The female devils I saved came to my door

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise." Charles comforted the two girls and knocked on the table: "Actually, Lovna, you asked this question very well. This is a characteristic of prophecy - what the magician predicts The future can change because of the prophecy itself.

"The future is determined by the present and the past, and the past is what has happened, delineating the scope of all possibilities in the future. The prophet cannot change the past. Therefore, the prophet can only select as many options as possible from the already determined future. A good future, and then guide yourself to achieve your goals through current actions.

"Silna can smell the smell of broth and butter bread. That's because she is most likely to eat these two things tonight. But it does not mean that she must eat these things. Variables may still occur.

"Even if there is a slight possibility, it can be realized through action. For example, if Lovna drinks all the broth by yourself, then Hilna and I will naturally be hungry tonight. The broth in the prophecy and bread are all fake.”

"I wouldn't do such a thing!" Luovna immediately denied.

"It's just a hypothesis, don't mind." Charles rubbed her head: "In short, if the prophet wants to change the future, he will definitely pay a price. What is destined to happen cannot be avoided, and can only be delayed or Transfer. Sirna, you have to remember this.

"So, the bread and broth I made must be shared between the three of us, or one of us can eat it alone, or eat it today, or eat it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow... Anyway, someone will eat it. It's like The future is destined to be the same, either you or I will bear it, there will always be one person responsible."

Although Hilna still didn't quite understand: "What if the broth and bread were thrown away? Wouldn't the future be completely changed?"

To this, Ciel simply replied: "There will be retribution for wasting food."

"Oh." Hilna seemed to understand a little bit.

However, fortunately, this prediction did not go wrong today.

The sausage meat soup was successfully served to the table, and the cream cake was also sweet and delicious. Both girls were very satisfied with the meal.

21. The experience of the future queen

During the long winter, Ciel taught many magics to Silna.

But there is no overbearing offensive magic in it, and more of it is biased towards daily functions.

In addition to simple prophecy and divination spells, there are also spells that can observe the emotional changes of others, analgesic spells that can suppress injuries and delay pain, spells that can make others feel a sense of admiration through words, and spells that can restore consciousness to unconscious people. Spells, spells to listen to the whispers of the dead...

These spells are unremarkable on the surface, even a little ordinary, but they are indeed considered high-level numerology magic.

Because they test the patience and determination of the caster more than spells that simply destroy and release violence.

Although Hilna found these magics a bit boring, after all, this was a learning plan formulated by Teacher Charles. She still studied it carefully and successfully mastered these spells.

Charles was very satisfied with Sirna's performance.

When the ice and snow melt, the frozen rivers flow again, green leaves appear in the dark green forest trees, the muddy and slippery roads become hardened again, and farmers preparing for spring plowing can be seen in the fields, spring in Ipoli has arrived. .

Charles borrowed a sturdy and spacious carriage from the king. He repainted the carriage, hung the family coat of arms with the name "Hirna von Ippoli" on it, and also harnessed the carriage. The two tallest horses.

When he was done, he drove the carriage, led Lovna and Silna, and started a parade in Ipoli.

"This is a training for you, Sirna. We will travel back and forth to various towns and manors in Ipoli. I hope you will learn to deal with those lords and nobles, and use the spells I taught you in winter to help them solve their problems and obtain Their admiration and allegiance.”

Originally, Lovna didn't have to follow her, but she didn't want to miss the adventure along the way, and she also hoped to have a long experience with Teacher Charles. Hilna also wanted her sister to accompany her.

As always, Ciel didn't want to disappoint the two children, so he agreed to the two girls' request.

The first commission they encountered was to find the lost ring of a plump manor wife in a village where they settled for rest.

This task seems very simple.

Hilna used the divination technique taught by Teacher Charles in the winter, held her breath and concentrated. When she opened her eyes again, she discovered the location of the ring - it was the lady's maid who was ignorant and was serving the lady to take a bath. At that moment, he swept the ring that the lady took off casually under the wardrobe, and rolled it along the cracks in the bathroom floor to the corner of the house.

After finding the ring and explaining the reason why it was lost, Hilna was indeed grateful by the manor's wife.

However, the lady turned around and scolded the maid who made the mistake, and kicked her out of the house regardless of her pleading.

From beginning to end, Ciel didn't say a word.

After leaving the manor, the unhappy Sirna sat in the carriage and asked Charles:

"Teacher Charles, what I did today seems not to be right...did I hurt that maid?"

"You have many choices, Hilna. You can tell a little lie at the beginning and tell the lady that she lost the ring because of her own fault and has nothing to do with anyone else; you can also do it for the maid when she is scolded. Exculpate; you can also go up and give the maid some alms in exchange for her gratitude after she is kicked out of the manor; you can even remain indifferent as you are now...it depends on you.

