Chapter 8: The Study of Servants

"Olivia, there is such a story in the human world. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Huh?"

"One day a poor man met a god and he said to that god, 'Please grant me wealth.'

And the god gave him a wallet and said, 'This wallet can always take out money, but if you spend the money you took out of it, the wallet will disappear.' ’

So the poor man kept taking money from his wallet until at last, he starved to death, and beside his corpse there was a mountain of gold.

So, what does this story tell us, please answer, Miss Olivia. ”

In other words, if you take money just for the sake of withdrawing it, and forget the value of the money because of greed, there is no point in getting more money.

To put it another way, if you concentrate too much on collecting ingredients and forget about the deliciousness of the food itself, you will put the cart before the horse. ”

Sure enough, Olivia is not a girl who doesn't understand reason, as long as she is well guided-

"There are still some differences from this story, because it's not like I can't go out with Olivia in the future, so my wallet is not disposable."

"No, isn't it a one-off in the long run?

After all, Zhao Jie died in half a month, and I will no longer be able to harvest like I am now. ”

"Poof!"

I suddenly felt like I had received tons of damage.

……

Along the way, we met a few more servants, and Olivia was very sorry that she couldn't take the meat.

Looking at her regretful appearance, even I couldn't help but regret it...... That's not going to work!

"Anyway, there are some Servants here who walk through the crowd, but the Magus only opens the enchantment when he wants to kill the Servants."

"That's right."

"Wouldn't people see these strange-looking servants walking down the streets before the Magister kills them?"

"It's natural for Zhao Jie to think like this, but don't you see that those people are also wearing human clothes?

For the demons, being discovered by the humans of this world is not a good thing for them, so they cast a kind of magic on the servants.

This is just a low-level trick, which is equivalent to disguising yourself as a pedestrian. ”

"Disguised as a pedestrian?"

"Yes, although humans in this world will meet many people, they will not remember everyone they meet on the street.

Therefore, human beings will selectively ignore those who have nothing to do with them, and exclude such people from their field of vision, as if they did not see them.

The so-called follower's trick is to take advantage of this characteristic of human beings.

They're standing there, but no one pays attention to them, no, to be precise, using magic so that ordinary people can't pay attention to them.

Generally speaking, people who don't have magical powers won't notice it even if they do something very conspicuous.

But if you don't open the barrier, it looks like we're fighting something to passers-by, but it's forced to keep them from seeing it.

People who don't know magic can't accept the logical contradiction that something attracts their attention and can't be noticed, so if you start fighting without opening an enchantment, it may cause problems in the onlooker's brain.

Therefore, although the mage, whether it is an elementalist or a mage, is the target of the Servant's attack. However, because the development of spatial enchantments to avoid people's eyes is the strength of the Magus, it is usually our Magus who is responsible for solving the affairs of the Servants. ”

"But according to you, I'm not a magician, but I can see what's going on with the Servant?."

"It's true that normally people who don't have magic are affected by blindfolding. It's a little strange that Zhao Jie can see this, but since you can see it, you should also have magic power. ”

Hey, do I have magic?

As if she had seen through my question, she explained again.

"You have to remember that not all creatures that use magic are mages, but only mages are the ones who will take the initiative to attack.

Although the mages come from another world, there are a very small number of people in this world who are born with magical powers, but they themselves are afraid that they are not aware of this.

In the past 100 years, magicians have also verified many similar situations to Zhao Jie.

For example, the magician's envoys or golems also have magical powers, but they are not actively attacked, but when we try to use these demons and golems to kill those servants, we are immediately counterattacked. ”

"You've done a lot of experiments."

Olivia nodded.

Eventually, the magicians came to the conclusion that the Servants seemed to be able to recognize the eyes that were looking at them.

Under normal circumstances, human eyes cannot focus on the Servant's body due to blindfolding.

But once seen by humans, regardless of whether that person is a magician or not, he will become the target of the Servant's attack.

Therefore, the reason why Zhao Jie didn't see the Servant was because he didn't want to see it at all.

For you who are not a magician, as long as you don't see the Servant, you will definitely not be attacked.

Even if it's targeted by the Servant, as long as you look away, it won't continue to trouble you. ”

I also remembered when she said this, and it is true that I didn't care about the servants at all these days, so I might as well not even confirm the faces of my classmates.

So even if it doesn't work for me, as long as I don't see the Servant myself, the Servant won't attack me, and they'll be no different to me than a normal passerby.

"If you see a servant, you will be attacked, and it will be safe to pretend not to see it, right?"

"That's kind of how it feels."

"I always feel like Schrödinger's cat, as long as you don't observe, nothing will happen."

"Schrödinger's cat, what's that?"

I almost forgot that Olivia, as a magus living outside of human society, could not have known the meaning of Schrödinger's cat.

"Forget it, in short, Zhao Jie was not attacked by the Servant, because Zhao Jie you didn't care about the Servant at all, and if you didn't look for it, you wouldn't be able to see it, to put it simply, that's it.

But there are some things you need to keep in mind. ”

She suddenly said to me in a serious tone.

"Although he won't attack you as long as you don't look at the servant, it's a different story if you're the one who is actively attacking, in short, don't think you can sneak up just because Mei is the target of the attack.

Magic, electronic cameras, sonar instruments, and the Magus have thought of various ways to use the Demon that will not be actively attacked to deal with the Servant, but none of them worked, and in the end it was the Magician himself who dealt with the Servant.

In short, it's good that Zhao Jie didn't see the servant and walked away, understand? ”