Mage's Secret

Seeing the big brown horse, Elvis turned pale as if remembering something bad.

"No, I still won't go with you." As he said this, he stepped back.

"We've come here already, don't you want to break your promise?" Murphy suppressed his smile and his expression became a little scary.

Elvis ignored him, and he turned and walked quickly back the way he had come.But his speed was not as fast as Murphy, and he was finally pulled back.He wanted to break free, but this time Murphy pulled him with great strength.

Murphy looked at Elvis who was constantly struggling in his hands, and then at the only horse, and suddenly realized: "Don't you want to share a horse with me?"

He laughed again, and persuaded: "No way, I can only get a horse without being noticed by Traphael, let's just make it, it's not too far anyway."

After finishing speaking, regardless of Elvis' objection, he held him on his shoulders, untied the reins, got on his horse, and ran towards the city.

At first, Elvis was still struggling on Murphy's shoulders. Murphy tried to put him on the horse in front of him several times, but he failed because of his excessive movements.But in the end, as the horse kept bumping, his movements gradually slowed down, and finally lay motionless on Murphy's shoulder.

At first, Murphy thought that he had finally given up and began to cooperate with him, but when he was released at the gate of the city, Murphy realized that this was not the case.

Elvis' eyes were closed tightly, his cheeks and lips were too pale, and he looked very bad.As soon as he landed, he pushed Murphy away, staggered to the foot of the city wall on his still weak legs, leaned on the wall and began to gag.

At this time, there were already many people around the city gate. Seeing this scene, the residents of the city turned their heads and hurried past as if they hadn’t seen anything. Only the people from nearby villages and towns stopped in their tracks, surprised. looked at Elvis.

Elvis vomited for a long time, finally recovered, raised his head and stared back fiercely at those who were staring at him.

The robe on his body shows his identity as a magic apprentice. Ordinary people have a deep sense of awe for spellcasters, which comes from their fear of unknown things.For them, magic apprentices are not much different from spellcasters, so when they saw Elvis' vicious gaze, the crowd quickly withdrew their eyes and scattered away.

But Murphy wasn't afraid of Elvis, so he laughed directly: "Are you dizzy?"

Elvis looked at him exasperatedly and said, "That's no joke."

But even though Elvis was jumping in anger, Murphy still laughed for a long time before stopping, at this moment Elvis' neck started to turn red.

"Didn't you just want to take a look, don't you just go into the city!" Elvis said in a low voice, sounding as if he would pounce on Murphy at any moment.

"Well, that's right, let's go." Murphy wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, led the horse and followed Elvis to the city gate.

The soldiers guarding the city knew Elvis and had an impression of Murphy who had been in the city frequently some time ago, so they let them enter the city without further investigation.

The lively atmosphere of the festival soon infected Murphy. Whether it was a small barter stall set up on the side of the road, a juggler who came to perform, or a troubadour who sang moving songs, those things that are common to human beings are of great importance to him. It was all new to him.He couldn't stop for a moment, looking around, and he was nothing more than a young demon after all.

Contrary to him, Elvis was not very interested in the celebration. He followed behind Murphy with a sullen face, watching Murphy lead the horse impatiently, walking in various booths as if he had never seen anything before. I stopped before and bought a big bag of childish and useless little things after a while.

"Don't always keep a straight face, completely wasting your lovely face." Murphy seemed to have finally had enough shopping, and walked back to Elvis and said.

Elvis snorted, and didn't intend to answer him, but tensed his face even more, but his eyes kept sneaking at the bag of brightly colored candies in Murphy's hand.

"Honestly, you've been in that lifeless tower all day, so you don't plan to have a good day when you come out for a while?" Murphy looked very happy, and handed the candy to Elvis.

Elvis hesitated as he looked at the candy he was handing over. He wasn't sure if Murphy had caught his sneak peek just now, and if he took it, it would cause a laugh.He carefully looked at Murphy's expression and saw that there was no hint of teasing in his smile, so he pretended to be troubled and took the candy, and said, "It's not boring to be with the teacher, it's because you don't understand the profoundness of those studies , I don’t understand how amazing what the teacher has done.”

