How do I break the team invitation from my old enemy?

Lin Wei found Adele in the depths of the library.

Standing in front of the tall black bookshelf, she heard Lin Wei's footsteps, turned to him and said, "You're here."

Lin Wei looked at the books closely arranged on the bookshelves. They were of different thicknesses, and some had obvious damage on the spine.

"Here are fairy tales and poems of bards," Adele said in a gentle voice, "Although they were very worn out before they were collected, few people in the academy would read them."

There was a little questioning in Lin Wei's eyes, waiting for her next sentence.

In the quiet hall, Adele's voice seemed very ethereal and ethereal: "And I am a frequent visitor here, and I know almost every book by heart."

"You like fairy tales?"

Adele didn't answer his question directly, and turned her attention to the high-level books again: "Fairy tales and poems occasionally have something to say, and in my eyes they are as interesting as "The Handbook of Time."

She continued: "For example, the silver patent leather book on your right hand... When I heard your alchemist friend tell about the scene of your disappearance, I immediately thought of it."

Lin Wei didn't say anything else. Judging from Teacher Adele's words in the morning and now, she had some speculation about her disappearance, and—Mr. Sylvester knew nothing about the enhancement of her soul power, but Adele could see clearly.

He pulled out this thin tome, on which some rhythmic poems were recorded.

"Chapter Three." Adele said.

Lin Wei turned to the third chapter of this book—the beginning of the chapter is a fairy tale poem:

blooming spring day

The gods gather in the valley where the sun rises

They are competitive, comparing each other

The god of the dwarves flaunts his mighty arms: I forged an indestructible great axe for the God of War, the forging skills of our race are unrivaled.

The god of elves stares at himself in the mirror: We have the longest life, the most beautiful appearance, we love the light, and we sing of life—what other race is so perfect?

The Mermaid God dissatisfied and retorted: If my race hadn't lived in the distant sea, where no one could see it, how could such praise be monopolized by the elves?

The god of fire showed his powerful magic: no one's magic is as fierce as mine, as long as I raise my hand, the strongest ice will melt helplessly.

The God of Water immediately ridiculed: You can indeed do it—if there is no me in this world.

……

Lin Wei glanced at these verses, and it was nothing more than showing off and disputes among the gods, a qualified bedtime story—until he turned a page and saw the next few paragraphs.

The Goddess of Light wiped her bright sword: There is no power like the sun—it is my blade and scepter, and all races will bow down and chant under this light, forever loyal.

The Goddess of Darkness plucks her harp: The living are governed by you, and the undead are my disciples.

After hearing this, the gods turned their gazes to the God of Time - only he hadn't spoken yet.

The God of Time exclaimed: Gods, I admire your strength—the elves, dwarves, and dragons. The faith of all things in the world belongs to the Goddess of Light. East, South, West, and North. The laws of space make way for the harp of the Goddess of Darkness. , I am alone, without any weapons, skills, or magic.

The gods are not satisfied with this answer: every god has something special, how can you be an exception?

The god of time blinked his eyes: Birth and death cycle alternately, past, present, future, everything in the world is in my eyes.

Lin Wei looked back and forth at these paragraphs, especially the narrative about the Goddess of Darkness - Necromancer, Space, and Harp.

He couldn't help but be surprised by this, because what he knew about the goddess can be traced in this fairy tale poem.

Adele noticed his movements, and said: "It seems that my guess is correct... You did experience some kind of adventure."

He and the oracle disappeared out of thin air, which naturally reminded people of space magic, and after he got the plectrum, he told Daniel its use. If Adele really knew these poems by heart, he could think of the dark goddess There is nothing wrong with him.

It's just that this association is a bit unbelievable-an adult magician connects real events with fairy tales.

"It's some kind of adventure." He looked directly into Adele's eyes: "Why do you like these stories and poems?"

"You are my student...Lin Wei," Adele said slowly, "You know I am from the Astrologer Tower, so you are not completely unrelated to it."

Well—he is inseparable from the Astrologer Tower now, and from this sentence, the Astrologer Tower and the bard's fairy tale are also related,

I only heard Adele continue: "Few people know that the first owner of the Astrologer Tower was a bard, so we often expect to find a few words of him from the poems handed down from the dark ages, so as to understand to some of his wisdom."

"But in the books I read, the owner of the astrology tower is a wise scholar." Lin Wei said.

"That's because the first volume of "The Handbook of Time" is his work," Adele said with a smile, "but he is indeed a bard, and a sentence from him is engraved on the wall of the lobby on the first floor of the Astrology Tower , everyone who belongs here will keep it in their hearts.”

Adele paused for a moment, and continued: "That sentence is like this...'We live in a huge falsehood', signed by 'The Bard Isa Ives'."

Lin Wei listened carefully to what the teacher said, and he didn't need to ask again. He knew that what Adele was going to say should be something important.

"We took it as an admonition from the elders to remind us to seek truth at all times, but I don't think so now-I think it is a statement, we live in falsehood, this is a fact."

"Why do you think so?"

"This feeling appeared a year ago," Adele said, "it was when your level had not yet arrived at Siren Island. Since then, some strange scenes have often appeared in my dreams, you know Yes, in the cognition of the astrologers, dreams and astrology are extremely important things, I can't ignore it, and I am also a summoner...a psychic in the old saying, so I can't deceive myself Said that this dream came from my imagination."

Lin Wei's heartstrings gradually tightened - he had just experienced a dream related to the goddess before.

"There are many fragments in the dream, such as war, death, and gods." Adele looked at him: "We regard the first volume of "The Handbook of Time" as the only precious book that tells the history and landscape of the mainland before the dark age. It's absolutely true, but its descriptions of the gods are limited to people's vain beliefs, never admitting that they really exist-and they do, whether it's my dreams, the bard's poems, or yours these days The adventures all prove this point—maybe you don’t want to reveal your specific experience, but I know that it is indeed related to the legendary Dark Goddess.”

Adele's eyes now are different from the usual gentle and deep, with a tinge of burning brightness, just like Mr. Sylvester's eyes when he mentioned the law of space.

"It is indeed related," Lin Wei replied, "So you think that the first owner of the Star Tower wrote the "Time Handbook", but intentionally concealed the existence of gods in it?"

Adele nodded: "You've always been smart."

"Then at least part of history as we know it is untrue."

"That's right," Adele sighed softly: "I respect Isa Ives, but I also understand the fact that all the records of the Dark Ages were constructed by him alone, and there is no way to know whether they are true or false."

Lin Wei asked his doubts - different from the convoluted way of speaking in the imperial capital, the communication of magicians is often very frank, and it took him a long time to get used to this.

"If he really concealed something, but at the same time he also left that sentence on the wall, it is equivalent to admitting his deception," Lin Wei said to Adele: "Also, teacher...why did you Obsessed with the question of the gods?"

"What I am obsessed with is not the gods, but what happened in the entire dark age," Adele said: "So I kept searching in the fairy tales handed down from that era, hoping to find some truth."

"Whether the gods exist, whether they live forever, why the magical world has become like this, why there are five valleys of elements, what exactly are the valleys of elements guarding, and whether they are related to the gods, all these issues have no reliable records—— And if we don’t know this for a day, we will never be able to deal with the current situation.” She spoke quickly and said this in one breath, and continued: “The Valley of Ice is out of control, and the elemental storm first spread to the eastern ocean. And it gradually intensified, and the few remaining families are only in the Valley of Flames, which is still prosperous, and we dare not imagine what will happen after many years."