Witch, don't be so lazy

Of course, An Ke couldn't show her displeasure in front of several mages, especially the school's directors. Fortunately, they just chatted briefly for a few minutes and she was free.

I kept looking for something to eat until the dinner started.

Lord Yom stepped forward and gave a rather uninteresting speech, much the same as what his previous leader had said, looking back on the past, being grateful for the present, and looking forward to the future. Then everyone applauded and that was it.

Then the gifts were received and the contributions of the recipients were pointed out.

Anke was described as "an outstanding and talented engraver who participated in the operation to kill the White Walker leader", and then she was given a beautiful gift box.

An Ke took a quick look at it with his Insight, and accepted it because he found nothing wrong. It seemed to contain recipes for several specialized runes.

After Yom finished his speech and presided over the award ceremony, he quickly left after a few brief greetings.

Looking at his thin figure, pale face, and occasional coughing, it was estimated that he was seriously injured in the battle with the White Walker leader.

The main course was served and we ate heartily. After we were full, Encore started to head towards the garden because the pressure in the hall was too great.

Mainly because of the order in which she received the awards, it seemed to shock the other guests, causing them to glance at her from time to time, looking as if they were ready to make a move.

However, they did not chase to the garden because they saw a familiar figure.

"What's the matter? You haven't given up yet and want to continue recruiting me?"

An Ke had noticed Hahn had followed her out long ago. She turned around and said hello to the little fat boy. "But I'm not really short of anything right now. Sorry."

"I know." Hahn nodded. "After all, Aunt Luya is very optimistic about you, and I heard that you are very close to the people of Mammon Society."

"But it doesn't matter. No matter where you go in the future, people will always refer to your hometown as Xueshan Town, the Xueshan Town of the Aleman family."

He paused. "And with your talent for runes, the Aleman family might not be able to come up with a good enough bargaining chip. They spent all the good stuff on me, even the Earth Dragon Jade. Do you know what the Earth Dragon Jade is?"

An Ke was about to say that he knew, but the fat boy had already said a lot of things.

The main idea is that the Earth Dragon Jade is very precious and has been nurtured by the family for countless years, but now Yom has almost used it up in order to kill the leader of the White Walkers.

"That's a White Walker from the royal family. Killing it yields extremely rare and precious items, along with some other treasures. My father successfully sent me to study under Master Smoya. He's a senior second-level wizard with profound attainments in alchemy, and he's highly regarded by the Lord of Arthda."

Hahn said, "I'm going to Asda City this weekend. My father said that with the teacher's care, I will definitely be able to complete the promotion within a year, and then make a splash in the assessment. Then, through the teacher's connections, I can get a letter of recommendation from the Lord of Asda. Except for High Tower Academy, basically any academy in the North can be chosen."

Why is there a letter of recommendation system? The nobles have so many tricks up their sleeves...

And what was the little fat girl trying to do by coming over and saying all this? To show off? That didn't seem like it? To say goodbye? Because she was the only one living somewhere else?

An Ke blinked and said, "That sounds great. I envy you (reading it in praise). I wish you a safe journey."

"Yeah... that's true." Hahn nodded, his expression heavy. "But, everything's been spent on me, and even my father was seriously injured... What if I mess up? Wouldn't that be the end of it?"

...Little brother, you don’t have the qualifications to become the king of pressure resistance.

But the kind-hearted Miss Anke still comforted her: "Don't be afraid, aren't you destined to lead the Aleman family to a higher stage?"

"Do you feel the same way?"

"……Um."

"That's good!" Hahn instantly perked up, looking very pleased. "As expected, you're a special character with a growth spurt. Although you haven't joined the team, you'll still cheer the protagonist up at crucial moments. Don't worry, when I write Hahn's legend in the future, I'll definitely mention your name!"

"……as long as you are happy."

The dinner is over.

Waited another ten days.

The spiritual object finally arrived.

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Good night, Wu Xidisi.

Chapter 48 The Parade Begins

He slammed the book shut.

An Ke tapped his brow with his hand, stretched his stiff neck, and then slumped down in the chair like a slug, staring blankly at the ceiling with a vacant look in his eyes.

