There are two ways to go to Wuta Peninsula, one is simply called "the way into the city", and the other is called "VIP red carpet".
All normal travel methods are "the way into the city". The "VIP red carpet" refers to a teleportation circle, which is fixed on the top floor of the fifth training tower. According to the secret order, enter the peninsula from here.
After stepping out of the teleportation array, the guest has to accept a simple inspection by several senior spellcasters in the room. After passing the inspection, he can move freely in the training institute. Of course, it is limited to the public area. There are different levels of secret orders in secret areas, and only authorized mages can enter and exit.
Boris has all the secret orders and can travel unimpeded on the Five Towers Peninsula, but his current identity is "apprentice who represents the mentor to the meeting", so this time he has to control himself and not go to places that do not conform to his identity.
This time Lott's identity is no longer a warlock. The Five Towers Peninsula does not allow warlocks to enter at all. Now he is also "Boris' apprentice", although his temperament is not like a researcher at all... not like it, Bo Reese knew that his reputation was very useful. Anyway, as long as the "apprentice" could come up with a reliable token, other mages would not be able to say that they disliked him.
At Boris' request, Lot put on a simple and low-key mage costume before leaving. While fiddling with his robe, he asked, "The Hilda Academy cooperates with warlocks and recruits noble students, but the Five Towers Peninsula doesn't allow warlocks to enter?"
"Yes," Burris said, "The Hilda Academy believes that spellcasters should communicate more with the outside world, and also hope that the outside world can deepen their understanding of magic. The Five Towers Peninsula is different, they only accept people who already have a certain foundation. To enroll as a mage, you must pass the examination before enrolling."
"Thinking about it this way, there are quite a lot of mage schools..."
"Not many at all," Burris sighed. "It should even be said that there are too few. Do you know how many general institutions of higher education are in the Ten-Nation Confederation? Each country has one or two, and the Military Tactical School has ten. Two, not including the mercenary training camp, there are eight clergy academies to which the temple belongs, and there are only two mage academies that open enrollment... on the entire continent. Among these two academies, Hilda's The sum of all the teachers and students is roughly equal to one grade of the tactical school; the sum of the permanent mages, traders, and farmers on the Five Towers Peninsula is roughly equal to a Holly Village."
Lot thought for a while, then nodded slowly: "I know why. I rarely met mages when I was 'relaxing'... Mages seemed to live in a very hidden way. Now it is different. After being with you, I have one after another Constantly encountering various spellcasters gave me the illusion that there are mages everywhere now."
Burris smiled: "Actually, you feel right. The number of magic researchers is indeed increasing year by year, although the increase is relatively slow."
After finishing speaking, he was suddenly curious about one thing—the Lord of Bones can appear for seven days every hundred years. During those seven days, could it be that the Lord of Bones only communicated with one mage
Lott mentioned this vaguely, and he said it in a rather roundabout way, to the effect that "Boris is the only one who has made a serious promise to help him get rid of the curse." Thinking about it this way... Are there still "non-serious" promises? Or just as serious, but failed to help him
Burris shook his head, quickly putting aside these thoughts. He found that he was a little infected by Lott, and he was paying more and more attention to things that were meaningless and nutritious.
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Burris and Lott, of course, walked the "VIP red carpet" when heading to the Five Towers peninsula.
When receiving "Apprentice Koref", the mage in charge of the inspection had a very subtle expression, and there were two idle mages watching in whispers... It seems that these researchers are not too pure-hearted. Not a single one was missed.
The examiner took a closer look at the carnelian ring. She recognized the ring, and detected the spell license belonging to Boris himself, but she still stared at "Korev"'s hand for a long time, until the little mage asked her if there was any problem.
"Oh, nothing, sorry," the inspector smiled awkwardly, "seeing your hand, I thought of my teacher... His fingers were the same way, injured and reattached. I'm talking about Lu Teacher Er, have you heard of him?"
Burris immediately understood what she meant. "Ruhr... Your Excellency," Boris used "Your Excellency". He really didn't want people who were ten years younger than him and of average level to honorably call him "Mentor". Fingers."
