Chapter 609: What Ivan Used Before
Xiao Lin had never fully believed Bell’s words, but he suddenly thought about something as he furrowed his eyebrows and said, “Are you talking about Ibeiya?”
Bell narrowed his eyebrows at him. “You finally responded.”
“There wouldn’t be something so trivial in my doc.u.ments, so does that mean someone is investigating me?” Xiao Lin was suddenly on alert. He knew that the only way Bell would know anything about him was to check into his doc.u.ments, and that was nothing difficult for her.
Bell did not deny it, she shrugged and said, “There are some things that you don’t have the clearance to know.”
Even though Xiao Lin’s personal information had been cla.s.sified by the old dean, it did not mean that he had the clearance to look at other information. It was obvious that someone was investigating him in secret, and the information they got from the investigation might be even greater than he knew. Of course, Xiao Lin would never be able to know about it himself and, while the little girl in front of him had a lot of power, she was restricted by the same powers. It was possible that her casual words earlier were a warning.
Xiao Lin wisely chose not to mention it, but with that show of goodwill at the start, the negotiations that followed were much easier. Xiao Lin quickly formed a verbal agreement with Bell. Of course, it could only be a verbal agreement. There were too many things between them, such as the trip to the restricted area of the library. That could not afford to have any physical evidence left behind.
Xiao Lin would use Time Rewind for her at a specified time to investigate her birth. As a reward, Bell would tell him how to increase his memorization.
“In truth, increasing your memory is very easy. On Planet Norma, they believe that everything holds energy. That means that no matter if we can see it or not, or if we can touch it or not, it can all be converted into energy. With that as the foundation, memory can be converted to energy as well. For instance, the books in your room might look like a lot, but if it was converted into energy, it could only be the size of a fingernail. Memorizing all these books would be difficult for anyone, but what if you could just absorb energy the size of a fingernail?”
Bell did not go deep into the theory behind it, and explained things simply. Xiao Lin was deep in thought and quickly understood it. He did not know the science behind it and the overall process. He thought for a moment and asked, “I understand everything you said, and it seems logical, but if absorbing energy to remember things was so simple, then why does the academy not use it? At least, I’ve never seen anyone do anything like that in any courses.”
“Because it’s a forbidden spell,” Bell blinked her adorable eyes as she said plainly.
Xiao Lin was once again flabbergasted, and only snapped back after a long time, saying angrily, “A forbidden spell? Hold on, if it’s forbidden, then there’s definitely a side effect, so what’s the side effect?”
“Probably something like scrambling your memories, something like a patient of mental illness on Earth,” Bell replied.
Xiao Lin’s lips twitched as he said, “Alright, then we’ll stop here. I’m going to sleep. Good night.”
Bell slyly laughed. “You need to let me finish. I never planned on letting you use it since I’d be in a difficult spot if you had any mental illnesses as well. However, after I looked at the records of your monthly examination, I changed my mind. If anyone in the academy could perfectly cast that spell, it would be you.”
“Does it have something to do with the monthly examination?”
“That power you used when you fought against Poseidon. I don’t know what it was, but if you have that power, you can digest the memories that are converted to energy, and won’t encounter any side effects!”
Xiao Lin’s expression mellowed out as he furrowed his eyebrows. “Myth? Are you telling me I need to absorb the books under Myth?”
“Myth?” Bell muttered it a few times before saying, “What an uncreative name, but that’s right. Just like you said, you need to put yourself into that state before you can perfectly absorb and digest it!”
Xiao Lin fell silent for a moment before saying, “Do you know the price for using this power is my lifespan?”
“I know.” Bell nodded.
“Then do you know I only have twenty years left?”
Bell continued nodding.
“Then do you also know that I’ll be partic.i.p.ating in the Inter-academy Tournament soon?”
Bell nodded like a chick eating rice, and asked, “But don’t you only have twenty years left?”
Xiao Lin paused.
Bell continued, “I know about the tournament; the finals are held in the New World. I might not have been there before, but all the information I’ve seen says that you’ll lose twenty years of your life if you die there.”
Xiao Lin understood, and he smiled bitterly, “I understand now. Since I only have twenty years left, I would die forever if I die once anyway, so twenty years is not much different from a year or two, so I shouldn’t care so much. Am I right?”
“Right. dDon’t you say on Earth that there’s no use crying over spilt milk?”
Xiao Lin’s face twitched as he rubbed his forehead. Setting aside whether he was spilt milk or not, he said, “Honestly, I don’t even know how much lifespan using Myth consumes. The last time I used it, I used up a few decades. At a rate like that, I can’t be sure if I won’t die the next time I use it.”
“You have me. You actually don’t need to make such a big deal about it. You’re not the first one to use this method.” Bell narrowed her eyes at him.
“Didn’t you say no one else can safely use this other than me in the academy?”
“That’s right.”
“Fine, then who used this before me from another academy? Lilith?”
“Ivan. Ivanovich. Yes, it was him. Many years ago, he came to Dawn Academy and used that skill to master a lot of the spells unique to our academy in an instant.”
Xiao Lin fell silent for a moment, and he remembered the recording he had seen before. Ivan seemed to be friends with Song Junlang’s father, so that man coming to Dawn Academy before was not something too surprising.
He shut his eyes for a moment, recounting that short but shocking fight. It was a scene he would never forget because anyone who saw it for themselves would not be able to stop themselves from realizing how insignificant they were in the world. Under the pressure of that meteor Ivan summoned, anyone would lose all hope.
“Fine, I understand. Since Ivan used it before, I’ll agree to it!”