Chapter 8 School Garden

I remember a bard once sing, "Oh, Maszate, a jewel on the side of the baffle." Oh, Landu Academy, it is the brightest light on that pearl. ”

The Academy's Political and Educational Hall was in the center of this brilliance, and nine other teaching buildings of different lengths, heights, and shapes radiated from half of the Political and Educational Hall, resembling a giant half-cut spider, infiltrating its tentacles throughout the Academy. Each leg has a different name depending on the discipline, such as the "Ruofan Building" in the Department of Interracial Studies, the "Meiwen Building" in the Department of Ide History, the "Baiwei Building" in the Department of Pharmacy, and so on. I won't go into them here, because students are more accustomed to calling the Department of Pharmacy "Dog Pen" than these formal names, and they like to affectionately refer to the building of the Department of Pharmacy as the "kitchen". The nine buildings are of very different styles, some are fortresses made of stones, some are log-framed pavilions, some are rooted in the ground, some are floating in the air, some are covered with moss and green vines, some are covered with slag and runes, they meet in the political and religious halls, and they are built and supported by countless corridors of various kinds, extending outward from different angles and visions, monopolizing the world of the college.

At one point in the vast system, a magic apprenticeship class is taking place in a classroom deep in the cloister. One of the students, a young girl, was bored, her left hand on her cheek, her eyes staring blankly at the corridor on the other side of the window on the right. Suddenly, a strange look appeared in her empty eyes, and a familiar figure came into view, "Ah! it's that hateful fellow!" The huge 'surprise' made her cry out, and she even instinctively stood up from her seat, "Hey, Olivia!" The teacher's roll call made her wake up suddenly, and she turned her head to look at the teacher in a daze, and then lowered her head a little overwhelmed. "Olivia, it's still in class, even if you are the Speaker's daughter, you have to abide by the discipline of class at this time, forget it this time, don't make an example. Okay, sit down. After hearing the teacher's words, the girl named Olivia sat down and lay on the table, shy and irritable, thinking: It's him again, it's all his fault for making me embarrassed again.

The figure had just followed a group of people through a corridor in the arithmetic department, and the teachers and students who came and went called him the strange man in black in their hearts, and the people who accompanied him called him Neil. They walked through the alchemy department, which made strange explosions, out of the jungle-filled apothecary corridors, through the strange specimens of the Sect into the rotting Idsko, and then from a granite hall into the bright outdoors, where large gardens were exposed. Clusters of colorful flowers, clusters of dwarf green shrubs, students dressed in fancy clothes and patchwork trestles are filled with the bright fragrance of spring. One or two students glide along the gravel paths, three or five students wait for the wheels of Yusmara, and more groups of students stroll and meditate here, and the open road is cleverly hidden by flowers. At this time, Fili, who had been following the last, walked up to Crow and reminded, "Captain Crow, it's almost ten o'clock now. "Ten o'clock! Oh no, it's almost time to catch the airship scheduled to go to Volill!" After thinking for a moment, Crowe said to Neil, "I'm sorry, Neil, I have to go first." Fili will take care of you on my behalf and talk to her if you need it. Fili, I'll leave it to you. Fili nodded, and Crowe said goodbye to Neil and Erin by touching their heads, and got into a wheel that led to the outside of the school gate.

Normally, there were wheels and tracks or gravel paths like they had when they first arrived, but there was no easy way to get to Neil's dormitory, just annoying weeds and thorns. Walking on this deserted path, Buck couldn't help but sigh to Neil and his party, saying that this was not the case with the previous road. "Although there was no quick transport before, there were many people walking on this road, and they all regarded it as a pilgrimage route. Speaking of which, it was all because of that person, and this path was the only way to her residence. I think you've already guessed that person, she's the Blue Magician Massazat. But now this path has become shameful in their eyes. You may wonder why. Neil and the others nodded, thinking that it would be boring along the way anyway, and they could only hope that this nagging man could tell a wonderful story.

It all started with a war with the Dolan Empire three years ago. I remember that year, I was also urgently called to the battlefield, at that time, it was said that it was a surprise attack launched by the Dolan Empire, and the army of 60,000 was less than fifty miles away from the blue capital, and even the blue magician was urgently summoned by the speaker to come to the battlefield in person. As a title magician, she may not be able to participate in this war lightly, but her prestige can make the enemy fearful, and even the most fearful warriors will be afraid. Even after three years, I can't forget that day. I remember that day, she was wearing an emerald blue scale armor robe, wearing an amethyst crown, and holding a huge crystal-encrusted magic guide book, huddled in a corner of the battlefield. Her body is so petite, if she only talks about her body, she may not be as good as a speck of dust on the battlefield, but the unrivaled momentum emanates from this petite body, which is unbelievable. Both sides stared at the corner where she was, fearing that one would take her life if they were not careful, even if the fear was unnecessary.

