Tick! Tick!
Raindrops fell from the dark sky, and fell into a huge city below due to the attraction of gravity. The gorgeous spire castle was soaked by the rain. Pedestrians in civilian clothes on the street in the distance looked up at the bad weather, cursed secretly and quickened their pace. They must have gone home to collect their clothes, right
Outside the towering city wall, adventurers wearing helmets and swords gradually returned to the city. Most of their faces were as gloomy as the sky.
"It's going to close soon, those in front!"
Amidst the shouts of the city guards, Xiang En, who was wearing a gray-white cloak, followed the hurried adventurers beside him and quickly entered the city gate.
Xiang En, who was covered in a cloak, stood under the arch, shook off the rain and dew on his body, and lifted his hood, revealing a handsome and steady face with black hair and brown eyes. He looked young and looked a bit like a mixed race. His hair color is not unusual in this world where everyone has different hair colors, and he cannot be called an outlier.
After taking a short rest, Xiang En squeezed into the chaotic flow of people. The route became more and more eccentric, and finally came to a barbaric style tavern.
Pushing the door open and walking into the pub, the sound of drizzle in my ears was covered by the sound of people...
"Damn the weather, the prey I finally wounded escaped!"
Bang!
The sound of a wooden wine glass hitting the table.
"Ever since the archmage started researching the water elemental array, the weather in De'er City has gotten worse and worse!"
"Hey! Aren't you afraid of being heard by those big shots? Some time ago, wasn't there an unlucky guy who contradicted a noble mage and was shot through the leg with an ice pick?"
"Hmph! Those mage masters hiding in the castle don't care about the weather outside or the mood of us people!"
“Why has everything gone up in price lately?”
"Why else? Those big nobles are preparing to hold a celebration! Isn't it like this in previous years? The higher ups provide the money and we contribute the effort, hum!"
"I don't know how long I can hold on..."
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Listening to the negative energy speeches of the adventurers around him, Xiang En remained unmoved. He went straight to the bar of the tavern and greeted a middle-aged man with a thick mustache inside, "Long time no see, Boss Mike!"
When the tavern owner who was smoking a cigarette boredly saw Xiang En, he changed his hand to support his head and grinned: "Isn't this the auxiliary mage Xiang En? He couldn't survive outside and came back!"
"I formed several teams, but those people kicked me away without exception, so I came back to see if I could find a rookie to be a long-term teammate."
Xiang En shrugged indifferently and sat opposite Boss Mike.
"Hahaha..." Boss Mike was amused, he let out a burst of laughter like boiling water, and put out the cigarette at the same time.
Xiang En has always felt that Boss Mike is very similar to Jameson, the boss of the Daily Bugle in Spider-Man. When he hears this iconic boiling water laugh, it feels even more like him!
Xiang En is actually a time traveler. Before time travel, he was a chef who had just received his first official salary. While browsing game forums in a rental house, he lost consciousness inexplicably. When he woke up, he became an orphan adopted by De Aier Academy.
Being able to see characters similar to those before time travel in another world still made him feel a little friendly inexplicably, so Xiang En just let the other person laugh. Anyway, he was used to it... habits in every sense of the word!
His eyes became increasingly complicated, and Xiang Enyao thought about how confused and painful he was when he first traveled to this world.
There are no video games, no Internet, eating the subsistence meals provided by the college for orphans, and living in a large dormitory with nearly ten people.
After graduation, you have to leave your comfortable environment and survive on your own. What's even more outrageous is that this is an extraordinary world with magic.
The aristocratic class has absolute force, and the law can only control people who abide by the rules. If you are not careful, you may be dragged to a deserted place and have your neck wiped.
It took two years of trepidation before he gave up the name and fantasy of his previous life and worked hard to integrate here. Over time, he got used to it.
What makes him quite satisfied is that this skin is pretty good-looking, and his talent for magic is at the upper-middle level. Moreover, he has also awakened his own special talent, which the senior time travelers like to call golden fingers...
"Sorry..." After laughing for a while, Boss Mike shook his head and wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corner of his eyes. He opened his hand again to block Xiang En from speaking, "Let me guess first, it was your slowness spell that slowed down the blinking movement of Warcraft for a moment. Or did they have diarrhea after eating your magic square bread... Poof! Hahahaha!"
Seeing Boss Mike laughing to himself again, Xiang En knocked on the table helplessly, reminding him that he would leave if he continued to laugh.
