Secretary of the Devil's Castle

"What class is this afternoon?"

Walking in the school, Marian couldn't help yawning. Fatalia thought for a moment and replied: "I remember that there should be no classes on Monday afternoon-do you mean that you don't read the class schedule at all?"

"Oh? No class?"

Marianne was startled, touched her chin and said thoughtfully, "No wonder I didn't see Leo and Elisha, and Patty wasn't there either—Favna will always be there!"

"Of course, Favna is my personal maid."

Fatalia said with some pride, and then asked: "Marian, have you planned what to do in the afternoon? I remember that there seems to be a new recruiting activity in the clubs of Saint Ladis College these days. Want to see it?"

"Of course - not going! How can such a good rest time be used to be busy with some club activities?"

Marianne immediately clapped her hands, then grabbed Fatalia's arm and was about to drag her out, "Let's go out and play!"

Fatalia frowned, and then tapped Marian's forehead with a hand knife, "If you want to play, you can play by yourself, I'm going to go to the library to have a look."

"Don't be so heartless, Fatalia."

Marianne said pitifully with a bitter face, but Fatalia didn't accept this at all: "No, no, no, I'd rather waste so much time doing meaningless things, I'd definitely prefer a library." Attract me a little."

"Ah, okay."

Seeing that Fatalia seemed to have no room for negotiation at all, Marianne had no choice but to nod helplessly to show that she knew, and then said: "Then I will go and see what are interesting in those clubs, and come back when I find interesting clubs." Tell you."

"Well, please."

Fatalia nodded, and then led Favna towards the library.

Marianne stood there for a while watching Fatalia's figure disappear into the corner of the corridor, then stretched her waist and rubbed her neck and left, "Okay, next... are you going to visit the club? Speaking of which, how do you feel?" Fatalia knows the habits of St. Redis Academy better than me, a local? Forget it, don’t want to.”

Mumbling to herself, she also left here.

"Library, library...ah, there it is."

Fatalia came to the center of the teaching area, where the library is located, and this is also the core of the entire teaching area.

They were on the second floor at this time, and the ring-shaped corridor surrounded the central building. The first thing they saw was a huge tower-shaped structure, but it was different from the general minaret. It looked like It is a splicing of many different high towers, with many different styles from the top of the tower to the ground, and there are serious dislocations in the splicing parts. The thickness of the towers is even different, but they are just like this. Together, it gives people a visual impact that is against common sense.

Fatalia couldn't help but frowned slightly, "Is this... space magic?"

"You're right, Keynes."

A somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from the side, and Fatalia followed the reputation, and it was the eccentric Professor Adolf.

At this time, he had the usual weird smile on his face, and he seemed to be very concerned and explained: "The library, or the big library, was built by the third-generation principal, Mr. Aide. There are seven books in total. As for why there is only one tower standing here, and the body of the tower presents this strange appearance, it is because the three generations of headmasters applied a powerful space magic, which permanently changed the space coordinates of the big library, making seven The minaret is overlapping. If you go into the big library, there are seven stairs on the first level, and they each lead to a different minaret, so pay special attention to what books are in the different minarets."

"I see."

Fatalia stared at the weird and inexplicable minaret with some surprise. From the outside, who could imagine that there are seven minarets standing here?

Wait, if space magic has this effect, wouldn't the population of Demon King City increase several times?

Thinking of this, Fatalia couldn't help but move her expression slightly, but soon she restrained this overly jumpy fantasy, and just kept it in mind.

"Speaking of which, why is Professor Adolf here?"

Fatalia turned her head to look at Professor Adolf. She didn't forget that it was already class time, and as a teacher, Professor Adolf had time to wander here and introduce these things to her.

Professor Adolf spread his five fingers pretentiously and put his hands on his face, "Good question, Miss Cairns, as a student, having an inquiring heart is an extremely precious thing. Curiosity is the jewel in the human soul. If the jewel is dusty , the soul will also lose its color, and if there are always no answers to the questions asked, presumably that beautiful gem will also lose its color little by little ~ um ↑ um ↓! Okay, then as a classroom, as a guide for the students People, I, Professor Adolf, naturally wouldn’t just sit back and watch such a cruel thing happen, so I’ll answer you, the answer is exactly—daily inspections when there are no classes. This will not only improve the rating score, which is related to the final salary, but also conduct inspections Extra perks are available."

