Whispering Verse

Except for Shade, the other students are all formal students studying in the college and wear uniform black robes as their uniforms.

Professor Garcia briefly welcomed Shade, and then began the formal teaching. Of course, the assessment requirements for this course were explained before class, and the 12-inch (approximately 30.4m) parchment paper course report that needed to be submitted in the end was explained.

Shade originally thought that he would not be able to understand such a professional course in advance, but when Professor Garcia officially started teaching, he discovered that this course was only a preliminary introduction to the strange and extraordinary ability of "Mystery Lock". explanation.

The ring magicians who choose this course all plan to learn mythical magic or spells in the future, or at least have this intention. Relatively speaking, Shade has a stronger understanding of the course itself, because he has actually used the Mystery Lock more than once.

This kind of basic course was of great help to Shade. Not only was Professor Garcia's explanation of the use of space thaumaturgy, it also gave Shade more ideas about the application of abilities and his own system planning. More importantly, he couldn't find any information on mystical abilities like Mysteries anywhere else. Therefore, even though he had used Mysteries many times, this was the first time he had a systematic understanding of such abilities.

The reason why the mysterious lock ability is precious is that it requires the user to create and superimpose a space on top of the extremely stable space in the material world. In the locked space, the power of the user of the Mystery Lock will be greatly strengthened, and they can even suppress those powerful and terrifying relics to a certain extent.

In addition to comprehensive enhancement of themselves, different mythical locks will also give users different abilities according to their nature.

For example, Shade's little match girl gave Shade the ability to use four limited wishes. So far, he has used the Mystery Lock twice. The first time he used four wishes to save the little girl's family, and the second time he used four wishes to win a card game.

Mysteries can be created by thaumaturgy and incantation, or by large-scale rituals. It’s just that the consumption of ritual mystery locks is huge. To use Professor Garcia’s metaphor, it is only slightly cheaper than the divine descending ritual. The mystic locks of spells and thaumaturgy not only require the user's ring warlock level, but also require extremely strong talent.

This cannot be achieved with money and hard work. High-level thaumaturgy has strong requirements on spiritual runes, talent and luck.

Even among the thirteenth-ring warlocks, only a few have mastered the magic lock. In the entire St. Byrons Comprehensive College, there are only four people who have mastered the ability of mysterious locks.

Of course, there are four people not including Sha De. They are Ms. Danister, the librarian, Mr. Mr. Dean, the college’s ace professional library management school, an Eleventh Ring student of the School of History who is currently preparing to graduate, and Professor Garcia, the deputy dean of the School of History.

Speaking of this, Professor Garcia showed a rather complacent expression on his face. But the students thought this was normal, because if they were standing in the professor's position, they would probably have the same expression.

"Professor! So does the Mystery Lock ability use the four elements to affect space and create space, or does it use one's own thoughts and spirit to construct an imaginary world?"

This was a question that Schade asked near the end of class. Professor Garcia was very satisfied with this question and suggested that Schade use this question as the content of his final thesis:

"Strictly speaking, the two ideas you proposed are correct. The Ring Warlock system itself is that intelligent life relies on spirit and the four elements to influence the world, but the form of expression of the mystery is relatively unique."

"So, Professor, is it possible that the already formed Mystic Chain will change due to the changes in the user's own soul? For example, can an out-of-control Ring Warlock still be able to exert the original power of the Mystic Lock?"

Shade raised another question. The last time gluttony affected the little match girl, he realized this problem.

Professor Garcia frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded slightly:

"Abnormal changes in the soul will affect all thaumaturgy. After all, the life ring itself is part of the soul. The topic I am currently researching is, if a ring magician masters two thaumaturgy mysteries, will these two mysteries work? They will influence each other. This is also an important research direction in the mutual interference of self-awareness and self-function/thaumaturgic power, which is similar to your question."

He thought about it:

"I can explain this part in tomorrow's class, but Mr. Hamilton, I think you can really try it. From now on, you can consider building the ability to build mythical locks and choose appropriate spiritual runes. You are very good at this. talent."

Professor Garcia has always admired Shade. After all, Shade's performance has always been excellent.

"No problem Professor, I'm thinking about the mysteries related to the elements of enlightenment."

Shade took advantage of the situation and said that this way, it would be easier for him to explain the origin of his mysterious lock when he arrived at Gaohuan.

It was exactly nine o'clock in the evening after class. When Shade stood up from the chair, Mia the cat was standing on the sofa looking back at her cat tail that was constantly wagging with the ring on it.

