The Dean Has Arrived

"It's so cold..."

On the large balcony in the third school district that was temporarily used as an airport, Tio was wearing a beige cotton scarf and a bloated cotton coat over the robe, which looked round and cute like a bear.

Because of the sudden cold snap, the temperature in the coastal areas of the eastern plains suddenly dropped by a notch, as if the severe winter had arrived ahead of schedule. And Morag is naturally also within the range of influence of this cold current. Although there is a heating system inside Edric's third school district, it doesn't matter, but once you go out, it is enough to make you a magician, but the essence is still a group of people who are not afraid of anything. The kid who is not afraid is freezing enough...

Thanks to the cold weather, Morag's tailor shop was sold out of overcoats, even some vintage items that had been overstocked for a long time and whose styles could no longer keep up with the trend.

The little girl shook her long light blue hair, sucked her nose that was red from the cold, breathed out a breath of white air, and complained softly, "Isn't Juno here yet?".

"Should be coming soon?"

Beside her, Alisa, who was also a bit bloated, replied uncertainly: "Although I don't know why, she doesn't seem to answer my student ID communication..."

Then the blond girl turned around curiously and looked at Alice who was still wearing a decent maid outfit behind them: "Alice, aren't you cold?".

Whether it's inside or outside the academy, whether it's winter or summer, maid girls always seem to be wearing such a cumbersome maid outfit.

"Not at all, I'm used to it."

Alice smiled and lifted the hem of her skirt and twirled it around. She couldn't relax and took out a broom from somewhere. Cleaning the thick snow accumulated on the balcony: "And the teacher has enchanted this maid outfit, which contains a certain fire element, which can provide heat well. Would you like to try it?"

"Really..." Alisa looked at the other party's skirt and thin top, and shuddered: "Forget it, your clothes look cold to me."

It is worth mentioning that although Alice, as the host, is not afraid of the severe cold, her doll, Zhenhong, has already got into the suitcase and refuses to come out even if she dies.

At first, the maid girl thought that there was something wrong with Zhenhong, and she was in a hurry, but after Xi Wei explained it, she found out. Dolls like Zhenhong who have a certain degree of self-care ability. When judging that the temperature is too low or too high will have adverse effects on oneself, they will evade spontaneously, and generally will not show up unless it is a formal order from the puppeteer.

"If you feel too cold. I can bring you a pot of hot cocoa or hot milk." Looking at Alisa who couldn't stop rubbing her hands to keep warm. The maid girl asked with some concern.

"No need. Before I met the teacher, I was just an ordinary peasant girl, not so delicate." Alisa burst into a simple smile. Respond to Alice's tenderness.

"But then again, Miss Daisy is really slow."

After a while, after building a distorted snowman with the swept snow together with Tio, Alice wiped the sweat from her forehead and said strangely: "If this continues, go to Higrad's The airship is about to depart..."

Yesterday, after Juno Daisy joined the Fetish Society (abbreviation for Magic Item Research Club), the black-haired and glasses girl with two thick braids came up with a seemingly useful piece of information.

That was when she overheard the villagers mentioning it when she was doing a mission in a distant village, and after that, she specifically inquired and summarized the information from other students who had done missions nearby, and finally obtained the information.

Near the Principality of Ecrakit, there appeared a young man who took the responsibility of collecting and destroying soul tools. It is said that he single-handedly repelled the army of the princesses who went to snatch the soul tools, and then wiped out the rebellious horse thieves alone. Wandering around that area, looking for other soul tools.

Because of this, after obtaining Xi Wei's permission, Alisa and the others also planned to take the nearest airship to the vicinity to explore the traces of the soul tool at the incident site.

Although Xi Wei once planned to stop them, he gave up in the end. After adding the names of the group of them to the list of exemptions for the soul tool, he let them go to contact the soul tool user—it doesn't matter whether they can find the other party, even if they see , the big deal is to treat it as an investigation of the nearby soul equipment, anyway, even with the addition of soul equipment, those guys are opponents with the combined efforts of several little guys...

No matter how bad it is, there are life-saving props such as return crystals. After exempting the strange abilities of the soul, at least there is no problem in escaping.

Back to the topic, the three of Alisa and the others have already arrived at the agreed meeting place, which is the temporary platform, but Juno Daisy, the main character of this operation, has not been seen for a long time.

Just when Alisa couldn't help but want to send another message, her student ID card vibrated slightly, which indicated that a student was contacting her.

"Holding, I'm sorry... I got up early today, I went to the library to read a book for a while, and it's already here now..."

After taking out the student ID card with a hand that was about to lose consciousness, Juno Daisy's voice that was about to cry came from inside.

"Then didn't I receive my previous contact?" Alisa couldn't help asking.

