199. About friendship
Leaning on the railing of the terrace with a wine glass in hand, looking down at the magical students chatting next to the pool, a cool breeze hit, I touched the wine glass with Noah, took a sip of golden cider, and tasted the sweet and sour.
"So, after graduation you're going to be the consul of Vasqui's Galapagos?" I asked Noah.
Noah nodded.
I then asked him, "Will you be promoted to a marquis all at once?"
Unexpectedly, the Mensa family actually gave Noah such a high evaluation of his summer experience in the Vaschi plane, and the core of the family thought that Noah was worth leaning towards the cultivation of family resources, and with the failure of Boris Mensah's rebellion on the Vaschi plane, Christopher Mensah had to give up the control of Vaschi in exchange for Boris's freedom.
Noah held the empty wine glass and said, "Not really, but since I have replaced Boris as the consul of Galapagos City, I will have a large sea fleet at my disposal to guard the Galapagos City's teleportation magic array, and in Vasqi's words, it will be easy to promote the title, and becoming a Marquis is only the first step in Vasqi's plane." ”
Caterina came over with a bottle of golden cider and filled our glasses.
I toasted to Noah again and said, "So, you're going to be a Marquis soon?"
"It won't be soon, at least four years of study at the Royal Academy of Magic. Noah smiled a little smugly, and then he called out my name, "Jiga!"
"Huh?" I turned my head to look at him.
"Come to Galapagos City to help me! I've heard that water magicians can increase the power of magic by up to 20 percent in the coastal area, and the casting speed and judicial success rate will also be significantly increased, you are naturally suitable to live on the island, and the two of us continue to create the glory of the Vasqui plane. Noah squinted at me as he sketched out the future of Vasqui's plane, and I could tell that he was a man of ideas.
Noah's words made Caterina stop and look back at him in surprise.
It can be said that as long as I agree to Noah's invitation, then many of my previous preparations in the Hiero plane will become meaningless, and in the last month or so, Caterina has been actively preparing for the construction of the town of Tellum.
Noah put a hand on my shoulder and continued to say to me: "Louis promised me to give you a piece of the sea area of the Vaschi plane, and there will be dozens of small islands of all sizes next to each other, and you can build your own island city on the island, which is the sincerity and gratitude of our Mensa family." ”
Caterina stood next to me, her eyes falling on me, and she wanted to know what I was thinking.
"But I have promised Duke Jingyue that after graduation, I will return to Sloit Province and serve the North Wind Legion. I furrowed my brow and said to Noah with a wry smile.
"I know, I can get Louis to help you out. Noah said nonchalantly.
I shook my head and said to Noah, "No, you don't understand. ”
I set my sights on the northern part of the Imperial Capital, and in a month's time, winter in Sloit Province is approaching, and the Legion of the North Wind will need to build the fortifications of the various cities before the Galloping River freezes, which will obviously be a difficult task.
I pointed to the north and said to Noah, "There is my home there, I will join the Legion of the North Wind to defend against those barbarians, you may not know what kind of disaster it is for the people of the north to cross the Prancing Horse River every winter and go to the White Elephant Plain to hunt slaves." ”
I continued: "The barbarians of the past would leave the villages and towns, the women and the old men of the towns, and only rob the men of the towns to work as slaves in their mines. But now, the Storm Bear barbarian tribe from the Far North, who will destroy towns, burn villages, eat old men and women, and capture all the men, they have plundered the North, turning large chunks of Sloit into a wasteland. ”
I said to Noah, "The current Borean Legion still needs to continue to grow, and someone always needs to stand up and defend these things that belong to us in the first place." ”
Noah blinked and asked me, "But you can bear to leave your Slave Trader and the sailors on board?"
I patted Noah on the shoulder and said to him, "I know you'll take care of them for me, okay! Don't persuade me anymore, I'm going to run that territory on the Hierro plane next, I'm all planned, I'm going to build a new town in Trum, and run your Vasqui well, I know that one day, you will replace Marquis Christopher and become the real master of Vasqui. ”
Seeing that he couldn't convince me, Noah said nothing more and touched my glass.
