Night.

After dealing with the neighbors who had come to borrow the oven, Lumian went up to the second floor and entered the room that served as a study.

- In the village of Koldu, many poor families do not have ovens, nor do they have large stoves, so when they need to bake bread or bacon, they have to borrow it from other people's houses and use it on the spot.

In this matter, Auroel has always been open-minded and very tolerant, and anyone can borrow it, but he has to pay the corresponding fuel fee, or bring his own coal, wood, etc.

By this time, she had changed into her white silk nightdress, and was curled up in an easy chair, looking intently at the book in her hand on the bright lamp on the desk that used batteries.

Lumian didn't bother her, casually pulling a thinner book from the shelf and sitting down on a chair in the corner.

The Veil of Concealment ...... What kind of magazine is this? Lumian glanced at the cover full of strange symbols, and his mind was filled with doubts.

He flipped it quickly, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became.

This magazine is about the existence of the human soul, about animism, about communicating with different spirits in secret ways, and getting different help......

Even if his faith was not at all religious, even if he just went to the church of the "eternal sun" to pray and occasionally attend Mass, two words could not contain in Lumien's mind:

"Blasphemy!

"Taboo!"

Although Auror, as a wizard who would definitely be caught and burned to death by the Inquisition as long as he was exposed, it was normal for him to have similar books at home, but Lumian clearly saw that this magazine was printed with the government's publishing permission!

Can this kind of thing be published in the open?

Isn't it said that publication censorship has always been strict?

Or, it's a fake license...... Lumian looked up at Aurel and asked:

"Is this a banned magazine?"

Aurore withdrew her gaze from the book, glanced at her brother, and said indifferently:

"In the past, it belonged to underground literature, but then it somehow passed the censorship and was officially published, and the 'Eternal Sun' Church didn't even care, so it acquiesced."

"Literature?" Lumian didn't understand his sister's words too well.

"Of course it's literature, you won't take it seriously, will you?" Aurel laughed, "If it's true, do you think it will still be published?" If you follow the above method, there will be no additional gain except to make yourself mentally weak and neurotic, eh...... Occasionally, there will be something real, but without the corresponding ritual language, no matter how much you try, it will be in vain. ”

This is the evaluation of a professional wizard.

"Well...... Lumian couldn't hide his disappointment, "I'm just surprised that this can be published." ”

Aurel puffed out her cheeks, as if in serious thought:

"I don't know why, maybe in recent years, there have been more and more phenomena involving supernatural factors in various places, uh, involving extraordinary factors, which can't all be hidden, bringing a certain trend of thought, and the government wants everyone to know a little bit about it, so it has relaxed the control of similar books. In Trier, the more popular are the three magazines "Psychics", "Lotus" and "Upanishads", which are all on my bookshelf, if you are interested, you can look for them, and in the future, you can go to the tavern to make up stories that are a little more like that. ”

"Hmm." Lumien was indeed interested.

At the same time, he once again sighed in his heart:

What a rich and varied collection of books Aurore has!

It is through these books and Aurel's explanations from time to time that he, an out-of-school youth, can have enough knowledge of the world, continent, and country in which he lives:

The world has two continents, north and south, separated by hurricanes and difficult navigating the Tempest Sea, and as for the legendary East and West continents, no one has reached them yet, and no one can be sure whether they exist or not.

The Republic of Intis where Lumien and Aurel live is located in the middle of the Northern Continent, bordered by the Misty Sea to the west, the Vorsac Empire to the north, the Honachis Mountains and the Kingdom of Rune to the east, and the countries bordered by the Kingdom of Fenerport, Lenburg, and Marcy to the south.

Between the kingdoms of Fenerport and Rune, there were also small states such as Segar, which, together with Lenburg and Marcy, were called the kingdoms of Central and South China, and what they all had in common was that they all believed in the "god of knowledge and wisdom".

The southern continent has become a colony of the northern continent countries, whether it is the Byron Empire, or the kingdom of Paz, the kingdom of Hagarti, or other countries, they have lost most of their autonomy, of course, the wave of resistance to colonization has never stopped.

In addition to the Raging Sea between the North and South Continents, the Misty Sea west of the Republic of Intis, the Sunia Sea to the east of the Kingdom of Rune, the North Sea to the north of the Vosak Empire, and the Polar Sea to the south of the South Continent, they are collectively called the "Five Seas".

Among the countries of the Northern Continent, the Kingdom of Rune has the strongest overall strength, followed by the Republic of Intis, the Vorsac Empire, which lost in the last war, fell to the fourth, the Kingdom of Fenerport rose to the third, and among the countries of the Central and Southern Continents, Lenburg is the strongest.

Compared to the villagers of Cordu, who only knew about the Republic of Intis, the Kingdom of Fenerport, and Lenburg, Lumian was a geographer.

Of course, this is because the shepherds of the village of Cordu need to move to the neighboring kingdoms of Fenerport and Lemburg, so that they have a certain understanding of these two countries, and the people of the northern villages of the Daliege region, in addition to the surrounding villages, towns and cities, they can only name Trier, Susit and other metropolises of their country.

