Cheese felt a slight sense of choking when Ann Lina confessed to killing the jeweler, and although he was aware of it and prepared, he still had some difficulty accepting it when the speculation turned out to be true. This is not to blame Cheese, in the mage's impression, An Lina has never been a murderer, and among the many peers of the Gray Tower, she will always be the most inscrutable and the most stable. That's why Cheese didn't have any resentment when he learned that his teacher had appointed An Lina as the next head of the Grey Tower.

"What did he do?" Cheese suppressed the discomfort in his heart, he didn't like the way Ann Lina looked now, this was not the person he remembered. But reason and the fragments of the door of the stargazing room are reminding him that this may not be the case, and although Allina declared that she had been killed, she did not explain the reason for the killer.

Sure enough, the blonde vampire put away his cruel expression after hearing Cheese's question, and there was a slight relief in his eyes. She was glad that Cheese was still able to analyze what she saw with reason in this situation. However, this also means that the play she made did not achieve the desired effect. Of course, Ann Lina doesn't need to kill the jeweler, and with the latter's abilities, she has many ways to make the latter retreat when neither side is hurt. But she didn't, because she was expecting the sudden killing to get Cheese out of here.

Now her attempt has failed. But An Lina was not unhappy, she hadn't seen Cheese for five years, and the previous time that the mage had been investigating the rat-man plague in the territory of the blue lion was nearly six years. Unlike the long-lasting bloodlines, the changes in human beings are significant, children grow into teenagers in the blink of an eye, and when teenagers turn around, they become the prime of life, then the prime of life becomes old age, and old age tends to twilight. An Lina knows this very well, she has seen too many people, things and even countries rise and fall like a tide under the blowing of time. So she cherished the change in Cheese very much, and she was glad that time did not turn Cheese into the kind of person she hated, the kind of person who claimed to follow her heart by her shallow thoughts and actions.

"This is not the place to talk, rooms without doors and hallways are no different. Follow me. Ann Lina said as she walked out of the stargazing room and down the stairs.

Cheese silently followed, and after turning nearly a hundred and eighty degrees, a familiar door appeared next to the stairs, which was Ann Lina's room. The vampire who walked in front didn't say much, pushed open the door and walked in. The mage hesitated for a second, his gaze swept over the deserted staircase, and for a moment he sensed what seemed to be something in the air around him. But after that moment passed, the feeling came to an abrupt end. Cheese doesn't think it's a delusion, so it's likely that the person spying on him chose to abort immediately after he reacted.

The atmosphere in this tower is getting more and more eerie. With this in mind, the mage walked through the door, and the candle on the front porch of the room lit up. Here, it's still familiar to him. Cheese walked slowly across the front porch, turning the wall between the hallway and the foyer, and really came to the interior of the room, where Ann Lina had taken off her gray robe and sat down in her usual place.

"What the hell is going on, whether it's the jeweler, it's the tower, what's going on?" the current cheese was now desperate to know what was going on in the tower, despite the unhappiness of the other party five years ago. This is the Gray Tower, after all, a place he can call home.

Ann Lina smiled again, this time with the familiar smile of Cheese, gentle and complicated, "What's wrong here, you ask, it means that you think that the situation in the Gray Tower is abnormal now, but this is not true, because this is what this tower really looks like." Apprentices attack each other for resources and knowledge, and even kill each other, which is a normal thing in the process of cultivating spellcasters. None of this had happened before, except that Clarke, as a teacher, was too knowledgeable to satisfy your curiosity. And now, the guys who are accustomed to the abundant conditions in the tower suddenly find that they have lost the source of their own drinking, and naturally they will start to consciously compete for the remaining pool. ”

Cheese's brow furrowed, if it was before he became an adult, he probably wouldn't agree with Ann Lina's statement, because while the study of the Grey Tower was not straightforward, Clark would never allow apprentices to use or study a magic when they didn't know enough about it. Therefore, at that time, the mage still hoped that he could study the content of interest according to his own mind without being constrained by the teacher. But now, five years after he had completed his adult trials, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with such a free and independent study. It is true that it is a pity to leave the rich resources of the Gray Tower, but the independent Gray Robe is not forbidden to return to the Gray Tower, they should not be so eager for the resources of the Gray Tower, and even do not hesitate to face each other with swords.

"Feeling incomprehensible?" Ann Lina saw the mage's confusion at a glance, and she shook her head slightly, "I can't understand because you are still in the ascending stage of research, and there are too many mysteries in front of you, and these mysteries can be tried to solve. You haven't fallen into the situation where you know the target is there, but you just can't find a way to get close to it. So you can't understand the panic and restlessness, which is more painful than any withdrawal symptom. ”

"I know the Raven is back with you. You'll be looking for him before you come back, and it's no surprise that he was assigned to help you during the mission five years ago because Raven, despite his ruthlessness, is still a reliable man in the Grey Tower. And you, have you noticed the changes he has made in the past five years?"

Cheese naturally thought of what he had seen in the far corner, the magic that put the dragon to sleep, the spell that drove the cat to be his servant, and that was fine, wasn't it? Wait, these spells weren't originally the genre that Curse Raven had studied, and he used them with ease.

"Noticed? The Raven will come back with you instead of just telling you information, because he wants it too. Of course, the degree and purpose of his expectations may not be exactly the same as those of the jeweler and others, but the essence is the same. Their research has reached a bottleneck, a bottleneck that is difficult to get through. That's why they're freeing themselves from mastering one type of spell and trying to get around the problem in other ways. But it's not that easy. If it had been five years ago, the bottleneck would have been easily solved, and a word from Clark would have pointed them in the right direction. But now, there is no one in the world who can help them like that. In their respective realms, each gray robe is lonely. Unless..."

"Unless the teacher leaves behind a book that he has learned all his life, reading it is like getting the teacher's guidance. ”

An Lina nodded, proving that Cheese's guess was correct, "And the most troublesome thing is that he did leave such a book." ”