This time, Noah came back from outside Vaski, and he was very different, he had some confidence that he didn't have before, and his eyes became more intense, and Shirley Newman saw me and Noah leaning against the railing and whispering to each other, so she walked up with a wine glass.
Shirley tilted her head, squinted at me, and confronted me, "Giga, where have you hidden Mr. Justes, and why haven't you seen him lately?"
I didn't expect Shirley to ask me about Justus, and I said to her, "What's the matter? Shirley, you're still in touch with Justus? I've never heard him talk about it." ”
During Noah's absence, I rarely had anything to do with Shirley Newman, she and I belonged to two circles of life, my campus life was very simple, basically a line between the Academy of Magic and the Academy, and the pace of life was also very tight, and I rarely stayed in the academy outside of the magic course.
Shirley Newman is the kind of person who really likes to participate in class activities and club activities, she is the kind of person who has a lot of friends in the class, and she is also very popular with the male magic students in the class.
Shirley Newman said to me, "Of course it won't be me, it's Miss Justes, she's been living in Pena Square lately, and she's always seen Mr. Justers walking there, and when I saw Miss Cherry at noon, she said that Mr. Justers left without even having time to say goodbye, and I think you should know about him." ”
I didn't expect that when Justes was in the imperial capital, he still had some contact with Miss Cherry, Miss Cherry was a female swordsman in Bena Province, it turned out that after Vasqui's trip, she did not return to Bena Province, but lived near Pena Square, some time ago, Justes has been in Campbell Sanatorium, following Sue, at that time Sue has been helping him quit the addiction of demon blood.
I said to Shirley Newman, "Oh, I see, he's gone to Hierro with Karui, and I have a piece of territory over there, and they're going to go there and help me clear the land first." ”
Hearing me say this, Shirley could only sigh, purse her lips, and say to me, "All right, Giga, if Mr. Justes returns to the imperial capital, remember to tell me." ”
"Oh, okay. I said.
Although I agreed, I thought to myself: this Miss Cherry has a really unique taste, and she actually wants to have some love story with a half-kraken, isn't she afraid that the two of them will be injured by the bone spurs on Justus's body when they roll the sheets?
While she was thinking about it, Shirley Newman had already entangled Noah, and it seemed that the two had been separated for a while, and when they got together, they would naturally stick together like kraft candy.
Caterina placed the bottle on the square wooden post of the wooden parapet and leaned against me, her little face flushed from the drink of some golden cider.
I was asking her why she had dinner with Noah and Vernon.
Senior Vernon came over with a wine glass, he drank a little too much, obviously he didn't know how strong the golden cider was, and now when he walked, his steps were a little staggering, and a touch of blush had appeared on his face, squinting his eyes, with a kind of drunken smile, he came over and said to me with a mouthful of wine: "Jijia, I'm sorry!"
"Why do you apologize? Did you do anything too much to me?" I straightened the glass in his hand and let him lean against the railing to blow the cool breeze.
Then he condensed a few ice cubes on the tips of his fingers and threw them into his wine glass, before asking him, "Do you feel guilty for breaking open my bedroom door with Noah and stealing the golden cider from my wine cabinet?"
Just listen to him and say, "Damn, the ghost will feel guilty!"
Senior Vernon was obviously drunk, he glanced at Caterina and then leaned into my ear and said, "But speaking of which, I'm glad I reacted quickly, otherwise I would have been caught as a thief by your chaser." ”
Caterina stood aside and covered her mouth and smiled.
He then took a sip of the wine with the ice cubes, sobered up in an instant, shook his head vigorously, put his arm around my shoulder, and said, "I recklessly asked you for a fishskin hood, I didn't know it would be so valuable, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so reckless." ”
I looked at him in amazement and said to him, "You're just apologizing to me for this?"
