Celestial Mage

Chapter 5 Rosen's Spellbook
'Puff~Puff~'

Accompanied by the sound of three baked potatoes rolling on the table, Cyrus' indifferent voice echoed in the dimly lit room.

"I'm going out to do some errands. You just stay here and wait for me to come back. If you're hungry, eat baked potatoes. Remember?"

Rosen nodded silently.

Cyrus turned around and put the luggage cabinet in the corner, picked up the cloth bag for his head and walked towards the door.

When he reached the door, he warned again: "Remember, don't touch my things! Don't leave the room! Don't talk to strangers! If I find out that you are disobedient, I'll see you!"

Rosen sneered in his heart: "This is planning to keep me in captivity." '

Of course, the situation is stronger than people, and he has no room to resist at present, so he can only nod respectfully: "I remember, mentor."

'Kangdang~click~'

Cyrus closed the door and left, and locked the door from the outside.

When he was gone, Rosen quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Being with a ruthless and narrow-minded mage all day was a lot of psychological pressure.

He turned his head and began to look at the hotel room.

The windows are small, made of green glass with poor light transmission, and it is dusk now, so the light in the room is quite dim.

The room is not big, and all the interior furnishings are made of wood.

Beside him was a table, and besides the potatoes, there was also a small oil lamp on the table.The lamp stand is dark with a hint of patina, and seems to be made of brass.

Looking at the lamp again, the oil contained in it was pitch black, with a scent, it should be squeezed vegetable oil.

There is a triangular wooden shelf in the corner of the room, and wooden basins are placed on the shelf.There is also a toothbrush-like thing beside the basin, which is probably the washing utensils provided by the hotel.

There is also a wooden cabinet.There was a pottery teapot on the cabinet. I opened it and looked. It was filled with water. I poured it out and tasted it. The water was quite clean. It should have been boiled, but it had a faint earthy smell, which was not very delicious.

Then there was only a wooden bed left. The mattress was made of neatly cut hay, and it made a "zilazila" sound when sitting on it.The quilt looked quite thick, but when I touched it with my hand, it was filled with reed flowers instead of cotton.

By the way, I looked under the bed and found a wooden barrel with a lid. I pulled it out curiously. As soon as I opened the lid, there was a strong smell of feces and urine.

Well, it was the toilet.

After looking around, Rosen sighed lightly: "It feels like I've gone back to the old society. Huh~ There seems to be a crack in the wall."

It was extremely boring to stay alone in a closed room. When he saw a crack in the wall, Rosen leaned over to observe it.

'Hmm~ I can see the room next door. There is no one in the room, no luggage, so no one is living there. '

'This room is really big, with big windows, and a beautiful screen with a mirror behind it like a small bathroom. '

'The bed is so big, it's still a big round bed, and the gloss of the quilt looks like silk. I understand, the reason why my room is simple is that I didn't have enough money. '

From this point of view, Cyrus is really short of money.

When he was bored, Rosen observed almost everything that could be seen and touched in the room, not even missing the mouse hole in the corner.

But the room is so big, he finished reading it soon, and he still felt bored.

Suddenly there was a thought in my heart: "Hmm~ Isn't there a new program installed on the desktop, just study it." '

Summoning the desktop with a voice, I found a new icon on the blue background. It was a villain with a suitcase, and the name was "Rosen's Adventure Journal".

Try to open it, and a video playback window will appear. On the right side of the window is a timeline, and the important time nodes are briefly marked with text next to the timeline.

Pretty dumb operation.

Rosen looked at the text next to the time axis and found a node in the middle, and the node comment was 'crossing'.

Traveling above is called 'past life' and below is called 'present life'.

Trying to pull back to the previous life, I found that the experience of the previous life was recorded exactly.

Birth, toddler, language learning, enlightenment reading, and then go to university to take classes, graduate postgraduate entrance examination, PhD, and finally enter the society, get married and start a career.

During the whole process, everything he heard, saw, and smelled, in short, as long as it was the information sensed by the five senses, it was all recorded exactly.

Rosen clicked his tongue in amazement: "Hey~~ It's a holographic recorder of life!"

Roughly read the previous life, and then look at the present life.

After looking at it casually, I chose the time when I first entered the Green Warbler Hotel and met the beautiful girl Lilith, and then tried to say in my heart: 'Play'.

The next moment, the window lit up, and a three-dimensional video began to play.

In the video, the beautiful girl named Lilith walked towards her with a provocative tone: "Mr. Mage, do you want to have some fun?"

It feels a bit like playing a first-person online game.

Rosen recalled the stream he had received earlier: 'What does it mean to see it from all angles? '

Anyway, he was bored, so he studied it seriously.

Soon, he understood the meaning of these words.

Under normal circumstances, the human eye has only one focus, and can only see clearly the things within the focus.

However, the eyes have peripheral vision, so the real field of vision of the human eye is much larger than the focus range.

Through the replay of the adventure log, as long as the target is within the field of vision, he can focus again and carefully observe things that only appeared in the peripheral vision.

