Anna knew that the devil wanted her soul and was not interested in her body. She had also been convinced before that he did not like touching her.
But now, it seems that since she said that they should start by getting to know each other, he is no longer so repelled by physical contact, and maybe even a little keen on it
Did her words give him the wrong hint? To understand each other is to understand each other's personality and temperament, not including the body!
Anna quickly grabbed the devil's hand and asked him to let go of her. He didn't seem to have any intention of holding on forcibly, and easily let Anna push him away.
Anna did not immediately discuss the issue of appropriate physical contact with the devil. She walked up to Dawkins, who acted quite exaggeratedly, and said speechlessly: "Mr. Dawkins, what is the status of your potion? Master Raymond gave it to you. Is there a problem with the suggestion?”
Dawkins spread his fingers covering his eyes a little, and when he saw Anna standing in front of him, he quickly put down his hand, his eyes wandered ambiguously between Anna and "Raymond", he coughed and said seriously: "No problem! No, rather, it’s great! Do you know that feeling? Even though the result is not good at all, you know you did the right thing! Yes, that’s how I feel now! As long as I practice more Practice and you will definitely succeed!”
Dawkins turned and walked back to the test bench. He struggled to open the explosion-proof barrel. The inside was in a mess. Most of the magic circuits were useless. He had to go to the management office to apply for one again.
"It costs ten gold coins to break one. Alas, the gold coins are really not enough..." Dawkins sighed, then turned to Anna and said eagerly, "But don't worry Anna, I will never delay your payment!"
Dawkins has been working on a new potion for two years, and he knows very well that the wattle grass extract made by Anna can effectively improve his success rate, and he will continue to fine-tune the potion operation process according to Raymond's suggestions, no He knew how many explosion-proof barrels needed to be blown up, and he didn't know how many more copies of wattleweed extract were needed, so he had to continue to hold Anna steady.
Thinking of this, he took out five more gold coins and pushed them to Anna: "This is the advance payment! Anna, you have to finish all the wattle grass extracts I ordered before you can do other tasks!"
Anna had accepted five gold coins from Dawkins before, but she had only made forty-five extracts for him, and she still owed him fifty-five. Now that another hundred "orders" had arrived, she suddenly felt a little stressed.
"Mr. Dawkins, the advance payment you gave me last time has not been used up yet. I really don't need it now." Anna had no immediate need for gold coins, so she refused.
"No, just keep it if you are told." Naturally, Dawkins refused to take it back. He also said, "Look, I'm quite anxious. Can you give me fifty copies in three days?" "
If Anna read a book in the morning and made the extraction solution in the afternoon, it would actually be a bit tiring to make fifty copies in three days. However, seeing that Dawkins was so eager to verify and improve his new potion operation process, she nodded and said: "Okay. I'll try my best. I'll leave it at the management office when I'm done for the day. If you need it, you can go directly to the management office to pick it up."
"Okay, okay, then it's settled!" Dawkins said happily. If Raymond hadn't been watching from behind, he might have hugged Anna happily. It was great to meet Anna, who made the extraction so well and brought a good helper to solve the problem that had been bothering him for two years!
Next, the potion room will need to be inspected and repaired, and Dawkins himself must abide by the safety rules and cannot continue to do it. Therefore, Anna's potion experiment observation tour ends here.
She left the pharmacy room with the devil, because it was still early, and planned to go back to the library to read for a while.
Anna didn't speak again after leaving the pharmacy, but Rotgar noticed that she seemed to want to say something, but for some reason she hesitated.
Rotgar stretched out his hand and held Anna's wrist. After she stopped, he looked at her and said, "What do you want to say to me?"
Anna glanced at the demon's hand grabbing her wrist.
Sure enough it wasn't her illusion, there was no need to touch her now...
She felt that she could not encourage the evil spirit of the devil. She would definitely have to deal with him for a long time. If it progressed to cuddling now, then kissing and sleeping would not be far away!
Her bottom line is kissing, and even kissing is forced, and she won't want to do it anymore.
