Chapter 17: Superior Talent
When Andy woke up, Catherine was wrestling with the aquarium fish in the room. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Sensing that Andy was awake, Catherine hurriedly ran away from the bathtub, and then said to Andy angrily, "Look at it, I didn't want to eat." ”
As soon as Andy wanted to laugh, he felt a sharp pain in his back. Yesterday I was nervous and didn't feel much about the wound, but today I have rested enough, and after relaxing, I began to become sensitive to the pain of muscle tears. His laughter was stifled, and it turned into a hissing sound of cold air.
Andy changed his dressing and, at Catherine's urging, went to the kitchen for a while, with fresh toast, vegetable salad, and hot milk on the table.
"You really don't think about some cat food?" said Andy teasing Catherine as he poured her milk.
"Die!"
Catherine seemed to be in a much better mood than she was yesterday, and was eating breakfast on the first side. While chatting with her without a word.
Catherine the Black Cat can only communicate with Andy without barriers when she releases "Onomatopoeia". "Onomatopoeia" is a level 0 sorcery in which a wizard's apprentice simulates the sounds of other people or species. It is the same as Andy's "Listening", "Concealment", and "Lightweight" release mechanics. All of them require a certain amount of mana to be blessed. And to keep the witchcraft state going, you also have to continue to consume mana. Of course, Andy didn't think about the cost of mana at all when he studied witchcraft.
In this way, Catherine uses onomatopoeia to converse, and when the magic is exhausted, she begins to meditate to restore her magic. As if she was afraid that no one would talk to her, she pestered Andy and kept talking.
During the conversation with Catherine, Andy also gets two important pieces of information, one is about Mentor Stein, who seems to have some problems with his body, because Catherine has seen him cough up blood. The other is about Bill, where Catherine discovers the process of using the "Prague Answering Chair" to boost his mental strength. According to Catherine, after hundreds of electric shocks, Bill's mental power has risen from the level of a middle-level wizard apprentice to the level of an advanced apprentice.
Andy asks Catherine why she didn't use the "Prague Answering Chair" to improve her mental strength, and Catherine's answer leaves him speechless.
Because of the fear of pain, a very good and powerful reason. However, Catherine did not pass up the precious opportunity to improve her mental strength, and she had planned to wait until Mentor Stein returned to ask him for some pain-shielding potions.
This news made Andy very excited, and he insisted on meditating almost every day after the crossing, but the effect of meditation can only be said to be better than nothing. Anyway, Andy didn't feel the growth of his spiritual etiquette, and he deserved to be the third-class qualification of the most wasted wood. Now that he heard the hope of further growth in his spiritual power, his eyes couldn't help but burn slightly.
Catherine also asked why he had been able to unleash witchcraft so often yesterday. Andy explains that he has awakened the soul talent of the "Fountain of Magic" and fooled Catherine.
According to Stein's collection, the "Fountain of Mana" is a coveted talent for wizards, as it can greatly increase the wizard's mana limit and mana recovery rate, similar to Andy's repeated witchcraft that is not afraid of consumption. Of course, the gap between it and Andy's infinite firepower buff is still quite large. It's just that Catherine and Andy are rookies and newcomers to witchcraft, so no one has delved into it.
Catherine once again drained her mana and began to meditate and recover, but this time Andy waited for a long time and did not see Catherine move.
Andy couldn't help but be a little anxious, and touched her lightly, but he didn't expect to jump up like a cat stepping on its tail when he touched her (although it was originally a cat).
"Quick, crystal ball, give me a crystal ball to test my mental power!" Catherine's voice was filled with apprehension and excitement.
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Looking at the orange light flashing from the crystal ball, Catherine and Andy were relatively speechless.
"You're about to reach a critical point, and you happened to be promoted when you were meditating just now?" Andy analyzed.
"What, it's early. I have only been promoted to a low-level apprentice for about half a year, how can I be promoted so quickly with my second-class mental talent, and I have never sat in an electric chair in order to improve my mental strength. ”
"That's another possibility, you and your pet's spiritual power fusion produces the effect of one plus one is greater than two," Andy empathizes with about this.
Unfortunately, Catherine could not agree with this reason. What are you kidding, the spiritual power of a low-level wizard apprentice plus the spiritual power of a cat can have the spiritual power of a medium wizard apprentice, don't cats be so rebellious.
Andy, who is an earthling, still has a basic brain hole, and he mentioned several possibilities with Catherine, such as emotional ups and downs and stimulation, the cat called Angel is actually a hidden beast, Catherine is actually the reincarnation of the great wizard, and the cat accidentally ate the genius treasure a few days ago......
Catherine felt like she was being fooled by Brother Andy, but she still had a glimmer of hope to put the talent test on her eyebrows.
The little kitten looked particularly funny holding the talent test table with both paws, but Andy didn't laugh, and the reaction on the talent test table made Andy spartan directly.
The scale indicated on the talent test table rises rapidly, third class...... Second-class...... First...... Then there is super-class, Andy sighed in his heart, what is the concept of super-class, that is a peerless genius who practices witchcraft, and with the power of Elam, he has not found a super-level qualification in recent years.
"Smack!" Before Andy could finish sighing, the pointer of the talent test table rushed past the super level and began to rise again, but there was no scale further up, and the talent test table was finally overwhelmed, and it exploded with a snap. Catherine barked in horror.
