"Grandpa's notes... did Grandpa, who didn't want us to come into contact with the hidden and extraordinary, leave such a thing?"
Inside the Boyle mansion, in the tearoom on the first floor, Naifnis couldn't help but murmur in surprise after hearing Nu Nuo Te's words. Nu Nuo Te continued to explain.
"The old master was caught in the vortex of the hidden extraordinary struggle back then. Although he himself escaped death countless times, his relatives and friends around him all died because of it. Since the old master's last brothers were all buried in Hafdal's tomb, he developed a dislike for the hidden and extraordinary. After marrying your grandmother, he washed his hands of it and returned to Prit, no longer engaging in anything involving the extraordinary, and not wishing for his descendants to follow the same path as him. He didn't let you and your father get involved in the extraordinary because he knew that most of the troubles with the extraordinary were self-inflicted."
"However, the old master also knew that the curse had already entangled his family, and it was inevitable that some unexpected situations might occur in the future. His descendants might also have to face the threat of the extraordinary one day, so he also left some means for unforeseen needs. That notebook is one of them. It contains the old master's recorded experiences in exploring the path of'Silence', methods for accumulating Spirituality, and even the choices and rituals for advancement after becoming a Seer. If Miss you want to continue on the path of'Silence'... this notebook will be very useful to you."
Nu Nuo Te said to Naifnis meaningfully. Listening to Nu Nuo Te's words, Naifnis couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion, and then continued to speak.
"Then... will Grandpa have recorded something about Hafdal in that notebook? I want to know why our family has suffered such a curse? Will there be a way to lift the curse in that notebook?"
Naifnis said to Nu Nuo Te with anticipation. Listening to Naifnis's words, Nu Nuo Te frowned slightly, and then said to Naifnis quite solemnly.
"I don't know if there is any information about Hafdal in the old master's notebook, but Miss you listen to me, even if there is, don't have any thoughts about that ancient undead. Even when the old master was at his peak in his youth, leading his most reliable companions, he could only escape severely injured when facing Hafdal. How strong is this ancient undead? What level has it reached? It is completely unfathomable... The old master could only barely survive under it back then. Even if Miss you know some information about Hafdal from the notebook, absolutely don't have any ideas. That is an ancient undead from thousands of years ago, not something we ordinary mortals can compare with!"
Nu Nuo Te warned Naifnis. He was worried that Naifnis might have some thoughts about going to North Africa to find the source of the curse, so his words were very stern. Naifnis could only nod and say.
"Uh... I understand, Grandpa Nu Nuo Te... I was just asking..."
"Just asking is fine, Miss you absolutely don't have any other thoughts about Hafdal." After seriously instructing Naifnis, Nu Nuo Te looked at the dark sky outside again, and then continued to speak.
"After the master wakes up, I will go to the old manor and bring the old master's notebook to Miss you. From now on, Miss you can completely refer to the old master's experience to practice the extraordinary... It's getting late now, Miss should go to rest first. I will send you back to school tomorrow morning."
"Okay... Thank you, Grandpa Nu Nuo Te."
After that, Naifnis and Nu Nuo Te parted ways and returned to her room at home. Then she took out her history book and began to write a reply to Dorothy.
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Tivian North Suburb, Green Shade Town No. 17.
Dorothy sat at her desk in her study, looking at Naifnis's reply to her on the "wen hai hang zhi" in front of her. These replies roughly introduced what had happened on her side before and the current situation. In fact, Dorothy had already understood the situation quite well through her own senses without her writing these things.
However, Naifnis's reply was not completely without useful information. In these replies, she mentioned the abilities she had gained after becoming a Seer.
The current Naifnis is a Student of "Silence" Seer. Her extraordinary ability is that she has Spirit Sight that ordinary people don't have, and can feel and see various Ghost floating in the present world. She can communicate with them, can attract and expel these spirits to a certain extent, and can even use Spirituality to guide these souls to follow her and induce them to do some things.
In addition, Seer have adapted to damage from Ghosts, have strong willpower, and have a certain degree of resistance to possession and curses, and are more adaptable to cold.
'This is the ability of a Seer. Because she is a Student, it's not very outstanding. It feels similar to the Knower's efficient information processing and super memory. The practical use feels a level lower than Thirster and Stealth Shadow. In terms of early combat power, the 'Cup' and'Shadow' families are indeed a bit too strong.'
