Weird Wizarding World

Black Castle is located deep within the Xisheng School.

This is a hemispherical black building that covers a large area. From a distance, it looks like a raised hillside.

However, only those who know Black Castle know that compared to the above-ground part of Black Castle, its underground part is the real main body.

This is one of the core places of the entire Xisheng School. It is not only responsible for managing the information of all the wizards of the school, but also responsible for managing the order within the school.

Moore parted ways with Bulwer on the ground floor.

He led Atbald and Lillian to the interrogation room on the underground floor, while Bulwer and the two led Colin deeper underground.

Moore's steps were neither hasty nor slow.

The Xisheng School has a complete system of restraints on Black Castle supervision. If he wants to achieve the results he expected, he may have to find a few more members of the same clan for help.

However, it was still late at night, so he planned to let the two Atbolds stay in the temporary prison next to the interrogation room overnight and make plans tomorrow.

the other side.

Bulwer took Colin further down, and finally reached the sixth underground floor.

Oncoming is a silver-white corridor with a sense of technology. These silver-white walls are not made of metal, and the overall texture is similar to rubber.

Their footsteps were almost silent as they stepped hard on it.

Bulwer didn't say much. He and Keith walked slowly forward with Colin sandwiched between them.

This place is already deep in the Black Castle. There are no special circumstances on weekdays. Even the supervisors have no authority to come here.

And now is a special situation. This is Operation Crimson's plan for surveillance exposure, or special cases like Colin's.

Bulwer did not know the details of the plan, but it fell to him to be responsible for the execution part, which was to bring the suspected target to Black Castle.

The three of them walked quietly along the corridor.

After handing over Colin, the two Bulwers can leave.

Colin will undergo a series of complex inspections and interrogations here.

The next afternoon.

A temporary prison next to the interrogation room on the basement level of Black Castle.

Atbold and Lilian calmly watched the inspectors arriving in front of them.

"Let me introduce myself, I am Reese, one of the two leaders appointed by the school of this incident." The inspection team leader said.

His face was gentle and smiling, his eyes were slightly narrowed, and he had the demeanor of a smiling tiger.

"I'm Ralph, the other person in charge." The other inspection captain was completely different from Reese, with a stern face and slightly pursed thin lips that looked a bit mean.

Reese pointed to the other wizards next to him and continued: "These next to them are the supervisors of this auxiliary investigation. According to regulations, they are not the same team as us."

Moore was standing among them with a calm expression.

"Next we will start asking, well, let's start with this beautiful lady." Reese said with a smile.

Lily frowned slightly, not liking Reese's frivolous attitude in front of her.

But due to the rules, she still stood up and followed Reese and Ralph to the interrogation room next to them.

Atbold watched Lillian leave with a slightly worried look on his face.

But he quickly calmed down, and now he only believed in Colin, and he always believed in the student who had created many miracles.

About half an hour later, Lillian returned to the temporary prison, and it was his turn to be questioned.

Altbold stood up and walked out of the steel fence of the temporary prison and came to the interrogation room.

Reese and Ralph were sitting at the long, cold metal table, with ordinary supervisors behind them.

"Please take a seat." Reese said with a smile.

Atbol pulled up his chair and sat down calmly.

"Name?"

"Artebald Rudolf."

The inquiry starts with some routine questions, and all processes and methods are carried out in accordance with regulations.

There were no other disturbances during the whole process.

About half an hour later, Altbold returned to his temporary prison.

Then Lillian was summoned again for questioning.

After Lilian finished interrogating, it was Atbold's turn again.

This went back and forth, almost throughout the afternoon, the supervisors were interrogating them repeatedly.

Various questions were asked during this period, and auxiliary witchcraft such as detecting heart rate were used in turn. As for further spiritual witchcraft, Black Castle has strict regulations. This incident was not enough to meet the threshold for use.

With this set of rules, ordinary people would have been exhausted by the torture.

But for them, even Lilian has basically completed strengthening the foundation of her body and is at the peak of the first level.

Although Atbold is not completely free yet, he has regained the strength of a second-level wizard.

Therefore, the two of them did not feel tired, but just felt a little bored.

After probably interrogating each of them five or six times, as night fell, the supervisors temporarily left, leaving them alone in the temporary prison.

The night is getting darker, and the biting cold wind of winter is sweeping through the city of Neustadt.

In the small temporary prison, Atbold and Lilian sat cross-legged opposite each other, waiting patiently.

