Chapter 5: Lawson's Spellbook

'Puff~Puff~'

With the sound of three baked potatoes rolling on the table, Cyrus's indifferent voice echoed through the dimly lit room.

"I'm going out and running errands. You stay honest, wait for me to come back, and when you're hungry, eat baked potatoes. Remember? ”

Rosen nodded silently.

Sellers turned and placed the suitcase in the corner, picked up the bag with his head in it, and walked towards the door.

When he reached the door, he told again: "Remember, don't touch my things!" Don't leave the room! Don't talk to strangers! If I find you disobedient, you are good-looking! ”

Rosen thought to himself, 'This is going to keep me in captivity.' ’

Of course, the situation is stronger than people, and he has no room for resistance at the moment, so he can only nod respectfully: "I remember, mentor." ”

'Bang Dong ~ Click~'

Sellers closed the door and locked it outside.

When he was far away, Rosen also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, staying with a ruthless and narrow-minded mage all day long, and the psychological pressure was also very great.

He turned his head and began to look at the inn room.

The windows are small, green glass with poor light transmission, and it's dusk, so the light in the room is quite dim.

The room is not big, and all the furnishings inside are wooden.

Next to him was a table on which a small oil lamp was placed in addition to potatoes. The lampstand was swarthy with a hint of patina, and seemed to be made of brass.

Looking at the lamp again, the oil contained in it is pitch black, with a fragrance, which should be extracted vegetable oil.

There was a triangular wooden shelf in the corner of the room, and a wooden basin was placed on the shelf. There was also a toothbrush-like thing next to the basin, which was about the toiletry provided by the hotel.

There is also a wooden cabinet. There was a pottery teapot on the cabinet, opened it and looked at it, it was filled with water, poured it out and tasted it, the water was very clean, it should have been boiled, but with a faint earthy smell, it was not very delicious.

Then there was a wooden bed with a mattress made of neatly cut hay, and it made a 'zila' sound when sitting on it. The quilt looked very thick, and when I touched it with my hand, it was filled with reed flowers instead of cotton.

By the way, I looked at the bottom of the bed and found a wooden barrel with a lid, and pulled it out curiously, and as soon as I opened the lid, there was a strong smell of feces and urine rushing to my nose.

Well, it's a toilet.

After watching the lap, Rosen sighed lightly: "It feels like wearing back to the old society....... Huh~ There seems to be a crack in this wall. ”

Staying alone in a confined room is a very boring thing, and when he sees a crack in the wall, Lawson leans in to observe.

'Hmm~ I can see the next room, there is no one in the room, and there is no luggage, so no one should live in it. ’

The room is so big, the windows are big, and there is a nice screen with a mirror behind it...... It seems to be a small bathroom. ’

'The bed is so big, it's still a big round bed, and the luster of the quilt looks like silk...... I see, the main reason why my room is simple is that I don't have enough money. ’

In this way, Sellers is really short of money.

When he was bored, Lawson observed almost everything in the room that could be seen and touched, not even the rat hole in the corner.

But the room was so big, and he was still bored after reading it quickly.

Suddenly, my heart moved: "Hmm~ Isn't there a new program installed on the desktop, just study it." ’

Ning Sound summoned the desktop, and found that there was a new icon on the blue background, a small man with a bag on his back, and his name was "Lawson's Adventure Diary".

Try to open it, and a video playback window will appear, and on the right side of the window is a timeline, and the important time nodes are briefly marked with text next to the timeline.

Quite a fool's operation.

Lawson looked at the text next to the timeline and saw that there was a node in the middle, and the node note was 'traversal'.

Crossing the top is called 'past life', and the bottom is called 'this life'.

Try to pull to the previous life, and find that the experience of the previous life is exactly recorded.

Born, toddler, learn language, enlighten reading, then take classes in college, graduate school entrance examination, doctoral study after graduating from university, and finally enter the society and start a family.

During the whole process, what he heard, saw, smelled, in short, as long as the information he felt with the five senses, it was all recorded.

Lawson exclaimed: "Huh~~ It's a holographic recorder of life!" ”

After a cursory look at the past life, I look at the present life.

After taking a casual look, I chose the time when I first entered the Green Oriole Hotel and met the beautiful girl Lilith, and then tried to say silently in my heart: 'Play'.

The next moment, the window lit up and a three-dimensional image began to play.

In the video, the beautiful girl named Lilith walked up to her and said in a provocative tone: "Mr. Mage, do you want to have fun?" ”

It's a bit like playing a first-person online game.

Rosen recalls the stream of information he received earlier: 'See it from all angles....... What does that mean? ’

Anyway, he was bored, so he studied it seriously.

Soon, he understood the meaning of these words.

Under normal circumstances, the human eye has only one focal point and can only see clearly what is in focus.

However, the eye has afterglow, so the true visual field of the human eye is much larger than the focal range.

