11. Southern Harbour City
The five apprentices, including Adam, had imagined how the Master Mage would take them out of the Northlands, perhaps with some mysterious tool they had never heard of, perhaps with some kind of magic, but when the moment actually came, they couldn't help but marvel.
Flying is the oldest dream of the race that grew on the ground, everyone once looked at the sky and longed for the birds, and today the apprentices experience the feeling of flying.
"Well, let's go. As soon as Master Blake finished speaking, the crowd floated up with the bags beside them, rising higher and higher, straight into the sky, and then shooting towards the south like an arrow.
The people on the ground were stunned, and after a short silence they shouted frantically, the cry did not even know the meaning of their own words, but no one cared about this, but the clamor in their hearts needed to be vented, because they saw a miracle.
Earl Johnson, in the city lord's palace, listened to the noise in the streets, and after a few moments he instructed the Wynne and Wright knights: "Drive the crowd and restore order." ”
The two knights took the order and calmed the restless crowd, after which the knight of Wright sighed and said, "It's different. ”
The people in the manor were in different moods when they heard the news of Ophelia and Adam's departure, Marshall and Dennis were relieved and jealous, and the bearded man Joe instantly sat down on the ground, his heart blank.
In the stables, the clouds drove away the servants who fed it with their hooves, and slammed their horns against the wooden fences, until at last it broke free from the reins and smashed the wooden door, and no one dared to stop Ophelia's horses, and the clouds rushed out of the gate of the manor and ran south with a scream, and soon disappeared.
In the sky, Mage Blake's expression was flat, and the four apprentices trembled, looking at the ground that had become a black spot under their feet, they couldn't speak, and they didn't dare to move.
Adam was the exception, he didn't have the concept of fear and moved first. He noticed that there was actually a membrane under his feet that seemed empty, and he reached out and groped for the sides, feeling the same membrane, which seemed to hold them up and block the wind that was generated as they moved forward at high speed.
The other four apprentices stared at Adam and saw that he had not fallen before they mustered up the courage to move, and the joy of flying quickly overshadowed their fear, and they walked curiously through the membrane.
"Is this magic?
"Yes or no. "It's the power of knowledge, a derivative of magic, and it doesn't require a special rune set to build. ”
The four of them were ignorant, and Adam instantly understood what Mage Black meant, that is to say, this way of flying is just a derivative effect of some kind of spell program, as long as the program is built, this kind of thing can naturally be done.
Mage Black continued, "The mage world is vast, and it is getting bigger almost every moment, and formal mages can travel through teleportation arrays built everywhere, but your bodies can't withstand that kind of pressure. Moreover, you have not survived in the High Magic environment, so you need to go to the Mage Continent in a slower way and gradually adapt to the High Magic Environment. ”
Several people showed expressions that they didn't understand, but they felt very powerful, Adam blinked, he couldn't understand what Master Black meant by getting bigger, could it be ......
Adam looked at the ground, and he realized that this world was not a sphere!
Ophelia asked, "Honorable Master Black, what does it mean to be bigger?"
This time, Master Blake didn't mention the price, and said directly: "You will have a detailed explanation of this problem after you arrive at the academy, so I'll talk about it briefly." You've probably heard of Prometheus True Spirit Archmage and Anne Croft Guardian of the World. ”
Everyone nodded, and even Adam had heard of both names from Ophelia.
"About 20,000 years ago in the mage plane, the mage world was a small plane, and mages fought each other for limited resources, but the resources were increasingly depleted, and the mage plane declined and perished. The two True Spirits set off a revolution, changed the nature of the plane with great knowledge, stopped internal consumption through external plunder, and replenished themselves with an unbelievable spell, which is why today's mages are the glory of the Plane Destroyer. ”
"Plane sacrifice, that's the name of that great spell. As for the principle, let alone you, even I don't understand it. Master Blake said in admiration.
The apprentices were fascinated, their current shallow knowledge and vision could not imagine how powerful it was, and they couldn't help but look forward to their future life even more, mage is really a fascinating name.
After a while, Master Black saw that a few people were used to flying, and immediately said, "I'm going to speed up, we need to rush to the southern harbor of this continent before this evening to meet with several other guides of the academy." ”
As soon as the voice fell, the flight speed increased suddenly, and the violent popping sound seemed harsh even if it was in the membrane, and the strong air flow from the outside world was clearly visible to the naked eye on the membrane.
