Chapter 2 My Lord, Times Have Changed

"Uncle Anderson, what are you looking for me?" Returning from his robes, Derek finally looked a little more serious, or a little too dazzling.

A decent white robe against the handsome face adds a bit of elegance, although good-looking people look good in everything, but sometimes the clothes are really a good foil.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess wants to ask you to be her teacher and teach spells, of course, only spells, I hope you don't teach those messy things to Her Royal Highness. At this point, Manager Anderson gave Ross a meaningful look.

"I, Barnes Cooper Lee, hereditary baron, challenge you, a duel between nobles. The winner is eligible to serve as the princess's spell teacher. Before Derek could answer, the court mage standing aside suddenly stood up and interjected.

"Barnes!" said Chief Anderson in displeasure, and was about to say something more, when he was pulled by the little princess with a look on her face, and she simply gave up, and Master Barnes looked more and more smug as if he had been encouraged by something.

"Where did this come from?" said Derek, leaning back in his chair and disdainfully, "Why should I accept your challenge?"

Seeing that Derek was unmoved, Barnes thought to himself, anyway, he would offend people to death, so he further provoked: "Count Rose, are you afraid?"

"You say you will fight, who do you think you are, I am very shameless, okay? What's more, my family is so big, I have a few gold coins every minute, and I have a big loss if I don't do anything to fight with you. ”

Derek took a sip of the black tea he had just been served by the bunny girl and replied with a smile.

"How can you be like this?!Do you still have a sense of honor as a nobleman?!"

"What the hell is the sense of honor?Friend, we have a large family of employees to feed and eat?" Derek gestured.

"Shame on you!" Barnes said angrily.

"Friend, don't be angry, be angry and make money, give this gentleman a cup of coffee first, I didn't say no, it's just that a fight with you will affect the business, if you have nothing to do every day, you will find me to duel, can I still do business? As an excellent nobleman, you are not such an unreasonable person, right?"

Derek snapped his fingers, and Bunny Girl immediately brought a cup of hot coffee and placed it on the table next to her, and Master Barnes simply sat down, picked up the coffee, and took a sip.

"How are you going to duel me?"

"Look, first of all, you're challenging me here, it's enough to save face, right?

"Not excessively. Master Barnes groaned slightly.

"Secondly, play on my turf, at least give a venue rent meaning, right? And then there is lost work pay, personal insurance or something, I won't give you a list one by one, how about a one-time 100 gold coins?"

Seeing the fool in front of him, Derek no longer hid it, but simply took out a small abacus and calculated it in front of everyone.

"Are you a fool to me?!You're blackmailing!You're ......" Barnes angrily slammed the table

"Love to fight, don't roll, Tong Su is not bullied, and refuse to bargain. ”

Barnes was furious at the moment, believing that if his anger could be used as a fire-based spell at this time, the other party would have burned to the ground by now.

But there is no way, he is only a court mage now, he has no connection with the royal family, and even His Majesty the King rarely sees Ma in ordinary times, if he can seize the opportunity this time and become the magic teacher of the fifth princess, he may be able to go further with this relationship, and then the family will not be able to ......

"I'll fight!" Barnes gritted his teeth and finally made a decision, almost squeezing the two words out between his teeth.

"OK, come and hand over the money, and sign the life and death certificate by the way. Derek waved his hand and jumped into the martial arts trial ground in the middle of the hall first, and immediately someone sent a life and death certificate, it seems that this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened, and the waiters know the routine.

"No problem, I'm asking to strike first. Barnes paid the money, but still said with some hesitation, it seems that he still lacks confidence in his own strength.

"Of course, you are the guest, and the customer is God. Derek smiled like a profiteer.

Barnes walked into the ring, still a little apprehensive in his heart, to say that he was not afraid that it was fake, Derek Rose has been famous for only two years since the old earl died and became on duty in the royal capital.

Derek himself is a well-known mage genius, and he is invincible to the younger generation of nobles in the royal capital, and the elders of each family are hindered by the affection of the dead old earl, and it is not easy to deal with his junior, so they simply fight and simply let him go.

just warned the juniors in the family to provoke less, but it further contributed to Derek's murderous reputation.

