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[180] Black Magic and White Magic (Part [-])

In the morning, Eve woke up from the bed—it was just dawn at this time, and the bedroom with the curtains covered was very dark.Erinde still slept deeply, and even after a whole night, she still maintained the position she just fell asleep.Her face was facing Eve's side, her body was slightly curled up, and she was so quiet that she couldn't even hear the sound of breathing—like a sleeping bird.

Eve didn't expect that the so-called "two-person" bedroom only had such a large bed in it.

The sound of a rooster crowing could be vaguely heard. During this time period, someone was already walking outside.Eve pushed aside a corner of the curtain, squinted her eyes and looked out, and found two people, one big and one small, running in the yard, the big one chasing the young one. Eve thought for a while before remembering their names—— Torriciana and Carney.At this moment, Torriciana was holding a towel, and Kani's chestnut hair mixed with white was wet.

Eve got dressed on tiptoe, went from the bedroom on the second floor to the yard, and happened to meet Delize who had come back from washing, and greeted her.

"Elinde hasn't woken up yet?" Her voice was very soft. "It's still early for the scheduled wake-up time... go to 'Anna' and ask her to help fetch some water—you're welcome, she will be happy if you ask her for help."

Eve thanked her, but didn't go to find Torriciana, she just walked around the yard.The fifth generation lived together in a large two-and-a-half-story house. There were very few houses of this size in the Qingshui Castle complex, because most witches had their own separate residences, and this building used to be used as a temporary residence for visiting guests.For some reason—Elinde even called it a "welfare home".

Torriciana caught up with Kani and wrapped her hair in a towel—the two, panting and contented, made up at once and walked back to the house together.The temperature in the morning was still a little cool, so Eve sat down on a stone step in the yard, which was close to the west wall. The sun had just risen from the purple mist of the distant mountains, and the light it brought gave people a little warmth.

Eve planned to sit here for a while, and then ask Erinde to wash with her after she woke up—at this moment, a "thorn ball" rolled to her side from nowhere.

Eve was taken aback by the sudden appearance of this strange thing, she quickly stood up from the steps and made way for it.But the "thorn group" stopped at her feet, the blades all over its body shook, and then a pointed head emerged from it.

It was indeed a living thing.Eve thought to herself—this thing looks a bit like a hedgehog, but it's obviously not.

"Hello." From its mouth came a thin, childlike voice.

Eve looked around, as if looking for something.

"It's me talking, don't doubt it!" The thing spoke again.

"I'm sorry." Eve looked at it after making sure that there was no one around, "Is it really you talking? Let the ugly words first... If you have a real body, then show it quickly. If I find out afterwards If you are teasing me, I will definitely be angry."

Eve always felt that this strange thing might have been made by the children of the fifth generation. Who knows what kind of weird magic they would use—it's hard to be teased, especially by a group of teenage children... How embarrassing it is.

After "Hedgehog" heard her words, he seemed a little displeased. He stood up and stretched out his lumpy body, revealing two metal wings and a fan-like tail. He looked as proud as a rooster——only then did Eve understand Come here, it looks like a dragon...a little dragon.

"I underestimated you." Eve said—in fact, she still felt that she was being teased in the end, "So why did you huddle together like a hedgehog just now?"

"You don't like it? I thought everyone here would find it funny," it said.

"Really, but I just came here not long ago, and I don't know who you are yet."

"Nobody mentioned me? They call me Barry, but I prefer the name I gave myself—Sindra."

"You are..." Eve considered the words, "Girl?"

"Obviously not." Mindela raised his head, his neck looked a little slender, "but the people here are such virtues, not only me, but also Kani... we were all persecuted by this group of people, Feminized."

Eve was confused, "Who are you talking about Karni?"

"What do you think? There is only one named Kani in this place, and she was standing in the yard just now. The word 'Kani' is actually taken from the Yuwak dialect, which means 'little girl', which is ridiculous."

"Then you mean that Carney is actually a boy?" Eve squatted down and got close to Medila's long and narrow head—his metallic cheeks hardly changed, except for "coldness" , Eve couldn't read any expression from his face.

"Yes, it's what you often call 'carrying a handle'. I've been persuading Carney to face up to her identity, but she has been unwilling to face it. This is so annoying."

"Annoying?" Eve was amused by him, "You are not human."

"It's 'infuriating'. I'm communicating with you in human language, so...you'd better treat me as a human being when you talk to me, otherwise it will be very tiring."

"I understand." Eve nodded, "Don't the witches in Qingshui Castle care about this?"

"what's up?"

"It's about Carney."

