Anna thought that she would have income tomorrow, so she was a little more relaxed about shopping. Today she bought a whole tender roast goose, plus some juice and took it home.
She had just returned to the downstairs of her residence with a pile of things. Jivina, who was poking his head at the door of her house, quickly came up to her and said, "Master Anna, I seem to have heard some noise in your room today. Please be careful when you go in."
Anna smiled and said: "It's okay, it might be a mouse. I came back just now and didn't find anything unusual."
Givena just happened to go out and didn't run into Anna, so she felt relieved after hearing this: "Okay, Master Anna." She noticed Anna holding some food and said quickly, "You can eat with us. "
"It's okay. I usually eat at the Mage Association. Occasionally I eat by myself when I remember. If I need it, I won't be polite to you, Givena." Anna said with a smile, "You haven't slept well recently. Okay? If you have any questions, please tell me in time. Making a sleeping potion is very simple for me."
"I have slept very well recently. I am very grateful to Master Anna for her kindness. The goddess will definitely bless you!" Givena said with a smile, "I won't disturb you anymore. You can go back and rest."
Anna said goodbye to Givena and returned to the attic.
She suddenly remembered that she hadn't been to that women's clothing store for a long time, and she could go check it out in two days. Going to the life and death line is quite tiring of clothes, so she wanted to buy two more as spares.
As soon as she opened the door, Anna heard Aip complaining: "What are you talking about down there? It's taking so long!"
Anna ignored him and just asked: "Have you tied yourself up?"
She closed the door and saw that Aip's feet had been tied with rope, but it was too difficult to tie his hands, and they were tied on the back.
"I'll tie him up when he's full!" Aip said confidently.
Anna said this casually before leaving. She sat down on the meditation mat with the food in her arms and slowly took them out.
Aip stared at the food and his eyes almost glowed green. He reached out to take it, but Anna slapped it away: "Wash your hands before eating!"
Aip glared at Anna with dissatisfaction, but still stood up, jumped to the bathroom, washed his hands in a hurry, jumped out, sat down in front of her, and stared at the food eagerly.
After Anna took out all the food, she stood up and washed her hands. When she came back, Aip had already started eating.
Anna couldn't bear to look at Aip's fierce look while eating. She ate her portion slowly, thinking about how to show herself to Master Dawkins tomorrow.
After dinner, Anna asked Aip to wash his hands and solve the physical problems, and then tied him up. This time Aip's reaction was not as big as last night, and he watched Anna tie him up very calmly.
When Anna was posing to enter a meditative state, Aip suddenly asked: "Hey, you are just a civilian, right? How come you have the guts to take me in?"
Anna didn't even open her eyes and replied casually: "You look pitiful."
"Who is pitiful!" Aip said dissatisfiedly. Because he was tied up, he could only lie on his side on the ground, staring at Anna. "I have never met anyone as bold as you who dared to take me in."
"So, meeting me is your greatest luck. Why don't you be more obedient?" Anna said, "I'm going to meditate, so don't talk to me again."
Aip stopped talking, but the silence only lasted ten seconds. He then said, "Is the Mage Association fun?"
Anna opened her eyes and looked over. Aip seemed to be just asking casually. When Anna looked over, he said indifferently: "I haven't been to the Mage Association yet, so I just asked casually."
What a great addition.
Anna thought of Dibian, such a gentle person, who could only be hunted everywhere because of his pure dark affinity. She didn't know how he was doing now or whether he had successfully reunited with the teacher.
"It's not bad. The Mage Association is not a place to play, it's a place to learn." Anna said, "In the association, you can meet like-minded partners and make progress together."
Epp had no reaction to Anna's words. He rolled twice and said, "I'm so bored here alone during the day."
"That's what escaping is." Anna said ruthlessly, "If you feel bored, you can leave by yourself, I won't stop you."
Anna didn't tie up Epp during the day because she didn't have anything worth stealing at home, and she even vaguely hoped that he would sneak away, so that if he died outside, it wouldn't be her fault. After all, she had tried her best to save him. .
But since Aip seems to be here, she can only hide him until he recovers from his injury.
"I won't be fooled!" Aip said proudly, "You just want me to leave by myself, don't you? I won't leave! There is food and drink here and there is no need to run away, why should I leave?"
Anna glanced at the overbearing tenant and looked away helplessly. Fortunately, although this boy was not nice to talk to, he still knew how to behave appropriately and would not cause her any external trouble. The extent of provoking her was within her acceptable range.
