Crown of Silence

Chapter 83 Runestones

"I want to challenge."

"no!"

Seeing Bai Xi coming out, Brian subconsciously objected. But soon, he realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"no?"

Bai Xi came up to him and looked up at him: "Why! I am also in the first grade and I have just entered school. Why can they do it but I can't!"

"This, this isn't..." Brian responded hesitantly.

"What? Can't think of an excuse? Then get out of the way."

Bai Xi snorted coldly, "I want to challenge and become the top student!"

"I support!"

In the crowd, Xia Er shouted loudly, "You are much prettier than Ye Zi! It's not a disadvantage to be the chief student!"

Under Bai Xi's cross-examination, Brian retreated steadily, but he hesitated and refused to let Bai Xi enter.

There was a roar from the crowd, and it was really ugly to just have to fight with a new student, but no one else was allowed to play. Someone was already talking about it, and amidst the ridicule, Brian's expression became more and more ugly.

At the far entrance, Yunlou Chaoyue watched the farce in silence. As if she didn't understand the situation, she turned to look at Sidney:

"Why not?"

Her voice was full of: "Is this the rule of the academy?"

"this……"

Sidney's face turned bitter. He couldn't say that this was a group of aristocratic students who wanted to look good to a kid who didn't understand current affairs. Oh, by the way, that kid is from the East just like you. We are really not discriminating. Really, don’t get it wrong...

"Can."

He forced a smile and squeezed out a few words through his teeth: "Why not? Of course!"

So, under the witness of everyone, the most boring showdown since the establishment of the college took place like this...

-

There was an eerie calm in the circle of the body-eating snake.

"Cousin, are you thirsty? I brought water for you."

"Oh, thank you!" Ye Qingxuan took the kettle and drank it all in one gulp, feeling that his burning throat was finally getting better.

"Cousin, are you hungry? I brought peanuts."

Ye Qingxuan's eyes lit up: "Is there any salted one? Give me some, Ciel is eating next to me and I'm so greedy."

So, a bag of peanuts that was still exuding heat fell into the boy's arms.

"Cousin, I brought little Maza." Bai Xi said, "Sit down quickly."

"Oh, okay!" Ye Qingxuan almost felt like he was hallucinating, and had the urge to burst into tears, "Cousin, you suddenly become so filial."

Amidst the boos from the audience outside the venue, Bai Xi asked diligently: "Cousin, is my service good?"

"Hoar! Of course!"

It was the first time for Ye Qingxuan to enjoy this kind of treatment from his cousin, and he was almost moved to heaven.

"Nonsense, if you dare to say anything bad, I will kick you out of here!"

Bai Xi gritted his teeth in Ye Qingxuan's ear, and his voice was full of threats: "I have never served anyone like this since I was born, and I will pay you such a heavy sum today. If you dare to lose again, you will commit suicide."

"Does that need to be said?"

Ye Qingxuan clenched his fist: "I will definitely win for you."

-

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"Edmund, you go to the next one in person."

Outside the court, Edmund heard a hoarse voice behind him. He turned around in shock and saw Banner's eyes... those pupils were the vertical pupils of a beast, emitting green light in the darkness, full of desire for blood.

"You... lost control?" Edmund screamed.

"Not yet, but 'it' is angry, you know?"

The boy stared at him, the beast's eyes full of desire for killing. Edmund's pale face was reflected in the longing, and it was full of chilling ferocity.

"Don't let me down again."

He or 'it' said softly, "If he takes away the title of chief student because of you... then there is no need for you to stay in this college."

"I know."

Edmund nodded, with a hint of ferocity in his eyes, "I will take care of him."

He stroked the amber ring on his index finger and turned towards the arena.

-

"Ten minutes have passed."

In the field, Brian looked at Bai Xi impatiently: "If you don't plan to challenge, don't waste time."

"Who said I'm not ready to challenge?" Bai Xi rolled his eyes and looked at him: "I'm poisoning, didn't you see this guy was enjoying his meal?"

"Have you been poisoned?" Brian was stunned.

"Yes, yes, in another hundred years, he will be poisoned, become a bone, and eventually die!" Bai Xi made a gesture of slitting his throat: "Are you afraid?"

"I'm so scared! What can I do?"

Ye Qingxuan was crying beside him, looking scared.

"..." Brian's expression was suffocated, his expression twitching, trying hard not to lose control. He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "You two, don't waste any more time!"

"cut!"

Bai Xi disapproved and kicked Ye Qingxuan: "Are you ready? I'm going to use my power!"

"Oh, okay! Let's use it!"

Ye Qingxuan quickly wiped the salt grains from the corners of his mouth and stood up, returning the pony, the kettle and half a bag of peanuts to her. Watch her bulge and prepare to bulge again.

In the eyes of everyone with regret, Bai Xi stood on the edge of the Circle of God Eaters, and was lifted by Ye Qingxuan's collar and placed outside the field.

