Chapter 22: The Human-Shaped Library

Shukara Scarres, the current director of the Capital Library. Honorary Dean of the Kingdom Alchemy Academy, a third-order great sage. It is known as the first handsome guy in the capital and a large library that can move. Even this self-introduction is written on the first page of the book, can this person's book really be believed?" Shi Leiyin hadn't had time to read this book, but when he saw this first page, he was deeply skeptical, how could anyone who wrote a book boast about himself so much.

"Teacher Xiukara still writes this kind of book," Jessica smiled, "but it's true that he's the number one library in the kingdom."

"Hmph, since it was written by that lustful old man, it should at least have reference value" Although Erica was unforgiving, the implication was to give absolute affirmation to this Xiukara's ability.

Now that they have reference books, the two of them simply get together and read them. Erica is in charge of flipping through the books, while Jessica hugs Shrayin and introduces him to the person of Xiukara.

"Teacher Shukara, now the rector of our National Prontera Academy, is very knowledgeable, and it is said that he once read all the books in the library of the capital and Giffen, and was called the Human Library thirty years ago. ”

"Thirty years ago, isn't this guy very old now?" In Shi Leiyin's opinion, if he published a book thirty years ago, he would be at least sixty or seventy years old now.

"Teacher Xiukara, he ......," Jessica smiled, "I should be four hundred and thirty years old this year."

"Hmph, that old immortal cockroach," Erica muttered as she continued to rummage through the upgrade guide for the mage and swordsman pairing.

"Four hundred and thirty years old?!Can humans here live that long?" Shi Leiyin was startled, this is more than four hundred years old, more than four times the lifespan of earthlings.

"Teacher Xiukara has elven blood, so it's a little longer than us humans."

"And how old can you live?"

"Well, if there is no disease and no disaster, we should be able to live about two hundred years old, we are different from the elves, and our life is very short."

"............" Shi Leiyin was speechless, he suddenly thought that he was a slime now, and he didn't know what the lifespan would be, in his previous knowledge, slimes belonged to low-level creatures, and the lifespans of low-level creatures were usually very short, maybe these two girls had not yet entered the second order, and they had already gone underground to report first. Shi Leiyin felt sad for no reason.

"Well, Leiyin, what's wrong with you?" Unlike Jessica's mental thoughts, Erica's contract sensed Shi Leiyin's sadness for the first time.

"Nothing ......"

"It's nothing, why do I feel that you're sad?" Erica looked at Shi Leiyin strangely, and recalled the conversation he had with Jessica just now, "Ah, do you think that your life span is not as long as ours, so you are reluctant?"

"Uh" was actually guessed by Erica, and Shi Leiyin was also surprised, this seemingly grinning girl was still very delicate, "Yes, I don't know how many years a slime can live, but it shouldn't be more than a hundred years."

"The lifespan of an ordinary slime is almost twenty years. The current recorded age of the third-order slime kingdom is only thirty-five years, but ......" Jessica noticed that Erica's face was a little wrong, "However, a third-order slime like you is not recorded in the monster museum in Giffen, maybe the actual lifespan will be very long." ”

"Yes, yes, and I know that there is a contract called Symbiosis, which is said to give pets the same lifespan as their owners. It's a big deal, I'll make a symbiosis contract with Lei Yin in the future, so that you can always be with us" Erika heard Jessica's words, and at first she was a little worried that Lei Yin's life was too short, but after thinking about it, she remembered the name of the so-called contract that she had heard about the same lifespan, so she said it in a hurry.

"Erica, the symbiosis contract isn't what you think......" Jessica said this, and after glancing at Shi Leiyin and Erica with an excited face, she couldn't say any more. And after Shi Leiyin heard this, he also guessed what Jessica wanted to say.

"Thank you for your concern," Shi Leiyin said with a smile, "but I didn't want to live that long." And when Erica grows up and is going to get married, she won't want me as a pet to get in the way, and her husband will make me into slime jam first. Shi Leiyin is very open, not his own character of never forcing it, so that even if he knows that he has more than 30 years left to live, he can accept it calmly.

"Don't worry, I'm going to be a paladin, so I don't want to get married" Erica hugged Jessica's hand, "Jessica, are you right?"

Jessica smiled and was noncommittal, "Okay, don't make a fuss, have you found a suitable way?"

"No," Erica sighed, "mages and ministers, or swordsmen and ministers practice more together." The mage and swordsman must be at least at level 4 or above, and both of us are only level 3."

"I said, stupid boys, since you know the man who wrote this book, why don't you go to him and ask him for it? Besides, this book must be some years old, maybe he wrote it thirty years ago, and there must be other new ways to do it now. Shi Leiyin couldn't help but interject, but it turned out that Erica and Jessica slapped him on the left and right sides of his body at the same time.

"Don't call me a girl!"

Chapter 23: Simple Tasks (1)

"Well, so you're coming to me?" said Hukara Scarres unhurriedly handing the two girls the tea he had brewed himself.

In the National Prontera Academy, the students are from more noble backgrounds, and the principal of such an academy is not something that ordinary people, or even ordinary nobles, can bear. And Xiu Kara, who has the backing of the Kingdom Alchemy Academy and has absolute strength in his own right, is such a suitable candidate. With the acquiescence of the king, even the two princes could be criticized and punished completely mercilessly.

However, the two girls can be treated like this by him today, not only because their family has a prominent position in the kingdom, but also because they themselves have this qualification.

"Erica François, the leader of the swordsman group in the second class of the third year. Jessica Elsard

, the leader of the mage group in the same class. Both were among the best students in Year 3, and the whole school duo competed against the champion of the third year. One year before graduation, he was promoted to the first rank and became a full-time professional. Xiukara sat down in front of the two of them and motioned for them to drink tea, "I remember that you should have just been promoted to the first rank a month ago, don't be surprised, although I am not your mentor, as the principal, it is also my own business to grasp the information of each student."

