The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 2 Rain and Fog
Tuk-tuk-tuk——

"Gallido, are you done? You're the only one left!"

In front of the stone house, Jigos knocked hard on the wooden door. The sound was mixed with the rain and fog and was particularly dull.

But no matter how much I knocked on the door, there was no response from inside.

"Could it be that Galido left first?" Leona wiped the rain off his fat face.

"Impossible. The senior will be free to pick us up in the afternoon. Gallido and I have agreed to leave now." Ant shook his head and went forward to knock on the door.

Lin En slowly approached, looked at the silent stone house, and tightly grasped the handle of the suitcase. He had an inexplicable bad feeling in his heart...

Could it be the same as the original owner...

"Gallido, what the hell are you doing? Stop wasting everyone's time!"

After knocking for a while and seeing still no response, Ant shouted loudly and reached out to try to open the door.

The wooden door was not locked and was pulled open.

Dengdengdeng-

Before Lin En could see the scene in the stone house clearly, he saw Ant taking a few steps back and falling to the ground as if he had seen a ghost.

"Gar...Garrito..."

Jigos, who was standing next to him, frowned and walked forward to check. Then his pupils suddenly shrank and his expression became gloomy.

Looking over his shoulder, Lynn could clearly see a figure hanging from the beam of the stone house.

His whole body was drooping, his face was pale, and it was obvious that he had lost his life.

"?!"

This was the first time that Lynn saw a truly horrific corpse.

He suddenly opened his eyes wide, and subconsciously rubbed the cut on his left wrist that had basically healed, his heart pounding.
'Sure enough... like the original owner, Galido also chose to commit suicide because he could not accept the fact of being eliminated and was unwilling to face the high school debt.'

If you go to a better place after being eliminated and have no debt, then it's no big deal.

But they went to a worse place.

It is Cuilin City, where gangs abound, wild beasts roam around, and mortals die every day.

At the same time, it is burdened with unaffordable debt contracts.

This feeling of falling from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, with no hope for the future at all, is enough to destroy a person's mind.

"Alas, why do this... Only when you are alive can you have hope."

Little Fat Leona also saw the scene in the stone house and sighed with a pale face.

"Hope... is just a lingering breath!" Gigos said with a gloomy face and full of resentment.

"That's not the case. Although we failed to be promoted to wizard apprentices, as long as we can hand in the magic stones on time, the school will not do anything to us.

"If I can save some extra money, maybe I can live in a big house and get married." Leona murmured softly, with a hopeful look on his face.

"Also, if one day I can successfully become a wizard apprentice..."

"Heh, half a secondary magic stone every month, an increase of 25% every year! If it was really that easy to make money, would Galido choose to commit suicide?

"As for promotion, ha! If you can't even do it on the mountain, how can you expect to do it down there? It's good enough to be alive!"

Jigos sneered and walked straight into the stone house.

"What are you going to do?" Ant asked doubtfully.

Without even turning his head, Jigos said calmly:
“The Galidians are dead, but the things are still there.

"Don't just stand there, give me a hand, search out the things and divide them equally, then hurry down the mountain."

Ant and Leona hesitated for a moment, then followed forward.

Among the five, Gigos has a more mature personality.

Although it was not stated explicitly, he had always been the eldest among the teenagers.

Lynn let out a breath and followed.

Soon, they found 2 secondary magic stones, 2 gold dragons, and 68 silver wolves.

After dividing it equally, the group prepared to leave.

Leona collected the coins and looked up to see Gallido's floating body.

He sighed, shook his head, and slowly walked closer to try to remove it.

Lin En, who was standing by, hesitated for a moment and then stepped forward to help.

Our ancestors said it well: the dead are greatest.

Since we've taken his things, even if we don't have to collect his body, at least we can keep him hanging for a little longer after his death... it's just a convenient thing to do.

But just as Lin En hugged Gallido's legs, his face changed slightly and he shuddered suddenly.

Under his trousers, Gallido's body was still warm.

But this feeling not only failed to bring Lin En any warmth, but instead made him tremble.

He suddenly realized that what he was holding in his arms... was really a dead person.

"Don't worry about him, someone from the school will come to deal with it soon." Jigos's voice came from the door.

Leona loosened her grip slightly, hesitating whether to give up.

Lin En next to him took a deep breath and hugged the body again.

Then he shouted "one, two" and exerted force suddenly, successfully removing Garrido's body from the rope.

Seeing this, Leona quickly lent a hand, and the two of them laid him down on the sofa next to them.

Lynn exhaled, looked at Garrido's wide-open eyes, and reached out to gently close them.

'May you rest in peace...'

"What is this?" Leona suddenly bent down and picked up a piece of light yellow paper from the ground.

