Dawn of the Grey Tower

If the area of ​​the life school is an artificially cultivated garden, then the land of the totem school is a desert. It’s not that it’s really a desert, but that everything you can see after passing through the totem pole reveals a sense of emptiness, a sense of emptiness, as if there should be nothing but nothing here. Uncomfortable.

And after you adapt to this sense of emptiness, you will have a certain kind of loneliness, like being in the middle of the ocean or the center of the grassland, looking around, all around you are the same scenery, no surface, no street signs, no traces, nothing. . Although there are grass and trees here, none of them can really serve as signs.

"Nothing," the cheese whispered. Maybe other people think that the territory of the Totem School should be full of various symbols, but think about it carefully, when the symbols become dense, complex, diverse and chaotic, can they still be called symbols?

Or can it be understood as decoration? The symbol is exclusive, precisely because the totem symbolizes an ethnic group, and all people who are not from this ethnic group will not admire this totem. Therefore, the foundation established by the totem is not a fertile land. It must be built in nothingness, becoming the only symbol in the wilderness, and an irreplaceable symbol like the sun and the moon.

That way, it can be called a totem.

Of course, this emptiness is unnatural, and this area has obviously undergone a lot of magical transformation, in order to remove the original existence in the space, make it no longer full, and then use it. Walking in such an environment, every step is like walking on a busy street, as if there are countless pairs of eyes looking at yourself. Because of the emptiness, everything becomes very eye-catching.

It can be said that anyone who scans this area will find cheese at a glance. This is a land that is enough to make all the assassins who are prolific assassins feel mad, where all the strangers will be invisible. Fortunately, it is only a teaching area, and no sentry is standing guard.

Cheese moved in the direction guided by the devil. On the way, he tried to integrate himself into this emptiness, but found that it was extremely dangerous to do so. Erasing his existence and deceiving the totem pole by forging existence was completely Two things. As long as he is still breathing, still thinking, and still has thoughts in his heart, his existence cannot be completely erased.

Because that is reality, reality is that he is standing here, stepping on the ground and moving forward. Magic can distort reality to a certain extent, but distortion is not subversion, let alone reconstruction. It is not easy to reverse black and white in reality. This can only be done in some extremely individual situations.

Therefore, even though it is very disturbed and full of hidden dangers, the cheese still has to maintain this state and move towards its destination. Fortunately, in such an empty place, other people cannot hide their existence, and ambush is not established, including institutions or law formations. These purpose-built facilities will become conspicuous targets. The heavens and the earth are prominent, as eye-catching as the oncoming horses on the grassland.

However, there is one thing that makes Cheese feel concerned, that is, he did not see a large number of buildings as impressive as the life school in this area. This is not reasonable. After all, this place is a place where the whole school conducts research and teaching. The shadow of man-made buildings is too bizarre.

But thinking about it carefully, this is somewhat reasonable. If there are buildings here, they will inevitably destroy this void and become the existence that fills up the space. As the scale of the building expands, this filling effect will become more and more obvious. , Until finally let the building become the new totem here. But then again, in order to prevent this from happening, these wizards didn't build a house at all?

Cheese frowned and looked around. He concentrated his attention desperately, trying to find something left out in this emptiness. This is possible. It's like people don't notice the big clouds above their heads. Only when it obscures the sun will they suddenly raise their heads, like a mountain already in front of you, only when you can't see the afterglow of the setting sun. Note the gilded edges.

Under the effect of nothingness, Cheese might have walked through many buildings without realizing it. He might have seen it, but didn't realize what it was. This is not blindfold, it is much more clever than blindfold.

But no, he found nothing. Invisible to the naked eye, invisible to the magical field of vision. This place is empty, and there is nothing else to pay attention to except the totem pole that is faintly visible when I look back. Did he do something wrong?

This is obviously unreasonable and very unreasonable. Could it be that he has been discovered and exiled to some kind of wonderful magical space, at this time a large group of people have been around him pointing at the unknowing gray robe?

No, if you think this way, it will be over. Once he loses his judgment on his own situation, his actions will lose the rules and regulations. This is a big taboo.

After looking around, Cheese finally found something that caught his attention. It was a tent, or a cone-shaped hut made of wooden beams and animal skins.

It was built on the edge of the cliff and almost blended with the night, but the gray robe still saw it at a glance. Almost at that instant, a conjecture appeared in Cheese's head, and he ran towards the cabin, trying to verify that hypothesis.

Soon he came to the front of the cabin, but instead of trying to enter the building, he turned his back to it and looked around. Sure enough, a pine tree on the mountain peak not far away became the next focus of attention.

At this point, Cheese has probably understood the tricks of the Totem School, or in other words, their arrangement. Starting from the first totem pole, the area behind is all shrouded in emptiness, but emptiness is not penetrating, on the contrary, it has many levels.

Specifically, UU reading www.uukanshu.com who entered by observing the totem poles can only see the hut after being washed out, and those with their backs to the hut can see the pine tree. Gray Robe walked under the pine tree trunk protruding horizontally in three steps, turned his head again, and saw the next focus.

The previous focus will reset the emptiness and lead the person to the next focus. With the change of focus, the guided person will inadvertently pass through an invisible maze and complete a process.

And when the process is over, he really enters this area.

"Huh, it really is."

After reaching the seventh focal point, under a severely damaged marble statue, the cheese who turned again just felt like he had come to a new world.

Roads, buildings, creeks, street lights, all kinds of things that should be in the teaching area filled his vision, and the focus of the beacon before was the most inconspicuous thing.

And beside the gray robe, there is a small wooden sign with swashes written on it,

"Welcome to the Totem School. Only those who walk through the void on their own can see this street sign, and I would like to offer you the most sincere greetings from this school."