Otome's Law of Ascension

Chapter 77

"The property of the church?" Licia shook her head. "Such an important traffic artery is managed by the church."

Keith sighed too.

"Also, the Mud Monsters can't get across the Holy War Bridge," Keith said.

The little black mudman kicked Keith. "I told you not to call me a mud monster."

"Don't interrupt." Keith brushed the mud off his knees. "As for me, I'm not in good health, as you know, I probably died halfway before crossing the bridge, and I can't go there."

It never occurred to Lycia that she must be accompanied.

"You have to find a reliable person to accompany you, otherwise, if you meet someone from the church who comes to assassinate you on the bridge of jihad, you will have no room alone." Geese said.

Licia thought about the people she was familiar with. Dimitri was the only person with stronger combat effectiveness and a little reliability.

But she couldn't take Dimitri with her, she couldn't tell Dimitri everything about herself.

Well, what about Teacher Ke Lier, isn't she always talking about the Ring of Palaka?

"I think of someone, but I don't know how about her fighting power." Licia said.

*

"Teacher Ke Lier." Licia came to Ke Lier's cabin with a bunch of bottles and jars in her arms.

"How about it, have you finished the book I want you to read?" Lier was combing her hair, and the morning sun had just risen.

"Yes, I won't dare to come until I've read it." Licia arranged the bottles and jars on a walnut table. "Teacher, did you buy this table new? It's so beautiful."

"Just tell me if you have anything to say." Lier put the wooden comb on the table and pointed at the bottles and jars.

Although the Empire of Thorns has been able to mass-produce glass products, it is still expensive, and the glass tubes used in potions will be reused.

The bottles and jars Licia brought over this time are worth more than ten gold coins.

"I would like to ask you to pay me to go to Babaliqi during the summer vacation." Licia looked at Teacher Ke Lier's 70.00% favorability, and confidently made the request.

Keri narrowed her eyes. "What are you doing in Babalich? Want to see the Ring of Palaka?"

Licia nodded. "almost."

"You need to walk before the jihad, you know?" Ke Lier asked. "If you knew, would you be able to finish it?"

Licia nodded. "Of course, it's just a day's journey."

"The bridge of jihad comes at night, the wind is biting, and the sun is scorching during the day, and the scalp will be roasted. Only ascetics and those who want to make money will take the bridge of jihad in order to go to Babaliqi."

Lycia has always liked a challenge and is curious about all things.

"Yes, I can." She thought she could.

"You know me, I can work non-stop, so I won't stop and rest along the way." Lier walked over, picked up a test tube, and nodded with satisfaction. "I will not accommodate others."

Licia nodded. "Then what if you are in danger?"

Coril picked up another glass jar. "What danger can there be? Don't worry, I will try not to let you die on the bridge."

"You stay and help me deal with the blood fruit that I brought back last time."

Licia snorted, then suddenly remembered again. "The Xuecang fruit shattered as soon as it was taken out of the jar, what should I do?"

Carrie waved her hand. "No, I've already soaked the blood fruit with the brain fluid of the ammonia mouse, you take it out directly, it's on the third shelf over there, after you take it out, cut a cross on the buttocks of the fruit, and put The juice from the blood bank is squeezed into the test tube."

Licia glanced at the time and sighed.

Work resignedly.

"Very good." Ke Lier nodded in satisfaction while shaking the water droplets on her hand. "By the way, how is your six-pointed star collection going? You have been out for such a long time and stayed with those boys for so long. You should have gained a lot."

Lycia sealed the half-full blood tank juice tube with a cork. "There is no increase, but it is all lost."

Carrie let out a long sigh. "Licia, you can't do this. If you don't use the power of the coat of arms frequently, you won't improve or even regress."

Licia thought that she was indeed like this. During the time when she collected six-pointed stars most frequently, she obviously felt that it was easier to gain the favorability of others.

"While it's nice to have a break, I'm often, um, maybe every five days or so, and I'm going to work for a week without a break," says Coril. "It seems that you still can't let go."

