The magician from the time of peace

"The first time we became aware of Theresa's existence was in the ninth century, 562 years ago."

Vera talked about what happened hundreds of years ago, but her tone was very firm.

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"Why is this!?"

On the Isle of Cole in the ninth century, a woman with short blond hair stomps and roars as she confronts a burning house.

She really never dreamed that her house, her treasure house, and her shelter would be struck by lightning one day!

"Teresa DeMarca, calm down." She hugged her shoulders and whispered to herself: "At this time, you should think about it. If Lord Merris encountered such a thing, he would How to do it."

She was silent for a moment, then screamed, "No! All the portraits in my collection are in there, and even the Demacas have no extra paintings!"

She raised her sleeves, slammed her chest hard to embolden herself, and then recited the spell aloud. She recited the simple fire magic password upside down, and it took three times to get it right.

As she chanted, the flames devouring her private property calmed down a little, and she immediately pinched her nose and rushed into the fire.

Lord Merris, Lord Merris, Lord Merris.She silently recited the idol's name in her heart, quickly took out four or five pieces of drawing paper from the bedside, drawers, and gaps in the bookshelf, folded them neatly and put them in her arms, and ran to the dining room as fast as she could, She took down the large picture frame hanging on the wall directly opposite her chair, hugged it tightly to her chest, and hunched over to her laboratory and material library.

She didn't enter the door, but just fumbled and pressed something at the door, and there was a "Sili clang" inside. After hearing the sound, she left the fire scene with peace of mind.

The moment she stepped out of the house, she seemed to sense something, and her feet stopped, but the flame suppressed by her poor fire control magic suddenly exploded, and the billowing heat waves hit from all directions, so she had no choice but to roll on the spot and take her first. The babies jumped into the open space outside.

As soon as she felt safe, she immediately checked the situation of the portrait. She placed the giant picture frame on the ground, and the blond young man in the portrait was smiling gently.

She had completely forgotten about the slight abnormality just now.

A few hours later, the fire that fell from the sky engulfed the entire house and went out contentedly, and Tereza slowly got up from the clearing to collect the body for her house.

The beams of her wooden villa were all burnt, and the scorched black was lying on the ground. She stepped over it carefully, and said: "My luck is also bad. If I build a house, I will be struck by lightning. Just build a basement like a magician." alright……"

She was close to the door of the laboratory. As the only place that was not destroyed by the fire, this room stood proudly amidst the surrounding black charcoal, and a circle of silver light shone on the periphery of the wall.

"Fortunately, I found fireproof and waterproof materials for it last time. If everything here is burned, then I can only pack my luggage and go home and wait for Kelin to raise me." Teresa lived alone for a long time, Knowing how to entertain herself, even if no one talks to her, she can talk non-stop.

She pressed the button on the wall, and the silver coating slowly faded away, revealing the door behind, Teresa opened the door and entered her "work" room.

In fact, she does not have a job, and all the funds so far have come from the assistance of the Demaca family.

After checking her finished products and raw materials, she made sure that there was no major loss, and she began to look for anything with remaining value in the ruins of the fire.

Obviously not. For convenience, almost all of her furniture is made of wood. Wood can't help burning, and it is the best combustible material, so after a big fire, there is nothing left.

Teresa swayed back and forth full of desolation, not daring to accept this tragic fact. When she passed the waste room, a small white spot was relentlessly shining light from under the broken wall.

Teresa frowned. The waste room was mostly filled with discarded products from her failed experiments, or gadgets that were broken but were reluctant to throw away. What exactly would glow white after a fire?

She dug out something shiny from the scorched earth: it was a piece of silvery metal dotted with reddish-brown spots, and underneath it was a lump of shapeless dirt. Teresa thought for a long time, It was only then that she remembered why there was mud in her room—it was a clay doll that Colleen made to make her happy.

This is of course not an ordinary doll. Her sister, Corinne Demarca, is known as the most outstanding magician after Portiffany, so this clay doll is actually a golem. She has been her assistant for a period of time, bringing her tea and water, beating her back and pinching her legs.

But no matter how delicate the puppet is, it will gradually lose power after leaving the master's magic power source. Teresa remembered that it had stopped moving for several years, so she was thrown into the waste room.

But... what is this red-spotted metal?Teresa looked at it for a long time, and could only tell that it was a piece of mithril. As for what the speck was, she really couldn't identify it.

"Forget it, anyway, it's always something I don't want. It's probably because I was struck by lightning and got sick. Just take it away for a test." She patted the clothes, shook off the dust, and hugged the piece of metal that was still glowing. Back to the lab.

