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The next day, after the cultural teaching and lunch were over, Avella once again brought Hill and Keech to the magic laboratory on the third floor.

This time, in addition to the teaching book "Introduction to the Alchemist", Avella also prepared a piece of parchment full of handwriting, a pile of blank straw, quill pens, ink bottles and other stationery for scribbling.

When Hill and Keech stood in front of the long oval table with these things, Avella handed the parchment to Hill, and asked him to help relay the words while writing in his own small notebook.

Avella told Keech frankly that her knowledge of alchemy is also very limited. She is only good at making magic scrolls and drawing related magic circles.She can only teach from the part she is good at. If Kiki is more interested in other contents of alchemy, he has to study by himself through books, lest Kiki be instilled by her with possibly wrong cognitions and theories.

Keech didn't care about what he was learning. Leaving home had satisfied all his wishes. Even if Avella didn't teach him anything, he wouldn't feel dissatisfied.

So, Kitsch silently picked up the pen and paper, and followed Avella to learn to draw the most basic elemental symbols.

Although Avella acquiesced in Hill's watching, Hill still consciously did not participate, just watched quietly from the sidelines, and only stepped forward to help Avella when needed.

Having seen Keech's bad handwriting, Hill didn't have high expectations for his drawing talent.But Keech's performance really surprised Hill. He not only quickly drew the first complete and correct element symbol, but also pointed out Avella's carelessness when he continued to learn other symbols. One mistake.

Hill originally wanted to persuade Keech not to be so self-righteous, but before he could speak, Avella patted her head in a daze, picked up the quill, and started to write again.

"Really wrong?" Hill asked in surprise.

Avella nodded with a serious face, picked up her little notebook, wrote down a sentence: "How do you know it's wrong?" and then handed the notebook directly in front of Kidge.

"...the element refuses to attach." Kiki hesitated for a moment before answering.The first few elemental symbols that Avella taught him attracted several similar light spots to linger at the position of the symbols at the moment the drawing was completed, but the one just drawn had no light spots willing to pay attention to it for a long time. Hearing Kiki say this, Avella immediately opened her eyes wide in surprise, and took a pen to write in the notebook: "Can you perceive magic elements?"

"...Well, probably." Keech replied vaguely.

"You must be a genius!" Avella praised in words, then put down her notebook, turned around and ran to a cabinet behind her, and took out some new paper that was thicker than straw paper and yellower than parchment, and a bottle of red ink , and two weird stationery items that look like pens at first glance and then look like brushes—the front end of this thing seems to be tightly bound with some kind of animal hair, glued to a long tubular rod, very similar to a paint brush It is similar, except that the front end of the brush is mostly flat and wide, but the front end of this thing is round and pointed.

——It should be a pen, right?

Keech was guessing that Avella had slipped one of these animal-hair brushes into his hand, and motioned him to turn his attention to her hand.

Avella didn't directly use the newly taken out paper and ink, but dipped the original ink with this animal hair brush, re-drawn on the grass paper, and then let Keech continue to imitate.

The nib of the animal hair brush is very soft. Kiki, who was using this kind of pen for the first time, could not control the strength, and soon frowned depressedly.

Avella covered her mouth and laughed.

Hill also wanted to try it curiously, and Kiki immediately handed over the animal brush.He was almost out of control because of this disobedient thing. If the magic scroll had to be made with this thing, he would definitely choose to give up without hesitation.

Hill took the animal brush, dipped in the ink and began to write with great interest.Sure enough, it is not as easy to use as the quill pen, the thickness of the font is difficult to control, and it is easy to be biased when sketching.

While Hill was entertaining himself with the animal brush, Avella wrote some more words in her little notebook and handed it to Kiki.

"I'll show you how to make a fireball scroll. However, my success rate is not high, and I may not be able to complete it in one go. Be patient!"

Avella also drew a cute smiley face at the end of the line.

Keech nodded and waited for Avella's demonstration.

