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Holy Spirit Day.

Cecilia City Adventurer Hotel.

"Dr. Marin hasn't come back yet?"

Senior Rune Master Erbi confirmed to his colleague Nair.

Nair had been knocking hard on the door of the next room before, and now hearing the question from his companion, he knocked hard a few more times, and waited for a while, but there was no response from the room, as if it was uninhabited.

Nair shrugged at Erbi.

"Damn it, where did he go?" Erbi cursed, he looked anxiously at the closed door, and then at the direction of the stairs: "Otherwise, we'd better go to the hostess at the hotel and let them Open the door and check..."

"no!"

Nair took out the small slate that he carried with him, and wrote on it in large bright red characters.

Then he erased the words on it and quickly wrote on it: "If he really ran away, what should the hotel do if we help him pay for the room?"

"Is there a deposit for staying here? Can't that be offset?" Erbi said.

"Then they know we're out of money, do you want to be kicked out?" Nair continued.

And emphatically: "Today?"

It was a bit miserable to be kicked out of the house on Holy Spirit Day.

Erbi scratched his head: "Then let's just knock the door open."

"Will alarm others," Nair wrote on the slate. "Break it, pay for it."

"This won't work, that won't work either! Can we just wait here?" Erbi cursed, pacing repeatedly in the corridor, "Sure enough, businessmen are untrustworthy guys."

A few days ago, you were very happy to meet a nobleman!

Nair wanted to write this on the slate, but after thinking about it, he held back.

After all, he thought he was the same as Erbi when he met a noble person.

Both Nair and Erbi are high-ranking rune masters in the capital, but they are very poor.

very poor.

This is also the living condition of many rune masters.

If we want to talk about the reason, it is because runes are too easy and too profound.

It's easy to say, because runes are the basic discipline of magic, and even "ordinary people" without talent can learn it with a little improvement in magic perception.

Therefore, all the mages thought, "If I want to write the runes of this magic circle, of course I can do it, but it's too troublesome to write. It takes a day to write a thousand words. It's so tiring. It's better to let the apprentices write it." , so all the magic apprentices in the first few years of entering the mage tower, in addition to doing chores, did the most to write runes, and when they became mages, they repeated a round of "I also wrote so many runes back then. Maybe not? It’s just too troublesome, just find a few apprentices” cycle.

The rune master is therefore at the bottom of the mage's contempt chain.

Basically, mages with some other research directions will not specifically choose runes.

But at the same time, runes are also very esoteric.

Runes are words that store magic power to achieve magical effects.

It requires the rune master to understand the meaning of a certain rune, the chain effect of each other, and understand the magic itself displayed by the runes, and use the interrelationship between the runes to show it.

Therefore, the more advanced a mage is, the more difficult it is to write his own spell runes.

——It's like breathing. High-level mages can use magic like breathing, but it's almost impossible for them to explain the principle of breathing and simulate the effect of breathing with a set of runes.

From this point of view, it is right for mages to let their apprentices learn runes. Magic apprentices can use runes to reverse the teacher's magic principles and restore the details of spellcasting until they learn the magic themselves.

But for some high-level mages, some spells they don't want to hand over to their apprentices, and because the magic circle is too complicated, when they can't draw it themselves, it is very embarrassing. At this time, their apprentices believe No, let alone a foreign rune master.

The countermeasure of high-level mages is to cultivate "own rune masters".

They choose to train apprentices who have enough magic power perception talent but low magic power to become rune masters, and only write runes for themselves. This type of rune masters is not allowed to learn magic. They are equivalent to the "livestock" of high-level mages.

Therefore, there are only two types of high-level rune masters:

One is the "livestock" of the mage tower;

The other is a wild rune master who went astray during his apprenticeship, didn't learn serious magic, but ordered the rune experience tree, and no one wanted to trust him.

Nair is the former, and Erbi is the latter.

Nair was originally a rune master kept in captivity in a platinum mage tower in the capital. His "master" directly cut off Nair's vocal cords in order to prevent Nair from revealing magical secrets and to prevent Nair from becoming a mage. , taking away Nel's spellcasting ability.

But this "master" was killed in a political struggle this spring, and his mage tower was also incorporated by other mages.

Nair knew that the "new master" would definitely torture his soul to ask the original master's magic secrets, so he escaped with his team overnight. Although he was able to save his life, he lost his job.

In particular, Nair was not alone. With his assistant apprentices, a group of people took the job and were worried about being found by the "new master", and they were almost forced to die if they didn't take the job and would starve to death.

In contrast, the experience of Erbi is very simple.

