Nolan, Hearthstone Tavern.
After Joshua returned to Hearthstone Tavern, there were a lot of bills piled up on Joshua's desk waiting for Joshua to check.
"Ciri, do you want to hear me tell a joke?"
Joshua flipped through the bills that Madam Marina had recently sorted out, and said to Ciri, who was practicing painting in the other corner of the study.
After returning to Nolan, the purple-clothed man began to guide Ciri again. Recently, Ciri's learning content has changed from illusion to oil painting.
So Ciri was now gesturing against a huge canvas in the study.
Over time, a postmodern abstract painting appeared on the canvas.
Ciri had gotten so used to using the drawing tools on the magic net recently that she almost forgot how to adjust the color of the oil paint.
No... If Joshua remembered correctly, Ciri had never studied oil painting at all.
"What joke?"
Ciri raised her head and looked at Joshua, her cheeks were already stained with oil paints of various colors.
"I've run out of money to pay for the Holy Spirit Tournament winner."
The moment Joshua said these words, the brush that Ciri had just touched on the canvas used too much force, and the moment the brush stroke was drawn down, the entire painting was immediately destroyed.
"It's not a joke, it's a ghost story!"
Ciri didn't want to worry about the failed painting, and immediately ran to the front of Joshua's desk, and slapped his hands covered in paint on Joshua's desk.
"So I'm going to start saving now." Joshua said.
"Start saving now? Three hundred thousand gold coins..."
Ciri immediately counted her fingers for a long time, and finally gave up to count the huge fortune that she couldn't get even if she packaged and sold a hundred pieces.
"Why don't we secretly change the bonus to 30,000 now? No... Just 3,000 gold coins." Ciri thought of an excellent solution.
"Well... I've already started saving."
Qiao Xiu took out a pocket watch from under the drawer of the desk, and the second hand just finished one circle and started to make a second circle.
"300,000 gold coins! How long will it take to save!"
Ciri has been by Joshua's side for so long, and her concept of money has also increased.
Her usual expenses are earned by working for Joshua.
To sum up the above, Ciri is very good to raise.
"Well... at the current speed, it should be enough in four hours."
Joshua put down the stopwatch in his hand, and at the time Ciri complained, the stopwatch had already made a full circle.
"Four hours..."
"Sales of Warcraft have increased about tenfold, and this number continues to rise."
Qiao Xiu held the Holy Spirit competition, and the ultimate purpose is to promote the game of the magic net. Judging from the current increase in the sales of Warcraft, it may usher in the situation of Nolan's national Warcraft in the near future.
"Ciri, let's have a small celebration."
"Celebrate... dinner?"
Hearing this, Ciri glanced at the oil paint on her hands, and subconsciously wiped it on her body before realizing that it was not clean.
"I'll take a shower later!"
Ciri threw her oil-stained coat to Joshua and ran straight to the bathroom.
"It's been a long time since I first met the Cinderella..."
Joshua smelled the scent lingering on Ciri's coat, exactly the same as when he first met her.
Even if she is now the apprentice of the purple-clothed person, her poverty-ridden attributes have not changed.
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The filming site of the Forum of the Sages.
"Joshua!"
The man in yellow is today's keynote speaker, and the content is "The Practicality of Thunder System Magic".
When the man in yellow who was checking the manuscript saw Qiao Xiu come in, he dropped the manuscript in his hand and rolled up his sleeves and came to Qiao Xiu.
Judging from the expression of the man in yellow, he was ready to fight with Qiao Xiu.
"Since you posted about the Holy Spirit Contest on the Spellcaster Forum yesterday! The whole of Nolan's High School of Magic has become a mess!"
"It's a mess? Could it be that Chengdu skipped classes... to play games?" Qiao Xiu asked in a low voice.
"300,000 gold coins! Those little guys have never seen so much money in their lives! Half of the students in my morning inscription class didn't show up."
The man in yellow had never seen such a large-scale truancy.
When he was going to teach those magic apprentices in person a year ago, those apprentices had to go to the classroom a few hours in advance to find a seat.
His chief apprentice was addicted to the magic net game The Yellow Clothes could endure it, but the influence of the "Holy Spirit Invitation Letter" released by Joshua some time ago spread to the whole of Nolan.
"I'm sorry for causing such a big impact."
When the man in yellow was about to reason with Qiao Xiu with his fist, Qiao Xiu's sincere apology made the man in yellow instantly lose half of his anger.
He had never liked this Chaos Demon.
The biggest reason why the man in yellow hated Qiao Xiu was... Every time he had a disagreement with Qiao Xiu, he could always refute him with words that seemed unreasonable to the man in yellow.
What angers the people in yellow the most is that these fallacies have finally come true!
"The magic net game does have some bad effects."
As a person from the earth, Qiao Xiu couldn't confidently tell the man in yellow, "Even if you don't study, you can still get ahead by playing games." This kind of lie.
There is a difference between a truly capable professional gamer and someone who escapes reality by playing games as an excuse.
"But I promise you... the tide of the Holy Spirit will fade away soon, and those of your students will understand that trying to make money by playing the Holy Spirit is more practical than learning medicine to make money." Joshua said.
The man in yellow was really not used to Qiao Xiu's sincere appearance.
Now that Qiao Xiu is normal, he is a little scared...
"How long will it take for the tide to go away?"
The man in yellow still had a cold face, but the anger in his heart had subsided a lot.
He could not order Joshua to ban the sale of the Holy Spirit. His apprentice Sophia had clearly told him that Queen Yekana of the Iron Country had regarded the Holy Spirit as a new battlefield.
"It depends on how you manage your apprentices."
"Management... Qiao Xiu helps me seal the barrier." The man in yellow suddenly thought of a way to punish those little guys.
"seal?"
"Once my apprentices step into my academy, they can't land on the Holy Spirit, no! Can't land on the magic net! A barrier that can prevent the magic net from connecting," said the man in yellow.
"This is not difficult, I just need to make the World Tree stop covering certain areas."
"I can't log in to the magic net even if I do this... I don't need to be in the entire academy, some specific areas in the academy, no, no, no... It's just that those little guys can't log in to the magic net, and it also takes a certain amount of time."
As soon as the man in yellow heard that Qiao Xiu was able to implement his ideas, his thoughts quickly spread.
Qiao Xiu listened to his muttering, and felt that the anti-addiction system in this world would not be long before it would go online.
"That... the man in yellow, before discussing this, can you use your academy as one of the venues for the Holy Spirit competition?"
Qiao Xiu pretended to be in front of the man in yellow for so long, and at this moment tentatively made this request.