After a while, she finally got up and reached out to put the "Brief Introduction to Ancient Spells: Three" in front of her, which was as thick as a brick, back to its original place. It stood side by side with the other fifteen black-covered books, filling up the two rows of shelves again.

Yes, these are the learning materials that were exchanged for the life of the White Walker leader.

When Luya brought the things over a few days ago, Anke was completely stunned.

A large and heavy black box with counter-attack and self-destruct spells on it was unsealed, and these ancient spell books were taken out.

In her previous life, she had read so many books, but it was still An Ke who went to visit her friends in the medical school. Her friends took her to see the legendary "Autumn in My Heart". She was gloating for a long time at that time.

Never imagined.

When I traveled to another world, I had to face the same terrifying scene. This thing could be named Abyss Purgatory Black.

It was even just a brief theory, teaching the art of using ancient runes to reproduce cantrips and low-level spells.

Although modern runes can reproduce tricks and low-level spells, they are simplified versions of ancient runes, so their power and stability are much lower.

The reason why Anke did not learn modern runes but chose to look directly at ancient runes was, on the one hand, due to the changes in the panel, and on the other hand, after consultation, he learned that the latter was a complete superior replacement for the former.

To make an analogy that is not entirely appropriate, if modern spells are advanced mathematics, then ancient spells are more professional mathematical analysis, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations... The latter almost encompasses the content of the former, but what it explores is more complicated.

It's indeed complicated.

When An Ke came into contact with systematic learning content seriously, she finally understood how outrageous her previous behavior of burying herself in improving her skills was.

Just look at the table of contents of the book and you will understand.

First, we need to divide the nine most common schools into categories: Nature, Undead, Sun, Shadow, Frost, Earth, Celestial Phenomenon, Astrology, and Chaos, and study the characteristics and properties of the runes of different schools.

Then slowly explore further, take the School of Earth as an example, the defensive armor spell, the auxiliary grease spell, the offensive dust spell... the spell patterns between them must be different. This is still the most basic magic. If it involves different specialization directions, wide area, power, sophistication, confinement... and then to the advanced low-level spells, it is another new round of changes.

Even this is just the difference in the runes. When it comes to practice, how to distribute and mobilize magic power, how to engrave on props of different natures, how to leave redundancy when enchanting, and even how to encrypt and prevent decryption, any part of it will take hundreds or thousands of pages to expand.

Even if there are indeed some patterns to be found, just by looking at the above, you can imagine how exaggerated the content is.

Being able to compress all this content into a book in the most concise and comprehensive way, even if the book is super large, can still prove the author's superb skills.

And this is exactly what the Iris Workshop produces, fully worthy of the reputation of the top Rune Association.

Of course, the above only involves the Earth School.

There are eight other schools of thought, especially the hodgepodge Chaos School, which takes up three volumes.

Therefore, when An Ke just finished reading the catalog, she felt her eyes go dark and her heart tighten.

Even these are just theoretical things. If you really want to put them into practice, it is useless to just understand them in your brain. You also need to understand them with your hands and have rich experience.

No wonder so many spell masters can’t even get into the door in their entire lives. It’s just like mathematics in the previous life.

Most people have studied it for decades, but they are still just brick-moving workers. Looking down, they see a bottomless pit, and looking up, they see gods flying.

Then look at what Encore did before.

She didn't even learn any theory, she just stared at replicating the spell patterns and worked hard with her head buried in the sand.

If other engravers knew about this, they would probably be furious to death on the spot. Even when they heard An Ke complaining about the slowdown in the speed of her skill development, they would immediately come back to their senses.

Of course, Miss Anke won't complain now.

[Ancient Curse: 116/10000/Beginner]

Because she tested it.

If you devote your whole body and soul to the study of ancient spells, read books carefully and think about them every day, and combine it with practice, your proficiency can increase by about twelve points every day.

In less than three years, her ancient runes would reach the proficient level, even without the guidance of a famous teacher.

It sounds great, but... well, there's no but, because it's already outrageous.

What Anke wanted to say was that she was currently only planning to study the most basic runes, first ensuring that the telekinetic magic could be successfully engraved on the runes and could be used in battle.

Because the primary goal is to complete the spiritual world tour, more time and energy should be used to improve the proficiency of magic tricks.

