In Sigourney's opinion, Ash's gaze has always been straightforward and pure, with a power that cannot be ignored.
When he looks at you, no matter what you are doing at the time, you will immediately and clearly realize that "he is looking at me".
But today, now, at this moment.
Sigourney was staring at the magical creature locked in the magic shackles, but he didn't realize that someone was watching him.
That gaze was exceptionally peaceful, as if the misty fog and gauzy moonlight in the night were draped over him imperceptibly, embracing and covering him.
He didn't realize that anyone was watching him, so for a brief moment, he let his uncontrolled emotions show.
Just for a short while.
In less than a few breaths, he gathered his uncontrolled emotions and suppressed them deep in his heart. He raised his hand, tucked a strand of silver-white hair hanging beside his cheek behind his ear, and once again cast his nonchalant gaze at the magical creatures being handed over.
The coldness and sharpness just now seemed to be fleeting.
Ash blinked lightly and looked away at the right moment, only remembering Sigourney's appearance just now.
Sigourney wouldn't want anyone to know the expression he had just made. Ash thought, but one day, he would make sure Sigourney never showed that expression again.
On this side, the wizard in charge of transportation had handed over the "materials" one by one. After saying goodbye to Shara, he returned to the truck and drove away along the same way he came.
"There is still one vampire that has not been handed over." A little girl said in a trembling voice.
She was frightened by the bloody magical creatures in front of her, but the last vampire to get off the car was too handsome. He looked completely different from the big bear orcs and the monsters that didn't even have a human form.
He has raven-feather black hair, gloomy dark red eyes, and a handsome face with a morbid flavor, which makes people hope from the bottom of their hearts that he is also a cruel person.
"Quentin McCaw, a high-level vampire, is affiliated with the Secret Alliance and once killed a high-level wizard." The person who answered her was Sigourney, whose cold voice calmed the children down. "Not long ago, he was captured by Ivan, Yelena, and Ash in the Tundra from the Academy."
"Ash?" Angel subconsciously looked at the Ash he knew. They had the same name?
Ash himself suddenly realized that among the magical creatures that came down from the big car, there was actually such a "familiar person". It was the vampire with a weird and violent temper who ambushed them on the tundra!
"He attacked first and was captured by Ash and his two companions." Sigourney's eyes flickered and fell on Ash. "According to the association's regulations, the interrogation is now over and the spoils will be returned to the wizard himself. Ivan and Yelena automatically give up the ownership of Quentin. Now, Ash Alwyn, this vampire is yours."
Ash: "...Huh?"
He opened his eyes wide in surprise. Although Yelena had told him a long time ago that she would give Quentin, the vampire, to him, how could he suddenly have ownership of a magical creature?
It was a bit too sudden.
As surprised as he was, the classmates in the class were also shocked.
They even forgot the fear they had just felt about the magical creature in front of them, and turned their heads to look at Ash with curiosity, envy, and admiration - Wow! It really is this Ash in our class!
Angel jumped to Ash's side in two steps and asked excitedly: "Ash, have you ever been attacked by this vampire in the tundra? How did you catch him? Ash, you are actually very powerful, right? You are about to be promoted to a formal wizard, right? I said that you are already sixteen years old, it is impossible for you to still be an apprentice like us! No wonder so many of us couldn't hit you on the day of the test!"
Ash, sixteen years old, doesn’t even know a single spell. Alwin: “…” How to explain that he’s not even an apprentice?
"He's not even an apprentice. He must have survived the attack of this vampire thanks to someone else." Granny Xia La pointed out bluntly, her voice hoarse and low, "Don't whisper to each other! I brought you here for a tour today because a batch of magic materials just happened to arrive."
"Given the preciousness of magic materials, after today, I'm afraid you won't have such close contact with magic materials for a long time." She leaned hard on her cane, making a muffled "thump thump" sound, "Look carefully and listen carefully."
Teacher Kirkby at the side also agreed, "That's right. When wizard apprentices are learning magic materials, they originally have no chance to touch the real materials. They can only learn from textbooks. Today's opportunity is rare, so everyone should be serious."
Shara glanced at Kirkby, then looked at the children: "Mr. Kirkby taught you spell analysis. Didn't he talk about a lot of boring and complicated things? Numbers, formulas, axioms, theorems..."
