The owner of the Gini Cabin turned the wine glass in his hand and said to the empty wine room. The green wine swirled on the wall of the glass and fell, and the spherical ice cubes hit the wall of the glass, making a slight tinkling sound.
.
There was no one in the Sakura Tavern.
The wooden door upstairs was closed tightly. After sending away the two students from the First University, Kolma told his assistants that they needed to rest for a while, so everyone consciously lowered their voices. Through the thick door panels, the sound was blurry.
Through the glass window, you can see several passing gray robes walking on tiptoes, like weasels stealing chickens.
"Are you going to hide in the mirror for the rest of your life?"
Colma knocked on a mirror on the bar and urged: "I only have half an hour to rest..."
"Coming, coming." A hoarse voice came out from the mirror with a bit of reluctance: "Do you know what I saw? Two streets away, a man who just got the 'curse seal' from you
The young man, just to show off, demonstrated the 'bear summoning technique' to his friends, and then summoned a three-meter-tall giant bear... Hey, that was really exciting!"
The witch couldn't help but tighten her fingers on the wine glass.
"Is anyone hurt?" She raised her voice slightly.
"Peace of mind, peace of mind." A nearly transparent mouse slowly emerged from the mirror and comforted: "It's just very lively, no one was hurt... Although these magicians in the North District are not high-level, they often go there
Silent Forest is very experienced in dealing with such beasts...and you also gave them the curse seal."
As he spoke, the color on the mouse's body slipped away like mercury, converging and reverberating in the mirror, revealing his old, wrinkled fur.
It's the Rat Immortal.
But unlike in the past, the big mouse was not sitting on the wooden chariot today, and there was no mouse in a red vest beside him to give him a big umbrella, hold up a flag, or act as a guard.
Hearing that no one was injured, Kolma's nervous mood relaxed a lot.
She squinted her eyes and looked at the fat mouse that had just crawled out of the mirror - perhaps because it had not used its claws to walk for a long time, the mouse fairy's movements when crawling away looked a bit jerky - and suddenly laughed:
"I heard that a golden civet has been looking for you. Are you sure that coming to see me now is the right thing to do?"
"Indeed, indeed."
After hearing the words 'Huanghuali', the Mouse Immortal's face clearly showed some uneasiness. He raised his head and looked around a few times: "I can choose not to come, but I think it's better to come...
"
As he said that, he lowered his head and glanced at the cup of tea that the witch pushed in front of him, and carefully looked at the shape of the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup, as if there was also a yellow civet buried in the small cluster of tea leaves: "... after all, the achievement is great.
Being a wizard is a very, very glorious thing. Although the process is not so glorious, overall, it is worth celebrating."
"When I became a great wizard, my family set up a running table for ten days, and the principal also gave me a rune he drew himself. A complete set of runes. You can't find it on the market at all!"
Kolma listened to the old rat man in front of him talking about old things, the smile on his face quietly faded, and there was a trace of pity in his eyes. This was probably the pity of a lucky person for the unfortunate.
"...This is my congratulatory gift." The Rat Immortal rummaged around in his waist for a long time, and finally took out a simple silver ring with a translucent amber embedded in it.
Through that layer of brown, you can vaguely see the shadow of the undulating mountains.
"Every great wizard needs a place to accommodate his 'existence'." The Rat Immortal put the ring on the witch's finger and explained: "If you don't want to be forced to leave this world like those outer gods,
, then you will definitely need this thing... You will gradually understand this kind of thing... This is the 'world' that an old friend of mine gave me before he died. I think it is perfect as a gift.
.”
"How long have you been hiding in the mirror?" The witch rubbed the amber on the ring and did not ask more about the great wizard. Knowledge involving high-level wizards is not so easy to obtain.
"Front and back," the Rat Immortal lowered his chin and pointed his chin as Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu left. The beard at the corner of his mouth curled up, looking particularly proud:
"The boy just arrived, and I'm here... I know what you want to say, but you know there is a word called 'dark under the light'. The more dangerous the place, the safer it is."
That's true, but it's a tightrope that only the brave and talented can walk.
"You came today not just to give me a gift." The witch finally made up her mind and asked this question. At the same time, she was also prepared to refuse in her heart - if the Mouse Fairy wanted her to
If the district wizards took risks for an impossible goal, she would definitely refuse them on the spot.
"Do you know Dr. Terry Duzeme?" the Rat Immortal asked in a statement tone.
"It was you who told me this name." The witch replied cautiously.
A few weeks ago, in order to find a secret and suitable place to 'place' the summoning magic circle, Kolma asked the Mouse Fairy for help. At that time, the condition it gave was that the witch should find Dr. Duzem.
But later, for some unknown reason, before the witches fully figured out the identity of Dr. Duzem, the two mice actually said that they had completed the task - looking back now, maybe Zheng was the only one who completed the task at that time.
Cleared.
This also made Kolma increasingly vigilant.
She knew very well how much trouble Zheng Qing was in. Just like the relationship between ability and responsibility, for most wizards, the more powerful the background, the greater the trouble.
The Rat Immortal smiled and revealed several secrets on Buji Island to the new great wizard: "Dr. Duzem is a genius alchemist who once led the First University's 'Artificial God' project and made
Great achievements have been made... If that plan succeeds, First University will be able to mass-produce the 'Grand Wizard'."
"It's just that Dr. Duzem was still too young and took some risks. An accident occurred. When the school was investigating the accident, it was accidentally discovered that several of his experiments seriously violated the ethical boundaries recognized by the alliance... For example, he used living creatures to refine
The Philosopher's Stone; such as when he experimented with the remains of deceased great wizards."
The Mouse Immortal was still a little vague in his words, and did not name what happened in that plan, but just the little bit of information he revealed already made the witch have the urge to cover her ears.
It is true that she is now qualified to have access to these secrets, and she is also very interested in the subsequent development of things. But many things are not something you can understand only if you are interested and qualified.
Just like the saying in the wizarding world, "When a wizard stares into the abyss, it is the beginning of his fall, because the abyss will also start to stare at you at that moment."
Unfortunately, there are some things that you can't hear without covering your ears.