Located directly north of the campus, the library resembles the White House, the U.S. government building on Earth, but is larger and more bookish.

If you are on Earth, the library is undoubtedly the most popular place in the entire college, especially when the exam is approaching, people come and go, grab seats, and it is not lively.

But here, there are very few students in front of the library. This is because Imperial College has a rule that every time a student enters the library, he or she must pay a certain credit, borrow a specific book, and pay another credit.

Bai Bing walked through the small square in front of the library, and then walked along the steps all the way to the front of the library, looking up, the three-meter-high door was tightly closed, but in the center of the two gates, there was a complex magic pattern, gorgeous patterns and a variety of geometric patterns overlapped, as if a seal.

This seal must be passed by paying a certain number of credits.

However, for Bai Bing, it is not so complicated, he took out the purple gold card from the space ring and swiped it in front of the door of the library, and the seal immediately emitted a soft magical light, and the two doors were solved, welcoming Bai Bing in.

As soon as he entered the lobby of the library, Bai Bing immediately felt that he had entered a different world, and the history and knowledge of this world rushed to his face, which made him involuntarily feel a sense of solemnity.

In front of him, there is a calligraphy work by Caesar Augustus, the founding emperor of the Tianhui Empire, "The Sea Embraces All Rivers", these four characters have been hanging here, it has been nearly a thousand years, but it is still painted with iron and silver hooks, vigorous as a dragon and snake, and has a power that shocks the soul.

At the first glance of Bai Bing, a kind of boundless, surging overall trend immediately appeared in his mind. Then, just after having an aftertaste, I immediately felt the broad mind of Emperor Augustus that seemed to be able to accommodate thousands of rivers and rivers between heaven and earth!

Before he could recover from this shock of the soul, he heard a clear and beautiful voice say: "Classmate, be careful, if the Emperor's calligraphy and painting does not have the strength of the Golden Realm, it cannot be seen for a long time, otherwise it will hurt the fighting heart." “

When Bai Bing heard this, he immediately blinked his eyes, forcibly removed his gaze from those four words, and sighed in his heart that a peerless powerhouse is a peerless powerhouse, and if he writes a word casually, he can make a rookie like himself unable to walk.

Then he reacted, as if someone was talking to him, and he turned his head to look at the voice, and saw a very cute girl with chestnut hair and glasses sitting behind the front desk of the library.

Habitually moving his gaze downward, Bai Bing almost couldn't help but scream obediently, under the girl's white neck, the black tight sweater was raised high by an astonishing curve, the waves were turbulent, and the jade ~ peak stood upright.

"The legendary Tongyan giant ~ breasts! It's simply the best!" Bai Bing's heart let out an exclamation, swallowing the saliva that was about to flow out, but on the surface, he pretended to be indifferent, and said: "Thank you for this classmate, I don't know the name of the classmate?"

Through a pair of crystal glasses, the girl's big watery eyes blinked twice, as if judging why the boy in front of her was so familiar, and then smiled, and asked without answering: "This classmate, you haven't told me your name yet." ”

Without waiting for Bai Bing to answer, the girl stretched out her hand and continued: "Please show me your library card, what kind of books you want to find, I can help you introduce it, after all, this library is too big, and it will take a lot of time to look for it blindly." ”

"Oh, my name is Bai Bing, this year's first-year freshman, give you my library card. Bai Bing introduced himself and handed over the purple gold card in his hand, "I'll tell you the truth, I'm a student of the Dou Qi Department, but I'm very interested in the magic of the ancient elves, and I want to find an introductory book on this subject." ”

After speaking, Bai Bing carefully observed the reaction on the girl's face, after all, ancient elf magic is not an ordinary thing, and I am afraid that few people in the whole continent can master it.

The girl took the Zijin card and looked at it in her hand with some surprise, "First-year freshmen have Zijin cards, Bai Bing, you are not simple." ”

The girl raised her head and glanced at Bai Bing with a smile, "My name is Angel, and the books you are looking for are probably not many in the whole continent." There are a few in the southeast corner of the third floor here, but I don't think it's suitable for your situation. “

Speaking of this, Angel paused, took a breath, and his chest rose and fell with it, making Bai Bing a little uneasy, "Actually, you can study alchemy, the alchemy of human society is largely born from the magic of ancient elves, and there are commonalities between the two." ”

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Bai Bing had never heard such remarks before, so he hurriedly continued to ask.

"That's right, alchemy is originally derived from magic, and the two complement each other, and during the period of the Ancient Elven Empire, many legendary mages were also grandmaster-level alchemists. It's just that with the fall of the Elven Empire, humans have become the masters of the continent, but due to the different ways of feeling the magic elements between humans and elves, there are also certain differences in the magic power between the two races, and the magic of the ancient elves has gradually faded out of people's field of vision. However, in the development of alchemy, the habit of ancient elf magic has always been followed, so if you want to understand ancient magic, starting with alchemy is undoubtedly a shortcut. ”

"I see, Angel, can you give me a more detailed introduction to alchemy?" Bai Bing was very interested in all the knowledge related to ancient magic, and continued to ask.

As a librarian, Angel is cute but young, and sometimes feels lonely when she spends her days with books, but she actually longs for someone to talk to her.

Bai Bingren didn't hate it, the questions he asked were very out-of-the-way, and his attitude was very sincere, which just met the girl's current psychological needs, so he talked about it and dropped his bookbag.

