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It was snowing heavily in the city, and a young man with black hair was sitting in a café on the side of the street. He has the appearance of a native of the Northern Continent, with soft facial features and a little shy. He sighed in his hand as he scribbled in his notebook:

"December 15, 1350, is my third day in Utopia."

"Dear Mom, I am writing this by the heating of the café. Please tell my dad that my journey is going well. ”

(A brief greeting and scene description)

“…… The city is not different from where I've been before, but, from what I've observed, it's certainly not a village on the border of Rune. Judging from the latitude and climatic environment, this should be within the territory of the Vsak Empire, and the trend of the mountains does not correspond to Minrminsk, and this city called Utopia should be located in the hinterland of Vsak, at the foot of the Antar Mountains......"

"When I asked the waiter at the local café, I replied, 'Utopia is a new tourist city, and because of its location, it welcomes guests from different countries.'"

The black-haired young man rolled his eyes, took a sip of the coffee in his hand, and sighed with satisfaction.

He flipped through the travelogue he had just written in the past few days, and as the pages turned, a name accidentally flashed from the title page:

Everett Abraham.

He took another sip of his coffee before putting it down, ordered a cake with the waiter, and continued to write in the beautiful Intis script on the soft leather notebook in his hand.

"Don't worry about me, though, I'm not curious about the location of the city and the reason for hiding the truth. There's definitely more to it than that, and I've just become Sequence 9, so digging deeper will definitely put me in danger. I don't mind being an adventurer once in a while, but that's not my job, I just want to finish my travels and travelogues safely and get home early. ”

"Well, let's go back to the situation and climate of Utopia."

"One of the most striking things about the climate here is that it's cold, very cold. The maximum temperature hovers around zero degrees every day, and can even drop to about -10 degrees Celsius at night, and I will definitely freeze to death if I sleep outside, which is why I am sure that Utopia is definitely not in Rune. Because of this, Utopia's heating system is very developed, they use heating and floor heating that I have never seen before, and they use the principle of heating water to make heating, specifically, I didn't ask much. ”

"Every hotel, every residential building has been heated, and the hotel where my teacher and I live is called 'Iris', and it's pretty good. In short, with the help of heating, our daily life is safe, that is, we always have to wrap ourselves in a ball when we go out. ”

"By the way, the size of the city is not small or small, and the teacher told me that the permanent population of this city should be about 20,000, plus the number of people who come for vacation in winter - to be honest, I don't know why many tourists choose to come to such a cold city in winter - it should be more than 20,000. The city facilities are excellent, there is no pier, but there is a municipal library, a train station, a freight center and department stores, a school, and a river runs through the city, which I say does not melt until after April. ”

Everett glanced out the window, he changed angles a few times, and through the heavy snow, he could faintly see the arched bridge.

"On a clear day, the river will be very lively."

"There will be a lot of kids skating on the river, and there will be people digging holes in the ice from the river and sitting next to the ice caves to fish. They are still bustling in the cold climate, which is one of the reasons I love it. ”

Neither morning nor evening, the waiter arrived with the piece of chestnut cream sorbet that Everett had just ordered.

He thanked him as he glanced at the menu and was a little impressed by the recommended drink on the menu, "Utopia Specialty Sparkling Iced Tea."

He'd seen other guests drink this bubble tea, with ice cubes floating on the surface of the translucent dark brown liquid, bubble after bubble rising from the bottom, making every first-time guest let out a refreshing sigh of admiration.

It's delicious at first sight.

Everett was moved for a moment, but he held back the idea for a while, and he wanted to taste the sparkling iced tea after getting the teacher's permission at dinner.

The fried chestnuts were chopped and stirred into the cream, and Everett carefully cut off a corner with a fork and put it in his mouth, and in the warm room, he felt the cold cream and the mellow and sweet chestnut crushed fuse together, slowly melting in his mouth:

"Other than that, I think the most interesting thing is the mechanical items and the delicious food culture here."

"Whether it's the basics of pan-fried steak, tonkatsu, charcoal grilled meat, or the more complex or more difficult pea stew, creamy soup, buttery mashed potatoes and baked potato skins, they are definitely at the level of an urban chef, and the chefs here are quite adept at creating exotic dishes and foods, from sweet and sour meat cubes to grilled fish with a variety of spices over and over again......"

“…… Mom, even though I know there's a lot so different about the city, I still love it, even the teachers are so impressed with the food that I wish I could bring back to you and Dad, like the specialities, the Utopian bacon sandwiches...... Other than that, I had a wide variety of toasts in the city: mashed taro, mashed potatoes, butter, whipped cream, fruit chunks...... As long as you wish, you will not eat duplicate varieties for a week. ”

"And the most admirable of all the cuisine here is their desserts...... Cream pudding, fruit pudding, black forest cake, carrot cake, milk cake, muffins, tarts...... The teacher said that I could not eat any more, and that a young man like me who was still growing his body should not indulge in sweets, but I also saw last night that the teacher asked the waiter at the hotel to order a cake for supper. ”

"Utopia's ingredients are quite fresh, and this should be thanks to their rail transportation system."

