The creepy laughter gave Avernie goosebumps, and she slowly turned around, and her surroundings grew brighter and brighter.

The walls are full of vivid colors, accompanied by melodious music and snowfall outside the window, and the figures appear as if they are holding a grand banquet.

There are even young magicians who rely on their own tricks to make their favorite girls hide their faces and snicker.

Long tables are filled with delicacies and sparkling liquor, and spiritual birds and paper-stacked animals play hide-and-seek in mid-air.

From time to time, psychedelic light will rush into the air, like a miniature version of the fireworks festival.

It's like an immersive drama, the figures in the hall are longing, but they are not ghost-like beings, so real that Aveney thinks she has traveled through time.

She spun around in surprise, taking everything in her eyes, the hilt of her sword and her spear still clenched, and then the bland laughter rang out again.

She turned around to look and saw that on the stairs on the left side of the shadow wall, there were five magicians in robes, whether it was their age or the complexity of the patterns on their robes, it was obvious that they were the superior here.

And that laughter came from the mouth of one of the fox magicians in the middle.

Her robe was also different from the other four, with a balance embroidered on her chest, but the others had a mysterious one-eyed on the left and an empty one on the right.

But the scales on her chest were mystical one-eyed on the left, and a beast's claw on the right, a beast's claw that couldn't tell which animal it was.

The five magicians slowly walked down the stairs with a peaceful smile, first greeted the crowd, and then turned in unison, and the fox magician stepped forward and saluted the portrait on the shadow wall.

At this time, Evernie noticed that the fox magician and the fox man in the portrait had some similarities between their eyebrows.

She cautiously stepped forward and leaned her ear to it.

“...... Wintercastle has found the true meaning of magic, and may you rest in peace. ”

A sentence without a beginning and an end made Evernie confused, the true meaning of magic?

Then the people here began a grand celebration, saying that it was a celebration, but in fact it was eating and drinking for themselves, and then chatting with each other, although there was music, but there was no dance.

It seems that indulgence in pleasure does not apply to these scholarly magicians, and that little tricks to tease girls are already among the bold of young people.

Yes, Evernie felt that perhaps scholars were not enough to describe the feelings these magicians had made her, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them ascetics.

The five magicians who had come down from the second floor sat at the long table in front of the shadow wall, talking to each other and responding to the students' endless greetings and doubts.

Everything is so natural and beautiful, it's really like a crystal ball toy, isolated from the world.

Thinking of this, Evnie was stunned, although she was sure that this was something that happened at some point in time before, but it was still uncertain which point in time.

What was the outside world like at this point in time, and did Scarborough go to war with the whole world?

Evernie was stunned in the hall, at a loss, the people passing by collided with her, she really felt that someone was pushing her, but the other party was unaware.

Slowly, as she watched carefully, Evni gradually discovered that although the superior of the five magicians was talking and laughing, she ...... Especially the fox magician in the middle, his expression can always reveal an unnaturalness.

After a while, the fox magician said goodbye to the others apologetically, stepped up the stairs alone, and walked towards the second floor.

Evnie, who didn't know how to get out of the hall, was heartbroken and followed.

............

In the pitch-black hall, the pillars of light from the giant's eyes flashed, and he straightened up and looked left and right.

Gone, in his perception, Evni vanished, night vision, heat, radio waves, spatial scanning, etc., all means of examination could not find traces of Evni's existence.

At this time, the giant, who had more and more human emotions, appeared for the first time a kind of emotion, impatience.

As a machine, relying on the artificial intelligence generated by the dwarven black technology, artificial beings, it is almost impossible.

He forced himself to calm down, and after making sure that there was nothing special about the first floor, he made his way up the stairs to the second floor.

Compared to the downstairs, the layout of the second floor is very regular, the corridors intersect, the rooms are in order, and the giant looks around and begins to rummage carefully.

His speed was fast, and all the rooms on the second floor were more like offices, the same time warped, some as if the owner had just left, some were rotten and dilapidated.

Then he went up to the third floor and repeated the same operation, the situation on the third floor was still the same, but it was more like some kind of experimental area, and some of the gadgets interested him, and he couldn't analyze the principle, so he picked it up.

