Durin's Diary

Chapter 16 Promotion
After eating, Hemer cooed and flew onto the bird stand. She decided to rest in the living room for a while today and then return to Dulin's room - that was her dormitory.

Du Lin took Anta to enjoy breakfast. Today's meal was made by Xia Li, with the best duck breast, hot chocolate and French fries.

Potatoes are the most produced root food in the entire Eastern Elf Territory. In years of disaster, they are strategic materials that ensure people do not starve to death. In years of abundance, these root foods are also cooked with meat, and then a large amount of salt is added to make them into canned foods that are easy to store for emergency use.

These are also the supplies prepared by the rear for the front-line defense forces in the black area, and they are free of charge.

Of course, because there have been bumper harvests in recent years, there are so many potatoes that the indentured laborers in the Eastern Elf Territory are in awe of the potato meal. That is another matter.

However, the potato cubes that Dulin can bring to the table are of course carefully cooked with oil, and then paired with refined salt and delicious sweet tomato sauce. Even Anta said that such soft potato strips do have an unprecedented freshness.

There was no other way. Du Lin was tired of eating boiled potatoes and salami every day. He happened to think of the fast food recipe and found a new way out for Mr. Potato.

It was just that Hemer didn't like it. When the girl saw Du Lin holding this thing in his hand, she started to coo.

Silly girl, I won't feed you potatoes.

After breakfast, Du Lin and An Ta put on their coats. Du Lin stroked Xia Li, who had come to see them off, and said, "Your sister An Ta and I are going to the Mage Tower. If anyone comes looking for me, tell them we'll be back after lunch."

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There are many ways to advance as a warlock. The one Durin has heard of the most is the Dragon Vein Warlock - it all started with the dragon species in the Western Continent. These huge and intelligent lizards are good at transformation and can never control themselves. Since ancient times, there have been records of hybrids with various races from time to time. For example, the most common grassland elves are Dragon Vein Warlocks with silver dragon blood.

For example, the Ai Ersh family, which is favored by silver dragons, has had its bloodline added by four silver dragons in the past five hundred years.

There's no way around it. The silver dragons of the good camp like the prairie elves of the same camp too much, almost like people like petting cats. And it's normal for something to happen between the silver dragons and the prairie elves in their long lives, and for something to appear again in the end.

There is a dirty saying that goes: Transfiguration is the best in the world, and partial transformation is second only to this skill and is above all other skills.

However, considering that Durin is half human, it is not certain that there is something else on Durin's paternal ancestors.

This was truly worth seeing for the curious grassland elves, so as soon as Anta and Dulin finished their meal, they walked towards the town's wizard tower in small steps.

Today is the third day of the Harvest Festival. More and more people from nearby villages are free to come to the town to participate in the festival. Durin's grandfather will also give all his subjects a small gift on the fifth day. Farmers will receive seeds and flour, townspeople will receive cloth and food, and the nobles will not lack anything, so they will also receive personal encouragement from the Duke.

In short, everyone will be satisfied.

Of course the guards of the Mage Tower recognized Du Lin, and even more so Miss Anta, the new star in the tower, so after the two of them went through the confirmation process, they entered the Mage Tower. On the first floor, Du Lin greeted several of his fellow disciples who had dark circles under their eyes from staying up late to read, and then went directly to the third floor.

His mentor was watching his apprentice use the summoning circle for the first time. Seeing Dulin and Anta coming, he gestured to them to sit down and wait.

What are you waiting for? That must be because the potion isn't ready yet, so out of curiosity, Du Lin and Anta stood aside and watched the little guy drawing the summoning circle.

"The third layer of the magic circle at the seventy-first degree position does not draw a concentric circle. There may be a three percent loss of mana when summoning. For a beginner, it may mean a failure." Du Lin was the first to see the problem.

"The concentric circles at the outermost position of the magic circle at 199 degrees are drawn well, but nine of the 27 letters in the spell of that magic circle are wrong. I don't know what kind of weird thing will be summoned." Anta covered her face, not daring to look.

The tutor heard the conversation between the two curious kids, put down his book, confirmed the problem with a dark face, and then called the apprentice over and criticized him severely.

Then the mentor turned to look at Durin and Anta: "The promotion potion that Durin needs is not ready yet. You have nothing to do now, so come and teach this child." The apprentice's name is Thorn Salenika, a human orphan. His parents gave birth to him on the way to the eastern elf territory, and died in the pursuit of the nobles. It was the fugitive slaves who risked their lives to bring him to Lublin.

So he now has an adoptive father, and when he was very young he was accepted as an apprentice by a mentor because of his excellent talent - in the Mage Tower, talent is the most important thing, because without talent, no matter how hard you work, you cannot become a mage.

Thorn was still young, and Durin had always taken good care of him, even though he was taller than Durin and Anta now.

Du Lin also taught the child how to draw concentric circles in one stroke, but he was too young, so he made mistakes, which is understandable and even forgivable.

Durin and Anta patiently taught him, helped him correct his mistakes, and left the magic circle before Thorn was ready to summon him.

The mentor put down the teacup in his hand and said: "Dulin, Anta, what do you think Thorn will summon?"

"A rabbit or a hedgehog, he is just an apprentice. I don't think he can summon any big guys." Du Lin said the truth.

"The largest wolf is a sub-adult, and the wolf must not resist." Anta relaxed a little.

Then she and Durin saw the magic circle flash, and a rabbit appeared in the magic circle. It was even chewing grass in its mouth, but it stopped chewing now, after all, the end was approaching - Thorn grabbed the rabbit's ears and laughed happily.

Dulin stretched out his hand, and Anta smiled and high-fived Dulin.

At this time, a pharmacist walked into the summoning area. He chatted with the mentor for a while and then left. Du Lin looked at the mentor and happened to see the mentor looking at him.

"The medicine is ready, kid, let's go."

Durin and Antar followed their mentor to the higher levels of the Mage Tower.

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Zanta Eram was walking on the steps, and two good students were chatting behind him.

Durin was a very talented child. Everyone thought he was a dragon vein sorcerer. After all, a legendary silver dragon married the ancestor of the Elsh family, and they had a very outstanding boy. After that, the bloodline of the silver dragon joined the Elsh family one after another. This was why this family had always produced many sorcerers.

But the child Durin is not a blood sorcerer. Both Zanta and Old Ish understand this. Even the Primeval Creator knows about the child Durin - because Durin is an evil sorcerer. When he was in his mother's womb, an evil outer god noticed him and wanted to use him as a beacon to invade this world. It was the Primeval Creator who stripped away the evil gaze and allowed the child to live as an ordinary child until now.

Only Old Ish, Zanta, Cassel and the original creator knew about this matter.

Even Du Lin's parents thought it was just a divine blessing.

When a life comes into this world, it should not be branded before it is born. This is the annotation made by the original creator.

The righteous gods are so merciful.

Zanta sighed in his heart, and when he pushed open the door to the pharmacy area, he once again hoped that Du Lin behind him could have a better future.

The original creator gave you a chance to start over. Maybe you won't become a silver dragon warlock, but at least you have the opportunity to grow up healthily and live a good life... Don't let it down.

(End of this chapter)