"The first month is the beginning month, and people give it the name 'January Month'."

"The second month is the month of recovery, also known as the 'Snow Moon.'"

"Spring falls on the mountain range in the third month of the year, so the third month is also called the 'Spring Moon'."

"Then comes the month of rebirth, the moon of rebirth, and then the four months of wind, fire, water, and earth, each named after the four elements of nature."

"Autumn is a season full of strife, decay and remembrance, the 'month of strife', the 'month of decay' and the 'month of remembrance', it's easy to remember, right?"

"Their corresponding abbreviations are 'Pastoral Moon', 'Harvest Moon' and 'Cold Moon'."

"The last month of the year, known as the 'Blessed Moon', is a month in which the faith of living beings reaches its peak, but their vitality also begins to decline...... This is the favorite month of the demon beasts and the beast kings behind them, but not the humans. ”

"The first month, the snow moon, the spring moon, the xing moon, the wind moon, the fire moon, the water moon, the earth moon, the shepherd month, the harvest moon, the cold moon, the blessed month, the year on our planet is divided into these twelve months, and we are used to calling them by numbers as a prefix."

"And every twelve cycles, there is an extra month in the year, once called the 'Nameless Month' or 'Cycle Moon', which carries occult meanings, and is blessed with various disasters or natural miracles, so it has a new name - 'Miracle Month'."

"Wow, brother, you know a lot."

In the mountain village, in a certain Orion's hut, Erica, a girl wearing a red bow, sat at a small shabby square table, with her hands on her cheeks, looking at her brother opposite with admiration.

Noka, holding a heavy book that had been opened, was reading the current page to his sister, when he heard Erica's flattery, his face flushed slightly, and he replied a little shyly:

"It's okay, it's okay.

"These are outdated knowledge, and modern human beings have long since eliminated these messy nicknames for simplicity as beauty......"

He scratched his head:

"We just need to remember that the year is divided into twelve months and four quarters, and each month can squeeze in a little more than four red star days...... By the way, there are also minutes, seconds, hours, and days, which are essential concepts in our daily lives, and you have to memorize them all, Erica. ”

"What if one day I suddenly die......," Noka lowered his head slightly, and began to mutter bad things, "You can only live alone in this world, it's okay in the mountains, if you go outside, who knows what kind of danger you will encounter?" ”

"Brother!" Erica had a slightly angry look on her face, "Don't say anything like that, you can live a long time, definitely!" ”

"Then I'll take your word for it, Erica." Noka replied with a smile.

However, he quickly changed his tune and said that he wanted to leave an "insurance":

"Sure enough, you should still ask the reliable adults in the village...... I don't know if there is a shortage of students for the witch.

"For a careful girl like you, it shouldn't be difficult to prepare herbs and decoctions...... Wait, don't cry, I'm just talking, I'm not going to actually do it. ”

"But, brother, you're ready to visit the witch again, aren't you?" The little girl who had been taken care of by her brother cried so much, "The packages piled up next to the fireplace, and the bunches of plants tied in bundles and stuffed in baskets, weren't you specially sorted out to repay the witch?" ”

"She saved our lives, Erica." Noka closed the book in his hand and sighed.

He got up and walked to the only window of the hut, and opened the curtains to look at the light that shone faintly from the mountains in the distance.

"After going down the mountain yesterday, I decided." "I went to visit her early this morning," he said. ”

"The witch-sama receives many requests every day." He let go of his hand and let the old curtain hanging above the window hang down naturally, "So, I don't need to go too early. ”

He shook his head to himself, "I can't be the first to disturb her early wake-up. ”

"Is there really anyone happy to wake up early every day?" His sister cautiously asked, "Perhaps, every time we come to visit, we disturb her rest." ”

"Well......" Noka was speechless for a long time before he reluctantly replied, "at least, I have a gift for thanks." ”

"And," he leaned down slightly, his arms propped up on the table, and met his sister's gaze earnestly, "don't you think we're up early?" ”

The genius was bright, and the two siblings were already sitting at the table for a small meeting in the dim light of a broken lamp.

This time it was Erica's turn to be speechless, but, for the sake of her brother's apparent determination, she did not throw out a rebuttal, but stood up very cooperatively, took all the gifts that her brother had packed up for the night from all corners of the cabin, and piled them all on the table.

"Erica," Noka looked at the results of her hours of hard work, looking very proud, "Did you know that different herbs have corresponding attributes, and a human with a power like the witch-sama can rely on the occult meaning behind these attributes to construct all kinds of miracles? ”

"Some herbs can be used to make amulets in addition to healing and cold medicines...... or divination and prophecy. ”

"Will you, brother?" Erica asked unceremoniously.

"I'm just a normal person." Noka hooked the corners of his mouth helplessly, and a bitter look flashed in his eyes.

He put his hand on the book he had read to his sister, brushed it over the cover, and rubbed his fingers slowly, feeling the strange touch of the book left on his fingertips.

Erica curiously glanced at the book cover, which was half covered by her brother's palm, and vaguely made out the part of the words that made up the title:

"Another time and space, the other era, ......?"

