Before dawn the next day, Hall packed his belongings and walked out of the yard with his head down.

He didn't actually have any luggage, just two sets of coarse cloth clothes issued by the academy, and a broken iron pot issued to him.

After a few steps, he looked back again, and his eyes glazed over at the end of the big wooden house, but the man he wanted to see had never come out.

His eyes and mind went blank, and Hall, like a walking corpse, came to a wooden house.

He slowly raised his hand and knocked on the door twice.

After a while, a sturdy teenager with short brown hair opened the door.

In the cold wind, Anglo tightened the collar of his clothes, and his voice was a little surprised: "Huh, Hall, where are you going with this dress?"

Hall didn't look up, but said intermittently in a very small voice, "Where is the manor that Mr. Arno is talking about?"

The reason why he came to ask Anglo was because he often went to the academy to get food for everyone, and he knew the academy best.

Anglo's expression suddenly became very serious, he lost his previous grinning appearance, put his hand on Hall's shoulder, and whispered, "Does Mr. Arno really plan to give up on you?"

Hall didn't answer, didn't look up, just took Anglo's hand away from his shoulder with a cold hand, and whispered: "Don't be so nice to me, I used to look down on you, I don't deserve you to be so good to me, we will be two types of people in the future, you are a magic apprentice, and I am a handyman at most." ”

"Hall!, how can you say that......" Anglo couldn't believe his ears.

Hall seemed to sneer and said, "You don't tell me I'll find it myself!"

Anglo looked at the changed young man in front of him, finally sighed, and said, "That manor is in the western part of the castle, and I will tell Mr. Arno to calculate your salary from today after you leave." ”

Hall took a deep breath and said coldly, "Thank you, I'm leaving." ”

"Wait a minute!" Anglo said as he ran back to the room, then immediately ran out again, with a rusty iron sword and a wooden shield in his hand, "I've heard that it's been deserted for a long time, and there are goblins like goblins, so take this with you." ”

Hall finally looked up, glanced at Anglo, his eyes were full of gratitude, and he choked up and said, "Thank you, Anglo, I will remember you." ”

Anglo suddenly laughed and said, "What are you talking about? Even if you go there, we are still brothers, and Mr. Arno will not remove you as an apprentice." He told you to go there for your own good, not to drive you away. ”

"Really?" Hall's face did not improve, then he lowered his head again and said, "If you really don't give up on me, then he will continue to teach even if his qualifications are poor, forget it...... I'm gone, you have to take care. ”

Hall lifted his feet and slowly disappeared into the courtyard in the early morning mist, leaving Anglo alone in a daze.

Located outside the west gate of the Cangyi Academy of Magic, the fallen Desec Manor was once the personal estate of Desek, the greatest figure of the Cangyi Academy, and he was the only high-level alchemy mentor in the history of Cangyi.

But it was destroyed by an experiment by the great alchemist, which not only blew up Desek's house, but also broke through the magic barrier he had set up himself, and almost blew up half of the Academy.

Since then, Desec has disappeared from the Cangyi Academy, and his body has not even been found.

Many people think that this demonic madman has been wiped out along with the big bang, but many more people believe that he has broken through to the senior mentor and promoted to the alchemy god disciple, thus flying to the outer heaven god realm.

In any case, after the explosion, the beautiful flowers and trees of Desec Manor were reduced to ashes, and for three hundred years, it had been shrouded in high-intensity magical radiation, and once it entered the radiation depth zone, people would die like flowers and plants.

So five hundred years ago, the masters of the academy spent a lot of money to open a magic barrier to isolate the magic radiation.

However, after 500 years, the magical radiation gradually weakened, and many flowers and plants grew in the manor.

But even so, no one dared to approach Desec's former home, because the level of radiation was not yet safe to enter.

However, Hale didn't know this, all he was to guard the watchtower outside the West Gate, record the strength of the magic barrier every day, and the strength of the magic radiation, and report on the growth of vegetation on the periphery of Desec Manor.

This seems to be a useless job, but it is related to a major matter of the academy, that is, when the radiation is reduced to a certain level, they will send someone to investigate and get the confidential documents that DeSec left in the basement back then.

