In the dean's office in the white tower, two people stood opposite each other. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

One of them was dressed in a white robe. His white hair and old face could not hide the anger in his eyes. Across from him, a male Iter in tight black leather armor stood on his desk, holding his pitch-black crossbow against the old wizard's eyebrows, his eyes locked on his every move.

Vanka Collens regretted it. If he hadn't been distracted by the students' presentations, or had gone to the plaza himself, he wouldn't have found himself in the current predicament. The move to balance the safety of the tower and the graduation test has led to poor results.

He was careless. Silently breaking through the monitoring magic he had set up should have been impossible. However, the man in front of him is an exception.

A one-time companion of the Brigade, Hughes Darkeye, is proficient in stealth and assassination, and knows a lot about spells. Coupled with the familiarity of his peers for nearly ten years, he successfully deceived his own spells. The crossbow was topped with disintegrating arrows he had made with his own hands, enough to pierce most magical defenses—including those on his body now, and then reduce his body to ashes.

He was no longer a pure Kamal, and it was impossible to kill him by destroying his body completely. But if the key point is destroyed, he will not be able to act for more than ten days, then it will be too late. Vanka thinks of a way out of the predicament, but can only come to the end of the same fate.

There were several people lying in the corridor outside the door, some of them were college instructors, others were students. They were looking forward to his help...... And he couldn't do anything.

"Rest assured, Vanka." As if knowing what the wizard was thinking, Hughes whispered, "There are no deadly traps, those daredevils are safe." ”

"Are you crazy?" Vanka said in a deep voice, repeating again, "Are you crazy? What exactly is in your head to make you ...... with Austin Complicity with that kind of person? ”

Hughes shook his head, a hint of disapproval. "You're making fools, you, Pfister, and the little witch."

His black pupils stared at Vanka, as if to see through him. "'It' will come back, and we all know that she can't trap 'it' forever."

"But what have you all done? Integrate guilds and establish academies? When it comes again, are you going to let the adventurers and the students face it? Hughes scoffed, his tone unabashedly mocking, "Who do you think you are, the 'gods' on high?" ”

Vanka did not answer. He wasn't good at arguing, let alone arguing with an Iter. He was silent for a long time, and then spoke again. "What do you want to do?"

"Gather the power to fight against 'it'. Neither you nor I have that potential, and that girl does. Hughes didn't hesitate, "No one knows how much time is left, we have to seize every minute." Araksha has agreed to our approach, do you really not think about it anymore, Vanka? He sighed softly, "We need your knowledge...... as well as strength. ”

Vanka lowered his eyes. He didn't want to do something, and as his companions left one by one, he even wondered if he had made the wrong choice. But once a wizard's decision is made, it won't be easily changed. "I'm sorry." He looked back at Hughes, "I'll keep everything I have until the moment I really need them." ”

"No one knows when 'that moment' will come, maybe never." Hughes's voice was impatient, "You're wasting your lives, Vanka. We need to continue with the task she gave us, and now it's different, and we've found enough clues-"

A familiar, soft voice came from behind him.

“…… That's not what 'her' wants, Hughes. ”

Vanka's expression softened slightly. The Ites tensed up, but a pair of hands wrapped around him from behind, the feeling he hadn't felt for a long time made him instinctively give up resisting. "We can't just listen to ......"

"We 'must' accept her wishes." The silver-haired young woman pressed her head behind Hughes's back, her voice tinged with a hint of sadness, but still firm, "Don't forget that we are the ones she has chosen, and our mission has failed." ”

"There will be people who will inherit her mission in the future, and we should assist them, but we can't lead it." Hylancia lowered her gaze, "That's not going to work." ”

Hughes jumped away from the young woman's arms. "I can't do nothing." He said, "The Ites never believed in fate!" ”

Hylandia looked at her former companion and asked softly, "Is Bayard with you?" ”

"You ......" Hughes understood after only one word, but his expression had betrayed him, "I won't talk to you anymore, I won't let you change my mind!" ”

"Hopefully we won't be enemies." Highland Thea whispered, and she walked over to the window and pushed the tower window open.

Hughes walked over to the window and looked out. "Where's Cullen?" He asked.

"Run away." Hylanthia replied easily, "Araksha is still here, so you can go back with him." ”

"What a piece of rubbish." Hughes snorted, "For the sake of him being an Eda believer, it wouldn't be a mistake to hope to cooperate with him." ”

He leapt out of the window and disappeared from Vanka and Hylancia's sight.

The two were silent for a moment. Highland Sia placed a rabbit on the table, and it fell asleep peacefully.

Vanka swallowed, her voice sounding a little dry, "It's time for me to clean things up." This time it's my dereliction of duty, I ...... I'm sorry for them. He inhaled hard, "Thank you, little witch. ”

"What to thank." Hylanthia shook her head, "Don't worry too much about your students, they're braver than you think. She looked at the 'horizontal corpse' outside the door, and smiled helplessly, "No way, just leave these people to me." Who let it be the mess he left behind? ”

The old wizard nodded wordlessly. He walked straight through the tower's façade and descended slowly from above College Square.

"Let's hope they're strong enough......"

In the room where there was only one person, women murmured in barely audible voices.