Sometimes, Lumian really wonders, how can Auroel have so much knowledge?

All the textbooks he studied were compiled by Auror, and all the practice papers were produced by Auror, and the books he usually read, but if there are any questions, Aurore can also answer them!

What's more, she also has mastered the martial arts of various genres.

It's not like something that a girl in her twenties can do, and some people can't accumulate so much knowledge after living for fifty or sixty years.

Could it be that these are the basic conditions for being a true wizard? Lumian looked up again, at Aurel.

Aurore patted her cheek with her fingers as she read a book, without the appearance of a scholar or wizard.

"See what?" Aurel sensed his gaze.

"Last time, you said that I had the knowledge to take the unified entrance examination for colleges and universities?" Lumian digressed the subject.

Aurore thought for a moment and said:

"Theoretically, you can get into any university, but I didn't take that entrance exam, so I'm not sure what to do.

"Russell is really harmful, hey, that's a good thing......"

There is no doubt that the Unified Entrance Examination to Higher Education was created during the reign of Russell the Great and has continued to this day.

Auroel suddenly remembered something, looked at Lumian, smiled and asked:

"Why didn't you go to the tavern today to make up a story?"

"I'm not really an alcoholic." Lumian shook the magazine in his hand, "Reading books at home is also a great way to entertain. ”

It also calms me down and relaxes...... He silently added in his heart.

Aurore nodded, looked at Lumian's corner, and said:

"Why do you sit so far? Are you pretending to be pitiful, weak, and helpless?

"Come on, you need good light to read at night, otherwise it will hurt your eyes."

There are really a lot of strange words from Oloel...... Although I understand what the words "poor", "weak" and "helpless" mean, they are very strange when put together, and they don't look like normal usage...... Lumian, accustomed to Aurel's behavior, picked up his chair and came to his desk.

In front of the bright lamp, he and Aurore read books quietly, one on the left and one on the right, chatting a few words from time to time.

The sound of breathing, the sound of pages turning, and the night breeze blowing outside the window from time to time are soothing and calm.

…………

After exchanging goodnight with Aurore, Lumian returned to his room.

He took off his coat and hung it on the back of his chair, not trying to bring the "Wand" card to the bed.

This was for fear of arousing Aurel's suspicions, after all, his sister had said that she would always take care of him.

Lumian was about to take a step towards the bed, when suddenly his heart moved and stopped.

He rolled his eyes and adjusted his usual diagonal chair to face the window.

Then he went to bed and extinguished the kerosene lamp on the cabinet next to him.

After falling asleep normally, I don't know how long it took, Lumian suddenly regained consciousness.

Once again, he saw the bedroom filled with a faint gray mist.

Lumian, who was already mentally prepared, calmly looked around and found something:

The chair that I deliberately set up before going to bed is still reclining in my dream, maintaining its previous appearance.

In other words, the bedroom in the dream is not strictly a correspondence to reality, it may come from the deepest impressions of my subconscious...... It's not clear what that means, but Lumien feels like it's something to remember.

He came to the window, propped his hands on the table, and looked out.

The mountain of reddish-brown stones and reddish-brown dirt, with the ring of crumbling buildings that surrounded it, came into his eye again.

It's so quiet that it's dead silent.

Time flies, and after hesitating for a while, Lumian finally makes up his mind:

Do a preliminary, definite exploration tonight!

The wandering life in the past made him ruthless.

He did not immediately go downstairs and enter the ruins, but opened the cabinet and began to add clothes.

It's not that he feels cold, but in this way to improve a little "defense".

After putting on a cotton shirt and cotton pants, and draped a jacket made of leather, Lumian moved his body, feeling that he could not add any more, and adding more would obviously affect his flexibility.

This is more important.

Adjusting to the current state, a thought suddenly flashed through Lumien's mind:

This is my dream, what I want, what will I have?

With the mentality of trying, he began to whisper to himself:

"I want a cuirass, a pistol...... I want a cuirass, a pistol......"

The room filled with a faint gray mist remained unchanged.

It doesn't seem to work, this dream is really special...... Sumian calmed his disappointment, opened the bedroom door, and stepped into the hallway.

There was no light, it was dim and dim.

Lumian opened the doors of Auror's bedroom and study one after another, and the layout inside was slightly different from reality, but it was generally the same, and the biggest difference was that there was no Aurore in those two scenes, as if frozen in a gray color.

The same goes for the ground floor.

Lumien began to search for weapons for self-defense, and with his familiarity with home, he soon had two options:

One is the fork made of steel at the front, nearly two meters long, which, in Aurore's words, is absolutely easy to use and has an absolutely outstanding effect as long as the target does not have a ranged weapon.

The second is a sharper iron-black hand axe.

The answer for adults is all of them...... Lumien somehow remembered what Aurel used to say, but in the end he didn't do it.

Because he is doing preliminary exploration today, what he needs is to be hidden, careful, almost stealthy.

And carrying such a long piece of weapon would definitely drag down his movements, making it easy for him to be exposed.

Lumian exhaled slowly, bent down, and picked up the axe.

He straightened up and walked to the door in a faint gray mist.

Without a sound, he opened the door.