Not to mention the surprise of the two girls, Shi Leiyin was congratulating on his decision before he came. In order to avoid some unnecessary trouble, after being ravaged by the two girls, Shi Leiyin proposed not to have a heart-to-heart exchange when he met Xiukara, let alone mention anything about himself. He was afraid that Xiukara would see that he was "abnormal" like that Haya Tie, and cause trouble for himself.

And the reason for the two girls who want to show off is that as a mutant slime, they are likely to be caught as experimental animals as soon as they are known. Under Shi Leiyin's "pitiful" request, the two girls finally agreed to hide their identities for him as much as possible.

And now, from the moment she entered the door, she was frightened by Xiukara's huge magic power, and sat stiffly in Erica's arms, trying to shrink her magic power, making herself look weak like an ordinary blue slime. From the moment Xiukara put down the cup, Shi Leiyin felt that Xiukara's magic was in contact with his own magic intentionally or unintentionally, obviously he had doubts about himself. The strength is unfathomable, this is Shi Leiyin's evaluation of Xiukara. Extremely dangerous, this is the slime's instinctive reaction to Shukara. Combining reason and instinct, all Shi Leiyin can do now is to obediently stay in Erica's arms, pretend to be weak and pitiful, so as to dispel the other party's suspicions.

In fact, it was Shi Leiyin who was too villainous. Using magic to detect the opponent is a mage ability that Shukara cultivated before becoming a sage, and through the opponent's reaction to his magic and the feedback of his magic power, you can know the general strength of the opponent, and whether they are hostile.

Seeing the two new stars in his school who were still quite famous, Xiukara naturally used this ability to make an assessment of the strength they really have now, and Shi Leiyin was held in Erica's hands, which caused him to feel that Xiukara was scanning him "intentionally or unintentionally".

Xiukara's own two students are very satisfied, what makes him a little concerned is the slime in Erica's hand, the color is not the faint blue of the ordinary blue slime, but the depth is like a gem, and when he unintentionally scanned it before, the magic fluctuations reflected are not much stronger than ordinary slimes, and even when he deliberately scanned it for the second time, the magic fluctuations were lower than the first time, if he didn't use his eyes, I am afraid that he would definitely treat it as an ordinary slime。

"I remember that my guide taught swordsmen and magicians above level four how to practice together......" Xiukara scanned Shi Leiyin again, and after finding no abnormalities, he still decided not to dwell on this issue, "Although the two of you are only level three now, in my opinion, you are not far from being promoted to level four, why don't you make a little effort first, and act on following the guide after each of you is promoted to level four?" Xiukara withdrew the magic power detection on his body, making the atmosphere a little more relaxed.

"That's right, Principal Shukara," Jessica explained, "In addition to wanting to practice together as soon as possible, we also feel that after thirty years, you may already have a better and newer way of practice, and I have heard you say that everyone has their own way of practicing that works best for them, and it is not necessary to refer to other people's methods. So we're trying to ......."

"If you want me to help you two tailor the most reasonable practice method, right?" Xiukara took it with a smile, then drank the black tea in his cup, ignored the expectant eyes of the two girls, and slowly poured another cup for himself, "You're right, but do you know what it costs me to customize a set of practice plans?" Xiukara brought the poured tea to his mouth, but he was not busy drinking it, but his eyes looked at the two girls through the heat of the tea.

"I think I can probably give three thousand... No... Six thousand gold coins" Jessica thought for a moment and replied, her own pocket money was only five hundred gold coins a year, and six thousand gold coins was the sum of all her savings, plus the money she expected to borrow from others,

"I can also come up with 10,000 gold coins!" Erica said even more amazingly, her pocket money was enough, and more importantly, the light grass was also well kept in her private storage bag, as long as she completed the task, she could get a bonus of 8,000 gold coins.

But Xiukara shook his head, "I don't need gold coins, every year the king allocates 10,000 gold coins to me for research, but I don't need it at all, I'm thinking about whether to use it for investment" Xiukara was actually very surprised, although he already knew that these two girls had a good family background, but he didn't expect that they could take out such a huge amount of money without hesitation in exchange for the correct cultivation guide, that was 16,000 gold coins, and the military expenses allocated to each of the six major legions last year were only 30,000 gold coins for each legion. And Xiukara felt very gratified, their performance was obviously an affirmation of their own research in this area, and there was nothing more satisfying to the researchers than this wordless affirmation.

Seeing that the two girls were frowning because they didn't accept the gold coins, Xiukara smiled and pointed at Shi Leiyin, "You brought this slime back from the depths of the North Forest, if you give it to me to study, I'll help you?"

"No!" Shi Leiyin was anxious when he heard this, but he couldn't react yet, and the two girls actually rejected the proposal in unison.

"Oh?" Shukara saw something strange from the reaction of the two girls, it seems that this slime is indeed not simple, and the opposition of Erica as a pet contract is expected by him, but Jessica, who has nothing to do with it, is also opposed, which is intriguing.

"He's our savior," Jessica saw Shukara's suspicions, and took the initiative to explain, "We were able to come back from Kitanomori safely and intact, thanks to him blocking the monster's attack with part of his body, so we can't agree to your request."

"I see," Xiukara glanced at Shi Leiyin again, and changed his words, "Then,

You have completed a task for me, and if you have completed it well, I will use the method I have researched in the past thirty years to quickly advance to the third order to customize a set of cultivation plans for you.

"Deal" Erica heard that she could be promoted to the third order, and agreed without even asking about the task. Jessica glanced at Erica with an excited face and sighed, "Please tell me what the mission is."