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Chapter 11 Magic PotionTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2277 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-14 20:00:33

Queens District was the place with the best security and strictest supervision in Backlund. People who lived here were generally nobles. As the hereditary viscounts of the kingdom, the villa of the Grallint family was naturally located in this place.

Speaking of which, as an old aristocrat, his parents' education and training allowed him to meet a group of aristocratic children of the same age, and he also organized a mysticism exchange meeting with these people.

Now that he thought about it, they were simply a group of children who were well protected by their parents. What risks did Extraordinary People pose that made these nobles avoid their children from contact with them? Now he didn't think that the original owner's father had never come into contact with Extraordinary People or Extraordinary items.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the Glerint family home in Queens. At this time, although the owner would not normally return to the villa to live, there were many servants doing daily cleaning.

Recalling the location of the private chemical laboratory he had set up at home, Gretelin took the servant Alan directly to the room in the corner of the third floor. When they reached the door, Gretelin said to the servant Alan,

"I need to try some experiments. You stand guard at the door and don't let anyone in."

"OK."

Alan responded quickly that Bancroft, his former valet, had told him many things, and he also knew that his employer, Viscount Glint, would occasionally conduct experiments in mysticism.

Greylint entered the laboratory and saw from his previous life that the equipment in the laboratory was extremely simple, a bit like the junior high school laboratory in his previous life, with only simple beakers, measuring cylinders, glass rods and other simple equipment.

There is a row of cabinets on the left side of the door, with dark glass, and I don't know what is inside. Gretellin walked to the laboratory table and took out the parchment scroll that Professor Steve gave him from his windbreaker.

Looking at the parchment scroll, Greylint couldn't help but complain that it was already the industrial age, and they were still using parchment, which made it quite mysterious.

But he did not stop. He untied the knot and unfolded the parchment. The text inside was written in Hermetic script:

Sequence 9 Reader Potion Recipe:

80 ml of pure water, 10 grams of narcissus rhizome powder, 10 grams of poplar bark, 11 grams of long moonstone powder, the heart of an elf flower, and the complete hippocampus of an adult unicorn.

Note:

To prepare a low-sequence potion, you only need to add the ingredients in sequence according to the recipe. The dosage in the recipe cannot be wrong. The finished product is a pure white solution with silver patterns.

After taking the potion, you need to meditate immediately to control your spirituality and strength.

Grellint read the words on the parchment carefully. He knew and learned a lot about meditation. The original owner had tried it many times but didn't feel any changes, so he stopped trying.

The core is to create a unique item that does not exist in the world, so that it can slowly merge with the transcendental 'I', the infinite 'I', and the cosmic 'I' to become an extraordinary person.

But now it seems that the actual order is to become an extraordinary person before meditating.

Grellint gave up the idea of ​​practicing meditation first. That didn't exist in this world. He had too many choices, from small ones like mobile phones to large ones like excavators. He was still confident about this.

Thinking of this, Grellint picked up the parchment and walked towards the storage cabinet against the wall, intending to see if he had the ingredients for the potion recipes at home.

Pure water, that is, water that has been repeatedly distilled, is common in laboratories, and he currently has quite a bit of it.

Narcissus rhizome powder and poplar bark, these two things are not available, but these materials are very common. I can just ask my housekeeper assistant to buy some when I get back.

Moonstone powder, Moonstone, is said to calm people down when looked at. The original owner once got a few pieces, but when he found that they seemed to be of no use, he seemed to have thrown them into a flowerpot.

That pot of flowers, yes, was the flower of the elves. Because it was said that the fragrance of the flower could refresh the mind, the original owner spent a lot of effort to get one and placed the pot of flowers in the study.

Now it seems that the only thing left is the complete hippocampus of an adult unicorn. Wait, unicorns are very special, but not particularly rare. It seems that there are only a few in the family treasury. It seems that there is a specimen in the game storage room of his suburban estate. This kind of horse is smarter than ordinary horses and a bit like a unicorn, which conforms to the aesthetic of the aristocracy.

Am I really destined to knowledge?

Grellant had a feeling that it was fate, but he didn't dwell on it. After determining the ingredients for the potion and noting down the missing ingredients, Grellant rolled up the parchment and hid it in the cupboard.

The servants didn't know how to open the cabinets, nor did they know Hermes, so there was no need to worry about losing them. After packing up, Gretelin left the laboratory and went to the study on the second floor to pick up a book on the reading list.

I took a quick look to make sure the flowers and stones were still there, and left the villa...

That night, after dinner, Glint asked Mr. Bancroft, the assistant butler, to buy some daffodil roots and poplar bark. He remembered that these two things seemed to have medicinal value and could probably be bought at the pharmacy.

Then he went to the game storage room of the manor and confirmed that the specimen of the unicorn was still there. Then he went to the study as usual and read the books on Professor Steve's reading list.

On the morning of Saturday, April 28, 1349, while Grallant was enjoying breakfast, the assistant butler Bancroft had already bought the two ingredients that Grallant needed.

Grellint motioned to the butler Allen to accept it, and asked him to prepare a sharp knife, a pair of clean gloves and a clean box.

After Grellint finished his meal, he brought his manservant Allen to the game storage room. Before entering, he asked Allen to prepare the carriage as he was going to Backlund's villa.

Then he went into the storage room, put on gloves, and used a knife to cut open the specimen of the unicorn.

Because it was a specimen, there was no discomfort after cutting it open. The original owner had systematically learned experimental knowledge, and the experiments in this era were not divided into biology and chemistry like when he traveled here.

I also learned a lot about biology. I successfully removed the hippocampus of the unicorn and placed it in the prepared box. Grallint walked out of the prey storage room and headed to Backlund with the butler Allen outside the door...

After picking up the pot of fairy flowers from the study on the second floor, Grellint went directly to the chemistry laboratory on the third floor and told Alan to guard the door and not let anyone in.

Grallint took all the materials, entered the laboratory, locked the door, took out the parchment, opened it, found a small plate, paper and mortar, and processed the raw materials according to the potion formula on the parchment.

After the raw materials are processed, take out the balance and measuring cylinder to weigh the materials. After everything is ready, follow the recipe sequence on the parchment, starting with 100 ml of pure water, put the weighed potion materials into the small iron pot one by one, and stir gently with a wooden spoon.

When the last unicorn's complete hippocampus was put in, the solution produced a large number of bubbles without heating, and it felt like illusory smoke rising.

After a while, the solution calmed down and Grallint used a wooden spoon to scoop the solution into the prepared glass.

The solution was very strange and as viscous as if it were a whole. Grellint scooped it all up at once, without even a trace left in the iron pot.

Grellint carefully observed the potion he had prepared in the glass. The fresh fragrance was very refreshing, and silver patterns were faintly flashing in the pure white solution, just as described on the parchment.

At this point, he no longer hesitated, gritted his teeth, and drank the potion in the cup.Chapter 12 ExtraordinaryTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2442 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-14 20:30:06

The pure white potion entered Grellint's mouth, and it felt cool, like inhaling a cool breeze from the Tussock River.

As the potion slid down his throat, Grellint felt an invisible force rising from his body and rushing straight to his head.

Coldness and stimulation floated in Gretellin's mind. He felt as if countless eyes had grown in his mind. His body began to twitch uncontrollably and his vision became blurred. It was as if his eyesight had improved and everything around him was clear, but it was also as if his eyesight had deteriorated and everything around him was blurry.

One piece is clear, the other piece is blurry, like a child's puzzle, chaotic and without any pattern.

His body was becoming increasingly out of control, but his consciousness was becoming increasingly clear. Everything around him was both clear and blurry. Faintly, he seemed to see countless eyes. These eyes seemed to have their own consciousness and contained endless knowledge.

He even felt that he saw his own body, which woke him up and made him realize what to do now, so he focused and imagined the mobile phone he used every day in his mind.

Slowly, he felt as if he had regained control of his body. He opened his eyes, and the world in front of him returned to normal, but Greylint still felt as if there were countless eyes in his brain.

It felt like his entire brain was about to burst. These things seemed to be instilling some consciousness into him. In the blur, Grellint only felt part of it, and only felt that there was a word repeating,

"Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom..."

Grellant was filled with the urge to destroy, and he wanted to vent it. He shook his head vigorously, but the situation did not improve.

After thinking for a while, he decided to continue meditating, so he closed his eyes and then sketched out the mobile phone he used before the time travel in his mind, and then shifted all his attention to the mobile phone he was constantly sketching.

He felt the eyes in his brain slowly disappearing, and the instilled consciousness becoming increasingly blurred, until it completely disappeared. Grellint opened his eyes, and everything around him returned to normal, and his body was under perfect control, just like before he drank the potion.

