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Chapter 58
Anna thought that she would have income tomorrow, and she also let go of shopping a little bit. Today, she bought a whole tender roast goose, plus some juice, and brought it home.
She had just returned to her residence downstairs with a bunch of things in her arms, and Givina, who was peeking at the door of her house, hurriedly greeted her and said: "Mage Anna, I seem to hear some movement in your room today. Please be careful when you go in."
Anna smiled and said: "It's okay, maybe it's a mouse. I've been back just now and I didn't find anything unusual."
Givina just happened to go out and didn't run into Anna. He was relieved after hearing the words: "Okay, Master Anna." She noticed that Anna was holding some food, and quickly said, "You can eat with us. "
"It's okay. I usually eat in the Mage Association. I only eat myself only when I remember. If I need it, I will not be polite to you, Giverny." Anna said with a smile, "You have been sleeping lately. Okay? If you have any questions, please tell me in time, making a sleep potion is very simple for me."
"I slept very well recently. Thank you very much for the kindness of Mage Anna. The goddess will definitely bless you!" Giverny said with a smile, "I won't disturb you anymore. Go back and rest soon."
Anna bid farewell to Givina and went back to the attic.
She suddenly remembered that she hadn't been to that women's clothing store for a long time, and she could go and have a look in two days. Going to the life and death line still consumes clothes. She wants to buy two more spares.
As soon as the door was opened, Anna heard Ep's complaining voice: "What are you talking about below, it will take so long!"
Anna ignored him, only asked: "Did you tie yourself up?"
She closed the door and saw that Aipu's feet had been tied with rope, but it was too difficult for her to tie her hands, and she still tied it on her back.
"I'll tie up when I'm full!" Eppe said frankly.
Anna just said casually before leaving, she sat down on the meditation mat holding the food, and slowly took them out.
Aipu stared at the food almost with a green light, reaching out to take it, was slapped off by Anna: "Wash your hands before eating!"
Aipu gave Anna a dissatisfied look, but he still stood up, jumped to the bathroom, scribbled and washed his hands and jumped out again, sat down in front of her, staring at the food eagerly.
After Anna took out all the food, she got up to wash her hands. When she came back, Epp had already started to eat.
Anna couldn't bear to look straight at Eppe's fierce appearance when she ate. She slowly ate her share, thinking about how to show herself to Mage Dawkins tomorrow.
After dinner, Anna asked Epp to wash his hands to solve the physical problem, and then tied him up. This time Epp's reaction was not as great as last night, and she watched Anna tie him up very calmly.
When Anna posed to enter the meditation state, Epp suddenly asked, "Hey, you are just a civilian? How come you have the courage to take me in?"
Anna didn't open her eyes, and replied casually: "You are pitiful."
"Who is so pitiful!" Aipu said dissatisfiedly. Because of being tied up, he could only lie on his side and stare at Anna. "I have never met anyone as bold as you who dared to take me in."
"So, meeting me is your greatest fortune. Are you not obedient?" Anna said, "I'm going to meditate, so don't talk to me anymore."
Epp stopped speaking, but the silence lasted only ten seconds. He said again: "Is the Mage Association fun?"
Anna opened his eyes and looked over. Epps seemed to just ask casually. When Anna looked over, he said indifferently: "I haven't been to the Mage Association yet, so I just ask casually."
It's a compelling supplement.
Anna thought of Dibian, such a gentle person, because he was a purely dark affinity, and could only be hunted down everywhere. She didn't know how he was now, whether he had successfully reunited with the teacher.
"It's okay. The Mage Association is not a place to play, it's a place to learn." Anna said, "You can meet like-minded partners in the Association and make progress together."
Aipu didn't respond to Anna's words. He rolled over twice and said, "It's so boring for me to be here alone during the day."
"Escape is like this." Anna said mercilessly, "You can go by yourself if you are bored, I won't stop you."
Anna didn’t tie Eppu during the day because there was nothing worth stealing in her house, and she even vaguely hoped that he would sneak away, so that if he died outside, it wouldn’t be her cause. After all, she had tried her best to help. .
But since Epp seems to be here, she can only hide him before he gets better.
"I won't be fooled!" Aipu said triumphantly, "You just want me to go, don't you? I won't go! There is food and drink here without running for my life, why should I go?"
Anna glanced at the overlord tenant and reluctantly retracted her gaze. Fortunately, although this kid doesn't speak well, he still knows how to measure, and won't cause her external troubles, and the extent to which she provokes her is within her acceptable range.