His eyelids drooped, looking a little drowsy, but he said, "That's right, it's worth two thousand magic crystals. ”
I don't know if he will remember to say this to me when he wakes up, but in order to reduce the burden on his heart a little, I still said to him: "When I gave it to you, the cost price of that fishskin hood was only five gold coins, and in the magic market, a fishhuman skin was worth two gold coins." ”
"At the time, when it was in my hand, it was just a very ordinary fishskin hood, and I didn't think it was that special. It's just that some inscriptionists want to find out the mystery of the 'Life Demon Pattern' from it, so they will fry the fishskin hood to such a high price. ”
"In fact, to me, this fishskin hood is not worth a lot of money at all. ”
As he said this, Senior Vernon slid down the railing and fell asleep on the terrace.
Dennis was wearing a uniform that only existed in the Alchemy Guild, the whole person looked a little thin, but he seemed to have grown a lot taller, the immaturity on his face faded quickly, although there was still black fluff on his lips, but his eyes had changed a lot, he said very little at the table, and drank very little wine, only when Noah pulled him to drink, he would drink half a glass.
His uniform was inlaid with lace embroidered with gold and silver threads, the fabric looked very high-class, and the alchemy badge was worn on his chest, and he looked like he had become an alchemist completely, and he walked up to me with a wine glass and said to me, "I haven't congratulated you yet, I have finally become an inscription master." ”
It's rare to see him in the academy now, the magic classes here have basically stopped, and since he left the Royal Academy of Magic, he has rarely contacted me, oh, almost this month.
"Speaking of which, haven't you also become an alchemist!" I said, holding my glass, glancing at him.
"I heard you've found the 'Life Pattern' on the Fishmen?" said Dennis, looking at me with a hint of curiosity in his eyes, as if it had what it took to pique his interest.
"'Life Pattern'? I don't know what the magic runes on the fish-man skin are 'Life Patterns', only those people in the Magic Guild say they are 'Life Patterns'. I smiled helplessly.
He exclaimed to me, "You're so lucky to have this kind of thing!"
I'm a little out of words. "Hehe!" just smiled wryly.
I don't know when it became almost a burden to talk to him, it would make people feel very tired, very tired, and I guess if Noah hadn't invited him this time, probably he would never have come to this boring dinner.
Dennis frowned at my sneer, a look of displeasure on his face, and then said to me a moment later, "However, I heard that you have provoked a few inscriptionists at the Junior Magic Academy?"
Unconsciously, the tone of his voice had a superior tone, as if I had become a lower rank in front of him.
"They provoked me. I said.
Actually, I regretted it a little after I said this.,Is there a need to explain?
Dennis laughed dryly, patted me on the shoulder, and said to me, "You're still the same as in the Academy of Magic, you like to cause trouble." ”
“......”
I don't know what I learned in the Alchemists' Guild during this time? Yes, it's important to study professional classes, but what about the rest? Is it just arrogance and rudeness? I wanted to question him in front of him, but before I could say anything, I heard Dennis say to me again: "Give me a fishskin hood! I'm curious about the 'Life Pattern' hidden on it." ”
“...... Okay!" I hesitated, but agreed, thinking: if it's for the sake of our previous friendship.
But unexpectedly, Dennis continued: "If you have magic crystals, I will send an entourage to you to the magic academy tomorrow, or if you want other magic metals that are converted, in short, I will not take advantage of you at this time like some people." ”
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When I heard Dennis's words, I was so angry that I really wanted to kick him off the terrace, what was he?
Maybe in his eyes, there was no friendship between me and him for a long time.
I thought about it for a moment and said to Dennis, "Okay! You're welcome, then I'll want some converted magic metal!"
Hearing me say this, Dennis's face changed slightly, the smile on his face became a little stiff, and then he stretched out his hand and clenched it into a fist to block his mouth, coughed dryly, hesitated for a moment before asking me, "So...... Tell me what you're going to want?"
"Then give me some krypton!" I said to him with a smile.
The pupils of Dennis's eyes suddenly contracted into pinholes, and his face turned iron-blue, although he immediately narrowed his eyes to hide the dissatisfaction in his eyes, pointed to my face with his finger, and said sharply: "Jijia, you ......"
Sighing secretly, Dennis had become almost unrecognizable.
I pretended not to know and said, "What's the matter?" You said it, let me choose some metal converters, can't this work?"