novelonline Chapter 2919 The Power of Name
Chapter 2919 The Power of Name
Chapter 2919 The Power of Name
"Ms. Metz, then in that memory, were you living here as a student or a teacher?"
The Gray Wolf Witch also asked. Although everyone disliked her at the beginning because of her race, they now get along very well.
Miss Metz thought for a moment:
"It's hard to describe. Sometimes I am a teacher, and sometimes I am a student. I remember standing on the podium and giving a lecture on divination, so I am very familiar with this tower; but sometimes I am a student sitting on a cushion and listening to the old professor's lecture with a notebook in my hand."
The Green Dragon Maid, who was worried, said casually:
"Maybe it's just the order of memory that's wrong. You studied here, and after graduation you stayed here to continue teaching according to the tradition of the order."
Miss Metz nodded slowly, then hesitated for a moment before asking:
"Tell me, am I really a normal person?"
No one answered this question.
Aside from Miss Maze herself, Emilia was the only one who hadn't heard Shade say that he thought there was something wrong with this witch, so the innocent elf asked:
"Do you think you're a ghost?"
The witch nodded and looked at her hands holding the bowl:
"Or maybe there is another soul in my body, and she guided me here."
Others didn't know what to say, so Xia De comforted them:
"Once we meet that god, you can ask him for help. God will protect his believers."
He immediately changed the subject:
"Speaking of which, since you have entered this tower, why don't you go to the top floor instead of setting up camp on the second to last floor?"
"The door to the top floor is locked. You need a key and the spell I found on the stone tablet last time to open it."
Miss Metz replied:
"Like other places, the door cannot be broken down by force. I just remember that there should be a key, but I don't know where it is. Probably, it's with the person who left the academy and left the stone tablet behind."
"I have the power to open locks, I can try it later."
Shade said, patting Mia's head. Because Emilia huddled beside Shade, the cat could no longer lie on Shade's lap, so it now lay on the cushions by the fire, and the kind-hearted Miss Wilder also prepared food for it.
"So are you ready to teach us?"
Shade asked again, and this time the human witch nodded and gave a definite answer:
"Already prepared."
During the boring and chaotic time when Shad was away, Iluna had taught everyone about the power of the sun. Even Emilia learned from Iluna the divine spell [Sunshine] that Shad had seen Iluna use in the Temple of Order.
This magic technique creates strong sunlight in the field to kill evil forces in a wide area. Although Emilia has learned it, its power is obviously not comparable to that of Iluna.
In addition to learning power from Iluna, Emilia also learned power from the Gray Wolf Witch and the Green Dragon Witch. Although she did not learn the Transfiguration to turn into a wolf or a dragon, she learned the magic-[Wolf Eyes] and the magic-[Sweetness].
The former can enhance her eyesight, but considering that pure-blooded high elves already have the gift of [Dark Vision], the greatest significance of this magic is to enhance long-sightedness; while the latter gives Emilia the ability to make anything taste sweet.
This is different from Shade's [Candy Making], where he turns food into candy, and the food has been changed in essence. Emilia, on the other hand, makes everything sweet, without changing the essence of the object, but just adding a new taste.
In other words, she could even make a stone on the ground taste sweet, but the stone would still be a stone.
Although neither of these two magics seemed to have much effect, Emilia herself liked them very much.
Although Xia De only had 50 minutes this time, he couldn't waste too much time, so everyone ate quickly. As for where the god would be this time, Xia De thought there was no need to look for him. Since the door upstairs couldn't be opened, the possibility that the god was at the top of the tower upstairs was almost 100%.
After dinner, he stood up and prepared to use magic to open the door. Miss Wilde, Miss Bister and Emilia were cleaning up the dishes downstairs. Because the stairs were narrow, only Miss Metz and Iluna followed Shad upstairs.
At the end of the stairs was the door. Shade first recited the spell according to what Miss Metz said, and then a keyhole appeared on the door that originally had no keyhole. Then he pressed his finger on the keyhole:
"The key to the door!"
The fingers turned, and then there was a clear sound of the door lock opening from inside.
Xia De was very surprised:
"So simple?"
“Isn’t simplicity good?”
Iluna asked, and Shade shook his head:
"The difficulty of opening this door is about the same as that of opening the door of an ordinary house. How can the padlock of such a well-protected room be just an ordinary lock? I feel like I can poke the lock open even with a piece of wire."
In any case, the door was indeed open, but Shad held the door handle and had no intention of pushing the door open. In such a strange place, one cannot be too cautious. Besides, the slate that Miss Metz carried with her did not glow, so he had no reason to go behind the door:
"My [Key to the Door] is not omnipotent. I thought a long time ago that if a door can be opened in two ways, it will lead to different places. Then it is hard to say where it will lead after I open the door with the [Key to the Door]. I have a bad feeling that this door can never be opened this way. I think we still have to find the key."
