"Meow-"
The cat meowed, and Nellie knew who was coming without even looking - it must be her cat school girl who has a soft temper and is easily bullied. She will get angry, and the other person is obviously better at the delicate work of making jack-o'-lanterns than she is.
Turning her head, Nairide took a look and found that there was nothing wrong with it. It was indeed her cat school girl. Holding a black cat in his arms, he approached with his big eyes open and asked proactively: "Senior Nairide, what are you..."
"Heidi, come here." Nailid quickly waved the other person to her side, put the dagger into the other person's hand, and said, "Heidi, I have something very important now, and I want your help. .”
"Huh? What?"
"Make me a jack-o-lantern."
"Pumpkin lantern? What is it for?"
"Don't worry about what it's for. Make one for me first. By the way, I'm annoyed right now. I almost succeeded in making one, but accidentally broke it. I'm not in the mood to make a second one. So, you must help me."
"Uh... okay." The cat slave girl Heidi hesitated for a moment, twitching her long eyelashes, and finally agreed. He put the black cat in his arms on the ground to one side, walked to the pumpkins piled on one side, and instead of choosing a big pumpkin like Nellie, he picked a very small pumpkin.
Taking the small pumpkin to the stone table, Heidi cleared the table, then placed the pumpkin on it, holding a dagger to carefully cut a small opening on the top of the pumpkin, and carefully cleaned the pulp inside. At the end of the cleaning, some melon pulp was stuck to the inner wall, which was very stubborn. Heidi frowned when she saw it.
The next moment, Heidi stretched out her white and tender hands and pointed at the gap. She opened and closed her lips a few times, and a cloud of ice mist poured into the pumpkin with a "pop" sound. After the guidance of Nelide and the teacher, she was already a first-class teacher. A high-level wizard apprentice who can cast several simple zero-level spells, and an ice mist spell will naturally not be a problem for her.
As the ice mist enters the inside of the pumpkin, you can see that the remaining pumpkin pulp quickly lowers its temperature and then hardens.
Heidi put the dagger in again and cleaned out the last remaining pulp, and got a clean pumpkin shell.
Nerid looked at it with wide eyes, very surprised, she didn't expect that the spell could be used in this way. In other words, she is a third-level wizard apprentice and is much stronger than Heidi. If she uses the same spell, it will be more effective than Heidi's. But when she made the jack-o-lantern just now, there was no such concept at all.
Is she too stupid
How can it be!
Nelide shook her head vigorously, completely disapproving of it.
The black cat Mickey, who had been lying aside, suddenly jumped up on the stone table. With some curiosity, he approached the poured pumpkin pulp and stretched out his tongue to lick it. After finding out that it wasn't delicious, he let out a slightly displeased cry, gave Nelide a roll of his eyes, jumped off the stone table, ran to the side and lay down in a sunny place, and began to sleep in.
Nerid was keenly aware that the black cat seemed to be despising her, and she wanted to ask the black cat what he meant, but she saw that Heidi was still busy and fiercely pointed at the black cat's back, so she held back.
At this time, Heidi began to use a dagger to carve patterns on the outer wall of the pumpkin. After carving out the eyes, nose, and mouth in turn, she held the dagger and carefully cut off the excess outer wall of the pumpkin.
At the end, a standard jack-o'-lantern was completed. Looking over, the pumpkin grinned, quite childishly.
"Senior sister, how do you think I made it? Are you satisfied?" Heidi held the completed jack-o'-lantern and asked Nelide.
Nylid looked at it and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, very good. Now you just need to help me make nine more of them, and I can complete the task assigned to me by the teacher."
"The task the teacher gave you? What, the teacher asked you to carve the jack-o'-lantern, Senior Sister Nylid?"
"Uh, um..." Nailid knew she had let something slip, so she walked up to Heidi and asked seriously, "Heidi, am I usually nice to you?"
"Okay." Heidi said, "But..."
"No buts!" Nellie didn't give Heidi a chance to refute, "You know it's enough for me to be nice to you, so you must help me this time. You don't know how difficult it is for me to make a jack-o'-lantern. , the teacher asked me to make ten of them, I almost went crazy, you know?!"
"Then..." Heidi hesitated and whispered, "Okay, I'll do it for you, but if the teacher finds out..."
"Don't worry, the teacher won't know." Nailid reassured Heidi, "The teacher must be upstairs now, studying some ancient magic. If I don't tell her, he will never think that you did it for me."
"Cough!" At this moment, a light cough sounded, and a figure walked out of the wooden building and said slowly, "Are you so sure that I can't guess it?"
"Gah!" Nerid instantly looked like a wild duck being strangled by the neck. She turned around stiffly and looked at the person walking out of the building. She really wanted to shout, "Teacher, you don't make any sound when you walk", but in the end she didn't. He lowered his head and said weakly: "Teacher." The tone was very complicated.
Heidi on the other side also realized that she had made a mistake. She gently put down the pumpkin she was holding, lowered her head, and said weakly: "Teacher."
"Both of you, look at me." The woman who came out said, and Nerid and Heidi immediately looked at each other obediently.
Looking over, I saw that the person was in his thirties, with a slender figure, wearing a white robe, and he looked a bit frail. His appearance is not that outstanding, but his whole body exudes a temperament that makes people feel calm and mysterious.
She is Nerid and Heidi's teacher, and she is also the wizard at the gathering place in the jungle cabin. Her strength is not outstanding. In the eyes of others, she is just a first-level high-level wizard. However, because she is good at many ancient spells, she always gives people an inscrutable feeling, and even second-level wizards do not dare to provoke her easily.
In addition, she likes to be quiet but not active, rarely has conflicts of interest with others, and has helped many people. Therefore, there are almost no wizards who are really willing to embarrass her, but if someone does embarrass her, a large group of wizards will come forward.
This is her—Cersei.
At this time, Circe looked at her two students for a while, then her eyes fell on Nailid, and said in a somewhat annoyed tone: "Nailid, I asked you to make your own jack-o'-lantern, you But asking Heidi for help, isn’t it a bit outrageous?”
"Teacher-" Nailid looked at Circe and defended a little aggrievedly, "You can't blame me for this. Making a jack-o'-lantern is too difficult. I really can't do it, so I asked Heidi. In fact, you can let me do something else. For example, go for a walk in the forest to see if there are fat and stupid wild rabbits, catch a few and roast them at night, I guarantee there will be no problem."
Circe said: "Of course I know that you will have no problem catching rabbits. In fact, you have almost caught all the rabbits around this gathering place. Not only rabbits, but also many other animals, including wild wolves and so on. Everyone started to stay away from the gathering place. Moreover, I also know that you can't do things like making jack-o-lanterns. In fact, I asked you to do it on purpose."
"Um?"