Hate Me, Miss Witch!

In the side palace, Hathaway knelt in front of the silver mirror, gently combing her long hair.

In the simple hourglass beside her, fine white sand was flowing slowly, and there were dozens of clear marks on the stone wall beside her.

This was the mark used by the golden elf to record time. Now it has been 29 days since she was imprisoned here.

In the past month, she was decadent at first, gave up on herself, and thought about suicide and ending her life.

However, after repeated futile attempts, when she lay on the cold ground, feeling the powerlessness transmitted by her limbs and bones——

Hathaway just now, after experiencing the incident at the Council Meeting, she really calmed down for the first time.

Her self-abandonment and crazy attempts to end her life in the past month——

In fact, thinking carefully, this is not the so-called atonement as she thought, wanting to help Char break his ties and get him out of trouble.

And it was just, simply dragging his feet, betraying everything he had done for him.

Teacher Char was not completely ignorant of the secrets and potential dangers on the Lost Island.

But for his own sake, he still came, willing to seek the skin of the sleeping ancient god.

And before that, he was just pathetically giving up on himself, pathetically giving up the chance to live that Char had fought so hard for her.

If Char could see his decadent appearance through the shadow curtain, he would probably only feel distressed -

or even regret.

Regret for misjudging someone.

Regret for giving up everything and sincerity for a golden elf like him who didn't know how to cherish life.

So, at least during this period of time -

No matter how sad she was in her heart, how strong the pain in her heart was, and how much she regretted to the point of wanting to give up... but at least in front of Char, she had to show an optimistic look.

She didn't know when Char would see her through the curtain - so she forced herself to be calm and smile all the time. Hathaway washed the dust on her long golden hair with clean water, and her straight hair fell down like a waterfall, scattered on the soft bed. Then, she changed into a black knee-length skirt. There was a black butterfly ribbon around her waist, and exquisite lace was embroidered on her shoulders. The clothes of the golden elves used to be pure white. This was because there was a shortage of supplies and insufficient dyes in the Lost Island. Most elves wore white clothes, so even the elders continued this habit. But in the drifting cabin in the astral world, Char said that black might suit her better than white. So after that, in her spare time from studying arcane and magic, Hathaway secretly looked for Yui to check the fashion magazines and clothing matching information stored in Yui's database. Those trendy and fashionable clothes in Yui's database dazzled Hathaway, who had been living in the Lost Island.

This is the Lost Island, outside the endless sea...

Is it the colorful scenery in the world called "Western Continent" that she had only heard of in ancient books and from her elders?

Looking at the gorgeous and dazzling information in Yui's database, looking at the young and beautiful female models in the recorded pictures, who did not hide their fashion and beauty.

Hathaway actually felt that she was a bit like a poor girl in a remote village, looking at the colorful world and feeling a little ashamed.

However, everyone has a love of beauty, even the legendary gold elves are no exception.

After that, Hathaway spent a few weeks learning the looks of those fashion magazines in Yui's database and customized a set of black clothes for herself.

She thought that the dress had been lost in the riot in the previous council chamber, but she didn't expect that Char had found a way to keep it and sent it to the side palace where she was imprisoned.

Hathaway changed her clothes and looked at herself in the mirror carefully.

"It looks good."

A familiar voice sounded in Hathaway's ears.

The golden elf looked back in surprise, only to see that the dark curtain at the entrance of the side palace had quietly dissipated at some point.

A human boy with black hair and black eyes was standing aside, looking at the silver mirror calmly.

"Char, why are you here?"

Such an unexpected scene made Hathaway a little confused for a moment.

"That guy... He won't stop us from contacting him?"

"Even if the prisoner sentenced to death is comforted by the jailer with a few kind words and a full meal before the execution..."

"Even if these comforting words and that full meal are not originally intended for so-called humanitarianism... but simply to comfort the dying prisoners, so that they don't make trouble, and save the executioner and the jailer some trouble."

Xia Ya smiled.

"In His eyes, there is no difference between me and the death row prisoner who is about to go to the execution ground."

"Before that, satisfy some of my little wishes and resolve some of my regrets... Let me calm my instinct for survival, give up myself without resistance, entrust my body to Him, and smoothly complete the possession and fusion."

