This Saturday afternoon's study session was held as usual, even though Luvia was absent.
Shad informed the doctors and the other two that he had successfully reached Randall Valley and met Luvia. Everyone was not surprised by Shad's "high speed" because they knew that Shad had wanted to go to Randall Valley City a long time ago.
In the third week after the exam week, everyone was thinking about the study situation of the next grade. After sharing their experiences and study plans with each other, the doctor called the three of them together to submit their elective course plans to the school.
Since Shad already had elective courses from Miss Danister and Professor Garcia, he did not choose other courses for the time being. However, because he had a new spirit rune puppet and the academy would let him learn a magic for free, Shad wanted to learn a new magic.
Since it was free, he naturally had to choose the most expensive one. After careful selection and referring to Dr. Schneider's advice, Shade chose the magic puppetry. The only effect of this magic was that after contacting a certain target, his own spirit would attach to the target and then temporarily control the other party's actions.
The effects of the magic are extremely limited, for example, it consumes a lot of energy, the effect on the ring sorcerer is not very strong, the duration is short, and the distance between the caster and the target cannot be too far.
But even so, if Shade didn't get this magic from the school year bonus, he would have to spend 3,200 pounds to buy it from the academy. Puppetry is the most fundamental magic of the ring magic system with "control" as the core, and Margaret is such a ring magician. Based on puppetry, in addition to Shade's learning to control humans and Margaret's combination of puppets and stories, a series of more complex and effective magic can be extended.
Of course, the core of Shade's system is Silver Moon and Time and Space, and he will not go deep into "Puppetry", but this magic is still very useful to him. His current ring magic system includes attack, defense, transformation, treatment, reconnaissance, movement, etc., but only in terms of control, only Mind Blast can be barely used.
Puppetry gave him new abilities and characteristics. Even though it was not very effective when facing a strong enemy, it was a very useful magic in daily life and investigation.
Because the academy provided learning materials for free, Shad had dinner with Dorothy that evening and then performed the ceremony with the help of Her Royal Highness the Princess. The magic required the material "spider silk", which was very common and Shad had a spare one at home.
"Take me as an experiment."
At eight o'clock in the evening, Leicia, who was sitting on the sofa, said to Xia De, and Xia De stood up and patted her shoulder, then took two steps back and felt five invisible threads extending from the five fingers of his right hand.
He tried to control Lecia to raise her hands, but Lecia just moved her fingers and suppressed Shad's order.
"As expected, the effect of the magic will be further weakened against a prepared target, and you are now at the same level as me."
Xia De looked at his hands and came to a conclusion:
"This magic can be most effective during a sneak attack."
As he said this, he patted Xiaomia who was standing on the back of the sofa.
The silly cat looked up at him, thinking that something was wrong with Shade. Then, under the slightly surprised gaze of Leicia, the cat jumped on the back of the sofa, did a beautiful backflip, and stood firmly on the sofa again.
Xiaomia didn't understand what was happening and looked around in confusion, wondering how the world could have turned around by itself.
"Look, my cat finally does a backflip."
Shade smiled and picked up Mia and said to Resia. The princess also smiled:
"Okay, okay, go to the study. Dorothy and I have agreed to teach you the fairy tale "Gray's Glass Slipper", so we will start the lesson this week."
Xia De nodded and stood up, reaching out to pull Leicia up, and the princess said softly:
"Since I'm going to teach you again after such a long absence, you have to call me teacher."
"Of course, that's nothing."
"I mean, you have to call me teacher all the time tonight."
The green eyes looked at Shade. Lecia was very busy throughout the New Moon, and tonight was one of the few opportunities to date Shade.
(Little Mia is running...)
It was Sunday, and the most important thing of the day was to attend the event at the Wilde Opera House that evening.
Of course, Shade was not idle during the day. He first went to Middleburg to find Grandma Cassandra, and asked Miss Aurora for help through the old witch, seeking information about the God-summoning ritual to contact the Earth-shaking worm. Of course, he did not forget to tell the witches about the "Crazy Earth" in full, and let the parliament inform the church.
With the church figuring out how to curb the growing problems in Randall Valley, Shad only had to wait for the chosen one to appear and then do his best to help complete the ritual.
