Chapter 260 Race against time
"According to what Lord Rudolf the Messenger said before, there are a large number of apprentices fighting at sea. I am a little worried about whether we can reach the mainland safely..." "Didn't hear what Master Simon, the 'Dead Crow', said just now
? , will the academy give us a chance to break through the encirclement network? I believe in the academy!"
Instead of sitting back and watching the apprentices gathered around the academy tower continue to discuss, Instructor Simon decisively ordered:
"The one-hour countdown begins, disband !"
Simon announced without hesitation, causing the surviving apprentices under discussion to react quickly.
Realizing that time was precious and that there were still a large number of items that needed to be taken away from the academy, the surviving apprentices decisively stopped their desire to continue discussing, looked at each other, and immediately dispersed without any hesitation.
Although Mentor Simon's order made all the apprentices feel incredible, but now the time is limited and there is no room for everyone to think deeply.
Nearly a thousand apprentices who originally gathered in front of the academy tower disappeared without a trace in just two or three minutes.
Just when Yihua and Rey were about to leave, mentor Simon suddenly stopped them.
"Yihua, Rey, you two will clean up later, come with me first."
After hearing Mentor Simon's instructions, Yihua's eyes flashed and he stopped with Rey not far away.
Without stopping, Instructor Simon walked straight into the academy tower not far away from a few people, followed closely by Yihua and Rey.
Still the same place.
After a while, Instructor Simon led Yihua and Rey into Simon's office on the 18th floor of the college tower.
Seeing that Master Simon was deep in thought, Yihua did not take the initiative to ask, but quietly waited for Master Simon to speak.
Instructor Simon did not sit down, but stroked the smooth back of his mahogany chair in the office.
After pondering for a moment, Simon raised his head and looked at Yihua and Rey again.
"Yihua, I know you have always wanted to go back to the place where you were born to take another look, but now, this is no longer possible - as early as a few months ago, I learned that you and Lei were born together. The island located around the Star Tree Islands has sunk into the abyss due to some unknown influence."
After hearing the words of mentor Simon, Yi Hua and Rey's eyes froze almost at the same time.
Almost at the same time, from the memory of the original owner of the body, the faces of relatives resurfaced when they parted three years ago.
"Teacher Simon, are you kidding us? If the island sinks, then wouldn't the members of the declining Fersis family on the island..."
Rey on the side suddenly showed an expression of disbelief and asked subconsciously.
Although in the academy, Rey always regarded himself as a genius and rarely expressed his nostalgia for the life before becoming an apprentice.
But now that his apparent strength has long been inferior to that of Yihua, Rey no longer hides his feelings for his hometown and relatives in his family.
At the same time, affected by the sadness derived from the memory of the original owner, Yihua also subconsciously recalled the relatives he would never see again, and suddenly felt empty in his heart.
But as a wizard's apprentice, reason should always be higher than emotion.
Without being too sentimental, Yihua quickly adjusted with his strong psychological quality, one step ahead of Rey, and restored his usual composure.
At this time, Teacher Simon also gave a positive reply to Rey's previous inquiry.
"However, this is not the destruction of the Fersis family. Next, you must bear in mind what I say!"
Mentor Simon suddenly showed a solemn look on his face, facing Yihua and Rey. He said in a serious tone.
Rey, whose eyes were red after hearing Mentor Simon's words, quickly recovered.
"It is said that our Fersis family was a powerful wizard family with a prominent reputation in ancient times. The sinking of the island where we were born does not mean that there are only three of you and me left in the Fersis family." At this point
, Teacher Simon's voice paused for a moment, and he carefully handed out a token in the shape of a white tower to Yihua.
Under the envious gaze of Rey, Yihua took the White Tower token that fell into his hand.
Instructor Simon explained this:
"Today, we still have our tribe on the Wizarding Continent. Even compared to the island where we were born, the Fersis family on the mainland is more prosperous. In fact, there are people in the Nine-ring White Tower. A large number of official wizards from the Fersis family are here!"
