In the slightly dark room, Claire was sitting at the desk, concentrating on studying the things in front of her.
It was a fragment of an ancient slate with strange relief characters engraved on it. The material was a gray-black rock with a slightly greasy metallic sheen, which was very strange.
By the pale white magic candlelight, the girl's blue eyes were serious, looking at every tiny pattern on the stone slab with great concentration.
From time to time, he flipped through several thick tomes at hand, compared the contents of the severely yellowed pages, and tried to decipher the strange words on the stone tablets bit by bit.
Under the candlelight, the girl's long golden hair shone brightly, and her pair of lovely white pointed ears swayed slightly unconsciously, reflecting an alluring crystal luster.
After separating from Anvis, the girl did not go to other schools to attend classes, nor did she go to some entertainment and social venues like some noble children to try to make more friends and develop her own network.
Instead, he devoted all his time to studying various mysterious knowledge.
In the entrance examination, the girl's professional talent can only be considered above average. But strangely, she has an incredible talent in the occult.
When she was young, the old mage who took care of her noticed her talent.
Based on the idea of research, the old mage opened up all kinds of books in his private library to the girl. He wanted to see how much the girl could learn in the end.
With the support of the mage, the girl has mastered a lot of knowledge about ancient history, magical languages, ancient creatures, etc. in the past few years.
All the relevant classics in the library have been read by her several times.
During this period, she even tried to independently decipher a small ancient magic spell carved on a clay tablet.
Although the effect was only to summon a weak magical tentacle creature, the mage was still shocked by the girl's talent.
"Meow--"
When Claire was studying the words on the slate attentively, a white shadow suddenly flashed past the window.
Hearing the sound, the girl looked up in confusion.
Appearing outside the raised wooden shutters was a snow-white cat with strangely blue eyes.
On its back, there was a small, bulging package tied to it.
Seeing the girl's sapphire-like eyes looking over, the cat raised its fluffy white front paws and patted the window glass with its tender flesh pads.
"Magic Messenger?"
Looking at it with some confusion, Claire waved her hand, and the invisible magic turned into her palm, opened the inner crystal lattice window, and let in the cat that was spinning outside the window.
"Meow-"
Seeing the window open, the cat jumped lightly from the window to the table in front of Claire.
A pair of round blue eyes looked at the girl, tried hard to shake the package on his back, and gave a cute cry, signaling the girl to open it.
The girl stretched out her white fingertips and lightly tapped on a silver-white emblem exuding faint magic waves on the surface of the package.
The next moment, the package opened on its own, revealing a small black exquisite box.
After delivering the item to Claire, the white cat meowed again, turned its head and licked its fur, then turned and ran away along the window.
"Who sent this to me?"
Not feeling any malicious presence in the box, the girl stretched out her finger and lightly pressed on the mechanism in the center of the box.
Snapped--
The lid of the box slowly opened under the action of a mechanical spring, revealing a slender light silver ring with a blue gemstone embedded in it and a distinctly feminine style.
When the lid of the box is sensed to be opened, a recorded magical image is projected into the air.
It was a mini-sized Avis projection, only as big as a girl's palm. Wearing a white top hat, a monocle, and a pure white magic dress, it gracefully bowed to the girl.
"I'm sorry to meet you again in this way."
"The ring is enchanted with the same detection secret method as that time. It can be activated by injecting spiritual power into the ring. There are three opportunities to use it every day."
"As a companion who has been on an adventure together, I hope to accept this small gift."
After all, this is your family's secret method. Is it okay to just give it to me?
Claire looked at little Anvis strangely, but she didn't ask anything. After all, this was just a recorded image.
However, he seemed to sense the girl's doubts.
Above the box lid, the image of Anvis smiled softly. He turned his head slightly and looked at the girl's beautiful face with some confusion, and his blue eyes suddenly blinked at her.
"Although the secret technique cannot be leaked easily, I don't think you will report me to my family, right?"
After saying that, the projection flickered, gradually turning into light spots from bottom to top, floating in the air.
Claire was slightly startled when she saw the handsome and pale young man smiling and blinking in the scattered light spots like fireflies.
After a moment, in the room where silence returned, the beautiful half-elf girl with blond hair smiled knowingly.
"Is this what it feels like to be a companion?"
………
Three days later, Anvis was browsing the information that Pekkala gave him, playing with a twelve-sided crystal that emitted emerald green light, and quietly thinking about the follow-up solution.
Eighty-four cursed lands, this is the number of mining areas Anvis finally obtained.
Among them, there are seven places where high-level cursed ores are produced, a total of 22 places where mid-level cursed ores are produced, and the rest are low-level mining areas. There are a total of thirty-seven types of all ore samples.
This number is slightly less than Anvis expected. After all, his previous mental preparation was to obtain at least hundreds of samples from the cursed land.
But after thinking about it, Anvis was relieved.
Although the humans on the Yaar continent claim to have unified the entire continent, the real scope of human activities actually only accounts for about 35% of the continent's area.
The remaining 65% of the area is covered by dangerous primitive forests, ancient and steep mountains, poisonous miasma-filled swamps and other extreme environments.
Because of this, although the area of the Yar continent is almost twice the size of the continent where Anvis lived in his previous life, the number of cursed land locations that the White Rose Chamber of Commerce Alliance can actually obtain is actually not too many.
Of course, Anvis is sure that there are secret mining areas of many forces in those inaccessible and undeveloped areas.
After his preliminary inspection, he found that the curse of eight kinds of ores, including Blood Curse Mine, was not caused by radioactivity, but by some other negative magic effects.
After excluding the cursed places that produced these ores, there are still sixty-seven mining areas that are confirmed to have produced radioactive cursed ores.