Springleaf
"Are you the magician Master Rockhan?" Link asked tentatively.
The smile on the old man's face became more and more intense. He squinted a pair of shining eyes and shook his head first: "Young man, don't call me a master. My achievements are still a long way from a master. It will be difficult for people to hear me." It's a joke. However, I know you are a good material when I see you! How about you, learn magic from me?"
Link didn't rush to agree, he spread his hands and looked helpless: "But I don't have any money."
Rockhan enthusiastically took Link's hand: "Hey~ what money do you want? Learn magic with me, Rockhan, and never ask for money! Come, come, come with me, this is your slave? Come with me too... hiss ~This is a puppet... very delicate."
He pulled Link and walked towards the courtyard gate. When he reached the courtyard gate, Link suddenly saw a person standing there.
This is a black-haired girl with fair and clean skin, exquisite facial features, and a slave collar around her neck. She is the devil princess Sarvini.
"This is?" Link's heart skipped a beat. Mirdad and Realta also retreated behind Link, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Rockhan smiled and introduced: "Tell me about her, this is a slave I bought, she is pretty, isn't it? Don't pay attention to her, I will give her away soon."
As he spoke, the white-bearded magician yelled to the concierge: "Ah Fu~Ah Fu~"
After shouting a few times, a middle-aged man with a simple and honest face came out from the gatehouse. This middle-aged man also wore a slave collar around his neck. When he saw Rockhan, he bowed and saluted: "Master, what do you need from me? "
"Did you see this little girl? This is a gift for Lord Baal, take her down and train her carefully!"
The newly bought slaves are unusable, they are too rough and don’t know how to serve others, so they need to be trained, especially when they are used as gifts for important people, they must be carefully trained so that nothing goes wrong.
As soon as Ah Fu heard that it was a gift for the great lord, he immediately promised respectfully: "Master, don't worry, as long as you give the old slave three months, I will take care of her and she will be as docile as a lamb."
"Well, let's go." Rockhan was very satisfied.
Ah Fu beckoned to Sarvini. The devil princess was full of grief and anger, but she didn't dare to resist, and followed him obediently.
The three of Link were stunned, and couldn't believe that this was the commander of the demon army who was so majestic just a day ago!
Mirdad and Rierta felt even more chilled. They all had slave collars around their necks. Could it be that this thing could not be cracked? Otherwise, how could this devil princess be so docile
Here, Rockhan turned his head to Link again and said, "Young man, I don't think you have trained the two slaves well. Do you want Ah Fu to help you train and train them too? Ah Fu is a good hand at training slaves."
Link hurriedly refused: "No, I'm used to them."
"Okay then, come with me, and I'll arrange a place for you."
Link hurriedly said: "Sir, can you arrange for me to live with my slaves, they watched me grow up, and I'm used to living with them."
Rockhan's face was full of kindness: "Tsk~ This is of course no problem. You are the master of your slave, and I have nothing to do with it. Come, come, follow me, young man, I guarantee you will be satisfied with the accommodation I arranged for you!"
He dragged Link into the yard.
He is so enthusiastic for no reason, it seems that this Rockhan really lacks magic apprentices, and he must be really stingy, but Link is looking for a backer now, to stabilize first, and then get a better understanding of the world, so he let it go He pulled and walked into the yard.
Mirda, Rierta, and Nana naturally followed behind Link.
Along the way, Link found that the old man looked quite old, but his strength was not small. He was estimated to be at the level of a level 7 fighter. He didn't use a staff either. Instead, like Link, he had a magic sword pinned to his waist .
The aura of this sword is very obscure, and it gives people a sense of unfathomable. It must be a legendary weapon, but the specific enchanting process is very rough, and even a little horrible. It looks like a crappy work of a three-legged cat magician.
Along the way, Link also met many apprentices. These apprentices didn't have the enthusiasm of Rockhan at all, and they didn't even show interest in looking at them. Occasionally, some people looked over with a sneer on their faces, as if saying, 'Well, another fool was tricked into the fire pit by Rockham. '
Lockhan kept pulling Link to an independent stone house at the corner of the yard, and said with a smile, "This will be your residence from now on, see, are you satisfied?"
The stone house has more than 80 square meters, and there are two floors. There is a small balcony on the second floor, and there is a flower garden at the door. It is indeed quite good, at least the appearance is very beautiful.
"It's very beautiful...but I didn't do anything?" Link looked back at the other magicians in the square, and occasionally he would see them all walk into a long wooden house, which seemed to be their residence, and twice In comparison, the treatment gap is huge.
He is not a child, how could he naively believe that a strange and kind old man would treat him well for no reason, this person must have a plan.
Rockhan laughed, pointed to the magic ring on Link's hand, and said with a smile, "You made this ring yourself, right?"
Link nodded.
"The workmanship is good, very good. In the future, I will provide you with materials and enchanting blueprints. You can enchant equipment for me, and I will teach you magic. What do you think?" When he first saw Link, he was impressed by the magic on him. The equipment is attracted.