Rosen slapped his thigh excitedly, and said happily, "This is Plath's version of photographic memory!"

This function is ridiculously powerful, far exceeding his expectations.

But soon, he discovered that the function is very strong, but in a short period of time, he still cannot change his embarrassing situation.

'Hey~ take your time, don't rush for a while. '

At this moment, familiar footsteps came from outside the door, followed by the sound of unlocking the door.

Cyrus is back.

As soon as he entered the door, he immediately went to check the suitcase in the corner, and after confirming that everything was intact, he nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, you are an honest boy."

Rosen looked at him carefully, and saw that his brows and eyes were stretched, and he was slightly happy. The robber's head in his hand was gone, and he knew that he had successfully claimed the bounty.

Taking advantage of the other party's good mood, he boldly asked: "Teacher, when will you teach me spells?"

Cyrus' expression froze, and his joy faded away.

He walked to the luggage rack in silence, opened the top drawer, took out a whole set of oil painting tools that he had bought before, and put them heavily on the table with a 'bang'.

"Learning spells costs a lot of money, but as you can see, I'm not rich."

"If you want to learn early, you should draw hard to make money first. When you earn enough, I will teach you naturally."

After speaking, seeing Rosen's face full of disappointment, he pondered for a while, and added: "Of course, you have already earned me 1 kray. In return, I will teach you the basics of mages today."

Rosen was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Teacher, thank you very much for your generosity and kindness."

Cyrus snorted coldly: "Don't rush to thank me. I'm only responsible for teaching. As for whether you can learn it, it depends on your own ability."

"Teacher, I will do my best."

"Very good, now go to bed and find the most comfortable sleeping position to lie down."

Rosen complied immediately.

"Close your eyes."

Rosen closed his eyes nervously.

After a while, Cyrus's ethereal voice came from next to his ear.

"The most basic and most important thing for a mage is mana. The only way to obtain mana is to meditate."

"There are many kinds of meditation, the better the meditation, the more difficult and dangerous it is to get started.

"Considering that you have no foundation, today I will teach you the safest and easiest way to master meditation: resting meditation."

"Next, listen to me carefully and do as I say."

Rosen immediately held his breath, for fear of missing a word.

Cyrus' voice continued to come from beside him.

"Calm down, breathe slowly, and feel your body carefully."

"Feel the rhythm of the heart, feel the flow of blood in the body, feel the vitality contained in every piece of flesh and blood, and experience the mystery left by the Creator in your body."

For a boy who grew up in a den of bandits, these words should be obscure.

But for an old fritter from the earth who has been baptized by the information frenzy, there is no obstacle to understanding at all.

He felt his body without distraction.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, there was a slight shock in my mind, and two streams of information flashed.

"The installation of the new program "Rosen's Spellbook" is complete."

"New skill: Quiet Meditation has been learned."

Rosen's heart moved slightly, and he immediately focused his attention on the desktop. Sure enough, there was a new icon in the shape of a book, and the name was 'Rosen's Spellbook'.

He tried to activate the icon.

The book grew rapidly, occupying the entire desktop, and on the cover were written "Rosen's Spell Book" in six golden characters.

Rosen thought expectantly: "Can you open it?"

In the next moment, the page of the book was opened, and on the first page, there was an icon 'Mage Basic Course: Resting Meditation'.

Looking at this icon, Rosen's heart moved slightly, thinking of a possibility.

With a thought in his heart, he tried to gather his energy and stare at the icon.

Sure enough, as he expected, after two seconds, an option popped up on the icon: 'Do you want to run this skill? '

Of course choose yes!

In an instant, Rosen felt that the whole world was silent, Cyrus' voice disappeared without a trace, and the noise from the first floor of the hotel also disappeared.

In the next moment, he clearly heard his own heartbeat, the sound of blood flowing in the blood vessels, the buzzing of bowel movements, and the slight 'da da' sound of joints and bones colliding.

After another moment, Rosen faintly felt a very faint warmth in his body.

It's movement, but it's not the same as blood circulation, it's more like breathing.

It is not the body that breathes, but the soul that breathes.

Because the hub of this 'breathing' is not in the chest, but in the brain.

When I said "huh", a sense of warmth came out of my brain, like stars scattered all over the sky, limbs and bones.

When "breathing", the warmth returns to the brain, like a river returning to the sea.

Rosen vaguely felt that with every 'breath', this strange warmth seemed to become stronger than before.

Intense joy flashed in his heart: "Ha, do I have magic power now?" ! '

But this joy didn't last long, he suddenly felt palpitations, as if he was being stared at by a beast.

He was startled: "Why is there a beast in the room?"

Shocked, the silent meditation was automatically interrupted.

Rosen immediately opened his eyes and found Cyrus standing beside the bed.

He lowered his head, his gray eyes stared at him closely, and there was a strong gloom in them, like a poisonous snake that wanted to choose someone to bite.

(End of this chapter)