"Yihua, keep the token I gave you, and when you arrive at the Nine Rings White Tower General Hospital in the mainland and assign mentors, you will decisively show this token. Enough for you to become a direct disciple of an official wizard of the Fersis family in the Nine-ring White Tower!"
After hearing Mentor Simon's explanation, Yihua also realized what Mentor Simon had mentioned before the start of the exam. What exactly are things?
Although Yihua successfully won the first place in this apprenticeship examination, the apprenticeship examination ended prematurely due to an accident, and the branch school was temporarily disconnected from the main hospital.
After arriving at the Nine Rings White Pagoda General Hospital, it was still unknown whether the wizards there recognized the rankings of this apprenticeship examination.
Even if it is admitted, under the designation of the Nine-ring White Tower, an official wizard selected Yihua as his personal disciple.
But compared to a formal wizard from the same family, the possibility that a formal wizard who has nothing to do with him can teach him as much as Mentor Simon is almost impossible.
Even if you show enough potential, formal wizards who are not from the same family will most likely only give you the corresponding level of attention, rather than super-standard attention.
Similar to the knight family, in the wizard family, only wizards from the same family can sit in high positions and be truly cultivated.
After realizing how valuable the token that Mentor Simon gave him was.
Yihua saluted Teacher Simon decisively and solemnly, expressing his sincere gratitude.
After hearing Mentor Simon's explanation, Rey on the side also looked at Mentor Simon with a faint look of expectation.
As if sensing Rey's thoughts, Teacher Simon shook his head at Rey and said:
"I guarantee that there is only one place to become the official wizard disciple of the Fersis family. This place has already been given to Yihua, Rey, I will give you the other secret treasures."
Feeling the differential treatment of Mentor Simon again, Rey secretly felt disappointed, but he still expressed his gratitude to Mentor Simon respectfully.
Three months ago, Simon would deliver the more valuable items to Rey.
Now, Simon will give more valuable items to Yihua.
In fact, Mentor Simon's differentiated treatment has not changed from beginning to end.
Like most other wizards, he is more rational and believes in the concept of profit first.
What has changed is the potential revealed by Yihua and Rey.
What Yihua and Rey don't know is that the White Tower token given to Yihua by Simon's mentor was obtained by him for his great achievements in the Nine-ring White Tower. Since Simon had already become a fifth-class apprentice at that time, he was only one step away from becoming a formal wizard.
After much thought, Simon decided to give up his quota to become the direct disciple of the family's official wizard, and instead transfer this quota to other apprentices in the Nine-ring White Tower at a critical moment when he attempts to break through to become an official wizard in the future, and sell it at a high price.
However, now, surrounded by a large number of fifth-level apprentices from the hostile academy, the lower-level apprentices still have a chance to leave.
But as a fifth-level tutor in the academy, Simon, who was under the spotlight, had no chance of escaping from the academy alone.
What's more, at this critical moment for the life and death of the college, leaving the college and other colleagues and fleeing alone is tantamount to betraying the Nine Rings White Tower.
Simon, who has a strong sense of belonging to the Nine-ring White Tower where he was born, has no intention of betraying the Nine-ring White Tower like Petain did.
This is also the main reason why Simon can hand over one of the most valuable items in his property to Yihua without hesitation.
Later, Mentor Simon took out two fourth-level magic items from the cupboard behind him and handed them to Rey.
As for fifth-level magic items, Simon actually has two.
But the two still have a greater effect on Simon, and can greatly enhance his strength in the next battle.
In order to exert more power in the battle to protect the Nine Rings White Tower Branch, he did not intend to hand over these two fifth-level demonized items to Yihua and Lei.
After explaining the matters after going to the Mainland Nine Rings White Tower General Hospital, and handing over the White Tower Token and two fourth-level demonized items to Yihua and Rey, Simon said in a calm voice: "There is still time before departure
. You have fifty minutes... you go."
After saying that, Simon turned around and stared at the oil painting of a towering white tower on the wall behind the desk, and said no more.
Before leaving, Yihua took one last serious glance at Mentor Simon who didn't know what he was thinking.
After hesitating for a moment, Yihua looked away and walked firmly towards the door.