The castle is indeed tall, but it is also very high, and it is only divided into five floors.

When he reached the fourth floor, the giant's vision instantly opened up, and there were no more rooms here, but rows of bookshelves, and the collection of books was like a sea of smoke.

At the same time, the pace of the giant's search was also a little slower, and the optical flow of data on his body flickered, turning off some unnecessary functions.

The space and time here are extremely unstable, and if you extrapolate to this extent, let alone the ball of light that is close to the castle, it is not certain whether the fifth floor can enter or not.

What's more...... Where's Evernie?

If Evernie hadn't gone missing, the giant would never have let go of so many books on magic, and he wouldn't have been able to put it aside, he would have entered it very quickly.

Can ...... now The giants walked through the dusty and frosty bookshelves, the glass windows shattered in the distance, and the cold wind blew.

In the middle of the entire fourth floor is an open space, a new wooden table is placed, and strangely, the new candlestick on the corner of the desk is overturned, the wax spreads, but the wick is still burning, and the weak flame seems to be blown out by the cold wind at any time.

"Evnie......" the giant cried out quietly, not daring to use special means of inspection.

He stepped forward slowly, and the table was empty except for the overturned candlestick, full of dust and frost.

The giant glanced around helplessly, and was about to turn around to try to see if he could go up to the fifth floor, but just as he turned around, there was a soft bang, and a notebook that seemed to have been dug out of the dirt appeared on the table inexplicably.

He hurriedly turned around and stepped forward, picking up and opening the dirty notebook while being vigilant about his surroundings.

"The traitor came, and came to Wintercastle with the Book of Magic, and he scoffed at us as just another form of traitor under the guise of escapism. ”

"I don't want to talk to him too much, because the true meaning of magic is close at hand, but I can't help but condemn Scarborough for their hands too far away, and the operation of order in the world does not need the Ministry of Magic to dictate. ”

"Magic is exploration, a curiosity and awe of the unknown, and they have deviated from the original intention of the first dean, but Scarbro is far from thinking that the gods they have been looking for...... And didn't choose them......"

The text on the book is very short.,The ending is even more abrupt.,Judging from the ink that hasn't dried in the blank.,It seems to be being written when someone forcibly interrupted.。

The giant was stunned for a moment, put away the notebook, turned to leave, and he didn't get any substantive news, but he was still ready to try the fifth floor.

............

Evnie didn't expect that the fox magician didn't stop on the second floor, but went up to the fourth floor in one go.

Oh my God! Evernie swears that even the Great Library of the Dwarven Academy doesn't have as many books as here.

Out of curiosity about magic, she secretly flipped through a few books, but without exception she couldn't read the words on them.

At this moment, a quarrel suddenly broke out in front, and Aveney hurriedly put down the book and searched for the sound.

Soon she came to a clearing, and the fox magician was panting and seemed to be very angry, and the space not far away was distorted, and the back of an old man slowly disappeared.

"Damn! I didn't hear what they were arguing about! Damn!" Evnie regretted herself.

Then the fox magician calmed his anger, took a notebook from the sparse bookshelf on the side, and began to write at his desk.

Averney was stunned for a moment, then decided not to miss this opportunity, and immediately stepped forward, but before she could take two steps, she jumped suddenly, rolled forward, and held the ground with one hand, and once again grasped the weapon at her waist.

At that moment, she had not let down her guard and felt something wrong under her feet, just like the feeling of falling flat in the hall on the first floor.

Somebody! transparent! That was her first reaction.

Her eyes looked around, her ears carefully discerning the sounds, and suddenly, a breeze blew through the air, and Evnie rolled on her side and turned her head to look.

Sure enough, where she had just squatted, there was a loud noise, as if something had smashed there, so much so that it stirred up a trace of dust.

Avernie had never encountered such an invisible foe, and she stood up as silently as she could, cautiously guarded.

For her, she was extremely nervous at this moment, and for the fox magician who was lying at the desk, it was as if nothing existed.

The movement of the object breaking through the air was once again detected, and this time Evernie did not dodge, but drew the long sword at her waist to block, and the obvious sound of metal colliding meant that she had succeeded.

But the opponent retreated as soon as he struck, and the attribute of stealth was extremely lethal for Evernie.

