Chapter 364: The Symphony of Life
As the anomalies above White Coral Academy completely vanished, the crisis in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place finally came to an end.
The Wizard Apprentices who had been staying in Turin City also returned to the Academy at the summons of Raven Roar.
Due to the collapse of the Magic Tower, the entire Academy's energy supply system was paralyzed, and even the elevators in the Apprentice dormitory had stopped working, so Jia Na could only take the stairs.
"Miss Jia Na, you're finally back!"
As soon as Jia Na went upstairs, the excited Door Spirit greeted her from afar.
"I'm back, Door Spirit."
Drawing closer, Jia Na also saw the Door Spirit's current situation.
Similarly, the Door Spirit, who had always relied on the Magic Tower's energy supply to maintain its Spiritual Body state, spoke with excitement, but its body within the frame could no longer move as freely as before.
"Door Spirit, how are you doing now?"
"I'm fine—at least I'm still conscious enough to wait for Miss Jia Na to return safely."
Hearing the Door Spirit's words, Jia Na realized that if she had returned a few days later, the Door Spirit might have 'vanished'.
"By the way, Miss Jia Na, do you know what's going on with the Tower Spirit? I can't contact it at all now...."
Upon hearing this, Jia Na sighed.
"I'm not too sure—but the situation shouldn't be too good."
At this moment, besides the Magic Tower's Tower Spirit, Jia Na also thought of Black Cat Bei'er, who had been guarding the first floor of the Magic Tower.
Jia Na, who had just returned from the Magic Tower ruins, had not yet seen any of the Academy's wizards, nor had she found Black Cat Bei'er.
"I have a soul crystal here; the soul energy inside should be enough to cover your energy needs for half a month."
Saying this, Jia Na took out a spherical crystal emitting a blue-white light from her thorn bracelet and presented it to the Door Spirit.
"Ah, Miss Jia Na, this is too precious, I can't accept it—and the Academy stipulates that I cannot accept anything from an Apprentice—"
"It's just a soul crystal, it's not that precious. Besides, this is my voluntary gift, and it doesn't violate the Academy's regulations."
Unlike Tower Spirits, which are self-born pure alchemical creatures, Door Spirits are created by infusing intelligent Spiritual Bodies into alchemical items, which is one of the most popular alchemy methods currently.
Compared to Spiritual Bodies born from top-tier alchemical items like Tower Spirits, Door Spirits express emotions more richly and tend to be more like true humans.
However, Spiritual Bodies like Door Spirits, which later reside within alchemical items, also lack the regulatory constraints of alchemical laws, making it impossible for them to possess absolute loyalty and supreme control over alchemical items like Tower Spirits.
Therefore, to prevent certain Spiritual Bodies from maliciously harassing Wizard Apprentices, they sign a strict agreement with the Wizard Academy.
One of the clauses is: they must not actively accept any items from Wizard Apprentices.
That's why the Door Spirit reacted so strongly when it saw the soul crystal Jia Na handed over.
"Miss Jia Na, thank you for your kindness. It's just that, in my current state, even if I wanted to accept it, I wouldn't be able to."
Upon hearing this, Jia Na looked at the magic painting where the Door Spirit currently resided.
As the other party said, in its current weakened state, the Door Spirit could not leave the magic painting for a short time to retrieve external items as it had before.
"That's not a problem at all."
With that, two silver-white rays of light flashed from Jia Na's eyes. As her pupils rapidly turned white, a Spiritual Body arm radiating a soft white glow 'drilled out' from Jia Na's arm and took the soul crystal from Jia Na's hand, directly placing it inside the magic painting.
"Now you can get it."
"This..."
Looking at the fair arm that directly passed into the magic painting, and the blue-white soul crystal resting on the open palm, for a moment, an emotion long unexperienced, like ink dripping into clear water, continuously rippled within the Door Spirit's alchemical creature's Spiritual Body.
"Thank you, Miss Jia Na—"
"You're welcome, it was just a small favor."
Seeing the Door Spirit successfully receive the soul crystal, Jia Na's 'Spiritual Body arm', which she had used with the Spiritual Body Shuttle talent, retracted back into her body. Immediately, Jia Na pushed open the door and entered the dormitory.
"Return to original position—"
"Clean as new—" The first thing Jia Na did upon returning to her dormitory was to cast the 【Cleaning Spell】 to tidy up the scattered items on her experimental table and her dusty wizard robe.
After hanging her wizard robe on the hanger by the door, Jia Na, whose heart was already filled with anticipation, immediately opened the task panel.
【Today's Task: Stop the Sun Church's God Descent Ritual (Completed);
Task Rating: A-rank;
Task Rewards: Talent Experience 1000 points, Skill Experience 3000 points, Charm +0.5, Luck +0.1, Knowledge and Understanding of the Symphony of Life * 1;】
"I didn't expect there to be a 【Charm】 reward in this character attribute reward—"
Looking at the "Charm +0.5" reward entry on the task panel, Jia Na found it particularly novel.
After all, after Jia Na obtained the Extraordinary Charm talent and successfully comprehended the Fragment of the Law of Beauty, it had been a long time since she had received any attribute rewards related to 【Charm】.
Even the 【Luck】 attribute, which was more difficult to obtain, had been rewarded more times than 【Charm】.
After reviewing the character attribute rewards, Jia Na's gaze finally settled on the main reward of this red-level task—【Knowledge and Understanding of the Symphony of Life * 1】.
"Whew—" Gently exhaling, after confirming that everything was ready, Jia Na used her mind to click on the 【Knowledge and Understanding of the Symphony of Life * 1】 reward entry.
"Buzz—"
Accompanied by a brilliant green light, a large number of Mysticism characters, like notes dancing on a musical score, continuously surged into Jia Na's mind.
"La la—la la la—"
In a trance, an ethereal chant once again sounded in Jia Na's mind.
It was as if flowers dormant in winter rapidly bloomed around her, accompanied by vibrant purple and red colors, and a rich vitality, like a torrent flowing in the air, quickly enveloped Jia Na.
But very quickly, the flowers withered, and as the cold snow once again covered the entire land, Jia Na's soul seemed to become transparent, as if purified by the four seasons.
"Life purifies the soul..."
"So, the profound meaning of the Symphony of Life lies in the Purification of the soul—"
