At about seven o'clock that night, the golden sun set over the mountains to the west, and Toba and Ryuki accompanied Jonah to the center of the cherry ferry and helped the astrologer to his father's roof.

This log cabin was rebuilt by the head of the room for two days after the last unfortunate house destruction accident, in line with the principle of Daddy repairing the old as the old, whether it is the mottled wooden door, the potted roof, or the peeling exterior wall has remained in tattered appearance for decades, and I don't know where Toba found these broken building materials, in short, Dad is quite satisfied with Toba's craftsmanship, and personally promised that the Pitchfork Team has unlimited rights to destroy the cabin, provided that the master can rebuild it as perfectly as this time.

But as we all know, Daddy's personal promise has no effect, and Cherry Ferry is a town that runs on the 55 additional terms of the room lease agreement, and the protector himself has not made any amendments to the additional terms for twenty years.

Jonah raised his staff, expertly capturing the starlines, lighting up the illuminated star array in the red crystal at the top of the staff. The light gradually increased, the darkness receded like a tide, and a brilliant lamp lit up in the center of the cherry crossing.

"Have you had dinner, boy?" greets Daddy through the hole in the tin roof.

"Yes, Daddy. Jonah waved at the blind old man. He had no fear of the undefeated legend and the protector of Cherry Crossing, and felt that like Mr. Koshava, he was a chatty old man who was not very serious and liked to chat.

"It's been a hard journey, is it fun in the Sukasa Gorge, have you seen the beautiful Archon?" Daddy squeezed his eyebrows.

Jonah coughed twice, shaking Miss Ross Ross out of his mind. "It's fun, and I hope to have a chance to have a good walk. I've seen the Archon, uh...... Impressed. He replied honestly.

Ryuji was snorting behind her back.

"Rose is a very smart little girl and I like her. If she came here to help, that guy from Yame would be a lot easier. Daddy pouted and stretched out his hand: "Well, Maltose of St. Boren, come a little bit, and you will certainly not be afraid to stick your teeth out, at least for forty years before I am half my age." ”

Jona hesitated and bent down, took a small piece of candy from his hometown from the hole, and put it in his mouth. Cool and sweet.

Daddy took off his white boxy hat and sat comfortably on the bed, lighting his pipe. The smell of smoke rose from the hole, dissipating into the pale blue air.

"I'll sleep for a while, don't wake me up when I get off work. The old man finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, put on a brown felt cloak, and said to the three men of the pitchfork squad.

"Yes, Daddy. Standing on the edge of the room, a head taller than the room, Toba rubbed his hands restlessly, trying to shrink his massive body to an unobtrusive size.

Except for the sound of rushing water on the other side of the holy river, Cherry Ferry appeared bright and quiet.

Jonah got tired of standing and changed his position, catching a glimpse of Ryuki staring at him thoughtfully. Jonah felt a little cramped, pretending not to look at her, and kept peeking at her, and every time he turned around, he collided with Ryuji's gaze. Gradually, the astrologer's apprentice's face turned red, and he used his free left hand to straighten his robes and hood, rubbing the corners of his clothes.

"You spend a lot of time reading that book. Without warning, Ryuhime spoke.

"Uh...... What?" Jonah tensed, turned around, and involuntarily reached for the unnamed book scraps in his underwear pocket.

"That big book, what's called Bear's. Ryuji gestured.

"Oh. Yes. I...... I want to learn more. Jonah quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and the Oriental woman was talking about one of the two astrology textbooks he brought, "The Elementary Practical Application of the Interstellar Line of the Thirty Star "Bear" in the First House and the Star "Boat" in the Seventh House and the Seventh House. He did spend a lot of time on it, especially the Offensive Star Array chapter, but without the mentor by his side, the progress was slow.

"In my country, there is an astrological tower that is so high that you can't see how high, and at night, the top of the tower glows beautifully red and green, no matter how far away you are. Ryuki looked at the little sun in Jonah's hand with fascination, and Jonah's bewildered face was reflected in the dark pupils.

She rarely talks about her past, hiding her experiences so deeply that Jonah doesn't know how to continue the conversation.

The boy moved his lips and uttered many meaningless syllables, and finally spelled out a whole sentence: "I...... Uh, I used to live on towers like this. ”

"I know. Do you also glow red and green in the night?" Ryuki stared at him.

"Yes, sometimes, when Ke ...... When Mr. Koshawar opened the zodiac chart. Jonah felt like his tongue was dumber than ever.

"Can you tell me about it?" Ryuhime leaned closer to him with interest, the silver bells in her hair ringing pleasantly. A subtle smell was blown into Jonah's nostrils by the wind. Delicate aroma. A woman's taste.

"Good, good, of course. Jonah avoided the black-haired woman's gaze and cast his gaze on the mottled tin roof.

"Well, the zodiac chart is a very large device, and Mr. Koshawar said that every astrology tower has a star map at the top, and only the owner of the tower can open it.

When the astrologer with the chart needs to make measurements, drive the energy array, and the zodiac chart will rise from the center of the platform at the top of the tower, suspended in the air, projecting all the main stars of the zodiac on the transparent dome at the top of the tower.

As you know, the stars in the sky all appear in pairs, one of each pair of stars is the main star, which is represented by red, and the other is a secondary star, which is represented by green, so the whole star map is a light array composed of red and green stars, and between each pair of red and green stars, there is a faint white line representing the starline.

