Blooming Tower of the West Wind

"There are three lines written on the paper?" She unfolded the small piece of parchment, and looked at the silver spell on it against the light, which was attached to her golden magic power.

"Silver ink is also very expensive, it is too easy to settle." Hipper took the pen out of the ink bottle, "Unlike ordinary pens and inks, don't put the brass nib in the silver ink for a long time, the pen will clog living."

She rinsed the pen in a small transparent cup, "Generally, there must be something for washing the pen, and it must be cleaned, otherwise you can only change the tip of the pen."

"A good brass nib costs thirty silver coins. You don't want it to fail after writing a scroll."

"This is why everyone prefers to write according to the format?"

"Yes, because the cost price is too high for ordinary apprentices." A pale magic flame appeared in Hipper's palm, the wind shield scroll was burned in her palm, and the brick-red fireworks were wrapped in the magic flame. It was burning beautifully, but there was only a slight breeze.

Theron frowned and asked, "It's over? It's over? Why? Where's the wind shield?"

Hipper shrugged, "I have to regret to tell you that in the test just now, the scroll of this wind shield failed."

"But it's burned???"

"Yes, that's why the price of apprentice's scrolls is very low, and the discounted scrolls I wrote cost two gold coins."

"Because you never fail?"

"Of course. This used to be my main way of earning money." As if seeing through what she wanted to ask, Hipper said before Theron could speak, "I also need pocket money. Buying books is expensive. And my parents didn't I don’t understand why I have to buy so many expensive books, so I don’t want to give me so much money.”

If love can be measured by money, Hipper's love for her can probably buy two new towers. Theron recalled in a trance the stones, bricks, stairs, expensive furniture, large buildings that he had blown up. Chunks of glass, bags of crystals, and those useless trinkets she said Hipper would buy.

And the parchment of twenty silver coins that she casually took out and wrote to herself, and burned it as soon as it was burned.

Hipper came up behind her, put his arms around her, held her hand, and slowly wrote on the new parchment, just as Hipper had first taught her to write as a child.

The golden glow solidified on the yellowed parchment along with the silver ink.

"Don't worry about money. When you become a mage, jobs will come one after another. Most of them are commissions from guilds. The commission fees can easily reach thousands of gold. Buying two is more than enough for you."

"That..." Along with Hipper came the warm smell of old parchment on her body, so that Theron suddenly forgot what he was going to say.

"Watch carefully," Hipper's voice seemed particularly careless because of his dual-purpose, "Those are the money that must be spent to train you, and it is definitely worth it."

After that, she stopped talking and concentrated on looking at the pen in her hand. The silver handwriting glowed one by one under the side light. Theron wanted to turn her head to look at the eyes that were very similar in color, but was caught by Hipper. He squeezed his left hand.

"Don't move." Hipper's voice came from beside her ear, and the warm breath she exhaled directly blew her ears, and her earlobe burned unbearably.

It was also a wind shield spell, a dot lit up at the corner of the scroll, almost white light, Hipper showed Theron the scroll that was automatically rolled up, and said: "When it is rolled up, the left side should be outside, so you can I can see the dissipation of magic power. Basically, it can judge whether a scroll is qualified or not. But it is not absolute. Whether a scroll can be used or not can only be known when it is burned."

She straightened up, the small scroll was gently held in her palm, the pale magic flame burst into flames, the brick-red light spots grew from small to large, Hipper threw it out, and the air was abnormally distorted , a soft and bright foreign body sensation flashed in front of him.Hipper drank softly, golden light overflowing from her fingertips.

Theron felt the wave of the wind blade, and then the sharp sound reached her ears.Immediately afterwards, the wind blade cut on the wind shield, and the two caused a lot of annihilation noise, and the paper on the table was blown loudly.

"You should have seen it. When Virgil went to catch you, he burned all his own inventory."

Theron stared blankly at the annihilated void, and the beautiful traces of casting spells were still engraved in her memory.

Beautiful, powerful, delicate, and let people fall in love with it without meeting them.

It took her a long time to come back to her senses, and when she turned her head and saw Hipper's half-smile expression, she was so frightened that she hurriedly asked to save herself from this embarrassing situation, "Then, where is my mistake? "

Hipper thought for a while, "Maybe it's the font, don't write consecutively, don't shake your hands, don't crooked."