"After all, your status and abilities make you the absolute superior. Any decision you make can affect other people's lives, so you must be cautious in what you do and say."

Hilna hummed, as if she understood something.

They soon encountered a second challenge.

Farmers from two villages, led by the chiefs of their respective villages and towns, were lining up along the stream holding farm tools in order to seize the diversion rights of a stream. They were impulsively shouting and confronting each other, and a fierce armed conflict could break out at any time.

It's not surprising that this kind of fight breaks out between villages and towns whenever spring plowing begins.

The farmers in the confrontation saw Charles driving the carriage and recognized the royal family crest on the carriage, so they blocked the road and asked Charles to seek justice for them.

The mayors of these two villages and towns are loyal ministers who are absolutely loyal to the Ipoli family.

Looking at the two opposing sides, each with their own reasons, Sirna was in trouble again.

This time, Ciel did not watch, but told Silna to do as he asked.

He first asked Sirna to use elemental magic to guide the light elements to form a flashing emblem of the holy religion, which was hung high above everyone's heads. This gorgeous magic miracle was used to intimidate the opponents on both sides.

Then, he set up a temporary court by the river in a serious manner, and asked Sirna to stand on the mound as the judge, patiently listening to the submissions of both parties, and mediating the conflicts between the two parties with words.

When she responds to the appeals of these villagers, she must mix in her own magical whispers to make the people in the fight calm and restrained and avoid emotional behavior.

Finally, after lengthy debates and quarrels, the villagers of the two villages finally lost their temper and expressed their willingness to accept Sirna's water distribution plan.

At that time, Sirna thought about her decision again, and she still felt puzzled: "Teacher, my ruling today is actually not fair. They all have their own reasons. I can only give a seemingly fair distribution plan. I relied on the magic of my words to convince both parties, but I didn't really solve the problem."

Charles: "This is the second lesson you have to learn. Sirna, many things involve the fundamental interests of all parties, and there is no right or wrong. For the villagers on both sides, after grabbing the water source, The best way to farm is to have a full stomach. This is the biggest truth.

"Sometimes, as a adjudicator, no matter how you distribute benefits, you will be dissatisfied. At this time, the focus is not on pursuing fairness and justice, but on how to make others obey your decision and how to avoid the expansion of conflicts.

"You can use your religious background to shock them, use lengthy procedures to wear down their patience, and use magic words to encourage them to reconcile... In short, use all means to prevent them from turning their dissatisfaction on you, and to prevent their conflicts from expanding. .Breaking mud is a trick that rulers must learn."

Sirna nodded: "I understand, teacher."

So, they drove the carriage and moved on.

The third task that Charles assigned to Hilna was to assist the old priest of the Ipoli Church in repairing the church and recruiting believers.

The church in Ipoli also has its own land and manor, which are usually taken care of by several of the priest's deputies.

The harvests from these estates, as well as donations from believers, constitute the church's source of income.

But the money was only enough to support daily expenses. The priest wanted to expand the church and recruit more believers, so he needed help.

So, under the leadership of Charles, Hilna used magic to create enough wood and bricks as expansion materials, assisted Charles in painting a solemn portrait on the wall of the church, and also used magic to create a solemn portrait on the wall of the church. , using numerology magic, the believers in the audience were even more moved and more willing to donate generously.

After this operation, the priest looked at the donation box, grinning from ear to ear with joy, and repeatedly praised Sirna as "the saint given to Ipoli by the eternal God."

He also praised her greatly in front of all the believers.

After a busy day, Hilna felt that all the chores were boring.She also has to pretend to be polite and polite with those adults all day long, which is really tiring and troublesome.

"Silna, it is important to please the religious figures who have the power to speak. You have to establish a reciprocal relationship with them. Only with these clergy who travel around preaching can your reputation be spread.

"In the future, when you need help, with the help of these people, you can better win over civilians and believers."

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Other tasks after that are also very similar:

At a banquet held by a big landowner, he prayed for the couple's requiem;

At the bedside of a respected old lord, use magic to give him a moment of peace;

Set up a wine shack at the entrance of the village and town, buy old grain, use magic to quickly brew a large amount of bad wine, and give it to the farmers who work hard all day long;

He even had to leave Ipoli and communicate with nobles from other places in neighboring countries.

Lovna was a little disappointed. She thought she would see many interesting things when traveling with Teacher Charles, just like the story in "The Magical Adventures of the Witch Lovna":

Encounter elves in the forest who can grant wishes, discover treasures abandoned by previous generations in caves, eliminate vicious landowners who do evil, defeat humanoid monsters guarding the manor castle...

But none of these adventures occurred.

Ciel was leading the two of them to have some normal interpersonal interactions, deal with those hypocritical and polite adults, handle some commissions that were more similar to daily matters, and give some small favors to the common people at the bottom...

