Weird Wizarding World

   Chapter 246 Heterogeneous

   "The Liars built this place?"

  Kolin was surprised, he didn't expect that this legendary race, which was transformed from the soil around the ancient tree of life, could have such mighty power!

   Now that I think about it, maybe the beautiful stairs that I walked all the way down were built by the Liars.

   "Yes, almost all the buildings where the high elves are located were built by Liar." Lillian replied.

   She looked at the forest of stone pillars in front of her, feeling a little dazed for a while, not knowing what to do next.

  The space in the mountain is not small and irregular, not only can you not see the bottom at a glance, these tall stone trees are also standing upright...

   "Let's search one by one, Lilian-senpai... See if you can find the traces of the group, or if you can find something useful to the mentor." Colin suggested.

   "That's the only way." Lilian was silent for a moment, nodded, and took the lead in walking towards the nearest stone tree.

The closer you get to the stone tree, the more you can feel its majesty. Those buildings that are inconspicuous from a distance on the branches, looking up under the tree at this moment, are all amazingly huge, and people can't help but worry about whether they will suddenly fall down... The pressure is amazing.

  From the outside, about one-third of the bottom part of the stone tree has no trace of any building, nor any entrance, just imitating the appearance of the trunk of the tree.

  The two circled the tree trunk below, found the lowest stone gate on the right side of the trunk, and flew towards it side by side.

  There are no stairs leading to the top under the   stone tree. Flying is an innate instinct for high elves.

Before    came to Shimen, there was a platform for landing, perhaps for the sake of beauty, it was designed as a prominent tree knot.

   While the stone gate looks small from a distance, it is very tall from a close look. It is a double door with a height of almost four meters, and it is carved with a simple yet beautiful tree-shaped pattern.

"Um?"

   At this moment, Colin looked at Shimen in front of him, and suddenly frowned slightly in his heart.

   For some reason, the stone gate opened a gap for no reason at this moment, just like the door when we came in just now...

   The faint premonition in his heart made Colin subconsciously activate his super brain and carefully recall the door he had just entered.

   In the next second, he carefully observed the stone gate in front of him, and at the same time used the three detection abilities!

   Smell.

   A faint wave of magic flashed by.

   "What's the matter..." Lillian asked subconsciously, if it wasn't for her by her side, it would be almost impossible to notice that Colin was using sorcery.

   She keenly noticed that Colin limited the scope of detecting witchcraft to a very small extent, only covering a small part of Shimen.

   So she looked towards the place where Colin was doing sorcery.

   In the next second, after seeing it clearly, his complexion changed slightly.

   There is a clear trace of damage at the Shimen door bolt, which is obviously only recently caused, and the fracture is incompatible with the simple and matte stone door panel.

  The mountain has not been polluted yet, the buildings are basically intact, and the stone gates, including the defenses above, are in normal operation... This is obviously the traces of violent intrusion left by someone trying to enter!

   "I'm afraid that group of people really came here as they guessed before." Colin said in a deep voice.

   "Let's go take a look first." Lilian took a deep breath and cautiously pushed open the stone door.

  Shoo!

  Colin added silence to Shimen at the right time.

  Lilian paused slightly, looked back at him, and said softly, "I was negligent, there is a possibility that those people are still in this stone tree."

   Colin waved his hand, took a breath, and got ready for the battle.

   Although they seem to be swaggering along the way, they are always maintaining the two sorceries that conceal themselves, the moon veil and the silence.

   So if there is no accident, their traces have not been exposed yet.

   After entering the door, it is not dark, but a golden-green ring corridor.

   Gorgeous and quaint or wooden or metal ornaments, exquisite decorative patterns can be seen everywhere.

  The most commendable thing is that the entire promenade is also treated with imitation wood, which makes it look like it is not among the icy stone pillars, but like real trees.

   When Colin saw this, he inexplicably recalled the tree cave forest of the tree elf... It was also so gorgeous there, but in comparison, the tree elf's tree hole had a more natural and simple feeling.

  Bright white light shone down from the top of the head, illuminating everything at a glance, but not the two Colin.

   "Let's go, this is the bottom floor, we will search upwards layer by layer." Lilian said.

  There are no stairs outside the stone tree, but through the small window of the circular corridor in front of it, you can see at a glance a light green spiral staircase winding up in the center of the stone tree.

