Chapter 422 The Golden Sons are Getting More and More Influential
Elental cores weren’t exactly rare, but as excellent magic materials, they were consud on a large scale both in enchantnt and magic-equipnt-forging.
So, not many of them were available on the market.
Besides, it was even harder to gather five kinds of elental cores at the sa ti.
Therefore, Roland was rather surprised that the Guild of rcenaries delivered the five types of elental cores so quickly.
eting with the n from the Guild of rcenaries and giving them the final paynt, he got the five elental cores.
Roland had read introductions to elental cores from the books in his Magic Tower. They were said to be rhombic crystals the size of an adult’s fist. Different elents would result in different colors.
Those cores were rather beautiful. They seed to be crystals, but there was flickering magic light flowing in them like very tiny shooting stars.
Roland put the five elental cores into the system backpack. He planned to go to Ill in a couple of days and learn how to transform into an Elental Lord.
After finishing the business about the magic school and the Magic Tower, Roland activated a teleportation spell out of the city and ca to Ill, the unique border town that was split between human beings and elves, again.
Because it was near the Elf Forest and under the cover of the magic power of the World Tree, the air here was particularly fresh. One would be relaxed and reinvigorated if they took a deep breath.
That was how ordinary people would feel.
However, as a Mage, Roland could tell that the effect of the air was because of the abundant natural power in it.
Compared to the elental magic power, which was neutral, natural magic power had more qualities of life because it was preferred by all natural life.
Of course, the natural magic power could slightly strengthen all natural life too.
The most obvious example of the enhancent was that the human beings living around the Elf Forest were much healthier than those living in the middle of the human world.
Entering the town, Roland was about to go to Susie’s manor when he t a patrol team of elves.
The sheriff saw Roland and ca to him promptly with a smile. “Hey, kin, it’s been a long ti.”
Kin... Roland was stumped for a mont. Then he rembered that he picked the elven bloodline for his Hybrid specialization.
Players like Roland only regarded themselves as human beings, and their bloodline was nothing more than a background setting for them.
They never took it seriously, so they never really felt anything special about it.
But in the eyes of the elves, Roland was really a half-elf.
That was a cognitive dissonance.
The handso sheriff was rather warm. “You’ve co to the town again. Are you going to stay here henceforth?”
The sheriff’s presumption was well-grounded. Generally speaking, only the elves who intended to return to the forest would stay in Ill now and then to see if they could be adapted to forest life.
Roland shook his head. “I’m here to et soone.”
“What a sha.” The sheriff pointed to his left and said, “Do you see the giant white eucalyptus tree? My tree house is right above it. Drop by if you have ti.”
Roland was slightly surprised by the enthusiasm of this elf.
They weren’t wary of him at all just because he had the eleven bloodline?
Well, that was true.
The elves barely suspected their own kind except for the drows, unless the drows had really done many things that made the elves trust them.
Smiling at Roland again, the sheriff left with the patrol team.
Roland ca to Susie the Silver Fox’s manor.
Perhaps because the guards recognized Roland, they let him pass without stopping him at all.
The mont Roland ca in, he saw the sexy long-eared drow lying on a long chair in revealing clothes and giggling in the middle of lots of n.
Susie spotted him imdiately after Roland showed up.
She quickly stood up and said to the other n. “My date is here. You can go back now.”
All the n were frustrated. They glared at Roland angrily for a mont, before they all reluctantly left.
After all the outsiders in the manor were gone, Susie said, “You’re finally willing to co here? Lord Ans waited for you for half a month, before he had to leaven to tend to his business.”
“Sorry about that,” Roland said rather awkwardly. “I was delayed by many things.”
Susie walked by Roland and said, “Follow .”
Roland walked behind Susie.
As they moved on, Roland could sll Susie’s scent.
Roland had thought that a drow as unrestrained as Susie would wear lots of perfus, but on the contrary, her perfu wasn’t strong but very pleasant. It was like the fragrance of flowers.
They climbed to the third floor of the building, and Susie pulled out a dark golden suitcase from the bottom of her bed. She opened it in front of Roland.
Inside the suitcase were two hardcover books, whose paper was white and whose writing was black. There were also plenty of handwritten, complicated patterns at the margins of the pages.
Both books were rather quaint.
Susie picked up one of them and displayed it before Roland.
Roland saw the familiar pictograms again.
Then, Susie closed the book and asked proudly, “Ancient Elvish is incomprehensible even for most elves. Can you really understand the book?”
Roland shook his head. “I can’t.”
“I can teach you.” Susie sat down on the bed. As she leaned back, her long, straight legs were crossed and fully revealed before Roland’s eyes. “But you have to find another set of elental cores.”
“That’s at least sixty gold coins.” Roland clicked his tongue. “Your tuition fee is really high.”
