Chapter 380: Secret Professor
On the southwest outskirts of Tivian, on a dark road in the woods.
Controlling the corpse of the coachman, Dorothy urgently stopped the carriage. When the horses' hooves gradually stopped and the wheels gradually stopped, Dorothy opened the door of the carriage, walked out with a gas lamp in hand, and ran out of the corner of the road in three or two steps, and came to the muddy ground beside the road.
Coming to the soft mud, Dorothy glanced around without stopping. With the help of the light from the street lamp in her hand, she picked up a branch from the side of the road, held it in her hand, and began to paint on the mud.
Following the knowledge on the promotion stone tablet in her mind, Dorothy quickly began to draw a magic circle on the ground. With the powerful information processing and control capabilities of the "Initiate" Extraordinary, she drew at a very fast speed with terrifying accuracy. Within a dozen seconds, she drew an extremely neat magic circle with the meaning of "Initiate", which seemed to be drawn with many auxiliary tools.
In the center of the magic circle is a big open eye, and around the circle are five small spiritual marks. Neat curves and mysterious symbols connect the six marks, one large and five small, to form a whole. This is Professor Dorothy's promotion magic circle.
After the magic circle was drawn, Dorothy threw away the branch in her hand, then opened her right palm, looked at the six holy emblems on it, and placed them on the corresponding spiritual marks around the magic circle. After placing five other spiritual holy emblems, Dorothy placed the last holy emblem of "Enlightenment" that she had folded in the center of the magic circle, above the big eye.
After doing all this, Dorothy's ritual preparation was complete, and the next step was spiritual preparation.
According to Dorothy's current spiritual reserves, she still lacks 5 points of "Shadow" and 1 point of "Light" to meet the promotion requirements. Fortunately, she had just read some information in Barrett's basement and read a lot of things that can identify poisons.
The first is the 524th edition of "Arthur's Legend", which records the story of Arthur, the sword in the stone, the lady of the lake, the bloodthirsty monster Acheron, the eight-eyed witch, etc. It involves the three spiritualities of "shadow", "cup" and "stone". From more to less, Dorothy extracted a total of 11 spiritualities, including 4 "shadows", 3 "cups", 2 "stones" and 2 "revelations".
Then there is the research summary written by Barrett himself, "The Influence of the Glorious Church on the Cultural Transformation of the Puritan Tradition", which points out that the Glorious Church had been transforming the Puritan culture and beliefs for thousands of years, and mentions the "Wind King Rebellion" that broke out when the Puritan local forces attempted to resist the influence of the Glorious Church. From this, Dorothy extracted the three spiritualities of "lamp", "shadow" and "stone", a total of 8 spiritualities.
The last one is the shield emblem painted by the Zungu School during the Wind King Rebellion. It depicts four knights who are suspected to be the servants of the Mirror Moon Goddess. Since the spiritual range of the four knights is very wide, Dorothy extracted all the spiritualities except "lamp", which are 4 "shadows", 1 "stone", 1 "cup", 1 "silence", and 2 "inspiration", a total of 9 points.
Combined with Dorothy's own spirituality, this is her current spiritual condition.
14 “cup”, 20 “stone”, 15 “shadow”, 12 “lamp”, 24 “silence”, 30 “inspiration”… these spiritualities have fully met the needs for promotion.
After the spiritual extraction was completed, Dorothy immediately began her own ceremony. She lifted her little cotton skirt, closed her eyes, and knelt in front of the holy emblem of "Enlightenment" in the center of the magic circle. Then she calmed her mind and began to chant silently in her heart.
'The road of knowledge is long... the sea of knowledge is boundless... I am halfway along... I have begun to understand the principles... I have begun to glimpse the six forms...
"Heavy fog and heavy obstruction... I pray that there are all kinds of great divinities within, to help me disperse the fog and see the true path..."
Kneeling in the center of the mysterious magic circle, Dorothy silently chanted the spells needed for promotion. As the spells continued to echo in her heart, the six holy emblems on the simple magic circle began to emit various colored lights. The promotion ceremony, which was inherited from the Star Number Book Repair Society and had been lost for thousands of years, was now reappearing in this desolate suburban land.
