Wizard: Live hard and you will become stronger

A few days later, Dusk Crow Ferry.

Rosie stood beside Nicole in front of the ferry.

After the training period, all apprentices who can enter the inner castle will have a three-month vacation. Luo Xi plans to take this opportunity to return to his hometown to treat his brother's leg.

After three years of separation, the child should have started to remember things at the age of 6 by now. Any further delay would be bad for the child's growth.

Luo Xi talked with Nicole, and it happened that Nicole also wanted to go back home, so the two hit it off and planned the trip and bought the return ticket that day.

"Tell me the truth, what is the relationship between you two?"

"It has something to do with Mao. During the same three years, I probably didn't say more than ten words to her. You know that."

"Tch~ I don't believe it. There must be something wrong with the way she looked at you that day!"

"I……"

Luo Xi had a headache on his face.

Sophia also came on the day of the graduation party, and she didn't know why she was so nervous. She even took the initiative to say hello to Luo Xi and chat with him.

The content of the chat is actually nothing. After all, you have to maintain your goddess image among the apprentices at the same time. It is just normal communication and politeness. We should help each other more in the future.

But for some reason, Nicole was like a little boy with glasses possessing her. She turned around and grabbed Luo Xi, insisting that she must have some special relationship with her.

Who knows how she figured it out? She hadn't done anything yet, she just glanced twice. She had really done something that day.

"Okay, okay, someone is here, let's change the topic, okay?"

At this moment, an old man with gray hair walked into the ferry, and Nicole stopped questioning Luo Xi.

Although in private she still occasionally plays tricks and loses her temper, when outsiders are present, she pays great attention to her words and deeds. She will put away all these things that will make Luo Xi lose face, no matter how big the grievance is. Act calmly and calmly.

"I'll deal with you later."

Nicole leaned into Luo Xi's ear and hummed softly, and squeezed Luo Xi's hand hard while speaking.

"How about tonight?" Luo Xi said with a smile.

"Eh? Luo Xi, that old man is staring at you. Is that someone you know?"

"Again? What's the intuition this time?"

"It's true!" Nicole raised her tone a little and pulled his arm hard.

Only then did Luo Xi glance to the side with his peripheral vision and found that, as Nicole said, the old man next to him seemed to have been looking at him.

He couldn't help but turn slightly sideways and secretly take a look at the other person's face.

The other person looked to be about sixty years old. He was not wearing a cloak, but was wearing a buttoned gown, a pair of riding boots, a bowler hat on his head, and a leather suitcase in his hand. He is dressed like a country squire in human society.

However, his spiritual power is very strong, and he is obviously a wizard.

This is the ferry of the Elemental Castle, so it is not unusual for a wizard to appear, but Luo Xi looked at him for a while but did not recognize him, and he couldn't help but become confused for a moment.

"Roxi, he's here"

Just when Luo Xi was confused, the old man walked towards him.

This time Luo Xi simply stopped pretending and directly turned Nicole around.

The old man came closer and greeted him with a kind face: "Long time no see, Apprentice Luo Xi."

Do you really know each other?

Luo Xi said with a confused look: "Are you...?"

The old man said: "Don't you remember me?"

At this point, he sighed softly and said, "That's right. My current appearance is indeed very different from my usual appearance."

After a pause, he introduced himself: "I am Xeno, Xeno Blair."

Luo Xi and Nicole's eyes widened: "Xeno Wizard!"

How could they forget about this guide who single-handedly introduced them to the wizarding world? Not to mention that Luo Xi had just met Wizard Xeno not long ago.

Luo Xi looked at Wizard Xeno up and down and said strangely: "What are you doing?"

At this time, Wizard Xeno had gray hair and obvious wrinkles on his face. He looked to be in his sixties at least.

You must know that the physical appearance of an official wizard is closely related to the physical appearance of the apprentice when he is promoted. It will not change easily after promotion. There is obviously something wrong with a wizard like Xeno who suddenly ages twenty years.

really.

Hearing Luo Xi's inquiry, Wizard Xeno sighed and said sadly: "Not long ago, I failed to hit the next stage, and the mental power backfired and damaged the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness."

Luo Xi was startled.

Nicole's hand shook when she held it.

The backlash of mental power is almost the most terrifying situation for wizards on the road to advancement, especially when the backlash damages the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness. Not only will years of hard work be in vain, but it will also cause indelible damage to the body, just like the competition in front of us. Wizard No, accelerated aging.