"This is the relic that Mr. Ranger entrusted to me last time." Seeing that his sister turned his eyes on, Noka generously introduced, "To be precise, it was the book that he forced into me before he sacrificed for us, so that I could increase my knowledge." ”

"Didn't you give it to the witch?" Erica's eyes widened when she heard this, and she felt that her brother's actions were a little unexpected.

"It's just common sense from the past." Noka spread his hands, "Some of the content is not even used by the adults in the village, and it has long been behind the times." ”

The knowledge in the book is only taught by the juniors of Erica's age, and the elders in the village are not unaware of it, but they just "don't need it".

"Besides, it's like the four ......elements," said Noka, casually flipping the book to one of the middle pages, "even you know that the village church school has to be examined!" ”

"It's still the beginning of the spring." He repeated it earnestly.

"Don't talk to me about exams, brother." Erica put her head in her hands and sat back in her seat.

At the same time, she glanced at the contents of the page with her spare eyes, and saw that the dense small characters were crowded together, and several illustrations were surrounded by them, giving people a lifelike feeling.

For example, in the picture that symbolizes the "fire element", the flames in it seem to be really moving; And the water, as if it really had to flow out of the pages.

The page on which the earth element is written seems to be a little gray and dirty, as if it will float out of the sand and dust when blown in one breath.

"Wind and fire are elements that symbolize ephemerality, represent moments, but they are also exposed, positive, outward, and represent light, and it takes a lot of spiritual power to make and maintain them."

Noka recited the contents of the book, and the right was to help his sister review it in advance.

"Water and earth are symbols of continuity and eternity, representing the hidden, passive, inward, and 'dark' elements, which offer the potential to create miracles, which require more time to be stimulated, but with greater stability, and do not require a huge amount of spiritual power to be invoked at once, but can be spent slowly."

"By the way, they are also closely related to the refining potions that the witch-sama is good at." Noka reached out to the basket and plucked a herb that had passed the freshness stage, "If you are a capable human, when you observe these plants, you will find that they emit a faint light all the time. ”

"And for ordinary people like us, Erica, must learn in order to grasp the corresponding properties of each plant, and the occult meaning behind it."

"Alas......," he sighed softly, "unfortunately, no scholar has ever studied the laws behind this knowledge, and all we can do is rote memorization." ”

The air element is associated with concepts such as spirituality, intelligence, communication, and movement; The element of fire is associated with aggression, strength, the body, breaking rules or habits, and is occasionally used to ward off disease, protection, and purification.

When it comes to the element of water, people associate it with love and healing, and the herbs containing the water element can be used to refine potions related to spiritual perception, and some rare herbs can also make people or monsters stay young forever, or strengthen friendships between different races.

Sometimes, taking herbs related to the water element can also help with meditation, so as to absorb more atmospheric spiritual power.

"The earth element is related to the foundation." Noka flipped the book back a page, and then hastily closed it, "It is also related to business, money and other material things, and it is very suitable to make amulets and give them to every visitor who comes to the village to do business on the day of the Red Star." ”

"If the witch-sama is still a 'traveler', wouldn't it be better to give her the wind elemental herbs?"

He tugged at the leaves of the wild plants he had collected with great difficulty, and sighed that if it weren't for the fact that it was winter, there would have been more herbs to be found outdoors.

"Ah, it's dawn." Erica, who had been muttering to her brother for a long time, reminded coldly.

"Would you like to go and rest a little longer, Erica?" Noka didn't want his sister to see her go out with a bag.

This will make it more difficult for him to hide his true intentions.

He still has the idea of "entrusting his sister to a reliable adult", but after several objections from his sister, he can no longer expose this idea to the surface.

Among the gifts on the table that were cleaned up overnight, there was also a reward for entrusting the witch to take care of his sister, after all, he hadn't let go of his plans to find his family's bones this winter, but next time he couldn't take his sister up the mountain with him.

The mountain was very dangerous, and he didn't want to encounter the "king bear" again.

"The witch listened attentively to what happened to us, and after I left, even though she did not recognize Erica as her student...... At the very least, their relationship would not be as cold as she was to the other villagers, as if they were just going about business. ”

He didn't want Daode to kidnap the powerful guardian, but he was destined to leave, so he wanted to do everything he could to increase his sister's ability and probability of surviving alone before this "doomed" happened.

"Please ...... Help me! ”

Noka mentally simulated the situation of visiting the witch again, and after some time, he still packed his bags under Erica's watchful eye and prepared to go to the boulder platform outside the village to realize his vision.

However, when he climbed the stone steps and came to the door of the witch's hut, what awaited him was a small animal with a snow-white body and a black tail tip, and a hint of innocence and innocence in his eyes.

I remember that this is a witch's pet, and it is said that it is a bit of a life, as for what is the name...... It seems that I heard the witch call it "Liuliu", and I don't know if there is a specific meaning behind this name.

"Hi, Six-Six."

Noka put down the various packages he was carrying on his back and in his hand, then crouched down and stretched out his hand to the little beast in front of him.

"Your master ......"

He listened intently for a moment, but heard no movement from other beings in the room.

"Could it be that she's not at home?"