I'm not a magician

Chapter 29

When Joseph heard Ji Chi's words, he quickly turned his head to look at Antoine. He loved and firmly believed in his son, but no matter whether it was an accident or not, he still felt guilty for this innocent child—after all, this child Also a victim, the blow that destroyed his right eye really affected his life.

His lips trembled slightly, with pain and disbelief: "Did you hide anything from me?"

Antoine was still flustered in his eyes, but he slowly calmed down: "What do I have to hide? Your son exploded when he was developing the medicine, destroying both me and him! This is the truth! Do you want to hide it? Know what? Do you know how the explosion hurt my eyes? Do you know how your son struggled in the sea of ​​fire?!"

Joseph shivered slightly as if he couldn't bear it. Even after so many years, the revelation of those past events would still make the scars carved on his heart dripping with blood, and he would feel the pain.

Ji Chi's face darkened, he took a step forward, and looked directly at Antoine without flinching: "The professor doesn't want to force you, so let me ask you some simple questions. What kind of medicine was Vincent developing at that time?"

Antoine's eyes wandered for a while, and he hid his expression under his drooping bangs: "How do I know what kind of medicine he is developing? I'm not a pharmacist, or are you expecting a half-blind person who was blown up to survive the fire?" Did you notice any details?"

He has been repeating his pain all the time, portraying himself as a sympathetic and pitiful victim. If Joseph, who is guilty of guilt, gets such an answer, it will definitely be difficult to go any further.

But Ji Chi didn't pay much attention to him. In his opinion, even if Antoine was innocent, it was simply unreasonable to give up his life and blame others just because he was half-blind.

What's more, Antoine is not necessarily innocent, and may even be a perpetrator.

He sneered: "It doesn't matter, which potion is not important, but which element potion Vincent is developing, you should remember this? Is it impossible for you to be blind in both eyes before the explosion?"

Instead of avoiding it, Ji Chi followed his words and taunted back very bluntly, which made the people around who felt that something was wrong feel relieved.

Antoine's face was gloomy: "Of course it's the element of fire, otherwise why would there be such a big explosion all of a sudden?"

"It can't be the fire element." Joseph suddenly said in a low voice, with persistence in his eyes, "Vincent, like me, has the physique of the wind element. He knows that he is not suitable for controlling flames, and he promised me that he would not touch it." it……"

Antoine laughed ho ho, with envy and jealousy in his tone that he didn't realize: "You trust him that much? It's a pity that he failed you..."

"Ms. Emma." Ji Chi suddenly raised his hand and asked, "You have a deep understanding of the principles of magic. Could you please tell me which elements can produce a flame reaction?"

Emma was stunned by this untimely question and answer in class, thought for a while, and replied: "I should have mentioned to you that the fire element and the wind element will cause the flame to spread, and the wood element will cause continuous combustion, and the thunder element will cause continuous combustion. It will cause the fire to explode... These flame reactions all require the fire element. However, just like what you just fused, the pure light element and the dark element, suddenly fused together may also cause an explosion."

Ms. Emma said with some hesitation: "But the last one has not been tested for a long time, after all... people's attitude towards dark magic..."

She didn't want to continue talking, because it was meaningless, and it was easy to be criticized.

Ji Chi: "Well...so as long as we find out the remaining elements of the fire, can we find out the truth?"

Antoine sneered: "Where are there any elements left now, do I deserve to be suspected just because you can't find the elements?"

"Well, if the light element and the dark element are fused, there will be nothing left at the scene except the flame." Ji Chi nodded, "But... isn't there something that escaped halfway by luck?"

He looked at Antoine with a smile.

When An Tuowan took off the blindfold, Ji Chi's body's talent as a magician made him instinctively notice something was wrong, and he could feel that there was a tiny amount of dark elements escaping from the dark eye sockets.

It's so tiny that Ji Chi wouldn't have noticed if Antoine hadn't lifted the blindfold.

Antoine's intuition was not good, and his heartbeat gradually increased: "What?"

Ji Chi raised his hand and flicked it, a wind blade cut into the task bar on the side, he stepped forward, stretched out his index finger and wiped the deep crack lightly, and the breeze that ordinary people couldn't feel came from Spread out between fingers.

He looked up at Antoine: "I think, in such a deep gap, even if it is restored by someone, the elements inside can remain for a long time, don't you?"

Antoine's fingers trembled, and his empty eye sockets began to hurt again, and he really wanted to raise his hand to cover it.

Ji Chi continued: "It stands to reason that it is very difficult to remove the tiny residual elements, but I happen to have this talent. Do you want me to try it? Teacher Antoine?"

An Tuowan took a step back slightly, he was finally forced to collapse by Ji Chi, he wanted to leave here.

"Antoine, what are you hiding from us?" Joseph was very tired, he whispered, with some pleading, "Can you tell me? It was just an accident, I don't want to pursue anything, I just want to know the truth ..."

Antoine gritted his teeth, and was about to quibble: "I said, um—"

Ji Chi snapped his fingers, seeing that Antoine couldn't help covering his right eye in pain, and said coolly, "I'm sorry, I just tried calling out the dark elements."

Things have evolved to the present, and everyone understands something, and looks at Antoine with a gloomy face in a complicated way.

An Tuowan clenched his fingers covering his right eye, and looked at Ji Chi viciously.

The hall opened up by the magic space is empty and bright, and the lights are gently sprinkled on the youthful and wanton faces of the young people in front of them. Some of them are so vivid and shining, just like those favored geniuses, who can always live proudly in everyone's eyes. expectations and admiration.

It's like being in two different worlds with him.

Antoine is the overnight result of a town priest and a lowly nun.

