13 Mink Street

After meeting with Byrne, Karen walked out of the chief bishop's office and found a relatively unfamiliar young attendant standing outside, who took the initiative to salute:

"My lord minister, I am the attendant of Bishop Delong. My bishop knew you were here, so he specially asked me to invite you to his office for tea."

In fact, Karen's next stop is Guman's house.

"Okay, please lead the way."

"Come with me, my lord."

After Delong was promoted to bishop, he naturally changed his office, and the office has just undergone a new renovation, but its renovation should not be for the new owner's new look, it is purely out of professionalism.

As soon as I entered, I saw various instruments, blueprints, and ancient books placed inside. If I didn't know it, I thought it was an experimental workshop under the jurisdiction of the Formation Department.

From here, we can also see the difference between professionals and administrators. Even if the old man takes the position of bishop, he still looks like the leader of the research and development team.

"Ah, Karen."

Deron was wearing a special monocle and was studying a thick ancient book. He didn't realize it until Karen walked in front of him.

"grown ups."

"I thought you would stay in the chief office for a long time." Deron took off his glasses, "I didn't expect it to end so soon, haha."

"Thank you, my lord, for last night..."

"Hey!" Deron waved his hand, "Come back to have lunch with me later, my family ordered."

"OK."

"Do you have anything else to do?" Deron asked, "I still have two hours to get off work, and I only asked for half a day off."

"It's okay, you can continue to work."

"Oh, okay, don't be a stranger, I didn't have to come today, I have a lot of vacation time, but my family seems to have guessed that you will come to the Academic Affairs Building today, let me come to work and wait for you, Bringing you home for lunch. She also said she was going to give me a surprise. I guess it should be a new dish invented by her."

"I have always liked Madam's cooking."

"You, it's too polite, oh, yes, we don't need to be polite here, and other people still have to observe some etiquette."

"You said so."

"Haha, I don't have anything to teach you about this. You know better than me about the ways of the world. There are refreshments there. You can use some of them first. I'll review this section of research later."

"You are busy, I can wait." Karen hesitated and asked, "Do you need me to call Richard back?"

Delong nodded immediately: "Yes, since he became the office director, he doesn't like to go home, he always likes to say 'busy at work', is he really that busy at work?"

"The task is heavy."

"Thank you for your hard work. I know you have been supporting him as a younger brother."

"No, he has always regarded me as an elder brother."

"hehe."

Karen walked to the telephone and dialed the headquarters. After reporting his name, the operator quickly transferred him to Richard's office.

"Hey, have you retrieved the data?"

"it's me."

"Well, Karen, it's surprising that I got your call from my office."

"Let's go home for lunch."

"go to your house?"

"your home."

"Ah, okay, I'll come back after I explain my work." Immediately, as if he felt that what he said was inappropriate, Richard immediately added, "Ah, actually I don't have any work either."

"Call Philomena."

"clear."

The reason for calling Philomena is that she is now considered to be a student of grandma's, and has little to do with Richard.

Putting down the phone, Karen picked up some refreshments and sat down in front of the sofa. While using the refreshments, he flipped through the ancient books on formations in front of him.

Originally, I just looked at it, but after watching it, I found something interesting, and I was fascinated unconsciously.

Delong put on the monocle again and glanced at it. It is reasonable to say that the ancient books and materials in his room are limited. Even if the personnel in the department want to borrow them, they have to make an application report in advance, but Delong only thinks that Karen I just sat there and got bored, so I didn't take it seriously.

In the working state, the time passed quickly, and an hour and a half passed just like that.

Delong raised his head, stretched his waist slightly, and when he walked to the sofa where Karen was, he was surprised to find that he was still sitting there looking at the ancient book. What surprised him even more was that the book that was originally placed on the coffee table Karen took out the dominoes and laid out a model.

This means that Karen not only understands it, but can also follow the deduction process.

real or fake?

Delong glanced at the ancient book carefully. It mainly introduced and recorded the formations involving the soul domain in the last era, and it was quite a difficult book.

If you want to understand it, you not only need to have a solid formation foundation, but you also need to have a deep cultivation in the soul field.

Deron paid attention to the theme of the volume that Karen was reading, and then turned his gaze to the placed dominoes. Looking at them, his eyes became serious.

