Xia De looked at the elective course parchment scroll with a stern face, which looked more like a price list. According to his actual situation (city, occupation, age), the academy he joined and the core spirit runes, the academy offered him nearly two hundred elective courses in his first year. Among them were courses such as "Inspiration Divination" and "Easy Acquisition of Four Elements Spirit Runes", which were obviously very useful.
Some courses require completion of basic courses or elective courses before selection, otherwise Xia De will see more elective courses.
The cost of the cheaper courses is more than 20 pounds, and the most expensive ones cannot even be paid with currency, but with relics or other requirements and tasks.
Fortunately, elective courses can be chosen at any time. When you come to the doctor every Saturday, you can contact the college directly if you are interested in paying.
Dr. Schneider suggested that Shad familiarize himself with the basic courses for a while before considering the issue of elective courses; the old priest recommended some more useful courses; Miss Louisa helped Shad directly cross out some of them. In her first year, she had just received a large amount of royalties and spent a lot of money on courses, so she knew which ones were not needed for the time being:
"You don't have to pass the elective courses. The academy and professors don't care about this. But elective courses are a good opportunity for us, the correspondence ring sorcerers, to get in touch with and get familiar with the academy professors. You know, whether some valuable elective courses are open depends on the professors' own wishes."
Miss Louisa went on to introduce that Xia De was very familiar with this set of rules. Although it was slightly different from the past, he was very accustomed to such rules.
I read the list of elective courses in my hand and subconsciously turned to the back of the parchment. I thought there would be no words on the back of the parchment, but I didn't expect there would be:
Mr. Shad Sullen Hamilton, First Ring Warlock:
Please prepare four wooden chairs in an empty room at midnight today. They must not be decorated with holy symbols of gods. Place the four chairs facing each other in the four directions of due east, due west, due south, and due north, and surround a non-pure silver basin filled with water. You need to sit on the chair facing due north before midnight, light the paper scroll, and throw it into the basin.
Please dress formally, turn on the gas, close the curtains, and do not tell anyone about this, including fellow ring wizards. Professor Hames Sanchez of the School of Library Management and Professor Hesenger Garcia of the School of History want to see you.
St. Byron's College - Student Affairs Office
Professor Hames Jane Sanchez
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Shade staring at the back of the parchment in a daze, Miss Louisa also looked at the back of the parchment:
"What's so good about an empty page? Oh, I see. You probably haven't used parchment before. Common sense is that we don't usually use parchment on both sides, so there won't be anything on the back."
Miss Louisa was in a position where she could clearly see the words, but she acted as if she saw nothing.
"Am I the only one who can see these? What does the academy mean? Do you have a secret mission for me? Talking to me alone, has my identity as an outsider been exposed?"
Xia De thought to himself, wrote down the information, rolled up the parchment again and put it on the sofa.
Because of Shade's time and space core spirit rune, the History Academy promised to provide him with a keeper-level relic for self-defense after he joined. This relic appeared after all the books and documents were delivered and the receipt was confirmed.
The upper limit of the items that can be transferred by the poet-level relics is limited to the secret-keeper level, and only some secret-keeper-level relics can be transferred. Therefore, I think the History Academy has also taken great pains for Xia De.
The relic was placed in a cubic rusted bronze box, no bigger than a palm, with markings on the surface of the box depicting incomprehensible vine-like patterns.
Under the bronze box is a document describing the purpose of the relic.
The relic was not given to Shad. If he leaves the School of History or leaves St. Byron's Comprehensive College, he will need to hand it in again, but if he graduates normally, he does not need to.
You came into contact with 'Whisper'.
According to common sense, Shad should not have known immediately that this was a relic because he did not know its characteristics.
"The twenty-sided dice of fate?"
Xia De did not hide from others and directly opened the antique bronze box. The inside of the box was almost solid metal, with only a bronze dice inlaid in the center.
The surface is covered with rust. The numbers on the 20-sided dice are sunken in the metal surface of the dice. The numbers are all golden, and some are almost integrated with the rust. This is a sign of time.
"I know this!"
Miss Louisa said in surprise, raising her hand as if to touch her earlobe, but then shook her head:
"No, it should be said that 'another me' knows this. I probably accidentally read the information about this dice in the book... But why would the academy give you such a dangerous relic?"
"All relics are dangerous, the horrible residue of whispers from the past."
Father Augustus reminded her, but the writer shook her head, her golden hair swaying slightly:
"This one is particularly dangerous in two ways.
On the one hand, when you carry the dice, most divinations will not work on the person carrying it, but only when you carry it, and carrying this dice for a long time will cause your luck to permanently decline. I know that luck is a concept that cannot be measured, but the whispering element will really interfere with luck.
On the other hand, you can actively throw the dice, which is limited to one chance per day. When the dice is thrown, the size of the dice number will determine whether the thrower has good luck. The bigger the number, the better the luck. And no tricks can be used to determine the random number. "
"Anything to do with the user?"
Dr. Schneider grasped the point. He was considered by the others in the group to be often unlucky, so he was particularly concerned about this relic.
"Yes, so usually after throwing it once, you won't know immediately what event is affected, but you will definitely understand it later. This is also one of the characteristics of the twenty-sided dice of fate."
The blonde lady moved away from the bronze box in Shade's hand with some fear:
"But in most cases, it can only throw out numbers below 10 that tend to be bad luck. This is statistically proven. And it is said that if it throws out 1, something more horrible than death will happen. Why would the History Institute hand over such a terrifying thing to the detective?"
The information provided by the academy is similar to what Miss Louisa said. This dice can only be contained in the bronze box made of special materials. Instead of being contained, the dice will always lure the holder to throw it out unintentionally, and the probability of throwing it out is not equal for each number. The probability below 10 is the highest, which will cause terrible things.
Therefore, Miss Louisa strongly suggested that Shade should not use the active effect of the dice, but only treat it as a relic that interferes with divination.