……Um? Why is this so familiar?
Speaking of it, isn't this how she gets along with the devil? She was testing back and forth at his bottom line...
Anna didn't expect "retribution" to come so quickly, she couldn't help being a little funny.
It's just that she knows what Ep is doing, but the devil doesn't know that she has been testing his bottom line, and has also tested out a safe area.
Anna suddenly said to Epp, "Do you really want a friend?"
Aipu was taken aback, and then said disdainfully: "I don't need a friend."
"It’s good to have friends, especially like-minded friends. You can make progress together, share emotions, joy, sorrow, pain, accomplishments... Someone share, good emotions can be doubled, and bad emotions can be dispelled. Have you been out alone for a long time? Don’t you really want a friend who can advance and retreat with you?"
Aipu fell silent because of Anna's words, but in the end he said very firmly: "I don't need friends."
"It's up to you. I wanted to say, if you want, I can be your friend." Anna shrugged, and finally said solemnly, "Then you don't have to talk anymore, I'm going to meditate."
After Anna finished speaking, she was finally able to enter a meditation state, and Epp didn't say anything again.
After three hours of meditation, after all her mental energy recovered and even increased, Anna felt a lot more comfortable. After washing, she climbed into the bed, put out the candlelight and was ready to go to bed.
Just when Anna was in a daze, she heard Epp say: "Are you really willing to be my friend?"
Anna murmured in her heart, I have become plastic friends with the devil now, and you are not too many friends.
She just rolled over, responded more casually, and then fell asleep slowly.
Early the next morning, Anna got up in great spirits. This time, she bought enough food for Epping for a day, untied him and left.
When she arrived at the Mage Association, Anna went to the library first, and today she plans to continue reading other books.
She was already familiar with the books that Lyon had listed for her, and wanted to continue to study so that she could store more knowledge to guide the practice of spells and potions.
After having Lyon's book list at the bottom, there is something to look at later, Anna already has a direction. As for whether a book is good or not, with her years of reading experience, looking through the preface and table of contents, you can roughly judge by looking at a few.
Today Natalie is still earlier than Anna. She is still working hard to review Lyon's book list. This is not only helpful for her theoretical examination, but also for her practical assessment, so she is very serious.
In the past, she had only passed the theoretical examinations, but this time she was ambitious and confident, and wanted to take the exam for excellence! Anna said that the goal can be a little higher than her own level, and she must have no problem in the middle of the exam now, and the goal is naturally set to be excellent.
But the other figure is not there.
"Is it assassinated by the York family?" Anna said thoughtfully.
"Huh?" Natalie was startled and looked at Anna with some horror.
Anna smiled and said: "I just said casually, he should be mentally unable to hold it."
It is impossible for a devil to be assassinated. The highest here is a four-star mage. If he is really succeeded, she will look down on him. If he is forced to show his true body, he will surely cause a sensation, right? It's so peaceful now, it can be seen that nothing happened.
Anna hasn't tried what it feels like to be mentally overdrawn, but based on her extensive bystander experience, it must be very uncomfortable, and she doesn't want to try it yet.
Anna read the book all morning, took a note after studying a new book, checked Natalie's homework, and then the two went to lunch together.
Only then did Natalie have the opportunity to ask her questions that she had been holding back until today.
"Anna, you and Mage Raymond, are you..." Although Natalie asked, she was a little embarrassed and didn't ask the complete question.
"Yes, nor is it." Anna said, "It just starts with friends and talks about the future."
Natalie looked at Anna and said enviously: "I really want to be as cool as you."
"Being chic can be due to character or strength. Your personality is hard to change, so use your strength to make it together." Anna laughed, "Practice spells in the afternoon. I told you where there was a problem yesterday. I’m going to make corrections today. I’ll do random inspections again when it’s over."
"Guaranteed to complete the task!" Natalie said with a grin.
When the two of them finished their lunch and were about to do their own things separately, Natalie said to Ai Ai again: "Anna, tomorrow is my fifteenth birthday, and my family will hold a birthday party for me tomorrow night. Would you like Come to participate?"
Anna was surprised: "Of course I do! You should tell me earlier so that I can prepare gifts for you."
Natalie hurriedly said: "You don't want to prepare gifts for me...If you have to give me gifts, can you give me a copy of your reading notes and magical experience?"