Of course, such a short section cannot be a complete formation, but what Karen arranged is the core point in the core position of this formation.

Delong can confirm that the young man in front of him really understands it!

This is really... unbelievable.

Karen once saved the lives of his son and daughter-in-law, and has always supported and protected Richard. It can be said that the relationship between Karen and the Guman family has long been closely bound.

Earlier, Mr. Delong thought that this young man's active approach was to rely on Guman's family to get help in his career development, but with the rise of this young man and the occurrence of various things, Delong has long since disappeared. mentality, because now there is a feeling that the Guman family is fawning on him.

Among other things, my current position as the bishop was my turn after the bishop who was in charge of the formation department was kicked out in the last incident. Is there any target here to pave the way for me... Delong himself Not sure.

He knew that this young man was outstanding, so excellent that his wife loved Karen like a grandson, not inferior to Richard at all... well, compared to him, Richard In my wife's eyes, it's like picking it up from the trash can.

Richard also likes to tell about Karen at home: "What happened to Karen today", "What did Karen do again"...

But it was the first time that Delong knew that this young man was also proficient in formations.

Be proficient!

If it's just a hobby, watch a little, learn a little, know how to draw a little bit, and even use some formations to pave the way and bless you when using spells, these are all easy to understand;

But as the current number one person with formation qualifications in this region, Delong is keenly aware that with Karen's current level, even if he resigns from the position of Whip of Order, he can take a high position in his formation department.

What kind of monster is this...

The old man can only describe him as a "monster" in his heart, because "genius" is not enough. The last time a young man was able to make himself feel this way was...

A young figure from the long past appeared in Delong's mind.

My wife can tell herself without hesitation that that person is a ray of light in front of her eyes;

Deron has never been angry because of his wife's words, even if he described another man, because at that time, he had briefly bathed in the light emanating from that peer.

No matter how dangerous the environment is, no matter how thorny difficulties we face, as long as that man is there, everyone will feel at ease.

At this moment, the young figure named "Dis" began to overlap with the young man in front of him;

But Deron quickly shook his head, they were different.

Although what Karen does is often very tough, and even expresses his attitude and breaking the situation by flipping the table a few times, but when interacting with people, he is very polite and behaves well;

That "Dies" was different. The description of "a beam of light" already contained the meaning of being cold and untouchable.

In comparison, this young man is much more acceptable.

Delong said: "Your details in this position are a bit too loose, but you can actually be more rigorous."

He spoke in general terms, but he thought Karen could understand.

Karen shook his head and said, "I'm considering the particularity of the soul here. Everyone's soul is unique. If it's arranged loosely, it will be more convenient for fine-tuning when the time comes."

"Fine-tuning? The strength of the soul must be high to a certain level. Oh, you arranged it according to your own characteristics?"

"Yes, I think I can cope and adjust, but now I have a problem, how to achieve real embedding and echoing. After the strength of the formation is substituted into the soul attribute, the effect will inevitably be weakened."

"Tuction."

"Traction?"

"The array that acts on the soul does not necessarily have to be arranged and driven by the soul. You have absolute confidence because your soul is very strong, so your cognition is immediately framed."

Karen's eyes were clear: "So that's the case. I understand that the formation can be placed outside, as long as the effect can cover the soul, so the only thing left to solve is 'traction'."

"That's right, the solution to traction is also very simple. It's like a teleportation circle. If you dislike the effect of arranging formations at the soul level, the effect will be weakened. You can just arrange a simple attracting formation to receive the effect of the outside magic circle. It will have the best effect.”

"You are really amazing, my lord." Karen admired sincerely, "Thank you for your teaching."

After speaking, Karen stood up from the sofa and bowed to Deron.

He didn't think about hiding his clumsiness before, because he couldn't resist the temptation to learn the real skills, and he could obviously get the answers by the simplest questions and answers, so there was no need to hide them and miss them.

"You boy, it's not easy. Who is your teacher?"

"I was fortunate enough to get a set of formation notes."

"You mean, you learned it by yourself by reading the formation notes?"

"Yes."

"Hehe." Delong laughed dryly, wanting to say something, but didn't know how to speak for a moment.

He originally wanted to tell Karen, follow him to learn the formation.

But due to the current identities and relationship between the two of them, he doesn't know how to organize the language.

