Lumian entered the old tavern and unexpectedly found that the woman had gotten up and was enjoying breakfast in the corner.
She changed her clothes again, a long brown skirt with a stand-up tie and ruffles, and a dark velvet hat set aside, making her look like she had just returned from a salon in high society.
"So early?" Lumian calmed down and walked over.
The lady raised her head and glanced at him:
"Is there a possibility that I haven't slept all night?"
"Maybe." Lumian was no stranger to this situation, after all, when the deadline was approaching and his sister Aurore often stayed up late, he just wondered why the lady in front of him with an unknown origin suddenly said such a sentence.
He glanced at the other party's "dining table" and found that the food on display was a cream souffle with a hint of nuts, a very attractive muffin, a croissant, a cup of darker coffee, and a cat's tongue cake.
The appetite was good...... But these things really don't seem to be what Cordu can provide, except for Auror, maybe only the chef in the administrator's family can make it...... Lumian sat down and said casually:
"It's all desserts."
The lady nodded her head seriously:
"Intees' desserts are really delicious, and there are many types, even if you come for breakfast every day, you can not repeat it for a month."
After saying that, she took a bite of the cat's tongue cake, half-closed her eyes, and felt it for a while and said:
"This is one of the meanings of travel."
"You're not an Intis?" Lumian took the opportunity to ask.
The lady smiled:
"I'm from Rune, but in terms of the current situation, it doesn't matter."
In addition to steam machinery, factory enterprises, and a large number of troops, only easy chairs, mint sauce, fried fish and potatoes, and beer made from pure snake fruit can be considered a specialty? As a pure Intis, Lumian suddenly remembered everyone's usual words mocking the Rune Kingdom.
He said "Hmm" and then said:
"I got rid of the monster with the shotgun on its back."
The lady took a sip of coffee and praised quite plainly:
"Not bad."
For some reason, Lumian always felt that there was some strange emotion in the other party's eyes.
In the previous exchanges, he actually had a similar feeling, thinking that the other party had some kind of emotion hidden in addition to being playful and funny, but he couldn't tell what it meant.
He continued:
"I got an abnormal crimson thing from that monster, and holding it made me irritable and hostile.
"I think it's definitely something involving extraordinary powers, but it didn't follow me to reality."
The lady smiled:
"After going in and out so many times, didn't you realize that you couldn't bring anything else except your own state?"
"Didn't you say except for the extraordinary......" Lumian stopped before he could finish speaking.
He thought of the soreness in his body now, the injuries he suffered in the dream, and the corresponding memories that did not disappear because he returned to reality.
After thinking for a while, he considered and said:
"You mean, after gaining extraordinary power through that crimson thing and turning yourself into an extraordinary person, the corresponding state that is different from normal people can be brought to reality?"
"Pretty smart." The lady didn't raise her head, still enjoying the cream soufflé.
"But won't the corresponding power be weakened by this?" Lumian frowned and asked, "The injuries I suffered in the dream are much lighter in reality."
"The state changes brought about by extraordinary characteristics will not." The woman raised her head and looked at Lumian and said, "That's why I say except for extraordinary things."
"Extraordinary trait...... Lumian chewed on the term.
He thought of what his sister called "extraordinary".
If you get extraordinary characteristics, you can become extraordinary? Lumian probably understands something.
Based on the explanation of the lady in front of him, he had further speculation about the specialness of the dream:
The ruins actually existed, or were they originally located somewhere in reality, and then fell into the depths of a big person's dream, so they have been developing naturally, and my dream is essentially a special channel, a special channel generated by the symbols on my chest, connected to that ruin?
According to this speculation, my home appears there as a mark left by my dreams when I interact with each other, a reflection of what I subconsciously think is the safest place, so it is not the same as the surrounding wilderness and the ruins, as if I am in a different world......
The monsters dare not come in because they really can't enter, they are in the real ruins, and my "home" is the product of the fusion of dreams and "reality"......
The special mark only acts on me, and the state I have will be recorded and brought back to reality, and at this time, there will be attenuation that does not involve extraordinary factors, and the involvement will remain unchanged, and death should also be ......
If this is the case, then there should be nothing terrifying hidden in the dream home, but the origin of these symbols on the chest and the source of that terrible sound also symbolize some kind of horror......
Lumian was silent for a while, while the lady across from her was leisurely eating breakfast, not minding at all.
Returning to his senses, Lumian asked:
"Then how do you use that crimson thing? Is it what you call extraordinary characteristics?"
