"Every time we talk about those little wounds, they always casually tell us that those potions always heal. ”。

"Why would they do this? No one seems to be able to refuse magical healing. Is there any specialized equipment in the frontier for natural and secular body restoration? Do you know how many resources are needed to do this?"

Gwen shook her head. She wondered if Elvia knew, or if her friend was too much of an entourage to know the secrets of the trade. Gwen's owner and siblings may also know, but rarely think about it, because they have access to a high level of treatment, which means that Gwen will undergo this treatment sooner or later. In the end, despite the convenience of magic, it still boils down to a hierarchical society where the rich have access to the best health insurance and the poor are thrown over their weathered corpses to their graves.

"Gwen. Her grandmother, sensing the suspicion in her heart, changed her tone and looked at me. ”

Gwen turned to look at her Pabloa, feeling the care and concern in the eyes of the holy old woman.

"Your path will be full of thorns. My dear granddaughter, you and I both know that your path is one of conflict. ”

Gwen felt that her grandmother's words were wise, suppressing the anxiety that had been bothering her since the previous night's insomnia.

"Think of all the battles you're going to do, Gwen: wolves, lions and tigers, hyenas, foxes and jackals, and you'll fight monsters on land, in the air and at sea, half-humans who think you're a threat. You're going to fight your allies. You can even get into fights with your family. ”

The last sentence made Gwen flinch in displeasure.

"If you want to live up to what Magus Schultz and de Botton expect from you, and I think what you expect of yourself, then the path ahead is what the never-ending Buddhists call the path of asuras, the path of violent reckoning. There will be no breaks. There is no solace, even when you're exhausted, bloody, and just want to sleep. With your talents, your blood, you will become a beacon, a place for rakshasas, jealousy, anger and lust. Can you understand?"

Gwen replied that she did it. She survived the invasion of the Mermaid Gate. She lost her loved ones to the conspiracy. She kills and kills.

A year and a half ago, she would quote Shakespeare, but now she understands, so she doesn't say anything.

"It's a lot more serious than I thought. Kravdia exhaled in a strange long stream. "I'm crazy at my age......"

"Please, your suggestion is reasonable," Gwen reassured her Babria.

"I'm glad to hear, dear. Kravdia took Gwen's hand and led her out of the macro restoration table. "Now, measure what you're capable of now. After all, that's why we're here. ”

A yellow jacketed folder appears on the stainless steel surface of the examination table, indicating a built-in space storage system. Scanned the number Clevdia had found in the envelope.

"Miao did an extensive survey with your biometrics. "Her Pabria put the papers on the table and Gwen was in charge. Her easy-to-understand language did her best to translate medical jargon, but most of it was still gibberish.

Gwen walked from the low table to another set of machines. This time, the installation resembles a chest stretch in a gymnasium. Kravdia ordered Gwen to put her hands on the handlebars and sit awkwardly on a bench in my shape.

"Well, we're going to try three times on average," Claudia told her. "This is to get a volume reading of your mana pool. ”

"What should I do?" Gwen's ears perked up.

"Do what you can, turn the channel up to 10 seconds. Three times. This machine works a lot like the Awakening Stone. It will send a guide particle to your astral body to produce a statistical representation of your abilities. Relax and remember to let the dust get back on the machine. ”

The machine starts running.

"Are you ready? Three. Two. One. Channel. ”

Gwen focused her attention, imagining herself pushing the mana out of her body like the way a mana shield manifested. All around her, astral energy gushed out from the aether, gushing out through her mana channels. When her palm touched the handlebar, she could feel a divination particle invade her astral form, then quickly disappear.

Kraftia looked at the rise and fall of the indicator, as if it had reached the apex of the moving wavelength.

"Calm down," she advised. "Long-term sustained manifestation. ”

Gwen tried again.

Then do the same exercise a third time.

"How does it look?" Gwen asked her grandmother eagerly.

"About 132 vendors manage inventory, which stands for Volume Mana Index. ”

"I mean, how is this measured," Gwen shyly repeated her question.

"What do you think?"

"General?" said Gwen testing the waters.

"Hah!" Clavdia laughed.

"Pabloa! you're kidding me!" Gwen charmingly nagged her grandmother, now she was more eager and curious to know.

Kravdia smiled.

"Well, impressive. ”

"That's impressive?" Gwen asked for clarification.

"Okay, to give you some perspective. Tao sits around 60 vendors managing inventory, and Mina is about 65 vendors managing inventory. The boy you fight, Frederick Lin, should be sitting around 70 vendors managing inventory. I don't know about your father's situation, but Jun likes it very much at 440 Vendor Managed Inventory (Vendor Managed Inventory). Your grandfather hasn't been in battle for a while, and his last check was 280 vendor managed inventory. The requirement for an intermediate mage to work under the Shanghai tower is 90 vendors to manage inventory. What do you think that means?"

Gwen pinched the numbers for a moment, then realized they didn't add up.

"Why am I so tall?" she asked, and a particularly frightening hypothesis began to form in her mind.

"I'm sure you have an idea, darling. Kravdia patted Gwen on the cheek.

That's true.

