Blooming Tower of the West Wind

Hipper sneered and said, "Now I don't think Virgil is a bad guy? He was the one who brought you back!"

Theron said, "But then I met you."

Her voice was very soft, like a white feather fluttering in Hipper's heart.

Instead, it was as if she was coaxing herself. Hipper suddenly realized her gaffe and returned to indifference, "Cunning little beast, sit back, Virgil is my friend, as long as he doesn't cross my bottom line, of course I won't Kill him."

"That's good! You also said that friends should be cherished."

The fork in Hipper's hand suddenly went wrong, and she realized that this topic must be killed immediately, "...eat."

The Archmage intentionally took her favorite student and her water lord to swagger through the market, reaped tons of envy and surprise, and then returned with a rewarding reward.

In the afternoon, classes are held as usual, and in the evening, classes are also held as usual, except for the big blue water polo next to it that winks at Hektra, life is almost the same as before.When it was time for Theron to go to bed, she came out of the library and walked back to her room. After taking a shower, she found Hipper leaning against the door with her arms crossed, seemingly in a daze.

She was still in her daytime attire, without the baggy gown. Theron wiped something on her face, dried her hair with a breeze, and asked, "Teacher, what's wrong?"

Hipper suddenly raised her head, "Theron."

The archmage came towards her, and a subtle emotion drew Theron to watch her teacher as she came towards him.

She looked at Hipper puzzled, who stared at her fixedly, and suddenly stretched out his hands, gently hooking her into his arms.

"I..." Hipper hesitated to speak.

"Teacher?" Theron was only wearing a pair of pajamas, and the heat that belonged to Hippo was easily transmitted to her through the thin clothes. Her slightly cool body was surrounded by a burst of warmth, which was very comfortable and once made people yearn for it. , after it disappears, it will definitely make people nostalgic.

"I..." Her melodious voice like a violin sounded in Theron's ear, "I used to think that words could describe everything, but today I found that the joy in my heart can't... can't be expressed in words, I I wrote a lot...a lot of words to express my love for you, but I still can't calm down..."

Her voice is rich this time, an honest display of her confusion and delight.

"I guess I can only use something irrational, non-verbal."

Like this hug.

Theron had long been shocked by the great joy and didn't know how to react, her hands unconsciously hugged Hipper's waist, and by the time she felt that the slender and soft hands felt really good, she had been hugging for a long time.

The joy of the new, mingled with some indefinable emotion, dilutes the old and takes its place in a flash.I want to hold her like this forever, and feel the beautiful entities that carry those beautiful things.She seemed to have entered a dream, and she couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or a real beauty that surrounded her. Her eyelids were a little heavy, her head rested on Hipper's shoulder, and she leaned gently in her arms.

"...Theron?" Hipper first felt Theron's body getting heavier,

"...Huh?" Theron woke up with a start, and stood up straight. She looked up at the archmage, and then smiled shyly in Hipper's arms, "I almost fell asleep. It's too warm."

Hipper also smiled, "Go to sleep, class will be on time tomorrow."

Aime Cortes is located in a barren desert, surrounded by white sand, and huge boulders of unknown size are buried in the sand, occasionally popping up on the surface.The archmage said that the foundations of Aymecortus lay in a rock bed twenty yards below ground.

There is nothing around the mage tower, only elemental creatures, and the flesh and blood creatures here are only Theron, Hipper, and Tius.For a long time Theron thought so.

But the day after she summoned Lenning and caused a flood in the desert, endless white flowers bloomed around Aymecortes.

Theron was the first to notice this, leaning against the door to drink her milk, but saw that the sand around Aymecortes was not the same as the silvery gravel far away.

She called Hipper in surprise and asked her what it was, and the archmage explained: "It is a legendary rootless flower with very tough seeds. It is said that it can sleep for 100 years in the desert. It will grow when it rains enough. But the Elemental Gate hasn't had enough rain for a long time."

What she said is the truth, even the water is extremely active here, and often runs to other places by itself, not to mention the water that escapes with the help of the always manic wind element, only the sand is the most stable, but it often blown away by the wind.

This flood from the endless waters soaked the sand dunes twenty yards deep here. The seeds woke up from the long dormancy, and after absorbing the water, they quickly took root and germinated, and seized the time to bloom flowers before the water evaporated, giving birth to the next batch. Seed.

