Based on Anna's current understanding of demons, if he found out that there was a man hiding in her room—even though he was just a teenager and not a man at all in her opinion—he would definitely be mad.
After all, she said before that she wanted to get to know each other as friends. This was telling him that he had a chance, and some of the positive feedback she gave him during this period would make him think that he had a great chance.
And when he was full of hope, he suddenly discovered that she was hiding a "man" at home without telling him... Would he think that everything she said before was a lie to him
Whether to kill her or April or both depends on whether her soul is important enough...
Of course Anna would not sit still and wait for death. She secretly glanced at the devil. He was looking towards the attic, obviously noticing the movement made by April - her luck that he did not see April was in vain.
However, his expression at this moment was not angry, but slightly wary and doubtful.
Speaking of which, the devil should not have followed her home before, otherwise he might have discovered Aip's existence long ago. So, the way he could know her address was probably the application form she handed in during the test on the day she first arrived at the association, and since he was possessed by the staff, he must have seen the address she filled in.
She remembered it very clearly. She only filled in the address of Giverner's house and did not say that she lived in the attic.
So, why not just pretend she doesn't live in the attic
Anna felt that her mind had never moved so fast before. She walked straight to the door and knocked on the door. After a while, the door opened a crack. Givena inside saw that it was Anna and quickly opened the door. Dakai, with a smile on his face, was about to speak, but Anna preempted him.
"Givena, is there anything left to eat? I'm going to a banquet tonight, but I encountered something bad and didn't eat well. I'm so hungry now."
Givena originally wanted to ask Anna what happened so late. After hearing her words, Givena immediately laughed: "I made some pancakes today. If Master Anna doesn't mind, you can heat them up and eat some."
"Great, how could I dislike it!" Anna smiled, "I'll close the door."
Givena didn't think much at all and went to the kitchen to take out the pancakes she had just made today. Anna turned around and waved to the devil who was still standing by the carriage, and closed the door without any guilt.
Anna let out a soft breath.
It was dark, and Aip was covered more tightly just now, so she only saw a dark shadow.
An ordinary tenant living in the attic heard something moving outside, looked out, and found that there was no strange person, so he immediately went back to sleep. Is this reasonable inference
Anna was a little worried that the devil would forcefully use the detection technique, so she did not dare to stay at the door any longer, but followed Givena into the kitchen normally.
"Sorry, I have to trouble you to light the fire again." Anna said embarrassedly, and took the initiative to light the fire again. The flames on her fingertips lit up, and the fire was burning in the furnace.
Givena quickly smiled and said: "No trouble, aren't you going to have Master Anna to help?"
Anna and Givena sat in the kitchen for a while, listening to Givena talk about what gossip happened in the city. While her body was here, her mind had already flown outside.
It's been so long, the devil must be gone, right
The pancakes were heated up quickly. Anna took two hot pancakes. When she walked out of the kitchen, Givena's grandson Gore walked out sleepily. When he saw Anna, he said hello obediently: "Hello, Master Anna!"
Anna rubbed Gore's head with her free hand: "Sorry, I woke you up."
Gore shook his head, speaking a little slurred because of sleep: "Mage Anna didn't wake me up, I woke up on my own."
Anna smiled, suddenly remembered something, took out another silver coin and gave it to Givena and said, "This is next month's rent."
Although Anna had been separated from them in the past month because she often left early and came home late, the few contacts she had gave Givena a general understanding of Anna's personality, so she did not follow them. She pushed and pushed, and readily accepted the rent. When sending Anna out, she warmly invited her to come for dinner often.
When Ana opened the door, she quickly glanced outside. She had several plans in mind. When she saw that it was empty outside, she breathed a sigh of relief, took the pancakes and said goodbye to Givena and left.
Anna just wanted to return to the attic as soon as possible, and even used the wind gathering technique to help herself pass through the stairs as quickly as possible. It was not until she opened the door and closed the night outside that her heartbeat gradually slowed down.
With the devil's character, if he found someone hiding in her room, he wouldn't have been able to hold it in until now, and he would have done it long ago. Since everything is fine now, it means she has passed the test.
Anna glanced around, but didn't see him on the meditation cushion where Ep often lay. Various possibilities flashed through her mind, and she whispered: "Is there anyone there?"
In case the devil is actually hiding in her home, she is also pretending that she does not know April...
There was a rustle in the bathroom, the small door opened, and Aip came out.
Anna looked at him carefully first, and then she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was no demon in him.
Before Anna could condemn him first, Aip complained first: "Why did you come back so late? I thought something happened to you!"
Anna's original condemnation was stuck. Is he worried about her...