Erbi was originally not very talented in magic. He was a low-level member of an unknown bronze mage tower, but he had a strong comprehension ability, and he also liked to study runes. As a result, he failed the mage exam, but got the rune master's high degree early. level certificate.

People like Erbi were originally very popular with nobles in the Magic Age. In fact, even if it wasn't the Magic Age, if Erbi was born in Cecilia, he would not be short of work.

Erbi was unlucky enough to be born in the royal capital with the most secrets, and he didn't want to sell himself, so he had to hang out in this mage tower today, and work odd jobs in that mage tower tomorrow to make ends meet.

Such Erbi picked up Nair in the spring, and then got poorer.

It was also at this time that several businessmen from Shesser found them.

These businessmen praised Erbi and Nair's talents, and wanted to decipher the runes of the alchemy prop "game table" produced by a certain alchemy workshop, and carry out a large number of replica production.

Erbi and Nair originally wanted to refuse.

Although they don't know the word "patent", even among mages, it is very taboo to secretly learn other people's magic, not to mention that Nair's vocal cords were cut off because of this.

Moreover, the runes on the game table may seem simple, but there is a strong encryption magic on them. Erbi and Nair understood that the other party is a big boss that they must not provoke after only a preliminary analysis, so they don't want to get into such troubles. .

But they are really poor (again).

Erbi and Nair's moral sense is not very high. Under the extreme poverty, they are basically considering committing crimes seriously, so it doesn't seem to matter in what form they commit crimes.

Not to mention that the merchants promise a lot of money, which is the fastest way to get benefits.

Erbi and Nair finally agreed to the businessman's request, and under the leadership of one of them called "Dr. Marin", they went to Cecilia to conduct research on the game table.

——The reason why they came to Cecilia instead of letting someone steal the rune core of the game table to crack it was because Erbi and Nair did not dare to crack the encryption magic on the rune core in the end, they chose to bypass the encryption magic, By confirming the effect of the game table, write the rune yourself to reproduce the game function.

I have to say that Erbi and Nair had a very comfortable life.

In order to express their sincerity, the businessmen provided the best carriages, the best hotels, the best rooms, and the best meals along the way, so that only the two high-ranking rune masters could concentrate on studying runes.

And the game table is also very interesting.

"Art, this is art!"

When Erbi tried playing the game table, he kept sighing like that.

Nair was also amazed by the capabilities of the gaming table.

Before that, they always thought that runes were just a continuation of magic, just to reproduce a certain magic or delay the release time of a certain magic, but the game table subverted this concept.

It has nothing to do with magic - no, it can't be said that it has nothing to do with it, the game table can be beneficial to practice meditation and magic control - but its main function is for games, so it will have a dozen or even dozens of completely unrelated magic They are precisely connected together, just to allow ordinary people without talent to use phantoms to achieve simple functions such as "jumping" and "running".

Ordinary magicians probably can't see how difficult this is, and it's just a waste of resources to them.

After all, in the eyes of many magicians, it only takes two steps to write a forbidden spell rune - write a rune, and insert a forbidden spell into the rune - that's it.

For a rune master, this is a blatant show off!

Only those who actually write the runes understand how difficult it is to achieve this chain effect perfectly.

"I heard that in the age of ancient magic, some magic mazes designed by rune masters can achieve such an effect," Nair wrote excitedly on the slate: "He is using a phantom to simulate the effect of a magic maze, right?"

If they weren't planning to steal each other's achievements, both Erbi and Nair wanted to meet the creator of this set of runes.

And how to reproduce these runes is also very interesting (in the eyes of high-level rune masters).

In particular, the great rune master obviously created his own set of rune rules. As long as he finds the existence of those rules, he can add his own things to the game, or even write his own game.

Erbi likes to add some settings that he suddenly thought of.

Unfortunately, all were rejected.

"No! This can't work, gentlemen! We want the exact same product, you just need to copy it! What if those whimsical changes affect the sales of the game table?!" The other party yelled.

"No way, bear with it! When we get the money, we can make our own game table." Neil wrote Erbi comfortingly on the slate.

"It's not that I want to play, I just..." Erbi was extremely frustrated at this time, "Ha, forget it! This set of rune rules is not our thing. After all, we are just hired thieves That's all."

Nair also sighed, and looked at the crowded crowd at the game table.

At this time, he was very jealous of the residents of the magical capital, especially when he heard that the waifs on the street could go to the magic gear as a rune apprentice after receiving simple rune training.

But that is the benefit of ignorant children, right?