Seeing Shade standing up and stretching because he had been sitting for a long time, the cat immediately ran over and wanted to be held by him.

After playing with Mia for a while, before Shade could find a notebook to write down the course content for review, the carriage stopped downstairs at No. 6.

When they went out for dinner in the evening, Shade wrote an urgent letter to Miss Carina and sent it directly from the post office. Counting the time, after Miss Carina received the letter, it was about this time that she sent out the carriage.

But when Shade got dressed and came downstairs, he found that not only the maid Tifa was in the carriage, but Miss Carina was also there.

"You actually came in person?"

Shade was surprised and invited the Duchess in to talk.

"I didn't come to the city just for your business. I went to Yodel Palace to do some errands today, and the servant of the manor just sent your letter. Shade, what happened to you again? Could it be said that you found it again? A bottle of elixir?"

The duchess was joking. After following Shade upstairs, she saw the chairs and basins placed and knew that he had just contacted St. Byrons.

"That's right, I recently got an interesting alchemy recipe, but it needs your help."

Shade originally wasn't going to tell anyone about the witch's detection of alchemy tools. But today's chance encounter with the Aurora family's carriage gave him a great sense of crisis. His level of alchemy was not high, and he needed the witch's hair, so he changed his mind and asked Miss Carina directly for help.

"Alchemy formula?"

The Duchess asked in surprise. She knew that Shade would not disturb her for such a trivial matter.

"Yes, it has something to do with the witch."

Shade handed the duchess the recipe copied on paper in advance, and after receiving permission, Miss Tifa had already entered Shade's kitchen to prepare black tea for the two of them.

The two parties sat down on the sofa. Mia seemed to be very hostile to Miss Carina. Even when Shade put her on her lap, she would scream at the witch from time to time.

Miss Carina frowned as she looked at it:

"Um?"

The red-haired witch looked up at Shade with a serious expression:

"Detective, where did you get this?"

"Although I really want to use the excuse 'I bought it from a mysterious person on the black market', I don't like lying, so the answer is that it's not convenient to answer. I can guarantee that the formula is fine."

Miss Carina nodded and put the page on the coffee table.

Tifa happened to come back from carrying a teapot, ready to pour tea for the two of them. The red-haired witch considered her words and looked at Shade's face with her golden eyes:

"Shade, maybe you and the witch really have this fateful entanglement."

Shade immediately shook his head:

"No, no, I don't want to have anything to do with the troublesome witch except you."

Realizing the inaccuracy in his words, he immediately corrected it, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a smile on the bent maid's lips.

Miss Carina raised her eyebrows:

"The fish-man elixir from a few days ago is now a lost thing. Even the parliament has only heard of it. I really doubt that you have found the tombs of the witches of the Fifth Age."

"I hope so. I heard that the witches of the Fifth Age like to bury their bodies with precious metals such as gold and silver."

Shade shook his head regretfully, and then asked:

"Speaking of which, is this the sixth era?"

"What's the problem? This is of course the Sixth Age. Detective, are you out of control?"

The witch asked in surprise, and the black-haired maid also cast a concerned look.

"No, no, no, I'm just asking casually. Let's get back to the topic. I have all the materials to make this item, except for the witch's hair. Miss Carina, I hope you can help me make one. The recipe. I can share it with you, but I hope not to share it with others in the Witch Council."

Shade said, and then saw the duchess opposite with a mocking expression:

"Detective, why do you think I would share this item with them? Of course not. I can find them, but they don't know that I can find them. Of course I have to keep it for myself."

Shade touched the cat lying on his lap and felt that the relationship between the thirteen witches in the council was more complicated than he thought.

Miss Carina reached out and picked up the paper on the coffee table, folded it in half and handed it to her maid:

"Looks like I'm going to have to stay up late tonight. Tomorrow morning, at eight o'clock tomorrow morning I'll ask Tifa to deliver the badge to you."

"It would be great!"

A smile appeared on Shade's face. He thought it would take several days. After all, the formula was really complicated.

"Then what do you need, Shade? I took away your formula and always wanted to give you something. Helping you make one is not as valuable as the formula itself."

The red-haired witch asked Shade with a smile. Shade thought for a while. Although he wanted to ask for gold pounds, he thought of another thing:

"The ritual of the return of the sea. I hope you can help me find information about the return ceremony of the sea through various channels as much as possible, especially about the ritual steps of the cultists in the final stage of the ceremony."

The information in colleges and churches may not be complete, and organizations like the Witch Council may have unexpected gains. For the possible "evil god power", it is completely worth paying for an alchemical formula.