Next to him, Brian weakly announced:

"In the ninth game, Ye Qingxuan wins."

For some reason, he began to hate this job.

-

"Is the fun time over?"

Behind Ye Qingxuan, a voice asked coldly.

Ye Qingxuan turned around, saw Edmund's gloomy face, and suddenly realized: "So you only dare to show up after others have consumed me completely?"

"Consumption? There is no need at all."

Edmund's eyes were full of sinisterness: "There are a few more people who want to play for a while longer. Unfortunately, those losers are too weak and can't even help at all."

"Trash and trash should always stick together for warmth. You are their friend, don't be too harsh on them." Ye Qingxuan responded absently, obviously lacking in interest.

Snapped!

A cold ray flew past Ye Qingxuan's feet and landed on the ground, leaving a pale frost mark. Without any chanting or preparation, Edmund unexpectedly issued a note in an instant, causing the crowd outside the stadium to scream in surprise.

"Be serious, I spent a lot of money trying to deal with you."

Edmund blew away the cold air lingering on his fingertips and laughed softly: "Next, I will let you and the bastards outside know who is the master of this place."

Ye Qingxuan stared at his palm in silence. After confirming that he had seen it correctly, his eyes finally became cautious.

"The note is instantaneous?"

He whispered to himself.

-

"The leaves are bad this time."

Outside the court, Charles frowned slowly: "The opponents started to spend money on people."

"You mean rune stones?" Bai Xi finally came to his senses.

"You actually know?" Charles looked surprised: "Thankfully, I prepared a lot of explanations!"

"..." Bai Xi didn't even bother to roll her eyes at him.

Runestones are one of the products of the dark world. There are different opinions on its origin, but there are only two main ways of production. One is to dig out veins in areas with strong ether and use super large detection equipment to find traces of rune stones.

The other is the favorite method of many pioneering musicians in the dark world...

--hunting.

In areas where the ether is crazy, most living creatures will be killed by the violent ether, but a small number of creatures are not killed, but survive.

The surviving creatures became stronger, more violent, and more ferocious under the erosion of ether. Like the children of the Dark Earth Mother, they transformed into monsters.

After killing some monsters, there is a certain probability of finding such rune stones in their bodies.

The so-called rune stones are ether crystals with a rune structure formed in a natural state. Because of its stable structure and pure nature, it can be preserved under special conditions.

This stone, which has the power of musical notes itself, is one of the important alchemical materials, and the power of many alchemical equipment comes from it. Of course, there is also a more luxurious method - smelting meditation.

The musician synchronizes with the 'rune stones', and by consuming the power in the rune stones, the understanding of the runes is rapidly increased. In the end, the originally unspeakable and complex chanting is compressed and simplified to one syllable, that is, the 'note' Instant'.

Originally this was the mark of a musician, but with the help of rune stones, even an apprentice could reach the same level by consuming a large amount of similar rune stones. The only drawback is that it can only cast the rune learned from the rune stone instantly.

However, if you want to use this method, you will start to burn money fiercely.

Rune stones are a super best-seller that is in short supply. Once they appear, they are often sold out, and prices remain high. Many musicians even use it as hard currency.

Currently, the price of one basic runestone is about two sect-standard lapis lazuli bricks. Converted into Anglo currency, it would cost at least tens of thousands!

For an apprentice to reach the point where musical notes can be cast instantly, the runestones of the same type of rune consumed are enough to make a good piece of alchemy equipment.

No wonder Charles said Edmund was starting to burn money.

Because of this, he began to worry about Ye Qingxuan.

-

In the past few days, Ye Qingxuan's practice and training have been controlled by Xiaer. He knows the level of his junior brother better than anyone else.

Five days had passed since Ye Qingxuan got the pile of pages that were about to become moldy and rotten from Hermes.

During the five days, Ye Qingxuan stayed in the study in the morning, learning ancient languages ​​and rune interpretation from Abraham, and started his internship in the afternoon, burning his brains over the pile of moldy records in the basement where he was.

Charles admitted that in these five days, Ye Qingxuan himself had made rapid progress, almost growing at a rate dozens of times that of others. But after all, it’s only five days…

Only five days.

In addition to the 'Light' and 'Mirror' that Ye Qingxuan originally learned, he only learned five notes, and they were the most partial among the auxiliary types that were easiest to control.

The side note 'flow', which was originally used to control fluids, but is now specifically used to increase physical strength, the 'haze' that blurs objects by distorting the air, the 'qi' that creates a gust of wind... There are no offensive runes at all. Learned.

In the previous battles, he almost used it one after another.

Now, facing an enemy who has used rune stones to pile up the 'frost knot' to an instantaneous level and who already knows him well, how to fight this battle...?

Outside the court, Ciel scratched his hair with a headache, thinking hard about strategies, but couldn't find any way to win.

"Ye Zi, you're in trouble this time."

He whispered softly.

The circle of the body-eating snake was now illuminated by the light of frost!