Over breakfast, Lu Ning and Bai Meigui exchanged some information they had. Of course, secrets will never be revealed. The two sides have not interacted with each other except for Todd's incident. Both Lu Ning and Bai Meigui think this is a good thing.
The tourists dropped off at the distribution center must have overlapping clues, otherwise it would be very difficult for such a large city to find each other. Under this premise, the lack of overlapping clues proves that both people are exploring valuable news, rather than spending all their energy on one thing.
Before finally going out, Lu Ning told White Rose the address of the One-eyed Squid, saying that if anything happened, he could go and find her. White Rose also left her an address for the underground city entrance in the Ruby District.
After parting, Lu Ning went directly to Guanwu Academy to hand over the potion to Catherine.
However, there was no happy expression on Catherine's face after getting the potion. She just thanked her, gave Lu Ning a sum of money, and said nothing more.
"You seem completely unhappy."
"Why should you be happy? Such a troublesome thing..." As soon as Catherine opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Lu Ning: "No, when I made this suggestion before, you discussed it with Xue Ni Liz and the others with great interest, and these days I have been preparing this plan. If it succeeds, of course it is something to be happy about, or if you are nervous, I think it is normal. But your expression..."
"It's melancholy, isn't it?" Catherine sighed.
"What accident happened? Can you tell me? Although I have no evidence... but this bottle of medicine is for you to drink, right? I guess so." Lu Ning sat down and actually didn't give it to Catherine. "Don't tell me. "Options.
"Okay...but I need you to swear by the contract that you won't tell the third person what is said here. No one can do it."
Lu Ning nodded and swore an oath according to the contract rules.
"Well, some of the people who came to my house this time have a good relationship with me. After I inquired about the situation, I found that they brought the royal magician here."
"Sorry, can you make it clearer? I don't quite understand the hidden meaning of these actions."
"Lillian, a royal magician is a contract between a country's royal family and a powerful magician above the level of a magister. Whenever a member of the royal family and a royal magician appear together, it means that a certain internal matter of the royal family has been carried out. Can you What are the characteristics that distinguish royal magicians from magic officials?”
"I heard you say that the royal magician is the royal family's private soldier?"
"More or less, they only serve the royal family, and they only solve internal problems for the royal family. They will not be involved in running the country at all. And this group of people came to Evarang not to study magic, what else could their purpose be? ?”
"Just because of you?"
"You can use foreign policy to recruit talents, and you can go to the upper levels of Eva Gallery to negotiate resources. These are not private matters. And the royal magician here can't do anything to shock the scene. I can't think of anything else that needs to be asked. Use these private armies."
"Just for you?"
Catherine narrowed her eyes: "You seem to look down on me?"
"No... I think using a magister to secure a junior magician... is a bit overkill?"
"I am a crystal magician, Lillian, do you know this concept?"
Lu Ning really didn't know much about this. Even though she knew a lot about the material, she still couldn't get started with crystal magic. She had only read some descriptions in the introduction book on basic magic.
"I only know that crystallization magic is an ancient technique that strengthens magic by purifying substances."
"That's right, and that's wrong." Catherine sighed, "First of all, ancient skills are not an accurate description. The development of magic today is much stronger than in ancient times. The real problem with crystal magic is that there are few people. In addition, purification Material strengthening magic is almost the roughest way to describe it, for example..."
She stretched out her hand and pinched it in the air, and a translucent crystal appeared between her fingers.
"Do you think air is a pure substance?"
"Well……"
Lu Ning knew that the most basic four-substrate theory of earth, water, fire and wind still had some supporters, and air, that is, wind, was indeed a pure substance in this theory. But in fact, regardless of her own knowledge or her understanding of the magical world here, the composition of the air is of course much more complicated.
"No." Catherine handed the crystal to Lu Ning, "Modern magic has already verified that the composition of air is complex, so extracting air will definitely not yield pure Qi - but what I am giving you now is a crystal. Pure air crystallized.”
Lu Ning took the crystal and looked at it carefully, and could only feel that the extremely powerful and restless magic power was accumulated inside, which was much larger than this small crystal.
"The essence of crystal magic is to purify the concept. Many people say that the final result of crystal magic is to purify the concept. In fact, we have been doing this from the beginning. It's just that the first people would use metals and minerals that are easy to purify. He came to practice, which caused misunderstandings from the outside world."
"If you have such a talent, they..."
"They will never let it go. Lilian, there are no more than a thousand people who can use crystal magic in the entire Evar Hall, and this even includes the level of those in the Magic Council. At first, I thought they allowed me to come to Evar Hall. There is room for it, but in fact, my unwillingness to fulfill the engagement has probably been noticed, so they brought the royal magician here."
"They will use any method to take you back." What else does Lu Ning not understand now? Directly speaking of the dilemma faced by Catherine, "Because your talents are rare and your future is bright, they are unwilling to give it up."
She would not ask why the agreement was not renegotiated. That was something that could only be done in a state of equality.
"So I need this potion." Catherine took a deep breath, "You are very accurate in judging the properties of the potion, Lillian, if you tell Xue Ni or Liz, they must know what I am going to do. What I just said is based on the current situation. Based on speculations about the character of the royal family members, maybe things are not that bad, but I want to prevent things from getting to that point."
"Destroying your future for this?" Lu Ning raised his eyebrows.
"Only half the possibility." Catherine forced a smile, "I am a crystal magician. This magic is so rare and difficult that no one in our country has ever appeared again. They don't understand... This potion can cause magic to form in the body. Only we can use magic crystals, and if I figure out how to use them, the long-term accumulated magic power will make a qualitative leap in my strength."
"You just said half of it." Lu Ning would not be fooled by the cake she drew.
