Blue Sword

Christmas is coming.

The Blue Sword is expected to spend Christmas Eve in its second year in Palermo.

However, there was a strange atmosphere permeating the team.

Rather, this strange atmosphere has been there since the last team-building vacation in the seaside town.

Everyone no longer sat together talking and laughing, but spent more time gathering in small groups and whispering, not knowing what they were discussing.

What makes Aske even more confused is that the so-called "groups of three to five" are not fixed.

Take Sheila as an example. She sometimes chats with Paige alone, sometimes talks to Nora with a smile on her face, and sometimes whispers a few words to Mel in a mysterious voice.

Sometimes he and Medea would get together, as if they were discussing something private, and from time to time they would look at each other and smile knowingly, as if the two of them had already been in trouble.

Having said that, since you have already made friends with everyone, why do you have to chat privately with them all?

Although Ask was a little uneasy about their little actions in private, he had no intention of trying to figure it out. After all, no matter how complicated the circle of best friends among girls is, it is impossible for a grown man like him to integrate into it.

Asker is not someone like Jia Baoyu. As long as there are no problems in official matters, let them be.

Apart from such trivial matters as children's affair, the team's overall combat strength has also been greatly improved after defeating and conquering the Hauteville family.

It is worth mentioning that Navia Bone Tooth. After nearly half a month of running-in, Sidrifa finally got Navia Bone Tooth to accept her master.

Combined with Sidrifa's description, Asker can confirm that the Navia bone tooth is an "epic artifact" (that is, an artifact that has powerful capabilities but has relatively stringent requirements for its users), and the price of its use is to drink blood.

It requires a certain "killing intention" from eating every day before the user is allowed to continue using it. This killing intent can be automatically drawn from the process of killing enemies, or it can be voluntarily donated by the user (that is, replenished through suicide).

Of course, Navia Bone Teeth itself has the effect of storing killing intent, and can reserve enough for the next year in advance, so Sidrifa does not need to kill people every day to replenish its food.

After recognizing her master, Navia Bonetooth will only obey Sidrifa's orders in most cases. Unless Sidlifa instructs it to help others, or it is deprived of food for a long time, causing it to become unbearable and choose to betray.

It's just that the new owner directly authorized two little girls to use it the same day after it recognized its owner, which made Navia Bone Tooth a little confused.

"Summon another one!" Mia ordered Navia Bone Ya.

A mysterious light suddenly flowed from the surface of the Navia bone tooth worn on Sidrifa's neck, and then the outline of a wolf appeared in front of the three of them.

Like a pencil sketch on a white paper, first the general outline of the wolf emerged out of thin air, then the specific details of the shape, then the color of the fur, and finally a living Fenrir Wolf appeared in front of everyone.

The call of the north.

The ability of Navia Bone Tooth is to consume the stored killing intent to summon a northern extraordinary creature that obeys the user's will.

This summoning is different from Mier's destiny ability. First of all, it is a one-time use, that is, it can be summoned by consuming killing intent, and there is no additional cost to maintain the existence of extraordinary creatures.

Therefore, the Otwell family has long used it as a monster-spawning artifact to obtain a large amount of spiritual materials used to cultivate the Northern Horn Army - this can only be said to be an evil use when the owner of the artifact has not been identified.

Secondly, summoning mainly consumes the killing intent stored in the artifact and a small amount of spirituality used to activate it; if the extraordinary creature is de-summoned and sent back, part of the originally consumed killing intent can be returned.

Under extreme pressure, this feature that can save spiritual consumption is naturally extremely precious, which means that the summoned extraordinary creatures are completely giving away their combat power.

As for the summoning itself, it is a super-enhanced ability.

For example, originally the only people in the team who could fly were Sheila, Eleanor, and Ask. In the future, Hidliefa could also summon a Siberian Thunderbird to carry her up for air combat.

For example, if you encounter Peggy's "curse death", which is an unreasonable sure-kill skill, you can also summon a supernatural creature to act as a human shield.

The summoned northern creatures are directly related to the user's own level and the consumption of killing intent. Therefore, throughout the morning, Mia, Mi'er, and Hilda Lifa have been studying and exploring the summoning range of Navia's bone teeth, and have summoned nearly a hundred different kinds of extraordinary northern creatures.

