Blooming Tower of the West Wind

"Oh... poor boy..."

After crying for about three hourglasses, she finally stopped crying. Looking at the tears in her hands, Lenning could already make an ice cube.

"Little lady... the archmage is not willing to be separated from you."

"Nonsense, she's going to drive me away!"

"As far as I know, many mages can live in other people's mage towers for a long time even if they have their own mage towers. Build a tower nearby, or set up a portal in the city of dead leaves, with the portal, coming and going is just a matter of a moment, and it’s not impossible to come back.”

"Really?!" The little beast, whose forefoot was still sad, suddenly smiled happily, and grabbed her big blue water polo.

"Uh...Of course it's true. I don't think the rules of the human world change so quickly."

Lenning said ambiguously.In fact, the apprentices who leave the mage tower will generally be taken away from the teacher's tower keystone.But the Archmage wasn't really in a hurry to get her out, so at least she'd come to pick up the little lady if it was a guest.Lenning added in his mind.

She was happy for a while, smiled silly for a while, and became sad again.

"But I can't see her anymore. How long am I going? I heard from the twins of the Luster family that the high school will take three years?"

"Most of them are like this, but as long as you have enough credits, you can finish the course early. After that, if you still want to take the graduation exam, you must take the inspection of the three major subjects. Are you clear about this? Usually, everyone takes the exam once a year. There are also people who have passed three exams in one go."

"... much?"

"Not many, but the owner of my frivolous cousin was definitely one of them," Lenning said.

It refers, of course, to the Archmage himself.

"Is that so..."

"After you graduate from school, you can start preparing for the basic written test. Usually, everyone will choose to prepare for the actual combat subjects at school, and be with your classmates, because you will have to form a team at that time."

"Oh, that means you have to stay in school for an extra year in order to graduate."

"That's right, that's it." Lunning was a little exaggerated in his relief, and he looked like he was trying to make people happy.

Theron saw it right away, and was not happy about it, she was still unhappy.

Lenning was a little frustrated, and then flatteringly said—this kind of emotion is hard to avoid recently, Theron is similar to that archmage, and has a temperament that makes elemental creatures can't help but surrender—“But I That's not all, there's one thing I guess you'd like to know."

"What is it?"

"paper."

"What happened to the paper?"

"Generally speaking, a student should follow his instructor to complete the thesis. The students in the tower take advantage of it. Their teachers are generally well-established mages, and their thesis ratings will be much higher. You are a student in the tower. You have a It takes two years to complete the dissertation, and the archmage will never drive you away. You have to write her name on your thesis, and you will not be able to graduate. Of course, the most troublesome thing is..." It said half of it It stopped, of course it knew what Theron should do: procrastinating on finishing the thesis.

But then the archmage would be very dissatisfied. Her most proud student could not graduate, and the archmage would lose face.

Theron also realized this, and immediately began to worry about things five or six years ago, with sorrow written all over his face.

Lenning leaned over and said, "Then you are a mage on par with the Archmage. She can no longer threaten you with this dog collar."

But Theron apparently didn't mind the "dog collar," but the impending separation left her bewildered.

She quite liked it.

The dark brown marks and tangled scars will not come off no matter how many times you wash them. Hipper's name is branded on her body, even into her blood and bones.

At the dinner table the next morning, the atmosphere was rather awkward, and Hipper greeted her coldly, and never said a word after that.Originally, at the dinner table in the morning, they would randomly change the good-looking books they had read recently, and talk about their thoughts on these books in a divergent manner.

Theron loved it, like going for a walk hand in hand with her.

But Hipper was silent, and her gray eyes seemed to be unfocused, just staring blankly at some place in front of her, instead of always falling on her as usual.

This silence lasted until class time, Hipper sat in her seat for a while, and Theron kept watching her, waiting for her to announce the start of class.

But neither did she.She sat there with her glasses on for a while in a daze, and finally, those eyes that always shone with beautiful silver-gray light fell on Theron.

The girl was ecstatic, her joy was written in her clear eyes.

Hipper said to her coldly: "I need to adjust my mood. I have some things to look up by the way. There is no class today." After she finished speaking, she pushed away her chair and walked into the depths of the library with a diary under her arm.