It's not that Licia can't let it go, it's just that after she has gained enough strength and the combat ability to solve problems without pleasing others, she doesn't want to use the method of gaining favorability that will bring psychological pressure.

*

"Puff, puff!" Licia was silently writing the formula for supplementing the potion, and there was a dark and thin person sitting next to her, with her head still very close.

Licia could even smell him. She planned to talk to him after she finished writing silently, but she couldn't stand the snorting that was getting closer.

"Ah, Apido." Licia turned her head and politely did not cover her nose. "Have you got in touch?"

After she returned to school last week, she asked Apido to inform Count Ascha.

"Tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, at Howl's Tavern." Apido moved excitedly on the chair.

The nobles sitting opposite Licia looked at Apido with disgust, which made her a little embarrassed and felt very ashamed for a moment.

But then she thought, these people hate civilians because they only have this kind of thought in their heads, but she is different, Licia quickly changed her mind, and instead straightened her back even more. People, not her.

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Apido." Licia pointed to her notebook. "But I'm studying now, so I won't chat with you, if you want to study."

Licia continued to silently write the formula just now. She neither felt ashamed because she was despised by other nobles, nor did she deliberately behave kindly and politely to Apido in order to deliberately prove that she did not care about the words and deeds of these people.

Yuga, who had just taken a book from the shelf, watched this scene quietly.

He hadn't seen Lycia in over a month, since the last time he jumped from the carriage.

Licia and his lives intersected too little.

Yuga couldn't find any chance to express his feelings for Licia alone, which made him very uncomfortable recently.

But today, he actually saw an ugly commoner sitting next to Licia, they were still talking so close, Licia didn't even consider her noble status at all.

"Master Prefect!" Apido's rough voice brought Yujia back to reality. He didn't know how he got to Licia's side.

"I'm Apido, Apido from Mandala Academy." Apido felt very honored sitting next to Licia.

"Hello, Apido, but keep your voice down, everyone is learning." Yuga knew that Apido was a servant of an earl's family.

Apido stood up excitedly, since he had talked to Licia several times, his heart was inflated.

He looked at Yuga, and felt that if he could become such an excellent commoner as Yuga, then it would be best to get Lycia's attention once or twice.

"Come out and say it." Yuga looked down and studied very seriously, without looking at them at all.

Pulled Apido out of the library.

From the conversation with Apido, Yuga found that he, like himself, was completely fascinated by Licia, and even held unrealistic fantasies.

When she thought that she was actually the same as a person like Apido, it was estimated that in Licia's heart, he was the same as a person like Apido.

As long as he thought of this, Yuga felt uncomfortable all over.

He hated his current identity more and more.

Yuga seldom had such emotions. He walked out of Black Pearl City. Although he once hated the people who wanted to kill him, he stayed in Black Pearl City for ten years and saw too many people with hatred and helplessness.

He understands that finding an enemy and then taking revenge will not make him feel better, Yuga has been persuading himself to live this life in peace, and then just save some people like him like Black Pearl City.

But the shadow of being killed and abandoned in childhood is always with him.

It will attack him when he is depressed and sad, making him more and more unwilling.

Whose illegitimate child am I and why do those people want to kill me.Yuga began to think about these questions again.

He felt a familiar sense of power in him, and he had always thought it was the commoner's perception of the power of the coat of arms.

But now, he felt that he might be the illegitimate son of some nobleman, maybe he was originally a nobleman.

This thought made him feel a lot better.

Yuga looked at Lizia who came out of the library from afar. Pearl hairpins were pinned to her ears, and her golden hair was as warm as the sun.

*

"Sita, what's the matter with you." Licia sat with Sitao Hisoka as usual and listened to the class.

But halfway through the class, Si Tao buried her head in her arms, her shoulders twitched.

Si Tao wiped two handfuls of tears under the table. "I'm fine."

She's clearly up to something.

