“…… Finally, please keep the content of this press conference strictly confidential, which is both a request and a piece of advice. After all, every time you know the news in advance, you will have one more competitor in the future, and at the same time, the identity of the closed beta will be bleak as a result. Don't do anything to embarrass yourself or your companions for the sake of a momentary rap of speech.

"As you can guess, the next closed beta slot will also come from the dungeon, and I hope to see all of you at that time, and I don't have to repeat that advice."

This was both a warning to those who were about to move, and a warning to leaders like Fellowo and Samuel, to vaccinate them in advance, and to imply that they strictly restrain their men.

Sure enough, Samuel and Philo were a little nervous when they heard this, they couldn't know much about the temperament of their subordinates.

Looking at the past, many people have eager to try in their eyes.

There is no doubt that without this warning, in less than half a day, everything about the closed beta would have been sung throughout the campus. It's the perfect conversation.

"That's all for this seminar, and then it's time for the registration session, so please record your identity on this form, and then you will get the entrance to the new dungeon when you enter Seraf."

The group got up one after another and stepped forward to register.

Curran didn't move, he kept staring at the emaciated figure in Fello's team.

He looked out of place around him, clearly separated from Fello's teammates. But he did stand up, ready to write his name on it.

"Ash announces that he has joined the brotherhood of Philo and will join him on the next adventure"

This sentence was always imprinted in his mind.

Curran whispered a few words in Samuel's ear, and the latter couldn't help but look twice.

"You go ahead and pick your own."

"Yes, sir."

Curlan beckoned, and then led a few people to wait outside the door.

……

Roy's expression was slightly unnatural after writing his name, and he sneaked a glance around, just as Deres was looking at him with a narrow face.

"What are you looking at?" Roy couldn't help but be annoyed.

Dreis smiled strangely, "I remember that His Excellency Roy didn't say that he was going to leave here, but not only did you watch the entire press conference, but now you also signed your name...... Isn't this the same as what I said at the beginning? ”

"You can do what I want, can you control it?" Roy snorted unhappily and turned to leave, but was grabbed by Dres.

He stiffened and stared at the other with an unkind expression.

"Let it go."

"Hey, you've figured it out." Deres had a straight face, "Teacher Mu Yan said, the theme of this dungeon is kingdom and war, and the first priority is obedience, who can you obey as a lonely person?" Who do you expect to work with? Do you also want to try to end the troubled times by yourself? ”

Roy snapped his fingers, and the instantaneous mage's hand gently pushed Deres away.

The latter was not a mage, and thought it was some kind of trick, but he didn't realize how extraordinary it was.

"Not everyone will obey, there is no mage in the picture, either the mage does not have to appear on the battlefield, or the mage has other uses, or there are no mages in this world. Since Teacher Mu Yan has only given out 3 places from the beginning, why can't he think of the particularity of 'me'? I'm the only mage among you, and over there, the mages in that group will be at Samuel's orders, so I'm the only free mage in the closed beta, unlike everyone else. Presumably he had this in mind. ”

Deres waved his hand helplessly, in fact, he also thought of this when he looked at the video, but because of Roy's sensitive identity, he didn't say it, and now that the other party knows it, he can't say anything.

He could see that this guy was also used to being alone, somewhat similar to himself, but the difference was that he finally learned to compromise with life, and the other party still had a creditor's face, so sooner or later he would suffer.

"If you continue to hide your identity...... Just be careful, you can't do it like you just did. As he spoke, Dreis leaned over and picked up a solidified soundproof barrier device from the ground and shook it casually. It turned out that he had been isolated from the beginning, but Roy seemed to have no sense of crisis at all.

Seeing this, Luo Yi pursed his lips, but thanked him but didn't say it.

Compared with the other party, he is really still a little tender.

He then turned and walked away.

However, the moment he left the auditorium, he had just let go of his senses, and his face suddenly changed.

Kuran appeared with a group of people, slowly surrounding him from all directions.

It was the summer break, and there were few people in the huge square, and there were only a few of them at this time.

Curran stared at Roy's face with a "sure enough" expression.

"Apart from Lord Roy, the Jialan Academy has not been able to find a second mage who can be named 'Ash'. I still remember the 1 hour and 40 minutes you had. ”

"Who said I am?" Roy frowned, "I've said it many times, you're looking for the wrong person. ”

"Oh, is it? Lord Roy Shewin, the youngest son of Baron Shewin of the Silver Pine Collar, entered the Jialan Academy three years ago, has a withdrawn personality, rarely socializes with people, and has only one friend in the entire magic department - or once had only one friend, and that is Hillman. ”

At this point, Kuran paused.

