After completing the graduation exam, the expected happiness and satisfaction did not come, and Lei Tingbai fell into deep doubts. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and the whole process of the exam was filled with unexplained questions. When she got the graduation letter, she couldn't read any of the words on it, because the scene of the battle at that time kept replaying in her mind over and over again.

There was no interest in attending the celebrations convened by their classmates – they were just looking for an excuse to have a good meal. Thunder Bai tossed and turned on the bed in his dormitory, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally couldn't bear this state of confusion. She put on her shoes and coat, carefully pushed open the door, and walked lightly out of the campus.

She took a horse, rode it up, and ran straight in the direction of the palace. Although it was already nightfall and the doors of the palace were closed, the guards still opened them for her. "Your Majesty has an explanation, if you come over, you can go in at any time. The captain of the gate took the reins and told her, "Wait a moment, and a servant will take you in." Otherwise, you don't know where Your Majesty is, do you?"

"Hmm. Lei Tingbai waited for a while and found that the person who came to pick her up was the maid next to Xia Ni. The girl, who had been yawning all the way, led her through the palace, and in a short time came to the front of the dormitory.

"What are you doing here?" Thunder White had been thinking about the magic exam before, and only then did he come back and find that it was indeed very inappropriate to come to visit late at night.

"Because I'll only take you there. Xia Ni's voice instantly reassured Lei Tingbai a lot. She noticed that Her Majesty had clearly been woken up from bed, and that she had not made up her makeup at all, but was wearing her nightgown and a pair of reflective glasses.

"I'm sorry, I ...... I'm supposed to come back during the day. Lei Tingbai quickly apologized, she said: "My brain is a little messed up today, I don't know what I should do and what I am doing......

"I heard that you graduated today, but I haven't congratulated you yet. As for coming at night, although it is a little inconvenient, it is nothing. He slept very little and was not afraid of being disturbed. Shani took Thunder White's wrist and led her deeper into the hallway. None of the maids followed, and it was obvious that they all knew where their boundaries were.

Lei Tingbai looked back, then stared at Xia Ni's expression again, and said in a low voice, "Doesn't the principal accompany you at night?"

"He stayed with me and didn't leave until I fell asleep. Xia Ni patted Thunder Bai's hand lightly and said, "He will have a full night of rest every other week, and he will use the night except for that day." Go this way, and don't let the Iron Golem scare you. ”

Xia Ni raised her left hand and made a gesture in the air, and then Thunder White saw the scene that surprised her. Without warning, a large Iron Golem appeared in front of her, then took two steps to the side, giving way to empty a wooden door that had been blocking. Before the Iron Golem moved, it appeared to be just an unadorned wall, right next to the hallway, not a few steps from the spiral stairwell up and down. This is arguably the most inconspicuous of places, and who would have thought that there would be an Iron Golem hiding?

"This is the Iron Golem of King Andrew?"

"Yes, the Iron Golem that was nearly smashed by the Terrasqui Behemoth on the night of the Scarlet Meteor, and Fitch repaired it to use as a guard. Xia Ni said as she grabbed the wooden doorknob and pressed her thumb lightly. A spike pricked her finger and quickly healed her. At the same time, a complex pattern appeared on the surface of the wooden door, and a circle of "You can come in" written in magic rune script glittered in the pattern. The door opened.

"It hurts every time. Shani looked at her thumb and wiped away any traces of blood that remained on it. "Come in, and let Feige register your blood at the door so you can come yourself. ”

"That's not appropriate, is it? I'd better go to you first. ”

"Are you afraid of hand pain?" Xia Ni shook her head with a smile, and without saying much, she pushed the door with Thunder White and walked in.

Behind the door was a small, empty room, with bare walls, with neither ornaments nor an emperor. The two of them walked in, and it was a little cramped inside. But when Shani closed the door, a teleportation dizziness struck. Thunder White was startled, but the teleportation only lasted two seconds, and with a slight vibration, Xia Ni opened the door behind her again. Outside, no longer the corridors of the palace, a huge cave has been converted into a magical laboratory.

In the center of the cave are three semi-circular workbenches, arranged in waves like waves. On the left are filled with books and scrolls, in the middle are various tools for making magical items, and on the right are some oddly shaped half-finished parts. Immediately next to the books and scrolls, there are four bookshelves with a handful of books on them, which is the emptiest place in the entire laboratory.

