Chapter 44: The Long Lost History of Ancient Magic
In March 404 of the new calendar, Jiang Zhe and the others, who had gone to the mage Tavander with Professor Hod Kendi, finally returned to the Reoks School of Magic, what does it mean?
This means that Jiang Zhe will have to re-examine the history of ancient magic...... Ahem!
Not to mention that a few of the little ones were busy preparing for the exams, and that Professor Hodd had brought Abel to the old dean, Gretel Keynes.
I have to say, don't look at how Abel complained about her grandfather's cruelty, but when she really saw the old dean, her eyes still couldn't help but be a little moist, biting her lip, and her tone was stalking.
"Hehe," facing his only granddaughter, the old dean looked at it with a smile, then put down the pipe in his hand, walked up to Abel, patted Abel's head gently, and sighed slightly, "I'm glad you can come back, Abel......"
"En......" Holding back the excitement in his heart, Abel pretended to ignore it with a look of ignorance and snorted softly.
It's a pity that Abel's small actions didn't hide from the old dean's eyes, but he didn't want to say it, after taking a few deep glances at Abel, his eyes were full of memories, and he sighed slightly, "You have grown up, Abel, very much like your mother......"
As if feeling the care from his only relative, Abel couldn't help but raise his head and call softly, "Grandpa......"
The old dean smiled, and his face was full of smiles called relief and relief.
Seeing that he seemed to be standing on the sidelines, Professor Hodd found an opportunity and said, "Old Dean, Abel, I think you should have a lot to say, or I will leave first......
"Don't go!" Before Professor Hodd could finish speaking, Abel suddenly had a tense face, glared at Professor Hodd fiercely, and muttered something in a low voice.
"Hehe," looked at Abel, and then at Professor Hodd, the old dean shook his head with a smile, and said jokingly, "Hodd, I have never regarded you as an outsider......
Listening to the old dean's playful words, Professor Hodd's face couldn't help but show a little embarrassment and confusion, and he was about to speak, but he heard a knock on the door.
The old dean glanced at the door, then walked to his desk and picked up the pipe, and said as he smoked, "Come in, Professor Manhet!"
As soon as the words fell, Professor Manhet pushed the door and walked in, looked up and saw Ebel, his face was stunned, and then he seemed to think of something, suddenly realized, bowed his head to her slightly as etiquette, and then said to the old dean, "Dean, the students of Salonia are about to arrive at our Reox......
"So fast?" said the old dean, puffing out a puff of smoke from his pipe, "that old fellow, are you really going to try it out with our students of Reochs?" he said to Professor Manhet, "you can deal with this matter, and don't neglect the guests who have come from afar." ”
"Yes, Dean!" Professor Manhet nodded, then smiled politely at Professor Hord and Abel, and turned to leave.
As soon as Professor Mancht left, Abel couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter?"
"It's not a big deal," I saw that the old dean was accustomed to walking to the huge glass window, looking down at the students frolicking in the garden outside the castle, and said with a smile, "Salonia and our Reox, the students of the two magic academies, exchanged experience and scholarship, originally just to hide people's eyes, but now...... If Salonia wants to win, we can't lose Reokes...... Otherwise, it won't sound good to say, those old Salonian fellows like to exaggerate the facts, and if we lose, then it's troublesome......" As he spoke, he seemed to think of something, turned to Professor Hod, and said, "Don't mention this matter first, Hod, you go and prepare for the assessment in a few days......"
"The assessment will be in a few days, so urgent?" Professor Hodd seemed to think of something, and his expression looked a little strange.
"Time is tight," the old dean turned around as he bit his pipe, glanced at Abel, and then said to Professor Hodd, "I thought four days back and forth would be enough, but who would have thought ......?"
"What's the matter?" Before Professor Hodd could speak, Abel retorted dissatisfiedly, "You left me at Vanderle in the first place, and you haven't come to see me once in ten years, and now let me come back, how can it be so good?"
"Okay, okay," the old dean shook his head helplessly about his granddaughter's complaint, and then said to Professor Huo De, "Okay, okay, I'll talk about this later, Huo De, you go and prepare first......
"It's ...... later," Abel muttered indignantly, then looked at Professor Hodd, stuck out his tongue, and said, "That...... I'm going to be a professor at Reochs from now on, right?"
"Well...... looking at Abel's expectant gaze, the old dean looked a little embarrassed, frowned and shook his head and said, "You just arrived at Reoks, if you are appointed as a professor now, it will not be ......"
"What's so bad?!"