Boss Mike finally stopped laughing, looked at Xiang En, shook his head and said: "To be honest, you can definitely become a scroll master, carve the slowness spell into the scroll, and sell twenty copies a day, no! Just ten! Definitely better than you Now I make more every week!”
"I am an auxiliary mage, and my spells cannot be engraved into scrolls. You should help me see if there is a suitable candidate!"
Xiang En chuckled. If he could carve his magic into the scroll, he would have lived in the big house long ago. Would he still come here
"Do you really want to open a new career branch? Ha! Don't waste energy on your bread spell. Although it can restore magic power, the amount of magic restored is the same as eating a piece of Warcraft meat, and it's so unpalatable! I'll use other spells I won’t say anything anymore, so as not to shock you!”
Boss Mike lost his smile, pulled out a thick-cover book from under the table, and began to flip through the pages of the latest records, which were all private commissions from some adventurers.
There are many people who are also looking for teammates. After all, some high-value monsters are difficult to deal with based on the average level of this tavern, unless they form a team with others.
"It's hard to find the rookie you want..."
"Don't look at people the same as before. My spells have been upgraded. Just the day before I was kicked out of the team... Ha!" Xiang En waited boredly and refuted Boss Mike.
But halfway through, he laughed. Originally, his spells were really useless and their upgrades were slow, but his spells had incomparable advantages over scrolls and potions.
Open the golden skill book that is uncertain in mind.
Page 1, Level 2 Slowness (slows the enemy's speed by 8%, group effect halved, duration 10 seconds.) Proficiency 18%.
On the second page, Level 2 Restoration (recovers 3% of the target's health, and halves the group effect), proficiency level 21%
Page 3, Level 1 Blessing of Wind (increases target's movement speed by 2%, group effect halved, duration 3 minutes.) Proficiency 89%
Page 4, Level 3 Food Creation Technique (Create bread that slowly recovers 4% health + 4% magic + 10% stamina.) Proficiency 0.8%
This was the first time he captured magic in the academy and the talent book that appeared in his mind when he was promoted to apprentice. It recorded many skills similar to the games he played in his previous life. Although the effect was a little weak, it was better than stability and persistence. strong ability.
I don't know if it's due to the influence of the talent book, but Xiang En's magic power extraction speed is far ahead of his peers. Although his level is only bronze-level, his magic power content has reached the silver level. As long as his mental power keeps up, he can learn fourth-level magic. , he is a silver-level spell caster.
But the appearance of the talent book also made him lose the ability to learn other spells. The memorized spell-casting process will be completely forgotten in a breath, and there is no way to learn and improve independently. It is a blessing or a curse.
Recently, he obtained a new skill from the talent book, Awakening God (instantly restores 2% of the target's magic value).
In this world where magic power determines combat power, Awakening God is definitely an incredible sustaining skill.
A high-level bronze warrior uses magic attachment to increase his strength, which can only last for two minutes at most. But if Xiang En continues to cast spells on the side, the duration can definitely be increased to more than eight minutes!
I wonder if the person who kicked him out of the team would regret it if he knew the effects of his new skills
Forget it, there’s no point regretting it! Anyway, Xiang En doesn’t want to find a wild team anymore. It’s better to practice with a fixed team next time. Although this world is not a game world...
Mike was noncommittal, his finger stopped under a name, he raised his head and looked around, then pointed to Xiang En: "Here, that one over there! My name is Andrea, a bronze intermediate warrior, I think I will be in the same period with you. She left the academy. Her teammates left with a silver-level adventure group two days ago and left her here. Tsk tsk tsk! She has been drinking at my place for several days. She is a pure rookie, and she is pretty good with you. A perfect match!"
Looking along Mike's finger, Xiang En saw a red head lying on the table in the corner of the tavern.
The red hair tied into a bun is quite conspicuous in the corner of the tavern. Many male adventurers would stare at her with strange eyes from time to time, and laugh silently after talking to the fair-weather friends around her.
Being able to get drunk in such a mixed place, Xiang En has already confirmed that the information Mike said is correct, he is a pure rookie.
He ignored the ridicule in Mike's words, took out five copper coins from his pocket and slapped them on the table, stood up and walked to the corner of the tavern without saying hello to Mike's boss.
The latter didn't care and happily put away the copper coins.
This kind of commission doesn't earn much, but it can make friends with adventurers and make them come to his tavern to spend money. This can earn another kind of wealth, information!
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