Dawn of the Grey Tower

Perhaps too many things happened between this day, which caused us to forget the conversation with Youni before Cheese left the hotel yesterday, and how Youni reacted to that conversation.

From the cheese's point of view, he was just comforting his apprentice in ordinary times, and he also cleverly grasped the range between comfort and warning, so that his image in the mind of the apprentice would not be too gentle.

This is very necessary, the study of magic is not a playhouse, and Yuni must be vigilant at all times to pass the apprenticeship period safely. Of course, this is only cheese's unilateral thought. The fact is that his words just hit the child's fragile heart and brought unexpected results.

That's why, when the mage of the Totem School came to the inn to take you away, the apprentice didn't ask or say anything. That appearance made David, the owner of the shop, once thought that the wizard used some kind of mind control spell on Uni, and used magic to manipulate Uni's body like the piper in the story.

Even the mage of the Totem School showed an awkward expression and explained a few words to David softly before dispelling part of the shopkeeper's doubts. The two people who didn't know the cause and effect of the whole thing could only attribute this to a normal phenomenon. The envoy of Wanfa didn't regard Yuni as an apprentice of cheese. He thought the boy was just some kind of magic casting tool or medium.

At first glance, this self-righteousness sounds a little scary and outrageous. How can people be props? Don't forget, the earliest magic is always inseparable from sacrifice. In primitive society, people used to sacrifice in exchange for the help and blessing that existed in the dark, or simply used regular blood feed to meet the feeding needs of nearby beasts.

The latter is entirely a transaction forced by life, while the former is more like a subconscious imitation, imitating the process of life appearing and dissipating between heaven and earth, and it is sacred. But it is undeniable that sacrifice and sacrifice are indeed one of the origins of spells.

Even now, the cheese and their casting is accompanied by a price that must be paid. From a more perceptual point of view, this is still a sacrifice. Therefore, just as the so-called gourmets will cultivate the ingredients they want from birth and even the previous generation, the spellcaster who makes sacrifices will also cultivate sacrifices carefully.

In order to make their sacrifices proportional to their gains, most of their sacrifices are savvy creatures such as rare animals or humans. It is said that one of the most vicious curses in history was triggered by the use of seven elves as sacrifices. It has brought about dozens or even hundreds of times more casualties.

This is why it’s not surprising that there are children around the wizards. Those children may be the children or apprentices of the wizards, but they may also be just a sacrifice prepared to be sacrificed in a certain ceremony. Or both.

Speaking of this, you must have already understood that this Totem Mage used Yuni as a scapegoat for cheese preparation, thinking that he would be used in some subsequent spellcasting.

Fortunately, the scapegoat received the best treatment before it was actually sacrificed. In order to ensure the smooth casting of the cheese, the person who came to pick you up did not cause any trouble to the boy.

On the contrary, due to Yuni's current desperate state, the other party is still worried about the apprentice's carelessness when walking. These two people are like a child and a balloon. The rope of the balloon is held in the hands of the child. Not only must he hold it firmly, but he must always be careful that there will be no obstacles such as branches or fences on the trajectory of the balloon. So that at this time of school, the apprentices on the road would stop and wait for the two people to pass by before moving on.

Fortunately, as the mage of the City of Ten Thousand Dharma, the person who came to pick you up was very familiar with the road to the Totem School. The two quickly got on the railway transportation and arrived at the totem pole safely. not far away.

At this point, most of the pedestrians in the past were apprentices or wizards of the Totem School. Seeing the arrival of this director-level figure, they faintly scattered on both sides, faintly giving way to a path. These totem school people enter the school district by themselves, so naturally they don’t have to walk the path of nothingness again. The school emblem on their robes and the brooch sent to individuals by the library actually have similar functions. As long as they wear it and enter the school district, they won’t be affected. .

But there is a prerequisite for this kind of unaffected, that is, the person wearing the emblem must match the emblem. The first lesson for apprentices of the Totem School is to embroider their school emblems on their apprentice uniforms and brand them with their own hands. This can be regarded as a ritual in itself, symbolizing identity, belonging and other complex meanings. .

People from the other five schools sometimes feel that their colleagues in the Totem School are staid or unfavorable, because they don’t understand the subtle differences between rituals and actions, and don’t understand how many declarations and promises are actually contained in their daily behavior. These will become some kind of shackles, good or bad, hard to detect.

"Well, although you may not care about your appearance, you are still welcome to the Totem School, the oldest and primitive school in this city." After the mage finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to hold Uni's wrist and took him. Walk towards the totem pole.

Then a strange scene happened. In the morning sun, witnessed by many apprentices and teachers, a director led a boy who didn't know where he came into the school district. The boy's expressionless eyes were full of death.

But just as they walked through the shadow of the totem pole and headed towards their destination, on the totem poles formed by many cylindrical stacks, one of the totems turned slowly!

The strange totem carved into the face of half a bird and half a beast, with its wooden eyes, looked at Yuni who didn't know it from a high place. When the first person found out and exclaimed, a similar sound instantly detonated the scene. UU reading www.uukanshu. cm

"Why..." The mage holding Youni turned his head and saw the protruding wooden eyes at a glance. After initially showing a surprised expression, he quickly calmed down and turned to look at Yuni who was unresponsive next to him.

This totem pole is indeed not just as simple as a marker and a defensive measure. Each layer that composes it has a different symbolic meaning and function, and by constantly making new totem components and stacking it up, what is reflected is the research results of the entire Totem School. Every Totem Master takes the ability to add his own work to this symbolic school as one of the important goals in his research.

So why does Totem turn to Uni?

It’s not that something on the apprentice triggers the totem’s defense mechanism, but the totem itself also has a recognition function. When a certain part on it reacts to a certain person, it means that that person has something that fits the totem very well. The idiosyncrasies of the imagery symbolized by the pillars.

In other words, if the apprentice can be spotted by the totem pole, the apprentice doesn't have to walk the path of nothingness to enter the guiding hut, and his future will be very bright and smooth.

"It's a wilderness totem, go and notify the people at the Shaman Institute!"