Volume 1 The Scourge of Witchcraft and the Enemies of a Thousand Years Ago Chapter 41 The Gatekeeper and the Pass

Seeing that the castle had moved from their right to their right, the carriage suddenly turned a corner at a junction in front of them and ran straight east—they were up the cliff.

The cliff was paved with stone bricks all the way, the slope was not very steep, and it was not too wide, barely enough for two carriages to move side by side, and they could clearly feel that the carriage was slowing down.

When they looked ahead, they saw that they could not see the castle gate at all, and realized that the cliff did not extend straight to the east, but turned north at the end, like a lying down capital "L".

Although they could not see the gate, they could see a spired tower at the back of the castle and the tallest building in the entire castle. It was inlaid on all sides with a huge clock, which showed that the time was close to half past six in the evening.

They tried to get there as quickly as possible, but the two unicorns were indifferent to Rare's orders, and staggered for ten minutes before finally reaching the castle gates.

When they arrived, they realized how magnificent the castle really was: the gate alone was nearly thirty meters high, and there were no doors, so that Alan had the illusion that the school was built for giants; almost all the walls were made of granite, two meters long and about one meter wide, and these gray-white boulders were arranged in order to look neat, and the most surprising thing for Allen was that although the castle looked old- It's at least five hundred years old, but there isn't even a crack in all the stone surfaces as far as the eye can see! Alan didn't know what kind of magic he had to apply to maintain it so perfectly, because the wind and rain alone was enough to make the walls uneven.

"Isn't it always windy and rainy in Krivari?" Alan couldn't help but think. But the next second he burst out laughing to himself, because he also realized that the idea was stupid.

At this time, the carriage stopped at the door, and they also hurried out of the carriage.

"Hey, where did you guys come from?" asked Allen, as soon as they got out of the carriage, a hunchbacked man limped over from the side of the doorway.

"Uh...... Beya. By the light of the two dim magic lamps in the doorway, Alan could see his face clearly, and his heart was a little frightened.

He looked to be in his forties, with messy hair, stubble, a vicious look, and many scars on his face. The clothes on his body looked dirty, which reminded Alan of Old Storey, the janitor of Beiya's Basic School of Magic, but Old Storey was just drinking heavily all day, and there was nothing wrong with his legs.

"Is that the school janitor like that?" Riel thought to himself, too, feeling a bit like old Storey.

"Where's Beya?" the hunchbacked man glanced back and forth with his cloudy little eyes, and then stared at Alan in a way that made Alan feel uncomfortable.

"It's just to the southwest of here, after crossing the rebuilt bridge, and going a long way southwest...... Uh, a very small town. ”

"Where's your acceptance letter?"

"Here. Alan said, handing him his acceptance letter. Riel and Alyssa quickly took out their own and handed it to him.

The hunchbacked man squinted at them by the light for a long time, then looked at them more closely, and the expression on his face relaxed: "Why are you so late?"

"Because we ran into a werewolf on the road, and chased us for so long that we ran back a long way......," Riel said.

"Ridiculous! Lie!" the hunchbacked man interrupted him, looking a little agitated, "Werewolf, werewolf is already dead!"

"Uh...... Don't be angry, it's him who is sleeping. In fact, there was an accident on the road, when passing through a mountainous area, it rained heavily, the ground was muddy, and the unicorn walked quite slowly, so it was delayed. Alan hastened to explain, motioning for Riel to change his tune.

Riel understood: "Mm-hmm, probably I fell asleep...... I slept all the way and had nightmares all the time......"

The hunchbacked man began to pace back and forth when he heard this, and after a while he seemed to be barely breathless, and said, "I'm Roots, the gatekeeper here." You can go in now, the first building you see when you enter the door is the auditorium, and the welcome dinner should have started now, in the ballroom on the first floor. ”

"Thank you!" the three of them immediately ran to the door as soon as they heard this, they didn't want to miss the first party of school.

"But before you go in, remember to put your hand on the little black brick on the wall on the right, count three times and let go. "As soon as they ran to the door, they heard Roots add in the back.

Rare didn't know why he did it, and he didn't have time to ask why, but as soon as he heard the word "dinner", all he wanted was not to miss a bite of food, so he ran towards the door. But as soon as he stepped into the door with one foot, he only heard a "bang", and he didn't know what he hit on it, and he fell to the ground, and his nosebleed came out.

"Oh, something!" Riel got up from the ground, one hand over his nose and the other fumbling in the air. He found that there seemed to be an invisible wall in the seemingly empty gate, and he just hit his head against this wall.

"Hey, do you have paste in your head, do you like to use heads and stones to be harder than anyone else?, or have you ever seen someone whose door has no door?" Roots sneered fiercely from behind.

Riel had nothing to say, because it was really not Roots' responsibility, so he had to cover his nose and admit that he was unlucky.

"Probably similar to the enchantment magic used by Mr. Adrian. Alan touched it as well, and then he did as Roots had just said, and put his hand on the black brick, which was much smaller than the other stones.

"One, two, three. He counted three times in his mind, and then he felt that some of the magic power in his body was sucked away, and the bricks suddenly flashed and turned red.

"Looks like you should be able to get in now. Alan cautiously felt the air again, and found that the barrier seemed to be gone, so he walked inside.

When Rare saw Eren walk in, he thought he was completely fine, so he quickly followed. But what he never expected was that they both stepped into the school gate at the same time, and Alan was able to enter smoothly, but he hit the transparent wall again......

"What the hell, why is it only you who can go in!" Riel was lying on the ground and didn't want to get up, just hit his nose just now, and even his eye sockets were swollen.

Alan was also a little puzzled, obviously he had already come in.

"May I warn you, this barrier is harder than granite! I've really never seen anyone as stupid as you! Don't you even know the magic magnet?, how the hell did you get into Krivari?" Roots' sneer came from behind, leaving Riel a little embarrassed.

Hearing Roots say this, Alan looked to the other side of the doorway and saw that there was another black brick at the same height. He asked Alyssa to reach out and touch the inside of the door frame, and Alyssa said that she could also touch the enchantment that was still there. Alan then understood why Roots had asked them to touch the brick first.

Alan had read in the book that this enchantment was a perpetual magic. It is opened by the mana stored in the two magic magnets, and the mana circulates back and forth in it, only injecting and not flowing out, and its hardness increases with each bit of mana injected. And because they have the nature of absorbing magic power, thinking that they were sent here with some of the magic power collected before, some of them must have been injected into it as a mark, and the little magic power that has been sucked away now is probably used to check their identity. In other words, this is equivalent to a pass, and it is naturally impossible for Arrail to think about it without verification.

So Alan motioned for Alyssa to do the same.

Sure enough, Alyssa put her hand on the magic magnet and counted it three times in her heart, it turned red again, and she entered the door smoothly.

Riel finally learned to be obedient this time, and quickly got up from the ground and did what Alyssa did, and finally didn't get hit again.

They walked briskly to the inside of the school gate, which was well lit, with a street lamp lit almost every ten steps.

"If nothing else, I think we'll be the last freshmen to arrive. Alan looked back and said.

Riel and Alyssa also looked behind them, and saw that the carriage that had brought them had trotted all the way down the cliff. In the dim light behind them, Roots was the only one left.