The morning is spent studying and practicing arcane magic, and the next class will be in the evening.

The first thing that the hungry boy thought of was Aunt Helen's bread: "Sure enough, we still have to solve the problem of food and clothing first." ”

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As he passed through the north side of town, Jude noticed a stranger: it was a young girl, with long blonde hair like a waterfall, dressed in a gorgeous outfit he had never seen before.

Getting closer, the boy noticed that she was asking Uncle Massa about something, and could vaguely hear the words "church" and "pastor". Jude pursed his lips, feeling unhappy in his heart - such outsiders are already in the second group recently, two priests of the Holy Light Church came to the town a while ago, and recently heard that they are negotiating with the mayor about building a church.

Although it was not clear exactly what these churches did, the boy had heard from his teacher about such religious organizations, and they held another power that was different from the arcane arts—divine magic. This power is usually able to heal wounds and protect believers with the blessings of the gods, but religions are often rigid and narrow-minded, and Jude does not want the warm-hearted townsfolk to become insensitive. Seriously, that's not good at all.

The original pleasant mood was slightly ruined, and the young man, who was completely disinterested, shook his head and continued to walk towards the center of town as usual.

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Walking through the streets of the town, Jude recalls what he had learned about spells in class, and he was impressed by a spell introduced by Stan Xiu called "Phase Shift (Phase_Shift)".

It is a magical spell that allows the caster to make a short space jump, it has no casting action requirements, the spell is very simple, and it consumes very little mana, except for the high requirements of casting skills, so it is classified as a difficult spell.

"Why don't you give it a try? Thinking so, Jude uttered the incantation aloud, "Tel_falas!"

A white light flashed in front of him, and before the young man could react, he had already appeared more than twenty meters away.

Barely standing still, Jude felt like the world was spinning, and the discomfort from the first jump made him want to vomit, but unfortunately his stomach pouch was empty, and there was no food to vomit. More adverse effects came from dizziness, swelling pains and weakness in the body, which Jude knew were symptoms of mental exertion.

The intense vertigo even caused Jude to hallucinate: in a trance, he vaguely saw countless threads of transparent silk stretching endlessly across the dark void towards the depths of the distance, and then his vision suddenly turned pale and haunting, and his face appeared in the haze.

The boy clutched his head, trying to get rid of the hallucinations, and it took a lot of effort to gradually recover from the dizziness and discomfort.

When his vision finally regained clarity, Jude gasped, but at the same time felt happy that he had successfully cast a phase shift, such a difficult spell that could make a spatial jump!

However, Jude was immediately disappointed by the phase shift spell, which only took three or four seconds to run over at a distance of more than twenty meters, but such a difficult spell only had this effect......

Flashy, the boy judged, and then threw the spell into the depths of his memory.

Many years later, Jude looked back on the incident and was disappointed with himself, and although he could only jump to a distance of up to twenty-five yards, the conventional phase shift was one of the most practical combat spells in the spell school, and he accompanied him in all kinds of situations, saving the lives of his companions and himself many times......

In addition, he didn't care about the vision, which contained important omens, at the time......

Of course, that's all for later.

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Half an hour later, Jude was sitting on a bench on the side of the street, a glass of juice in his hand, and a bag of bread beside him.

Apparently, the teenager was lazily soaking up the warm sunlight while enjoying his lunch.

Jude knew that the world out there was vast and wonderful, with mountains, fields, rivers and seas—he had heard adults speak of them—ancient kingdoms, bustling cities, legendary heroes, beautiful princesses...... But none of that has anything to do with him, Jude doesn't want to explore those illusory, unattainable things, just that every day is so full and quiet, it is enough, it is really enough.

With less than a year to go before his own coming-of-age sacrifice, Jude was able to have his own wheat field on the plains, and perhaps his own pasture, according to Lambertin's custom...... A bright future beckons to you.

"Tomorrow will be better. Jude couldn't remember who said it, but he thought it was right.

Before he knew it, his lunch had run out, and the boy packed up his empty glass and bag and prepared to leave. In the afternoon, why don't you take a walk around the woods?

Just as Jude was about to go back to his home in the south of town, he noticed the three men on the corner of the street, who seemed strange to the boy, no, very strange.

In the bright daylight, these people were all dressed in dark clothes, and their bodies were tightly wrapped in long hooded cloaks, which seemed so incongruous compared to their surroundings.

They looked as if they were discussing something in secret, and the boy felt that the three of them were a little suspicious, as if they were joking, how could Lambertin be such a person?

Jude, who came from Orion, was naturally well versed in the art of stealthily approaching his prey, and he proved to be very skilled in this skill—just as he was now lurking not far behind the three mysterious men without being noticed.

But as Jude tried to keep closer, there was a rush of footsteps from far and near, and the boy immediately realized that someone was rapidly approaching from the other side, and hurriedly hid behind the corner beside him. Cautiously poking his head out to observe, Jude noticed that it was a man in a white robe, and although she covered her head with a hood, she was recognizable as a girl by her size and stature.

The young girl walked straight up to the three men in black and said sharply in a lingua franca mixed with an old language: "Repent, you are a heretic, a deviant, a misfortune to my people, a cruelty to the innocent, and a misery to Lamberting, and deserve to be punished." ”

This strange language that people don't understand, the girl herself seems to be very unfamiliar, and it is very difficult to read. Jude, who was peeking in the distance, sounded even more struggling, unable to understand what she was trying to say, but why did this voice sound so familiar?

After barely reading the words, the girl probably felt that the momentum was not enough, so she reached out and poked her hood down, revealing her neat short flaxen hair, and the pair of bow-like red satin tiaras, and the pure eyes of light blue......

