Blooming Tower of the West Wind

Hipper smiled and said, "How? These magnificent scenery are often powerless to describe with rigorous language. It needs another kind of magical law to describe, that is poetry. You have worked too hard recently, you need to relax Treat yourself."

Theron asked suspiciously: "If it doesn't help me understand this book, what is the purpose of my spending time reading it?"

The doubts on her face were very sincere, and it might be a kind of sarcasm to say this from someone else, but Theron might really not understand, and Hipper knew her students, so she asked back: "Is this what you've been worrying about lately? "

"It can be said... yes..."

Hipper didn't say the answer with confidence like before, but thought for a while and said, "You have trouble reading these books, right?"

"Yes...the dizzying array of genres...I have trouble understanding the relationship between them."

"But you're trying to figure it out, and I know you've made lots of notes and cards to memorize them."

"Yeah, that's the basics. Right, sir?"

Hipper smiled mildly, her gray eyes were covered with a watery color, "On the one hand, I ventured to guess that this is the result of my improper arrangement of lessons. To solve this problem, I think I need to let you To get some threads that tie these things together, some next-level tools that go beyond the difficult readings you're looking at."

"What's that?" Theron asked.

"Something about philosophy, one of the basic tools for understanding the world, and it's time for you to master them. Of course, these things are boring, complicated, and conflicting with each other, and may make you temporarily lose your place, but You always have to master it."

All this did not make Theron hesitate a little bit, she quickly replied: "Yes! If it can solve the problems I am facing now, I am willing to learn."

Hipper patted the back of her hand, "I like you... I'm so glad you have this attitude of facing difficulties, it's very valuable."

Theron bowed her head a little shyly, and replied in a low voice, "I'm so glad I have."

"But there is one thing... Maybe you didn't notice it, maybe I was negligent..." Hipper's eyes changed, and silver fire lit up in her eyes, catching Theron's sight. "Theron, you're pushing yourself too hard, what's the reason?"

"I...?" Theron's eyes were confused, "I think my studies... are okay?"

"I know you've worked hard to understand them, and you've taken a lot of notes, and even used up your break time to recite them. It's undeniable that this is a must-do homework. But you're distracted even when you're watching the storm , you still think that these things are not helpful to your studies, so there is no need to understand them, right?"

Theron thought for a while and said, "It's roughly the same."

"'Useful' and 'useless' are relative to 'purpose', so what is your purpose that makes you feel that poetry and appreciation of scenery are useless? This puzzles me because, on the contrary, Based on what I know about you, I think you should like these irrational things very much."

Theron's expression was still confused: "The purpose...isn't...to become a qualified mage apprentice as soon as possible?"

"Little beast, you're not in such a hurry." Hipper narrowed his eyes slightly, and nodded Theron's nose. "What I promised you once was that you will be free. The most basic meaning of freedom is that you don't Restricted and hindered. Now I want to give you a narrower explanation: to allow you to understand the world without hindrance, and based on this to think without hindrance, so as to follow your heart and make choices that satisfy you. That is my ultimate goal."

She patted the book on her lap, and pointed to the distant sky, "These are things you need to observe and understand, and they won't be useless. Don't...don't reject things that appear in your life .”

Like I didn't turn you down in the end.

The faded flame danced gently, "I won't push you too hard. After you finish writing this reading note, you don't need to write it next week. I think I should tell you about poetry and philosophy appreciation, you how do you feel?"

The original doubts and tension in Theron's heart were soothed by Hipper. The elemental king is always right, and she is always beautiful and omniscient.

As if in the frozen time, only the figure sitting at the table kept growing. Hipper opened another old suitcase for Theron. According to the label, it was the clothes she wore when she was around 12 years old. Ron had only been in the Tower for three years, and Hipper judged that she had grown faster.

There is no doubt that Theron is an excellent student. During these years of solitude, Hipper corrected her language habits, living habits and even dining habits.Wearing the expensive suits she left behind when she was a child, she is already a mage apprentice with a good family background and a good education. It is completely impossible to imagine her life like a beast.

But what is even more commendable is that she always has some strange thoughts, romantic and innocent thoughts, just like her nature, which are completely preserved, and then expressed in a well-organized language, which always makes people feel vivid and vivid. fine.

