"You are..." The young man was stunned for a moment when he heard Lu Qing's words. He looked at Lu Qing, and his expression instantly became very excited.
"You are the one who saved me that day..." The young man suddenly noticed the crown on Lu Qing's head, and his expression instantly became a little awkward: "You, are you the princess?"
"Yeah." Lu Qing nodded, then looked at the young man curiously and said, "Why are you here?"
"Don't you know?" The young man looked a little confused and said, "Didn't you ask the teacher to take me in? If it weren't for you, I might have starved to death outside now."
"Ahem..." Moruni coughed softly twice, interrupted the conversation between the two and said, "Okay, stop reminiscing about old times and get down to business."
["Why did you save me? I thought you would dislike me for delaying and causing all the guests to leave..." After waking up, the young man found himself lying in a room in the magic house.
And the person who brought him here was the female store manager who insulted him outside the door before.]
["Haha, I'm too lazy to care about your life or death, but the little girl who fed you before gave me a large sum of money and asked me to take care of you." Mo Luni stirred the potion in her hand and opened her eyes to tell lies.
Said: "Of course, I also happen to be short of an apprentice, so I naturally agreed."]
"Emotions are still a tsundere..." Lu Qing looked at the contents of the diary and thought unexpectedly.
Glancing at Master Mo Luni, Lu Qing felt that it was better not to expose him. As an elderly person, he should give him more face.
"So did you find anything?" Lu Qing asked Mo Luni.
"Probably." Mo Luni's answer was somewhat unexpected by Lu Qing. She said, "I can't understand those ghostly symbols, and what I'm sure of is that no mage will be able to understand them if you show them to him.
What's the point of showing those ghost-like things?"
"I'm just guessing. Those ghostly drawings are just a deception, and what the cultists really want to do is probably related to astrology."
As she spoke, Moruni activated the runes on the wall of the room. Soon, light blue and lavender light shone in every corner of the room, and an artificial "starry sky" appeared in front of Lu Qing.
"The locations of the cultists you gave me before, if we treat them as stars, connected together in the starry sky..."
"The magic index is 52, the constellation trajectory is 31, and the influence of the moon is temporarily ignored..."
Every time Mo Luni said something, the young man adjusted various data on something similar to a console. Soon, after about five minutes, the entire "starry sky" was adjusted to what Mo Luni wanted.
Look.
Frowning, Moruni stretched out the crimson staff in her hand, drawing a line made of magic power to connect the stars together.
"Adjust it, change the moon to the sun, increase the magic index to 87, and reduce the starry sky trajectory to 6..."
As Moruni said, her eyes were fixed on the changes in the stars in the "starry sky". Soon, the stars that had not been connected before were reconnected.
"Huh." Moruni took a long breath and said, "End the test."
The starry sky slowly dissipated. Lu Qing looked at the serious-looking Moruni and asked quickly: "What was the result?"
Shaking her head, Moruni said: "This is definitely some kind of ritual magic, and it is a ritual magic that will be activated at a designated time, and it is also a very large-scale one."
"Do you know what the specific magic is?" Knight Myron couldn't help but interjected.
Super large-scale ritual magic, just hearing such a sentence, and then contacting the locations where the cultists were active, made Knight Myron goosebumps.
"I don't know." Moruni shook her head and said, "This is not any known spell. I only know that the locations you gave are not all. I'm afraid there are some hidden locations that you don't know about."
"This spell will be officially activated after the star path moves to 12 o'clock at noon tomorrow. I don't know the specific effect."
"...."
There was silence in the room for a while, and Knight Myron asked: "Is this the crisis that you said at the time could destroy the entire kingdom?"
"It's possible." Mo Luni glanced at Lu Qing and nodded after seeing that there was no surprise on her face.
"Is there any way to stop this ceremony?" Lu Qing asked.
"Probably there is, but I don't know if it's useful." Mo Luni looked at Lu Qing and said, "First of all, no matter what those ghost symbols are, you can't keep them."
"My suggestion is to demolish the buildings in all locations and burn them together with the corpses of the cultists."
"Don't let it go underground. Dig as deep as you can. The magic circle may be hidden underground. In addition, soldiers must be sent to guard all locations. Don't let anyone enter the place where the ceremony is held."
"There's only so much that can be done. I don't know what it will look like in the end." Mo Luni said with a somewhat helpless expression.
"These are enough." Lu Qing shook her head, then looked at Knight Myron and said, "Let's go, while there is still time."
"Yes." Knight Myron nodded, then looked at Moruni and said, "Then we'll leave first."
"Go ahead, go ahead." Moruni waved her hand and watched the two of them leave the magic house.
"The future is so easy to change, I have to make some preparations." Moruni stood up and stamped the red-grained wood staff in her hand.
"Teacher, is something big going to happen?" The young man had been listening to the conversation between the three of them. At this time, he saw Moruni standing up and asked.
"Yes, something big is going to happen." Mo Luni nodded and said.
"..." After a moment of silence, the young man asked with some worry: "Your Highness the Princess...will you be okay? I heard that Her Royal Highness is the current Saint. This year's Saint
She will host the tree festival, and those cultists..."
Moruni rolled her eyes and said, "You should worry more about yourself. She is protected by a legendary knight."
"That's right..." After a pause, the young man scratched his head and said, "It would be great if I could protect Her Highness the Princess."
"So you can see her every day?" Mo Luni joked, as her apprentice's thoughts were almost written on her face, how could she not see it.
"Is your admiration because of the grace of saving your life...won't it turn into love..." Mo Luni turned around and murmured in a low voice.
"Teacher, did you say anything?"
"No."
"oh."
.......
The night before the start of the Holy Tree Ceremony, a large number of soldiers were dispatched to destroy a large number of cultists' strongholds and crush their conspiracy.
A large number of corpses were burned, the cultists' strongholds were demolished, and deep pits were left in place.
In this way, the next morning came, the annual Holy Tree Ceremony...