Speaking of spirit world tours.

An Ke stretched lazily and decided to go buy spiritual items today.

Calculate the time.

Looks like it's time to set off.

……

A maze of tunnels.

A pale waiter walked in front, guiding the guests.

Anke is now wearing a black cloak and a crow mask on his face. They are all engraved with magic tricks to conceal their breath.

After winding around, the door stopped in front of a wall. The pale waiter knocked six times, three hard and three lightly, and then the wall automatically moved down, revealing a secret passage.

An Ke was a little speechless. How could there be a secret passage in the maze tunnel? It was too abstract, but she finally walked in.

Not a moment.

They arrived at a dim circular hall, which was low in the middle and high around. A huge Mammon gold coin emblem was painted on the floor of the circular platform, and a host in a black robe and mask stood on the platform.

There were a few people sitting on the chairs around. They were dressed similarly to Anke, all wearing black robes and masks, but the animal patterns on them were different.

However, although the physical concealment is similar, the magical level is different.

As soon as the mastery level of insight was activated, An Ke couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Sixty percent of the people did not conceal their aura and magic power, the remaining thirty percent did, but it could not stop Encore's prying eyes, and at most ten percent could not be locked.

During this time, she even saw some familiar faces. Well, not really familiar faces, she had just seen them at the Aleman family's dinner party, and they left some impression on her.

Of course, others were also spying on her, but they were blocked by the spell on the cloak, and An Ke also used a little invisibility spell, so she hid herself easily.

Apart from the small movements mentioned above, and the occasional whispers from three or two familiar people, and the footsteps of new guests, there was no other movement in the round hall, only silence and oppression.

Waiting in boredom.

Finally, the auction began. The bright white lights shone on the central round stage. After reading the routine opening remarks, the host began his passionate introduction as each item was pushed forward.

Not only were his words passionate, but his magic was also very passionate. He was from the Chaos School's "emotional perception" camp, and he was constantly trying to stir up everyone's emotions.

As for the items being auctioned, it can only be said that they are very much in the style of the Mammon Society.

Poison, corpses, monsters, aphrodisiac potions, and even a film about a mermaid girl and a dwarf.

Magical equipment was naturally indispensable. Anke even saw the armor he had enchanted. If he remembered correctly, the trading partner should be the White Mane Team among the adventurers, and they unexpectedly ended up here.

But this doesn't seem surprising.

After all, even some of the weapons that the lord's mansion equipped for the guards were put up for auction, and there were actually people who dared to buy them. An Ke felt relieved all of a sudden.

You have to know that there are definitely people from the Aleman family hiding in this venue. They are so brave to commit crimes against the wind.

As time passed, the highlight finally arrived.

"Next up are the lots from the Papal States."

The host knocked the hammer, and the pale waiter next to him brought the things up.

"The witch hunter's rapier, forged from blood steel, can become sharper by absorbing the blood of its owner. It is also enchanted with the Blade Curse: Power and has been baptized with holy water, increasing damage to dark creatures, such as White Walkers."

"The starting price is eight hundred."

Maybe the word "White Walker" evoked fresh memories for everyone, and the item was indeed good, so it was sold for 1,020 gold coins in the end.

"Holy Hammer... Starting price: seven hundred and ninety-nine."

"Fifty Demon-Slaying Bullets... Starting price: 800."

"Holy Water No. 5...starting price: 900."

One after another, then came the spiritual objects.

"Superior source fire stone, processed through alchemical processing, sourced from the eastern part of the Papal States. Recommended for the Sun School and the Chaos School. Estimated spiritual depth of approximately sixty. Starting price: five hundred."

Asked many times.

Finally, it was sold for five hundred and twenty gold coins.

In fact, it is quite normal, because this thing can completely match the snow crystal stone in the White Walker's lair. In terms of practicality, it is not worth so much money. It's just that some stone guys are willing to collect it.

"The fur of the Fire Rabbit has been processed through alchemical means. This evil creature lives in hot regions. It has a tuft of long hair on its back that can ignite fire, and will actively set fire to farmland and towns.

Origin: Eastern Papal States. Recommended for the Solari and Chaos schools. Estimated Spirit World depth: approximately 1400. Starting price: 800.