe Duo shook his head: "Feige, I understand what you want to do, use this spell to leave me behind." I can't do this spell with more than 300 runes, let alone improve it. This magic ...... I tried, it's not something that everyone can play with, and the strong can only be a few. ”

"The strong are always in the majority, stay in the magic school and witness it. I have a way to treat your weird disease that you can't stand if you stay in one place, and you won't be bored here. ”

Jo Duo stood up, turned and walked to the door of the tent, and lifted the curtain. Outside, a three-story hotel-like building under construction is the future School of Magic, next to the completed Temple of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder, with fourteen rooms, six of which are classrooms. The words "Minas Ihir Zendo School of Magic" had been written on the red double-opening gate, and the stone pedestal of a statue stood on the opposite side of the gate, about ten meters apart.

"Just put my statue there. Joe Duo said, "You have persuaded me not to go to sea, so don't try to keep me here." For most of the past six months, my mind has been full of magic, magic, runes, runes, and I need a change of fresh air. I'll take Anne to the south, and it's said that the war between Feinberg and Aria has calmed down for a while, and there must be a lot of stories to be heard there. ”

"If you're going to take a break, I'm fine. Feiqi said, "You go all the way, help me spread the word about the school of magic all the way - that's part of your role as a co-founder." ”

"Obediently, you're worried that if I go to the sea, I can only promote the magic school to the fish, so it will delay your business, right?"

"No, I've never worried about that, because I know you can't talk to fish. Feige blinked: "You really don't decide to stay? The first batch of students are mainly hidden girls, and they are all beautiful." If anything happens to you, I'll keep it a secret from Anne. If you're gone, the vice principal won't be you. ”

Anne was on the sidelines, and that assurances were a joke. "Am I going to be that kind of person? I love Anne in this world!"

"Your first impression of me was not like that. ”

"When I first saw you, I didn't know you were going to be a magician and be able to actually build a school. But are you okay now? I always think you're a little tired. Maybe you should follow my example and relax for a while. ”

"That's right, I've been a little tired lately, and there is a spell that has reached a critical period of research, and it's almost time to come to fruition in the next few days. Don't worry, I'll take a break. Feige stretched out his hand to shake Joe Duo: "You don't like goodbye because of tears." I'm sure I'm not going to cry for you, so you can tell me anything. My advice is: don't go too far and come back often. You will always be welcome in this school of magic, and the place where you will always be welcomed is called home. ”

"Damn, I'm about to burst into tears. I'm supposed to be a troubadour, I should be more sensational!, how can you ...... that," Joe Duo rolled his eyes vigorously, as if to stop the work of the tear ducts. "Okay, I'll go find the sculptor, and if I can't find it, I'll leave a portrait. I have to let the students know what I look like correctly!"

So Jo Duo left the first edition of "Starting from Scratch" and left, and instead of leaving immediately, he stayed for two weeks in the newly built town of Fuzang, where the stonemasons and carvers made a life-size statue of him. The portrait is vivid, after all, it is molded with plaster and then carved by comparison. The statue was erected at the entrance of the school just before the first class started.

It's not that Feige doesn't care about the statue, it's that he can't keep it busy. He wasn't working on any spells, as he had told Jo Duo, but drew circles in the underground caverns made of black stone. Just a week before the school's scheduled opening, the three-barrel circle was finally completed.

There are only three people who know about the existence of this circle: Feige, Shanny, and Liz, and the only one who knows what this circle does. The magical knowledge used by the circle was too difficult for Shani and Liz to understand.

"I'll have someone to guard here, but what's the better name to cover it up, my headmaster?"

"Alright, Vice Chancellor. Feige yawned vigorously, his mental fatigue was not immediately able to rest. "You just say that this is the place where I meditate on the spell, and there will be danger in normal times, just arrange guards in the name of protection. However, the real danger is not that outsiders come in, but that some monster may pop up here. So once there is a problem......"

"Collapse this cave at once, without the slightest hesitation. Liz continued Feige's words. "Well, you've explained it several times, but you haven't said what it's for. Can you show us a demo?"

"Now, I'll have to regain my spirits first, and then I'll be engrossed in checking again, so if I'm going to demonstrate......" Feige yawned again, "Tomorrow." ”

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