(The previous chapter has been greatly changed. If the chapter you see is "The Way to the Mage Alliance", you can refresh it. The newly changed chapter name is "Yellowing Memories")
Two days later, Lady Medisa took Sylutia to the foot of the high cliff on the west side of the port. At the corner of the high cliff, a white Lighthouse stood.
In front of the door under the tower, Lady Medisa tapped the cast iron door knocker, and the sound echoed in the tower, giving people a somewhat ethereal and distant feeling.
After a long time, the door slowly opened. Sylutia stood behind Lady Medisa and looked in curiously. He saw a figure in white sitting in a wheelchair. His brows showed a slight vicissitude, and he had a faint scholar's temperament.
"It's Medisa. What's the matter with you coming to my place?" He asked indifferently with no emotion on his face.
"I'm here to ask you to teach the student, the girl next to me. She is going to study at the Mage Alliance and needs some basic knowledge."
"Go back, this is not a nursery and it is not suitable for raising children." He replied calmly.
"You should think about it again. I remember that you don't have a formal apprenticeship either. You have been in this tower for almost twenty years. If you don't find someone to talk to, you may not even be able to maintain your basic language skills." Medisa warned with feigned concern.
"You know, I won't agree for this reason." The other party remained unmoved.
"Okay, okay, you're still so hard to talk to, you're obviously an old neighbor."
"Hedra, come to the front." Medisa turned around and asked the girl to step forward.
Sylutia walked forward slightly puzzled, and then Medisa gently put his hands on her shoulders.
"Have you seen such a beautiful, smart, clear-eyed seedling who loves to learn? If she enters Mage Alliance, she will definitely achieve more than you did, get more resources, and realize your wishes that you have never been able to fulfill in your life." This is really straightforward.
However, what is surprising is that the other party was not angry, but quietly looked at the girl.
"You said she is very smart, then let me test her." The other party responded calmly.
"It's no problem, I've already passed the test in the past two days." Medisa made a reassuring gesture to Sylutia.
Afterwards, the scholar in white asked many questions, including mathematics, mainland customs, practical social issues, interpersonal communication, and even some details about cleaning.
Seeing that Sylutia could answer them, he paused for a while and then asked a few more difficult purely academic questions in mathematics and physics.
Sylutia thought for a moment and answered one by one.
"What, what I said is right."
"That's right." The other party nodded.
He did not continue to speak, his figure sat quietly in the slanting light of the tower, and the dust slowly floated.
"Yes, it's time." He suddenly said to himself.
"Come here, I will teach you everything I can and teach you everything I have learned."
"Okay, Hedra, come over. Although your teacher has a weird temper, he is also a good person, haha."
Sylutia carefully walked up the steps and came to the corner of the second floor, approaching this slightly weathered scholar, or "Mage".
His clothes and face were neat, but his fingers looked very withered, resting on the armrest of his wheelchair.
"My name is Feng Knox. From now on, you can just call me teacher Knox."
"Yes, Teacher Knox."
"Medisa, I will accept this student. You can go back first."
"Okay, but remember to let Hedra back before dark, otherwise her family will be worried." After saying that, Medisa waved to Sylutia and left the bottom of the tower.
Under the instruction of the teacher, Sylutia pushed his wheelchair to the study room on the fourth floor, which was lined with bookshelves and various scrolls. What caught Sylutia's attention was a yellowed sheepskin painting with very thin lines on it, outlining a Flying Bird.
This Flying Bird seems to be bigger than the island, with a beautiful and fast body. There are extremely fine patterns on the stretched feathers, which converge into the inside of its body. The various structures in Flying Bird's body are also marked in detail on the painting, as well as the lines and textures that are as fine as works of art.
"This is "Eternal Day White Bird", the legendary Flying Bird who chases the sun and always bathes in light." Rox introduced briefly, then picked up a book and handed it to Sylutia.
"Read the book. After reading this book in three days, I will teach you First Order some knowledge." After saying that, he left Sylutia in the study room and pushed his wheelchair up to the fifth floor.
Sylutia took the thick book, which weighed about two kilograms. He opened the thick hard cover and found <Atlas of a Thousand Birds> written inside.
Holding the thick book in his arms, Sylutia looked around the study and found a place by the window. Then he moved a table and chairs, leaned against the stone window, opened the book, and browsed slowly.
The book starts with the most common poultry, then various common Flying Birds, and then gradually goes deeper and begins to introduce the differences between various birds, their classifications, the habits, characteristics, habits, etc. of various Flying Birds.
The content goes from the shallower to the deeper and is slightly interesting, making Sylutia very immersed in reading it.
Just like that, bathed in the sea breeze, the girl's hair scattered in the bright sunshine, she slowly read the book. It was not until the sun set in the west and the distant sea level was enveloped in an orange-red sunset that she slowly came back to her senses.
At this moment, she heard the sound of the wheelchair going downstairs again, and soon Rox appeared in the study.
"The time is up. You can go back today and come to the tower at 8 o'clock tomorrow."
"Yes, teacher." Hedra stood up, put the book on the table aside, said goodbye, and walked down the steps slowly.
