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The upper classes of the Yalong Empire all have the habit of using name tags, among which magicians are the most popular.But magicians are far more cautious than nobles when giving name tags, and they will not spread them randomly like businessmen.Being able to get the name tag of a magician not only means that you have gained his friendship, but also represents a promise he made to you: I can help you when you need it.

Moreover, the name engraved on it moved Hill more than the name tag itself.

—Christina Canaan!

Tina is indeed the president of the Magic Association, the uncrowned king of the magic world, and the daughter of the great magician Canaan!

Before Hill could thank her, Tina handed over a nametag from senior magician Amir.

"Amir asked me to decide whether to give this nametag or not. I thought about it and decided to give it to you." Tina explained, "I hope you won't let him down, and don't let me down either."

"Of course, Magician Tina." Hill immediately bowed and saluted, "On behalf of the Balotelli family, I would like to thank you and Your Excellency Amir for your love."

"You don't need to say so much to be polite, just send more gold coins and alchemy materials over next year." Tina said solemnly, but the flash of blush on her face still exposed her unaccustomed to this kind of insider trading .

Perhaps because of guilt and feeling that she had taken advantage of it, Tina not only gave Hill two name tags, but also gave him a brooch containing a high-level defensive magic circle, which was counted as her gift to the Balotelli family. Thank you.

Hill immediately showed a flattered expression, but deep down in his heart, he wanted to use this switch to get the opportunity to stay in the Magic Association and continue to get along with Keech.

Of course, Hill can only think about it, he can't forget his surname, and he can't forget his situation.

Hill is not the kind of innocent young man who is carefree and just waiting to inherit the title. He clearly sees his uncle's schemes for the title, and he also knows that Emperor Yalong is sharpening his sword against the Balotelli family.

Hill would not naively believe that without the surname Balotelli, without the status and wealth of aristocrats, he could still get everything he wanted.He has no talent for magic, and he can't become a knight warrior. He can't rely on his own strength to get ahead. All he can rely on is the status and power given to him by his birth, and he is cautious and careful at every step.

—He wants Keech, but first, he wants power.

Hill told himself soberly.

On the day Hill left, Keech and Avella sent him to the gate of the Magic Association.

Because Tina said hello in advance, Hill was not embarrassed by the magician at the gate when he went out, and the suitcase he was carrying was also sent directly to the four-wheeled carriage with the Balotelli family emblem on it. Open to check.

Keech watched as Hill boarded the carriage, and saw the door close and the wheels roll, and suddenly felt a dull feeling in his heart.

—Will Hill really come back next year?

Keech thought with some concern, but felt that Hill had never lied to him, and he probably wouldn't lie this time either.

——If he dares to lie to him, then he will break off with him!

——I will never make him a magic weapon again, and I will never give him a magic scroll!

Thinking of the magic scrolls he secretly hid in Hill's suitcase, Kiki bit his lip, turned around, and followed Avella out of the gate of the association.

Back at the Mage Tower, before Kiki adjusted his mood to adapt to the days without Hill's company, Tina told him a more "lonely" news.

"During the New Year, I will take Avila back...to my father." Tina said with some embarrassment. The assessment was over before, and I asked you to stay here and wait for him to come back."

Kiki looked at Tina suspiciously, wondering what she was embarrassing.He is not her relative, nor is she a real apprentice like Avella, he can understand her reluctance to take him home with her.What's more, Amir will come back, obviously they have made arrangements for him, and they will not leave him here alone to starve to death.

"But—" Tina rubbed her nose helplessly, and continued, "I'm leaving the day after tomorrow, and Amir won't be back until three days at the earliest, so...you may have to live here alone for a few days. God."

"Then, what do I eat these days?" Kiki asked with his head tilted.He doesn't mind living alone, but he doesn't know how to cook, and he doesn't know the source of food in this mage's tower.

"Eh?" Tina was taken aback by his question, thought for a while, and replied uncertainly, "May I ask Avila to prepare some for you, it's only a few days, the bread and sausage should not be broken …By the way, there is a place to serve food for free in the courtyard, I will let Avella take you for a walk in a while to get your way.”

"Yeah." Kiki nodded, saying that's all right.

"...You're so foolish." Tina twitched the corners of her mouth, obviously not expecting that Kiki would accept such an obviously unfair arrangement without any reaction.

Keech didn't answer, anyway, he didn't understand Tina's thoughts, it was just each other.

——Women seem to be very strange.

Thinking of his older sister Lizzy who was always crying sadly, Keech couldn't help thinking like this.

Two days later, Tina left the Mage Tower with Avella.

Before leaving, Avella left Kitch enough white bread and fruit bacon for three days, and took him to the college's public dining room once.

Tina also said a few words, telling him not to open the door for others casually, let alone let strangers enter the mage tower.

"Amir has the key to enter the mage's tower, so you don't need to open the door for him." Tina emphasized.

Although she seemed worried, Tina took Avella and left the Mage Tower, leaving Kiki alone.

Keech really didn't care much, he had never experienced a person's life, and it was rare to meet such an opportunity, he just felt fresh and excited, and even looked forward to it, and even the sadness of Hill's departure was overwhelmed for a while. watered down.

The first day was indeed very fresh.Except for the fourth floor and Avella's living room, which were locked, Keech could use the other rooms below the third floor at will, including Avella's laboratory.

While no one was around, Kiki used the materials Amir gave him to try out a basic magic weapon in "Introduction to the Alchemist"-a small ring that can slightly increase the water magic.Since Kiki was not used to making magic weapons with the alchemy equipment used by ordinary magicians, the whole process was almost controlled by his mind. When the ring was finished, Kiki was so tired that he was about to collapse on the ground.

——Meditation is indeed very useful.

