Jia Lan sat on the bench blankly, his mind in a mess, and he didn't notice that the morning dew had wet his dark blue wizard robe again. This robe is very powerful, and can perform small magics such as reading, interpreting, copying, repairing, cleaning, and organizing books at any time.

  Jia Lan began to wonder: "Where am I? How did I get here?"

  He suddenly remembered: "Oh, yes, I was organizing the bookshelves in the library, but the arcane tide suddenly came. I was so scared that I didn't have time to run, and I was frozen by the fireproof magic circle "Ice Coffin"..."

  "What happened at that time? Why was the arcane tide so fierce? Could it be that some great god-level wizard in the wizard tower failed to test the spell? But I was frozen here, so why did I run to this strange place?"

  If the wizard's experiment went wrong and the library's protective magic circle was activated, the rescuers should arrive soon.

  But looking at his current body, it seems that he has been frozen for a long time, and even his teacher praised his powerful arcane energy. It's almost exhausted. Under normal circumstances, the consumption of arcane energy is very slow.

  Even if there is no meditation or conditioning, it will take decades or even hundreds of years for the body to decline to this extent.

  Not to mention that he is in the "Ice Coffin". This spell is said to "freeze even time". The body should be motionless inside, and the consumption of arcane energy should be slower!

  So, he has been frozen in the "Ice Coffin" for at least a hundred years!

  Jia Lan was shocked. How could this be possible? He was frozen, and where were the rescuers? Why didn't they take care of him and let him freeze for so long?

  Also, his teacher couldn't ignore his only disciple and let him become a lump of ice that would never melt, right?

  Suddenly, Jia Lan thought of a scary possibility: "Could it be... Could it be that the arcane tide destroyed everything outside? I survived in the 'Ice Coffin'?"

  "No, no, no! Impossible! My teacher is a great 13th-level great arcane mage! He can escape in an instant using 'Phase Gate', 'Transfer to Another World' or 'Advanced Teleportation'!"

  Jia Lan would never believe that his teacher, who had worked as a librarian in the library for thousands of years, would die because of an experiment.

  "Unless the entire Eberron world is destroyed!"

  Jia Lan thought so, but was immediately scared by himself.

  "No, no, no! 'Book Ryan' is still hanging in the sky, and everyone is living well. How could the world be destroyed? What can destroy the world? Something must have gone wrong!"

  Jia Lan shook his head vigorously, trying to forget that terrible idea: "For example, I was frozen by the 'Ice Coffin', and my body was too fragile. The teacher was afraid that I would be hurt when thawing, so he had to let me stay in the ice and wait for it to melt by itself..."

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  "But I heard that the ice frozen by the 'Ice Coffin' has never melted naturally except by magic?"

  Jia Lan looked down at the "Catalog Stone" of the administrator of the "Kolanburg Library" on his chest. He just saw the ice melt under the moonlight of "Book Ryan" with his own eyes. This is amazing.

  If moonlight can solve the "Ice Coffin", then this spell would not be so popular, and it has never been heard in history that moonlight can solve it.

  The melting of ice must have something to do with moonlight, but it is definitely not the main reason.

  Jia Lan decided to wait until dawn to look for clues. He held the "Catalog Stone" on his chest tightly. This "key" to enter the library's collection room seemed to have changed. It was just absorbing the moonlight of "Book Ryan".

  Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, picked up the light blue diamond crystal and looked at it carefully. The "Catalog Stone" is the treasure of the "Kolanburg Library", but it should not store mana.

  The "Catalog Stone" flashed blue light, and the secret runes inside could be seen, but it seemed to have something more... a lot of small light spots like stars?

  Jia Lan shook his head. He didn't understand this, maybe only the teacher knew.

  After dawn, Jia Lan looked around and was surprised to find that he was still near Kolanburg. The "Gem Cape" at the other end of the "Sea Wall Mountains" was already bright!

  Looking at the "Gem Cape" glittering, Jia Lan squatted down, dipped his fingers in dew, and calculated the position.

  "Looking at the light of the 'Gem Cape', I should be about 30° west of it, not the 15° of the library... After all the calculations, I seem to be in the 'Cape Forest'?"

  Jia Lan looked at the water marks on the ground in disbelief. Isn't the "Cape Forest" a wetland connected to the mangroves? When did it become a city?

  Jia Lan looked around in confusion: "Did someone save me and bring me here? Where is this? The new campus of the library? Why haven't I seen it?"

  But he soon understood that if he really arrived a hundred years later, it would not be strange for the "Cape Forest" to become a city!

  Jia Lan sat on the bench and started thinking again. The current situation does not look good.

  After he figured out where he was, he felt even more uneasy. He felt that he might have been frozen in the "Ice Coffin" for longer than he thought, more than the hundred years he had guessed before.

  Why?

  Just look at this mangrove city. It used to be very prosperous, but now it has become like this. Look at those old castles, which are covered with moss and vines and look very old.

  Jia Lan really couldn't imagine what kind of bad environment could make a castle less than a hundred years old become so shabby. In most cases, the passage of time cannot be stopped by magic.