After eating, Jiang Qiao locked the door and closed the curtains to prevent being discovered.

He didn't care if someone else found out about magic or something, after all, who would believe it? What he cares about is being arrested and hospitalized as mentally ill, which is really unreasonable.

Jiang Qiao moved everything depicting the magic array to his small backyard.

The backyard is covered with aluminum and steel plates, so outsiders can't see the situation inside.

A bottle of pure water, a brush, a bowl, and the bottle of medicinal powder are all the tools of Jiangqiao.

Pour an appropriate amount of medicinal powder into the bowl first, and then add water and stir little by little until the medicinal powder becomes a delicate and particle-free homogenate, which is considered the first step of processing.

Although there was no technical content in this, Ehashi was still very cautious, and only put a tenth of the amount of the entire bottle of medicinal powder, which was about enough to depict two magic arrays.

Pick up the brush, dip it in enough homogenate, and follow the drawings given by Sylvie to draw a pattern that has real effect.

There were about five or six magic arrays on that drawing, all of which were the basic magic of some main elements.

Such as ignition, fireball, condensation, arc magic, and so on.

The first thing Jiang Qiao wanted to experiment with was the technique of ignition.

The shape of the magic array was similar to what he had imagined, with two circles with overlapping centers and different radii on the periphery, and a six-pointed star connected to the circle inside.

One of the corners of the six-pointed star is painted with a pattern representing the sun and the moon.

This pattern is about the size of half of the body of Jiangqiao, and the amount of work cannot be underestimated.

Jiang Qiao first used a marker and ruler to draw the basic appearance of the magic array on the ground, and then reproduced it with a brush dipped in homogenization.

In this way, the error will not be too large.

Finally, three small flames were placed in the center of the circle, and you were done.

Jiang Qiao looked at his work and was quite satisfied. The homogenate made of medicinal powder seems to have a fluorescent effect, and the overall blue six-pointed star array glows slightly in the night.

Sylvi said that the magic circle was actually an altar-like thing, and the medicinal powder was a sacrifice.

Exchange sacrifices with elemental spirits in nature for the magical effects you want.

If you want to make an exchange, you must first communicate with the elves......

Jiang Qiao carefully recalled what Sylvie had said, and he took out a notebook from his arms and found a series of pinyin notes he had memorized on it.

It was a spell given to him by Sylvie, an ancient elven language that had not been translated. The general idea is like: Elves, uncle has delicious food, after eating, help uncle do uncle a favor.

It seems a bit obscene......

Jiang Qiao put those tools aside, and after reading them silently in his mind a few times, he finally memorized the pronunciation of this sentence.

Then, it's the first attempt.

The night was like ink, and the world under the street lamps was quiet and clean, and no other sound could be heard except for a few barking dogs.

However, if someone approaches the backyard of Ebashi's house and listens carefully, they can still hear a series of strange notes, as if someone is singing an unknown song.

The spell was not long, and it probably took less than five seconds to recite it.

Suddenly, the magic array lit up with a shining light.

At the same time, Ebashi felt that the temperature in this small space was slowly rising, as if it had suddenly returned to the height of summer at 40 degrees from autumn.

In the air, it was as if something invisible was watching him.

It's coming, Jiang Qiao watched all this with excitement.

"Where do I need to unleash the Igniter?" Telepathically, an inexplicable voice sounded in his heart.

He focused his gaze on a pile of leaves by the wall, silently chanting "start the fire."

"Wow!"

Suddenly, flames tens of centimeters high rose from the pile of leaves, burning violently.

At that moment, Jiang Qiao knew that he had succeeded.

……

The other side. It was another ordinary morning.

"Your Highness Sylvie, get up and dine." Miley, the maid, stops in front of Sylvie's room with a food cart.

No one responded, strange that His Highness usually gets up early...... Miley pressed her doubts and knocked softly on the door:

"Your Highness Sylvie, it's time to dine, today with your favorite jam and smoked ham sausage."

"Got it, Miley, you leave it at the door, I'...... I'll eat it later. ”

A weak, hazy voice came from the room, and it didn't seem like he had woken up yet.

Your Highness is really ...... Miley reluctantly left the silver plate at the door and pushed the food cart away.

After an unknown amount of time, Sylvie lifted the goose down quilt from her body, opened the door with dark circles under her eyes, and brought breakfast into the room.