Anna accepted Natalie’s kindness. Her reading notes and spell training experience will gradually be shared with Natalie. There is no need to prepare specially. Natalie said so because she didn’t want to increase her financial burden. Giving this kind of personal thing is actually a very expensive gift, so that she would not be ashamed of sending such a gift in front of Natalie's family.
"Okay." Anna said with a smile, "Cultivate in the afternoon, don't be lazy, record any problems truthfully."
"I know, Teacher Anna!" Natalie yelled jokingly and ran away.
Anna went to the service counter in the affairs hall and waited.
She didn't know if the dress she had at home was high enough to go to Natalie's birthday party. Although she didn't care, Natalie herself shouldn't care, but as a friend of Natalie, she didn't want Natalie to lose face. If everything goes well today, she can buy a blank mage gown. It is very formal for a mage to wear a mage gown. Attending Natalie's birthday party is not only a shame but also a bonus.
When Anna arrived, there was already a mage in her 40s at the service desk who was talking to Tereza. Tereza noticed Anna and said something with a smile. The mage hurriedly looked over and locked Anna. , His eyes gleamed, and a gust of wind ran to Anna.
"Teliza said, you took my task, right?" Dawkins said excitedly, "It's another one. Do you know when the last time a mage apprentice was willing to help me? It was six months. Five days ago! Oh my god, I don’t know how I lived the past six months, it’s too miserable, too miserable..."
Anna didn't expect this mage to be so enthusiastic. After he finished speaking, she said, "I'm not sure if the extract I made meets the requirements, so..."
Dawkins interrupted her and said seriously: "Of course it meets the requirements, why not? I said that the requirements are met!"
Anna couldn't laugh or cry, the mage's need for an "assistant" was too strong.
"Let's go to the pharmacy to try it now? You want to prepare a new potion. The raw materials should meet the requirements. Otherwise, your experiment will be affected, and your money will be wasted." Anna said.
Dawkins nodded pretentiously: "You also make a lot of sense...but I saw that you are very good at making extracts. Even if you fail to pass at first, you will surely pass it soon. I am optimistic about you!"
Also "extremely good at making extracts"...... This is to catch an assistant and refuse to let go, right?
Anna greeted Tereza and went to the pharmacy with Dawkins.
The pharmacy room rented by Dawkins is different from what Anna usually uses. There is a magic circle formed by a magic circuit outside to prevent the impact of explosions in the pharmacy room or the diffusion of toxic and harmful gases. According to Dawkins, this is a long-term lease, and all the things in this pharmacy are his.
Anna went in to take a look and nodded. This messy look really looks like a long-term lease.
On the test bench are glassware that has been washed and unwashed. Some of the residual liquid in it is still bubbling and has a strange color. The floor is colorful and pitted, scattered with scratch paper and broken potion materials. Some of them are not. Know how to sort garbage.
"Haha, it's a little messy, I'll tidy up, tidy up." Dawkins noticed Anna's expression and smiled awkwardly.
He didn't expect to find someone to help prepare the extract today, because he was too excited to forget the situation in the pharmacy room, otherwise he could not clean up the people before bringing them? Someone who has finally made it, you can't scare people away!
"I'll help you." Anna was too embarrassed to watch a two-star mage tidy up while she sat still.
"No need, you sit down first." Dawkins looked around and found that all the chairs were occupied by him and piled up. They weren't the ones that could be removed at once, and his face blushed.
Anna smiled and said, "Let me help you. Let's clean up faster together."
Seeing Anna insisted, Dawkins had to ask her to help clean up.
After a quarter of an hour, the pharmacy room was roughly restored to its initial tidiness.
Anna looked at the results of her labor with satisfaction. Unexpectedly, Dawkins suddenly stretched out a hand, grabbed her hand and stuffed something into her palm, and then let go of her hand as if she was afraid that she would return it to him, and quickly Said: "This is a deposit, you can't go back after receiving the deposit!"
Anna saw five gold coins lying in her palm.
She lamented that it was not easy for Dawkins to find an assistant, and she lamented how easy it is for a wizard to make money.
She originally only wanted to earn money for a mage robe today, but she didn't expect to earn money for the promotion assessment in advance.
Knowing that Dawkins was afraid that she would run away, Anna did not postpone it. She accepted the gold coin and said, "Okay, Master Dawkins, I will write you a receipt later."
"No need! Who would be greedy for this money!" Dawkins said very generously, and then said a little nervously, "Look at any request, we can talk about it."
"I'll make them for you first." Anna said, "I made some copies yesterday and put them in the management office. I'll get them back. You can wait here for a while."
