In the sky of the border city-state, a few stars are still twinkling faintly, as if they are poems that are about to disappear in the night sky.
Until the dawn of the morning quietly arrived, a faint blush appeared on the horizon, covering the Lanch family's mansion with a hazy color.
At this quiet moment, Lanqi's bedroom seemed particularly peaceful, with light pouring in through the light curtains, as if wisps of pure elves were dancing.
But Lanqi has woken up.
He moved his body, pushed the quilt aside, hung his feet, and gently placed them on the carpet, feeling the soft touch under his feet.
"Why did I dream that I was in the underworld? The King of Hell took a long vacation, and I signed the Book of Life and Death on his behalf..."
He rubbed his eyes, recalled his dream, and muttered to himself,
"By the way, the borrowed code can be returned now."
After stretching vigorously, a feeling of relaxation spread throughout his body. Lanqi straightened his back and stood up from the bed.
After washing up, he did not go downstairs to have breakfast right away.
Instead, he opened the curtains beside the desk and bathed in the warm and just right morning sun.
The breeze gently caresses the leaves outside the window, and birds are chirping on the treetops not far away.
A string of crisp notes floated along the windowsill into Lanqi's bedroom, filling the entire comfortable morning light.
Two weeks have passed since I borrowed the code on the table from the border library.
These days, the books on his desk are piling up more and more.
In addition to the code, he also asked the trustee to buy him a few basic books that were directly sold in the Card Makers Association of this city-state.
The magic in this world is difficult to learn and use, just like mathematics, a doctoral field. If you can't learn it, you can't learn it.
Lanci was probably convinced that he did not have the talent to become a "traditional wizard who could use magic on his own".
But the good thing about this world is that everyone can use magic through "magic cards".
However, there are limitations on the amount of magic cards that can be bound to souls.
Therefore, they will not affect the uniqueness of combat positions, but will only make the strong stronger.
Ordinary people can also use various convenient small-scale life magic through magic cards.
It is precisely because of this that magic craftsmen who can make magic cards are a very popular profession!
Compared with making other types of magic props, card making requires not only a thorough understanding of the principles of magic engineering, but also extremely high creativity and brainpower, as well as extremely high drawing skills.
Fortunately for Lanqi, the knowledge related to magic engineering, such as the production of magic props and the principles of magic equipment, was surprisingly simple for him to read, and he could understand it quickly even if he read ten lines at a glance.
"Of course, it is also possible that the level of the textbook compilers is higher."
Lanqi sighed as he looked at the pile of reference books on the desk.
Coincidentally, these textbooks are all written by the same author:
"The Basics of Magical Engineering in the Kingdom of Hutton, Seventh Edition - Written by Bo Laao"
Common Misunderstandings in Making First-Order Magic Cards—Bolao
"Card Maker's Code of Ethics - by Bo Laao"
I heard from the Card Makers Association that Professor Bolaio is the instructor of the Magic Engineering School of Ikerite Academy.
Unfortunately, Professor Bolaio does not have students.
Otherwise, Lanqi would have wanted to work hard for a hundred days and apply for the Magic Engineering College.
However, compared to the Magic Academy, which had a complex and arduous academic schedule and specialized tutors, he still preferred the free and relaxed course structure of the Sage Academy and the Knight Academy: there were fewer required courses and more elective courses, and one only had to complete all the required courses and get enough credits to graduate.
As for those Magic Engineering Academy courses that suit you, you can just add them as elective subjects into your course schedule when the time comes.
This was the conclusion Lanqi came to after carefully studying the information from Ikerita Academy.
"Okay, now that we've studied the theory, it's time to experiment with making magic cards."
Lanqi felt that the so-called "mana" that he had consumed in drawing Talia's portrait a few days ago should have been almost recovered by now.
Today you can go to the Card Makers Association to rent a card-making workshop and try to practice.
as well as.
Since we have to leave the city-state and head to the royal capital in two and a half months.
Things on Talia's side also need to be arranged.
Although she is a demon, she and I need each other.
Perhaps, the two of them can become good trading partners in the future.
Lanci looked out the window.
Soon, his sight found a gray figure outside his own yard.
On the street corner where the sunlight had not yet reached, a young girl stood gracefully like a vivid work of art. Her figure was as delicate and soft as fine porcelain.
In the breeze, the dark gray cloak covering Talia fluttered gently, adding a sense of mystery.
In this quiet moment, she seemed to blend into a painting with the surrounding environment, and it seemed as if her existence was the only thing in this painting.
Lanqi held his chin and looked at the demon princess who was perfectly disguised as a human from a distance.
"It's a pity that he is too old. He must be several hundred years old at least."
He sighed.
Although Talia is also a young demon among the demons.
But according to the human concept of age, it seems not wrong to call her an old woman.
certainly.
Lanqi didn't know what the consequences would be if he really called Talia an old woman.
…
far away.
As if she had noticed Lanqi's gaze, Talia also glanced towards the second floor of the mansion.
"Good morning."
After their eyes met, Lanqi smiled and waved gently to Talia in the distance.
Talia ignored him.
Her gray hair slid over her shoulders like silk and fell quietly on her cloak, and her eyes looked forward indifferently.
She just wanted to check for any movement that might pose a threat to the occupants of the mansion.
Since it was Lanqi himself, and not someone else who might threaten Lanqi, she had no intention of paying any more attention to it.
It's like she only cares about doing her job - protecting her employer.
Not the employer itself.
but…
She didn't know why, but she always felt that the boy's inner thoughts were unusually active.
And he seemed to be thinking about some pretty damned things.
But Talia had no idea where her intuition came from or what was going on in the boy's mind.
Obviously no matter how you look at it.
He was just saying hello in a friendly way.
Maybe it's an illusion.
After all, ever since the fall of the demon kingdom... I began to hate humans.
Even for a docile and harmless human like Lanqi, she would occasionally have illusions about him, suspecting that he might be a guy with an extremely bad personality in perfect disguise.
But his own lie detection skills and his own personal observations have proven that this human being has absolutely excellent character.
"well."
Talia sighed softly.
I thought that after wandering in the human kingdom for so many years, I had some understanding of human beings.
But now it seems that I want to endure humiliation and perfectly integrate into human society in order to seek an opportunity to restore my country.
It still requires a lot of effort.