Chapter 140 Final Exam is the Day After Tomorrow
Edith was finally properly invited into the drawing room.
Along the way, although the boss had always been very respectful, Edith could see from his eyes that he was fearless. To put it bluntly, he respected Edith's practical value, not her as a person.
But now he finally looks somewhat like a human being.
"Please." The person in charge personally offered a cup of tea, his calm expression gone. "The Giles family does not want to be enemies with you."
"I apologize in advance for my recklessness. Excuse me, is it still possible to take out that thing?"
Edith already had a psychological trauma about tea served by someone she didn't know well, so she silently moved the cup to the side: "Is it possible? Isn't it just a matter of one word from me?"
"Even if it's possible, I'll answer no. What methods do you have to investigate?"
The person in charge smiled bitterly and waved his hand. The servant beside him immediately stepped forward and closed the curtains, blocking the view outside the window. He took small steps back, lowered his head, opened the door, and locked himself outside.
After confirming that there was no outsider in the space, the person in charge snapped his fingers, allowing the silencing spell to cover the entire room.
"I apologize to you once again." The person in charge pulled out a chair and took the initiative to bow. "The arrogance of the Giles family has corrupted me and made me deceive you uncontrollably."
Edith narrowed her eyes and tilted her head slightly to the side. "You mean that in the end, you deliberately asked me to take the treasure, but in fact you tacitly allowed others to take it?"
"Yes."
"It's okay. Anyway, I didn't tell you that only I can get it. We're even."
Edith shrugged indifferently. She had realized this the first time she opened the door—or rather, the moment she saw the dog hole, she roughly guessed that this "treasure" was not something concrete.
The hole was too small, and magic was not allowed inside. A normal-sized person could barely get in, but it would be difficult to bring anything back. The so-called treasure was probably a light object like a piece of paper, or it simply had no substance.
The first time she opened the door, she ruled out the first option. A restless vitality came from the depths of the cave. If she hadn't quickly cut off the magic power belonging to Louisa, that thing would definitely rush into everyone's sight in the next second and drill into her body.
But that would easily arouse the anger of the Giles family, so it would be better to let them do something apologetic first.
The person in charge smiled bitterly and sat back in his seat: "You just said 'is there any way to investigate'... I really don't have any, but I can roughly guess that the process just now is irreversible."
Everything Louisa left behind had a sense of irreversibility, which was somewhat similar to her. She could be called bold or reckless, but she would never regret it once she took action.
Based on his understanding of Louisa and his analysis of the scene just now, he could guess that the treasure would most likely not be returned.
"So?" Edith was curious about his choice. "Why did you call me here?"
"Please tell me the specific effects of that legacy."
The person in charge said sternly, "Also, please don't announce to the public that you got the inheritance. The Giles family will bear the consequences. For safety reasons, I will announce to the public that I got the things."
Edith shifted her sitting position and stood up, her eyes showing some interest: "Are you going to hide this from everyone?"
He locked all the servants and other members out of the door, leaving only himself, and then told others that Edith had transferred the inheritance to him...people would probably believe it and think that he avoided others out of selfishness.
"For the reputation of the Giles family?" Edith was in awe of the family's persistence - although it was a derogatory respect. "Even if people regard you as a thorn in their side, you are determined to stick to your identity as Louisa's descendant?"
"Miss Griffin has a good relationship with Langman?" The man suddenly changed the subject. "Then she should know what Langman stands for."
"Yes, he wants to learn modern spells."
"...I agree with his idea." Perhaps knowing that no one else could hear him, the person in charge relaxed a lot. He leaned back with his hand on his forehead, and there was a bit of fatigue between his eyebrows. "But many things cannot be changed so easily."
"He is only 19 years old. He has a lot of time to make a choice after discovering the drawbacks. I was too stupid when I became the head of the family. I continued the practices of the previous head for more than ten years before I realized that they were wrong. A hasty change will definitely cause conflicts. I can only try my best to maintain the status of the Giles family and delay time, waiting for someone who is not afraid of death to come up and rectify the situation."
"So that's why you deliberately didn't allow your child to be selected as the heir?" Edith looked at him with a little surprise, "...you don't have to tell me so much."
"I just want to dispel your doubts." After explaining the reason, the person in charge seemed to be relieved. He took Edith's cup of tea and took a sip. "Sorry, it's a good thing. It's a waste if you don't drink it."
"Your stuff, please feel free to take care of it."
Edith smiled. "Is this also part of reassuring you?"
"Yes, I told you I didn't poison you." The speaker quickly followed Edith's pace, "Yes, the Giles family is indeed finished. The speed at which new spells have been created in the past two years is too fast, and many functions can no longer be achieved with ancient spells."
No matter how smart Louisa is, she can't compare to hundreds of years of research by a huge group of researchers.
