It's a new day. There is no class today. Sylutia and two roommates went out. They wanted to buy some things.
"First is the small Alchemy appliance and the basic raw materials, then the oven that Lovier wants to buy, as well as cake ingredients, and some fruits." Aurora held a list in his hand, which listed the things the three planned to buy.
"First go to Wasp Street to buy Alchemy utensils and raw materials, and then go to Spider Street. There are many restaurants and pubs there, and they also supply many baking ingredients."
After making the decision, the three of them set off together. After purchasing Alchemy appliances in the morning, they had something to eat out at noon, and then went down to continue to Spider Street.
As soon as they selected the oven in the store and moved it to the carriage, the three of them saw a large group of people surrounding the street not far away and looked inside curiously.
"What happened there?" Several people inevitably walked over curiously.
Before they got too close, several roaring steam police cars drove over from one side of the street and parked next to the three people. The few police officers who stepped off after them were even more familiar to Sylutia.
"It's Hedra." They saw what the three people were carrying and quickly understood that they were passing by.
"Are you going shopping on the weekend? It's a coincidence."
"What happened here?" Sylutia asked. Her sensitive hearing had already heard some discussions.
"Someone died, and it is said that he was a student at your school." A police officer turned over the rough notes in his hand.
"Let's not talk anymore. We are going inside to investigate and seal the scene." After saying that, several people walked through the crowd and squeezed into the place where the accident happened.
Seeing more and more people around, Lovier lightly covered her nose, and then slowly took Sylutia's hand to exit. This young lady didn't like crowded and noisy environments.
"Let's go back, Hedra, okay~" She leaned close to Sylutia's shoulder, gently touched the girl's earlobe with her cheek, and suggested in a soft voice.
"I got it." Although I was a little curious about who might be in trouble, this was definitely not the time to get involved carelessly. Sylutia and Aurora followed Lovier out, then boarded the carriage and returned to their residence.
On Monday, the three of them returned to school, and only then did they hear someone describe the general situation.
"It turned out that two third-grade students died in an alley at night after drinking in a bar." Aurora was talking to Sylutia in a low voice, while Lovier was concentrating on his homework on the other side.
"Asura District Are dead people common?" Sylutia suddenly had this strange feeling.
"That's not true, Mage Alliance, especially in areas where freshmen gather, security has always been very good, so once such a case occurs, special attention will be paid to it." Aurora shook his head.
"In the last incident you were involved in, the ones who died were Orc who were not taken seriously, so it didn't trigger an intense news situation. But this time, the people who died were students, outstanding apprentices recruited by the Mage Alliance from all over the country. They may become official Mage in the future. Deaths caused by such accidental murders are not allowed by the higher-ups, so they will take it extra seriously." She explained.
"Police Station should not only be here to investigate and solve the case this time, but Alliance Council will have dedicated department personnel to assist." Aurora guessed.
What happened next was just as Aurora predicted. Two days later, School No. 89, where Sylutia was located, temporarily suspended classes for half a day. All students gathered in the school square. Two special personnel wearing dark windbreakers and masks stood beside the principal, scanning the whole place.
"Due to previous cases, we now need to conduct a simple verification of all students in the school. Please don't panic." The principal explained above, and then asked everyone to stand in separate classes.
Afterwards, the two men in dark trench coats, each holding a strange instrument in their hands, walked into the array of students.
Its shape is like a hollow hourglass, but inside it is a complex mechanical structure that seems to be constantly rotating, making a slight gear sound. When it passes by students, it will occasionally emit faint ripples, and then the two people will let the students who have been detected with abnormalities come out.
A total of 165 students were detected with abnormalities, most of whom were students and acquaintances of the deceased in the third grade class, and some were people who had spoken to or had close contact with the deceased within a week.
"Did Camilla also find something strange?" The students in the class were very surprised when they saw the weak Camilla being asked to come out.
"Maybe they were accosted by the deceased. After all, Camilla has just arrived, so it is impossible to have a conflict with them. However, I heard that the two of them are very lustful. It is possible to date Camilla."
At the request of two staff members, these strange students and teachers were required to write on the spot the scenes of their contact with the deceased within a week, what they said, what they were doing that night, who were the witnesses, etc.
During the writing period, another 32 people were detected because the content was false, and were then taken away alone to continue the investigation. However, what happened after that is not something ordinary students can understand.
"How did they know that the content of what they wrote was untrue?" Lovier asked Aurora curiously, as Sylutia and they were dining in the school cafeteria.
"That's a spell that can detect lies. Although it's not 100% accurate, it can help complete many things." Aurora explained.
"The two people who came today are members of the "Origin Hourglass" school of thought. They can rely on subtle clues to trace the source, or investigate connections and traces, etc."
"But these are just side jobs of their school." Aurora poked a small piece of pineapple with a fork and put it into his mouth.
"The real main use is archaeological tracing and historical proofreading."
"Most of the historical books you see at the Mage Alliance have been compiled and proofread by their school, and their authenticity has been checked. Their school is also the best at analysis, and can deduce the weapon that caused the wound, the identity of the user, etc. from a wound."
"Under the leadership of their school, Mage Alliance obtained a lot of valuable knowledge and secrets from the previous era and earlier eras from the ruins excavated from various places in the early days. They also sorted out the development process of each school, the causes of cultural customs in various places, and the origin of the bloodlines of various races, etc."
"Rather than Mage, they are actually more like a group of scholars. They just discovered a lot of secrets and knowledge, and inevitably studied them along the way. This enabled the faction to master a lot of rare ancient secrets, and then began to use Mage's thinking to integrate and improve them." Aurora complained slightly.
"In the past, they were very strong and were almost the founders of the Mage Alliance."
"In the Mage Alliance, there are several schools of thought. In fact, they all split from them because the field of research gradually expanded and became an independent school of thought."
"By the way, "Bionics School" that Hedra studied is an independent branch from it." Aurora raised his finger.
Huh? Sylutia raised his head belatedly. He didn't expect that this could be related to him.
There seem to be some. According to teacher Knox, the earliest Bionics School are those Wizard who studied the veins and runes of ancient powerful creatures. However, this group of people in the last century They died out during the Great War of the Yuan Dynasty, and the current Bionics School is a new faction that has inherited their thoughts and knowledge. From this look, it may be that they split from the people who studied this kind of knowledge in the "Origin Hourglass" school.