Afraid that the devil would not understand or simply misinterpret what she meant, Anna raised her wrist, pointed at his hand that was still holding hers, and said, "I think this is a bit too much, and the same thing just now. We are still friends now, and I think it should be Be careful and keep a certain distance. You hugged me like that just now, which I felt was very inappropriate and made me very uncomfortable."
inappropriate? uneasy
Hearing Anna's words, Rotgar's face instantly darkened. He let go of Anna's wrist and sneered: "Who put their arms around me and threw themselves into my arms last night?"
At this time, someone happened to be passing by not far away. They heard Rotgar's words without deliberately controlling the volume. The ambiguous words in that sentence made them look over curiously. Seeing that the protagonist of the gossip was the famous Raymond, they couldn't help but wonder. Slowing down, wanting to hear more.
Anna also blushed a little when she heard the devil's words. Well, in his opinion, she did have double standards.
She noticed the prying eyes of the people around her and didn't want people to laugh at her, so she quickly said, "Let's go over there and talk."
After saying that, she turned around and walked in a certain direction.
Rotgar stared at her back for two seconds, then followed her with a displeased expression.
Those passers-by would never follow, so they had to disperse with regret.
When they reached a secluded place, Anna turned around and stood looking at the devil. His expression at the moment was naturally not much better.
Anna knew that she was in the wrong. Although she didn't mean it that way, it was her behavior that gave him the wrong hint, and she wanted to correct her mistake now.
"I did that at the banquet last night just to piss off the person named Magnolia. I was indeed a little too impulsive. I will pay attention to it in the future." Anna said sincerely, "I'm very sorry for giving you the wrong one." Hint, it won’t happen again.”
Rotgar listened to Anna with a cold expression.
What is a false suggestion? Does this mean that her jealous look is all fake and he has actually made no progress so far
Rotgar felt like she had been fooled. Maybe she was playing tricks on him from beginning to end. Of course she could do such a thing.
Anger surged in his chest, but he was gradually suppressed.
Because he suddenly realized that just now he had allowed the body's impulse to lead him to move. Because of the instinct of the fragile human body, he actually felt satisfied from the intertwining of the limbs.
His face became darker, and he could no longer let it go.
Anna saw the devil's face getting more and more ugly, and thought he was going to fall out. She was just about to say something nice to coax him, when she saw him say with a gloomy face: "Okay."
Ana was stunned, is it so straightforward
Then she saw him turn around and leave. Looking at the direction he left, it seemed to be the meditation room.
Anna stood there for a while, slightly confused.
She originally thought that she would have to spend a lot of energy dealing with the devil, but she didn't expect that he agreed so simply, even a little bit compromised.
He really fought hard for her soul.
At least the goal was achieved. Anna breathed a sigh of relief and went back to the library. In the next few days, she would have to make the extraction solution, so she would have to take all the time to read. In the next month, according to the plan, she and Natalie would only use scattered time to review theoretical knowledge, and most of the rest of the time would be spent practicing practical exercises. .
Rotgar randomly chose a meditation room, sat cross-legged and fell into a meditative state.
Whether it's a human or a demon, meditation is always the best way to calm down as quickly as possible.
By the time he finished this meditation, the body's mental state had improved a lot, and it would take less than two days to return to its best condition.
As for the questions that bothered him before meditation, he also had a definite answer.
Anna said that she was impulsive and deliberately angered Magnolia, so why did she want to be angry with Magnolia, and where did the "impulse" come from? It can be seen that even if she doesn't admit it with her mouth, she already has him in her heart.
As for him, he still has to continue to win Anna's love as Raymond. Even if he is affected by this human body, he cannot leave for a while. But he really shouldn't let it go anymore, and he also wanted to thank Anna for bringing it up in time.
He was the Grand Duke of the Abyss, and it couldn't be easier to suppress the slight influence that the human body had on him.
After Anna returned to the library, she only read for an hour before lunch time. She and Natalie went to have lunch together. Natalie was very excited to tell Anna what gifts she had received yesterday. She secretly Which she stashed away as her own little vault.