"Your Excellency must remember Hillman, guess what he told me?"

Roy suddenly shuddered in the back.

A terrible thought welled up to him......

"So what?"

He tried not to tremble in his voice.

"Huh...... So what? What do you think will happen if those things get out? ”

Roy's eyes narrowed, his thin body trembling slightly.

Restlessness and anxiety crawled down his spine to his whole body, and his chest seemed to be pressed against a stone.

Kuran's playful expression, the slightly hooked corners of his mouth, and the posture of winning the game...... Everything was like a flame that was eating away at his sanity.

In fact, Hillman didn't tell Culan anything, and the two were rivals under Samuel, for example, this time Kuran was superior, so he was brought to the information meeting. The reason why he said this was just to deceive the other party, and by the way, disgusting Hillman - what if there really was some black history?

But who knew that he really cheated out......

Kuran's strength was low, and he couldn't feel anything strange around him, but the mages under his hand suddenly felt that something was not right.

They visibly felt the temperature rise—not the actual temperature, but the sensation of being immersed in the elements, as if the elements were gradually boiling, like a pot of boiling water.

On the other hand, Roy was already on the verge of going berserk at this time, and he was overwhelmed by uneasiness and hesitation for fear of revealing his secrets, countless imaginary images—the taunts of passers-by, the pointing and pointing of strangers, the spurning and abuse of his family......

These walls seemed to be constantly rising, trapping him firmly in them.

And the elemental manipulation that he had been practicing all these days also lost control at this moment and spontaneously began to operate.

Just as the element boiled to a certain critical point and was about to explode, suddenly, a basin of cold water poured down, and all agitation was wiped out altogether.

The mages under Kuran suddenly felt the burning heat disappear, and instead a cool breath slowly healed their injuries.

Mu Yan appeared behind Luo Yi and patted him lightly on the shoulder.

The latter suddenly sobered up.

"Roy, please give this notice to Ash, and tell him that if he declines the invitation to the press conference next time, he won't have to go to the magic infusion zone in the future." Mu Yan said with a straight face, handed Luo Yi a piece of letterhead, then nodded to a few stunned students, and turned to leave.

Curran was dumbfounded, and Roy didn't react.

"He's really not?" One of his subordinates couldn't help but ask. "Okay, like...... Really got it wrong? ”

"What do you think?"

Dreas appeared at some point, leaning against the wall, looking at Curran with a mocking expression.

"He wasn't in the first place, and joining us was just a deal – just bring him to the press conference and you can recruit more masters in the name of Ashes. I thought you fools would follow him all the way and find out who was behind the scenes, but who knew that you would come up so straight and threaten...... Ha, the orcs of the Kadrera Heights have more brains than you. ”

With that, he disappeared again.

A group of people stared at Roy wide-eyed, not knowing what to do for a while.

At this time, the third prince came out with people, and when he saw that Luo Yi was surrounded, several people behind him suddenly leaned forward with unkind faces.

In any case, Roy is also the person under his name.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Curran immediately ran away with the people.

"Mage Roy." Philo stepped forward to greet him, and Roy's face turned pale, as if he had just been fished out of the water. "You're all right, are you? Do you want me to have someone accompany you back? ”

"No, you don't."

Roy stiffened and staggered away.

Before leaving, he bit his lip and turned in the direction of Deres to say thank you, his voice faintly invisible.

……

……

As twilight fell, Roy returned from Seraf.

Thanks to the practice in that notebook these days, his perception was several times more refined than before, and he could naturally easily detect a few wisps of sight lurking around him.

As Dreis said, this group of people is smart.

He sighed, came to the school's mailbox, and stuffed the things Mu Yan gave him in.

He opened the letterhead in Seraf's moon chamber,

"Roy-san, if you see this line of text, please feel free to hand it to the mailbox. It self-destructs when passing through the enchantment at the mouth of the box. - Mu Yan"

It reads above.

It wasn't until he slipped the letterhead into it and felt it suddenly disappear on the other side of the barrier that he was convinced that it was real.

He remembered the first letter he had received at home, and after being burned to ashes, the ashes bloomed into ceremonial flowers in the air......

Now he understood that it was part of elemental manipulation.

As the note says, the elements are everywhere, and the elements are the foundation of the world. In the same way, objects condensed with elements are collapsing at any time.