The examiner nodded: "Yeah, actually that incident was just a misunderstanding. The necromology researchers in the past had a difficult life. We are much better now, and their generation was not so good when they were young... But how did you What's going on?"
Boris smiled wryly: "This has nothing to do with spells, it's just a wound from childhood... My hometown is quite chaotic. Fortunately, someone healed it for me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to be a mage."
After leaving the examination room, Lot leaned close to Burris' ear: "Actually, I've always wanted to ask you, do you really not blame me?"
The topic came so suddenly that Burris didn't understand what he was referring to, so Lott squeezed Burris' fingers through the robe.
Boris curled up his fingers: "Why should I blame you, what aspect of you are you to blame? Medical skills are not good or something?"
"No. I didn't stay with you all the time, but went back to Jingbing Lake again. I wanted to see what was going on in the lake... When I came back again, you disappeared again."
Burris said: "It's not your fault. I ran around by myself. You saved me from the river before that, and I thank you very much."
"That's good." Lot put one hand on his heart, "When I found you again, you were so weak and your hand was injured like that. I felt so distressed at that time, but I have to bear it and not be too obvious..."
"Why..." What Burris wanted to ask was, you didn't mean to do bad things, why couldn't you be too obvious
Before he finished speaking, he realized: Don't ask. Lott will definitely answer in a nasty way.
His hunch was right, but it's a pity that he couldn't take back his question. Lot moved closer again, and his icy blue eyes were directly reflected in his eyes: "Because, I already wanted to kiss you a little bit at that time. But no, the timing is wrong. We don't know each other yet, and you are in such a state Poor, I don't want you to think I'm making fun of your pain."
Boris stepped on the floating plate on the upper and lower towers, lowered his head, and pinched his eyebrows with one hand... The floating plate is so rough that it doesn’t even have a side force field to prevent it from falling. This is the style of the Five Towers Peninsula. They only value the laboratory And the classroom, the details of life can be saved...
Lot snickered beside him. His little mage was embarrassed again, he was literally poking a mimosa.
This is obviously not the case in romance novels. The protagonists confess their love for each other shortly after they met each other. The two are more grotesque than the other. When they are teased, they will answer with a kiss... It is estimated that his Boris will never be able to do this.
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The presentation that Burris is most interested in will be tomorrow morning. He just listened to today's meeting casually, and didn't think too much about it. Anyway, no one would come to ask young apprentices for their opinions.
At dusk, the last meeting of the day was held in the first training tower. After this it was dinner time and rest time.
The meeting was about teleporting spells. The teleportation spell seems safe and peaceful, but it is actually the most difficult and dangerous of all known stable spells. It is a spell that distorts space and matter, and it is inextricably related to otherworldly detection spells. In the era when it was first invented, it had caused several strange and tragic failure cases, such as the human body and the objects on the body could not be separated after being transported, or the human body and the natural environment were fitted together, etc... (Note 1 )
Today, teleportation spells have developed much more maturely and safely. Even if the spellcasting fails, it will only cause the destination to deviate or fail to activate, and there will be no more horrible tragedies in the past. Even so, mages are still more cautious about it. Even experienced mages seldom use teleportation temporarily. Everyone prefers to spend some time in advance to design the magic circle carefully, and strive to be safe and accurate, and complete it between the magic circle and the magic circle. Travel to a fixed destination. Burris has always done the same.
There is another interesting thing about the teleportation spell—only the native life of the plane can cast teleportation. The mage called it "the gift of the god of arcane magic".
This point was discovered by mages who studied alien science. They had successfully summoned a creature called "Pseudo-Bright Blue Owl". In the Dark Realm, it was known for being good at flashing and space jumping. After coming to the human world, it completely lost this ability.
