Chapter 108 Chapter 108 Door.
Su Cheng quickly finished his dinner, from rye bread with sauce to mussels and clams stewed in wine, and a large piece of charcoal-grilled fish belly, and drank the iced citrus wine.
"I'm fine!"
She said so.
The blond boy opposite her hadn't taken many bites yet. He just poked the sea lettuce salad with his fork and looked at her strangely.
"You look only a little fatter than me," he tilted his head and said, "but your appetite is much better than mine. How did you do that? Is it natural?"
Su Cheng shook his head silently. "My eating habits are very bad. Don't try to imitate me. I seem to eat everything, but when I'm reading, I might not eat for two or three days. If I have something to do, I'll forget to eat..."
He raised his eyebrows slightly. "Really? I wouldn't do that. After all, the servants will bring the food to me."
He ate two picky bites of asparagus and a small piece of crème brûlée, scraping off the toasted almond crumbs, and declared that he liked the taste but not the texture.
"Well," Gerald stood up, "let's get started. The more you understand, the more you can help me—"
The maid who cooked cleared the table and washed the dishes as quickly as possible.
Su Cheng walked a few steps away from the dining table and couldn't help but look back.
"Why, do you want anything else to eat?" Gerald asked doubtfully. "If there is anything else, he can make it. But he will be finishing work soon and going home. His children will be coming back from the shop soon, and he still needs to prepare dinner for them."
Su Cheng blinked. "No, I just felt that I had a very good dinner and wanted to thank this gentleman—"
"Oh," Gerald casually took out a gold coin and threw it to the grateful servant, "My friend likes your craftsmanship and gives you a bonus."
The servant was overjoyed and thanked him profusely, "If the magician wants anything else, just let me know!"
"...No more, go home quickly."
Su Cheng said helplessly, and then was dragged by Gerald to the basement.
They passed through a slightly dim stairwell with only a few steps and reached the room below.
The basement is located entirely in water, and its walls are made of thick coral reef with a resin-like protective coating.
There are crystal windows on three walls, through which you can directly see the colorful fish swimming outside and the quiet green seaweed.
In the center of the room was a smooth, cold, and shiny obsidian workbench. Several small magic circles and grooves for placing containers were engraved on the surface of the stone. Beakers, glass tubes, and crucibles of different sizes, as well as some bowls and pestles were scattered on it.
Gerald casually threw out two flames, lighting two magic crystal candles, and the whole room suddenly became bright.
"...I see you've read at least Chapter 4 of that book, so I won't repeat the previous content. Let's just do the basic exercises mentioned at the end of Chapter 1."
As he spoke, he picked up the special feather pen, dipped it in some ink specially used for drawing magic arrays, tested the depth on the paper, and handed it over.
"You draw it yourself. Remember? You forgot that you can draw on the book. It doesn't matter. Draw the magic array on the nine bricks."
"Yeah," Su Cheng took it nervously, "I still remember..."
The bricks and stones on the ground were very large, probably one meter square. She carefully drew the strange magic circle.
——It looks like a twisted spiral or a forcibly flattened cube, a typical pattern that can cause optical illusions.
Its lines seem to cross internally, and also seem to extend to a place that should not exist.
After Su Cheng finished drawing, he felt his head swelling, "...Is it okay?"
"Almost," Gerald nodded with satisfaction. "Stand up, then close your eyes—"
The ink solidified quickly and would not deform even if stepped on. She stood on it carefully, recalling the contents of the book.
At the moment when the world before her eyes fell into darkness, someone held her hand.
The other person's movements were also very light, with almost no effort. "...Okay, take three steps forward."
Su Cheng was about to do as he was told, but suddenly he fell into a state of confusion, as if he was not sure which way was ahead.
Her sense of direction and position was confused by some force.
There was a little force from the hands touching each other.
Their body temperatures were fairly close, and the feeling of their fingers touching each other seemed a little subtle. He simply pulled lightly and didn't apply any more force.
It seems to be just to provide a direction.
Su Cheng took three steps forward and heard him say, "...take two steps to the left, then take one step forward."
She completed this series of actions in a daze.
"Okay, imagine where you are now—you should be back to square one."
Gerald suddenly said this.
Su Cheng: “?”
Even though she was dizzy now, she knew that on such flat ground, it would be impossible to return to the starting point by walking forward, left, and forward.
"Don't think about whether this makes sense," he squeezed her hand. "Distance is just a feeling in your body. Use your mind to understand this concept. Here and there are just different facets of a piece of crystal. Your thoughts are your location, so you can travel through these spaces."
Su Cheng kept recalling the contents of the book and the magic circle under his feet.
Soon, she began to lose the ability to distinguish between front, back, left, and right. Her consciousness seemed to have fallen into the deep sea. No matter which direction she went, there was only dark and murky water that was pulling her down.
A strange feeling of disharmony entangled her, making her feel that her soul was beginning to leave her body and enter a strange abstract dimension.
She "saw" the magic circle again.
This time it was no longer a pattern drawn on a flat surface, but a completely three-dimensional image that surrounded her from all sides, with each node line being extremely clear.
She shuttled through the images, completely abandoning the concept of direction and simply moving according to the logic of the image array.
