Chapter 53: Vivian's Teacher

  "Not bad, I am."

  As he spoke, the old magician seemed to lift his finger and hooked it lightly. Du Wei suddenly felt empty in his hand! The magic scroll that was hidden in his sleeve and buckled up had inexplicably appeared in the old magician's hand!

  "Look, this scroll was made by me." The old magician took a glance and gently put it back into his robe: "It has returned to its rightful owner."

  "You... you're here to get back Vivian's things." Du Wei said with a bitter smile.

  "My goal was originally like this... but after meeting you, I changed my mind." The old magician smiled a little...

  Du Wei suddenly had a bad premonition, unfortunately, just as he jumped up from the chair, he felt his body lighten...

  The old magician didn't chant any spells, he just pointed at Du Wei and hooked his finger, and Du Wei's body immediately stiffened! And it was suspended in mid-air, frozen in place!

  From head to toe, except for his eyeballs which could still move, Du Wei felt as if he was a piece of cured meat hanging in the air!

  "Listen, young one." The old magician suddenly reached out and touched Duwei's head: "Oh, it seems I wasn't wrong...... there's something very interesting on your head...... are you using this thing to cast magic?"

  Du Wei's eyes were wide with shock and he couldn't even blink!

  How did he know?!

  "My poor little apprentice went out on a trip and was cheated out of everything he had... He even almost died on a deserted island and lost his dragon pet..." The old magician's tone was mocking: "And when he got back home, I unexpectedly discovered that my poor little apprentice had even been erased of some memories by someone using magic! As a responsible teacher, I have to do something about it!"

  The old magician waved his hand and Du Wei could speak immediately: "You... you don't think it was me who did this, do you?"

  "It's hard to say, I didn't think so at first." The old magician's eyes flashed with a subtle gaze: "But you, a little friend from the Roline family who originally had no magical talent, suddenly became able to use magic? I think that island must be the key?"

  Du Wei carefully looked at this old magician... He wanted to distinguish what, but the old magician's one sentence blocked all his words back!

  "By the way... Chris, is he okay?"

  Du Wei's face really changed this time!

  Chris! He actually knows that demon's servant, Chris!!!!!

  The next afternoon, what caused the servants in the castle to be flustered was... their young master had gone missing!

  On the veranda where Du Wei was resting, a note with a handwritten message from Du Wei was left behind.

  "I was taken away by the magician."

  This sentence was written by Du Wei himself. He didn't write "hijack", but vaguely used the word "take away".

  Moreover, it is clear that Du Wei wrote this note after obtaining permission from the magician who took him away.

  Because on this note, there is not only Du Wei's signature... but also a symbol.

  Everyone couldn't understand this symbol, and finally only the castle's sole magician, Solstice, understood it.

  "This looks like a wizard's personal seal." Solkskaya thought for a moment: "Some old wizards are used to using this thing instead of signatures. We can go to the Wizards' Guild to check whose signature this is."

  The castle is in an uproar... Duwei has been taken away by a magician! And it's only been a little over a month since the last time he was kidnapped by a magician!

  Was it because of what happened last time that the Luo Lin family and the magician had some kind of grudge? The magician kidnapped Du Wei young master again, was this an act of revenge?

  This urgent matter was immediately reported back layer by layer!

  What's strange is that after the symbol on the note was sent to the Magic Association, the Magic Association unexpectedly remained silent this time!

  Even Raymon, Earl of Rolin, who had just received the news that his eldest son was taken away by a magician again, was extremely furious! No matter how much he disliked this son, the fact that the magician had kidnapped his son twice would be seen as a provocation to the Rolin family!

  But after seeing that symbol... Earl Raymond's anger suddenly disappeared, and he remained silent! Not a word was spoken about it again to the outside world!

  Unlike the high-profile actions after being kidnapped by the magician for the first time, Du Wei was taken away this time, and both the Rowling family and the Magician's Guild maintained a strange silence. It seemed that there was an unspoken agreement between the two parties to suppress the matter...

  Soliske finally got an unnoticeable message from the Magic Guild. It was revealed by a guy in charge of selling magic materials in the guild.

  "The mark that took away the young master of the Luo Lin family belongs to a powerful magician who even the Magic Guild doesn't dare to provoke! He doesn't exist in any records or documents of the Magic Guild... That person, let alone taking away your young master, if he were to take away the emperor's own son, I'm afraid the emperor would have no choice but to remain silent!"

  Du Wei is very unhappy now!

  Firstly, he didn't know what kind of magic this old man had cast on him... Because, Du Wei felt that his body was no longer his own!

  This is a strange "kidnapping" incident!

  Du Wei's thoughts, his consciousness, mind, were all his own. But his body had already been controlled by the old magician!

  For example, now!

  The old magician sat leisurely on the grass, leaning lazily against a big tree, watching Du Wei busily making a fire in front of him.

  Du Wei had already cursed this old man in his heart, but he himself had no way out!

  Because the old fellow just said lightly to him: "Start a fire!"

  As a result, Du Wei could only helplessly watch himself get up, busily collecting branches, igniting the bonfire, and letting himself be choked by the black smoke, no matter how angry he was... But he completely lost control of his own body!