For a high-level rune master like myself, the other party will definitely worry that I will steal his core secrets.

Speaking of which, isn't that what you're doing?

Neil gave a wry smile.

Nair gave up thinking, and only concentrated on continuing the "copying" of the game table. As a result, when he and Erbi had almost copied the rune core, "Dr. Marin" suddenly disappeared.

Because Dr. Marin used to go out occasionally for several days to handle his "private affairs", Erbi and Neil didn't notice each other's disappearance at first.

They only found out that Dr. Marin was missing when they asked at the hotel if the room service would be renewed.

——This hotel only provides a free morning buffet, and guests need to purchase lunch and dinner by themselves. Considering the work and rest of the rune master, Dr. Marin arranged a meal delivery service for the two of them, and asked the hotel to deliver the meals to the door of the rune master .

The two high-ranking rune masters suddenly became anxious.

They have no money!

Although the merchants gave them a deposit, Nair used it to place his assistant apprentices. During the ensuing journey, although the merchants were generous, they did not actually provide cash, and even encouraged the rune masters to spend money indiscriminately. , so that the rune masters can rely on them more.

Now that the merchant is gone, the two runemasters are in trouble.

Not to mention checking out, they can't even afford a return ticket.

The most horrifying thing is that Erbi and Nair's investigation found that not only Dr. Marin had disappeared, but also some other businessmen from Shesser who seemed to be familiar with Dr. Marin also disappeared.

In the past few days, Erbi and Nair survived by the morning buffet.

But they know that if they continue to procrastinate like this, when the hotel fee exceeds the deposit in advance, the hotel will almost come up and ask them for the room fee.

"Isn't something going to happen to them?" Erbi turned around in the corridor several times, guessing in a low voice, "I heard that the owner of the alchemy workshop is a black robe, maybe they already...?"

"If this is the case, the black robe should not let us go." Nair wrote on the slate.

There have been several similar discussions, and at first they were comforting each other, but now, a few days later, Nair even hopes that the black robes have discovered their criminal behavior, even if they are killed, it is better than being so indifferent.

"But……"

Erbi wanted to say something, but Neil heard footsteps coming from the other side of the stairs, and quickly erased the writing on the slate, and Erbi pretended to stand in the corridor occasionally.

Coming down from upstairs was the Rachel family.

They were all dressed up brightly, and they looked like they were going to a carnival night.

Mr. Rachel noticed Erbi and Nair in the corridor, and greeted him enthusiastically: "Mr. Erbi, Mr. Nair, Happy Holy Spirit's Day! May the Holy Spirit Fairy bless you! Are you planning to participate in the Holy Spirit Carnival Night? "

Who still has the mind to participate in some carnival?

The two high-level rune masters muttered in their hearts.

They met Mr. Rachel when they were eating the buffet breakfast. At that time, they were discussing the mathematical formulas necessary to achieve a certain magical effect. mathematics) relationship.

Erbi's personality is relatively smooth, and he immediately smiled.

"May the Holy Spirit Fairy bless you and your family, as well as our lovely magical girl!" Erbi said, hugged each other according to the etiquette of the Holy Spirit's Day, and then replied, "We are not ready yet!  … ...I planned to go with our friend, but he didn't know when he went out, did you meet him? These two days."

Erbi pretended not to care and inquired.

Mr. Rachel also met 'Dr. Marin' several times, but he didn't want to have another encounter with these picky businessmen during his precious vacation time, so he didn't care about each other.

When Erbi was mentioned, he recalled carefully: "Unfortunately, we didn't meet him."

"Oh..." Erbi said disappointedly.

"That businessman!" Mrs. Rachel snorted coldly.

She was very proud that her husband had made friends with two high-ranking rune masters—because she didn't know the status of rune masters in the magic circle—but she looked down on the businessman who was also from Chesser.

She covered her mouth with a Holy Spirit fan decorated with a lot of flowers, and whispered: "He doesn't seem to be a good person, and he is a little crazy. I saw him talking to himself in the garden on the first floor of the hotel a long time ago. Language! Two master mages, it is better for you to keep a distance from that kind of person, and you will be used if you don’t speak well—”

"Okay!" Mr. Rachel pulled his gossiping wife over.

He smiled wryly at the two high-level rune masters: "Then let's go to the square first! Remember to hurry up! The annual meeting of Magic Gear will start in half an hour, and the owner of the workshop will also appear .I remember you admire each other, right? Then it would be a pity to miss it."

"Okay." Erbi waved his hand.

He watched Rachel's family leave before he heaved a sigh of relief.