"This ......" Looking at his stubborn granddaughter, the old dean was a little embarrassed, pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled, "In this way, you will be an assistant professor for a while, Huo De, you can help take care of it, Abel, if you encounter any problems, you can ask Huo De, he is the professor who knows Reoks best......"
"Of course," Abel blushed with shame at his subconscious words, and then snorted twice, pretending to be reluctant, "Assistant Professor...... Okay, assistant professor is assistant professor......" he said, sneaking a glance at Professor Hud.
I saw Professor Huo De's face embarrassed and embarrassed, and said, "Dean, this is not good, this is ...... in Reox."
Before the old dean could speak, Abel suddenly sank his face and said with a little anger, "Hodd Kendi, you tell me clearly, what's wrong with Reox?"
Looking at Abel's menacing appearance, Professor Hodd shook his head again and again, stammering, "No...... Nothing bad ......."
"Humph!"
"Hehe, okay, okay, let's just decide, Huo De, you have to work hard......" Ignoring Professor Huo De's eyes for help, the old dean said with a smile.
"Yes......"
Looking at the unforgiving Abel, and the helpless Professor Hud, the old dean's face was full of smiles, and after smiling and sending the two away, he slowly walked to the window, looked down at the students in the garden kindly, and muttered, "It's only been four years...... Alas!"
And at the same time, in Jiang Zhe's dormitory.
After a week-long absence, this dormitory became lively again, especially when Lisa and Lerella, who came over after learning that Jiang Zhe and the others had returned, saw those chess puppets, not to mention the envy and love in their eyes.
The most showy is naturally Lavia's queen puppet Quin, because she is the most beautiful of all the chess pieces, but her temper seems to be very bad, except for Lavia, she is arrogant to everyone, and she ignores her...... Of course, when looking at Jiang Zhe, Kun Yin was still a little afraid.
The other chess pieces were much kinder, at least when Lisa teased the castle puppet Kanso, she didn't see how the little one was, but accepted Lisa's touch with a look of enjoyment.
Out of inexplicable feelings for Scott, Lyrela did not dare to treat the knight puppet Nate like Lisa, but looked at it quietly and with curious eyes, in her opinion, the knight puppet was like a copy of Scott, silent, cold, but humble and polite.
As Professor Wellman of Vanderle said, these chess puppets carefully crafted by the famous alchemist Professor Gerlbut, all have some unusual characteristics, one of which is that they are not 'dead' puppets, they are 'alive' and have life.
When the initial contract is formed, the energy that the puppets rely on to survive is sustained by the constant flow of magic from their masters, and unless they break the energy blocks in their bodies called cores, they can exist in this world forever, of course, provided that the owners still survive.
Now the little ones don't know that these puppets made by the old professor of Jelbat on a whim are not different from the puppet-making technology of the current world, but adopt a technique found in ancient ruins.
Legend has it that tens of thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years ago, perhaps even the gods had not discovered this continent, in this world, there were many kinds of racial civilizations from time to time, and now, tens of thousands of years later, their whereabouts have been covered by history, leaving only some secret unknown ancient ruins, and among these civilization races, there has been a high degree of mechanical civilization, and magicians call this highly intelligent race [Meikande].
It is far more ancient than the orcs and elves, and until now, the magicians still have a vague concept of the Mekands, and some magicians even doubt whether this intelligent race really appeared in history, after all, the gods are almost a shackle in the hearts of all magicians, and they subconsciously believe that the gods are the earliest visitors to this world.
According to the ancient stone tablets in the ruins, the people of Mekander did not make puppets for fun, they were right to start a war with the enemy, and they called the puppets the giant god soldiers, and their positioning of the puppets was a weapon and a weapon to kill. I won't mention it here for now.
All in all, the old professor of the mage Tavander Deerbat made these puppets while studying the puppet drawings left behind by the people of Mikand, and in terms of the current puppet technology, it is difficult to find an alchemist who can compare with the old professor of Djerbat, and even if there are, there are only a few.
And these weapons, ah no, is the biggest feature of these puppets is that they will grow, and as the time they spend together, the puppets will gradually become surnames, and their surnames will gradually be biased towards the master, if a person with a bad heart gets these puppets, then the puppet's 'heart' will also become full of evil thoughts.
Hehe, it seems difficult to understand, but the fact is that this is the puppet-making technology that comes from one of the mysterious races in history, the mechanical civilization of Mekande.
Okay, let's get down to business, although Jiang Zhe also heard the words of the old professor Wellman, but he didn't think that these puppets would be able to help him or anything else in the future, not to mention anything else, just talk about the soldier Sojes, a little bit who can knock him down with one finger, what role can it play?
