Me and my fantasy world

"You brought this upon yourself. As expected, when I saw your gray hair, I should have thought of you, the descendant of the Ling family who deserves death."

"Descendants of the Ling family? What do you mean?"

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"Huh? What's going on?"

In the deep darkness, the woman in black seemed to have sensed something strange and looked up at the dark sky without sunlight.

"Sure enough, I still caused him trouble. If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have been so reckless. Why would I fight with them?"

The black-robed woman blamed herself, but the tree behind her swayed slightly, as if conveying some message. "Hmm? Really?" The black-robed woman's tone suddenly showed some surprise, but the corners of her mouth slowly sank, "Will she agree?"

The big tree emitted a bright green light all over, and swayed slightly again. The branches and leaves made a rustling sound, which soothed the anxious heart of the woman in black robe. Then a branch slowly stretched out and reached in front of the woman in black robe, and on the branch stood a wooden door.

"That's right. Let's not worry about these things. But we can also go and see her." The woman in black robe said, walked up to the tree roots, put her hand on the door handle, and opened the wooden door.

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Lingyi looked at the envoy in confusion, but the guards around him did not give him a chance to breathe. Three or five guards in front of him attacked him, and there were several more behind him. One or two teams of guards surrounded the other children who participated in the assessment test and drove them out.

He took out a white gem from his pocket, covered his eyes with his hands, and threw it hard on the ground. The strong light instantly blinded everyone's eyes, and inside the magnificent hall, the light reflected on the wall had a better effect.

"Ah! It's really some kind of witchcraft! Hurry up and rush over!" The envoy hurriedly commanded

The guards obeyed the messenger's words and rushed towards Zero One together, but they surrounded Zero One in a circle. Some guards used too much force and bumped into the friendly forces on the opposite side when they jumped towards Zero One.

For a moment, there were complaints and collisions everywhere. The light lasted for a few seconds. After the light faded, everyone's eyes still had difficulty seeing the things in front of them because of the strong light.

Half a minute later, the "blinding" effect brought by the strong light slowly disappeared, and Lingyi's figure also disappeared randomly.

The guards were tangled together in a mess, but there was no one pinned down by them. Only their own people were piled on top of each other like a human pyramid.

"Ah! I can't see clearly... But it's better now. Where are the people?" Zheng Shi said while rubbing his eyes, but he saw that his guards were stacked on top of each other in a comical way.

"You, you guys! You're a bunch of good-for-nothings! You can't even catch a kid!" He stamped his feet anxiously and yelled, "What are you standing there for! Hurry up and chase them!"

The guards realized what was happening only belatedly and ran out of the hall in a hurry.

The chief envoy was the only one left in the hall. He must have been irritated by Ling Yi, and felt dizzy and nearly fell down. Fortunately, he used his bloated body to prop up the ground with his belly, so he didn't fall. He stared at the stone pillar in front of him: "I didn't expect this kid to be as sharp as Ling Yue in the early years. Fortunately, I still have a spare mask. I have to be careful of this kid in the future."

As the envoy spoke, he reached into his bosom and took out an ancient skull mask. He placed it on the stone pillar with his hand. The stone pillar seemed to sense something unusual, and black and red lightning slowly emerged from the place where the mask touched. However, the mask seemed to want to blend into the stone pillar and stuck firmly to it.

Just as the envoy loosened his hand, the mask suddenly emitted a black and red light, and a scarlet air wave slowly slipped out from the stone pillar, covering the entire hall in blood red.

After a few seconds, the mask began to erode the stone pillar bit by bit. The top of the mask had been embedded in the stone pillar, but the stone pillar seemed to still be resisting.

Then the envoy placed one hand on the stone pillar and slowly released magic power. A circle of ripples appeared on the stone pillar, and the stone pillar began to absorb the envoy's magic power without hesitation. Correspondingly, the erosion of the mask became much easier.

A circle of strange light, interwoven with green and black and red, bloomed inside the stone pillar. On one hand, it absorbed the magic power of the envoy in an attempt to unlock its level, but on the other hand, it was persecuted by the envoy and absorbed impurities.

The stone pillar that was originally struggling to resist the mask, was sucked into the "Mask of Trafai" by the hand of the user.

Then, at the moment of inhaling the mask, he loosened his hands, and the stone pillar instantly turned black and red. There was also an ominous black air wave flowing slowly around it, which made people afraid.

"It's finally over. How ignorant." The envoy looked at the "masterpiece" in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. "That kid was able to ruin my plan. I might really fall into his hands in the future. I can't let him go, but I can't kill anyone in Nord Town. After I get out, I still have to find a reason to please the little daughter of the town lord."

As he was thinking, he looked at the sun outside the main gate and nodded with satisfaction again.

"However, with Alice and Leo as my two pawns, it's not too long before I can get back to my original position. Especially Alice. If what that white-haired kid said is true, this kid's future is limitless. In time, she will definitely be able to shoulder the responsibility of Andressa. It's a good thing that she hasn't shown her talents in front of everyone now. When the time comes, we must protect her strictly."

As he said this, the envoy looked back at the hall with some disdain, and walked out of the main gate without looking back.

"I see……"

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At night, Alice's nose twitched slightly twice, and Leo, who was sitting next to her, hurried to the bed.

"Alice? Alice?" Leo tried to wake Alice up.

