The Whispering Verses Chapter 44: Increased strength
After parting ways with the old priest, Shade found the three-story gray building of the taxi company's office three streets away based on the map. The main business here is to book carriage services in advance for important trips, but there are also carriages that can carry cargo.
Xia De knew that it was best not to let ordinary people see his books, so he specifically asked the coachman if he would check the goods.
"We are a professional horse-drawn carriage company. Even if you pull a corpse, no, even if you pull a whole cart of corpses, as long as you don't leave any traces, it has nothing to do with us."
The middle-aged accountant who took the money from Xia De emphasized with drooping eyelids:
"We are very professional."
A carriage carrying goods is much cheaper than a carriage carrying people, even though it also has to carry Shade back. When Shade personally moved the books into his home at No. 6 St. Teresa Square, he spent less than 8 shillings in total.
Although Room 2 on the second floor used to look very big, after moving in so many books, you can feel that the study space is not enough. While controlling Mia, the curious orange cat, from touching his books, Shade thought that if he had time, he must develop the remaining space in the house.
He did not go out again that day. The exaggerated foggy weather outside the house was not suitable for going out, so he stayed at home and read the books he bought for 50 pounds, consuming gas whose price was unknown. and steam.
Most of the first-year sorcerer's courses only involve knowledge, not transcendence, so most of them are memorization test subjects. As a foreigner who has experienced a complete education system, Xia De is very good at this and believes that he is confident that he will complete most of the first-grade courses during the exam season at the end of this year.
As for those courses that require practical operations, he maintains a great curiosity about strength and believes in his self-learning ability, so he thinks it will not take too long to complete those courses.
Now that he has obtained the textbook, Shade is of course most concerned about [spells] and [thaumaturgy]. These two are the direct ways to obtain power. Although he kept the doctor's warning in mind, Shade still believed that he needed to have the most basic self-protection power.
As a first-year cyclomancer who has just entered the school, St. Byrons Comprehensive College did not directly mention too many things in the two courses "Basic Circuit Magician Course - Thaumaturgy" and "Basic Cyclone Magician Course - Conjuration". Thaumaturgy and incantation, and a few of them are relatively common just by looking at their effects.
St. Byrons Comprehensive College is a correspondence course for first-year magicians, providing three types of conjurations and four types of thaumaturgy for free.
Free [Spells] has a standard system. No matter which college students are from, the first spell they come into contact with is the same.
The recommended spells to learn and use first are [ignite], [call water] and [moving objects]. This is the most primitive manifestation of mysterious power since ancient times, and has more superiors. [Spell] can be extended.
Furthermore, the learning methods of these three spells do not require much material, and they do not require casting materials when casting spells. They are the most convenient spells. Shade learned and mastered them in half a night-
"Ha!"
His eyes were fixed on the newspaper in his hand. The newspaper finally emitted a wisp of burning smoke, frightening the orange kitten who was playing with the pages on the other side of the newspaper and ran towards Shade's arms.
"Ha!"
My right hand kept shaking the empty water glass, and when I shook it, the inner wall of the water glass became wet. Shade wiped the sweat from his forehead and put the water glass back on the table, but before he could check it, the soft orange cat Mia in his arms pounced on the glass curiously.
"Ha!"
Looking at the water glass with eyes that were about to bleed, the glass automatically moved back on the table. The orange cat that rushed towards the cup changed direction in the air, kicked off the table with its little paws, and jumped back into Shade's arms, looking frightened again.
This is a timid cat, and its cruelty to strangers is just a way to protect itself.
The [Thumborg] provided by St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy for first-year students is determined based on the core spiritual runes of the Ring Warlock.
Xia De’s talents are quite good. Although [Time and Space] and [Silver Moon] are rare, they are not exclusive. In the basic course - Thaumatology, the academy gave the suggestion to prefer [Silver Moon]-related thaumaturgy. After all, for mystical scholars who have just started, the [Time and Space] spiritual runes are both dangerous and complicated.
Therefore, among the four free thaumaturgy provided by the academy, the only thaumaturgy related to [Time and Space] is [Perception of Time], which gives Shade the ability to know where he is at any time.
Although this thaumaturgy may not sound very useful, it is quite troublesome to learn. As the basic thaumaturgy provided by the academy, the materials required for learning are naturally provided by the academy. Among them, the century-old pocket watch is easy to find, but the "four-leaf clock flower" is a unique plant. Although it is grown in a nursery in the School of Chemistry, the picking process is very troublesome, so Shade will not be able to get it from the doctor until next month.
As for the thaumaturgy related to [Silver Moon], the academy provides three items——
[Cyndia's Silver Moon Gift], you can gain healing ability under the light of the silver moon, you can heal yourself and others. This is a magical technique that can only be learned and used by the holder of the [Silver Moon] Spirit Rune, and can only be used at night.
It can be seen from the naming method that this is a thaumaturgy developed by academic ring magicians, so the name is used as a prefix. If the [Silver Moon Lighting Technique] invented by Shade is strong enough, he can name it [Shadow's Silver Moon Lighting Technique].
[Moon Shadow’s Illusion], on any night, use the power of moonlight to cast some simple illusions. Any holder of a spiritual rune related to the moon can learn this magical technique, but depending on the spiritual rune and the user, the illusion has slight differences, and it can only be used at night.
[Silver Moon Slash] pulls out a silver moonlight in the air to attack the enemy. It has a very good damage effect on enemies with enlightenment and blasphemy elements. This thaumaturgy can only be learned by the holders of [Silver Moon], but holders of other conceptual spirit runes of the moon, stars, and even the sun also have similar thaumaturgy, but the effects are different.
This is the only attacking thaumaturgy among the three thaumaturgy.
The night sky of this world has three moons, silver, yellow and red. The three moons have different meanings in occultism. The red moon is related to flesh and blood and reproduction, the yellow moon is "moonlight" and "guide", and the silver moon is "guardian", "holy" and "mysterious". synonymous with.
Thus, the thaumaturgy associated with the concept of the Silver Moon is different from that of other moons. If Shade's spiritual rune was a higher-level concept like [Moon], he would actually be able to learn more thaumaturgy.
The three magic arts are also specially selected by the academy. They focus on treatment, illusion and attack. They can be said to be very comprehensive.
The learning materials are still provided with the book, including a mercury-like liquid "Moonlight of the Silver Moon" in a large thumb glass bottle, a piece of silver silk cloth embroidered with an unknown old sacred emblem, And a silver knife with only the blade broken off, and the blade was engraved with a waxing moon.
But it is not possible to learn with the materials. Shade also needs to prepare the corresponding environment and master the corresponding spells. None of this can be solved in one day, so as of this night, he had only learned the [Silver Moon Slash].
The learning requirement for [Silver Moon Slash] only requires that the ring warlock be able to attach the moonlight of the silver moon to the broken silver knife, which is quite simple for the current Shade.
He repeated this process under the moonlight at night, and each time the moonlight attached to it, the knife became shorter. When the silver moonlight is attached to the 13th time, the broken blade in the light completely disappears. Shade looked at his slightly glowing hands and realized in his heart that he had learned this attacking magic technique.