"What to do?

Avenie thought impatiently, when suddenly, noticing the cold wind and snow outside the castle, she leaped backwards and smashed the glass window with the hilt of her sword.

The fox magician still didn't react, but a fierce cold wind blew in, carrying snowflakes like a curtain of rain.

The heavy snow became the best visible barrier, and sure enough, Evernie saw a transparent figure in front of her desk, raising her hand to indicate that she would slash away with a sword.

The other party also picked up an unknown weapon to block, but apparently not as strong as the dwarf of Evni, and slammed the desk, and the candlestick on the table fell sideways, and the wax spread.

At this time, the fox magician was stunned, looked at the notebook and shook his head, got up and put it back on the bookshelf.

Seeing that the fox mage was leaving, Aveney became anxious and began to fight with the transparent figure, during which the transparent figure wanted to retreat, and easily pulled out the book that the fox mage had just put away.

But he was immediately slapped horizontally by Evnie's sword, losing his balance, and the notebook fell on the table, and the transparent figure was also far away from the wind and snow and disappeared.

Avni gasped and looked left and right hesitantly, but finally chose to follow the fox magician.

Coming to the staircase on the fourth floor, the fox magician obviously wanted to go downstairs, when the other four magicians hurriedly ran up, gasped and said:

"Oh no! Scarborough has news, they're under siege, Dean, do we want to help?"

The fox magician narrowed his eyes: "So fast, don't disturb the teachers and students below, we should go to the fifth floor." ”

"This ...... All right. ”

Later, under the leadership of the fox magician, the five of them walked up to the fifth floor, and Evernie hung carefully behind, and at the same time knew the current point in time.

"Is it just when Scarborough goes to war?" she thought to herself.

Soon, after passing through the complex magic array, the five pushed open the door, and Evernie was able to see the scene inside.

The first floor of the huge fifth floor was empty, except for a stone platform in the middle, with complex magical patterns emitting white light, wrapping the stone platform in the form of chains.

On the stone platform, a gorgeously dressed but embarrassed-looking butterfly man was sitting paralyzed.

The wings of the butterfly people are extremely beautiful and huge, and they simply exceed the limits of this race.

But at this time, she was covered in wounds on the stone platform, golden blood slowly flowing out, and there were small thunderbolts, thin black mist, and faint holy flames were constantly eroding her body.

Even the pair of wings was left with only one, and the other was like an old broken sail.

Evernie looked at the opposite side in surprise, only to see five magicians kneeling on one knee and saying in unison: "The Beast God is crowned ......."

"Beast God!" Aveney exclaimed, covering her mouth in disbelief at what she was seeing.

"Hehe, you've finally figured it out?" Lana chuckled peacefully.

"Please also ask the beast god to give us a blessing so that we can correct our mistakes in the 'past' to avoid this devastation and get magic back on track. ”

The fox magician said with his head bowed, but the awe in his eyes was far less obvious.

"Whew......" Lana sighed with her eyes closed, "since we disappeared, we have searched the whole world, and I have tried to explore in time, but there is still no shadow, and then I realized that maybe it is the only one, not in the past and future, only in a certain 'present'." ”

The five people in the audience and Aveney were all confused, not understanding what the beast god's words meant, and then Lana opened her eyes and continued:

"The past and the future, are you sure you want to choose to go back to the past? Think about it, I won't last long, I can only help you once, and ...... You might die too. ”

“...... In the past, under the crown of the beast god, we have to correct our mistakes. ”

"Okay......" Lana smiled weakly, "when you get back, please remember to bury my body." ”

As she spoke, a strong light poured out from Lana's body, enveloping her in an instant, and the magic lines on the stone platform shattered and broken, and the rubble was crushed into powder by the impact and blown in all directions.

Then, an hourglass appeared on the stone platform, an hourglass that lay horizontally.

"Standing to the left is the future, and standing to the right is the past. Lana's voice rang out.

The five magicians looked at each other, and finally the fox magician walked up to the stone platform, grasped the hourglass, and slowly flicked to the right.

At this time, Evnie's eyes widened, and her heart began to hesitate, she could smash the glass window on the fourth floor, which meant that she could affect the surrounding ......

"Stand to the left, and the future ......," Evni muttered, still hesitating.