It was a very strange and wonderful feeling.
She was not driving her bones and muscles, but moving with pure consciousness. The whole world seemed to have no gravity, and she could appear anywhere at will.
Then she "saw" a door appear in the distance ahead.
That might be the door.
Su Cheng wasn't sure how else to describe that existence—because it wasn't some kind of structure made of wood or metal, embedded in the wall.
He has no frame because He Himself is the boundary.
He also has no handle, because the act of opening it has no meaning to Him.
He is a kind of flowing concept, an open network, and a compressed void. He is a constantly folding reality, and countless intertwined foreign lands.
It was a concept beyond comprehension. The door was like a passage, connecting to everywhere, but it was also like a wall, blocking the perception of space.
When she looked at the door, she felt as if she was being sucked into the abyss, and her memories, emotions and will were being drained away.
Su Cheng wanted to struggle, but found that he had no body to struggle with.
A moment later, she felt a push.
The world before my eyes quietly shattered.
She saw again the obsidian table and crystal casements, the crisscrossing bronze pipes on the roof; nothing in the basement had changed.
"Hmm...it seems you have indeed gotten started."
Gerald's voice came from the side.
Su Cheng suddenly felt something was wrong.
She subconsciously wanted to turn around and talk to the person face to face, but found that her body was stuck.
To be precise——
Her lower body completely merged with the heavy obsidian table.
Su Cheng: “?!?!?!”
Su Cheng: "...Okay, the book seems to have mentioned a similar accident, so now I have to find a way to get out of this, right?"
For novice space magic practitioners, it is a common accident to fail to master the teleportation distance, resulting in the body being separated or merging with walls and furniture.
But it's not that bad.
"Well," the blond boy walked half a circle and came to her front, "Just tell her, and don't worry. If it doesn't work, I'll just smash the table—"
"You really won't break me too?"
"Your fighting spirit strength is right here. The stone of this table is not very pure. Because it is often damaged, I have replaced it several times."
He said nonchalantly, "Besides, your body is still intact, you're just completely stuck inside. There's a hole in the table right now that's exactly the same size as your lower body, you know that, right? So don't be nervous. Spatial magic is very averse to emotional confusion, it will confuse your perception. It's okay if you destroy the building, but if you merge with someone's body like this, that person will die."
Su Cheng: "...then you shouldn't say such things."
Gerald blinked. "You appear calm, but your heart is actually beating very fast."
"Because I was a little nervous."
"Oh, sorry," the blond boy was speechless for a moment, "Then why don't you try it? Also, you might have lost control just now. What were you thinking before?"
Su Cheng didn't know what she was thinking. Her arms were still outside, so she held her head and sighed, "I just saw a door——"
"What?" Gerald looked at her in shock. "You saw Him?!"
His eyes, stained with the green of a cloudy sky, revealed an unconcealable envy. "Did you see it already?"
Su Cheng froze for a moment when he stared at him.
However, there was no trace of jealousy or resentment in the other person's eyes, only pure envy, and no negative emotions could be seen.
She wasn't sure if it was a disguise or the real thing.
——If this is the jealous god of the future, will he hate her and kill her one day just because she has shown some superior talents?
Although the book only describes him as being jealous of his brother's good looks, and when she interacts with him, he seems to only care about this.
The power of the God of Purity should be stronger than his, but he doesn't seem to care about that.
All kinds of messy thoughts flashed through Su Cheng's mind, and he felt that he should get out of the table first. As soon as the thought flashed through his mind, he disappeared.
For the caster himself, the feeling of teleportation is quite magical.
It was like entering another world for a short time.
It was as if everything in front of me was compressed.
Thus she was able to bridge the distance and suddenly appear a few meters away.
Bang!
Her foreheads collided with Gerald's.
The blond boy took a breath, but it was more like surprise than pain, and he subconsciously put his arms around her waist.
He looked slender and thin, and didn't seem much taller than her, but his body was as hard as steel, and he easily supported her with one arm.
"Okay," Gerald whispered soothingly, "You succeeded. You've done very well. How about taking a break?"
Su Cheng leaned on his shoulder and took a breath, feeling a little tired, "No..."
She couldn't say, "I'm afraid you'll hit me to death with a hammer while I'm asleep." "I want to read a book and go out to buy some snacks. I'm so hungry."
"Oh, that's normal. If you really face that, it will consume a lot of energy."
He let her go and said, "There are quite a few restaurants around here. I can take you there."
Su Cheng took a step back and said slowly, "Okay, thank you."
It was already completely dark, but the streets were still quite lively. Some small vendors set up stalls and cooked various seafood barbecues, meatballs, wraps, etc.
Su Cheng was walking in the noisy crowd and just took a breath of the fresh and moist air when suddenly a piece of paper flew towards him.
She thought it was a flyer and tried to avoid it, but she found a portrait on it.
Su Cheng subconsciously took it in his hand.
This is a wanted poster.
It's still a wanted notice from the Silver Moon Empire.
Su Cheng looked at the familiar and beautiful face above with confusion.
Gerald glanced at her and said, "Oh, isn't this the luthier who killed the Imperial Count?"
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