"No matter how you look at it, this is a sure win."

He turned his head and glanced behind him, deep in the dark night.

"After all, he is the creator of the Glorious Age. Even if it is only his current body, he is the true master of this Elf King Court."

"When he was still in self-sealing and sleeping, he still needed to remotely control the elders of the elves to exercise his will, but now he is close to full recovery..."

"In his eyes at this moment, even if he allows us to meet, or even allows us to conspire... the splashes, he can easily destroy them."

Obviously, what he was talking about was a topic that was really related to himself.

But Xia's voice was very calm, as if the person who was about to be deprived of his self and body was not himself, but just talking about an insignificant little thing.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this."

"Anyway, I didn't come here today to discuss a conspiracy with you to escape."

"If I really want to discuss an escape, I won't choose such a dignified way."

"Anyway, that person has promised me that he will reshape my body after I recover my original status... I think I can still trust the promise of the creator of the Glorious Era."

He smiled slightly like this.

Then, he stretched out his hand to Hathaway.

Behind Char, an illusory and hazy door was slowly materializing.

The bright sunshine, through the illusory door, sprinkled into the palace shrouded in the darkness of the eternal night.

Also, it illuminated the dim eyes of the golden elf.

"Although I don't have much time, there is still one last day."

"Let's go."

"There are some things I have been planning for a long time, and I want to take you to see them."

...

When Hathaway took Char's hand and passed through the illusory door.

The incomparable light surged into her sight like a tide.

What came into view was the scenery that Hathaway had only heard of in ancient books and books in the royal library, and only dared to imagine it in her dreams at midnight.

However, the world in front of her was far more magnificent than the scenery she imagined in her dreams, hundreds and thousands of times more gorgeous.

This was a bustling city.

The sky was blue and pure, with a few white clouds dotted in it.

From time to time, there were loud cries, and a few shadows of flying birds passed across the blue sky.

And in the sky farther away, a huge magic airship was spinning its blades, slowly passing through the dome of the sky, briefly covering the sunlight and bringing a shadow to the city below.

However, the humans in the city shrouded by the shadow of the airship were not afraid at all, but just cheered for the huge airship.

Hathaway looked at the huge magic airship in the sky.

Then she looked at the bustling, noisy and bustling city in front of her.

Such a dreamlike scene washed over her mind like a tide, making her a little confused for a moment, but deep in her heart, she inevitably surged with longing and yearning for the world in front of her.

"This city is named the city of knowledge - Lugia."

"Today is the city's festival every five years, the "Arcane Festival."

"People from all over the Western Continent, of different races and ranks, who have chosen to become wizards, gather here every time the Arcane Festival is held."

"They exchanged their own schools and arcane progress in their respective fields, and displayed the latest magic props, extraordinary items and magical creations..."

"This is a wizard's grand gathering, and it is also one of the most famous festivals in the entire Western Continent. "

Char pulled Hathaway into the noisy crowd.

...

"The legend of the dwarves, the humanoid golem created by Master Bobby of the Golem School, can fight against fifth-level opponents, and can warm your bed... The starting price is only 50,000 Rhine gold coins..."

"The booth opened by the chief reader of the Astrology School, the divination magic can ask about astronomy and geography, marriage and wealth, and knows everything..."

The voices around her were endless, making Hathaway a little dazzled.

"Arcane Festival?"

Hathaway looked at the noisy places in the city and the airship floating in the sky relying on the magic circle, and asked Char in a very low voice.

"In other words, this city... is full of wizards who practice magic?"

"All wizards are a bit exaggerated. "

"After all, you know that becoming a wizard requires not only soul qualifications and elemental affinity, but also that every wizard is a big spender... If you don't have a mine at home, you generally can't afford the expenses of a wizard apprentice."

"However, this whole city is related to wizards and magic... It is indeed true."

"Char and Hathaway stood side by side, looking at the noisy city in front of them, and answered.

"Wizards have a demand for various rare spellcasting materials, so there are adventurer teams in the knowledge city that go out to hunt and sell precious spellcasting materials to wizards..."