… Um? Why does this look so familiar
Speaking of which, isn't this how she gets along with the devil? She was testing his bottom line back and forth...
Anna didn't expect "retribution" to come so quickly, and couldn't help but feel a little funny.
It's just that she knows what Aip is doing, but the devil doesn't know that she has been testing his bottom line and testing a safe area.
Anna suddenly said to April: "Do you really want a friend?"
Aip was stunned for a moment, then said disdainfully: "I don't need friends."
"It's good to have friends, especially like-minded friends. You can make progress together and share emotions, joy, sadness, pain, achievements... With someone to share, good emotions can be doubled and pleasant, and bad emotions can be eliminated. You Have you been out alone for a long time? Do you really not want a friend who can share adversity and adversity with you? "
Epp fell silent because of Anna's words, but in the end he said very firmly: "I don't need friends."
"That's up to you. I originally wanted to say that if you want, I can be your friend." Anna shrugged, and finally said solemnly, "Then you are not allowed to talk anymore, I want to meditate."
After Anna finished speaking, she was finally able to enter a meditative state, and Aip didn't say anything again.
After meditating for three hours, her mental strength was fully restored and even increased. Anna felt much more comfortable. After washing, she climbed into bed, extinguished the candlelight and prepared to sleep.
Just when Anna was dazed, she heard Aip say: "Are you really willing to be my friend?"
Anna muttered in her heart, now the devil and I have become plastic friends, and one more friend like you is not too many.
She just turned over, responded casually, and then slowly fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Anna got up in high spirits. She went back and bought enough food for Ep for a day, untied him and left.
After arriving at the Mage Association, Anna went to the library first. Today she planned to continue reading other books.
She was already familiar with the books that Leon listed for her, and wanted to continue studying them so that she could accumulate more knowledge to guide the practice of spells, potions, etc.
After having Leon's book list as a base, Anna already had a direction for what she wanted to read later. As for whether a book is good or not, based on her many years of reading experience, she can roughly judge it by looking through the preface and table of contents.
Natalie still came earlier than Anna today, and she was still working hard to review Lyon's book list, which was not only beneficial to her theoretical exam, but also helpful to her practical assessment, so she was very serious.
In the past, she had only passed the theoretical exam, but this time she was ambitious and confident, and wanted to get an excellent exam! Anna said that the goal can be a little higher than her own level, and she will definitely have no problem in passing the exam now, so the goal is to be excellent.
But the other figure is not there.
"Were they assassinated by the York family?" Anna said thoughtfully.
"Huh?" Natalie was startled and looked at Anna with some horror.
Anna smiled and said: "I just said it casually. He must be mentally exhausted."
It is impossible for a demon to be assassinated. The highest here is a four-star mage. If he is really succeeded, she will look down on him. If he was forced to reveal his true identity, it would definitely cause a sensation, right? It's so peaceful now, so nothing happened.
Anna has not tried what it feels like to be mentally exhausted, but based on her rich experience of watching, it must be very uncomfortable, and she doesn't want to try it yet.
Anna read all morning, finished a new book and took notes, then checked Natalie's homework, and then the two went to have lunch together.
Only then did Natalie have the chance to ask the question she had been holding back from yesterday until today.
"Anna, are you and Master Raymond..." Although Natalie asked, she was a little embarrassed and did not ask the whole question.
"Yes, and no." Anna said, "We just start as friends, and we'll talk about the rest later."
Natalie looked at Anna with envy and said, "I really want to be as chic as you."
"You can be cool because of your character or your strength. I'm afraid your character is hard to change, so use your strength to improve it." Anna smiled and said, "Practice your spells well this afternoon. I told you all the problems you had yesterday. Yes, you have to make corrections today. I will do random inspections after the end."
"Promise to complete the task!" Natalie said with a smile.
When the two of them finished lunch and were about to separate to do their own things, Natalie said again: "Anna, tomorrow is my fifteenth birthday. There will be a birthday party for me at my house tomorrow night. Are you willing?" Come to participate?”
Anna was surprised: "Of course I do! You should have told me earlier so that I could prepare a gift for you."
Natalie hurriedly said: "Don't prepare a gift for me... If you insist on giving me a gift, can you give me a copy of your reading notes and spell experience?"
Anna accepted Natalie's kindness. Her reading notes and spell practice experience will gradually be shared with Natalie. There is no need to make special preparations. Natalie said this because she didn't want to increase the financial burden on her, and between mages Giving something this personal was actually considered a very expensive gift, so it wouldn't be a shame for her to give it in front of Natalie's family.