  He himself had become a complete puppet under the control of the old magician!

  As he watched, the old magician pulled out a small cloth package from under his robe. The tiny package was obviously another magical tool, as the old magician proceeded to pull out a leg of lamb, a bottle of fine wine, even a new set of clothes, and several more bottles.

  This bundle of cloth seems to have an endless amount of things packed into it.

  Then, the old magician gave the command: "Roast meat!"

  Du Wei could only helplessly "watch" as his body meticulously carried out the magician's orders!

  This is simply torture!

  Du Wei was once very angry and scolded.

  However, the old magician's disciplinary method was simple. He just looked at Du Wei with one glance and lightly said a sentence: "Slap yourself."

  Then Du Wei stared blankly as his own palm rose and slapped heavily on his own face!

  After being slapped five or six times in a row, Du Wei could only silently curse his luck... Although he had cursed the old magician's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart, he didn't dare say another word out loud.

  The old magician, having eaten and drunk his fill, glanced at Du Wei who was sitting beside him rolling his eyes, and suddenly smiled: "Your craftsmanship is not bad. I haven't had such delicious roasted meat in a long time."

  Du Wei rolled his eyes directly.

  "Now, sleep!" The old magician ended the conversation and turned over, leaning against the tree trunk with his eyes closed.

  How is Du Wei?

  He didn't want to sleep! But his body was controlled by someone else! He could only helplessly stretch his waist, then lay down straight and closed his eyes!

  No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't open his eyes or sit up!

  Because the old magician's command was: Sleep!

  What's going on? Du Wei felt like he had become one of those computers from his past life, being inputted with a program and then executing it flawlessly... regardless of whether he wanted to or not!

  For five consecutive days, the old magician took Duweit on a journey northward.

  At the beginning, the old magician took Du Wei directly flying out of the castle that night and then flew straight north. A day later, when the two passed through a town, the old magician asked Du Wei to buy two horses.

  Du Wei had no way to resist, and he had no way to escape. Now, except for his thoughts being free, the control of his body belonged to the old magician.

  Du Wei once asked the old magician what kind of magic he had cast on himself.

  The old magician did not answer.

  Du Wei also asked: How did you know Chris? Do you know that guy? Are you familiar with that little island?

  The old magician didn't answer.

  Du Wei asked: Where are we going?

  The old magician did not answer.

  Du Wei went crazy.

  Daytime galloping, especially long-distance horseback riding, was a tremendous test for Du Wei, whose physical fitness was originally mediocre. His slender and young body gradually couldn't hold on, but the old magician didn't let up at all.

  "Do we have to ride horses?" Du Wei finally couldn't help but say: "You're such a powerful magician, where do you want to go, can't you just fly over directly?"

  This time, the old magician finally answered the question.

  "The place we're going is special, and long-distance flights will drain my magic. And I need to keep my magic full until I reach the destination."

  This was the only question on the way that the old magician answered for Duwei.

  What depressed Du Wei the most was... he couldn't even summon Semier!

  Although he knew Semer was definitely by his side, this magical creature never appeared again.

  Day by day, they headed north, and the weather gradually became colder. The Rolin Plains were in the south, with a warm climate, and Du Wei only wore a thin undershirt, but as the days passed, Du Wei clearly felt the weather getting colder, his hands and feet numb, and when he rode on horseback, he was blown by the wind and couldn't stop shivering.

  At last, the old magician seemed to reveal a little sympathy. He taught Du Wei some strange postures and asked him to practice them every day during his rest time...

  It was as if it were a set of gymnastics poses similar to those of Du Wei's past life, but even stranger. And some of the poses required the body to bend with great skill, such difficult movements that Du Wei found hard to accomplish. But under the old magician's "orders", despite the pain bringing tears to his eyes, his body was still executing the commands with precision!

  But what made Du Wei strange was that the effect was very obvious! Every time he finished a set of movements, he would feel his body heat up from the inside out! That warm and cozy feeling drove away the cold!

  Every day doing that set of strange movements, day after day, even Du Wei himself felt that his body seemed to be much stronger than before!

  On the twentieth day, they had already arrived in the northern part of the mainland. The climate here was several times colder than in the south, and there was no longer any greenery around, everything was covered with a layer of frost.

  The wind from the north blows on my face like a knife cut, and the road is getting harder to walk every day.

  They encountered wind and snow!

  The heavy snow blocked the road, and the horses could no longer pass through. People trampled on it, but the snow was already knee-deep.

  The old magician finally showed some kindness. They found a small town and in a small tavern, the old magician left Duwei alone in a room before leaving.

  Du Wei couldn't escape because the old magician's command to his body was: "Sit still and don't make a sound."

  The old magician returned at dusk, this time bringing back a large package. In front of Du Wei, he opened the package and inside was a thick fur coat, a leather armor, a sheepskin hat, a pair of high boots for walking in the snow, and a long knife.

  "Put it on, we are ready to set off." The old magician's instruction was simple.

  "Where...are we going?" Du Wei asked again.

  "This time, the old magician finally replied: 'Icebound Forest.'"