But at this moment, the blown dust reflected a transparent figure, attracting Evnie's attention.

The transparent figure had already stepped onto the stone platform with one foot, and was about to hold the hourglass.

"It's you again!"

Evernie took a sip, and the other party was able to spot and attack her, obviously an outsider as well.

Whether it is affecting herself to get out of here, or affecting the original result of what happened at this point in time, causing unknown consequences, she can't let the other party succeed.

The sword was unsheathed, and Evernie stepped towards the stone platform with a sword in one hand and a gun in the other.

The transparent figure also spotted her instantly, but the next second's action was something that Evernie didn't expect.

I saw the transparent figure let go of his hand, raised a weapon, and smashed it straight into the hourglass.

Bang!

The loud bang was about to burst her eardrums, and the powerful impact blew Evernie out, shattering the hourglass like glass and everything around her began to twist.

A blue ball of light appeared on the stone platform, and Lana's body floated in it.

The huge impact was transformed into suction, and even space and time were faintly shattered under this force, and the transparent figure glanced back and took the initiative to jump in.

Then everything around her vanished, and Evnie seemed to be in the endless void, watching the ball of light suck everything in and slowly float upward.

Suddenly, an iron-gray palm peeked out strangely from the void not far away.

............

There was nothing on the empty fifth floor, and the giant looked around alone, trying not to move his body.

There was a broken stone platform in front of him, and the giant did not hesitate and walked forward cautiously.

But after all, he still underestimated the fragility of time and space here, and as soon as he raised his foot, a wave of time and space fluctuations were stirred, and ripples spread from under his feet, revealing the transparent figure of a short man.

"Evnie?!"

The giant let out a low cry and reached out to pull her back, but the next moment the giant's eyes went black, and in an instant he reached to the roof of the castle, and his reached into the blue ball of light and took Evnie's arm.

Without much thought, if the giant could open his mouth, he would have gritted his teeth and pulled the unconscious Evernie out with force.

The giant then placed Everney on the ground and examined it carefully, relieving himself to make sure that she had only fainted from the Great Force.

But in the face of the ball of light close at hand above his head, he couldn't suppress the desire to go in.

After a long struggle, the giant's arm melted and turned into a small giant, staying where he was to protect Evernie while he stepped into the orb of light.

But what he didn't expect was that there was nothing in the ball of light, like an empty coconut.

However, there were countless fluctuations faintly coming from the surrounding walls of light, and the giant closed his eyes and began to analyze them carefully.

Gradually, he opened his eyes, and the fluctuations of the wall of light were still emanating, but he couldn't do anything about it.

It was a cry for help, a cry for help from countless magician souls struggling in the gap between time and space.

They are long dead, and they can only survive in this way, but equally, they have to suffer great incomprehensible suffering.

As for time, this touched the giant's blind spot in knowledge, and he thought about it, turned to leave, or wait for Avernie to wake up before discussing countermeasures.

............

On a bustling commercial street, crowded with people and busy traffic, Cassia took the evening newspaper he had just bought, looked at the advertising TV in the roadside store, and nodded.

Suddenly, he turned his head to look behind him, and a figure jumped out of the distorted space.

"You're the last magician, you shouldn't be here...... No, it shouldn't have been at this time. ”

"Cassia!?You're here?Where is this?!"

"Future ......" Cassia smiled slightly, and waved his hand to knock the figure back.

............

Tria, late at night

Sost, who had fallen into a deep sleep, suddenly woke up, covered in a cold sweat, and gasped for breath.

Yafanka on the bookshelf immediately flew out, sat down on the bed, and asked with concern, "What's the matter, Sost?"

"Tsk...... ...... hiss," Soster shook his head, "a nightmare, a strange nightmare. ”

"What nightmare?"

Sost took a deep breath: "I dreamed that I was in a strange place, there was a person who couldn't see clearly, I got into a fight with the other party, and then ...... Then I somehow ran to a table, and the other party still wanted to fight me. ”

"Then I was in a hurry, and I broke a ...... An hourglass? And then I dreamed of Cassia, I dreamed of ......."

"What did you dream about?" said Yavanka, who was already snickering.

"I dreamed of it...... Future. ”