Chapter 13: The Rose Forest
"What's wrong?" Sam asked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Du Kang didn't answer, he muttered for a while, picked up the cup and drank the tequila inside, and stood up.
"I'm sorry, Sam. I'm going to meet someone, I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you to the Mage Tower today. ”
Sam was stunned for a moment and nodded, "It's okay, it's okay." If you have something important, you go first...... Stay safe. ”
Nodding, Du Kang grabbed the third letter.
But after feeling it a little, Du Kang found that this letter seemed to be shrouded in a faint, but extremely subtle magic!
"Forbidden Spell?" His fingers touched, and Du Kang found that the seal of the envelope had been blessed by the [Forbidden Spell].
As the name suggests, a banning spell is used to seal off an item or space. It is usually directly intertwined with the elemental structure of space or objects, and if there is no means to remove the ban spell from the letterhead, the consequence of forcibly breaking it will be destroyed along with the envelope.
The strength of the Forbidden Spell depends on the mage's cultivation, and the similarity with the magic barrier is that the difficulty of both if they want to break is several times more difficult than the difficulty of releasing it.
The difference is that magical enchantments are more focused on overall protection and isolation. Forbidden spells, on the other hand, are more inclined to seals.
The spell on the letterhead wasn't complicated, and Du Kang felt it a little and realized that it would only take a little time to unlock it.
The question is, who would write a letter to themselves with a banning spell?
Distraught, Du Kang put the third letter away and decided not to think about it yet.
Asking Sam to send himself to the shuttle door on the twenty-sixth floor, Du Kang stepped inside.
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To the south of the Rose Forest, Vivien, Carl and the others were getting tired of waiting.
After not seeing Du Kang for a long time, they began to wonder if Du Kang would come.
"Hmph, the hour is almost up. Vivien sneered, looking at Istaton.
Karl looked up at the sky and prepared to leave without saying a word.
Istaton frowned, not stopping, he wasn't as sure and confident as he was before.
Did you really miscalculate?!
However, Carl and Vivien had barely flown out when Istaton stopped them.
"Wait a minute, he's coming!"
Karl paused and turned around: "Is, my patience is limited. ”
Vivien also paused, waiting for Istaton's next step.
Istaton smiled, "He's opened the letter and is heading this way, I have something on him, I can sense that he has appeared in the public area." ”
"Really?" asked Vivien.
"Think about what we're going to do with the crystals, Vivien. Istaton smiled and said something meaningful. "Hopefully you'll make the right choice. ”
Vivien hesitated for a moment, but finally found a direction to hide as previously discussed.
Karl glanced at Istaton and held the other direction.
"Maggie. Istadon looked at the girl who had been keeping her head down, although there was a smile on her face, her voice was a little cold: "I'm not Du Kang, I won't be soft-hearted." Wait, you should know how to do it, right?"
Maggie nodded a little blankly.
Istaton gave Maggie a deep look, then looked meaningfully in the direction Karl was hiding, and turned to fly in another direction.
Now, except for the direction where Du Kang came, the other three directions are guarded!
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"Whew~" Du Kang gasped and appeared on the cloud square.
Forcibly shaking off the discomfort caused by spatial teleportation, he quickly moved in one direction.
Guangming Harbor is built in a castle on a hill, and out of the castle, a large river passes through it. Ten miles east of the castle is the Rose Forest, where Du Kang is located.
It is full of harmless exotic flowers and plants, among which the rose, which symbolizes love, blooms the most. The Rose Forest is famous at the Radiant Academy of Magic, as it also has a poignant legend.
It is rumored that this place was originally a desert, and there were two lovers who entered the academy together and were divided into the Netherworld Branch and the Light Branch respectively by the Wonderful Road. The men are in the Light Branch, and the women are in the Netherworld Branch.
In this legend, the male protagonist who knew the cruel teaching concept of the Netherworld Branch's 'go to the Netherworld by himself, or send others to the Netherworld', was very worried that his lover would not be able to pass the assessment of the Netherworld Branch, so every night after the end of the cultivation, he took a rose on this desert, looked in the direction of his lover and looked forward to it, and told his heart to the flowers and the moon.
