Chapter 20: The Shepherd
Today he saw that Bird had finished meditating and then walked to the river, so he secretly followed as usual, and another afternoon passed, and this Bird really swam in the river for an afternoon, and occasionally went ashore to write and draw and mutter.
Therefore, seeing that Bird didn't notice him at this time, he planned to secretly scare Bird, and then quickly ran back to the academy. The last time Bird teased the two of them, he was thrown into the river by Mia, and Mia was relieved, but he didn't, so the big pebble was thrown at Bird's head.
Seeing that his plan was about to succeed, Bird suddenly got into the water, and the big boulder made a splash and then disappeared, just when Nishizawa was surprised, two huge river fish were thrown out of the water, "Let you take the opportunity to sneak up on me!" The two fish flew straight towards where Nishizawa was.
With two clicks, Nishizawa was directly knocked down by the two big fish, covered with the smell of fish and the slime on the fish, and the two fish landed in front of Nishizawa, still flapping their wings. Nishizawa was completely frightened by Bird just now, and when he heard Bird say the word sneak attack, he thought that his plan had been discovered, and before he could react, the two fish were thrown up.
"Hey, why are you standing here?" Nishizawa knew as soon as he heard that he was frightened by Bird just now and rushed into the air, but as soon as he thought that he had been waiting for him here for a long time, Bird would definitely suspect that if this was his own, he would not have much chance to take revenge, so he immediately smiled and said, "I just came over casually, what a coincidence" "Those two big fish didn't throw them at you, those two big fish just took advantage of my swimming time to take the opportunity to drag me into the water, I am not one of those ignorant beasts in the forest." Just now, when they were attacking me, I was quick to react, and I was clever and clever...... "Dean Bird, I still have to go beforehand. Nishizawa smelled the fishy smell on his body getting stronger and stronger, and the sticky substance slowly condensed, and he couldn't help but say goodbye to Bird and go back to change clothes.
"Nishizawa, don't go, I'm going to have a good meal of grilled fish here, we haven't opened meat for a long time since the centaurs came...... Haha" Bird laughed when he saw that Nishizawa was gone. Although he didn't have Nishizawa's strong skills, but with the experience of his previous life, he could still tell that someone was secretly hiding aside, because all the birds there were flying, and for Nishizawa, he didn't know that such a small thing exposed him. In the case that Bird's mana is not as high as his, he really thought that Bird was careless.
When Nishizawa was just preparing to attack Bird, Bird had seen it clearly, and now he saw that he had successfully counterattacked, and he was pretending to be stupid to make Nishizawa suffer a loss, and he slowly swam ashore to find firewood and prepare a grilled fish, he was really happy today, haha.
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"Dean, there's a shepherd outside" "Dean Bird, is something going on?" some of the centaurs looked at Bird worriedly. Bird had just finished his class at this time, and was answering various questions for some of the people. Bird was also aware of the worries of these centaurs, and the presence of the Tree Herders was often a symbol of trouble, and the Tree Shepherds were a reclusive race that lived with trees all their lives, and would turn into a tree even after death. Tree herders often appear in areas where the trees are barren and heavily felled, and they claim to have heard the cries of the trees and come to punish the world in their place. So their presence often means that you have messed with the shepherd.
Bird thought to himself, could it be that his recent large-scale expansion of the school has attracted the attention of the herdsmen? No, the former dean made an agreement with these herdsmen at the beginning of the establishment of the school, that his college will never take the initiative to make enemies of the herdsmen, and that he will use stone buildings as much as possible and not destroy the jungle on a large scale. Could it be that he is really in some kind of trouble? Could it be the matter of those corpse floating belts! Bird hurriedly called the messenger to lead the way.
Bird saw the shepherd from afar, with a pair of antlers covered with strange patterns on his head, a worn-out wooden mask on his face, a robe made of tree bark, and a long stick of various colors in his hand. There are many legends about the shepherds, such as the antlers on their heads that can condemn life and death, the long sticks in their hands to drive away trees, and the bark robes on their bodies that can rejuvenate people, and the most bizarre legend is that when you take off the mask on the face of the shepherd, you can see your future destiny.
Bird had also asked the former dean about these legends, and the former dean had said that he had heard of them before, and he had always doubted whether they were true or not. Until one time, a hunting party of high-ranking wizards caught a tree herder, and they traveled to a wizarding city to invite the whole city to identify the legends. Together, they cut off the shepherd's antlers and decided the life and death of the enemy, but to no avail. They took the stick away and drove away the trees, but it was no longer working. When they plucked the bark robe from the tree shepherd, something terrible happened, and all those who touched the bark robe became half-tree people, and they grew flowers and fruits.
When they were frightened, they took off the mask on the shepherd's face, and they didn't know if it had any effect on being able to see their future fate, because the moment the mask was removed, everyone died and turned into trees, and the entire wizarding city turned into a primeval jungle, a symbol of the shepherd's eternal warning to the offender. Since then, no one has ever questioned whether these legends are correct or not. The first is that the shepherd is difficult to catch, and the second is that there are too many unknown dangers.
The shepherd saluted Bird in a wizard's salute, and Bird was slightly surprised, it seemed that the shepherd did not live in isolation as he imagined. "Hello Dean Bird, I'm Antoine, and I've received your invitation to take up a professorship at Valle Riverland College" After speaking, he took out a letter, and the envelope read "Monsieur Antoine Kai" , and then the content of the letter was directly written about Bird and the college's self-introduction, and then invited Antoine, the shepherd, to go to Valle Riverland College as a professor, and attached Bird's handwritten front and personal dynamic avatar pattern, the pattern of Bird was smiling stupidly, turning the back of the letter paper over to the words Valle Riverland College.