Murphy smiled and did not refute him, but suddenly said: "In this kind of peaceful life, you don't have to worry about wars, and the things you worry about are just trivial things. It is obviously such a luxury, but it has become commonplace. As it should be. Don’t you think it’s a waste to live a demanding life every day without knowing how to enjoy life while you can?”

Elvis took a candy in his mouth and turned his head to look at him inexplicably, thinking that he was talking nonsense again.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind the two of them: "So, what you call cherishing is living a life of corruption and indulgence?"

Hearing this voice, the two turned their heads at the same time. Behind them was an unfamiliar face dressed as an apprentice, but both of them understood that it was Traphael in disguise.

This morning, Traphael woke up from his dream, the window was darker than usual when he got up, so he glanced at the magic sundial on the bedside, and the time was indeed much earlier than his usual wake-up time.This is very unusual, he has been living a very regular life, basically waking up at a fixed time every day, such sudden awakening or oversleeping almost never happened.

He felt bad, something bad happened to him.He got up and checked the magic item corresponding to the magic circle set on the door of Murphy's room. It was a small copper buckle. If the door was opened this morning, cracks would appear on the copper buckle.The surface of the copper buckle was still smooth, but the uneasy feeling still lingered in his heart.

He trusts his feelings, which have saved him so many times since he was a kid.So he didn't even change his clothes, and went straight out of the bedroom to Murphy's room.

He first knocked on the door a few times symbolically, but as expected, he didn't get any response.So he was not polite anymore, and directly cast a spell to open the lock.But to his surprise, the room was not empty. Murphy was still lying obediently on the bed, seemingly soundly asleep, and he didn't even notice the loud noise he made when he entered the door.

But such a scene did not make Traphael feel at ease. He took a few steps to the bed and called Murphy's name. Murphy still didn't respond, he seemed to be dead instead of sleeping.

It's so wrong, Traphael thought, if such a troublesome demon really died like this, it would save a lot of trouble, but of course this is impossible, so the only possibility left is... He raised his staff and cast A spell to break the illusion.Sure enough, "Murphy" lying on the bed dissipated like a bubble.

Traphael's face became extremely gloomy, full of anger after being teased - Murphy set up such a perfunctory cover, simply underestimating him.

He walked over to the open window and looked down, which was also open at Elvis' room.There are a few small holes poked out by something unknown on the smooth outer wall, and Murphy may have passed through these small holes to get down from the outer wall.

Sure enough, he also underestimated Murphy, Traphael pursed his lips, turned and went back to the room.

He was going to find Murphy, but he couldn't go to the city in his original form.The city lord once invited him to participate in the celebration, but he refused on the grounds that he wanted to do research. There are many people in the city who have seen him, and it would be a shame for the city lord if he was recognized.

He put on a little disguise, and then drove to the city in the carriage in the tower.The city was full of people, but it was not difficult to find such a conspicuous pairing as Elvis and Murphy, and he found out their whereabouts after only a little poking around.

"Teacher!" Elvis yelled in surprise first, but when he noticed that the people around him were looking at him inquiringly, he immediately lowered his voice and defended in a low voice: "Teacher, I didn't bring Murphy out. Me, I came to monitor him."

Traphael looked at the panicked student, and said softly, "I know you are innocent, good boy, if you don't want to stay here, you can go back by car first."

Elvis was naturally unwilling to stay with Murphy, so he readily agreed after putting the candy in his pocket.

At this time, Murphy smiled beside him and said, "You can ride this horse back."

Elvis turned his head and glared at him fiercely, Traphael also gave him a warning look, Murphy shrugged innocently and stopped talking.

"I'll park the carriage at the gate of the city, and you can pick it up directly," Traphael said.

Elvis nodded and walked away.

Traphael stood still and watched Elvis walk away before turning to look at Murphy.

Just when he narrowed his eyes and before he could utter the question, Murphy said first, "I will come out alone, I will bring other apprentices, or I will come out with Elvis, what do you think? Are things better?"

"It's best for you to stay in the tower honestly." Traphael said expressionlessly.