Last night, after Jiang Qiao left, there were signs that the light door was closing quickly, and she pushed the bottle of medicine powder and drawings out in time.

After the light gate disappeared, the chemistry textbook really returned to the way Sylvie couldn't read.

But that didn't stop her from having a fire in her heart.

Sylvie decided to write a paper on what she had memorized from that book, which she would publish in the Annals of Magic.

After a night of hard work, Sylvie finally completed a word count of ...... A five-hundred-word paper, then snuck out of the palace and delivered it to the secret residence of the Magic Council in Floating City.

Even though the kingdom ostensibly prohibits magic and promotes it among the people, some magical items used in life cannot be banned.

Therefore, they also turned a blind eye to the establishment of a residence for the Magic Council.

Sneaking back to the royal city, it was already the second half of the night. That's why we have today's exhausted Sylvie.

After all, there are only a few short sentences, and it is really embarrassing to let her out a few hundred words. Luckily, the Almanac of Magic doesn't have a word count.

I hope that 500-word essay ...... Oh no, the paper was able to pass the review of the Magic Council.

Sylvie took a bite of half of the smoked ham sandwich, and the thick cheese, sweet and sour tomatoes, and salty ham exploded on her taste buds.

"That would have been news that would have shocked the whole of Parisia." Sylvie chewed on the sandwich like a fruit-chewing squirrel, "just like this sandwich." ”

……

Cecil came to his office early, as the Archmage of the Water Elemental who stood at the top of the continent and was also one of the reviewers of the Magic Yearbook, he was always so diligent.

Cecil had been in this position for too long, and at the same time had not tasted progress, and in the realm of water elemental magic, he felt a terrifying sense of condensation.

So, he served as a reviewer for the Magical Yearbook, just to find a feeling in these papers that would make him throb.

But over the years, apart from a few small surprises, nothing else.

As usual, he took out the magic crystal ball used to deliver the letters from the drawer, and with a wave of his big hand on the crystal ball, the letters in the sky fell like snowflakes and landed on the table.

"Space magic is really magical." While waiting for the letter to be delivered, Cecil sighed.

All it takes is a small crystal ball for letters from every corner of the continent to reach this room, and there is no need for a postman to trek through mountains and rivers.

And this technology has only been around for less than a decade.

Cecil had witnessed the creation of this technology, and its theory came from a paper in the Annals of Magic.

He recalls his experience and even now remembers how sensational the paper was.

It is hard to believe that the treatise, entitled "On the Cartesian Coordinate System of Space", was written by a mage's apprentice who was less than twenty years old......

He became famous, received by almost every king, and made as much money in the magical industry as a treatise on the amount of taxes collected by a small country each year.

Then, the young magician was so proud that he was kidnapped and killed by a vicious high-ranking magician.

And he only left such a paper.

It's a pity, I thought I had witnessed the birth of another legend...... Cecil's mind returned to reality, and all the letters he had to deal with had been delivered.

With a wave of his robe, the mountain of letters opened automatically, lined up neatly.

Then he picked up a letter and looked at it slowly.

......

On the first day after the holiday, Jiang Qiao carried a heavy schoolbag, squeezed through the subway after subway, and finally arrived at the school.

The school is located in another district, about 20 minutes by subway from his house.

The entrance of the school is full of people, not only students, teachers and parents, but also vendors selling all kinds of breakfast.

They greeted the students while looking around in case the chengguan suddenly attacked.

"Boss, let's have an egg scramble and add sausages." Jiang Qiao walked to one of the stalls and said.

"Okay, seven bucks."

Jiang Qiao frowned, it was more expensive than before, but he still took out seven yuan from his pocket and handed it over.

Just as he took the finished egg scones, a pair of fat hands suddenly slapped him on the shoulder.

Jiang Qiao looked back, and a little fat man with round inches and glasses was looking at him with a lewd smile:

"I'm super, what a coincidence, big brother...... I'm super, big brother, why are your dark circles so heavy? ”

Jiang Qiao did more than ten magic experiments last night, and directly used most of the bottle of medicinal powder.

Nearly half of the more than a dozen experiments failed. Maybe the elemental conditions couldn't be met, or maybe the elves didn't pay attention to him at all.

After the experiment, he didn't go to bed until two o'clock in the middle of the night, so he came to school today with a dark circle under his eyes.

