my age of magic

Chapter 581 79. If You Have Been to That Wasteland
On the square training ground in the courtyard of the martial arts hall, a large protective cover-style array has been opened. In the four corners of the training ground, there are four magic rune obelisks. The magic runes on the obelisks light up one by one, surrounding the obelisks. Filled with the power of magic elements, the thick magic power slowly volatilizes in the air and spreads continuously. Along with the center of the obelisk, it sends out magic halos.

This is a small obelisk specially designed for the enchantment magic circle. It is only more than two meters high. Four magic light beams converge from the top of the obelisk at a 45-degree angle at the center of the training ground at a height of [-] meters. Together, they form a magical defensive enchantment in the shape of a regular triangular pyramid.It takes a certain amount of magic crystals to activate these four obelisks, but because the Royal Academy of Magic encourages this kind of formal duel, the Royal Academy of Magic is willing to bear half of the cost. That is, the other half of the cost of the magic crystal is paid by the loser of the duel.

Of course, this is also for the academy to let the magic students clearly realize that duels in any form are quite costly.Any duel in private is forbidden and not allowed by the academy, because those casualties are the most uncontrollable. Every elite magician who can enter the Royal Academy of Magic is the most precious wealth of the Grimm Empire. Under the protection of the magic mask, there is a magic teacher from the academy to supervise and judge, so generally there will be no serious injuries or deaths.

Before I was about to play, Noah took out a magic sealing box from the magic pocket, then took out three magic shield scrolls from it and handed them to me, then put his arms around my shoulders and whispered to me: "You will be on the stage soon." Turn on the magic shield, use it when you need it, don't save it for me."

With a sullen face, Diego took a wooden dagger from the weapon rack by the side of the field, and walked onto the training ground. The light armor made of ice-attribute lizard skin with magic patterns slowly glowed under the magic light shield. , the strong magic power in the air makes this structure engraved with magic patterns on his body, there are streaks of magic streamers flashing across it from time to time, reflecting senior Diego's wheat-colored skin as if it has a layer of oil, and his short silver-white hair , slender cheeks, slender eyes narrowed into a narrow slit releasing a cold green glow, looking at me coldly.

The surrounding area of ​​the martial arts field was full of onlookers. Lorenzo and his friends stood behind Diego, cheering hard for Senior Diego. Alessio and Andre were hugging Shoulders, leaning on the stone pillar under the eaves of the martial arts hall, the two were talking about something in a low voice, but their voices were covered by the surrounding noises. They spoke so fast and softly that I couldn't even guess.

Andre and Alessio were just entrusted by others to recommend Noah and me to the Sword and Rose Society, but they did not have the responsibility and obligation to protect me or stand up for me, let alone the person who opened his mouth to challenge the duel It's me, so they seem very relaxed at this time. At least with the supervision of the academy teacher, neither side will probably make a deadly move. Besides, the protective barrier in the martial arts field will also reduce the magic damage of the skills in the magic circle. Maybe In their view, I, a northerner with a small background and not too peaceful, should suffer some hardships and learn some small lessons, so as to smooth out the edges and corners of my whole body.

In the Sword and Rose Club, Diego is considered to be the flag bearer among the second-year members. He has a good reputation. Naturally, there are many people who know him. Most of them know that he is a ruthless character, but he still looks a bit I am immature, and I am really ready to play, those discussions are already like flies in the toilet in summer 'buzzing'.

And my identity, like the ink smeared in the pen basin, spread rapidly.

Some troublemakers in the crowd asked the surrounding companions: "Who is he that dares to challenge Diego? How ignorant and fearless!"

Someone on the side raised the bar, "Hehe" smiled and said: "Why do you conclude that he will definitely lose, maybe it is a dark horse? This is from the northern border. I heard that there are wars there every winter. How do you know that he is not a battle-type magician who stands out after being baptized by the flames of war?"

At this time, an insider provided some information: "Oh, what you said makes sense. As far as I know, Diego stood up for his friend because Ivan fell into his hands."

"Those people from the Imperial City Gang? Hehe!" Of course, there were some people who were not too impressed with the "Emperor Capital Gang" in the Royal Academy of Magic, so they sneered.

