It’s the seventh night in Shimobone Forest.
Inside a dilapidated house.
"These symbols." Gumbuz opened all the books and tapped his fingers on the symbols. "After so many days, don't you feel anything is wrong?"
Anna looked at it carefully for a long time.
"No."
"..." Gumbutz didn't know what to say. Could it only be effective for him, or only for ordinary people who don't have wizard qualifications?
For several days in a row, as long as it was night, he would have all kinds of extreme thoughts while reading, and the symbols in the book would always appear and intrude.
"Didn't you read a book at night?" he questioned.
"Hmph, don't think you are the only one reading. I read during the day and at night." Ana dissatisfiedly inserted a white and tender stem of an unknown plant and gently put it into her mouth.
"When did these symbols appear? How did they appear?" Gumbuz decided to investigate further.
Anna swallowed the food and drank a glass of water. "This is Griffith's witchcraft that can transfer the notes he recorded before to these books of mine."
Gumbuz narrowed his eyes, "Griffith is still a student now?"
"She is a student, and now she attends classes with us every day." Anna said.
"If I remember correctly, he should have said that he came to the Moist Bone Forest ten years ago." Gumbuz looked at Anna.
Ana paused, thought for a while and then said: "This is normal, I have seen apprentices who are over fifty years old."
"The free course is only half a year, and he has been taking the most basic free courses for ten consecutive years." Gumbutz murmured, as if he was thinking about something.
"God's Coming"
Anna put down her fork, "Griffith is a very nice person. He must have his reasons for doing this."
"Maybe." Gumbuz closed all the books.
From that day on, for several days, Anna found that Gumbuz did not read her books anymore.
"Have you given up?"
In the evening, Anna suddenly asked.
"What?" Gumbuz looked at her confusedly, "What are you giving up?"
"You haven't read a book for a long time." Anna asked, "Have you given up on becoming a wizard?"
"How is that possible?" Gumbutz stood up and returned to the room, then walked out with a pile of books. "I bought the same new books myself."
Anna was stunned for a moment, "Don't I have them here? Didn't we talk last time that after I finish the class, these books will be left to you. Why do you want to buy new ones?"
"I don't want to, but the symbols Griffith marked in the book make me very uncomfortable." Gumbuz explained, hesitated for a moment, and finally advised: "Be careful, Griffith may be a little bit question."
"Pfft~"
Anna laughed out loud, "This is the tragedy of not having wizard qualifications. I have nothing to do, and if you look at it for a long time, it will have a deeper impact. It's really pitiful."
"It's up to you." Gumbuz shrugged.
"I said it first, even if you don't read my book, I won't return the cloud iron you gave you last time." Anna said nervously.
She has been spending a lot of money recently. Although she has tried to save money, as the course progresses, the materials used gradually increase and become more expensive.
She was glad that she was on the boat at that time and agreed to Gumbutz's cooperation in robbing that group of rubbish. If time went back, she even thought that she would rob the entire ship and steal all their cloud iron and mithril.
"You don't need to pay it back." Gumbutz said nonchalantly.
He had nothing to do these days. In addition to entering the training room to challenge during the day, he also found time to take on a few tasks that were not dangerous to him, and earned almost twenty cloud irons.
The highest reward was a mission to hunt a corpse dragon, which directly gave him thirteen pieces of cloud iron. The Bone Monitor was hidden in a cave deep in the Moist Bone Forest. It took him half a day to find it and it took a lot of effort to complete it.
The other two tasks were only given six pieces, but they took about the same amount of time.
Gumbutz is quite satisfied with being able to make some extra money in his spare time.
Although these tasks are already very dangerous in the eyes of some knights and ordinary wizard apprentices...
However, Gumbuz still has regrets because he has never encountered a mission where the reward is a 'meditation method'.
The knight who had cooperated once before did not appear again.
The reward is marked as Meditation, which is an unusual task.
Occasionally, it will be picked up quickly.
This is a manifestation of resources.
It's not that the wetbone forest lacks resources.
But he lacked resources.
This gave Gumbuz other thoughts.
Perhaps it's time to get to know more people, increase channels, and obtain more resources through the intelligence information from channels.
Networks and channels are a type of resources.
Tasks, intelligence, and resources are one type.
Resources don't just refer to certain materials.
In the following months, the tasks that Gumbutz took on every time he used his spare time were no longer single-person tasks, but multi-person tasks.
Thanks to his deliberate efforts to make friends, his connections were no longer as awkward as they were at first, but instead became more prosperous. He even met a senior wizard apprentice.
On the other hand, Anna, after a few months, not to mention introducing a trustworthy high-level wizard apprentice to Gumbutz, she didn't even have enough money for her own study. Two of the three pieces of Mithril have been used up. Before the half-year free course ends, there is still Less than a month old.
The remaining piece of mithril can last until the end of her free class at most.
Once the course starts charging fees and her mental test does not break through 0.5, the rest of her study career will only become more difficult.
Between 0.2 and 0.5, although it seems to be only 0.3, which seems to be very little. However, the great knight who has been transformed into a wizard has used it for more than sixty years, and it is only 0.4.
Even if Anna has higher qualifications and an innate starting point of 0.2, it is impossible for her spirit to reach 0.5 in just half a year. 0.5 is the standard for high-quality apprentices.
A strong candidate for senior wizard apprenticeship.
Gumbuz doesn't know how energetic Anna is now.
He didn't ask.
She didn't take the initiative to tell either.
Gumbuz no longer counted on Anna.
You have to rely on yourself.
"What are you thinking about Agatha?" Gumbuz pulled out the knight's sword from a huge black bear-like monster.
The three-tailed bear is the most common in the wet bone forest and one of the more numerous small monsters. Its tail is a potion material.
Agatha Gray looked away from the monster. Even the most common three-tailed bear requires the cooperation of at least five to ten brave and skilled knights, or three wizard apprentices to set up witchcraft in advance to successfully hunt it.
But now, Agatha Gray looked at the man in front of her who skillfully cut off three bear tails. No, he was just a boy. He was just such a boy who didn't look too tall and had a shy smile. He actually cut off three bear tails by himself. The three-tailed bear was killed cleanly.
When the boy looked at her, she spoke.
"One thing you may not know is that I, a formal apprentice without a mentor, did not receive a Silver Medal, so... the number of times the meditation method can be granted is actually limited. Before I was accepted by a wizard, , I... only have three chances."