Fenrir's Wolf, Siberian Thunderbird, Dream-Eating Snake... countless unseen extraordinary creatures kept appearing, almost dazzling the three girls.

"Stop playing!" Seeing Mia unsummon Fenrir Wolf again, Mi'er quickly dissuaded her and said, "Don't forget what we are here to do!"

The extraordinary creatures summoned by Navia Bone Teeth do not belong to this world, or even this era. In other words, this ability essentially contains certain laws of "space" and "time".

By studying its summoning ability and completing their own understanding of the law, what Mia and Mier need to do most right now is.

"Okay, okay." Little Mia still listened to Mi'er's words, so she honestly launched the summons again, and at the same time spread out her spirituality to carefully observe the process.

In Xiao Mia's perception, this summoning phenomenon is very strange.

If space is compared to a uniformly distributed sponge, then Navia Bone Tooth's summoning ability is that a large glass ball suddenly appears inside the sponge.

Due to the foreign matter appearing out of thin air in the internal position, the evenly distributed sponges around it were squeezed outward and expanded, thus becoming unevenly distributed.

This abnormal distribution only appeared for a moment, and then quickly returned to the steady state of uniform distribution.

Because the volume of space is so large, compared with Xiao Mia's observation range, it is almost equivalent to an infinite sponge.

Suddenly inserting a new object into it causes the surrounding space to distort, and this distortion is quickly transmitted to the surroundings. Every time it is transmitted a certain distance, the amplitude of its distortion decreases slightly until it is completely smoothed out in the infinite distance dimension.

It's like the ripples caused by a drop of water falling into the lake. In a short period of time, there will be some disturbance to the steady state of the entire lake. However, this disturbance will soon spread and gradually disappear, and finally it will return to calm.

Um……

Little Mia suddenly had an idea and took out Lancelot's dagger.

Her spiritual intuition revealed some subtle premonition: she had understood the second half of the Ripple Sword, which was to appear from the designated position.

However, what is the principle behind the first half of the Ripple Sword, that is, how it disappears from its original position?

So she lifted the summons again.

Under the spiritual perception, the surface of Navia's bones and teeth flashed with light again, and then a point appeared inside the extraordinary creature.

To be precise, it was a "collapse".

Little Mia suddenly recalled hearing Sheila talk about the principle of "gravity" when she was in class.

The essence of universal gravity is a gravity well, that is, the distortion and collapse of space.

Just like smashing a hole in a two-dimensional plane, the two-dimensional object on the plane will "collapse" into the hole. When the collapse reaches the end, it will be a one-dimensional line segment, which means that the two-dimensional object has been completely reduced in dimension.

However, as long as it collapses, the two-dimensional object will deviate from its original plane position, which is the so-called disappearance-perhaps this is the principle of releasing the summons to make extraordinary creatures disappear.

Therefore, if you first "collapse" yourself and disappear from somewhere in this world, and then "anti-collapse", will you be able to reappear from another place in this world?

However, how to accurately control the location of disappearance and appearance to achieve fixed-point transmission of the Ripple Sword?

The more Xiao Mia thought about it, the more she frowned. Her expression gradually became dull, and she fell into a state of being stuck in a bottleneck and unable to realize her enlightenment, as if she was possessed.

Mi'er looked at her silently from the side. First, she gestured to Hidliba to be quiet, and then she pulled out Asik's voice from a certain time in the past.

That was just after finishing the Heaven Mountain dungeon, and before Mia and Mi'er joined the team, Askew once explained to everyone the principles of the demiplane of Heaven Mountain:

"...The main world space we are in is like a page in a book."

“…we are two-dimensional little people on the page.”

"...If the pages of the book are bent..."

In an instant, when Mia heard this, she was enlightened and broke through the bottleneck of thinking:

Not just a collapse.

There are also directional twists.

Just like points A and B on a book page, from A to B you need to walk the length of line segment AB.

However, by folding the page in half so that points A and B are close to each other, the length of line segment AB can be shortened.

Then, I collapse myself, so that I, a "two-dimensional little person", briefly leaves the page from point A, and then re-enters the page from point B.

This is the secret of the "teleportation" of the Ripple Sword.

As for the method of self-collapse, of course...

Little Mia looked at the Lancelot dagger in her hand and waved it without hesitation.

Then, she disappeared.