Weird Wizarding World

   Chapter 285 Heartfelt

   "Teacher..." The smile on Colin's face froze.

   He looked at Atbold in the sun, his face became silent.

   "I didn't expect you to be alive." Atbold smiled softly, he rubbed his body, paused and said:

   "I didn't expect you to come back to see me, Colin."

   "Teacher, your injury..."

   Colin's lips moved, and he asked hesitantly after a while.

   He stared at Atbold, at his tan lower half that was a sick tree in the sunlight.

  Atbold is not sitting at a desk... but growing.

   His old upper body was naked, and his lower body, starting from his lower abdomen, turned into thick, knotted tree roots.

   A faint smell of blood wafted out from the dark red connection between the roots and the flesh, filling the study room.

  Atbold lowered his eyes, did not answer, just calmly said:

"I'm dying."

   He looked up at Colin's gloomy expression, smiled and said:

   "Tell me, what do you have to do with me? I'll see if I can help you at the last moment."

  Atbold's face was calm and his tone was gentle, just as he used to answer the various questions he raised.

   It's just that his voice is inevitably weaker, and his gray temples are scattered. If he ignores the abnormality of his body, he looks like an ordinary wise old man on the verge of death.

   When Colin heard the words, the sadness in his heart was even worse.

   He thought that he was prepared for the situation of Atbold's mentor, but at this moment, seeing it with his own eyes, he was still a little uncomfortable.

   Injuries like this are probably more about alienation... The Fountain of Ancient Trees, which focuses more on life healing, can it really be healed?

   "What's the matter, if you want to change mentors, don't feel embarrassed, Colin." Atbold asked again, calmly, "Your talent shouldn't stop there."

  Colin calmed down, without thinking any more, he activated the Spring of the Ancient Tree, and used all his strength to condense a fist-sized light green water polo in his hand.

   "Teacher, this may be helpful to you!" His face paled, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a deep voice.

   "This is... an elf creation?" Atbold asked in surprise.

   "Yes, it's called the Fountain of Ancient Trees," Colin explained.

   Next, he simply told Artbold about his experience of accidentally entering the elf kingdom.

   Following his eloquent words, Atbold's calm complexion, like the surface of a lake wrinkled by the breeze, gradually became turbulent.

   He never imagined that the newly admitted student in front of him would encounter such ups and downs on a trip to the Southern Sea.

   But what surprised him even more was the news about Lillian.

   "After Lilian entered the treasury, she never came out again? Her elf also went in with her?"

   Atbold was silent for a moment, then asked slowly.

   "Yes." Colin nodded and said:

   "After I got the fountain of ancient trees from the treasure house, I waited for a few days, but I couldn't wait for Lilian-senpai... So I left with the token."

   These are all truths, but the contents of the ancient tree of life are hidden.

   "Octavier...what did you leave behind?" Atbold lowered his head and muttered indistinctly.

  Octavier is the name of Lillian's mother.

   In fact, before Colin said this, he didn't know that Lilian went to the elf country on this trip.

   And the purpose is to try to find some healing things for him.

   He thought it was just an ordinary task assigned by the school...

   However, at least it's much better than the news that he disappeared in the battlefield a few days ago...

   Atbold thought so.

   Originally, after learning of Lillian's disappearance, his heart became numb and empty, but suddenly a heat of hope was born out of thin air.

  He raised his head and looked at Colin with cloudy eyes.

   He was old and dull, and now he was wounded, even on the verge of death.

   But the more this happens, the more pure and sober he finds in his heart, and the gaze projected from the turbid eyes is extraordinarily penetrating, as if he can see everything.

   He stared at Colin calmly like this, and only slowly retracted his gaze after seeing Colin a little uncomfortable.

   "Thank you, my student." A smile slowly appeared on his old face, and his eyes became softer.

   With the smile raised, those skin folds like bark ravines also stretched out, so that those dying thoughts were dissipated a lot.