After the girl left, Rox's eyes stayed on the thick book and stared at it slightly.
"Have you read half of it?"
The next morning, Sylutia came on time, knocked on the door at the bottom of the tower, and then continued to read the book under Rox's instructions.
At noon, someone brought simple food from a bakery in the city. Sylutia handed one portion to Rox, ate the other one himself, and then continued reading the book <Atlas of a Thousand Birds>.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, she finished turning the last page of the book, and she was still not finished. She felt as if she had encountered a completely new world.
At this time, she heard a sound coming from upstairs.
"Hedra, take your book and come to the sixth floor."
"Okay." The girl held the book and walked up the steps.
The fifth floor is the living room, with a simple kitchen and bathroom, and the sixth floor is the top of the tower. There is a tall "Fresnel Lens" in the center, which lights up at night and shines a bright beam of light.
Standing on the top of the tower, the wind swept from all directions, awakening Sylutia's spirit. The distant chirping of seabirds could also be heard in his ears. Under the blue sky, the sea surface was refracted with white waves, and it was vast and empty.
"Hedra, please finish reading that book."
"Yes."
"Do you like it?"
"Like it."
"Okay." After he finished speaking, his voice stopped again.
Sylutia stood behind Knox, looking at his motionless figure like a rock in the sea breeze, and felt a little curious in his heart.
"That book..." Sylutia heard the other party's answer before he asked.
"That book was written by me." the other party continued.
"I don't know if you have heard of "White Bird School". It is a school of thought in the south of the mainland, and there are many scholars in it."
"I've heard about it a little bit." Sylutia remembers that when Lantern Town was being built, he met many members of "White Bird School".
"I used to be a member of "White Bird School". After writing that book, I was promoted to "Level 4·Secret Speech". Many seniors in the school were optimistic about me and thought that I would become a pillar of the school in the future."
"But I finally got tired of just observing and recording, and wanted to do something, such as transforming what I observed and learned over the years into something more practical and capable of changing the world."
"It may be an exaggeration to say that it changes the world, but if I can change a little bit and bring about some impact, I will be satisfied. Unfortunately, the atmosphere at White Bird School is not supportive. They call themselves the gatekeepers of Swan King, that is, the passers-by who guard civilization and knowledge."
"For members of the school, recording, protection, and maintenance are the top priorities, not exploration and change."
"So I left "White Bird School" and went to the Mage Alliance, where I used my proficiency in ornithological knowledge to learn a lot of knowledge from Mage. Compared to "White Bird School", they are obviously more open, and various schools of thought often hold debates and exchanges."
"There, I gradually found a path that suited me, and with several Mage friends, I developed a new type of bird-shaped aircraft and multiple bird-shaped machines Golem."
"However, although my results have been recognized by many people, they cannot be promoted because the weight of the mechanical Golem is not suitable for the light and flexible concept of birds. As a result, the Golem created is far less practical than the giant elephant and Lion types."
"In addition, after a few years, the technology of Rising Wind Airship matured. Their speed was not fast, but their structural strength and stability were much higher than those of bird aircraft. Therefore, my other achievement also suffered a heavy blow, and no one gradually paid attention to it."
"I had to find a way out and made a series of attempts since then, but almost all of them ended in failure."
"Finally, I made a desperate move and aimed at the legendary "Eternal Day White Bird", hoping to use existing technology to reproduce the legendary bird."
"To this end, I spent several years searching for various information about "Eternal Day White Bird" and searching for it in the incomplete ancient books of Wizard. When they studied the bloodline of "Eternal Day White Bird", they should have recorded the vein runes born by the divine bird in ancient times."
"Like looking for a puzzle piece, I searched for these information bit by bit, and based on my own observations of the natural patterns of many birds, I kept guessing and completing them, and slowly sketched out the picture of "Eternal Day White Bird"."
"However, people have their limits after all. My imagination and structural power still cannot create Miracle out of thin air. The core part of the body of "Eternal Day White Bird" is still a mystery. Why it can fly forever without getting tired. How it operates the entire power cycle so that the body can fly quietly and unaffected under the scorching sun, I have never been able to find out."
"After ten years of this, I finally became disheartened and came to this Meteor Lake and built this White Tower."
"I placed "Sea-Sky Scrying Mirror" on the top of the tower. It can use the reflection of the entire sea surface to observe the sky. If one day, the flying "Eternal Day White Bird" passes over Fourth Continent and leaves its shadow on the sea surface, and it can be sensed by the looking glass."
"This is my last effort. If I can see the legendary "Eternal Day White Bird" with my own eyes and understand the secret of its eternal flight, then all my life's learning and research will be meaningful."
"Hedra, this is my dream, maybe I will never realize it."
"However, I hope you will pass on this distant wish. Even if you just tell your future students about it, I will be satisfied."
"I can, Teacher Knox."
"In this way, I feel at ease." He sighed longly and looked up at the distant sky, watching the white clouds curling up and the red clouds covering the sky.
"It's great, such a view..."
"Continue tomorrow and I will teach you everything about going to the Mage Alliance."