According to the rules of the school, before the results of the investigation come out, the Black Castle Supervisor has the right to require them to cooperate with the investigation here for up to ten days.

During this period, they are not allowed to leave the temporary prison.

"It seems they have no intention of bringing dinner over." Atopold said calmly, glancing at the railing that had fallen into silence since nightfall.

"Yeah." Lilian nodded without saying much.

From last night to now, let alone food, the supervisors didn't even give her and Atbold a sip of water.

Although it would not be a big problem for a second-level wizard to go without food or drink for ten days, even a first-level wizard like her could handle it.

But this is undoubtedly a soft knife and a show of force.

Atbold looked at Lilian and had many questions in his heart, but he still slowly closed his eyes and rested.

Under the influence of the temporary prison, they were unable to use the magic power in their bodies, nor could they release their mental power.

At the same time, there are multiple photo crystals that continuously record their every move.

Such an environment is obviously not suitable for chatting.

The first day passed like this. Overall, it was easy.

However, both Atbold and Lillian knew clearly that this was just the beginning, just a moment of calm before the storm.

The deep night faded quickly at dawn, as if encountering a natural enemy, leaving only the vast mist and the transparent ice edges hanging on the eaves.

The next day came, and there was still no news from Colin.

At the same time, the supervisors did not come over all morning.

Not in the afternoon, not in the evening...

After leaving them alone for two full days, on the morning of the fourth day, Reese and Ralph came to the temporary prison again with a group of supervisors.

But this time, Reese suddenly put away his always smiling expression and became serious.

As soon as he arrived outside the temporary prison, he preemptively said:

"Atbald, we have found conclusive evidence that you and your students jointly lured Axi Hidos into a premeditated ambush and then killed him. Do you admit your guilt?!"

Atbold's heart sank, what should come will eventually come.

He stood up slowly, looked at Reese and shook his head.

…

At the same time, in a huge wizard tower.

Colin slowly walked into the huge research room on the second floor.

After many twists and turns of hard work, he finally got an opportunity - to come here and meet someone.

Walking into the huge research room, a tall man with curly hair was facing away from him, standing in front of the silver-white alloy high table and writing something.

The sparkling quill made a rustling sound as it rubbed against the rough paper.

There were several naked figures suspended in front of the man, both male and female, all with traces of anatomy on their bodies.

After seeing this figure, the anxiety lingering on Colin's brows finally subsided.

He thought for a while, didn't speak, and waited patiently.

Not long after, the tall, curly-haired man finally stopped writing. He reached out and pressed his eyebrows, his face full of deep exhaustion.

Slowly raising his head, he looked at Colin with a smile and said, "Colin Leonard, I have been aggrieved during this time."

"Good morning, Lord Neuss." Colin greeted him respectfully.

Noyce smiled and continued: "I already know about you, and I didn't think carefully about it. I hope you won't complain that I deliberately concealed your identity as a 'hero wizard'."

Colin thought for a while and did not answer whether to complain, but said calmly: "The city lord probably chose to do this out of greater considerations."

Noyce looked at him carefully, then let go of his hand, and the quill suddenly turned into a point of light and disappeared in the air. He walked out from behind the high table and walked towards Colin.

"I remember that the last time I saw you, you were a first-level intermediate wizard, but now you have advanced to the first-level advanced level, and the foundation of your body has been strengthened - it seems that you have gained a lot in the elven kingdom."

Noyce didn't answer, but instead started chatting. With his elegant curly hair, he looked very approachable.

Colin looked a little unsure of Noyce's intentions and nodded slightly.

He is not worried about his identity as a first-order knight being discovered by Noyce. After all, strictly speaking, fighting spirit and blood energy are two different energies.

And from the time he came in until now, he has never felt Noyce's prying eyes.

Maybe he couldn't feel it, but Colin preferred to believe that Noyce was sticking to his bottom line and was unwilling to make such an impolite move.

"There is also the second-level summoned fire element, which is really amazing. I remember that when I was at the first-level advanced level, I could only perform two second-level witchcraft." Noyce continued,

He looked at Colin's slightly stunned expression, squinted his eyes in pleasure, smiled, and added: "Of course, I was already close to thirty years old at that time, not as young as you."

Colin didn't know how to answer the conversation for a moment. He originally thought that although Noyce looked elegant, his character would be powerful and majestic in nature. The conversation between them should also be concise and concise, and it ended quickly.

But I didn't expect that this would be the case now.