Hipper couldn't tell whether she was praising her to encourage her or to praise her to see her happy. Theron often made her fall into the illusion that "students are too easy to teach". They didn't encounter any special big problems Obstacles, Theron is growing gratifyingly according to the steps and speed she planned.

Her student is like a pure and transparent cup. Hipper slowly poured some beautiful liquid into it according to her own color. At least for now, when she looks at the sun, she still looks beautiful.

Hipper moved an ancient gold coin from under the beam.This gold coin is obviously real gold, mixed with certain alloys so that the gold coin will not wear out too quickly, and the king's portrait printed on the surface is not very clear, let alone distinguish what dynasty it is.

But in the middle of the gold coin was inlaid a ruby ​​of good quality, which was so clear that there were almost no impurities. Virgil sent it over a month ago, and it is said that he felt unusual magical fluctuations on it.

Hipper has a hobby (as well as the hobby of many other learned mages), the history of ancient magic. This thing from ancient times may be a magical gizmo. Its age and craftsmanship are worthy of scrutiny. She looked up and was about to call Theron came to see, but saw that Theron's seat was empty, and then remembered that today is a rest day, and Theron did not come to the library to be her little tail.

The archmage felt a loss that could not be called loneliness. Everyone is the same. They can only accompany you for a period of time in life. She realized this when she was very young. Even friends and classmates who get along day and night, separation For the rest of their lives, everyone will always be separated. If they maintain it deliberately, most people can still maintain polite correspondence, while more people can only stay in memory, frozen in the past.

Theron will leave one day, become an excellent mage, leave this mage tower, and start her own life.

Hipper took off his glasses and closed his eyes wearily.She rubbed her temples for a while, then pushed back the chair and went downstairs to the living room.

"Theron." She raised her voice a little, but there was no response, a black figure knocked open the door of the living room, rushed over, biting the hem of her clothes, and pulled Hipper inside.

"Tius! What's the matter?"

With some ominous premonition in her heart, she tore open the elemental rift with her hands, and the azure blue housekeeper rushed out from inside and got into the crack of the door.

The chubby body of Tius knocked open the door of the living room. Hipper ran up, picked up the hem of her robe, bent slightly, and jumped over the sofa. The open door scrambled out.

"'The mountains overlap'!"

The stone walls around the terrace suddenly grew higher and higher, and the wind whizzed and rolled towards Theron. After being knocked away by the stone wall, the child who was at a loss had no time to raise his head, and was swept into the air by a whirlwind.

Hipper rushed up to her and demanded loudly, "What are you doing!"

Theron paddled in the air at a loss, unable to answer, she stretched out her hand towards Hipper, but the wind was too disturbing, she couldn't even see the teacher's expression clearly, only the dazzling hair tip dazzled her eyes. pain.

It took a while for Hipper to free her from the restraints and hold her hands to keep her from falling.

"Theron, you'd better explain your behavior clearly." Her voice was very calm, and the hem of her robe was not messed up. Considering that she jumped over the sofa just now, it must be said that she is a person who pays great attention to appearance at all times.

"I... teacher... I think you misunderstood something."

"I don't think I did, Theron, I saw you with one foot on the terrace. You better tell me you just stepped on it to shine your shoes."

"I... hey hey hey..." Theron suddenly felt light on his feet, and was dragged into the room by Hipper's wrist.The door slammed shut behind him, some wind must have done it flatteringly.

Then her body became heavy, and the slight overweight made her fall into the sofa.Fortunately, the cushion was very soft, so she didn't feel any pain, but was very embarrassed. When she got up, Hipper was already sitting opposite her.

"Theron, why did you jump down? I think I have warned you that your actions will endanger your life, and I always hope that you can learn to protect yourself."

"Teacher," Theron raised his head, "I'm not, you must have misunderstood something, I don't want to do something... Well, there is indeed a certain danger, but I'm already [-]% sure that I can do it Here, I can test it for you."

"What's the remaining point? Did you fall to death?" Hipper's tone was already very severe. Theron shrank his neck, wrinkled his face and racked his brains to think of how to calm Hipper's anger.But Hipper's complexion was obviously getting worse, and there was a cold and dark light in his gray eyes.

"You can listen to my plan before you get angry!"