"I heard from my mother that you will leave next month to study at the Pamir Academy in the royal capital. Therefore, I want to prepare a parting gift for you."
"I heard this legend from an old lady selling straw weaving, so..."
Soon, under Anvis' questioning, the girl chirped like a cheerful bird and told him the whole story.
Thinking of the past half month, she would run out every afternoon and come back very late.
Slightly closing his blue eyes, the pale and slender noble boy took a breath. Opening his eyes again, he stared at the girl's cute little face that was slightly red due to excitement, with an extremely soft smile on her face.
"Thank you, Fei, this is the best parting gift I have ever received——"
For Anwes, this sudden surprise was like a traveler suddenly seeing a temporary camp in the distance while trekking through the snowy field on a winter night.
And in the center of the camp, a small bonfire made of cedar branches glowed warmly.
Plain, yet warm——
"Hehe... It's actually nothing. It just took a little more time to find it. I also asked Annie to make the box and flower pot..."
After receiving the unexpected compliment from Anvis, Fiona's cheeks turned redder and she smiled sheepishly. At the same time, she tilted her little head without any trace, and her brilliant light blond hair flashed.
"In fact, I originally planned to take it out as a surprise for you before leaving. But because I couldn't wait any longer, I took it out now..."
As she spoke, the girl felt a little lack of confidence and her voice gradually became softer.
Anvis smiled, stretched out his hand and tapped the vine again, causing it to return to its box shape. He already understood the structure of this magic.
"Then, wouldn't it be nice to send it to me again on the day I leave for the academy -"
With that said, he handed the box to the girl and smiled and winked at her.
"Um, ah? Is this still okay?"
Fiona was stunned for a moment, a little overwhelmed holding the box, her pink mouth slightly opened, and her big clear lake-blue eyes full of confusion.
"Let's put it with you first, Fei, just so that father and mother can share your good luck."
Anvis chuckled and gestured gracefully to the box with a 'please' gesture.
"Well, you're right."
Fiona nodded in agreement and put the box away.
"Then, brother, you can continue reading, I won't disturb you~"
With that said, the girl stood up lightly and walked towards the library door.
With a smile on his face, Anvis watched the girl's back disappear outside the gate. Then, he began to reflect on himself.
There was no such scene in my previous memory. In other words, his existence itself had unknowingly changed some things.
'Yes, in the previous life, because Fiona divided the attention of the Duke and Duchess, little Anvis, who was only one year older than her, did not have such a good relationship with her now.'
'Perhaps, some arrangements can be slightly changed...'
With a silent smile, Anvis closed the books on the table and put them aside. Then he stretched out his hand and another book flew down from near the top of the bookshelf and fell into his hands.
This book is very large, half a foot thick, and the whole book exudes a dreamlike atmosphere.
If the person holding the book has low mental energy, he may even fall directly into an illusory dream.
The cover is a cold black color, but somehow it gives people a sense of tranquility and serenity.
Two lines of beautiful ancient Manni language were hot-stamped in the center of the cover, which seemed to exude a changing glow as Anvis looked at it.
"On the Causes of the Growth of Fantasy Objects"
——Nordens
"Sooner or later we will use this knowledge, right? Now it's just a matter of starting research in advance."
Anvis opened the book and read it carefully while resisting the erosion of the dreamy atmosphere all the time.
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On the penultimate day before heading to the academy, Anvis left the library and entered the alchemy laboratory for the first time in a long time.
"Turn on the highest level of protection——"
Standing in front of the special magical compound inscription alchemy table, Anvis held the family amulet and penetrated it with a trace of spiritual power.
Following his actions, the core of the lab's array was immediately activated, and multiple restraints and defensive arrays enveloped the inscription platform.
Originally, he planned to make a low-level magic item as a gift to Fiona before leaving.
However, after receiving the unexpected gift from the girl, Avis temporarily changed his mind and prepared to make a low-level rare item with growth potential.
"The black goatskin paper of Mandura, the black abyss iron produced from the depths of the place where the resentful souls wander, the soft skin from the belly of the sacred unicorn, the one-eyed extract of the nightmare giant..."
Comparing the list of materials, Anwes took out various strange materials and began to make a strange object that he had conceived for a long time.
"In the Gaze of the Horrible Bird, one-eye extract is mixed with the spirit essence as the ink.
Using the feathers of the night crow picked on the night of the 13th day of the Hearth Moon as the base material, attached with the girl's resentment, it was made into a magic quill, which can be used to write the text and illustrations of books..."
On one side of the alchemy room, the black cloth wrapping the huge cage was lifted, revealing a grotesque scaly monster inside.
It was a hideous black giant bird with a seahorse-like head and lamprey-like mouthparts.
Seeing the long-lost light, it flapped its huge and smooth wings, and its six evil blood-red eyes stared in the direction of Anvis, letting out bursts of restless gasps.
Assuming that there is no protective magic circle, Anvis will be severely mentally corroded in an instant, and may even be swallowed by nightmares on the spot.
But all this is just a hypothesis after all. Under the effect of the protective circle, the evil gaze of the terrible bird did not have any impact on Anvis.
Anvis' men kept moving, and the tip of the quill filled with resentment was dipped in a liquid that exuded a strong ominous aura and danced on the parchment with a faint black tint.
The whole process was guided with spiritual power, leaving behind lines of dark text elegantly and neatly.
The content of the text is "Fiona's Adventures in Wonderland" that he had previously told the girl. Anvis planned to use this story as the core carrier to construct an illusory dream space.
After a few magic hours, the main text is completed.
Anvis took out the long light blond hair that he collected when he was playing with Fiona a few days ago, and used it as silk thread to bind it together.
"Then, use unicorn skin and shadow wood to make a book cover. Use black abyss iron to wrap the corners and hoop the spine..."
Soon, under the gaze of one person and one bird, a thick magic book gradually took shape.
The envelope exuding a faint holy white light was wrapped in an extremely strong and strange and ominous aura.
Standard white and black, really good.
Looking at the magic book in his hand that looked dreamy and holy, but was actually extremely twisted and ominous, Anvis made a silent comment.
"Finally, a black umbrella that had experienced the rain at a funeral was opened indoors. In the shadow cast by the umbrella surface, an abnormal element was integrated into the formed strange object..."