"It can still maintain its glory with me, but the next one will definitely go downhill. I don't want my child to fall into such a quagmire, so I just chose Langman." He was very frank, "Langman is very good. I have taught him since he was a child. There is no difference between him and my own son. He will not treat my branch unfairly when he becomes the head of the family."
"So, I have to delay for time. This lie can at least make the Giles family proud for another ten years. After ten years, I will definitely step down. That's enough."
A very convincing reason.
Knowing that there was no problem behind it, Edith was very happy to do so. She had the ability and the responsibility, except that she couldn't show off in public - she was now famous enough and didn't need to show off anymore.
She simply sensed the new power in her body and told the other party some key points.
......
The next day, the restaurant.
This was where Edith, a socially withdrawn person, could come into contact with the most strangers.
"Have you heard? The Giles family dug up Louisa's inheritance!"
"My God, Louisa has been dead for hundreds of years, is there still an inheritance?"
"That is to say, but it has been published in the newspaper, so it shouldn't be false?"
A man took out a newspaper, and people gathered around him. Hedda stretched her neck to read it, but Bell pressed her back, "No need, Tuttle has one too."
Hearing this, Tuttle quickly took out the newspaper, coughed lightly, and summarized the news above.
"The Giles family accidentally discovered the remains left by Louisa, and used Edith Griffin's sword to cut the lock. The things inside took the initiative to recognize the current speaker as the master."
"Why use a sword?" Lynch asked.
"What's in there?" Bell frowned.
"Can that ruins be opened up for us to explore?" Amy's thoughts quickly wandered.
"It's not written in the newspaper, but from what I heard, it's probably a force that prevents decay." Tuttle tried to explain, "That's not right, or is it a force for growth? Anyway, it's very vague."
"That's right. This kind of power that has been passed down to this day is indeed not that concrete."
"Tsk, now the Giles family can be sulking again." Hedda got a headache when she thought of their arrogant look.
Edith raised an eyebrow.
She didn't expect that the person in charge would continue to be vague and give an ambiguous answer based on the abridged version she gave.
"It's life force." She silently raised her wand under the table and cast a silencing spell to cover everyone, completely enveloping them.
"Yes, you were borrowed to the scene, you must know." Amy suddenly realized, "What is vitality?"
Edith silently reached her hand to the corner of the table and raised her finger slightly under everyone's gaze.
A tender white sprout suddenly poked out from the corner of the wooden table, and slowly extended forward along the original grain of the wood. Edith's face turned pale and she stopped what she was doing: "It's the limit."
“This is the vitality.”
For a moment, she even thought that she had mistakenly cast the Silencing Charm on herself, because no one responded to her voice.
Edith raised her eyelids and said before anyone else could speak: "Yes, I got the things."
"No sword broke the lock. It was a password given to me by Louisa. I wanted something but didn't want anyone to covet it. The Giles family wanted fame, so we hit it off and announced to the public that it was them who took it."
It's just that although Louisa's treasure looks powerful, it is useless in reality. The person in charge helped her experiment with the effect of the thing and found that it consumed too much magic power. Edith's magic power reserve, which was three or four times more than others, was exhausted, and she could only barely make the dead thing have a little life - that is, let a sprout grow on the table.
As for the dead chicken used in the experiment? Even if all the magic power was poured into it, there would not be any splashes. It was worse than a table. It was too difficult to use it to revive a person.
After all, it was something that Louisa had stored for hundreds of years in layers of encrypted form. We could only hope that it would be of some use at the critical moment.
Edith had a lot on her mind, but it only took a few seconds to process in reality. Tuttle was the first to react, supporting his head with his hands: "I'm sorry."
He was wrong. He thought his intelligence network was sufficient, but he didn't expect that there would be someone involved.
It was such a shocking thing, but after experiencing so many surprises brought by Edith, he was able to accept it calmly.
Humans are truly amazing creatures.
"So there is no sword." Lynch was disappointed. "I thought there was another reason that cannot be replaced by magic."
Bell looked up and sighed, "Awesome, luckily you got it, otherwise others probably wouldn't even have the ability to activate it." He even doubted whether he had obtained this ability.
"So this ability can be used to grow hair?" Heda suddenly thought, "I've been losing a lot of hair while reviewing for final exams recently."
"Actually, I'm a little..." Mu Lin looked a little shy.
Edith: “…”
Very good, everyone adapted quickly and she was very relieved.
"I can try." She raised her hand and silently moved it closer to Hedda's head.
......
Maybe it was because my schedule was too tight in the previous period. After I put everything aside and started concentrating on reviewing, time suddenly passed incredibly quickly.
Edith looked up at the calendar again and unexpectedly discovered that the final exam was the day after tomorrow.
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