"I'm really curious, Shade, which friend you want to save."
Miss Danister muttered, looking at Shade lying down with the cat in his arms, and stretched out her hand to close the coffin:
"You will have problems with your perception of time in a while, this is normal, don't worry about it. In addition, you must not take the initiative to open this coffin from the inside, remember, you must not do that! Even if you think that decades have passed. Someone will be there to pick you up. I've already made arrangements, and no one will try to find out your identity. You and Miss Emilia Sienord can do whatever you want."
She reached her hand into the coffin, and finally couldn't resist the urge to touch the cat, but Mia fiercely pushed her hand away with her claws.
"I feel the coffin is shaking violently now. Is this normal?"
Shade asked worriedly.
"This is not a normal phenomenon. There is another earthquake."
Miss Danister said in a relaxed tone:
"So, are you ready for another short trip to the academy?"
She pushed the coffin lid closed with a gentle push. After waiting for a few seconds and making sure there were no abnormalities, she left the camp again and walked towards Miss Sylvia who was waiting outside the camp.
"Lady, come with me to greet him. Shade will be back soon."
Adhering to the idea of saying less and making fewer mistakes, Miss Sylvia simply nodded. She was quite in awe of this long-established thirteen-ring sorceress. The two then walked side by side in the snowy forest. No one spoke for the first few minutes, but Miss Danister finally spoke first:
"I think you should know who I am. Shad Hamilton is my chosen successor and student. I know that young and handsome gentlemen of his age are interested in beautiful ladies. But I hope you can also understand that his future is limitless. Maybe a hundred years later, he will be what I am now, so I hope..."
"I leave him?"
Miss Sylvia asked, trying not to laugh in her heart, thinking of the contents of those messy knight novels she had seen in the corner of Margaret's study before.
Miss Danister was very serious:
"He is not fit to be your lover."
"You probably got the relationship mixed up."
The young witch corrected her, and the two ladies' boots made a rhythmic sound on the snow.
The sorceress of the Thirteenth Ring was stunned for a moment before she understood what this meant.
Miss Sylvia frowned slightly, thinking of the troubles and challenges she was facing, and then added:
"Besides, Shade hasn't agreed yet."
"Um?"
"You have to queue up, not only on a first come first served basis, but also those girls with strong means have to be considered. Professor Danister, you and I are not from the same era, and the year 1854 is no longer the time when you were a student. This kind of thing requires competition, and is even more difficult and tests one's scheming than war. And obviously, I am still relatively backward now."
So until she reached her destination very close, the librarian lady of St. Byrons was still immersed in the facts she had learned.
On the other hand, Xia De, who was lying in the coffin with the cat in his arms, was not in any danger or pain. In fact, when the coffin lid was just closed, he did feel a gust of cold wind blowing into his clothes from his trouser legs. As he shivered violently, he also felt as if someone was blowing on the back of his neck.
But then the cat in his arms and himself began to glow together. The warm light from Mia's body was as warm as the sun, which quickly dispelled the chill in the coffin as if it was about to be haunted.
Mia probably felt that it was very interesting. In the small space, she lay on Shad's chest, looking at Shad with her big amber eyes. Shad also raised his head slightly and looked at the cat. The man and the cat looked at each other for about half a minute, and then the coffin lid made a sound again.
When the first ray of light came in, Mia was stuffed into Shad's clothes, and Shad had already arrived at St. Byrons.
"Come this way."
The other coffin was stored in a small underground room, which was an academy building that Shade had never been to.
After climbing out of the coffin, he was led by a silent old man in a white robe and soon saw Emilia, who had changed out of her pajamas. Not only did she change out of her pajamas, she even tied her hair with a simple hairband, which made her look very capable.
Although the secret of the elf girl was known by the academy, her mental state at the moment was obviously not depressed but excited:
"It's rare to have the opportunity to walk around the college so late at night. A long, long time from now, when I am old enough to sit in a rocking chair with a cat under a blanket in my arms in the afternoon sun, I will miss this night very much."
"That will probably be several hundred years from now."
The old gentleman who led Shade here said, looking at the elf girl, but did not warn her not to wander around tonight. Emilia called the old gentleman "Professor Constantine", who was probably a professor at the "Library Management College" that specializes in storing and guarding relics.
