Victor was sitting in the carriage waiting for the servant's notification, but Vega's low chirping voice came to his ears.
"Are you interested in that extinct volcano?"
The one-eyed crow was combing its shiny feathers again. The body may be too fat and the beak can no longer reach the back.
Victor glanced at Vega.
"How did you find out?"
Vega raised his head and said confidently.
"Otherwise you wouldn't be able to find this fiancée."
Victor ignored him and acquiesced.
After a while, Victor was still patient, but Vega couldn't bear it any longer.
"Why hasn't anyone come to tell us to come in?"
The sound of flipping through the pages of the book stopped, Victor closed the magic book and said calmly.
"Imagine, if you are a very beautiful woman, alone at home, and someone wants to see you late at night, and this person is your fiancé, what will you do?"
Vega tilted her head and thought for a while, then said hoarsely: "Dress up beautifully and meet in the most exquisite manner?"
"I understand, she put on makeup specially to see you coming! And you were waiting for her patiently."
"Wrong, she will only think that this kind of person is sick and boring to her."
Victor denied it expressionlessly, but obviously, Crow was a little dissatisfied.
"Why, I see it is written like this in those storybooks and novels. Do you not understand women?"
"It's you who doesn't understand Gwen."
Victor turned his head and looked at the courtyard gate of Delin's house.
This holy knight has never considered himself a 'woman'.
Well, actually Victor himself doesn’t quite understand Gwen now.
However, he believed that during this time, Gwen probably hated him.
After all, no woman would like a man who puts on a bad face every day, is petty, and even does all kinds of bad things.
The relationship between an unmarried couple will probably be a stain on Knight Gwen's life until the end.
So after Victor died, she never married.
"Get ready, it's time for us to go in."
He lowered his head and reminded the crow on his shoulder. The crow quickly straightened up and said 'I am just a pet' and stood lazily on his shoulder motionless.
After a while, the maid came to the carriage, respectfully told him that Miss Gwen was ready, and invited him in.
Victor got off the carriage, walked through the gate under the guidance of the maid, and was taken to the conference hall.
As soon as he came in, he saw Gwen.
The other party was sitting on the soft sofa, not dressed up, wrapped in a tight bathrobe, not showing any skin.
It looked like she had just come out of the shower.
But she doesn't need to dress up. In Victor's opinion, even if she is bare-faced, her exquisite and perfect face is enough to capture any man.
"It's so late, what are you doing here?"
Gwen's tone was neither warm nor indifferent, and there was a sense of alienation.
Victor sat across from her unceremoniously, speaking in the same calm tone and going straight to the point.
"I heard that you are going on a mission and won't be back for half a month."
Gwen didn't wonder where he heard it from, and nodded sincerely.
"Well, we'll leave in a week."
"Can you take me with you?"
Gwen: "..."
Upon hearing this, her reaction was a little... subtle.
First he was a little confused, and then he frowned, as if he was confirming again and again.
Finally, she leaned back, an expression of disbelief gradually appearing on her face.
Gwen put her hand on her forehead, lowered her head, and asked again.
"Repeat what you just said."
"Can you take me with you?"
Without any hesitation, Victor repeated it.
"call……"
Gwen exhaled softly, she always felt that the other person had broken his brain.
"What's the reason?"
"I can't take you with me without a proper reason."
Victor: "I know the terrain of the surrounding mountains very well, including the weaknesses of the monsters scattered around. Take me with you. Counting the round trip, you can come back in only seven days."
Hearing his words, Gwen didn't even raise her eyes, and she didn't know whether she was considering Victor's value or not caring at all.
Victor wanted to say something else to increase his value in Gwen's eyes, but Gwen spoke first and blocked his mouth.
"What I want is the truth."
Victor's eyes became colder, he looked at Gwen and said slowly: "...You used your ability on me."
As a born knight of justice, Gwen Dolin has developed her unique talents since she was a child.
She has a righteous heart.
As long as she thinks about it, she can clearly tell whether the other person is lying.
Gwen can freely control this ability, so she will not use her ability when it is not necessary.
However, she didn't believe herself.
Victor didn't feel angry, but rather expected.
Because this proves how much Gwen hates him.
When talking to him, Gwen will even use her sense of justice to gauge whether he is lying.
