The dusk sunlight passed through the glass and fell on the brown desk, forming bright yellow spots.
The study was completely quiet, apart from the occasional slight sound of the cold wind blowing outside, the only sound left was the rustling of pages being turned.
After a while, Colin sighed, put down today's parliamentary announcement and newspaper, and slowly stood up.
'Still no information about the battle the day before yesterday.'
At that time, the bright red figure who was suspected to be a believer of the gods, and the fierce and fast battle like thunder... left Colin, who had just walked out of the bookstore, inexplicably cast a layer of gloom in his heart.
In the next two days, Colin kept paying attention to the follow-up news.
However, apart from the rumors, it was as if nothing had happened, and there was no more movement.
Yesterday, he even went to the school and tried to ask the instructor, but Atbold didn't even know about that battle...
But Colin firmly believed that this was definitely related to Operation Crimson, which Noins had mentioned to him before.
I don’t know how Noins’ improved crimson marking technique has been improved...
All along, he has actually continued to practice the Crimson Mark Technique. Now his progress has reached over 80, and he will be able to break the limit again in the near future.
But Colin didn't think that the crimson mark technique, which broke the limit twice, could see through the god's disguise that even Noins was now helpless.
After all, the Crimson Mark Technique he learned was only a simplified version, and the original version created by Noins was probably at least a third-level witchcraft.
However, gold paper is not a special object after all, and maybe it will bring some new inspiration after the limit is broken.
If you can gain valuable inspiration, let's go find Noins again then... By the way, you can also ask about today's battle.
As for finding Noins now... he didn't want to waste the congressman's precious patience with him just because of a little curiosity.
Collating his thoughts, Colin walked down the stairs.
The aroma of food wafted faintly from below, and Renee was busy in the kitchen.
Today is December 31, Year 3585, New Year's Eve.
Renee has been busy from early morning to now for the New Year's dinner.
The fireplace in the hall is blazing with flames, and the occasional crackling sound of firewood is heard, filling the entire space with a warm atmosphere.
Colin let out a breath and walked briskly to the kitchen.
The other three people in the family are here at this time.
Renee was simmering seafood porridge in front of the stove, and Demi was standing on a low stool to help cut vegetables.
Naxi, on the other hand, flew to Demi one holding a potato, and then flew to Renee dragging a spice bottle, her face flushed, and she was having a great time doing it.
"Master, you're here." Renee noticed his arrival, put down the spatula and turned around.
"You are busy first." Colin waved his hand, and then asked: "Has anyone been here this afternoon?"
"No, Master." Renee shook her head, and then added, "Speaking of which, those witches and wizards who often visited me before may not have been here for a long time."
Demi and Naxi on the side also said hello to him.
"Aren't you here yet?" Colin nodded slightly.
As for the witches and wizards from Urea not coming, he didn't care.
The reason why he asked Renee was because he also invited Xue Lai, the scroll king, to the New Year's dinner today.
But it looked like she was about to step over.
As for the tutor, he also invited me yesterday, but was declined.
Master Altbald became increasingly reluctant to leave his residence.
Walking out of the kitchen, there was only a trace of the orange sunset left in the distance, and the sky became gloomy.
Ring ring ring——
The doorbell controlled by Nado suddenly rang in the living room, and the vine kept shaking on the rope, reminding Colin that someone was visiting outside the door.
Renee hurried out of the kitchen.
"I'll go." Colin said, and then walked outside with a smile.
He asked several times before finally asking Xue to come over.
In a sense, it is a great achievement to be able to delay such a master's study for a whole night and come over for a meal.
"Welcome." Colin opened the door and said with a smile.
"...Good evening." Xue Lai paused, smoothed the hair beside her ear and said.
Today she is still wearing a clean but old and whitened black robe. She is naked, but her beauty cannot be concealed. She is also holding a delicate brown wooden box in her right hand.
"Here you go." Xue Lai continued, and handed the gift to Colin, who was not used to it.
She actually has a lot of contact with people, but this is the first time she visits just for a meal.
"That's so polite." Colin raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, but he didn't refuse and took it over.
There is no need to say no to the rich woman.
The two of them walked towards the house together.
When the distant horizon swallowed up the last trace of orange, Renee and the three of them also made dinner.
At Colin's insistence, the four of them and an elf sat at the square table in the restaurant and started the dinner.