Based on the principle of comparative experiments, Andy ventured out of the door, relying on expert-level concealment techniques, Andy stole a total of 3 cats from several nearby households, and Andy named these 3 cats Xiaobai, Xiaohua and Xiaobaihua respectively. Andy used his talent test sheet to test the talents of the three kittens respectively, and the result was that all three kittens did not even have third-class talents.
This excludes the possibility that cats are actually better suited to learning witchcraft than humans. It seems that Catherine is a unique cat with a lot of talent.
Catherine was so excited about this result that she said she wanted to celebrate with a big meal, the so-called big meal was - go to TM's vegetable salad, and Ben Meng cat wanted to eat fish.
Andy had no choice but to show off his cooking skills again, fed all four kittens with fried fish, and then sent the reluctant Xiaobai, Xiaohua and Xiaobaihua home.
Andy didn't go back immediately after sending the cats home, he still had to go outside to find out the news. With such a big incident happening last night, it was easy for Andy to inquire about the follow-up developments.
As he expected, the City Lord's Mansion had laid all the blame on Andy, and had issued a notice announcing that Andy Charles had colluded with enemy spies to kill some of the citizens attending the ball at Phillips Manor. Now Andy is being wanted by the whole city, and those who provide Andy's accurate information can get a reward of hundreds of gold coins, and once there is anyone who conceals and shields Andy, he will be punished for treason. Moreover, Bill and Jera, who had disappeared long ago yesterday, are also wanted together in the name of Andy's accomplices.
Andy thought that it was probably the City Lord's Mansion that had received the news that Mentor Stein had a physical problem, and seeing that they were dealing with themselves so recklessly, I was afraid that the Mentor's physical condition was even worse than Catherine described. It's a pity that he can't protect himself now, let alone help his mentor.
After last night's incident, Andy's desire to improve his strength has become stronger. Originally, he was now somewhat sure of the model of building a level 1 sorcery "Arrow of Fire", and after focusing on practice, it was likely that he would be able to promote to a mid-level wizard apprentice, and when he had actual offensive sorcery, with his infinite firepower, his combat power would be greatly improved.
But after listening to Catherine's description of the efficacy of the "Prague Answering Chair", Andy couldn't help but be moved, if he could raise his mental power to the level of a high-level wizard apprentice, then he would be able to build a level 1 witchcraft model easily, and he could learn a few more level 1 witchcraft to enrich his combat methods. If it goes well, he can also learn level 2 witchcraft to be promoted to a high-level wizard apprentice, and I believe that his combat effectiveness will have a qualitative change at that time.
Thinking of this, Andy's heart was on fire, and he dived like a ghost in the direction of the wizard tower.
After arriving at the Wizard Tower, Andy was very depressed, and now there are still a large number of city guards patrolling there, Andy learned through some investigation that it turned out that when Knight McCann led a raid on Phillips Manor yesterday, Edward Colin led another team of city guards to surround the entire Wizard Tower, and now almost all the valuable things in the Wizard Tower have been emptied.
Andy, who never gave up, risked almost being discovered and infiltrated the Wizard Tower, and then his heart seemed to have been trampled by 10,000 alpacas, and the entire Wizard Tower was left with an empty shell, and even the magic crystals for lighting were dug down from the roof and taken away. There are also carpets, tables and chairs, a collection of books and testing equipment. Andy's goal "Prague Answering Chair" is also included.
Andy returned to Catherine's house depressed, and the discovery on the road made him even more depressed, it turned out that there were traces of the city guards near Catherine's house, and they were working in small teams to investigate from house to house. It seems that it will not be long before Catherine's home is searched.
Andy returned to Catherine's house and quickly told Catherine about this discovery, although it was a serious matter, but the corners of Andy's mouth couldn't help twitching when he spoke, guess what he had just seen when he came home, and said that King Catherine was hiding behind him was a ball of yarn, and then when he couldn't help laughing, Catherine angrily smashed the yarn over.
Laughing back to laughter, they really have to find a way to deal with the upcoming city guards, once they are discovered by the city guards during the day, it is not as easy to get rid of them as at night, and when the army is surrounded, Andy will not be enough even if nine lives are enough.
"Let's get out of here," Catherine said suddenly, "before that, let's bury her."
"Uh...... Who?"
"Me!" Catherine pointed in the direction of the basement, "no matter where we go, it's not convenient for us to take the corpse with us, and we can't stay here to be found by the city guards." Moreover, it is already useless"
"How can it be useless, you always have a glimmer of hope to recover your body if you keep it. ”
"What can I do if I recover, continue to be a second-class talented apprentice who is struggling to survive at the bottom of the wizarding world? Don't you think that this cat's body is a gift from God, if I really have the opportunity to overlook all living beings, what can I do as a cat?"
Andy was silent for a long time before he said, "Well, that makes sense, but it's not like what a kid says," said Andy as he bent down and touched Catherine's head.
"Don't touch my head," Catherine threatened with her claws raised, and then used up her magic to turn into a meow.
Andy quickly buried the basement, repeatedly correcting it to make sure there was no trace of it, and then he leveled and hid the old Brown's tomb until he could no longer find a single flaw, he shoved Catherine into his arms and left.
Catherine wandered around the whole time, watching faintly, and meowing softly from time to time, as if singing a strange ballad.
Like goodbye, like sadness, like nostalgia, like hesitation, like longing, like hope.