Chapter 135 Help, what did Shelly look like last night?
night.
After careful consideration, Edith decided to tell everyone what happened in the cave, but concealed the part related to herself.
"Louisa woke up after you got the notebook. She talked to Duke Eddie before you, knocked him out and died again." Tuttle's pen spun in a circle between his fingers, and a drop of ink flew out from the tip of the pen and dripped onto the paper. "You escaped and explored another road. You found that the end was the palace."
Edith nodded.
"...Oh my God." Hedda couldn't help but exclaim softly, "Louisa is awake."
That was the ancient wizard Louisa, a legendary figure recorded in textbooks. Even the professor of spells at the college mentioned her name with respect. Such a person who had been dead for three hundred years was actually resurrected before Edith's eyes.
"If it were in an adventure novel, she would definitely teach you the secret method and let you reach the top of the world from now on." She said regretfully, "If Hope Eddie wasn't here, maybe you could have made it happen with your talent. Damn it."
"But Edith got the spell book, so it should count as well?" Seeing that no one responded to Heda's question, Mu Lin took the initiative to speak, "Ancient wizards can only teach ancient spells, right?"
No, she can even transfer her magic power to me...
Edith said silently in her heart.
She looked up and saw Mu Lin staring into her eyes. The other party looked a little uneasy, and only spoke after meeting her gaze: "However, I don't quite understand the meaning of the conversation between Duke Eddie and Louisa..."
Her ability to understand is not bad, but the amount of information is too large and the content is too strange, so she would rather doubt herself.
"Duke Eddie has lived for who knows how many hundreds of years. Every time he gets old, he is reborn in a new body, but this body is stolen from others." Amy, who has the strongest adaptability, came into play at this time. "Since he is called Reed Eddie, it means that the body he robbed at first was his own child. In recent years, folk education has been valued, and many civilian geniuses have emerged, so he reached out to the civilians."
"It's not entirely because civilians have high talent." Tuttle shrugged. "Remember those kids in Eddie's family?"
Amy's mouth snapped shut and she nodded with a sad face.
This generation of the Eddy family is full of mediocre people. The only one with magical powers is Celeste, but she died.
“Didn’t I tell you?” Edith looked up, “Celest isn’t from the Eddie family either.”
She repeated the story of Mrs. Eddy, and when she finished, everyone fell silent.
"...No wonder Mrs. Eddy said, 'I regret it and now I can accept the identity of Celeste'..."
Belle was lost in thought. She turned her head to find someone to sympathize with her, but she found that Mulin was hunched over, almost burying her head in her legs, and trembling all over. "What's wrong?"
She reached out to touch Mu Lin's back, but she dodged it violently.
"Sorry, sorry..."
Mu Lin was shaking so much that his voice was incoherent. It took a lot of effort for him to raise his head again: "Then I was unconscious at that time..."
Edith looked at the beads of sweat oozing from the other person's forehead, closed her eyes and nodded: "Yes."
"I suspect that both parties being on the verge of death is a necessary condition for soul exchange. Celeste hurt you in the beginning in order to find a backup body for herself." Edith speculated reasonably, "Her mucus - now I think it should be an ancient spell controlled by Duke Eddie - will force people into a desperate situation, but it will not be fatal immediately. As long as the doctor uses magic to keep you alive, you will always be on the verge of death, ready for the exchange at any time."
"After Celeste and I finished our competition, that body was no longer useful, so we started to replace it. That's why you suddenly regained your hearing and partial vision that day, felt like you were in a cave, and heard the voices of people around you - because you entered Celeste's body."
I don't know why it failed in the end. Mulin returned to her own body and woke up successfully, while Mrs. Eddie was forced to return to her original body and lay motionless on the hospital bed.
Mulin froze in place.
Bell opened his mouth, not knowing how to comfort her, and could only gently put his hand on her back to provide support. Anyone who knew that his soul almost dissipated would be scared.
A strange soul entered her body, controlled her life, and destroyed her original social relationships. According to Edith, they would even get rid of Mulin's original parents in order to implement the plan to claim the illegitimate child.
This is more frightening than death.
"...Will they target Mulin again?" Heda asked cautiously, "Then -"
"—Wait, weren't you the one who hit Celeste after Mulin?!"
Her voice suddenly became louder. Tuttle and Lynch turned their heads at the same time as she did and looked at Edith's face.
Edith spread her hands and shrugged: "Maybe I am also one of the people being targeted?"
"I have no father or mother, I was born in a common family, and I have good talent. If anything, I have the advantage of an unknown background compared to Mu Lin, which makes it easier for me to make up a story about an illegitimate child."
"You won't," Tuttle blurted out. "You are too unique. Anyone who replaces you will be discovered immediately."
"At least I'll find out right away."
