Chapter 397

"Professor, have you ever seen a hybrid dragon?"

A six-ring sorcerer about the same physical age as Xia De raised his hand to ask, and added:

"I mean, a hybrid dragon with a bloodline purity lower than the Standard & Poor's value of 17%?"

"Of course I have. For the sake of this Misuo, since my youth, I have traveled to almost every corner of the material world. The peaks of the towering snow mountains of the New Continent, the City of Waves in the Eye of the Storm, the underground ruins of the New Continent—of course I have seen dragons."

The professor gave a whistle, and a strong wind immediately blew over the heads of the group. Looking up, they saw a huge winged creature fly over their heads. This was not the big lizard Xia De had imagined, but rather like a giant pigeon with scales and armor.

"Dragon-pigeon hybrid?"

This was a small joke the outsider made in his heart, and she indeed laughed softly as well.

Professor Garcia let Xia De and the others carefully feel the power of the Misuo. After fully unfolding the Misuo, he let the Ringed Shushi try to launch a collaborative attack on him.

Among them, because Xia De could only sit, he didn't have to participate in this activity, and he was responsible for recording the subsequent combat process. Of course, even if the students were not in the Misuo, they couldn't beat this high-ring sorcerer, and inside the Misuo, they couldn't take any advantage at all.

So Professor Garcia deliberately controlled his strength, letting everyone feel the pressure, but not without the ability to fight back.

This is indeed a precious elective course that professors allow one to take. In Xia De's view, just the experience of the four class hours tonight was completely worth paying 1000 pounds.

Not only did he see the Misuo, but he also saw the combat style of the Academy-style Ringed Shushi. The mutual cooperation of spiritual runes, the rapid chanting of incantations, and the advance preparation of spellcasting materials—these are all knowledge that cannot be learned from books.

The scene that left the deepest impression on Xia De was when Professor Garcia summoned a group of creatures known as "Iron-Horned Rhinoceroses." The horns of these creatures are important alchemical materials, and the population is distributed in the northern plains of the Old Continent and parts of the New Continent.

And when a group of rhinoceroses rushed toward Xia De's classmates like crazy, the way they first tried to resist and then ran for their lives completely overturned Xia De's impression of the students of Saint Byrons Academy.

"Choosing the right time to run away is also an important ability for a Ringed Shushi."

The professor beside Xia De said with a smile, very satisfied with his course.

Interesting courses make time pass very quickly, and tonight's course was the last lecture of "Locked Space."

At 8:50, Professor Garcia closed the Misuo and let everyone return to the classroom of Saint Byrons. He allowed the students to jointly ask a question related to the course. After Xia De and his companions discussed it, they asked:

"If we unfortunately encounter a high-ring sorcerer who has mastered a Misuo, and we fail to escape before the Misuo is unfolded, then how should we save our lives as much as possible?"

"The best way is to forcibly break through the Misuo; the power of space and the power opposing the nature of the Misuo can both do it."

Professor Garcia obviously had long thought about what they would ask.

"But we can't do that, Professor."

A young lady raised her hand and said.

"Then hope that your companions can delay time; although the Misuo is powerful, its consumption is also astonishing."

The professor with slightly pointed ears said with a smile again.

"Professor, but we might not have companions."

A slightly older male sorcerer raised his hand and said, but Professor Garcia shook his head:

"This is impossible. If a high-ring sorcerer who has mastered a Misuo just wants to deal with one of you, there is no need to open the Misuo at all. Do you think this is a power that can be used at any time?"

He pointed to the empty metal box on the podium:

"The spellcasting materials I just used are worth four-digit gold pounds. If a high-ring sorcerer wants to deal with you, where would they need to spend so much money?"

Xia De, who was sitting below, blinked his eyes; he didn't seem to need spellcasting materials to use the Misuo.

With this, Xia De's first elective course at Saint Byrons, 【Locked Space】, officially ended. After the course, Xia De didn't leave immediately, but mentioned to the professor that he was preparing to travel through time and space again, and hoped to be able to purchase a time key from the Academy.

The key symbolizing the year 3005 was completely shattered. After saying goodbye to Miss Feilian and the Moon Witch, he had to start a new journey.

Professor Garcia was very happy that Xia De could take the initiative to mention this:

"Very good, a month has passed since your first investigator activity, and this time point is quite good. Xia De, don't worry this time."

"Hmm..."

Xia De didn't speak.

"This time I will personally select a key for you, a time key from the Fifth Era, to ensure that there will be absolutely no problems this time. When your group meets this weekend, it will be given to you through Doctor Shi Nai De."

Although he promised this, based on the first investigator experience known to the Academy and the second one unknown to the Academy, Xia De could almost guarantee that the key selected by Professor Garcia would somehow involve an Old God.