At that time, the Netherworld Branch was in the middle of a vast desert, and there was no shuttle door between it and the public area, and the assessment method was different from now, and the time was one year. And if you want to reach the common area, you have to rely on the students to fly over on their own.
In order to show his lover the way, the man uses his magic to plant all kinds of roses along this desert every day.
But a year later, the bad news for her lover came - she was lost in the desert, her magic ran out, she died of lack of food.
The man was grief-stricken, he was dissatisfied with the cruel training methods of the Nether Branch, but there was no way the Branch could change anything because of the death of a cadet. So after the protest was fruitless, the man was determined to change the situation with his own efforts.
Day after day, year after year, he planted roses in the desert. Vowed to turn the desert dead of the Nether Chambers and public areas into a place full of life in his lifetime. Guide the soul of your lover wandering in the desert!
It lasted until the end of the man's life, and the nameless desert finally became a sea of roses.
Inspired by the man's actions, more and more students protested against the cruel selection method of the Netherworld Branch. Especially the students who flew out of the vast desert and were guided by the sea of flowers.
Under pressure, the Academy had to change many of the rules of the Nether Academy.
Later, more and more couples will bring a rose to the sea of flowers to plant. Gradually, it became one of the wonders of the college.
There is no way to verify the authenticity of the legend now, leaving aside the authenticity of the love story, Du Kang does not believe that the Netherworld Branch will change the assessment rules because of this, I am afraid that some people forcibly attribute these changes to the power of love, and make up the story in order to make it more poignant.
He had an inexplicable feeling that Maggie had agreed to meet at this place.
Du Kang feels that there is no love between him and Maggie. But ask yourself, it's definitely not a stranger or an ordinary friend,
This feeling becomes more complicated after Maggie betrays Fitz and Simmons.
He didn't think that Maggie should have entrusted Fitz and Simmons to life and death because of his own sake. This is unrealistic in the brutal Netherworld Sorting Assessment.
But why do you feel a little betrayed?
If she was an irrelevant stranger, she should hate her for doing this to her friend, but why couldn't she talk about hatred in her heart?
"Alas......" Du Kang sighed with a little headache.
When you step on a flower path, the world around you immediately becomes colorful. Since ninety percent of the flowers and plants here are low, the field of vision is extremely open, and even some tall plants are wafting with a faint fragrance.
This calmed Du Kang's mind a little.
A faint breeze appeared under his feet, and his whole body flew up, flying over a sea of flowers towards the east side of the rose forest.
With his magical powers, he was no longer a layman who didn't know anything. At least for now, he could sense the faint aura of homology somewhere in the east with the letter Maggie had given him.
As he was about to reach his destination, Du Kang descended from the sky.
Turning a low hill, Dukang saw Maggie with her back to her.
She was wearing a long white dress and stood gracefully. The sea of colorful flowers can't compete with the touch of gold hanging behind her.
As if sensing something, Maggie turned around.
She looked at Du Kang with complicated eyes.
Halfway, she slowly walked towards Du Kang.
Du Kang also moved forward slowly, and the two of them did not subconsciously stop until they were seven or eight meters apart and looked at each other.
"Come here, I have something to say to you. Maggie lowered her head and spoke lightly.
Du Kang felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it and took a few more steps forward.
"I hesitated. Maggie looked up slightly. There was a look of pain on his delicate face.
Du Kang thought she was talking about abandoning Fitz and Simmons, and couldn't help but be silent, not knowing what to say.
"I really hesitated, you were the first man to make me think I was doing this wrong this time......" Maggie looked up in pain and looked at Du Kang with some pity.
Du Kang felt that something was wrong.
This?
"But...... I don't have a choice. I'm sorry!" Maggie raised her hand, her expression numb. She seemed to want to say something more, but the hand she raised suddenly erupted with a wave of magical power.
Du Kang suddenly felt a cramping pain in his abdomen, and the letter that he was originally carrying in his arms, the letter that Maggie wrote to himself, I don't know when, turned into a needle with a thick thumb and pierced himself.
A mouthful of blood spat out and sprayed on the white rose next to it.
Glamorous as blood!
This was as if it was a signal, and in the three directions around it, three strong magic fluctuations were transmitted at the same time.
Standton, Vivien, and Carl came together.