"You are so mean. It would be more convenient to let Olivia ask about this kind of thing."

Alice smiled and said:

"How can this be called bad intentions? This is called reciprocity. We are giving President Hans a reason to cooperate with us so that we can get extra surprises from him later."

Olivia said speechlessly, "Alice, you were planning to participate in the competition for titled adventurers anyway. Is it necessary to make it so complicated?"

Alice narrowed her eyes and said nothing.

Louis glanced at her.

His intuition told him that Alice's real target was some resource from the Adventurer's Guild.

His eyes looked at Little Swan, as if asking her, "Yuan Fang, what do you think?"

Unfortunately, Little Swan didn’t know much in her previous life. Having lived in the palace for a long time, she learned most of the information from other people after being screened.

This resulted in her only having a general understanding of many things and not knowing the inside story.

However, since it was what Alice wanted to take, he didn't mind helping.

Whenever she wants to tell him, she will tell him.

The little swan was speechless at Louis's disgusted look and glared at him viciously.

“It’s impossible for me to know everything!”

The two of them exchanged glances, trying to express their inner emotions with each other's eyes.

As for whether the two can finally understand each other...

That's another matter.

But Grace on the side was silent.

She watched as Louis and Alice looked at each other, then showed an understanding expression.

Then he looked at Louis and the little swan flirting with each other, as if they were keeping a little secret from everyone.

She was a little anxious.

Can you please talk nicely? I feel like I'm becoming an outsider.

"Grace, you've worked hard today."

As if sensing Grace's disappointment, Louis gently rubbed her head.

Grace was well prepared this time.

This time in the Shadowless Underworld, the group really went on a killing spree.

The Church of the God of Glory and Justice values ​​Grace more than he thought.

For example, many people cannot buy high-purity holy water even if they have money, but others use it bottle by bottle.

Grace...she uses it in batches.

There are also some divine arts such as protection from evil and evil strike, which, with the blessing of grace, are extremely effective.

It's simply maxed out special attack against evil.

Therefore, his praise was sincere.

Grace really tried hard.

The warmth of the palm transmitted through the hair made Grace look relieved:

"I, I will keep working hard!"

…

After the group separated again, Louis and Olivia walked together.

"Are you going to look for Beatrice?" Louis asked.

The little swan nodded.

Before leaving, Little Swan found a corner, opened the sound barrier, isolated Lumi, and then asked Louis: "What is your hometown like?"

Louis asked curiously, "Why are you asking about this all of a sudden?"

Little Swan said:

"I just wonder why you could come into this world so easily."

Louis laughed and said, "Why so many whys? I'm here now."

How is he going to explain this? Should he say to Little Swan, "Sorry, the souls of time travelers are just amazing"?

It's impossible to even think about it.

Perhaps sensing Louis's thoughts, Little Swan frowned, shook his head and said, "After learning about your situation, I investigated the great crimes in history."

"This is not the first time that the heir of the great sin has appeared on the continent."

"Including your great sin, greed. Its successor also left traces on the continent in the past, but many people don't know that person is a great sin."

Louis nodded.

He had guessed this a long time ago.

This couldn't be the first time the Heir of Sin had appeared.

Just look at the Emperor, who so skillfully let the White Tower try to extract the essence of the abyss and try to artificially create new sins.

The Heirs of Sin have a long history in the Star Continent.

“So, inside the royal family”

"You have to know one thing. Before you came to the Star Continent, corrupting the country was already a great sin - greed."

"The Great Sin of Greed is not the first time it has appeared in the Star Continent. In more distant times, there were others who had mastered this power."

"Unlike other sins, the owners of the sins of greed and gluttony have the ability to devour souls."

"Even ordinary legends may not be able to stop the spontaneous devouring of the great sin of greed."

"You're not going to tell me that in your hometown in your previous life, you already possessed a tenacious soul comparable to that of a legend, right?"

Louis paused.

Involuntarily, my heart twitched slightly.

He had actually thought about this a long time ago.

Why did he travel through time?

Was it a coincidence or a necessity? But he didn't dare to think too much.

He also thought about whether it was possible to go home.

But his heart told him that if he had too much expectations about this matter, he would be hurt.

The most terrible thing is not having hope. What is terrible is that a glimmer of hope is raised, but then it is cruelly extinguished.

By then, Louis felt that he would feel even worse.

However, Little Swan took the initiative to bring up the matter, so Louis asked:

"You don't think that I was summoned to this world by some existence, do you?"

Olivia nodded, but after thinking for a moment, she shook her head: "I remember you told me before that your world has no connection with our Star Continent, right?"

Louis nodded.

The little swan spread his hands and said:

"That's a bit strange. From a common sense point of view, this does not conform to the logic of summoning and violates the nature of the summoning contract."

