Chapter 76, Veronica's Past

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In the entire Marienburg, only the area of ​​Amber Avenue can enjoy tranquility, while other places are always noisy and crowded. Whether it is early morning, noon, evening or late night and early morning, the whole city is in a state of morbid activity. middle.

City streets are always crowded.

Marienburg is composed of several main urban areas, which can be roughly divided into the port dock area, the Temple University (rich) area, the citizen area, the elf enclave, and the canal (poor) area.

Then, due to the high land price in Fort Marien, an embarrassing situation arose.

Only the Ocean Church, the Fortune Church, has a strong influence in this city, so the temple is built in the rich area, and the other big churches, even the three most wealthy and influential churches, cannot afford supercars in the rich area. High land prices, so they set up their temples in urban areas and poor areas.

The streets in the rich area are clean and tidy. The nobles spend a lot of money to use huge stones to lay the foundation and pave the road to ensure that their venues are high enough and strong enough. However, the urban areas are different. Domestic garbage is piled up everywhere in the streets, and every corner is covered with Homes, shops and warehouses, buildings that are constantly being built and dug down in violation of regulations hide various dangers, and even some underground tunnels are dug into the sea and below the warning water level.

"The most frightening thing is the canal area. It is said that you must hold an umbrella when you walk in that place, otherwise, no one knows when the sewage will suddenly pour down downstairs, dousing the poor passers-by." I changed into a long silk dress. Veronica held Ryan's hand and said with a smile, the woman's beautiful face is full of moving brilliance today.

"Yes, this is Marienburg." Ryan nodded, and he stopped with Veronica: "The Convent of the Holy Maiden is here."

The Order of the Holy Maiden is the church organization of the fairies in the lake, but its composition and organization are very mysterious. Seeing Ryan coming, the leading saint in white ceremonial clothes nodded and opened the door of the temple: "Lady's family Or, you are eligible to enter the temple."

I don't know why, but the appearance of the saint in charge here is not good-looking, the facial features are very hard, and she tends to be masculine.

"Then what about her?" Ryan pointed to the witch beside him.

"Is she your companion?"

"yes."

"Then let's come in together."

The process of delivering Bireg's head was very simple. The statue of the fairy in the lake flashed to indicate that he knew, and then the head of the chaotic champion became useless. The saint threw the head into the fire and burned it to ashes. Not surprisingly, the cranial obsession does not exist in Britannia itself, it has to do with the personal likes and dislikes of the nymph of the lake.

Just standing among the white statues of the temple, Veronica always felt that something was wrong.

The witch always felt that the statue of the fairy in the lake was looking at her with cold and disgusted eyes where she didn't pay attention.

Kneeling in front of the statue of the fairy in the lake, Ryan prayed silently: "Ma'am, what do you need me for?"

"Do your own thing first, my god's choice, you will stay in this city for a while, and I'm already making arrangements for the future." The voice of the fairy in the lake echoed in Ryan's heart , obviously this goddess does not intend to, or does not like to appear at this place and at this time.

"So when will I have the honor to listen to your teaching?" Ryan said silently in his heart. He had many questions to ask the goddess.

"Hehe~ Interesting stranger, this is the first time I have met a knight who expects me to come." The fairy in the lake responded to Ryan with a chuckle: "Unfortunately, due to certain restrictions, I cannot walk in the main material world for a long time, unless... ..."

"unless?"

"Unless you power me."

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When Ryan brought Veronica out of the convent, Ryan still had a strange expression on his face.

Veronica took his hand, and the witch's long dark brown hair sprinkled on Ryan's arm: "I regret going in with you, I can feel that the lady in the lake is not friendly to me.

"

"It's impossible for her to look at the woman who appeared next to her god-chosen champion indifferently, especially if you are a spellcaster, and then you are full of my scent." Ryan squeezed Veronica's little hand, motioning for both of them. Let's talk about this matter at home, and do other things now.

Veronica nodded, and the woman pinched the back of Ryan's hand vigorously with her little hand to express that she believed in him, and she would not delve into this matter any further. If Ryan wanted to speak, she would listen, and if Ryan didn't If she wanted to say it, she wouldn't care.

