Alien world

Chapter 44 44. Are you ready?

Annan thought Mr. Victor's "are you ready?" was the same thing as Fast.

As a result, on the second day, he was not woken up, nor did he see the crowd of people.Fortunately and unfortunately: he was labeled as Victor and Fast, and no idiot wanted to snatch it.

Not even a gift to get acquainted with.

Annan touched the dozen or so copper coins in his pocket, thinking about how many other poor warlocks he had, and came to the library.

Only Lindy nodded indifferently when she came to the library, expressing to Annan that she became a warlock—aside from the "unlucky love" between Annan and her aunt, mages and warlocks themselves are not pleasing to each other.

Annan then thought that "are you ready?" meant that he was ready to become a warlock.

The answer is not yet.

Casting spells to a mage means breaking away from an apprenticeship in magic, because the spell model is absolutely accurate.As long as the spell is successfully cast once, it can be released even if you sleep next time.Warlocks are not. Their "thinking" adds a lot of inaccuracies, and a small change will make the spell deviate from expectations. Annan is a clear example.

Mages are like meticulous machines, but making them takes time.Warlocks, on the other hand, are craftsmen who can make finished products with just one hand.

Last night, the bard also told him a story about a warlock: When a mercenary group with warlocks was fighting a demon, the warlock cast a high-level summoning spell. As a result, the demon warlord who was blocked by the soldiers suddenly disappeared and appeared behind him. Arranging the warlock's summoning circle, surrounded by mages, priests, and rangers.

The final result was that no one survived the mercenary group.

Annan asked him how the story was passed down from the dead, and the bard mysteriously said that it was the story brought by the wind.

Because Wood didn't have to continue to be squeezed by Annan, he gradually became less weak, although relying on the blood of livestock made him recover very slowly.

On the second day, Annan, who still hadn't gotten rid of the shadow of "lower summoning" becoming "vampire summoning", suspected that "are you ready" might mean that he would have to face Wood's lingering ghost for a long time to come. .

The bard laughed at him, which is a good thing - the first-ring spell "Less Summoning" can only summon small monsters such as kobolds and lizardmen, and vampires are at least humanoid or magical creatures, except that they cannot be controlled as summons and are not female. Vampires have almost no flaws.

Wood kept nagging in Annan's ear when to bring human blood.Livestock blood is like black bread, which can only keep people from dying, but disease and malnutrition will follow.For example, Wood can't even control the retraction of his teeth now.

He used "drinking the blood might allow him to recall more past events" as an excuse, so Annan had to ask Wood again during the day, but the stubborn old man still asked him to wait.

At dusk, when he brought the news to Wood, who was in the abandoned house, the vampire's look of being abandoned even made Annan feel guilty.

"Victor...is his name right? Doesn't he want my blood? I can give him a lot, just bring me human blood...please..."

Wood's reaction reminded Annan of a sentence: I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

If a vampire hadn't smelled human blood, it could have feasted on animal blood.

"Okay, I'll ask again for you tomorrow."

After rushing to the tavern, Annan and Fast went into the wine cellar, and released low-level summoning in front of him and Soluman Bronzebeard.This is what Mr. Fast asked - don't cast a spell without protection until you have mastered the correct spell.

Soon after, Wood, whose face was covered with a black cloth, slipped out the back door of the tavern.

Wood appeared in the cellar of the tavern about twice a day. After six consecutive times, Annan got good news from Mr. Victor: Wood had the blood he wanted.

Right in the dungeon.

Annan thought that Mr. Victor would agree with his own idea: to draw blood from normal people.Unexpectedly, the blood of criminals was used.

Although that's fine...

Fast laughed at Annan for being stupid enough to let a vampire drink his own blood.Blood is the ability of vampires, with which they can curse and perform witchcraft at will.

But it also proves that Wood is not malicious, and it doesn't know anything.

The condemned prisoner was one of the bandits who robbed the caravan. He was captured a few days ago and executed today.

Punishment of criminals is undoubtedly just, but the use of blood is slightly evil.

Annan waited outside the dungeon, and soon a guard brought a bucket of blood.Annan, who was too lazy to waste time looking for Wood, rushed to the abandoned residence while his blood was still solidified, and directly cast a low-level summoning spell.

Wood emerged from the space rift.

Annan avoided Wood's eating process, only knowing that the wine barrel was empty when he went in again, and Wood held the wine barrel with a slightly drunk look, talking drunkly: "I really want to know what dragon's blood tastes like."

"I just know that if you drink dragon's blood, you will definitely not feel well."

"why?"

"The curse of the dragon... It seems that there is a price to pay for killing such a powerful creature."

"Blood doesn't work?" Wood woke up with half of the blood.

"The village of a farmer who picked up dragon scales was destroyed by dragon magic the next day." Annan recalled. It'll be fine...as long as you don't get caught."

Then that night, in the wine cellar of the tavern, Annan released the low-level summoning technique again.

Generally speaking, Annan, who had just become a warlock, was unlikely to summon a relatively advanced magical creature like a vampire.

But he still summoned Wood again.

"Sometimes I wonder if I signed a contract with you..." Wood couldn't help but said.

Before leaving that day, Wood chatted with Mr. Fast for a while, and the next day, Annan heard an unexpected news: Wood replaced him as the new guy in the tavern.

"I helped a person who took my job?" Annan thought, "are you ready" is this?

"You can take a commission," said Mr. Fast. "Wood's weekly salary is a silver piece, and a third of it is yours."

In addition, the Annan share of "Breaking the Sky" is still taken as usual.

No matter how long the meditation is, it will have no effect, so Annan, who has free time at night, has nothing to do.

During the period, Annan took out the note Tasia gave him and asked Mr. Victor, but even the well-informed old man didn't know.

If he is a mage, he should be preparing the second spell model right now——

Annan, who thought that the first spell was barely counted, planned to learn the second spell.

In the morning, when Lindy came over, Annan asked her the price of the low-ring summoning magic scroll.

Lindy casually mentioned a few: Summoning lightning lizards cost 56 gold coins, summoning monsters cost 39 gold coins, and summoning skeletons is cheaper at only 23 gold coins.

Annan finally realized what Mr. Victor meant by "are you ready?": Ready to meet the cost of the caster?

When he was still at a loss for money, an invitation letter was delivered to Annan.

(End of this chapter)