Chapter 21: One Breath Left
Noah City, located in the extreme south of the Southern Regions, was named after Noah Academy, the first academy in the Southern Regions - yes, yes, there was a college and then a city.
More than 300 years ago, the great magician Noah killed a six-headed sea demon snake at the location of the current Noah City. Then, the unexpected happened—in this little-known and dilapidated place, Master Noah unexpectedly discovered several magical geniuses.
At this time, the residents, out of admiration for Master Noah, tried their best to retain the master, and jointly funded by the local wealthy businessmen and magnates, established a small magic academy for Master Noah, and Noah Academy was born.
Over the past three hundred years, Noah Academy has produced many geniuses, and it has quickly become the largest in the Southern Regions Continent, with the strongest faculty and the largest number of great magicians, and the No. 1 Magic Academy in the Southern Regions at a rate of expansion every ten years.
Noah City, which is backed by Noah's Academy, has gradually developed from a small and inconspicuous coastal city to the most famous magical holy place in the Southern Regions, as well as a city of magical materials and equipment.
Almost half of Noah City's urban area is for the trading of magical materials and equipment, and the other half of the urban area is a variety of top places for eating, drinking and playing, and various top magical materials and magical equipment theme fairs every year bring endless flow of people, wealth and city status to Noah City.
If there is anything that a magician can use and can't be bought in Noah's City, then there are probably only two possibilities - either it's just a legend and no one can find it, or it's worthless and can't be sold in a place like Noah's City, where the land is as expensive as gold.
The main gate of Noah Academy, which is magnificent and more than ten meters high, shines with yellow magical light, facing the morning light, like the mouth of a giant beast, slowly opening, introducing the first ray of dawn for the annual magic exchange event of the Southern Regions Magic Academy.
Dean Raleigh, dressed in a purple ornate archmage robe, led a group of Noah's mentors to stand at the gate in person, greeting the exchange academies from all over the Southern Regions, as well as celebrities in the wizarding world.
The entire reception scene was extremely simple, except for the long purple carpet that represented the highest status in the wizarding world, there was no other decoration and decoration, but the greeting personnel, except for Raleigh, the first person in the academy, the rest of the people were also archmages in purple robes, and this lineup was luxurious enough.
You must know that an archmage who has just reached the sixth level can already become a guest of honor for many nobles, and here, there are a bunch of them.
"Lord Dean, it's almost noon, are you still waiting?"
The person who asked was a young tutor next to Dean Raleigh, and his expression was quite angry.
An hour ago, all but the Venetian Academy had come.
"Wait a minute......" Dean Raleigh looked indifferent, and stood all morning, his expression unchanged from beginning to end.
"Dean, isn't this Venice Academy too much, the exchange meeting is the last one to arrive every year, and I deliberately let people wait for a long time, making it clear that we don't take Noah College seriously. ”
"Hmph, these grandsons like to play music, it's best not to come, the meal will arrive in a while, see who cares about them......"
The rest of the mentors also started talking.
Dean Raleigh is a pedantic magician, except for being a little strict with his son, he is very kind to people on weekdays, as the first person in the Southern Regions Academy world, he has no arrogance to people, and the tutors speak very casually in front of him, and even some of the more out-of-the-box senior students can be unscrupulous in front of Raleigh.
Dean Raleigh smiled slightly, paused and said, "Okay, let's get ready to welcome the guests, it's already here." ”
"Where are you? I haven't seen a single ghost!"
The other mentor poked his head out to look out, but the end of the 100-meter-long purple carpet that had been laid for the event was still empty.
In order to show respect for Noah's Academy, all the people in the wizarding world who came to participate in the grand event, no matter what means they had, would first descend on Noah City, and then walk through the exclusive road connecting Noah City and the Academy.
Before the words fell, in the middle of the long purple carpet, a cloud of dark blue magical light flashed, and then quickly expanded, turning into a magical space door that happened to be the same width as the purple carpet.
More than a dozen figures came out of the dark blue space door, just right, and landed on the VIP passage covered with a long blue carpet.
The person who came to open the portal directly to the VIP passage, in addition to revealing the incomparably precise spatial magic, also seemed to have a bit of a desire to be different, or rather, provocative.
"Hahahaha...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry to keep Raleigh-sama waiting!"
In the space door, a middle-aged archmage with thin cheeks and a purple magic robe stepped out first, and as soon as he appeared, he raised his head and laughed, although he said sorry, but the flamboyant expression on his face was not the slightest apology.
"It doesn't matter. Dean Raleigh said indifferently: "Lord Carlos's large space is becoming more and more exquisite. ”
"Haha, where, where! Dean Raleigh's life is full of praise even William the Great, and he is the first person in our Southern Magical World. ”
"Master Carlos, please ...... inside" Raleigh, who had always rarely talked nonsense, smiled indifferently and made a gesture of please.
The middle-aged archmage in purple robe, that is, the dean of the Venice Academy of Magic, Carlos, raised his eyebrows, nodded proudly, and was about to stride forward, when suddenly, a dull loud noise came from the Noah Academy in the distance.
Dean Raleigh frowned slightly, his face changed suddenly, and with a wave of his hand, the whole person disappeared out of thin air on the spot, and when he showed his body again, he had already appeared in the depths of Noah Academy, which happened to be the place where Lin Lei, who caused the elemental riot in the cultivation room and was blown up into the sky, tumbling and falling.
Almost at the same time, a blue light flashed around Raleigh, and Carlos's figure appeared.
This is Noah Academy, even if something happens, unless Dean Raleigh invites it, it will not be the turn of outsiders to intervene, and even paying too much attention is a kind of overstepping.
However, Dean Raleigh obviously didn't have time to worry about this, so he hurried to save this student who only had one breath left.
When he first heard the sound of the explosion, he thought that it was a naughty student who was indiscriminately casting magic, or that there was a small explosion in the pharmacy laboratory, which was a common thing in Noah's Academy, but as soon as he felt it, the explosion scene was projected in his mind, which made his face change greatly.
What happened was actually the one he had been paying close attention to, Lin Lei, the most talented Lin Lei in the three hundred years of Noah Academy, and at this time, there was only one breath left.