Looking at Naifnis's description of the Seer's ability, Dorothy thought to herself. It has to be said that as a Student, the vitality of a Thirster is indeed a bit exaggerated. Most other professions have only minor abilities.
After reading Naifnis's reply, Dorothy closed "wen hai hang zhi" and began to check her gains from this wave. In this action to help the Boyle family resist the curse, her biggest gain was the secret transmission chanted by that ancient undead.
This secret transmission, named "Poem of the Dead's Repentance", directly contributed 4 "Silence" and 3 "Qi" Spirituality to Dorothy. After accumulating all of it, Dorothy's current Spirituality status is 5 Cup, 7 Stone, 6 Shadow, 1 Light, 11 Silence, and 12 enlightenment.
Dorothy originally had 6 points of "Cup", but she just used one point to cast a Life Devour on Naifnis, so she now only has 5 points of "Cup", which is still relatively scarce.
'"Cup" feels a bit tight, but there is still one piece of dried beef Spirituality storage left that Adele gave me last time. With it, I shouldn't be too short of "Cup" in the near future. However, to solve the problem of being short of "Cup" in the long term, I'm afraid I'll still have to rely on Adele and the others.'
Checking her Spirituality, Dorothy thought to herself. Although her equally important "Light" Spirituality is only one point, fortunately she mainly uses "Light" for divination, and the Spirituality used in divination rituals can be replaced by storage items. She still has 4 "Light" storage items left, so she is not in a hurry.
'If there were some other ways to accumulate Spirituality... Maybe I should learn to dance from Adele. Her method of debuting as an idol to gain Spirituality seems to be quite fast... And my looks seem pretty good too~'
Dorothy thought this, but quickly dispelled the idea. Debuting as an idol is too ostentatious and completely inconsistent with Dorothy's style.
Moreover, Dorothy is only thirteen years old now. Although she is beautiful and cute and can be an idol without any problem, Grego is coming to Tivian soon. If he sees Dorothy neglecting her studies to sing and dance, he will definitely explode on the spot.
After ending some random thoughts, Dorothy refocused her attention on the current matter. She was still somewhat interested in the ancient undead Hafdal, who called himself a prince.
'This Hafdal... seems to be a great noble of the ancient civilization of North Africa. I don't know why he became an undead in the tomb... According to the mad words when his illusion disappeared, his power is gradually recovering. This can be confirmed by the significant increase in his curse power on the Boyle family recently.
'Another point worth noting is... the ancient civilization of North Africa that has perished seems to be related to the two paths of 'enlightenment' and'Silence'...'
Dorothy thought this. Her judgment was based on the content of the "Poem of the Dead's Repentance" chanted by Hafdal. This poem seems to have been created by ancient civilization undead like Hafdal. The entire poem is about repentance, repenting to a god named Judge of Heaven, repenting that they willingly degenerated, and the beings of 'enlightenment' degenerated into undead of'Silence'.
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If this poem's description is true, then it means several important pieces of information. In ancient times, in addition to the Xing Shu Xiu Shu Hui (Star Numerology Scripture Society), the ancient civilization of North Africa may also have had some relationship with "enlightenment". Judge of Heaven may be the god believed in by the ancient civilization of North Wu, and it is still unclear whether it still exists. The opposition between "enlightenment" and "Silence" seems to be the opposition between the spirits of the living and the spirits of the dead, and although they are opposed, they seem to be able to transform into each other.
'North Africa... may also have clues related to 'enlightenment'...'
Dorothy thought this, but she has no plans to go so far away at the moment. With her Spirituality still far from enough, the exploration of the path of "enlightenment" is not urgent. For now, compared to the vague clues in North Africa, she is more hopeful that Adele can find her teacher's Relics.
'But maybe I will go to North Africa in the future. Not only to find clues about 'enlightenment', Nefelnis seems to be very motivated to lift the family curse...'
Dorothy thought this. In Naifnis's reply just now, Dorothy could clearly see the change in Naifnis's attitude towards the extraordinary. Between the lines, she clearly showed her desire to delve deeper into the hidden and extraordinary.
After thinking, Dorothy then glanced at the moon outside the window, tidied up the things on the table, and prepared to turn off the light and go to bed.