"Hmm... I feel so dizzy..." The moment Alice opened her eyes, she suddenly remembered that Zero-One was still in the encirclement set up by the main enemy. Her urgent worry instantly dispelled all her sleepiness. She hugged Leo's shoulders in front of her and said, "Little One, how is Little One? He..." Alice thought she had not been asleep for long, but when she looked at the sky outside, it was already dusk.

The sky was a little dark, not as deep as the night, but not as bright as the day. "Zero-One, I don't know where you are..." Leo sat beside Alice in annoyance.

Alice then realized that she was in a room that was almost exactly the same as the Sihai Inn: "Why? Why did you suddenly drive Xiaoyi away?" Alice asked puzzledly.

"How should I know, but the 'Tra' and 'Tradei' that Zero-One talked about?" Leo recalled the information about the mask that Zero-One had just told him.

"It's the 'Mask of Trafai'," Alice reminded.

"Yes, anyway, it's that mask that can absorb magic power. Zero One must have discovered it, so he was driven away by the fat man." Leo analyzed.

"Why? It's just a mask, how much can it absorb magic power?" Alice was still a little confused. She really couldn't figure out why Zero One was treated like this by the Envoy.

"There must be some connection, there must be..." Leo seemed to have thought of something, and it flashed through his mind, but his thoughts could not turn around and he could not keep up with the flash of thought, "Wait, let me think about it, wait..."

"What's there to be said about? Is there something wrong?" Alice asked doubtfully.

"Because I also awakened. Based on my thoughts about Zero-One, the magic power of Zero-One and me should be almost the same, unless..." Leo said this and thought of the shocking "Sunday" move that Zero-One used when fighting the Crystal Spider.

But Lingyi has said before that this move is just a killer move released by breaking the bottleneck of one's own magic power. The power released instantly after breaking the bottleneck is only a matter of a moment, and one still needs to practice to consolidate the foundation afterwards.

Therefore, it is not quite fair to judge the magic power of Leo and Zero-One based on the battle, but if Zero-One does not use "Sunday" and does not assist through instantaneous bursts, he can indeed be on par with Zero-One. For example, when they followed Zero-One into the swamp by mistake in the battle of the Crystal Spider, the two of them did not fall behind by much.

So thinking of this, Leo felt that his magic power should be comparable to Zero-One's. If he couldn't open the level, then Zero-One would have the same result. But why could Zero-One open it?

What is the difference between myself and Zero-One before and after the level is activated?

"Mask..." Leo suddenly blurted out, "Could it be that the mask will hinder the unlocking of levels?"

"Ah? What do you mean?" Alice was still a little confused.

"If we talk about combat, among the three of us, Zero-One is indeed stronger. He has both brains and explosive power. But in terms of simple magic power, I'm afraid we are all about the same. I can't open the levels while Zero-One can. There is one thing that is completely wrong, which is the 'mask' that Zero-One mentioned that can absorb magic power..." Leo repeated his thoughts.

"That's right, and Xiaoyi said it was broken." Alice nodded in approval, "Could it be that the magic absorption feature of the 'Mask of Trafai' is used to prevent us from unlocking the magic level? But that doesn't make sense. If that's the case, why hold an assessment test meeting?"

"Zero One said, 'We must be careful of outsiders from Nord Town. Perhaps their ideas are different from ours..." But how are they different?" Leo's mind echoed with Zero One's words of warning, "But I really can't understand why. Is there any benefit to the Envoy?"

"Yeah, I can't figure it out..." Alice lowered her head in thought, and suddenly an idea flashed through her mind, as if she had suddenly realized something.

The same thought flashed through Leo's mind very tacitly, and this time he finally caught it, as if everything made sense and he suddenly became enlightened.

"Money!" The two said this word in unison.

"They first told us that we couldn't awaken normally, so that we could enter their academy without any worries, and then charged us high tuition fees." Leo seemed to have figured out this layer of relationship chain, "No wonder Lingyi and Zhengshi bet that the tuition fees would be reduced by half."

"What Lingyi said was really right. When I was a child, I heard him say that money is a demon that can make people change their hearts. I thought it was a lie, but I didn't expect the world outside the village is like this." Alice looked at the ground with some disappointment and remained silent.

"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death. The envoy doesn't look like he wants to harm us, otherwise he wouldn't have imprisoned us here." Leo said, looking at the location of the gate. He could vaguely perceive through the gap that there seemed to be someone standing at the door.

"So what do you want to do?" Alice asked.

"Of course he ran away!" Leo shouted confidently, and Alice quickly covered Leo's mouth.

"Shh, shh, shh. It's so loud. If people outside hear us, how can we escape?" Alice said in a low voice.

"Oh, that's right." Leo said, and quickly covered his mouth, and Alice let go of her hand.

"But I'm still worried about Xiaoyi's situation. I don't know how Xiaoyi is doing." Alice said worriedly.

"I heard from them that Zero-One is missing." Leo said calmly and sat on the stool.

"Missing? Why?" Alice stood up anxiously and ran to Leo to ask about the details.

"Don't worry. The current situation is better if Zero One is missing. At least it proves that he is not in the hands of that fat guy. Now the whole city is blocked and we can't get out." Leo sighed, staring at the figure on the gate.

"Yeah, that's true." Alice had just relaxed when she heard a noise outside the door.

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"Hmm? Are you here so early?"