Veronica is different from Teresa. Veronica, who worked hard to climb up from the army of wizard apprentices, is more understanding, shrewd and assertive.

After completing this, the two returned to the Temple University area. On the broad street, Ryan noticed that wizards from the Wizarding Union were walking on the street with their apprentices. They looked at the shops one by one to purchase the alchemy they needed. Seeing the medicinal materials, Ryan said: "The training methods of wizards are similar, most of them are mentor systems."

In Marienburg, wizards are not as rare as Nords, and you can usually see one or two within a short walk.

"No, it's different." Who knew that Veronica shook her head decisively: "It looks the same on the surface, but in fact it's completely different. Trovik can't tell you this, because she hasn't experienced it."

"Then I'd like to hear you talk about these experiences." Ryan nodded. He knew something about the recruitment of apprentices by the Garland Council, but he didn't fully understand it.

"Every year after the Winter Veil Festival ends and before the Grass Festival begins, the spellcasters among the Garland Witches who have no or lack of apprentices will leave Skydome and travel around the mainland. Of course, I don't mean this time, any time, any time From time to time, as long as a girl is proven to have the talent to cast spells, we will take them to Sky Dome for a medical examination, amidst the warm fire and delicious food, these ignorant girls thought they had come to heaven..." Wei Ronika seemed to be reminiscing about the past, she pointed at the wizard with her apprentice: "Just like that, girls with potential will be selected by female wizards or sorceresses, and then awarded the qualifications of wizard apprentices. Most are similar."

"However, wizard apprentices must obey the mentor's guidance. They have become excellent servants of the mentor. They are required to strictly obey any orders of the mentor. If a servant is too useless, then she will be eliminated and become a servant for a lifetime. This point Do you understand what I mean?" Veronica looked at the young wizard apprentice following behind her mentor, covering her mouth and giggling: "Because their lifetime value can only be a servant."

"It's understandable, just like knights and knight retinues." Ryan spread his hands to show that he understood.

"So those girls with high talents and hard work can often be favored by their mentors. They always feel that they who perform the best will soon win the favor of their mentors and be taught more spells and mysteries of magic. Only I will leave Careful, because I think the mentors will not be willing to leave these best and most outstanding servants." The voice of the female wizard was full of sarcasm: "The female congressmen are not as noble as you, Ryan, and they rarely Release your fine servants to further study."

Ryan's eyes widened, he understood.

The worst among the apprentices will be apprentices for life, and the best and the best...will also be apprentices for life because of the suppression of the mentor? !

"So you, you pretended to be talented on purpose? Desperately concealing your amazing talent, and then secretly studying while avoiding the attention of your instructor?" Ryan was a little dumbfounded.

"Yes, at that time, I, Veronica, was a sorcerer apprentice who was not excellent, not useless, and useful but not very useful. This allowed me to successfully advance to the elite level and become a Formal wizard." Veronica smiled mockingly, and then took Ryan's arm again: "How is it? I'm good, right?"

Sweat was pouring out of Ryan's forehead. The elimination system within the Council of Female Spellcasters really made him unable to say anything. Looking at Veronica, who had a sweet appearance and a proud figure beside him, he suddenly felt a little distressed. So the tone became more gentle: "And then?"

"Then I should have faced more... For example, the ostracism of my colleagues, the suppression from other members of parliament, my strength may be greatly reduced due to a strange accidental injury, or I may be attacked by other witches. Accidental injury from a spell leads to ruined appearance... Jealousy among women is so terrible." Veronica looked at Ryan, with a variety of complex emotions flashing in her eyes: "At that time, I was hiding, and every month I only met in the library. I stayed in Skydome for three days when it was open. At this time, a young knight-errant came to Skydome alone with his harvest. I had a duel with him, and then he became my partner. , his identity made other witches fearful, so Veronica finally got rid of the shackles, she showed her talent to the fullest, won the favor of Speaker Margaret, and became the first witch of this generation .”

After finishing speaking, Veronica smiled coquettishly: "This is my story."