Avella smiled at him, turned around and took the animal hair brush in her hand to the sink to wash it off, then returned to the round table, dipped some in the red ink she took out, and put a new piece of paper the size of a palm in front of her , took a deep breath as if concentrating.

But just when Avella was about to start drawing, she stopped suddenly, picked up the quill again, and wrote in her notebook: "If you can sense magic elements, then pay attention to my fingers and The movement of the elements between the pen and the papyrus is important for making magic scrolls!"

"Yeah." Kitty nodded seriously.

Avella put down her notebook, put on the animal brush again, and repeated the previous process—breathing, concentrating, and writing.

Kiki watched quietly, and Hill next to him also put down the animal brush in his hand, and watched Avella's every move with breathless breath.

About ten minutes later, Avella put down the animal hair brush angrily, obviously making a mistake as she said before.

Kiki didn't make a sound, but squinted his eyes, secretly using his own strength to observe the part of the pattern that Avella had completed.

Avella rested for a while, and quickly picked up the animal brush again, replaced it with a blank papyrus, and started drawing again.

This time it lasted a lot longer, and the pattern is almost complete. It can already be clearly seen that it is composed of the five elemental symbols that Avella just taught Kiki.

However, when the painting was almost finished, Avella made a mistake again, and the magic elements that had begun to gather on the papyrus immediately dissipated, turning this unfinished magic scroll into a A complete piece of paper.

——The reasons for the two mistakes are different.

Keech thought.The first time it was supposed to be a wrong drawing, but the second time it was an obvious element out of control. The magical element that should have stayed on the papyrus with the ink had an undue change, forcing Avella to stop writing.

——If you keep writing, what will happen?

Keech thought curiously, but habitually did not ask.

Avella rested longer this time, and closed her eyes, and adjusted her breathing rhythmically.

Kiki squinted, staring intently at the magic element beside Avella.With Avella's breathing, those magical elements also vibrated regularly as if echoing, and drove more elements of the same kind to converge towards Avella's side.

--What is this doing?

Keech was puzzled.

About half an hour later, Avella opened her eyes, and picked up the animal hair brush again with a calm expression.

This time, she finally completed the magic scroll full of fire elements in one go.

Avella picked up the magic scroll with satisfaction, and handed it to Kiki on the opposite side without showing off.

Keech silently took the papyrus that could be called a magic scroll, but what he looked at was the ink on it and the paper itself.The composition of the ink seems to be very complicated, and there are many things in it that Keech does not know and has never seen.The paper seems to be made of some kind of plant, and many of its elements often appear in plants, but Keech can't tell what kind of plant it is, let alone the significance of judging it.

After looking at it for a while, Kiki changed hands and gave the magic scroll to Hill next to him.

Hill froze for a moment, then quickly laughed, and only glanced at it casually, and then handed it back to Avella.

Avella had finished writing on her notebook at this time, and while taking back the scroll, she held up the notebook in front of Hill and Keech.

"Let's go next door and test this scroll! By the way, let Kiki see how this scroll is used!" Avella wrote in the notebook.

"Okay." Hill nodded happily, took Kiki's hand, and followed Avella out of the magic laboratory.

There are three rooms in the third floor of the stone tower, which are distributed in a fan shape like the second floor, but one of them occupies a larger area, unlike the four rooms on the second floor.

Avella's laboratory was one of the two smaller rooms, and it was the larger room that took Hill and Keech into now.The room was empty and dark, except for the four walls and a door, there were no windows, and there was nothing of furniture.

After entering the door, Avella groped on the wall on the left side of the door. Soon, Hill and Kidge heard a "click", and the whole room instantly brightened.

Keech looked up curiously along the light source, but saw a translucent crystal ball emitting a dazzling light without flickering just like the sun.

"It's a magic lamp." Hill explained, "It uses a rare magic core to provide magic power, which can only be seen in the Magic Association."