It was very strange, because according to what he knew about meditation, he should be able to feel the spirituality and gather it during the meditation process, but he had not felt any strange power or consciousness in his previous meditations.

Could it be that Emperor Roselle had made a mobile phone, but just couldn't mass-produce it? Gretelin thought about it and decided to try other items. In the past life, technology was far ahead of this era, and there were many high-tech things.

USB drive, failure, game controller, failure, excavator, failure...Grelint tried to outline several technological products, but they were all like mobile phones, and he didn't feel any strange power or consciousness.

Is there something wrong with my method? Grellint began to doubt himself. No, let me try again and think of something that I haven't had in my previous life.

Although Grellint was determined to create something that did not exist in his previous life, he did not know what kind of thing to create.

As his thoughts wandered, he vaguely felt consciousness transmitting to him.

"Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom..."

This gave him an idea. He decided to combine the Ravenclaw's golden crown from the previous life movie and change the color of the gem to the color of the potion. In the center of the eagle-shaped golden crown, there was a pure white gem with a silver pattern...

Greylint's consciousness was a little hazy, his body and mind calmed down, he seemed to feel the countless eyes, which were now floating quietly around him.

He felt an indescribable power, or a consciousness extending and radiating.

This gave him a sense of enlightenment, this was spirituality. Grellint felt the spirituality and began to slowly gather it...

After a long time, Gretelin opened his eyes. He knew that he had become a Sequence 9 reader and had successfully mastered spirituality.

After packing up the laboratory equipment and materials, Grellant opened the locked door and called the butler Allen, asking him to notify the carriage to return to the manor...

In the carriage, Grellint looked out through the small window. This was the first time he felt so relaxed since he came to this world.

He watched the carriage drive through the bluestone streets, across the Tussock River, and toward the outside of the city, where the bluestone streets turned into cement roads, and then into dirt roads paved with stones...

As he looked outside the car, some chaotic thoughts seemed to come to his mind again...

After a nap, Grellint came to the study in the manor and, as usual, began to read the books on Professor Steve's reading list...

By the time Alan got to dinner, he found himself having read two more books than he normally would in the same amount of time.

Is this the improvement brought by the potion?

Grellint thought to himself.

During dinner, he suddenly realized that the inexplicable chaotic consciousness in his mind seemed to have eased.

This reminded him of what was recorded in Russell's diary.

After dinner, he returned to the study, took out Russell's notes, and quickly found the relevant records.

"May 26th. I really enjoy being a 'universalist'. A strange thing is that when I call myself a 'universalist' and do things that are in line with its positioning, the whispers that almost drive me crazy become much quieter, and my temper that occasionally explodes is also under control. I remember the diary."

"Is this the 'acting' that the mysterious Mr. Zaratul mentioned to me? This may be the key to solving the hidden dangers of the potion."

Very similar. In the afternoon he was reading a list of books, so he should be considered a reader. Is this what "acting" is?

So why does role-playing work?

Grellant had new questions, but he couldn't ask Professor Steve. He couldn't ask Professor Roselle why the acting mentioned in his notes could solve the hidden dangers of the potion.

The hidden danger of the potion, it turns out that this is the reason why these noble children can never get real extraordinary items and can't become extraordinary people.

The potion would make a man crazy, but unfortunately he needed strength, the strength to go home.

Something was still not right. When Roselle was at a low sequence, he knew that role-playing could solve the hidden dangers of potions. There was no reason why these nobles didn't know this, unless the church was hiding this method.

Grellint shook his head and decided to put it aside when he couldn't figure it out. Except when he was reading, he didn't dwell on other things. He would solve the problem if he could, and put it aside if he couldn't. Maybe he would find the answer later.

Now that he knew that acting was useful, he picked up the book and continued reading.

Saturday, April 29th, morning, reading, afternoon, reading.

When Alan informed them to have dinner, Grellint felt that his reading speed this afternoon was a little faster than yesterday. He wondered if it was an illusion.

If I still have this reading ability when I return to Earth, I will directly study history and become a history professor. Maybe I can even become the most comprehensive history professor.

He had already planned his new life after returning to Earth.

In the evening, Grellant, who had already finished reading all the books on Professor Steve's reading list in advance, didn't know what to do for a moment, and Bankroford did not bring any new Russell notes.

After thinking for a while, Greylint took out the novel bought by the original owner. It seemed to be a novel written by a well-known writer and seemed to be placed on the bedside.

After washing up, Grellint returned to the bedroom and picked up the novel "Storm Heights" by Fors Wall, which was on the bedside table.

As a reader, he finished the novel very quickly. It was simply a mixed novel. At first, Gretellin thought it was a romance novel, even a bit like Jane Eyre. But suddenly in the middle, an "evil spirit" appeared, and the heroine, Ms. Sissi, turned into a detective. It can only be said that this is worthy of being a world of extraordinary people.

When he was enjoying the detective story, the hero got into trouble and lost his memory, and the tear-jerking plot began again. After all, it turned out to be a romance novel.

Overall, it is a good novel, worthy of being a well-known writer in this world, and the detective writes as if he had experienced it personally.

Grellint put the book back on the bedside table. If he could still read at this speed when he returned to Earth, he would find all the classic novels and finish reading them in a week. The thought of it made him feel good.Chapter 13 Dinner PartyTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2414 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-15 20:00:29

On Monday afternoon, April 30, when he met Professor Steve again, before Gregant could even speak, he welcomed Gregant into the embrace of knowledge and suggested speeding up the learning progress.

On Monday, May 14, Grellint completed his cultural studies and, after paying a considerable sum of money, agreed with Professor Steve to continue his studies after the banquet, learning about mysticism.

On Friday, May 25th, Grellint finished all his studies, and the butler Alvin also confirmed the date of the banquet, Friday, June 8th.

During this month, assistant butler Bancroft collected three pages of Russell's notes, which were all complaints about Russell's inventions.

For example, when he "invented" the steam engine, he was afraid that someone else would steal the patent. And when he first met the Beyonder, he felt that he had discovered the truth of the world and was destined to be the protagonist...

Apart from the one collected by the original owner and the knowledge related to mysticism obtained from Professor Steve, no more Roselle notes related to mysticism were obtained afterwards.

It seems that some kind of power is hidden, maybe it is the church.

It was a rare opportunity to complete his studies, so Grellint no longer worried about it. According to the butler Alvin, he had a week off.

Although these do not seem to be Mr. Alvin's exact words.

He decided to ride a horse and practice shooting. Thinking back to when he watched martial arts movies, he also wanted to be a hero, riding a horse and carrying a revolver...

Speaking of which, in this world of Extraordinary People, and since he doesn't have any powerful super powers at his level, he thinks it's better to carry a revolver with him. Fortunately, there is a shooting range in the manor. After all, he will always have to come into contact with other Extraordinary People.

A week passed quickly. Riding a horse was easy. With the help of the original owner's memory, Greylint mastered it in two days. But the revolver was difficult. The original owner liked hunting rifles and had hardly ever hit any prey. As for the revolver, he learned it completely on the spot.

However, as a time traveler, Greylint is still very talented, and he is confident that he will not miss the target within one meter.

It's Monday, June 4th, four days until the dinner.

From that day on, the butler Alvin began to teach Grellint that he should have a certain understanding of every invited guest.

For example, Earl Hall was different from ordinary nobles in that he invested a large amount of money in business, while normal nobles usually chose to buy land.

So when you chat with him, you can bring up some new types of companies and ask Earl Hall's opinion.

For example, Viscount Albert is a typical noble knight. Conversations with him can involve topics such as equestrianism or the war of colonization in the southern continent.

On Friday, June 8, although it was a dinner party, butler Alvin started to get busy early in the morning.

Although it seemed that Greylint had nothing to do, he only needed to be the host of the banquet, wait for the arrival of dinner, and talk to each of the nobles according to the personalities of the nobles that Mr. Alvin had taught him in the past few days.

After all, it was his first time to host such a banquet, and he was an impostor, so Grellint was still a little nervous. He had been staying in the study since the morning, recalling Mr. Alvin's instructions over the past few days over and over again.

Although it was a dinner party, guests started arriving one after another from 4 p.m., especially the invited barons and viscounts, almost all of whom arrived early.

As the host of the banquet, Greylint had naturally made preparations in advance. After lunch, he bathed again and changed into a dress custom-made from Lady Anne for tonight's dinner.

A white shirt with double cuffs, a detachable collar and a light-colored tie; a black vest, single-breasted, with lapels; and finally a black dress with peak lapels, a single button, and a pure white silk handkerchief in the left pocket; paired with gray trousers and black Oxford shoes.

