It was still daybreak. Colin stood quietly on the spacious balcony of the master bedroom, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance.
Not long after, on the line where the sea and the sky meet in the distance, a bright golden color appeared. The sea level was suddenly sprinkled with little bits of gold.
The undercurrent is therefore more obvious.
Even though I was just looking from a distance, I was just looking at this scene.
The smell of salty sea breeze seemed to reach the tip of his nose, and the sound of rushing water echoed in his ears.
Tuk-tuk-tuk——
It was at this time that there was a gentle knock on the wooden door of the bedroom.
Colin turned back to the house, opened the door, and walked out of the bedroom.
"Master." Renee greeted respectfully.
"What's for dinner this morning?" Colin asked casually as he walked towards the restaurant downstairs.
"It's the seafood porridge that my master taught me to make last time, with fried fish and fried mushrooms."
"Yeah." Colin nodded with satisfaction.
Although Renee's talent in knight training is perfect, her cooking skills are completely the opposite.
Often just after listening to him talk about it once, he can do it almost exactly, and even do it better for the first time than he did it himself... You must know that he lived alone for several years in his last life, except for entertainment.
At work, what I do most is to study cooking skills.
Although I can't say how good it is, being surpassed once is enough to prove Renee's talent in cooking.
When we arrived at the restaurant on the first floor, we found a steaming bowl of seafood porridge on the main seat of the long square dining table, which was large enough for 8 people. The fish and shrimp meat were clearly visible in it. It was definitely not like what we had eaten in my previous life. The picture is for reference only.
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There are two pan-fried fish steaks on the side, with mushrooms as a side dish.
"Go ask Arthur to prepare the carriage." After sitting down, Colin ordered Renee.
His daily schedule is to go to bed at about two in the morning and get up at six in the morning. Logically speaking, a servant like Renee Arthur should go to bed later and wake up earlier than him.
In fact, Renee did the same thing in the beginning.
But this kind of work and rest time is fine for just two days a day, or a few days. If it is like this for a long time, it is still difficult for ordinary people to stick to it...
It is not easy for ordinary mortals to become slaves of extraordinary beings such as wizards...
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Hu~
Tap tap tap~
The black horse pulling the cart gradually slowed down and stopped slowly.
Colin got off the carriage and came to the familiar Wizarding Alley again.
There were many shops selling witchcraft knowledge in the alleys, and Colin went straight to the most conspicuous and largest one.
There is no signboard, only a red flag with gold patterns on the eaves, with the symbol of the Rapp school tattooed on it.
In this store, you can not only buy witchcraft knowledge, but also sell witchcraft knowledge.
There is no doubt that this is a shop opened by the school. There is a similar shop outside the wizard's territory on the mountain.
Apart from this, the school has not opened any stores. After all, the school does not rely on stores to make profits. The purpose of opening witchcraft knowledge stores is just to collect more knowledge.
The person guarding the shop is a junior wizard apprentice who is already quite old.
At the beginning, if the new wizard seeds cannot reach the intermediate level within ten years, they will not be directly expelled from the school.
Instead, they will be assigned to do these chores.
Unfortunately, Blackstone Island is not big, and the handyman positions offered by the Lapp School are even more limited.
By the time Colin's batch comes, or earlier, the positions will be full. If these apprentices cannot advance, they will have no choice but to leave the school.
"I wonder what you need, sir?" Seeing Colin come in and catching a glimpse of the silver badge on his chest, the old wizard apprentice, who was at least sixty years old, stood up and came to greet him.
"I want to see auxiliary witchcraft, related to dodge and speed."
"Okay, sir. Please wait a moment."
After a while, the old wizard brought over a parchment catalog.
Colin started from scratch carefully
Mirror Image: Create a silent, static optical illusion to confuse enemies.
‘A three-dimensional projector? It seems to have a wide range of uses, is relatively practical, and has the potential to break through the limits... Unknown, maybe it can break the limits in the direction of more projections, larger projections, changing from static to moving, or real-time projection.
Well, it’s unlikely that an optical projection can finally break through the limit and become a clone.’
'Not bad...included in options.'
'Price...50 magic stones?!'
Colin couldn't help but pause, touched his shriveled purse, and continued to look down.
But this time he chose to look at the price first.
Frog Leap Technique... 35 Magic Stones.
Apply oil to the soles of your feet... 42 magic stones.
...36 Magic Stones
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Quickly scanning through the witchcraft related to dodge and speed recorded in the catalog, Colin's expression became worse and worse.
Maybe the store of the school only collects high-quality products, but no matter what, the cheapest one here starts with at least 10 magic stones.
He also saw several attractive ones...but unfortunately, they were short of money.
Next, he went to other shops selling witchcraft knowledge, but in general, he was satisfied with all the shops that he couldn't afford, and none of the ones he could afford were satisfied.
However, it was not without gain.
Anyway, here we are. Although he didn't buy any witchcraft, he learned about all the witchcraft about dodge and speed sold here, which can be regarded as increasing his knowledge.
The witchcraft you like already has a target, and you can come and buy it directly as soon as you save enough money!
When I walked out of the last store, it was already past 11 a.m.
Colin turned and walked towards a shop selling witchcraft materials.
After a while, he walked out with 120 pure crystals, returned to the carriage, and headed back home.
These pure crystals cost him 4 magic stones in total.
The bright crystal made of pure crystal has better quality than miscellaneous crystal. It can usually be charged 60 times and has a single illumination time of about 6 hours. If you buy one, it can last for two months. If you save a little, it can even last three or four months.
The price is naturally more expensive than bright crystals made from mixed crystals, and one magic stone can only buy ten.
Therefore, after all these pure crystals are made into bright crystals, he can earn about 8 magic stones.
According to the production of bright crystals that he has now upgraded to gold, he will need about two days to make 120 pure crystals.
This is equivalent to an income of 4 magic stones per day, which is quite considerable on the island.
At least it is much higher than the monthly salary of 10 magic stones per month in his patrol office.
It's a pity...compared to the hundreds or even thousands of limit breaking points required for intermediate level strength, this kind of money-making efficiency is still too low.
'Perhaps, we should try to find other ways to make money.'
Colin sat in the carriage and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He lifted the curtain of the round window of the carriage and looked out.
At this time, he had driven to the west area of the city. The buildings on the roadside had become more plain to the naked eye, but there were still exquisite and luxurious houses, such as the rich street he was passing now.
Most of the houses here are single-family courtyards.
Outside these mansions, Colin noticed that not far in front, there were luxurious carriages parked outside a residence whose walls were covered with green vines.
‘There are so many carriages at the door…
This seems to be Regina's home...'
‘…It should be the party she was talking about yesterday.’ Colin remembered.
Unexpectedly, this party was held at Regina's home.
Speaking of which, Regina is really talented. It only took her four years to go from beginner to intermediate, and a large part of that time was spent learning various basic knowledge.
But now it is even more exaggerated. In just six years, he has already started preparing to advance to a senior apprenticeship...
'It seems that I broke through the circle meditation method once, and soon I will reach the limit again...'
Colin rubbed the cloth bag containing pure crystals on his right hand, inexplicably thinking of it.
After a while, the carriage drove him to the door of Regina's house.
For a moment, under the keen hearing, the sound of barbecue fat sizzling, the clinking of knives and forks, the sound of people talking, joking... various sounds continued to reach my ears.
Without going in to see with his own eyes, just based on these sounds, he could imagine that there must be an extremely lively scene inside...
Putting down his hand, the curtain fell again under the action of gravity.
Colin looked calm and allowed the carriage to take him away.
Those lively sounds gradually disappeared as the distance increased...