Every step of the wizard's journey is filled with dangers, and the further you go, the more dangerous it becomes. If you don't pay attention, you will be doomed.

Nicole said sadly: "Wizard Xeno."

Luo Xi didn't know what to say: "I'm sorry."

Wizard Xeno shook his head and comforted himself: "It doesn't matter, everything is over, it's okay, I completely cut off my attachment, and no longer have to work hard day and night for that little bit of non-existent possibility. "

Luo Xi felt that this was not an easy topic to talk about, so he changed the topic and asked curiously: "Are you going to the human world to relax now?"

Wizards come from humans. In a sense, human society is also a special garden for wizards. Some wizards like to go to the human world to relax when they experience setbacks.

Wizard Xeno nodded: "Yes, I plan to go to the human world, but not to relax, but to settle down with me."

Luo Xi was startled and looked at each other with Nicole.

"After all, it doesn't make much sense for me to continue to stay in this world."

The sea of ​​spiritual consciousness is the core key of a wizard. Once it is damaged, the path of the wizard is basically cut off. There are no substances to heal the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness, but they are too rare and far beyond the level of the wizard Xeno.

For a moment, Luo Xi and Nicole did not dare to speak easily anymore, for fear of saying something wrong again.

However, Wizard Xeno seemed very open-minded and cheerful, just like an amiable old man.

He said: "My hometown is in Vilna, have you heard of it?"

Luo Xi nodded: "One of the sixteen principalities in the north, the flowers there are world-famous."

Wizard Xeno nodded and introduced happily: "There is a territory rich in tulips to the west of Verna called Tulip Collar. My father is a flower farmer there."

"To this day, I still remember following my father to plant seedlings and catch bugs in the flower beds. Tulips are delicate flowers, and it is not easy to take care of them."

"At that time, I loved summer the most. Before the flowers withered that could not be sold, the adults would make them into flower cakes. Have you never tasted them? That was a specialty of our place, using more than a dozen kinds of flowers such as roses and lilies and smeared with honey. Wrapped in wheat pancakes and baked, the deliciousness will be unforgettable once you take one bite.”

While gesticulating, he introduced the process of making flower cakes to Luo Xi and the others in detail, as meticulously as a real flower farmer.

At this moment, Luo Xi couldn't see the majesty on his face when they first met, nor could he see the anxiety on other wizards' faces, but only pure enjoyment and indulgence.

The magic and practice of the past seemed to no longer exist, as if this was what he had always pursued.

"Speaking of which, this all happened more than a hundred years ago." He looked at the river that kept flowing into the distance with emotion.

“If I hadn’t heard the raven knocking on my window that night, or hadn’t followed it to the forest, I might have become a flower farmer like my father, married to a hard-working and capable woman, and made a living in my hometown. Feeding a big family with flowers."

Nicole suddenly interjected with gleaming eyes: "It must be a good day like that, working together with the people you love to make life slowly get better, ordinary but happy and beautiful."

Wizard Xeno was stunned and turned to look at her.

Nicole stuck out her tongue, and then realized that she had just behaved very rudely, and quickly said: "Sorry, I was rude."

Wizard Xeno shook his head and did not blame her as he had done before on the ship.

He just shook his head casually: "It's okay."

After a pause, he nodded, with a hint of regret on his face: "Yes, when I was young, I raised my family with diligent sweat and hard work. With my family by my side, it won't be particularly helpless when I grow old. Accept things, until the day I can't get up, I can still look at the fire in front of the fireplace and recall the past of my youth."

"That must be good."

Nicole stuck out her tongue and looked at Wizard Xeno's gloomy face without daring to speak any more.

"Ding bell~" At this moment, a clear ringing of bells came from the distance, and a white boat slowly floated over from the other side of the river.

Wizard Xeno said: "Your ship hasn't arrived yet, but my ship has arrived, so let's part here."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Wizard Xeno boarded the boat and left. Looking at the boat gradually going away, both Rosie and Nicole couldn't help but feel a little sad for a moment.

Nicole's eyes were slightly red, and she hugged Luo Xi tightly, as if she wanted to get into him.

Luo Xi stroked her hair and frowned slightly. The wizarding world is so cruel. Either you continue to succeed and move forward, or you withdraw sadly and stay away.

It was obviously a spring full of vitality, but he seemed to smell a hint of desolation in late autumn when everything withered.