"If something happens to you, who will bring me food?" Aip sniffed and his eyes lit up, "What smells so good? Is it the food you brought for me?"
Anna: "..." She was so moved for nothing! When it comes to relationships, he treats her like a scumbag!
Anna didn't argue with him, and gave him the pancakes just warmed by Givena: "Eat it, you starving ghost."
Aip took the pancake and gnawed it, not caring what Anna said about him.
While he was eating, Anna squatted down and looked at the dark lines on his face. After so many days, there was no sign of fading at all.
"You should meditate more and recover as soon as possible!" Anna couldn't help but sigh, "I'm not saying that I will drive you away after you recover. At least if the dark lines on your face are gone, Jivina can know your existence. , otherwise it will be very dangerous for you to be like this now."
Aip just finished eating one pancake. He picked up the second one and didn't put it into his mouth immediately. He looked at Anna and said with a strange expression: "When you talk about danger, do you mean that person just now?"
"you saw it?"
"I just saw it once," Aip smiled narrowly, "Is he pursuing you?"
Anna shrugged: "So be it!"
"Then I advise you to either agree as soon as possible or refuse as soon as possible. This person is very dangerous." Aip said and ate pancakes by himself.
Anna's heart moved, she didn't expect that Aip's senses would be so keen.
That's a demon, how can it not be dangerous
"Why do you think he is dangerous?" Anna asked curiously.
Aip took a big mouthful of pancake, chewed it and said vaguely: "It just feels like it!"
"Then your feeling is not accurate at all. He was mentally exhausted before and is still recovering. His spells can't be used very well." Anna said deliberately.
Aip was chewing pancakes, his cheeks bulging like a hamster. His pure black pupils reflected Anna's face, and his expression seemed a bit mocking: "Forget it if you don't believe it."
He paused and then said: "No, you have to believe it before I get better. I think you should reject him as soon as possible!"
Anna thought to herself that if it were so easy, she wouldn't have delayed it until now.
She patted Aip on the shoulder: "You have to thank me properly. If I hadn't been clever enough to make him think I didn't live here, you would be a dead person now."
Aip said indifferently: "Can't you just say that I am your brother?"
"I don't have a brother as old as you, and he knows very well." Anna threatened, "Moreover, he is hostile to male creatures that appear around me. If you are discovered by him, you will be gone."
Aip didn't show any fear when he heard this. He just looked at Anna and seemed to think for a while before saying, "Do you like him?"
Ana was stunned for a moment, wondering how he came to this conclusion, and looked at him with question marks on his face.
After finishing the last bite of pancake, Aip licked his fingers, burped and then said slowly: "He is so perverted, I see you are not afraid at all when talking about him."
Aren't you afraid
Probably because I'm used to it.
Anna suddenly flicked Aip's forehead and said harshly: "Children know what they like and dislike. Go and wash up immediately after eating. I'm going to tie you up!"
Aip covered his head and stared at Anna fiercely, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he got up and went to the bathroom. After a while, the grease on his hands was gone, and he obediently asked Anna to tie him up.
While lying on the meditation mat, Ep asked Anna: "When can you stop tying me up? It's very tiring to sleep like this at night!"
Anna said: "As long as you live here, there will be no such time."
Ep muttered, "Coward!"
Anna was too lazy to pay attention to him and went to bed after meditating for a while.
Early the next morning, Anna was a little excited at the thought of being able to observe Master Dawkins' new potion experiment today. After preparing a day's food for April as usual, she happily went to the Mages Association.
The devil and Natalie were already in the library today. After Anna went there, she told them that she would go to see Master Dawkins' new potion experiment later. After reading some books in the library, she Plan to go there.
As a result, when Anna got up, the demon who hadn't said anything just now also got up. When she looked over, he said, "I'll go take a look too."
Of course, Anna couldn't stop him, so she had to wave her hands to Natalie, who seemed to want to go but was too embarrassed to say it, and went to find Master Dawkins with the devil.
Anna couldn't stop the demon herself, so she gave the decision to Master Dawkins and let him decide whether to show it to the demon.
As for Natalie, the first priority now is to pass the exam as a one-star mage, and try not to get involved in her and the devil's affairs.
While walking on the way to the pharmacy, Rotgar suddenly asked: "Who is that person living in the attic?"
Anna was already prepared for this question. She was deliberately stunned when she heard this and then said: "Oh, it seems to be Jivina, some kind of grandchild of my landlord. He is only in his early ten years. I have never seen him."
She spoke in an understatement, as if she had no interest in the person living in the attic. Instead, she followed her own words and said, "Givina's cooking is delicious. Next time I will bring you some of her snacks to try." .”
