Mage's Secret

Arriving at Attilon was five days after leaving the "City of the Dead" Lorirango. During these five days, Traphael said goodbye to Jadonis, but he couldn't say enough to say goodbye.

"Don't be too sad, you and the past had a good time, and we have no regrets." Yadonis comforted.

No matter how reluctant Traphael was, they finally sat in Atilon's reception room.

Attilon is a minaret made of bluestone, and the outer wall is carved with patterns like waves. The moment Traphael entered the tower, he seemed to hear the sound of the waves.The soft light diffuses from the magic lamps on the roof, with sparkling light, making people feel like they are in the water.

There was a dreamy, ethereal and beautiful singing voice next to his ears, which made people ecstatic. Traphael looked around curiously, but couldn't find the source of the singing voice.

"It's the mermaid's song," Yadunis said.

"Mermaid? Is there a mermaid here?" Traphael asked.

Yadunis shook his head with a smile. Just as he was about to speak, an old voice suddenly sounded from behind the two of them: "There are no mermaids here. Beautiful creatures like mermaids only belong to the sea. This is just a magic effect simulated by a magic circle. Yadunis, my student, never thought that we would meet again one day."

The two were sitting with their backs to the door. Traphael turned his head and saw a white-haired old man closing the door and walking towards them.

Yadunis stood up, turned around and bowed slightly, and said, "Mr. Jonado."

Traphael hurriedly stood up and saluted. The old man in front of him was the teacher of Yadunis. He was a little nervous facing the mage, and his palms were sweating, clutching the corner of his clothes tightly.

Jonado walked to the chair opposite the two and sat down. He didn't look at Traphael, but frowned at the appearance of Yadunis, sighed for a long time, and said, "Your change Compared to the time we have been apart, it is too big, your eyes..."

Yadunis's smile didn't change at all, and he said, "As you can see, it's gone blind."

"The left eye...does it foresee the future?"

"Yes, but that would be a relief to me."

Jonado sighed again, and said: "Why are you bothering, I said at the beginning that you should not continue on this road, this ability is too heavy for anyone, I always think you will be my heir."

Yadonis said: "But this is the end of the matter, and I haven't spent a second regretting it."

"Your right eye..."

"It's too soon."

"Then what are you going to do from now on?"

"I can feel that my time is running out. But it doesn't matter, since this fate has been sealed, there is nothing to be sentimental about."

The two fell into silence, and Traphael couldn't understand what they were talking about, but he could also sense that this was not something to be happy about.He looked at Yadunis worriedly, Yadunis just smiled and patted his head, reassuring him not to worry.

After a while, Jonado finally shifted his gaze to Traphael: "Who is this child?"

Trafael quickly replied: "My name is Trafael Sterling."

Yadunis nodded: "He is the main reason for my visit. I hope he can study with the teacher."

"Sterling?" Jonathan looked at Yadunis suspiciously.

"We weren't related by blood," Yadonis said. "But our relationship was deeper than that. I kept him for a while, and my left eye already looked like this."

"So you just realized that he has a talent for casting spells, so you sent him to me?" Jonado looked dissatisfied.

Yadunis bowed slightly: "Yes, he is a good boy. I think this is probably the best place for him, so I brought him in front of you without authorization. And I believe that he will not be the kind of boy who would embarrass the teacher. mediocrity."

Jonathan snorted and said, "How can you be sure now?"

"Teacher." Yadunis sighed helplessly: "At least I still have a good eye for people, and you have to admit that."

Jonado snorted again, and said, "Since it's your request, I'll let him stay. However, if he doesn't even have the strength to become a spellcaster, then I will drive him away mercilessly. I will not admit that he is my student."

"No, there won't be such a day." Traphael said, holding Yadunis's hand tightly.

After Jonado agreed to accept Traphael as a student, Yadunis didn't leave immediately, but he didn't stay for long.

Traphael stood in front of the gate of the Mage Tower, watching Yadunis' carriage leave and disappear around the corner.The leaves of the sycamore trees on both sides of the road were rustling by the wind, and the golden sunlight was cut into countless pieces and fell to the ground.

The sun tilted to the west, and the sky darkened, but Traphael still stood in place.He covered his eyes with his sleeve and wept softly.

