Chapter 175: The New "Wish Magician"
"Similar to me." Rhine recalled the scene when he first discovered that this was the story of Sleeping Beauty in the palace of the Kingdom of Rose many years ago. "I experienced fairy tales in the Western Continent."
In fact, there is no qualitative difference between the two, Rhine thought. The English word for fairy tale is “fairy tales”, which literally means “fairy tales”.
Among the pedestrians on the road, some people looked at the silver-haired boy and black-haired girl who were talking, but found that they could not hear what they were talking about. Some people wanted to get closer, but after taking a few steps forward, their eyes became blurry, and they immediately remembered other important things and turned away without looking back.
Ye Ruge raised her head and looked at the picturesque raindrops floating in the wind, like flying catkins, and seemed to recall:
"When I first came to this world, I was quite curious and experienced all these stories, dealing with mountain spirits, ghosts, city gods and land gods..."
Lai Yin listened to Ye Ruge's words and muttered in his heart: I am the "magician of the fairy tale world" and you are the "witch of the strange world", right? Aurora listened to the conversation between Lai Yin and Ye Ruge without interrupting.
Although she didn't understand everything, she had been traveling with Rhine for so long that she had actually guessed a little bit.
Is that so? The teacher's original world...
Ye Ruge continued, “I am gifted and can grasp the essence of various spells at a glance.
"Spring goes and autumn comes, year after year passes.
"I have been dealing with various ghosts, gods, and talented people for a long time, and I have learned a lot without a teacher.
"until……"
Ye Ruge turned her head and looked at the passers-by on the street.
In an instant, heaven and earth suddenly fell silent, and the entire universe was dyed gray.
The sound of rain stopped, and the sounds of people walking and talking disappeared. Everyone's movements were frozen in time, with the raindrops suspended in the air, like a movie scene with the pause button pressed.
The entire block, the entire capital city, the entire empire, all paused, frozen in the dead gray silence.
Only Rhine and Aurora are the only two people with color in this gray world. They witnessed the universe being dyed gray and frozen in an instant.
"Until there is nothing in this world that I can't do!"
The black-haired girl smiled up to the sky, with a hint of pride in her lazy tone.
The next second, time starts to flow again, the gray fades away, and is dyed with color again.
The pedestrians that were frozen in the air started walking again, and the raindrops that were frozen in the air started falling again, hitting the water, making a dripping sound.
"Okay, I exaggerated a bit. I'm definitely not omniscient and omnipotent. I can't even go home alone." Ye Ruge said with a smile, and then continued: "In short, from then on, I gradually began to feel that everything was boring.
"I set out on a journey to the western continent, met some witches along the way, and on a whim, I formed the Witch Society as you know it.
“Of course, the composition of the Witch Club that you have seen has actually been replaced several times.
"At that time, I didn't take this gathering seriously at all. Later, I gradually learned that in the minds of some people, this was a mysterious, terrifying and evil organization."
Hearing about the Witch Society, Rhine pointed out in a steady but firm tone: "The members of your society have harmed many people."
"What does that have to do with me?" Ye Ruge shrugged. "Besides, didn't you recruit two members of the Witch Society as allies? It shows that they are not all bad guys."
"Besides, if the original evil people don't join the Witch Society, will they do good things?"
Rhine didn't want to continue this topic, so he asked again: "Which story is the character of [Red Heart] from the Witch Society?"
This was the only member of the Witch Society that he had never met.
"The queen in Alice in Wonderland who wanted to chop off people's heads." Ye Ruge answered casually.
She raised her head, stretched out her hand, palm up, letting the cold raindrops fall on her palm, and continued her story:
“Finally, I ended my travels and returned to the East.
“I thought back to my hometown and began to research how to leave this world and return to Earth.
“I am indeed gifted, and I quickly developed a ritual spell that can trace the soul’s hometown, open the door of time and space, and return to Earth.
“It’s a pity that this ritual requires the combined efforts of two people to open the door to the earth.
“And my other collaborator must come from the same hometown as me and have the same powerful magical powers.
"For many years afterwards, I thought it would be impossible for me to find the right partner..."
At this time, Ye Ruge suddenly smiled and looked at Lai Yin: "But I'm lucky. I finally waited for you."
She took out a book from somewhere and threw it into Rhine's hand.
"Study hard. With your talent, you will be able to master this ritual in less than two months. Then, we will return to Earth together. Haha, it took me a lot of effort to study this ritual, and now it's yours!"
"Okay." Rhine agreed.
As a master of prophecy, his intuition told him that Ye Ruge's proposal was sincere and did not contain any malice or trap.
"Hurry up and learn. I will come to see you in two months." After Ye Ruge finished speaking, her figure turned into a puff of smoke and dissipated in the misty drizzle and cold breeze.
Aurora looked at the open space where Ye Ruge had left, and at the raindrops falling endlessly, and fell into deep thought.
From their conversation, she already knew that Rhine and the founder of the Witch Society came from the same world.
They are about to return to their hometown.
After a long silence, Aurora asked in a deep voice, "Teacher, many things that happened in our world are just stories in your world, right?"
"Yes." Rhine admitted, nodded, and smiled, "But I prefer another more romantic guess."
"A more romantic guess?" Aurora asked.
"In the realm of magic, the past and the future can be confused, there is no boundary between reality and illusion, and the tributaries that fate has not chosen also contain magic," said Rhine.
“Perhaps, it is precisely because there are so many bizarre stories on this continent that some of the possibilities of their development—that is, the tributaries that fate did not choose—were reflected and projected into the dreams of poets and writers in our world through some kind of connection between the worlds, and finally became our stories.”