After filtering out Professor Adolf's long nonsense, Fatalia's eyes twitched, "Is the result just for money?"

"Oh, Miss Cairns, how can you, who is as beautiful as a rose, utter such vulgar words from your mouth, but as a noble teacher, I must admit that what you said is the truth."

Professor Adolf put down his hands, put his back behind his back, and lowered his eyes slightly, "As a teacher of St. Radius College, my daily salary will naturally not be less, but because of some special circumstances, I have extra expenses, so these I won't miss a job that can get an extra allowance - so Miss Fatalia remember to give me high marks in the teacher's evaluation book later."

"Well, I see, then I will take my leave, Professor Adolf."

Fatalia nodded at Professor Adolf, and didn't ask him what the extra expenses were. After all, everyone has privacy, and she didn't have the habit of asking the bottom of everything.

"Then see you next time in class, Miss Cairns, I hope you can do well in class."

Professor Adolf also waved his hand to say goodbye, and the weird smile on his face was somewhat normal, and it seemed a little soft.

When she reached the stairs, Fatalia felt something. Looking back, Professor Adolf was still wearing a black tailor-made dress similar to a suit, walking steadily and gracefully.

According to the information she has learned, Professor Adolf has been working in Saint Radius College for eight years. Even though his behavior and speech are a bit weird, there may be many students and even teachers who have conflicted with him because of this, but Adolf The professor maintains this posture as always, maybe he also has his own pride and creed.

But this is not what Fatalia should care about.

"Let's go, Favna, there is still a long time before the sun goes down, and we can spend a long time in the library."

"Yes, Master."

Just when Fatalia turned around and was about to leave, she suddenly changed her expression slightly, and then took out a medal from her bosom, and a holographic projection screen appeared in front of her eyes, and what appeared on the screen was a handsome but gloomy Face.

Viscount Sharp said with a serious face: "Your Highness, the creation of animism has failed."

Fatalia frowned tightly: "Huh?"

Chapter 18 The Creations of Ancient Civilizations

Animism, or the artificial animism created by Viscount Sharp, needless to say its power, after all, it can control the entire Sharp collar plus a large number of demon kings and even the twelfth-order Tan En The terror of the strong.

Fatalia has only one word for her evaluation: supermodel.

It took Viscount Sharp a few years to create the animism of the Sharp collar, and after Viscount Sharp started working for Demon King City, the first task Fatalia gave him was to continue to study the animism and try to reproduce the original Sharp collar. Animism, and in order to ensure that there will be no problems with the final output of animism, Fatalia also specially gave Viscount Sharp five years, plus six territories for comparison, and the requirement is to complete this experiment.

After all, if the pan-spirit can be mass-produced, it is equivalent to directly grasping the key that can easily overturn the whole world. Even if a pan-spirit can only control one twelfth-order powerhouse, the whole world is only four twelve There are two other people from Demon King City. Even if you count the group of illusory gods, Fatalia will lose with the whole country of the Cairns Empire as the backing.

But now, Viscount Sharp told her that the creation of animism failed?

You are making trouble with me!

Fatalia became anxious immediately, she frowned, and said to Viscount Sharp on the holographic screen: "Explain to me in detail. No, I'll go back to Demon King City, Viscount Sharp, please tell my father to let me know." He helped me prepare the summoning circle, and the summoning key will use my badge, and it will start in an hour."

"Wait a minute, Your Royal Highness..."

Before Viscount Sharp could finish his words, Fatalia forcibly cut off the communication, so he had no choice but to scratch his head helplessly, then turned to tell Charissa Angus, the head of the Soul Research Department, to ask her to help inform Ender , after all, he cannot leave the academy at will.

"Hey, I didn't pay attention when I came to the academy before. I didn't expect there to be so many clubs."

Marianne looked at the club members who were setting up stalls in the hall on the first floor with great interest, and many people also discovered Marianne. At this time, her popularity as a saint was fully reflected.

