Chapter 23 Despair
"Okay, now if you have any questions, you can ask this omnipotent horse head."
The lich shook his ears safely, found a comfortable position, and reminded him very friendlyly.
"That me..."
"I'll ask first." Lin calmly cut off, "I'll tell you if I understand."
Facing the huge skull, the heavy green fire in the bowl-sized eyes, and the cold tone, Kam shivered and moved two steps to the side.
"Hey, where is your accent?" said the Lich.
"Shut up. If I don't want to twist your slender neck off now, it's better to be quiet."
The lich stopped talking, but turned around and changed his posture, and began to look at the two exposed fangs beside Lin Da's mouth with interest.
Lin was silent for a moment and asked the first question:
“Where is this place?”
“Welcome to the Paradise of the Dead Ansul, only the Pure Land of Lich, and the great Lich Master is with you.
——‘Oh, in the face of eternal time and death, everything is so equal, harmonious, wonderful and stable. Nothing can disturb my learning and hinder my desire for knowledge.’
Enjoy a pleasant study and become a knowledgeable and qualified great lich. This is the expectation of the great lich master to you."
It seems to emphasize the effect, when the horse head reads the quotes and praises, it will deliberately raise the tone, but the tone is always cold and light, with a strange sense of funnyness.
But Lin couldn't laugh at all and immediately asked the second question: "What is a semester? How many semesters are there in total?"
"One semester is a cycle when you stay in Ansyr. The basic semester is 50 years old. You can actively apply for extension, but it cannot be reduced. There is no upper limit on the total number of semesters.
——‘Oh, lazy people do not deserve knowledge. Only diligence can help you and others to wear the crown of the dead.’
Enjoy eternal learning and experience the vastness of knowledge - this is the favor given to you by the great master."
“Are there any holidays?”
"After the theoretical hours of each semester, the college can briefly leave Anthur and return to the abyss to conduct actual combat. The test of the study can be used to return books in advance, but it cannot exceed the timeout, up to 50 years.
——‘Ah, even if you have eternal time, waste can be...’”
"Skip this paragraph, next one," Lin interrupted without hesitation, "How long does it take to learn a course generally? How many courses can you learn in a semester at most?"
"Every course has the best lich responsible, and the qualification standards are also determined by the mentors. According to the existing data of Anthur, the highest record holder is the chief disciple of the great Lich master. In less than three thousand years, it completed all its homework and became the first great lich to Anthur.
‘Ah, his reputation makes the ashes of the entire abyss tremble…’”
Lin Annan secretly pinched the pig's trotter with only four bone claws, paused, and then asked the question he wanted to ask the most so far: "Can I leave now?"
"No lich doesn't like to study."
"Can I drop out of school?"
"No lich doesn't love knowledge."
"What if I fail the exam...what if I fail?"
“All lichs have the power to devote unlimited time to unlimited learning.”
“…”
Or maybe she wouldn't be a lich. She suddenly thought. If this place only contains lichs, then...
"Don't think about running away with any tricks," the Lich gave Lin a very considerate suggestion, "or the white dunes outside will become your final destination - no creature except the Lich's accident is welcome here."
“…”
"Relax." The lich suggested, "Do you have any questions? What about you?" In the last sentence, he suddenly changed his words and turned to the young man behind Lin.
The young man named Kam was still at a loss and was at a loss. He suddenly heard the lich suddenly say something he could understand, and immediately showed an expression of almost crying joy.
"Please say it." He even used honorific words.
"Next, you have a choice, you can choose to stay here and learn knowledge with us, all kinds of knowledge, including spells, or…"
"Oh my God's spell!" the young man screamed, and then realized that his voice was too loud. He lowered his voice very embarrassedly. He looked at the rabbit in Lin's arms with admiration, as if he wanted to rush up and kiss his toes at any time. "So you are actually a great mage? Oh my God, I am actually lucky to talk to a real mage."
"Yes, next, this great defass will introduce you to this great defasser." Lin sneered and said, his voice as bright as her mood at the moment, "Along with these skeletons in robes."
"...really...really? Not kidding, aren't it?" The young man's face became very stiff, "It's very...really expensive? I... don't have that much money on me now."
Why is this reaction different from what she thought?
Lin Gang paused when he said something, and decided to point more directly: "... These guys are lichs, do you know? Oh, actually, we are, we are not mages at all."
The young man's expression really solidified.
"Don't be afraid." The lich comforted him, "Don't pay attention to it, no one here will hurt you... The first ban does not allow public killing of similar people. You can learn here for free with peace of mind."
"Forever." Lin added maliciously.
However, the young man obviously could not understand Lin's mood at this moment. When he heard the word "study", his expression suddenly loosened, and then tears fell down, and large tears fell constantly.
Forest:"……"
"I...I...I...Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes,Yes..." He wiped his eyes hard with his sleeves with thread, "I,I...I'm probably really dreaming... Some people used to say that I have a talent for magic...but I'm too poor... I can't even afford to buy a robe as an apprentice... When I could afford it, they all said that I was too old. But I was unwilling to give up, and always thought about whether to make more money, and then I thought about how to get into magic... So I took the risk of going to the abyss to try my luck... and ended up in this place I didn't know.
