Curly-haired Baboon Research Society? If his sister hadn’t been in such a bad mood, Lumian would have laughed out loud.
But even if he controlled his laughter, he still couldn't help but say:
"Those who know will understand that you are studying curly-haired baboons, while those who don't will think that a group of curly-haired baboons are doing research."
He was only joking, of course, because the word "study" is in the passive voice.
Aurore rolled her eyes at him.
"We often joke to ourselves that we are a group of curly-haired baboons being studied."
Seeing that his sister was in better condition, Lumian asked:
"Are all members of your research society Beyonders?"
"Not all of them," Aurore answered briefly, "but there are some gatherings that ordinary people can't attend."
She did not say why she could not attend.
"Who is the president? How many vice presidents are there?" Lumian asked.
"Are you checking the household registration book?" Aurore replied unhappily.
“Huh?” Lumian was confused.
In fact, he probably guessed that the "little notebook recording family members' situation" his sister mentioned referred to the specific situation of the "Curly-haired Baboon Research Society", and that she didn't like him to ask too many details.
Aurore puffed her lips and exhaled:
"The president's code name is 'Gandalf', and there are five vice-presidents in total.
"Okay, I'm going to summon Hela's messenger."
Lumian nodded at first, then became a little confused:
"Aurore, uh, sister, didn't you say that you only know the code name 'Hela' and don't know her specific name? How can we summon her messenger?"
He remembered what his sister had just said, that if the last part of the summoning spell was changed to "a messenger unique to someone", it would point to the target creature very accurately, but now he didn't know who "someone" was.
"Very good." Auror praised. "Being able to spot problems is an excellent learning quality. Let me put it this way. It doesn't matter what name you use when signing a contract with a spirit creature. The contract will automatically extract a little bit of your true aura from you, allowing both parties to establish a connection. However, remember, you can only summon it under the name you wrote when signing the contract. Changing it to your real name will invalidate it."
Lumian thought carefully and said:
"I understand. The key is the aura and the connection. The name you give when signing the contract is only equivalent to the spell you will use for the subsequent summoning. It doesn't matter what you write."
"Yes." Aurora nodded slightly.
Lumian suddenly laughed:
"Is there such a situation? Suppose, let me say suppose, sister, you obtained the correct spell, summoned a messenger, and signed a contract with it in the name of Aurora Lee. After that, because you loved your brother, that is, me, you taught the spell to me. I successfully summoned another messenger, but when signing the contract, I also signed it in the name of Aurora Lee for fun.
"Then the question is, which one will be summoned using the description 'Aurore Lee's unique messenger'?"
Aurore's face turned pale when she heard this:
"I don't have a messenger, how would I know!"
She took a breath, calmed down, and said while thinking:
"This is actually a case of confusion caused by a duplicate name. Compared to ordinary contracted creatures that can only be summoned by themselves, messengers that can be summoned by others are more likely to have this problem. However, since I don't have a messenger, I'm not sure if there is a special mechanism to avoid similar errors. I can only try to analyze it based on my knowledge:
“First, there are very few people who have messengers, and the probability of having the same name is almost negligible.
“Second, if there really is a duplicate name, you can place an item with the messenger’s master’s aura in the summoning ritual and use it to accurately lock on.
"Well, if you're really worried about having the same name, you can make it longer when signing the contract. For example, Lumian Torres Alai Lanlos Arthur Gehrman Sparrow Lee. That way there won't be any duplicates."
“But I’ll probably forget the name right after signing the contract. It’s too hard to remember.” Lumian muttered. “Also, why did you add the names of pirate hunter and great adventurer?”
"Because I like it. Ms. Fors Wall's adventurer series of novels are so classic." Aurore said confidently.
She turned around, tidied up the altar, and prepared to officially begin the summoning ceremony.
At this moment, Lumian thought of something and shouted:
"Wait a moment!"
"What's wrong?" Aurora turned around, looking confused.
Lumian asked seriously:
"Is the messenger an outsider?"
"..." Aurore was puzzled at first, not understanding what her brother meant, but she soon figured out the problem.
She asked carefully:
"You mean, once a messenger from the outsiders comes to Cordu, they will be trapped in a loop and can never leave?"
Before Lumian could answer, Aurore had a new guess:
"No, the situation will be more serious. It is a contracted creature. After receiving the letter, it will immediately go to Hela, which is equivalent to leaving Cordu. In that case, it will restart.
"After that, it left again and again out of instinct, and we restarted again and again. We had no time to investigate the key to the cycle."
Lumian couldn't help but imagine the scene his sister described:
I just opened my eyes and saw the familiar bedroom, then opened my eyes again and saw the familiar bedroom, then opened my eyes again and saw the familiar bedroom... I repeated this action countless times, and the root of it all was that a messenger was in a hurry to "go home."