I secretly watched Mr. Koshawar open the zodiac chart, I don't understand the complicated star map, but it is beautiful, too beautiful. Like a dream of fireworks and fireflies dancing together. I—I never knew what it was supposed to look like from the outside. Beautiful, I guess. ”

"Yes, it's beautiful, as you say, like fireworks and fireflies, -- we would say, fireworks and fireflies flying in the night sky. Ryuji cast her lonely eyes into the endless starry sky.

Jonah didn't know what to say, but luckily the Oriental woman didn't ask him to say anything more. The two of them quietly shared a tacit silence.

"I'd like to take a look. Take my daughter-in-law and doll in heaven to see it. Just look at it from a distance, see it from a distance. Sounds so good. Toba spoke. The head of the room rested his big head in a small hat on the brim of the room, looking yearning. "The mushroom farm has nothing but mushrooms. They haven't seen the sea, they've never seen the holy river, they've seen nothing. It's a loss. ”

"They...... They can see it. Jonah hurriedly comforted

"Really, Master Astrologer, is that what the Star God told you?" Thoba's eyes widened, his fingers creaking the tin roof.

Jonah patted his forehead.

After a painful decision, he decided to tell a lie. "Yes," he said, nodding his head, and the star god said to me, that all those who are in heaven can see the beauty of the earth, and that everything we can see, they can see from the stars. Now, in fact, they are looking at us from a certain star. Maybe here, maybe there. ”

Jonah's fingers swiped across the starry sky.

Toba was silent. He took off his hat and looked up at the stars with an expression of awe and joy.

In this moment, he was the most devout astrologer, Jonah thought.

He turned his head and glanced at Ryuhime, exchanging a knowing smile.

Time seems to have frozen.

After a long time, Jonah looked down through the hole in the roof at the hourglass on his father's desk, most of the sand had flowed away, and the four hours of work were coming to an end. Jonah moved his stiff cervical spine and swapped his staff to his left hand, and the star array fluctuated due to this movement, and the light dimmed for a moment.

The dragon queen seemed to be awakened, and she sighed softly, and through the sound of the water on the other side of the holy river, Jonah heard the sigh and tasted the bitterness of the sigh.

"That...... Dragon Ji. He mustered up the courage to speak, and he mustered up the courage to call out the woman's name.

"Huh?" the woman looked at him.

"I don't understand what a sorcerer is, uh, not curiosity about your past, it's about your profession...... You know, my teacher won't teach me that, I asked Eli this morning, and he didn't say...... "Jonah was looking for the right wording."

"It doesn't matter. Ryuhime didn't seem to be averse to such a conversation, "Nian Warlock is your name for the special abilities of the East, and in my country, there is no such word.

My country is made up of countless families, each with a long history, a strong lineage, a sheer size, and a unique ability to pass it on from generation to generation. Ability is inherited according to the lineage, and the ability to inherit the ability of the 'clan relatives' who follow the patrilineal bloodline, and the 'clan branches' that introduce foreign bloodlines usually do not have family ability. The abilities of the members of each family are different variations based on the same trait (i.e., bloodline abilities). I wonder if you understand that?"

"......Probably understood," Jonah replied, blushing.

Long Ji smiled and said, "For you people from the Western Continent, the clan concept is difficult to explain clearly. Let's put it this way, there are many families in my country, some families have bloodline ability, some of the families with bloodline ability are combative, some members of the family with combat effectiveness have the ability to inherit the clan, and some of the clansmen who inherit the ability will lose their combat effectiveness due to ability mutation, and the rest of the people are what you call 'telemancers'. Do you understand that?"

"Understood. Jonah nodded. He also noticed that Ryu-hee constantly used the phrase "my country", which was rarely used to describe the motherland, although he was surprised that he did not pursue it.

"For example, my surname is Long, and I am a clan relative who inherits the surname of the Long family and the bloodline of my father, so I have the bloodline ability of the Long family to 'underworld marriage'.

To put it simply, when the Dragon family is 49 days old, they will marry the bones of baby boys and girls who have been dead for more than 49 years in a ceremony presided over by the patriarch, and the 'ghost marriage' ability is triggered, and the soul of the Long family and the deceased are united through invisible bonds.

From this day on, the dragon family used their life ability to provide nourishment for the growth of the undead, and by the time the dragon family reached adulthood, the undead also developed into an adult, with the powerful ability to travel between the yin and yang worlds, which is what you call hell and earth, and the dragon family fought by summoning the undead. As for my mutation abilities...... I can't say sorry to somebody else. Ryuki covered her rosy lips.

Jonah shuddered as he stared at Long Ji, who was quiet and peaceful, talking about the evil and terrifying rituals of the ancient family of the Eastern Continent in a gentle tone that told the story of the bedside, and replied in a slightly trembling voice, "It's okay. Of course. Everybody has a bit of a secret. ”

"And, don't misunderstand!" Long Ji remembered something, and urgently explained: "'Secret marriage' is a kind of contract, it does not represent a real marriage, and the Long family can get married and have children. ”

"Of course, of course. Jonah nodded violently, so much so that his neck bones clicked.

Looking at Long Ji again, although she has the same black hair fluttering and her eyes are like water, she has an extra layer of black aura on her body that exudes the strange smell of oriental **, which makes people ...... Moths want to be close even more like fire. Jonah broke out in a cold sweat at the thought of this.