Weird Wizarding World

In the gray-black open room, there is a brown carpet with a triangular pattern.

Daylight poured in from the square stained glass windows high on the left and right walls, and fell on a large group of wizard apprentices gathered below, forming mottled marks.

Loud whispers echoed through the house.

Colin stood in the corner of the crowd, his face expressionless.

After Berkeley brought him back to the wizard's territory, he turned around and left in a hurry.

A gray-haired witch apprentice, Fina, summoned them here.

Like Berkeley, she is one of the three peak apprentices.

At this time, she was standing quietly by the platform at the front of the crowd, expressionless, indifferent to the whispers of the apprentices.

Ta-ta-ta--

A large number of footsteps gradually came from outside the room.

The noisy sounds of the apprentices' conversations in the room suddenly became fainter until they disappeared.

The thick wooden door creaked open.

Wizard Lapp walked in slowly, followed by several wizards.

‘Berkeley, Needham, Price, and…the leader of the Ribbon Gang and the leader of the Snakehead Gang. ’

Colin raised his head slightly and scanned it, with some confusion on his face.

The number of wizards on Blackstone Island is not large, and the number of peak apprentices is even smaller.

The only top apprentices he knew were the three from Berkeley, the leaders of the four major gangs in the city, and the city lord Price.

There are only eight people in total.

Last night, the Chiwen Gang and the Perco Gang were basically destroyed, and their gang leaders were naturally dead.

Eight out of eight peak wizard apprentices were eliminated, leaving only six...

And now they are all gathered here.

Berkeley and Needham walked to the right side of the platform and stood next to Fina.

The three Prices stood on the other side of the platform with puzzled faces.

Wizard Lapp slowly walked onto the platform at the front of the crowd. He looked around without speaking.

Everyone in the audience lowered their heads and remained silent.

Even Needham, who was usually unruly, didn't dare to make any other move, remaining silent and respectful like the others.

a long time.

Teng! !

"ah!!"

Several shrill screams suddenly sounded from the left side of the platform!

The apprentices subconsciously raised their heads.

After seeing it clearly, they all exclaimed in surprise!

Colin's pupils also shrank slightly, and he couldn't believe what he saw——

Price's three peak wizard apprentices who were originally standing on the left side of the platform were now wrapped in blazing flames, and soon turned into three charred corpses, falling to the ground and no longer moving.

The slightly flustered chatter of the apprentices gathered into a surge of uproar that erupted in the room.

"Cough-cough-"

On the platform, Wizard Lapp covered his mouth and coughed twice, looking a little tired.

The sounds of the apprentices' conversation stopped abruptly.

"Fear not, my students."

He raised his head and calmly stared at the apprentices with different expressions in front of him, and spoke slowly.

"I'm helping you stifle possible crises in the future."

He paused and said in a slightly tired voice with a little bit of undetectable fear:

"I'm dying, my students."

The uproar broke out in the house again, this time even louder than before.

"What?!"

"how come?"

"Teacher Rapp..."

A look of disbelief appeared on Berkeley's usually calm face.

The apprentices here didn't look like they were joking after seeing the Lapp wizard.

Most of them looked sad.

All of them present, ranging from five years to sixty years, have lived under the protection of Lapp wizards.

It can be said that they are all children who grew up listening to the stories of Lapp wizards.

Although they are more familiar as instructors before becoming advanced apprentices.

But the Lapp wizard, the founder of the Lapp school!

No apprentice would not understand where the honor and benefits they enjoy in daily life come from.

…They enjoy the honor and responsibility that come with their school status.

At the same time, he was also in awe of the creator of this honor, the Lapp wizard.

What's more, the Lapp wizard has a gentle personality, and although the school system is strict, it is not cruel.

Just like when a benevolent king in the mortal world is about to die, the people under his command will inevitably feel sad, and they also feel a little sad.

as well as--

The feeling that the house that covers me is about to collapse, and I don’t know where to go.

"After my death, only a formal wizard will appear among you again in order to continue passing on the school."

Wizard Lapp said in a deep voice again, with a calm expression.

"I have a way out for you."

"I will choose an apprentice from all of you here, help him advance to become a formal wizard, and inherit my heritage."

Continuing the legacy? Advance to a formal wizard?

The apprentices looked at each other in silence.

Needham's eyes flickered on the edge of the platform, and he glanced at Fina and Berkeley beside him.

If there is any apprentice present who has the best chance of becoming a formal wizard, it is undoubtedly these three peak wizard apprentices.

Berkeley looked worried. He was more sad that the Lapp wizard was about to pass away than he was to advance to a formal wizard.

He came here sixty years ago and was one of the first apprentices of the Rapp School.

Wizard Lapp watched him grow from a six or seven-year-old child to now...

For him, the Lapp wizard is both a teacher and a father.

Next to Berkeley.

The gray-haired Fina still looked expressionless.

In the crowd, Colin, like other apprentices, lowered his head and remained calm, but there was some doubt in his heart.

‘Inherit the inheritance and advance to become a formal wizard? ’

‘Such benefits can also be given to apprentices below senior level? ’

‘If we really want to choose a successor, shouldn’t we choose directly from top apprentices like Berkeley or high-level apprentices like Holt? ’

'It's not just peak apprentices like Berkley who are in the room now.