So, Xia De would have to worry about how to write that investigator report when the time came.

"One more thing, Professor, may I ask if there is any way to enhance time perception?"

The classmates beside him left the classroom one after another. Xia De confirmed that no one would hear the following conversation before asking the question he had hidden for two days. He actually wanted to ask when he was in class yesterday.

"Enhance time perception? Do you want to experience the power of time more clearly?"

Professor Garcia was tidying up his lecture notes and the remaining spellcasting materials:

"I remember your miracle 【Perceive Time】 can enhance time perception. If you want something stronger than this... with your level, miracles and incantations certainly won't work. I recommend rituals or relics to you."

Xia De asked this question actually to enhance the effect of the miracle 【Perceive Time】, so that under the amplification of the divine radiance, he could investigate the current true time point.

"Then which rituals and relics might be useful?"

Xia De asked humbly.

"There are many methods. You don't have to ask me about this, because someone has done similar research. I think that paper is still in the library of Saint Byrons. Xia De, you can request to consult the literature directly from the Academy through Doctor Shi Nai De... just say it's needed for my course, and this way, you won't need to spend money. I will communicate with the library side."

The professor said with a smile.

Xia De thanked him softly, but didn't ask the professor if it was currently the Sixth Era. Since even the witch didn't know, he could almost be certain that Professor Garcia would also think he had a broken head, so the answer still had to be found by himself.

"Strictly speaking, it's not the Sixth Era... what exactly does that mean?"

The answer to the question might let Xia De see the deepest secret of time directly.

Because the final question delayed some time, when Xia De stood up from the chair in the guest room of the Sophia Mansion, it was already 9:30 in the evening. At this time, Lei Qianya should still be in the city attending the evening banquet of that great witch, and the fishing rod was naturally taken away by the princess.

Outside, it was still a storm, and Xia De wanted to wait for Lei Qianya to return and confirm her safety before going to sleep, so he sat down at the desk again, intending to complete a part of his course report.

Before starting to write the report, he also asked the servants for a cup of hot tea. But before the tea was delivered, the maid Lei Qianya left for him hurried over and told Xia De that someone had tried to break into the Sophia Mansion, and after being discovered by the mansion's guards, the two sides were engaged in a gunfight inside and outside the fence in the eastern part of the mansion.

"What? A gunfight? How many people are on the other side?"

Under the light of the classic lotus-shaped gas desk lamp, Xia De put down the fountain pen in his hand in surprise.

As a royal manor, during Lei Qianya's stay, the Sophia Mansion not only had the princess's guards and the Lengshuigang police responsible for security issues, but even the Lengshuigang Navy had dispatched a force of two hundred people stationed nearby to guard against unexpected situations.

And now, someone was actually able to engage in a gunfight with the security forces of the Sophia Mansion, so the number of people on the other side must be quite large.

"Sir, there are about 30 people on the other side, but the firepower is very strong. It's raining heavily now, and we are not sure how many people are outside the mansion, so personnel cannot be concentrated in one direction. Colonel Harms asked me to notify the people in the mansion not to leave the building under any circumstances."

Colonel Harms is the leader of the princess's guard, a 40-year-old active-duty Royal Army colonel, and is highly trusted by Lei Qianya.

"Who is the enemy?"

Xia De stood up and asked, walking to the window to look out. In the deep rainy night, one could vaguely hear faint gunshots and the light flashing from time to time in the distance.

"Sorry sir, this is currently unknown. But you must not leave here."

After speaking, the maid hurried away. The mansion was under attack, and she still had to help Lei Qianya hide some sensitive documents to prevent anyone from really breaking in.

Xia De felt baffled by what was happening at this time, but thinking of Lei Qianya's status as a princess and the assassination of Empress Diana on the street last month, he couldn't help but suspect that this was another political assassination or some other political event.

But Lei Qianya was not in the mansion at all now, so Xia De didn't have to worry about her safety. It was just that the gunshots ringing out from time to time outside made him have no heart to continue writing his course report.

He simply stood by the window and looked outside, trying to see something from the dark mansion courtyard.

The room was bright and the outside was dark, making the glass look like a mirror, reflecting Xia De's face. He looked at his face on the glass, feeling even more troubled by the complex situation in Lengshuigang:

"So Lei Qianya's life is so... oh!"

A bullet from the distance actually hit the glass in front of Xia De, but because the bullet had almost reached its flight limit, it couldn't penetrate the glass at all. But even so, it gave Xia De a fright.

He hadn't died even after being shot in the front on the street; if he died from a stray bullet on a rainy night, that would be too unjust.

He immediately left the window, thought for a moment, and simply left the room, intending to go to the study to wait. Apart from Lei Qianya's current bedroom and the room specially prepared for King Larus III, the safest place in the Sophia Mansion was actually that study.