This seemed to be something that had just fallen out of Gallido's pocket. "I saw it when I searched him. It was just a note on the Horsens Meditation Method. It can't be taken out of the school. Throw it on the ground and leave quickly."

Jigos leaned against the door and said in a deep voice.

Leona glanced at it, curled her lips, and handed it to the curious Lynn beside her.

Lynn took the note and looked through it carefully.

On it is a kind of strange and beautiful text - the common language of wizards.

Although its lines are tortuous and soft, its appearance looks somewhat similar to the phonetic writing that was more common in the West in the past.

But in essence, it is more similar to the hieroglyphics of my own country in my previous life.

"It is indeed as Jigos said. These are just some notes that the original owner also knows..."

Lynn was about to throw away the notes and leave.

A strange scene suddenly appeared before my eyes.

As he stared, dots of blue light slowly appeared on the pale yellow paper, and then condensed into a few lines of characters:

【The experience of the Horsens apprentice meditation method (incomplete)】

【Consume mixed energy to get a glimpse of the problem. 】

Lin En froze in place. At the same time, a message came to him -

'You can consume the mixed source energy to glimpse the truth and gain the power...'

He subconsciously held his breath, his heart began to beat violently, and his throat became a little dry.

This is my golden finger?!
Without hesitation, Lin En decided to take a peek!

But after a moment, another message came:
【Insufficient mixed source energy.】

"Hey, Lynn, are you leaving or not?" Gigos urged at the door.

Lin En frowned in his heart, but there was no change in his expression. He threw the white paper on the ground and walked quickly towards the door.

"coming."

Arriving at the door, Gigos glanced at him and strode forward.

Ant looked at him and Leona, sighed, and said in a sad tone:
"What's the point of putting him down?

"The school will either feed him to Lord Ushmiul or use him as teaching material. Anyway... he will never be able to rest in peace."

Lin En didn't quite hear what he said, as most of his thoughts were still on the characters that had just appeared in front of his eyes.

"What is mixed energy?"

……

The rain and fog are hazy.

The four of them moved forward in silence and soon arrived at the edge of the witch formation.

Next to the cobblestone road stood two gray-black stone pillars, carved with the inverted triangle logo of the Horsens School, and in the center was a twisted and entangled blood vine.

At this moment, under the rain, it is glowing a strange red.

After waiting quietly for a moment, several blood vines that looked exactly like the school's logo spread out from both sides of the road.

This is Lord Ushmuir as Ant mentioned.

Lin En looked at the twisting vines, silently hiding the surprise in his heart, and stood quietly like the other teenagers.

The cold and rough vines wrapped around everyone's bodies like snakes, carefully searching every inch of space and every piece of luggage.

While searching Lynn's luggage, Vine found a light green book inside.

Hua Hua——

The vines wrapped around Lynn suddenly tightened, lifting him up high!

Lin En groaned, his heart beating violently, and the memories of the original owner flashed through his mind quickly.

After a moment, he shouted, enduring the pain:

"I have signed the contract and know the rules, Lord Ushmiul! That is just the knowledge of making crystal pieces that I purchased before. It belongs to mortal skills and does not involve any wizard knowledge related to the school."

After a while, Lord Ushmuir dropped the books and let him go.

In fact, all of these apprentices have signed strict confidentiality agreements and cannot reveal the school's knowledge in any form.

Ushmuir must understand this, it's just that it has a bad nature.

Lin En staggered a few steps and felt like his whole body was about to fall apart.

He bent down to pick up the luggage and the book that were wet by the rain. Before he could straighten up, he was pushed out of the magic circle by Ushmiul.

Lin En, who nearly fell, turned around and saw that Jigos and others were also treated roughly.

Leona was not careful for a moment and stumbled and fell, rolling twice on the cobblestone road and lying on the ground.

After a moment, he climbed up, covered in dirt, and stood outside the witch formation with the remaining teenagers. He looked back at the school's headquarters behind him in silence.

Under the gray sky, four young faces wet by the rain were filled with deep anxiety and confusion.

Although it was only one step away, they could no longer step into the place where they had lived for 9 years and grew from young children to young teenagers.

The rain was still falling, and water was streaming down the boy's wet face.

At this moment, no one could tell whether it was traces of rain or something else.

It was not until this moment that Lin En suddenly realized that they were just a group of ignorant teenagers, with an average age of fifteen or sixteen, who were kept in isolation in the mountains.

“Senior Dole told me that only 30% of people can survive a year at the foot of the mountain.

"For those who have survived two years, most of the time will be reduced. As for those who have survived three years..."

Ant shook his head, looking sadly at the endless green surrounding Cuilin City at the foot of the mountain, and murmured in the rain,
"One day, we will hang from the rafters like Galido."

His voice didn't travel far.
In the blink of an eye, it disappeared in the rain.

(End of this chapter)