This feeling is like looking at a plate of extremely precious dishes in front of you. You obviously can't control the secretion of saliva, but because the occasion is too serious, you are too embarrassed to lift the knife and fork.

At this moment, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in." Deron said.

The attendant came in: "My lord, you can step down now. Besides, Director Richard has arrived."

"Oh, where is he?"

"The parking lot in front of the Academic Affairs Building."

"Why doesn't he come up?"

"Director Richard said that he just waited below. He didn't want to enter your office like a grandson looking for grandpa."

"Heh, he's quite arrogant."

Deron glanced at the time on the wall clock and said to Karen, "Let's go."

"Yes, my lord."

Karen followed Deron to the parking lot, and Richard took the initiative to get out of the car and open the door.

Delong nodded, and when he was about to sit in, he saw his grandson say to Karen:

"My lord, please."

Deron: "..."

Karen said to Delong: "My lord, please."

Richard said, "Why are you being so polite? It's not like my grandfather doesn't have hands."

Deron snorted, opened the car door and sat in.

Richard sat in the driver's seat, started the car and said to Karen, "Leon and I took over the shift and went back. He said he was going home to burn some coupons."

"Well, where's Philomena?"

"She said she would go by herself instead of taking my car."

Delong immediately said: "She said to go by herself, but you really let her go by herself? Are you not afraid that she will be unsafe if she is a girl?"

"Hahaha!" Richard couldn't help laughing, "Grandpa, have you been drinking? I think I might be unsafe, but she must be."

"It's different."

"What's the difference? I don't have the face to say that it's not safe for you to travel alone as a girl, so I have to protect you. I know what level I am."

Deron's face flushed first, then sank, and finally began to turn black.

Such shameless words, I often said when I was young;

But,

Why did you feel that there was no sense of disobedience in saying such a thing at that time?

This is an episode, the car is driving on the way home.

Several times, Deron wanted to take the initiative to say something to Karen, but the words were swallowed back several times.

Anyway, the images of Karen reading ancient books and playing with dominoes kept running in his mind.

Richard looked at the two people sitting in the back row through the rearview mirror from time to time, and then he finally couldn't help it:

"Grandpa, if you have something to say, just say it."

"Cough..." Delong coughed to cover up his embarrassment, and then forced his mouth to say, "Karen, if you encounter any problems or have any ideas about the formation in the future, you can come to me as soon as possible, and we can communicate and discuss with each other. "

Karen immediately responded with a smile: "Okay, my lord."

"Grandpa, don't worry, Karen has an array master teacher in the Dinge region, and his status is quite high."

Richard was helping Karen sort out the information on the network around him, and Alfred gave him the list, including Pillow and Levin.

You must know that in the past, every holiday, Alfred would give gifts to these "cheap teachers" in the name of Karen.

"Didn't you say you don't have a teacher?" Deron asked suspiciously.

Karen replied: "Before going to the Gate of Reincarnation, I received a short period of training in the Dingle Region and received guidance from a mentor."

"Oh, that's it." Deron felt a little better.

Richard's grandson continued to stab the knife:

"The instructor invited Karen to go to the Dingle region, but Karen refused."

Richard has also read the correspondence, anyway, he is also used to bragging about "Kalon is amazing" in front of his family.

In order to save face, Delong said: "Each array mage is good at different directions, and no matter how good an array mage is, it is impossible to be proficient in all aspects."

Karen responded immediately: "Yes, you are right."

The grandson started to make up the knife again:

"The instructor means that Karen can be given key training, and then everyone in the formation department of the Dinger region will help Karen learn the formation."

If Richard was not driving, Deron really wanted to kick Richard away.

Have you lost your mind? You've been belittling your grandpa!

Resisting the urge to beat up his grandson, Delong snorted and said, "There are some things that others cannot teach, such as the special inheritance of our Guman family."

"The key to the Rubik's Cube?" Richard honked the horn to urge the car in front to start quickly, "I already rubbed it and gave it to Karen."

Deron: "..."

"So grandpa, don't worry about this matter. Karen is not interested in the formation method. I gave Karen the version of the Rubik's Cube key that you passed on to the students, but I have never seen him use it."

"Not used?"

