7 Achievement

The early morning sun shone down and dyed the desert golden again, and the black buildings pulled out long shadows, like a black ravine dividing the earth in half. At the top window of the black tower, a small bird poked its head out, flew out of the window, and landed on the top of the tower. After a while, the sun was shining high, the sun was shining directly on the earth, and several dark shadows appeared on the eastern horizon, slowly approaching. Seeing this, the bird immediately flew to the east, and soon came to the shadow. When the bird fell, there was a change—Pala Dax regained his form.

"Prince, you're back." She greeted the Shadow, who was her master, Umi Liu, followed by two followers.

Umi just "um" for a moment, didn't say anything else, didn't have much energy, and didn't seem to be in a good mood. Pala observed his words, and did not ask, and led the way for the prince and his party. After returning to the black building, Umi goes to see the teacher alone, and Para asks the servant prince why he is sullen.

"Failed." The servant replied. Para shrugged her shoulders and seemed to think it was nothing.

Soon, Umi returned from her teacher and her mood improved. "It seems that the teacher is doing a good job." Para thought to herself, and then went to pack the prince's clothes.

It is now October 1219, and it has been more than five months since Albert Royer, his brother Ryan Royer, and Haus Lucque, Prince of Aube, arrived here to study. During this time, the four princes, their retinue and the sailor Daniel listened carefully to the teacher's lectures every day, and I don't know whether it was because of their strong memory or the teacher's good teaching, they all quickly mastered the boring knowledge of mathematics and geometry, and perhaps it was their already rich imagination that made those dull lines and numbers more vivid...... As for politics, philosophy, economics, and diplomacy, the four princes were so pleased with the study of statecraft that their retinue had no interest in learning, and they spent their spare time studying agriculture, memorizing the techniques of sowing and irrigating, and cultivating fine seeds.

In terms of magic, Para and Daniel both have very strong magical talents, and Umi also learns hard, but her progress is slightly slower than the first two. A few days ago, the teacher had just taught the three of them the art of transformation magic, and Para chose to transform into a flying animal - she was also the first to succeed, while Umi chose to transform into an aquatic animal, and Daniel focused on combat magic so he gave up transformation magic. Three days ago, Umi and his retinue went to the beach to practice transfiguration magic, but failed, so they returned disappointed.

At lunchtime, the teacher did not eat with them as usual. In the afternoon, the four princes listened to a lecture on the economy, and the teacher talked about how to increase resources and reduce expenditure when the country's resources were tight. At dinner time, the teacher had an unprecedented meal with everyone and announced something to everyone.

"I'm going out for a while, and you can brush up on what you've learned here for yer. I also have a lot of books in my room, so you can pick them up and put them back when you're done. The teacher explained to everyone.

"Thank you, teacher!" Everyone thanks.

"Teacher, where are you going?" "How long will it take?" "How do you get there? Boat ride or teleportation magic? A series of questions followed, but the teacher smiled and gestured to tell everyone: no comment. So they didn't ask any more.

"I'll leave the cleaning of my room to Palla, and I can just clean the surface, and I don't have to do everything." The teacher continued.

"Yes, Teacher."

"The chicken shed and vegetable patch are also for everyone's attention, for yourself and for everyone. One last word of caution: don't try to enter a locked room. ”

Everyone replied, "Yes, teacher." ”

The next morning, the teacher was no longer in the room, and he set off while everyone was asleep.

Although they have been here for almost half a year, they have never actually entered the teacher's room, and the unknown and mystery attract them, and they want to see it as soon as possible.

However, the reality is always cruel, and the furnishings in the teacher's room are very simple: a bed, a desk, a chair, a bookcase, a wardrobe, so many things, not even extra furniture. But what attracts them the most is the books on the bookcase, a few people don't need you to fight for me, choose the ones they like and read them greedily.

"Hey, there's a book about how to make wine," Ryan said to his brother, "don't you learn how to read it?" You haven't had a bar since you've been here. Albert glanced at his brother, "Don't drink it!" Drinking alcohol interferes with learning. After a brief response, he continued to read books on the aspects of domestic governance.

It was soon noon, and the attendants put down their books to make lunch. House also put down the book in his hand and asked, "It's been almost half a year since we came here, why haven't we seen anyone else come to study?" There must be many countries that know the rumor of a hermit in a desperate desert. ”

"Well, indeed," Umi put down his book, "it seems that only people from our three countries will come during this time, in fact, I hope it is better not to come, the less people know about this useful knowledge, the better, and after our country develops in the future, we will not encounter too many rival countries." ”

House nodded in approval, "I agree with you, it's best not to come to other countries." ”

Albert and Royer did not speak, in fact, they had a lot of say, because in this era, it is not easy to build a ship that can go to sea, not only to have enough technology, but also to have financial and material resources that must be solved, otherwise just like the ship the brothers are on, it will sink in the storm before it reaches the designated sea area, and eventually die in the sea. Albert couldn't help but think of the words on the walls of the various rooms, almost every one of which illustrated the importance of competition.