"I don't trust you."
Gwen was very straightforward and had no further explanation.
Suddenly, Victor smiled in relief.
He thought for a moment and then said again:
"There is a kind of monster in Mount Vesuvius. They produce a unique kind of crystal stone. I need that kind of thing to make magic props."
After saying that, there was a strong desire in Victor's eyes.
[First-level magic: autosuggestion]
Effect: Use hypnotic suggestion on yourself, which can randomly increase any ability by 1 level within a period of time.
Dealing with Gwen's righteous heart is easy, he just needs to tell the truth.
Even if the truth was fabricated on the spot, as long as Victor believed it, it was the truth.
The mage also has his own means, which is flexible morality and a wise mind.
Gwen finally looked up at Victor.
"It seems you do know that volcano, otherwise you wouldn't have said such a thing."
"In order to achieve their own goals, even the Royal Knights can use it to become your escort."
"As expected of you, selfish Victor."
Victor didn't put on his poker face for the first time in a long time, and smiled and nodded.
"I took this sentence as a compliment and accepted it."
Gwen would never doubt Victor's selfishness, because that's the kind of person he is.
She also knew that in order to achieve his goal, Victor would only entangle her more and more.
In this case, it is better to agree.
"I will apply for an accompanying mage. You can just come and see me on the same day."
Seeing that Gwen agreed, Victor smiled and replied: "Thank you, Knight Gwen, for being willing to help selflessly even for a selfish person like me."
"I will arrange everything within this week, so there is no need to send it away again."
After that, Victor stood up and left.
Gwen nodded and watched him leave.
But in his head, Victor's smiling face when he was complimenting him could not be removed for a long time.
Victor, have you ever laughed like that?
Returning to the carriage, Victor calmly leaned on his seat, his dark eyes staring at someone unknown.
"Are you angry?"
Crow asked doubtfully.
"Why do you think so?"
Vega: "I've been looking at your poker face for a long time, it's just intuition."
"If you don't have any great emotions, you won't smile as brightly as a chrysanthemum."
angry?
After hearing its words, Victor thought for a moment.
Maybe the education in his bones made him want to be a good person, but he was said to be so selfish by the other party's righteousness.
And only by pretending to be what she thinks he is can he be recognized by that person.
It's not enough to be angry.
It just made him feel a little nauseous.
.....
These days, Victor teaches at the college during the day and spends his nights researching magic potions in the basement.
As long as he has enough materials, he can make more than a hundred bottles every day, and all he can do is leave them to Liya to sell.
Liya said that when the store is renovated, these potions will be on the shelves, and only this kind of potion will be sold for the time being.
You need to build up your store's reputation before you can consider purchasing other magic items.
Of course, Victor knew that once this kind of consumable product was put on the shelves, it would definitely cause a frantic rush.
So he told Liya not to sell them all, but to limit them to fifty bottles a day.
Hunger marketing.
Liya is a businessman herself, and she knows everything.
Victor was not idle at the college. On the one hand, he was thinking about the topic for the lecture. On the other hand, he made a decision.
Every time he went to class, he would have Hernie listen in.
Euphemistically speaking, absorbing experience.
Erica comes to his office every night, often with many questions to ask, and she comes more and more frequently.
Although Victor was a little annoyed, Vega took the trouble to answer everything.
In order to prevent Vega from chattering in his mind, he had no choice but to convey everything to Erica.
By the way, I can also supplement my magic knowledge with Vega.
After secretly studying with Vega, he realized that Erica was really a genius.
He couldn't understand Vega's unfamiliar and complicated content at all, but Erica could teach him it.
Even at this level, she seemed to have countless questions waiting to be answered.
Victor couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
For a talented and hard-working student like Erica, if she doesn’t come first in the exam, who will come first?
Everything was going smoothly, and soon it was the sixth day of his appointment with Gwen.
Hernie followed Victor quietly, and today she will still follow Professor Victor to listen.
She didn't quite understand why Professor Victor asked her to audit the course, which was obviously the course she wrote.
It wasn't until the two of them reached the door that she finally understood Professor Victor's intentions these days.
"Today, I want you to go in and use your knowledge to teach the students in this class."
Hernie: "???"
