"Yes, it is my mandatory task." Penelope smiled bitterly.
Quins naturally knows about mandatory tasks. As long as he joins the Linbujia Mysterious Association, he must complete a mandatory task in a year. Quins's mandatory task in the first year was due to the previous Laura incident in the Mother of Snakes Church.
It has been written off by Middleton of the mysterious defense agency. Therefore, Quins does not need to consider the mandatory mission at all within a year.
"Do you still remember the incident about the Cursed Spirit on the last day of Qilin in the Cloud?" Penelope said as she took out a newspaper from her chest, "You want to read this."
Of course Quins knew about the incident in Yunzhong Qilin, and he also killed a hidden masquerade cultist. When he picked up the newspaper, as soon as he read it, the big headlines were immediately visible to Quines.
Vicious incidents occurred in many places in Neo-Ottoman.
Quins was shocked and started to read quickly.
"This is the newspaper published by the Lin Bujia Association today. Just after the incident of the Cursed Spirit in Yunzhong Qilin, similar vicious mysterious incidents, cursed spirits, and mysterious events occurred one after another in many places in the New Ottoman Empire.
Sudden expansion of the earth, plague, rat tide, etc., as of noon today, thirteen cases have occurred, distributed in thirteen large and small cities of Neo-Ottoman. The royal family is furious, and the mysterious defense agency has entered a state of emergency." Pene
Lopp explained carefully to Quines.
Quins looked at the news in the newspaper with a solemn expression, raised his head and asked: "Which forces did these?"
"Preliminary estimates suggest that there are at least three or four shadows of the Evil God Church behind it," Penelope replied.
Quins was silent, this was not something a pawn like him could get involved in: "What does this have to do with your mandatory mission?"
Penelope smiled bitterly: "It must be related. In other words, the members who have been forced to do tasks recently are more or less related to this. There are clues as to where the cursed spirit in the strange forest in the clouds came from.
It is very likely that it has something to do with the underground gang alliance in St. Dresfes. My task is to find out which gangs in the underground gang alliance are related to this matter."
Quins frowned: "Those guys, can't they see the situation clearly? They even dare to tease the tiger's beard from the mysterious defense agency."
"Just because it's a gang alliance, the members are mixed, no, they should be all bad. As long as the benefits are sufficient, nothing can be done." Penelope said scornfully.
Quins touched his chin, "That makes some sense, but is it a bit unreasonable that you are the only one to complete such a big thing?"
Penelope shook her head and said: "Of course I'm not the only one. Many people in the Lin Bujia Association have this mandatory mission, but everyone has different goals. I only need to find out a small gangster inside."
"I see," Quins nodded: "But since it's just a small gang, you should be able to handle it by yourself."
Penelope smiled bitterly: "I thought so at first, but after I accepted this mission, I quickly realized something was wrong. My intuition told me that this mission was very dangerous."
"Intuition!" Quins knew clearly. Although extraordinary people always trust their own intuition, Penelope could not use this reason to ask Lin not to join the association for reinforcements, let alone ask him to change to a mandatory task. Mandatory task
The reason why it is called a mandatory task is because the person who accepts the task has no choice.
"So you chose to seek help? Why not go to the Pars Saint-Was Coven?" Quins asked.
"Haha, it was Moira who asked me to come to you." Penelope looked at Quins with a strange look.
"Ha!" Quins almost laughed angrily. What's the matter? Moira doesn't treat him as an outsider, or is she treating me like a gun? Am I as easy to bully as I seem?
"What do you think Moira means by saying that?" Quins threw the question away.
Penelope spread out the pipe in her hand and said, "Miss Moira must be very convinced of Mr. Dodd's ability."
You are really good at saying nice things. Quince looked at Penelope deeply: "I need to think about this."
"Mr. Dodd, don't you want to hear about my remuneration?" Penelope said.
Quins, who wanted to see off the guests, couldn't help but stopped. Penelope had been operating in Saint-Dres-Freis for many years. It was not an exaggeration to say that she was a local snake, and the remuneration she offered was pretty good.
Quince made a gesture of invitation.
"I don't know which reward suits you best, so I've listed three for you to choose from."
Hehe, he is very wealthy.
"First, you can choose a level 3 secret treasure with attributes as you wish. As long as it's not too unconventional, I can get it for you."