Theron wrote another one, this time much slower. Seeing her cautious look, Hipper smiled and said, "Don't be too nervous, there will always be defective ones. Who hasn't written one or two defective ones?"

Theron ignored her, and still finished writing with breathless concentration, before he let out a long breath, "My God, it's so exciting, don't apprentices have any other ways that don't test their strength?"

Hipper thought for a while, "Well... there is, but relatively speaking, it is much slower than this, and the money is less. Some people will do that to earn their first money."

Theron couldn't help pricking up his ears, "What is it?"

Hipper said: "Some publishing houses ask some students to write some short stories for ghostwriters. They are not wizards. They can do it as long as they can write. They just need to write fluently and fast. Usually it is some small publishing houses. In order to open up the market, they will do it. Buy an outline from an experienced author and get someone else to write it for you, or buy your test prep notes directly from a good student."

"Teacher, have you ever done such a job?"

"Then I don't have time. The money is relatively small, and the workload is heavy. It also requires skills and talents. I don't have either."

Theron raised his eyebrows in surprise. There were very few things Hipper wasn't gifted with.

In the evening, Theron practiced calligraphy in the library very energetically and accompanied Hipper, while Hipper was writing her new thesis. The two of them were writing their own, when the window suddenly rang.

It's Charmoder.Theron went to the window and opened it. Charmodale jumped in, fluttering his feathers, and took two steps on the library floor.

The wind came in with it, and Theron hurriedly closed the window.

"It's very windy today! Charmodale, are you all right?"

Charmodal stood on the perch specially prepared for it in the library, and Theron touched its helmet, allowing himself to be in the same soul interface as it, and then pulled out the envelope from the letter box on its leg.

One of them was from her friends, but the others were from Hipper.

She opened her own envelope, and there were several sheets of paper in it.

In the letter, Svis and Caroline pointed out to her that the "Summary of Common Syntax of Water Elemental Spells" she mentioned was a teaching aid.

"What are teaching supplementary books?" Her friend probably expected that she had no idea about this kind of books since she lived in the tower for a long time, so she explained thoughtfully: "It is a special book for entrance exams. Schools, or intermediate schools to advanced schools, will have an ability test, and use it to rank students' abilities. Therefore, many books for training for the exam have been born, (such as the one you gave), and even graduation exams There are also special books for the basic skills testing exam."

These days, the sources of teaching aids are mixed, especially the exams from primary to intermediate, which have the largest number of participants, so the market is also the largest. Publishing houses, large and small, will get a piece of the action. Therefore, in order to quickly seize market share, many publishing houses Many students who have already entered the mage's tower will be recruited to write certain books.

Yes, the twins suspected that "B. Trace" was just a pseudonym and that his real identity was that of some earning high school student or above.And it's not bad in terms of level. This book may be his own study notes, because there are almost no similar books on the market that are earlier than this one.

"Also (Caroline here), Theron, I noticed one thing, I don't know if you've ever noticed. Trace just happens to be Esselt, and in Tiosa it's customary to put all Common The s at the end of the sentence is written as z, although we have no other evidence, but I use a woman’s intuition to guarantee that there must be some kind of mysterious connection between the two.”

"Come on (Swiss here), we don't have any evidence, so let's just talk nonsense?"

The two brothers and sisters quarreled in the letter and left enough evidence for Theron to see, but even though Svis was stubborn, he still stated at the end of the letter that he had put some key words (they used to compare " Who is the author of "Fantasy Records of Endless Waters?" The key words) were extracted from "Summary of Syntax" for comparison, to see how similar the two authors his sister suspected.

After buckling the letter, Theron also had a "female intuition" miraculously.

"Trace" means "Trident." If it's a pseudonym, what does "Esselt" mean?

She wrote the two names together, B. Trace, Eselt Irby...

"This..." These are two identical names!Theron was taken aback by himself, writing "Б·Triz" upright and "Ecirt·Eab" backwards... If the letters are completed, it is...

Beatrice.

This very rare and elegant name left a deep impression on Theron, so that the scene of hearing this name for the first time is still vivid: her teacher, Archmage Hipper, after hearing this name, tightly Clutching the armrest of the chair, a faded flame suddenly ignited in her gray eyes, passing through a thin layer of mist, and burning on her body.

But this doesn't make sense. According to the popular knowledge of her surname by the twin brothers and sisters, Beatrice comes from an ancient family of windcallers, so she won't be reduced to relying on ghostwriting and saving books to earn living expenses, right?