"Is that summoning second-level fire element a witchcraft that you improved and created yourself?" Noyce continued to ask.

"...Yes." Colin paused and nodded.

"Amazing." Noyce praised, "Can you tell me the principle behind the improvement?"

"The main reason is the change of the magic control center. I increased its number." Colin said briefly, and then added: "The Lord of Neuss, my mentor and senior sister..."

"Increase the magic control center..." Noyce interrupted, stroking the light beard on his chin.

After pondering for a moment, he praised: "What a genius idea."

"Okay, go save your mentor. Those pure-blood families are all hyenas!" Noyce continued, "Turn right after you go out. Theodore will help you arrange everything."

When Colin heard this, the big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and he quickly said respectfully:

"Thank you Lord Neuss."

Noyce hummed and continued:

"Wait until you finish dealing with your mentor's affairs and then come here again."

"Yes." Colin was a little confused, but did not continue to ask.

"Colin——" However, when he turned around, Noyce stopped him again.

Colin turned around and saw that Noyce had returned to the high table. Faint light spots gathered into quills in his hands. There was unconcealable exhaustion under his calm face:

"The wizard's situation is not optimistic." Noyce said calmly while writing, "We lost too much power in the battle on the seven islands in the south."

"However, the visible losses are only secondary, and the hidden dangers that are invisible are the fatal ones."

"Since the gods can make the elves perfectly disguise themselves and deceive all wizards, they can naturally also make ordinary believers of gods perfectly disguise themselves.

In today's Neustadt City, all wizards who have just arrived in the past two years, or wizards who have recently visited the southern seas, have been investigated. "

"But this does not allow us to find all the believers. The elves have fallen for a long time, and no one knows whether the gods placed believers in the city of Neustadt a hundred years ago."

"Today we can't tell."

Noyce's words were calm, but Colin seemed to feel a real chill coming towards him.

He still vividly remembers the battle situations Athios encountered when he took an airship to the southern seas.

For that betrayal, the wizard chose to pay a bloody price, and then successfully developed the counter-attack crimson mark technique.

But now the gods seem to have another, more clever way of disguise.

This may be because the gods have made targeted improvements to camouflage after the emergence of the Crimson Marking Technique.

Or maybe there was such a method of camouflage from the beginning, but it was only used in key places due to reasons such as high cost.

But no matter what, in this war, there is no guarantee that the comrades around him are reliable.

Sooner or later the wizard's side will fall into the dark forest of suspicion.

Of course, this is only the most serious case.

But even if a popular wizard has only a few insiders, the damage they can cause can be devastating.

Noyce continued:

"So in order to intimidate the gods, when I exposed the elf traitors, I did not reveal the information you learned from the elf kingdom, but declared to the outside world——

You are a witchcraft genius who made improvements based on the Crimson Mark Technique. Then with the improved witchcraft, you accidentally discovered the news that the elves are traitors. "

"Of course, now it seems that you are indeed a genius in witchcraft, but you just haven't improved the crimson mark technique." Noyce looked at him and smiled.

Colin suddenly understood. No wonder Noyce chose to completely conceal his information and did not reveal it to the outside world at all.

"So, Colin, I hope you won't blame me for hiding the identity of your heroic wizard." Noyce raised his head and smiled, "With honor comes thorns."

Colin nodded, he certainly understood this truth.

By keeping her identity secret, she was protecting him.

"However, when you reach the second level and when I truly improve the Crimson Marking Technique, all the honors you deserve will come."

Noyce looked at the manuscript paper in his hand, then looked at the corpse of the undercover god hanging next to him and said.

"Before that, let's keep this secret for the time being, um... and the purpose of Operation Crimson. I think you should have guessed it, and keep it secret for the time being."

"Okay, Lord Neuss." Colin responded in a deep voice.

The purpose of the so-called Operation Crimson, in addition to screening potential believers of the gods, is actually to collect and research materials for Noyce to improve the Crimson Marking Technique.

It is precisely because of this that he underwent harsh interrogation on the sixth floor of the Black Castle.

The interrogators reported in confusion after being unable to judge what he said, and finally he came to Noyce.

"But...improved crimson mark technique?"

Colin turned and walked towards the door of the laboratory.

Pale golden particles gathered in front of him.

He stared at the crimson marking technique that was about to break through, his eyes flickering.

But the pace did not stop at all.

The top priority now is to rescue the mentor first. Anyway, according to Noyce's instructions, he will come back later.

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