Chapter 312

But, this lair is very big, there may be thousands of witches living here.

"See you tomorrow."

"No, before I leave... I have a question to ask Teacher Leia."

"Huh? What?"

Leah kept smiling.

"Teacher Leia, there should be a very outstanding first student...or should I say, a very outstanding founding disciple?"

"..."

Her gentle smile as a "teacher" gradually disappeared from her face.

"Because you don't seem to know how to teach a student from scratch, nor do you know what they need."

"Probably, it shouldn't be..."

Leah felt the "strange feeling" on Mei Lin. When she asked this question, it didn't seem like she was asking the question as one of her students.

She felt her hands begin to tremble, especially her right hand.

It wasn't an offensive question, but she subconsciously wanted to avoid it...

"Furthermore, you are not very good at grasping the 'sense of distance' between you and the students... You always feel that the 'students' you have learned are a little different..."

"Is... is it because of this?"

Bang.

Leah said no answer and closed the door in horror.

"Hahaha……"

She gasped, raised her head, and looked at her eyes in the mirror opposite. The pink in her eyes was flashing, but also faded little by little, becoming dark blue.

Chapter 346: Never a student from the beginning (3k)

Had a deep sleep.

Leah opened her eyes.

The dazzling light shone in from the outside of the unclosed round curtains, just drawing a golden line in front of her eyes.

"Is it still...morning?"

Like every morning after returning here, she lay in bed and looked at the sunshine outside the window. The first thing she did was to think about what kind of dream she had.

She desperately wanted to remember what she had dreamed about the night before, and she also desperately wanted to remember what she was thinking the night before.

But she couldn't think of anything.

Very simple...

What she knew was that she wasn't dreaming at all. Whether it was a dream about returning to the past with him or a dream about the future assuming that he was still alive, she had never dreamed of it...

"Sure enough...it's still the same today..."

She touched her chest and clutched the clothes on her chest tighter and tighter.

The heart is obviously beating, the blood is obviously flowing in the blood vessels, and the witch's magic circuit should obviously follow the blood flow to the whole body, but——

Every day when she wakes up, she only feels that her magic circuit is deathly silent.

Every day when I wake up from my dream, I can feel that it is quieter than before. Leah has experienced a similar feeling. Even the bloody peppermint essential oil cannot stimulate the surging blood...

The last time she saw Will's photo in the newspaper, she remembered what Will had called this physical reaction.

Withdrawal.

Cutting off something that you have always been able to rely on, the moment you lose it, your body suddenly feels like it has lost its source.

but……

It was particularly powerful today, more powerful than any other day. It was so powerful that she had already sat up on the bed, but she still didn't want to do anything.

I want to hug my cold toes and curl up into the quilt again.

"It's okay, it's okay... it's the same as the past few days... as long as... just look at what he left me..."

The fingers of Leah's right hand were rubbing the two overlapping rings on her ring finger. One ring was wider than her ring finger and was a little loose when worn, so she always wore that ring on the outside.

She quickly put on her clothes to make herself feel less cold, because Merlin would be here soon - she was never late, so she couldn't just wear a blanket like before.

When you have experienced the "blood boiling" in your heart, experienced the continuous surge of magic circuits, experienced...

After the heart-pounding feeling.

You can no longer accept a self with dull senses, mediocre reactions, and gradually becoming numb to everything.

It will just keep on...

Leah hurriedly opened her bedroom door.

constantly...

"Mission...mission...mission..."

She was muttering in her mouth, having just woken up and staggering towards the slightly messy experimental table where the notes were placed.

constantly...

Then, she looked at the mirror - she was not looking at herself in such a bad mood on one side of the mirror, but staring at the note taped to the other side of the mirror.

As if she had drawn enough energy, enough blood, and enough memories from it, she reached out and took the note.

Keep looking for the few things left that can rekindle your passion, rekindle your soul, and wake you up again.

"...Today...what kind of 'task' should we...should have completed today? Will..."

There was love in her eyes again, a morbid and loving emotion in her voice, a smile on her lips, and she read the words on the paper quickly——

[Task 505: Teacher Leah tries to assemble wax blocks and wicks. Considering that this is a job that none of the witches have tried before, they may encounter new problems, such as the secondary processing of the wax block. Transfer to task 506]

[Task 506: Secondary processing of the wax block, so that it can be cut and hollowed out, requires magic like Canguang Xisheng for processing? Or even stronger magic? ]

Dongdongdongdong.

Leah could hear her heartbeat again and feel the blood flowing wildly in her veins.

The calm narration in front of her, but also the warm words of care.

