In the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly.
There was a vague smell of paste lingering on the superpower man's body, and he regretted not taking a shower at the intelligence dealer's house first.
It seems like the eldest lady next door hasn't come back yet. Gongsun Ce took out his cell phone, glanced at the unanswered text messages, and walked into the house glumly.
His mood at this time was completely different from last night. Everything was fine more than ten hours ago, so why is it like this this afternoon? The young man himself knows the reason. They have themselves to blame, right? Who makes them not as mature as they appear? Qiluo, who speaks out loud, is much smarter than the four of them in this regard.
He looked at his desk. There was now a thick and large package on the empty table before departure, with a letter placed on top of the package.
"hiss……"
He already felt bad and almost wanted to run away.
The gilded envelope has a red wax seal printed on the lip, and a modified star-shaped coat of arms in the center of the round wax seal marks the identity of the sender.
It was a small seal he had seen before, and he knew the solution. Gongsun Ce made a seal out of white matter and printed it on the wax seal. The red wax would break off automatically.
Inside the envelope lay two pieces of letter paper. The gray-haired young man picked up the first one and made some mental preparation before looking at the words on the letter.
Comparing Miss Knight's letter with the one written in his own hand was nothing short of an act of mental masochism. The letters she wrote looked like reports in the Superbia Times, with neat handwriting that left no room for error, just like her own style.
The first line of the letter reads:
"Dear Ce."
The gray-haired young man coughed violently, even though there was absolutely no other person in the room except him.
"'Dear'. By using this title, I want to remind you of a fact that I have told you. Unlike the reserved Eternal Light Empire, in the Kingdom of Morton and the United States of Usters, people are not stingy in expressing themselves. Emotions. We show love to our friends and family, not just our loved ones. So instead of using 'Dear Knight of the Dawn', you can use a conventional title or simply write my name. Look like a student preparing to submit a first draft of his thesis to his advisor."
Gongsun Ce let out a silent cry. Can we stop getting hung up on the minutiae and get to the point?
"Given your character, I will answer your questions starting with the next line and keep the personal communication in the later part of the letter."
You should have done this long ago. This is business! It's business! !
"About your qualifications for Impermanence. Silence -15 is a shocking value, but it is not unexpected for you. I am sure that this is your personal qualifications, not the final sword, Silent Star Tribulation. Influence."
Wow, that's great. It turns out that I was born to be a lunatic. Why didn't I realize this earlier, huh? In this way, I can quickly book a bed in the lunatic asylum and save less living space in the city.
"As I write this, I think you are making a harsh comment in your mind, even though what I write is true."
Just skip the personal comments and get down to business. If you're right, it won't make you feel better.
"The learned 'Tianji' Yan Qi informed you about the common sense of impermanence. I want to emphasize to you once again that you should believe everything he said - the art of slaying dragons is so dangerous that we have to let you Stay away from the field for an extended period of time until you are truly confident that you are stable. Now that you have made your decision, I will stick to my duty and help. Here are my suggestions.”
Don't talk like you are my guardian.
"You should study the Dharma of Silence."
Are you serious? Studying the state of silence?
My silent phase is -15, and I'm afraid that I'll get hairy on my body and drool on my mouth as soon as I start learning.
"The entry-level Dragon Slaying Technique is not as dangerous as you think. Now, remember my next words."
"Don't learn other aspects of the mind than the state of silence."
...?
"You need to be especially wary of the wild phase. Do not come into contact with any knowledge related to it, even the most basic runes."
Two weeks ago I defeated three of the desolate ministers, and now the desolate minister has become my nemesis.
Gongsun Ce suppressed his thoughts. He remembered Yan Qi's warning and he couldn't think about it any further.
What about the empty phase and the spiritual phase? He is probably talented in these two areas.
"Concerning the empty and spiritual aspects of your curiosity, I will provide you with some harmless explanations."
"The empty phase is the first mental phase that I gave up on. As Yan Qi said, studying the empty phase will make your situation 'worse': you will become the second me. When you realize this fact, you will Suffering from extreme self-loathing and a high probability of falling into madness. Don’t deny my conclusion, I know your character as you know mine.”
…
He looked at the next line of words speechlessly.
"For you, the -10 spiritual image should have been a relatively stable mental image. The reasons why this mental image was abandoned are complicated. One of them is that I think the spiritual image is not suitable for your personality. It is very possible to study the spiritual image. It makes you feel anxious, panicked and uneasy for a long time. This is a situation that superpowers should always avoid."