At the critical moment, he couldn't help but use the honorific title.
The lady put down the coffee in her hand and glanced at him:
"I can give you a magic potion formula, you can follow it."
The generous gift made Lumian a little uneasy:
"Why are you helping me like this?"
The lady laughed:
"If I say it's fate, do you believe it?"
I don't believe it...... Lumian subconsciously replied in his heart.
The abnormalities in the village, the pressure of an impending storm, and the desire for extraordinary power made him suppress the uneasiness in his heart, and said in a deep voice:
"I believe it."
Once the opportunity arises, you must try extremely decisively, try your best to seize it, without the slightest hesitation, and not think about the future!
The lady smiled, and the inexplicable emotion in Lumian's eyes seemed to be a little stronger.
She took out a stack of sticky notes and a round-bellied pen with a silver shell from her black ladies' handbag, and started writing.
Soon, she stopped the pen in her hand, tore off the top sticky note and handed it to Lumian.
Lumian quickly took it and quickly looked at it:
"'Hunter' magic medicine formula:
"Main Material: A copy of the 'Hunter' Extraordinary Trait;
"Auxiliary materials: 80 ml of red wine, one red chestnut flower (can be a specimen, or replace with 10 drops of corresponding essential oil), 5 grams of aspen leaf powder, 10 grams of basil;
"How to use: Drink it directly."
Lumian kept the corresponding content in mind, then folded up the sticky note paper and put it in the inside pocket of his brown jacket.
After doing all this, he asked curiously:
"What does 'hunter' mean?"
A hunter in the transcendent sense?
"It's the name of the corresponding sequence." The lady took another sip of coffee, "I know you don't know much about the occult, let me tell you briefly, the common extraordinary power in our world is divided into twenty-two paths, obtained by obtaining materials containing corresponding extraordinary properties to mix magic potions, and each path has a total of 10 sequences, from sequence 9 to sequence 0, the smaller the number, the higher the position, the stronger the ability.
"The Extraordinary Trait you have acquired belongs to the 'Red Priest' pathway and can only be used to blend the corresponding sequence 9 'Hunter'."
Lumian listened very attentively and blurted out:
"Then what is the sequence of which path does my sister Aurore belong to?"
"She is the sequence 7 'wizard' of the 'Secret Man' path." The lady replied indifferently.
She didn't mention how she knew.
Auror is also in sequence 7? Also, she has gained extraordinary power for several years...... I only took the magic potion and was only in sequence 9, which is still a bit different from her...... I just hope that escaping from Cordu won't drag her down later...... Lumian couldn't help but ask:
"Can I drink high-sequence magic medicine directly, or drink sequence 9 today and sequence 8 tomorrow?"
"Theoretically, yes." The lady added after Lumian's face showed joy, "But most of those who do this have become dead people or monsters, and not one out of ten million people may succeed."
"Become a monster?" Lumi was shocked.
The lady smiled "hehe":
"Didn't your sister tell you that the transcendent path is dangerous?
"After drinking the magic potion, if you don't control that power, you will either die due to physical collapse or turn into a monster, why do you think the one you met would be humanoid?"
No wonder...... Lumian finally understood what the danger was talking about by his sister.
But he is willing to face it.
"Is there no way to reduce this danger?" He asked.
The lady looked at him for two seconds and said:
"Yes, firm will, good physical condition, not too bad luck, as for the rest, you don't need to know now, because you are the first magic medicine."
"Good physical condition......" Lumian, who had planned to go back to catch up on sleep and drink magic potions later, frowned.
He was still in a state of serious injuries in the dream.
The lady opposite nodded lightly and said:
"Don't worry, wait until night, wait until the soreness in your body is basically relieved, and then go to your dream."
"Uh......" Lumian asked thoughtfully, "As long as my body in reality is almost healed, the injuries in the dream will be completely recovered?"
You know, his body in reality is just a little sore, which is completely unequal to the injury in the dream!
"Yes." The lady affirmed Lumian's guess.
She continued:
"There is still a lot of common sense about magic medicine and the way of God, when you drink the magic medicine and become a 'hunter', I will tell you again."
God's Way...... Lumian wondered:
"Why don't you talk about it now?"
The lady laughed:
"If you drink the magic potion and die, or become a monster, wouldn't it be a waste of my time for me to talk so much now?"
"......" Lumian had nothing to say.
He stood up and left.
Before taking a step, he asked again:
"Do you know that there is something abnormal in the village?"
(End of this chapter)