"Professor, have you ever seen a hybrid dragon?"
A sixth-ring warlock who was about the same age as Shade raised his hand and asked, adding:
"I mean, a hybrid dragon with a bloodline purity lower than 17% of the S&P value?"
"Of course I have. For this puzzle, I have traveled to almost every corner of the material world since I was young. The towering snow-capped mountains of the New World, the surging city at the eye of the storm, and the underground ruins of the New World, dragons have certainly seen them."
The professor whistled, and a strong wind immediately blew over the group's heads. Looking up, they saw a huge winged creature flying over their heads. It was not the giant lizard that Shade had imagined, but rather a giant pigeon with scales.
"Dragon-pigeon hybrid?"
This was a little joke the stranger played in his heart, and she indeed laughed softly.
Professor Garcia let Shade and others carefully feel the power of the maze, and after fully unfolding the maze, he asked the ring wizards to try and launch a coordinated attack on him.
Among them, Shade did not have to participate in this activity because he could only sit, and he was responsible for recording the process of the following battle. Of course, the students could not defeat this high-level warlock even if they were not in the maze, and they could not gain any advantage inside the maze.
So Professor Garcia deliberately controlled his strength so that everyone could really feel the pressure, but not be completely powerless to fight back.
This is indeed a valuable elective course that only professors allow. In Shad's opinion, just the four hours of experience tonight is completely worth the 1,000 pounds he paid.
Not only did he see the puzzle lock, he also saw the fighting style of the academic ring magicians. The coordination of spirit runes, the rapid recitation of spells, and the preparation of spell materials in advance were not knowledge that could be learned from books.
The scene that impressed Shade the most was when Professor Garcia summoned a group of creatures called "iron-horned rhinos". The horns of these creatures were very important alchemical materials, and their populations were distributed in the northern plains of the Old World and parts of the New World.
When a group of rhinos rushed towards Shad's classmates like crazy, they first tried to resist, and then ran away desperately, which completely overturned Shad's impression of the students of St. Teresa's College.
"Choosing the right time to escape is also an important ability for a ring sorcerer."
The professor next to Xia De smiled and said that he was very satisfied with his course.
Interesting classes will make time pass quickly. Tonight’s class is the last one of “Locked Space”.
At 8:50, Professor Garcia closed the maze and let everyone return to St. Byron's classroom. He allowed the students to raise a question related to the course. After discussing with his classmates, Shade asked:
"If we are unlucky enough to encounter a high-level warlock who controls a maze, and fail to escape before the maze is deployed, how can we save our lives as much as possible?"
"The best way is to break through the maze by force. The power of space and the power that is opposite to the maze can do it."
Professor Garcia had obviously anticipated what they would ask.
"But we can't, Professor."
The young lady raised her hand and said.
"Then hope that your companions can delay the time. Although the maze is powerful, its consumption is also very alarming."
The professor with pointy ears said with a smile again.
"Professor, but there is a possibility that we may not have a companion."
The slightly older warlock raised his hand and said, but Professor Garcia shook his head:
"That's impossible. If the high-level warlock who controlled the mythal lock only wanted to deal with one of you, there would be no need to open the mythal lock. Do you think that this is a power that can be used at any time?"
He pointed to the now empty metal box on the podium:
"The spell materials I just used are worth four figures in gold pounds. How could a high-level warlock spend so much money to deal with you?"
Shade in the audience blinked. He used the maze and it seemed that he didn't need any spell materials.
At this point, Shad's first elective course at St. Byron's, the Locked Space, officially ended. After the course ended, Shad did not leave immediately, but instead told the professor that he was planning to travel through time and space again, and hoped to buy a time key from the college.
The key symbolizing the year 3005 was completely shattered. After bidding farewell to Miss Feliana and the Moon Witch, it was time for him to start a new journey.
Professor Garcia was pleased that Shade took the initiative to bring this up:
"Very good. It has been a month since your first investigator activity. This is a good time. Xia De, don't worry this time."
"Um... ... "
Shad said nothing.
"I will personally select the key for you this time, a Fifth Epoch Time Key, to ensure that there will be no problems this time. It will be given to you through Bill Schneider during your group's meeting this weekend."
Although he made such a promise, based on the experience of the first investigator known to the academy and the second investigator unknown to the academy, Shad could almost guarantee that the key selected by Professor Garcia would be related to the old gods anyway.
Therefore, Xia De will have to worry about how to write the investigator's report at that time.
"One more thing, Professor. Is there any way to enhance the perception of time?"
