Whispering Verse

"Professor, have you ever seen a hybrid dragon?"

The six-ring warlock, who was about the same age as Shade, raised his hand and asked, adding:

"I mean, a hybrid dragon whose blood purity is lower than 17% of the Standard \u0026 Poor's value?"

"Of course I have seen it. For this mystery, I have traveled to almost every corner of the material world since I was young. The tops of the towering snow mountains in the New World, the city of waves in the eye of the storm, and the underground ruins of the New World, dragons have certainly seen it. .”

The professor whistled, and a strong wind immediately blew above the heads of the group. Looking up, he saw a huge winged creature flying overhead. It was not the big lizard that Shade had imagined, but rather like a giant pigeon with scales.

"Dragon and pigeon hybrid?"

This was a little joke that foreigners made in their hearts, and she actually laughed softly.

Professor Garcia allowed Shade and others to carefully experience the power of the Mystic Lock. After fully deploying the Mystic Lock, he asked the Ring Warlocks to try and launch a coordinated attack on him.

Among them, Shade did not have to participate in this activity because he could only sit down. He was responsible for recording the subsequent battle process. Of course, even if the students were not in the Mystery Lock, they would not be able to defeat this high-level warlock, and they would not be able to take any advantage inside the Mystery Lock.

Therefore, Professor Garcia deliberately controlled his power so that everyone could actually feel the pressure, but not without the ability to fight back.

This is indeed a precious elective course that can only be taken with the permission of professors. In Shade's opinion, just the four hours of experience tonight is completely worth the 1,000 pounds he paid.

Not only did he see the Mystic Lock, he also saw the fighting style of the academic ring magicians. The mutual cooperation of spiritual runes, the rapid recitation of mantras, and the advance preparation of spell casting materials are not knowledge that can be learned from books.

The scene that impressed Shade the most was when Professor Garcia summoned a group of creatures called "iron-horned rhinos". The horns of these creatures are important alchemy materials, and their populations are distributed in the northern plains of the Old World and parts of the New World.

And when a group of rhinos rushed towards Shade's classmates like crazy, they first tried to resist, and then tried their best to escape, completely subverting Shade's impression of the students of St. Teresa College.

"Choosing a reasonable time to escape is also an important ability for a ring warlock."

The professor next to Shade smiled and said that he was very satisfied with his course.

Interesting lessons will make time pass quickly. Tonight's lesson is the last lesson of "Closed Space".

At 8:50, Professor Garcia closed the mystery lock and everyone returned to the classroom in St. Byrons. He allowed the students to jointly raise a question related to the course. Shade consulted with his peers and asked:

"If we are unfortunate enough to encounter a high-level warlock who masters the Mystery Lock, and fail to escape before the Mystery Lock unfolds, how should we save our lives as much as possible?"

"The best way is to forcefully break through the mystery lock. The power of space and the opposing forces of the mystery lock can do it."

Professor Garcia had obviously already thought about what they would ask.

"But we can't, Professor."

The young woman raised her hand and said.

"Then hope that your companions can delay the time. Although the Mystic Lock is powerful, its consumption is also very shocking."

The professor with pointed ears said with a smile again.

"Professor, but there's a chance we don't have a companion."

The slightly older warlock raised his hand and said, but Professor Garcia shook his head:

"This is impossible. If a high-level magician who masters the Mystery Lock just wants to deal with one of you, there is no need to open the Mystery Lock. Do you think this is a power that can be used at any time?"

He pointed to the empty metal box on the podium:

"The casting materials I just used are worth four figures in gold pounds. If a high-level warlock wants to deal with you, how can he spend so much money?"

Shade in the audience blinked. He used the Mystic Lock, which seemed to require no casting materials.

At this point, Shad's first elective course [Closed Space] at St. Byrons officially ended. After the class ended, Shade did not leave immediately. Instead, he mentioned to the professor that he was planning to travel through time again and hoped to buy a time key from the college.

The key symbolizing the year 2005 was completely broken. He said goodbye to Miss Feliana and the Moon Witch, and it was time for him to start a new journey.

Professor Garcia was very happy that Shade could take the initiative to mention this matter:

"Very good. It's been a month since your first investigator activity. It's a good time now. Shade, don't worry this time."

"Um"

Shade said nothing.

"This time I will personally select a key for you, a time key from the fifth era, to ensure that there will be no problems this time. I will give it to you through Bill Schneider during your group's meeting this weekend."

Although he made this promise, based on the first investigator experience known to the academy and the second investigator experience unknown to the academy, Shade can almost guarantee that the key selected by Professor Garcia will be related to the old god no matter what. .