"I can do that, too." Lynch's cheeks flushed, whether out of anxiety or for some other reason. "You are you. No matter what you look like on the outside, the only thing that represents you is your soul."
"Mulin will definitely be discovered." Bell frowned, "Can you imagine her waking up from the hospital bed and the first words being 'Damn doctor, get out if you can't take care of people'?"
Everyone shook their heads wildly.
Amy said seriously, "It's strange. Since Mulin's talent had already been passed on to the Eddy family through the magic lock, why didn't they start before she entered the academy?"
"Because there is no need." Edith answered immediately, "They don't change bodies as soon as they find a suitable body. They usually find a civilian in advance and wait until the original body can no longer bear it. As long as they wait for five years, Mu Lin will be able to leave the academy with excellent grades and be arranged to enter a completely unfamiliar environment. With strangers all around, the body change will definitely not be discovered."
Even if old friends get together again, they will think that work has changed them.
"It's just that they didn't expect the day when they would need a body would come so soon." Bell continued, "From the fact that Mulin was not successfully replaced, it can be seen that the Eddy family prepared for this ceremony in a hurry."
"Doesn't that mean that the Eddy Family can no longer find a more suitable body among the common people?"
Tattle frowned. "That shouldn't be the case. The magic lock covers the entire kingdom. Even if we can only choose from nearby places due to the distance, we won't find any suitable ones. Didn't three civilian mages pass the preliminary round of the palace mage selection this year?"
Edith raised her eyebrows: "Are the results of the preliminary round of the court wizard competition out?" I had heard that Shelly was involved in setting the questions, and now the results are finally out.
"It's out." Amy slumped on the table. "Unexpectedly, there are three commoners who made it to the retest. Two of them are from privately run magic schools, and the other is purely self-taught. But the selection of court mages is a process of selecting geniuses. Apart from these three, the commoners who successfully registered but did not make it to the retest are also among the top among the nobles. It is impossible that there are no one to choose from."
“Unless these people can’t move.”
Tuttle and Edith spoke at the same time.
"Why can't I move?" Heda was confused and looked out of shape. "Who could have a higher status than Duke Eddie?"
"She's the court mage..." Bell tilted his head, "The queen?"
......
The discussion ultimately resulted in the closure of the library.
Everyone tacitly did not ask Edith about the spell book, and gave her full authority to deal with it. Edith could not help but think of those people she met in the association in her previous life who would not move unless there was something in their interests, and she could not help but sigh at the magic of fate.
Sometimes there are a lot of bad people around me, and sometimes they are too good.
"You have to be careful." After the librarian left, Tuttle packed up the things scattered in the reading room and said to Edith word by word with a serious expression, "After all, Mrs. Eddy hasn't found a suitable new body yet."
"I will." Edith felt that this scene was strangely familiar and smiled. "She must also be able to make me near death."
Although she was confident, everyone else seemed anxious.
"Not in our family," Hedda said angrily, "My stupid father can't help you at all. I think you should find a more powerful helper."
"Isn't the Walker family powerful? Amy is the heir and has a lot of say. If anything, Joyce and I have a pretty good relationship too?" Edith raised her chin towards Amy and received a thumbs-up from her. "It's really okay, don't worry."
"It's different, it's different. Just having a good relationship is useless. You have to have a conflict of interest with the person." No one knew where Heda learned this phrase from. "Let me think...it has to be a teacher. Why don't you try to see if Professor Scott is willing to protect you?"
Edith nearly spit out water.
"Why him?" She wiped the tea that had spilled from the corner of her mouth, glanced at Bell and Mulin who were nodding seriously, and tried hard to recall the details of their previous interactions, "We don't know each other very well."
She probably never showed her closeness to Shelly in front of Heda and the others. In their view, she and he should just be an assistant. Why would she suddenly mention him?
"I know you don't know him well." Heda had an unfathomable expression, "but he seems to think highly of you. After all, you are his assistant, and you may be able to bring him some experimental results. Why don't you give it a try?"
"How did you come up with that?" Edith was curious. "Where does that heavy word come from?"
"Last night, we came out early and stood at the back of the college waiting for you. Unexpectedly, we ran into Professor Scott who came to look for us." Tuttle, who had already stepped half a foot out of the classroom, suddenly spoke. He stepped back and blocked the door with a book in his arms. "He seems to know about us."
Edith lied, "I did mention it, but I was trying to find some evidence, mainly so that I could have someone to testify if something went wrong."
“But knowing and coming out to look for it are two different things.” Lynch pursed his lips: “…He is very anxious.”
It was just that he was anxious for Edith. Towards them, Professor Scott exuded a coldness that kept them at a distance. "It felt like if we said you were missing, he would die with us in the next second."
Everyone present nodded vigorously in praise.
Edith: “…”
Help, what was Shelly like last night?
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