At the beginning, I was thinking that I was so unlucky... Later, I got here... At first I saw you really scared... I'm sorry... But I didn't expect you to be so nice... so friendly, really, really... so... so... sorry, I read less... I can't express my current mood."
——Ah, this world...
Lin Gan empathized with it, feeling that he could hold his breath in his chest and could not find any words to vent.
She stared at the horse's head and pinched the lich in her hand, thinking that she should smash it from the left or from the right.
"Then if you have no objections, we can almost register." Facing the silent two people, the lich began to move on his own.
[etvocem,meam,audient,recipitplantasti…](Listen to me, obey me, accept me, guide me…)
[ansyrdominic.]
It broke free from Lin's stiff arms, chanting carefully, and flapping its small wings on its back, flying lightly towards the horse's head on the high place.
While singing, the horse's head began to twist hard, and it made a creaking and rubbing sound, drilling out from the wall bit by bit. This process was not very long, because only half of the neck bone came out from behind the horse's head. After all, he fell down lightly with Du Jitu.
There was a horse head almost the size of a pig's flesh, quietly suspended in front of them, waiting for their next move.
"Okay, just put your hands in his eyes and recite the names you want to register... Just the common language."
"Ah, OK," Kam walked forward excitedly and reached in, "I'll call Ka..."
"Ansyr's second ban," the lich suddenly cut off his words, "As a lich, you must always hide your real name... the one you lived in. You can think of now a new one, and it will be the name you walk here in the future."
Kam choked for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Then...then I'll call it Kaka? Just be simpler...huh." He paused, and withdrew his hand from the horse's geese in surprise, and found that there was a sudden addition of an ice-blue transparent dagger on his hand.
"All newcomers can learn to use their original soul power... This is the most basic magic, which can be activated with your new name. Using spells requires medium amplification, and this is your own, the simplest amplification magic tool."
The lich explained that he wanted to say something else, but heard a sudden "click" sound beside him.
"Ah, I'm so sorry," the green fire in the eyes of Pig Spirit Lich Lin shook, "Pig Spirit's hooves are a little big, so it takes a little more force to stuff them in."
The lich looked at the forest's hoof claws in silence, with a thin crack on it - under the hoof claws, the horse's head was still intact.
"Ah, is that serious? Is it okay?" Cam asked nervously.
"It's okay." Lin Ruo put away his hooves without any reason, "It won't affect the action."
"Oh..." Kam was embarrassed, holding it in for a long time and didn't know how to continue to answer. When he lowered his head and saw the dagger in his hand, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Well, my new name is Kaka, what about you? What is your name?"
"Me." Lin stood up a little, stared at the horse's head that flew back to its original position, and said in an extremely low tone, "From now on, you can call me Mulala."
...
"So where are you going to start?"
"Why do I feel like you are very excited?"
Lin asked expressionlessly—in fact, she really can't make any expressions at the moment.
"I'm just kind-hearted. After all, we are in a similar situation now and face a common dilemma," said the Lich with a point of view, "but probably only we think so..."
On the side, Kam was already in a happy trance. From the end of the registration, he had been in this state, just like someone who had just fallen in love, always thinking without thinking, eyes floating, occasionally showing a strange and sweet smile - and always looking towards the entrance.
"You can go and study the Undead Word first," the lich kindly gave the advice. "As for the rest, don't be too anxious, you can go shopping first. Anyway, there is no time limit for any course. As long as you want, you can keep learning."
"Okay, Mr. Rabbit!" Kam ran away, but after a few steps, he suddenly stopped.
"Go in here and go straight, teleport directly to the second floor, and then turn right to see what you want."
"Thank you so much!" Cam nodded suddenly, "You are the best person I have ever met... no, Mr. Rabbit."
"Ah, it's been played." Lin said.
"Yes, he will be a good lich." The rabbit lich exclaimed with emotion, "The love for knowledge, the fanaticism of learning...he will like it here."
"Yes." Lin Yi grabbed the rabbit's ear, grabbed it in front of him, and tied his neck. This action did not hurt the lich, but it would definitely make him feel uncomfortable.
"So now should we settle the score?" She tightened her hands, and the bones under the fur creaked.
"Please be aware of the first ban." The Lich reminded her.
“…”
"And when it comes to settlement, you see, I was practicing what I learned in the abyss and studying alchemy. And you, and your stupid fellow fishman, not only disturbed my research, but also savagely looted my laboratory and opened the return channel in advance, so that I had to accompany you here, ending the fake...the practice part, and thanks to you, my new semester has become eighty years."
It sounds very reasonable.
Lin couldn't help feeling guilty.
"So if you still want to go out, then I advise you to study honestly and hard. As an introductory person, maybe I can get extra rewards and go out with you a little in advance. So where do you plan to start looking at? Alchemy? Prophecy? History? Or Penalty? War? Philosophy?"
Chapter completed!