"A magician collects and creates magic that can be used by me through meditation, and by manipulating the magic power to change its nature, it bursts out with magical power, which is what we call magic. ”

"Alchemy, on the other hand, is the process of learning and understanding the properties of various magical materials and the effects of the interaction between the magic contained in them, so as to make magical props, magic potions, and other items with various powers. ”

"A powerful alchemist can not only use the magic elements contained in heaven and earth to lay a powerful alchemy circle for defense. You can also make powerful war puppets to attack, and the individual combat ability of these war puppets is no less than that of the fighting spirit of the Golden Realm. ”

"Both are essentially creating magical effects through magical reactions, but the means by which they manipulate magical reactions are not the same. An alchemist is a person who uses the nature of magical materials, and a magician is the nature of manipulating his own magical power. ”

"However, with the fall of the Elven Empire, the rise of fighting spirit, the decline of magic, and the alchemy that has been inherited is extremely rare, most of them are refining methods of some magic potions, and alchemists have gradually become a kind of deputy job on the mainland. But despite this, the status of alchemists on the continent has risen. After all, there are fewer and fewer people who know alchemy, and the demand for magic potions is increasing. A high-level alchemist, no matter where he is, will be treated as a guest of honor. As for the master-level or the legendary grandmaster-level alchemist, they can all be called national treasure-level figures. ”

"So if Bai Bing is interested, he might as well learn alchemy, there is absolutely no harm. ”

The girl told Bai Bing about alchemy seriously, and looked at Bai Bing with anticipation, which reminded Bai Bing of Nina, the little maid who waited for her master's praise every time she finished her work.

Seeing Bai Bing looking at himself without saying a word with a smile on his face, Angel suddenly reacted as if he was something, and hurriedly said, "The book on alchemy is also on the east of the third floor, on the two rows of yellow shelves, you go quickly." ”

"Thank you, Angel, then I'll go read the book first, and if there are any questions, I'll come back and ask you. Bai Bing smiled lightly, bowed slightly, and then ran to the third floor of the library.

The library of the Imperial College has a total of five floors, the first floor is some works, the second floor is mainly the Dou Qigong and Dou Technique Method, and the third floor is the magic knowledge books.

But when you get to the fourth floor, you must need a certain amount of permission to enter, and it is full of highly cherished high-level fighting skills and magic, and every time you pass it out, it may be printed on the mainland with a bloody storm. Bai Bing's purple gold card can enter the fourth floor, but his more than 200 credits are only enough to exchange for a fighting skill that belongs to the general level on the fourth floor.

As for the fifth floor, it is even more mysterious, only the permission granted by Vice Principal Ge Shuhua can be entered, and ordinary three-star teachers do not have permission, let alone ordinary students. As for what exactly is inside, it is even more unknown.

With the Divine Thunder Slaying Dragon that the Vice Principal personally promised, Bai Bing's current demand for fighting skills is not very urgent, but he is thinking about learning a few tricks of magic that suits him, so as soon as he reached the third floor, Bai Bing first ran to the southeast corner, where it is said that there are books on ancient magic.

There are not many people on the entire third floor, and there are more than 20 people, scattered in the huge space, which makes it even more sparse.

After all, it is a library, and the whole atmosphere is very quiet, everyone is immersed in the world of books, and even the occasional communication is muffled.

Although the library has a long history, the equipment in the library is very well maintained, but there is no sense of decay and obsolescence, and everything is clean and tidy, which makes people feel very happy to see.

Finally, on a brass bookshelf in the southeast corner, Bai Bing found a small column with "Elven Magic" written on it, and below this column, there were only two or three books, which was too pitiful compared to the books it classified.

Bai Bing took out a copy of "Thoughts on Ancient Magic" and read it with hope, hoping to learn a trick and a half, but the result was a big disappointment for him, this book mainly uses a philosophical perspective to explain the similarities and differences between ancient magic and modern magic, and analyzes the reasons for this difference, which is useless to Bai Bing now.

Putting the book back in its place, Bai Bing took out the second book without giving up, "Roads and Dreams - The Transformation of Elven Magic", which was also opened with anticipation, and then closed it with a heart full of disappointment.

On the bookshelf, there is only the last book related to ancient magic, "Changing the World - Akaimean the Sunchaser", just looking at the name, Bai Bing feels that he must get nothing, but with the mentality of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, Bai Bing still plans to open it and take a look, after all, it is beneficial to open the book, and it is not harmful to increase some knowledge that is out of the way.

In fact, this is a biography of a person, about the last important figure in the history of the Elven Empire, Akaimean the Sunchaser. The son of Anastarian, the last emperor of the Elven Empire, Akemean returned from the Dalaran Academy of Magic after his father's death against the allied forces of other races on the continent. The young prince bears the fate of the entire race and finds a new way out for the High Elf race, leading the remaining elite troops away from their homeland and out to sea to the distant Well of the Sun.

Bai Bing was not very interested in the history of the fall of the Elven Empire, but among some large historical records, there was a paragraph describing Akaimean's spell casting, which attracted Bai Bing's attention.

"What Akemean is best at is thunder magic, his signature spell [Thunder and Lightning Torrent], that is, through resonance, to channel and concentrate the surging magic power in the body, and then release it in one breath. It's like provoking the bull behind the fence and then the moment the fence is opened, the bull will run out and attack. ”

"Through resonance, the magic power in the body is channeled and concentrated, and then the ...... is released in one breath" Bai Bing muttered to himself, repeating this sentence constantly, as if he had an understanding.

Other than that, though, there's nothing else of value in the book. Bai Bing closed the book, put it back in its place, and sighed softly, seeing that it was really a difficult path to learn ancient magic.

Of course, Bai Bing was not discouraged, everything was just beginning.