Magical adulthood always comes at the alternating moment of midnight.

This is also an unsolved mystery about witches - why is it most active at this time, even though magic is everywhere. Even a witch like Anna can recover in the first hour or two after midnight after the magic consumption has bottomed out, and if she relies on the natural recovery of the day, I am afraid that she will not be able to make up for it in a week.

Most witches don't care about this, even the Tachira remnants - when Roland asks them about it, they get a reply of "Isn't it supposed to be a new day?" In most people's eyes, time is divided into days, and the magic of a day is spent every day, and there is a new atmosphere every day, which seems to be nothing unreasonable.

But Roland knows that the date is not a natural concept, but is created by people for the convenience of life, so there is a return year and precession. In order to correct this error, there were leap months, and with the further precision of the timekeeping, there were leap seconds (i.e., 59 or 61 seconds in the last minute), in short, how convenient and how to come.

Therefore, it is a bit strange that witches always solidify their magic for a certain period of time.

It's as if every awakened person has a biological clock in their body and can keep it in tune at all times. It doesn't matter what year or month she was born, in the far south or on the Hermes plateau, there is a connection.

It's a pity that in the absence of observation tools, it is difficult to study magic or accurate timekeeping at this stage, and he can only use this phenomenon as an empirical theory.

"Your Majesty," Wendy's words pulled him back from his thoughts, "is there anything else you would like to add?"

The so-called measures are mainly designed to deal with the dangers that may be encountered when the ability is solidified, which has been included in the consideration of the League of Witches since the scene of Lucia's coming-of-age day.

Even Tachira could not provide much useful advice on this point.

"Do as you say," Roland thought for a moment, "and by the way, don't forget to inform Margaery and Sander Asuka, I think they'll want to see Lightning come of age safely." ”

Wendy was surprised, "Miss Margaery is fine, but Mr. Asuka ......"

"He's okay. Roland said softly.

"Yes, I see. Seeing him like this, Wendy didn't ask any more questions, and quickly answered.

......

At night, the top floor of the Witches' Mansion is lit up.

It has been converted into a bedroom for witches to be used as adults - a room made up of two normal bedrooms connected together to accommodate more companions, and one wall has been transformed into a sliding movable door structure, so that if you need to unleash your magic, you can simply pull open the two door panels, and you don't have to blast open the exterior wall like last time.

Lightning lay on the soft bed, looking extremely excited, and his performance was the opposite of Lucia's, as if in her eyes, this day had been longed for a long time.

Next to the large bed was a fixed wooden table, on which her left hand was tied, and in her hand she held the Divine Meaning Talisman. According to Lucia's experience, whenever she feels a contraction-like cramping pain in her body, she can pour all her magic into the sigil. The binding of one hand was to prevent the witch from losing control and inadvertently pointing the sigil at someone else due to the excessive pain, and after ruling out this danger, the absence of Count Speer was not a big problem.

And the lightning was surrounded by friends who came to visit.

"What kind of branching abilities will I awaken...... It would be nice if I could solve the problem of carrying weights, so that I could bring a lot of food and tools and fly the whole Dawn Realm!" A similar conversation went on for almost a night, her eyes sparkling as she enumerated one possibility after another, as if Roland had guessed what kind of birthday present his family would give him when he was a child.

Of course, most of them ended in disappointment at that time.

For example, he longed for a big Transformer, but in the end he got a book of 300 exercises.

"It's also possible that there is nothing," Mystic Moon muttered, "how can branching abilities be so easy to obtain, count them around, and there are only a few people in Neverwinter who have this talent." ”

"Uh-huh......" After these words, Roland seemed to hear a nasal voice, and the rising tail note was full of pride.

"Did you talk like that!" Lily glared at her.

"Actually, what Mystery Moon said can't be wrong," Agatha said with a smile, "The Federation has done statistics that witches can awaken branch abilities when they are adults, which can be described as one in a hundred. However, this is nothing compared to being promoted to the top - after all, the most important thing for a witch is the main ability with unlimited expansion potential, so you don't have to worry too much about it, just focus on the ability solidification. ”

"By the way, aren't you doing an evolutionary analysis of adulthood?" the book interjected, "and what happened?"

"That's just a reference, after all, there are not enough examples to verify," Wendy took out the record book and looked at it, "but Lightning's score is really high, 85.9 points." ”

"Eh, what's that?" Andrea asked curiously.

"One method of assessment," Agatha explained, "is also a revelation from Lucia - because the surge of magic is very obvious when the adult solidifies, and it is indeed theoretically easier to form cohesion, we took the state of all high-ranking witches when they were promoted as a sample, and made a preliminary assessment, scoring them according to the total amount of magic, subject scores, ability control, and individual will. Of course, this is still only a conjecture. ”

"Subject Scores...... Do you mean test scores?"

"That's right, and it's the biggest part of the formula. ”

"I see, it seems that it is impossible for someone to rise to the top of the transcendent in this life," Andrea glanced at the ashes with a pitying gaze.

And the latter shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly.

"Really...... Crazy," Roland suddenly heard Phyllis exclaim.

"What's wrong?" he tilted his head to look at the other man.

"In the days of Tachira, promotion was a sacred thing for every witch, and everyone was eager to be favored by the gods, but never dared to speak openly about it. Because it was so far away, if anyone declared that they would be promoted, they would definitely be ridiculed by others and would not be able to hold their heads up. But now......" Phyllis muttered halfway as if to come back to her senses, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it was bad, but the contrast between the two made me feel ......"

"I know what you mean," Roland chuckled, "it's like a merchant who finds that the golden dragon he's accumulated all his life is no longer precious, and it's always hard to get used to." ”

"In this respect, I am indeed inferior to Lord Agatha," Phyllis whispered, "She was only here a year before me, and now she has led a new round of research on higher level awakenings, and she is worthy of the genius of the Federation." ”

"Actually, it's not difficult to understand, if the future generations are not stronger than the predecessors, how can we improve?" he said calmly, "as long as we are still advancing, such scenes will continue to reappear, and when we see them, we will feel that this is hope, isn't it?"

Following his gaze, Phyllis also moved her gaze to the girl on the bed.

"But more abilities are always better, aren't they," Lightning said confidently, "I think I'll not only be able to gather magic powers, but I'll also be able to gain several branches, because the most brilliant explorers will be rewarded the most!"

"Goo——!" Maisie, who was standing next to the bed, also raised her arms high, as if in solidarity with the other party.

"There's no logic like that!" exclaimed Mystery Moon.

There was a commotion in the room.

Roland looked at the lively scene in front of him, shook his head with a smile, and then walked out of the room.

"Why, won't you go in and have a look?"

Closing the door, he said to a man standing against the wall in the corridor.

That man was Thunder.