  The two walked cautiously along the circular corridor for a while, and then they encountered the first fork on the right. From the position, it should lead to the lowest and largest branch that they had seen outside before.

   But...to Colin's surprise, the door leading to the branch was not opened.

   "Continue to search for the entire stone tree, and then come back to open the door to explore here?" Colin asked.

"Yeah." Lillian nodded in agreement, and then said: "This place is more... complete than I thought, many things are left, and it's not as crowded as the previous places. Empty scene."

  Colin nodded, he noticed this too.

Along the way, the circular corridor has some broken traces, but basically all the decorations have been preserved. Although it is not a valuable thing, compared to the empty scene seen in the tree elf residence before, there are still some big difference.

   "I don't know why..." Colin questioned subconsciously.

   "Maybe she's just used to extravagance and waste, or maybe she doesn't appreciate the results of Liar's labor... Who knows." Lilian didn't take it to heart and continued to walk forward.

  Just like this, the two of them explored layer by layer, and they checked every place where the door was opened...

  But when we reached the topmost floor and the blue sky outside the window was within reach, I still couldn't find any other figures...even more traces could not be found.

   As if a ghost broke in, leaving only a slight trace at the door, and then quietly dissipated like a gust of wind, I don't know where it went.

   The two of them stood on the observation deck on the top floor, which had an excellent view.

  The multi-functional magic circle blocks the cold wind from high altitude, and only a little breeze penetrates for ventilation.

   Lilian was still carefully observing the observation deck.

   Although the magic circle here isolates the strong wind, it does not isolate the elves from entering and exiting... If the group of people entered and then left here, then there may be some traces left here.

   But after a while, Lilian, who couldn't find the slightest trace, finally stopped, and she pursed her lips and looked out.

   The view from the observatory is extremely wide, and there are countless stone trees... It's impossible to tell where the group of people went.

   And explore the stone trees one by one... This previous idea, now it seems, is really inefficient.

  The breeze blew Lilian's hair up, revealing some pale cheeks.

Although   's thin body was still tall and straight, Colin always felt that there was an invisible pressure shrouding Lillian's shoulders all the time.

   "Lillian-senpai, I haven't asked you about Master Atebold's illness."

   After a moment of silence, Colin spoke slowly.

   "It's an injury." Lillian corrected, then took a deep breath, looked away, turned her head to Colin and continued, "Go down and explore those unopened rooms."

   "Yeah." Colin nodded, following Lillian's footsteps.

   "Atbold is my grandfather," Lillian said as she walked.

   She didn't answer Colin's question directly, but organized the language and started to tell the story.

   "As you know, I have high elf blood, and my mother is a real high elf.

   But maybe you don't know, like me, my grandfather Artbold, he also has high elf blood... just a quarter. "

   'Instructor Rudolph also has the blood of the High Elf! Then Lillian's father, Atebold's elder... Don't they all have the blood of high elves? Such a high ratio...' Colin's footsteps paused a little, a little surprised.

"The Rudolph family, hundreds of years ago, was a well-known mixed-blood family. At that time, the alliance formed by the high elves and wizards achieved a glorious victory, and the relationship between the two races was like glue. A family like ours is It is the best proof of the friendly relations between the two races at that time."

   Lillian added, then she changed the subject and sighed and said:

"But later, although the relationship between the elves and the wizards still maintained a good relationship, as the high elves gradually disappeared, we were born with the bloodline talents of the high elves, and the existence of wizard training naturally attracted jealousy. ."

"This kind of jealousy is hidden, maybe it's just a sneering sentence when encountering it, or it may be a secret curse. Of course, the most deadly thing is that certain families or councillors in the wizarding union are inscribed in the bones, with pure The ancient habit of reverence for blood.

Those old antiques whose skins are already stinking, not only repelled ordinary mixed-blood wizards, but also aliens like us... Up to now, there are very few mixed-race families like us, whether it is a dragon's mixed-blood... or We are half-breeds of elves. "

   Lilian said this, her tone suddenly became somewhat mocking.

   "Unfortunately, under the verification of a later wizard who did not have a name left, the so-called noble pure blood, the so-called talent for magic cultivation, has been proved to exist in every human race, it's just a distinction of how much!"

   "And then ordinary people became more and more important, supreme... sorry."

   seemed to realize that she was a little off-topic, Lily settled down, reorganized her language and said: "The injury of Instructor Atbold was caused by the Hiddus family, this ancient pure-blood family."

