On the border between the western and northern borders of the empire lies the free city of Orindaru, known as the capital of magicians.

If St. Herte is the ideal place for magicians, then Orindaru is the most suitable place for magicians to live in reality.

Thousands of towers of various shapes are scattered throughout the city called Olindaru, each with a unique design and décor that reflects the personality of the builder.

The streets and plazas wind their way between the towers, merging subtly with the tower's construction.

In addition to the towers where the magicians lived, the city was mostly made up of ordinary dwellings of varying heights.

The organization that governs the city is called the Council of Orindaru, and the council is divided into three levels, the first is the Three Wise School and the many smaller schools attached to the Three Sages, the second is the Knights of Olindaru, and the third is the citizens.

The Three Sages do not like to get involved in government affairs, and the Knights of Orindaru only maintain law and order on a daily basis, so it is the mayor elected by the citizens who really steers the operation and development of the city.

In the center of Orindaru stands a huge tower made of gray boulders.

The shape of this tower looks very similar to the Sage Tower in St. Herte, but the scale is much larger than the Sage Tower, and its name is also "coincidentally" named - the Sage Tower.

There are 33 floors in the tower, and the professors, instructors, and students from St. Helte are all arranged to live on the 30th floor.

Rogers, relying on his status as a lecturer in St. Herthe, was assigned a nice single suite.

"Are you still satisfied?"

He carried out regular exertion activities in an orderly manner at a soothing and natural pace, while also asking Alina how she felt in a thoughtful tone.

"Hmm...... Use a little more force. Alina replied in a languid tone, feeling the force of Rogers' exerting it, gradually settling into the comfort.

Sunlight streamed through the windows in the room, shining on the white light gauze curtains beside the queen bed.

Rufia pursed her lips and looked back at Alina lying on the bed enjoying Rogers' shoulder massage while she sat at her desk and kept doing her papers.

The sheets and bedding on the bed were still laid out by her, and she wanted to take advantage of her free time to sleep, but she was overtaken by Alina.

"When did Rutgers stop working?"

After sighing softly, Rufia couldn't help but whisper, if it was the way Rogus and Alina were fighting in the past, she could still persuade them to fight, but now......

"I'm going to get out of the tower and buy something in a minute." Rogers withdrew his hand, and he turned his wrist slightly as he said to Alina on the bed.

Alina's originally slightly worried eyes suddenly became vigilant, she was silent for a while, and asked aloud, "Have you ever been here?" ”

"Nope." Rogers answered.

He intends to use the foreknowledge he has gained from the text to trigger an adventure mission and try to see if he can succeed.

Rufia's ears twitched slightly, and when she heard Rogers's words, she excitedly echoed, "I'm going too!" ”

"Then let's go together, but we need to make some preparations before we go out." Alina narrowed her eyes and said slowly.

……

The sun of Orindaru is far more intense than that of St. Herte, and it paints the earth with an endless blue blue.

The three of them stepped out of the room and under the guidance of the attendants in the tower, they sat in a short-distance small teleportation circle and came directly to the first floor of the Sage Tower.

After leaving the tower, they walked along the shaded street where they could hide from the sun.

Rogers was wearing a white half-sleeved shirt and black knee-length shorts at the bottom, not much different from his daily outfit at home.

The pitch-black cane he was holding in his hand had also been replaced with an oak one, which had been given to him by Professor Idrul this morning.

After repeatedly confirming that the materials used to make this cane were obtained from a thousand-year-old tree, he accepted it with confidence.

In addition to this, his hair was dyed brown, his face was freckled, and he had a hexagonal hat with brims buttoned up on his head.

"This is not Breed Collar, at most the citizens have only seen my sketches in the newspapers, and I am afraid that there will not be many who can recognize me, and even if they do, it should not be very good."

He listened to Alina's instructions, raised his hand slightly and lowered the brim of his hat, and said in confusion.

Olindaru's industry revolves around the needs of magicians, and most of the day-to-day industries are service-oriented, with few workshops, and Rogers feels that his reputation here is not as good as everyone shouts.

Most of the clothes worn by the pedestrians on the street were also new styles that he designed, and he felt that he might still be welcomed and respected here.

"Prevention is better than regret, and I'm here for your safety." Alina replied solemnly.

She was now dressed in a long white dress, wearing a wide-brimmed sunhat, holding an open picture book in her hand, and holding a charcoal pen in the other, writing and drawing, the final work of perfecting the occult language.

Beside her, Rufia wore a painter's hat, a linen half-sleeved shirt, and brown cropped trousers.

The poor princess had a tome in her hand, and although she had escaped the fate of doing the papers, she had not escaped the tutoring that had to be paid for the laziness of the previous days.

The three of them had never worn the uniforms of the academy before coming to Olindaru, which was ordered by the professors in advance, because the students were allowed to practice outside as ordinary people.

However, Rogers had heard from Professor Idrul that this rule was purely out of the desire to cause trouble for St. Herte's students while they were free to move around in Orindaru.

Orindaru was founded by three sages who built it to resemble St. Herthe.

Therefore, the school of the Three Sages who inherited Orindaru liked to do the most was to compare it with St. Herthe, and this trend also spread to the apprentices of his school.

Once in Orindaru, before the exchange meeting officially began, there were many incidents of St. Herthe's students and apprentices of the Three Sages rising from verbal conflicts to spell duels.

The causes are varied, but most of them involve the arrogance of St. Herthe's students and the provocation of the apprentices of the Three Sages.

Although Rogers didn't think the students were arrogant, the mentors, like Alina, chose "prevention is better than regret".

Rogus led the way, and Alina and Rufia followed closely as they went about their business, and because they were more or less silver-level magicians, they were not afraid of any accidents at this level of dual-mindedness.

