"I never thought he was the Pope..." Opal whispered to Raymond across the dining table: "He actually doesn't look older than Sid."

Raymond swirled his fork between his fingers, with an expression on his face that seemed to be thinking. After a moment, he asked, "Has he arranged accommodation for you?"

Opal pointed to the distance and said: "Let me live in the Forgotten Corridor, just me. I asked him if he could let you come over, and he said yes, but you can only go in during the day and have to go back to the dormitory at night.

.”

Opal and Raymond were arranged in different places. Raymond said: "Just wait and see what happens."

Opal said: "He also asked me to call him 'Your Majesty'. I'm wondering if the shepherd is also in the Grasp of Light now."

Raymond said: "When I went to go through the formalities, I contacted Iszur and the teacher in the Ring Wind Galaxy."

Opal said: "How to say?"

Raymond said: "I contacted you in your name. Coraline is not in the Grip of Light. She hasn't gone back yet. The shepherd is already in the Falling Star Palace."

Opal asked again: "What did the teacher do on Huanfeng? Didn't he originally plan to stay on Alex's administrative planet?"

Raymond said: "He went to find a man named Justin Rodman..."

"Uncle!" Opal said in surprise.

Raymond nodded and said: "After what happened last time at White Falcon Star, the empire may have received instructions from the upper management to let Justin enter the military system."

Opal narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly.

Raymond asked: "When will your homework start? Should I follow you?"

Opal suddenly remembered, looked at the time, and said, "Oh no, the time is coming soon, hurry up."

Raymond finished his lunch in twos and twos, and the two of them walked quickly through the garden. When they passed the Forgotten Corridor, Opal's footsteps slowed down and they came to a door.

"This is his study." Opal whispered to Raymond.

Raymond nodded, opened the door for him, and saw Drummond sitting in a large velvet armchair, Opal said: "Sorry to keep you waiting for so long, Your Majesty."

Grabini said indifferently: "It doesn't matter. Tens of thousands of years have passed, just a few minutes. Let's start today's lecture."

Opal nodded, and Grabini said: "You can sit wherever you want, be more comfortable, don't be too restrained. What are you still doing standing there?"

Raymond bowed, closed the study door consciously, and stood outside as a guard.

Opal looked around. The study was very classically decorated. He thought of Typhoon and the library of the prophets he had said about it.

"I have many questions to ask you, sir." Opal walked to the table by the window, where there was a coffee pot and only one cup.

In the study room, large and small crystal balls are suspended using anti-gravity technology. Each crystal ball is filled with water. There are one or more goldfish in the spherical goldfish tank, reflecting the brilliant sunlight.

"That's what I prepared for you," said Grabini.

Opal raised his head and looked at the goldfish bowl and asked, "Can someone bring in another cup?"

Grabini said: "No, I don't drink coffee. I will take medicine later."

Opal's heart moved and she drank the medicine? Coraline also mentioned before that the Pope's time is running out...will he die? But according to Rector, this man's soul is truly immortal, and his body is

For him, weakness is just a matter of changing his body.

Grabini yawned and said: "Draw a card and compare the big and small. Who wins? Ask a question."

Opal: "..."

Opal thought that this was indeed his style, so he went over and drew a card. Opal drew a K, and Grabini drew a 2.

Opal said: "Sir, I want to ask about the Wheel of Time..."

Grabini: "No, 2 is bigger than k. When playing thirteen cards, 2 is the biggest. It's my turn to ask you."

Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said: "Okay."

Grabini said: "Did Coralin mention a Phantom Prince named Igna? What did he say?"

Opal: "!!!"

He did not expect that Grabini would ask the question so directly. After thinking for a long time, he replied: "Teacher, he... thinks that Nolan is his mentor, and he exists to pursue the truth in the universe... Let me think

think……"

Opal told Grabini in detail what he had mentioned about Nolan when he was living with Coraline. The Pope just listened with his eyes closed, his frail young figure huddled in the blanket, the sun shining through the window.

The light shines on him, making him look unusually thin.

Opal said: "That's probably it."

Grabini said nothing, as if asleep.

Opal: "..."

