Chapter 116: Dean Anthony
Anthony is 63 years old this year, and unlike the aging Bell, he is still very healthy, his hands and feet are as agile as young people, and he is also very energetic, and he has the posture to live until he is 100 years old.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, he was still in the East Valley School of Magic, and by 8 o'clock, he had already teleported to Hot Spring City, and had been discussing with the group of big bosses in the military about the mages accompanying the army, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he had basically finalized the candidate.
Going out with the army is not an easy job, although the magician will receive some preferential treatment, but there are still certain requirements for physical fitness, so the magicians who participated in the army this time are not more than 40 years old, in Anthony's plan, the chief magician of this operation is none other than Daris, who is known as the first genius of the younger generation of the academy.
Daris is only 30 years old, he has grown into a level 4 magician, and the future is limitless, and Anthony sees a shadow of his past in him, so he gives him this opportunity to accumulate qualifications and prestige.
Originally, his disciple Verora was also very good, but unfortunately she was a woman, in the wizarding world, the situation of male superiority and inferiority of women is not serious, many powerful magicians are women, but a woman, especially an excessively beautiful woman, is always not a good thing to appear in the army.
At 6 p.m., Anthony attended a sumptuous dinner specially prepared for him by King Lane, and after a perfunctory greeting, it was 8 p.m., and Anthony left his seat on time and rushed to the teleportation tower in the palace to prepare to return to the academy.
So far, everything has been in line with his plan, there have been no unplanned variables, and Anthony is very happy with the trip to the royal capital.
Anthony has never liked to participate in these tedious and mundane things, but he is the dean of the East Valley School of Magic, so he took a day to deal with it, and now that the matter is done, he doesn't want to stay longer for a moment.
In the flickering glow of magic, Anthony returns to the East Valley School of Magic, where he has lived for nearly forty years.
After walking down from the teleportation tower teleportation rune, Anthony frowned, and he sensed that there seemed to be something different about today's academy.
Under the teleportation rune, Maxim, the magician in charge of maintaining the operation of the teleportation tower, was standing there quietly, his brow slightly furrowed, his face gloomy, something bothering him.
"Maxim, what's wrong?" Anthony's brows are also furrowed, his white beard is open on all sides, his nose is wide, his lips are thick, and he has a pair of round dragon's eyes, and his image is not angry and arrogant.
Maxim immediately saluted and said uneasily: "Dean, something is wrong. β
"Say."
Anthony's face immediately sank, the air around his body suddenly became extremely depressed, and the elements in the environment began to stir restlessly, and a looming cyclone appeared in the air, which was the power of a level 7 great magician.
Cold sweat soaked from Maxim's forehead, he knew that this master's temper was extremely hot, although he was old and restrained, and he would not do it at will, but this kind of spiritual pressure alone was enough to make people drink a pot, if it was an ordinary person, he might be scared and seriously ill.
"Dean, I don't know the specifics. However, all the masters are already waiting in the Hall of Truth, and you will know it when you get there. β
The Hall of Truth, the venue of the highest level meeting of the Academy of Magic, the magicians who are qualified to attend, at least level 3, must be the elite of the academy.
Now that all the masters are present, something great must have happened.
Anthony's brows furrowed tightly, and he even had to hide Maxim, a level 5 magician, which indirectly showed the seriousness of the situation.
Patient, Anthony followed Maxim and walked all the way to the Hall of Truth in the northeast corner of the Academy.
Along the way, they will meet some magic apprentices, these magic apprentices do not seem to notice the changes in the academy, one by one looks as usual, when they see him, the dean, they all salute from afar, and then hurried away.
Anthony was slightly satisfied with this discovery, and although he was very unhappy about the accident, it was good that the top management of the academy did a good job of blocking the news and not letting the situation go uneventful.
Five minutes later, the two arrived at the entrance of the Hall of Truth.
The magic enchantment of the Hall of Truth has been activated, and a semicircular layer of lilac enveloping the entire hall envelops it, making it impossible to feel everything inside from the outside.
At the entrance of the main hall, there is a thick magic door, Maxim took the lead and opened the magic door, through the door, you can see that there are not many people in the hall, only a few figures, and most of them are old magicians with pale hair.
Maxim did not enter the main hall, but stepped aside, Anthony took a deep breath, walked into the main hall, and then casually sealed the magic door behind him.
He glanced around the spacious hall and found that there were five old men sitting at the council chief's table at the head of the hall, who were members of the Council of Six, namely Glency, Fonterland, VosmΓΌnlen, Hanswicker, and Andorra, but only Bell was missing.
Seeing him appear, all five of them stood up and called themselves the dean.
In the center of the main hall, there were still two young people, a man and a woman, the female he was very familiar with, it was his most admired disciple Moira, the male was unusually young, he looked no more than 20 years old, but to Anthony's surprise, the aura of magic energy on this person's body was very strong, and it was not lower than level 4.