Hipper rarely pulled Theron out of the giant white tower.Walking into a white flower, Theron screamed and jumped in. Of course, the sand covered her body, and the petals broke under her weight and flew up.Hipper caught her back with a breeze and whispered, "They're too fragile, don't bother them."

Theron glanced at the white sea of ​​flowers, and replied regretfully.

The white flowers withered after three days. The white flowers withered under the scorching sun at a speed almost visible to the naked eye. Theron was sad for a while, but after about three days, a little green grew on the ground.

Standing by the window in the morning, Theron couldn't believe his eyes. Isn't there nothing growing in the desert?Hipper took her out of the range of the wind barrier again, and this time she walked carefully on the edge of a piece of green. These little guys had spread into the mage tower, as if there was no wind barrier.Different from those white flowers that are fragile and thin like rootless weeds, all the small green buds are emerald green, and each one is a fleshy piece, as strong as a green quartz.

These green crystals grew up slowly, so Theron dug a tree and took it back to the gardener in Dead Leaf City to see, and asked if it needed more watering.The answer is no.

"They can only survive in windy sand, scorching sun, and drought, and they must be watered at most once a week, otherwise the roots will rot due to airtightness."

So Theron was eager to go down to water every day, and Hipper had to stop her and let her out on the rest day.

It took a while for Theron to cooperate with the Water Lord. She never remembered that she had a Water Lord. In fact, she didn't know what to make it do. For this matter, she even asked Hipper specifically, "Who is there?" What is the difference between a water lord with a contract and a son of water without a contract."

Hipper did not answer directly, but handed over the authority to the two water lords.

"Can chat." The two big blue water polo said in unison.In fact, after the water lord returned to the element interface, there were still many opportunities to meet other water lords who came back to rest. Everyone gathered together to talk about the things they learned about the human world, and gave many useful suggestions to the younger generations.But the water lords tacitly abide by the contract: don't talk about things that the owner doesn't know, and don't talk about anything about the previous owner.

Except for the death in war, the life of elemental creatures is infinite. After the owner of a water lord dies, it will return to the elemental interface until the next mage summons it.Observing humans and the human world and participating in it is a very attractive mind game for elemental creatures. Almost all water lords are addicted to it, which is why they will happily enter into contracts with mages.

Water lords have incomparable knowledge, their memory is also good, and their intelligence is similar to that of humans, so they are indeed good chat partners for mages. In the past, Theron always felt that Hektra and her teacher were more familiar , and more topics, if Hektra hadn't poured a lot of patience and warmth into her, she would definitely regard Hektra as an object of serious jealousy, an enemy capable of holding grudges.

Now she also has a water lord that can be used to record which page of the book she read, record what homework Hipper assigned, and even record her dictation. After class, she couldn't help but drag her water lord to a corner of the library. Ask this and that.

Hipper didn't say anything. She was always busy. After the last meeting, she brought back many notes and papers. During this time, she was digesting those things. When Theron went to her occasionally, she also answered a few questions in a hurry. Just shut up, Theron had to walk away in silence.

The two were staggered, and the two of them didn't talk about anything outside of the classroom for almost the whole summer.

Theron is already familiar with how to get along with the water lord, and after the initial freshness wears off, she still wants to talk to Hipper more and more.In the past, she always had a vague perception that she and the elements around her were of the same kind, because she had almost no interest in communicating with creatures outside the elements-the creatures who were in the same pattern as her were so dangerous and uninteresting.

Now she suddenly has another idea that is becoming clearer: only Hipper is her kind, and the elemental king speaks what she understands, says everything she is interested in, and also lures her to keep approaching, tempting her Can't help but explore and understand deeply.

Except for the day when she summoned the water lord, after Hipper showed unusual joy and excitement, their relationship returned to the way it was before. Hipper tried her best to teach her, praise her, and encourage her, but that's it.

There was no longer a hug that was so comfortable that she almost fell asleep, and I never saw those smiles that broke through the ice.

The time in the tower passes in a random way, sometimes it feels like time passes quickly, and sometimes an hourglass seems to have passed a year.Her friends sometimes write letters, and Virgil also visits from time to time, bringing some news from the outside world, but in general, it seems that there are only two people in this world, Hipper and her, looking up from her seat to the left , Hipper was there, delicate profile, sharp chin, wise and cold gray eyes, looking intently at the book in her hand, and sometimes at her.

Theron had grown taller again, but Hipper's face never seemed to change.