"For example, Louis, have you ever thought about a question, such as the Seraphic Servant, which can respond to the summons of the wizard, based on what principle?"

Louis shook his head.

Although he had learned a lot of common sense and even inside information about the Star Continent during this period, what he had learned was not very systematic.

In other words, apart from the knowledge related to the Nine Swords, which he absorbed in a very systematic way, the purpose of his learning other knowledge was to suppress the great sin of greed.

It doesn’t matter whether it forms a system or not, since 99.9% of the time it will not be used in daily life.

Now after listening to what Olivia said, it seemed that there was something he didn't know.

Olivia shook her head and said, "You have to understand one thing. The essence of a summoning contract is an oath."

"Angels like the Seraphim will respond to the call of magic because many years ago, their ancestors once fought together with the founders of the mage profession to fight against evil."

"After the war ended, their friendship was passed down in the form of summoning spells."

"The lifespan of the Seraphim is very long. In the outer world, in their habitats, there are who knows how many powerful angels are hidden that have survived for hundreds of thousands of years."

"Quite a few of them still remember the time they fought together."

"The story of the alliance between the Seraphim and the Mage is still circulating among their race."

"Although their real bodies cannot directly enter the Star Continent now, they are still willing to respond to the call of the alliance, send down their clones, and renew the covenant made tens of thousands of years ago."

Louis suddenly realized:

"In other words, the summoning technique of the Seraphic Servant is actually to open a channel and call for help, right?"

The little swan nodded and said:

"Your understanding is correct."

"Similar situations occur in every type of summoning technique, such as many spells in the conjuration system and various spells that borrow the power of other powerful beings."

Louis carefully recalled the characteristics of the various incantation spells he had learned.

For example, the second-ring conjuration spell [Summon Mount].

The St. Louis College textbook describes this spell like this:

"You will summon a spirit with extraordinary intelligence, strength, and loyalty as a mount, and establish a long-term contract with it."

"The mount appears in an unoccupied space within range, taking the form of your choice: warhorse, pony, camel, moose, mastiff."

"In addition, if your mount's Intelligence is 5 or lower, its Intelligence becomes 6, and it can understand one of your languages."

"..."

At the end of the relevant introduction, there is one point that is emphasized.

"You cannot have more than one mount at a time with this spell. You can use an action at any time to release the mount from the bond and make it disappear."

This means that this spell cannot be used repeatedly to create a group of mounts.

This is because he is essentially an ally summoned "to target a single wizard individual" in compliance with the covenant between a certain ethnic group and humans in the past.

They are not slaves to the mages.

Although most of the summoned tribes are more or less problematic and have little intelligence, this does not mean that the mages have control over them.

"That third-level spell of the conjuration system [Summon Animal]..." Louis looked at Olivia hesitantly.

The introduction of [Summon Animals] in the book is:

"You summon the spirit of the beast in form and cause it to manifest in an unoccupied space you can see within range."

It was a creature similar to a soul beast.

There are quite a lot of varieties.

Louis had seen a wizard summoned before when he was in the Dragon Bone Grassland, and he was quite impressed.

Olivia shook her head and said, "This is another thing I want to emphasize. Not every tribe that is summoned is safe and sound right now."

"Historically, we have had many more summoning spells, and those correspond to the allies who once fought alongside us mages."

"But now most summoning spells have disappeared. There are only a few left, and they are all the lucky ones that survived."

"There are also special spells like [Summon Animals]."

"The tribe behind the contract has all died, but their souls have survived by chance, continuing the contract with us and fighting together."

Louis nodded.

He finally understood the reasons why so many spells in the school of conjuration were effective.

The essence of various summoning spells is to open a specific channel and then shout to the other side of the channel:

"Brother, I'm being bullied by a bad guy, come and help me beat him up!"

Then if the brothers really treat you as a brother, they will come through the passage and beat up the opponent with you.

Typical ones are [Summon Mount] and [Summon Animal].

There are also some special ones, such as [Desire of Hada] which is also a three-ring spell.

The effect is -

"Open a channel and connect to a certain area in the darkness between the stars, which is full of unknown and terrifying creatures."

On the surface, such a spell simply creates a dark and cold spherical area with a radius of 20 feet centered on a point within the casting range, which lasts until the spell ends.

In this area of ​​distorted space structure, all living things will suffer from freezing damage and strong acid damage from the alien soft tentacles.

The essence of this type of magic is to directly open a passage to a high-risk area, and then use the dangerous creatures in that passage to attack the enemy.

Only a very small number of them are spells that can truly allow you to have enough food and clothing by yourself.

For example, the fourth-ring spell [Modern Kennel] allows the mage to directly create a phantom guardian dog that obeys your orders.