Those documents recorded some of Desek's own alchemy, and if he obtained these powerful and unique alchemy, it would definitely be of great help to the strength of Cangyi Academy.

About a mile from the west gate, there stands a dilapidated watchtower.

Hall walked through the weeds and the cold wind of the early morning, and gradually came to the wooden gate under the watchtower.

After knocking on the door twice, a young mage pushed the door open, stunned for a moment, and said, "You were sent by Elder Arno to take over my apprentice?"

Hall's face was not very good-looking, but he nodded indifferently.

The young mage laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to come so quickly, great, I'm fed up here, this kind of thing is for apprentices to do." ”

He led Hall into the door, pointed to the small room, and said, "This is the living quarter, although it is a little simpler, but there is a fireplace, and you can go around to gather firewood to burn in the winter." ”

Then he pointed to a staircase and said: "That's where you go up to the second floor, there are two crystal balls on the second floor, the left shows the strength of the enchantment, and the right side shows the radiation intensity, as for the surrounding flowers and plants, you just need to record whether they mutate or not, and send the message to the doorman of the West Gate every morning, do you understand?"

Hall nodded indifferently, still standing in the doorway.

The young mage said to himself, "Okay, I can't stay here for a moment, I'll give you a quilt or something." He casually took a few books, walked outside, and then didn't forget to turn around and say, "By the way, there may be some nasty guys hanging out here at night, you'd better close the doors and windows, I'm leaving!"

The magician walked fast, and Hale didn't look back.

When the magician was gone, Hale was lying on the wooden bed like a dead man, his eyes wide open, his gaze completely unfocused.

Mourning is better than dying, maybe when all hope is lost, everyone will become the walking dead, right?

Lying like this for a day, Hall didn't eat or drink, the wind and clouds outside the house changed, it was already sunset, and the lonely geese were wailing.

In that vast wilderness, it has been dyed with the gloom of late autumn, and the lonely grass and trees trembled slightly in the wind, so not lonely.

The cold wind came in through the cracks in the house wall, and then blew through Hall's body.

Hall finally reacted and slowly got out of bed.

"There is hope when you are alive, and there is nothing left when you die. Hall read softly, came to the fat cabinet in the fireplace, opened the package and took out two dried steamed buns, and ate it with a bowl of water

"Click, click. "The night breeze pushes the wooden door, making a crisp sound, which is particularly harsh in the quiet atmosphere.

Hall frowned and walked over, ready to close the door.

But as he reached the door, he suddenly saw what seemed to be a green eye, staring at him through the crack in the door.

Hall was indeed frightened and shouted, "What the hell!"

However, when he looked closely, there was only a faint dim sky light outside through the crack in the door, and there was a whirring cold wind blowing on his face.

Hall cautiously opened the door, for fear that something would hide behind the door and suddenly burst out.

But when he opened the door, there was nothing outside the house, only a desolate land stretching out into the gray sky under his eyelids.

The land was covered with green carpet vegetation, mostly weeds, many knee-high, and the deeper they went, the higher the weeds became, and when Hale looked up, he seemed to see a black shadow hiding in the weeds, peeking at him.

A cold wind blew, blowing the sea of grass into a loud sound, and then gently stirred Hall's black hair, bringing a chill.

Hall seemed to hear someone whispering in the wind, and suddenly felt a tingling in his scalp.

He remembered what the mage had said when he left here, and he felt a chill behind him, so he closed the door and pressed the only cabinet in the room against it.

He lit half of the candle and returned to the bed, wrapped in the quilt, feeling a little warm.

I haven't meditated for a day, and the elemental energy in my body has long since dissipated.

Hall doesn't plan to stop meditating, as long as he keeps meditating, his mana will increase, and maybe he can see hope.

Hall soon fell into a meditative state, and the night grew darker, and it was pitch black outside.

I don't know how long it took, but the wooden door suddenly made a "click" sound, as if something hard was hitting the door.

Hall frowned, pretended not to hear, and continued to meditate.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a louder "pop" sound, followed by the sound of stones rolling down.