The Tavern of the Sleeper is not a place to get drunk, as is it commonly understood, but a magic shop that has been in business for nearly a hundred years. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The name of the shop is a metaphor, and the source is two sentences in the "Divine Codex": "The believer is wise, and the betrayer sleeps forever", "Spells and alchemy, if spirits and fruits, without prudence and reverence, will become a calamity".

According to the habits of the average person's mind, the obscure name of the store is very annoying, because it is difficult for them to figure out what the store is for.

But for mages, this kind of naming method using metaphor and irony is very appealing to their appetite, and it also has an inexplicable appeal.

Of course, the potential customers of the magic shop will not be ordinary people, but mages with very abnormal ways of thinking, and it is precisely by grasping this that the "Tavern of the Sleeper" can be profitable for nearly a hundred years.

The owner of this shop rarely shows up, and the people who are busy in the store are all hired from outside.

It's said to be a clerk, but at least it's also a full-fledged mage with bronze rank strength.

What can make them surrender their status here is not only the few gold coins per month, but also the knowledge collected in the store, the laboratory that can be rented at a low price, and the occasional right to observe the experiments of the store owner.

Yes, the owner of this shop is a knowledgeable and powerful mage, especially in alchemy.

Thinking about it, the name "Tavern of the Sleeper" is not something that anyone dares to use, and quoting the words of the "Divine Codex" to mock the temple will easily cause hostility and targeting from the major temples, and without strength and other aspects, no one will provoke the displeasure of those clergy.

Although most of the mages lack the necessary reverence for the gods, in the imperial capital jointly operated by the major temples, even the rebellious mages are reluctant to stir up the taboos of the temples.

There is no doubt that the owner of the Tavern of the Sleeper has done something that many mages dare not do, and it is precisely because of this that he is worshipped by the mages of the imperial capital, especially the young mages.

Profound knowledge, great strength, rebellious character, and mysterious reliance that can blind the temple to this mocking shop, all of these constitute the transcendent status of the "Tavern of the Sleeper" in the circle of mages in the imperial capital, and also make the waiter of this shop a position that many low-strength young mages compete for.

Leicester was one of the victors, and one of the three waiters in charge of the shop over the past three years.

The young mage was very satisfied with his current life: the rotation system of working one day every three days ensured that he had enough time to carry out his alchemical experiments, and the books allowed him to borrow in the library were all basic knowledge of the major spell departments, but they were enough for him to lay a solid foundation. There are also well-equipped laboratories, although renting a lease costs more than a month's salary, but it is much cheaper than the public laboratories that can be rented by the outside world, and the instruments provided are far from those low-end laboratories.

As for the amount of income, Lester, who has the support of his family behind him, does not care about this.

Although the glory nobles are not as good as the real nobles in terms of power and status, and the accumulation of heritage is also much inferior to them, they are really not afraid of anything in the competition of financial resources.

"It's a pity that Mr. doesn't provide high-level spell knowledge," Lester thought greedily, "If you can learn all kinds of knowledge without restrictions, I'm afraid it's not a luxury to storm the 'Elemental Wall'." ”

"You...... Hello sir, oh no, sir, I would like to ...... It is...... Sell something, huh...... Yes, sell things, things that are valuable. ”

Lester's longing was interrupted by a timid voice, and the waiter came back from his contemplation, and was greeted by a wide one-piece cloak.

"Isn't it hot?"

This was Lester's first reaction.

You know, it's early summer, and it's still noon, so it's hot to wear such a thick cloak, even if it's hung on the wall.

Mages do like to wear cloaks, because they bring a sense of mystery and satisfy the magician's hypocritical mentality of "I don't want to show my superiority, but I have to be seen by outsiders like me".

However, the mages chose to wear light and wide cloaks, which were also engraved with strange and magnificent runes and magic patterns, which were their own choice and matching, and which had various mysterious effects.

Even if it is a cloak worn by a magic apprentice, they who have not mastered the special protective spells will inscribe basic spells such as dusting, waterproofing, and constant temperature on the surface of the canopy.

But now this strangely dressed person is not only wrapped in a thick and tight cloak, but there is not the slightest spell fluctuation on it, if it weren't for Lester having sensed the other party's spiritual fluctuations that symbolize the bronze rank, I'm afraid he would have regarded this guy as an ordinary person with a sick brain.

"Call me sir...... Is it a hyena?"

The promise of the visitor caused Lester to speculate, after all, this kind of self-deprecating behavior basically does not appear in the orthodox mage with the eyes above the top.

"Hyenas" is the canonical mage's term for those who are lucky enough to peek into the magical realm, meaning that they are like hyenas in the wilderness, fighting each other for a little bit of carrion and wreckage, and they are the scum that has lowered the hunter's noble status.

In fact, in the early years, the mages were not hostile to these lucky people, on the contrary, some friendly mages were willing to give some knowledge guidance that did not involve secret transmission.

However, since the "God of Knowledge" vigorously promoted the knowledge of magic, lucky people who may not have met once in a lifetime have become ubiquitous, and their levels and personalities are also uneven.

No matter what, once the quantity is large, it is no longer valued.

Because of the existence of the Academy of Magic, "luckily stepping into the magic field" has changed from luck to some kind of normality, and normality is naturally impossible to be favored by mages anymore.

The increase in numbers cannot lead to indifference, but the real reason why these "lucky people" have become "hyenas" is their arrogance and artificiality.

In the past, the "lucky ones" never dared to call themselves mages, because they knew how to revere it, not for power, but for the knowledge that the name represents.

Unless they have been instructed by an orthodox mage, and after systematic study, and their knowledge is recognized by the mage who instructed them, they will call themselves "members of the magic field" in future introductions, rather than "peeps who are lucky enough to get the favor of magic".

But the mages from the academy are different, they think that after they have studied in the academy, they are already a member of the mages, even if they have not learned anything from the academy at all.

For them, being able to meditate is the so-called magician, and being able to do magic is a powerful magician, and as for other aspects of knowledge, they completely ignore it.

It is precisely because of the difference in cognition that Mephistopheles will make mistakes, he has not been in contact with the world for a long time, and the "Moult Collar" is a forbidden area for spells, of course, he will not know how low the so-called "evaluation criteria" of mages have been.

As for artificiality, mages are also pretentious, but they have real talents, so their performance is demeanor, demeanor, and the embodiment of the caster's detachment.

And those guys trained by the academy, although there are also those who are not inferior to orthodox mages in knowledge and bearing, most of them are still like Bach's ancestors, and they can barely "entertain themselves".

What's more, in order to speed up the spread of knowledge, so that Nereno can accumulate divine power, the Temple of Knowledge began to gradually abandon some complex and difficult knowledge, such as "Kargela Style" and "Feregna".

This kind of knowledge, which symbolizes the identity of mages and can satisfy their psychological superiority, is abandoned, making mages from the academy even less accepted by mainstream mages, so their behavior becomes contrived, exaggerated, and "crowned by monkeys".

The title of them also changed from "lucky" to "lucky", and finally to "hyena".