Of course, Derek himself also understands that this is all to save face for his father who has never met the dead ghost, but unfortunately, the couple happened to be assassinated when Derek crossed over, leaving only a huge family fief and an alchemy workshop that had been run in the royal capital for generations.

It's just that sometimes Derek feels a little pity, otherwise he really wants to ask his father, "Comrade, is it the face fruit ability that the pirates crossed over just now, why don't we two pay a respect?"

"Are you ready? I'm going to start!" Barnes said loudly, shaking his wand vigorously and feeling the magic in his body.

"Hit it, fight it, where did so many mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law come from. Derek waved his hand impatiently, anyway, the money was in hand, hurry up and send it away to do something meaningful, such as basking in the sun and looking at beautiful women or something.

Wait a minute...... Didn't you just say that the customer is God? Why did you forget it after a while?!

"Flame Demon Starburst!" Barnes shouted, and the shot was an extremely strong fire spell, and under the influence of emotions, it was even more than a level of performance, and the flame bomb was a few points bigger than usual.

Barnes looked at the condensed flame-burning bullets, the size of a basketball, and the blazing sensation made even those guests who were far away start to feel a little uneasy, and they clenched the weapons around them.

Hmph! Usually flaunting your might is just scaring children, now it's up to you to do it! Barnes thought viciously.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The flame bomb was like a dazzling sun, rumbling and burning sound, full of power, even the little princess who was sitting next to her with a lively face squeezed Anderson's arm nervously, hoping that he could do something to stop it, and Derrick couldn't help but sweat in his heart.

Manager Anderson just patted the princess's hand calmly, signaling her to relax, but she didn't think so, alas, the princess was really protected from growing up in the deep palace since she was a child, even if she went to school in the magic academy, due to the limited strength of the teacher, she didn't make great progress, in fact, it was a good idea to study with Derek, otherwise discuss it with Her Majesty the Queen?

Derek leaned on his wand unhurriedly, as if he was on crutches with no bones, and lazily stretched out his hand, and the space ring on his finger flashed, and a large piece of flour was spilled, and the magic circle in his palm flashed away before it could be seen clearly.

The flour quickly turned into a large mass of batter under the control of the circle and blocked Derek's face, and the flame bomb arrived just at this time.

"Puff~" Just when Barnes thought that there must be a big explosion like Mars hitting the earth, and he could kill that bastard with one shot, just like the previous fireball technique, the huge fire explosion still got the same result.

Of course, it's not exactly the same, at least the sound is a little louder than last time, and at this moment when the audience is nervous, it's like a fart in a quiet room, which instantly detonates everyone's laughter.

"Hahaha~" The hall resounded with a long-lasting laughter, and even the little princess slapped the table and laughed, and Manager Anderson had to remind her softly to pay attention to the image.

"Meteor Shower!" Barnes angrily unfolded his circle again, and countless fireballs condensed around Barnes like stars in the night, and then rained down on Derek under his command.

Although it is still the same and no result, the embarrassing thing is that the endless "poof" sound is like a person with a bad stomach, who always can't control his own sound effects.

The little princess who had just cleaned up her expression couldn't help it, and she laughed so much that tears came out.

"You're endless, to be honest, I really have no plans to make my debut as a comedy artist with you. Derek stroked his head with his hand in some confusion.

"What kind of mage is always hiding behind a mass of noodles, and you have the ability to defeat me!" the continuous magic drained Barnes's mana, and his physical strength was almost exhausted, and he cried out unwillingly as he clung to his staff.

The languid expression on Derek's face finally disappeared, replaced by a strange smile that made people want to punch him, and even looked a little funny, and pulled out a strange staff from the spatial ring.

Short, but the structure is very delicate, strange shapes, completely subverting everyone's understanding, but inexplicably giving people a sense of danger.

"Mage, I don't know if I'm counted, but I know, esteemed Mage, times have changed. ”

With that, there was a "bang", and the strange staff first flashed a faint spark, and then a large puff of smoke came out, and before people could react, Mage Barnes had already fallen to the ground.