"And adventurers need to train pets, rent a place to rest, drink and have fun, and they will be injured and need treatment when they go out on adventures... So there are pet training grounds, taverns, hotels, white houses, weapon shops and pharmacies..."

"However, even if they are not wizards, they know nothing about arcane..."

"But this does not prevent them from enjoying this festival and experiencing the beauty of this arcane festival."

Wow——

There was a sudden noise in the distance, as if a famous legendary wizard had arrived, and countless people in the knowledge city of Lugia were watching.

Following was a dense flow of people.

In order to avoid the crowded flow of people, Xia Ya and Hathaway randomly found a roadside shop and walked in.

This seemed to be a shop selling magic wands.

Slender wooden magic wands were placed on the shelves on the wall.

The golden elf tiptoed, picked one from the shelf at random, and looked at it curiously in her hand.

With her current status, she could naturally see that this wooden magic wand had the auxiliary effect of increasing the power of spells, speeding up the chanting of spells, and building spell models.

However, with the forbidden spells and the "high-speed divine words" skills that the golden elf mastered at the moment, they were far superior to this small magic wand, and there was no actual benefit for her.

But speaking of it, with Xia's status, he has also reached the point where he doesn't need a staff to cast spells.

But Hathaway remembered very clearly that when the two met for the first time in the astral world, he took out a staff and cast a ring of "fluorescent flashes".

He said it was for the so-called wizard's sense of ritual.

"Fifteen inches, elderberry."

"The core of the staff is... Yeqi's tail feathers."

The old shopkeeper stood up from the shop, looked at the magic wand, and then looked at Hathaway, his eyes paused for a moment at the long ears that were faintly visible between Hathaway's golden hair.

"Half-elf?"

"Yes."

Hathaway was stunned and nodded.

She was not a half-elf, but a pure-blooded golden elf, but pure-blooded elves were already on the verge of extinction, and most people didn't know the difference, so she didn't need to explain it specifically.

"That staff is exclusive to the School of Necromancy... If you are a half-elf who is good at elemental or natural magic, I recommend this one."

"Eleven inches, holly wood, phoenix feather core..."

"Thank you very much for your kindness, but no, I'm just looking around."

Hathaway politely thanked the shopkeeper and put the wand in her hand back on the shelf.

Then, she put her hand back into Char's palm and followed Char out of the store.

On the street, the previous noisy crowd had dispersed.

Even in the Western Continent, this is a rare good weather. The sun shines the green shade on the side of the street into a semi-transparent light, and thousands of fiery red maple leaves fall with the wind.

What's more, it is Hathaway who has been confined to the Lost Island for almost her entire life and has never seen the outside world.

This city is very big.

And Hathaway and Char walked around the city, stopping and starting, and visited various stalls and shops of the Arcane Festival along the way.

She bought the candied haws from a street vendor, which she had heard about before but never had the chance to see.

She and Char also caught a few dolls in the amusement facility in the amusement center, which used a magic device to transmit and control the mechanical claws to extend and send.

They walked around the city like this.

In such weather, you should run around without a destination and go wherever you go.

When Char and Hathaway finally stopped, it was already dusk.

The lively stalls during the day had closed, and the tourists who had been busy playing the Arcane Festival for a day also began to leave one after another.

This previously bustling city returned to a brief silence.

The fiery red glow shone down from the end of the sky, and Char and Hathaway's shadows in the glow were infinitely elongated.

"How do you feel?"

"Today's journey, and the world in front of you."

Char still held the doll that the gold elf had caught before, and spoke softly.

"It's beautiful, even more beautiful than the outside world I imagined through the few words in those ancient books." Hathaway lowered her head slightly: "It's just that because it's too beautiful, it seems very far away." She turned her head slightly and looked back at the city behind her. The setting sun was taking away the afterglow from the city little by little, and soon, the night would cover the city of knowledge again, just like the Lost Island, which also represents the end of this day. However, unlike the Lost Island, no one in this city would panic because of the coming of night. Because everyone knows--Tomorrow, the sun will rise as usual. "Really?" "Then I'm satisfied." There was a little satisfaction in Xia's words. The two continued to walk aimlessly. Hathaway didn't know where Xia was going, but she kept following him. "This city, this world." She opened her mouth and hesitated for a long time before asking again: "In the Western Continent... is it real?" Hathaway could certainly see that the city in front of her, this world, did not really exist. Char also has no ability to move a complete human city to the Lost Island.

