Chapter 132: Forbidden Demon Festival
Forbidden Demon Day is a traditional festival in the wizarding world. It is generally held one hundred days after the winter solstice, a week before the Qingming Festival. On this day, the wizards will spontaneously stop using any spells, and make fires, cook, walk, and communicate like mortals, so this day is also called 'mortal birthday' by wizards, which means the day of mortal life.
The reason for such a strange festival is said to be due to an old story that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a great wizard who lost himself in his quest for power and became a monster who could only hunt wizards.
This monster is even more terrifying than the Demon. Most of the demons only eat the flesh of wizards and drink the blood of wizards, and that monster does not even spare the soul of a wizard. To make matters worse, the monster can sense fluctuations in the mana of the wizards when they cast spells, and can track down the wizards who cast the spells.
In order to avoid the pursuit of monsters, the wizards gave up their powers, stopped casting spells, and began to live silently like mortals, sick, old, and dead.
The pros and cons of this are obvious. The good thing is that the monster can't hunt with the magic fluctuations when the wizard casts a spell, leaving a certain buffer time for ordinary wizards, and the bad thing is that this behavior has greatly suppressed the development of the entire wizarding world, so that for nearly a hundred years, there has been a huge gap and regression in the magic skills of the entire world.
In those dark times, most ordinary wizards were no different from mortals, the same sunrise and sunset, the same trembling, fear of natural and man-made disasters, like facing the abyss, like walking on thin ice.
It wasn't until years later, when warriors from all over the world gathered to slay the monster, that the wizarding world returned to its former peace and freedom.
In order to commemorate the warriors and the wizards who were hunted by monsters, and to remember that dark age, at the initiative of a large number of wizards, the wizards chose to stop using all magic and sorcery on the last weekend of the year before the energy tide returns, in order to mourn and reward the bravery.
It has been thousands of years since then.
Over time, many of the customs of this festival have changed several times, and a lot of content has been added or deleted, but its most fundamental 'forbidden demon' habit has remained the same and has continued.
In the current 'Forbidden Demon Festival', the ban time generally starts from the end of the day and ends at the end of the unitary hour, about 6 am to 6 pm, and lasts for the whole day - some strict wizard families will also extend this time period to 5 am to 7 pm, but some wizards choose to use 7 am to 5 pm, so that the time without magic will be slightly shorter. And so on.
In short, there are no very rigid rules for the forbidden time of the Forbidden Spirit, and most wizards are more casual.
Not being able to use magic means not being able to work, study, or live a normal life for a wizard.
So, on this day, many wizards who have been immersed in the laboratory all day long will walk out the door to feel the long-lost sunshine and spring equinox, and enjoy a brief but free feeling.
First University will also take this opportunity to organize students to go on a spring outing, using the beauty of nature to calm the restless atmosphere of young wizards in spring.
Because there are too many students going out on the same day, the land suitable for spring outings on the entire Phuket Island is very tight.
Every day, the old students of the school will invariably 'bully' the junior students - they often pre-select the place to go to the next year's Forbidden Demon Festival at the end of the previous year's Forbidden Demon Festival.
This time advantage is something that first-year students can't compensate for.
The old students have occupied such excellent places as the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the grass is long and the warbler is flying, the peach is willow green, and so on. The only thing left for the first-graders is a few horns on the island.
Of course, the horns are not to say how dangerous these places are or how bad the environment is. After all, it is the island where the first university is stationed, and the environment is not bad no matter how bad it is. The main reason why these places are bad is that they are far from food, fuel and clean water. This is extremely bad for a young wizard who can't use magic all day.
The Astronomy 08-1 class is also such an unlucky first-year class.
However, with the assistance of the squad leader Downton and several 'energetic' family members in the class, pulling Lao Yao's banner really allowed them to pick out a place that was not so bad.
It was a depression near the edge of the coast of Phuket, at the foot of a small hill, near an open meadow, and a few sparse evergreen shrubs on the periphery of rolling hills. A little farther on, the endless sea and the silent forest.
Across the hill, those beautiful beaches outside have already had owners.
In the small mountain bag, the young wizards clumsily propped up the shed, the fire, set up the iron pots, and cleaned up the pots and pans and all kinds of food raw materials, a chaotic scene.
Because Zheng Qing has a rich life history of 'Bai Ding', he took up the work of burying the stove and lighting a fire. Jiang Yu also arranged for Dr. Xiao Da, who was knowledgeable, to be an assistant. The combination of knowledge and experience, the two of them did a decent job.
In this way, while the fire was burning, Zheng Qing came to relax and discuss with Xiao Xiao the story behind the 'Forbidden Demon Festival'. He was interested in the identity of the wizard who turned into a monster, the warriors who eventually killed the monster, and what the legendary headmaster of the First University was doing at the time.
Unlike him, Xiao Xiao doesn't like to talk about the facts that have 'happened', he prefers to pursue some of the deeper things expressed in this story.
"This story tells us that the wizarding world is dangerous. When Dr. Xiao Da makes this kind of analysis, he always becomes extremely serious: "Choosing to surpass the Great Wizard and embark on that thorny path is not only facing huge economic pressure, but also the deep malice of this universe and this starry sky. ”
"Look at the consequences of the wizards who failed to rush to the realm!"
"It's lucky to become an octopus or a big mouse, at least you retain a body of magic and a small life. ”
"More wizards have been wiped out in the process, and it's hard to even put together a clothed mound...... There are those who are unlucky, and their existence will be wiped out by the calamity along the line of cause and effect. ”
"What's worse is that the Old Dominators, the Lich King, the Siren King, and the predecessor who 'created' the Forbidden Demon Festival have not only lost themselves and become slaves to chaos and chaos, but have become enemies of the entire wizarding world. ”
"It's very sad to think about. ”