"Is this also a competition?" Albert began to think, "The hermit lives in a desperate desert, and it is impossible to enter the desperate desert from land, it must be from the sea. To be able to get here requires huge financial and material resources, and those who can afford these are currently only the royal family and nobles, and even in some countries, the royal family may not be able to complete it...... In this way, although teachers seem to have no conditions in selecting students, in reality there are very few people who are qualified to study here. And most of these people will be the rulers or decision-makers of the country in the future, and they will definitely lead the country to prosperity and strength. And by doing so, the teacher is actually promoting the development of these countries, and can even change the current pattern......" Thinking of this, Albert also put down the book in his hand and thought thoughtfully.

"But no one has come, and we don't know what's going on in the outside world...... I wonder if there's anything new going on in our country these days......" House continued to complain.

"Really, I also want to know if there's anything going on at home." Ryan chimed in.

As if Umi suddenly remembered something, he said to several people, "I remember, it seems that there is a magic that allows the user to know information about the outside world!" ”

"Really?" House asked rhetorically in a skeptical tone.

"This ......" Umi hesitated, and he didn't seem to be sure.

"Really, there's this magic." It was Para who spoke, and she put down her book and joined the conversation, "This magic is called 'prophetic magic', and the user can see what is going to happen in the future, and predict what is about to happen. Although we can't receive information from the outside world, we can actually predict what may happen in the future, which can barely solve the problem of unobstructed information here. ”

"Isn't it just fortune telling?" House said disdainfully, "Where is magic, it's witchcraft, and only those liars of the Wanyuan Sect will use this kind of trick......" In the face of House's sarcasm, Para didn't say anything more.

"Actually, we might as well learn the teleportation magic, let's teleport out and see what goes on outside......" Umi suggested, and he was about to continue, when the entourage came over with lunch, and the topic was paused.

After lunch, everyone continued to read the book in hand with relish, and the previous topic was also left behind by several people and not brought up again......

Ten days later, Umi went to the beach again to practice his transfiguration magic, this time not with his retinue, but with Daniel Dutved with him. This time, the transformation spell was cast very smoothly, and Umi literally turned into a fish and swam in the shallow sea! After swimming for a while, Umi turned back into human form, and he found that all his clothes were wet.

"Great!" Despite being soaked, Umi smiled and finally succeeded!

"Awesome!" Daniel encouraged, lighting some firewood with fire magic and drying Umi's clothes.

Umi took off her clothes and hung them out, then shook her head, looked in the direction of the sea, and said with some disappointment: "There is not a single fish in this sea." ”

"Maybe the dust works all the way to the sea," Mr. Daniel said, remembering the fear of walking through the dust as he walked in, "and we can't see any animals — including birds — except the broilers in the shed." ”

"Well, that's ......," Umi agreed, and sat down to rest.

"Prince Umi, where did your clothes go after you transformed?" Daniel asked if he didn't understand, although he also learned magic, he couldn't transform.

"The teacher said that when the transformation magic is cast, the clothes will also be transformed into the transformed object, and they will be kept when they are transformed back...... Alas, I didn't expect it to get wet after entering the water! Looks like I'm going to learn a magic that dries clothes quickly. ”

"Isn't it okay to keep your body warm, so that the clothes can dry quickly."

"Well, that's a good idea."

"That's right, Prince Umi!" Daniel leaned over as if he was going to say something interesting, "Para...... Isn't it a special relationship with you? ”

"Why do you say that?" Umi looked confused.

"I always feel that although she is your servant, she is treated differently from other servants."

"Oh-" Umi probably understood, "it's not what you think, royals like us, marriages have long been set up at home, and it's impossible to marry a subordinate casually." But Para does have a special identity, she is the daughter of my nursing mother, and the two of us grew up on the milk of the same mother, and she is like my sister, and that's it. ”

"Oh, I see...... Well, after all, she's the only woman here, and I'm curious ......," Daniel said with a blush.

"You're not going to be interesting to her, are you?" Umi half-jokingly said, "But I'm not going to interfere with her, if you're going to pursue her, you can try it." ”

"Me...... Alas, let's wait until I make a career first, a sailor like me, who has nothing, has to struggle. ”

"I wish you a speedy success." Umi, who came from the royal family of Dragon, was sympathetic to sailors, and he knew how hard the profession was.

……

The two talked about something else, and when Umi's clothes were dry, they began to walk back. A day later, at noon, they returned to the black building, and as soon as they entered the large iron gate, they saw Ryan running towards them.

"Prince Umi, I'm really right, I'm sorry!" Ryan apologized in a panic, as if the matter was serious.

Umi was also frightened, and he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Why apologize? What happened? ”

"It's my fault!" Ryan replied, "I didn't care...... Knock Palla to injury! ”