"There are those who know, and those who don't." Mindella replied: "But Anna insists on raising Kani as a girl, and others don't bother to care about it... And the headmaster also acquiesced, saying that it seems more gregarious. Erinde advised me to stay out of my own business, but after all, we are sick and sympathetic, and the women on this mountain can't understand our suffering—what do you think, do you want to help?"

"I'm an outsider, and the most I can do is listen to your complaints." After Eve finished speaking, she sat back on the steps. "A beautiful child like Carney is actually a boy." She sighed, "You can't be lying to me, are you?"

"You don't believe it? But the facts are undeniable, and I can prove it to you." Sindra said.

"how to prove?"

"Find a chance, lift up her skirt, and take her..."

"Don't—forget it." Eve interrupted him hastily.

"I do it all the time," Sindra said again.

"Then don't do it again."

Perhaps, this Hadra is the murderer who persecuted Kani.

"What's your name?" Sindra asked.

"Eve."

"Okay, Mr. Eve, we have to work hard. It is not an easy task to regain the status of a male here, especially pay attention to - don't be feminized by them, remember."

After all, Hadera flapped his wings and rushed into the clouds above their heads like a cannonball.

gentlemen?Male... Is there some misunderstanding?Eve frowned, looking at the sky in confusion.

As soon as Hadra left, I saw Erinde trotting over—maybe Medila was avoiding her—seeing Erinde, maybe she had been busy looking for Eve since she woke up.

"Why are you in a daze here." She smiled, "Why did you wake up so early, isn't it cold sitting outside?"

"I'm used to it, I always get up early," Eve said.

On the way back, Eve mentioned Hadra to Erinde—saying that she just met a talking hedgehog.Eve was very curious about this weird creature, because it was the fourth talking creature she met—three of them were dragons—among them, she had never heard of Tian Ke’an herself. Enemy speaks out, but gets confirmation from Vorgmanning.

"Barry." Erinde corrected her, "That little bug doesn't deserve a name like Sindra."

"Is there any meaning to the name?"

"Of course, have you heard of Dragon City Lapreton?"

"I read some from the history books."

"People destroyed Lapreton, and later they were retaliated by the remnants of the dragon clan—this led to the destruction of the Kingdom of Heaven. The old official of the dragon clan who burned down the city at that time was said to be 'Medra', a silver-white dragon. Barry felt that she was also shining silver, and she was very similar to the 'national hero' in her mind, so she gave herself the same name."

"Mingde... Barry is also a Sky Dragon?"

"Certainly not, I've never heard that Qingkonglong grows up to be so thorny - and, she has been here for seven or eight years, since we found her... that is, when she came out of the egg It hardly grows much, at most the thorns become longer."

When they said this, they just walked near the porch, and Erinde kicked the pillars beside her with her shoes—on the two painted wooden pillars, the height changes of the fifth generation of children were depicted over the years. At the lowest end of the wooden pillar, at the height of the thigh, there is a thick line that has been traced and traced, marking the initials of "Barry" on it-this line records the maximum height that Mede can reach after stretching his neck. high.

"So you don't know what kind of dragon Barry is?"

"I don't know. If the dean says he doesn't know, then it's even more impossible for us to know." Erinde disagreed.

After breakfast, the fifth generation performed the first round of magic practice for the day—it lasted for half an hour.

The content of the training is similar to meditation. The leader, Deliz, piles a fixed amount of incense powder into the incense burner, and the lit incense powder fills the room with a calming fragrance—they use this to record the training time.During the magic practice, the little witches did not deliberately make trouble like yesterday, but sat quietly in a circle.Torriciana also mixed in at this time, she sat cross-legged, with a solemn face, like an advanced witch.

The training is not just meditation. As a roommate, Erinde taught Eve a spell called "Clear Water Meditation".This incantation does not release visible magic, it just repeatedly releases a pure energy—this is the first time Eve has learned that besides the artificially defined elemental energies (such as light, fire, and electricity), there is such an invisible force.

"Speaking of the principle, it's quite simple." Erinde explained to her, "We are like a group of fish moving freely in the water. Now, when we release this kind of magic, it is equivalent to shaking our tail vigorously, causing ripples on the water above our heads—but our strength is too small for time and space, and our movements are not uniform, so this kind of behavior can only produce very small vibrations in space at best... It is almost undetectable. In other words, the only function of this magic is to drain your energy." Yi's hair, and said: "In order to maintain the state of Xuefa, all witches have their own tricks, and the spell we are using in Qingshui Castle was improved by Ai Niye himself at that time. It is safe and efficient."

For human beings, the power born from meditation is really strange—humans cannot perceive it, but they can use it.Meditation and teleportation prints have a similar principle-with the support of a large amount of Fengluwei, the user can distort the space and create a teleportation array leading to a specific location.Scholars in this era generally believe that this power comes from the dragon language of Taiti Grace, and was originally born from a kind of dragon magic that cannot be analyzed and summarized. Different magic schools also have different names for this power——Lu Ting faction calls it "spiritual energy", Yujiao calls it "dry force", and the Principle Association calls it "chaos field".

