Chapter 158: An Unusual Ritual

"I want this, the Misul Mechanic's Type 42 glove, fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty gold Gessocks. ”

Maureen looked at Marcus in surprise.

The mechanical tool glove is the most important tool and companion in the field of machinery and manufacturing, like the sword in the hand of the warrior, the bow behind the ranger, and the horse under the crotch of the knight. A mechanic can cut and grind a small piece of steel into hundreds of delicate parts with just a pair of tool gloves and assemble it into a precise skeleton clockwork pocket watch, all without the resort of any magic.

Although you don't need too complicated gloves as a beginner, if Marcus wants to stick to this direction, sooner or later he will need a pair of high-level mechanical gloves, not to mention that Iluvita's school of mechanical manufacturing is very demanding, and it is a bit difficult for intermediate gloves to barely use until graduation.

What surprised Morin even more was that Marcus was actually bargaining with the boss who was missing a front tooth.

The boy glanced at the sign of the Type 42 glove, and there was a light green eighteen written on it, indicating that the price was eighteen fifth-order light green crystal cards (this method of indicating the price did not contain magic in the crystal card by default), which was 18,000 gold coins.

This pair of 42-type gloves is the most expensive among the middle-level guards, 18,000 to 15,600 is also a lot of money, but what is the situation of 520, for an item of this price, Marcas actually has to negotiate with others to talk about the price to ten figures? This is really the youngest son of the Grand Duke of Maple Leaf he knows, the Gessock boy who talks about aristocratic physique and the like all day long?

Has Marcus been short of money lately......

Morin looked at the high-grade gloves again, which were several times more expensive than the middle-level ones, but they should not be beyond the range of Marcas's bearing, and he remembered that he had made a lot of money in Bob's senior gamble before.

Not only Morin, but also Barron and Tilna looked at Marcus in surprise, only Aeno moved his throat slightly, as if he remembered something, and his face was a little complicated.

Marcus also felt the gaze of his companions, and his face turned red, but he didn't change his choice, and said to the owner of the alchemy shop in a high voice and in a Gesock tone: "Hey, this pair of four-two gloves, fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty gold, I want it." ”

The boss who was missing a front tooth looked like he was taken aback by the price, and it took a long time to react: "Ha?!Hey!! you don't know the goods, I said! I still have to bargain?!I think you should have just been promoted to the second grade, you don't know the goods, buy a primary tool and gloves to use first!"

The middle-aged boss hurriedly walked to the shelf and lifted the gloves, and shook them in front of Marcas's eyes with great indignation: "This is the Misool Type 42!The best intermediate glove!The adjustable size specially designed for humans, all the consumable accessories are equipped with standard style interfaces, stable, reliable and easy to replace, and the dual card slots support the magic output of the sixth-order crystal card, the streamlined rapid magic power and heat dissipation module, and the Adamantite Type 3 magic transformation core that was just mass-produced two hundred years ago......"

"Eighteen thousand! Sell for only eighteen thousand! All Todel can't find the price! You still have to bargain! "You still have to bargain!" said the boss incoherently.

"But these gloves are fake. Marcus snorted through his nose.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Huh?" The boss's face froze for a moment, and then he said angrily: "Fake? How can it be fake?

"That's right," Marcas snorted coldly, "and the accessories on this should be fine......"

"Then why do you say it's fake?! You can say that my goods are fake just by your Gessock words?!"

"But it's not assembled by Misool Mechanics. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Yes?!...... Huh?"

"It's not assembled by Misool Mechanics. Marcas said it again.

The expression on the face of the boss who was missing his front teeth suddenly became very exciting: "You, you...... This ......"

"While I don't know where you got so many standard parts to assemble and be confident that it will be fine, I do know that the gloves produced by Misool Machinery are tested for at least sixty Orns on each main hand. Marcas said confidently.

"You, what do you mean......" The boss was dumbfounded.

"Although the various parts of this main hand are assembled correctly and there will be no problems with the function, there is no trace of running-in between them, and there is a feeling of sluggishness when used. Considering the cost of accessories and assembly, I think fifteen thousand five hundred and twenty gold coins is a reasonable price. ”

"...... you discerned?"

Marcus nodded.

……

Carrying a suitcase containing mechanical gloves, Marcus and Morin walked out of the store.