The chaotic war was still going on, but suddenly someone screamed, "She's moved, she's moved!she's moved!", and the sense of fear that had been temporarily forgotten was now spread throughout the battlefield with the sound of "She's moved!", from head to toe, everyone and every cell seemed to breathe the malice of death from this shout, and they all looked at the corner where their life and death were decided, forgetting the sword still in their chests, forgetting the severed limbs that had been cut off. I saw her stand up from the lawn, look back in the direction of the Blue Capital, and then turn around and leave. Yes, she actually went back, she abandoned her comrades. Her departure made the victory that had been easily attainable a difficult one, and the battle gradually became stalemate, and although the final victory was finally achieved by the timely arrival of reinforcements, it was a disastrous victory. The casualties far exceeded expectations, and even the then Speaker, Mr. Rainey, was sent by the Empire to take over his duties. Since then, the Blue Magician Massazate has become an out-and-out traitor to the inhabitants of the Blue Capital, and even those who originally admired her so much did not want to mention her name.

"And where is the brother named Masazate?" asked Erin, taking Buck's breath. "Mistress Massazat is not an older brother, and although his name is more masculine, he is a real woman, at least as I observed that day. "Oh, where did that sister go?" Irene asked Buck with twinkling eyes. At this time, Buck took a breath of cold air from this wasteland, and then slowly exhaled it. "Nobody knows. No one had seen the wayward adult since that day. After saying that, Buck's expression at this time seemed a little lonely.

As the story ends, and so does the walk, the lonely house is in sight, and it is the destination of this time, the mansion of Massazat. It is a small duplex building, which looks a little dilapidated on the surface, and when you push the door in, there is a small reception room, sofas, wooden tables, coat racks, etc., all of which should be available, but they have fallen a thick layer of dust, and it seems that it has been vacant for a long time. On the other side of the shade is a kitchen, with a sunny washroom next to the stairwell. Up the creaking wooden staircase, a master bedroom and a smaller guest bedroom are facing south, with a study and a storage room next to each other directly opposite the master bedroom. After checking the condition of the house and some things to add, Buck gave Neil the keys to the house and left.

It was nearly noon when they walked to the mansion, and by the time Buck left, the three of them had lunch and then spent the afternoon cleaning the house. Thanks to Fili's skillful cleaning skills, by evening the whole house was almost cleaned, and although there were still some corners that had not yet been tidied up, they were no longer in the way.

As night wore on, Neil sat down at the wooden table in his bedroom, studying the book in front of him. It is slightly larger than the palm, and the crusty cover is inlaid with a small diamond crystal, and the strange lines crawl all over the corners and corners of the cover, rubbing the cover carefully, and the concave and convex feeling from the fingertips seems to turn into a rhythm, which makes people love it. Neil followed the instructions of an instruction manual and turned to the last page of the book, placing his crystal card in the groove of the last page, and the name Neil Caffrino slowly appeared on the cover. "Oh? So this book can be used for correspondence and reference when turned to the corresponding page? Neil muttered to himself as he played with the magic book in his hand. Suddenly, Fili knocked on the door and gave him a bag of gold Riley and a book that Crow had asked him to hand over, and then said goodbye to him and left, apparently in a hurry to get back to the regiment's business.

Putting the bag of gold coins aside, Neil picked up the book, "Personality skills?" "Flipping through the book, a letter suddenly fell out of one of the two pages of the book. Neil picks up the letter, and the envelope reads "Personally opened by Neil". "For me?" Neil thought to himself, opening the letter and finding that the first few pieces of paper were all written by Crowe for Neil's care and entrustment, which made Neil feel a little numb.

In the middle of the night, Neil let out a long breath after reading the letter. "Come to Landu Academy to obtain the quota of the Holy Sword Festival, and then obtain the final victory of the Holy Sword Festival, and then naturally obtain the qualification to draw the Holy Sword. Is that what this trip is for?" Neil muttered to himself as he looked out at the brightly lit school campus in the distance, lost in thought. "Is it really going to go this way?" was what he was worried about. Neil shook his head and said to himself, "Now is not the time to think about this, there is only one way in front of us, and we must get it." Abandoning distractions, Neil picked up the book again, flipped through a few paragraphs, and was soon pulled in and trapped by the contents of the book.

In the middle of the night, Neil closed the book and eagerly searched for the author's name on the cover, and finally found a small line in the corner of the cover, written in Id, which translates to the word 'Rainy Moon'.