"After I became a baronet, I had to move out from home, so I had to save some money." Since studying with Anna, Natalie has become more and more confident in passing the promotion examination. In Anna's view, this is of course is a good thing.
"That's right, and after you become a one-star mage, you can also think about developing your future financial resources." Anna smiled, "Only when you are financially independent can your personality be independent."
Natalie nodded as if she understood. She probably knew what Anna meant. After getting the title, she must also have money, otherwise it would be useless to get the title. The annual salary paid by the lord may not be enough for her.
After the two had lunch together, they went to the pharmacy room and meditation room respectively. Natalie continued her spell practice, which mainly trained her mental power operations and laid a solid foundation for subsequent potion configuration. Anna, on the other hand, continued to make the wattle grass extract, and even collected the money. She would not feel at ease if it was not made as soon as possible.
Anna randomly asked for an ordinary pharmacy room, which didn't even have an explosion-proof barrel. After all, the extraction liquid would not explode anyway.
This afternoon, Anna only rested once and made twenty-two portions of the extraction solution, two more than last time, but the time was about the same. With repeated repetitions at high intensity, the amount of mental energy she consumed in making the extract decreased, but her speed increased somewhat.
After Anna checked that there were no problems with the twenty-two extracts, she sent them to the management office for temporary storage, and told the staff at the management office that Master Dawkins could take them away at will.
When Anna returned home this evening, Anna finally found that April was not lying lazily on the meditation mat, but was meditating, and she couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
He can be considered active, so that he can recover and leave early.
Anna saw the devil in the library the next day, and she was relieved to see that his expression was normal.
Regardless of whether he listened to her words or not, at least he didn't fall out, and that was victory.
In the next few days, Anna read in the morning and made the extraction solution in the afternoon. It took six days and she finished all the extraction solutions before Master Dawkins could react.
This week's high-intensity extraction of thorn vine grass material has really improved Anna's micro-manipulation ability of mental power. Now she doesn't even need to think. She can make thorn vine grass extract in a distracted state as long as she starts. She says she is a thorn vine grass extract. It’s no exaggeration to say that Vinegrass Extraction is an expert.
Dawkins has also been concentrating on adjusting the preparation process of the new potion this week. He has seen the efficacy of this new potion, so he named it "Sigh of Light" in advance. "Sigh of Light" is just a sigh. And he is chanting, and the efficacy of this medicine can be distinguished from its name.
Because of the troublesome adjustment, Dawkins did not consume the raw materials very quickly this time, so he went to the management office every two days to get almost fifty extracts, which made him very satisfied. Until this day, the "Aria of Light" he prepared was no longer available. It would explode again. He saw the note Anna left for him at the management office, telling him that the extraction solution for ten gold coins had been completed and he didn't know if he still needed it.
Dawkins' expression changed when he saw this note. He was so obsessed with the preparation of "Aria of Light" that he actually forgot about it. He was worried that Anna had run away, so he hurriedly went to Theresa. From Theresa He asked and found out that Anna had been studying in the library in the morning, so he quickly went to find Anna with a lot of gold coins in his hands.
Anna has now saved enough five gold coins for the promotion test, and is not as eager to make money as before. But when Dawkins holds the gold coins in his hand, he is obviously a middle-aged man, but he still looks at her eagerly like a puppy. , she accepted ten gold coins and said: "Mr. Dawkins, I have to prepare for the one-star mage promotion test next. I don't have much time every week to make the extraction solution."
Dawkins sighed inwardly and nodded in understanding, then he heard Anna say: "I can only guarantee eighty servings a week."
Dawkins' depressed mood improved instantly. He thought Anna could only make twenty or thirty portions a week, but eighty portions was much faster than he could make it himself. He almost cried with joy.
As for Anna saying that she wanted to take the one-star mage promotion assessment, Dawkins, who had fully understood Anna's talent, didn't find it strange at all. He even thought that she would take the two-star mage assessment soon, so it was left to him. Time is really running out!