Last year, Eve learned in the college’s language courses that due to the different vocal organs of humans and dragons, humans will have considerable limitations when using Draconic Grace as spells. After all, dragons usually have more than one vocal organ. Take the dragon-language magic "Duplicate Curse" that Eve once used as an example. In order to successfully cast magic, humans need to read seven syllables in sequence, but dragons only need to utter twice. The first four tones coincided, and the last three tones coincided, so the repeating spell was successfully activated.

Among the remaining records of the old era, there are records about the use of large-scale magic by the dragon clan: "The sound is as loud as thunder, but it is like the sound of heaven."

Most of these recorders described the voice of the dragon clan as a majestic hymn, or a solo harmony—majestic and melodious, which can cause the world to tremble—whether it is creation or destruction, it is obvious that the magic talent and strength of the dragon clan far exceed that of humans.The Dragon Worship Cult has a very interesting point of view. They say: "Magic" was originally plagiarized by humans from the Dragon Clan, but due to their own shortcomings, they can only learn superficially.

The fifth generation members all wore a simple and loose white dress during training. They either turned their legs sideways or crossed their knees, and each chose a posture that was comfortable for them, closed their eyes and rested their minds. Every once in a while, they silently recited the incantations of meditation, making the magic flow uninterrupted until the end of the training.Eve sat next to Erinde, she put the spell-casting book on her lap, and conducted the first day of training with the fifth generation.

Erinde reminded her that it was best to do what she could when using the spell for the first time, and she could end the training early if she felt tired.But at this time, the training was coming to an end, and Eve didn't feel tired—since the meditation technique itself had no effect, she didn't even know whether she had successfully activated the magic.

Eve opened her eyes, raised her head and noticed Torriciana sitting across from her. Seeing the fat woman holding her breath, she had no choice but to close her eyes and continue to pretend.

The powder in the incense burner was burned out, and a restless sound began to appear in the quiet room. Loper poked Delize beside her with her little finger, and Delize said, "Let's come here today." But she herself still closed her eyes, and had no intention of leaving.

The girls all stood up, pushed each other out of the room, and Eve also stood up with Erinde. They noticed that Torriciana was still sitting there, so they cast a questioning look.

The fat woman's eyes were wide open, she didn't make a sound, but expressed what she wanted to say with an exaggerated and funny mouth shape - her legs were numb.

Erinde nodded.She pointed to the door and left the room with Eve.

There are windows open in the corridor, and the clean air makes people feel comfortable, as if they just woke up from a dream, and their body and mind are clear.The children had already run out of the yard at this time, and went to the lower reaches of the river to catch fish with their nets.The morning training was over, and they were all free until lunch began.

Erinde hugged Eve's arm, and her body was almost attached to her body. Through the silky fabric, she seemed to be able to feel the warmth of the girl's chest.Erinde's face was very close, her voice was not low, but her tone seemed to be whispering: "I'll take you to cut the fabric." She pointed to the white dress on her body, "I can also make one for you."

Eve was intoxicated by Erinde's closeness for a moment - before she could answer, she was dragged out of the door by the other party.

[181] Black Magic and White Magic (Part [-])

Maureen Brackley is a witch and an excellent alchemist. She is the third generation of Shimizu Castle and is now over 80 years old.Unlike the older Sigourney, her face was full of wrinkles, and her body was stooped and short, not much different from ordinary old people of the same age.

There is an apprentice beside her, named Jeanne Brackley, who is 31 years old this year and is a fourth-generation witch. Although Maureen never planned to let Jeanne become a teacher, in fact, Jeanne has long been able to be alone—the relationship between the two is like a master-student and a grandson.The old and the young live together in a three-story detached house on the east side of the settlement—because the house occupies a small area and is designed as a hexagonal structure, the house looks more like a tower as a whole.Witches usually call this place "Alchemy House", or "Maureen's House".

Maureen and Jeanne are respected by witches.With the support of the dean, they provided alchemy and material supplies and services for Qingshui Castle, almost dedicating their entire lives to this - on these mundane matters, they spent a lot of energy and time, and even abandoned the witches. practice, so that he will age prematurely like ordinary people.Sigourney didn't approve of them doing this, but things had come to this, but she had to admire them.Maureen once said to her: If a person can contribute willingly to a group, it must be because it is worth doing.

Accompanied by Erinde, Eve came to Maureen's house.