Thankfully, though, he already has the ability to perform the Pyrotechnic and Hydration Techniques.

As for the fireball technique and the arc technique, I tried twice in a row and failed.

……

The two walked side by side on the road to the teaching building, Jiang Qiao was eating egg scones while listening to the little fat man next to him talking.

"Alas! Big brother, I'm afraid you don't know yet, I have seen through the world, escaped into the empty door, and never asked Hongchen again. The little fat man's sad eyes looked like he had just ended a relationship.

Jiang Qiao was puzzled: "Listen, are you out of love?" No, haven't you never been in a relationship? ”

The little fat man was anxious: "What, isn't a crush considered love?" ”

Jiang Qiao almost didn't choke.

"Alas! The eldest brother ...... "The little fat man wants to speak again."

Jiang Qiao said speechlessly: "How many times have you said it, don't call me big brother, you put this aside as a gangster."

"Okay, Boss......"

"Good guy, is this an upgrade to the underworld?"

"That'...... Leader?"

"...... Don't splash my blood. ”

……

The two talked as they walked, and after a while, they walked to the bottom of the teaching building.

Their classroom was on the second floor, and the two of them habitually looked up, and there were a bunch of reciting classmates standing in the corridor, and a woman who looked like she was twenty-seven or eighteen years old looking down with a smile:

"Jiangqiao, Zhoucheng...... You're so early. ”

The little fat man Zhou Cheng shuddered, looked at his watch and then at the teacher, and barely squeezed out a smile: "Hehe...... Teacher, isn't there still a minute left to read early? ”

Li Wan's face instantly turned from sunny to cloudy: "You still know!" If you don't hurry up, you will be punished for running around the playground if you are a second late! ”

When Zhou Cheng heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled up.

Jiang Qiao wanted to say something, but he saw Li Wan staring at him viciously, and he had to trot all the way to the second floor.

Li Wan was waiting for them at the door of the classroom with her hands on her hips.

Zhou Cheng arrived first, and Li Wan waved his hand and motioned for him to enter the classroom.

Jiang Qiao wanted to follow in, but was stopped by Li Wan.

"Jiang Qiao, you wait first."

"Uh, what's wrong, teacher?"

"Jiangqiao-san, have you forgotten something?" Li Wan looked at him with a smile again.

To be honest, Jiang Qiao is most afraid of this kind of woman with a gentle face but a belly of anger, and you don't know when she fell into their trap.

Jiang Qiao thought for a while: "Teacher, I really don't know, just say anything you have to do." ”

Li Wan rolled her eyes: "Jiangqiao, Jiangqiao, what are you asking me to say about you, what you told you yesterday morning, you just forgot about it?" ”

"Oh-" Jiang Qiao suddenly said, "The teacher said let me bring the textbook, right?" ”

He took off his bag and pulled out a set of chemistry textbooks inside.

"What the teacher told me, how dare I forget."

"Count you boy as trustworthy." Li Wan took the textbook, "Okay, you go back, I'm calling you over for something." ”

"Huh? Anything else? Jiang Qiao's face collapsed instantly.

……

"On the idea of the application of water elemental magic in the future...... Good angle, but a bit impractical"

"Discussion on the reaction of the elements of water and fire...... Boring subject. ”

"On the hobby of the water elemental elves...... What kind of weird paper is this?"

Alas, the Magic Yearbook is really worse than the year...... Cecil put down the paper in his hand and rubbed his eyes.

Is the path of magic coming to an end...... He worries that the quality of papers in recent years has not been good.

Young magicians are generally moving closer to power and money...... No, it's not young people, it's society as a whole.

If this continues, maybe the magic will disappear.

He looked out the window, and the bustling scene of the City of Progress was in front of him, where the crystallization of magic technology was fully displayed.

The road is tortuous, but the future is certainly bright. He tried to comfort himself and continued to review the paper.

He was not satisfied with two or three articles in a row, and was about to take a break when he saw a paper on the side of the table:

"On the Elementary Particle Composition of the Water Element."

"Author: Little Bear loves gummies."

Last Revised ......

The paper that was written only yesterday dared to take such a grand title?

It seemed that it was another hydrograph, and Cecil glanced at the first line with some amusement.

But it was this first line that made him murmur to himself for a long time.

"The element is not the smallest unit of nature, and under it there are even smaller particles, which we might as well call atoms."