Aurora thought about what Rhine said, and suddenly felt that this speculation was indeed full of a wonderful romantic color, and it was also quite reasonable.
The two remained silent for a long time.
Only the raindrops are floating in the air, and the clear sound of dripping rain can be heard.
Finally, the silence was broken by Aurora:
"Teacher, uh, you're going home soon, congratulations."
Aurora forced a smile. Although she said so, she felt a little reluctant in her heart.
"There are still two months left, there's no rush." Rhine let out a long sigh, feeling relieved.
He looked at Aurora who was reluctant to leave: "Before I leave, I have a gift for you."
"What gift?" Aurora widened her eyes curiously.
“Aurora, when I was teaching Oz in the Emerald City, I discovered that I also have the talent to be a magic teacher!
"And Aurora, your magical talent is actually much better than Oz's. It's just that in the past, in order to defeat the black witch Maleficent, you put most of your energy into swordsmanship, which is your best skill.
"Now that the black witch Maleficent is dead, I have become a legendary magician with boundless magical power. It is time for me to pass on my magic to you."
After Rhine finished speaking, he gently placed his hand on Aurora's shoulder, and the surging magic power like the sea water poured into the blonde girl's soul.
"Aurora, I think you should have discovered long ago that I can draw power from the wishes of others and obtain new spells or props.
"I call this physique the 'Wish Magician'.
"Now, after resolving the crisis of the Rose Kingdom and absorbing the unprecedented power of wishes from you and the entire Rose Kingdom, my magic has advanced by leaps and bounds, and I am finally able to make a copy of my special ability.
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"I will leave this continent soon..."
Rhine looked at the girl and spoke his last words.
"The princess of the Rose Kingdom, the future king...
"While you are the king, take my place and become the next 'Wish Magician' on this continent, okay?"
Feeling the surging magic power in her soul boiling, Aurora nodded in surprise: "Okay, teacher!"
In her past journeys, Aurora often felt that she had all the strength but could not do many things because she had no magic.
Now, she can finally become a great magician like her teacher!
"In the Kingdom of Rose, a king with magical powers will soon appear!" Rhine said with a smile as he thought about the future.
After an unknown amount of time, Rhine lowered his hand from Aurora's shoulder, his face looking slightly tired.
"Okay, Aurora, I have made a special copy of myself for you. From now on, you are the new 'Wish Magician'."
Aurora raised her hands in surprise.
She could feel that her magic level had improved by leaps and bounds. There was a magical power boiling in her soul, and many vague spells echoed in her mind, as if she had just finished a whole night of study and felt a little dizzy.
"Aurora, how is it? Do you feel anything special?" Rhine asked with a smile.
Aurora vaguely felt that the silver-haired boy in front of her seemed to be emitting waves of heat.
"Teacher, I feel like you are a burning fire, hot, blazing, and radiant..."
Rhine smiled and said, "What you feel is the power of my wish."
"Well, it's the teacher's wish to go home."
"Of course, this wish of mine is not something you can fulfill. Only if you participate in the realization of the corresponding wish and play an important role in the process, can you absorb the corresponding power of the wish." Rhine simply explained the mechanism that he was already familiar with.
Aurora nodded thoughtfully, with a slightly regretful expression.
"But it doesn't matter, you will have many opportunities to realize your wish in the future.
“Let’s go back to the Kingdom of Rose first.
"Next, there are still two months left. I will teach you step by step, and I will try to teach you all the magic I know during this time.
"Of course, you can't master and be proficient in all spells right away.
"But it doesn't matter. You won't inherit the throne so soon. You can practice slowly in the days after I leave."
Rhine raised his head and looked towards the western horizon, his eyes were deep, as if he could see through everything.
The heels of the boy's magic silver shoes collided lightly, and a silver air current rolled up, carrying cold raindrops.
The two figures disappeared in the silver whirlwind and turned into a stream of light, shooting towards the distant west, crossing thousands of miles in an instant.
There was only drizzling rain on the streets of the capital.
…
Deep in the palace of the Kingdom of Rose, the long-unmanned brass palace was quite lively in the next two months.
From time to time, the palace maids and servants could hear the sound of chanting coming from the palace, or strange light shooting out from the palace, illuminating the sky; sometimes, flocks of birds gathered above the palace.
Inside the Brass Palace.
Rhine sat on a wooden chair and flipped through the book in his hand.
During these two months, every day, apart from reading the book given to him by Ye Ruge and learning the ritual spells from Earth, he also taught Aurora magic step by step.
"This Ye Ruge's handwriting is so ugly." Rhine turned to the last page and wrote down the key points.
The exquisiteness of this ritual is such that an ordinary magician might die on the spot just by thinking about it carefully, but for Rhine today, he can comprehend it quickly.
After making sure that he had thoroughly learned the entire book, Rhine stood up and looked at Aurora, who was constantly teleporting in front of him, leaving a shadow behind: "How is the practice going?"
Aurora looked back in surprise:
"Teacher, I think I am now a super powerful magician!"
It might be the personal guidance of the world's number one magician, coupled with Aurora's original talent, that allowed her to make rapid progress.
"But..." Aurora said with a hint of disappointment, "Except for the one time two months ago, I haven't felt the power of wish again."
Rhine was not surprised at all.
During this time, Aurora and he stayed in the palace and had no chance to interact with others.
Rhine took Aurora's hand and said, "Let's go somewhere.
"Try it, use your own way to realize your first wish!"
(End of this chapter)