Assuming her diet is semi-magical and mostly generic produce, she should be sitting around 40 vendors managing inventory after a year and a half of training. She has a managed inventory of over 90 vendors, apparently acquired by Cariban. Blackheath's junior mages will offer between 5 and 10 each, while faceless mages will likely offer the lion's share.

When her late master was teaching her the fourth layer of spells, she felt that her magic pool was not enough to maintain all the spell effects at the same time. But in that fight with Locke, she had just come to summon the familiar sustained shot from her orb cloud for nearly 4 minutes before breaking a sweat. In addition, she noticed that her non-Newtonian shield felt unusually dense. Locke's earthen spear had just shattered her shell.

Now she knows why.

Gwen asked, "I'm curious why I've never heard of vendor managed inventory in Frontier. ”。

"It is forbidden to export magic to the border, darling," her grandmother replied patiently.

"Of course, Pabloa, what else?" Gwen began to realize why Richard Haken was so eager to leave the border.

"Affinity!Kraftia takes Gwen to another space station, where there is a giant crystal ball, like an awakened orb. "Put your hand on the stone, three lightning passages, and then we will reset to blank. ”

"Alright," Gwen put her hands on the stone, waiting for Kravdia's order.

"Three. Two. One. Channel. ”

The stone cracked due to electrical discharge.

"Here we go again. ”

The stone glows.

"One more time. Very good. ”

The mana diversion of the enchanted school cleared the crystal ball, restoring it to its crystal-clear clarity.

"It's empty now, do what you can. Please let me know if you feel weak or weak. I will keep a copy of the restoration. ”

"All right, Babya. ”

Gwen took a deep breath. It had been a while since she had hollowed herself out to channel the emptiness.

"Are you ready? Three. Two. One. Let's go!"

Gwen paled as the surge of hollow matter crossed the threshold of safety provided by Amurji's blessing. As the dust of darkness filled the awakened crystals and filled the whirlpool of evil entropy, she felt her vitality fade.

"Recovery! Heal!"

A well-tuned wavelength of positive energy poured into Gwen's body, repairing and repairing the part of her that had been weakened by the negative energy.

"Can you do it again, dear. ”

Gwen concentrates and performs the feat again, feeling herself weakened by the waning of her vitality. Her face was pale and pale, and her skin was pale from exertion. She was fully confident that she was standing up straight, panting from the podium.

"A real recovery!"

Kravdia generously uses her acclaimed magic on Gwen. Gwen would have been shocked by her Papuan generosity if she had known that every real repair casting consumed almost 12 rare parts worth of the hard drive management system.

At the same time, Gwen felt completely rejuvenated.

Whatever her Pabria did, it seemed to be infusing the dust of Armurgi's primordial mana into Gwen's body, and she felt her depleted body slowly fill with energy and vitality again.

"4.45 for lightning," Claudia carefully noted the number. "I'm surprised to say that your void is 4.03. ”

Gwen felt her affinity for the Void greatly enhanced, but she didn't expect to be doubled by taking in an unnamed, elemental centipede.

"So, you're effectively sitting in Void 4, Lightning 4, and both stats are impressive. ”

"How-"

"Do you meet the criteria? above average, even though you possess two elements, I dare say you are beyond reasonable comparability, after all, there are currently no more than a dozen mages with two pure strain elements, at least in Shanghai. There are also some juvenile birds, but they are certainly a rare breed. ”

"And people like me?" Gwen exclaimed.

"Not exactly. Clavdia tapped on the table. "As far as I know, Fei Lingyi, the great disciple of the Kunlun Sect, is wielding qi and ice. Dual-element talents are a rare phenomenon that often occurs in inherited branches. As for the rest, few can harness both elements with the same affinity. As for you......"

Gwen's Bableia opened her palms angrily.

"I don't think I've ever heard of anyone awakening in opposing twin elements. It goes against all of our current theories of astral bodies. If you chose that subject in college, you'll understand. It is not uncommon for siblings, or even twins, to awaken in opposing elements, as creation tends to be a dichotomy of pairing, in yin and yang, fire and water, earth and air, which are the ways of the astral world and the material plane. ”

"I'd rather do antiques," Gwen said calmly.

Kravdia confidently assured her, "As long as you have us, and your brother, you won't do it." ”。 "Still, if you want to volunteer, I'd love to look around your astral body. ”

"Ahaha," Gwen smirked coldly, turning the subject. "Another machine, and that's another test?"

"That's true. ”

Kraftia directs Gwen into the last machine. The glyphs were familiar to her, as she had seen them many times in the Sydney Tower under Henry's teachings.

"It's ...... A cognitive room?"

"More or less," said Kraftia, who helped Gwen put on her harness, a soft strip of leather wrapped around her waist. "This will give us an idea of your body's affinity for different schools of magic. ”

"I think I already know what I'm good at," Gwen volunteered.

Kravdia told her, "Still, we need to produce a record. ”。 "Why do you think we're here? Exams aren't there to satisfy our curiosity, dear, it's so you can apply to college!"

