The end of the festival from November 16th to 21st,It's a super-large-scale cultural festival with all schools at all levels in the school park.。 This large-scale event, which includes "Campus Tours" and "Experiential Admissions", is directly related to the application rate for next year's entrance season, so each school will invest a considerable amount of time and experience in preparation, including showcasing the latest scientific and technological achievements – unlike the outside world, almost all schools in the school city are scientific research institutions - to attract outstanding students. Unlike the Dabaxing Festival, which is open to the world, the participants at the first end of the festival are mainly students.

I signed up to volunteer during the school opening period, but the working hours were not on the 16th, and Saki Nishio happened to be the same, so I made an appointment to visit each junior high school together. Next year it will be our turn to face the entrance examination, so it is obviously good to know about it in advance.

"Is there any school Yunjun would like to go to?"

I was thinking about where to start when I took the train to the 7th school district, where high school and junior high school were based, and Saki Nishio touched my body with his elbow and asked this question.

"Ah...... Not yet. But next year I'm going to participate in a program similar to an exchange student outside the school city.,With one party、Misaka and them.。 I heard that there seems to be a promotion behind the project.,Director Akiyama also said that there may be special enrollment at that time.。 ”

Although the school city also has a unified examination similar to Huaguo's entrance examination, but as a scientific mecca for the development of various superpowers, the schools here will undoubtedly be much more flexible in admissions, and there is no fixed admission score line, and you can set your own tests including culture, sports, and ability. The ability of both me and Ichibana to pass is unique, and according to Sora Akiyama, it is very attractive as a research subject.

"Eh! get on the plane for a long time...... Isn't that one of the top five schools? And it's the winner of last year's Big Tyrant Festival! Where are you going?"

"It's not settled yet, and I haven't seen the campus. Anyway, does Nishio have a target school of his choice?"

"That's amazing! There's a special project...... Alas, my words, Tokiwadai Junior High School's level, probably don't have to think about it. Saki Nishio's slight frustration only lasted for a moment, and was replaced by a sharp and determined look like a sword, "But I'm confident that I can break through to the level of Level 3, and if I work harder in the culture class, I can also be admitted to a slightly inferior excellent school." ”

"Ha, I also have a lot of confidence in Nishio-san!"

It's been two months since the two of us "don't fight and don't know each other" at the Daba Star Festival.,Because we have common interests and hobbies.,I often make appointments to practice or go out together on weekends.,Saki Nishio and I are now relatively familiar friends.。 Her perseverance and courage are what I admire most about her, and I think it is because of this heart that her swordsmanship is so outstanding.

Today was spent in a relaxed and enjoyable way. We visited a total of 8 middle schools, including the Long Point Upper Machine Academy. The school lives up to its reputation, both in terms of its teachers and scientific equipment, and its diverse teaching philosophy is very much in line with my philosophy.

In addition,The admission standard of the long point on the machine school does not require a high level of ability.,Nominally,"As long as you have a special talent, you can study",Maybe it means that Saki Nishio can pass the assessment with his sword skills.,Then we can be classmates.。

At night, as I had been yesterday, I had entered the world of dreams, and once again arrived at the majestic and elegant city of Serranian. The Old Cat Chief and Kuranis both had their own business to attend to, and I was not willing to disturb them, so I roamed leisurely in the garden in the bright sunshine. When the sun was shining, I entered the library tower with Kulanis's tokens, browsed the various books in it with great interest, and then found a secluded secret room to patiently study the "Seven Chapters of the Secret Book of Xuanjun".

For the next 17th, 18th, and 19th days, I volunteered at the school during the day, receiving students and parents who came to visit, and at night, I was fascinated by the wonderful scenery and the abundance of books. On the 20th, I met Chale unexpectedly when I visited the school, he was one year older than me, and he will graduate in March next year, and now it is a critical period to prepare for further education. Charle's "Blind Spot Movement" reminds me of my ability to travel through time and space - according to the current ability development theory, it is impossible to have multiple abilities, so does it mean that my ability is actually manipulating time and space, rather than simply "changing the speed of time"?

