"Our wisdom is the most advantageous weapon. We know to use fire to drive away cold, use houses to protect against wild beasts, use tools to thrive, and use armor to stop swords..."
"Is this why you asked me to go with you to find the elf mentor?" Michael looked at Annan speechlessly and talked since he came in.
"I'm not going to ask for trouble."
Annan looked coldly at Michael who was about to walk away: "If you don't help me, don't let me sponsor your research anymore!"
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Knock knock knock——
After more than ten days, Annan knocked on the oak door of his mentor Irilanze again. The elf mentor, who could tell from the rhythm of knocking on the door, gave Annan a firm hug.
Annan raised his hand with difficulty and raised his index finger towards Michael.
"Teacher Yi Ruilanze, Annan and I have something important to do with you."
"What's up?"
"Uh... I'd better let Annan tell you." Michael, who could smash the skull of a rat man without changing his mind, looked like a quail at this moment.
The elf mentor let go of Annan, his cheeks turned red from boredom or shyness and he gasped: "Don't tighten me like this next time..."
"But little Annan is so cute, I can't help it."
"...I'm working on a magic prop called 'Magic Newspaper'..." Unable to resist, Annan had to get down to business and told the elf mentor about the form of the 'Magic Newspaper', and the most important part: it's cheap and available.
Batch production.
"The cheapest magic prop is the 'Troublemaker' Fright Festival magic gift box from the Principality of Keating in 935. When you open the gift, a pre-prepared illusion of deception will appear. A deceptionist can make hundreds of copies a day, and the cost is only the magic power stored in it."
A pinch of magic crystal powder."
"But you don't need to find a trickster, I can help you build a mage model."
"How much does it cost? Is it enough if I give you 500 gold coins first?"
"My little Annan, don't underestimate the wealth of a 1,500-year-old elf." The elf mentor didn't need Annan's money. She poked Annan's cheek with her finger, "As long as we get married, all that belongs to you.
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If the elf mentor had said this before going to Betar City, Annan would indeed have been hard-pressed to resist... But now, he would only say: "I am not old enough, and my family still has to decide on my marriage..."
The new magic made the elf mentor more rational and less emotional. She did not force Annan to stay and ravage her, but she hoped to bring Della over. She was very curious about the transformation of the half-elf born from the elf and the ratman into a pure elf.
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"I'll tell her when I get back."
After returning to Michael's alchemy room without any danger, Annan fulfilled his reward for the rescue: "I will have someone send me one hundred gold coins later."
Michael rinsed the crucible, poured some tea leaves and herbs into it, and started to cook the tea: "The sulfur consumption is too much, but the answer should not be far away."
"So it's time for you to tell me what it is?"
"I can only say that gunpowder can give an ordinary person the destructive power of a mage."
In fact, Annan has always guessed that it may have become popular in the south, otherwise there is no way to explain that humans who are still fighting among themselves all day long can actually resist the rat people.
"I don't believe it..."
"Three months ago we didn't believe that the gods would lose contact."
Michael fell into deep thought: "I hope I won't become the mage's sinner..."
Excited - Mages are such a group, they use knowledge as the fulcrum to leverage the power of taboos.
There are countless mages in history who fell into the abyss due to deviations, and Olmedo's father can be counted among them - an epic mage is not so easy to be contaminated by the Curse of the Rat Man...
However, thanks to the remoteness of the northern border, Annan does not have that many enemies and does not need to seize territory. The large forest has yet to be developed. He can slowly develop Xingyue Bay. He only needs to be careful of the rat men who have not yet shown their traces.
Declining Michael's invitation to tea, Annan walked back to the hall along the stairs, and happened to meet Olmedo, who had come to the Master's Tower to study.
"Where are you going?"
Annan blurted out: "Into your heart."
"King of the North, please respect yourself."
After stopping to chat with Olmedo for a few words, Annan left the mage tower, covered his emblem and wandered around the streets of Breeze City for a few times.
There are not many refugees in Breeze City this year, and Xingyue Bay has helped absorb some of them. The tax revenue from the magic image has allowed the city lord's government to have money to accommodate them. In Betar City, no one cares about their life or death.
While wandering around, Annan also met merchants selling magical images, which they claimed were "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower" and "Betal's Redemption" Part 2: "The Romance of the Wizard's Tower" and "Betal's Happiness".
After Annan saw the two scavengers sneaking away with the magic stone, he also covered his cloak and walked over. There is also a rental service here with a deposit of 50 gold, and each use costs "only" five gold.
Annan rented two magic stones and drove out of Breeze City. Instead of returning to Xingyue Bay, he headed for the Haunted Gold Mine.
It's time for Annan to take Lan Long home.
In terms of strength, Ilimoyas is a master and will become an epic, legendary, and even demi-god in the future. In terms of power, among all the dragon clans, the family concept is the most important, which means that Annan will bring Ilimoyas back to Xingyue Bay.
Brothers and sisters will know it, parents and grandparents will know it.
On the way to the haunted gold mine, Annan hid in the carriage and secretly watched "The Love of the Mage Tower". To his surprise, they actually built a Mage Tower, although it was simpler than the prototype in Xingyue Bay.
The rat man and the girl, but what happened next made Annan, a warlock, call him blasphemy.
"Misgram is on top!"
If the grumpy tower master sees this kind of thing, he will use Legilismanship to split the souls of all the people in two, and put one part into the girl's body, and the other into the guest's body.
Compared with the roughness of "Mage Tower Love", "Betal's Happiness" invested a lot of energy in the plot and scale. For example, the plot is that "Andy" is imprisoned in prison. As a result, the prison is full of people from the warden to the jailer to the prisoners.
Women...and they really found aliens.
This magical image just proves that the world's prejudice against warlocks is wrong - look, there are also many people who want to see centaurs and female orcs!
In any case, this kind of thing was too early for Annan now, so he only looked at it once and put it away. The next day, the carriage drove past Pinglin Town and went straight to the Haunted Gold Mine.
After learning that ghosts were wandering around in their new home, and skeletons were throwing their ribs to each other, Annan looked at the gilded mountain and thoughtfully said: "These things are difficult to clean, do you want me to help you clean them up?"
The photographed dragon claws stirred up dust, blocking Annan and the Gilded Mountain. In the rising sand, the blue dragon collected treasures, tearing apart the dust that enveloped Annan, revealing the blue dragon's graceful lines and broad back.
Annan stared blankly at the beautiful blue dragon and its back: "I can ride..."
"You are insulting the dignity of the dragon clan!" The blue dragon opened its wings, and the shadow seemed to cover the sky.
