Mage's Secret

The Mage Tower has always been a serious place.The apprentices came here especially, and they could only stay here after undergoing strict screening to listen to the teachings of the mage.Therefore, most people are in awe of Traphael, and dare not say a single unnecessary word in front of him.There are very few apprentices like Murphy or Elvis who have no scruples in front of Traphael.

So when Elvis and Murphy left one after another, the Mage Tower was completely quiet.The mage was solemnly silent, and the apprentices only dared to talk in whispers, just like every traditional mage tower.

In theory, no matter what happens to the Mage Tower, it has no effect on Traphael.In such a quiet environment, he can do his own thing with peace of mind, without fear of being disturbed at all.No one dares to pull him out of the study or research room when he is addicted to research, and no one will question his research. This is simply his ideal life-in theory, it should be Is such that.

But even Traphael himself didn't expect that he would feel uncomfortable because of this quietness.

Occasionally, when reading a book, Traphael would still ask the devil to fetch some materials from the bookshelf for him without raising his head, just like Murphy was still here.But often as soon as he spoke, he realized that Murphy, who was always by his side, was no longer there.Even if no one else saw his mistake, Trafael would still feel embarrassed, not because he said something wrong, but because he subconsciously didn't accept the fact that Murphy had left.

And when he tried to accept the reality, the emotions called emptiness and sadness would entangle him tightly, making him unable to move.He is no stranger to this kind of emotion. When he learned of Yadunis' death, he was even more sad than this time, but he would not be in such a panic like now.

Traphael is not a person who is very good at resolving emotions, he is usually restrained, so when encountering such negative emotions, he will not do something that can completely release the emotions, but will Keeping them all to himself, distracting himself from the overwhelmed situation by distracting himself with other things.

And the measures he usually takes are to carry out his research day and night, to fill up all his time, and not to give his mind a space to think about other things.From a health point of view, this is really not a good method, but from the perspective of what it can actually do, it is indeed an effective means.

Traphael suddenly felt unwell in the morning after he had been in the study for three consecutive days without sleep.

The knock on the door of the apprentice bringing breakfast interrupted his thinking briefly. Traphael put down the pen in his hand, leaned back on the back of the chair, rubbed his temples with both hands, and looked tired.He didn't open the door, and he didn't make a sound, because of the soundproof circle, even if he let the apprentices outside the door in here, the apprentices couldn't hear him.

The door was knocked on three more times, probably knowing his situation at this time, the apprentice who delivered the food did not leave directly, but tentatively opened the door a little, and asked in a low voice: "Teacher?"

"Come in." Traphael said.

After getting the answer, the apprentice walked in.In his hand he held a plate with some fruit, coffee and pate and vegetables.The mage's breakfast is usually not so rich, but this time it was an extra meal specially made for him because the chef was worried about his health.

After the apprentice came in with the plate, the aroma of the food instantly filled the study.The chef Traphael hired was extraordinary, and the aroma could easily whet one's appetite.Even Trafalle, who doesn't have any particular food preferences, is one of his favorite dishes.

But I don't know what happened this time, but Traphael felt that the smell of the meat sauce was very fishy, ​​and the smell seeped into his stomach from his nose, which actually stirred up sour gas in his stomach.Immediately, the mage's face turned pale. He stood up abruptly from his seat, stumbled to the window, stuck his head out of the window, and gasped for breath several times in the cold morning air before he felt relieved.

"Just stand there, don't come over." Trafael said, covering his nose with his hands, "What's the matter with the meat today? Why is it so fishy? Has Duke changed the food supplier?" Duke is the chef's name.

The apprentice was taken aback by Traphael's reaction. He stood there at a loss and replied in a low voice, "No, today's ingredients were delivered by Mr. Willie."

Willie is a well-known butcher in Karen. The meat he sells is of the highest quality and is directly supplied to the nobles in the city, so there is no need to worry about the quality of the ingredients.

"That's weird..." Traphael wanted to say something more, but the nauseating feeling blocked his throat again. He leaned on the window and retched, but he couldn't spit out anything.

"Teacher!" The apprentice looked extremely nervous. He put the plate in his hand on the ground, and hurried forward to hold Traphael's arm.

Traphael was in terrible pain, dizzy, limp, and nauseated.He asked his apprentice to help him sit back on the chair. After the wave of uncomfortable feelings subsided, he waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. I probably haven't had a good rest. Go out and take the food away..."

"Teacher, do you need to call the doctor?"

"No need," said the mage.