"When I went to the library, I forgot my student ID in the dormitory...Please wait for five minutes...No, three minutes...Wow, why are there stairs here?...Ah, why is the corridor missing here? For a while... wait, where is this place?!"

Accompanied by the continuous sound of "pingping bang bang" from the student ID card, both Alisa and Alice sighed involuntarily.

It seems that this new member is not very reliable.

"Ah!" As soon as she put down her student ID card, Alisa couldn't help but sneezed.

"Sure enough, I should go get you a cup of hot cocoa?" the maid girl asked again.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Sniffing, Alisa smiled a little embarrassedly, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

"I want hot cocoa too."

Tio, who was still trying to repair the snowman's appearance, also spoke.

"Yes, please wait a moment."

The maid girl responded with a calm smile. Walked unhurriedly towards the castle.

After Alice's back disappeared at the entrance of the castle, Alisa turned her head and looked at Tio's pile of snowmen, which were bigger than the little girl herself and had a slightly distorted shape.

"Oh, Tio, this snowman is very well made. Let me guess what you made~"

"Okay." The little girl shook her long hair and stopped her hands, probably remembering what Xi Wei said to her about 'be polite', and she added: "Please. "

"From this appearance... a Cyclops?"

Shake your head.

"Hmm... a snow monster?"

Shake your head.

"Highland ogre?"

Shake your head.

"Abomination? Rotfiend? Boggart?"

Shake your head.

"what is that?"

"Xi Wei..."

"..."

——Fengkou Plateau——

"Ah-choo!"

Xi Wei sneezed without warning.

"Can the great magician catch a cold too..."

He twisted his nose. He looked at the scene in front of him again.

After passing through the wind wall of the tornado that can easily cut in half even a block of iron. What unfolded in front of him was the ruins of a lifeless ancient city.

Unlike the gusts outside that far surpassed the twelfth level, there was no wind at all. What kind of structure or theory was used to cause such a phenomenon? Xi Wei didn't bother to care about it...Anything is possible in a different world. It is estimated that he will not say anything even if he sees the backward waterfall in two days.

compare. The whole place is quiet like a decaying ancient tomb. Even the air is filled with stale and turbid smell accumulated over countless years.

"Maybe it's not a cold, but an allergy to dust or something..."

The ground is similar to the outside, also a reddish-brown dry rock. However, because no one has cleaned it all year round, and there is no wind, the dust has accumulated a thick layer until it reaches Xi Wei's calf. Pulling it out also requires a lot of strength. In short, it may be more difficult to walk inside than the desert.

It's not that Xi Wei doesn't want to use magic like levitation, but that there is no magic element in it. It's not a matter of thinness, but none at all... Even the magic power is evaporating, which is true It's a bit like the shoddy forbidden magic domain that Xi Wei encountered when he was looking for the saint Illeria.

Of course, as a great magician, it is not difficult for Xi Wei to open up an element channel now, and the loss of magic power has no effect at all, but he always has a feeling that doing so may be dangerous, so he would rather continue such a difficult job Trek——As a great magician, his passive magic "Mage's Bulletin" has already been practiced to the point of pure fire, which is close to the level of prophecy. In places where the situation is unknown, trusting intuition is the best choice.

It's just that he came back to his senses after walking for a while—if Nima can't open up the element channel, then I can just use the magic item directly, why bother to go there like an ascetic monk?

Then he took out a safe and pollution-free flying broom and walked slowly towards the center of the ancient city.

All the buildings in the ancient city have a very ancient Roman style, and they are completely piled up of bricks and stones with the same texture as the red rock on the ground. As for whether cement or other adhesives are used, it is unknown.

"I always feel that these houses are a bit subtle..."

After drifting into the ancient city, Xi Wei frowned slightly as he looked at the buildings standing beside him.

He drove the flying broom and casually approached one of the two-story stone houses, which was quite artistic compared to the surrounding buildings. After observing it carefully, he stretched out his hand and pushed it lightly.

The seemingly incomparably solid stone house turned into dust in an instant, collapsed and scattered, and disappeared before Xi Wei's eyes...

It's not that Xi Wei used magic such as disintegration, but that the house was completely reduced to dust because of an unknown force many years ago, but because there has never been any external interference, it has remained intact until now Looking at the intact appearance, it was only when Xi Wei lightly piled up that he lost his original appearance and completely disappeared.

"Unbelievable...what the hell happened here?"

Xi Wei narrowed his eyes and looked at the surrounding buildings.

All the buildings are the same as this dusty double-storey building, giving him a subtle sense of discord. In other words, all the surrounding buildings, and even all the buildings in this ancient city, have actually been turned into countless aggregates of dust, not to mention pushing, even a gust of wind can make this ancient city that looks extremely majestic Disappeared in an instant!

