Alex is no fool. Those who sneaked up to him in the dark are nowhere to be seen. It turns out that their purpose is the Crystal Ball... He was no less frustrated now, for he found himself a fool.
Genius, child prodigy. He had achieved by his own efforts at the age of eighteen what his father had achieved at fifty, but was now worthless. He was still inexperienced in the face of the turmoil in the court, and it was not easy for him to keep a clear mind in the storm of power. If he was not careful, he would be drawn into the storm, and the subtleties might be just an unintentional word of his.
"Oh, isn't this brother Magger? !" Hearing such a nearly mocking greeting, Alex frowned in disgust. If there was anyone in the world who could make him want to hit someone, the two women in front of him were undoubtedly two of them.
"Sister, I heard that his treasure was stolen. How pitiful!" The speaker was another woman, whose eyes, though blue, would reflect purple light as they moved.
"The crystal ball? That's really unfortunate. Last time Lanlan sister asked you to give it to her, you couldn't bear to part with it. Now it's snatched in the blink of an eye. It would have been better to give it to her as a favor." The woman, who was called the elder sister, simply ignored Alex's increasingly ugly face and fanned the flames on the side.
"Sister is joking. Sister likes that crystal ball too. How could LAN LAN have the nerve to take it away?"
"Miss Purple Mist, do I have to get your permission to give something to a friend?" Alice, with a sulking face, kept telling himself not to do it. She was the daughter of the emperor's most beloved Purple consort, and although she was not made a princess under the pressure of the empress, even if the Crown Prince saw her, he would have to avoid her a little.
"Send her?" Lanlan, the woman beside Purple Mist, seemed to have heard some big joke. "How could I have heard that the whole thing was Mazhe's brother being tricked!" Laughing smugly, she exposed the truth without any hesitation.
Knowing it is one thing, being told it is another. "Who is your brother!" Purple Mist called his brother and he endured it. After all, the other is a royal relative. So what is this LAN LAN? !
"Yo yo, I'm so ashamed and angry." Purple Mist said disdainfully, "Lanlan is my good sister. I call you brother because I look up to you. Do I have to call you brother? "!"
"Sister, class is about to start. Let's not delay here any longer." Lanlan's expression changed slightly and she said abruptly.
"Then, Brother Magger, let's talk next time!" Zi Wu laughed smugly, not noticing LAN LAN's expression.
Alex was shaking with rage, "Bastard!" A fist-sized fireball, without a second thought, was thrown towards an unlucky tree beside him. Generally speaking, a mage usually can only master one type of magic, but no matter what type it is, low-level elemental magic can still be cast, like Alex, although he is astrological, he can still throw a few small fireballs, But compared to the high fire element mage's fireball, his fireball is good enough to burn off the bark of the tree.
But this time he didn't burn a single layer of bark, because the fireball he was firing was now playfully jumping around LAN's fingertips. "What a bad temper!"
Seeing LAN, Alex turned his head in anger, not thinking about who had caused his situation today.
"Well," LAN admitted his mistake somewhat helplessly, "it was my fault for me to trap you, but it's not my fault that you'll be laughed at. It's your own stupidity that didn't even see such a simple trap."
Glared at LAN with hatred, but Alex had to admit that what the other said was the truth, and that he had been so stupid as to get into it! But when he thought of his current situation, he couldn't help feeling discouraged and didn't know how to deal with it for a moment.
"Hey!" A golden crystal ball was presented to Alex. "You gave me your important thing, so I'll give you one too." When it comes to strange things, LAN's collection is probably comparable to that of an ancient dragon.
"I..." Though fuming to refuse, I was stunned when I saw something - a golden crystal ball? Is that a crystal ball? ! If you insist on calling it a crystal ball, what about the cat's eye in the middle? This is... This is a dragon's eye!
"No?" LAN is confident that no astrologer would refuse a dragon's eye. Dragons existed earlier than the gods, and their eyes could see through the past and the future, of course, referring to the ancient dragons.
"This..." The temptation was so great that Alex had no will to reject it, but why should he accept it? ! Even if he did have the energy of Regenerating LAN, he wouldn't dare to accept this as a gesture of humility anyway! He just stared at the dragon's eye, neither taking it nor not taking it.
Taking Alex's hand, he placed the dragon's eye on it, "though it's the eye of a young dragon, it still has the same function."
Alex swallowed his saliva, touched the dragon's eye, he felt a very close feeling, it was absolutely impossible for him to let it go again, but with such a precious thing, he should show something, but... But when he looked up to say something, there was no sign of LAN before his eyes. !
Alex had no idea how he got to the classroom. Although he was in the Astrology department, elemental magic classes were still there, but the focus was on defense.
"When a fireball is about to hit you, you need to open the water barrier for protection." "Because of the magic diamond spirit, we can't use a water barrier that's too high. So what?" The pretty female teacher on the podium said while drawing a water barrier. Then let quantity overcome quality deficiency!"
Alex somehow thought of the fireball that was leaping at LAN's fingertips, which he had thrown. "Is it possible to turn the opponent's fireball into your own?"
As soon as the question was raised, it immediately drew a burst of laughter from the entire hall.
It is well known that the elements are controlled by mages, and the relationship between them is like a slave contract, and they will not disobey their masters, that is to say, once these elements are gathered by one person, they will follow this person until they disperse, unless they dare to leave voluntarily.
And meditation to restore magic is actually a process of gathering elements, and the elements that identify with your spirit will follow you, and identification may be because of pity, or because of being intimidated, or because of liking, or some other factor, in short, once identified, it will be unchangeable.
