"Ta da...ta da..." The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.
Heath walked through the corridor step by step towards the front bookshelf, his movements stiff and his steps slow, like a walking zombie that had lost its soul.
Soon, Heath was standing in front of the bookshelf.
As if pulled by some force, he unconsciously reached out and grabbed the black books on the bookshelf.
However, just when he was about to touch the book, his hand suddenly stopped.
"Uh!" He murmured.
There was a struggle in his blurred vision, but he regained his clarity after a moment.
"What a weird power. Is this a spiritual attack?"
Looking around at the situation, Heath said in amazement that he knew everything that happened before, but he couldn't control his body freely, as if his soul had separated from his body and was watching his steps from a third-person perspective.
Walk here.
As far as Heath knew, this seemed to be the mind control type of magical attack described in the book.
"Is it this book?"
Heath returned to the bookshelf in front of him. There was only a solitary black book in the middle of the bookshelf. He could clearly feel that an abnormal spiritual power was being released from the book, and he had just lost himself in this power.
of.
"What kind of book is this?" Heath touched his chin and pondered.
After pondering for a moment, an idea that ordinary people couldn't understand suddenly came to his mind... How about picking up this book and reading it?
He is so curious!
As for the danger? Maybe there is... but it is a spiritual position that he can break free of purely through willpower. Heath feels that even if there is some unknown weirdness attached to it, it will not cause irreparable harm to him.
.
You have to be bold as a person. If you are not afraid of anything, wouldn't it be better to stay in your mother's belly?
After thinking this, Heath no longer hesitated, licking the corner of his mouth and stretched out the hand he had just retracted to grab the book in front of him.
However, just when he was about to encounter the book, something changed suddenly again.
"Pop!" There was a soft sound.
An old arm suddenly stretched out from one side and firmly grasped Heath's hand, preventing him from making any further progress.
Immediately, a half-accused and half-surprised voice sounded:
"What a bold boy, knowing that there is something unusual about this, but he still refuses to give up!"
An old man suddenly appeared next to Heath, wearing a black cloak and a book-shaped necklace pendant representing the Third Apprentice Tower hanging on his chest.
There is only one person in the academy wearing this outfit——
"Master Dean!"
Heath looked at the old man in front of him in surprise. This was none other than Dean Carls.
Karls grabbed Heath with one hand, raised the short-handled wand and waved it in the air. His eyes suddenly blurred, and the dark corridor disappeared. In an instant, Heath found himself back in the confinement room, standing there.
In front of the 59th row of bookshelves.
The difference is that there is an additional bookshelf among the 59 rows of bookshelves at this time, and it is the No. 14 bookshelf with black books.
Heath looked surprised.
The old god Karls sighed: "In order to prevent 'it' from being accidentally read by apprentices, I deliberately applied a blindfold here, but I didn't expect that someone would discover the anomaly here and destroy my blindfold.
"
Heath opened his mouth: "Uh... you left that magic circle behind."
Karls nodded, then reached out and picked up the black book, and said slowly: "This is a book of black magic, with a lot of highly polluting mental power attached to it. If an apprentice with insufficient willpower rashly reads it,
It may bring some very bad effects to the apprentice's body and mind or even distort his mind, so I hid it."
Heath was stunned: "Dark magic? Is it the magic of the dark element system?"
There are countless elements in this world, but there are seven basic elements, namely earth, water, fire, wind, plants, light, and darkness. According to the current research of wizards, the world is basically provided by these seven elements.
Made of elements.
The affinity of most apprentices is related to these seven elements, and most spells are based on these seven elements or derivative elements of the seven elements.
At this moment, Karls said this was black magic, but Heath subconsciously thought it was magic with dark elements.
However, Karls shook his head: "Although this is indeed a magic book describing dark elements, the 'black magic' I am referring to here is not 'dark element magic.'"
After a pause, he raised his wand and tapped it gently in the air. Several more flying light spots immediately appeared in the air. Under his control, these light spots evolved into patterns one after another, including large trees growing vigorously.
Tall towers rising from the ground, even strange fruit trees growing bread, etc.
Karls explained in detail: "There are thousands of types of magic. Some magic can make living things grow quickly, some magic can build us city walls and towers in an instant, and some magic can make sweet and delicious things grow on trees."
of bread..."
