time flies.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.
Anna ended her six-month free course career and began to purchase optional courses.
Her spirit is still stuck at 0.2.
But she told Gumbuz.
She found the direction she wanted to take in the future.
Potions.
Anna discovered very early that she had a talent for making potions, not auxiliary potions, but relatively rare destructive potions, especially unstable potions that were very dangerous and could easily cause huge damage.
With her eyes, she could clearly see the abnormal reaction when the potion materials were fused. The more violent the reaction, the clearer she could see it. She could even predict the potion's failure in advance.
This made her much more courageous. While other apprentices were still tremblingly preparing potions, she could already freely add various materials to the vessels.
Anna's hands were injured over and over again in the process of preparing potions. Many times the old wounds did not heal and new wounds appeared. But they were all minor injuries, but they were so lethal that she could detect them in advance and avoid them in time.
Anna does have talent.
Gumballs had purchased her finished product, an explosive agent she named Green Mushroom, which could cause a small area to be eroded and destroyed by strong green poisonous smoke in a very short period of time. The destructive power was greater than a full blow from an ordinary knight. It was much larger. If there were enough of them, she could challenge the Corpse Dragon alone, a monster that was relatively powerful for wizard apprentices.
Unfortunately, the materials for making explosive potions like green mushrooms are not cheap, and the success rate is not high.
So now Anna still cannot make ends meet and must complete tasks to meet her daily practice. Sometimes certain materials are in short supply or the prices have skyrocketed, and she has to go to the Shimobone Forest to collect them herself.
And this is a common situation for most wizard apprentices. Except for a very small number of apprentices who have mentors, life is difficult for everyone else.
In fact, none of Anna's apprentices had a spirit of 0.5, and the best apprentice only had a spirit of 0.3.
Spiritual improvement is very difficult.
That's why countless apprentices are needed to succeed one after another. Only the best apprentices can withstand the many tests and become wizards.
Last week, on the day when Anna’s group of students’ free classes ended, Gumbutz saw the arrival of a new batch of apprentices, along with a small number of knights.
Not every apprentice has an entourage of knights.
Out of the ten apprentices, only three were probably accompanied by knights.
I don’t know where these wizard apprentices came from. They seemed to be familiar with the wet bone forest. Anyway, they were different from Anna’s group.
Gumbutz later learned that these new apprentices were actually from vassal countries in the Shimobone Forest. There are four vassal kingdoms in Shigu Forest, namely the Kingdom of Valenzuela, the Kingdom of Cambay, the Kingdom of Forro, and the Kingdom of Rayafanni.
These four kingdoms bring fresh blood with wizard qualifications to the Moist Bone Forest every year. As long as they are detected as wizards, they will immediately become nobles, even if they were slaves a moment ago.
Status changes drastically.
Anna and Gumbuz come from remote places, and of course there are many differences between them.
...
It's still that dilapidated wooden house.
Gumbutz put the fried meatballs on the dinner plate, scooped another spoonful of yellow sticky food onto a layer of rice-like staple food, and finally sprinkled some finely chopped leaves on top.
He handed the dinner plate to Anna with one hand, and he picked up a meatball and bit off half of it in one bite. Juice immediately splashed into his mouth, and the meat was fragrant.
Gumbutz has been eating this homemade meatball for almost half a year, and he never gets tired of it. After several improvements, he has developed a total of three flavors, using three-tailed bear meat, bristle wolf meat, and ugly fish meat as the main ingredients. , made with various ingredients.
One word for taste, absolutely.
Gumbutz confidently believed that if he took out the meatballs and sold them at Wandering Corner, someone might be willing to buy them with cloud iron instead of cheap gold.
With two meatballs in his stomach, and seeing Anna constantly turning the pages of the book even while eating, Gumbutz thought for a moment and still invited:
"The Exotic Land Development of Vegetable-Growing Skeletons"
"Are you going to take on the mission with me the day after tomorrow? You know very well that I am stronger than the so-called senior wizard apprentice."
Ana was startled, and she frowned and thought for a moment.
Then, he lowered his head and read the book again.
Gumbuz knew that she refused and didn't care.
Recently, Anna has joined a secret society composed of senior wizard apprentices. This secret society called 'Beach' has good resources. Some people buy the green mushroom potion she made at a high price, so she has been a little busy recently.
I was busy collecting materials and making potions, and even squeezed out my meal time, trying to improve the green mushroom potion in the hope of increasing the success rate.
She is only fifteen years old.
Gumbutz suddenly realized that he seemed to be sixteen years old.
It has been almost a year since I left home, time flies so fast.
At night, the red double moons hang high. The one on the left is larger and the one on the right is smaller. They occasionally change color, seemingly because they receive different light. When they turn red at the same time, they look like two stars strung together. Red jade.
Every night, Gumbutz would read a book to pass the time. Occasionally he would put cotton in his ears and sleep, but he did not sleep soundly.
Just like now, when Gumbuz was sleeping, he dreamed of a headless horseman riding a wooden horse, his body glowing with blood, charging towards him.
Gumbuz cut the Headless Horseman and the Trojan horse in two with one sword, and then he woke up.
"That's weird." Gumbutz rubbed his face vigorously. Now he couldn't sleep. Fortunately, as a knight, even if he didn't sleep for a few days, it wouldn't have much impact.
Suddenly, Gumbutz turned his head and looked outside the house.
Soon there was a knock on the window.
Gumbuz wrinkled his face, got out of bed, picked up the knight's sword, and carefully pushed the window open a crack.
There is a girl standing outside the window.
A wizard's apprentice in gray robes.
"Agatha, why are you here so late?"
Gumbuz recognized the other person at a glance. Although she wrapped herself tightly, her breathing rate would not change.
The girl seemed a little surprised. Through the gauze on her face, her big eyes glanced back and forth at Gumbutz.
"Say something quickly." Gumbuz became impatient.
Agatha Gray put it succinctly: "A mandatory mission."
Gumbutz's expression suddenly turned cold and he whispered: "Are you crazy? It's night now."
The night in the Shiggy Bone Forest was very dangerous. In the past six months, he had never seen anyone go out at night.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine if you wear this at night." Agatha Gray handed Gumbuz a strange round object, which looked a bit like a pocket watch, but there were no scales inside. Instead, there were many unknown symbols engraved on it.
(Thanks to Eleven Baishui for the tip)