After Dorothy finished reciting the spell in her heart, she received a prayer from herself, praying that she would lead the way for her promotion ceremony. After she agreed without hesitation, it seemed that an invisible wind blew through the ceremony site.
At the moment the wind blew, Dorothy felt her thoughts suddenly expand in an instant. She felt as if her brain was about to explode. Her thoughts seemed to be broken into countless pieces, and each piece belonged to Dorothy, or to the memory of the person who traveled through time...
In this exploding brain experience, Dorothy's consciousness could not be focused. She seemed to be recalling all the memories and thinking about all the problems. She felt that time became very long. She didn't know how long her confused thinking lasted before her scattered mind began to focus again and her broken consciousness began to reorganize.
During this process, Dorothy saw five huge, blurry shadows in the dim light. These shadows flashed around her in the distance and then suddenly disappeared.
After these shadows disappeared, Dorothy's shattered consciousness finally returned to normal. She suddenly opened her eyes, immediately bent down, covered her head, and began to breathe heavily.
“Ouch…Ouch…Ouch…It hurts…This promotion…is really getting more intense each time…”
Covering her forehead, Dorothy murmured while enduring the remaining pain in her head. Every time she was promoted, it was a storm on the spiritual level, and each time was more severe than the last. This time, when she was promoted to white chalk, Dorothy felt like her head was going to explode. She once thought that the ritual had failed and she was going to die.
Fortunately, the ceremony did not fail, but was almost completed. Dorothy could be said to be a Cretaceous-level Extraordinary.
If it was other professions that advanced to chalk, the ceremony would have been completed here, but Dorothy was a pure "Qi" profession, so now she was still one step away.
"Huh...Huh...The rank upgrade is complete. Now it's time to choose the next auxiliary spirit."
Dorothy thought this in her heart. As for her second spirituality and the second colorful profession that could be simulated, Dorothy had actually thought about it and come up with the answer long ago.
When Dorothy was at the Black Level, she found that her biggest weakness was her lack of combat capability. She was good at hiding behind the scenes, but she often found it difficult to face the enemy head-on. Once her operations went wrong and she was in danger, she would face extreme difficulties, just like now.
Therefore, Dorothy had long ago had the idea of improving her ability to face the enemy head-on and to improve her self-protection ability. Among the three remaining miscellaneous professions on the path of "Inception", there is only one profession that can most obviously improve frontal combat effectiveness, and that is the elemental user assisted by "Stone", the Thunder Summoner!
Dorothy had witnessed the battles between the holy war knights of the church and the captains of the garrison of the Security Bureau. She understood that this kind of profession that directly converted spirituality into elemental attack had the most positive ability among all professions. As she now had 20 points of "stone" and abundant spiritual reserves, she was suitable to summon the thunder wizard.
Without thinking too much, Dorothy, who was kneeling in the magic circle, closed her eyes again and chose Thundercaller as her second simulated profession. As the "Stone" badge belonging to the Stone Prince glowed again, Dorothy opened her eyes again. At this time, there was an unprecedented depth in her red eyes.
At this moment, her promotion ceremony was finally over, and she had now successfully advanced to a Cretaceous-level Extraordinary, a professor of esoteric studies.
After the ceremony, Dorothy stood up from the magic circle. After brushing the dirt off her cotton skirt, she turned her head and looked into the distance, where the enemy was flying.
"There are still three kilometers left... Fortunately, if we handle it properly, we don't have to reveal our appearance..."
Looking at the distant sky, Dorothy murmured that at this moment she had no time to check the specific changes after her promotion. Now she needed to use her abilities to deal with the incoming enemies.
Without hesitation, Dorothy took out her magic box, adjusted the entrance to its largest size and placed it on the ground. Then Dorothy activated her ability to control the corpses in the magic box. After a while, Edrick, wearing a gray windbreaker, crawled out of the magic box under Dorothy's control and stood in front of Dorothy.
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