These are also mentioned in writings on divine arts. It is said that before the various planes were exiled to each other, the three gods of goodness all turned into some kind of entity and walked in the world. Printixona is a blond female warrior, Eluben is an elf holding a tall cane, and Otarot is an embalmer wearing a black sacrificial robe... Their deeds have formed today's "magic vein", which proves that they are in the world He has never used divine power to teleport, but has been walking obediently with his feet.
This also affects the Lord of Skeletons. He can fly, can be immune to various magic and physical damage, can tear corpses with his hands, and can cast various powerful spells before his strength deteriorates... But he just can't cast teleportation. No, not in the Swamp of the Dead.
He can be lifted out by the curse, and then brought back, and he can only use the magic circle cast by others. According to this speculation, maybe he can only teleport himself in the Black Lake God's Domain, because that is his birthplace.
For the first half hour of the meeting, Lott listened very carefully. The mage who spoke on the stage reviewed the invention and development of teleportation, and used many cases to emphasize the difficulty and danger of spells... Lotter loves hearing failure cases, especially those with horror colors.
After the first speech was over, another scholar walked up to the demonstration stage and brought his assistants to show the composition of different magic circles and their respective advantages and disadvantages... Facing a lot of icon data and characters, Lott started to yawn, but Boris came A little spirit.
The scholar on the stage is Grindyll, a half-elf. Many years ago, many teachers felt that he lacked talent, but Burris believed that he had great potential. Later, he really quickly became enlightened and grew into an excellent researcher of alien studies. By the way, in terms of blood, he is a distant relative of Heisong, but neither he nor Heisong is willing to admit this.
After Grindyll's speech, three young mages stood on the podium. They are new teachers who have just obtained teaching qualifications, and together they have researched a new method of instant teleportation. It seems that they have modified a few parameters to simplify the way of casting spells or something.
"Instant teleportation" refers to the teleportation technique performed on the spot, rather than the pre-set magic circle. When teleporting instantly, the caster needs to cast the spell under his feet or in the open space, and then let the person involved in the teleportation trigger the characters... This is the same as the preset magic circle. Now, these three young mages have come up with a new way: you can no longer put spells at your feet or in the open space, but throw them at the feet of others from a distance.
For example, if you are walking on the road and see a half-orc hooligan coming from far ahead, as long as you are proficient enough, you can quickly throw the teleportation technique at his feet and send him to a distant snow mountain or sea; or, you You want to rescue someone out of trouble, but that person is very afraid of magic and refuses to cooperate with you to walk into the spell, and you are not as strong as him, so you cannot force him in, so now you can just throw the spell at his feet, no His consent is required.
"Who would cast spells like this..." Behind Burris, a mage whispered.
Mages who are proficient in instant teleportation are usually not afraid of ordinary attackers; and those mages who are annoyed by others' lack of cooperation and have nothing to do in the face of conflicts are usually not capable enough to perform instant teleportation... This "to the feet of others" The spell of throwing teleportation directly is a bit embarrassing, it doesn't stick to both sides, and it also has a bit of mischief.
What's more, if a few unruly mages use this technique indiscriminately outside, they will ruin the reputation of the mage group back to decades ago.
At this time, one of the mages on the stage suddenly walked up to Burris. Boris was sitting far away from the podium, and it was obvious that the mage was here specifically for him.
"We want to give a demonstration on the spot. This young apprentice, may I ask you to cooperate?" The mage made an inviting gesture.
Looking around, the entire conference hall is full of middle-aged and elderly people, and the sporadic one or two elves can't tell their age. The youngest assistants and apprentices they bring are in their thirties... Let the elders and peers cooperate with the demonstration It's a bit of a faux pas, so "Little Apprentice Kreve" in the corner is the perfect candidate.
Boris was hesitating, and the mage in front of him said: "This spell can not only contain one person, but also divide the spell into several pieces in the same cast, throwing it at different positions and people who have no physical contact with each other. The same destination. So, we still need a participant to cooperate, is there any... "
Before he finished speaking, Lott stood up excitedly: "Me!"
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Note 1: A tribute to the "Philadelphia Experiment". This is a well-known American urban legend, you can search it if you are curious.