Professor Manning started a conversation with Miss Louisa very familiarly. Judging from the content of the conversation, he seemed to know Miss Louisa's father:
"That pen, I have an impression. I was introduced by a friend and bought it from an old writer who lived two streets away. The writer was in very bad health at the time, with dark circles under his eyes and lack of energy. Like myasthenia gravis."
The professor sat on the chair behind the desk, put his hands together and said. Behind him is an entire bookshelf, but the books are not arranged neatly, and some books even have notes in them, swaying in the wind outside the window.
But Xia De likes this decoration style very much.
Miss Louisa glanced at Xia De. The professor's description of the old writer was obviously that the other party was obsessed with the pen and his body was hollowed out. Before he died, he made up his mind to sell the pen and stay away from those temptations, but it was too late.
But fortunately, Professor Manning is full of energy. He probably never used that pen, but just kept it as a collection.
"Yes, I just want to buy that pen from you this time. To be honest, the old writer you mentioned is my friend and passed away two months ago."
Miss Louisa made a regretful expression, and Xia De followed her example and put down the teacup.
"That pen is probably a relic. I'm an old friend with that old writer, and I want to buy it back. You can ask for a price. I think as long as the price is reasonable, I can accept it."
The professor thought for a while:
"If it's a relic from a friend, of course I won't refuse to sell it. In this way, I will go to the collection room upstairs and get the pen back. Please wait for me a moment."
As he spoke, he stood up and asked the maid to bring some snacks for the two guests.
So the maid and the professor left the study, and the black cat followed. After confirming that their footsteps were far away, Xia De said with a little ease:
"It turned out that it was just like this. I thought it would be troublesome."
"Look, I just said, this matter is very safe, you just take it as a long-term experience."
Miss Louisa said.
Xia De nodded and picked up the teacup again, and asked curiously:
"Then what are the side effects of the clerical-level relic [Dream Pen of Joy]? Is it just to attract people to use it, and then the user's body gradually decays?"
He was curious about this. Although there were quite a few relics in his hand, it was the first time he saw such a novel one.
"Not only that, if you use the dream pen for a long time, the dream pen will absorb too much spiritual power and blood, then it is possible to make the things in the dream come true. The terrible things born by the dream pen can be simply regarded as A materialized nightmare. That's why it's classified as a clerical level."
The writer explained that Shad made a face that this thing is awesome.
As for Miss Louisa's desire for this pen, it's not that she wants to try it out, nor does she want to hand it in to the academy for a reward. Miss Louisa is a writer, and her ring magician system also uses the [Writer] core rune as the core.
She recently encountered a bottleneck in learning thaumaturgy, so she wanted to find some relics with similar powers for inspiration. This is like Xia De buying [Silver Moon's Orb] to strengthen her learning of silver-moon-type thaumaturgy.
The two chatted about the history of the containment of this pen, and mentioned that the probability of the dream pen being held by men is much higher than that of women.
At this moment, I heard footsteps and realized that the maid was back, so I turned to discuss today's fine weather.
The fat maid with a headscarf brought them new black tea and a stack of snacks. They were some muffins with butter on the side. Professor Manning's living standard was indeed not bad.
"Sorry, I wanted to get something cats could eat, but I couldn't find it in a hurry."
The maid apologized to Xia De again, Xia De shook his head and was about to say it was nothing, but suddenly realized a problem:
"You mean, there's nothing cats can eat here, Professor Manning?"
His hand grabbed the armrest of the back seat, and Miss Louisa also frowned and looked at the maid.
The middle-aged woman didn't know why the two had such expressions, but she still nodded hesitantly:
"Did you see it just now?"
Xia De turned his head and asked Miss Louisa, who replied quickly:
"Of course I did, the black cat."
The two got up almost at the same time, and Shad put Little Mia on the chair instead of carrying it.
"You are here to help me watch the cat, don't let it run around."
He said to the servant, and Miss Louisa patted the fat maid on the shoulder, her tone became extremely soothing:
"Stay in the room and don't leave until we get back."
The maid's eyes immediately became lax, and she nodded very stiffly. Xia De has seen this trick before. In the garden maze of the Lake View Manor, the ring warlock captain of the Orthodox Church has used a similar ability, but it is probably not as good as Professor Sanchez's [Charm Human].
Liumao and the fat maid were in the study, with Miss Louisa in front and Xia De in the back, and they walked towards the third floor. When stepping on the stairs, Xia De did not forget to ask in his heart:
"Why didn't you remind me that I encountered the 'whispering' element?"
[Because I didn't feel it. 】
"But the cat was very close to me."
[Not the main body, since the other party was born in a dream, the probability of revealing the main body to you is very low. What you see should only be a false vision of the Nightmare watching you. 】
"So the shortcoming of 'Another Me''s detection ability lies in the distance."
Xia De concluded in his heart.
Following Miss Louisa up the stairs, the two stopped on the last step up to the third floor. The third floor is still full of life, with pictures of the professor hanging in the corridor, and cardboard boxes stacked on the walls for no apparent purpose.
But there was no sound on the entire floor, and all the doors were tightly closed. Miss Louisa tentatively called Professor Manning's name, but got no response.
She cautiously said to Xia De:
"Follow me in a while. Although it is a nightmare born from a relic, judging from Professor Manning's state, the nightmare born from a relic out of control should be just a newborn form~www.mtlnovel.com~ When I patted the maid on the shoulder, Checked her condition, she is normal, which means Nightmare didn't even have time to get her hands on anyone else in this house."
Miss Louisa said to Xia De, with the steam gushing behind her, the brass-colored life ring was fully revealed.
Shad nodded, and followed the blonde girl off the stairs to the third floor. Miss Louisa seemed to be testing something, she paused before each door on the third floor, and then continued to the next door.
Her back is very beautiful, I don't know if it's because the weather is too hot, Miss Louisa's back is soaked, near the swaying golden long hair, the clothes on the back seem to be transparent for Xia De to see. .....
"Um?"
Xia De became alert and stopped in his tracks. The outsider has a lot of knowledge, and the situation at this moment made him have a bad guess.
"Could it be that now..."
He lowered his head and looked at his hand with a feeling in his heart. On the bare back of his hand, the originally flat skin was chapped inch by inch, and golden light marks shone under those cracks. Rolling up the sleeves, the cracks extend from the hands to the whole body. Almost in the blink of an eye, his whole body was covered with golden cracks, even cracks appeared on his clothes.
Brilliant golden light radiates outward from the inside of the crack. Warm and soft, but very sacred and solemn.
This is just a visual effect, Xia De didn't feel the pain, but felt the fullness and warmth of power.
"This is......"
He said inconceivably, while shaking his palm, there was actually a golden glow flickering in the air. While the body was swinging, the hem of the clothes pulled back golden traces of light.
【You don't think that the so-called afterglow is just spoken, do you? 】