It was no longer "predicting the future", but "guessing the future", giving countless possibilities to describe the problems she was facing and the possible state.

Just seeing these few lines of text, Leah seemed to...

It seemed that she could imagine that he was really beside her, giving her these suggestions, biting the end of the ballpoint pen, and thinking about the solutions and answers to the problems she encountered with her.

It was as if he was standing beside her, already much taller than her body, leaning forward slightly, and when he was thinking, he inadvertently crossed her arm and wrote down his thoughts on the paper.

Then pick it up and ask her if this was the best choice.

Just because she glanced at the task and flashed this image in her mind, Leah felt that the magic circuit that had lost its vitality once again ignited her fingertips.

"Yes, that's right. You can... you can do this, let's do it together..."

She turned her head.

Of course...

Will would not be in the laboratory. All this was just her beautiful imagination to make her magic circuit flow again.

Leah took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and calmed down a little. Whether it was her tone or her eyes, she returned to her usual appearance.

"It's really ridiculous. In this world where he is no longer... no longer there, I... I am actually using the tasks left by my students to... to support myself to move forward."

She seemed to understand.

Why was her physical condition the best and closest to the past few days, especially when she completed the task of making wax blocks, and when it came to the next task, the excitement that came like a tide, and the magic circuit that surged again quieted down again.

And why, when she woke up every morning, it was always the time when she felt the coldest, and she needed to look at the task in front of her once a day to ignite her heart.

"I... am I relying on the pleasure of completing every task you left behind... to find the feeling of you being around, to avoid the withdrawal reaction before?"

- Just like she had thought of luring Will to her side, tying him up, and injecting him with witch blood.

- But now she can't tie up a real person.

- So she can only move forward step by step towards the heaviest and most profound thoughts he left behind.

After getting this answer, Leah couldn't find any reason to deny it.

Damn it.

Today she had such a strong reaction again, all because Merlin asked her yesterday... yesterday if she had ever had a student.

She had been thinking about it since she lay in bed last night.

She even thought she would have such a beautiful dream - but it didn't happen at all!

If... if she hadn't mentioned it, at least... at least she would have walked out of the days of constant fantasy.

"Sure enough, these tasks were written by someone who could make Leah's magic circuit move again?"

Suddenly, the voice of someone who led to this state came out from behind her.

And she used a very ambiguous and weird description to describe it.

"You... why did you suddenly..."

"Yeah. Because you, Leah, didn't know how to lock the door of the lab from the beginning. I noticed it on the first day I came here. As a witch, not locking the lab is not a good habit."

Mei Lin pointed at the door very obediently.

Leah's lab door was not locked from the beginning. After all, she lived in it, and Liz lived nearby. Even the witches in the witch's nest should not have the heart to mess with the two of them.

Of course, more importantly... when she was in school before, she was always the last to leave the lab, and every time she left, there was no one in the lab.

And there would be someone who would help her lock the door after she left, even if she forgot.

Mei Lin, who was standing in front of her, didn't seem to call... call her "teacher" just now?

She didn't feel the breath of Mei Lin coming in at all.

No matter how...no matter how "dedicated" she was to the "task" in front of her, she should never fail to notice the entry of an "ordinary student".

"Merlin, you..."

"Is this also the reason why the highest energy peak of your magic circuit...dropped so low?"

--Unless she is not a "student".

--Unless she was not a "student" from the beginning.

Leah nervously put her hand on the Ancient Flame Staff beside her, and the metal staff made a sound when it moved against the cabinet next to it.

"Don't be nervous. I am someone brought by Liz, and you should trust your mother."

She didn't seem to "act" now, whether she called Liz's name or Liya's name, there was no "honorific title", just called her by her name.

"Who...who are you?"

Leah felt that she should have realized it earlier.

Witches can’t tell their age from the surface, and it’s easy for them to hide the total amount of magic power. But Merlin’s red hair is here, and compared with her and her mother’s gradually red hair ends, it can be seen that her experience and strength are above them.

So...

The mother asked such a person to come because...

Merlin walked around the laboratory for a while, squatted down very accurately, and took out a whole box of...

blood peppermint essential oil from under a certain laboratory table.

To be precise, the "remaining" blood peppermint essential oil.

"This thing is very useful as a catalyst for our magic circuit. Although the side effects are very unpleasant. However, I noticed it before. If you want to use it, why... more than ten bottles are used up on the same day, and then... half of it is left?"

Merlin, who was standing in front of Leah, spoke in the same tone as before when she was still "playing" as a student, but the content was analyzing Leah.

"..."

Liya bit her lip.

"Then... let's not talk so much for now. Your problem is actually very serious."