   Atbold's heart was rejoicing.

   He could see that Colin in front of him hadn't said a single lie.

  Maybe there is something to hide...but there is no lie, there is only a sincere sincerity.

   So Atbold raised his hand slightly.

   The ancient tree spring water ball was pulled to his chest and slowly merged into it.

  Colin's eyes focused, watching all this in silence.

   With the fountain of the ancient tree, the water ball completely submerged into Atbold's chest.

   Colin could clearly feel a powerful healing energy, spreading from the teacher's chest to his limbs like a tide.

  Under the action of this energy, the wound at the connection between Atebold's lower abdomen and those knotted tree roots obviously began to shrink and heal.

   The dark red scars shrink and the color gradually becomes lighter.

   Seeing this, Colin looked happy.

   However, those wounds never fully healed. At most, they can only shrink into a thin red mark at the connection, not to mention the lower body that swells like a monster.

  The Fountain of Ancient Trees can’t eliminate these abnormalities at all…

   After a long time, Atbold opened his eyes with a look of disappointment and joy on his face.

"What's wrong?" Looking at Colin's ugly face, he chuckled lightly, "Don't feel sorry for me, I've gotten a lot better... Although it can't be completely cured, at least it won't die so quickly and can survive. For a while..."

   Atbold's words were not words of consolation. His complexion looked much better and his expression was much more relaxed.

   At least if you ignore the abnormality of the lower body, it looks like an ordinary old wizard.

  Colin looked at Artbold carefully, relieved.

   seemed to be thinking of something, he hesitated, took the Spring of the Ancient Tree from his chest, and said solemnly:

   "Teacher, the erosion of your body has not been eliminated. The ancient tree spring water ball just now can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Please accept this ancient tree spring necklace."

   For me, the talent of strong life will continue to improve with the strengthening of the foundation of the body, which is completely sufficient. The help of the ancient tree spring is actually not as great as I imagined.

   It's better to send it to Atbold, the mentor of the second-order wizard, to stabilize its state.

  Responsible for reason... Even in terms of utilitarianism, in the relatively peaceful environment of Neustadt, the stable state of the teacher Atebold can allow him to avoid a lot of trouble and concentrate on his cultivation.

   On the other side, Atbold was surprised again when he heard the words, and he even had some mixed grains in his heart.

   No matter what the consideration is, not everyone can make such a choice.

   "I'm very moved, Colin." He paused, then said slowly, "But keeping the fountain of the ancient tree on you is more useful than staying with me."

   "The root cause of my injury was the foundation that strengthened my body back then. At that time, for some reason, I was injured and the root of the disease fell...

   is now in the bone marrow, even wearing the Fountain of the Ancient Tree will not make me any better. "

   "What's more, I don't need to replenish the Spring of Ancient Trees anytime and anywhere... Well, if it is convenient for you, come and replenish the Spring of Ancient Trees for me about a week."

   As he said, as if to prove that he had recovered a lot, Atbold stretched out his hands and "stands up" against the desk in front of him.

   With this movement, his originally naked body was gradually covered with a large shaman robe, and the originally knotted tree roots on his lower body seemed to have turned into legs, hidden under the shaman robe fabric.

   Colin persuaded a few words again.

   He did feel that in Neustadt City, he didn't really need the fountain of the ancient tree, and it was the safest way to wear the fountain of the ancient tree on Atebold.

   Yet Atbold had clearly made up his mind, no matter what he said.

  Colin had to give up.

   However, the good news is that Atbold's body is indeed recovering rapidly.

   He has been able to walk slowly, striding to the huge French window.

  Colin silently followed and stood by the window.

   He looked at the huge and lush ancient tree outside that seemed to be a parasite of the main body of Nado, and suddenly asked again:

   "Teacher, the Hitos family, what's going on?"

  The Hitos family... This is the direct murderer that Lilian mentioned when he and he were in the elf kingdom that caused Atebold to become like this.

   (end of this chapter)