The atmosphere was more harmonious than Colin imagined.
Xue Lai didn't have any special reaction when Sister Renee ate with them, and even talked about making delicious food with Renee in a serious manner.
"If you want the fish soup to be white, you need to heat the water after frying, and you can also add more oil." Renee said.
"Can't you use cold water?"
"It's more difficult." Renee continued to answer.
Xue Lai nodded thoughtfully.
Colin took a bite of food.
In such a world where class is engraved in the bones, Xue Lai's performance was somewhat beyond his expectation.
But Xue Lai's past is still mysterious to Colin.
He had asked her before, but Xue Lai didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask any more questions. He only knew that she was alone in Neustadt.
There are no relatives or mentors.
In the second half of dinner, he was the only one left to continue.
Renee had already eaten and was waiting aside.
Demi was also full, and with Colin's approval, she and Naxi ran outside to play.
"Shortly after the Chinese New Year, I may not be in Zhenzhihui for a period of time."
Xue Lai said suddenly. She had not stopped yet and was drinking the milky white fish soup.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There were three soups tonight, and most of them went into her stomach.
Colin swallowed the food in his mouth, paused and asked, "When is it specifically?"
"Maybe late January, maybe early February, on the coldest day."
Colin nodded slightly, thought for a while and then said: "I wish you good luck."
According to previous life sayings, a habit can be formed by persisting for twenty-one days.
He and Xue Lai communicated regularly at noon every day for more than twenty-one days, and it had become a habit.
Previously, if Colin could not go to Zhenzhihui at noon on a certain day due to work, he would usually tell Xue Lai in advance if it was convenient.
It can be regarded as a tacit understanding between the two.
With the gold paper, Colin had never met a wizard who could talk to him about witchcraft knowledge before.
If you have this skill, you might as well practice witchcraft a few more times yourself.
But Xue Lai is different, she is a real genius.
Talking to him was as beneficial to Colin as reading Noynes's manuscript.
However, Noins's manuscript was a bit too big for him and seemed a bit obscure, but Xuelai was just right.
The more the two of them talked, the more they felt a sense of mutual sympathy between geniuses.
"Your application for membership of the Gulen Fair has been passed." Xue Lai put down the fish soup and said again.
"Sorry to trouble you." Colin thanked him with a slightly happy expression.
The Gulen Trade Fair, like the Darren Commission, is an underground trade fair.
It's just that Gulen's transaction will be more biased towards witchcraft transactions, and Darren's commission will be more biased towards customized witchcraft commissions.
Both are among the largest organizations in each other's fields.
When Colin first learned about this information, he asked Xue Lai which organization would be better to join.
Xue Lai's only answers were these two.
However, it seems that the qualifications for the Gulen Fair are more difficult to obtain than the memberships of the Darren Trust.
I applied together with Darren Commission, but it’s only now that there’s finally been any movement.
The next day.
January 1, 3586 in the Anan calendar.
The new year has arrived.
He had rested all afternoon yesterday, and at nine o'clock this morning, Colin walked out of the door on time, preparing to go to the True Knowledge Society and continue his struggle.
A new year, a new day, a good start!
According to the current progress, if nothing unexpected happens, the Hochia Meditation Method will be successfully integrated with the Tin Sage Meditation Method in about three to five weeks.
However, before Colin could even step out of the house, the badge he carried with him lit up.
Colin paused, holding the badge and injecting magic power into it.
After a moment, with a flash of white light, a brief message was projected above the badge.
‘Please, Sir Colin Leonard, go to the school to receive the first mandatory mission of the year.’
Colin frowned slightly and quickly went to the school.
Although as a first-level wizard, he is required to complete four mandatory tasks every year, but this year's mandatory tasks came too quickly.
Half an hour later, he arrived at the General Affairs Building.
"Your Majesty's mandatory task is to escort an important item to the front line in the southern sea." The wizard in charge said to him.
"Why did the school appoint me?" Colin asked.
"I'm not sure, but the mandatory tasks for each quarter are assigned according to ability. Logically speaking, this task should not exceed your ability."
"And the escort mission is considered easy. It's just sent to the front line. The entire route is in the rear. With your strength as a first-level senior wizard, there won't be any danger.
