Chapter 2886: The Missing Person
Screech—
A red line rose from some corner of First University. It seemed exceedingly thin and not particularly bright, yet it easily seized the attention of every wizard on the island.
Because the entire red line radiated a heart-palpitating surge of Magic Power.
A legend!
Nearly every wizard who saw it immediately grasped that concept. Even if they had never dealt with a Legendary Wizard and knew nothing of a legend's true might, the instant they saw it, all ignorance was drowned beneath a torrent of understanding.
Very soon.
That red line pierced through the black clouds blanketing all of Puji Island.
At first, it was only a spark, but in an instant, that spark rapidly swelled into a fireball. The fireball drifted amid the low, dark clouds for a moment, like a fiery egg fallen into an abyss. Before long, a firebird hatched from that egg.
The firebird had a swallow's jaw, a chicken's beak, and a dragon-like serpentine neck. It raised its head and spread its wings, curving them into a circle as it forcibly tore a ring of brilliant color through the pitch-black Night Veil. Solid beams of light cascaded down where the black clouds met the firebird, and the entire world found the light again.
"So this is... every cloud has a silver lining."
Xiao Xiao hugged his thick black-covered notebook, murmuring as he pushed up his glasses. His tone carried a hint of emotion. "That's why we must always seek those 'silver linings.' Only then can we seize the brightest sunlight in life."
"No, that's called the Tyndall effect."
Zheng Qing, armed with a high school education, snuffed out the Doctor's newly budding poetic sensibilities with common knowledge from another world—he had not meant any harm, and vaguely remembered that