"Phew... hurry up and sleep. Go to the library tomorrow... there are still things to do..."
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The moon sets, the sun rises, and the sunlight shines.
Although it was noon, there were still many students studying in the huge library of Royal Saint Crown University in the Tivian North Suburb.
"Woohoo~~"
In a remote corner of the library, Naifnis was sitting in a seat, yawning. After blinking her eyes, she lowered her head again and began to look at the dense text on the book in front of her. This was a secret transmission.
Across from Naifnis, Dorothy was sitting there, with piles of books stacked in front of her. Among the books, many sheets of white paper were spread out. Dorothy was using tools such as pencils and rulers to seriously draw something on the paper. After hearing Naifnis's yawn, she looked up at her and said.
"Senior Nefelnis, you've been busy all night and haven't slept well, right? You can go to sleep first. You can put off studying the secret transmission for a while..."
Looking up, Dorothy said to Naifnis, and the other party shook her head to wake up and quickly replied.
"No, no need, Miss Dorothea, I'm just a little tired, not to the point of going to sleep now. I can still read for a while."
Naifnis replied. As Dorothy thought, after learning about the family curse, Naifnis's motivation for learning indeed increased significantly. Now she is self-aware in practicing the extraordinary secret transmission and no longer needs Dorothy to remind her too much.
Although she promised Nu Nuo Te not to provoke Hafdal, Naifnis was still thinking about how to lift the family curse in her heart.
Naifnis understood that if she wanted to lift the family curse, she would have to face Hafdal one day, that ancient undead that even her Grandpa had to avoid. If she wanted to face it, she had to reach a considerable height on the path of the extraordinary. Therefore, with the family curse as a factor, Naifnis's motivation for learning extraordinary knowledge suddenly increased greatly. Dorothy's class here changed from an elective to a required course, and Dorothy was quite happy to see such a change in Naifnis.
Just like this, Naifnis continued to study the new secret transmission. Although Aka helped her clear her Spirit Sight, studying the secret transmission itself was still very energy-consuming. After reading for a long time, she began to rest and drink some tea. At this time, her attention shifted to Dorothy, who was writing and drawing among a pile of books.
"Miss Dorothea... are you drawing something?"
"Yes, I'm trying to draw some design blueprints." Dorothy replied, and after hearing Dorothy's words, Naifnis couldn't help but be stunned.
"Design blueprints?"
Naifnis, with obvious doubt in her tone, picked up a blueprint on the table. After looking at it, she found that it was full of geometric lines and numbers. These lines outlined something she had never seen before. Naifnis judged... this might be a part of some machine.
"Part?"
Naifnis murmured curiously, and then turned her attention to the books in front of Dorothy, finding that they were all books on mechanical engineering, mechanics, chemistry, mathematics, and other science and engineering subjects, which were incompatible with the secret transmission she was reading.
"Miss Dorothea... are you designing some machine?"
"Well... you could say that. It's just a small idea. I have some time these days, so I'm going to put it into practice."
Dorothy said this, and then looked down at the blueprints under her. Most of these blueprints were individual parts, and some parts were combined. If you look closely, you can see that Dorothy has named these parts or combinations.
Cylinder... piston connecting rod... crankshaft flywheel... injector... igniter... valve train... etc...
Many of these were names that Dorothy had heard in her previous life. These components were part of Dorothy's design. When the design is completed and these things are all combined, they will become a crucial invention, the internal combustion engine.
Yes, after spending many days in the Crown University library and learning enough basic knowledge, Dorothy finally began her invention journey. In order to support the huge expenses of her extraordinary path, she planned to make a big invention to make money. This invention was the internal combustion engine.
At first, Dorothy wanted to build cars and airplanes, but Dorothy suddenly realized that to build these two things, she must have prerequisite technology like the internal combustion engine. So she started to invent the internal combustion engine first, and then deal with the power problem.
The world Dorothy is currently in is in the period of the first industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution was the steam revolution, focusing on the improvement and large-scale application of steam engines. The second industrial revolution was the electrical revolution, the most important point of which was the widespread application of internal combustion engines, which led to the appearance of inventions such as cars and airplanes.
Therefore, the internal combustion engine is a crucial invention. Dorothy has every reason to believe that as long as she gets the internal combustion engine done, she will no longer have to worry about money with this epoch-making invention!