"It can be dissociated to the point that it is completely indistinguishable from dust. This is not at all the level that dissociation can achieve..."

Looking at the pile of dust in front of him, Xi Wei touched his chin.

Reminiscent of the phantom dragons and weird jellyfish guarding the place outside, maybe this ancient city hides a terrible secret!

He raised his head and looked at the sky where the light of the sun was falling. Consider whether to follow the power of the flying broom to fly into the air and overlook the ancient city.

After all, the higher the place. The better the field of view, in addition to being able to see long-distance scenes that cannot be seen at low places, it can also be viewed as a whole.

It's just that this ancient city gives him a weirder feeling now than when he came here just now, as if he didn't open the element channel casually. It's better not to fly into the sky rashly... just in case there are enemies here. The higher you fly, the easier it is to be a target.

After calming down. He continued to fly forward, and for some reason, he always had the feeling that there was something ahead. And the closer to the center of the ancient city, the stronger his feeling.

The further he advanced, the more surprised Xi Wei became.

From entering the ancient city to now, the length of the road he has traveled has almost exceeded five kilometers. If it is not worried that the fast-moving wind will blow all the houses on both sides into dust, so much time is enough for him to run dozens of kilometers. that's it.

"The estimated radius of the tornado from the outside is less than three kilometers, but the city is already more than ten kilometers away by visual inspection... Now I have flown nine times and have not reached the center of the ancient city. The layout of the city seems to be bigger than I thought. The ones are even bigger... Sure enough, there is something famous about that wind wall..."

It seems that this space is the same as the castle in his second school district, the size of the outside is different from the size of the space inside. Of course, he may have come to another place when he passed through the wind wall.

"In short, we've already come here, so we must see what's inside." Placing himself up, Xi Wei continued to move forward.

As it gradually deepened, the surrounding houses began to grow larger, and they also showed some inexplicable conditions. Some houses had scratches and marks of sharp objects left by unknown things, and some houses had been torn down. The roofs and some houses looked like they had been destroyed by shells. Xi Wei even saw that the center of a house was directly stuck into an irregularly shaped boulder...

The common point of this unintentional disaster building is that, like the stone houses in front of them, they have all been turned into dust, barely maintaining their own shape, and all the attack directions are from the center of the ancient city.

In other words, what happened in the center of the ancient city once caused countless stones mixed with sharp objects to fly out, and finally caused the houses in this area to suffer a certain degree of blow.

While speculating in his mind, Xi Wei continued to move forward, and what appeared in front of him was a more severely damaged house and ground.

He even experimented with the depth of the dust here, and found that it was more than twice as deep as the outside.

Obviously, the extra part is the same dusty ground as the surrounding houses.

After advancing for less than one kilometer, the field of vision suddenly widened.

From here, all the way to the city, all the buildings disappeared, replaced by the mummified corpses of various creatures.

Although it doesn't turn into dust like a house, all the mummies here are like pieces of paper that have been placed for an unknown number of years, and they will be turned into pieces with a light touch...

"Humans, kobolds, orcs, big evil, is this an elf? I always feel that it is different from the forest elves. And there are vampires over there? But don't vampires die without bodies?".

The further Xi Wei walked, the more surprised he was. He found that the corpses of almost all humanoid and subhuman creatures could be found here, even the corpses of centaurs, Naga and other creatures that were very different from humans.

Afterwards, the remains of giant dragons, abyssal demons, and some elemental creatures also appeared in this weird battlefield.

Most of them are human corpses, and unlike other alien races, almost all human corpses wear the same armor and hold the same weapons.

Could it be that this is the relic left by ancient alien creatures attacking humans?

But how to put it seems wrong, judging from the way these corpses fell, they didn't seem to be fighting each other when they were alive, but they seemed to be rushing towards the center of the battlefield together.

In that case, is it true that all the mysteries lie in the battlefield?

Xi Wei looked up, and could vaguely see what seemed to be a hill in the center of the battlefield, but it was not clear what it was.

Even if he was as courageous as Xi Wei, walking in such a place, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

Swallowing his saliva, he started to move towards the center of the battlefield again.

Soon, the true face of the 'hill' in the battlefield was revealed to Xi Wei.

Facing the scene in front of him, Xi Wei stopped involuntarily.

It was a mountain made up of countless corpses of various races.

Because Xi Wei had already guessed something, this answer did not shock Xi Wei too much. It was the thing on that hill that stopped him.

A monster that was about the size of an adult African elephant and could no longer see its true colors collapsed to the ground. Around the monster, eight humanoid creatures of various shapes surrounded it like sculptures. Two of the humanoid creatures The white wings and pitch-black magic wings on the back are particularly eye-catching... (to be continued...)