The only thing that may not be so good is that you can't sit in the teleportation array, and I'm afraid the mission will take longer."
"Sorry, I refuse this task." Colin shook his head, took out the golden feather nameplate, and handed it to the astonished wizard in front of him.
"It turns out that you are Jin Yu." The wizard on duty saw the Jin Yu nameplate clearly, came to his senses, and quickly took it, "I will cancel this mandatory task for you right now."
"But do you really want to use this once-a-year opportunity for this simple task?"
"Yeah." Colin nodded slightly.
If you can't take the teleportation array, the time required will not only be longer, but it will take at least three to five months to go back and forth.
The journey is far away and takes a long time, so you may encounter some problems.
Moreover, after leaving the city of Neuinstadt, his great cause of earning magic stones would have to be put aside.
You must know that the time limit given for the customized witchcraft commission is to have at least a first edition within three months, and he cannot leave yet.
Besides, the urgency of this mission is really strange.
Colin frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly thought of the pure-blood family wizards who had suddenly stopped disturbing him recently.
'Is it a mission specially assigned to me by the pure-blood family?'
His face was calm, and he felt an inexplicable sense of urgency.
It’s time to advance to the second level soon.
If this task was really secretly arranged by a pure-blood family, then if he refused this time, there would definitely be another time.
As a member of the school, he could not refuse these obligations.
But if you advance to the second level, you don't need to worry too much about these mandatory tasks arranged according to your apparent first-level strength.
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More than half a month passed quickly.
January 26, early morning.
A remote neighborhood in Neustadt.
Colin's figure slowly emerged from a rough masonry wall.
When the man in black robe watching at the end of the passage saw him coming out, he crouched and stretched out his hand to open the iron door.
The biting cold wind suddenly came with snowflakes on the pavement.
'The weather is getting cold.'
Colin walked through the iron gate in silence, holding on to his defense against witchcraft, and came to an alley.
He had just walked out of the Gülen Trade Fair stronghold.
The harvest is 280,000 magic stones.
Yesterday at the trade fair, he was notified that the witchcraft he had previously posted was bought by someone, so he came over early this morning to complete the transaction.
The magic of trading is a first-level high-level steel temperature-resistant force field.
Due to its excellent effects, the purchase price of this witchcraft is almost as high as that of some low-end second-level witchcraft.
Colin was not reluctant.
In addition to the price, it is also because he now has a better one——
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Under his focus, the first-level high-level steel temperature-resistant force field has successfully broken through the limit some time ago and became a second-level low-level witchcraft.
At this point, the steel temperature-resistant force field has also reached golden level. If you want to break through the limit again, you need to find new witchcraft to integrate it.
As for the cost to break the limit, it reaches an astonishing 45,000 magic stones.
If it hadn't been for the custom-made witchcraft that had been delivered before and earned 250,000 magic stones, it would have been a bit of a stretch.
There was also the Crimson Marking Technique, which had been broken some time ago. Unfortunately, no useful inspiration appeared, so he did not look for Noins.
After that thunderous battle, the situation in Neustadt remained calm despite constant blizzards.
Colin also temporarily suppressed his worries.
After all, there is no use worrying. The only thing he can do is to work hard to improve his strength.
Drop by the True Knowledge Society.
During this period of time, Colin lived a very regular life as before.
It can even be said that we need to work harder.
Relying on his first-level knight's body, he once again compressed his sleep time, leaving only two hours of rest every day.
The rest of the time was spent on training.
Such hard work has brought him huge benefits.
Not only the witchcraft that breaks the limit, but just two days ago, the Hogia Meditation Method and the Holy Circle Meditation Method have also been integrated to break the limit.
In theory, it is now possible to advance to the second level wizard. However, in order to ensure the best effect, Colin plans to wait for the new meditation method to push the progress to the limit before starting to break the limit.
All the way to the door of Xue Lai's laboratory, Colin pressed the doorbell.
Going home from the Gulen Trade Fair, you will pass by the Castle of True Knowledge.
He planned to leave Neustadt tomorrow to do something, which would take about three to five days.
So I stopped by to have a chat with Xue.
After a while, the door of the laboratory opened and Xue Lai's figure appeared.
Colin was about to speak when he heard Xue Lai looking at him first and saying:
"You came just in time. Starting from tomorrow, I will leave the city of Neustadt for a while."