The students around him left the classroom one after another. Xia De made sure that no one would hear the following conversation before asking the question he had kept hidden for two days. He actually wanted to ask it during class yesterday.
"Enhance your perception of time? Do you want to experience the power of time more clearly?"
Professor Garcia packed up his lecture notes and the remaining spellcasting materials:
"I remember that your thaumaturgy can enhance your time perception. If you want to be stronger than this... At your level, thaumaturgy and spells will definitely not work. I recommend a ritual or a relic."
The reason why Xia De asked this question was actually because he wanted to enhance the effect of the magic of perceiving time, and with the enhancement of the divine afterglow, he wanted to find out the current true time point.
"So what rituals and relics might be useful?"
Xia De humbly asked for advice.
"There are many ways. You don't need to ask me about this because someone has done similar research. I think the paper is still in the library of St. Byron's. Shad, you can directly ask the college to access the literature through Bill Schneider... Just say that it is needed for my course. In this way, you don't need to spend money. I will communicate with the library."
The professor said with a smile.
Shade thanked him quietly, but did not ask the professor whether it was the Sixth Era. Since the witch didn't know, he was almost certain that Professor Garcia would think he was crazy, so he had to find the answer himself.
"Strictly speaking, it's not the Sixth Age... What does that mean?"
The answer to the question may allow Shade to see directly into the deepest secrets of time.
Because the last question took some time, when Shade stood up from the chair in the guest room of Sophia's mansion, it was already 9:30 in the evening. At this time, Leicia should still be in the city to attend the dinner party of the great witch, and the fishing rod was naturally taken away by the princess.
It was still stormy outside. Shad wanted to wait until Lecia came back and make sure she was safe before going to bed, so he sat down at the desk again, intending to finish part of his course report.
Before he started writing the report, he asked the servants for a cup of hot tea. But before the tea was served, the maid that Leicia had left for him came running over and told Shade that someone had tried to break into Sophia's mansion. After being discovered by the guards of the mansion, the two sides were engaged in a gunfight inside and outside the fence on the east side of the mansion.
"What? Gunfight? How many people are there on the other side?"
Under the light of the classical lotus leaf-shaped gas table lamp, Xia De put down the pen in his hand in surprise.
Sophia Mansion is the royal estate. During Resia's stay, not only were there the princess's guards and the police from Coldwater Port to take care of security issues, but the Coldwater Port Navy also sent a 200-man force to be stationed nearby to prevent any unexpected situations.
And now someone was able to engage in a gunfight with the guards of Sophia's mansion, so the number of the other side must be not low.
"Sir, there are about 30 people on the other side, but their firepower is very strong. It is raining heavily now, and we are not sure how many people are outside the mansion, so the personnel cannot be concentrated in one direction. Colonel Hams asked me to inform the people in the mansion not to leave the building."
Colonel Hams is the leader of the Princess Guard. He is a 40-year-old active Royal Army colonel and is highly trusted by Lecia.
"Who is the enemy?"
Xia De stood up and asked, walking to the window and looking out. In the deep rainy night, he could vaguely hear faint gunshots and lights that appeared from time to time in the distance.
"I'm sorry sir, that's unknown at this point. But please don't leave here."
After saying that, the maid left in a hurry. The mansion was attacked, and she had to help Lecia hide some sensitive documents to prevent someone from breaking in.
Shad felt puzzled by what was happening at this time, but when he thought of Lesia's identity as a princess and the assassination of Queen Diana on the street last month, he couldn't help but suspect that this was another political assassination or other political event.
But now Leicia was not in the mansion at all, so Shade did not have to worry about her safety. It was just that the occasional gunshots outside made him lose interest in continuing to write his course report.
I simply stood by the window and looked outside, trying to see something from the dark courtyard of the mansion.
It was bright inside and dark outside, making the glass like a mirror, reflecting Shade's face. He looked at his face in the glass and became even more troubled by the complicated situation in Coldwater Harbor:
"Lecia's life is so... Oh!"
The bullet from a distance actually hit the glass in front of Xia De, but because the bullet had almost reached the limit of its flight, it could not penetrate the glass at all. But even so, Xia De was startled.
He was shot head-on in the street and didn't die. It would be too unfair if he died from a stray bullet on a rainy night.
He immediately left the window, thought about it, and simply left the room, intending to wait in the study. In addition to Leicia's current bedroom and the room specially prepared for King Fire Leaper Larus III, the safest place in Sophia's mansion was actually the study.