Chapter Twenty-Three: Scholars, Scholars, and Scumbags
Charles's assurances did not get a response from the Ancient One, who just gave Charles a serious look before speaking.
"Charles, would you like to inherit the title of Supreme Mage?"
For the question of the ancient one, Charles thought carefully in his mind, and then refused in a somewhat joking tone.
"Supreme Mage, I'm afraid this won't work, you know, I'm good at everything, but it's not very good, I'm too lazy, sorry, sorry. ”
Gu Yi listened to Charles's indirect refusal, and shook his head, the identity of the Supreme Mage is really not in Charles's eyes, too, time can be controlled by Charles, how can he care about the title of a Supreme Mage.
Then Gu Yi looked at Charles with a little bit of a desire to leave, it seemed that in the matter of letting Charles be the Supreme Mage, Charles's heart was very refusal, if it was possible, Gu Yi really wanted to know, how did Charles get such a powerful power for a person who didn't work hard.
"Okay, so how about we wait until you're not going to be lazy to inherit this title. Gu Yi said jokingly, not feeling bad at all because Charles rejected him.
"Since you've said so, I don't want to say much, but I still suggest that you don't have too much hope, because laziness is not something that can be changed if you want to, it generally needs a strong external force to push, and the external force that can push me doesn't seem to have it. ”
Charles said that he wouldn't say much, but he still expressed vaguely that he had no intention of taking over the position of the Supreme Mage who needed to protect the earth, and if he grabbed this position, where would Dr. Stephen Strange go, to help himself?
Although Charles would like Dr. Stephen Strange to become Sherlock as a detective in his firm, unfortunately Stephen Strange will not do this, and his firm is full and there are no vacant positions for the time being.
"Don't worry, if nature really wants you to do something, he will let you do it naturally, I won't force it, it's just a possibility. Gu Yi said firmly.
After ending this topic, after a few small chats with Charles, the ancient one let Charles go to rest, and said that tomorrow Charles and the three of them will learn the principles of magic in the living room just now.
After Charles said goodbye to the Ancient One, he went straight to Laura's side, and the Ancient One watched Charles go in the direction of Laura as if he were returning to his own home, and made his own judgment on Charles's reconnaissance ability.
"Laura, what do you think?" After Charles returned to Laura's side, he began to care about Laura's mental problems.
"It's nothing, I've just seen a lot of magical places and I'm just surprised, Charles, does what the Ancient One Mage showed me really exist in this world?" Laura asked Charles curiously.
"yes, that's supposed to be another dimension, but I haven't been there, so I don't know what it looks like. Charles's tone hinted at the idea of wanting to see it, but that would not be possible until he learned magic.
"yes? By the way, Jessica and I are going to go outside and have fun together. Laura looked at Charles's lost appearance, and immediately planned to do something to help Charles recover, and immediately suggested that the three of them go outside for a while.
"No, it's too cold outside, I don't like it a little, I'll wait here for you to come back. ”
It was too early today, and then there was a bit more to do, and Charles no longer planned to go shopping with Jessica and Laura, in fact, Charles didn't like to go shopping with ladies at any time, and you never know why they could tirelessly walk down the street for an afternoon and then go home without buying anything.
"What can you do here, sleep?" said Laura, looking at the somewhat empty guest room, this is not Charles's office, there are game consoles and everything.
"Don't you know? For otaku, all you need to survive is to have a mobile phone and a charger plus an IFI, and that's it. When Charles heard Laura's words, he took out his mobile phone casually, connected to the IFI here, and then signaled to Laura that he was okay now.
"How do you know the IFI password here, did they give you another one?" Jessica asked curiously, taking out the IFI password they had given herself just now from her pocket.
"For a person in the new era, when you come to a new place, the first thing you do is to ask for the ifi password here, are you still waiting for someone else to give it to you?" Charles made up a reason to convince Jessica, as for Jessica to believe it or not, Charles didn't care, who would get to the bottom of an IFI password matter?
Seeing Charles talking casually again in order not to answer the question, Jessica and Laura immediately gave up asking Charles how he knew the password, and after glancing at each other, they cleaned up their mood and happily prepared to travel.
"Wait, this is for you, although Kathmandu is not a metropolis like New York, it is not small, don't get lost. ”
Charles, who was already lying down, casually threw a compass to Jessica, the compass is a thing Jessica often uses, so she naturally knows what Charles means, but she didn't plan to take a strange compass in her hand to go shopping, let Laura use the space ring to put it away, and the two left here.
The next day, Jessica and Laura, who had been out for a day, and Charles, who had been playing in the room for a day, were dressed in Kama Taj's apprentice robes, and waited respectfully for the Ancient One to teach them about magic.
The Ancient One explained the origin of magic to the three of them as he did to Doctor Strange in the movie, and then told the three of them how magic was composed, and demonstrated magic by the way, and then took Charles and the three into the library, signaling that the three of them could choose books to study separately.
A week later, Kama Taj's practice plaza was located.
Jessica, dressed in an apprentice suit, came to Charles's side disappointed again, and looked at Laura with Charles, who could already pull out a straight yellow line, and the two were disappointed in their talent for the first time.
"Charles, are you really sure that Laura didn't receive special instruction from the Supreme Mage?"
Jessica looked at Laura with a sad face, she was more desperate than Charles, Charles could at least emit a trace of yellow dots that could be seen, Jessica didn't feel magic at all, the dense magic book was a heavenly book for a superpowered person who grew up in an American public school.
"I read all of Laura's magic books to her, do you really think this kind of gap can be done by the ancient one's special teachings?" Charles said to Jessica, covering his face.
can learn the portal magic that Charles wants the most, Charles has changed his lazy character, picked up his ability to take the college surprise exam, and studied hard, so compared to Laura, who thinks magic is fun, and Jessica, a scumbag, Charles is the hardest working of the three, but unfortunately, magic is unreasonable, only talent, Laura's talent is even the ancient one is shocked. 8)