Whispering Verse

This Saturday afternoon's study meeting, although without Luvia, was still held as usual.

Shade informed the three doctors that he had successfully reached the Randall Valley and met Luvia. No one was surprised by Shade's "high speed". After all, they all knew one step ahead of Luvia that Shade had long wanted to go to Randall Valley City.

In the third week after the exam week, everyone is thinking about the study status of the next grade. After sharing their knowledge and study plans with each other, the doctor convened the three of them to submit their elective course plans to the school.

Shade already had elective courses from Miss Denister and Professor Garcia, so he did not choose other courses for the time being. It's because there is a new spiritual rune [Puppet], and the academy can let him learn a thaumaturgy for free, so Shade wants to learn a new thaumaturgy.

Since it’s free, it’s natural to choose the most expensive one. After careful selection and taking into account Dr. Schneider's advice, Shade chose thaumaturgy [Puppetry]. The only effect of this thaumaturgy is that after contacting a target, it attaches its own spirit to the target, and then briefly controls the opponent's actions.

The effects of thaumaturgy have great limitations. For example, it consumes a lot of money, the effect on ring magicians is not very strong, the duration is short, and the distance between the caster and the target cannot be too far.

But even so, if Shade hadn't obtained this magical skill through academic awards, he would have had to spend 3,200 pounds to buy it from the college. [Puppetry] is the most fundamental thaumaturgy of the ring sorcerer system with "control" as its core. Margaret is such a ring sorcerer. Based on [Puppetry], in addition to Shade learning to manipulate humans and Margaret combining puppets with stories, a series of more complex and effective thaumaturgy can also be extended.

Of course, the core of Shade's system is [Silver Moon] and [Time and Space], and he will not go into depth in "Puppetry", but this thaumaturgy is still very useful to him. His current Ring Warlock system includes attack, defense, transformation, treatment, detection, movement, etc., but in terms of control, only [Psychic Blast] can be barely used.

And [Puppetry] has given him new abilities and characteristics. Even if it is of little use when facing strong enemies, it is also a very useful thaumaturgy in daily life and investigation.

Because the college provides free study materials, Shade had dinner with Dorothy that night and held the ceremony with the help of Her Royal Highness. The performance of thaumaturgy requires the casting material "spider thread". This material is very common and Shade has a spare at home.

"Try an experiment on me."

At eight o'clock in the evening, Lecia, who was sitting on the sofa, said to Shade. Shade then stood up and reached out to pat her shoulder. Then he took two steps back and felt that five lines of sight extended out from the five fingers of his right hand. The missing thread.

He tried to control Lecia to raise her hands, but Lecia just moved her fingers and suppressed Shade's order.

"Sure enough, for targets who have been prepared, the effect of thaumaturgy will be further weakened, and you are now at the same level as me."

Shade looked at his hands and came to the conclusion:

"This thaumaturgy can be most effective during a sneak attack."

With that said, he patted little Mia again who was standing on the back of the sofa.

The silly cat looked up at him, thinking something was wrong with Shade. Then, under Lesia's slightly surprised gaze, the cat jumped up on the back of the sofa. After a beautiful backflip, it stood firmly on the sofa again.

Little Mia didn't understand what was happening, and looked around with some confusion, wondering why the world had spun around on its own.

"Look, my cat finally does a backflip."

Shade smiled and hugged Mia and said to Lesia. Her Highness the Princess pursed her lips and smiled:

"Okay, okay, let's go to the study. Dorothy and I have agreed to teach you the fairy tale "Grey's Glass Slippers", so we will start classes this week."

Shade nodded and stood up, reaching out to pull Lesia up. Her Royal Highness the Princess said softly:

"Since I have to teach you again after a long absence, you want to call me teacher."

"Of course, that's okay."

"I mean, you're going to keep calling me teacher tonight."

Her green eyes looked at Shade. Lecia was very busy throughout the first month of life, and tonight was one of the few opportunities to go on a date with Shade.

(Little Mia is running.)

It was Sunday, and the most important thing of the day was to attend the event at the Wilde Opera House that evening.

Of course, Shade was not idle during the day. He first went to Middleburg to find Grandma Cassandra, and asked Miss Aurora for help through the old witch, seeking information on the God-summoning ritual [Contact Earth-Shaking Worm]. Of course, he did not forget to fully inform the witches about the "Crazy Land" and let the council inform the church.