Plus the perfume customized by Gusteau, which is divided into four tones. Before the dinner started, it just entered the third tone, which is calm, low-key, and has a light orchid wood scent.

"Viscount Neustrom."

Bing, who arrived early, greeted Greylint.

This dinner was his first gathering after inheriting the title. Everyone called him Viscount Neustrom, a title that combined the family fiefdom and the title.

Before the appearance of Emperor Roselle, the heirs of the title were all addressed in this way, but after Roselle began the Industrial Revolution, it was slowly replaced by surnames, and only in extremely formal occasions was the title of fiefdom plus title used.

Guests who arrived early were easier to deal with, and Grellint handled them easily. As a reader, although his memory and comprehension improved, it also improved his observation of the surroundings to a certain extent.

For example, Baron Alton, with whom he had just talked, from his words, Greylint read his intention to further his title; and Viscount Webb, he longed for war and liked the feeling of war, for which he did not hesitate to join the front line of the invasion of South Road.

Of course, there's Ms. Shirley, implicitly asking what Glenn is looking for in a partner; and Miss Gill, hoping to escape her family.

Grellant chatted with the guests, just like discovering the hidden clues in a book. At this time, Grellant understood the subtlety of Rune's style. He remembered that it was the etiquette teacher, Ms. Donna, who explained it.

Whether it is praise or criticism, no one will express it in straightforward language.

Soon, as it was approaching dinner time, some top nobles began to arrive slowly. The first to arrive were the Earl of Hall and his family, whose official title should be the Earl of Eastchester.

In Loen, the Storm Church is the mainstream church among the nobles. This is why the social season starts in June, because June is the season when storms are frequent. Both Greylint and Earl Hall believe in the Goddess of Night, so they are relatively close...

At the beginning of the dinner, according to banquet tradition, the host should start the first dance, and according to tradition he should do it with his wife.

It was then that Greylint discovered that the butler seemed to have missed a very important thing: he inherited the title too early and had not yet married.

Generally speaking, before inviting a dance partner, one would ask the lady's willingness through her partner to avoid embarrassment for both parties. Grallant was a little overwhelmed for a moment, but fortunately his good friend, Miss Audrey Hall, saw his embarrassment and secretly gave him a hint.

Grellint quickly noticed and understood the hint from his friend, with whom he often discussed occult science. So he walked up to his friend and made an invitation gesture.

"Beautiful Miss Audrey Hall, may I ask you to dance?"

"Of course, Viscount Neustrom, it's my pleasure."

Audrey naturally placed her hand on Greylint's.

The music started, the party officially began, and everything was perfect. Except that Grellant saw a hint of stupidity in Audrey's eyes...

The dance was still going on. When it was almost halftime, Greylint chose to take a break. He stood in the corner and looked at the crowd at the dance.

Lord Alton is trying to approach some of the nobles who are lounging around the ball, expressing his desire to fit in with more upper-class circles;

Miss Diana, who was simply enjoying the music and dancing, danced with several young gentlemen, but did not engage in further communication;

Audrey, her good friend who had just helped her, was now standing at the edge of the dance, smiling politely, and it was obvious that she didn't like this activity;

There is also Mr. Ford who is eager to express himself, Earl Moore who is trying to find a new partner, and Marquis Lawrence who is polite on the surface but actually looks down on these people...

Grellint felt like he was reading a book, an extremely complex book.

At this moment, he felt something in his mind shattered, or something dissolved. His spirit was merging with some substance, an indescribable feeling that Grellint felt silently.

At this moment, he had a feeling that he had become a perfect reader...Chapter 14: VisionTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2391 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-15 20:30:04

Monday, June 11th. From today on, every Monday and Thursday is the time for mysticism classes arranged with Professor Steve.

Just the basic knowledge of occultism cost Greylint 1,000 pounds, but fortunately Professor Steve guaranteed that it could be tested on the spot to ensure that it was real.

Thinking about the bunch of fake things that the original owner had spent a lot of money on, Greylint said that he was much better.

Today is the first day of study, and Professor Steve has prepared a long test paper for Greylint.

At first, Greylint thought that Professor Steve had made the test specifically for him and thought the money was well spent, but then Professor Steve said that this was a test that everyone who was chosen by knowledge had taken.

He always felt something was wrong, as if knowledge liked to pick people. Plus, the random sale of potion formulas and occult knowledge, if the potion formulas were not real, he would have suspected that he had joined some pyramid scheme with ulterior motives.

Grellint threw the thought aside and decided to learn the stuff first.

Since the original owner had learned some of the mysticism through various channels, some things were particularly basic, such as the names of the six gods and the corresponding times, which many people who had not studied mysticism knew.

This world has seven days in a week, just like the Earth, but this comes from the six gods. For example, Monday symbolizes the eternal scorching sun, and the sun symbolizes the beginning; Tuesday is the lord of storms, and the sky and the sea are the origin of all things... Like the goddess of the night that Grelinte believes in, she corresponds to Saturday, and the night symbolizes the end; and Zhoutian has no corresponding god, and it is the day of rest for all things.

Gretellin was able to answer most of the questions on this test, but of course, I don't know if they were correct.

But anyway, he bought a VIP course, which guaranteed that he would learn it. Plus, as a reader, it was just a matter of taking two more classes.

"Lord Glint, I now feel that the price I charged for your lessons is too high."

After Professor Steve finished reading the test paper that Greylint had answered, he looked up at Greylint, but his tone was a little wrong.

As a typical Loen noble, Greylint said that the money was well spent.

Professor Steve didn't say anything more and started the formal teaching.

"Grelint, first of all, you have to know that in mysticism, we divide the non-physical parts into four layers, with the 'spiritual body' as the core. This is your most fundamental spirituality."

"Outside the 'spiritual body' is the 'astrological body', which is the external manifestation of your 'spiritual body' and is directly related to your own will and current emotions. It is the way for your 'spiritual body' to communicate with the spirit world and the starry sky. Divination and many other magics are performed through the 'astrological body'."

"The 'mental body' is the beginning of the union with the physical body. It involves the brain and is a comprehensive presentation of your reasoning ability, thinking ability, insight ability, and ability to understand things. We believe that this is where the reader's potion comes into play.

"The etheric body is a manifestation of your life energy and physical state. By observing the etheric body, you can judge a person's health."

"First, you need to learn 'clairvoyance', which is the foundation of mysticism."

Professor Steve waved his hand, and the secret room began to darken, and the light coming in from the arch of the bookshelf became dim. Grallint could only barely distinguish the outlines of the surrounding objects.

"Remember the state of meditation? Move your consciousness from the meditation object to the center of your eyebrows. Imagine a beam of light emanating from there, illuminating your inner vision."

Following Professor Steve's instructions, Greylint focused his consciousness between his eyebrows. At this moment, he felt something extra, a very strange feeling.

After a while, I heard Professor Steve's voice.

"Maintain this state and observe your feelings and imagination naturally. Raise your right hand and place it in front of your eyes. Do not be afraid of any image, color, sound or other perception that appears in your consciousness. Do not panic and do not deny it."

Grelint looked at his right hand, and there seemed to be a fiery red color between his fingers. Noticing the change in Grelint's expression, Professor Steve continued,

"Remember what I said about the 'etheric body'? This is the aura, the external manifestation of your etheric body. Your hands and feet and other parts that involve movement will appear red, your head and brain surface will appear purple, the excretion and detoxification parts will appear orange, the digestive system will appear yellow, the heart and regulatory system will appear green, the throat and part of the nervous system will appear blue, and the overall balance will make the body shrouded in white... These are symbols of health."

Hearing this, Grellant looked down at his legs and saw the fiery red color again. He looked up at Professor Steve and saw that, as Professor Steve said, his head was purple and his limbs were red...

"I said that observing the etheric body can determine a person's health. It is by observing the color of your body. Once they become dim, or the thickness becomes thinner, or the color changes, it means that there is a problem with the corresponding part, and it is in a state of fatigue or illness. In addition, if you can reach the middle sequence, you can see the inner astral body, and the corresponding color represents your current emotion."

"Extraordinary items also have special colors in the clairvoyant state."

Professor Steve stood up and took out a few boxes from the cupboard against the wall. From Grallint's perspective, his sight seemed to be through these boxes, and there was light inside, some golden like the sun, some bright like the stars, and some pure white like a snowy mountain.

Grellint felt a little pain between his eyebrows, as if he was twitching.

"Okay, you should turn off your spiritual vision. It will consume your 'spiritual body' continuously. The manifestation of excessive consumption is twitching between the eyebrows, tingling in the head, excessive sensitivity, and a few hallucinations."