"Wait a minute! I'm sure I'm not mistaken......" Jude rubbed his eyes, "But, isn't this Leia?"

When did Renethea, her childhood playmate, become the pastor of the church?

The ensuing development became more and more puzzling to the teenager, and a voice from under the black cloak of a mysterious man came from trying to pretend to be old but still young: "Damn it, guys, we've been discovered! Kill the priest!"

Shouting this, the three men in black scattered and stood apart, trying to surround the girl.

"What? Isn't this Rod? What is he doing here in that black suit today?" Jude felt more and more difficult to understand, what the hell was his friends doing?

Leia—it must have to be Leia—looked at the three men in front of her with a fearless face, opened the canon in her hand, recited the prayer in a decent manner, and gestured with her hands: "Accept the sanctions, you infidels Notalrion_shec_fresus!"

The moment he finished reading, it was obvious that nothing had happened, and although it was not clear what kind of spell it was, it seemed to Jude, who had been studying spells for half a year, that it was a complete failed spell.

However, a man in black next to Rod, or a boy in black, covered his chest with one hand and scratched at it with the other, showing an extremely painful look on his face, and then fell to the ground on his back. If I'm not mistaken, it should be...... Jacob.

Jude watched Jacob's back slam against the paved pavement, roughly imagining the pain as his friends were fighting, and he couldn't stay out of it anymore. Emerging from behind the corner where he was hiding, Jude shouted at the boys and girls, "Hey, who's going to explain to me what the hell are you doing?"

"Sanction the infidels. Seeing that it was Jude, Leia replied with an unchanged face, concise and stern.

But Rod on the side secretly grimaced, and Jacob, who fell to the ground, also got up unharmed, seeing this scene, Jude finally suddenly realized: "In other words, you have discussed? Is this a game? role-playing or something?"

Leia's cheeks flushed as Jude debunked her, but she continued to pretend to be a church pastor, trying to defend herself with some excitement but not seeming to have a line before she could think of a line.

From the girl's eyes, the boy could see that the real firmness and piety were not disguised. Jude couldn't help but think back to Leia's interest in their Church of Light since the two priests came to town a while ago.

Jude didn't understand what was so good about those religions, and as far as he could see, both the believers and the clergy were brainless creatures, forgiving this and wishing that and obeying complex and rigid precepts and dogmas, even more boring than the dry theory of arcane magic.

"Alright, leave the boring churches alone, let's ......" Jude felt like he had a rough idea of the situation, ready to end the farce and talk about something else. But he was immediately interrupted by Leia with harsh words: "You will be punished for your blasphemy against the Light......"

Jude looked at Leia in disbelief, who was flushed but forced to flip through the canon, trying to find a suitable magic.

“Icnocia_sarah......”

Looking at the meaningless forcible performance of the girl in front of him, the young man spread his hands and reminded: "Hey, that kind of ......"

But before he could finish speaking, Jude suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, and at the same time, his consciousness quickly dissipated. Glancing at Leia with the only remaining strength, he found that she finally showed a panicked look, and the young man's eyes went black and he passed out.

"Jude?"

"Jude?!"

-

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When Jude woke up again, it was night.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing that entered his vision was the anxious girl beside the hospital bed: "Jude, are you awake?"

"Ah, that, what's going on......" Jude gritted to his feet with his forehead covered, "My head hurts......"

"You somehow passed out at noon, but luckily there was nothing serious, but you need to take care of your rest for a while. Dr. Cromwell, who was dispensing potions, cast his gaze, "It was Leia who sent you here, and she was the one who stayed by the bedside to wake you up." ”

With that, Cromwell gave Jude a meaningful look with an intriguing smile before continuing to mix the potion.

Still a little groggy in his mind, Jude looked at Leia for some reason, and couldn't think of what to say for a moment, so he just looked at it in silence.

Feeling the young man's direct gaze, the girl quickly blushed: "What to do staring at people, these are what I should do, should do." ”

"Okay...... Jude nodded reluctantly, trying to remember what happened, "I remember...... Rod...... Leia, what the hell were you doing then?"

"We were just, just ...... Just in the ......"

"In?" the severe headache began to attack again, and Jude even grinned a little in pain as he spoke, "Just what are you doing?"

Seeing Jude's painful appearance, thinking that he was innocent of his suffering, Leia felt very sorry, but it was inconvenient to say it directly for the sake of face, so she whispered in a voice that only she could hear: "I'm sorry...... Actually, we're just playing games......"

Obviously, Jude didn't hear clearly, and at this time, Cromwell seemed to remember something, and he advised: "By the way, although I don't know the specific situation, but based on your performance just now, the headache is likely to recur, so it's better not to go to the woods in the near future just to be safe." ”

"Okay. Although the tormenting headache was fading away, Jude could imagine how dangerous it would be to have a seizure at a critical moment, "Then again, Leia, what did you just say?"

"No, I didn't say anything...... Leia blushed and buried her head in silence.

The boy still felt inexplicable, he scratched his head, tried to figure out the cause and effect, and asked, "Then what were you doing at that time?"

"What a fool...... Ignore you!" the girl suddenly raised her head, pursed her mouth angrily, got up and ran out of the clinic quickly, leaving the young man sitting on the hospital bed with a confused face.

Cromwell, who was on the side, shook his head and forced a smile to continue to dispense the potion, but Jude didn't seem to pay attention to the doctor's side.

"What the hell is going on...... My head hurts......" After seeing Leia leave, the headache that appeared from time to time began to attack again, Jude turned his head to look out the window, night had fallen, "Wait, it seems that something I have forgotten......"

"Seems to have something important......"

"Let me think about ......"

"Oh no, Teacher Stanshu's magic lesson!"