Afterwards, he went to Randall Valley, found Miss Lathers, and got a file bag containing many urban legends and rumors about the ring wizard in Randall Valley.
Because they were going to perform for the princess and the prince at the Wilde Opera House that evening, the entire Golden Dawn Opera Company was in intense rehearsal. Although Miss Benanis had some small opinions about Shade, Miss Lasser, as the deputy director, was still very happy with Shade's presence. Therefore, this lady, who also had blonde hair, took Shade to meet other ring magicians in the opera company, so that Shade could get familiar with the members of the Golden Dawn.
The Golden Dawn itself is not an organization of ring sorcerers consisting only of witches, so the members were not surprised that the deputy leader found a strange man. They were just curious about Miss Benannis' attitude towards Shad.
Miss Benaness will not perform publicly tonight, she is busy acquiring the Wilde Opera House, so Shade did not see her this morning. However, he is looking forward to what kind of voice this famous artist will show him at the end of the night.
Time flew quickly to the evening. When the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the fountain statue in front of the Randall Valley Prophet Association, making the light and shadow of the statue extremely strange, Shad had already appeared in the square in front of the fountain.
He picked up Luvia who had finished a day's work, and then had dinner with her. After dinner, the two hurried back to the Plenty Land Inn and changed into formal clothes and dresses for the opera house. Of course, Luvia had disguised herself to prevent others from seeing her with a strange man at the opera house, but this did not affect the charm of the purple-eyed girl.
The audiences who were invited to watch the opera were mostly nobles of prominent status in the city, or guests who came from afar with Margaret and William of Anjou. Originally, for safety reasons, the invited audience was limited to a small number, but Prince William of Anjou, who was quite famous in Carsenrick, relaxed the restrictions on this concert on the grounds that he wanted to have some fun.
That was why Shad was able to get the money from Miss Lathers.
Because of the special nature of this opera house, the ticket he had was only for the ordinary auditorium, not the box. When entering the theater with Luvia, Shad complained to his female companion:
"The opera tonight is Orfinino. I heard that it will take three and a half hours to finish the opera."
"But aren't most operas between two and three hours long? This one is just a little longer."
Luvia knew that Shade had never been a big fan of opera, so she understood that he thought it was a waste of time:
"Mr. Watson, do you know what a precious opportunity it is to be able to enjoy the performance of the Golden Dawn Opera Company?"
She happily took Xia De's arm and entered Hall 1 from the right door with Xia De. When Xia De lowered his head to confirm the seat number on the ticket, the purple-eyed girl smiled and made a prediction:
"When I get back to Tobesk, I'll tell Dorothy I'll be able to see the Golden Dawn show. She'll be jealous of me... and I'll also be able to hear Miss Vanessa Benedict singing. It's really exciting."
Luvia can appreciate fine art better than a foreigner.
"This is indeed the most important thing tonight... I will introduce Margaret to you later."
Speaking of this, Shad felt a little embarrassed. Another mission of Margaret coming to Randall Valley City was to accept the test of Miss Benannis to become her apprentice. Margaret and Miss Benannis also agreed to meet after the opera tonight.
Shade wanted to take this opportunity to let Margaret meet Luvia. Luvia knew about Shade and Margaret's relationship after walking in the snow before the princess left Tobesk last year, but the princess of the South Kingdom did not know Luvia.
"Get to know each other? That's good."
The corners of her mouth curled up, and it was unknown what she was thinking about. Xia De continued to chatter about his recent plans. He had no idea about the ritual of summoning the evil god, so next week, in addition to the matter of the time key, he planned to explore local folk customs and urban legends.
On the one hand, he wanted to find further clues about the "Crazy Land", and maybe he could find news about the chosen one; on the other hand, he was really curious about what kind of gift was hidden in the mithril cube left by Mr. Granger.
All went well during the opera, and the princess and the prince sat in the upstairs box, so Margaret probably didn't know that Shad was there.
During this period, there were no relics that suddenly appeared, no thugs with guns attacked, and no cultists who appeared from nowhere. In Xia De's opinion, there would certainly not be so many accidents when Yin Luna and the possible "Chosen One of the Earth" were not there. Although he often encountered strange things and dangerous adventures, those things were all his own initiative, rather than accidents that came to him.