Witch Monastery

"If you have any trouble, feel free to tell me. Perhaps my experience can help you solve some problems."

Heidi's heart was in her throat. Ever since she was purified by Hawthorne, the in-depth communication with him every day was enough to satisfy her needs.

So for the past few days, she had no plans to capture outsiders and suck their souls.

She thought that the other witches were busy with their own things and would not notice such things in the short term, but she did not expect that Die had already noticed it!

No, now is not the right time to take action. I have to find a way to get around it!

She thought so, and then forced a smile: "Indeed, something happened recently that made me very worried, so much so that I lost the mood to hunt..."

Then, without waiting for Die to ask further questions, she hurriedly spoke again: "I'm thinking about how to get a lot of money quickly."

As she said this, she looked at Die with expectation and took the initiative to guide the topic: "Dear Die, my good sister, I have always known that you have the richest experience. So, in your memory, do you have any way to make money quickly?"

Die stopped smiling and came over to walk side by side with her, looking a little puzzled: "What do you want the money for?"

"It's a little trouble. If you have enough money, it can be easily solved." Heidi straightened her back, looked forward, and tried to maintain her momentum and continue to lead the topic. "So, Die, can you help me?"

Die opened her mouth slightly, but in the end, she decided not to ask any more questions. After living for so long, she developed the habit of not asking about other people's secrets and getting along well with every witch.

After thinking for a moment, she continued, "The fastest way to make money is undoubtedly robbery. Although our Nangang District is not rich, and even the Golden Dragon Bank does not have a branch here, this does not mean that there are no wealthy families in our district..."

As she said this, her eyes suddenly lit up and she swallowed slightly: "The simplest way is to rob the Amazon Fisheries Company. By the way, we can also capture a few female warriors..."

She was a little greedy, because due to the monastery's overall "low-key" strategy, she had not tasted the wild and tough souls of the Amazon warriors for a long, long time.

At this moment, this greed even made her nun robe squirm, as if her legs were shaking.

But Heidi knew that those were not legs, but tentacles that emerged from the butterfly's body when it could no longer control its desires.

She frowned slightly and said in a slightly reproachful tone: "This plan is too crazy. I was just thinking about robbing a few black men in the slums.

The gangsters were all worried that if they killed too many people, it would cause a big fuss and attract the attention of outsiders."

"You're just as good as me. As soon as you open your mouth, you want to provoke those female pirates..."

The Amazon Fisheries Company was founded by Amazon female warriors and is a large enterprise that nominally focuses on fishing.

About fifty years ago, the colonial forces of the Sein Empire came here, used the port in the South Port area as a military port, and launched a brutal colonial war against the indigenous people of the southern Amazon Islands.

As a result, these female warriors, who still maintained the primitive matriarchal tribal structure and usually drove simple wooden boats to rob money, food and men everywhere, united unprecedentedly and launched an epic war of resistance.

The war lasted for several years. Finally, due to the internal political problems of the Sayn Empire, the war ended with heavy losses of female warriors, but the Empire returned all the occupied islands and the two sides signed a peace treaty.

The Sein Empire spent countless manpower, material resources, and financial resources in this war, but gained nothing except for the unprecedented unity of the tribes in the Amazon Islands that had been fighting each other.

Not only that, since then, these female warriors have begun to open their eyes to the world, learn the organizational form of the empire, established a new country "Amazon Kingdom", nominated their war hero as queen, and began to actively participate in broader international cooperation.

The Amazon Fisheries Company is the product of this process. The queen of the Amazon believed that the previous way of life, which was mainly based on plundering, could not last long in the new era, so she used the power of the state to establish this comprehensive company, which nominally focused on fishing, but actually robbed, fished, salvaged, guarded, transported, etc. In short, it did everything.

Now, they are actively conducting trade with various countries through Libel Port. Although they cannot be compared with the giant consortium like the Golden Dragon Bank that can influence the entire world, at least in the South Port District, they are also a hegemon.

Heidi is a witch from the deep sea. In the early years of her birth, she often had close and friendly physical or magical exchanges with the pirates in her original form with tentacles and curved fangs.

Decades ago, when the Amazons were still scattered small matriarchal tribes, she could still bully them with her personal strength, but now, the other side has united into a large kingdom...

If we continue to provoke other people's largest companies, wouldn't that be courting death?

Therefore, Heidi gave a full rejection to this suggestion: "No, if we attack the Amazons, not only you and I, but also the monastery will suffer a devastating disaster."

Chapter 14 Generous Butterfly

Die swallowed again, her robe stopped moving, and only regret remained on her face: "Okay."

Looking at Heidi's slightly stern expression, she then said: "Actually, I don't know how to get money quickly. You know me, Heidi. I have no interest in money. So I don't pay much attention to those memories about how to make money."

But after a pause, she suddenly changed the subject: "However, if you really need money now, I can lend you some."

As she spoke, she took out a dark green transparent gem from her pocket.