Ash felt a little dizzy when he heard her say that.
The other little classmates also had a fallen face.
"Let's put it this way." Shara looked at everyone's depressed expressions and laughed happily. His laughter was hoarse and terrifying. "The things you must learn, the ancient wizards don't know at all, and they don't need to learn them. They don't learn these, and their strength is far greater than ours."
"Why?" the children grumbled unwillingly.
"I thought Gabi had already explained it to you in your first class today?" Shara gave the children a look and shut their mouths. She nodded with satisfaction. "In ancient times, the magic environment in which wizards lived was quite superior. They could manipulate the elements and rules freely without much effort."
"And we." She looked around at everyone, "We are in a difficult environment. Without the help of mathematics and magical materials, it is difficult for us to make progress and achievements in magic."
Ash suddenly remembered that in the first class today, Teacher Gabi said the same thing - "I hope everyone can recognize the difficult environment we are in."
Shara continued, "It's like a difficult problem. We have to fill a whole room with papers to deduce the final answer. But the ancient wizards got the solution formula at the very beginning and applied it to get the answer in one step."
"Ancient wizards just took shortcuts." A small voice popped up, expressing envy, "It's like cheating."
Xia La glanced at the child who was talking. "So, if you are traveling one day and find the remains of an ancient wizard, if there are manuscripts or notes inside, you must treat them with caution." She lowered her voice, "It may record his understanding and cognition of magic, which is a formula for solving problems that directly points to the essence of magic!"
The children's eyes lit up.
"But ancient ruins are not so easy to come across." Shara added, "So some wizards have found new shortcuts."
She raised her hand and pointed at the bound magical creatures: "Magical materials are born with their own bloodline power. Like this two-winged flame lion, it was born with a natural talent for fire magic. It doesn't need to meditate or learn spell construction. Casting fire magic is as easy as breathing and drinking water."
"Its blood contains fragments of the rules of the fire element."
"As I said earlier, it has become very difficult for us wizards to directly perceive the rules from nature." Granny Xia La said, "But it is much easier to perceive these ready-made, pure, and obvious fragments of rules from the blood of magic materials."
"Fire wizards can sense and comprehend these fragments of rules through their flesh and blood, and thus construct a spell model that contains these rules. Compared to using mathematical methods to experiment and calculate step by step, using magic materials like this is almost similar to ancient wizards - this is a shortcut to get the answer directly."
While the little wizards seemed to understand and didn't know what was going on, Ash silently raised his hand to his lips, hiding his face, which didn't know what expression to make.
...He seemed to have been dealing with ready-made, pure, and obvious fragments of rules (is it fragments?).
Is it because he himself is a magical material?
In other words, can we say that although he is in an environment that is particularly difficult for wizards, he is actually treated the same as the ancient wizards?
Can we also assume that all the people in Duogu Village and Duanhe Plain can perceive the rules and construct spell models more easily because they are made of magical materials?
When Yelena was in the cradle of death, she once said to him sympathetically, "You are so unlucky." As coveted as magic materials, but like a human being, he was born ignorant and had no special powers.
He immediately denied Yelena's statement in his heart.
He firmly believed that nothing could be absolutely bad, and now it seems that he was right.
It's human, but also magical material.
This means that like humans, they have the talent to learn magic, and like magical materials, they are naturally close to elements and rules.
This is an extremely excellent wizard qualification.
A possibility flashed through Ash's mind quickly, but before he could catch the thought, his heart spontaneously began to beat rapidly, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to do.
He clenched his hands loosely at his sides, then loosened them gently, repeating this several times, but he still couldn't calm down.
At this moment, his arm was grabbed by a cold hand and pulled to the side.
Ash turned his head in surprise and saw Sigourney who had walked up to him. Just as he was about to speak, he was warned by Sigourney's dark red eyes, so he closed his mouth tacitly, and was quietly pulled aside by Sigourney without saying a word.
Their movements were light, but not too stealthy.
But strangely, neither the little wizards nor teachers Kirkby and Shara noticed their actions.
Did Sigourney use some method to reduce their presence? Ash guessed as he looked up at Sigourney, who was so close to him, with curiosity in his eyes. What was he going to do, Sigourney?
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