"My lord, do you know about our club?"

"Miss Agnes, joining our club is like coming home. Everyone in the club is talented..."

"Miss Agnes..."

A group of people was about to fill the crowd. Looking at the crowd in front of her, Marian forced a smile, and was about to use her usual experience to appease these people, but before she could open her mouth, a black figure appeared above her.

Looking up at the maid who spread her dragon wings and flew in mid-air, Marian just had time to say a puzzled "Huh?" before she was carried away by Favna and left the crowd. I do not know how it is.

"Thanks, Favna."

Fatalia watched Favna arrive with Marian in her arms, and nodded gratefully to the little maid.

Marian scratched her head in confusion, looked around and said, "Although I am very grateful to Favna for helping me out, but Fatalia, what did you suddenly ask me for? By the way, you were not Are you going to the library? Why are you here? Wow, you finally thought about it and wanted to hang out with me!"

Fatalia sighed, and said helplessly: "Unfortunately not, I have something to ask you, Marianne."

Immediately, Marianne was visibly stunned, but she pulled herself together and asked, "What happened? Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Well, something happened in the Demon King's City, I have to go back, this is for you."

Speaking of which, Fatalia took out her personal emblem from her arms and handed it to Marianne, "This emblem can communicate with me directly, but you must pay attention to the consumption of magic power, and you can use this to summon the magic circle when you come back later. By the way, please help me take a leave with the teacher, I'm not sure when I can come back, if I'm lucky, it will probably be soon, that's it, please."

"Ugh?"

Marianne held the emblem in her hands and tilted her head incomprehension. When her brain turned around, her eyes widened and she exclaimed, "Oh—? Are you serious? Fatalia, It's just been a day, no, half-day class, you are going to ask for leave? And you still don't know how long to ask for leave? "

Fatalia spread her hands and said: "No way, there are special circumstances, the teacher will understand and must understand, so please tell me, Marianne, I have to go back and prepare."

"that……"

Marian wanted to say something more, but she swallowed it in the end, then nodded solemnly and said, "Well, although I don't know what's going on, I will report the truth to the teacher, Fatalia, you also pay attention One point, don't get yourself into any trouble."

"I'm the princess of the Cairns Empire, what trouble can I have?"

Fatalia said with a bit of a smile, although the expression was still the same paralyzed face, but the tone was still a bit softer, "Don't worry, it's not a dangerous activity, it's just that this matter is more important."

"Okay, come on."

Marianne clenched the emblem in her hand and smiled at Fatalia.

Fatalia nodded, and then suddenly said something to Favna: "Favna, don't follow me for now, the reduction in the number of people is conducive to the stability of the summoning circle, you just stay in the school , don't worry, I'll be back soon."

Favna was taken aback for a moment, then bit her lip lightly and said, "...OK."

On the other side of the Demon King City, Ender also learned of Fatalia's plan to come back through the emergency contact line of the Academy.

"It's really worrying, but it's also because of a problem with the research of the Academy."

After finishing the last stroke, Ender clapped his hands and stood up from the ground. Under his feet was a demon summoning circle outlined with blood and bones. At the same time, he would like to thank the volunteers under the prison for contributing the necessary raw materials for the magic circle. Someone will remember them well - probably.

Thinking that the time was almost up, Ender began to activate the magic circle, the bones sank in the blood, the blood was bubbling like boiling, and a scarlet vortex gradually formed above the magic circle.

Objectively speaking, the demon summoning circle cannot actually be used as a stable teleportation spell. After all, the summoning circle has a strong randomness in essence. An unlucky demon was dragged out of the corner, but it was terrifying to use teleportation magic over such a long distance, so it was a last resort.

"No way, father, after all, this is a big deal."

Fatalia shook her head, relieved the discomfort of coming out of the portal, and then took a breath and raised her head and said: "Father, take me to the Academy now, about the matter of Viscount Sharp, we can't delay."

"Well, I always feel that you are busier than me."

Ender shook his head helplessly, and then said: "But I expected you to say that, so you are in the Academy now."

Fatalia was taken aback when she heard the words, and looked around, only to realize that this was not the Demon King City she was familiar with, but a white hall, and the logo on the floor was the unique coat of arms of the Academy.