"If I can't find a way, of course it's the result of magic being blocked." Catherine shrugged.
"Okay...I understand. I have one last question, why would you rather do this than fulfill that engagement?"
Catherine was silent for a moment before answering the question.
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The afternoon schedule is a lecture on astrology by Gerrhos.
Lu Ning basically knew nothing about astrology. She just wanted to know what these people from the same place as Soygo were like, so she included them in her action plan. This time the lecture was held at Firestone College. When Lu Ning arrived, he found that the number of people was similar to Soygo's time, not many.
This is not a reason for fame, but a problem with the subject of astrology itself.
Divination magic is the most inaccurate thing in magic, because it is the only magic that does not have a theorem or rules to follow. There have been many diviners who have put forward some theories, but all of them were ruthlessly overturned later, but even so, this discipline has still been passed down and is in a state of half-death.
Most of the people who come to attend the class come with the mentality of looking for a magician. After all, in terms of prophecy, divination is completely inferior to the great prophecy of the divine arts department.
A somewhat coincidental episode was that one of the students responsible for checking documents at the door was the boy who had a very bad relationship with Katherine in the store. His name should be Zahem. He didn't recognize Lu Ning at all, who was watching at the time, but Lu Ning was somewhat impressed by him.
As soon as she entered the lecture hall, Lu Ning saw the lecturer standing on the podium.
He had red hair and was a little disheveled, and the formal standard dress he wore did not seem to match the person's temperament. He fiddled with the teaching aids around him a little uneasily, touching the planetarium for a while, and moving the crystal ball for a while. He was still muttering something in a low voice.
Lu Ning looked up. Although there were few people, the lecture hall arranged by Huoshi was small and seemed quite full. She found an empty seat and sat down, saying hello to the gray-haired girl next to her.
"Hello." The other person responded politely.
"Do you study divination? There don't seem to be many people attending this lecture."
"No... I'm a witch. I come from the swamp." The girl chuckled. "We have similar subjects in our courses. I want to take notes and take them back."
After speaking, she pointed to the badge on Lu Ning's chest: "It seems that you are also a lucky person. Do you have any insights into astrology? Maybe I can ask you for advice after class."
"Haha, I'm just an alchemist. I just want to listen to the lessons I haven't heard before." Lu Ning quickly waved her hand, "It's better to believe in yourself."
"That's fine. This is my second class with Mr. Geer. You can ask him after class." The gray-haired girl nodded.
"Second class? You also went to the first class?"
"Yes, fortunately I went there. Mr. Geer's class is different from other lectures. It has some continuity instead of repeating the same content."
"Is this okay?"
"After all, astrology does not have a deterministic teaching routine, and the subject itself is not deterministic. Oh, it looks like classes are about to start."
"Then I want to hear how to take such a course."
The girl smiled and stretched out a hand: "Since fate has allowed us to meet here, my name is Juno. Nice to meet you."
"Lillian."
The two exchanged names, and Ger-Hoss on the podium clapped his hands fiercely: "Baisha has passed the orbit of Warship Four, and it should be time to start."
Upon hearing this opening statement, Lu Ning had a bad feeling.
"Everyone who rushes to Benno under the gaze of the Purple Star, on behalf of the stars, I send you the celestial voice. Now that the time sequence is approaching the 42,300th node, we should reveal the secret of Zenith."
Can't understand a word.
Lu Ning even turned to look at others suspiciously to make sure that Ger-Hoss was indeed speaking Common Language. In fact, most of the students in the classroom looked similarly confused and at a loss. Only a few of them continued to listen to the class calmly.
"Juno, do you understand?"
"Astrology is common knowledge. To learn astrology, you need to understand most of it. But Mr. Geer is very good and can remember the names of so many stars."
Lu Ning glanced at the notes in her hand suspiciously, and there was indeed a line:
[At 2:1:25 in the afternoon, the course officially started—? 】
Next, Geer let everyone know what "astrological language" is. Almost every sentence he spoke contained the names of one or two stars, and the various terms derived from them, such as nebula, star field, division, and time reading, were all new to her, not to mention that she had never learned them before. The few who could understand gradually began to have difficulty.
Finally someone couldn't help but stood up: "Teacher, can you explain it to us in a more popular way? Our knowledge is not as extensive as yours, and it will take time to understand."
Geer was stunned for a moment, then rubbed his hands nervously again, and for the first time he did not include any terminology in his words: "Listen - don't you understand?"
The student nodded: "We don't remember that well, and most of the people here are interested. It's easy to drive away the beginners. Then won't there be fewer people learning astrology in the future?"
Many students silently nodded in agreement.
Geer became even more embarrassed: "You are right. Popular and simple. Okay, okay."
He touched the crystal ball, glanced at the astrolabe, and opened his mouth, but he didn't seem to know how to formulate the words.
"Is this the case in his first class as well?" Lu Ning asked Juno quietly, looking at the translation in her notes.
"Yes, that's why I could barely keep up. More than half of the class left during the break, and the rest were pretty good. Maybe someone made some comments after class, and Mr. Geer didn't know how to improve."
"Star……"
After holding it in for a long time, Geer even turned a little red before he spoke.
"... The stars have their own orbits. How to relate them to our lives and lives? Because whether people are dead or alive, the stars will still move. They have their own life and death."
He was stumbling, but he could finally understand it compared to before. Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief.
"You may have heard about the Star Ring Sect a long time ago. I don't support their views, but since they are named after this, they are very knowledgeable in star, uh... star research. Today I will tell a little bit about it. , the achievements that Star Caller once had. Perhaps, you can get some good things from it."
As soon as it became a normal narration, Geer mentioned something that made Lu Ning interested.