She was a kind and warm nun. The clean wood elements exuded the fragrance of flowers and plants, she was tough and vigorous, but because she had black and beautiful hair, she was destined to be a piece of mud trampled by thousands of people at the door of the church.

Such a humble mudstone, in this class-supreme society, can't even resist the bullying and bullying of a little priest, and has to carefully cover up his increasingly abnormal body.

It wasn't long before she was exposed.

An impure person is not qualified to continue to serve the God of Light. Under the cold eyes of the priest, she was deprived of her priesthood by the Holy See and reviled.From then on, I could only live in poverty in an alley full of sewage. I went to the nearby forest to find medicinal materials for sale during the day, and stayed with rats and insects in the damp hut with air leakage at night.

She struggled in the mud, and pinned all her hopes on the little life in her body, hoping that it could bring her a little courage.

Finally, Antoine was born, and took away all the courage of the nun. In the eyes of the nun, the child seemed to be cursed by a demon, with the same black hair color as hers, and the hypocritical light element of the priest.

He will definitely follow her back.

Antoine gradually grew up under the sad and disgusted eyes of his mother. He didn't know what he did wrong. He was very obedient and smart, but his mother didn't seem to be happy about anything.

Moreover, the vegetation on her body is rotting away day by day.

On the day his mother died, Antoine didn't feel much sadness. He watched the dark soil covering the thin coffin little by little, and even thought of the little black bread left at home...but enough for one person It's been a while, Antoine thought with downcast eyes.

After the funeral, he returned home silently. When he stepped into the cold and damp small stone house, he met his nominal father for the first time.

The priest looked at his son from above, and when he noticed the high-quality and abundant light elements in his body, he provoked a smile of unknown meaning, and took him to his side.

Therefore, when Antoine was 12 years old, he knew that the taste of white bread was so sweet, and the taste of broth was as moist as the sunshine in early summer. These were feelings he had never experienced before.

He promised the priest to hide his identity, and began to repeat the work his mother had done in the Holy See in exchange for daily food and the opportunity to learn magic.

Fortunately, Antoine's light magic talent is very good, which makes his life not very sad.He thought it was heavenly treatment, until he passed the test of the magic academy and met many teenagers his own age.

Antoine was attracted by Vincent the first time he saw him.

That young man was flamboyant and self-confident. His biggest worry every day seemed to be how to sneak from the School of Magic to the School of Pharmacy not far away. He didn't care about his magic scores at all, even if they were so bad that his father Joseph even frowned in shock.

Vincent looked like the kind of child who was cared for and trusted by others. His bright and sunny attitude every day made Antoine have some thoughts that he never dared to expect.

If he could be better, would his father be like Joseph, with love and pride in his eyes, so that he could feel the feeling of being cared for and trusted.

Antoine used a little trick, and soon became a friend who talked to Vincent.Vincent is a very good boy. He is transparent and kind. He knows that this gloomy friend has low self-esteem deep in his heart, so he spares no effort to encourage and support him.

During that time, Antoine was actually touched for a moment. He was shaken. Maybe it is enough to have such a person in his life who supports him.

However, all the good expectations for the future were shattered after he inadvertently broke the secret of the Holy See. Antoine discovered that he was not someone's son, and he might not even live long. sacrifice.

Antoine didn't say anything after breaking through the secrecy of the Holy See, but he became more and more gloomy. He began to have secrets, and he evaded mysteriously every day. Even Vincent didn't know what he was doing.

Wen Sen saw it in his eyes, and he was constantly anxious for his little friend. He didn't know how to help Wen Sen.

One afternoon, Vincent suddenly invited Antoine to his small base with a smile on his face. He wanted to give Antoine the first bottle of potion he developed. Friends Liang hides sad pupils.

When Antoine saw the bottle of potion, his eyes were full of disbelief, his lips twitched a few times, and he was almost speechless.

He held the light silently, and the desire to confide came out majesticly. He hugged the last straw tightly and told Vincent his thoughts.

He wants to study forbidden magic.

Wen Sen was shocked after listening to his friend's confession: "You are crazy! There is a price to pay for forbidden magic! How can you touch it!"

Antoine didn't expect this kind of reaction from his most trusted Vincent, and his heart sank a lot. He tried to explain: "But I'm too weak, I must become stronger! Forbidden magic is my only choice!"

Vincent shook his head frantically: "I can't watch you step into the abyss... Tell me the truth, have you started researching?"

An Tuowan lowered his eyes and said nothing, but under the agitation, the dark aura faintly leaked explained everything.

Wen Sen was so anxious that he stretched out his hand to grab him and walked out: "No... no, I will ask my father, he will find a way... Antoine, don't do stupid things, okay? It will be too late when you regret it!"

Antoine shook off his hand and stared at Vincent coldly: "Why? I thought you would support me."

"Because that's forbidden magic!" Vincent growled!

Antoine sneered: "Heh... what do you know? You, a guy who touched the taboo of God, came to dissuade me from studying the taboo of human beings?"

Vincent frowned: "What?"

"It seems that you don't know... the moment you got involved in the pharmacist profession, you have violated God's will..." Antoine seemed to be out of his mind, and Vincent was a little disturbed by his crazy appearance.

"Why can't you understand me! We are all people with taboos, and we can only go all the way to the end if we want to live!" Antoine roared as his dark aura became stronger and stronger, his eyes lifeless.

Knowing that any further delay would do no one any good, Vincent turned around and ran out the door, trying to find Joseph to stop Antoine.

Antoine rolled his eyes, and slowly looked at Vincent's back as he was going further and further away. Madness was settling in his dark misty eyes: "Are you even going to give up on me? Then I have no choice but to..."

"I sacrificed you."