Whether it's the magic sword at the waist, the ring on the hand, or even the delicate puppet next to it, they all reflect a delicate and flawless beauty.
Maybe the magic on these magic equipment is not very superb, but this exquisite appearance is enough to increase the value of the same enchanted equipment by more than 50%.
For Rockhan, as long as he can help him make money, he is a talent, and he will be treated well!
As soon as he said that, Link knew his intentions, nodded and said, "No problem. I just want to learn magic with you."
"Okay, okay." Rockhan stroked his beard and laughed, and the wrinkles on his face bloomed like chrysanthemums: "What a young man with ambition. Come, come, come, this is the enchanting blueprint of the first-level magic, take a look at you Can you do it?"
Link took the magic blueprint and looked at it, and Mirda on the side also wanted to come over and take a look curiously, but Rockhan's face sank, and he said with disgust: "There are no rules, stay away!"
"..." Mirda was scolded like this for the first time, her face flushed, but she didn't dare to refute, she bowed her head and stepped aside.
Link couldn't help, he could only continue to look at the drawings.
He found that the so-called first-level magic in Lockhan's mouth, the magic knowledge involved is actually very simple, probably only at the level of fourth-level magic in Ferroman Continent, but the structure of this magic is very complicated. In terms of complexity, it is even comparable to level 8. There is a lot of magic. To complete this kind of enchanting, you need a lot of patience and a very careful heart, otherwise a single mistake may ruin the entire work.
"It shouldn't be difficult..." Link said.
"It's not difficult, okay~ okay~ You really are a talent to make. Hey, young man, what's your name?"
"I'm Link and this is Mir..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Rockhan: "Don't tell me the slave's name, I can't remember it. How long will it take you to complete such an enchantment? Is two weeks enough?"
Link's heart moved when he heard this: "Such an enchantment, the average level of this world actually takes two weeks?" ? '
In the past, Link estimated that it would take more than a week, but after obtaining the power of the flawless dragon, he can maintain a state of concentration for a long time, and he only needs three days. Now that the other party gave a two-week deadline, Link thought about it and said, "It doesn't take that long, 10 days should be about the same."
Unexpectedly, when he said this, Lockhan frowned: "Ten days? Young man, it's good to have ideals, but don't be too ambitious. How can I believe you when you talk big like that?"
Link was speechless.
From this point of view, these two weeks are still highly demanding, and the average speed is definitely much slower than two weeks. Link can only bite the bullet and explain: "Sir, 10 days is the speed I will do my best. It can't last. Then I have to rest for a week to recover. My usual pace, about 18 days or so."
"Oh, so that's the case, then don't try too hard, just two weeks. After two weeks, you give me enchanted equipment, I will give you a first-level magic book, and I will answer three first-level questions for you for free." magical problems."
"That's okay." Link nodded.
"Very good, then I won't bother you. Here, here is the key to your house. Everything in the house has been tidied up. There is also a special enchanting room. You can start working directly."
Link took the key, and Rockhan turned around and left. When he saw an apprentice walking slowly on the road, he immediately kicked over and kicked the apprentice staggeringly: "What are you dawdling about? If you don't have the skills, you know how to be lazy. Hurry up and wash the winter night grass for me!"
This attitude is completely different from before!
Rierta whispered: "Link, are you sure? I feel that if you don't finish it, he will kick us out in two weeks."
"Of course I'm sure, let's go, let's go into the house and show you what's going on in this circle."
After entering the house, Link began to check.
He found that the circle could not find any seams. He tapped it lightly with his fingers, and the sound of "thump, thud, thump" was neither metal nor wood. When he looked carefully, he could not find any magic runes on it, as if it was natural. so ordinary.
"This craft is really strange." Link didn't even have the slightest idea.
He waved to Nana again: "Try it with a dagger."
The cutting dagger can cut everything, so it shouldn't be a big problem to cut off this copper collar worth 3 gold coins.
Nana used the severed dagger to pry the dwarf Rierta's collar first. Just as she was about to use her strength, Rierta suddenly shouted: "Don't stop, stop, it hurts, hiss~ my head hurts, don't pry it~ don't pried."
His face turned pale.
Nana had no choice but to retract the dagger.
Rierta breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's terrible, I felt like my soul was going to be broken just now, huh~"
"Then it seems that this thing can't be cracked by brute force. No wonder the demon commander looks like a kitten after wearing this. I'll study it further."
Link blamed himself all over his face, if only he hadn't put this damn thing on them back then.
Mirdad reassured: "It's not your fault. In this world, if we don't wear this thing, we can't even survive."
Rierta also said: "Master Link, there will always be a way, don't worry."
Link could only nod his head, and he opened the "Encyclopedia of Arago" he bought earlier, planning to find out what was going on.
At this moment, a light flickered in his vision, which was the information of the game system.
Along the way, the game system has been silent, but now it appears, and a line of information is displayed in Link's vision.
"Found the time anchor point and is determining the current timeline... Ding ~ the player is currently in the hourglass plane."