   "This wound is extremely vicious, like gangrene on the bone. It has tortured my grandfather for 60 years... It got worse again because of his actions not long ago."

   She couldn't help sighing.

   "If it weren't for this injury... Grandfather Atbold should have successfully advanced to the third-order wizard!"

  Colin was silent, digesting the news quietly.

   "Teacher Atbold, have you had a hand with someone recently?" After a while, Colin suddenly asked suspiciously.

   "Yes...but it's not so much a fight with someone, it's better to come to the door. That person is also a member of the Hitos family...As for the reason."

   Having said this, Lilian suddenly paused and said:

   "On the surface it is because of the Atius Society, but in fact it is because of the hatred many years ago..."

   "Because Azius would...?" Colin stopped. At this moment, they had descended from the top floor, and came to a room with a closed stone door on the penultimate floor.

   There are no locked rooms on the top floor.

"I'll come." Lilian said looking at the closed stone gate, she stretched out her hand and pressed it on the stone gate, a seed immediately took root and sprout on the stone gate, and then as it grew bigger and bigger, with a few clicks, the stone gate cracked. .

   "That's amazing!" Naxi came out of his hood at some point. Seeing this scene, she seemed to remember something, and her eyes flickered slightly.

   Colin didn't care... This should be the bedroom of a high elf, he and Lilian walked in.

   "Sister Lillian..." Colin was about to remind Lillian that he had not answered his question, but before he finished speaking, Lillian said softly:

"Somehow the people of the Hitos family knew that you were chosen by the Supreme Council to be a wizard who would accompany Athas, and wanted to get the tutor to voluntarily kick you out of the school in order to get the vacant place... But what's the matter? Possibly! How far-fetched!"

After    finished speaking, Lilian glanced at Colin and emphasized: "This is just their excuse, the real reason is the old grudge!"

  Colin moved his lips, not knowing what to say, just nodded.

  The two fell into silence, and the atmosphere became awkward for no reason.

   searched silently, but found nothing of value in this bedroom.

  Lillian's expression dropped visibly.

  ‘There is hope as long as it continues. ’

   'There will always be something that can heal Master Atbold...'

   Colin wanted to say something, but after organizing it a few times, he always felt that it was inappropriate... After all, he was not Lillian, and he could not personally experience the survival of the Lillian family as an alien.

   "Lillian-senpai, why did the high elves gradually disappear, and where did they all go?"

   After pondering for a moment, Colin asked.

   Thousands of years ago, the living conditions of a family like Lillian were completely different from now... The main reason is probably because of the high elves.

  If the high elves did not disappear, the two clans still maintained a friendly relationship, and the mixed-race clan in the middle would not fall into such a situation.

"According to what my grandfather told me, the elves couldn't stand the filthy world, so they chose to return to the elves country, but occasionally elves would come out to travel... But after all, there are few, even our families with elves blood are rare. I can get in touch."

   "Dirty world?" Colin asked sharply, capturing the key words.

   Lillian took a moment and did not explain directly, but asked Colin:

   "Do you know that the world is not like this?"

   "It's not like this..." Colin wondered, not understanding what Lillian meant.

   But what Lillian said next shocked him.

  Lillian turned her head to look at the air, and said solemnly, word by word:

   "As early as a thousand years ago, there was actually no so-called pollution alienation in this world... The number of wizards, especially the number of wandering wizards, was much greater than this time!"

   "These pollution and alienation... haven't they existed since ancient times?" Colin couldn't help muttering, "I've never seen this information in any books or legends."

   "The Supreme Council deliberately hid this truth..." Lilian explained, "I also heard about it from my grandfather."

  Colin let out a light breath, digesting the shocking news.

   Next, the two continued to search all the rooms in the stone tree one by one... But until only the bottom branch was left on the building, they still found nothing.

   "Good giant."

   Just as Colin and the others were about to use witchcraft to violently break open the door of the last building, as before, and entered to search, the elf Naxi suddenly spoke up.

   "Xiao Naxi seems to remember!" She said, waving at Shimen.

   An invisible aura flashed, and with a click, the stone gate opened immediately.

  Inside is a hall, with an unobstructed view, empty and nothing but tables and chairs.

   "These places are empty, but Xiao Naxi knows where there is something!" Xiao Naxi's eyes flickered, as if she had expected it.

   (end of this chapter)