Professor Steve also noticed the change in Graylint and reminded him, then added,

"When you are in a clairvoyant state, you will feel uncomfortable with unfamiliar environments and will be easily affected by other people's emotions. You need to practice repeatedly to adapt and eliminate it. Also, don't overdo it."

Grellint sensed something was wrong in the last sentence, but now was not the time to think about it...

"Oh, right. Close your eyes and enter a meditative state. Repeatedly tell it to stop. Then open your eyes and you can turn off your spiritual vision. You can practice it repeatedly to quickly turn it on and off."

Grellint tried several times and became proficient in turning on and off his clairvoyance ability...

"Okay, that's all for the spiritual vision training. For low-sequence Beyonders, it consumes a huge amount of the spiritual body. You need to rest now."

Grellint indeed felt that he was becoming very tired, and his brain felt like a mess, just like the night he had just traveled through time.

Professor Steve took two books from the bookshelf and handed them to Gretelling.

"These are two books on mysticism, one is basic and the other is advanced. Although you also know this, I still want to emphasize that the ritual magic of low-sequence Beyonders is to pray for power and help from the outside. Therefore, if you want to experiment with ritual magic yourself, you can only consider the six great gods, preferably the Goddess of Night that you believe in. After all, there are hostilities between gods. Also, never try to communicate with unknown beings."

Grellant took the book and was about to leave. Then he remembered what happened at the dance, which involved himself, and he dared not postpone it until the next teaching. So he described to Professor Steve how he felt at the dance...

"This is a good thing. It means that the potion you took has been digested and you can take Sequence 8 potions. However, Viscount Glint, potions with higher sequences are more likely to drive people crazy, so most of the people in our society are Sequence 9 readers."

"Of course, the knowledge is public, and the choice of whether to advance is yours."Chapter 15 Reasoning StudentsTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2123 wordsUpdate time: 2023-05-28 00:51:06

On Tuesday, Grallant moved back to his luxurious villa in Queens from his suburban estate since June.

Now, he was sitting leisurely in the study, planning to read the two books given by Professor Steve.

As for whether or not to advance, Greylint said that there is no need to consider it, and the higher the better.

There was no party today, so he had quite a bit of free time. But it seemed that in my memory, he had always been quite leisurely, and even held a reading salon. What a damn aristocratic life.

The basic occult book was Elt Yad's "Occultism, Ritual, Culture and Secrets", and Greylint knew a lot of things.

For example, in ritual magic, 0 represents the unknown, chaos, and the state before the birth of the world. 1 represents the beginning, representing the original creator. 2 symbolizes the world and gods born from His body. 3 represents the contact between gods and matter, and the formation of all things. [1]

So when using candles in ritual magic, two represent the gods and one is left for yourself. This also symbolizes the physical, spiritual and divine nature of each person in a way.

The ritual also requires many auxiliary items and a clean, quiet spiritual environment.

In addition, he thought that the wrong straightforward prayer was actually correct, which made Greylint a little bit unbelievable. If he hadn't got it from Professor Steve, he would have suspected that it was another fake.

The gods in this world are very easy to talk to. For example, if he wants the help of the goddess, he just needs to say the goddess's name and then speak directly, telling her how he wants her to help. It is simple and clear.

But Greylint had no intention of trying it, and would rather try it with a teacher.

In Cameron Porter's Journey into Mystery, some Beyonders who have proposed a partial sequence for ritual magic can use their own spirituality to assist in rituals and reduce the number of ritual items and steps.

As a reader, although they were books on occultism, Grellant finished reading the two books given by Professor Steve in just one morning.

On Thursday, Professor Steve began to instruct Greylint in the practice of ritual magic and taught him simplified rituals directly.

After finishing his studies, Grellint bought the Reader's Path Sequence 8 potion for 500 pounds and also learned the name of Sequence 8, a reasoning student.

Back in the villa, in the chemical laboratory, Grallint opened the new parchment scroll, and the familiar Hermes script came into view:

Sequence 8 Reasoning Student Potion Recipe:

80 ml of pure water, 10 grams of golden rock bee honey, 3 drops of eight-eyed venomous spider venom, 5 leaves of golden and silver mint, 20 ml of dark lizard dragon blood, and a pair of eyes of an adult Fars eagle.

Note:

To prepare a low-sequence potion, one only needs to add the ingredients in sequence according to the recipe. The dosage in the recipe cannot be wrong. The finished product is a silver solution mixed with golden eye-shaped patterns.

The format of the parchment was basically the same as the previous one that read the potion recipe. Grellint felt that this thing seemed to be mass-produced.

But for the things above, he checked the materials in the storage cabinet.

Well, there is only pure water.

He took another look at the lists of the two family treasure houses that he had asked the butler to compile after the last time he prepared the potion, and there was only the Fals Eagle.

It seems that I need to buy it. The fastest way is to ask the aristocratic friend who has exchanged ideas with the original owner about mysticism whether he has the treasure in his home.

But he is not the original Greylint after all. Although he has memories, he has grown up in modern society and his way of dealing with people and things is completely different. It is too easy to be exposed in front of this friend who he has played with since childhood.

No, it's not that there is no solution. I can ask Miss Audrey for help. I can contact her under the pretext of thanking her for helping me out at the last dinner.

Unlike Kent and others, as girls, Greylint and the others were very concerned about their image when in front of her.

In front of Audrey, Glint was still confident that he would not be discovered. Maybe there was something in her family's treasure house. Or he could find an excuse to ask her to help collect it. After all, her father was an earl and an influential senator.

This is much faster than asking the butler assistant Bancroft to buy it. His butler assistant hasn't brought him the Russell notes for a long time. Speaking of which, should he find something else for him to do? It seems that the assistant has been a little lost recently, Graylint thought to himself.

On Saturday, just like the original owner's previous gatherings, Greylint and Audrey agreed to meet in the noble room of Backlund's Crown Racecourse.

In Loen, men cannot invite women alone. Even if it is a date, they will find other excuses. Not to mention the academic exchanges between Grallint and Audrey. This is not Intis. The concept here is not so open.

Soon, Grellint, who was waiting in the private room, saw Audrey coming.

She was wearing a low-key luxurious silk shirt with a light yellow long skirt, elegant and low-key. When she took off her hat when she entered the door, her golden hair shone like gold in the sun. Her emerald eyes were like the purest gems, and her face was perfect.

In the era of advanced Internet in his previous life, he had never seen many of them online. They were truly "Backlund's most dazzling gems."

"Audrey, no matter when I see you, your beauty always makes my eyes light up."

Seeing Audrey's unconscious smile after hearing what he said, Grellant felt more confident. This young woman who was not very experienced in the world...

Of course, Grellint just wanted to hide his own problems and lie to her, no, ask her to help collect materials.

So, Grellint first admitted his mistake at the dinner party and expressed his gratitude to Audrey, and then discussed mystical knowledge as usual.

Thanks to Professor Steve's teaching, he was basically the one who told Audrey. Looking at Audrey who was studying hard, Grellant had a feeling that being a teacher would be a good thing.

While explaining the basic knowledge of occult science, Greylint revealed that he had acquired several new ritual magics, but was still collecting some materials.

So Audrey naturally took over the task of collecting materials, and generously said that she didn't need any compensation, as long as she was called upon for the next experiment.

Of course, Grellint gave her not only the missing materials for the potion, but also some of the materials needed for the ritual magic.

As expected of the Earl's daughter, Audrey sent all the materials that Greylint needed to Greylint's luxurious villa the next day, and emphasized that she should be notified when the ritual magic was experimented.

In the villa's chemical laboratory, Gretel prepared the potion for the Sequence 8 deduction students with ease. Looking at the potion with golden eye-shaped patterns mixed in the silver solution, Gretel drank the potion after carefully comparing it with the description on the parchment.

After he digested the potion at the dinner party, the consciousness transmission that had not appeared in his brain appeared again.

"Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom...Crown of wisdom..."

This time, he seemed to feel a trace of emotion, a sense of loss...Chapter 16 Ritual MagicTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2451 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-16 20:30:03

June 18th, it was a new week again, and Grellint did not dwell on the consciousness he felt after taking the potion yesterday.

He once asked Professor Steve about the reason for this kind of consciousness transmission, but Professor Steve only warned Grellant not to go too deep, as this was the reason why many extraordinary people went crazy. Then he added that Grellant didn't understand what he said.

"God is always in each of us."

When Grellant asked for the explanation of this sentence, Professor Steve did not answer his questions as usual.

In the secret room of Professor Steve's study, Greylint finished his occult studies for the day. After becoming a Sequence 8 reasoning student, his memory and comprehension gained from the Sequence 9 potion had also improved significantly.

His learning speed is much faster than before. According to Professor Steve, if things go well, he can hopefully finish it by June.

After today's class, Grellint made an appointment with Audrey for an experiment. He planned to show Audrey that he had really learned some magic rituals. After all, this was the easiest friend he could cheat, no, ask for help.

If Greylint wants to continue to advance, the items he needs will probably become increasingly rare and more expensive. His family is a traditional aristocracy that relies on income from fiefdoms and private estates and seldom collects special items.

He currently does not have any powerful abilities, has poor life-saving abilities, and does not know any wild extraordinary people. It is too dangerous for him to go find an underground extraordinary organization.

After all, Mr. Bankroford, the assistant butler, is just an ordinary person. It's okay to ask him to collect Roselle's notes and buy some common items, but it's too dangerous to really come into contact with the underground extraordinary organization.

As a young man who had grown up under nine years of compulsory education, he couldn't risk other people's lives. So he wanted to tell Audrey that he had become a Beyonder, so that she could help collect Beyonder materials from her friends when she needed them.

As far as he could remember, there were many people in the occult exchange meeting where these protected children came from families that liked to collect strange things and items, and maybe there was something that Greylint would want in the future.

On Wednesday afternoon, at the Glint family's luxurious villa, Glint held a reading salon and invited many writers and aristocrats.

For example, the author of the novel that Greylint had read before, Fors Wall, and Miss Jill who attended the dance last time, and of course the most important thing was that Audrey was invited.

After the presentation, Grellant made some small gestures in front of Audrey. As they were friends who communicated frequently, Audrey naturally understood what he meant.

So, the two of them went to the study on the second floor one after the other, and left the servants outside the door. In response, Audrey's personal maid Anne only emphasized that the time should not be too long, and it was obvious that she had long been accustomed to it.

Grellant and Audrey came to the small round table by the window. Before Grellant could speak, Audrey sat on the chair skillfully. Then she couldn't wait to ask Grellant to start the magic ritual.

Apparently, this wasn't Audrey's first time here, and she acted very casually in private.

Greylint sat down opposite Audrey and took out the items he had prepared long ago. He planned to show Audrey his ability to block out light.

Darken your surroundings by praying to the goddess of night.

He lit three candles in turn with proficiency, then picked up a small silver knife, inserted it into the coarse salt, and chanted a Hermetic spell:

"I sanctify you, the pure silver blade!"

"You are sanctified!"

He pulled out a silver knife, inserted it into a glass of water, and then lifted it up, pointing it at the space outside the round table. He pointed the tip of the knife toward the outside, walked around the round table, and used his spiritual power to form a sealed wall to separate the altar from the surroundings.

Grellint stood in front of the round table, put down the silver knife, picked up a bottle of prepared "full moon essential oil", and dripped a drop on each candle.

Sizzle!

A thin mist filled the air, and everything on the round table seemed to become mysterious.

After waiting for a few minutes, Grellint picked up the parchment with the symbol of light on it from the dining table and drew a "cross" on the symbol of light with a feather pen to indicate elimination. Then he opened his spiritual vision and chanted in a low voice:

"I pray for the strength of the night;"

"I pray for the power of crimson;"

"I pray for the favor of the goddess;"

"Pray to temporarily block out the light in this room."

"O night herb, herb of the red moon, please pass on your power to my spell!"

"O Moonflower, herb of the red moon, please pass your power to my spell!"

At this moment, the candle light suddenly became brighter!

After Grellint finished reciting, he closed his eyes for a while, picked up the "Full Moon Essential Oil", and dripped a drop on each of the three candles. Then he brought the imitation parchment close to the candle that symbolized "I" and lit it, and threw it into the prepared cauldron. When the parchment was completely burned, only ashes were left.

"Praise the Goddess" Grellint tapped his chest four times, forming a crimson moon, and then extinguished the candles in the opposite order to the beginning. Then he picked up the silver knife and poked around.

After a sudden gust of strong wind, the house suddenly became dark.

"Grelint, the ritual magic was successful." Audrey's surprised voice came from the front.

"It depends, yes. I succeeded the first time, too," Grellint replied, adding in his mind, "In front of you."

After a while, everything in the house returned to normal, but Audrey was still very excited, saying that this was the most amazing ritual magic she had ever seen.

Then, they discussed some mystical knowledge, of course, it was still Grallant who was talking. During the conversation, Grallant mentioned the Russell Notes.

When Professor Steve mentioned that they had cracked the symbols representing numbers, it was natural for Audrey to "voluntarily" take over the task of collecting notes, and he returned the Russell notes that had been prepared long ago to Audrey.

It was this feeling of being prepared in advance that made him think of the situation when he faced Professor Steve.

At night, in the study, Grellint took out the quill he brought from the manor and prepared to start looking for the source of the quill. After all, there might be a bomb behind it.

In the original owner's memory, this feather pen was seen in the fiefdom castle this year. In his memory, the original owner liked it as soon as he saw it, and even asked the servant about the source of the feather pen. According to Peterson, who specializes in organizing the study in the castle, this is an old item in the castle and has been in this study for a long time.

The original owner brought it with him when he came to Backlund's suburban estate. Before the time travel, the original owner had used it many times and it behaved just like an ordinary feather pen. But after the time travel, this feather pen showed extraordinary abilities.

After learning mysticism from Professor Steve several times, Grellint also had his own understanding of extraordinary items. The situation where there was no extraordinary ability before the appearance, but now has extraordinary abilities, is generally accompanied by the death of the extraordinary person.

Grellant was certain that before the time travel, Grellant was definitely an ordinary person. According to Professor Steve, most extraordinary items came from extraordinary people who lost control, and losing control meant death. Before death, extraordinary abilities were accidentally transferred to the items on the person, which formed extraordinary items.

The extraordinary items formed in this way have great side effects, which is very similar to the feather pen. The feather pen can constantly induce the holder to think and observe. According to the modern medical knowledge that Grallint knows, ordinary people who use their brains in this way are very likely to become idiots...

On Thursday, Grallant explained to Professor Steve some of his speculations about the quill and apologized to Professor Steve for lying about the origin of the quill last time.

Of course, a lot of things were concealed this time as well. For example, the time travel was simply said to have been left as the feather pen had fallen on the desk when he woke up.

Professor Steve clearly stated that only extraordinary people can create extraordinary items, but he provided Greylint with a new idea, sealing, to seal extraordinary items into ordinary items.Chapter 17 The Last LessonTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2560 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-17 21:30:02

The investigation on the feather pen made no progress for several days, and the clues pointed to the family castle. Greylint secretly tried to test Peterson, who was in charge of this aspect of the castle, but the other party insisted that the feather pen had existed for a long time.

Judging from the original owner's memory, there really was such a thing in the study room of his home that he loved very much, and the original owner had already obtained it. The original owner had destroyed many antiques in the house during his experiments in mysticism.

For example, I saw a book that recorded an angel sealed by a demon in an ancient bottle. After it was accidentally broken by a boy, the angel helped him grow up, and finally he grew into an angel and defeated the demon together...

For this reason, the original owner destroyed many collection bottles at home, fantasizing that an angel would appear.

For someone like this, who had been to the study so many times over the years, but didn't get this feather pen in advance, it was a bit strange no matter how you thought about it.

Greylint planned to wait until mid-July, when the nobles' social life entered a short break, and then return to the family castle to see if he could find some other clues through the methods of the Beyonders.

As for now, this year's social season has just begun, and people invite Greylint from time to time. Naturally, he cannot leave suddenly and run back to the castle, which might attract the attention of the person behind the scenes.

This was different from his inquiry. The excuse he used was that he wanted to get a few more and put them in various study rooms to avoid having to bring them around. In addition, the most important thing was that Grallint was still learning about the occult, and for him, this was more important than investigating the quill.

He believed that only by becoming strong could he avoid all dangers.

In addition to collecting information about the quill, Grellant and Audrey have been in contact more often these days. After learning that Grellant has mastered the real ritual magic, and after she always fails when she tries it herself at home, Audrey begins to contact Grellant on her own.

During a recent contact, Audrey also mentioned that her family had an ancient bronze mirror. According to her father, it was a treasure of the Black Emperor of the ancient Solomon Empire, a powerful and extraordinary item.

She invited Grallant to study the extraordinary object with her on Thursday.

Grellint was not interested in this. He knew very well that Earl Hall would not give his daughter a real extraordinary item, and he had to go to Professor Steve to study on Thursday. So he declined Audrey's invitation and proposed to change the time, and agreed to meet on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Grellant saw what Audrey had said, a bronze mirror with ancient patterns and a cracked surface. After a careful study, Grellant determined that it was an ordinary item, but the pattern looked a little familiar.

But Greylint didn't think much about it. He had seen many items from the Fourth Epoch. The items from that period had several patterns that were different from the current ones. They seemed to symbolize the emperor and some disappeared families.

Of course, Grellint didn't directly state that this was an ordinary item. Instead, just like the stories in the books, he told Audrey that powerful extraordinary items required specific conditions to be opened...

On Thursday morning, June 28, Professor Steve's study secret room. Because he had to attend the warship launching ceremony in the afternoon, he discussed with Professor Steve and changed the class to the morning. According to Grellant's learning progress, this would be Grellant's last occult class.

According to Professor Steve, Grellant's current knowledge of mysticism and ritual magic is enough for him unless he advances to Sequence 6.

According to Professor Steve, this class will teach Greylint the most commonly used communication methods among extraordinary people in secret organizations.

"Grelint, do you know how secret organizations like us maintain communication and exchange of items?"

Professor Steve did not start the class directly like he did in previous classes, but instead asked Grellint this question.

Grellant did not answer. After studying for these days, he got to know Professor Steve a little bit. Professor Steve was a very standard teacher.

"Our communication is actually similar to that of ordinary people, all delivered through letters and messengers. However, our messengers are spiritual beings."

Having said that, Professor Steve took out a pendant from his pocket. The pendant looked like a brass eye.

This is one of the symbols of the Society, the All-Seeing Eye.

Professor Steve swung it clockwise, and Greylint felt like there was something new around him. He quickly turned on his spiritual vision and saw a strange creature.

It has huge wings, and its appearance is that of a bird. It is made up of many colors, which are constantly changing. But its head is a bit like a goat, with two horns. It has two feet, but they are not like bird claws, but more like the hooves of some creature, a bit like a cow.

It had an indescribable weirdness and confusion, even the chaotic transmission of consciousness in the mind was replaced by this thing.

"Its name is Hachiraspius, and it's my messenger." Professor Steve didn't elaborate on it.

"We have two ways to get a messenger. One is to use an accurate description and hold a summoning ceremony to summon the spirit creature you want and sign a necromancy contract with it. For example, you can also describe a Hachiraspiah, but I don't know if he will respond to you."

"The second is to go directly into the spirit world, find the messenger, and after obtaining its consent, sign a contract with it. Then create an accurate description language to facilitate future summoning. However, entering the spirit world to find creatures is a troublesome matter, especially since you have to be brought along, after all, you cannot enter the spirit world on your own yet."

"When we sign a courier for the first time, we usually choose the first method, through accurate 'description', to avoid most risks. Description is very important, otherwise, the spiritual creatures that meet the description are difficult to predict, and may even summon strange evil spirits that I can't solve."

"The last step is to sign the contract. The contract requires the use of the power of the dead realm."

Professor Steve took out a parchment and handed it to Grellant. Under the clairvoyance, the parchment was pitch black, as if it could absorb everything. Then, Professor Steve put his hand on Grellant's shoulder.

"We need to change to another place, a place that is empty and deserted."

Grellint felt that everything around him was compressing, objects became illusory, and moved in various colors. In an instant, it seemed as if a large amount of things poured into his mind.

When he regained consciousness, everything around him had changed, the jungle, the coast...

"This is an uninhabited island in the sea. Summoning unknown spiritual creatures in Backland may attract the attention of official Beyonders."

"Is this also a late-stage reader ability?" Grellint took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and found that only a short while had passed. If he had this ability, he could go back to the castle to investigate now.

"Forget it. However, what you need most right now is a messenger of your own."

"This is also a type of ritual magic. You have also learned this type of ritual magic that involves praying to yourself, such as when enchanting a silver knife. The biggest feature of this type of ritual magic is that it does not require the intervention of a god, making it quite concealed."

"First, prepare a candle that symbolizes yourself. Then comes the spell, which usually consists of three parts. The first part is 'I'. Speak out 'I' in ancient Hermetic, Giant, Dragon or Elven language. The second part is 'I summon in my name'. You can use Hermetic language instead. The third part is a specific description of the summoned creature, which usually consists of three sentences. The first part must be clearly stated as a spiritual creature, and the next two sentences specify the scope of the creature."

"I can give you a reference. It is a spirit wandering in the void, a friendly creature that can be driven, and a unique existence that is willing to be my messenger."

Grellint had studied mysticism for so long that he could naturally understand the meaning of this sentence. 'Spirit wandering in the void' refers to the spiritual world; 'friendly creatures that can be driven' ensures that the summoned creatures will not endanger their lives; 'unique beings willing to be my messengers' ensures that the summoned creatures are willing to be my messengers.

But Grellant still wanted to give it a try. He believed that since Professor Steve could enter the spirit world, his choice must be good. So he lit the candle according to Professor Steve's instructions.

"I!"

"I call upon my name:"

"A spirit wandering in the void, a friendly creature that can be used, and a Hageraspius who is willing to be my messenger."

After Grellint finished reading, nothing seemed to change...Chapter 18 The MessengerTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2396 wordsUpdate time: 2024-10-18 19:15:03

Professor Steve was silent for a while as he watched Greylint's actions.

"You know, if we count the sequence, Hachiraspi is equivalent to Sequence 5."

"Forehead..."

Grellint immediately restarted the ceremony.

"I!"

"I call upon my name:"

"A spirit wandering in the void, a friendly creature that can be driven, a unique existence willing to be my messenger."

call!

Inside the spiritual wall, the candle flame began to shake and expand, and in a short while, it became the size of a normal person's upper body.

A black creature came out from inside, with irregular silver lines on its black fur. It was a cat!

Unlike ordinary cats, it was suspended in the air, standing upright. The most eye-catching thing was its huge eyes and crescent-shaped mouth that almost extended to the back of its head, with jagged teeth visible inside. Grellint thought he was smiling...

Putting this feeling behind him, he glanced at Professor Steve and confirmed that everything was normal. Then, Greylint took out the parchment scroll given by Professor Steve and said to the unknown creature, "Are you willing to sign a contract with me?"

Grellant felt that it was reading carefully,

"Yes, the reward is delicious food, all kinds of delicious food."

Cats can talk, too! Grellant felt that he could no longer understand the world, but Professor Steve didn't say anything, which proved that everything was normal.

As for the food, it's too simple.

So, Grellint modified the terms of the contract. In addition to the basic requirements for the messenger, such as accurate delivery and unopened letters, he also added the requirement to provide the messenger with all kinds of delicacies that Grellint could come into contact with.

Of course, there are some restrictions. For example, when the content of the letter involves a messenger, it must be explained to the messenger and agreed to by the messenger; the food must be food from the normal human world, etc.

After both parties agreed, Glint signed his name, Robert Glint. At the same time, he also learned the cat's name, Marcy Stephen.

The ancient Hermes on the parchment scroll burned one by one, forming a whole. Under the pale green flame, the parchment scroll quickly burned to ashes. Maxi Stephen blinked at Grallant and disappeared in the flame of the burning candle. Everything returned to calm.

At this time, Professor Steve came forward, held Greylint's shoulders, and, like last time, took him back to Backlund's study secret room.

"Okay, you have a messenger now. As for your messenger, I don't know much about it. The spirit world is huge, and even I can't know all the creatures. But its perception is not strong, and there is a contract, so you don't have to worry about anything."

"As for now, you can confirm the summoning spell of your courier. You can use the courier if you have any questions in the future. Of course, the price will depend on your problem."

"Normally, you need to summon my messenger to write to me, and I need to summon your messenger to write to you. This is because there is a contract between the messenger and the employer, and the messenger can sense the employer at all times. Of course, if your messenger is powerful enough, it can record other people's information. For example, my messenger has seen you before, and as long as he knows your approximate location, just like now, in Backlund, he can deliver it through sensing."

"If it can communicate with language like your courier, you can try to teach it to learn maps, so that it can deliver letters like an ordinary postman."

After listening to Professor Steve's instructions, Glint thought for a moment and determined his own summoning spell, "A spirit wandering in the void, a friendly creature that can be driven, a messenger that belongs exclusively to Robert Glint."

He then asked Professor Steve why there was no spell when he summoned the messenger before, and learned that he could make a summoning prop to simplify the summoning ceremony.

Naturally, Grellant would not save money on this. With the addition of the Sequence 7 potion formula, Grellant spent another 1,000 pounds. As for the items used for summoning, he thought about it and took out the pocket watch he carried with him.

Holding the parchment with the formula of Sequence 7 potion given by Professor Steve, Grellant left Professor Steve's house. As for the summoning props, Professor Steve said that he would give it to him through a messenger after it was completed.

In Queens, in the private laboratory of the Glint family, Glint opened the parchment and saw familiar text and format.

Sequence 7 Detective (Keeper) Potion Recipe:

60 ml of calcite snake blood, 10 grams of feather tree bark, 3 petals of golden rose, 10 drops of elven daffodil essential oil; all the cerebrospinal fluid of calcite snake, and a complete deep-sea octopus tentacle.

Note:

To prepare a low-sequence potion, you only need to add the ingredients in sequence according to the recipe. The dosage in the recipe cannot be wrong, and the color of the finished product is a constantly surging red-gold solution.

The potion will enhance physical fitness and coordination, and will temporarily affect one's control over the body after taking it.

Grellint carefully compared the ingredients on the recipe with the list he had. As he expected, he didn't have any of the ingredients at the moment. As the sequence increased, the required materials became increasingly rare.

Just like the fairy daffodil, which is only used as an auxiliary material, this flower has a charming fragrance and can make people feel relaxed, but it is not easy to survive, and it is not common even on the island of Ronishi. This flower is sought after by noble ladies, and only a small number of powerful nobles can grow it for a long time.

Among the people that Gralint knew, it seemed that only the Earl of Hall's family had been planting it for a long time. And now the essential oil of this flower was needed, which could only be produced in small quantities on the island of Ronish, and the price was amazing. The original owner had given this kind of gift before, a bottle of fairy daffodil essential oil with about ten drops, and it seemed to cost three hundred pounds after packaging.

Normally, three hundred pounds would not be a lot, but during this period, a lot has been spent on Professor Steve, plus the preparations for the first banquet, the total amount has exceeded five thousand pounds.

As a traditional noble family, the income of the Grellint family mainly comes from fiefdoms and manors. Although they have a lot of assets, the actual funds they can use each year are not much.

When he had instructed the butler Alvin to pay Professor Steve the thousand pounds for the potion formula, the butler had clearly mentioned that this year's discretionary money had been spent. In other words, unless Grallint didn't want to maintain his aristocratic image, he shouldn't think about spending money on his hobbies this year.

It seems that I have to ask Audrey for help again. Although she is still a minor, as the daughter of Backlund's top banker, she should have a lot of funds at her disposal. I will pay her back next year when I have money.

After making up his mind, Grellint hid the parchment scroll. As an Extraordinary in the Reader Sequence, he could remember almost everything he had read.

In the afternoon, at the Royal Navy Base in Oak Island, Pritz Harbor, Glint saw the world's most advanced warship, the first iron warship.

As a modern time traveler, this warship did not impress him much. Compared with the warships on the Internet in his previous life, this warship was even more backward. It just replaced the wooden ship with an iron ship and the sails with steam engines.

Of course, when chatting with the nobles around him, Greylint, like everyone else, praised the battleship and said that the era belonging to the Kingdom of Loen was about to come.

When King George III of Rune and his family came out, Grellint noticed that there were two statuesque black-armored knights beside the king, giving Grellint a feeling of heaviness, majesty, and the need for obedience.

This should be the extraordinary person of the royal family. According to the original owner's previous understanding, he should be in the arbitrator sequence, but I don't know what sequence it is. I think it will not be low next to the king.

When the launching ceremony was almost over, Grellint saw Audrey, who seemed particularly happy. But in the original owner's memory, she probably didn't like this kind of ceremony.

Grellant had just studied the 'fake mirror' with Audrey on Wednesday. Could it be that Grellant had made a mistake and that it was really an extraordinary object that was solved by Audrey?Chapter 19 NewcomersTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2564 wordsUpdate time: 2023-04-19 22:00:09

On Saturday, Glellint met with Audrey at the Royal Library.

In addition to the daily discussion of occult knowledge, Grellant tentatively mentioned the ancient bronze mirror that Audrey brought last time. But Audrey said that the bronze mirror was placed on the desk by her and then broken by Susie.

Susie is Audrey's favorite pet dog. It seems to be a mixed-breed dog given by Earl Hall when he bought a hound.

This reason is reasonable, but after Greylint successfully advanced to Sequence 8 Reasoning Student, his observation and reasoning abilities have improved to a certain extent. Naturally, he noticed the unnatural expression on Audrey's face when she said this.

This is already very obvious to a Beyonder who is a reasoning student.

Clearly, Audrey was lying.

But the bronze mirror should be really broken. I wonder what Audrey got from it?

Grellant had no intention of going into it, and he himself had many things he didn't want others to know. So why should he know what his friend Audrey wanted to hide?

After expressing regret for the broken bronze mirror, Grellint turned to Audrey and mentioned some ritual magic, and asked Audrey to help collect some materials.

After this period of communication, when Greylint needs extraordinary materials, he will no longer beat around the bush like he did at the beginning.

Of course, as for the funding, we can only wait until next year.

Audrey seemed to have no interest in money, just like when he collected extraordinary materials for ritual magic, Audrey paid half of the funds.

Of course, Audrey was present when the ritual magic was performed.

Grellint did not give Audrey all the materials needed for the potion formula at once. Like this time, he only added a complete deep-sea octopus tentacle to the ritual magic materials he collected.

After all, he had just advanced to a Sequence 8 Reasoning student, and it would take some time before he could take the potion again. He planned to collect it in several batches, mix it with the materials needed for various ritual magic, and collect one occasionally like this.

A single high-sequence material like this is used as ritual magic, and there is no trace of potion at all. I believe that Audrey's father, Earl Hall, would not notice it, right?

After solving the problem of collecting potion materials, Grellint returned to his mansion and enjoyed the decadent aristocratic life.

During dinner, Grellint felt something strange on his shoulder, and he turned on his psychic vision and saw his messenger. The messenger, Marcy Stephen, said,

"Grillant, delicious food."

It's concise and clear, not at all subtle, but as a cat, it's good enough to be able to speak.

This was part of the agreement in the contract, and Greylint had no objection. He nodded slightly.

Then, he was surprised to see the food on the table begin to disappear quietly. After a small part of it disappeared, the messenger Marcy Stephen also disappeared in front of Grallint.

Is this also the ability of the messenger? Greylint thought to himself, but he was not surprised or afraid. The existence of the contract guaranteed the relationship between him and the messenger.

On the afternoon of Monday, July 2, Audrey asked someone to give Grellant a list of materials to collect. As someone who had collected potion materials before, Grellant naturally noticed the little secret that Audrey had hidden in the list of materials.

After thinking for a while, Greylint decided to test Audrey. If she was really collecting potion materials, he would reveal to Audrey the fact that he had become a Beyonder.

Of course, if Audrey wasn't, he would have kept it a secret.

After all, the choices made by many nobles told him one thing: there are unknown hidden dangers in Extraordinary People.

Even though he now has mastered acting, a method he learned from his fellow countryman Russell, he feels that everything is normal now.

If Audrey had obtained the potion formula through other methods, then it would be good to have another companion on this road. So, Grallint contacted Audrey and agreed to meet tomorrow morning.

On Tuesday morning, Glint met Audrey at the Royal Racecourse. After asking the servants to wait outside the door, Glint said to Audrey:

"Audrey, you are actually collecting ingredients for the potion formula, right?"

"Hey, how did you know... No, actually... I got a magic... a magic ritual yesterday, so I plan to... collect... collect the materials."

"That's good. In fact, I am already a Beyonder."

"Yes, I'm also a Beyonder, so I'm collecting..." Audrey suddenly realized something, "You're a Beyonder, so before you asked me to help you collect the materials needed for the magic ritual, and there were also materials needed for the potion in them?"

"So, that's why I went back and did the same steps as you, but my ritual magic couldn't succeed."

"If you can become a Beyonder, I can teach you."

"Okay, I admit that I am collecting potion recipes, Sequence 9 audience."

"You joined the Psychological Association? No, could it be that the bronze mirror is actually a token of some organization?"

The mystical knowledge that Greylint learned naturally also included some information about the Extraordinary Organization. For the audience, this path seems to be able to control the mind in the later stage.

Professor Steve gave a strange evaluation, he could be both a friend and an enemy.

"Yes, a secret organization. I was summoned into the organization at home..."

"If it's an extremely secretive organization, don't tell anyone. Be careful and leave in time if you encounter something wrong."

Grellant interrupted Audrey and didn't go into the matter further. As a member of a secret organization, Grellant naturally knew the most basic requirements of a secret organization.

Plus, he himself had joined a secret organization, so he didn't feel like he had missed out on anything.

"oh."

"Have you collected all the materials? How about I hold a small party at my house? You can bring the materials then. After you take the potion and finish meditation, I will teach you some basic abilities of a Beyonder."

"That's good. I can gather all the potion ingredients I need today."

"Then let's do it tomorrow afternoon. I have a book salon planned for this day."

"Okay, I'll send the materials in advance."

July 4, Wednesday afternoon, in the Glint family chemistry lab. After hosting the reading salon, Glint and Audrey came to the lab on the third floor one after the other.

Audrey checked the ingredients carefully: 80 ml of pure water, 5 drops of colchicum essence, ... 35 ml of black fish blood. After confirming that everything was correct, she began to prepare the potion herself.

Originally, Greylint wanted to help with the preparation, but was rejected by Audrey, who said she wanted to experience the feeling of preparing the potion herself.

With the addition of the last potion ingredient, the blood of the black horn fish, countless bubbles emerged from the solution in the iron pot. After a while, the solution precipitated into a viscous silver-white solution.

Audrey scooped up the solution from the iron pot, just like Grallint did when he prepared the potion. The solution seemed to be a complete entity, and as the wooden spoon scooped up the solution, there was no trace of residue in the iron pot.

It seems that the potion has complete characteristics, Gretning thought to himself, this can also be regarded as one of the criteria for judging whether the potion is successful? It's just that there are too few samples, and I don't know if all potions are the same.

Audrey stared at the potion carefully, took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and drank the potion called audience...

"I should be a Beyonder now."

After finishing her meditation, Audrey opened her eyes and spoke excitedly to Greylint.

"I think so."

"Since you have completed meditation, today I will teach you a skill most commonly used by Beyonders: clairvoyance."

Grellant tells Audrey about the knowledge about clairvoyance that he learned from Professor Steve...

Then he took out the ritual materials he had prepared long ago, sealed the spirituality around him, lit three candles, and prayed to the goddess of night.

Soon, the laboratory began to become dim.

Seeing this, Audrey began to try to open her psychic vision according to the method taught by Grallant. I don't know if it was because of the magic potion, but Audrey opened her psychic vision faster than Grallant for the first time.

"Look at my palm. Under spiritual vision, it will appear fiery red..."

Grellint sensed the change in Audrey's eyes and began to teach her how to judge the color changes around her in the state of spiritual vision...Chapter 20 SystemTitle of the Book:Secret: The Story Hidden Under DestinyAuthor: Little Fish Listening to the RainChapter word count: 2299 wordsUpdate time: 2023-07-02 02:57:43

After Greylint confirmed that Audrey had mastered the clairvoyance, he asked her to turn off the clairvoyance. He was not Professor Steve, who liked to see students make a fool of themselves because of their poor skills.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to hint to Audrey about the method of acting.

"Audrey, I don't know what should happen after taking the potion. Let me tell you how I feel. After taking the Reader Potion, I feel a chaotic consciousness coming into my mind."

"When I read books, I felt this chaotic consciousness being reduced. When I read a lot, after one reading I felt something dissolving in my body. Afterwards I asked my teacher, and he told me that I had completely mastered the Reader's Potion."

"Why don't you try being a spectator?"

To Grellant's surprise, Audrey blurted out after hearing Grellant's words:

"It's not about mastering, it's about digesting."

"It's not digging, it's acting."

"The name of the potion is not only a symbol and an image, but also a 'key' to digestion."[1]

According to Audrey, this was told to them by Mr. Fool, the leader who persuaded her to join the mysterious organization.

These words surprised Grellint, and made him understand more of the truth. It clearly showed that the source of the power was the potion, and the name of the potion was the key to mastering this power.

But Greylint felt more and more that this world was strange; the source of this power was too abnormal.

Unlike the cultivation in the memories of the previous life, in this world, it was as if these powers already existed. There was no need to understand them, no need to know where they came from, just use them.

Just like the mobile phone software in his previous life, he just had to download it and learn how to use it. He didn't need to know how to realize these functions.

However, if I can't figure it out, I won't think about it anymore. Anyway, Grellint's goal is not to understand the truth of this world, he just wants to use this power to go home.

In addition, Grellint also developed a slight interest in the leader of the mysterious organization, Mr. Fool. But he also knew that the person who mastered the method of acting must not be an ordinary Beyonder.

He was even able to pull Audrey into a mysterious place at her home without being discovered by Earl Hall. Maybe he was a demigod or even an angel.

Of course, Greylint would stay away from such people.

Now that Audrey knew about acting, the next step was much easier. Grallant told Audrey directly that acting was the key and asked her to always be a good audience member.

In the following days of this week, Grellint accepted invitations from various nobles and participated in many activities. Grellint himself was not willing to interact with others. In his previous life, he was considered a homebody. Except for his good friends, he basically would not go out.

But after all, he is Greylint now. As a viscount who has just inherited the title, he enjoys the power of the nobility and naturally has to abide by its rules of the game.

While attending a dinner party hosted by the Marquis Laurence, Glint heard some nobles talking about the plan to implement a new system.

This caught his attention. It was an assessment system, very similar to the civil service examination system in his previous life.

According to the history of previous lives, after the Industrial Revolution, the rise of factories and enterprises would allow ordinary people to slowly step onto the stage of history, but this should be a long transition, and such a system would slowly emerge through one thing after another.

For example, there should be a factory or manor that selects talents in this way, and thus continues to expand, attracting the attention of these nobles. After seeing more and more factories or manors succeeding in this way, they decide to establish such a system.

And now, the nobles proposed the civil service examination system out of thin air. Grallint privately investigated and found that there were several sources, and they all seemed to have been proposed by the noble ladies.

Greylint investigated the ladies who proposed this system. Unlike in the past, the noble ladies in Backlund mostly lived a life of eating, drinking and having fun, while politics and war were left to their husbands.

At least that was the case with the ladies whom Grallant investigated who proposed the civil service examination system, and each of them claimed to have been the first and only to have come up with the idea.

In fact, they proposed this system almost at the same time. But it seemed too weird. If they had proposed it together during afternoon tea or something, Grellant would not think it was so strange.

If this system had not appeared suddenly and was very similar to the system in his previous life, he would not have investigated it seriously.

From Glellint's findings, it turned out that on the day they proposed this system, they all attended a reading group hosted by the Duchess of Angell.

However, the civil service examination system was not discussed at this reading group. After returning, these ladies raised this system to their husbands.

Grellant thought that this must have been given to them by someone or an organization, and the method used was probably hinting. In the list of invitations to the reading club that day, Grellant happened to know someone who could hint without leaving any trace.

That was Audrey, who had just become a spectator. In addition, she had joined a secret organization. Grellint was 90% sure that Audrey had done it.

Thinking of Audrey, Grellant felt a headache. Since she became an audience, it has become increasingly difficult to deceive her.

Grellint could only lament that potions were harmful. Give me back the naive Audrey Hall.

During this period, apart from social events such as parties, dances or study sessions invited by various nobles, Greylint basically spent the rest of his time teaching Audrey the mystical knowledge he learned from Professor Steve.

Unlike the reader's sequence, the audience sequence chosen by Audrey does not seem to be good at using magic rituals, but more about observing and interpreting others.

This is not considered basic occult knowledge, so Audrey can only understand it on her own.

During this period of contact, Audrey already knew that Grellant was collecting Sequence 7 potion materials, and also knew that Grellant had joined a secret organization.

This was not something that Greylint told her voluntarily. As a viewer, she could almost tell the slight changes in Greylint's body every time he had some ulterior motive, and she could also see the unnaturalness when Greylint lied.

Fortunately, there was a secret organization's agreement to back him up, and Audrey didn't know much, and after all, they were friends, so she wouldn't ask him anything. Otherwise, if Audrey asked him if he was a time traveler, Grellint would have to run away overnight.

Grellant wanted to find the guy who gave Audrey the potion to the audience and beat him up. Why not give the potion formula of any sequence to the audience...

Of course, this is just what Greyint thought. With his current physical fitness, he might not be able to beat even an ordinary person in actual combat.

Greylint is paying more and more attention to the secret organization that Audrey has joined. As a Sequence 8 deduction student, it may be difficult to hide it from the audience, but as a Sequence 9 audience, it is also difficult for Audrey to play tricks in front of him.

Audrey wanted to secretly hint to him to collect more of Roselle's notes, which made Grellint feel strange.

This is what he asked Audrey to help collect, but she secretly hinted that he should collect more of Russell's notes. Recently, she secretly proposed this system that is ahead of its time.

Grellint suspected that someone in the secret organization that Audrey joined could understand Roselle's notes. He just didn't know whether he had cracked the Chinese or was a time traveler himself.

However, Greylint is too weak at the moment, and he does not intend to try to contact other people in this secret organization.

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