Weird Wizarding World

   Chapter 88 Inheritance

   In the gray-black open room, there is a brown carpet with a triangular pattern.

  Sunlight poured in from the square glass windows on the left and right walls, and fell on a large group of wizard apprentices gathered below, forming mottled traces.

   Noisy whispers echoed through the room.

  Colin stood in the corner of the crowd with a calm expression on his face.

   Berkeley turned and hurried away after taking him back to the wizard's land.

   A gray-haired witch apprentice, Fina, called them here.

   She, like Berkeley, is one of the three peak apprentices.

   At this moment, she was standing quietly by the platform at the front of the crowd, her face expressionless, indifferent to the whispers of the apprentices.

  Tattoo—

   A large number of footsteps gradually came from outside the room.

   The noisy chatter of the apprentices in the house suddenly became faint until it disappeared.

   The thick wooden door creaked open.

   Wizard Rapp walked in slowly, followed by several wizards.

  'Berkeley, Needham, Price, and...the Ribbon Gang and the Snakehead Gang. ’

  Colin raised his head slightly and glanced over, with some doubts on his face.

   The number of wizards on Blackrock Island is not large, and the number of peak apprentices is even less.

   All he knew was that the top apprentices on the bright side were only the three Berkeleys from the school, the leaders of the four major gangs in the city, and the city owner Price.

   added up to eight people.

   And last night, the Chiwen Gang and the Perco Gang were basically destroyed, and their gang leader naturally died.

   The peak wizard apprentice out of eight, only six...

   And now they are all gathered here.

  Berkeley and Needham walked to the right side of the platform and stood next to Fina.

   The three of Price stood on the other side of the platform with doubts on their faces.

   Wizard Rapp walked slowly to the platform at the front of the crowd. He looked around and said nothing.

  Everyone under the stage bowed their heads in silence.

   Even Needam, who is usually arrogant, didn't dare to do anything else, just as silent and respectful as the others.

   for a long time.

  Teng!

"what!"

   Several shrill screams suddenly sounded on the left side of the platform!

   The apprentices raised their heads subconsciously.

   After seeing it clearly, they all exclaimed in unison!

   Colin's pupils also shrank slightly, and he couldn't believe what he saw—

   The three top wizard apprentices of Price who were originally standing on the left side of the platform were now covered in raging flames, and soon turned into three charred corpses, fell to the ground and stopped moving.

   The apprentices' slightly flustered conversations converged into a surging uproar that erupted inside the room.

   "Cough-cough-"

   On the platform, Wizard Rapp covered his mouth and coughed twice, looking a little tired.

   The voices of the apprentices talking came to an abrupt end.

   "Don't be afraid, my students."

   He raised his head and calmly looked at the apprentices with different expressions in front of him, and said slowly.

   "I'm helping you stifle possible future crises."

   He paused, and said in a slightly tired voice with a little untraceable fear:

   "I'm dying, my students."

The    uproar broke out in the house again, this time even more than before.

"what?!"

"how come?"

   "Mr. Rapp..."

   Berkeley's perennial calm face also showed an incredible look.

  The apprentices here are not kidding after seeing Wizard Rapp.

  Most of them had sad expressions on their faces.

   All of them present, ranging from five years to sixty years, lived under the protection of Wizard Rapp.

   It can be said that they are all children who grew up listening to the story of the wizard Rapp.

   Although before becoming advanced apprentices, they were more familiar with faculty members.

   But Rapp Wizard, creator of Rapp School!

   There is no apprentice who does not understand, where does the honor and benefits he enjoys come from?

  …they enjoy the honor and responsibility that comes with being a school.

   is also in awe of the creator of this honor - Wizard Rapp.

   What's more, Wizard Rapp has a gentle personality, and although the school system is strict, it is not cruel.

   Just like the benevolent king of the mortal world is about to fall, the people under his command will inevitably be sad, and they also feel a little sad.

as well as-

   The house that covers you is about to collapse, and you don't know what to do.

   "After I die, only if a formal wizard appears again among you can you continue to pass on the school."

   Wizard Rapp said in a deep voice again, his face calm.

   "I have a way out for you."

   "I will choose an apprentice from all of you present, assist him to become a full-fledged wizard, and inherit my heritage."

   Inheritance? Advanced official wizard?

   The apprentices looked at each other in silence.

  Needam's eyes flickered on the edge of the platform, and he glanced at Fina and Berkeley next to him indistinctly.

   If the apprentices present have the best chance to advance to a formal wizard, it is undoubtedly their three peak wizard apprentices.

  Berkeley had a worried look on his face, he was more saddened by the imminent passing of Wizard Rapp than the advanced formal wizard.

  He came here sixty years ago and was one of the first apprentices of the Lapp school.

   Wizard Rapp watched him grow from a child of six or seven years old to the present...

   For him, Wizard Rapp is both a teacher and a father.

   Next to Berkeley.

   The gray-haired Fina remained expressionless.

   In the crowd, Colin, like the other apprentices, lowered his head and remained calm, but he was a little puzzled.

  ‘Inheritance, advanced formal wizard? ’

  ‘This kind of benefit can also get apprentices below the senior level in turn? ’

  ‘If you really want to choose a successor, shouldn’t you choose directly from a peak apprentice like Berkeley or a senior apprentice like Holt? ’

  ‘There are more than peak apprentices like Berkeley in the room now.

   Basically all the school members gathered here, even the junior wizard apprentices who survived last night...'

