Chapter 2981: Side Story Twenty-Nine: Nikita (Part 2)
"Life is like getting dressed and buttoning up. Most people put on their clothes properly, step by step. But some people accidentally fasten a button wrong. Just like making certain mistakes in life. Once the first button is wrong, every button after that ends up wrong too."
"The only difference is that a wrongly fastened button can be undone and redone. But life is very hard to live over again."
Zhang Yu stood atop a Soul Returning Poplar, looking at the distant area shrouded in black clouds and filled with violent magical fluctuations. He let out a rather emotional sigh.
Violet stood atop another Soul Returning Poplar not far from him. Peter, Arnie, and Qiong, the three students participating in their graduation fieldwork, were scattered among several other towering trees nearby, so they clearly heard the words of First University's Teaching Assistant Group leader. They knew those words were not meaningless musings, but a warning for them.
Unlike the solemn students.
Violet was more concerned with Zhang Yu's phrasing—he had said that life was "hard to live over again," rather than "impossible to live over again." Perhaps only wizards from First University could truly understand the subtle difference.
Buzz!
A silent tremor spread over from the distance.
Five brilliant stars glittering beneath the sunlight lit up one after another. They were the magical radiance blooming from five Edge Type-1 units. Positioned around the black-cloud-covered area as nodes in the Magic Circle's operation, they were connected by slender, fully materialized channels of Magic Power.
A thin membrane of light rose from underground, eventually closing overhead in the sky.
With the cooperation of the Edge Type-1 units and the teaching assistants, the birdcage-like Heavenly Net and Earthly Snare truly took shape, enclosing both the