A large metal cone, lying flat, sits behind the workbench like a supergiant's rappier. The cone is hexagonal in shape, but two surfaces are exposed, so you can see that the inside of the cone is divided into nine layers by partitions. The taper has some parts stuffed inside, very similar to what is placed on the right crafting table.

On the other half of the cave lab, Feige isolates himself with a magic circle. Thunder Bai noticed that the magic circle on the ground on Feiqi's side was a perfect regular hexagon, which was very close to the feeling of the spatial magic circle that Feiqi had arranged during her graduation exam, as long as it was more complicated. Intuitively, in addition to the six edges on the outside, there was an extra six-pointed star pattern inside the circle, and the runes were wrapped around all the lines.

Feige is in the middle of the magic circle, swinging his wand and teasing stick at the same time to cast spells, controlling an object that resembles a beehive. The hive has hundreds of hexagonal compartments that are constantly displaced, rotated, and scaled. Each cubicle is wrapped in a picture that gives the hive a kaleidoscopic effect.

"Wait a few minutes, and I'll be able to pull my hand out in no time. Feiqi turned his back to the two of them and said without looking back, "Don't touch the things here, Xani will find you a chair." ”

"I want to see you cast spells. Thunder White said.

"I didn't let you see it. Feige waved his wand, like the conductor of the band, and let the surging mana slowly calm down. After two minutes, the hive stopped changing and was silently suspended in the air. So Fitch put away his wand and walked over with his staff.

"It's still night, I guess this little girl is arguing with you, right?" Feige walked up to Xia Ni, kissed her on the forehead, and then placed the cat teaser next to the workbench and found a chair to sit down. "Xiaobai, you deliberately came here because you thought I lied to you during the day?"

"Huh?" When he saw Fei Qi in person, Thunder White was a little cramped. She hesitated for a moment, but then said firmly, "I thought about it for a long time, and I thought it wasn't an illusion! ”

"It's good to be able to hold on to your thoughts, I did lie to you, those are not illusions, but they are not entirely real. Feige said, "With my current spell ability, I can't do that kind of spell power and control in such a short period of time. But as long as I am given a certain amount of time and some magic circles, those effects can still be achieved. ”

"How?" Lei Tingbai leaned forward excitedly and said, "You promised to explain to me all the things you didn't understand in the exam, you didn't lie to me, right?"

"Those spells don't really exist, they're projections of the circle in front of you. I used a spell to overlap and superimpose the spaces of the two locations to a certain extent, as if in a state between teleportation and non-teleportation. So, I was able to borrow some of the effects of this circle on the playground at school. However, due to the accuracy of the circle, I was only able to achieve an effect similar to that of illusion spells, that is, the power of the spell decreased, the efficiency of the change decreased, and the speed of casting the spell was delayed. ”

"No, you're still an illusion-like explanation, and you can't explain how you blocked my spell. And your trick at taking my Freezing Core and turning it into a fire faucet!"

"I used my strong physique to eat your spells, and then used my quick spell casting skills to give you illusions. As long as you are fast enough and strong enough, you can also make others have the same misunderstanding. Fei Qi shrugged his shoulders and said, "I borrowed the magic circle that was arranged in advance, it doesn't mean that my own strength is not enough to defeat you, right? ”

Thunder White still didn't believe it immediately, she summoned the magic matrix, and also tried several times with the rapid casting technique, and then shook her head and stared at Feiqi with wide eyes. "Looks like you're going to take a closer look...... Fei Qi smiled helplessly, so he also summoned the magic matrix, completing the same trick three times faster than Thunder White.

This time, Lei Tingbai stopped talking, biting his lip and frowning. Fei Qi smiled and said, "What, don't you feel a little unconvinced?"

"I don't understand. Although you use the body of the devil, I was also one of the fragments of the goddess, and my physical fitness should be no less than yours, but why is it not as fast as you?" Thunder Bai grabbed his hair hard, and sighed long: "Whether it is from the study of spells, as well as the skills of casting spells, as well as the power of spells, and the strength of the body, I can't lose to you, right?"

Instead of answering the question, Feige asked, "Do you think the magic textbooks in school are difficult?"