It's all boring and mundane.

Charles noticed her loss and explained: "Lovna, this is the daily life of most people in peacetime. There are no special surprises or scares, but it is in these daily interactions that interpersonal relationships are established and trust is And worship is born from this. When you are really in danger, you can respond to everything at once."

"It's really boring."

Lovna felt bored not only because of these chores themselves, but also because in these trivial daily routines, as an ordinary girl, she could not play any role and could only wait for the results in boredom.

Although she was used to being useless, it was still difficult.

She couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, haven't you ever experienced really interesting adventures in the past? If you have always done these ordinary chores, how did you come up with so many interesting stories?"

Ciel hesitated for a while and gave the answer:

"I heard many stories from other places. I have never experienced fairy tale adventures, but I also like these stories, so I compiled them into fairy tale picture books for you and Hilna to see. However, I I’ve definitely had some – quite challenging adventures in the past.”

"What kind of adventure is that?" Lovna and Silna both got excited.

Charles doesn't like to talk about his past, and the two girls' knowledge of his past is limited to "a mysterious magician who accidentally awakened his magical talent, wandered around, and settled in Ipoli."

Not only the two girls, but also many residents of Ipoli have also speculated on Ciel's identity.

Everyone felt that Charles was so young, yet so knowledgeable and temperamental, and his acting style was mature and steady. He must have come from an ancient aristocratic family with a prosperous family background.

Maybe he was the heir to the title who had been trained since he was a child, but because his family suffered a disaster, he left his hometown and lived in Ipoli, burdened with the grievances of the wealthy family.

"Those rumors are all false. I am just an ordinary person. Since I came to this world, many of my memories have been blurred. I don't even remember who my parents are. I basically rely on self-taught magic and knowledge."

What he said was all the truth: "Before I came to Ipoli, I traveled across half of the continent. During this period, I did encounter adventures that you can't imagine. But it's not interesting, because adventure inherently represents danger. Many people will treat you badly I have unfounded malice and don’t treat you as a human being at all. I relied on luck, hard work, and the help of prophecy to turn danger into good fortune and make it all the way to Ipoli.

"So, for me, it's nice to be able to live a life where I only have normal interpersonal interactions and don't have to fight my life. Lovna, just read those adventure stories. Don't be dissatisfied with real-life adventures. Realistic fantasies must be distinguished between true and false.”

As he spoke, Charles lifted his shirt, revealing the criss-cross scars from his abdomen to his chest: "These are the scars left by those adventures: lunatics who want to confront me for no reason, who want to poach me." Viscera cultists, mountain gangsters who like to eat people... these are not good things to face."

The two girls were a little frightened when they looked at these terrible scars.

But after getting used to these scars, their attention was grabbed by Teacher Charles's upper body abdominal muscles, especially his snow-white skin under his regular clothes.

Both girls' eyes widened, trying to imprint what they saw into their minds.

Lovna even started to have random thoughts: These wounds are quite serious. I wonder how Teacher Charles would feel if she touched them lightly.If I rest my head on him, will it...

Thinking of this, she shook her head violently, trying to shake her dirty thoughts out of her head.

But after shaking her head, she saw her younger sister, who was also blushing. She seemed to be swallowing her saliva - I'm afraid the things Hilna was thinking about were even dirtier.

After the two girls looked at each other, they both lowered their heads in unison, hoping that Teacher Charles didn't see their little move just now.

Ciel really didn't care much.

He was thinking about something else now.

With her running around these days, Sirna's reputation is indeed getting louder and louder.

The noble lords around Yiboli all admired this talented female magician, and many older and noble adults also respected this girl very much.

Sirna herself is also very good at interpersonal communication, and with the blessing of these weird magics, she learned the world of people very quickly while traveling with Charles.

When she stands in the center of everyone's attention and displays her talents gracefully, her innate noble temperament will indeed make people convinced.

Ciel believed that Sirna had the talent to become a ruler.

It should be easy for her in the future to play power and manipulate people's hearts.

Judging from the rationality and gentleness shown by Sirna now, she should be a person with good intentions and a bottom line in doing things.

When she was growing up, Ciel never put any pressure or malice on her and protected her very well.

I should teach Sirna well.

I should be able to teach her to be a qualified queen.

He thought so.

22. Another year

The next year was like this.

Charles is like a hard-working veteran poverty alleviation cadre. While teaching his juniors to learn, Charles went around Ipoli to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

In the early spring when the ice and snow melted, Charles drove a carriage and took two girls along the country roads of Ipoli.

Sirna would use the levitation technique to barely stabilize the bumpy car and prevent the wheels from getting stuck in the muddy ground that had not yet solidified.

The two girls would open a thick copy of "The Magical Adventures of the Witch Lovna" in the carriage, reading the story while chatting with Ciel who was driving.