The black gem cat covered her head and listened to Colma's last paragraph in tears. He did not feel awe of the concept that has existed since the wilderness era. He only felt that the word "can't see" was the true meaning of her words.
Like just now.
It didn't see the witch suddenly knocking on the knuckles on its forehead.
"——The real great wizard needs to slowly polish his true body from a bone, an eyeball, or even a drop of blood. The qualified person who controls the experiment only needs to go through a simple resonance test - don't you think this is unfair?"
"Fairness is the principle of Jiuyou Academy." The Black Gem Cat murmured in a low voice.
Pick.
A thin light worm fell from the worm ball under the ceiling and happened to fall between the black gem cat and the tavern owner, instantly attracting the attention of the two. It rolled, thrusting several short furry legs in horror and clumsy, shaking its wrinkled wings, trying to stay away from this lonely world.
But it's too weak.
He was so weak that he flapped his wings for a long time, and at the highest point he only left the table less than an inch, so he fell back.
Colma tilted his cup slightly and sprinkled a drop of amber light in front of the light bug. Then, one person and one cat watched the insect carefully temptation, watched it greedily sucking the drop of wine, and watched its shriveled belly slowly bulge, bursting out a faint light, and all at once came out of the spirit.
for a long time.
The black gem cat's slightly emotional voice rang again.
"It almost died."
It squatted beside the light bug that gradually came alive, raised its paws, and gestured to a very small distance, meaning: "The distance between life and death is only a little bit...and what about the price of its survival?"
It raised its head, glanced at the ceiling, and added: "——It was just a fall."
Colma glanced at the Black Gem Cat.
"Because death is a false concept, there are many costs in this world that are more terrible than death."
Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, and finally did not say what the more terrifying price was, but instead turned the tone slightly and explained the previous sentence: "—From the perspective of magic, there is no real death in this world, and each of us is eternal."
"uh-huh?"
The black gem cat sniffed loudly and looked at the witch with suspicious eyes, feeling that she was crazy about gaining and losing her heart. You know, even in the magic world, the most ethereal dream that most wizards can imagine is nothing more than immortality.
The great wizard in the North District did not care about the kitten's slightly offensive gaze.
Instead, he raised his hand and gently wiped it over his head.
The ceiling becomes transparent instantly.
The bright sunlight at noon passed through the ceiling and fell into the tavern, illuminating the slightly dim world, but the next second, the sunlight fell into the bottle of the witch's hand like iron filings attracted by magnets.
The golden amber light in the bottle seemed to be boiled, with bubbles gurgling, but there was no trace of alcohol overflowing, which made its color more and more vivid.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that after the sunlight above the head disappears, the day instantly turns into night, with stars everywhere, and charming colors.
The black gem cat quickly turned his head and looked out the window.
Thank goodness.
The outside world is still during the day, and it has not really turned into night. If Colma really had the ability to change the day, the Black Gem Cat would not have said that she would kneel down obediently and rub her fingers. At the same time, she was worried about whether she had hit her fingers when she just knocked the stone.
Fortunately, it was just a small piece of sky showing the color of the night.
It is still within its understanding.
The owner of the tavern was not sure about the emotional fluctuations of the Black Gem Cat in the moment.
"What can you see when you raise your head?" She looked up at the starry sky with the black cat, her tone was faint.
The black gem cat pulled his ears and hesitated for a few seconds: "——Stars?"
"Yes, stars." The Great Sage of the North District breathed a sigh of relief, and his voice seemed to be lighter: "Do you know how far those stars are from us?"
The black cat nodded.
"I remember you took magic cosmology this semester... Then you should know that the starlight you see now is the light emitted by stars billions of years ago or even hundreds of billions of years ago, right?"
The black cat nodded again.
This common sense does not require the use of magic cosmology to learn that common sense about light years and the universe has been understood in his eighteen years of ordinary people's learning career.
"——So, think from another perspective. We can now see the stars 10 billion years ago, and the stars 10 billion years later are also looking at us. No matter how weak our light is, it will exist after all. Time has lengthened the distance between us and the stars, and also extended the life of each of us. In the distant future, the light of the earth will reach every corner of the star sea, and each of us will be young again... born and grown again in every galaxy with different distances. This is an eternity."
The black gem cat's mouth is slightly opened.
It feels quite dumbfounded.
The truth seems to make sense, but this logic... does it feel weird? Is it because magic can be ignorant, so the wizards' wild ideas do not need logical support?
Colma didn't care about the strange appearance of the kitten and stared at the heavy night above her head.
"So," the Black Gem Cat finally remembered its original purpose and slashed his mouth: "——What did you say about death, life, what does it have to do with the Giant God Soldier Project?"
The witch lowered her eyelids: "The Giant God Soldier is the Giant God Soldier of the Fringe Academy, so it must comply with the principles of the Fringe Academy."
"The...principles of the Fringe Academy?" The Black Gem Cat tilted his head: "Just like Alpha's freedom and justice, is Nine Ye's justice and equality?"
"right."
“What are the principles of the Fringe Academy?”
"Sacrifice." The witch first spoke the first word, stopped, and then added: "Maybe it also includes pioneering."
The black gem cat's eyes immediately fell on her silver hair.
yes.
sacrifice.
The magic mastered by the wizards in the North District are sacrifices, the sacrifices of the elves, the sacrifices of the gypsy witches, the rats, and even the fish people. All these marginal groups have faced sacrifices directly - on the contrary, the guys in the alliance who covet the Fringe Academy are afraid of sacrifices, but they like others to sacrifice.
This is a very delicate and powerful principle.
"——The foundation of the Fringe Academy must be in the hands of a sacrificial wizard."
Colma held the bottle, his tone of gentleness and firmness: "So, when I heard that bad news, I became extra calm... or to be relieved... This is the arrangement of fate."