He finally became a magic apprentice, but he lost Yadunis.

The days in the mage's tower were much more boring than the previous trips, and Traphael had such an idea in just a few days.

Jonathan is busy with his own research, he treats every student equally - open all the books to them, let them read freely, take some time every three to five days to answer the questions that the apprentices encountered in their studies, in addition There is no more guidance beyond that.

Since what he was exposed to was pure magic theory, coupled with no restrictions and rigid requirements, there were apprentices in any research direction.

Trafael asked Jonado about Yadunis, Jonado was silent for a long time before slowly answering: "The research he did was about time."

Yadunis has outstanding talent, and he was high-spirited and frivolous when he was a teenager. He always has a lot of novel ideas and likes to put forward hypotheses that are very different from the conventional ones.

"He used to be my favorite student. I always encouraged him and gave him a lot of help for his strange research." Jonado said, he has completely fallen into the memory: "But I never thought that he would actually able to master that ability.”

Yadunis's research enabled him to see the future with his left eye and the past with his right eye.Whether he is willing or not, everything he experiences will be displayed in front of his eyes from appearance to death.

This ability enables him to understand the truth of all things in the world, but it also makes him miserable.He couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion, and he could only watch the demise of those things.He has the ability to change, but a small change can cause a huge change. These chain changes made him afraid, and he began to refuse contact with people and shut himself in a narrow room.

"I don't know what the world looks like in his eyes, but his changes are shocking. During that time, he was lying on the bed with his eyes closed as if he was dead. He didn't move or eat or drink, even his breath Also getting weak. I'm very worried about him, but I can't help him.

"Until one day he suddenly opened his eyes again, and those eyes were no longer as bright as they used to be. They were as calm as the most silent deep sea. He said to me, if this is fate, then he should calmly Accept this change. He said that fate gave him such eyes, and he should no longer stay in the tower.

"He said goodbye to me and embarked on the journey alone. After that, there was no news from him. I was always worried about him. That ability made him completely an observer, unable to integrate into the world. After he left, I After studying alone for a long time, theoretically speaking, such a result is impossible anyway, that is not the power that human beings should have."

When Yadunis traveled alone, he saw the changes of everything in the world. He could see the decline of the most prosperous city, and the prosperity of the city of death; he could see the fighting on the ancient battlefield, and he could also see the development of technology in the future; He can see a person change from cells to bones, and he can see a mountain change from stone to plain.

He can see everything, but it has nothing to do with him.He can't see anything about himself, it's like he never really existed in this world.He became knowledgeable and vicissitudes.

The past of Jadonis was completely beyond Traphael's imagination. After listening to Jonado's story, he said in a daze: "When I met him, he told me that he was a wizard."

"Wizard?" Jonathan shook his head: "Wizards don't have such great power, they can only see short-term changes, but Jadonis can always see the end of the world."

Wizards can divination and cast continuous spells, but Yadonis can only observe.Although the magic systems they have mastered are all related to time, Yadunis is not a wizard, strictly speaking, he is a bystander—if there is such a profession.

Although there is such a connection between Traphael and Jonado as Jadonis, Jonado did not treat him specially, and Traphael still had to rely on self-study.

But fortunately, he had been with Yadunis for three years, during which Yadunis had explained to him some issues about magic, which was not considered a zero foundation, so even if it was self-study, it was not difficult to get started. Except for some classics and books.

Jonathan's other apprentices, like most of the magic apprentices in this period, are children of nobles or young masters of rich families. They are well-educated. For them who have been influenced by literature since childhood, they do not need to fully understand , It is not difficult to just read these classics.

These well-born young masters mostly hold a disdainful attitude towards Traphael, a heterogeneous person who came out of the slums, and this disdain is undisguised on their faces. He always loves to ignore answers and make ridicule, and when he is in a good mood, he will explain a word or two with a superior attitude as if giving alms.

Although Traphael felt uncomfortable being treated like this, he didn't care too much. After all, the bullying he suffered when he was a child was a thousand times worse than this. In comparison, the attitudes of these young masters can be called It's "polite".