"Okay, okay, that's enough!" Dawkins held Anna's hand firmly and said excitedly, "Anna, you are my noble one!"
The joy that "Aria of Light" was about to be completed made Dawkins feel elated for a moment, until he caught a glimpse of Raymond not far away from the corner of his eye, who had followed him out of nowhere and stared at him with a frozen look.
Dawkins trembled and quickly let go of Anna. There is a difference between a two-star mage and a two-star mage. His two-star status is almost over, but Raymond is someone who can become a four-star mage, and Raymond doesn’t have a good temper. He can get into a fight if he disagrees with him. Old bones are only used to prepare magic potions. How can I defeat such a capable young man
Get away quickly!
Dawkins didn't bother to say more to Anna, and ran away after saying goodbye.
Anna knew what happened when she saw Dawkins' reaction. She put away the gold coins, turned and walked towards the demon standing at the door of the library.
What she said to him that day had an effect. From then until now, he has not touched her intentionally again, which made her feel at ease a lot.
As a result, as soon as Anna walked up to the devil, she heard his cold voice: "I can't touch you, but Dawkins can?"
Anna was stunned, what she said...
Two mages happened to be coming out of the library together, and they suddenly looked over after hearing these words. The Mage Association has a small number of people, and even if the mages don't know each other, most of them have heard their names.
What Rotgar asked Anna before has become an extremely sexy story after being spread, and his words today will definitely add a bit of blood to the story - Master Dawkins, who is over 40 years old, and Master Dawkins, who is less than 40 years old. Twenty-year-old Master Raymond tried to steal a mage apprentice, and Master Raymond actually lost!
When Anna saw the gossipy looks in the passersby's eyes, she knew that her reputation would only get worse.
Although what this devil said was true, it somehow became so strange when he said it... She very much suspected that he was deliberately destroying her reputation so that she could only choose him!
Facing the devil's questioning at this moment, Anna could only explain in kind words: "He was too sudden, I didn't react."
Rotgar sneered: "Can I touch you before you react?"
Anna: "...Don't deliberately misinterpret my words!"
Anna was a little tired. She felt like she was coaxing an unreasonable and willful girlfriend...
Rotgar sneered, turned and left.
Anna didn't catch up. Anyway, this little conflict didn't escalate to the point of overturning the table, so she just let him go.
After lunch, Anna and Natalie did not separate this time, and they went to the pharmacy together.
Starting today, they will undergo special training in potion preparation together. Anna also has the task of making the extraction solution for Dawkins, which can also be done at the same time.
Natalie had been in the pharmacy more times than she could count over the years, but this was the most exciting time she'd ever been.
In the past, she had no plan when preparing for the promotion examination. She would do this and that, but this time, she practiced micro-manipulation of her mental power for a long time before coming to the pharmacy.
The preparation of potions is inseparable from the precise control of mental power. She feels that she should have a different feeling when preparing potions this time.
The number of potions involved in the one-star mage promotion assessment is not large. There are only more than twenty kinds in total. All of them are very basic potions that ordinary people can use. However, considering the cost of repeated practice, Anna knows that they You definitely can’t win by practicing more times.
She roughly estimated that the cost of preparing all the more than 20 kinds of magic potions was about one gold coin. It must be practiced at least once, but if it takes three days to prepare all the magic potions, it will cost one gold coin in three days. Gold coins, thirty days is ten gold coins. Natalie has no problem, but Anna herself can't afford it.
After becoming a one-star mage, the money spent on learning will only be much more than what was needed during the mage apprenticeship. The annual salary received from becoming a baron will not even make a difference in the study career of a one-star mage.
Therefore, Anna can only rely on refining. She plans to practice one by one and do a major review before the exam to configure all the potions.
Natalie was devastated when she learned about Anna's review plan, because she used to rely on guessing which potions she would be tested on and focus on reviewing which ones before the exam. She had never known many of the twenty kinds of potions. She has never prepared it. For example, she has never prepared the magic potion that can grow hair after drinking it for a month.