The female teacher looked at Alex with an experienced expression. She really couldn't figure out why this genius student would ask such a stupid question, but she still answered him as calmly as possible, "It's impossible, Alex."
"But I saw it today..." Alex seemed a little lacking in confidence. He didn't see how LAN caught the fireball. Maybe he had neutralized his fireball with water magic first and then created it himself.
"It must have been some deception by the other side." The female teacher smiled slightly.
Just then, a young boy suddenly appeared at the classroom door and shouted at Alex in an extremely excited voice, "Hey! Big event! The LAN who cheated you out of the crystal ball is surrounded by people from the Combat Academy and the Ministry of Magic Academy, who say he's too arrogant to teach him a lesson!"
The magic class lasts for half a day and the breaks are at the teacher's discretion, so the young man didn't notice at all that it wasn't the break time.
"Luther!" I gave him the crystal ball! Don't go around saying he tricked him! LAN is my friend!" Alex shouted back somewhat unhappily. Combat Academy and Ministry of Magic Academy? Those are the two elite classes of the school! No, he must stop it!
Looking at the teacher, he found that the female teacher was also looking at him. "It seems that everyone is interested in this matter. You won't listen any further. So let's take a break."
Alex bowed gratefully to the teacher and, at once, grabbed the boy who had been called Luther and rushed out.
It was a special day because Gasiah and Anita had dropped out of school, and LAN had stayed because he was looking up some information in the school library, but he was clearly in a bad mood at the moment.
He was stopped for no reason by a group of people, though not many, probably fifty-three, who were said to be from some kind of elite training class that he had neither heard of nor seen, and who suddenly jumped out and said they were going to teach him a lesson? ! Lesson? Does he look so easy to bully? ! But... He looks like an easy bully... Although he was quite tall, there was no visible muscle, so he didn't look like a powerful warrior. His magic fluctuations were so weak that he was at best a half-level mage, and there were rumors that he was a priest, so he was naturally easy to bully.
Then they were invited into the arena for a simple reason. The dean of the Science Academy had a very important task entrusted to the Moon Dance Mercenary group, and because it was a very large task, Huang Yueqing came in person. After the task was settled, she happened to see LAN surrounded, and because she didn't know LAN's situation completely, she knew she wasn't suitable to rush forward to help. Then she went back to invite the dean.
The college allowed duels, and as long as both sides agreed to duels, life and death were up to fate. If one side disagreed, the other side could not be cruel enough to Mabel or kill the other, or else they would be severely punished. But it was the first time that the elite of two advanced classes had gone out to teach a first-year transfer student a lesson.
"You may not accept it, so they will only give you a beating and not cause you substantial harm." On the way to the arena, the dean whispered to LAN, a gentle and polite little fellow whom he had seen a few times and who was also highly praised among the teachers.
Huang Yueqing was a little worried. She could see that LAN was very weak at the moment, with almost no fighting spirit, and her magic was at a rather low level, of course measured by her strength. But she did not linger in the arena. She knew from the way LAN looked at her that he did not need her help at the moment and did not want to expose the fact that they knew each other, so Huang Yueqing left without hesitation. So, as she explained to the dean, she was only worried that the group fight of so many people would have a bad influence on the innocent people around.
"Accept it, why not accept? ! Am I easy to bully? !" LAN loves to play with people when he's in a bad mood. Wouldn't it be too unfair to him not to make these culprits pay a price at this moment? ! But because he was satisfied with her performance, he gave up the idea of keeping silent. After all, she was taught by him and knew his intentions best. Even if he ordered her to kill him, she would surely carry it out faithfully.
The dean looked at the red-haired young man beside him with some concern. That was the training class, basically only the chief student could enter, a class only admitted forty people, only the first person could leave freely, and only after the first person left would there be a place for the new person to join, otherwise only the last person could be defeated to enter, and the defeated person would be expelled!
Fortunately, the girls did not take part in the duel. They gathered in groups of three or two to discuss the red-haired boy, and the kind-hearted ones prayed for his safety.
The dean felt a bit sorry that he didn't think LAN would come out of the arena alive.
Before the duel was declared, LAN was already surrounded by a fist-sized fireball, and no one knew who threw it out. Don't underestimate this fireball, it's not in the same league as the kind of fireball that Alex used to scare children. Even a big tree embraced by two people would be blown in two upon encountering this fireball!
A sneer appeared at the corner of LAN's mouth. Though he was really weak now, it didn't mean he was easy to bully!
No dodging, no incantation, the slender and pretty fingers carelessly grabbed the oncoming fireball. "Not bad. Magic is qualified, control is good, and the elements are densely arranged." As he played with the fireball in his hand, LAN commented, his voice moist and soft, like the autumn rain, cooling the heart without realizing it.
All around was deathly silent.
This is what Alex saw when he arrived. "LAN!" He called his name, but was powerless to stop the duel. He felt his words stuck in his chest and couldn't speak. He wanted to cheer him up, but in such a situation, there was no chance of survival at all! "LAN, no matter what you think, you are my friend. If you make a mistake, I will surely take revenge on you!" The last two sentences are basically nonsense.
LAN looked up at him and gave a gentle spring smile, "Why are you so heroic? I'm not going to die. I'm just having fun. There won't be any danger, and it makes you seem like you're not my friend."
"..." Alex was completely speechless. Did he really know what the training class stood for? They were all warriors and mages from level 18 to level 22! But the words, "as if you weren't my friend," moved him so much that he almost jumped down to help him, though he knew that astrology mages were not suitable for fighting. Although they had powerful spells, they required too much chanting time. Jumping down would only be a burden...