Basically all the members of the school have gathered here, even the junior wizard apprentices who survived last night are here...'

Wizard Lapp continued to announce:

"All of you here have the opportunity to advance to become a formal wizard and acquire my inheritance."

"The requirements for selection are not based on realm, nor are they based on talent."

He paused and said in a deep voice: "It's based on a trial."

"Come with me."

Wizard Lapp slowly walked down from the stage and led the apprentices towards the door.

Before Colin had time to think, he was followed by the other apprentices and followed the Lapp wizard.

Like water pouring down, the wizards formed a long queue and gradually walked out of the room.

Soon, the room that was originally full of wizards was reduced to the last dozen or so.

So the sunlight passes through the square stained glass window and falls unobstructed on the brown carpet with triangular pattern, cutting out two sides of light and dark.

In that dark part,

squeak.

A rat-like creature that merged with the shadows flashed past.

A handsome wizard who was walking at the end of the team of wizards calmly turned back and quickly followed the crowd.

If Colin were present, he would be surprised to find——

Among the last remaining junior apprentices of their batch.

There was actually a female apprentice who, like him, successfully advanced to an intermediate wizard apprenticeship at the end of the ten-year period and stayed in the wizarding realm.

If Colin hadn’t forgotten the female apprentice’s name, he might not even say hello:

"Mia."

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Ta-ta-ta--

The footsteps gradually stopped.

Wizard Lapp stopped in front of a thick stone door in the deepest part of the central castle.

"Kids," he said, his voice even more tired than before.

"Here is the trial I have prepared for you."

Colin raised his head and looked carefully at the unattractive gray stone door behind him.

The surface of the stone door is smooth, with a pattern like a simple sketch of gravel on the edge...

Decorative patterns in this style can be seen throughout the Blackstone Castle, nothing special.

Apart from this, there are no other special traces on the stone gate.

"Ahem——, the trial is very simple... you will know the details later after you go in." Wizard Lapp coughed and said no more.

He waved the wand in his hand, and undetectable fluctuations of magic power flashed through.

Click.

The stone door behind him suddenly rose upwards, and a dark and deep tunnel appeared behind him.

Maybe it's because the stone gate is open.

The bright crystals inlaid on the top of the corridor gradually light up from near to far, and the light path formed by them extends back until the end of the line of sight.

Under the soft white light, Colin could see the entire corridor clearly.

To the left and right are some rough and convex gray stone walls, with details carved in the same style as the stone door outside.

Perhaps due to the humidity, cyan color stubbornly crawled out of some twists and turns and adhered to the stone wall.

"Go in." Wizard Lapp stepped aside and signaled to the apprentices.

Needham took the lead and walked towards the corridor without hesitation.

He was not worried about the conspiracy of the Lapp wizard.

If the Lapp wizard really wants to do harm to them, why is it so complicated?

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the Lapp wizard really wanted to harm them, they would have no room to resist.

Even though the Lapp wizard was seriously injured, it was still easy to deal with apprentices like them.

Aren't Price's three peak wizard apprentices who died suddenly the best example?

Of course, having lived on the island for more than thirty years, he believed that what the Lapp wizard said was true.

If the Lapp wizard is really seriously injured and about to die...then these apprentices will be of no use to the Lapp wizard even if they drain their bones and blood.

There is no need to spend so much time on them.

Under his leadership, the apprentices also walked in hesitantly.

They are obviously not fools. They know most of what Needham can think of.

Ding.

Colin walked unhurriedly in the middle of the crowd, quietly turning his hand to retract the cone bullet suspended in his palm.

This is a little trick derived from arrow shooting.

The directions of east, west, north, and south can be determined based on the magnetic field.

The apprentices filed into the corridor through the stone gate.

Click——

The moment all the apprentices entered the corridor, the stone door slowly closed.

Colin subconsciously looked back and saw that many apprentices had made the same move as him.

After seeing the scene behind them clearly, the apprentices breathed a sigh of relief...

At the end of the line, the Lapp wizard was there, following them slowly.

Ta-ta-ta--

The apprentices walked in silence, no one spoke.

Only the shadows sway under the white light...

They look different.

Some people are looking forward to the subsequent trials, imagining that maybe they can be the lucky one selected by the Lapp wizard and stand out.

Some people looked worried.

They didn't expect that in just one night, Blackstone Island would be turned upside down.

But... maybe this world is just like this.

Peace and stability.

No matter who it is, it is a luxurious word.

…The tunnel is longer than Colin imagined.

Crack.

He took out his pocket watch and opened it.

Almost an hour has passed.

He looked ahead.

The Lapp wizard had walked in front of them unknowingly.

Perhaps to take care of the junior apprentices, he was not very fast.

It is precisely because of this that the apprentices did not get separated and still gathered together.

Peak apprentices like Needham could only suppress their speed and follow Wizard Rapp obediently.

Another moment.

Colin felt the team slow down and finally stop.

He looked up and ahead.

Passing through the heads blocking the view, we were at the front of the line.

Wizard Lapp stopped in front of a gray stone wall.

The stone wall is about three meters high and five meters wide. The edges are covered with vine-like embossed lines.

Colin frowned.

This stone wall was obviously different in style from the gray and black corridor they were on.