As Yihua and Rey left, only Instructor Simon was left in the huge office in the high tower of the academy. Although he controlled extremely powerful power, his extremely thin figure looked extremely lonely.
——After
leaving the tower, without communicating with Rey beside him, Yihua rushed back to his residence near the east coast as quickly as possible.
Looking far into the distance, Yi Hua could vaguely catch a glimpse of many shadowy apprentices from the ports on the east coast.
Located further away, one can see more than ten tall ships covered with iron armor and with many runes engraved on their surfaces.
In less than an hour, everyone will set off by boat on the east coast of the college.
Without stopping too much, Yihua quickly moved into the sea view villa where he lived.
Xilin, who was practicing swordsmanship in front of the villa, saw Yihua's figure for the first time.
After being stunned for a moment, Xilin quickly put away her sword, with a cheery expression on her face, and trotted towards Yihua:
"Lord Fersis!"
Hearing Xilin's voice, she looked after Yihua's house not far away. Walter, who was guarding the courtyard, also quickly ran out with his sword in hand.
Seeing that the person coming was none other than Yi Hua, Walter looked surprised. Recalling the time when Yi Hua went to take the apprenticeship exam, he couldn't help but wonder: "Sir, you are back so soon
? It seems like outside the academy now..."
No wait After Walter finished speaking, Yihua raised his hand to stop the other party's desire to continue, indicating that he understood, and quickly ordered: "
Now there are hostile wizards coming to attack the Nine Rings White Tower Wizard Academy, and the apprenticeship examination has been terminated early. "
You two immediately stop everything you are doing and tidy up. In forty minutes, we will go to the east coast port, leave here by boat, and head to the Wizarding Continent!" Although I don't know why the academy left the academy so abruptly
. But now Walter and Xilin have a mutually beneficial relationship with Yihua.
He did not ask Yi Hua why the college issued such an order.
"Master Fersis, I understand! I'm going to pack it up
right now!" Walter's heart tightened as he realized the seriousness of the situation, and he quickly took Xilin to pack their luggage.
Although they were going to pack, the two of them actually didn't have much to carry.
After putting aside some items that were large in size and not of much value, the two packed up quickly.
After just a few minutes, Walter and Xilin took the luggage they planned to take away and went to the door of the villa to wait.
On the other side, Yihua was in his residence, packing up his belongings that he was going to take away from the academy.
The list of items taken out of the academy includes a variety of experimental equipment, including thousands of witch crystals accumulated now, a large number of materials required for fourth-level semi-dead witch bodies, as well as scrolls, finished demonized crystals, and more. There are scroll raw materials, blank magic crystals, etc.
Just before he started packing, Yihua took out two extraordinary-looking secret treasures in the shape of a ring and a necklace.
These two secret treasures were exactly what he found from Melkor's mutilated body after killing him.
Yihua recognized at a glance that the former was Melkor's mentor. The fourth-level space ring that Petain carried with him was almost as valuable as ordinary fifth-level demonized items.
The use of this space ring does not require identification of the owner. It only needs to extend the mental power to contact it to open it.
As for the latter, Yihua, who had fought with Enzo, a third-class necromancer apprentice who died under Melkor, was even more familiar.
That is what can increase the upper limit of the number of undead that can be controlled at the same time. For the Necromancer apprentices, it is an extremely precious fourth-class magical item - the Dark Magic Crystal Necklace.
Without hesitation, Yihua immediately put the two on his fingers and neck.
Then, he activated the space ring and quickly put the items he was about to carry in his residence into the now empty space ring one by one.
In fact, the space ring originally contained many items left by Melkor.
But long ago, Yihua learned from Melkor that the space ring he carried contained the monitoring props left by Petain.
Due to the short time, it was impossible to identify which item had the monitoring function.
To be on the safe side, after obtaining the space ring, Yihua immediately tried to open the space ring and destroy all the items left by Melkor in it.
Fortunately, the total number of items left in it is only close to a thousand witch crystals, and there are no items of high value.
Therefore, Yihua didn't feel too heartbroken when it was destroyed.
(End of chapter)