It was a piece of top-grade alexandrite, worth at least five hundred gold coins on the market!

Heidi's eyes lit up immediately, and Die smiled: "Do you think these are enough? If not, I have more here..."

As she spoke, she took out another pure black pearl and stuffed it into Heidi's hand, saying, "When I was sucking people's memories in the past, I would occasionally find that they hid some jewels somewhere. Anyway, they will never use these things again, so I will accept them on their behalf."

"If you need them, take them, dear Heidi, and sell them for a good price. Don't be polite to me."

Heidi was immediately delighted. She rushed forward, stretched out her arms, and hugged Die tightly: "Ah, my dear sister, you are so great!"

However, in the area covered by the nun's robe, her arms quickly extended, and her five fingers changed into dark green tentacles, which secretly reached into Die's clothes and entangled with her tentacles.

Having lived together in the monastery for so long, she knew very well what she should do to make Die happy.

But Die maintained a gentle smile, hugged her with her backhand, and narrowed her eyes slightly: "Ah, my good sister, this is a piece of cake."

"As long as you can help me after the next Witch Night, I will be satisfied..."

……

Inside the room, Hawthorne was carefully reading the table of contents of the "Introduction to Quantitative Analysis" in his hand.

This book is basically divided into two parts. The first part is the normal mathematics and magic knowledge that students of the Academy of Quantity Analysis need to learn when they get started; and the second part is the true value of this book as an expensive magic item.

The second half of the book, which was composed of a mystical and complex text, symbols, patterns and blocks of color, and a number of magic circles that made Hawthorne dizzy at the sight of them, allowed the book to accumulate a charge of magic power every day. The person who held it could recite the command words, consume this layer of energy, and cast a first-level spell "Thunder Wave" without any learning or training.

After consuming this layer of energy, you have

Anyone with spellcasting ability, even if they have not learned this spell, can recite another command to inject their own magic power into the book and cast this spell.

Hawthorne couldn't understand those obscure magic circles, but the instructions for use in this book were easy to understand. He was eager to try out the power of this spell.

But unfortunately, when the "Thunder Wave" spell is activated, it will emit a loud noise that can be clearly heard within a radius of several hundred meters, and it will definitely attract the attention of the witches. Therefore, he had to suppress the restlessness in his heart and force himself to focus back on the book.

Then, an hour passed quickly.

"call……"

Sitting on the bed, Hawthorne, feeling a little dizzy, put down the heavy book in his hand dejectedly, let out a long breath, then closed his eyes, and slowly rubbed his temples with his index fingers.

It's too abstract. What kind of shit is written in this Gouba textbook? It's even more abstruse than the university textbooks in my previous life...

Damn, is this really something used to teach and educate people? Do they really want students to learn by writing the textbook like this?

Hawthorne's heart was full of resentment.

Frankly speaking, the mathematical content in this book was not difficult to understand for him, who had been a small town test-taker for more than ten years.

But the content about how to construct models of spells in the mind like a mathematical model, so as to cast spells, is written...

I don’t understand, I really don’t understand at all!

What is "First imagine a 20-sided regular polyhedron in your mind, connect each pair of geometric vertices, color each of its edges red or blue, and then calculate all the permutations..."

I don't understand! I can't imagine something so abstract that I have never seen before!

He was in pain, but it was actually very obvious that as long as he kept trying according to what was in the textbook, he would be able to figure it out one day and then learn the several examples recorded above.

But this efficiency is too slow!

And this process is so painful!

After rubbing his temples to relax his tired brain for a moment, Hawthorne opened his eyes again and made up his mind.

I must find a way to improve my efficiency in learning magic!

He had no teacher to guide him, and his self-study had little effect. Fortunately, he now had a method to improve his study efficiency.

He then called out the system, turned to the page about buildings, looked at the building "Study" on it, and began to read its detailed description.

The description of the "study" building in the system was almost the same as the content in the game as he remembered. The only difference was that the characters who moved into this building could speed up their learning.

Learn anything, including but not limited to magic, history, religion, nature...

And this is only a level one study. When the level of the monastery is raised, the study can be upgraded to a "library pavilion" or even a "library building", which can accommodate many people to study here at the same time.

At the same time, this is also the prerequisite building for the subsequent military building "Room of Meditation". Without it, players will not be able to train the ordinary nuns recruited later into powerful priests in the field of knowledge.

Therefore, this building can be said to be a must-have for players. Hawthorne also wanted to pick it out right now, but if he did so, he would have to face a problem...

"Heidi?" he called softly to the outside, "Are you still there?"

call--

A breeze suddenly blew in from the window, and then Heidi's gentle voice came from the door: "I'm here."

ga-

As she spoke, she pushed the door open and walked in, her tone was joyful, her beautiful eyes were full of brilliance: "Master, are you tired from studying? Do you need Heidi to help you relax?"

