After entering August, the weather seems to be a bit hotter.

The greening in Magnolia is very good, trees can be seen everywhere, which also leads to the constant chirping of cicadas.

You may feel good listening to it when you are calm, and feel that this is what summer should be like.

But when I'm not in such a good mood, it just feels annoying.

The ceiling fan in the guild was spinning slowly, bringing a breeze that was better than nothing in the noisy tavern.

In this hot weather, Rhode felt that even everyone's noisy voices were filled with heat.

In fact, there were many people in the tavern who were as hot and lazy as Rhodes. In severe cases, they were unable to speak. Only a few sips of cold beer could relieve some relief.

At this time, Gray became one of the most popular people.

Even though he himself was sweating profusely due to the heat, he still couldn't resist everyone's entreaties and became a ruthless ice-making machine.

But this is also good for him, even if the people who receive his favor are embarrassed to remind him to put on clothes.

Of course, these people do not include Natsu.

This guy is not affected at all. Even in this heat, he still has the energy to run around and even do some strange dances occasionally.

Mira brought an empty glass, put some ice cubes on it, poured a drink and pushed it to Rhodes: "You don't seem to be in good spirits."

"Thank you." Rhodes said with a grimace, "I didn't sleep well last night. It was too hot, and the mosquitoes were very noisy."

The mosquito repellent left over from Goodman's move just ran out, and Rod reminded himself to buy a new bottle after get off work.

Mira showed sympathetic eyes: "That's hard enough... Why haven't you seen Worm in the past two days?"

"I don't want to come out because the weather is too hot. I'm an unloyal guy and hide in the Howling Abyss to escape the heat."

Rhodes picked up the cup and put it on his forehead. The cold touch made him feel better.

"I suspect that things may have been unfavorable recently, and even the increase in magic power is not as obvious as before."

"That's of course, because your magic power level itself is already very good, and the same increase is certainly not as obvious as it felt at the beginning."

"Can I be considered good like this?"

"At least Jet and Marcus are completely inferior to you..." Mira covered her mouth lightly, feeling that saying this seemed a bit rude to Jet and the others.

When Rhodes first obtained the stone beetle, it was already a headache for Jet, not to mention that his magic power has increased a lot now, and he also has the "Three Wolves".

Three Wolves is the common name of this wild monster combination, including two shadow wolves and a large shadow wolf.

The shadow wolf is similar in size to a tiger, much larger than an ordinary wolf, and looks more powerful than an ordinary wolf, a bit like a saber-toothed tiger.

The Large Shadow Wolf is even larger and has two heads.

When the three giant wolves leaned down and bared their teeth, their ferocious looks were revealed, and they looked like they knew they were not easy to mess with.

After many tests and sparring sessions with his companions, Rhodes determined that they were more agile than stone beetles and better at attacking.

In addition to the basic bite attack, shadow wolves have a keen sense of smell that can be used for tracking, and they are also good at sneaking and making surprise attacks in the shadows. The wolves live up to their name.

Although it appears to be weak in the game, its strength here is pretty good - at least Kana can't hit them with cards as easily as she can with the stone beetles.

As for the magic power consumed to summon them, it is basically about three river crabs, which is similar to that of stone beetles.

Now Rhodes can command the stone beetles and shadow wolves to fight at the same time. As soon as the fight starts, the one-on-one fight will immediately turn into a group fight, which is a huge advantage.

The problem that arises is that Rhodes himself is more likely to be targeted as a breakthrough point.

There are currently two most effective solutions. One is to ride on a river crab and run far away.

The second is to follow the stone beetle to burrow into the ground and run as far as possible within the limited breath-holding time.

The tactics are timid, but they work.

However, these can only cure the symptoms. If you want to cure the root cause, you still need your own strength.

Continuously exercising your body and practicing fighting skills is one way, but it requires long-term persistence.

Another method is to learn one or two ability-based magics, but this method...

Rhodes asked: "Everyone seems to only specialize in one kind of magic. Why not learn a few more so that we can deal with different situations more easily?"

"Because there is not enough time and energy." Mira said, "Whether it is learning magic or improving magic, it requires a lot of time and energy.

If you learn many kinds of magic at the same time, you may achieve nothing for a long time. It is better to concentrate on studying a certain kind of magic.

Imagine if you added one more kind of magic practice to your current schedule, would you still be able to squeeze out time?"

Rhodes thought for a while, meditation and physical fitness are the basis for becoming stronger, and they must not be given up.

The proficiency of summoning magic is an important factor in reducing the chant words, and the time for this practice cannot be less.

The other thing is working hours...

You can't just do nothing and wait for the guild to support you - even Nabu, who never accepts tasks, occasionally works part-time to earn some food expenses.

Apart from these, it is time to read.

When your common sense is almost complete, you should be able to use it to learn other magic.

Now...

"Squeeze in some time to sleep?"

"No!" Mira immediately objected. She raised her index finger to indicate the importance of what she was going to say next.

"Sleep is an important way to restore mental strength. You have mentioned your time arrangement before, right?

That is already an exaggeration. If you reduce your sleep time to practice magic, you will run the risk of suffering from magic power deficiency!"

Rhodes has read about magic power deficiency syndrome in books, and it is usually easily induced when magic power is overdrawn.

Once the disease occurs, it can range from coma to sudden death, which is a very dangerous disease for magicians.

Practicing magic because you are afraid of death, and practicing magic to death... That's too stupid.

Rhodes responded seriously: "I know."

Just because you don’t have time to practice now doesn’t mean you’ll have to prioritize things later.

As long as you complete the goals of this stage - to supplement your knowledge and shorten your chanting, you will naturally have time to practice other things in the future.

He has only been studying for less than a month, so he can't rush it.

"Don't look so sad. Let me tell you some good news."

Mira seemed to be relieved and put a wad of banknotes on the counter, "Dang dang dang...salary has been paid!"

"So early!" Rhodes was surprised and picked up the banknotes and clicked them. No more, no less than 120,000 J. He asked,

"No, I haven't worked for a full month yet."

Mira thought for a while: "I worked overtime on the purchasing day."

"Then...then thank you."

I want to thank the guild for taking care of me, and also thank Mila for thinking of a reason.

Rhodes realized that this was not the hotel where he worked as a summer job, but the guild, Fairy Tail.

Mira waved to Lucky, who was chatting with her companions not far away: "Raqi, come here and get your share!"

"Here we come!" Lucky took over her salary. She was a full-time employee and her banknotes were thicker than Rod's.

"I finally received a measure of the value of my time and labor..."

The value of time and labor... Lucky's strange expression.

Rhodes eliminated this phrase from his vocabulary. Correcting the common language was already very hard and he didn't want to learn it.

Lucky rubbed the banknote with her face affectionately: "I can buy a few more 'little cuties'."

Little cutie...

OK.
Chapter completed!