"I remember that I was just a knight-errant at the time, a warrior at the peak of the elite level, and I was just the adopted son of a lord, and the right of inheritance was still in the back. Am I that good?" Ryan thought that his status on the outside was not that good.

"In addition to these, you are still the godson of the Duke of Griffin, have you forgotten? You have had a lot of contact with Jialan, and everyone knows you. You will not be indifferent to your friend's accident, right?" Wei Wei Ronika reminded Ryan: "Although everyone doesn't know that I am your partner, they know that you and I are friends."

Now Ryan finally admits that the witch is right. His godfather is the Duke of Griffin of the Empire, the current General of the Griffin of the Empire and the Grand Commander of the Griffon Knights. There will be no witch who is not afraid to die to provoke this Buddha, although The Garland Council is very strong, but if it really gets into trouble with such an illegal killer like the Griffon Knights, the Garland Council will definitely send people to the Griffin Knights to deal with them immediately.

The overwhelming army of griffins riding on their faces is really touching to think about.

"So it was a gamble, some people won, some people lost, from now on, this girl won, won a lot, but some people didn't play by the rules, they fought and were put in the girl's bag The idea of ​​the chips." Veronica's voice was full of dissatisfaction and resentment: "They pretended not to know that the girls won all the chips by betting all of them, but instead told the girls that there was something wrong with the previous bet and they wanted to She started all over again? Now everyone knows who to suppress!"

"Tell me Ryan, can you find a reason for me not to hate Trovik?" Veronica's voice was very soft: "I used to have nothing against her, and we didn't talk to each other, but she Crossed the line, I just want her to get away, as far as possible, don't touch my things, whoever she wants to find! Don't touch my partner."

"...It seems that I still don't know much about women. I always thought that you two would become friends, because you are similar in age and strength, and you are both spellcasters, and you are both beautiful..." Ryan's egg hurts speak out his thoughts.

"Everything you said, Ryan, is a reason for our hostility. We are not knights, we are witches!" Veronica said angrily, and the woman walked in front of Ryan with her arms folded: "So don't try to coordinate the relationship between us." It's okay, you just have to be my partner."

"Okay." Ryan finally gave up his unspoken plan.

Seeing the man listening to her, the witch smiled brightly, and smiled at Li Yan. She pulled Ryan towards the destination ahead: "Come on, let's go and see if there are any good-quality maids in the slave market. There are too many maids in the house." It's chilled out."

"No, Veronica, the matter of the maid is not the point now, do you remember our mission?" Ryan grabbed Veronica's little hand, and the witch's heel slipped and almost lost his balance, but Ryan immediately hugged her He told her: "Be careful, the heels of your shoes are too high."

"It's okay, anyway, you can hug me when you're tired from walking." Veronica stretched out her small fist and hit the man on the chest, and then said: "Listen to the council, are you chasing a fallen demon hunter? Details Trovik won't tell me, and I don't like to ask."

"Didn't she tell you clearly?" Ryan thought for a while, and he immediately realized that it was impossible to explain clearly between the two women, because Veronica kept urging Teresa to get out.

Ryan had to tell Veronica the whole story.

"There are hundreds of thousands of fleets docking in Marienburg every day, and there are hundreds of registered companies and guilds. Ryan, it is almost impossible for you to trace the whereabouts of the fallen hunters from the docks. Maybe, we need another way." Veronica pulled Ryan: "Let's go to the Shield Block first, go to the Church of the Sea to inquire about the nearest ship registration, see if there are any ships from Nord, and then classify them carefully investigation."

"It makes sense, all ships must be registered with the Church of the Sea, and they need to buy the Sea God compass and the Sea God mark!" Ryan immediately thought of the specific steps: "Just check which ships are sailing from the Nord port , the targets we need to find are greatly reduced!"

"That's right, what's the matter? Trovik can't think of this?" The witch kissed Ryan on the face: "Let's go, my partner, as always, you go to deal with the priest, and I will ask the secretary official."

"No problem!" Ryan was very happy. The connection between the two people has never been estranged because of the short-term separation, but has become closer because of the enhancement of their respective abilities.

This is partner and partner.

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