"gold?"
Talia was confused, and after listening to Mary's explanation for a long time, she realized that everything here costs money. The Gailan family is just the "middle class" in the entire city. Although their family background is good, they are definitely not rich enough to support their children to learn magic.
For the nobles in the current city, who are qualified to learn magic, there are only seven or eight families in the nearby territories, and this city has supporting "magic props" because it has a high-level mage sitting in the town. Store, otherwise it would be impossible to see a mage like Nefei on weekdays.
It took Talia a whole day to learn this information. When she returned home under Mary's persuasion, she couldn't hold back any longer, and she wanted to explore the world of "mages" with all her heart...
In the next half month, she began to study language and knowledge desperately, and read the books at home day and night—but Talia didn't realize at this time that the books at home were obviously "problematic".
Most of the other parts of the world currently use parchment books, which are expensive and rare. But there are many real "paper" books on the bookcase in Baron Gailan's house. The content ranges from language, history to art, various family histories, and heraldry history, and three or four of them also more or less mention the group of "mages", and one specifically talks about "magicians". The magic of face magic".
The more she understood, the more excited Talia was. She has an instinctive desire for "power", and she also learned that "mages" are the privileged class in this world, which strengthened her confidence in studying hard.
And as she read many history books, she finally got a general outline of the whole world and the current era...
But soon, she also realized that her situation was not good: in this era, the fate of aristocratic women is often not chosen, and they all end up as tools for marriage.
The big aristocrats obtained power support or actual territory through marriage, while the small aristocrats fought for commercial interests. The Gailan family's territory is not large. For a family living in the city, the annual territory tax is not even enough to spend on carriages and servants. The real profit comes from the winery and wine sales, and the tower Ria is twenty-three years old, she should have been married a long time ago. If it hadn't been for her reluctance to agree to the marriage all these years, she would have already married other noble children in the chamber of commerce...
After Talia's body fully recovered, she had overheard her parents whispering about her marriage issues in the restaurant several times—the boy of a certain family was of the right age, and the marriage of a certain family's power would be more beneficial to the Gailan family, and so on.
These words made her deeply realize that the "love" of her parents for her is simply a kind of comfort, and all purposes are to exchange her as a bargaining chip when needed...
She didn't understand what her fate would be after "marrying", but she also learned from Mary that the biggest role of "Miss Noble" after getting married was to keep having children.
Talia didn't think there was anything good about this. She started to go to the streets to collect more clues, and "coincidentally" discovered that the famous high-ranking mage "Ethan" in the city was recruiting apprentices publicly.
He is going to conduct a qualification test through a ceremony, so as to select suitable people to become his apprentices.
Talia realized that this was her chance. At the same time, she also learned that the so-called "qualification test" is not only about talent, but also for her to master some basic knowledge of spells. In order to find and get in touch with these things, Talia, who had no connections, finally chose to "take a gamble"—she took out all the savings she could find in her room, even sold those precious jewels, gathered together thirteen gold coins, and came When I arrived at Dawson's magic supply store, I wanted to buy a so-called "spell teaching material".
But Dawson, the white-haired boss, clearly saw her intentions, and shook his head and refused: "Spells are never self-taught, and there are many people who died because of it. I think you are still the daughter of a nobleman, live your life well." Bar."
Talia still insisted. She didn't show a pleading look like most women, but she frowned, and even focused on the old Dawson's neck...Obviously, some instincts left in her consciousness still made her tend to to use violence to solve problems.
Without waiting for Dawson to say anything, Naifei pushed the door and walked in. She raised her eyebrows when she saw Talia, with a surprised look on her face, and then nodded as a greeting. After finding that Dawson's expression was not very good-looking , and asked, "What's wrong?"
"She insisted on learning magic, so she brought gold coins to buy teaching materials."
Dawson explained a few words with a wry smile, but Nefer did not agree to persuade Talia with him, but looked at her for a few seconds, and said, "Why do you want to become a mage?"
Talia seemed to have thought of an answer a long time ago, and immediately said, "I don't want to be a caged bird."
But she didn't know that her answer not only made the corners of Nefei's mouth twitch, but even made those invisible "behind the scenes" nervous at the same time.
Nafi once wanted to withdraw from the demiplane to seek help, but soon she realized that doing so would only make things out of hand, so after a few seconds of silence, she sighed and said: "You have many ways to change your Destiny, why did you choose to take this path?"
Talia's expression froze, and she found that this was indeed a problem: it seemed that from the moment she heard about magic, she had an irresistible desire to get in touch with magic and learn magic, and she was deeply sure that she would definitely be able to learn it. Yes, well learned...
Seeing the other party's hesitation, Naifei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because it meant that the initiative of the topic had returned to her hands—before Talia could answer, she continued: "Learning magic is not about learning equestrian skills or nobles. Etiquette is so simple, if you want to be proficient in it, you must get rid of all interference, among the nobles who can do this, it is often the few elites in the family with the toughest minds, are you really sure that you have this qualification?"
Naifei said a lot in one breath, and finally warned faintly: "If you can't do it, then don't think too much. Learning magic is never a good thing, and it can even be said to be boring and painful."
"I... I can do it!"
After Talia finished speaking, she also felt that she lacked confidence, but she quickly raised the money bag she had been holding on to: "I took out all the gold coins just to ask for a book, if it really doesn't work... "
It seemed that she had overcome a lot of difficulties, so she whispered: "It's really not possible, then I will give up."
Naifei glanced at the heavy purse, turned to Dawson next to him and said, "Is there any more from the upper part of "Elements Handouts?"
Dawson knew what she meant, and shook his head to get the book with a wry smile, but Talia realized that she had really found a "gateway", looked at Nefi for a few seconds, and finally said, "Thank...thank you!"
Naifei, who was thanked, had a weird expression on her face, but she still sullenly waved her hand and said, "That book can be bought for six gold coins, but you may not be able to understand everything on it. If you have any questions, you can come to me Ask, don’t guess by yourself—by the way, I am here for a paid consultation, and answering questions is not free.”
Talia didn't bargain at all, and immediately performed a standard lady's gift, showing an extremely sincere smile.