Deron doesn't get it, it shouldn't be, Karen's level of formation is obviously very high, even the modified version of the Rubik's Cube Key can help the formation master greatly improve the efficiency of formation formation, how could he not learn how to Maybe not?

In fact, Karen has been using the Rubik's Cube key all the time, and he uses it very frequently, but in front of Richard, he will deliberately avoid him to see it.

Because Richard will not see a castrated version, but will see a genuine version that can only be used by the blood owner of the Guman family.

"My lord, I will come to you to ask you about the formation in the future, so I apologize in advance for my troubles in the future."

"It's too polite to say these words. I welcome you to come to me at any time, and we can make progress together."

Looking at Karen, and then looking at his own grandson, Delong suddenly understood why his wife liked Karen so much.

Guman's house arrived, and as soon as Richard stopped the car, Karen got out of the car first, and then went around to help Deron open the door.

He was afraid that Richard would open the door for himself again and leave his grandfather there.

After all, he is his own cousin, so there is no need to make his already harsh living environment in the family worse.

Delong felt flattered. After getting out of the car, he looked at his grandson and wondered why his eyes, eyebrows and nose were so asymmetrical.

At this time, Mrs. Tang Li, who was wearing an apron, opened the courtyard door and came out.

"Grandma!" Richard rushed to his grandma, who hadn't been home much in a while.

"Hey, I'm back!" Mrs. Tang Li opened her arms and trotted over.

Then, brushed shoulders with Richard.

Richard: "..."

Mrs. Tang Li grabbed Karen's hand and began to check: "No injury?"

Karen replied, "No, Grandma."

Richard smacked his lips a few times, well, he is used to this, since his grandma saw Karen for the first time, his status has been automatically downgraded.

However, Richard was never jealous. On the contrary, he was very happy that his family had special treatment for Karen.

Because it would give him the illusion that he and Karen are "brothers", well, he likes this illusion.

Seeing that Richard was directly missed by his wife, Delong immediately drew an arc at the corner of his mouth, trying not to laugh.

"Honey, the surprise you said you would give me today is..."

"Surprise? Yes, I don't know, maybe there will be, maybe not, you go home and go to the kitchen to help me look at the soup pot."

"Oh, yes, dear." Deron smiled at Karen, and then walked home first.

Richard stood there without moving.

Mrs. Tang Li turned her head to look at him and said, "Your father is waiting for you in the study."

When Richard heard this, he immediately shivered and could only walk home.

Mrs. Tang Li continued to hold Karen's hand, and whispered, "I have an idea, and I want to hear your opinion."

"Grandma, tell me."

"I want Deron to know your identity. He has changed a lot after what happened to Richard and Vicole, especially last night, I can feel it.

I didn't tell him before because he didn't deserve to know at that time.

If I tell him now, I think he can put protecting his grandson first.

In his heart, he has always hidden a strong guilt towards his daughter, your mother, and I know it.

Karen, I'm not kidnapping you emotionally. Don't think about it. If you don't want to or if you find it troublesome, then we can continue to hide it from him. It's okay. "

As long as there is emotion, there will inevitably be kidnapping.

However, Karen did not feel dissatisfied with his grandmother, because he knew very well that his grandmother and Deron really loved each other. Although she would habitually mock and tease her husband, she hoped that her husband Knowing that he has a grandson and his daughter has offspring, she wants to give him this happiness.

Sometimes, lying on the bed, when Mrs. Tang Li thought of Karen, she would smile because she had such an excellent grandson, and even turned around continuously on the bed;

But when she looked at her husband who was sleeping next to him or couldn't understand what he was reading, she would also feel very sorry, because the two of them could have giggled together and turned around happily together.

Deron's change, in fact, Karen is very clear, since he no longer has the possibility of exposing his family members in order to be loyal to the religion, the only remaining obstacle is probably whether Karen is willing to change his mouth and shout "Grandpa "Are.

Karen was unwilling, because he found it troublesome, and, unlike Mrs. Tang Li, he and Delong hadn't cultivated the kind of relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.

But, this is a request from grandma...

Karen said, "Grandma, it's up to you to decide, I'll listen to you."

"real?"

"real."

Mrs. Tang Li took a deep breath, and the corners of her eyes became moist. She hugged Karen into her arms, and said with a slight sob:

"Thank you, Karen, today is his birthday, and you will give him a real surprise."