Ignoring the audience outside the arena, I saw that the magic teacher standing in the arena who was in charge of arbitrating the outcome was already waiting in his seat. I took a deep breath and walked towards the weapon rack on the edge of the martial arts arena. Under the eyes of everyone, I still chose to pick up a wooden mission axe, holding the heavy ax handle, and a familiar feeling lingered in my heart. I recalled the first time I and Kurtz met those ashes at the end of the road of death. The scene of the bloody battle of dwarves and bandits.

The crowd watching all around looked at me with a strange look, and the voice of the noisy discussion gradually became quieter for a while.

"Look, he chose an ax that barbarians would use. In our imperial capital, even berserkers don't like to use axes. The northerners in Sluyte are really different from us!" Sighing, the reason why he can be so unscrupulous is that he doesn't take me seriously at all, but I don't bother to look at him at all, but under the watchful eyes of these onlookers, I walked into the field with a calm expression.

Compared with Diego, although the equipment on my body is not shabby, a temporary new Misoli magic robe is considered a very good magic robe among the freshmen of the college, but in the face of the gorgeous ice robes worn by senior Diego The leather armor made of lizard skin and magic pattern is a bit unsightly.

The long dagger is as flexible as his sixth finger in Diego's hand. With the rhythm of his fingers, it keeps flying up and down, making people dazzled. A trace of white air whirls surrounds his body. Unexpectedly, he majored in wind magic. Although he stood quietly in the same place, he gave people the illusion that he might disappear at any time.

A vague sense of crisis welled up in my heart. The last time I had this feeling was last winter, among the snow-capped mountains, I met that barbarian with a bundle of spears on his shoulders. This kind of faint sense of crisis appeared, and now this intuition appeared on Diego, I can only tell myself repeatedly that he is very dangerous, be careful, be careful, be careful.

"Before my duel begins..." Diego said half a sentence to me with a dark face, and then paused for a while before a wicked smile appeared on his face. Then he said: "...I want to tell you, actually I don't care about reputation at all, as long as I can make people feel fearless, that's enough, so don't think that I will let you go easily!"

The gaze in his eyes is like a cold poisonous snake, but the sinister smile that succeeds in tricks makes my hair stand on end.

As the grooves inlaid with magic crystals on the magic pattern structure on his body light up slightly, the magic patterns on the light leather armor are filled with the power of magic elements.

I stood across from Diego, staring at him cautiously. Four-color stone drum totems slowly floated around my body. I have been in the capital for so long, and no one can recognize the colorful colored stones around my body. What kind of balls are there? Some people even take them for granted as some magical props on my body. In the imperial capital, all kinds of magical aids emerge in endlessly, so everyone has long been accustomed to it, and it is not surprising.

But when the four stone drum totems floated around my body, and I propped up three ice shields to revolve around my body, the magic teacher standing on the sidelines who was in charge of judging the outcome turned around in surprise. Looking over at me, an old wrinkled face revealed his true face in the magic hood. His always lowered eyelids were slightly opened, and he carefully identified the stone drum totem floating around me.

When he saw it more clearly, the astonishment in his eyes became thicker. He even ignored that our duel was about to start, and walked directly to the field, fixed his eyes on the four stone drum totems, and walked towards me slowly. .

"These are the stone drums of the orc tribe?" He asked me as he walked, his speech was very fast, and he even spoke in the orc language.

I know that once these stone drum totems appear in front of some old magicians with rich life experience, it will be difficult to hide the secret about the stone drum totems of the orc tribe, so I have never deliberately concealed this, and now finally Someone asked about this, and I replied straightforwardly in the orc language: "Yes, this is the stone drum totem of the four elements of feng shui, earth and fire in the orc tribe."

The seniors around seemed to be listening to the scriptures, and they all looked at me and this old magician in Orc language in a daze.