"Oh, oh! Gwen achieved their penultimate goal of exercising. She hid her abilities for so long that it was natural not to know the true extent of her affinity and talents. "Oh, yes. Of course, Pabloa. Thank you for doing this for me. ”

"Well, the numbers speak for themselves. Kravdia smiled kindly at Gwen and squeezed her arm. "Relax, you don't have to do anything. When the oscillator is rotating, place your arms and legs inside the oscillator. ”

The tubular machinery that supported Gwen began to hum, and the air was filled with divination energy.

A set of scripts pouring out of the console.

"Well, let's see," Kravdia reversed the list. Her eyes widened in surprise. "In the snow of St. Petersburg!"

Gwen wanted to see it too.

Kravdia read them out one by one.

"Evocative, 3.28"

"Juggling 4.05"

"Morph 1.50"

"Abandon 1.05"

"Scry 1.01"

"It looks like I've stuffed four mages into the same machine," Clavdia said in surprise, pursing her lips thoughtfully. "Five schools, Gwen. I don't know what to say. ”

"It's Cariban," Gwen noted. It seems that she can't improve her tune on the signal just by consuming mages. Her transmutation was below level 1 before, and after digesting the level 6 Transformer "Faceless", Gwen's healing effect only increased by 0.5. From the abundance of evidence she's had so far, it seems that once awakened, the only thing that can significantly improve one's Siegel affinity is perseverance. This means that, unlike other mages, Gwen will need to spend a disproportionate amount of time if she wants to master all the schools. Most mages and mages train like this – in astral meditation, a person's affinity slowly matures over time by constantly reproducing mystical signals. For her part, after absorbing the talents of other mages, her spells were already putting pressure on the existing spell limits.

"But your spell and your summoning seem to be a double awakening," Kravdia noted. ”。 "Then you have a pair of opposing twin elements. ”

"What does that portend?" Gwen pleaded with her grandmother.

Kravdia stared dangerously at Gwen.

Gwen's heart raced. Does her Pabria be suspicious? Does she know twin souls?

The suspect, Clafdie, spoke.

Gwen swallowed nervously, feeling her mouth dry and her lips quickly dry.

"You may have had a fraternal twin die in the womb, and I suspect that your body, as an embryo, may well have absorbed her," Klavdia hypothesized based on her decades of experience with medical mysteries.

"This also explains yin and yang," she said expertly, her voice growing more confident. "I'm sure, but we need to test yourself and your mother extensively. ”

"I don't think she'll agree," Gwen noted.

"I don't want to continue either," her Pabria noted, before changing the subject. "Do you think she and Moyer can be together? Having a divorced spouse in Shanghai always complicates a person's social status. The extended family, the clan, the house, the state itself, are very particular about the viability of the family unit and the bloodline. ”

"There was no chance, let alone a new husband. ”

Kravdia's expression immediately turned cold.

"What, the sea isn't good enough for her?"

Gwen glanced down, suddenly interested in the sterile floor. She would do well not to contribute to the momentum of their current conversation.

"Well, anyway, we're almost done. Kravdia carefully labeled and filled out each document. "Finally, I need your blood. ”

She pulled out a syringe and six vials. Gwen winced and stretched her arm, her bablia painlessly and expertly pulling six ruby-colored bloodied veins out of her arm.

"These will be sent to the tower to generate your visas and passports, academic ID cards, public magical practice permits, and adventure permits. Remember Gwen; Blood Tuning is your best identification. No one can pretend to be you, not even the one who changes their skin – unless they can get fresh blood from you every day. ”

Gwen shuddered at the thought of this.

"Thank you, Pabloa," she replied earnestly, realizing that Kraftia had just circumvented a lot of red tape for her. From the moment these documents entered the system, she became an official citizen of Shanghai, no longer a homeless person who wandered into the city from the frontier. "I don't know what I'd do without you. ”

"It's okay, my dear, you must make us proud. Kravdia smiled softly and uttered a spell that seemed to drain all the lives of the machines. "I dare say we spent most of the day here. You children have to go to Hengsha Island tomorrow. I'm sure your grandpa was hosting the new addition we were expecting as we spoke. ”

“!“ Gwen suddenly felt palpitations. "Percy is coming?!Is Richard too?"

As if to suggest, a crimson message spell bloomed in their ears like a lotus flower.

"Speaking of that old devil," Claudia said with a laugh. "Guo?"

"I'm going to take the two of them home now. Guo's familiar voice came from the message. "Are you done?"

"It's just over," Kravdia replied sweetly.

"Very well," Mr. Guo's voice softened as he spoke to his wife. "I'll see you later. ”

"I want a kiss, dearest," Kravdia said abruptly to the swarthy old man, watching Gwen try to hold back a giggle. She blinked.

It was a futile internal struggle.

"Ahh

When the message abruptly ended, the two ladies burst out laughing and giggled uncontrollably. Unushka and Babushk laughed, then giggled, and finally burst into loud laughter, until they covered their stomachs and their needles and threads trembled.

"Alright, alright," Klavdia urged Gwen to quickly change into her usual clothes. "Let's go see our heir. ”

Gwen climbed up from the floor.

Percy! She felt her heart reddened with warmth. Richard!