Through the replay of the adventure log, as long as the target is in view, he can refocus and carefully observe what would otherwise only appear in the afterglow.

Rosen slapped his thigh excitedly and said happily: "Isn't this Plath's version of unforgettable!" ”

This is outrageously powerful, much more than he expected.

But soon, he found that the function was very strong, but in a short period of time, he still couldn't change his embarrassing situation.

'Hey~ Take your time, don't rush for a while. ’

At this moment, the familiar sound of footsteps came from outside the door, followed by the sound of unlocking the door.

Sellers is back.

As soon as I entered the door, I immediately checked the suitcase in the corner of the wall, and after confirming that everything was intact, I nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, you're a sincere kid."

Rosen looked at him carefully, only to see that his eyebrows and eyes were stretched, slightly happy, and the bandit's head in his hand was gone, knowing that he had successfully received the bounty.

Taking advantage of the other party's good mood, he boldly asked, "Mentor, when will you teach me spells?" ”

Cyrus's face froze, and his joy faded.

He walked silently to the luggage rack, opened the top drawer, took out a complete set of oil painting tools he had bought before, 'clanged', and placed it heavily on the table.

"It costs a lot of money to learn spells, but as you can see, I'm not rich."

"If you want to learn early, you should draw hard to make money first, and when you earn enough, I will naturally teach you."

After speaking, seeing that Rosen's face was full of disappointment, he groaned and added: "Of course, you have already earned me 1 gram of money, and in return, I will teach you the basic lessons of mages today." ”

Rosen was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Mentor, thank you very much for your generosity and kindness. ”

Cyrus snorted coldly: "Don't rush to thank me. I'm only responsible for teaching, as for whether you can learn it or not, it's up to you. ”

"Mentor, I'll do my best."

"Very well, now go to bed and find the most comfortable sleeping position to lie down."

Rosen immediately complied.

"Close your eyes."

Lawson closed his eyes a little apprehensively.

After a while, Cyrus's somewhat ethereal voice came to his ears.

"The most basic and important thing for a mage is mana. And the only way to get mana is to meditate. ”

"There are many types of meditation, and the better the meditation, the harder it is to get started, and the more dangerous it is.

"Considering that you have no foundation, I will teach you the safest and easiest meditation to master today: Meditation at Rest."

"Now, listen carefully to me and do what I say."

Lawson immediately held his breath for fear of missing half a word.

Cyrus' voice continued to come from his side.

"Calm down, breathe slowly, and feel your body carefully."

"Feel the rhythm of your heart, feel the blood flowing in your body, feel the vitality contained in every piece of flesh, and feel the mystery that the Creator has left in you."

For a boy who grew up living in a den of thieves, these words should be obscure.

But for an old fritter from the earth who has been baptized by the information frenzy, there is no obstacle to understanding at all.

He felt his body without distraction.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, there was a slight shock in my head, and two streams of information flashed.

"The installation of the new program "Rosen's Spellbook" is complete."

"New Skill: Rest Meditation has been learned."

Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he immediately focused on the desktop, and sure enough, there was a new icon that looked like a book, and the name was 'Rosen's Spell Book'.

He tried to activate the icon.

The book quickly grew in size, taking up the entire table, with six large golden characters written on the cover, "Rosen's Spell Book".

Rosen thought expectantly, 'Can you open it?'

In the next moment, the page opened, and when I turned to the first page, there was an icon in it: 'Master Fundamentals: Rest Meditation'.

Looking at this icon, Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he thought of a possibility.

His heart moved, and he tried to gather his spirit, keeping an eye on the icon.

Sure enough, as he expected, two seconds later, an option popped up on the icon: 'Do you want to run this skill?' ’

Of course I chose yes!

For a moment, Lawson felt like the whole world was silent, Cyrus's voice was gone, and the noise coming from the first floor of the inn was gone.

In the next moment, he could clearly hear his own heartbeat, the sound of blood flowing in his veins, the hum of his intestines squirming, and the slight clatter of joints and bones.

After another moment, Rosen faintly felt a faint warmth in his body.

It's moving, but it's not the same as the blood circulation, it's more like breathing.

It's not the body that breathes, it's the soul that breathes.

Because the hub of this 'breathing' is not in the chest, but in the brain.

When I 'exhaled', a warmth came out of my brain, like a sky full of stars scattered on all limbs.

When you 'suck', the warmth returns to the brain, and it is like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

Rosen vaguely felt that every time he 'breathed', this strange warmth seemed to become a little stronger than before.

A flash of joy flashed through his heart: 'Ha, do I have mana?' ’

But the joy did not last long, and he suddenly felt a palpitation, as if he was being targeted by a beast.

He was shocked: "How can there be a beast in the room?" ”

In a panic, the resting meditation is automatically interrupted.

Rosen immediately opened his eyes and saw Cyrus standing by the bed.

He lowered his head, and his gray eyes stared at him tightly, and there was a strong gloom in them, like a poisonous snake that wants to choose people to devour.