"Miss Si Tao, your homework is very poor." The teacher tapped Si Tao's desk with a ruler. "Is Hisoka's family poor? I asked you to use gold thread to sew the coat of arms. Why do you just use dyed yellow thread?"

Some people are not fit to be teachers, Licia has always known this.

"Teacher, the magic circle sewn on the cloth shouldn't use gold thread. The metal conducts the power of the coat of arms too quickly. It is mainly used on weapons. Things like the magic circle should be sewn with gold thread It was originally wrong." Licia even dug out the corresponding position in "Manual Basics of Magic Circle Making".

The teacher of the handicraft class turned pale. He couldn't afford to offend the Duke's family, so his expression changed immediately. "Very good, Miss Licia's care is worthy of praise."

He didn't mention Si Tao anymore.

But from Licia's point of view, the Shitao family may really be poor to a certain extent. After all, the gold used for gold thread is very little, and there are very few noble families who can't even afford gold thread.

Being an aristocrat, in addition to daily expenses, spends more money in other places. In the aristocratic circle, if you want to maintain a relationship, you need to keep going to and from social occasions, and going to and from social occasions is very expensive.

Hiso’s family was not rich at all, and some time ago, the family’s financial resources dropped sharply due to the loss of the family business.

In order to maintain basic social relations and the expenses of the servants, Hisoka's family became poorer and poorer.

So poor that there is only one house and manor left that cannot be sold.

"Sometimes they won't even send me a single silver coin a week." Sitao took a big bite of beef, and Licia packed some meat and bread from the cafeteria for Sitao.

"Although life is very hard, I think I can become a guard in the future and get a good salary, so that the hard days will end." She cried out loudly while chewing the beef. "But my father is going to marry me to an old man, just for some gold coins."

Licia was a little silent, not to mention Sisostao, even the duke Campbell's family needed to use their daughter to please others.

"But I've only been studying for a year now, and I haven't been able to get my salary yet. Instead, I have to take a lot of money from my family to go out." Sisostao cried and began to hiccup, her two ponytails kept shaking.

"Si Tao, I can lend you some gold coins."

After Duke Mixiu handed over the power to Licia, he also gave her more gold coins that she could freely dispose of.

Gold coins have never been a problem for the Campbell family.

Si Tao stopped crying, a little moved, but she shook her head. "No, if I ask for your gold coin, our friendship will be impure."

Licia couldn't help laughing. "Don't be afraid, it's just a loan. I'm not short of money now." She took out a bag of gold coins from her bag, fifty in total.

"You take back ten and send them to your father, saying that there are boys in school who like you now, this is his pocket money for you." Licia was giving Sita an idea.

"And then." Si Tao held the bag of gold coins in her hand, motionless.

"Then he asked who you are, and you wrote a letter saying that you don't want to say it now, but the other party is fighting with his family and wants to marry you." Licia nodded, thinking that her idea was perfect.

"Then send back five gold coins the next week, and then don't send them," Licia said. "Then, your father will definitely not marry you off hastily."

Si Tao's eyes are shining brightly. "Yeah." She bit down a piece of beef hard.

In the woods, there are not only people sitting on chairs and chatting, but also people consuming energy in the woods.

After eating, Doro Lesko likes to find a tree in the woods and climb or do pull-ups.

He eavesdropped for a while.

As a result, the arm that had been hanging on the tree couldn't support it.

He fell to the ground with a plop.

Licia and Hisoka turned around in horror.

Doro propped himself up on the ground and smiled awkwardly.

This Doro Lesko was the stubborn boy who had an argument with Si Tao at the freshman meeting.

But later, Licia became more and more aware of the atmosphere of the two being happy enemies. With her shallow emotional experience, this Doro must like Si Tao.

"Ahem, if you want to lie to your parents, you can say that person is me. After all, our family is very rich and convincing." Doro got up and patted his legs. "Hisuo, look at you, there are so many rich men in the school, if you don't take care of it, you won't wake up until you come to your house and marry you to the old man."

"Doro Lesko!"

(End of this chapter)