"I'll go with you!" Dawkins said hastily, as if afraid that Anna would never return.
Anna thought of buying the raw materials, it was inconvenient to get them back at once, and she understood Dawkins' nervousness, so she agreed.
The two went to the management office together. Anna retrieved five parts of the wattle extract made yesterday, while Dawkins bought a hundred parts of wattle for ten silver coins.
The two returned to the pharmacy. Anna showed Dawkins the extract she made yesterday. After checking it, Dawkins said in surprise, "What a good job!"
He just wanted someone to help him, and he was fine. How could he think that the extract she prepared was so pure, even better than what he did!
"No problem, I'll start doing it." Anna was also happy that her work was recognized, and started her new job.
Dawkins responded casually, still observing the five extracts happily, calculating how much more pure extracts would increase the success rate of his new potion experiment.
When he recovered happily, he found that Anna was handling two wattles at the same time with both hands. His complexion changed and he just wanted to stop her, but he was afraid to scare her. The assistant who was looking forward to finally got caught up in this way. It was not worthwhile for him to scare away, so he quickly covered his mouth and watched secretly from the side.
Although it was a pity that he would lose two shares of wattle... But if he could find an assistant, even if he lost all one hundred wattle, it was worth it!
Dawkins secretly observed, the more he watched, the more frightened he became.
Anna was the first to use the fire-element crispy method, and he had seen others use it, but because he didn't have the affinity of fire element, he couldn't use it, only the old method was time-consuming and labor-intensive. It's not a big surprise to be able to use this trick, but her stability and proficiency in using it made him feel bad.
Afterwards, the extraction of water elements is more like art, without any mistakes.
After Anna processed the two extracts, forty minutes passed, and it would take more than an hour for him to process one by himself.
Dawkins admiredly checked and admired the extract that Anna had just made. The two parts were even better than the previous five.
He kept praising, thinking of what he had heard from Tereza, he couldn't help asking: "Anna, are you really just becoming an apprentice to the wizard for less than a month?"
"It's true." Anna didn't hide, "I didn't have a chance to touch spells in the past. I saved up to five gold coins to come to the Mage Association."
"Oh, you have been delayed for the previous ten years!" Dawkins sighed and looked at Anna regretfully, "If you came two years earlier, I wouldn't have to make extracts miserably! "
Anna: "..."
He hadn't thought about it. With her talent, she might have become a one-star and two-star mage two years earlier, so how could she make an extract for him?
Anna is a kind person, and did not tell the cruel truth to attack Master Dawkins. She said: "If there is no problem, I will continue to do it. I can make 20 copies in a row, and it is almost possible to make it this afternoon."
"Okay, do it!" Dawkins laughed when he heard Anna said that he could make twenty copies in one afternoon.
He was exhausted in a day and made ten servings, and she could make twenty servings in one afternoon, giving her two hours of meditation to restore her mental strength, and she could make twenty servings again, that would be forty servings a day! Doesn't it mean that he can do two new potion experiments in three days? Then, his long-distance success, can't it be much earlier?
Dawkins couldn't close his mouth with a smile. Originally, he wanted to do it with Anna, so hurry up. He initially expected her to make five or six copies a day, but he didn't expect it.
Although Dawkins himself is a very talented mage, otherwise he would not be so old or just a two-star mage, but of course he knows what a talented mage looks like.
It's like Anna.
Obviously not long after joining the Mage Association, learned quickly and well. The mental power is far stronger than the average apprentice mage, and his micromanagement ability is outstanding. The extract made is so pure that he, a two-star mage, sighs.
What's rare is that she is calm and stable, without the frizz of ordinary young people, and she feels very reliable.
After Anna finished two more extracts steadily and safely, Dawkins said while appreciating: "Anna, do you know that you have a high talent?"
"I know. A mage friend of mine told me this, and I really learn things very fast." Anna chatted and started the next pretreatment of the extract.
Dawkins shook his head regretfully. He also thought, if this little girl doesn’t know that she has a high talent, he can take advantage of her as an apprentice... Well, forget it, his talent is so incomparable, he should not delay her future. .
Before she was found scrambling by other mages, it was justified to pull her to help him make more extracts!
Dawkins instantly made up his mind not to tell other high-level mages that there is a good seedling that will surely become a four-star mage and hopefully a five-star mage. He is not greedy, and let her help him do a month...no, half a month of extraction. The liquid is good too!