Returning from the abyss

Chapter 458 Astrology

During the time of breakfast, Lu Ning and Bai Meigui exchanged some information in their hands.Of course, secrets are naturally not revealed. Apart from Todd's incident, there is no intersection between the two parties. 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 quite 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 information, rather than spending all their energy on one thing.

Before finally going out, Lu Ning told Bai Meigui the address of the one-eyed squid, and said that if there was anything she could go to find her.White Rose also left her an address for the entrance to the underground city in the Ruby District.

After parting, Lu Ning went directly to Guanwu Academy to hand over the potion to Catherine.

It's just that Catherine, who got the potion, didn't have any happy expression on her face. She just thanked Lu Ning and gave Lu Ning a sum of money, and there was nothing to say.

"You don't seem happy at all."

"Why should you be happy? It's such a troublesome thing..." As soon as Catherine opened her mouth, Lu Ning interrupted: "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 happened? Can you tell me? Although I don't have any evidence... But this bottle of medicine is for you, right? I guess like this." Lu Ning sat down, but actually did not give Catherine "Don't tell me "Options.

"Okay...but I need you to swear by the contract that no one will be allowed to tell any third party what is said here."

Lu Ning nodded, and swore according to the contract rules on her body.

"Well, some of the people from my family have a good relationship with me this time. After I inquired about the situation, I found that they brought the Royal Magician over."

"Sorry, can you explain a little bit more? I don't quite understand the hidden meaning of these actions."

"Lilian, the royal magician is a contract between the royal family of a country and a powerful magician above the level of a magister. Whenever a member of the royal family and the royal magician appear together, it means that a certain internal matter of the royal family will be carried out. Can you What distinguishes a royal magician from a magical official?"

"Listen to you, the royal magician is the royal family's personal soldier?"

"Almost, they only serve the royal family, and they only solve those internal problems for the royal family, and they will not participate in the governance of the country at all. And this group of people came to Ewalong, not to study magic, what is the purpose? ?”

"Just for you?"

"You can use foreign policy for talent recruitment, and you can go to the upper echelon of Ewalang for resource negotiation. None of these are private matters. And here, the royal magician can't play any role in deterring the scene. I can't think of anything else that needs to be invited. Move these private troops."

"Just for you?"

Catherine narrowed her eyes: "You seem to look down on me a bit?"

"No... I think using a magister to secure a junior magician... is a bit overkill?"

"I am a crystal magician, Lilian, do you know this concept?"

This Lu Ning really doesn't know much about it. Even though she knows a lot about the materials, she still can't get started with crystallization magic. She only read some descriptions from the introduction book on basic magic.

"I only know that crystallization magic is an ancient skill, which strengthens magic by purifying substances."

"That's right, that's not right." Catherine sighed, "First of all, the description of ancient skills is inaccurate. The development of magic is much stronger than in ancient times. The real problem with crystallization magic lies in the thin population. 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?"

"Uh……"

Lu Ning knows that the most basic theory of the four substances of earth, water, fire and wind still has some supporters, and air, that is, wind, is 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 the complexity of the composition of air, so extracting air will definitely not give you pure qi—but what I'm giving you now is a crystal." Crystallization of pure air."

Lu Ning took the crystal and looked at it carefully, and could only feel the extremely powerful and restless magic power accumulated in it, which was much larger than this small crystal.

"The essence of crystallization magic is the concept of purification. Many people say that the final result of crystallization magic is the concept of purification. In fact, we have been doing this from the beginning. It's just that the first people will use metals and minerals that are easy to purify It was only because of the misunderstanding of the outside world.”

"If you have such talent, they..."

"They will never let it go. Lilian, in the entire Ewa Gallery, there are no more than a thousand people who can use crystal magic, and this even includes the level of those in the Magic Council. At first I thought they allowed me to come to Ewa Gallery There is room, but in fact my reluctance to fulfill that engagement must have been detected, and that's why they brought the royal magician with them."

"They will use any method to bring you back." What else does Lu Ning not understand now?He directly stated the dilemma Catherine faced, "Because your talents are rare and your prospects are bright, they are unwilling to give up."

She wouldn't ask why they didn't renegotiate the agreement, that's something that can only be done in an equal state.

"That's why I need this medicine." Catherine took a deep breath, "You are very accurate in judging the nature of the medicine, Lilian, 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. And guessing with the personalities of the royals, maybe it's not that bad, but I want to prevent it from getting to that point."

"For this self-destructive future?" Lu Ning raised her eyebrows.

"It's only half possible." Catherine forced a smile, "I'm a crystal magician. The rarity and difficulty of this magic has never appeared in our country. They don't understand... This potion causes the magic power to stagnate in the body and can form Magic power crystallization, only we can call it, if I figure out how to use it, then these long-term accumulated magic power will give me a qualitative leap in strength."

"You just said half of it." Lu Ning would not be fooled by the pie she drew.

"If I can't find a way, of course it's the result of the magic power being blocked." Catherine shrugged.

"Okay... I see. 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 Gehr-Hoss.

