Chapter 373: Inherited Wishes

"No, this is not a scam."

Mr. Madison held his wine glass and shook his head:

"The magic technique must be true. As for whether the ritual really needs to be so complex, I don't know. I only know that the last guy who learned this magic technique also did it this way. That was a story, and the story itself was describing the ritual."

Xia De was very familiar with this kind of thing. The ritual of sending back to the sea was also hidden in nursery rhymes.

"In fact, I think most of the fairy tales, ballads, and poems passed down from ancient times hide mysterious elements."

Mr. Madison added.

"You're lucky that Xia De came to investigate, but what will you do later? Since the church has already noticed you, even if the spices themselves are fine, you will sooner or later be focused on."

The doctor asked again, and Mr. Madison sighed:

"Then I can only leave Anthem Square temporarily and go to the countryside to sell spices. It was not easy to find such a good place. In order not to pay protection money to gangs, I... forget it, safety is the most important thing. I can only get up early every day and go to the countryside as a traveling merchant. Mr. Hamilton, please write directly that I suddenly disappeared when you write the investigation report. In this way, your friend won't get into trouble, and I won't get into trouble either."

"No problem."

Xia De nodded, and the doctor asked again:

"What is the effect of this magic technique of yours?"

Only true friends could ask such questions. Mr. Madison didn't care that Xia De was present, and said with a sigh:

"【Merchant Instinct】, corresponding to the spirit rune 【Trade】. This is a passive form of magic technique. Once I master this, in the future, when discussing the price of goods with anyone, whether buying or selling, I can subconsciously know the other party's psychological price."

Doctor Schluch Lake and the outsider showed envious and surprised expressions together.

Mr. Madison, a six-ring Ringed Shushi, was proficient in alchemy, but his own combat ability was not particularly outstanding. He had known Doctor Schluch Lake for many years. To be precise, when Doctor Schluch Lake was only a one-ring Ringed Shushi, Mr. Madison had already known him.

Talking about this, Xia De was a bit curious about how Doctor Schluch Lake's group was established. After all, when others joined the group, the highest grade in the group was always Doctor Schluch Lake.

It was just that the doctor didn't seem to want to talk about this, and Xia De didn't ask too much. And taking advantage of the doctor getting drunk and getting up to solve personal problems, Mr. Madison, who wrapped a headscarf, lowered his voice and told Xia De:

"When I knew Schluch Lake, your group actually had three people. Besides Schluch Lake, who was only one ring at that time, there was also a three-ring Ringed Shushi and an eight-ring Ringed Shushi in the group."

"Eight rings?"

Xia De looked at this gentleman in surprise:

"I thought correspondence Ringed Shushi had at most only six or seven rings."

"I don't know the specific situation, but that one was the most powerful correspondence Ringed Shushi in Tobesk fifteen years ago. I even heard Schluch Lake mention that that gentleman already intended to promote to nine rings in Tobesk and then apply for a tenured teaching position directly after entering Saint Byrons."

Talking about this, the middle-aged man with a headscarf was still very emotional:

"It's really amazing."

The rules of the three major academies were basically the same, and the rules for going to the academy were also the same. That is to say, the few people with the highest grades in the group would be very happy to find new talented people when the number of people in the group was insufficient, so it was very rare for a correspondence Ringed Shushi preparing to promote to a high ring to appear.

"Then what happened later? Mr. Madison, honestly, I haven't heard anyone talk about this. I always thought that the doctor started our group from scratch."

"No, no, he was also a talented person found by his predecessors. As for the two people with higher grades than Schluch Lake..."

He quietly stretched his head to look at the direction of the corridor, and then whispered:

"Schluch Lake never takes the initiative to mention it, and you shouldn't say it was me who said it. More than ten years ago, there was a very famous major event locally. The two Ringed Shushi with higher grades in your group both died in that accident. It is said that that eight-ring gentleman and that three-ring lady were a couple, and that eight-ring gentleman's lifelong dream was to enter Saint Byrons to be a teacher."

Mr. Madison paused, shaking the wine glass in his hand quite melancholically, watching the beer with white foam:

"When that happened, I happened not to be in Tobesk. Later, I heard rumors that those two people saved Schluch Lake, who was only one ring at the time. This was a huge blow to him, and even his Ringed Shushi studies fell behind a lot, and he wasn't very willing to recruit new group members. Later, Schluch Lake swore to inherit that gentleman's wish and go to Saint Byrons to become a professor..."

He sighed, and Xia De looked at him in surprise.

"Otherwise, Mr. Hamilton, why do you think Bill Schluch Lake, who is successful in his career in Tobesk, is so obsessed with going to Saint Byrons?"

Mr. Madison shook his head:

"Sometimes, inheriting someone else's wish is even more terrifying than having one's own wish."

Xia De pondered that last sentence:

"Who said this?"

"I said it."

Mr. Madison said, and then continued to tell the story:

"Let me tell you what happened more than ten years ago. The things that happened that year were only worse than this year. Someone opened a level 0 relic in the city center. Hamilton, do you know level 0? Then evil..."

"What are you talking about?"

The doctor walked over and asked with a smile. He shouldn't have heard what the two were talking about.

"Luo De cards, we were talking about Luo De cards!"

Xia De said immediately, and then blinked at Mr. Madison. The middle-aged man with a headscarf understood:

"Yes, we were just talking about Luo De cards. I told Mr. Hamilton that the owner of this inn is also a Luo De card master, who likes to gamble with others using special cards as stakes."

"Oh, Xia De, don't forget what Priest Ao Gu Si said, never be addicted to gambling."

The doctor said with worry. The matter just now was considered to be muddled through.

Adult men all had their own things to do, so after chatting for a while at the Three Cats Inn, they left separately.

Before leaving, Xia De and Mr. Madison exchanged business cards. Xia De only then knew that Mr. Madison's real profession was actually a spice merchant. But not a small merchant selling in the square, but a real big merchant in the Lower City District.

Xia De was interested in continuing to inquire about the past from this gentleman, but looking at the other party's busyness, I'm afraid it wouldn't work today. But Mr. Madison gave Xia De a small bottle of spice for sleep as a gift, which was a meeting gift for the two of them to know each other.

Living in Delarion, known as the Pearl of the North, having a few more friends was definitely not wrong.

"Doctor, Saint Byrons is on the Great Ice Sheet in the far north, so where is the Success Higher Medical College?"

The doctor would pass by Saint Deran Square when returning to the clinic, so Xia De took a carriage with him.

"I heard it's in the sea."

"In the sea?"

This was an answer he hadn't thought of.

"In the sea area south of the Old Continent, but I certainly don't know the specific location. It is said that the founder of the Success Higher Medical College used some kind of large-scale ritual to open up a huge water-avoiding space on the seabed. Xia De, don't look down on the other party too much. After all, Saint Byrons is also a space that Miss Feilian opened up from the extreme cold where one can survive. The survival conditions north of the ice sheet in the far north are no better than the deep sea." ===== CHAPTER 374 =====