Rotgar didn't actually see the appearance of the man in the attic clearly, but he had an intuition that he felt disgusted with that man, so he asked one more question. Seeing that Anna didn't know clearly, he didn't bother to ask further.
"There is a chef in my family who is very good at making snacks. If you want to eat, you can come to my house." Rotgar said.
Anna glanced at the devil, showing off her wealth!
She no longer expected the demon who proposed to her the first time they met to speak smoothly to her. She even thought that he was a newbie among demons, so he couldn't even deceive a soul after so long.
Anna said: "I don't want to eat it."
Rotgar now occasionally has a keen sense of Anna's emotional changes. He glanced at her and found that she seemed a little unhappy.
He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want to eat?"
"I don't want to eat anything." Anna shook her head. She simply didn't want to go to the devil's current home and felt uneasy about going deep into the enemy's camp. Moreover, she had something to do with Raymond's body being taken over by demons, and she was embarrassed to face Raymond's family.
Rotgar looked at Anna again and felt that her thoughts were really difficult to guess.
Fortunately, there has been no progress in the past few days, so this small setback cannot ruin his good mood.
The two of them then arrived in silence all the way to the pharmacy. Dawkins stood there, peering outside. When he saw Anna's figure from a distance, he hurriedly retreated to his pharmacy to see where else he needed. After tidying up, he returned to his experimental table and looked like he was preparing seriously.
When Anna came to the door, Dawkins still couldn't hold it back and pretended to say: "Coming?"
"Mr. Dawkins, good morning." Anna stood at the door and did not come in immediately. "Mr. Raymond said he also wanted to observe your experiment. I wonder if you will allow it."
Dawkins had already seen "Raymond" following Anna, and was not surprised when he heard her words. He said reservedly: "It's not impossible for him to watch... but I have a condition."
"What conditions?" Anna asked.
Rotgar looked on with cold eyes, as if Anna was his agent and could represent his wishes throughout the process.
Dawkins said: "It's not too difficult... If Master Raymond sees something wrong while he's looking at it, feel free to ask it."
His experiment has been going on for two years, but it has never been successful, and he doesn't know what the problem is. He is almost going crazy with this potion, so he can have someone as talented as Raymond to help him. Check it out, he really made a lot of money.
Anna turned her head and looked at the devil, who nodded casually: "Okay."
Dawkins was overjoyed and could no longer maintain his previous reserved look. He invited the two people in with a smile, and then closed the door to the pharmacy room.
Seeing the two of them standing at a safe distance, Dawkins said while preparing: "This is my newly developed potion. It is based on the potion 'Sigh of Light', although it also helps to restore the spirit." Power, but the principles used are different. My goal is to instantly recover the overdrawn mental power of the two-star mage after drinking the magic potion, but the current recovery effect is not even as good as the 'Sigh of Light'."
Mental recovery mainly relies on meditation, which is the safest method. But in some very dangerous situations, such as when facing deadly monsters, you can also use magic potions to recover. After all, saving your life is the most important thing.
Currently, the best potion related to mental power recovery is "Sigh of Light". It is said that if you drink this potion during a battle, you can restore one-tenth of the mental power of an ordinary two-star mage. But after that, you must put more effort into meditating and adjusting your mental power, otherwise you may have unexpected sequelae.
This kind of magic potion is useless to high-level mages, and its shelf life is limited, so it cannot be stored and carried for a long time. It may be of some use to low-level mages who go to the line of life and death for short-term hunting to bring one or two bottles in advance.
Anna thought that when he was still in Blue Stone City, Ulysses, a four-star mage, only relied on meditation to recover naturally when his mental power was damaged. He did not see him using magic potions. This was probably the reason why it was of no use to him. Moreover, there is no condition to prepare magic potions there.
She has never seen the devil use magic potions. He was so powerful in the past. Even if he possessed the two-star mage, he probably never thought of using magic potions.
To put it this way, the biggest beneficiaries of potions are actually ordinary people, but it is simply unimaginable for mages to mass-produce various potions for ordinary people to treat headaches, brain fever, insomnia and dreams.
Even Anna, who was extremely short of money, felt that making potions and selling them to ordinary people was very inefficient for making money after she got the mission from Master Dawkins.
"I used wattle grass extract as the solvent, plus eighteen kinds of materials rich in different elements, and processed them with gold elements and water elements."
Dawkins said, starting his first new potion experiment of the day. While adding the materials, he introduced the names and uses of the materials to Anna and Rotgar.
Only then did Anna understand what Theresa meant when Master Dawkins said he had "limited funds." One experiment will consume ten portions of wattle grass extract, a total of fifty silver coins, and this amount of money is almost negligible compared to other materials.