Seeing that little little guy holding a teapot that was bigger than himself and pouring a glass of water, and then holding the huge teacup to himself, Jiang Zhe was stunned and couldn't say a word.
That's it...... If you are idle in the future, you can tease it and relieve your boredom, you can't let him occupy his magic power in vain, right?, although it is only a little ......, "Where are they?" With the sound of footsteps, Professor Huo De showed his head at the door like a gust of wind, and said without panting, "Attention, the academy decided just now that the assessment of the history of ancient magic will be carried out in three days......"
"Three days?" Jiang Zhe almost squirted out the tea he had just drunk, looked at Professor Huo De and said incredulously, "Professor, you're not kidding, are you?
It can be seen that Professor Huo De doesn't seem to be in such a good mood now, he rolled his eyes and said, "This is not my decision, what is there to be dissatisfied, you tell the dean to go, take a good remorse......" As he spoke, he was about to turn around, as if he had thought of something, he glanced at Jiang Zhe a few times, nodded with his finger, and said meaningfully, "Although we haven't decided whether we will invigilate you this time, but your trick last time didn't work, you little guys, can you hide from the eyes of the professors of the academy? Be honest with me!"
"Yes...... yes" Jiang Zhe snorted weakly, looked up and was about to speak, but saw that behind Professor Hodd, Abel suddenly appeared and grinned at Jiang Zhe, and several little guys were dumbfounded.
"It's okay, I'll go first......" As if to escape something, Professor Hodd ran away, leaving only Abel with a dissatisfied look on his feet.
"Sister Abel?" Ravia called out in surprise as she looked at the light gray magical robes that only professors were wearing.
Abel grinned and said, "From tomorrow onwards, I will be your professor...... Assistant, if you run into me invigilating you, I'll let you go!"
"Really?" Jiang Zhe asked subconsciously.
But as soon as the words fell, she was interrupted by Lavia, who saw her glaring at Jiang Zhe fiercely, and then smiled at Abel and said, "It's okay, then thank you Sister Abel, but I think we can all pass it......"
"Yes," with a bit of meaning, Abel glanced at Lavia with a grin, and saw that the latter's little face was a little inexplicably crimson, and then, as if she had thought of something, she stomped her foot and said, "That bastard, don't wait for me...... Prepare yourselves, little ones!" she said, and walked away quickly.
As soon as Abel left, Alan's crying voice rang out.
"Oh my God, three days, how can these three days be enough?" As he spoke, he subconsciously turned to Scott, and was about to speak, as if he had thought of something, and turned to Jiang Zhe unnaturally, and said, "Yes, man?"
"Three days ......" Jiang Zhe pondered, then shook his head and said, "It's really not enough ......."
"Could it be that you still imagine the last time?" Rolling her eyes and looking at Jiang Zhe and shaking her head, Lavia made a silent calculation in her heart, and said softly, "Although it is a bit rushed, if you just memorize some knowledge of key surnames, it should be enough......"
As soon as the words fell, there was another rush of footsteps outside the door, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see Professor Huo De holding the door, panting slightly and saying, "I forgot to say just now, today at the earliest, tomorrow at the latest, there will be some students in Salonia who will come to our academy to observe, don't be too embarrassed then, you know?"
Listening to Professor Hodd's words, Alan blinked his eyes and said, "Professor, if you don't pass the assessment of the history of magic, is it a shame?"
"What do you say?" Professor Huo De glanced at Jiang Zhe with a smirk.
Alan said, what do you think I'm doing? Even after Professor Huo De left, Jiang Zhe still felt a little depressed.
"There's no way," Allen showed an expression of painful choice, looked at Jiang Zhe and shook his head in a serious voice, and said in a deep voice, "Man, there is no way, only to use that trick!"
"That move?" Jiang Zhe was stunned, then seemed to think of something, turned his head to look at Scott, but saw the latter holding a teacup, and shook his head helplessly.
"Which move?" Looking at Allen, who was smiling, and then at Jiang Zhe, who was suddenly surprised, Lavia asked curiously.
Then, when Jiang Zhe hesitated to tell Lavia about the incident, a suppressed scream suddenly sounded in the room.
"No! Absolutely not! How can you do that?!"
"Don't, don't, shhh," Ghost Chongchong walked to the door and looked out, Alan closed the door, then turned around, shrugged and said, "You saw it too, isn't there no way?"
"No!" Lavia shook her head again and again, then looked at Jiang Zhe, and said seriously, "Soth, I absolutely disagree!"
As soon as Lavia finished speaking, Lisa also persuaded, "Alan, Lavia is right, this is really not good, otherwise, I will help you with tutoring, as long as you don't think my grades are ...... bad."