"Okay." Anna smiled, "Practice hard this afternoon, don't be lazy, and record any questions truthfully."
"I know, Teacher Anna!" Natalie shouted jokingly and ran away.
Anna went to the service desk in the affairs hall and waited.
She didn't know if the dress she had at home was of high quality for Natalie's birthday party. Although she didn't care, Natalie probably didn't care either, but as Natalie's friend, she didn't want Natalie to lose face. If everything goes well today, she can buy a blank mage robe. It is very formal for a mage to wear a mage robe. Attending Natalie's birthday party is not only not embarrassing but also a bonus.
When Anna arrived, there was already a mage about forty years old at the service desk who was talking to Teresa. Teresa noticed Anna and said something with a smile. The mage looked over hurriedly and locked Anna. , his eyes sparkled, and he ran to Anna like a gust of wind.
"Teresa said, you took over my mission, right?" Dawkins said excitedly, "This is another one. Do you know the last time a mage apprentice was willing to help me? It was six months. Five days ago! Oh my god, I don’t know how I have lived in the past six months. It’s so miserable, so miserable... "
Anna didn't expect the mage to be so enthusiastic. After he finished speaking, she said: "I'm not sure whether the extract I made meets the requirements, so..."
Dawkins interrupted her and said seriously: "Of course it meets the requirements, why doesn't it meet the requirements? If I say it meets the requirements, it does!"
Anna didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This mage's need for an "assistant" must be too strong.
"Shall we go to the pharmacy to try now? You want to prepare a new potion. The raw materials must meet the requirements. Otherwise, your experiment will be affected and your money will be wasted." Anna said.
Dawkins nodded seriously: "What you said makes sense... But as soon as I saw that you are very good at making extraction solutions, even if you are not qualified at the beginning, you will definitely be qualified soon. I am optimistic about you!"
He is also "very good at making extracts"... He just refuses to let go of his assistant after he catches him, right
Anna said hello to Theresa and went to the pharmacy with Dawkins.
The pharmacy room Dawkins rented was different from the one Anna usually used. There was a magic circle formed by magic circuits outside to prevent the impact of explosions or the spread of toxic and harmful gases in the pharmacy room. According to Dawkins, he is renting it on a long-term basis and everything in this pharmacy room belongs to him.
Anna went in to take a look and nodded. The messy appearance was indeed what a long-term rental should look like.
There were washed and unwashed glassware on the test table. Some of the residual liquid inside was still bubbling and had strange colors. The floor was filled with colorful bumps and scratches, scattered with scratch paper and broken potion materials, some of which she didn't know. Something that knows how to sort garbage.
"Haha, it's a little messy. Let me clean it up. Clean it up." Dawkins noticed Anna's expression and smiled awkwardly.
He didn't expect to find someone to help make the extract today, because he was so excited that he forgot about the situation in the pharmacy room, otherwise he wouldn't have cleaned it properly before bringing the person here? It’s hard to find people, so don’t scare them away!
"Let me help you." Anna was embarrassed to see a two-star mage cleaning up while she sat still.
"No, no, you sit down first." Dawkins looked around and found that all the chairs were occupied by him and piled with things. They were not the kind that could be removed at once. He couldn't help but blush.
Anna smiled and said: "Let me help you and clean up faster together."
Seeing Anna's insistence, Dawkins had no choice but to let her help clean up.
A quarter of an hour later, the pharmacy room was restored to its initial tidiness.
Anna looked at the fruits of her labor with satisfaction. Dawkins unexpectedly stretched out a hand, grabbed her hand and stuffed something into her palm. Then he let go and backed away quickly as if he was afraid that she would return it to him. Said: "This is a deposit. Once you receive the deposit, you can't regret it!"
Anna saw five gold coins lying in her palm.
She lamented how difficult it was for Dawkins to find an assistant, and how easy it was for a mage to make money.
She originally just wanted to earn money for a mage robe today, but she didn't expect that she could earn money for the promotion exam in advance.
Knowing that Dawkins was afraid that she would run away, Anna did not delay, accepted the gold coin and said, "Okay, Master Dawkins, I will write you a receipt later."
"No, no! Who would be greedy for such a small amount of money!" Dawkins said very generously, and then said with some anxiety, "Look at what other demands you have, we can discuss them."
"I'll make it for you first." Anna said, "I made a few copies yesterday and left them at the management office. I'll get them back. Please wait here."
"I'll go with you!" Dawkins said hurriedly, as if he was afraid that Anna would never return.
Anna thought about buying raw materials and it was not convenient for her to get them back all at once. She understood Dawkins' nervousness, so she agreed.