"As far as I know, those shamans and witch doctors could only control the power of a certain element in the initial stage, so as to control a stone drum totem with a single attribute, but now... if I read correctly, you actually Have four series of stone drum totems, don’t you?” The aged magic teacher looked obsessively at the stone drum totems freely rotating around my body, and reached out to touch them, but the four fluttering stone drums seemed to have Like a spiritual elemental creature, every time his old finger is about to touch the stone drum, the stone drum will instantly drift away from the original running track, avoiding the fingers of the magic teacher.

"You're right!" Where my eyes touched, the four series of stone drum totems moved back and forth around my body like a string of gorgeous beads.

"Hehe, this place doesn't seem to be a suitable place for conversation. If you want, you can find me on the second floor of the library in your spare time. We can have a good chat about the orc tribe. It was when I was young , the place where I used to live, I believe you probably have the same experience as me. Normally, I would stay there to organize magic books... Look, I almost forgot the purpose of coming here today, etc., I should give you the right to come to the second floor of the library, hehe, you can’t tell other students about this, after all, it doesn’t conform to the rules of the college, it’s a back door I opened for you!” The old magician laughed When he stood up, his wrinkled face looked bright, and when he spoke, he spoke in authentic Grudin orc language.

"Can I find you on the second floor of the library?" I asked in surprise.

"Of course, maybe I can give you a lot of convenience, such as how to quickly accumulate those damn points, at least in the library of the academy, those points are equivalent to good things that can't be bought with magic spar, you probably also see Arrived, the magical books in the library on the first floor are like mountains and seas of books. Each of those books requires points. Although it is only a little, if you want to read them all in this limited four years, you need a lot Points." The old magician rolled his eyelids, his smile was a bit mysterious, at least he successfully threw a big cake to me at this moment, the 'cake' I had been looking forward to for a long time.

Then he continued to say to me: "Well, if it's just these things, this is not something that will make you desperate, but if you follow the steps and go up to the second floor of the library in the second grade, you will find that every The points required for a magic book will be ten times those of the magic books on the first floor, and I can make these trivial matters easier for you."

The old magician's 'cake' is a bit big, and it is filled with a lot of 'seafood', 'bacon', 'vegetables' and delicious 'beans', suddenly I think this is probably not a free ' Cake', and then I became a little hesitant, I think there are some things that should be said at least up front, about the secrets of those orc tribes, this is related to the safety of my orc brother Kuz, some things can't be said even if you die.

So I said to the old magician: "I'm sorry, about those orc tribe secrets, this involves some previous oaths, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me..."

"No...don't rush to refuse. No one will force you to say something you don't want to say. When you become a magic apprentice, you have a brand new identity. You have become a member of the Grimm Empire. Noble, then you have the right to free speech, I think you would be willing to talk to me about the prairie, the herds of one-horned bison, the running magic antelope on the prairie, the primary magic herbs and strong And the extremely enthusiastic young and beautiful orc girl..." He paused, and then continued to warmly invite me: "Why can't we sit in the reading room and drink a cup of milk tea in one afternoon, and talk about it?" where we used to live?"

He looked very optimistic and spoke very funny. Finally, he took off the college badge on my chest, and used a magic spell on the back of the badge to undo a restriction, and then pinned the magic badge on my chest with trembling hands. Before, the envious eyes of the students around me seemed to swallow me alive, staring at the badge on my chest nakedly. Although I don’t know this old magician, but at this moment I Where can't guess, his identity must not be too simple.

Such a small episode made the originally tense atmosphere a little absurd, didn't it!The duel has not yet started, but the magic teacher in charge of the arbitration began to pull one side and whisper in a certain language affectionately, so what should be done for the next ruling? Will it be because of this that during the duel, the old magician will be even more arbiter when he is arbitrating? Leaning on one side?
Everyone here has already started guessing: Diego will win only when he casts a spell on me.

Some people think that Diego will choose to knock me out with lightning speed at the beginning of the game.

Some people think that Diego will slowly tear away my dignity little by little, make me feel a little bit desperate, and then use a dagger to leave scars on some important parts of my body, so that the magic patterns carved on my body in the future installed, causing great limitations.

And now some people are starting to speculate that maybe because of this magic teacher, I will finally become dignified and lose this duel.

(End of this chapter)