Traphael's focus is more on learning. He will not live up to the expectations of Yadunis, and he will always remember the agreement with Yadunis-he will let his name be passed down along with the history of mankind. , so that Yadunis can also be remembered by people.In order to achieve this goal, he will do everything in his power.

In addition, he still held a breath in his heart - one day, he would make all those who looked down on him humbly bow their heads to him.How much they despised him in the past, how respectful they will be then.

The following facts also proved that his ideal was not delusional.Traphael studied at Attilon for seven years, and he finally had the qualifications to start his own business.He wanted to follow in the footsteps of Yadunis, but found that he was more talented in studying space.When he entered the tower, he was still a kid with no status and no status. When he left the tower, he had already become a mage of the space system.

He came to the valley near the first city he passed after meeting Yadonis, and built his own mage tower.He named the tower after Yadonis, as he said, when he is good enough to be remembered by the world, Yadonis will be with him.

The young new mage is like a new star, and soon gained a firm foothold among spellcasters by virtue of his outstanding research results and new theories.

Fame and prestige followed. No matter where he went, people respectfully called him "Mr. Master", and young people began to come here to study.

Perhaps it was the result of Traphael's unique experience. Once he tasted the sweetness of fame, he couldn't stop, making him want to pursue more.But fortunately, Traphael was still able to keep his heart. He still remembered the right and wrong that Yadunis had said to him.

At the same time, he never gave up looking for Yadunis. "I hope we can meet again." This is what Yadunis said to him before leaving, and he has been looking forward to it.

Therefore, at this time, he was not in a hurry to study more advanced magic to make himself more famous. He just took some apprentices to stay in the tower to help with daily affairs, and traveled around the mainland by himself, looking for traces of Yadunis.

He didn't find Yadunis, but he found another pair of clear and beautiful blue eyes that were the same as Yadunis.The owner of these eyes is an eight-year-old boy named Elvis Green who has a talent for casting spells. The moment he saw these eyes, he decided to take the boy back to his mage tower.And Elvis became his favorite student in the future.

He searched everywhere on the continent of Ozevina but found nothing. He was only worried about whether Yadunis had gone to another continent.

Until one day, he met the troubadour in a small town on the border of Menze.

At that time, Traphale was drinking fruit wine in the tavern, and the poet played the piano and sang in the corner.He sang a poem about eternal love that Traphael had heard more than once in his travels, but this time it sang more movingly than any version he had ever heard before.

After the poet finished singing, he suddenly got up, hugged the piano, went to sit down opposite Traphael, and said to him, "Won't you buy me a drink?"

Although Traphael was surprised by his abrupt behavior, he still invited the waiter to order a glass of wine for him.

When the wine was served, the poet bowed his head and adjusted his piano, while Traphael was doing self-study and looking at the poet sitting opposite.He was in his thirties, with handsome features, brown hair, and amber eyes filled with indescribable melancholy.

The wine was brought over quickly, and the poet raised his glass to thank Traphael, took a sip and said, "I heard that a mage is asking around for news about Yadunis, is that you?"

Traphael immediately sat up straight and asked, "Do you know his whereabouts?"

The poet asked back: "Your name is Traphael?"

Seeing Traphael's jaw, the poet drank his wine in one gulp and stood up: "Come with me."

Traphael picked up his staff and followed the poet out of the tavern, walking out of the town.

"Can you tell me your name?" Traphael asked as he walked.

The poet neither looked back nor spoke.

"So, what is your relationship with Yadunis?"

The poet continued to move forward in silence.

When seeing Yadunis again, Traphael could hardly stand still.He propped himself up with his staff, and said tremblingly, "He...he..."

He had imagined the scene of meeting Yadunis again countless times, but he never thought that it would be like this.

"As you can see," the poet walked to the stone tablet and sat down, gently plucking the strings: "He died three years ago."

The poet's heartbreaking singing is in my ears, the leaves of the sycamore trees are rustling when the wind blows, and the evening sun is extremely gentle.Traphael covered his eyes with his sleeve and wept in a low voice, just like the separation eight years ago.

At that time, he was full of hope, and everything had just begun.Now he had to tell himself that he had lost Yadunis forever.

But there was still that agreement, he told himself repeatedly in his heart, this was just another beginning.