Lu Ning basically knew nothing about astrology. She just wanted to know what kind of people were from the same place as Soigo, so she included it in her action plan.The location of the lecture this time was at Flint Academy. When Lu Ning walked there, he found that the number of people was similar to that of Soigo, and not many.

This is not a reason for fame, but a problem with the discipline of astrology itself.

Divination magic is the most inaccurate thing in magic science, because it is the only magic that does not have a theorem and rules to follow.Many fortune tellers once put forward some theories, all of which were ruthlessly overthrown later, but even so, this discipline is still passed down, in a half-dead state.

Most of the people who came to the class came with the mentality of looking at magic sticks. After all, in terms of prophecy, divination is completely inferior to the great prophecy of the magic department.

A somewhat coincidental episode was that one of the students responsible for checking the documents at the door was the boy who had been quite at odds with Catherine in the store, and his name should be Zahem.He didn't recognize Lu Ning, who was watching at the side, at all, but Lu Ning had a certain impression of him.

As soon as she walked into the lecture hall inside, Lu Ning saw the lecturer standing on the podium.

He has red hair, a little disheveled, and the formal standard dress he wears does not seem to match this person's temperament. He fiddles with the teaching aids around him a little bit, touching the planetarium for a while, moving the crystal ball for a while, Still whispering something in his mouth.

Lu Ning looked up, and although there were few people, the lecture hall arranged by Huo Shi happened to be small and seemed quite full. She found an empty seat and sat down, and said hello to the gray-haired girl next to her.

"Hello." The other party responded politely.

"Do you study divination? There don't seem to be too many people attending this lecture."

"No... I'm a witch, and I'm from the swamp." The girl smiled lightly, "We have similar subjects in our courses, and I want to make some notes to take back with me."

After finishing speaking, she pointed to the badge on Lu Ning's chest: "It seems that you are also a lucky one. I wonder if you have any insights into astrology? Maybe I can ask you after class."

"Haha, I'm just an alchemist, I just want to listen to the lessons I haven't taken before." Lu Ning hurriedly waved her hand, "It's better to believe in yourself."

"That's good. This is the second class I've heard from 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 passed. Mr. Geer's course is different from other lectures. It is somewhat coherent, instead of repeating a content."

"Is that possible?"

"After all, astrology doesn't have a deterministic teaching routine, and the subject itself has no determinism. Oh, it looks like the class is about to start."

"Then I have to listen carefully to how this kind of course is taught."

The girl smiled and stretched out a hand: "Since fate allows us to meet here, my name is Juno, nice to meet you."

"Lillian."

After the two exchanged names, Geer Hess on the podium clapped his hands fiercely: "Baisha has passed the orbit of Warship [-], and it should be time to start."

Upon hearing the opening remarks, Lu Ning had a bad premonition.

"Everyone who went to Benye under the watchful eyes of Star Ziyuan, I would like to express to you the voice of the celestial body on behalf of the stars. Now that the time series is approaching the 4th node, we should reveal the mystery of Zenith."

Can't understand a word.

Lu Ning even turned her head to look at others suspiciously, to make sure that Ger-Hoss was indeed speaking the common language.In fact, most of the students in the classroom were similarly bewildered and at a loss, only a few of them continued to listen to the class calmly.

"Juno, do you understand?"

"Common sense of astrology, you need to understand most of them if you want to learn astrology. But Mr. Geer is very good, he can remember the names of so many stars."

Lu Ning glanced at the note in her hand suspiciously, and indeed left a line:

[At 25:[-]:[-] p.m., the course officially begins—? 】

Next, Geer let everyone understand what is called "astrology language".Almost every sentence of his will carry the name of one or two stars, and the various terms derived here, such as nebula, star field, division, and time reading, let alone one that she has never learned at all, even in the classroom. The few who could understand gradually began to feel the difficulty.

Finally someone couldn't help standing 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 again awkwardly, and for the first time did not bring terminology into his words: "Listen—don't you understand?"

The student nodded: "We don't remember that well, and most of them are interested here. It is easy to drive away the beginners, and then there will be fewer people who study astrology in the future?"

Many students silently nodded in agreement.

Geer was even more embarrassed: "You're right—right. Common—obvious. All right, all right."

He touched the crystal ball, glanced at the astrolabe, and opened his mouth, but he didn't seem to know how to organize the words.

"Is he like this in the first class?" Lu Ning asked Juno in a low voice, looking at the translation in her notes by the way.

"Yes, that's why I can barely keep up. More than half of the students left during the break in the class, and the rest are at a good level. Maybe someone made comments after class. Mr. Geer doesn't know how to improve."

"Star……"

After holding back for a long time, Geer even blushed a little before speaking.

"...The stars have their own orbits. How to relate it to our life and life? Because people, dead or alive, the stars will still move. They have their own life and death."

Stumbled and stumbled, but compared to before, she finally understood, Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

"You guys, you may have heard about the Halo sect a long time ago. I am not, I support their point of view, but since it is named after this, they are very insightful in the study of the stars, uh... astrology. Today I will talk about it a little bit , the achievements that the Starcaller 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.

(End of this chapter)