After the apprentice left, Traphael also left the study and returned to the room.Although the discomfort came suddenly, he didn't take it to heart.After all, the spell that sent Murphy and Amos away made him almost exhausted, and after that, he began to spend sleepless nights in research in order to numb his increasingly restless emotions.He also knew that his health had always been bad, so it was normal for this to happen.

After drinking a few bottles of mana-supplementing potions, Traphael really felt much more comfortable, but his fatigue did not subside, so he planned to take a nap before returning to his study to do research.As soon as he touched the pillow, he fell asleep immediately, and it was a long-lost sleep. Once he fell asleep, he slept for a full day and night.

After waking up, Traphael didn't feel any discomfort anymore, so he let go of his heart, but it never occurred to him that this was just the beginning.

From then on, Traphael began to become drowsy. When it was dark, he began to feel drowsy. He couldn't concentrate on doing anything, so he had to go back to his room to rest.And every time he sleeps, he sleeps very deeply, and he can't wake up until he hits three poles a day the next day. The days when he only slept for three or four hours a day never happened again.

Not only that, but his sense of smell has also become more sensitive.When teaching the apprentices, the smell of the apprentices - the smell of sweat or detergent mixed together, turned into an indescribable smell, which made Traphael completely unbearable.When he stopped for the third time during his lecture on a certain day, and reprimanded the apprentices for becoming more and more sloppy, which made the smell in the room filthy, someone finally couldn't help but whispered to him: "Teacher, the room There is no smell in it..."

Traphael was taken aback by the apprentice's words, and he asked the other apprentices, "Can't you smell anything?"

The apprentices looked at each other, everyone had cautious and confused expressions on their faces, no one nodded, and Traphael could see a negative answer from their eyes.

Now he finally calmed down a little, realizing that this might be his problem.So he left the room after saying "that's it for today".

After returning to the bedroom, Traphael locked the doors and windows, took off his shirt and stood in front of the full-length mirror, observing the mark on his lower back from the mirror.The mark the size of two palms was still on his body, but the color changed from pitch black to dark red, like a beautiful and weird flower blooming on his pale skin.

After Murphy left, the seal of the contract did not disappear.This is indeed a bit unusual. The contract he made with Murphy back then will be terminated when Murphy finds his younger brother.Once the contract is terminated, the imprint representing the content of the contract will naturally be automatically eliminated.But until now, the imprint is still on him. There may be two reasons for this situation: one is that Amos is not Murphy's younger brother at all, but this is impossible, whether it is to verify the blood relationship The spell, or Murphy's confirmation through the breath of the blood, all showed that Amos was definitely his younger brother.

That left only another situation - Murphy changed the content of the contract.But Murphy could actually change the content of the contract without his consent. Traphael had never heard of such a situation, so he did not have any doubts about Murphy's vagueness at the time.But now it seems that Murphy must have been deceiving him at the time, at least hiding something from him.

In fact, when Murphy had just left, Traphael had already discovered that the seal of the contract hadn't disappeared, and also discovered that Murphy hadn't told him the truth.But he didn't take it seriously at first, and he didn't even show much resistance to Murphy's failure to tell him the truth.On the one hand, it was because he believed that Murphy would not do anything against him, and on the other hand, he thought that he might never see Murphy again from now on. This imprint was left as a kind of souvenir Body, at least let him have a thought.

But judging from the current situation, he obviously couldn't take it lightly anymore.

So in the next few days, Traphael was concentrating on finding a way to break the mark.Because of the experiment, his position was also transferred from the study to the research room.

The research room at this time was not much different from the day Murphy left. Those complicated magic circles were still arranged in the room, but there were fewer auxiliary gemstones for casting spells.This was also intentional by Traphael. He dismantled part of the teleportation circle, but did not completely close the passage, and even kept the magic circle that could conceal the magic breath.Although he knew that the possibility was unlikely, there was still a glimmer of hope somewhere in Traphael's heart—if, just if, Murphy could come again, then at least there was still a place on the mainland where he could settle down safely.

In the few days before he moved his main area of ​​activity into the research room, he would come here from time to time to have a look, as if a miracle would really happen—whenever he saw an empty research room, Trafal would laugh at himself like that.

The experiment of clearing the mark of the contract was not successful, partly because the contract in the demon world was fundamentally different from the contract in the mainland, so the spell removal spells on the mainland had no effect on it at all.All his knowledge of magic in the demon world came from Murphy, but they didn't talk much about spells-not because Traphael was not curious, he was full of curiosity about all knowledge, but he knew I don't have much time, so the most discussed with Murphy is the basic magic theory that is helpful to his research, and issues related to space magic.Therefore, his theoretical knowledge is not enough to support him to find a way to terminate the contract.

