Chapter 220 A Woman’s Red Eyes
When Horn opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a red and yellow octagonal ceiling covered with vines.
When he tried to turn his head, the tearing pain in his neck made him grin.
"Are you awake?"
The orange sunlight shines on the marble along the window folding fan, illuminating the black symmetrically arranged rhombus pattern.
On the marble floor, Horn saw Shilov sitting in a wheelchair, with a blanket covering her thighs and a book open in her hands.
Silof turned her head to look at Horn, her tail raised nervously. She wheeled her wheelchair to Horn's bedside: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect what happened next."
"Stop talking about you, I didn't expect something like this to happen later." As if recalling what happened before, Horn touched the gauze around his neck with lingering fear.
The moment the rift in the star world appeared, he felt something was wrong. He wanted to shout at that time, but his mouth refused to obey him and he was still mumbling something incomprehensible.
The most important thing is that at that time, strange long and thin words began to flash in front of his eyes, and the words were connected to each other, like spiral vertical lines and cross cracks.
If Jeanna hadn't immediately used lightning to block the ritual, I'm afraid Horn's soul would have been sucked away by the thing in the crack.
Siting up with his hands on the bed board, Horn endured the pain and looked around. In the empty room, there was no one else but Shilov.
"Where is Madeleine? And where is Victor?"
"After you took the medicine, many people came to visit you. In order to get into your room first, a group of senators and bishops came to visit you. There was almost a fight at the door, but little Jeanne chased her away." Seeing that Horn didn't blame herself, Shilov's upright tail finally curled and swayed from side to side.
In one afternoon, everyone knew that the Ether Spire exploded and injured the Pope's crown, so they all came to visit.
Although Horn was not seriously injured, a lot of people still came to visit him.
On the one hand, it is to try to gain favor, and on the other hand, it is to confirm that Horn is not dead. After all, Horn alone maintains the existence of the entire Papal State.
Once he dies, there will be no one with the prestige and ability to take over and unite the entire Papal State, and things will become big.
“What about Jeanne?”
“Jeanne went to get the Star Casting Gear.” Shilov guessed that Horn had questions and answered first, “The ceremony last night was just Half successful, it may be that lightning interfered with the ceremony
Under normal circumstances, the water in the moon pool would reflect indigo transparent light, but now it is cyan fluorescence.
We asked people to fish it out, but as soon as the water in the moon pool shook, it started to discharge, so we had to let little Jeanne, who was not afraid of lightning, go fish it out. "
The moon pool filled with ether is discharging? Horn is a little confused. The water in the moon pool is discharging? What kind of strange phenomenon is this?
Horn originally wanted to I got up and went to the scene to observe, but after touching the wound on my neck, I didn't move in the end. I just silently thought about the meaning behind it.
Is this saying that the ether was stored in the water, and let it go? Na's mana and those lightnings are stored in the ether, so why are they discharged like this?
But that's not right. The ether hypothesis says that when a spell is used, the magic activates the ether. To a certain extent, it "ignites" the ether.
The example given by Shilov before was very good. Ether is firewood and mana is fire. How can there be fire in the firewood that is constantly burning, but can not ignite the firewood?
Horn thought for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason, so he turned his attention to Shilov: "Xilov, do you still remember the observation method and comparative experiment method I told you?"
“Remember.”
“Do you think Jeanne’s situation can happen again?”
Shilov's wolf ears stood up like antennas: "If she can reduce the power of lightning, I might try it, but you are not allowed to be there."
Shilov can roughly confirm, Although the alchemical ritual of the Aether Pump will have an impact on Horn, it is limited by distance. For example, when Horn passed through Daze Township, the alchemy ritual of the Ether Pump was activated once. Judging from the time, Horn happened to be in the southern area of Black Bone Swamp at the time, but he was not affected.
This basically confirms that there is a limit to the attraction of the astral rift to Horn. As long as he stays far away, maybe he will be fine.
Silof seemed to have thought of something. She raised her wolf ears and asked Horn: "I forgot to ask, what happened to you at that time?"
Horn's movement of getting dressed paused: "I saw something in the rift in the astral world."
"What thing?" Shilov couldn't wait to ask.
She had seen hundreds of astral rifts since she was a child, but this was the first time someone said that she could see things from the astral rifts.
After fastening the buttons on his shoulders, Horn was silent for a few seconds before saying: "An eye."
A woman's red eye.
"Shilof, go and inform them that I can receive you." Using his collar to block part of the blood-stained gauze, Horn said to Shilov.
Soon, a series of footsteps came from outside the door. Bishops, senators, and heads of households came one after another, but Horne specifically asked them to keep order and quiet.
Horn directly asked the guards to tell them that anyone who dared to make a noise would be locked up in a small dark room for a day, with only water and no food.
The bishops and senators who have suffered so much naturally do not dare to be presumptuous again.
So the bishop and senators first visited, but after discovering that they were trying to stay away to avoid military training, Horn still kicked them out.
Then came the heads of hundreds of households on Qiumu Island. There were 48 of them in total, but only 30 of them had time to visit Horn on the first day on Qiumu Island.
Logically speaking, each head of a hundred households is responsible for a block, and the population in the block ranges from 450 to 600 people.
Now there are ten blocks that have been basically renovated, which means that almost 5,000 people have lived in Insura Apartments.
Horn is injured now and can't go anywhere. Taking this opportunity, he can communicate more with these heads of households who are the officials of the border.
Thinking of this, Horn said directly to Busak at the door: "Go and help me arrange a few literate scribes, and then line up the numbers for those hundreds of households and let them enter one by one."< br>
After saying this, Horn took out a few more pieces of paper from the bedside table and handed them to Shilov: "You are my secretary-general, and you will record the key points of the conversation between me and the heads of households."
"Okay." After taking the pen and paper, Shilov immediately became energetic. This was her first job in her first career.
There are still four days before the conscription, and Horn is just in time to recuperate from his injuries. The laceration on his neck is not serious. Besides, he has a witch's constitution. As long as he is not seriously injured, he will recover very quickly
This period of time is used to communicate with the heads of hundreds of households and see the grassroots situation in Qiumu Island.
So Horn's daily life changed from dealing with government affairs and attending classes, to writing work manuals, plans and textbooks in the morning, and having tea parties with the head of the household and Shilov in the afternoon.
The days passed by slowly, like a wild donkey running without stopping, just like Paslik's prostate often rebelled. In the blink of an eye, it came to the day of recruiting new soldiers.
Horn, who had been lying in bed for four days, was finally able to get up. Although there were still intermittent bloody scabs on his neck, they could not be seen after wrapping it with a scarf.
“Let’s go and see how the recruitment of new soldiers is going.”
(End of this chapter)