"Wow, Marcas, you can actually see that there is something wrong with this pair of gloves," Merlin exclaimed, "I see that Tilna has carefully checked it just now and I didn't see any clues, when did you become so powerful!" The dark red ray emitted by the Vess Demon Spirit's right eye has an extremely fine perception of size, not to mention that the Vess Demon Spirit is naturally capable of catching all kinds of manipulators.

Marcas glanced at Tierna secretly and coughed lightly: "Actually, it's not that powerful...... I lived in a mechanical shop for half a month before I went to Victor College in the summer, and I happened to know this tool glove carefully at that time......"

"If Tilna had known about it, she would have been able to see the run-in problem...... he whispered, his face flushing slightly.

"But why don't you buy a pair of high-end gloves, you'll need them sooner or later, right?" asked Morin, puzzled.

Aeno on the side secretly stabbed Morin.

Morin was stunned for a moment, and before he could figure out why Emino had stabbed him, he saw a very annoying short boy.

Cleo Cowley.

This guy looks like he's waiting for them here.

"This isn't Marcus Mipou!" Clio laughed from afar, "What's in your hand?mechanical tool gloves?, too, now it seems that you can only find a way to become a mechanical master, don't you, haha......"

Clio's words drew a lot of attention from the high street, but he was still a bit smart enough to keep enough distance from Barron, who was carrying a hammer, and Maureen, who had beaten their team leader Ryan last semester.

"What do you mean by that!" Morin took two steps: "The point system hasn't been opened yet!"

The last time he duel with Ryan, the simulation arena suddenly failed, causing both of them to be seriously injured, and after recovering from the injury, it is said that Ryan also asked Clio and the others to stop troublesome with Morin and their group, but I didn't expect this guy to jump out again after only a summer vacation.

"Heh-" Clio rolled his gaze and stared at Merlin and said, "Morin, Ka, Lan, De,"

"I advise you to go back to Lothar as soon as possible, there are so many students of the Empire in Iluvita, and there is no one here who can protect you, so you can do it yourself-" He turned and ran.

Morin was confused, and he didn't understand why this guy suddenly came to threaten him, and what it had to do with the students of the empire, but he was carrying a large package on his back and it was inconvenient to run, so Clio disappeared from his field of vision.

"It's inexplicable...... "The boy muttered.

Morin quickly put the matter behind him, not noticing the frequent exchange of glances between Aeno and Marcus, who quietly shook his head......

……

……

The day after I arrived at the academy, the day before the start of school.

Morin got up early, and after using it early, he went to the wand workshop in the forest to visit Professor Wang Del.

After yesterday's lecture, Wang Del was surrounded by many students asking about the choice of courses, and Maureen did not bother, and this morning he took a special product of Harriet Port and carried the black fire along the stream to the wand workshop in the forest.

Professor Wang Del was very "generous" to continue to lend the cane of the Elemental Emperor Odalong to the young man for safekeeping, and Morin was also very grateful, although he didn't know how to develop in the career of the "Fateful Mage", but there was some hope for him to bring the cane of the Emperor Odalon who also had this professional badge with him, and Xiao Hei immediately excitedly picked up the jade leaf on the wand when he saw the long-lost toy.

In addition, Mo Lin knew that he still owed Wang Del several "jobs" last semester, and said that he would still cooperate with Professor Wang Del's research this academic year.

Seeing the large stack of manuscripts on Professor Wang Del's workbench and a large piece of discarded wood on the ground, Mo Lin also hesitated to tell him about the fact that he was connected to a separate small puddle of magic, but after thinking about it, he finally couldn't speak, a large part of the reason was that the young man felt that Wang Del would not believe it.

Except for dad and grandpa, probably no one would believe such an unbelievable thing.

Perhaps Dean Fielding might have believed it, and Maureen remembered the conversation with the Dean before, and thought that perhaps he should ask the old man with a ravine face for advice.

After leaving Wang Del's wand workshop, Maureen visited Lady Sinis at the Tree of Life, and the elven lady with her turquoise eyes and warm long hair had a cold face as usual, and viciously warned Maureen that if she was seriously injured this school year and sent here, she would have to work and pay for her.

However, she still accepted the boy's gift very unceremoniously.

After meeting Lady Sinis, Maureen trotted down the mountain path to the top of the snow line.

Anna Gu's Magic Tower.

If Morin was most grateful to the division commanders in the last academic year, in addition to Minelma who saved him twice (according to Marcas, she had successfully passed the graduation examination of the Royal Academy of Gessock and is now in reserve training for the Holy Law Enforcement Team), Lady Sinis, who twice recovered herself from a seriously injured and dying state, and Master Ed, who taught herself classical spells and gave her valuable defensive runes.