But soon she realized, "That's better, what about Viscount Sharp?"

"Still in the Soul Research Department, from there..."

Before Ender finished speaking, Fatalia had disappeared. After all, she was more familiar with the Academy than Ender, the devil.

Through the corridor, Fatalia quickly identified her location and found the Soul Research Department. She opened the door and looked for Viscount Sharp, and found him sitting in her seat writing some What.

"Viscount Sharp."

Seeing that Viscount Sharp did not notice the sound of the door, Fatalia called out his name to attract attention, "About the reason for the failure of the animistic production you mentioned, what is going on?"

"Ah, Your Royal Highness."

Viscount Sharp finally noticed Fatalia, and after hearing Fatalia's question, he replied: "That's right, Your Royal Highness, after I got your instructions, I followed the original steps of creating artificial animism in Tal Experiments were carried out in six territories including the Territory of China, Sheldon Territory, and Wenche Territory, and judging from the results, animism was indeed created."

Fatalia frowned, "Wait a minute, why do you still say it failed when it's already made?"

Viscount Sharp sighed and said: "Although the animate was created, the power of the animate is completely incomparable with Sharp's artificial animate. That animate can affect a powerhouse of the twelfth rank like Mr. The upper limit of the influence of the pan-spirit produced in the follow-up is the sixth level, and the effect is also very poor. It is far from reaching the expected goal, and the scope of influence is far less than-as Her Royal Highness knows, I used the pan-spirit to control the magic. All the demon kings on the island who have not reached the tenth level, but the scope of influence of these newly created pan-psychics is limited to their bodies, that is, they must enter those territories to exert influence."

"That's it..."

Fatalia's brows frowned even tighter. She touched her chin and thought for a moment and said, "Can you figure out the reason? If you follow the steps strictly, then the interference factors should be able to be figured out quickly." .”

"Yes, Your Royal Highness."

Viscount Sharp nodded, "After repeated investigations, we can finally confirm that the only factor that can cause the impact is the Sharp Collar itself. Perhaps the Sharp Collar itself is a special place, otherwise we cannot explain this phenomenon."

"Sharp collar?"

Fatalia pondered for a while, but Viscount Sharp's words were not over yet, "However, Sharp's special interference should still be the strength of the animism, and the scope of interference about the animism should be related to another thing."

"Oh?"

Fatalia frowned, looked at Viscount Sharp curiously and asked, "What is that thing?"

Viscount Sharp's expression changed, as if he had made up his mind, "This is a magic item that my father discovered when he came to Sharp's land for development."

As he spoke, Viscount Sharp stretched his hand towards his chest, a bloody vortex suddenly appeared on his chest, and a card the size of a palm emerged from the vortex and fell into his hand.

His already pale face turned even paler, and he seemed to have consumed a lot of energy. He handed the card to Fatalia and said: "In Sharpland, it seems to be able to connect two places that are far apart. I can It should also be credited for exerting influence on those demon kings outside the territory, but I didn't pay attention to this at first, I just thought it was the power of the animist. It was not until the experiment failed a while ago that I was convinced of the ability of this card. I don't know what effect this card has at all, and I only carry it because it is something left by my father."

The whole body of this card is pitch black, but the size of a palm. In the center of one side is a faint blue pattern of two and a half spirals spliced ​​together like a swirl. The other side is covered with a pattern like a circuit board, protruding The only thing is that the painting style does not match.

The texture of this card is a bit like plastic, but plastic is something that has never appeared in this world, and the hand feels a bit like jade, and it even makes a metallic sound when it is lightly tapped, which is confusing What kind of material is this.

Connecting two places far apart... space magic?

Fatalia's eyes flickered. As far as she knows, there are many magic items in the world, and there are many people who can produce magic items, but the magic items that can be produced now are without exception, and all of them cannot apply time and space magic. It is time and space that cannot interfere. All the magic props related to time and space that exist today are all products of an ancient civilization that has disappeared, including the pocket watch that Ender used to manipulate time and the time-controlled pocket watch hanging around her neck. This is a storage necklace.