Having said this, he raised his wand and swiped lightly, and the aerial scene turned into a battlefield, with large fireballs, frost, and lightning falling on the battlefield, crushing the fighting soldiers into pieces.
Karls said with a serious look: "It can also make living things miserable and the world perish."
"Black magic is magic created specifically for fighting and killing. Compared with ordinary combat magic, this type of magic focuses too much on the power of magic and weakens the side effects of magic. It even gives up in order to maximize the power.
Some protection for the caster himself."
"Because of this, these magics often bring great harm, and wizards who learn them are likely to encounter strong backlash. Some wizards become neither human nor ghosts, and some wizards even have their souls and wills distorted.
.”
Magic is very dangerous. When creating any magic, the first consideration is how to make the magic safe and not harm the caster. For this reason, some of the power of the magic is given up.
Without the consideration of these protective measures, when a magic is released, it may first harm the caster himself.
Heath said: "So that's it..."
However, the use of the word "black" is really a bit inappropriate. "Unsafe magic" and "crazy magic". Don't Heath think these names are more appropriate?
Perhaps seeing Heath's doubts, Karls added: "Most of this type of magic comes from dark wizards, and that's why the name black magic comes from."
"ah?"
Heath suddenly realized this.
The group of dark wizards was introduced to them in detail by their instructors in class. If it were them, then this name would be really suitable...
Karls smiled and said: "After listening to this, are you still curious about this?"
Heath looked at the book: "Uh..."
If you say you're not curious, you'd definitely be lying, but Karls has made it clear what he wants to confiscate, so there's no point in continuing to dwell on it.
So Heath was ready to act like a good boy and act duplicity.
But at this moment, Karls unexpectedly handed the black book to Heath: "If you are curious, keep it. I remember that you have an affinity for dark elements. The magic in it
If you are interested, you can study it later."
Upon admission, each apprentice had their elemental affinities tested by Kars himself, and Hiss's affinities were darkness, fire, and earth.
Heath couldn't believe it: "Give it to me?"
Doesn’t it mean that if you learn this thing, you will be counterattacked by unclean magic?
Under Heath's puzzled gaze, Karls explained: "This is just a very basic black magic book. Although the magic structure is more unstable than conventional magic, it will not cause unbearable harm to the apprentices. The only thing is that it is more dangerous.
The place is the spiritual will."
"If you are an apprentice with low willpower who studies for a long time, you may accumulate a lot of negative emotions and lead to psychological imbalance. But since you were able to actively break away from its spiritual position just now, it proves that your spiritual will is different from ordinary people, and it affects
Your chances are slim."
"oh!"
Heath took the black book, but the confusion in his eyes did not diminish at all.
He always felt that today's dean was a little too amiable. You must know that compared to apprentices like them, the dean was a superior being. It was difficult to meet him on weekdays. How could he explain so much to him like today.
Could it be...
I am extremely talented, and my talent that will surely lead me to the top of the world in the future was discovered by this old man?
Just when Heath was feeling complacent, Kars took out a magic stone bag from his pocket. After opening it, there was a small pile of darker magic stones inside. This was a medium-grade magic stone worth 100 magic stones each.
Karls said: "Here are 20 medium-grade magic stones, which are sent by the Oslaine family as an apology."
ah!
Any apology?
Heath suddenly had a great change in his impression of the Oslaine family: Although there is a idiot in the family, it doesn't mean that the entire family is bad from top to bottom, right?
He quickly took it.
Karls finally said: "Perhaps each of us will encounter some bad things in our lives, which will greatly affect our mood and the way we look at the world, but the world is like this, with good and bad sides."
"Sometimes we feel helpless when facing the bad side. At this time, always staring at these bad impressions will only make us feel worse. Instead of doing this, it is better for us to forget these unpleasantnesses and pay less attention to these bad things.
, the bad, and look more at the good sides, do you think it’s right?”
He suddenly said seriously.
Heath only thought that this was Karls caring about him and putting an end to this incident, so he didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, he thought that the old man was quite a nice person, so he nodded cooperatively.
"Well, yes, what the dean said makes sense, students will remember it."
Little did I know...
The next day, Heath wanted to give himself a hard slap in the face and tear yesterday's self to pieces...