"Your Majesty?" Opal felt like she had been tricked.

Grabini opened his eyes tiredly and said, "You know less than I thought you did."

Opal was speechless.

Grabini yawned and scratched his neck dully. Just when he was about to say something, there was a knock on the door. A bishop wearing glasses and a golden robe pushed the door in, holding a silver bowl in his hand, and said

: "Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine."

Opal saw that there was a dark green potion in the bowl, just like the bodily fluids of an acid beast. Grabini held the bowl in one hand and signaled Opal to draw a card with his eyes.

"It's my turn to ask." Opal held a q, while the pope's card was a 7.

The pope drank the medicine, handed the silver bowl to the bishop, and nodded.

For some reason, Opal glanced at the bishop and changed his question. He originally wanted to ask about his father, but there were other people around. He didn't want to discuss it in front of others, so he said: "Pastor.

Same last name as you?"

"Yes." There was a look of admiration in Grabini's eyes, and he nodded: "In a sense, he is my adopted son, or he was going to become another me, but the timing was not right, and he met me at the time.

Another thing happened, which forced me to leave without occupying his body, so I finally adopted him."

Opal nodded slowly. He remembered Rector saying that Pope Drummond's life continued in different bodies. According to his understanding, this continuation should be cultivating a fetus and entering the fetus' body...

The archbishop bowed to say goodbye. After leaving, Opal thought of the question just now and said, "The teacher didn't tell me anything. He knows a lot."

Grabini touched a sugar cube and put it into his mouth, and said: "Colorin? I suspect that he has almost no idea of ​​what he is about to do, and he just insists on using force, destruction and other means to solve all problems.

…”

Opal said: "No, your Majesty, I think the teacher's belief is stronger than anyone else..."

Grabini said: "Faith is something for the Star Knights. Only Lecter believes in this thing. Even Igna, the founder of the Star Knights, has never mentioned the word 'faith'. It is just a five-dimensional thing."

The soul in the world is just a projection in our branched universe. Are you sure this thing really exists in the world?"

Opal: "Yes..., I don't understand what you are talking about."

Grabini said: "Forget it, just say yes. Next question."

Opal said: "Wait, can you explain it in more detail?"

Grabini said: "Just wait, I will answer your question when it is your turn."

The two drew cards, and Opal asked.

He raised the most important question of the trip.

"My father's name is Logan." Opal said, "Your Majesty, I don't know if you still remember him. He is related to the Wheel of Time."

"Remember." Gribini said: "I may forget other things, but I always remember the Wheel of Time. You are Logan's son, and Coraline sent someone to deliver it to me five years ago.

A letter mentioned your life experience. I think why you were discovered by Coraline, this should be a very interesting story."

Opal said: "Teacher also wants to ask this question, where is the Wheel of Time now?"

Grabini shook his head.

Opal asked again: "What mission did it set out on? Is it just exploration?"

Grabini closed his eyes and said after a long time: "It can be said that we are exploring the origin and meaning of the existence of our world."

Opal said: "I know that it brought back the Phantom Stars when it returned for the first time. What does this have to do with the Star Knights? Everything the teacher did did not tell me, is it related to the Phantom Stars? They come from the fifth dimension.

Space?"

"Yes." Grabini said: "Strictly speaking, the world where the Phantom Stars' home planet is located was originally a four-dimensional universe that was almost the same as ours. It was one of many parallel universes. You can assume that in

In another mirror universe, there are some people like us. Their time passes faster than this universe, and their history is longer. They evolved slowly, and finally became fantasy stars without bodies and only souls."

Opal narrowed his eyes and asked: "Then what? How much do you know about the Wheel of Time and the migration of the Phantom Stars?"

Grabini snapped his fingers and said: "Then, these intelligent beings began to explore the five-dimensional world, and some changes occurred in the process. They wandered in the gap between the fourth and fifth dimensions, were found by the wheel of time, and took them with them.

Back to our universe."

Opal nodded, keenly feeling that his father's third exploration must be related to this incident, and asked: "What happened?"

Grabini suddenly became quiet and winked at Opal.

Opal: "?"

Someone is eavesdropping?
To be continued...