"But where would the key be? Do we need to explore outside?"
Ms. Maze asked, but Iluna had a different idea:
"Since the last person to leave here wrote the spell to open the door on the stone tablet, there might be clues to the key there. Why don't we smash the stone tablet? Maybe the key is inside."
But Shade shook his head. He motioned for the two to follow him downstairs and back to the camp on the second-to-last floor, then asked:
"Besides the materials and daily necessities I brought, what did everyone bring with them when they came here?"
Iluna was brought here by accident by the relics, and she didn't have much with her at the time; Emilia had her own small shoulder bag, but nothing else; Gray Wolf and Green Dragon both came here with a plan to learn something, so they both had their own luggage.
As for Miss Los Metz, she was the first person to appear here, and she was the one who saved Miss Bist and Miss Wilde, so no one really knew what was in her luggage. She herself claimed that most of her luggage had been thrown away before she met everyone.
The Gray Wolf girl, who seemed to be very good at organizing things, quickly divided up everyone's things. But after everyone claimed their own belongings, there was still a dark brown leather handbag left by the campfire. The bag had a long flap and a buckle, and looked sturdy and durable.
No one had any impression of the schoolbag, so Xia De asked for everyone's opinions and opened it, and took out all the items inside one by one:
"Pencil, eraser, dip pen, ink, notebook, book, paper, key. Found it, the key!"
Xia De breathed a sigh of relief and showed everyone the shiny silver key. As for the notebooks that might indicate the identity of the bag's owner, he did not open them, but put everything back in its original state.
"Okay, now we have the key and can open the door."
Everyone was hesitant to speak, but they all guessed what was going on. Miss Metz pursed her lips and looked at the key. When Shade looked at her, she nodded slightly:
"I see. Let's go then."
This time, the stone slab that was put aside automatically flew up, and the golden light pointed in the direction of the stairs. Shade took Miss Metz and Iluna to the end of the stairs again. The size of the small silver key matched the keyhole very well. After turning it gently, the holy emblem of the old god [Lord of the Black Robe] was drawn on the surface of the black iron door.
"It's right this time."
Just as Shad was about to open the door, Miss Metz grabbed his hand again. Her expression could even be described as somewhat panicked:
"I am real, right?"
"Of course you are real."
Iluna answered for Shade and pulled away Miss Maze's hand:
"Okay, Shade, open the door."
The door was pushed open, and the layout inside was the same as that downstairs, except that all the furnishings here remained in the same state as when the last person locked the door and left, as if the passage of time and the collapse of this place had no effect on this floor.
The floating blackboard was suspended on the left side of the door, and dozens of cushions were placed on the ground facing the blackboard. The god in black robes was also standing in front of the blackboard waiting for them.
Iluna stood beside Shade and did not hide like the werewolf and green dragon before. It was not the first time she saw a god, and this was a good god, so there was no need to hide.
As for Miss Metz, she placed her right hand on her left shoulder and bowed forward, her voice trembling:
"My lord."
The black-robed god smiled and responded to them. The slate floated towards him and was branded with the last holy emblem:
"Everyone has doubts. I'll be waiting for you here. After the ceremony, come here together."
"Okay, we'll get to it as soon as possible."
Shade nodded to the god, then took the floating slate and handed it to Miss Metz, and led the two back to the stairs. When the door closed, Iluna breathed a sigh of relief, and then became excited again:
"It's finally over, isn't it? And we can listen to the lectures of the gods, which will surely be very interesting."
Shad was also very happy that everything went well. The last step of the ceremony was to let Miss Metz finish the lesson, but now Miss Metz looked uneasy, and Shad was a little worried about her mental state.
"Here, have a cup of tea. Drinking tea always makes people happy."
After returning downstairs again, Miss Wilder handed Miss Metz a cup of tea. After everyone sat down, the girl holding the cup calmed down a little and looked up at the people who were looking at her with concern:
"No matter who I am, the Lord's ritual must be completed. I come from the Lord's sect, and what I know and learn is mostly about the power of knowledge inheritance. Although our sect does not pursue powerful power, we are not a weak group. We like to use magic to ensure the spread of knowledge, but we must use power to protect those who spread knowledge.
Most of the spells recorded in "The Blessing of Books" are the Lord's magic. The most powerful offensive magic is [Grant of Knowledge], which shares the filthy and dangerous knowledge that one possesses with the enemy, polluting their minds and damaging their souls. The most effective defensive magic is [The Blessing of Books], which determines the strength of the defense by the number of books one has read and the amount of knowledge one has mastered. Combined with the basic spell [Quick Reading], the effect of this magic can be quickly enhanced.
