Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 2066

Half a Life Undead (Bonus Chapter, Please Vote)

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The protagonist of the illusion was still the blonde young lady wearing round-framed glasses, except she had grown much more than before and now looked fifteen or sixteen. Her hairstyle was no longer braided, but rather loose, fluffy curls. Miss Teresa's hair had been straight both in childhood and adulthood, so this was probably the effect of a heated curling iron.

At that moment, the troubled-looking girl stood before the blackboard again, holding that piece of chalk. A huge Pentagram Ritual Matrix was drawn on the board, densely filled with Ancient Runes.

Shade recognized it as an Ancient Runes class. The task was not to translate the runes, but to find the errors in the ritual matrix and correct them.

This was already a field only Supernatural Beings could touch upon, so Miss Teresa should already have become a witch by then. The troubled expression on her face immediately reminded Shade of Margaret's expression whenever she talked about the math homework Miss Sylvia had assigned her.

"This ritual is an offset pentagram, sacred blessing runes, Shaman Language System... A Divine Ritual of the Sun Church?"

Though somewhat surprised, it was fortunately still basic runelogy. Shade had never seen this Ritual Matrix before, but compared to the education he had received at Saint Byron's, it was probably equivalent to fourth- or fifth-year material.

Since he had never seen the Ritual Matrix, he could only infer from the meanings of the runes that its purpose was probably "peaceful sleep and sweet dreams." Then, drawing on Basic Runelogy and the relevant knowledge from Witch Echo, Shade reached out and erased three runes from the blackboard, correcting them with the chalk as he believed they should be.

"Is this right?"

After he finished modifying it, the blonde girl holding the chalk looked suspiciously at

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