Originally, I thought that Master Ed still lived on the fifth floor of the magic tower, behind the metal door, but I didn't expect that as soon as I walked into the magic tower, Mo Lin saw the handsome Ed Warlund sitting on the long table on the library floor with his legs crossed, holding a biography of an ancient princess in his hand and reading it with relish.

"Hello Mr. Ed. Maureen bowed respectfully.

"My father asked me to greet you on his behalf. After speaking, he respectfully performed the junior salute.

"Not bad," Ed put down the biography in his hand, sat down on the table and waved his hand: "I got Pike's heart, where is Andre's old guy now, Raymond's stupid bear knows to come and drink with me, he doesn't see a single figure." ”

"Uh......," Morin said awkwardly, "I don't know where my grandfather is...... But my grandfather left a letter saying that he didn't want to expose his tracks, so it was probably inconvenient for him to visit you......"

Although his grandfather did look older than Ed, the thought that the handsome Master Ed was actually in his early two hundred years old and called his grandfather "old fellow" made Maureen feel a little awkward.

"Alright," Ed jumped off the table, "just rely on his ability to come to Bellamy's town and have a drink with me, where to worry about revealing any traces." ”

Maureen noticed that he was talking about Bellamy, not Iluvita Academy.

"Have you read all the books you've been assigned before?" Ed asked.

The boy nodded, reached out and flipped his wrist so that his palm was facing up, holding his breath, staring at his palm.

The magic fluctuated slightly, and after about twenty cels (seconds), a bright light came out of Morin's palm and disappeared in a flash.

Merlin gasped for air, and beads of sweat dripped down his forehead, as if he had experienced a battle.

Ed gave him several books to read, written by different people, but all of them explained how to use psychic power to construct a complete model of spells, in other words, how to cast magic without relying on spellcasting materials in classical spellcasting.

The flash of light just now was the Zero Ring Magic [Flash Technique] that Merlin had painstakingly cast.

A hint of surprise flashed in Ed's green eyes.

"Ahem, so-so," Ed reached out and grabbed a magic book from the bookshelf in the distance and handed it to the boy, "Go back and read this one, and when you have chosen the course, you will continue to study with me, remember to choose 'Introduction to Magic Card Making'." ”

"Hmm. Maureen nodded, turning to leave.

Ed's disgruntled voice sounded behind him:

"What's the hurry! I haven't said hello to your Aunt Alice yet!"

"It's official!"

……

In the evening, Maureen was changing his formal clothes in his dormitory, preparing to go to the castle hall for the opening ceremony.

Alice looked much prettier than she had been a few months ago, when she had just learned about her father, her eyes were red and swollen every day, and she only smiled occasionally when she called Morin's eldest nephew. Although the boy didn't know if she was still uncomfortable or not, at least her eyes were no longer red, and she also braided two small braids on both sides of her bun, which was quite eye-catching when she ran and threw them around.

"Maureen! We're almost late!" exclaimed Marcas, who was scrambling to help Barron put a red robe on his body, and after a moment he found that Barron was still carrying a hammer, and couldn't help but scream angrily: "Take off your hammer and the back hanger!"

Merlin was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and hurriedly changed into a black robe.

Tierna and Emino, who were waiting at the door, were about to break the door, and the three boys packed up their clothes, and the group trotted all the way down the spiral staircase of the tower and through the corridor into the hall of the castle.

The atmosphere in the hall was a little eerie, except for a group of freshmen who were even more pink than Morin and the others, everyone else was discussing something in a low voice, and the low and chaotic voices were not at all like the unbridled noise and the last revelry of the troublemakers before the previous celebrations.

"We're not late, are we......" Merlin was obscured by Barron's tall frame, not knowing what was happening.

Barron in front of him, Aenu, Marcas, and even Tilna on the side all looked ahead in a daze.

What the hell was going on, Merlin poked his head out and followed Equino's gaze straight ahead.

It was the seat of the faculty of the Academy.

Immediately afterwards, Mo Lin found that in the center of the seat, on the dean's seat, which had been vacant all year round, at this moment, there was an old man with a long beard.

The old man looked ordinary, his face was full of the ravines of age like all old people, his eyes were as gentle and wise as all old people, and his hand was playing with something like all old peopleβ€”it was a delicate silver heather pipe.

The famous Dean of Iluvita Academy, the singer Fielding, appeared at the opening ceremony for the first time.