Accumulating negative emotions for a long time can easily lead to superpowers going berserk...just like when the eldest lady first arrived.
It was understandable to give up on this love, although he didn't understand how -10 could be stable.
The normal box is darkened by 6, and the bad stars are darkened by 4. A symbol of relative balance?
"You already know the direction you should study. Starting from the next line, I will tell you some things about what you should do now. You can first pick up the second piece of paper, the text that has nothing to do with the law of impermanence. This will Helps you maintain a peaceful mind.”
I don't think so. I think what you write on that piece of paper will be more terrifying and terrifying than a hundred vicious mages.
My mentality will collapse, really. I'm afraid that I will go on a rampage with my superpowers.
At this time, he even forgot about the events of the past few days.
She is so important in my heart. He wanted to know the other person's evaluation, but he was deeply afraid of the content of those words - just like Shigure Reiichi was afraid of hearing Cardesia's rejection. Alienated by fear, withdrawn by timidity.
He hadn't written a letter to Miss Knight for three full years. What qualifications did he have to accuse Shigure Reiichi of running away from the battlefield?
His stomach ached and his breathing became heavy. He just wanted to throw the letter aside and pretend that he never knew about it. In the end, Gongsun Ce chose a compromise: read the first piece of paper before talking.
"If you don't listen to the advice and write this line of text——"
When she wrote this, she deliberately left two lines blank before writing a very small line of handwriting below.
This line of writing is so small that you need to use a magnifying glass to read it. The person with superpowers squinted his eyes, almost sticking it to the letter paper to finally see what was written.
"It means you are still as childlike as before."
You are poisonous!
You're having fun playing with me, aren't you? What qualifications do you have to criticize me for doing such a little trick on a piece of stationery!
He read the text below very quickly, his face looking furious.
"Cover the stationery and you will see a symbol. Try writing the symbol you see on the paper, or visualize it in another way. If you notice anything strange, do not read the notes enclosed in the package. Give it to Yan Qi in a closed state."
"If there is no abnormal situation, you can take notes on your own and practice under the supervision of a trustworthy impermanent agent. Your supervisor should meet the following basic conditions: have an in-depth understanding of you; have the ability to subdue you in a short period of time Combat ability; proficient in dream interpretation; possess medical ability or sealing technology. He or she should be an impermanent practitioner in the realm of manifestation, preferably the realm of creation."
...I guess I won’t learn it anymore?
How can I feel like nothing is happening and something will happen to me?
People with superpowers deeply doubt the meaning of their studies.
Miss Knight didn't say what she used to cover the letter paper, but after thinking about it, he understood what the other party meant.
Gongsun Ce muttered and tapped the letter paper with his hand: "It's so old-school... I must have watched Detective again recently. Why don't you use fire?"
White matter quickly covers the paper. Without manipulation, the pure white material recedes on its own, forming a hollow symbol: two diagonal lines meet to form an acute angle, and the end of the line bends twice, pointing toward itself, and pierces the hypotenuse from the center.
The superpower pushed up his glasses.
"The kind of runes Rei Shigure used?"
Looks very aggressive.
He took the pen and paper and imitated drawing this weird arrow.
The gray-haired young man waited patiently for about half a minute. Nothing unusual happened, and the world was peaceful.
It seems that this time the Dawn Knight's worries are unfounded. He cracked the corners of his mouth and laughed twice in retaliation: "——"
He didn't hear his own laughter.
Gongsun Ce closed his mouth in shock. He raised his hand and knocked on the table hard enough to cause pain.
Pain came from his knuckles, but the room was still quiet and no sound could be heard.
He tore up the paper on which the runes were drawn.
"Hiss—" He immediately heard the sound of himself sucking in air-conditioning, and now the superpower couldn't laugh anymore. Miss Knight's concerns are justified. It seems that he is really a super genius. A genius who can trigger changes by just drawing a symbol.
He grabbed his cell phone and planned to take advantage of this great opportunity to contact Yan Qi. The screen automatically lit up, and the caller's name was displayed.
The superpower person had a bad feeling in his heart.
"What's wrong, brother...Death Wing?"
He ran out the door, shocked by the news.
"--Central District?!"
Something is wrong. The superpower told himself again.
The central area is the territory of the academies, and there should not be such blatant fighting now that it is under strict control. Everything doesn't seem to be running according to the current rules. This sounds too ridiculous...
It's as if this city has gone back in time.
You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Oasis:
