Chapter 24: Words of Sublimation

"Investigator" or "Time-Space Explorer" is not a special profession of St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy. Ringed Shushi whose core spirit rune is related to 【Time】 concepts, or who have obtained 【Time】 related spirit runes, can travel through time through the relic 【Time Key】 with a level fluctuation from Poet-level (Level 5) to Angel-level (Level 1), entering time points before the Sixth Era to explore the past.

【Time Key】 is a one-time relic, and the era opened by different keys is different. All time keys are related to the fallen Old God 【Father of Infinite Trees】.

This is an extremely powerful Old God, belonging to the benevolent god camp. Coming into contact with related knowledge and traces has a probability of obtaining golden 【Miracle】 spirit runes. According to legends and some ancient stele records, 【Father of Infinite Trees】 fell in the chaotic era of the Fourth Era, but he used his "infinite" concept to integrate his body into the continuous infinite time and space, thereby communicating the past and the future.

【Time Key】 is the 【Relic】 left by this fallen Old God. Because the fallen Old God exists in continuous time and space, the time jump opened by borrowing his relic is not limited to time points before the Fourth Era when 【Father of Infinite Trees】 fell.

It's just that for some reason, so far, no 【Time Key】 that can return to the past time points of the Sixth Era has been discovered, which is also an important topic for Ringed Shushi to study time.

In short, the doctor asked Xia De to draw the two spirit runes, and while passing the news of Xia De's core spirit runes to the Academy, he simply introduced him to common sense in this regard.

Spirit runes belong to the language of the past era and basically have no repeatability. Unless you have seen a spirit rune with the same meaning, it is impossible to fabricate it, so you can prove that you are not lying.

But before Xia De could ask questions like "how is time stability," "will there be time paradoxes," the Academy's reply had already come back:

"If Xia De Su Lun Hamilton is willing to join the History Academy, the History Academy is willing to list him as a key training object and provide a Secret Keeper-level relic for self-defense after he joins the Academy."

"What does this mean?"

Xia De looked at the doctor.

"Value your talent, but it doesn't change your status as a correspondence Ringed Shushi. Key training object means you don't have to complete more mandatory practical credit tasks, and buying books at St. Byrons can also be cheaper. As for the Secret Keeper-level (Level 3) relic... literal meaning."

The doctor shrugged:

"They are always like this, not stingy to talented people, but they will never break the rules."

"Then should I agree?"

"Unless you have a reason to refuse."

The writer answered simply, she picked up her blonde hair:

"There are always some key training objects every year, but I think this has no harm."

So, Xia De successfully became a first-year correspondence Ringed Shushi of the History Academy under St. Byrons Comprehensive Academy.

Becoming a Ringed Shushi requires coming into contact with four elements, and Ringed Shushi advancement also requires four elements.

Each ring requires engraving at least one golden 【Miracle】, silver 【Profanity】, brass 【Enlightenment】, and black-iron 【Whisper】 spirit rune on the destiny ring to accumulate enough spirit to complete the sublimation of the ring number.

The accumulation of spirit in a certain ring has an upper limit, so engraving four spirit runes is no different from engraving four hundred spirit runes before sublimation. Even engraving too many spirit runes has disadvantages, because the spirit runes required for each ring advancement must be engraved during this ring.

Under normal circumstances, the engraving of spirit runes is not a simple matter. Correctly balancing the contradiction between the number of spirit runes and one's own wonder and spell research is also a very important matter.

Ringed Shushi from the First Ring to the Fourth Ring are called low-ring Ringed Shushi, the Fifth Ring to the Eighth Ring are middle-ring, and above the Ninth Ring are high-ring Ringed Shushi.

This division is not because of the number, but because during the Fourth Ring sublimation and the Eighth Ring sublimation, besides the necessary four spirit runes, it is required that among the sixteen spirit runes of this stage, one for each ring, the meaning of the connection formed with the Ringed Shushi's own core rune is called "Words of Sublimation."

In Dr. Shi Nai De's group, only the doctor himself, who is at the Fifth Ring, completed four sublimations.

When he was promoted from the Fourth Ring to the Fifth Ring, he used the black-iron Whisper 【Running】 from the First Ring, the silver Profanity 【Malice】 from the Second Ring, the brass Enlightenment 【Hound】 from the Third Ring, and the golden Miracle 【Light】 from the Fourth Ring, to construct the words of sublimation for promotion from low-ring to middle-ring with his own core rune 【Dream】—

【The hound of light runs in the dream of malice.】

The types of runes for the words of sublimation are not restricted, and the doctor just happened to satisfy four types.

And if the conditions for the words of sublimation are not met, then it is impossible to be promoted from the Fourth Ring to the Fifth Ring, or from the Eighth Ring to the Ninth Ring. And because the four spirit runes used must come from different four rings, there is no chance of making up for it.

And because the choice of words of sublimation can borrow past experience, this constitutes the 【Canon of Sublimation】 with thousands of records. Ringed Shushi look up examples according to their own core runes, so every force treats its own 【Canon of Sublimation】 as its most important secret.

Low-ring, middle-ring, and high-ring stages can use the same core spirit rune to connect the words of sublimation. Therefore, the number of core spirit runes is not much, and it is just more options, which has no great impact on the difficulty of advancement.

And if you don't want to borrow the experience of "words of sublimation" from the past, or if the core spirit rune is really rare and there is no example to refer to, then you can only try it yourself, and you will always gather the conditions for sublimation when luck arrives.

But Xia De will only be qualified to view the Canon of Sublimation of St. Byrons in half a year to determine the choice of the most important spirit rune at the First Ring. The Academy is also worried about the reliability of correspondence Ringed Shushi and also needs to determine that the correspondence students who have become supernatural will not go back on their word. Moreover, Ringed Shushi advancement is difficult, and half a year is not considered a delay.

Although the number of spirit runes for each ring is unlimited, the acquisition of spirit runes is quite difficult. Academy grade promotion, besides compulsory credits obtained through learning and exams, and practical credits obtained through Academy tasks, also requires one's own grade to correspond to the ring number.

Therefore, it is quite normal to read a grade for two or three years. If you can't find the spirit rune string for the words of sublimation planned at the Fourth Ring, even if you meet the conditions of four types of spirit runes, people will still delay the promotion time.

Of course, textbooks, basic courses for Ringed Shushi, the Secret Keeper-level relic promised by the History Academy, and the investigator tasks of the History Academy, these will all be discussed after three days when the Academy organizes Xia De's textbooks.

At that time, not only will there be a teaching syllabus and training plan given by the Academy, but all four people in the group will also be present to give Xia De suggestions.

So after confirming to join the History Academy, Dr. Shi Nai De announced that Xia De could leave.

"Leave now?"

A second ago, Xia De was still memorizing these common-sense things, so he asked in surprise.

"Do you have anything else?"

The doctor also asked in surprise.

"I mean, I joined the Academy, so there is no..."

Miss Louisa, who was a woman, understood what he meant:

"Mr. Hamilton, the enrollment process is indeed only these. I want to repeat the doctor's words, please remember, we are correspondence Ringed Shushi, and the connection with the Academy is not close. We train ourselves, obtain knowledge from the Academy, and the Academy gives us practical tasks to satisfy credit requirements. We are just correspondence."

"Alright then."

Xia De, who had been sitting for almost an afternoon, stood up, and the doctor and the writer lady also stood up to see him off. The latter had things to find the doctor today, so she couldn't leave for the time being.

When Xia De was about to come to the door of the room with the two, the doctor suddenly said again:

"Also, there are two taboos you need to remember. St. Lawrence Comprehensive Academy stipulates that all Ringed Shushi of this Academy are prohibited from stepping on the New Continent; this is an Academy taboo. The taboo common to Ringed Shushi is that Ringed Shushi are prohibited from committing suicide."

"Stepping on the New Continent will be considered by the Academy as automatically giving up student status, and Ringed Shushi committing suicide will at least cause a crisis no less than the loss of control of a Secret Keeper-level relic."

"New Continent" refers to the geographical discovery fifty years ago, land discovered outside the current "Old Continent," somewhat similar to the geographical discovery of the previous world. But the New Continent has no humans, but the products are extremely rich.

"Why?"

Xia De asked in confusion.

"We don't know the Academy's regulations, as for prohibiting suicide..."

Miss Louisa looked at the doctor:

"The doctor thinks it probably has something to do with 'another me.' If we commit suicide, the other me might do something."

The doctor shrugged:

"That's it for now, we haven't encountered any Ringed Shushi who committed suicide.

Xia De, remember to come over at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning. At that time, besides the Academy's affairs, the regular study meeting in the group, as well as our fixed academic year tasks, you also need to understand. Oh, speaking of which, you can study your own spirit runes these few days, you can borrow this notebook."

Only then did he think of turning behind the desk, taking a black-covered notebook from the locked drawer and stuffing it to Xia De, which looked quite old:

"Regarding developing wonders from spirit runes, you can try it yourself first, but you just obtained power, so it is estimated that it will not be very smooth. Your most important task these three days is to rest. The Ringed Shushi taking office has damage to the soul and body. You use the three days of bed rest to read the notebook. It is estimated that you will sleep until noon tomorrow... See you in three days, remember you need to pay back 10 pounds within a month."

The farewell was a bit too sudden, but Xia De knew he had disturbed them for too long, so he organized his chaotic thoughts and said very seriously:

"See you in three days, Dr. Shi Nai De, Miss Louisa... Thank you."

"No need to thank me, I just came to be a witness today."

The writer lady said, but she looked in a very good mood.

"No need to thank me either, I said, I just want to find a fifth Ringed Shushi for the group."

The blue-eyed doctor looked at Xia De and answered very softly. ===== CHAPTER 25 =====