"How can that be?" said Alan with a gentlemanly shake of his head, a little distressed, "it will wear you out, Lisa......"
"Hee-hee!" Lisa looked down shyly.
Taking advantage of this time, Alan turned his head and said to Jiang Zhe, "How is it, buddy?"
Before Jiang Zhe could speak, Laivia stood up, propped his hands on the long table, looked at Jiang Zhe and said solemnly, "I don't agree, Soth!
Looking up at Lavia's eyes, looking at her strong eyes, Jiang Zhe felt a little uncomfortable, and retorted, "Do I need your consent to do anything?"
"You!" Lavia's face turned red suddenly, and she didn't know if she was angry or for other reasons, she gritted her teeth and said hatefully, "I...... I...... If you dare to do that, I'm going to report you!"
"That's okay!" "Okay!" walked over and sat down at the long table, Alan said with a nonchalant face, "Anyway, some people just don't have a backache when they stand and talk, just report it, it's best, let's deduct some credits or something, or just expel me directly, I can also go to the Royal Knight Academy as soon as possible......" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Jiang Zhe, and said, "Let's go together?"
As soon as Allen's words fell, Lisa was anxious, and said anxiously, "Don't say that, Alan!"
"Yes, yes...... But if that's the case, then I can't help it......"
As soon as the words fell, I heard Lavia say in an inexplicable tone, "Don't talk nonsense, how could the academy expel you for such a trivial matter......"
I saw Alan raise his head and say strangely, "That's not for sure!" As he spoke, he paused, looked at Lavia and said angrily, "Then again, you said that this is a trivial matter, why do you keep worrying? You have too much control, right?"
"I ...... Who's going to care about you......"
"Well, you should act as if you don't know anything......"
"But...... But this kind of thing ......" Shaking her head, Lavia turned her head to look at Jiang Zhe and said in a low voice, "I can help you, don't you have to use this method?"
Looking at the worry in her eyes, Jiang Zhe couldn't bear to say anything more about her, but he said angrily, "Three days, eldest sister, you try?"
"What are you calling nonsense?" Lavia was slightly amused by Jiang Zhe's strange expression, snorted lowly, and after thinking for a long time, she slowly shook her head and said, "Three days is indeed a bit rushed, but this kind of thing ...... Well, even if I don't object, do you know where your papers are?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Alan grin and say, "Hehe, don't say it, we really know!
"Huh?" Lavia stammered, dumbfounded, "but...... But...... Oh, by the way, it's rumored that there are forbidden enchantments, guardian beasts or something, and magic golems......"
"Okay, okay, I'm still a synthetic beast!" Allen shrugged his shoulders with a smile, then looked at Scott and Jiang Zhe, and said in a low voice, "Tonight, if it's not clear, how about it?"
In Lavia's embarrassed eyes, Jiang Zhe shook his head and said, "That's not good, it's easy to be discovered too early, and it will be troublesome if it is discovered, just the day before the exam......"
"Refreshing!" Alan snapped his fingers with a grin, and then glanced at Scott, only to see Scott shaking his head helplessly, holding the teacup and saying lightly, "You decide, I have no opinion!"
"That's it," Alan nodded in style, then turned his head to look at Lavia, only to see Lavia glaring at Jiang Zhe angrily, stomping his feet and saying hatefully, "Don't come to ask me, I don't know anything!"
"Then it's decided!" Glancing at everyone in the room, Alan lowered his voice and said with a grin, "The time is in the evening of two days......"
When he said this, neither Allen nor Jiang Zhe, nor anyone else, did not notice that everything that happened in this room was presented in a crystal ball...... "It's not a small guts, and you still want to steal the test papers, hehehe......" Looking at Alan in the crystal ball and saying something with a solemn face, the old dean seemed to be smiling happily.
Compared with the old dean's smile, Professor Huo De said angrily, "I know that these little ghosts are not so worry-free!"
"There's nothing wrong with that, the school rules don't stipulate that you can't steal exam papers," said the old dean after a pause, and said with a smile, "Our teaching purpose is not to educate students who can only cope with exams...... As long as these little guys can get it, what if they give it to them?"
"The dean means ......"
I saw the old dean staring at the crystal ball, and said with a smile, "These three little guys are very interesting, especially the little guy named Soth, maybe they will become unbelievable characters in the future, but before that, let's teach them a lesson: as a qualified magician, you need to always check your true strength, blindness, impulsiveness, and recklessness are not advisable......!
"Yes, Dean......"
(To be continued)