"In winter, though, fresh fish is hard to come by. On my first day in Utopia, I saw a gentleman catch a big fish from the John River and sell it to a restaurant for one and a half pounds on the spot. ”

The delicious dessert brought a good mood, and Everett wrote a lot in one sitting, which for a young man who was only fourteen years old was already more than a week of writing training in grammar school.

However, he didn't have to go to the grammar school of the Church of the Occult, and he didn't have to go through the mysterious grammar correction, fill-in-the-blank of famous sentences, reading comprehension, and no less than 800 words of composition from the Western Continent, and he was still undergoing home education. Those who have been educated at home, who have reached the age of sixteen and have passed the higher examinations of the Church of the Occult of the Occult are also admitted to the National Church University, which is the threshold for becoming extraordinary.

Of course, families with their own families with extraordinary power inheritance and potion recipes don't have to get potions in this way, but they still have to register their identities and sequences, and promise not to do anything harmful to society and innocent people.

At the same time, as an Abraham, a new generation of Abraham's family who became extraordinary and high hopes after the full moon whispered, these contents were not enough for the future "Everett's Travel Notes".

Everett continued to write, and then, through the glass window of the café, he saw a figure wandering the street.

The other party seems to be a young man who looks about the same age as himself.

In the heavy snow, Everett did not see the other man's clothing and hair color, and then realized that the boy was actually walking on the street in very thin clothes, and the color of his clothes and hair was a light color that could hardly be seen in the snow.

Everett stood up, he subconsciously wanted to beckon the boy to come to the café to rest for a while, because such snow can really freeze people to death, but he just stood up and held back, because he suddenly remembered the teacher's warning - if you see abnormal behavior in this city, see people who do strange behavior, don't take the initiative to meddle in things.

Everett hesitated, and in the time he hesitated, the figure of the boy walking in the street disappeared into the snow.

"Wearing such thin clothes, walking in sub-zero temperatures, there is no cold physical expression at all......"

The apprentice was a little scared, and he suddenly couldn't imagine what would happen if he really ran to the door of the café just now to greet people.

After much thought, Everett decided not to include this in his travelogue, because an ancient and extraordinary family like Abraham had a much more complete occult education, and although he had just become an extraordinary, he already knew that not everything could be recorded.

This world is dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will establish contact with unknown beings, just as the ancestors used their voices to contact them.

With some trepidation, he swept the remaining half of the chestnut sorbet into his mouth, barely soothing the uneasiness in his heart. After repeatedly reminding himself that he must be cautious in his words and deeds in utopia, Everett pondered his words, picked up his thoughts, and continued:

"What worries me a little is that there is only one church in a utopia."

"This is a big city of about 20,000 people, although it is in the hinterland of the Vusak Empire, but after all, it is a small city on the border of Rune, this church does not have the black, white, and blue color scheme of the Thunder Church, and there is no coat of arms of the Thunder Church in it, and there is no insignia of gods in this cathedral, I don't understand whether this means 'people of any faith can enter'."

"I have seen the priests in the church from afar, and there are ten priests in this church, and they are dressed in dark clothes, and they do not have any ecclesiastical patterns, and the piping is the simplest. I didn't dare to ask them which church they were. ”

"I asked for the name of the church, and the waiter at the hotel and the waiter at the restaurant told me."

"It's called the Cathedral of St. Merlin Hermes."

"The surname Hermes sounds ancient, mysterious, and like a variant of 'Hermes' in other languages. The first time I heard the name of this saint, I didn't know which church he was. ”

Everett had only been here for three days, and had not seen the cathedral used for sacramental services or services, so he suspected that the church actually believed in the god of war, or some unidentified and inconvenient hidden existence.

The teacher also told him not to go near the cathedral if he didn't have to, so as to prevent any extraneous trouble.

Everett thought for a moment, and he couldn't understand why the teacher didn't take him away at once when the city was so dangerous, but insisted on staying here for a while. The young apprentice racked his brains and began to think about what other interesting things had happened in the past three days, and after thinking for a while, his eyes lit up, and he turned the pages of the notebook that had been filled up, and continued:

"There was a gentleman in the 'Iris' hotel where we were staying, who always looked sleepy and either slept or went out for a walk with his eyes half-open. But I rarely saw him, he mostly rested in his room, and even when he ate, he didn't come out often. ”

As he finished writing this, Everett heard the café door being pushed open and metal wind chimes jingling in an ethereal sound.

