Gate of the Cross

Chapter 261 University and President

"Will the snow here stop?"

Xinjie looked curiously at the snowflakes flying all over the sky and asked with some doubts.

"I heard from the village head that it has been like this here for many years, and the scenery we have seen since we came out of the underpass has always been the same, unchanged." Saber answered when he heard Xinjie's question.

"It seems that the rumor is true. North Salena does snow all year round, but the scenery here is really good."

"Yes." Saber nodded in agreement.

"Yes." Even Nagato Youxi rarely expressed his opinion.

"Look, that's the University of Magic."

After a short walk, the three of them saw an iconic building, which was particularly conspicuous in a plain neighborhood, and the four characters of the Magic University were shining.

"Please wait, the school is heavy, and idle people are not free to enter."

Just as three people watched the school for a while and were about to walk into the campus, they were stopped by a staff member.

"Sorry, the school has been noisy recently. Er, the school has been holding activities recently, and it is not open to the public for the time being."

Holding an event is haunted, right? Noticing his mistake, Saber thought so, but she didn't say anything and waited for Xinjie to speak.

"We are not here to travel." Xinjie said and took out a letter from his arms, "This is a letter from my teacher Disol to the principal."

The staff received the letter doubtfully and looked at it carefully. After seeing the seal of the Swordsman Alliance and the signature of the swordsman commander Disol, he returned the letter to Xinjie with both hands. "In that case, please follow me."

Following this staff into the school, Xinjie found that the University of Magic is much bigger than expected, and the campus is even bigger than the arena.

Seeing Xinjie and Saber looking left and right, the staff member explained, "It's class time now, and there is usually no one on campus at this time."

"It turned out to be like the north." Xinjie nodded and stopped asking.

Seeing that the three people didn't speak, the staff member was a little strange and couldn't help asking, "I don't know the names of several people yet. My name is Neji, a teacher of magic in the school."

"It turned out to be Mr. Neji. My name is Xinjie. This is my friend Saber and Nagato Youxi." Seeing that Neji introduced himself, Xinjie also introduced them to him.

"Have you met the demon clan on the way?" Neji continued to ask.

"No, we came from Abanis Village. The road is very peaceful, and there is no demon clan."

When talking about this, Xinjie also felt a little strange, because before, no matter where they were in the Kingdom of France, as long as they left the towns and villages, there would always be demons in the wild, but this time they didn't even see the shadow of the demons.

"That's good. Because of the existence of the University of Magic, the nearby demons hide during the day and only appear at night. However, there are occasional polar bears and flamingos nearby. Although they generally do not take the initiative to attack humans, you'd better be careful. Neji kindly reminded.

"The flamingbird man, the polar bear?" How can these two guys who are not compatible get together?

"When it comes to the flamingo people, let me tell you: the flamingo people are covered with beautiful pure white feathers, which can form a protective color in the snow. Due to the lack of food in their habitat, they usually go on expeditions to hunt small mammals for food. Bird's nest is built on cold trees or on high-altitude snowy mountains. The flamingbirds are extremely resistant to cold. Even chicks can adapt to the cold air in a short time.

Regardless of whether the three are willing to listen, Neji continued to say endlessly: "The flamingbirds will use wind blade magic, and their spirit is the second highest among bird humans. We generally think that the flamingo people have no special relationship with polar bears, but polar bears sometimes hunt flamingbirds. Surprisingly, in the cold snow, The vast majority of Flamingos have short hair, and the reason is still unknown.

"Neji, who are you popularizing science for!"

At this time, Neji had already walked into the room with three people. Someone passed by and just heard Neji's words and stopped walking towards him.

"Delong, don't be rude. These are the principal's distinguished guests." Neji blushed and said.

"Oh, isn't it? Then I'd like to watch it more." The man called Delon looked at the three after hearing Negi's words and smiled and stretched out his right hand to Xinjie standing in the middle:

"Hello, I'm Delong, a teacher at the University of Magic. Nice to meet you."

"My name is Xinjie. These are my friends Saber and Nagato Youxi." Xinjie stretched out his hand and Delong gently shook it and let it go. At the same time, he also introduced Saber and Nagato Youxi to him.

"Are you... swordsmen?"