Therefore, when the time comes, Shade will still be worried about how to prepare the investigator's report.

"One more thing, professor, is there a way to enhance time perception?"

The students around him left the classroom one after another. Shade made sure that no one would hear the next conversation before asking the question he had hidden for two days. That was actually what he wanted to ask during class yesterday.

"Enhance time perception? Do you want to experience the power of time more clearly?"

Professor Garcia packed up the lecture notes and remaining spell-casting materials:

"I remember that your thaumaturgy [Perception of Time] can enhance time perception. If you want to be stronger than this with your level, thaumaturgy and incantation will definitely not work. I recommend rituals or relics to you."

When Shade asked this question, he actually wanted to enhance the effect of thaumaturgy [Perception of Time], and with the increase of divine afterglow, he wanted to detect the current real time point.

"So what rituals and relics might be useful?"

Xia De humbly asked for advice.

"There are many ways. You don't have to ask me about that because someone has done a similar study and I think the paper is still in the library at St. Byrons. Shad, you can request it directly from the college through Bill Schneider." Just say that I need to access the literature for my course, so there is no need to spend money, and I will communicate with the library."

The professor said with a smile.

Shade thanked him softly, but did not ask the professor whether it was the sixth era now. Since the witch didn't know, he was almost certain that Professor Garcia would also think that his head was broken, so he still had to find the answer himself.

"What exactly does it mean that it's not technically the Sixth Age?"

The answer to the question may allow Shade to directly see the deepest secret of time.

Because the last question was delayed for some time, when Shade stood up from the chair in the guest room of Sophia's mansion, it was already half past nine in the evening. At this time, Lesia should still be attending the big witch's dinner party in the city, so the fishing rod was naturally taken away by the princess.

There was still a violent storm outside. Shade wanted to wait until Lesia came back and confirmed her safety before going to bed, so he sat down at the desk again and planned to complete part of his course report.

Before starting to write the report, he also asked the servants for a cup of hot tea. But before the cup of tea could be delivered, the maid Lecia left for him ran over quickly and told Shade that someone had tried to break into Sophia's mansion. After being discovered by the guards of the mansion, the two sides were fighting inside and outside the fence on the east side of the mansion. Shootout.

"What? A gunfight? How many people are there on the other side?"

Under the light of the classical lotus leaf-shaped gas table lamp, Shade put down the pen in his hand in surprise.

Sophia's mansion is the royal family's estate. During Lesia's stay, not only were the princess's guards and the police of Coldwater Port responsible for security issues, but the Navy of Coldwater Port also sent a force of 200 troops to be stationed nearby to prepare for unexpected situations.

And now there are actually people who can start a gun battle with the guards of Sophia's mansion, so the number of the other party is definitely not low.

"Sir, there are about 30 people on the other side, but the firepower is very strong. It is raining heavily now, and we are not sure how many people are outside the mansion, so the people cannot be concentrated in one direction. Colonel Harms asked me to inform the people in the mansion to go Don’t leave the building.”

Colonel Harms is the leader of the Princess Guards. He is a 40-year-old active-duty Royal Army colonel and is very trusted by Lesia.

"Who is the enemy?"

Shade stood up and asked, walked to the window and looked outside. In the deep rainy night, faint gunshots could be heard vaguely, as well as lights that lit up from time to time in the distance.

"Sorry sir, we don't know this yet. But you must not leave here."

After saying that, the maid left in a hurry. The mansion was attacked, and she had to help Lesia hide some sensitive documents to prevent anyone from actually breaking in.

Shade felt baffled by what was happening at this time, but thinking about Lesia's status as a princess and the assassination of King Diana on the street last month, he couldn't help but suspect that this was another political assassination or other political incident.

But now Lesia is not in the mansion at all, so Shade doesn't have to worry about her safety. It was just the gunshots that rang out from time to time outside that kept him from writing his course report.

He simply stood by the window and looked outside, trying to see something in the dark courtyard of the mansion.

The room was bright and the outside was dark, making the glass look like a mirror, reflecting Shade's face. He looked at his face on the glass and became even more troubled by the complicated situation in Coldwater Port:

"Lesia's life turns out to be like this!"

The bullet from a distance actually hit the glass in front of Shade, but because the bullet almost reached the flight limit, it could not penetrate the glass at all. But even so, Xia De was shocked.

He was not killed even if he was shot from the front on the street. It would be an injustice if he died from a stray bullet on a rainy night.

He immediately left the window, thought about it again, and simply left the room, planning to wait in the study. In addition to Lesia's current bedroom and the room specially prepared for King Larus III, the Fire Jumper, the safest room in Sophia's mansion is actually the study.