"These mortals' lives are really chic!" Erbi sighed.

If I hadn't entered the mage's tower, wouldn't I be so happy?

Erbi thought this way, so he didn't dare to think about it further.

The birth of Erbi is actually pretty good, similar to that of Mr. Lei Qie's family, but the rules of the Mage Tower in Wangdu are much stricter than other places. Even if the talent of Erbi is not particularly outstanding, entering the Mage Tower is "not too big." Once detected, they must also enter the Mage Tower and sever ties with the family.

Among them, families with poor births were completely destroyed because of "insulting the blood of God's Chosen".

As a result, Erbi is doing very badly now, and he doesn't dare to ask his family for help. He even changed his original name, because he is afraid that one day he will bring disaster to his family.

Erbi sighed and turned around, only to see Nair holding up the slate:

"Shall we go too?"

"? Why? You don't really want to see that black robe, do you?" Erbi said.

He is very conscious of a thief, and he dare not even approach the magic gear

"But our employer is gone, so maybe we don't have to steal anymore," Nair wrote.

"That's right." If you don't have to feel sorry for the other party, Erbi also wants to meet the rune master, maybe you can ask for an autograph or something!

Erbi nodded hesitantly.

Seeing this, Nair put away his pen and did not write a sentence "If the incident really happened, I will admit it if I am caught."

After all, although they didn't succeed, they really learned a lot.

After the two high-level rune masters made such a decision, they delayed going out for more than half an hour.

After all, they were guilty of thieves, and after wearing a full set of mage equipment and a lot of defensive rune stones, they felt a little more at ease.

It’s just that it’s really too late to go out at this time, even the first parade has gone to the square, the streets of the city seem a little empty, only large (data redundant) petals are dancing in the air, and occasionally some people wearing the holy spirit can be seen Decorated guards patrol the streets.

"Happy Holy Spirit's Day." One of the "guards" greeted the two high-level rune masters.

"Happy Holy Spirit's Day!" Erbi responded, "I still have to work today, it's hard work."

"No way, the boss is very worried that the server will crash!" The other party said in Erbi's incomprehensible words, and handed the net bags in the shape of fairy sticks to the two, "It seems that you haven't received them yet, please take this!"

"what is this?"

"Receive the props for the blessing of the Holy Spirit Fairy." The guard laughed.

Some rich people will throw some candy and candied snacks in the name of the blessing of the saint and fairies on Holy Spirit's Day. Among them, the local tyrants will directly throw coins. This net bag should be used to catch those, right?

After two words of thanks, I took it over.

At last they came to the square.

The square is full of people, of course, most of the city's residents are here.

But what is amazing is that there are goblins, pegasus, eagles and other mythical creatures flying in the sky of the square, and there are also elves, goblins, treants, orcs and other creatures mixed in the crowd, especially in the square. On the east side, there is also a red dragon sitting there, it is still exhaling the breath of sparks, it doesn't look like a phantom at all!

Erbi heard someone explaining to his daughter:

"The last meeting of all races at the end of the Second Era, when the people also gathered in this location to hear Miss Cecilia's speech of peace."

"Is Ms. Celilia the beautiful witch sister in the mirror?"

"Yes, she is also the envoy who made the ten thousand races conclude a peace treaty!"

"Lily wants to be a magical girl like Celia."

The little girl said inarticulately.

"That's right! That charming girl charmed all races, but only made everyone sign a peace treaty, which is quite funny," Erbi couldn't help muttering to Neil, "Don't normal heartthrobs should Was the enchantress, a disaster to the country, robbed by all the kings and princes, and then became the chief culprit of the war?"

Did you just find out today?

Nair glanced at Erbi, but found that he didn't seem to have thought about this issue before today.

After all, when people mentioned the Charming Daughter in the past, they always said how beautiful she was, how she charmed the God of Light and so on...

As Nair thought so, his body bumped into other people backwards, Nair turned his head in a panic, and Erbi had already shouted on his behalf: "I'm sorry...wow, what a handsome guy!"

That's right, Neil met a handsome blond guy in a white cloak.

The kind that can make men can't help but express their admiration.

The handsome blond guy was staring blankly at the direction of the stage in the center of the square. He only reacted when he heard Erbi's apology. He seemed to be in a daze and shook his head: "It's okay." Then he covered his face with a cloak and walked quickly into the crowd .

After he walked away, Erbi muttered: "How can such a handsome guy exist? He should be part of the phantom.".

Nair patted Erbi's hand vigorously, suddenly relieved.