Just two short sentences made Hawthorne's blood boil. He finally suppressed his desire and shook his head repeatedly, saying, "No, uh, I want to ask, is there a study in the monastery?"

Chapter 15 New Building: Study

Although these witches gathered together to cover each other and eat people, they had to put on a complete show. At least there was a study room in the monastery for the nuns to read scriptures and practice.

So Heidi nodded: "Yes, there is one, but I have never been to that place. Uh, no one would go there, and it may not even have been cleaned..."

She said with some embarrassment: "Master, are you going there? Please wait a moment, let me clean up there first, and then take you there..."

Hearing this, Hawthorne suddenly felt relieved: "No need, just take me there."

Heidi did not refuse, and helped him change his clothes. Then she went out, walked through a corridor, and soon turned into the only small study in the monastery.

This door had indeed not been opened for a long time. As soon as it was pushed open, dust began to fall from the edge of the door. Hawthorne subconsciously covered his nose and took a step back. He waited until the dust had settled before he looked inside.

On the sunny side of the room, there were two spacious desks. On each desk was a pen holder with several pens and a bottle of ink. However, there was no doubt that the desks, pens and ink bottle caps were all covered with a thick layer of dust. Obviously, this place had been empty for a long time.

Has not been used.

On the other side of the room were two huge bookshelves filled with various religious books and hymns related to the Goddess of Life. However, most of these books were brand new and had never been opened.

Looking at this dirty study, Heidi's expression suddenly became more ashamed, and she couldn't help but lower her head, but Hawthorne's expression became more satisfied.

Good, very good.

The witches were obsessed with playing with the humans they had captured, or looking for suitable targets, and never came here. This gave me a good opportunity to develop secretly!

"Let's go in." He said, and then he took the initiative to step into the room without paying attention to the dirty dust on the ground. Heidi followed closely behind him, holding back her nausea: after all, she was a witch from the deep sea, she liked clean and moist places, and naturally she was extremely resistant to dust and the like.

But she didn't have to endure it for too long. Because Hawthorne had already opened his system and selected the building "Study" to merge with this place.

hum-

The purifying white light came on, and the thick dust was swept away instantly. In just a few seconds, the whole room looked brand new.

Now, he clearly felt that this room was as if it were one with him. He only needed to snap his fingers to make any book here fly into his hands automatically and turn to any page he wanted.

perfect.

He then walked to the desk, and a brand new notebook from the bookshelf automatically flew to his hand. A fountain pen from the corner of the desk automatically flew out, filled with ink, and fell into his hand, making it convenient for him to take notes at any time.

It was so smart and automatic that it made him feel cheerful, and all his previous fatigue and irritability disappeared.

Heidi looked at him with admiration, then suddenly thought of something, took a step back, and said, "If the master wants to study here, then I will go out first?"

"Yeah." Hawthorne nodded, and was ready to start studying with confidence, "You go ahead and do your work. I'll just study here by myself."

Heidi nodded, then she gently closed the study door that had been renovated and no longer creaked or accumulated dust, turned around and left in small steps.

She planned to go out as soon as possible, exchange the gems in her hands for cash, and then buy all the magic books and give them to her master.

She walked away quickly, and in the study, accompanied by the soft sunlight outside, Hawthorne quietly read the magic book in his hand. He felt that his mind was sharp and his thoughts were smooth. No matter how difficult the written descriptions were, how complicated the mathematical formulas were, or how abstract and difficult the modeling imaginations were, he could understand them at a glance and learn them immediately!

Oh, I see. This is what the author wanted me to express...

Great, I'm starting to understand everything!

Hawthorne already had a very good foundation in mathematics and did not need to study mathematics like ordinary students in the real Academy of Quantity Analysis. What he lacked was only magic power and the ability to construct mathematical knowledge into spells.

And he was essentially a sorcerer, and the magic power in his body came from Heidi, so he had no shortage of it. Therefore, now with the help of the study, it was a natural thing for him to truly learn how to cast spells.

The sun passed due south and began to gradually move westward. Time passed silently, and it was even past dinner time. However, Hawthorne, who was obsessed with the magic world, was unaware of this. He eagerly absorbed the knowledge of magic from the book, just like a long-dried sponge that suddenly encountered a heavy rain and greedily sucked the water.

Finally, two hours later, he finally constructed the first spell he had learned in his mind.

"Mage Armor..."

As he chanted the spell, Hawthorne held the spell book in his left hand and gently touched his body with his right hand. Then, a protective magic force field appeared around him, surrounding and protecting his body.

It worked!

Everything happened naturally, and feeling the stable and strong protective force field on his body surface, Hawthorne couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

Although he had automatically learned the first-level spell of water making/drying at the moment he signed the magic contract with Heidi because of the other party's power connection, he did not feel as excited as he does now.

The reason for this was that, apart from the fact that the spell was given to him by Heidi and was not acquired through his own hard study, so he had no sense of accomplishment, the other reason was that the spell was just a daily magic and could not provide him with any protection.