Annihilated Lilith

Chapter 17
When the huge [-]-ton bell on the top floor of the clock tower strikes eight times, it means that the dance should begin.Emma was not particularly active about this, and just before leaving the house, she just received a letter from Grandma O'Hara, so she just sat down and read the letter before going.

The castle of Turin College is located in a secluded location, so it is naturally impossible for ordinary mail to deliver the letter on time.This costly swan geese travel relies on the druids to control the birds with magic.The long-eared owl that delivered the letter to Emma wore a silver ring on its foot, with its name "Miss Wen" engraved on it.

Emma believed that if she had a good relationship with Miss Wen, she would be more concerned about her letters, so she would save some dried meat provided by the cafeteria in advance to reward the postman well.

Twelve to fifteen tin coins are needed to ask a druid to send a letter each time, and another six to eight tin coins are required to directly retrieve the reply letter from the long-eared owl.Therefore, Grandma O'Hara has only written to her twice in the past month or so, and this time it was only less than seven days since the last time, which made Emma a little concerned.

Fortunately, the letter is still the trivial parents' short stories in the past, mainly to report to Emma that she is safe.It's just that at the end there is an extra thin letter paper with obviously different texture.Opening it up, it was Dani's crooked handwriting.

It turned out that it was Dani who finally couldn't bear it anymore and mustered up the courage to go to find grandma... He was obviously very afraid of grandma.Emma laughed, a soft smile.

Dani's letter is written like a running account, talking about a bunch of things that have happened since the separation, and sometimes the timeline jumps around.He seemed to be adapting quite quickly to the job of a peddler, and his uncle William scolded him less and less.

The letter to grandma was written in advance, and at most I would add a few more sentences after reading the letter.But this time I need to write something to Dani alone.Emma took out the letter paper, thought about it, but couldn't find anything she wanted to say in particular, so she picked out some things that she told her grandma in the past and wrote about them.Then fold it and put it in an envelope.

"Please, Miss Wen."

Emma stroked the furry head of the long-eared owl twice, and she responded by rubbing Emma's hand affectionately.Then it flapped its wings and jumped out of the window.

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The ballroom is on the fourth floor of the main building of the castle, which should be right above the library.When Emma entered, the dance was almost halfway through, and the girls in apprentice burqas were dancing gracefully in groups of two.

They danced a kind of court social dance called "Volta", which was lively, brisk, and needed to spin quickly.Although they couldn't wear gorgeous long skirts due to school rules, they turned up their burqas like cute black mushrooms.

Emma finds Katarina and Mellie by eye in the crowd.Katarina's dance partner should not have been seen before, probably a certain senior sister, and Mei Li's dance partner is another noble lady of the same level, called Kalida.In fact, she was also the only nobleman among the ten people admitted in the first two batches during the entrance examination.

Seventeen out of 120, of which there are only four nobles, and this has to be counted as Heyward.This ratio was beyond Emma's expectations at the beginning. She thought that more than half of the people who were admitted to Turin College were elite-educated noble ladies.

However, the few words she has heard since entering school for more than a month are enough for her to piece together and sort out this logic.That is, the nobles who were admitted to the academy were all low-level existences among the nobles.

Leaving aside the royal relatives, the eight lords, the dukes and the marquis, the supreme existence, among other nobles, the children of the earl don't need to worry about learning.Even if the earl's own exclusive warlock is not good at teaching, he can still apply for a queen-level warlock to stay in the castle and be responsible for educating the next generation.

As for the viscounts and barons who are descending, although they also rule large or small lands and have the right to rule in their own territories, they are all stipulated that they should not have more than a hundred troops, and warlocks can only be invited to go under special circumstances. Long-term employment is not permitted.

The title of baron cannot be hereditary, and children can only work hard on their own to earn a future.However, a high title does not mean financial resources.Even if the title can be hereditary, some viscounts can't even hire long-term workers, so they can only rent the land to farmers for farming.Therefore, the status of viscount and baron is not much different.

Children of aristocrats who need to take the rigorous entrance examination and enter the academy to study are all from viscount or baron families.

No one invited Emma to dance for the time being, so she was happy to stand aside and watch.After a while, she noticed that in another corner, there was a person sitting there quietly just like her.

"Ms. Pam? Why are you here?" Emma went up to talk to the man who was the administrator of the library.Although she usually looks like a stranger, but because Emma goes there very frequently and insists on showing a bright smile every time, the two of them have developed a little friendship over time.

"Hey, Green? Why are you also interested in dancing?"

"It doesn't count... I was called by my classmates to take a look."

"The college stipulates that such a large-scale student activity must be accompanied by a teacher. Today is my turn, so I'm just here to supervise."

After Ms. Pang finished speaking, she lowered her head, and the notebook she didn't know what to scribble on every day was on her lap.She picked up the quill and continued to write like no one else was there.

Because she usually sat behind a huge desk, Emma noticed the brooch on her coat for the first time.The somewhat dull silver brooch was not a swift, but a manticore.

The four magic academies on the mainland of Duma are: Wowa Daos College, whose logo is a sea dragon in the huge waves; Yard College, whose logo is a roaring manticore; The snake on the sword; Turin College, with swifts and irises as its emblem.

"Ms. Pang, so you are a sorceress from Yard College?"

"Hmm..." Ms. Pang didn't even look up.

"Ms. Pang, it feels like you've been writing. What are you writing?"

Anyway, since she was free, Emma simply harassed the mysterious teacher.

"I'm doing research on dragon language."

"Dragon language? Isn't that long lost?" Emma was surprised.

Miss Pomm looked up and adjusted her heavy glasses.

"It's not lost, it's because no human can use it. The ancient language can be pronounced after training, and the dragon language is a magical language that only ancient dragons can pronounce. In fact, there are some information about the dragon language in many ancient books. What I know The research to do is sort them out."

"Sorting out the unpronounceable languages... is it useful?"

"Of course it is useful. This is the direction of my research to become a witch."

"Studying such... narrow content, can you become a witch?"

"Tsk. If you compare the world's magic to a circle, when you graduated from the academy, you probably learned a circle whose center accounts for [-]% of the whole. A regular shape that stands out in one or several aspects."

Emma imagined the graphic for a while, and nodded seriously.

"The deeper the research, the narrower the field you can master, because no one can master all magic. Finally, when you break through the edge of the original big circle at a certain time, even a little bit! You You can become a witch."

Emma gasped, the title of witch was still far away from her, so she didn't think about it seriously.It turned out to be so difficult.

"So... what about Lilith?"

"Lilith?" Ms. Pang was taken aback, "...If it's Lilith, maybe she has surpassed that big circle by a lot, and is a bigger circle wrapped around the periphery."

(End of this chapter)