"Who is this?" Anthony was extremely surprised in his heart, a level 4 magician who was less than 20 years old, such a genius was enough to be proud of the entire Ferroman Continent, how could he appear in the East Valley School of Magic? Who will this be? Could it be Vivier of the Southern Wizards' Federation?
Vivier, who is only 19 years old, has reached the peak of level 4 of his magic energy, and is known as the first magic genius of the human race.
Link took a step forward, pressed his chest with one hand, hung down behind his waist with the other, bowed slightly, and performed a mage salute: "I'm Link. Moleni, Bell's Magician's apprentice. β
"Huh? Oh, it's you, I've read your paper, right, what about Bell? "Anthony is very strange, if there is really a big event, the six-member council should be gathered, why is he missing?
This strange phenomenon made him temporarily suppress his curiosity about Link.
Verora took a step forward and let out a long sigh, "Mentor, Master Bell is there. β
She pointed to the dark corner next to the main hall, and Anthony looked over and saw three figures on the wall, all of them with the glow of magical imprisonment.
At first glance, Anthony hadn't seen clearly, and when he took a few steps closer and squinted his eyes to take a closer look, he suddenly gasped.
Among the three people, one of them had a charred body, his hair was burned, his breathing was weak, and his appearance was very miserable and terrifying, but this person was pediatric compared to the appearance of the two people around him.
These two people, the body muscles are extremely atrophied, almost only a layer of skin remains, the whole person looks like a skeleton, one of them, the eyes are still flashing like a ghostly fire, blue brilliance, although they have magic confinement on their bodies, but when they feel it carefully, there is a cold and piercing aura rushing to their faces.
"How can there be a lich?! Bell, is that you? Anthony shouted out in a gaffe, he had known in advance the seriousness of the situation, but he had never imagined that it would reach such a shocking level.
Despite Bell's unrecognizable appearance, Anthony had known the whole man for nearly forty years, and he immediately recognized the ugliest, most terrifying-looking guy as his former colleague Bell Magician.
The man moved, and let out a helpless sigh: "Anthony, it's me. β
At this point, Bell was devastated, and he no longer had the madness he had been.
"What the hell is going on? Did he harm you? Anthony walked up quickly, his wand pointing at the mountain beside Bell, who still couldn't believe that Bell would go down the path of the Dark Arts.
Bell sighed, "It's my own choice." Old friend, I've let you down. β
At this time, Bell had calmed down, things had reached this point, there was no return, and he didn't ask for himself to live, just for a peaceful death.
Anthony was speechless for a long time, and after a long time, he turned to look at Moira: "Moni, tell me what happened." β
Verora nodded, and then she stumbled upon the aura of black magic from her disciple Daris, who found Bell, and became suspicious, and then found Link to help investigate, and finally when the water was about to be revealed, Daris attacked Link, and was defeated, until Bell escaped into the Black Magic Tower in the Misty Forest, and then was defeated, all the way, except for the details of the battle that were vaguely mentioned by Verora, the rest was not missed.
When she finished speaking, Anthony glanced at Link deeply, although Verora said briefly, but the danger in it naturally couldn't hide from him, and there were some strange things in it, he couldn't figure it out, but now was not the time to ask about it.
He turned to look at Bell, "Old friend, do you have anything else to say?" β
Bell was discouraged and shook his head: "I was a complete failure, there is nothing to say." β
"Daris, what about you?" Anthony looked at Bell's chief disciple again.
Daris was seriously wounded, and now facing Anthony's coercion, he could barely breathe, and when he heard the words, he said, "I don't want to die!" β
Anthony exhaled and fell silent, and after a long time, he turned his head to look at the six-member council of five people left: "Everyone, Bell has gone the wrong way, but he has not made a big mistake, his magical knowledge is admirable, I propose to completely imprison his magic and imprison him forever in the Tower of Azura." As for Daris, the magic was completely imprisoned and handed over to the court of Riverdale for trial. And this."
"He's Shandu, a level 5 necromancer." Verora reminded.
"Shandu, this man is a heinous crime, and I propose that he be punished immediately with fire purification."
The five magic masters discussed each other, some people felt that the treatment of Bell was too light, in fact, there was evidence that Bell killed a coachman of the academy but this matter was wisely not mentioned, the dean's face still had to be given, Bell used to be their colleague, although it became the current ghost, but no one was willing to make the last ruthless move, after some discussion, the academy's magic master Glency, who ranked second in the magic achievement, stood up and said: "Dean, we collectively approve your proposal." β
These are the affairs of the highest level of the academy, and Verola and Link can only watch from the sidelines, and when the decision is confirmed, the fate of Bell, Shandu, and Darith will be decided, and there is no change.
Bell hung his head speechless, not knowing what he was thinking. Daris's eyes were blank, and he collapsed to the ground. As for Shandu, he didn't speak, and after the soul fire was seriously injured, he knew that he had no chance, and after that, time was just sealed.
Anthony looked at Verora and Link again, and a hint of relief appeared on his heavy face: "You risked your lives to expose the darkness of the Academy, and you were also very thoughtful and saved the face of the Academy. Courage and wisdom deserve to be rewarded! β