Oh? As soon as Penelope came up, she gave Quins a big one. Seeing Penelope’s confident face, Quins secretly sighed, if he hadn’t obtained Constance’s two secret treasures before
, he may have been immediately moved, and now, the level 3 secret treasure that has returned to his hand has already been placed in the cavity by Quines. The demand for the level 3 secret treasure is attractive to Quines.
Much weaker.
Seeing Quins' expressionless expression, Penelope could only continue: "The second reward is a level 4 secret origami man."
A level 4 secret? Although it is just a level 4 secret, relative to the difficulty of the task, this is already far beyond ordinary.
"What about third?" Quins asked.
"One spot."
"Quota?! What do you say?" Quins saw Penelope's rather reluctant expression.
"This is a teaching position at Levamin University. I spent a lot of effort to get it."
"Levi Fomin University? Is it the Levamin University that is funded by the Imperial Academy and is known as the outer courtyard of the Royal Academy. Extraordinary people in the mysterious world flock to study there, and may be favored by wizards?" Quins said to himself
According to the rumors I heard.
Penelope: "The rumors you heard are basically correct. The only thing is that not everyone may be favored, but those with spiritual talents will be accepted as apprentices by wizards. If they are in college
If you can awaken your spiritual power and advance to a wizard apprentice, you can directly become a reserve member of the Wizard Academy."
"Of course, these are not important. The reason why I have to do everything possible to get a teaching position at Universiti Lebanese University is that the most important thing is that you can set up your own laboratory and recruit students to conduct your own research, and you can
Enter the Twelve Wizards Spire and learn some occult knowledge."
"Things can't be that simple, right? A university teacher has such great power to set up his own laboratory?" Qiu Privacy questioned.
"You're right. It's not anyone's business to set up their own laboratory. Except for those professors who can get full funding from the Wizard Research Institute, teachers who want to set up a laboratory must first go through the Wizard Laboratory to verify their own projects.
Only through review can you get part of the funding in terms of money and research materials. This part is about 30%. The rest needs to be figured out by yourself, whether it is to pay for it yourself or to attract investment. But it is often what the laboratory lacks the most.
But it’s the 30% material support, not anything else.” Penelope said.
"In this case, the value of this university teacher's seat will be much lower." Quins knew clearly what Penelope meant by the research data funding. It was nothing more than covering research machines and research data from the institute. Although
There will inevitably be some restrictions and reservations in this aspect. But it is undoubtedly a huge temptation for extraordinary people.
For Quines, the temptation is not as great as that of the third-level secret treasure. After all, the alchemy workshop in his psychic crystal can fully meet his experimental needs.
Quins thought for a moment and then said slowly: "I want that university teaching position."
Penelope smiled bitterly, "I knew you would choose this."
Quins knew why Penelope was smiling bitterly, but he really didn't have much interest in any laboratory. What really made Quins choose this was that the university teachers could receive funding for part of the research materials after the project was approved.
Quins' main purpose in choosing this.
It is undeniable that Quines is undoubtedly ahead of many wizards in alchemical research, because those wizards do not have such a good experimental environment and resources for their experiments and practice. This has allowed Quines to accumulate a lot of knowledge in alchemy.
Experience, Quines will not belittle himself on this point.
But Quines will not be arrogant. He is self-aware of this. Even if three people spend all day in the alchemy workshop, how much alchemical experience and alchemical reserves can they accumulate. Of course, Quines has so far
, in addition to the necessary exchange of secrets, alchemy books are also exchanged, but if he really expects to slowly exchange the vast sea of alchemy books based on time, then he is really a wizard. The spirit of a wizard is to be enterprising and pioneering.
Instead of just sitting back and enjoying the success. It can be said that the water element puppet series is the first step for Quines to take independent research and development.
And absorbing and drawing on the experience of one of the largest wizard organizations today, broadening one's horizons, and increasing one's knowledge, is Quines' real purpose. After all, the older the mysterious knowledge, the better. In fact, Quines has always been independent.
For the sake of research, his research must be out of touch with the research in the current wizarding world. Even if Constance brought some new variables, it did not completely change this fact. To be at the forefront of the alchemical world, then
There is no way to start talking about it.
Of course, it's too early to say this now.
Therefore, by choosing a university teaching position as compensation, Quines was mentally prepared for long-term investment.