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Although Teresa said that she wanted to test it, as a top loser in her 30s who had never made any money and was reduced to an isolated island and her house was struck by lightning, she had no idea what action power was.

She talked about building a basement last time, but building a basement is such a hassle. She spent a whole year digging a hole before burying her laboratory and material library.And after this year, she suddenly found that there is no need for the living room, kitchen and bathroom. Anyway, she has no guests, can't cook, and doesn't like cleaning very much, so she put the two remaining rooms in the After going underground, I feel that the basement has been built, and I don't want to do civil engineering anymore.

"What should I do today?" She crossed her legs and said to herself: "By the way, I want a car that can drive on the ground and run on the sea, so let's make this one!"

She hummed a song and searched for the materials she needed in her material library, which was as chaotic as if she had been in a war. She picked and picked a piece of reddish-brown metal that glowed with light.

Teresa: "...So I forgot you here, and why do you look different from before."

She touched the metal surface and rubbed off a layer of reddish-brown powder, but the powder didn't stay on her finger for long before it was sucked back and covered the silver metal surface.

"I remembered, this is Star Sand!" She exclaimed excitedly: "I asked Kelin to find it for me in many places, so I threw it into the waste room!"

Holding the mithril that had been struck by lightning and covered with star sand and fell into the pile of golems, she returned to the laboratory full of joy, and completely completed her "car that can drive on the ground and run on the sea". Forgot to the back of my mind.

She put the luminous metal on the experimental table, picked up a knife and wanted to cut a piece to see how it radiates, but the knife only cut a little, and the metal vibrated crazily, Teresa was shaken back several times Stepping forward, she covered her ears vigorously—she seemed to hear a heart-piercing scream.

She dropped the knife to the side, hugged her head and shouted: "I won't cut you! Stop screaming!"

As if the metal could understand human words, it gradually calmed down. Teresa stuck her head out, stared at the metal block, carefully poked it, and asked, "Hey, what are you?" ?”

"T... Re... Sha..."

"Well, who called me?" Teresa jumped up and turned her head to look left and right: "Could it be that Kelin came to see me? Kelin, my house was burned down and now I live underground. Come down and look for me. me!"

"I'm here……"

Teresa paused. She looked down at the metal block on the experimental table, and found that it was shining, and a human voice with a strange tone came from inside the metal: "You... good..."

Teresa felt that she was not very good.

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Teresa was frowning, and focused on dropping a drop of liquid into the test tube. Nothing happened. She was relieved and shook the test tube casually.

With a "bang", the test tube exploded, and Teresa shrank under the table skillfully, avoiding the fate of being disfigured.

"Didn't you say in the notes you wrote last time that these two things can't be mixed? Why put them together again? It won't be surprising if you die like this someday."

"Even if I don't do anything, I will die one day, okay?" Teresa poked her head out from under the table and found that there was no new reaction. It's for you."

She turned her head and smiled at the two dolls on the table: "Of course, if you are satisfied with this, I won't mind."

The two beautiful dolls snorted in unison and turned their heads aside.

Although it is unbelievable, these two talking dolls are the metal block that Teresa found—I can’t tell for a while, whether there are actually two consciousnesses in the metal block, or whether this consciousness can be transferred is even more impressive. Unbelievable.

Teresa wiped the wreckage of the explosion, and suddenly exclaimed: "It actually succeeded!"

"What's wrong?" the two dolls said in unison.

Teresa picked out a shiny crystal from the splashed liquid, and said with a bright smile: "All the materials are gathered, and you finally have a real body!"

She trotted and dragged out two dolls from the material library—not so much dolls, but like real humans, with soft skin and long golden hair.

She carefully cut a slit at the doll's heart, put the blue crystal that was divided into two into it, and then closed it carefully—I didn't know that she was made of skin material, and the cut ends were pasted on the When they are together, they are automatically glued together without any trace.

She did the same thing to the other doll in the same way, straightened up, and said with satisfaction: "Gold is stretched into filaments to make hair, high-quality sapphires are made into eyes, soft glue is mixed with bee stone to make skin, The bones are 90.00% [-]% sterling silver plus [-]% iron and [-]% mithril. Alas... I wanted to make two handsome guys like Lord Meris, but I didn't know The man's body knot...cough cough cough."

"Babes, want to come in your new body?" She grinned and opened her arms to the two dolls.

Two balls of light rose from the top of the doll and penetrated into the doll's body. After a while, the doll opened its eyes.

"How do you feel, is it better than a doll?" Teresa asked with a smile.

A puppet twitched, slowly raised a hand, and said with difficulty: "Not bad..."