"Please allow me to express my apologies once again..."
Shade said hurriedly to the elf.
"Oh, please don't say that. Please teach me more knowledge about ancient elven runes when you have the chance. Follow me. The entrance to the passage is not in the Academy City area, but near the unicorn habitat."
Just as Miss Danister said, no one really asked about Shad's identity. Before saying goodbye to Professor Constantine, he and the young elf girl each received a dark-colored St. Byron's school emblem pendant.
According to the old professor of the School of Library Management, St. Byron's has enough ways to detect whether students who have not graduated violate the curfew after curfew. Therefore, if you want to walk through St. Byron's at night, you need a "credential" to prove that you have permission.
Perhaps Miss Danister had already given instructions, so no one followed the next action, only Shad and Emilia were involved.
The area of St. Byrons College was no smaller than that of Tobesk City, and the unicorn breeding area Emilia mentioned was actually far away from the college castle located in the core part of the city.
However, they didn't need to ride horses, carriages or even flying carpets. In this huge northern city built on the basis of the Thaumaturgy Academy, there were relatively simple short-distance teleportation methods. Usually these teleportation devices were rarely used by students, but fortunately Miss Danister gave them enough permissions tonight.
Therefore, in the previous second, he had just passed through the obsidian door engraved with fine runes in the basement of the college's library, and in the next second he had appeared in the forest under the night sky where the obsidian door stood.
Compared to the heavy snow in the Randall River Valley tonight, the weather in St. Byrons in the far north was unexpectedly good. Looking at the night sky in the woods far away from the city, the stars seemed to be hanging upside down above the head. Mia stood on Shad's shoulder and looked at the stars above his head, but the anxious Shad was not in the mood to appreciate the academy this time.
"This way."
The elf lady wrapped in a robe led the way in front. After walking for a few minutes on the path with signposts in the forest, they saw a big tree with a wooden sign hanging on it that read "Home of the Unicorn".
However, the building in front was not the stable that Shade had imagined, or the small house in the fairy tale. Going forward, through the jungle, there was a large lake, in the middle of which was an island. On the island was a huge tree that almost covered the entire island, and hundreds of unicorns emitting pure white light were gathering in groups of two or three, sleeping under the shadow of the tree.
Dots of white light floated on the lake and the island in the middle of the lake, like fireflies, but it seemed that it was just an abnormal optical phenomenon caused by the collective gathering of unicorns. The sparkling waves reflected the pure white magical animals under the giant tree, and those dots of light and the waves made the scene look even more fantastic.
The night view tonight was so beautiful that Xia De felt reluctant to disturb the quiet atmosphere here.
Emilia, who was standing by the lake with Shade, explained:
"There are more than twenty unicorn populations in St. Byrons. The one assigned to me and my companions by the teacher is a smaller one. After all, I am still a student. To open that ancient passage, we need the help of unicorns. In fact, it was with their help that we discovered that road."
As she spoke, she put her fingers into her mouth and blew out a whistle.
Although the penetrating whistle was not very harsh, it still woke up the sleeping creatures on the island in the middle of the lake in this quiet night.
They looked towards the source of the sound, and then stood up one by one. White light surrounded them, and they themselves were as quiet as the night.
Emilia took out the school emblem pendant and shouted:
"I have obtained permission from the academy, and I need the help of one of you tonight!"
So most of the unicorns lay down again, and after waiting for a while, the smallest one in the group spread its wings and ran to the lakeside on the water that reflected the sea of stars.
The soft hair swayed in the wind, and as the body passed by, it left a faint white light mark in the night.
The young elf with blond hair also smiled and reached behind her head. After untying the hair tie, she let her blond hair spread out and sway in the wind.
She opened her arms and took a step forward to the lake to greet her soon-to-be-arrived companion:
"Lianna, I need your help tonight."
If time was not tight, Shade would not have wanted to disturb this tempera painting. Fortunately, it was not him who disturbed the scene. Little Mia recognized the "playmate" she had seen before, and she meowed. The happy little unicorn shivered, then broke away from Emilia's arms and came to Shade obediently.