As she read, she calculated silently in her mind. She knew some of the materials and roughly knew the price, but she had never heard of some materials and could only estimate the price. In the end, she calculated that Master Dawkins would consume materials worth five or six gold coins for one experiment.
And he would save fifty copies of wattle grass extract every time, which meant that he would conduct five new magic potion experiments at once. Calculated this way, he can consume almost thirty gold coins of materials in one day.
After Anna calculated this amount, she no longer dared to underestimate the financial resources of Master Dawkins. He used to experiment with new potions once a week, spending thirty gold coins at a time, and he had been doing this for almost two years.
She couldn't help but sigh again, the mage really made money quickly and spent money even faster.
Anna was sighing. Dawkins had finished his first experiment on the new magic potion. After many evaporation and shrinkage operations, there was only an ordinary amount of potion in the beaker.
Dawkins picked up the potion and observed and felt it carefully, and sighed for a while: "Although it is better than before, it still cannot reach my goal."
After saying that, Dawkins looked at Rotgar expectantly and asked: "Master Raymond, I wonder if you have any opinions after seeing the operation just now?"
Rotgar was distracted a little impatiently after reading the first half, and then he noticed that Anna seemed to be calculating something silently. Her expressions of surprise and heartache made him almost laugh out loud.
Hearing Dawkins' question, he thought about the first half of the operation he saw and said casually: "Swap the order of wire sage grass and deer rabbit tail, and the processing time of gold elements will be reduced by half."
Dawkins listened to Rotgal's opinion very carefully, and pondered the reason while listening. Although he had not yet thought clearly, he had already started a second experiment, using Rotgal's suggestion.
When Dawkins began to add materials and start processing with gold elements, Rotgar suddenly pulled Anna out of the pharmacy room.
Anna was watching intently, but she didn't react when he suddenly pulled her out. She didn't come back to her senses until she was outside the pharmacy and asked, "What's wrong?"
Rotgar said succinctly: "It will explode."
Anna: "...???"
No, so the so-called opinion he just told Master Dawkins was to kill him? !
Anna quickly looked into the pharmacy room. Just when she was about to give a warning, two hands stretched out from behind, one hand hugged her waist and pushed back, forcing her body to press against Raymond's hard body. The other hand covered her mouth.
Then, Rotgar's low and slightly malicious voice sounded in her ears: "If you speak out to influence him, it will explode faster."
Anna couldn't break free, couldn't speak, and felt extremely regretful in her heart for not resolutely shutting out the devil. He was so bad that he deliberately used evil tricks when making suggestions!
But she also knew that a mage needed a very quiet environment when preparing potions. Her sudden reminder affected Dawkins' concentration and might make it easier for the potion in his hand to explode.
Anna patted the back of the devil's hand covering her mouth and signaled him to let go with her eyes. She would not influence Dawkins.
Rotgar raised his eyebrows and let go of the hand covering Anna's mouth, but the hand on his waist did not let go.
As soon as Anna's mouth was free, she whispered quickly: "What are you doing? If something happens to Master Dawkins, neither of us can escape!" She didn't want to suddenly escape again!
Rotgar sneered: "If he dies because of his poor skills, he deserves to die."
Ana frowned: "What do you mean?"
Rotgar felt the ups and downs in his palms when Anna spoke, and said slowly and patiently: "The advice I gave him is fine, but if he doesn't operate it properly, it will cause an explosion."
Almost as soon as Rotgar finished speaking, Dawkins suddenly said excitedly: "Hey, it's done!"
As soon as the last note fell, the potion in his hand suddenly began to boil. His expression suddenly changed, and he quickly threw the potion and the bottle into the vat next to the test bench and covered it. This is a Western fantasy version of an explosion-proof barrel blessed with a spell circuit, for use by mages who have time to react. And if the explosion occurs very quickly, there are also magic circuits inside and outside the potion room, and the explosion will only be limited to this small room.
There was a loud bang, the vat deformed, and part of the shock wave ruffled Dawkins' hair and clothes, but he showed no fear at all. Instead, he laughed wildly: "It's done! Just a little bit close, just a little bit close. I can make it." Got it!"
He seemed to suddenly remember the hero who almost succeeded in the potion. He looked back at Anna and Rotgar. As soon as he saw clearly what they looked like at the moment, he pretended to cover his eyes and exclaimed exaggeratedly: "I have nothing." See it!”
Anna had just been nervous about the potion about to explode. It was only now that she noticed that the devil's hand was still on her waist, restraining her and letting her lean against him.
She suddenly remembered the dance last night.
Is it her imagination? She always felt that she didn't really like demons who had physical contact with her, but things seemed to have changed a bit in the past two days...