Xinjie and Saber's dress was a swordsman at a glance. Although Nagato Youxi did not carry weapons, all three of them wore swordsmen' medals to prove their identity, and they were also palace swordsmen. When did so many palace swordsmen suddenly appear in the Kingdom of France?

"Yes." Xinjie nodded.

"Okay, Delong, I'm going to take them to see the principal. Let's talk about it later." Negi quickly stopped Delong from asking further questions and led the three away.

"Strange, what did the three palace swordsmen come to the University of Magic? Did they come to visit?" Looking at the fading Xinjie and his party, Delong said a few words to himself and then left.

Albert Bestein, president of the University of Magic, is bowing his head to deal with documents. Recently, a rumor has emerged that the school is not very good. Although he has tried his best to suppress it, it has little effect, so he has to turn to his old friend, the chief swordsman of the Kingdom of France, known as the broken dance. Disor.

He doesn't believe much in the group of guys from professional guilds and detective associations, and the witch Dilciadame, the honorary president of the University of Magic, also agreed with him.

"I hope Disol can send a more capable person. Unfortunately, the teachers in the school are all magicians. There is no problem in fighting, but they are not good at investigating, and they haven't found out the truth of the matter for so long."

Just as he was thinking about this, the door was suddenly knocked.

"Please come in!"

Albert put down the pen in his hand, sat down and looked at the door to see who would come to him during class.

"Your Excellency Principal."

"It turned out to be Mr. Neji. He came to me at this time... Who are these?"

Albert saw Neji pushing the door and was about to ask him what was going on. Then he saw a man and two women following him and knew that Neji's coming to him must have something to do with these three people.

"Hello, headmaster, my teacher Disol asked me to come. This is the letter he wrote to you."

With that, Xinjie took a few steps forward and handed Disol's letter to him to Albert.

"Disol!"

As soon as he heard the name, Albert immediately became energetic. After receiving the letter, he just glanced at it and hurriedly opened it. After browsing a few lines, he suddenly looked happy. "Just in time, Neji, you go out first. I have something to do with this..."

"Xinjie." Xinjie spoke understandingly.

"...Well, I have something to talk to Mr. Xinjie. Don't let anyone disturb me during this period."

"Yes, Principal."

Although he was very surprised, Neji nodded and turned around and left the room. Before leaving, I heard their principal say in a very eager tone, "You are finally here! I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"What on earth made the principal so care? What on earth are those three swordsmen?

There is no way to know these Neji.

It was not until the evening that Neji was called in again by the headmaster.

"Your Excellency?"

Seeing the flashing light from the principal's eyes, Neji was shocked. What's going on?

"Mr. Neji, Mr. Xinjie has just told me that he thinks highly of you and thinks it is the most appropriate for you to be his guide, so you will do the following things on my behalf."

"Execute?" Neji was confused and didn't understand what the headmaster was talking about.

"Mr. Xinjie? Haven't you told Mr. Neji yet? Albert turned to Xinjie doubtfully.

"No."

"Well, it seems that Mr. Xinjie is indeed a very cautious person, and now I am more relieved!"

"Headmaster?"

Neji doesn't understand what they are talking about at all.

"Oh, Mr. Neji, in fact, Mr. Xinjie was specially invited to help us investigate the ghost incident." Albert explained, "But this matter should be kept confidential, so I will announce that Mr. Xinjie, Ms. Saber and Ms. Yuki Nagato are representatives who came to attend the graduation ceremony of our school on behalf of the Swordsmen's League. But in fact, you will accompany them to investigate this matter, do you understand?"

"I understand! Principal!"

Hearing the headmaster give himself such an important thing, Neji couldn't help but feel a moment of excitement and cast a grateful look at Xinjie. If it hadn't been for his recommendation, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been his turn in this kind of thing, right?

"Very good. Let the three guests take a break tonight and officially start the investigation tomorrow. I will announce the identity of Mr. Xinjie immediately."

After leaving the principal's room and seeing no one around, Neji couldn't help asking, "Mr. Xinjie, why did you recommend me to the principal? You should know that there are so many excellent teachers in the school, and I'm just one of them..."

"Because Mr. Neji is very knowledgeable and knows a lot about the details." Xinjie said seriously. In fact, there was another sentence that he didn't say, that is, Neji's attitude reminded him of a person - Nanali.