Theron looked at the place where she disappeared with a sense of loss, bounced up and chased after her as if burned.

The Archmage was at the far end of the bookshelf, framed in silhouette by a window.Bright lights, blue sky, dark silhouettes, and deadpan faces.

Theron walked over with a feeling of apprehension. Of course the Archmage noticed her. There were only the two of them in the library.

But she didn't turn her head, she just looked up at the rows of books on the bookshelf.

"teacher……"

The archmage sighed deeply, turned his head helplessly, and called her name in a low voice: "Theron..."

"Huh!" Just because of her review, Theron's heart was suddenly filled with joy.

"I... don't want to see you very much now, can I just be alone?" She looked really tired, but what she said made Theron's heart ache, and tears welled up from her eyes , blurring Hipper's face.

"Don't cry..." Hipper's hand touched her face, gently wiped away the water droplets that were about to overflow, and a low and soft voice blew directly into her ear, "Don't cry, we all need Calm down and think."

"teacher……"

She couldn't see Hipper's movements clearly, only the black shadow kept dangling in front of her. Theron felt that the black shadow was getting closer and closer to her, and Hipper's warm lips were gently pressed against her forehead. .But before she could enjoy the long-lost warm breath, Hipper pulled away and left.

The cold air quickly rushed in and took her place. A jet of water wiped her tears. After her sobbing stopped, Lenning came out from the inconspicuous gap and whispered in her ear: "The Archmage left already."

Theron nodded, patted his flushed face from crying, jumped twice on the spot, and walked back to the door of the library.

Hipper is not here, maybe I really don't want to see her anymore, where did she go?Maybe in the living room, she was hesitant to find Hipper in the living room.But on the one hand, she is not a pestering person, on the other hand, she is also very afraid of offending Hipper.

Just a glance...just to see if she was there.

She slowly opened the door of the living room, looking for that beautiful figure with hope.But there was nothing here, Tius heard the sound, ran over patter, raised his front foot to put on her body, and expressed his worry.

Theron bent down to pick it up, and the heavy body made her restless heart slightly calm down.She carried Tius down the stairs (it was quite heavy), and found a deep window sill to nest in.

Lenning's body almost filled the window sill. Fortunately, it can change its shape at will, so now it maintains the shape of the window, with its head down close to the two pets.

"I'm just a crying pet, for the teacher..." She said self-destructively, but Tius barked in dissatisfaction, as if to say "what's wrong with being a pet".

50, 60 years is a long time for her.It is said in the book that the lifespan of a human being is about 70 years, during which time people will experience birth, old age, sickness and death, but apart from death, she has no special feeling.

It has been seven years since she was eight years old to Tazhong until she was 15 years old. This period of time made her feel that she almost occupied the whole of her life. 60 years may be enough, as long as you can stay with Hipper every day and enjoy her attention and attention.

"Lunning, the teacher said that the lifespan of the archmage is almost endless, what does this mean?"

"Well... that's a good question. In theory, a powerful force will protect the immortality of the body that carries it. There are such creatures in every field."

"Like?"

"Well...for example, the archmage, the powerful magic power protects the mage's body, so that the body will hardly age with the passage of time, so theoretically the archmage has an infinite lifespan."

"But how old is the oldest archmage?"

Lenning lowered his head and thought for a while, "Maybe around 170 years old."

"Hasn't Gusetti ever produced a great mage?"

"Oh, that's not what your encyclopedia says."

"Yes, I know that the first great mage was born in the middle of Guseti, but there is no record about him after that, and he died in the end, right?"

Lenning nodded, "That's right, the first archmage committed suicide. The powerful force keeps the flesh from decaying, but the fatal injury can still make them perish. Humans are short-lived races, and their lifespan is compared with races such as elves. It’s not worth mentioning, but human beings must live among the crowd, and loneliness is more tormenting than anything else, so when the family and friends of the archmage are all dead, he also feels that there is no value in living.”

Theron looked up at Lenning, "Did the first archmage in human history commit suicide because he couldn't bear loneliness?"