The two went to the management office together. Anna took back five portions of the thorn vine extract prepared yesterday, while Dawkins spent ten silver coins to buy a hundred portions of thorn vine extract.
The two returned to the pharmacy room, and Anna showed Dawkins the extraction solution she made yesterday. After checking it, Dawkins said in surprise: "It's really good!"
He just wanted someone to help him and he could get by. Who would have thought that the extract she prepared was so pure, even better than what he made!
"No problem, then I'll start." Anna was also very happy that her work was recognized and started her new job.
Dawkins responded casually, still observing the five extracts with joy, mentally calculating how much these purer extracts could improve the success rate of his new potion experiment.
When he came back to his senses happily, he found that Anna was handling two portions of thorn vine grass with both hands at the same time. His expression changed. He was about to stop her, but he was afraid of scaring her. The assistant he had finally hoped to come to was just like this. It wouldn't be worth it to scare him away, so he quickly covered his mouth and watched secretly from the side.
Although he felt it was a pity that he would lose two copies of the thorn vine grass... But if he could find an assistant, even if he lost a hundred copies of the thorn vine grass, it would still be worth it!
Dawkins secretly observed, and the more he watched, the more frightened he became.
Anna first used the fire element crispy method. He had also seen others use it, but because he did not have an affinity for the fire element, he couldn't use it. He could only use the old method, which was time-consuming and laborious. It wasn't a big surprise that she knew how to use this move, but her stability and proficiency in using it made him feel inferior.
Then the water element extraction was as smooth as art, without any mistakes or omissions.
By the time Anna had processed the two extracts, forty minutes had passed, but it would have taken him more than an hour to process one by himself.
Dawkins inspected and admired the extract Anna had just made with admiration. The two batches were even better than the previous five.
He kept praising, and thinking of what he heard from Theresa, he couldn't help but ask: "Anna, have you really just become a mage apprentice for less than a month?"
"It's true." Anna didn't hide it. "I didn't have the opportunity to come into contact with magic in the past. I saved five gold coins before coming to the Mage Association."
"Oh, then you have wasted the previous ten years!" Dawkins sighed, looked at Anna and said regretfully, "If you had come two years earlier, I wouldn't have to make extractions miserably all the time! "
Anna: “…”
He had never thought that with her talent, she might have become a one-star or two-star mage two years ago. How could she make an extract for him
Anna is a kind person and did not tell the cruel truth to attack Master Dawkins. She said: "No problem, then I will continue to do it. I can make twenty copies in a row, and I can almost make it in this afternoon."
"Okay, okay, do it quickly!" Dawkins burst out laughing when he heard Anna say that she could make twenty portions in one afternoon.
He was so exhausted that he could only make ten portions in a day, but she could make twenty portions in one afternoon. Give her two hours of meditation to restore her mental strength, and she could make another twenty portions, which would be forty portions in one day! Doesn't that mean that he can conduct experiments on new potions twice in three days? Then his originally far-off success, wouldn't it be possible to advance it much earlier
Dawkins smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. Originally, he wanted to cook it with Anna, which would be faster. He initially expected that she could make five or six servings a day, but he didn't expect it.
Although Dawkins himself is a very poorly gifted mage, otherwise he would not be a two-star mage at such an old age, but he certainly knows what a highly talented mage looks like.
That's what Anna is like.
Mingming had only joined the Mage Association not long ago, but he learned quickly and well. His mental power was far stronger than that of ordinary mage apprentices, his micro-manipulation ability was outstanding, and the extract he made was so pure that even a two-star mage like him could not compare to it.
And what's rare is that she is calm and steady, without the frizzy temperament of ordinary young people, giving people a very reliable feeling.
After Anna completed two more extractions steadily and safely, Dawkins said while admiring it: "Anna, do you know that your own talent is very high?"
"I know. One of my mage friends told me this. I learn things very quickly." Anna started to pre-process the next extraction solution while chatting.
Dawkins shook his head regretfully. Sure enough, there was no bargain to be found? He also thought that if this little girl didn't know that she was highly talented, he could take advantage of her and accept her as his apprentice... Oh, forget it, a person like him with extremely poor talent should not delay his future.
Before she is discovered and fought over by other mages, it is only right to quickly get her to help him make more extraction liquid!
Dawkins instantly made up his mind not to tell other senior mages that there was a good prospect here who would definitely become a four-star mage and potentially a five-star mage. He was not greedy and asked her to help him make the extract for a month... no, half a month. That’s good too!