Anna arranged all the more than twenty kinds of magic potions and asked Natalie to practice with her. The two of them occupied the test bench on one side. Within fifteen minutes, Anna had prepared the first magic potion on the list. Medicine is a sleep aid. Looking at Natalie again, she was sweating and still fighting with the potion ingredients.
Anna took advantage of this time to start making the thorngrass extract. Now she only needed half an hour to make two extracts at once, but half an hour was already the limit and could not be reduced any further.
Half an hour later, Anna wiped the sweat from her forehead and noticed that Natalie had started making the third sleep-aid potion, and the first two times had failed.
The two of them bought and used the raw materials for the potion separately. Anna only bought one copy, while Natalie obviously didn't have confidence in herself and bought ten copies at once. It seems that she made the right purchase so far.
Anna did not continue to make the extract. She stood aside and watched Natalie's operation. When Natalie also broke the preparation this time, she said aloud: "The water element intervened a little early. It can be done again." It’s a minute late and it doesn’t last long enough, you deal with it for another minute and a half.”
Natalie nodded and took a notebook to write down what Anna said. Although she failed three times, she still had a smile on her face: "Anna, I think the previous exercises in the meditation room were really useful! I used to use water elements When preparing the potion, it feels like the water element is preparing it by itself. I don't know when it starts and when it stops. But now I can really feel that I am controlling the water element. It is all under my control. middle!"
Natalie made a fist-clenching motion, her eyes sparkling, and she was overjoyed at her visible progress.
"This shows that you have understood. Come on, practice more, practice makes perfect!" Anna encouraged.
Anna and Natalie spent this afternoon in the pharmacy.
Anna used her talent and experience in micro-manipulation of mental power to successfully prepare four potions, and took the time to make ten extracts. She also helped Natalie correct some minor problems she encountered during the preparation of the first potion. question.
At seven o'clock in the evening, both of them were exhausted and couldn't make another potion. The gratifying thing is that Natalie finally successfully prepared the first sleeping potion in her life before running out of potion ingredients.
"My father hasn't slept well in the past two days, so it's just time for him to use it." Natalie smiled tiredly, not showing any grudge when talking about her father.
Anna couldn't help but touched Natalie's head, and gave Natalie the sleeping potion she made.
If her father married her regardless of her wishes, she would definitely have a grudge and even fall out with him, but Natalie did not. She struggled very hard within the framework set by her father, without any trace of it. resentment.
She may not agree with Natalie's idea, but she will respect it and then do her best to help.
When Anna and Natalie walked out of the pharmacy, they found someone waiting for them, or to be precise, waiting for Anna.
Natalie took one look at Rotgar and said very politely: "Then I'll leave first. See you tomorrow, Anna!"
Then she scurried away.
Anna remembered the bad breakup between the two before, walked up and said with a smile: "Are you waiting for me?"
Rotgar said: "I'm fine."
"Huh?" Anna looked confused, then suddenly said, "Has your mental power been fully restored?"
Rotgar nodded coldly, and then looked at Anna, as if waiting for her to speak.
Anna knew what he wanted to hear from her... but could she say that the plan couldn't keep up with the change? It was true that she said before that she would go near the line of life and death when his mental strength recovered, but now that she has a stable way to make money, and is still busy learning how to prepare potions, she doesn't want to take risks.
Anna was just about to tactfully suggest that she could find another way to "enhance the relationship" when she suddenly saw a familiar person walking from a distance. She was slightly startled, then quickly approached the devil, pointed over there and whispered: "Is that Hanson York?"
Rotgar followed Anna's direction and looked with murderous intent in his eyes. However, before he could walk over, Anna pulled him back.
Rotgar turned back with a cold expression: "You want to stop me?"
Anna shook her head: "If I wanted to stop you, I wouldn't point it out to you. I just think that I can't be caught."
She smiled slyly: "Wouldn't it be better to beat him up and let him know who beat him, but he has no evidence?"
Rotgar's heart moved slightly when he saw Anna's smile. He resisted and ignored his desire to touch her, and raised a malicious smile at the corner of his mouth: "Okay."