"It's not difficult. It's a bit hard to understand at first, but as long as you look at it patiently and slowly, first have an overall thinking, and then look back and look again, it will suddenly become clear. Magic is a good system that combines not only skills and knowledge, but also a whole set of things to see the world and look at yourself, very well combined – but not difficult overall. ”

"That set of teaching materials is for enlightenment, so naturally we should reduce the difficulty as much as possible on the premise of ensuring effectiveness. Joe Duo did a very good job on this, and he was very right in his thinking. But you should know that I have a lot of knowledge that stays in my head outside of this set of textbooks. If you look at the books on the shelves over there, they're my spell books and other understandings of magic, and if you look at them, you'll find them very obscure. In other words, I lack the ability to keep complex things simple. ”

"I can understand what you say! I didn't notice that you had such a handicap. ”

Fei Qi snorted helplessly, and then his body began to change, appearing in front of Thunder White in the form of a contract demon. "You have inherited part of the memory of the Goddess of Truth Thunder, and you know that my body is made up of the flesh and blood of the devil, so do you know what kind of devil it is?"

"Contract Demon. It doesn't bother me. ”

"Contract demons have very good eloquence, seducing, deceiving, misleading, this is commonplace. I can control these bad things, but I can't get rid of the contract demon's eloquence ability. My other half of the soul is a more withdrawn and closed person, and without the eloquence of the contract demon, it is difficult to communicate. Fei Qi smiled bitterly, and continued, "Contract Demons never put the full truth in their mouths, especially when it comes to explaining or explaining something, so I can't explain complex spells. On the other hand, everything written by the Contract Demon is on the same level as the Hell Contract, and the comprehensive and detailed aspects are taken care of, but the stinky problems that are complex, obscure, and not conducive to understanding cannot be changed. I have no problem reading it myself, but it is an obstacle to others. ”

Thunder White stared at him with wide eyes and opened his mouth wide, and he was very surprised. She thought about it carefully, Feige's eloquence was the best at inciting emotions, and he was also extremely sarcastic, but when he lectured, it would make people very uncomfortable, and he always felt that he couldn't keep up with it, he couldn't understand, and he only had the feeling that he wanted to listen. It turns out that this problem of his, including the problem of writing his book, is related to the contract demon......

"If you let me explain it to you, you have to be mentally prepared, you may be even more dizzy. Fei Qi looked at Xia Ni, and then said to Lei Tingbai: "I expected that you might come to me, Xia Ni is actually waiting for you." I have carefully prepared for you for the whole exam, and what I really want to test you is not your ability to cast spells, but your attitude towards magic. ”

Fei Qi pointed to the hive in the magic circle behind him, and said to Thunder Bai: "What I studied is too complicated for me to complete alone, I need help." It requires someone to raise their skills and at least understand what I'm studying. He pointed to the few lonely books on the shelves and said to Thunder Bai, "My spell knowledge is all over there, including my research on space and soul, but I don't have the ability to make them easy to understand. I need someone who is knowledgeable enough, who has enough spell ability, who has a flexible mind and who is tough enough physically. But the most important thing is that this person has the courage to question me, otherwise how can he think for himself?"

"You think I'm up to par?"

Fei Qi nodded: "It's a waste for you to become a teacher after you graduate, or to follow the working group and become a member of the spellcaster." A strong urge can drive you to come to me, to question me, and that impulse can propel you on the sea of magic. My books are not necessarily correct, and there is probably a habitual misleading contract demon in them. I can't help it, you have to be careful. Ah, it's starting to twist and turn again. I want you to lead the research team for magic spells and circles, and together I will find a way to defeat the Creator and save the Eternal Continent. ”

"I'm too young to do it!"

"You're the first person on this team, the oldest member, not young at all. Do you think I've got all the team members and given them to you? Those people don't exist at all! Actually, you didn't pass the books before you read my books, so you have a lot of things to do, lots and lots of things to learn. Once you've learned it, you'll know why I'm more than three times faster at casting speed. ”

"It always feels like you've dug a hole, designed steps, and lured me in step by step......"

"This is the habit of contract demons, I told you all about it just now! I'm a good person, you have to understand this!" Feige said, spreading his hands.

"When you say you're a good person, don't use the contract demon to say it. Lei Tingbai looked at the books on the bookshelf and rubbed his palms: "When will I start working?"

"Today during the day. Feige said, "It's not right to run out of school in the middle of the night, you have to go back, and then go to Vice Principal Liz to admit your mistake." Although you graduated, you still live in the school, and you still have to follow the rules. ”

"I see......" Thunder White rolled his eyes. "I always felt like I still didn't understand anything, but there were new things to worry about. ”

"Hey, hey. Feige turned back into human form, without explaining a word.