With the church trying to find a way to curb the ever-increasing problems in Randall Valley City, Shade just needs to wait for the chosen one to appear, and then try his best to help complete the ceremony.

Then he went to Randall Valley, found Miss Lassers, and got a document bag that recorded many urban legends and rumors about ring warlocks in Randall Valley City.

The entire Golden Dawn Opera Company was undergoing intense rehearsals as they were to perform for the Princess and the Prince at the Wilde Opera House that evening. Although Miss Benanis still has some minor objections to Shad, Miss Lassers, as the deputy leader, is still very happy with Shad's existence. Therefore, this lady, who also had blond hair, took Shade to meet the other ring magicians in the opera troupe, so that Shade could become familiar with the members of the Golden Dawn.

The Golden Dawn itself is not a ring warlock organization with only witches, so the members are not surprised that the deputy leader found a strange man, but they are just curious about Miss Benanith's attitude towards Shade.

Miss Benenice will not perform publicly tonight. She is busy purchasing the Wilde Opera House, so Shade did not see her that morning. However, he was looking forward to what kind of singing voice this famous artist would show him at the end of the night.

Time quickly came to the evening, and when the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the fountain statue in front of the Randall Valley Prophets Association, making the light and shadow of the statue extremely strange, Shade had already appeared in the square in front of the fountain.

He picked up Luvia who had finished her work for the day, and then had dinner with Luvia. After dinner, the two hurried back to the Fertile Land Hotel and put on the formal attire and dress they wore when going to the opera house. Of course, Luvia put on a certain disguise to prevent others from seeing her at the opera house with a strange man, but this did not affect the charm of the purple-eyed girl.

The audiences who could be invited to watch this opera were mostly prominent nobles in the city, or guests who came from afar with Margaret and William of Anjou. Originally, for safety reasons, the invited audience was limited to a small number of people, but Prince William of Anjou, who was well-known in Carsonique, relaxed the restrictions for this concert on the grounds that he wanted to have a lively atmosphere.

It was also because of this that Shade was able to get the tickets from Miss Lassers.

Because of the special nature of this opera house, the tickets in his hand were for ordinary auditoriums instead of boxes. When entering the venue with Luvia, Shade also complained to his female companion:

"Tonight's opera is Orfinino. I heard that it will take three and a half hours to complete."

"But aren't most operas between two and three hours? This one is just a little longer."

Luvia knew that Shade had never been able to appreciate opera, so she also understood that he thought it was a waste of time:

"Mr. Watson, do you know what a precious opportunity it is to enjoy the performance of the Golden Dawn Opera Company?"

She happily took Shade's arm, and they entered Hall 1 from the right door together. When Shade lowered his head to confirm the seat number on the ticket, the purple-eyed girl smiled and made a prophecy:

"When I get back to Tobesk and tell Dorothy that I will be able to see the Golden Dawn, she will be jealous that I can also hear Miss Vanessa Benenice singing for a moment. It is so exciting. .”

Luvia can appreciate high art better than outsiders.

"The most important thing tonight is indeed this. In a moment, I will introduce Margaret to you."

Having said this, Shade is still a little embarrassed. Another mission of Margaret coming to Randall Valley City is to accept the test of Miss Benanis to become her apprentice, and Margaret and Bernanis The lady also made an appointment to meet after the opera tonight.

Shade wanted to take this opportunity to let Margaret get to know Luvia. Luvia knew about the relationship between Shade and Margaret after the princess walked in the snow before leaving Tobesk last year, but Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Southern Kingdom did not know about Luvia.

"Let's get to know each other? That's fine."

The corners of her mouth curled up, not knowing what she thought of. Shade continued to ramble on about his recent plans. At present, he had no idea about the ritual of calling the evil god, so next week, in addition to the time key, he planned to explore local folklore and urban legends.

On the one hand, he wanted to find further clues about the "Crazy Land", and maybe find out the news about the chosen one; on the other hand, he was also really curious about the mithril cube left by Mr. Granger. , what kind of gift is hidden.

All went well during the opera, and the princess and prince were seated in a box upstairs, so Margaret probably didn't know that Chard was here.

During this period, there were no relics that suddenly appeared, no thugs who attacked with guns, and no cultists who came out of nowhere. In Shade's view, there would certainly not be so many surprises in situations where Iluna and the possible "Chosen Ones of the Earth" were not present. Although he often encounters weird things and dangerous adventures, he takes the initiative to touch those things, rather than accidentally coming to him.