Aurore raised her hand and covered her forehead:
“I can’t even imagine what kind of changes will happen by then…”
After sighing, she analyzed seriously:
"From the current situation, if living things leave Cordu and the surrounding area, the cycle will be restarted, while inanimate matter will not trigger the restrictions. The telegram sent and the letter sent are proof of this.
"If that's the case, then the spirit will definitely not work. It seems like we can't summon a messenger."
Hearing this, Lumian suddenly figured out why the little blue book could keep the words cut out.
The cut piece of paper left Cordu Village and was out of the cycle. It was no longer affected and would not return, so the little blue book naturally could not be restored to its original state!
He told his sister this speculation, and finally said:
“The problem with the little blue book has been solved, but how did the letter get sent
"It's definitely impossible to send it during the loop. Once the messenger leaves Cordu, it will cause a restart. If it was before the loop, I have no recollection of it. What about you?"
"Neither do I." Aurore thought for a few seconds and cursed with a smile, "You idiot, you almost led me astray. It's easy to send the letter in a loop!"
"Huh?" Lumian looked at his smart sister.
Aurore smiled and said:
“You don’t need a postman to send a letter, and you don’t need to hire a courier.
“When we discover something unusual and don’t want to alert those who might have problems, the best option is to find a wooden box, put the distress letter we made in it, seal it, and then throw the box into the river outside the village and let it float downstream naturally. People from other villages or even Dariege will pick it up and help us deliver it to the authorities.
"You said that we have confirmed in our last loop that the loop contains a small part of the river and can be reached."
“Yes!” Lumian clapped his hands together.
He thought of another question:
“Will the fish in the river cause a restart?”
"Probably not." Aurore thought for a moment and said, "These creatures with little intelligence are very sensitive to invisible restrictions, or in other words, they are more susceptible to invisible influences. They will most likely instinctively avoid places that may cause a restart."
"What about your 'blank paper'? In twelve hours, it will have to leave the real world." Lumian felt that this would also restart the cycle.
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Aurore looked around and said thoughtfully:
“I suspect that the cycle not only includes Koldu Village and the surrounding mountains, but also encompasses the area that corresponds to this place and all the people here in the spiritual world.
“You probably don’t know that there are actually many natural interactions between the spirit world and reality. If the corresponding spirit world is not included, it may restart every once in a while, and the current situation is obviously not the case.
"As my contracted creature, 'Blank Paper' has a direct connection with Koldu Village. The spiritual world it roams in is most likely also included."
I still don’t know enough about the occult… Lumian stopped asking questions.
Aurore demonstrated the ritual magic process again and removed the spiritual wall.
In the invisible wind that suddenly blew, she said to Lumian:
"It's completely dark now. I will teach you the true method of meditation and awakening your spiritual vision."
"Yeah." Lumian indicated that he was listening carefully.
Aurore explained:
“You have already mastered the first half of meditation, let’s start with the second half.
“When you imagine the sun, gather your mind and enter a relatively calm state, let your mind be slightly empty and sketch an object that does not exist in reality to replace the sun. Keep sketching and repeating until your body and mind are at peace and your thoughts feel like they are floating.”
“Things that don’t exist in reality?” Lumian didn’t quite understand.
Aurore took out a pen and paper and drew a few random lines:
"Look, is there anything like this in reality?"
There is something very abstract on the paper, like a ball with eyes and a cross on its face.
"If you draw it, it will exist, right? This painting exists in reality." Lumian felt that his sister's explanation was not right.
"What's in the paintings and what's in the imagination are not reality." Aurore rolled her eyes.
Being a teacher to my younger brother means I have to endure this kind of anger all the time.
Lumian said, “Oh.”
"Then I'll try this picture of yours."
He pulled a chair over, sat down, leaned back, and concentrated.
The red sun quickly appeared in his mind, gradually calming him down.
After a while, because he was in reality, he did not hear the horrible, mysterious voice, and could calmly use the pattern his sister drew to replace the sun in his meditation.
A ball with eyes and a cross through it quickly appeared in Lumian's mind.
As Lumian sketched repeatedly, his body and mind became calmer and calmer, and his thoughts gradually became more erratic.
He "saw" a light gray fog around him, some indescribable, non-existent things and rich blocks of color mixed together, and in the sky, or perhaps in the depths, there were bright rays of light.
"Don't worry. The probability of a Hunter succeeding in meditation the first time is very low." Aurore comforted her brother.
Lumian was about to report to his sister that he had successfully entered a meditative state, when he suddenly felt that something was watching him from the depths of the faint gray fog and from an infinite height!
This seemed like an illusion, but it made him break out in cold sweats and inexplicable fear, and he immediately came out of his meditative state.