There are two windows on the front of the first floor of the Alchemy House. The glass of each window is divided into twenty parts by the window lattice painted light blue. These glass cubes are polished as crystal clear. From the outside, you can see the wide round hall inside, the bright double-layer chandelier, and the figure sitting behind the counter.

"Come in." Erinde opened the door and let Eve enter the room first.

Seeing a stranger suddenly visit Qingshui Castle, which is rarely visited by outsiders, Jenny sitting behind the counter is full of surprise on her face.

"This is Eve, a new member of our fifth generation." Erinde said it seriously—Eve knew she was joking—so Jenny's expression became even more surprised.

"Really?" It took Jenny a long time to spit out such a sentence.

"Of course." Erinde replied.Immediately, she asked Eve again: "I heard from Lelier that you are 20 years old this year?"

Eve nodded.

"Look, she is now the No.1 of the fifth generation—if she is a year older, she will be called the 'fourth generation'. It seems that Delize's position as the leader is not guaranteed..."

The generations in Qingshui Castle are divided according to the date of birth. Every 50 years is called a generation. The age of the fourth generation is distributed between 21 and 70 years old. Children who are 20 years old and below, or even those born within the next 30 years, will be called the fifth generation.

"I'm just staying here for a while... Someone recommended me. He said I have some talent, and he asked me to learn about magic here systematically." Eve didn't intend to let Erinde continue to mess around, so she told the truth.

"That's it." Eileen also stopped talking, and she said to Jenny: "But Eve is still too modest, she is not talented, but very talented, the dean almost wants her The top students look at it."

"Is she Egraine's daughter?" Jenny suddenly said, "I've heard about it."

"Jinnie, help us cut a piece of cloth—she can't always wear this, it's so awkward."

"It's a bit awkward." Jenny looked at Eve with a smile, "Come on, let's go upstairs and have a look."

The hall on the first floor of the alchemy room is used to receive guests, the second floor is the warehouse, and the third floor is the bedroom and rest area of ​​Maureen and Jenny - the alchemy workshop is underground - the basement is a bit more spacious than the first floor, where there is a red brick chimney attached to the back wall, which runs from the basement to the roof.

Jenny picked out a few pieces of cloth and asked them to choose by themselves, and let the two of them try the feel together.These are all white fabrics, but there are some differences in color and luster, there are woolen fabrics, satin fabrics, and cotton fabrics with a small amount of printing.In the end, she chose a silk fabric with dark pattern jacquard, and the color was more warm white-when she was in Boyun Manor, she was used to wearing silk fabrics, which were refreshing and comfortable.

"Well, this material is always the fastest... there is a reason why it is expensive." Jenny said with a smile.

Eve didn't think about it, she felt a little ashamed, and thought about whether to change it, but Erinde said, "Yes, it's not for nothing."

"Okay, then let's measure." Jenny took a tape measure, neither measured her waist nor her bust—just measured Eve's length from her shoulders to her knees, and then began to cut the cloth.

"Can you tailor?" Erinde asked Eve.

"Of course not."

"And what about the sewing?"

"Only know a little……"

When she said this, she was actually not humble at all—Nan Fen had asked someone to teach her needlework for a period of time, but she herself gave up halfway. In this regard, Eve's patience was far inferior to Minxi's.

"It's okay, I'll help you." Erinde said with a smile.

She plans to directly borrow Jenny's place to do work, and the tools here are all complete.Jenny packed up her things and went downstairs. At this time, only the two of them were left on the second floor.Erinde folded the fabric in half and placed it on the table, measured Eve's shoulder width and arm length, and then began to draw threads with chalk.

"Here with us, you must learn how to make clothes for yourself." Erinde said, "I will show you a demonstration this time, so you can try to do it yourself next time."

And next time? ——Eve muttered in her heart, but she agreed.

In addition to learning magic, witches also need to learn mathematics and science, various languages, and several practical skills: tailoring, planting, cooking, dispensing and hunting, etc. - may not be useful, but must be mastered.

In order to teach the tailoring lessons to the children smoothly, the witches designed an easy-to-learn skirt. They called this skirt a "moth-wing skirt". At this time, Elinde was wearing this kind of skirt-it looked like a shawl.

Without too many calculations, and without dividing the front and back pieces, Erinde quickly drew the seam line on the fabric - the finished pattern outline is between an oval and a rhombus, and there is a round opening with gaps on both sides in the middle.Eve helped her support the cloth so that she could cut along the line. Erinde was very familiar with the movements-cutting, hemming and sewing-borrowed the equipment in the alchemy room, and it didn't take long for the skirt to be ready.

"Come and try it." Erinde handed the skirt to her.

"right here?"

"It's just the two of us here." The girl smiled happily at this moment, "We've both taken a shower together, so why be shy."

Eve didn't hesitate anymore, she took off her coat and began to change clothes.