But this time I'm not going to teach you these two powerful spells, we don't have that much time."
After giving everyone a basic understanding of the magic of the Lord of the Black Robes Cult, Ms. Maze tore a piece of paper from her notebook and distributed it to everyone, including Emilia:
"Words are power - this is the origin of most of the divine arts I master. The highest level of divine arts of the cult even allows us to directly use spells that we have never learned as long as we have the information.
But this is also not our focus today. It is too difficult to teach everyone to use the power of knowledge and words in a short period of time. But there is only one type of text that everyone is most familiar with and is most likely to be used directly. "
"Our own name!"
The Gray Wolf Witch said immediately, and Miss Metz nodded, and took the lead in writing her name on the page:
"Our names represent who we are, whether it's when we are called by our name and we immediately recognize that it is our name, or when we sign our name, it means that we agree with the content of the document. This can reflect the role of names."
She showed everyone the paper she signed:
"Therefore, names, especially names written by oneself, can be equivalent to ourselves to a certain extent. The magic I am going to teach you comes from this, but this is not a specific magic. What you can learn from my teachings is entirely determined by your own ideas.
Now, please write down your name on paper. Remember to use your full name, and it must be your real name, not a nickname."
"What text should I use?"
Emilia raised her hand and asked, really like asking a question in class. Miss Metz was particularly friendly to this underage girl and spoke very gently:
"Miss Sienord, you may use the language you most commonly use to write your name. Did St. Byron's academy in your time require the use of the human common language?"
The pointy-eared elf then answered:
"Modern Elvish is also fine. Elvish is a must-have spell for many modern magic spells, so everyone understands it."
The two of them were talking to each other, and Iluna didn't have to worry about what to say. She used the common language of Drarion. As for the gray wolf and the green dragon, they didn't have to hesitate.
But this was a problem for Shad, because the stranger's name was not "Shad Suellen Hamilton" but "Shad", and the language he most often used to write his name was not Delarion, but the native language of his hometown.
Just looking at the paper in front of him, after a moment's hesitation he wrote "Shad Suellen Hamilton".
Why not your real name?
"If I still want to go back, I will probably use this name, but now I have decided to stay. And the name is not only a personal identity, but also how others know me. Now everyone in this world knows me as a new name. Didn't Ajelina say last week that Shad is Suellen? I am Shad Suellen Hamilton."
The "she" beside her smiled gently, and after making sure everyone had finished writing, Miss Metz took out the ritual materials that she had asked Shade to prepare in advance. Because there were enough materials this time, she did not just teach everyone to meditate, but actually drew the ritual array, but drew it on the papers with names on them.
The ink used in the painting ceremony was added with everyone's blood, and the pen used was the "wolf hair brush" sponsored by Miss Bister.
"Meow~"
When Shade took the pen, Mia, who was transformed by Shade, immediately came up, sniffed it, and then called out to the wolf girl. The wolf girl smiled happily, probably thinking that the cat wanted to be friends with her.
After the ritual array was painted, everyone followed Miss Metz's method and folded their own papers into the shape of stars. Then they pressed them on their foreheads and burned them to ashes. They dissolved the ashes in the magic potion she had simply prepared and drank it.
This time the cat didn't rush to drink it, and even seemed to want to stop Shade from drinking it. The potion soaked in ashes really didn't taste good at all. After swallowing it with a frown, Shade immediately concentrated his mind as Miss Metz asked, calling his own name thirteen times in a row in his mind, and finally closed his eyes and meditated on his own appearance in his mind.
"When I get back, I'm going to try again with the name 'Shad'."
He thought to himself, and his current appearance quickly took shape in his mind. This time it was unusually smooth, and almost at the moment when his appearance was completely formed in his mind, his spirit and elements were activated, and a new power was born.
【Stranger, you sense the "enlightenment". 】
[Outsider, magic-"treasured item" sublimation. ]
[Choose an ordinary inanimate object as the selected object, and with the caster's greed and love for the object, the object will gain extraordinary power based on its own function and shape; engrave or write your name on objects including but not limited to machinery/alchemical items/relics, and the function of the object can only be used by you. ]
[Note that the above two effects can exist on the same object at the same time, and in this case the strength of both effects will be enhanced; the number of objects that can have the two effects of this magic at the same time has been changed from "1" to unlimited, but using the effect will reduce the upper limit of the spirit, and erasing the effect will restore the upper limit of the spirit. ]