Chapter 8: The Quest for Disciples (part 2 of 3)
As the sky gradually darkened, the centaur wizards returned one by one, and Nishizawa and the two crow guards had also returned to the academy at this time.
"Let's take a look at whether they're all back" Rook Corey followed Bird's instructions and counted the centaur wizards who had returned, because everyone was recovering their mana in the meditation room, so Corey counted quickly, and returned to Bird's side after a while.
"Five less," Rook Corey had just finished speaking, and two more centaur wizards returned to the academy under the leadership of Antoine the Wrangler, and with him came Erro.
Bird hurried forward.
"There are three wizards, do you have any news?" everyone shook their heads.
"Mia is still down there?" "Hmm"
Bird saw that it was getting late at this time, and he was really afraid that something would happen, and the flood was too strange today.
"You go and rest first, which of you two is in better shape?" Bird asked Antoine and Erro.
"My" Erro stepped forward.
"Okay, you come down with me to meet Mia, and the three of us will look for it together," Ero nodded in agreement.
At this time, someone behind Bird had already come up to meet Antoine and the others, and took everyone to rest.
"Dean, Opa and the others set out in that direction," one of the two returning centaur wizards pointed in the direction for Bird, and then stopped talking.
The centaur wizards were now exhausted, and Bird was too embarrassed to ask.
Hurriedly said, "I know", and then asked the others to take care of the horses, and the two of them jumped up from the edge of the cliff and fell straight down.
Bird flew halfway and directly put on his flying skills, slowed down his speed and then slowly landed on the ground, and at this time Erro had already joined Mia, when Erno jumped down from the mountain, Bird saw a lightning bolt flying quickly towards the ground.
Mia was standing on a large trunk of a thick tree overlooking the forest, trying to get the first glimpse of the returning centaur wizards.
"The other three centaurs are in that direction," Mia pointed in her own direction, just as the centaur had told Bird before, that position was already on the other side of the river.
"How are you now?" Bird asked Mia beside him, "I've been meditating one after another, and I'm okay."
Seeing that Mia was in good spirits at this time, Bird said that the three of them scattered in that direction to search.
Mia nodded in agreement.
"Remember not to be impulsive if you encounter something tricky, and hide if you can. Bird took out two crystal-shaped stones from his storage bag and divided them among the two of them, "This is the signal stone I bought in the Wizarding City before, if you are in trouble, crush or break it, we will naturally sense it." If all the Centaur wizards return safely, inject mana into them to turn green, and the rest of the situation will remain the same. ”
"Remember to bring the centaur back to this place once you find it, and don't go any further. Especially don't go deep into the forest, if you can walk against the shore, then on the shore" Bird remembered that he had met in the forest on the other side of the river, the leader of the forest sacrifice group, Phyllis, and the giant Heyman, and couldn't help but be a little worried.
Mia knew what Bird was worried about, as the former dean had also instructed him not to go to the forest on the other side. Erro, on the other hand, didn't know about it yet, so he just looked at Bird suspiciously, but when he saw Mia nodding, he also bowed his head slightly in agreement.
Thinking of this, Bird complained that he didn't expect the centaurs to stay away from the academy one day, so he never talked about the forest on the other side, so he made these centaurs actually run into the forest on the other side.
The three of them first rehearsed, in case they were too panicked or if they didn't understand that something was wrong, and the three of them went their separate ways after crossing the river.
Because Bird had already traveled upstream to the river when he was riding Rook Cory before, Bird's focus this time was to find the cause of the sudden rise of the water along the river, and he believed that those people who crossed the river must have done the same.
At this time, the river was overflowing, and the two banks were already full of mud, and Bird could only use the trees to keep jumping forward, and in some places there was only a mud swamp left, and all the vegetation on it had already been uprooted and washed away.
It was already completely dark, and unlike the usual shouting in the woods at night, it was unusually quiet tonight, and Bird could only hear his own jumping footsteps.
Every once in a while, Bird would choose to take a break, because the mana in his body needed to maintain a certain amount at all times, so as not to affect his ability to deal with emergencies.
Along the way, every once in a while Bird would pull out the signal stone and look at it, make sure it hadn't changed, and then put it away, but he always carried it with him and didn't put it in a storage bag.
Bird just jumped on a tree to rest for a while, and when he didn't have long to catch his breath, he felt the tree under his feet swing a little, and when Bird thought about it again, the tree suddenly fell to the ground with a great speed.
Bird hurriedly dodged at this time, but the muddy water splashed by the huge fallen trees still splashed Bird, directly turning Bird into a mud man. Bird quickly found a safe and secure position, summoned two water balls to wash off the muddy water all over his body, and then changed his clothes.
"What man!" Bird suddenly heard a scolding, and turned the spell in his hand into an already extremely proficient concealment technique.
At this time, Bird was hiding on a large branch, which was not too big for the one he had met Mia before.
"Come out quickly!" saw two men in brown linen robes appear in front of Bird's eyes.
'Wizard?' Bird looked at the two men in front of him curiously, but the movements of these two people along the way did not look like wizards with magical powers.
I saw the two of them running slowly to an open position, looking at the position of the tree that had just fallen, and shouting loudly as they watched.
"Come out, I see you" "Don't force me to use spells, I'm a wizard!" Bird didn't pay any attention to the two men.
The two shouted a few more times, but all they heard was the rustling of leaves, and there was no echo.
"Are you mistaken, it's just that the tree has an unstable foundation and has been washed down by the water?" "Is it?" one of them walked a few more steps forward to the tree, and looked back and forth a few more times.
At this moment, there was a sudden burst of birdsong among the fallen trees, and I saw several large white birds suddenly fly out of the dense branches of the fallen trees.
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PS: I thought that today's collection could be on 900, but I didn't expect to drop a few