As they moved forward, the two girls attracted a lot of people's attention and attention, not only because of what they were currently doing, but also because of their overly outstanding looks.

About half an hour later, the three of them came to the end of an alley.

Rogers tuded his monocle over his glasses and looked at the small shop in front of him, its modest façade with a wooden sign above the porch that read "Groceries."

He pushed open the dark brown veined door, and the small brass bell on the door tinkled slightly.

There are no elaborate decorations, just a counter and a few simple wooden shelves with containers, herbal ashes and a mess of minerals.

After the three of them entered, the door creaked back again.

"Excuse me, on the shelves behind you, are the remaining three goods still for sale?" Rogers asked the old lady behind the counter.

Dressed in a loose robe, he sat cross-legged on a yellowed wooden chair and held an old-looking oak staff in his arms, looking like he was taking a nap.

The old lady raised her eyes slightly, first at Rogers, then at Alina and Rufia behind Rogers, and finally at Rogers, especially at the cane that Rogers was holding.

"What is your relationship with Idrull?"

The wrinkles on her face seemed to have become deeper at this moment, filled with all kinds of complicated emotions, and asked in a cold tone.

Without waiting for Rogers to reply, she leaned forward slightly and continued to ask in a low voice, "If I catch you, will that guy come to save you?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Alina instantly closed the drawing book, staring at the old lady with her eyes tightly, the magic around her gradually became stronger, and Rufia on the side also showed a vigilant expression.

"It depends on what kind of relationship you have with the professor, if it was the kind I thought, the professor probably wouldn't come." Rogers shook his head slightly, and replied very sincerely.

He didn't expect that he would be able to encounter this situation just to have an adventure, which has never been mentioned in the plot text.

In particular, Alina did not issue a warning, indicating that she did not have a premonition of the danger here, and it seems that the little old lady on the other side also has enough power to shield the high-ranking fate type bonus.

Thinking of this, Rogers couldn't help but clench his cane, and felt only troublesome in his heart, if it was just that he was in danger, it would be okay, with the silver ring given to him by Alice, plus the guarantee of the [Time Retrospective Bonus], it was enough to run away.

However, if you use the student badge to send a distress signal and want to protect Alina and Rufia next to her before the professors rush to help, you must liberate the [Broken Praise] and use the power of promotion as a sacrifice in advance.

"Don't be nervous, little one, I have no ill will towards you." The old lady sighed and leaned back in her chair, and continued, "I hope that when you meet Idrul when you go back, tell him that Nephtrith is waiting for him here."

"As for the three things on the shelves behind me, you can only choose one to buy, just pay a copper coin."

Rogus breathed a sigh of relief, and then he continued to look at the things behind Nephtrith.

It was a simple oval dreamcatcher, a dusty stone, and a black ball that looked like an egg.

This is also the case in the game, when Alice accidentally enters the shop, the owner only allows her to buy one of three things, and the price is also a copper coin.

Each of the three items has its own characteristics, the dreamcatcher has a shadow demon sealed inside, the stone has an original text engraved on it, and as for the orb, it is a dragon egg.

Sacrificing a dreamcatcher can greatly increase mental power, the original text can help open high-level skills, and dragon eggs are pets.

It's a way to use it in the game, but Rogers has a better plan for it.

"Then there are three of us here, can we buy one for each person?"

He pondered for a moment, but asked tentatively.

At first, he thought it was an item reserved for the Holy Maiden, but since passers-by could buy it, he couldn't help but try to see if he could take it all.

Nephtrith didn't reply, she just held the oak staff and looked at Rogus quietly, and Rogus was a little hairy.

Then she looked at Alina again, this time with a look of surprise.

Bang –

The door was kicked open, the bell rattled, and a thin boy with long wavy pale yellow hair and a gorgeous white magic robe embroidered with gold thread strode into the room.

"Shopkeeper, you're in luck today! Divination tells me that if you buy all your goods here, you will have luck! Let's make an offer! ”

Rogers looked back, his brow furrowing.

Dudra, one of the contemporary prides of the Three Sages, also prevents Alice from buying things in the game, so the two also have a fight, and Alice wins before she is actually eligible for the trade.

The trouble doesn't stop there, Dudra also has an extremely common personality - a womanizer.

Although he didn't dare to provoke the saint in the plot, he had the courage to provoke Eunice next to the saint.

And now, when Rogers saw the other party seeing Alina and Rufia, his eyes widened instantly, and he knew that the fly was most likely buzzing.

"You two get in the way, get out." Nephtrith raised her hand slightly, and in an instant, a stream of pure magic enveloped Rogus and Dudra outside the door.

Rogers forced back the urge to liberate [Marvel of Infutility], because judging from Fang Cai's situation, even if the other party had malicious intentions, it should only be aimed at himself, not Alina and Rufia.

"Stinky old woman! Do you know who I am?! How dare you chase me?! Dudra snarled at the closed door, but in the end he didn't dare to force his way in again.

Then he rolled his eyes, looked at Rogers affectionately, and asked in a warm tone, "Hey, brother, do you know those two silver-level geniuses just now?" Isn't it a year or two younger than me? I didn't expect to be promoted.

"Oh, by the way, my name is Dudra, and I'm an apprentice to the Three Sages School in charge of Orindaru, and I'm now in the middle of the silver rank.

"I see you didn't stand still when you were pushed out just now, and you were sick? Can't you find the help of a mage who has mastered the high-level healing spell? Why don't we make friends, I'll be happy to help you. ”

There was an undisguised show off on his face, and every time he mentioned rank, the relevant words were bitten very hard, and a clumsy look of pity was squeezed out behind him, and he looked very concerned about Rogers's physical state.

"Make friends? Well, if you don't dislike it. Rogers replied shyly with an innocent and harmless smile on his face.

(End of chapter)