My elf died again

"Since this is a strange story at midnight, let's turn the pointer to twelve o'clock and see what happens."

The ghost stories in the academy are basically related to magic. For example, during the first school year, the devil's whispers were a kind of triggering magic.

The so-called triggered magic is magic that needs to be triggered in a specific environment and meet certain conditions.

This is obviously the case with this midnight corridor story.

Therefore, Luo Yi guessed that when the hands were turned to twelve o'clock, if a strange phenomenon occurred, it would mean that there was a connection between the strange story in the corridor and the grandfather clock.

Luo Yi walked over, opened the door of the grandfather clock, stretched out his hand to set the pointer to twelve o'clock, and then took two steps back.

Kochi watched nervously.

tick... tick...

The pendulum clock swings rhythmically from side to side.

When the second also pointed to the twelve o'clock position, the clock rang, and a loud noise immediately sounded in the corridor.

Luo Yi looked around and found that, as he expected, this strange story was related to the grandfather clock.

To be precise, there is a connection between the grandfather clock and the paintings hanging on the wall.

"What are you doing here?"

Suddenly, the voice of formation instructor West came from behind.

"Hello, Teacher West."

Luo Yi and Ke Qi turned around quickly and looked at West with a sneer.

West waved his hand, and the hands turned counterclockwise, returning to the current time. With a snap, the door of the grandfather clock closed.

"It's good to be curious, but excessive curiosity will bring you endless trouble. If it happens next time, it will be treated as a violation of school rules. Remember?"

West looked at them coldly.

"Yes, Tutor West." Luo Yi and Ke Qi said in unison.

"Go back." West's face softened slightly and he said calmly.

The two nodded and left in a hurry.

Behind him, West watched them disappear around the corner of the corridor.

In the corridor on the second floor, Kochi breathed a sigh of relief. The formation instructor West was the sternest of all the instructors. He kept a straight face all day long and never saw him smile. It was as if his face was paralyzed, as if everyone owed him money. of.

Keqi turned around and saw Luo Yi looking straight at the empty corridor, wondering: "Luo Yi, what are you looking at?"

Luo Yi came back to his senses and smiled: "It's nothing, I just think the paintings on the corridor are interesting. Let's go back."

After that, he walked downstairs.

Kochi scratched his head, not sure why.

……

The remaining two days of vacation passed by in a flash, which heralded the official start of the third school year.

This school year is indeed as Luo Yi said, an extremely critical year.

By this school year, many people's magic and mental power have reached their limits. Now all they have to do is to spend more time on meditation, so that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

This is the sublimation of a junior magician to an intermediate magician.

On this day, taking advantage of the college's rest day, Luo Yi came to the teaching building where the junior class was located.

It was rare to encounter an interesting thing, and of course he wanted to find out the secret of these paintings.

He first went to the first floor, then the second and third floors. When he got to the third floor, he didn't move the pointer, just took a look, and then went to the teaching building where the intermediate and advanced magic classes were located.

It took him a day to look at the paintings in the corridors of each teaching building.

In the next period of time, Luo Yi compared these paintings and found some clues.

Nothing can be seen from a single painting, but if you compare these paintings, you will find that some of them can be combined into one painting.

All he had to do was join the paintings together, which was a bit difficult because the paintings were placed in different places, far apart from each other.

Luo Yi thought for a while and found Kochi, who was sleeping soundly. The latter had lived in the Free City since he was a child, and was often exposed to strange things from all over the world. He might know about magic similar to photography technology.

When Luo Yi told him what he had discovered, Keqi was immediately surprised: "Are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true." Luo Yi nodded.

"As you said, there is magic that can preserve images. This magic is called 'light and shadow magic'. The corresponding magic props include light and shadow stones and light and shadow scrolls, which can preserve images."

Kochi took out a scroll and said, "This is it."

The two of them couldn't wait to leave the dormitory, took pictures of all the paintings on the walls of the major teaching areas, returned to the dormitory, and unfolded the scrolls.

Luo Yi looked at the oil paintings on the scroll that had been reduced several times.

He moved one oil painting after another, playing a jigsaw puzzle, and soon a brand new painting appeared in front of him.

The scene in the painting is the corridor on the third floor of the South Teaching Building. At the end of the corridor is the floor clock, but strangely, there are no hands painted on it.

"What does this painting mean?"

Keqi looked at it for a long time and couldn't figure out the reason.

Luo Yi looked at the spliced ​​painting carefully, not missing a single corner, but he still couldn't see the mystery in it.

He looked at the other paintings, but he also didn't see any clues in them.

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"People in the wind magic class can fly. I know you are all envious, but what I want to tell you is that in terms of flying, they are only temporarily ahead. Other magics can also fly, such as intermediate fire magic - —Wings of Fire, but the flying lessons will not start until you are all promoted to intermediate magicians..."

In the fire magic class, Instructor Luna taught them how to cast magic quickly and efficiently.

At the end of the first class, Instructor Luna told them one thing. The Academy Mage Tower will be opened early this school year.

The Academy Mage Tower is a place for teaching and actual combat. It is generally only open to people in intermediate classes and above. It is extremely rare for it to be opened to them in advance.

The main reason for this is that most of the people in the junior class are not strong enough, and ordinary teaching is enough.

Once you become an intermediate magician, your strength will increase exponentially. Even the most common intermediate magic has great destructive power. If you are not careful, it is very likely to cause damage to the building.

Therefore, starting from the intermediate class, whether it is teaching or competition, it is basically in the Mage Tower.

In the earliest times, the Mage Tower was built by the Dharma God Jialin, so it was also called the "Jalin Dharma God Tower". Over the past thousand years, the college has been optimizing and improving the Mage Tower.

The Mage Tower is divided into nine floors. Each floor is a different scene. There are deserts constructed by magic, as well as mountains, rivers, swamps and volcanoes. In addition to these, there are also monsters of all levels of strength.

In addition to opening the Mage Tower for them in advance this school year, the curriculum has also been adjusted.

We have almost learned Warcraft and History, and have switched to completely self-study, so starting from today, we will no longer teach them, and the time of these two classes will be merged into the Mage Tower teaching.

In other words, the morning class will be changed to practical teaching of fire magic, and other courses will remain unchanged.

Although they all felt extremely strange about this, everyone was extremely happy to be able to enter the Mage Tower in advance.

Of course, due to their current strength, only the first floor of the Mage Tower is open to them for the time being.

After taking a short rest, Luna took them to the mage tower located in the northern teaching area, on the edge of the college, near the Mist Forest.

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