In the college town, it's not yet noon.

Two mages who had traveled to the academy sat by the window of the restaurant chatting while drinking the "tea" prepared by the Ningshen flower, which was originally the ingredient for the Ningshen potion, and later there were better ones, so they were eliminated, and now they are mostly used to make tea, some like lemonade.

The town where the academy is located has a population of tens of thousands, but the teachers and students who belong to the academy add up to only a thousand, and most of them are mage apprentices, and more come to play, pilgrimage, do business, and audit, and trade. There are not many mages in the entire continent, so the exchange and trading between mages are very difficult, and slowly, all of them are concentrated near the academy, as well as Moshacher Island, where the Supreme Council is located, and the resources of the capitals of various countries are relatively concentrated, and there will be more mages. In the rest of the place, it is difficult to say whether there are multiple mages in total, so it is impossible to have a professional supply of magic materials.

You can't just do it for one customer. Therefore, the academy is actually a platform for communication between part-time mages, and these two mages are here to trade and visit by the way. After the teachers of the academy were attacked by the sea dragon this time, the academy blocked the lake, of course, it was only a nominal blockade, and those who had ideas could go by themselves, and making a wish was not blocked.

There were people who did go out on adventures in small boats, and nothing happened, but many more were not willing to take fearless risks. Many of the people who came to visit the trade left, and some people were idle and continued to stay here, and these two mages were the latter.

The academy has been nervous recently, in fact, the main reason is that the people below are nervous, and the two mages are a little bored, so they drink "tea" and chat in the restaurant.

"When did you say that the guard in this lake will be lifted, I would have liked to have a good time in the lake. Mage A said.

Master B said, "It shouldn't be too long, it's always blocking the lake, and the academy probably can't stand it." Now that the academy is in a hurry to build the clock tower, it should be that after the bell tower is built, it should concentrate on solving the dangers that may be hidden in the lake. ”

"I don't know when this clock tower will be built, but if we are in time, we can just join in the excitement, and maybe we can get some benefits. ”

"The academy won't let outsiders go with it, right?" said Fa B, a little confused.

Fa A said: "You can follow secretly, and the lake is so big, the academy must not have enough manpower, so you can't bring the apprentices with you, if there is really any danger, not only can you not help, but you also have to be distracted to protect them." I'm actually more curious about what the academy has to do to detect the demonic beasts at the bottom of the lake, there is a lake barrier, and it is not easy to find the hidden demonic beasts, and you can't expect the demonic beasts to show up on their own. ”

Mage B nodded: "Indeed, the lake water can greatly block spiritual power, even if you want to use mental power scanning, you can't scan too far away, and I don't know what method the academy will use." However, if the academy moved out of their headmaster, it would probably be much easier, he was a purple-robed mage. ”

After all, the water is not the home of humans, and the mage's conventional detection methods are not very effective, otherwise, it would not be so big A sea dragon has lived in the lake for so long without discovering it.

For a long time, human beings have explored many mountains and even space, but there is nothing they can do about the deep sea. Even in the wizarding world, Lake Taberina is the size of a small inland sea.

However, Mage A didn't quite agree with B's words: "Even if the headmaster makes a move, what can he do, after all, there is only one person, can he let him run the whole lake alone?" ”

Mage B nodded: "Yes, I don't know what they will do then, but the academy will always figure out a way." It's just that I don't know when this clock tower will be built. ”

After the construction of the clock tower, it means that it is time to put the monsters in the lake on the agenda.

"It should be soon. Mage A looked at the clock tower outside the window, and with the concerted efforts of the teachers and students of the academy, it has now been capped, "You see that the main body of the tower has been built, and it is still obsidian, it is really rich." ”

"Haha, you don't know. Mage B laughed, "I came early, so I know better, the main body is made of stone, not obsidian, and which layer of obsidian on the outside is just obsidian flakes pasted on." ”

"It's the same with the Academy. Mage A shook his head, he had always thought that only some people who couldn't afford to use obsidian would put a layer on the outside to disguise it, but he didn't expect the academy to be the same.

"It's not cost-effective to use obsidian, and the stones of the academy are all carved with magic circles on them, which are particularly reinforced, and the magic resistance is also very unusual, plus the overall harmony of the magic circle, pure obsidian can't be compared. Mage B said.

Of course, what he didn't say was that obsidian could also carve magic circles, and he then sighed: "Only the academy has so many manpower to engrave rune magic circles on every stone." ”

In the rest of the place, not to mention the cost of asking a mage to give the stone runes, the cost of a mage is higher than using obsidian, and it is very difficult to gather so many mages alone, except for the Supreme Council, only the academy has this ability. In fact, both sides do not rely on financial resources, but on the inheritance of knowledge. The High Council's literature and knowledge are only higher than those of the Academy, and some high-end research and spells are only available to the High Council. Therefore, after graduating from the academy, ordinary mages who are interested in going further have to travel and study in the Supreme Council.

Mage B looked at the clock tower outside the window and sighed very much, this is the benefit of being organized, such a tall tower can only be used as a clock tower in the academy, for himself, as long as it can have half the height, it is more than enough as a mage tower.

As he sighed, he suddenly saw several pairs of people flying out of the top of the tower, coming to the clock face, doing something, and then lowering the second hand. He patted Mage A: "Look, what are they doing? It can't be that the clock tower is going to be demolished and rebuilt, right?"

"You're kidding, aren't you? There's no way there's a problem right now. Mage A was startled, thinking that what B said was true, and quickly looked over. Seeing that he couldn't see clearly, he also released an eagle eye technique for himself.

"Huh. Mage B hurriedly pulled him, "Won't you have a problem with using the Eagle Eye Technique?" ”

If you use the Eagle Eye technique, there is a smell of surveillance, which is easy to arouse the disgust of the rest of the mages, and it should be said that it is not polite to use any spell with a probing meaning on the rest of the mages. Especially in a place where mages are densely populated like the academy, you should pay attention to it, in case you encounter a person with a bad temper, there may be a real conflict.

Not to mention that Law A also used this kind of spell against the master of the academy, if the other party really blamed it, the two little mages had no other way to think of except kneeling.

After receiving the reminder, Mage A also came to his senses, quickly put away the spell, and said, "The academy won't be so stingy, I just want to look at the scale on the clock tower to see what time it is." ”

That being said, his eagle eye technique is dead or alive and dead, and now that the beans are not officially running, where can the time to see.

"Do you see anything?" asked Mage B in a low voice, curious about what was going on in the Clock Tower.

Master A said, "No, I saw that they lowered the second hand, and the back one could not be seen, but the other two sides were down, and I guess all the second hands were down." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly patted Mage B on the shoulder: "Look, look, the pointer has moved." Isn't this moving a little too fast, though?"

Mage B looked at it carefully and said, "It should be time adjustment, or it won't be so fast." ”

"Yes, do you think they put the second hand away to adjust the tower clock?"

"Then why put the second hand away?"

"Maybe the second hand is too heavy, or you don't want us to see that the clock is moving, lest we think the clock tower has been built. Hey, the needle has stopped, take a look, it's 10:16, look at the sky, it should be right, it's about this time. ”

"Is it really time to start a trial run? I'm going to call some melons and fruits, and we'll see what happens to them while we eat them. Master B beckoned and asked the waiter to come over and serve the melons and fruits.

It's winter, but thanks to the college's greenhouse, there are still some fresh or stored fruits that are just worth a lot of money.