Too!With the phantoms of so many races gathered here, and the past and present converge, wouldn't it be rude to say "Daughter of Enchantment"?No matter how great Cecilia's personal charm is, it won't make all races compromise just because of her beauty, let's even gather here!

Her philosophy must be better than her appearance.

Nair was suddenly a little curious about the content of the Holy Spirit Night thousands of years ago.

It is a pity that although the phantom magic in the city reproduces the scene of all races gathering in the square, what exists in the center of the stage is the image that exists now.

And it wasn't even Cecilia from the alchemy workshop, it was a black cat with a bow tie.

"...Next, it will be our best game designer!" Black Cat said.

The image of the black cat is magnified by the magic screen, and can be seen from the edge of the square.

It's just that the two rune masters came too late, they didn't know what they were doing on the stage now, and it didn't look like they were performing.

Erbi couldn't help asking passers-by: "What is that black cat talking about?"

The passerby he questioned didn't answer, he was just a phantom.

Instead, another passer-by girl replied: "You guys are late, the results of last year's best game award were just announced! Now it's the best game designer award."

That person is obviously very interested in the previous award, but not interested in the latter award. After all, most players don't care who the designer of the game is.

The same goes for Erbi.

"Ah, that's such a pity!" Erbi sighed, he was really curious: "What's the best game? Star picking at the beginning? Or the magic arena later?"

"Yes... ah ah ah ah! So handsome!"

The passer-by girl was about to answer when she glanced at the stage and suddenly let out a horrific scream.

Erbi thought that this girl's feet were stepped on!

But then the deafening screams and cheers told him that not only this girl's feet were trampled on, but all the girls' feet were trampled on!

Accompanied by such screams, a handsome boy with smoky gray hair and an ordinary youth walked onto the stage, and a pattern of a table game was displayed on the magic screen.

The black cat announced: "This is the best designer of our magic gear this year!"

"The creator of "The Treasure Thief"!"

"Brilliant young rune master!"

"Silver Leaf and XX!"

"Ahhhh-"

A burst of screams almost pierced Erbi's eardrums. He felt that this had nothing to do with the best employee or anything. The girl screaming at the scene was purely because of the other party's face!

Their screams covered the name of the young man behind them.

Damn, it's just a stage effect, the blond man standing here just now is not bad!Is it worth girls screaming like that?

Didn't Magic Gear really choose such an employee on purpose to incite the audience?

Erbi who thought this way obviously ignored that ordinary young man.

"How could such a handsome guy be interested in writing runes?" Erbi said to Nair, "It's too late to deal with girls!"

"..." You are prejudiced.

Nair struggled with not being able to complain on the slate.

But he soon lost the time to make complaints, because the handsome guy on the stage also attracted him, and he had a second stroke.

"Thank you! Thank you Mithril-sama! Thank you everyone too! I'm embarrassed to be praised like this." Yinye said.

His slightly shy (business) smile made the girls scream again.

This is the part that can be ignored.

After waiting for the screaming to subside, Silver Leaf said: "I can get the best employee award this time, it's just at the right time! Because as a student of Academy City, I was more fortunate than everyone else to enter the Magic Gears, access to the rune game."

"And compared to me, the owner of Magic Gear, Angel Cecilia is a truly outstanding designer! Most of the games on everyone's favorite game table are his masterpieces! It's just his humble opinion that this The award cannot be awarded to himself! He hopes that more talented rune masters can join in the development of rune games!"

"For this reason, he sent invitation letters to all the rune masters in this world—"

"Regardless of origin, regardless of level, as long as you are interested in rune games, you can join Magic Gear and learn the rune rules he has studied! Participate in the design of rune games! We will use the game table as a platform to develop and promote each other's development The game! And give a generous share!"

That master rune master is so generous?Willing to publish your own rune rules?

That is to say, I can learn without stealing?

Nair's eyes widened in disbelief, then he pulled Erbi's sleeve hard and looked at the other party, "..." If that's the case, we can join in too!

Erbi understood Nair's meaning, but didn't think it was appropriate: "Are you crazy? Before we..."

"Really, you stole my lines meow!" On the stage, the black cat said to the lines,

It glared at Yinye who was smiling shyly: "Okay! Let's take a look at the rewards of the first winners, Mr. Yinye and Mr. XX. The total is—"

A huge number appeared on the magic screen.

There was another round of screaming in the square, this time it was not directed at Yinye's face, but at his money.

"That's right! We should go!" Erbi looked at the number and completely changed his mind: "What is fate?! If you can develop the rune game happily, there is still this amount of money! Even if it is the lair of the black robe , we are going to try it too!"