"Breaking through the sound barrier..... Mage Black's flight speed instantly increased, without any preparation, and the miraculous thing was that the few people in the membrane did not feel uncomfortable.
The acceleration did not stop, Adam observed the emission of mental power, and he found that the shape of the membrane changed from a hemisphere to a smooth and aerodynamic shape, and what was even more amazing was that Mage Black did not know what means, the air flow in front of him was unified into kinetic energy in the same direction, so that the speed increased again.
After a few seconds, the speed of the flight stabilized, and the cacophony of voices filled the ears of several people, who had to raise their voices to make them hear, which silenced them.
"The current speed is about Mach three. Adam was expressionless, but he admired in his heart, the power of magic simply refreshed his cognition, and there were people who could push the speed to such a point with their own strength without relying on utensils, and they seemed to be at ease.
Time gradually passed, because I was in the membrane of rapid flight, so I was not sensitive to changes in temperature, but when I looked down, I could find that the white on the ground had faded, and the green came into view, and after nearly three hours of flight, everyone left the northland.
It's hard to imagine how big the mage world is, listening to the meaning of Mage Black, the land where the Northland is located seems to be an island, and you need to take a boat to get to the mage continent, and with the limitations of ordinary people's ability and lifespan, you can only be trapped in one place for the rest of your life.
At noon, several people took out the food in their bags, Adam was still unprepared, but he was not hungry, and the energy stored in his body was enough to consume for three days without practicing breathing. Ophelia, on the other hand, does not need to eat.
Mage Black also had no intention of eating, and Adam even discovered that mages didn't need to breathe.
Even when they found out that the mage had not eaten, they did not dare to offer him the coarse food, but when Cristel saw Adam sitting alone, he mustered up the courage to walk up to Adam and pointed at him and then his hamburger-like food.
Adam's face was expressionless.
Thinking that Adam didn't know what he meant, Krystel took another step forward and shouted loudly, "If you don't dislike it, I can give you the food, which my mother specially prepared for me in the morning, and there is meat." ”
In the face of the kindness from the girl, Adam did not accept it, as a knight, he naturally had a way to convey the voice accurately, he said in a normal tone: "Thank you, but no need, I am a knight, I don't need to eat for the time being." ”
Adam's words were appropriate, which made the girl with dim eyes after hearing the rejection regain her mood, she still had some inferiority complex about her civilian status, and her mood was very sensitive, and she thought that Adam was disgusted with her food.
"So you're a knight! so powerful, just like Miss Ophelia. "Priestel admired Ophelia, not only noble, but also powerful, known to all in the Northland, and polite and noble," he was a perfect man. Cristal thought with envy more than once.
Now that he had an answer, Krystel ate alone.
Ophelia, who was standing motionless on the side, heard the conversation between the two and remembered the warning of Earl Johnson last night, and couldn't help but lose her mind.
She didn't know what she was thinking, like, and didn't exist. If you really like it, you can't ignore it for seven years, so what is it exactly?
Ophelia dissected herself in the midst of the bitter wind and finally came up with an answer that she didn't want to admit.
"Probably the loss of losing something of one's own. It's like losing an object, or running away from a pet? Heh, I'm really a nobleman, and it's despicable. Ophelia laughed at herself fiercely.
Adam didn't know Ophelia's thoughts, and of course, he wouldn't care if he did.
Two hours later, Adam could already see the blue ocean in the distance, and the city at his feet flashed in shadows, and the flight was coming to an end.
In another half an hour, Mage Black slowed down and descended, and at his feet was a huge city, far more prosperous than the Northland Cold Maple City, with a harbor lined with ships and no sails.
"It's not a sailboat, yes, the world is so big, how can a ship sail across the ocean with backward wind power. Adam said to himself.
A few people fell to the ground, and the surrounding crowd instantly retreated and respectfully moved out of the way, but they didn't panic, thinking that in Southern Harbor City, mages were not so uncommon.
At this time, Mage Blake's voice sounded: "We will rest here and wait for the other mages of the academy to meet, you can stay in the Duke's Palace or move freely, but it is best not to go too far, if you miss the time to leave, no one will wait for you." ”