Chapter 170 [Secret of Arcana]
In a hut surrounded by plants.
Nicole took a sip of tea from time to time to moisten her throat while telling Ronald her story.
The former Nicole was not actually a citizen of the Greed Empire.
Her hometown is located in the coastal area of the Lato Gio continent. It is an ordinary fishing village in a small and inconspicuous country.
And Nicole, who was less than ten years old at the time.
They are just a common village child.
But on that day more than ten years ago, a strong earthquake triggered a violent tsunami.
Since the epicenter of the earthquake was deep in the ocean, there was little feeling in the fishing village.
As a result, late that night, Nicole's village was completely destroyed by this sudden natural disaster.
Fortunately, the investigator girl at that time was very lucky.
A spellcaster who was passing by and collecting spellcasting materials was also in the area. By chance, he met and saved the dying Nicole.
The caster was Nicole's later teacher.
He is also a leading spell caster of the [Secret of Arcane] school.
——Burnell Ulysses.
Since then, Nicole has been traveling around the world with her teacher, while also learning the knowledge of the [Secret of Arcane] school under the guidance of Burnell.
Nicole cannot reveal the detailed knowledge of the school.
But there are some things that can still be said.
Among them is the inheritance mechanism of [Secret of Arcana].
[Secret of Aogen] is a mysterious side school with a very special structure.
The rituals and knowledge their school masters are quite rich, but they also adhere to the inheritance mechanism of one master and one apprentice. The teacher will never accept a second student before the current apprentice completes his teaching.
The rich knowledge content and the difficulty of learning the mysterious side abilities are superimposed.
This also leads to the fact that people from this school often have to study for many years before they can become a master, so they have never had many activities in the secular world.
But Nicole is not one of them.
She is a true genius!
He can learn spells instantly, comprehend the combination of runes at an extraordinary speed, and the degree of harmony between his body and the power of the spell is frightening. After six or seven years of study, she has mastered all the knowledge she can learn.
If this continues, it is only fate that she will become the leader of the school.
But one day three years ago, everything changed.
In order to celebrate Nicole's graduation, Burnell took her to the depths of the Great Forest of Yoiz and prepared to hold a ceremony for her at the location where the original book of the school was found, that is, the holy place of the school [Secret of Arcane].
However, after the ceremony, they were attacked on the way out of the big forest.
Burnell knew everything about Nicole and knew that his student was just a pure academic and could never face a life-and-death battle.
So he immediately knocked Nicole unconscious, and then called the tree people to help her escape.
As a result, Nicole woke up the next day and rushed back to her previous position, facing the ground with a wide view.
Deep in the woods of Joiz.
Nearly 500 acres of ground were flattened.
And in the center of the empty flat land stood a solid sphere the size of a person and almost indestructible.
--since that day.
Plants, birds, animals, insects...
including Nicole's teacher disappeared into the world.
Afterwards, Nicole naturally looked for help from her school companions in the Holy Land, but found nothing.
After months of hard searching, Nicole's actions have been in vain.
Apart from the hard stone ball, the combatants left no clues.
Since you can’t find clues in the forest,
let’s look outside!
With this idea in mind, Nicole, who was not defeated by bad luck, came to the nearest big city, Burrenwich.
Then, like Ronald, he obtained the coded letter.
——Your teacher is dead.
Later, in order to facilitate operations in Burrenwich, and at the same time increase his own intelligence sources.
Nicole naturally chose to join the Bureau and serve the Queen.
At this point, she still found nothing.
Finally one day, as her abilities continued to grow in actual combat, Nicole felt that her abilities were strong enough.
She decided to take a chance and give it a try.
——Use your own school of prophecy spells.
This kind of magic.
It is the most advanced technique of [Secret of Arcana].
It involves many taboo areas such as fate and soul.
If you don't have the original book of the school in hand to cast spells, theoretically speaking, you have to risk your life in exchange for information.
But Nicole is undoubtedly a genius.
The girl broke the accumulated experience of the school.
She succeeded.
With her body's health and the balance of the spell's power reaching its limit, if she cast this spell again without the original code, she would die instantly. Nicole got a hint.
——[The outstanding person will receive an invitation letter. ]
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"Wait!"
Hearing this, Ronald interrupted the investigator girl's story for the first time:
"You mean you can predict your destiny?" With
a rather proud smile, Nicole explained:
"That's what they say, but in fact fate is unpredictable."
"According to the records in the school, in addition to the extremely low success rate of this spell, it also only gives the possibility of fate. Compared to Prediction, the correct way to use it is to obtain given information."
But then, the investigator girl shook her head helplessly:
"Unfortunately, just like the results I got, this spell is a scam."
"What I want to know is obviously the traces of the teacher." "
In the end, it gave me such a clue with great deviation."
Nicole sighed:
"Oh-"
"Why is the spell that was only used at the risk of death given to me?" The news is such a useless thing?"
Ronald nodded in understanding and said with some emotion:
"So that's it."
"But it's really hard for you."
"Faced with so many things , and he can still maintain his current character."
Hearing Ronald's praise, Nicole showed a bright smile:
"Haha——"
"If crying all day long can bring my family back to life in the tsunami, and if maintaining a decadent mentality can bring my teacher back to me, then I will definitely patrol the streets with a crooked face every day." "As long as I'm alive
, We must face the future squarely and face it with a smile."
"Ah——!"
Suddenly, Nicole's expression changed and she stood up from the chair, and the rattan beside her also moved back with the teapot and water glass.
The scream was so urgent that even her voice was raised by three keys!
After standing up, Ronald immediately asked:
"Nicole, what's wrong with you?"
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Turning her gaze with a stiff neck, a pale smile appeared on the investigator girl's face:
"I"
"I prepared the flowers." The root vegetables are still soaked in water, it's all over now!" Before she
could finish her words, Nicole screamed and rushed to the kitchen next door.
Ronald stood there and thought about it.
I just remembered that cauliflower is a very rare root food.
Because of its nature, it must be soaked in warm water for a specific period of time before cooking.
If the time is too long or too short, the taste will be damaged.
So,
this guy is nervous about his lunch!
Shaking his head helplessly, Ronald also walked over.
——Going out as a guest.
As a result, I not only had to worry about talking to the master.
Now even cooking seems to be indispensable without him.
[Thanks to Accumulating Bacteria and Foraging 67 for the reward! 】
(End of this chapter)