This has little to do with summoning, but is a concentrated manifestation of superb magical skills.

Therefore, the core of a series of [Summon XXX] spells in the Conjuration Department is the oath with past partners.

The premise of an oath is usually a bond between the two parties and an agreement to fight side by side.

This is the star version of "The Three Heroes of Peach Garden", the racial version of "Rest with the Country", and perhaps there is even some more extreme "pledge to continue even after death" with the effect of "ghost marriage".

"So do you understand? Most summoned creatures come from somewhere in the Star Continent, or they are creatures from the Outer Plane, Inner Plane, or even the Astral Plane."

"In the worlds where those summoned creatures live, there is always news about the Star Continent."

"The beings summoned are either 'ancestors' who signed a covenant hundreds of thousands of years ago and are still alive, or 'descendants' who admire the glory of their ancestors and are willing to renew the covenant."

"There is a core 'mystery' that must be followed in summoning spells, and that is knowing and agreeing."

"If you were really summoned, you should have known about this and agreed to it long before you were summoned."

"In fact, the story of the Star Continent should have spread in your world, and your ancestors or even yourself have reached a contract with the caster."

"And your situation... is very strange. If it was an illegal summon, the Great Sin of Greed should have attacked you immediately in order to protect the host."

"But when you came, not only did you not suffer any attacks, but..."

Olivia paused when she said this: "Instead, you took over everything in his body and turned it into yours. It's almost as if he gave it up voluntarily."

"You said you were already in prison when you traveled to this world?"

Louis looked at the little swan's frowning face and nodded slowly.

Olivia sighed, "If summoning magic really exists, then the one who summoned you is most likely Huoguo himself. As for why you responded, I don't know."

"Of course, all of this is just my guess based on current common sense of magic. It's hard to say whether it's correct or not."

Louis nodded.

He didn't pursue the matter any further.

After all, the original owner has disappeared now. No one knows what Huoguo was thinking at that time, whether it is the original diary or the reborn little swan.

After the two separated, Louis went to Beatrice's office.

After some intimacy, Louis sniffed the fragrance of his wife's fair neck and whispered:

"Beatrice, I need your help."

Beatrice looked at him curiously:

"What do you want from Qian?"

"I want to verify a guess." Louis said seriously.

"Then don't bully my deputy." Beatrice smiled cunningly.

Louis was helpless:

"I bullied her? It's already good enough that I wasn't bullied by her."

To be honest, when Miss Qian was furious and couldn't find her friends in the Shadow Underworld, the horrific destructive power she displayed was truly like an overwhelming tidal wave.

…

Left the office.

Qian looked at Louis: "Your Highness Louis, why are you calling me out at this time? Is there something wrong?"

Louis looked at her and said:

"There's something I want to verify about the case of a ghost wandering around Central Street."

"Beatrice and you should already know this, so I want to verify a guess."

The emperor no longer leaves his bedroom.

Then the relevant tasks must be communicated through outsiders.

For the Unther Empire, every mission of the Emperor deserves attention from all levels.

It's impossible that Beatrice and the others don't know the situation.

He had just asked Beatrice about this.

Beatrice's answer was "Father said there is no danger, but it is true that only you can handle this matter."

Poor President Hans.

He came to the royal family to inquire about the details, and he estimated that he would suffer a lot.

However, for Louis, such secret information can be obtained by simply asking Beatrice.

What is that wild cat Alice thinking? It's normal for President Hans not to know.

After all, President Hans only knows Caesar, the noble lady, and the maid duo X (Olivia/Lummi:???).

The most we know is that Caesar, Alice and the noble maid have close ties with the royal family.

Who could have imagined that there was an imperial prince and his second princess sneaking in here?

But Hans didn't know, and there was no way Alice didn't know.

"Find some time to learn the details of the Titled Adventurer evaluation. Alice is not the kind of person who likes to tease others out of boredom... At least President Hans is the wrong gender."

He came back to his senses, looked at Qian and said, "Miss Qian, I want to ask you something now. Did you enter the Shadowfallen Underworld on your own initiative, or were you summoned to the Shadowfallen Underworld directly?"

Qian was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she said with a bad look on her face: "Should it be considered a summon? You should have seen my dirty appearance..."

She was talking about the strange red lines that appeared on her face.

She had a self-deprecating expression on her face.

Louis shook his head and said, "Are you talking about the pattern of the war ghost?"

Miss Qian didn't say anything.

Louis smiled and said:

"First of all, I don't think that look is ugly."

"Secondly, that is the proof of the existence of Mr. Roger."

"Ms. Qian, we may go to the Shadowfall Underworld again tonight. Are you interested in solving this mystery?"

(End of this chapter)