I'm not a magician

The next day was a rest day. Ji Chi arrived at the gate of the Equipment Academy early in the morning and waited for Linton standing under a bronze statue called God's Hand. The copper-yellow God's Hand held a sharp carving knife , pointing high to the sky.

Usually at this time, the entrance of the Equipment Academy is usually empty, and those equipment engineers who live outside the sky prefer to stay in the dormitory or the equipment refining room.

But today is different. The news of the equipment competition has already been boiling in the college, which has inspired a group of nerds and nerds to go out to find suitable materials and teammates to compete with.

There were people coming and going at the gate of the academy, and many people gathered under the eye-catching bronze statue, covering most of Ji Chi's inconspicuous figure.

Ji Chi lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then took out a gold coin from his pocket, put it between his thumbs, and flicked it upwards.

"Bounce—" The gold coin and the fingernail made a crisp impact sound, the shiny surface reflected the sunlight, flipped and flashed a few times in mid-air, and was quickly caught by the other hand.

"Phew... I've been looking for you for a long time, there must be too many people today!" Linton indeed searched for Ji Chi in the crowd for a long time but couldn't find it. Later, relying on his sensitivity to gold coins, he saw the gold coin toss at a glance Ji Chi.

While complaining, Linton quietly put the gold coins into his pocket.

Ji Chi glanced at him speechlessly: "I said, according to your talent, you shouldn't be short of money, right? How did you get to this point..."

Linton rubbed the gold coins through his pocket, thought of something, and laughed mockingly: "Well, I am very talented, and I was able to make quite advanced equipment very early. But so what... In such a place , who am I going to sell it to? A group of ordinary people who can’t get enough to eat, who would need expensive staff and arrows?”

"Even if I want to sell to the lords, I have to make them think of me. More lords who are able to buy equipment, who would want the work of a dirty commoner?" Linton shook his head and sighed, "Aren't you Know that, in the remotest swamps, people would rather eat black bread at a time than extremely gifted."

Linton looked up at the worried face of the equipment engineer calmly, and said softly, "It's another world over there."

Ji Chi didn't question him ignorantly why he didn't escape. From his observation, Linton must have amassed a lot of wealth during the year he came to Wangcheng, but he still searched and searched, and the thin cloth boots on his feet were worn out. I took a bite and didn't change a pair.

Coupled with his habit of kidnapping magic carrier pigeons every three days, he should have sent all the gold coins back to East Town.

Seeing this, Ji Chi turned a blind eye to Linton's behavior, and let him try to trick his own gold coins.

Linton raised his foot and wanted to leave, but seeing that Ji Chi was still stuck in place, he asked him suspiciously, "Why don't you leave, didn't you mean to take me to meet someone?"

Ji Chi responded: "Wait a minute, there are still people who will go with us."

As soon as the voice fell, the surroundings suddenly fell silent, and they stopped and stared in the same direction.

Chloe walked slowly from the academy with that pretty face that made her lose her mind.

She learned many human gait styles, but couldn't figure out which one to use in which situation.

Just like now, Chloe seemed to recall a certain tavern girl who was posing, and her walking pace could not help but become graceful, and the wide and rigid robes of the equipment technician could not conceal the overwhelming charm.

Ji Chi saw her with a cold face, swaying her waist and twisting her hips like a formula, silently raised her hand to cover her face, and sighed heavily.

He thought of the science candidates who forcibly applied formulas in the previous life. In the eyes of the teacher, it should be such a disaster...

Maybe it was because his expression was too desperate, Chloe paused, pondered for a while, straightened his back, and walked towards the two of them with big strides.

Lin Dun was still intoxicated by the boundless beauty of the beauty, but in the next second, the little beauty seamlessly transformed into a holy warrior, holding her head high and chest out in a menacing manner, showing a kind of tragic meaning of pulling mountains and rivers.

Ji Chi no longer expected her to understand, so he turned his head and said weakly, "Let's go, let's take a carriage to Central Avenue."

Since the equipment competition was confirmed to be held in Saint-Terry, the number of visitors to the royal city has increased a lot, and the business of people and carriages has boomed visibly, even if it is handed a gold coin, it can be easily broken.

"Fortunately, I have attracted a lot of customers recently, otherwise, where would I find a gold coin!" Ren Ma took the gold coin and looked at it fondly, counted out the silver coins and copper coins for change, and then put a handful of broken coins in the waiting room. on the palm in front of you.

Linton took the broken coins, swallowed imperceptibly, and held them in front of Chloe: "Does Chloe need change? It's very inconvenient to not have change~"

Ji Chi couldn't stand it anymore, and glanced at him coldly: "Did I lose my memory? It seems that I was the one who paid the fare with gold coins without change?"

Chloe shook her head: "No need, Chloe has enough coins. Doesn't Ji Chi have any change? Chloe can give you some."

As she spoke, she was about to savagely dig out her stomach in the street, but was stopped by Ji Chi.