Everett looked up and saw an old woman about fifty years old, well-dressed and very temperamental, pushed the door open and appeared at the door of the café, wearing a somewhat old-fashioned black velvet hat, revealing sideburns that had grown gray hair.

There are not many people in the café, and this weather is the most comfortable to sleep and rest at home.

As soon as the old woman entered the door, her blue eyes were locked on Everett, who was writing a travelogue by the bed drinking hot coffee.

Seeing the old woman's stern eyes sweeping over, the junior apprentice quickly stood up and shouted in a low voice: "Teacher! ”

"You're drinking coffee again." The old woman has the temperament of a teaching director, and has a natural suppression of teenagers who are just too old to go to school, "You are very young, you don't need this drink to refresh yourself." When you're sleepy, go and rest, I didn't give you too much homework. ”

“…… Teacher, the coffee here is sweet. Everett whispered a word of defense, and then he hurriedly handed over the notebook full of three pages in his hand, and said, "I have carefully summarized what I have seen and heard recently, and I have written a lot!" ”

The old woman was not angry at the student for stealing coffee, she glanced at the immature but neat handwriting on the notebook, and her tone naturally softened: "Good job, today's class time is up, let's go back to the hotel and continue studying." ”

Everett suddenly rejoiced: "Okay. ”

The old woman settled the bill for him, put on his windproof hat, wrapped himself tightly around his scarf, and summoned up the courage to push open the door of the café—and in an instant the cold wind in his face made him shiver all over his body, and the snow fell on his face and eyes, and the chill crept through every crevice of his clothes. But the old woman held him by the back, and led him slowly along the already snowy road, and returned to the "Iris" inn, which was not far away.

Enter the hotel and keep the cold wind out.

Everett hurried into their suite, took off his coat and warm equipment, and shivered by the radiator for a long time before relieving himself. And the old woman was already at her desk, and she had set up the occult materials for today's teaching, waiting for him to pass.

He was just about to walk over when he suddenly felt his surroundings get a little colder.

Everett quickly turned on the vision and found a somewhat round spirit creature appearing beside the old woman, handing over a letter, and then disappeared from his vision.

"That was ...... just now"

"I'm communicating with Dorian." The old woman said lightly, opening the envelope, "Hmph, if I had told him directly that I had taken you to a strange city, he would have to start with 'Dear Vipelia, I approve of your way of teaching, but ......,' and give me a long talk." As she spoke, she unfolded the letterhead, and Everett peeked at it, and saw that it was indeed the beginning.

The lady named Vipelia Abraham glanced at her student:

“…… It's dangerous to come here, but my divination tells me that there is a very big opportunity hidden here. I also consulted the ancestors, and He told me that this is the place to go. There may be some dangers, but they are within my reach. ”

"But even so, Dorian was still not at ease, so I chose to correspond with him again when I got to the place, tell him what I had seen here, and see what he had to say."

There are so many abnormal places in the city, delicious food, electrical and mechanical items that have never been seen before, a small child may only be excited by these strange things, but as one of the rulers of the Abrahamic family who has seen many extraordinary powers, Vipelia immediately discovers something terrifying as soon as she arrives:

There is not a single extraordinary person in this city!

Even the priests in the church had no spiritual brilliance on them, and Vipelia searched the city for a long time, using divination to find traces of extraordinary power, but found nothing.

She doesn't plan to tell students about it: "Pick up the materials and we'll start the lesson." ”

Everett sat down: "Okay. ”

After two hours of study, the occult routine was over, and they went to the dining room to enjoy a meal that Everett was full of, and the apprentices finally drank the sparkling iced tea they had been dreaming of.

After a brief run to a hot bath and a little more reading, the two members of the Abrahamic family fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Vipelia had a dream in which she dreamed that she had come to a path in the middle of which lay a small silver-white snake that looked sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, as if to discern where to go on the road ahead.

Vipelia looked at the little snake, and then at the road ahead, it was a fork in the road, one could not see clearly, and the other could see. She took the initiative to walk around the little snake and walked onto the one that could be seen faintly.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the little silver-white snake actually following and entering the road together.

When the dream ended, Vipelia woke up.

Before she had time to analyze the situation in this dream, she suddenly noticed that there was a figure in the room, and her student did not sleep in the small room in the suite, but stood silently in the middle of the bedroom!

“…… What are you doing? "Vipelia is ready to use the Slide to the Technique.

Everett turned his head, he pointed to the door of the room, lowered his voice nervously, and said to the teacher:

"Snakes."

"I wanted to go to the bathroom, but I heard what seemed to be a voice in the hallway...... It's like there's a huge snake swimming......"

Vipelia's heart was awe-struck, and she suddenly heard an abnormal noise outside. But the voice seemed to leave the hotel, and it walked farther and farther down the hallway, and soon, it disappeared from their hearing.

TBC

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…… Wail! Everyone's imagination is so good to do!

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