On November 21st, the last day of the festival, there was a new development in the study of the Seven Chapters of the Secret Sutra of Xuanjun, and it was of great importance to me—the fifth volume talked about and expounded the way of time and space in a way that was closer to metaphysics than science, but the language was so obscure that I had to consider visiting the erudite and even the other dimensions of Kulanis again.

On November 23rd, at the time of my appointment, I climbed the tower again and came to a secret secret room, in which Kulanis was waiting, not at all like the melancholy and somewhat distracted middle-aged man in my impression. I noticed that the corners between the walls and the floor and ceiling were glued with a mysterious blue pattern, and that the side of the large couch was leaning diagonally against several enchanted weapons with glittering runes.

After a brief greeting, Kuranis walked over to the heavy desk and gestured to the haphazard stacks of books on the table. The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, the Seven Chapters of the Secret Book of Xuanjun, which I am familiar with, are the only ones I can recognize, while the others are written in at least three different unknown scripts, and I am not even sure if they are terrestrial or not.

"Seungwoo, I think things are probably worse than expected. ”

Kuranis' narration begins with the usual quaint accent of subdued tones. He said that it was no blessing for mortals like us to play with time and space wantonly, because the Tyndalus Hounds, lurking in the depths of time and space in the distant past, often set their sights on such presumptuous ones, and then launched a sleepless, never-ending pursuit.

"Whereas ordinary creatures, including us humans, live in curvilinear continuity of time, the Tyndalus Hound inhabits the deepest depths of a completely different, island-like horn-like discontinuity. Once creatures from other planes encounter them, they will follow them closely at all costs, crossing boundary after boundary until they kill their prey. ”

Kuraniston paused, then added that the form of this extradimensional creature is extremely vague and difficult to describe, and that its human-lingual name "hound" derives more from habit than appearance. Since witnesses to the hounds are bound to be followed by them, and the prey they track is almost always dead, the records left behind are not detailed, and not only that, but the senses and images in the extradimensional space-time are very different from the world we are familiar with, which makes them even more indescribable.

Although it is said that the Tyndalus Hound must pass through the "horns" to materialize when crossing the boundaries of time and space, there seems to be no record of successfully evading them by eliminating all the "horns" in the house, and the defense of this secret room can only be described as a best effort. If the "indescribable things" I see as I travel through extradimensional planes are indeed Tyndaros hounds, then I'll have to find a way to avoid them or stop the hunt.

"Since it's a hunt across time and space, if you really can't escape, can you kill or destroy them?"

I carry a sword box with me, and if I urge it with all my strength, the lethality is no less than that of a heavy machine gun, and it is also the kind that is locked by the Divine Mind, plus it comes with various magic effects - especially against evil arts and dark forces, and with the thunder method of the Dao Sect to defeat demons and ghosts, it is not without the power of a battle.

"No, I can't. Tyndalus Hounds are undead, and they are not dark creatures or ghosts. Still, maybe you could try sealing or something, but that's something I don't know much about as a dream traveler rather than a magician in the true sense of the word. ”

We talked a little more, and then the night's dreams receded in worry and thought, and I woke up in my bed. I still have thirty days or so, and if I do encounter the Tyndalus Hounds, December 23, Mo Yufei's birthday, will be the moment they attack. I had to do something. The Daomen's seal is indeed unique, but I haven't studied it at all, and just one month is obviously not enough time for me to succeed in my practice, not to mention whether the sealing technique will be effective against the Tyndallus Hound is still unknown.

It was a good idea to turn to Sora Akiyama for help, and the Mighty Ones from outside the territory would have been able to take care of the Tyndaros Hounds, but they also had some scruples about making a move, because "some unspeakable being" might lead to something even more terrifying. And since even the Xuanyang Zhenren of the Yang God Realm is lost in the path of exploring the abyss, and even the copying and annotation of the "Xuanjun Seven Chapters of the Secret Sutra", or his research work has not been completed, I am afraid that it will not help to turn to the elders in the Daomen, and it may even bring ruin to my family.