Ji Chi sighed deeply again, exhausted by the torment of these two people: "Stop making trouble with the ancestors, let's go quickly, the appointment time is coming, and there is still a powder keg waiting for me to face... ..."

Ji Chihe made an appointment to meet at the staff shop at [-]:[-] in the morning, and now it has been more than ten minutes overtime, and Bud can't help but run outside the shop door, looking around with his head.

The first thing he saw was Chloe's walking posture that her six relatives didn't recognize. The wrinkles at the corners of her eyes stretched out. He quickly turned around and opened the store door a little. tripped over it.

"Come in, come in! Why haven't you been back for the past two weeks? Are you still used to being in the academy? Are you feeling okay? Are the students easy to get along with?" Bard pulled Chloe to look around seriously, Mouth nagging complaining.

Having been together day and night for more than a year, he has long regarded Chloe as a family-like existence.He has no children, and the few students who are not many students are dead or scattered. He has already planned his future affairs - when he completes the goal he has been insisting on, he will sell the hard work he has hoarded over the years, and part of it will be repaid to Ji. Leave the rest to Chloe, and he can close his eyes quietly.

Bud took Chloe's hand and observed carefully, making sure that the special materials on her body were not damaged.

As soon as Linton entered the staff shop, he couldn't help looking at the exquisite staffs in the display cabinet with the probing eyes of an equipment maker. He was fascinated by the works of art, and he came to the shop unconsciously. At the deepest point, the toe accidentally kicked an abrupt hard object.

Linton lowered his head and found that a thick book had fallen on the ground, and the corner of the book was stuck under the table leg.

He bent down, pulled out the tome with a little effort, saw the words on the cover, and read it softly: "Hephaestus taught you how to refine a legendary weapon... Hahahaha this is Did you buy it from a stall in the classics area? Recently, many people like to buy things under the banner of the God of Forging."

He didn't think it was an important item, so he flipped through it casually. The pages in the classics were very clean, and the scribbled ancient characters clearly came into view. These characters were inexplicably familiar, but Linton couldn't remember where he had read them for a while. been.

He shook his head and continued to flip through the pages, only to find that there were many magical notes between the pages, and the palm-sized parchment was crowded with notes.

"Huh? Has anyone read this stuff seriously? Is it really useful?" Linton couldn't help becoming curious, and flipped the page to the end—he has a habit of reading books, and he likes to read the final conclusion first. Can save a lot of time.

So, he met Fitos's mean ending at a glance.

"Hahahaha!" Linton burst out laughing while holding the classic book, "I knew it! I knew it was a lie at first sight. Who would be stupid enough to read it!"

He smiled and suddenly felt a chill behind his back, and turned around wiping away his tears.

Bud stared at him blankly for a while, then turned to stare at Ji Chi blankly, seeing that the powder keg was about to explode.

Ji Chi hurriedly raised his hand: "I reminded you earlier to start reading from the last page...but you also put it on the corner of the table, so it's evened?"

Linton knew that Bard and Chloe had a very close relationship, and scolded together: "That's right, that's right, this kind of prank book pretending to be the god of forging, you should tear it up and burn it! Don't let this blasphemous Stuff stays in the world!"

"There is no fake, it was written by the God of Forging." Ji Chi, Chloe, and Bud, three insiders, spoke at the same time, and turned their heads to talk to him lightly.

Ji Chi turned back again, continued to complain to Bud, and described his experience of being played by Fitos several times in tears.

When Bud heard that he was not only being tricked, his mood suddenly became more balanced, and the depression he felt after studying day and night for the past few months and seeing the last page spit out a mouthful of old blood also disappeared a lot.

He looked at Linton: "This child is..."

Linton held the classic with trembling hands, and knelt on the ground with a plop.

"...What's wrong with this child?" Bud looked back at Ji Chi dissatisfied.

"You, you said... This is written by the God of Forging???" Linton was so weak that he couldn't stand upright. As a typical machine maker, the God of Forging is of course the existence they believe in.

If he had just held the words written by his idol, Linton would not have lost his composure, but the scary thing is that he was very familiar with this handwriting, and he remembered—if his childhood memories are reliable, his teacher was probably ……god.

"Ms. Fitos..." Linton murmured like a mosquito.

"What?" Bud seemed to hear a familiar name and asked with a frown.

Ji Chi stepped forward and lifted the limp Linton to his feet: "Okay, okay, don't lose your composure in front of Master."

Lin Dun supported Ji Chi to stand up with difficulty, closed his eyes to calm down the turbulent heart, and twitched his mouth: "So you asked me to meet the leader of the team... Unfortunately, I am qualified to be the team leader myself, and I don't want any random person to interfere with my thoughts."

Linton is still very proud of his profession. In his life, he will only bow down to two masters of equipment, one is his first teacher, and the other is the long-reclusive Master Borg.

"Huh? I thought you would be very happy?" Ji Chi looked down at him in confusion, "Don't you think highly of Master Borg? Well, he is."

Plop——Linton's feet went limp, and he knelt down on the spot again. He raised his head and looked at Bud in panic, his lips trembling violently: "...huh?"