While admiring the little magic weapon he had just made, Kiki secretly sighed.

Since he started to meditate, Kiki has found that his control over the elements is increasing day by day. Before making one magic scroll, he would pass out, but now even if he makes ten, he just feels tired.

Undoubtedly, the megaphone given to Hill is also the result of Kiki dismantling, structuring, and merging materials with his mind, but it is not done in one go like when he made this ring today, but a little bit every day, which lasted for more than half months to complete.

But after making the talking tube, Kiki didn't dare to continue making other magic tools, pretending to have shifted his interest to the magic circle, and only worked hard on reading and drawing magic circles every day.

Even so, Tina didn't let him go, and called him into her laboratory to help from time to time, and instilled in him the benefits and great significance of the magic weapon.

Regarding Tina's behavior, Keech could only be silent, silent, and silent again.

——Actually, I also like making magic weapons.

Keech thought helplessly, the feeling of watching a small thing being built from scratch is really wonderful.

However, Keech was even more worried. If it was discovered that his method of making magic weapons was based on ideas instead of tools, he would be tied to a pillar and burned alive like the devil caught by humans in the story.

Because of this worry, when making the microphone, Keech didn't even dare to let Hill watch from the sidelines, and drove Hill out of the laboratory in the name of fear of being disturbed.

However, although Keech didn't dare to make magic tools in front of others, he found a way to make magic scrolls openly - using that troublesome animal hair brush, pretending to hold the animal hair brush dipped in ink in the The appearance of drawing, in fact, is to use the mind to control the ink on the animal brush, so that it "automatically" transfers from the tip of the pen to the papyrus, flows into the trajectory he needs, and injects the required magic elements into it, finally forming The perfect magic scroll.

After asking Tina, Kiki realized that the real function of the ink is not to attract but to fix—to fix the required magic elements in the corresponding element symbols, so as to ensure that the magic circle can work correctly when the scroll is used.That day, the reason why he directly "painted" a fireball on the papyrus was because there was no special ink used to confine the magic elements, which caused the magic circle to take effect quickly after it was completed, and the success was on the verge of failure.

Making scrolls with ideas is actually very hard work, and consumes almost twice the mental energy of the normal production process, but Keech really doesn't want to waste time on that disobedient pen, and he also intends to find something other than meditation. Ways to improve your mental strength.After all, although meditation is effective, it cannot be carried out indefinitely. After a long time, even if it does not really fall into the "absence" state, it will scare Tina and Avella into screaming and trouble.

Facts have proved that this method of tempering mental power in a frequently used method is also effective, not inferior to long-term meditation, and it is more secretive and difficult to be detected.

In this way, Keech spent three days freely in the mage's tower.

Three days later, the novelty had completely disappeared, and the loneliness had not yet hit, but the less and less food in the kitchen put a lot of pressure on Kitsch.

As for the reason for the pressure, it was because Keech really didn't want to go to the public cafeteria over there. On the one hand, it was because he didn't want to meet Rocky there, and on the other hand, it was because he really didn't have the confidence to arrive at the academy and return to the mage smoothly. tower.

Keech's sense of direction is so poor that he can't help himself. When he was at home, he got lost more than once. Obviously, the way back was not far away, but he couldn't find it because he was separated by a forest.

So, although Hill took him to the academy once, and Avella took him again a few days ago, Keech still couldn't remember the past route.

This may have something to do with his habit of "seeing" the world from another perspective.Whenever he feels lost, he will unconsciously immerse himself in another world, and then, the originally chaotic perspective suddenly becomes more chaotic and difficult to analyze, and he turns a blind eye to the road that he could have seen up.

It is precisely because of this self-knowledge that Kiki never planned to go to the college for dinner, so he didn't ask Avella for a map or anything to guide the way.

But three days have passed, there are only two pieces of bread and a little bacon left in the kitchen, the fruit has been eaten up, and Amir, who is said to be back years ago, is still missing.

——Save some food, let’s endure for a few more days!

Keech thought.

Fortunately, Amir did not let him live a life of starvation.

On the morning of the fourth day, when Kiki was sitting in the hall on the first floor looking at the bread on the plate, hesitating how much to eat, the door behind him suddenly opened, and Amir finally came back.

"Tina has left with Elvira?" Seeing Kiki sitting in the hall by himself, Amir asked without closing the door.

"Yeah." Kitty responded.

"Then you pack up too and come with me." Amir said indifferently.

"Eh?" Kiki couldn't help being stunned for a moment, "Where are you going?"

"My mage's tower." Amir replied, "Just bring a few changes of clothes, and you don't need anything else, there are them over there."

Keech hesitated for a moment, but he still stood up, picked up the bread on the table and stuffed it into his mouth, then turned and walked towards the stairs, and quickly walked down with a fluffy handbag.

When Kiki came to the Magic Association, he was completely empty-handed. After four months, apart from the alchemy materials in the laboratory and the books in the room, he still didn't add much to other daily necessities.The outerwear is only two apprentice robes issued by the association, and the underwear is given by Hill.Avella once wanted to help him make two new ones, but she really didn't have the talent in handicrafts, and the things she made were a waste of fabric and couldn't be worn at all.In the end, Hill asked someone to buy some in the city of Yasha, which completely freed Kiki from the dilemma of having no clothes to change.

Amir didn't ask Kiki what he had brought, turned around, led him out of the Mage Tower, locked the gate of the Mage Tower from the outside, and then took Kiki to the gate of the Magic Association.

An inconspicuous four-wheeled carriage was already waiting there. Amir led Kiki into the carriage, closed the door, knocked on the window, and the carriage moved quickly.

"Where are we going?" Keech couldn't help asking, "Are you... coming back?"

"Maybe." Amir replied nonchalantly.