This is just an illusion created by illusion.

A fantasy so beautiful that people want to indulge in it forever.

However, with such cumbersome and almost rigorous details, and a scene of a complete city... God knows how Char created this illusion that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

"How should I put it..."

Char thought for a while.

"This is not the scenery that exists on the current Western Continent. The human civilization on the Western Continent has just begun to be enlightened, and it is far from being so prosperous."

"But, that is the world of my dreams."

"And."

He paused slightly.

"I believe that one day, this scenery will become a reality."

In order to plan this trip, even Char also spent a lot of thought.

In the real timeline, not long ago, the Arcane Festival was really held in the knowledge city of Lugia.

And Char spent all his mental power, scanning and simulating bit by bit, and then reproduced the whole picture of that city and that festival in his mind.

The amount of information of an entire city, every detail is meticulous, so even with Char's current status, it is quite difficult, and his mental power has been exhausted several times before it was completed.

"Of course, this city is just a byproduct."

"My real dream is here."

Char spoke softly and stepped aside.

It was only then that Hathaway saw the magnificent black tower.

The pitch-black tower stood tall and straight into the sky, as if it was going to connect heaven and earth.

And on the square outside the black tower, there was an ancient obelisk.

Red-gold ancient Arran words were engraved on the obelisk-

"The truth and destination are in the depths of the stars"

Although this pitch-black tower is the center of the entire city, Hathaway had not discovered the location of this pitch-black tower until now because her attention was focused on the prosperous arcane festival in the city.

She had never seen this magnificent tower before.

But when the black tower really came into view, Hathaway understood where it was.

That was the tower that Char had mentioned to her before, which belonged only to wizards, only to arcane and magic.

At that time, Char had invited her to become the first member of this wizard tower.

They passed through the huge obelisk in the square and walked into the magnificent black tower.

It seemed that it was the end of the get off work day, and the black tower was empty.

Only volumes of magic classics and arcane knowledge were quietly displayed on the bookshelf, exuding the unique bookish atmosphere of paper and ink.

"I have always dreamed of building such a tall wizard tower."

"Humans, half-elves, dwarves..."

"Humans and sub-human races have no racial barriers, put down the chain of interests, hatred and contradictions, and can gather together calmly. What they talk about is not war and territorial division, but the truth above the stars."

"This is a tower of knowledge built by humans and intelligent life, self-reliant and endless."

"There is no room for gods to intervene, and there is no need for gods."

Hearing the magnificent scenery described in Char's words.

The golden elf also spoke involuntarily: "Teacher Xia's dream is also my dream."

"Really..."

"If that's the case, then I'm relieved."

There was a little relief in Xia's words.

And, a little bit of relief.

"I used to think that your elders were a little irresponsible. They entrusted you with the mission of reviving the elves and then died on their own."

"But now, at this moment, I can understand what they are thinking."

"That responsibility, that mission, rather than being a task and pressure forced upon you... it's better to say it's a blessing."

"Because they know that they can no longer accompany you... but you are too young and they are worried."

"So, they just used this method to give you a motivation and direction in life."

"In fact, they may never care whether you can really revive the Elf King's Court..."

"As long as you don't give up on yourself, don't give up your life, don't lose yourself... and can live healthily and happily, they will be satisfied."

He suddenly stood up, touched the head of the golden elf girl in front of him, turned around and walked out of the magnificent black tower.

Boom--

At the entrance of the black tower, the huge metal door slammed shut behind him.

In the heart of the golden elf, the spiritual intuition sensed something wrong without warning.

However, everything that happened was so fleeting.

When she really came to her senses, the huge metal door had already slammed shut, and the figure of the human boy could no longer be seen.

Only Char's last words were left, echoing in this windowless tower.

"So, please don't forget it."

"My dream, our dream, the dream called the Black Tower..."

"And-"

"Goodbye."

"Teacher Hathaway."