"...When you speak in the future, remember to open your mouth, otherwise it will look scary." Teresa could never grasp the point.

The other puppet giggled. She tried to open her mouth and said, "Teresa, I did it."

"...You should get up from the ground first, can you control your hands and feet? And your mouth shape is completely wrong, it looks even more terrifying..."

After the two dolls were able to control their complex new bodies, Teresa slapped her head: "Suddenly realized that I forgot to name you!"

She put her arms around them both affectionately, and said, "Your name is Vera, and your name is Nell, isn't it?"

The two puppets—should be called Vera and Nell now—smiled lightly and agreed, "Okay."

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Teresa is no longer young, and her face has faint fine lines, but since her original face is plain, she doesn't have any sense of loss as a beauty.

"Vera—help me take down the bottle on the second floor on the right side of the material library. Nell—help me see if the water is boiling, and make me a cup of coffee!" Teresa lay on the table, shouting .

After a while, two young and beautiful girls came from both sides, and one of them shouted, "I thought you were doing research, but I didn't expect you to be reading novels?"

Another person said: "Teresa, even if it is a romance novel, the heroines are all teenage girls, and they don't know how the old woman met her first love."

Teresa closed the book angrily, and said angrily, "What do you mean, do you think I will fall in love with other men after I have Mrs. Merris!"

Nell gave her a sympathetic look - though she didn't know how she managed it with the sapphire - and put the coffee on her table.

Vera consciously opened the bottle, picked up Teresa's leftover materials from yesterday's work, and started working for her.

Teresa couldn't help being ashamed, put the novel away, and pointed out earnestly: "Be flexible with your fingers, don't touch the center, um, very good."

One day, Teresa and the two were lying down chatting with nothing to do, and she suddenly said, "I've spent my whole life tossing about scrap metal, and the Demaca family's magical talent has not been inherited at all..."

Vera continued: "I know, you hate magic the most, and you worry about it every day."

Teresa: "...I really hate magic! I am forced to recite spells and draw magic circles every day at Demaca's house. I have no talent at all. If I were Lord Meris... huh .”

She complained a lot, then turned around and said, "I didn't mean to say that! I mean...I've been playing with things for decades, but no one knows...even I don't know, these things What the hell should the thing be called?"

"So I decided to give it a name!" She thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "Call it alchemy! Although I can't make gold out of thin air, what if I can do it someday?" , people really still have to dream..."

She laughed silly: "Then I will have another dream, if one day my 'alchemy' can become an indispensable part of this world just like magic... No! Stupid thing, my alchemy must be better than it!"

She was so delusional that her saliva was about to drop, she happily rolled around with Vera and Nell in her arms, and she didn't think about it carefully: she had created two 'people' who could talk, move and think, and they had been compared to each other for a long time. It is tens of thousands of times more difficult to produce gold.

"We'll help you." Nell was hugged tightly, but she didn't rely on her mouth anyway, and she could speak even if her mouth was covered.

Teresa laughed heartily. She obviously didn't take it seriously, but she used a little more force in her hands: "How did I meet you two little angels!"

Vera rolled her eyes and said nothing.

"But I really have one thing to ask you." Teresa said, she rarely spoke in such a serious tone: "I said, in the future... If I die, what kind of eyes, of course I will die, I It's human!"

"Don't look at me like that, keep listening to me." Teresa knocked her head alone: ​​"If I die in the future, people from the Demaca family come to me, no matter what they come for, you can help them a handful."

She brought it up again and smiled nonchalantly: "Look, we eat and drink for nothing and spend their money for so many years, so we have to give something in return, right?"

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"And then she died."

"After she died, several young people from the Demaca family came to her funeral."

"We gave them books so that they can come here to find us when they encounter difficulties."

Merris blinked and curled the corners of his mouth: "Thank you for taking care of the Demaca family."

Nell waved his hands lightly, and continued: "Do you know what the last words she said before she died?"

"What did she say?"

Vera coughed, and imitated vividly: "Ah, am I going to die! Great, Lord Merris, I can finally see you in person, you must be a hundred times more beautiful than the portrait! "

Merris: "..."

"I feel very honored..." He struggled to organize his words, feeling quite helpless towards this somewhat disconnected junior fan.

"Then do you know what we thought when we first saw you?" Vera asked.

"what is it then?"

"If you didn't die, wouldn't Teresa have been disappointed for 500 years?"

Merris felt something was wrong, but it was too late. Four shackles protruded from the chair he was sitting on, and they were tightly fastened to his wrists and ankles. Picked up a sharp knife.

"Master Merris, please, go to the world after death to accompany her."