   Wizard Rapp went on to announce:

   "All of you present have the opportunity to advance to the official wizard and obtain my inheritance."

   "The requirement of choice is not based on realm, nor is it based on talent."

   He paused and said solemnly, "It's based on a trial."

"Come with me."

   Wizard Rapp walked down from the stage slowly and led the apprentices towards the door.

   Colin didn't have time to think about it, he was wrapped by other apprentices and followed behind Wizard Rapp.

   Like water pouring down, the wizards formed a long dragon and gradually walked out of the room.

   Soon, there were only a dozen or so left standing in the wizard's room.

   So the sunlight passed through the square glass window and fell unobstructed on the brown carpet with triangular pattern, cutting out the light and dark sides for it.

   in that dark part,

   squeak.

   A rat-shaped creature that merged with the shadow flashed by.

   A fair-faced witch who was walking at the end of the team of wizards turned her head calmly and quickly followed the crowd.

  If Colin was there, he would be surprised to find out—

   One of the last remaining junior apprentices in their group.

   There is even a female apprentice, like him, at the end of the ten-year period, she successfully advanced to the intermediate level wizard apprentice and stayed in the wizard collar.

  If Colin has not forgotten the name of the female apprentice, he may not say hello:

   "Mia."

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  Tattoo—

  The footsteps gradually stopped.

   Wizard Rapp stopped in front of a heavy stone door in the deepest part of the central castle.

   "Children," he said, his voice more tired than before.

   "This is the trial I prepared for you."

  Colin raised his head and carefully looked at the unremarkable gray stone door behind him.

  Shimen has a smooth surface, and there is a circle around the edge like a simple stroke of gravel…

   Decorative patterns like this can be seen everywhere in Blackrock Castle, nothing special.

   Apart from that, Shimen has no other special traces.

   "Cough-, the trial is very simple... You'll know the details later when you go in." Wizard Rapp coughed and said no more.

   He waved the wand in his hand, and indiscernible magical fluctuations flashed past.

  Click.

   The stone gate behind him suddenly rose, and a dark and deep corridor appeared behind him.

   Maybe because the stone gate opened.

  The bright crystals inlaid on the top of the tunnel light up gradually from near to far, and the light path formed by them extends all the way back to the end of the line of sight.

   Under the soft white light, Colin could see the whole view of the corridor.

   There are some rough and uneven gray stone walls on the left and right, and the details are carved with the same style of pattern decoration as the stone door outside.

  Perhaps due to the humidity, in some tortuous crevices, there are cyan stubbornly crawling out and clinging to the stone wall.

   "Go in." Wizard Rapp stepped aside and signaled to the apprentices.

  Needam took the lead in walking towards the passage without hesitation.

   He wasn't worried about any conspiracy by Wizard Rapp.

  If Wizard Rapp really wanted to do them badly, why make it so complicated.

  10,000 steps back, even if Wizard Rapp really wanted to harm them, they had no room to resist.

   Even if Wizard Rapp was seriously injured, it was still easy to deal with them apprentices.

   The three peak wizard apprentices of Price, who died suddenly, are not the best examples?

   Of course, having lived on the island for more than 30 years, he believed that what Wizard Rapp said was true.

  If Wizard Rapp is seriously injured and is about to fall... Then these apprentices, even if they drain their blood, are useless to Wizard Rapp.

   There is no need to spend so much trouble on them.

  Under his leadership, the apprentices also walked in hesitantly.

   They are obviously not fools, and most of them know what Needham can think of.

Ding.

  Colin walked unhurriedly in the middle of the crowd, and quietly turned his hand to retract the ball that was suspended in his palm.

   This is a small skill derived from the arrow shooting technique.

  The direction of east, west, north and south can be judged according to the magnetic field.

  The apprentices filed into the corridor from the stone gate.

  Click—

   At the moment when all the apprentices entered the corridor, the stone gate slowly closed.

   Colin looked back subconsciously, and many apprentices also made the same move as him.

   After seeing the scene behind them, the apprentices breathed a sigh of relief…

   At the end of the line, Wizard Rapp was there, slowly following them.

  Tattoo—

   The apprentices walked in silence, no one spoke.

   Only the shadows under the white light are swaying…

   They look different.

  Some people are looking forward to the trials that follow, fantasizing that maybe they can be the lucky one chosen by Wizard Rapp and stand out.

  Some people are worried.

   They didn't expect that Black Rock Island would be turned upside down in just one night.

   But... Maybe this world is like this.

   Peace and stability.

   is a luxury word for anyone.

  …The corridor was longer than Colin had imagined.

  嚓.

   He took out his pocket watch and opened it.

   The time has almost passed by nearly an hour.

   He looked forward.

   Wizard Rapp walked in front of them long before they knew it.

   Maybe it's to take care of the junior apprentices, he's not fast.

   It is precisely because of this that the apprentices did not get scattered, but still gathered together as a dragon.

   Needham's peak apprentices could only suppress their speed, and honestly followed behind Wizard Rapp.

   Another moment.

   Colin felt that the speed of the team slowed down, and finally stopped.

  He looked up and looked forward.

   passed through the heads blocking the view, at the front of the team.

   Wizard Rapp stopped in front of a gray stone wall.

  The stone wall is about three meters high and five meters wide. The edges are covered with vine-like embossed lines.

   Colin frowned.

  This stone wall is obviously different from the style of the gray-black corridor where they are located.

   (end of this chapter)