“High as it may be, you still have to learn the language.” Susie seed determined to rip Roland off. “You can always learn it from soone else, or give up the prospect of being an Elental Lord.”
Roland stared Susie in the eye. “You want to be an Elental Lord too?”
“I’m a Sword Dancer,” Susie said matter-of-factly. “The Elental Lord is also known as a Sword Dancer among the elves. You think I’m not interested in that?”
Roland smiled and took the book from Susie’s hand. He then snapped his finger and cast Language Proficiency on himself.
The drows could cast spells too, so Susie recognized what Roland had just cast easily.
She jumped to her feet in shock. “You’re capable of this spell?”
“Is it strange?” Roland looked at her.
Susie sighed and lay on the bed in disappointnt, her arms and legs stretched out. With her ssy and revealing clothes, she couldn’t be more inviting.
Roland moved his eyes away. He had seen this too often from Andonara, and he had gained enough resistance.
Besides, Susie wasn’t as beautiful as Andonara, and her body and her vibe weren’t as good either.
The only aspect in which she dwarfed Andonara was her wildness.
So people liked wild girls, but so didn’t.
Roland was one of the neutral people who appreciated such girls but weren’t crazy about them.
While turning the pages, Roland asked, “It’s just sixty gold coins. I’m sure you can gather them yourself, can’t you?”
“Just sixty gold coins?” Susie turned her body around. “That’s sixty gold coins! Did you know that this manor only cost thirty gold coins in total? I’ve never had savings of more than twenty gold coins. Sixty gold coins is sothing that only the big nobles and magnates can take out casually.”
“But you charged sixty gold coins for teaching Ancient Elvish?”
“That’s Ancient Elvish that few people in the world can understand! I spent forty years learning it,” Susie shouted in discontent.
“It’s just an unpopular language,” Roland remarked unconcernedly. “It’s only of so historical and archaeological significance. I don’t think it’s a big deal.”
“You’re too pragmatic. The fluency in Ancient Elvish shows that you are a man of knowledge and depth.” Susie lay back on the bed again. “But all the good Mages are just like you.”
Roland thought for a mont and said, “While I don’t need you to teach Ancient Elvish, you can teach other things.”
“I don’t think there’s anything else I can teach you.”
“What about the tricks in enchantnt?”
Susie was briefly stunned. “The tricks of enchantnt I know are not worth sixty gold coins.”
“What do you know?”
“A lot. But all the tricks are rudintary.” Susie thought for a mont and said, “I can teach all of them to you, but they’re worth a dozen gold coins at most.”
Enchantnt was very important for Mages, but few human beings were capable of it.
Roland could hardly find a teacher to learn it.
The drows were naturally capable of enchantnt, although so knew more tricks than the rest.
Now that he had co across a drow, he might as well learn it first.
“After I return to the human world, I can try to gather a set of elental cores for you, and you will teach the tricks of enchantnt to in exchange.” Roland thought a mont and said, “In the anti, you will owe a favor. I may ask you to do sothing for when I need you.”
The drow looked at Roland in disbelief. “You’re so generous? That’s a price difference of more than forty gold coins.”
“Sotis, a favor is more valuable than that.”
Susie laughed after hearing that. “You have faith in a favor promised by a drow?”
“I have faith in the credit of the elves,” Roland explained. “You’re in elf territory, but none of the elves co to you for trouble. So, you must have qualities to make them trust you.”
Susie smiled, helplessness shining through her smooth, dark face. “Do you have to be so smart?”
“I’ll go back.” Roland put the book back into the suitcase and closed the suitcase. He grabbed it and said, “I’ll co back to you after I gather the elental cores.”
Sitting on the bed, Susie humd a response.
Roland teleported himself back to Delpon from Ill. He instantly released another mission for a set of elental cores at the Guild of rcenaries.
Though Susie claid that her tricks were cheap, enchantnt was really invaluable in the human world, because there was nowhere to learn it.
Besides, Roland could build big data models for the enchantnt tricks he learned. The more he learned, the more patterns he would find.
With enough data, he would be able to infer a lot of things.
At this mont, Roland had almost completely cracked the mystery of the magic arrays.
Thanks to the exam-oriented education he received in his previous life, he was best at analyzing math problems and inferring the solution to these problems when he had their answers.
After he arrived at the Magic Tower from the Guild of rcenaries, Vivian imdiately ca to him and said, “We’ve received a ssage that Chairman Tobian is dead. The headquarters do not have a leader now. All the branch chairn are being summoned. On the tenth of next month, a new General Chairman will be elected.”
“Was he killed by his bastard son?”
“No.” Vivian shook her head. “According to our intelligence, he was killed by five Golden Sons.”
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