A stone, a handful of dust, and a glass of water will slowly dissipate over time, but the length of time it takes, depending on the caster's ability.

For him, an object condensed with the elements could only last for a moment, after which it would collapse, but it could last longer than the creation of a man he was skilled in.

The longest of these is Mia.

A stone created by Mia can survive for thousands of years, gradually weathering, disappearing, and eventually returning to nothingness in the process, just as the object he creates collapses, the only difference is the length of time.

This is the truth that the mages are chasing.

Mages spend their entire lives groping for the process of the creation of the world, rather than "using" the elements with the help of a magic web.

He also began to understand that Mu Yan was the one who wrote his first letter and handed him the notebook.

Everything comes from him.

But he never figured out why the other party did this...... Since this is the truth, shouldn't it be told to everyone? Why only tell him one secretly?

After today's press conference, that sentence made him understand part of it, when the personal will rebels against the times, in most cases, it will be crushed...... That's probably why.

After sending the letter, Roy felt that there was noticeably less prying eyes around them, and they were probably all focused on the letter.

Back at home, Roy stayed in his study until late at night to close the notes he had tucked into the book—the thing he had copied and scattered in the form of a folder in a copy of the Zero Ring Spells, with illusions added to the surface. Even if the book is borrowed, it will only be a few regular notes.

Lying on the bed, he silently recalled the control skills he had just mastered, and let his breath slowly converge.

The mage was unable to escape into the Shadow Realm for a long time because of his lack of exercise, and his body could not stop the erosion of the Shadow Realm's energy. But the text just now told him that he could create a thin layer of armor on the surface of his body, so that he could open a new spatial line and hide in it, just like the assassins, so as to achieve the purpose of invisibility.

However, opening the space line itself requires a momentary effort just like the flash technique, and it is really difficult to maintain one's "armor" in that case.

Roy silently recited Mia's blessing and began his first attempt.

For the first time, he molded the perfect armor, and the perceptible frequencies did not coincide with the spatial fluctuations, and the opening of the spatial line failed.

The second time, he successfully opened the space line, but without paying attention, the armor broke, the white light in the room flashed, and Roy disappeared in place, and suddenly appeared on the ceiling after escaping into the space line for a moment, and then fell heavily to the ground.

"Pain, pain, pain, ......"

He rubbed his ass and wailed.

The third time, he was not prepared, and the control element suddenly collapsed, causing a cloud of sparks to explode in the air, and the sparks splashed on the bed, and the quilt was instantly ignited, and he hurriedly extinguished it with water......

……

For the fourteenth time, in a room filled with the smell of burnt, Roy successfully escaped into the film world.

He saw that the ubiquitous shadow energy was eating away at the thin armor on his body.

"The essence of the energy of the shadow world is also an element, a dark element. Few mages can control it, and no one likes dark elements like no one likes rolling in the mud. Let go of prejudices, let go of your resistance to them, and you can be friends with them."

It says like this in the book.

The world turned dark in front of me, and the double moon above my head turned gray and white.

Roy let out his senses, and he sensed that the dark elemental was special, and unlike the usual unresponsive elements, the group of little ones were angry at his sudden visit.

The elements here turned out to be alive?

Roy was excited, busy gathering his thoughts, and slowly released his kindness......

After a few minutes, the armor on his body was eroded with energy, and the dark elements began to corrode his skin like strong acid through his clothes.

Sure enough, I still couldn't get their approval.

Roy had some regrets and withdrew from the film industry.

After resting for half an hour, he retreated into it again.

This time he didn't delay, but left the house straight away, swaggering past a few people hiding outside his house.

He came all the way to the door of Mu Yan's apartment, and when he was about to come to visit, he was surprised to find that the perception swept over, and the apartment in front of him was as if it didn't exist.

The young man was a little unconvinced, and he got a little closer, gathered all his senses, and tried to wrap the room around.

Airplanes!

In his perception, the whole room seemed to shake suddenly, and the huge pressure almost shook him out of the shadow world, and for a moment his head seemed to be knocked by a sledgehammer, and there were buzzing sounds in his ears......

Knowing that his actions were too reckless, Roy hurriedly retracted his perception and bowed deeply at the door.

The other party should know that he is coming.

Sure enough, the door opened on its own at this point, and a piece of paper floated out with the words:

"The answer you're looking for is in the dungeon, go find it."

At the same time, a female voice full of breath came from inside.

"Draw yourself four cylinders! The old lady is nonsense! ”