But in fact his theoretical knowledge is not enough, because he doesn't even know the content of this new contract.This is like treating a disease. If the cause cannot be found, then there is no way to come up with a treatment plan.

At this point, things are basically unresolved.Fortunately, from the current point of view, this contract has no more impact other than making him feel a little uncomfortable.Even because of his adequate sleep recently, his spirit has improved a lot, so even if he can't contact him, it won't affect him too much in a short time.But not being able to find the answer itself is a blow to the mage. The frustration made Traphael even more depressed. He put away the notes and scrolls on the table and walked out of the research room with a sullen face. Keep wasting your time here.

But when he just closed the door of the research room, there was a sudden slight noise in the room, and a slight vibration came from the doorknob that was still in his hand.Naturally, the mage's research room also has a sound-proof circle. The sound-proof circle can't completely block the transmission of sound, but it can weaken the intensity of the sound as the level of the magic circle increases.Because some of the experiments Traphael conducted were relatively sensitive, his research room was the most confidential place in the entire Mage Tower, and naturally it was also the most soundproof room.But under such conditions, the movement in the room can be transmitted to the outside of the room. One can imagine how much movement there is in the room.

Traphael didn't do any research that could cause an explosion in the laboratory, so his first reaction was that something came from the teleportation array in the room that was still connected to the demon world!

The mage immediately cheered up. The pressure and various negative emotions accumulated during this period of time were all dispelled in this guess.He pushed open the door without thinking, and didn't even cast a defensive spell on himself, but he didn't care about it—who else could find him from the devil world except Murphy, and How could Murphy hurt him!

As soon as the door of the room was opened, there was a burst of dust, which made Traphael cough, but this little obstacle was nothing compared to the familiar smell coming from the room.

In order to prevent the devil's aura from leaking too much, Traphael covered his mouth and nose, quickly dodged into the door, and closed the door firmly behind him.He looked at the figure standing in the middle of the room, which was particularly hazy because of the dust, and felt a surge of heat, making his eyes sour and his brain swollen.

Although they had only been separated for a few weeks, Traphael felt that they had been separated for a century. He knew that he had fallen in love with Murphy, but only now did he realize that the proportion of Murphy in his heart may be greater than that of Murphy. He himself imagined more.At this moment, he wanted to say too much, but when he opened his mouth, he didn't know what to say, so he just stood there blankly, staring at the figure in a daze.

But as the smoke gradually dissipated and the figure became clear, Traphael discovered something unusual—the demon standing in the center of the magic circle was taller and thinner than Murphy!

Sure enough, when all the dust settled, the figure of that demon was fully revealed - black hair and red eyes, two horns on his head, wearing a dark golden riding suit similar to when Murphy first arrived, tall and thin.Not Murphy.

No time to deal with the emotion of being poured cold water on his head when he was excited, Traphael immediately became vigilant. He put the staff on his chest, and cast a defensive shield on himself without any trace, and then calmed down. Asked: "Who are you?"

Facing Traphael's questioning, the visitor put his hands on his chest with a smile and bowed slightly to salute: "Nice to meet you, Mister Mage. My name is Lenny Norber, you may not know me, But I think you may still have some impression of my last name."

Traphael's pupils tightened a bit: "What's the relationship between you and Murphy?"

"Murphy, he is my younger brother, my third younger brother." Lanny replied with a smile.

Hearing his words, Traphael immediately realized—"Are you from the Demon Realm? Is there really a way to teleport from the Demon Realm? If you can come here, can Murphy do it too?" It was still full of bitterness, but now things have taken an unexpected turn. This thought almost made Traphael suffocate for a moment.

But Lanny didn't answer his series of questions right away. He looked around the room with interest in his red eyes, and then said, "Don't worry, Mr. Mage. I think we might start Sit down and have a good talk. Of course, I will answer your questions in as much detail as possible."

These words made Traphael calm down again. Only then did he realize that as a demon, Lenny took the initiative to teleport to the mainland, and he might have something to talk to him about.So Traphael nodded reservedly, unable to see that he was still in a mess of excitement a moment ago: "Sorry, I didn't think carefully. This is not a suitable place to talk, maybe we can have a good talk in my study Talk. But before that, I'm afraid you have to cover up your devilish aura first."