Chapter 141 Let’s take this opportunity to let the attendant take a rest.
“Ms. Lydia?” Ace seemed to feel the silence, and took the initiative to speak out.
"Going to Aretusa?"
The telepathic voice sounded directly from the bottom of Ace's heart. There was no ups and downs in the voice, and no emotion could be heard.
Ace nodded.
"You are not young and you are lagging behind others. You should study more."
Lydia continued. Ace continued to nod obediently and accepted Lydia's teachings calmly.
"The lesson is right, madam." Ace said, "Then shall I practice magic first? I want to master the portal first." Let's not
talk about fire magic and necromancy magic that are classified as forbidden magic for the time being. , after these days of study, Ace has the highest affinity for "qi" magic among the mainstream earth, water, air, and ether spells.
In addition, Ace also has a soft spot for portals. This is not surprising. People with a warrior background are very fond of portals, and the same is true for Vilgefortz.
Lydia raised her chin slightly and watched Ace bow politely to her.
Before he left, she suddenly said, "Wait."
Ace turned his head in confusion.
"Ask me if you have any questions in the future. Don't go to Aretusa."
Ace touched the notebook in his arms. It was obvious that Lydia had just witnessed the academic exchange between him and the female student.
"These are very simple questions. I don't want to waste Madam's time with them. I will only bother you with problems they can't solve. After all, Madam's time should be used on more advanced magic research and exquisite paintings. It's not these boring questions."
Ace lowered his head, seeming a little ashamed that he would be bothered by such simple questions.
In fact, most of the problems Ace wrote in his notebook were already known to him. He was just thinking of multiple excuses to communicate with the female students.
For some people, only by asking the other person to help them solve the problem can the other person feel at ease and feel at ease before asking them questions again.
Anyway, "asking simple magic questions" is also very consistent with his image as a newbie who has just learned magic. According to the earl, this is called "in line with the personality".
Regarding Ace's explanation, Lydia responded: "Worry more about your time so that you can return to Cintra sooner."
Ace agreed verbally, thinking that he would dare next time.
After he left, Lydia stayed there blankly for a while. After a long time, she sat back in front of the drawing board.
She touched the black onyx silk headband that she carefully selected today with her left hand, and then looked at the wounds on her painting hands.
Lydia relies entirely on psychic magic to communicate with others, and there is absolutely no mumbling when she is alone. But at this moment, it seemed as if a mouth had replaced her throat, allowing a sound to echo repeatedly in her body.
"My...time."
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The other side of the world, Kelseren.
Seeing that Ace's level jumped up another level in the follower panel, Lan's expression management was slightly out of control.
What is this kid doing in Arethusa? Is he working so hard?
He takes House and Milva around, fighting water ghosts and monsters or cleaning up bandits and robbers when they have nothing to do. He also does some small side quests in the middle. Ace is just studying at the magic academy, so how can he upgrade faster than the other two combined? Faster?
Should I find a way to ask Triss to send a message to him so that he won't have to work so hard...
Lann made up his mind, Ace is an important subordinate of his, and he still needs to give appropriate condolences.
Turning his mind back to the system panel, Lan thought about the newly acquired skill points and decided not to use them for Leo for the time being, contracting him as a [Follower].
First of all, it is difficult to say whether a character at the Zika level has talent. Leo is still young and probably has not mastered many skills. Paying this follower point may not bring him real-time benefits like Milva and the others.
Secondly, Leo will be training at Kelseren in the future, and he will not be able to give himself feedback on his experience. It would be better to wait until he comes down the mountain. After all, the "lion's gift" with his bare head is very suitable as a rite of passage.
Moreover, Lan also had a presumption that if Leo failed in the subsequent witcher mutation, he might be able to use the ability of this [Follower] system panel to pull Leo back from the edge of death like the original Black Wind. .
Leo's trial will still take some time, so he can just save up one skill point before then.
In the end, for this skill point, Lann chose to open a new sigil skill - [Quen's sigil] branch, [Explosive Shield].
[Exploding Shield]: When Quen's shield breaks, it will knock back enemies and inflict fixed damage at the same time. Chance to knock down the enemy. (2/3)
After the skill bonus of Ancient Blood’s [Demon Tide], [Explosive Shield] has also been directly upgraded to level 2. This skill is equivalent to turning Quen's Seal from a simple defensive light film into a small anti-armor with a knockback effect.
This change has a huge impact on tactics. Originally, if he encountered some enemies with multiple attacks, Quinn could only defend against the opponent's first attack, and all subsequent second and third attacks would be blocked. Can the releaser seize the precious opportunity to react?
Now, enemies with multiple attacks will suffer a forced knockback effect after breaking through the Quen Seal. Moreover, it is a 360-degree knockback effect centered on the seal releaser, which can win more points for the seal releaser. The reaction time is even enough to think about what kind of counterattack posture is more handsome.
If you can knock down the opponent, you will even have enough time to taunt him with some trash talk, and then apply a new layer of [Quen's Seal].
After adding skills, Lann began to summarize the gains during this period:
This trip to Temeria was a turn of events. Originally, when Lann's negotiation with King Foltest collapsed, he thought he would lose it. Temerian support. After all, in the original book, although Temeria was one of the countries that saw through the threat of Nilfgaard, its attitude towards Cintra was not friendly.
Unexpectedly, he ended up establishing a friendly relationship with Princess Yada by mistake.
Political gains have been achieved, and personal strength has also grown: he has taken in a future demon hunter Leo, completed a side mission, and won a demon hunting mission; with Ace's efforts, he has now been promoted. Level one.
Now Lann's attribute table has become as follows:
[Name: Lann Lannister Rhianlon
Gender: Male
Race: Demon Hunter
Level: 23
Talents: Ancient Blood (Partial Awakening), Marksman, Magic aura
experience value: 12/2000
health value: 2370/2370
mana value: 3200/3200
inventory: slightly
Skill column: Muscle memory (5/5), precise heavy attack (5/5), strength training (5/5), immovable as a mountain (5/5), undead clan (1/5), whirling sword dance (1) /5), Rage Burst (1/5), Improved Resistance (5/5), Explosive Shield (2/3), Charm (2/3), Survival Intuition, Metabolic Control, Gourmet, Gryphon School Skills, Anger control, magic sense, poisonous blood, death strike, magic tide.
Follower column: Black Wind, Milva, Ace, House.
Mission: Hear My Roar Part 1, Heart of Stone Part 1]
The next stop is Head to Redania and visit the King of Redania, Vizmir II, now known as the "Just One."
This king once engaged his son to Shirley, but then regretted the engagement. In the original book, there are a few kings who can understand the situation in the north while maintaining a certain degree of goodwill towards Cintra.
At least he doesn't want the remnants of Cintra to be used as cannon fodder like Foltest.
Although it is not known whether Vizmir II's goodwill is due to a rare conscience in this era or purely political considerations, but this is what Lann urgently needs now.
Hope this trip to Redania goes well too. But be sure not to deal with the difficult Temeria, but Redania, who may have formed an alliance, ended up having an accident. This kind of plot would be too defensive to put in a novel.
At the same time, there was another person waiting for him in Redania...
Lann looked at the mission item in his [Inventory] with the note [Mirror Master's Mirror].
Some people got busy after that.
(End of chapter)