"Why did it light up? It doesn't seem to be fire, and there is no fire element in it." Kiki asked suspiciously.

"That's beyond what I can know." Hill shrugged regretfully.

Hearing their conversation, Avella turned her head helplessly, raised her hand and shook in front of the two, signaling them to turn their attention back to herself.

Hill and Keech immediately stopped chatting and watched Avella's demonstration intently.

But Avella's next action disappointed Keech. She just turned the side of the scroll with the pattern towards the wall, and then tore it apart——

A fist-sized fireball immediately emerged from the cracked part of the scroll, flew towards the wall with a "bang", and was absorbed by the wall the moment it hit the wall.

--It does not make sense!This is the end?

Kiki frowned suddenly, and looked at Hill beside him suspiciously.

"The one made by Avella should be a simple scroll that ordinary people can use." Hill coughed lightly, and explained with his little knowledge of magic as much as possible.

Avella also pursed her lips innocently, obviously feeling helpless at Kiki's dissatisfaction.

"Don't be too ambitious, kid, even such a simple magic scroll, you can't make it!" Hill patted Kiki on the shoulder and reprimanded him pretending to be serious.

Kitsch curled his lips and rolled his eyes back at Hill.

Elvira next to her couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.

After consuming the newly made magic scroll, the three of them returned to the magic laboratory next door and continued to practice drawing elemental symbols with Kiki.

Avella did not demonstrate more elemental symbols, but only asked Keech to memorize and draw the five he had learned, and seriously stated that if Keech could not use these five elemental symbols to draw a lowest-level Fireball scroll, she will not teach Keech any more elemental symbols.

It didn't take Keech much effort to memorize all the five symbols, but unfortunately, he could only draw them correctly with a hard quill pen. Once he changed to a soft animal hair pen, the things he drew would be bad immediately It's hard to see.

"Do I have to use this pen?" Keech couldn't help asking.

Avella shrugged and made a look of helplessness.

Keech had no choice but to hang his head in frustration, resigned to his fate and continued to compete with the disobedient animal brush.

Until the sun went down, Keech didn't make any progress that could be judged by eyes.It was just that it was time for dinner, so Avella ended the day's teaching and urged the two to go to the bathroom to wash their hands and go downstairs for dinner.

Just when he was about to leave, Kiki suddenly had a somewhat arrogant idea, but after hesitating for a while, he finally tentatively asked Avella, "Can you give me the used scroll? "

Avella froze for a moment, then quickly nodded with a smile, and handed the torn papyrus to Kiki.

After receiving the papyrus, Kiki bit his lips and asked again, "Can you give me another blank papyrus?"

Avella blinked suspiciously, but still took out two papyrus from the papyrus that was about to be put away, picked up another animal hair brush, stuffed them into Kiki's hands together, and wrote Said, "For safety, I won't give you the ink. Practice with ordinary ink first, is that okay?"

"Well, don't need that." Keech nodded.In fact, he didn't want and didn't need this beast brush, but the refusal might make Avella suspicious, so he cautiously took it along with the papyrus.

After dinner, Keech remembered Hill's suggestion to let him take a bath more often, and offered to go to the bathroom with Hill.

Although Hill wanted to shirk because of his abnormal reaction yesterday, he couldn't find a suitable reason for a while, so he had to bite the bullet and agree.

Fortunately, perhaps because of psychological preparation, although Hill's organ still showed signs of being ready to move when he saw Kiki naked, the reaction was not as uncontrollable as yesterday.Hill tried hard to think about boring things that had nothing to do with lust, and finally restored the calmness that the beast under him should have.

However, this time Keech did not leave early.

So, after taking a shower, Hill was exhausted.

Although Keech was puzzled by Hill's exhaustion, but since he had something to hide, he didn't pay much attention to it. After saying goodbye to Hill, he went into his room and tore the papyrus that had been torn in half. I took it in my hand.

—Try it!

Looking at the papyrus in his hand, Keech said to himself.