Chapter 14. Angelina

“Yeah, it’s a tradition.”

Now, I shook my head, “What for?”

I really didn’t understand this.

“Necromancy’s absolutely useless nowadays. Well, you can raise the dead. But who needs that now?”

I tried to spread my hands in a gesture of incomprehension, but suddenly, the ring fell through my fingers and dropped down to the bottom of the pond, lost between the thick water plants.

“Oh, no!” I exclaimed. “I’m so sorry!” I was about to go into the water when the necromancer stopped me.

“Wait, there’s nothing to panic about,” he said calmly, turning to me. “Except that you think necromancers are useless.”

Unexpectedly, he frowned. I wouldn’t have thought that the loss of the family ring would distress him less than my opinion about the twilight science.

“But really isn’t it so? What use to the wor