Chapter 14: The Nature of Thaumaturgy
Deer Courtyard Anderson Dormitory
[6:30min]
[Sir, Luyuan has delivered the academy robe that suits your size to the door of your room, a total of three sets, each with its own small magic circle to avoid dust.]
According to Article 34 and 5 of the "Deer Academy Student Handbook", students need to wear robes to class. ]
[You haven't eaten yet, Jarvis has two options for you.] ]
[(1): Spend general equivalents to purchase delivery services, and the cafeteria will dispatch messengers to deliver food (the current area is Wudu, and the equivalents are set to [have central coins], and it is estimated to cost 3 central coins)]
[(2): Go directly to the cafeteria]
While Xia Xiu was washing up in the bathroom, he casually took out 10 central coins with a denomination of 100.
"Let the canteen bring breakfast over, and you can recharge the rest of the money to my personal account in the Luyuan Think Tank."
Rich, so capricious!
[Okay, sir.] ]
The Red Book with the plug-in device automatically appears, then quickly turns the pages, and then, a [Public Reverse Summoning] circle appears, and the money is directly swallowed by the circle, and then the Red Book automatically pops up a pop-up window.
[Cafeteria: It has been delivered, and it is expected to arrive in 3 minutes]
After washing, Xia Xiu brought in the magic robe at the door, and then put it on directly.
Well, it fits perfectly.
The messenger who delivered the food also brought breakfast.
Still an old friend.
Xia Xiu took the blue child that the owl handed over in his beak, and under the gaze of the other party with a look on his face, you kid should be a smart person, took out a sandwich from the basket and handed it to the other party.
I was not mistaken, boy.
The owl happily walked away with the food in his mouth, while Xia Xiu shook his head with a smile.
When you have time, you can summon a demon yourself.
Xia Xiu quickly finished the matter of breakfast, and then he asked Jarvis:
"Jarvis, show me the map of the teaching area of the Deer Academy."
[Okay.] ]
[Deer Courtyard Teaching Office and Wing Areas:
Main Building: Above-ground building (Cathedral)
Main office area (basement 1): administrative office space, special residence
Wing A (Basement 1): Staff Quarters, Medical Center, Convention Grounds
Wing B (basement 1): research area, low-risk artifact storage area
C Wing (Basement 2): Lay Cluster Classroom
D Wing (B2): Occult Group Classroom
E Wing (B2): Medium security control area
F Wing (3rd basement): all-round hidden bunker facility, safe living area
G Wing (Basement 3): Sustainable Agriculture Centre
H Wing (Basement 3): High-value area
Wing I (B4): Classified Area]
[Sir, you'll need to head to the occult group class in D-wing, where you'll be followed by a week of occult literacy and basic thaumaturgical education]
[Venue: Room 22]
[Class time: 7:50]
[Lecturer: Albert Raugen]
"Hmm."
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Luyuan Teaching Area
D Wing (B2) Occult Group Classroom - Room 22.
[7:45]
When Xia Xiu entered the No. 22 lecture hall, the front was already full of people, these people looked a little dark circles under their eyes, their pupils were still bloodshot, and their expressions looked a little excited.
It's the first time I've been exposed to the transcendent world, so I'm so excited.
Xia Xiu silently walked to the back row, although he was a freshman, he already had the smell of old fritters on his body, and he came to the classroom to step on it.
When Xia Xiu sat down, she also saw Camille who greeted her in the front row, unexpectedly, her complexion looked very good, and Xia Xiu was very happy to see her chatting with the three-eyed girl on the side just now.
I adapt very quickly.
[7:50]
Dangdangdang β
Three peculiar bells rang to indicate that it was time for class.
The students were all looking at the door excitedly, they were waiting for the professor to appear, and the professor did not live up to their expectations, and soon appeared.
It's just that Raugan didn't walk in through the door, he was teleported through the circle, and the familiar complex triangle forming a six-pointed star circle appeared on the podium, and our professor Raugan appeared with the circle.
Wow β
The way Lauengan appeared completely satisfied the 'Muggles' imagination of the extraordinary, and many of the students' eyes turned into star shapes.
Coach, I want to learn this.
Xia Xiu watched this scene with his hands on his cheeks, and he smelled the same kind of smell on this person, which was the smell of a lazy man.
[Aether Shuttle], or Space Shuttle, is also fine. This is a kind of spatial thaumaturgy that [etherizes] itself and then teleports by relying on the ubiquitous [Aetheric Ocean].
The common manifestations are circle shuttle, space door shuttle, and crack shuttle.
The thaumaturgy that Xia Xiu used the most in his previous life was the etheric shuttle that belongs to the Heavenly Lineage - [Shen Xing Bu], [Shen Xing Bu] is also a type of magic circle shuttle.
After learning the [Divine Walking Steps] in his previous life, Xia Xiu immediately spent a lot of time and energy to [entify] this thaumaturgy and fixed it in his pedigree book.
With this thaumaturgy, Xia Xiu never walked through it properly.
"Good morning, everyone." Raugan smiled gently at the students present.
"Although you should know my name from the AI elf, I still have to introduce myself, my name is Albert Lauingen, and I am the head of the non-natural science group."
"I'm going to teach you for the next week."
"I'll give you a brief introduction to the history of Terra's thaumaturgical development, and I'll also give you an explanation of thaumaturgists."
"Now, please summon your own AI elf and let it open the Luyuan First Grade Textbook - Version 268."
Xia Xiu waved his hand at the void in front of him, and a blue virtual screen appeared in his sight, and then he asked Jarvis to open the teaching materials that Raugan had said.
The blue screen immediately appeared with illustrated textbooks.
"Pages 5 to 6 of the textbook are an overview of Terra's thaumaturgical history, so let's go through it roughly."
The students skimmed through it quickly, and Raugan snapped his fingers when he made sure that the students were done, and a large blue screen appeared behind him that everyone could see, and text began to appear on it.
γThe Essence of Thaumaturgyγ
"Students, in the years to come, you will be exposed to this sentence countless times; The essence of thaumaturgy is nothing more than a change of concept. β
"We use the genealogy in our hands to dissect the ether and distort the present world."
Raugen pushed his glasses, and he said solemnly to the students:
"With the help of the [Aetheric Ocean], the structure of the world is as fragile and easily deformed as the plasticine in the hands of a thaumaturgist, as in the palm of a thaumaturgist."
"But [Aetheric Ocean] is not a place of mercy, and excessive use of thaumaturgy can cause itself to be distorted, resulting in malignant distortion or becoming out of control."
"Those who are out of control are thaumaturgists who are highly polluted by the Ocean of Aether, those who make pacts with demons, careerists who trade their souls for knowledge and power, and so on.
Whenever thaumaturgists use thaumaturgy, their souls are projected on creatures in the immaterial realm, well, mostly demons or evil gods, like raging flames.
They pounce on these flames like moths.
Unlike moths, moths to fire represent death, while demons that pounce on their souls represent the death of thaumaturgists, and what is even more terrifying is that their bodies become a lodge for demons. β