Chapter 44 44. Are you ready
Annan thought that Mr. Victor's "Are you ready" was the same thing as Fast.
As a result, he was not woken up the next day, nor did he see a bustling crowd. Fortunately and regretfully: he was labeled as both Victor and Fast, and no fool wanted to seize the opportunity from the tiger's mouth.
Not even giving gifts to get acquainted.
Annan touched the dozen copper coins in his pocket, thinking about how many warlocks were as poor as himself, and came to the library.
Only Lindy nodded coldly when she came to the library to express her gratitude to Annan for becoming a warlock - aside from Annan and her aunt's "unfaithful love", wizards and warlocks themselves did not like each other.
Annan thought again that "are you ready" meant are you ready to become a warlock.
The answer is not yet.
Spellcasting for the mage means breaking away from the magic apprenticeship, because the spell model is absolutely accurate. As long as the spell is successfully cast once, it can be released even if you sleep the next time you cast the spell. This is not the case for warlocks. Their "thinking" adds a lot of inaccuracies, and a small change will cause the spell to deviate from expectations. Annan is a clear example.
A mage is like a meticulous machine, but it takes time to make a machine. Warlocks, on the other hand, are craftsmen who can make finished products with just one pair of hands.
Last night, the bard told him a story about a warlock: When a mercenary group with warlocks was fighting demons, the warlock cast a high-level summoning spell. As a result, the demon governor who was blocked by the warriors suddenly disappeared and appeared behind him. In the summoning array of the warlock, he was surrounded by mages, priests, and rangers.
The final result was that no one in the mercenary group survived.
Annan asked him how the story of no one alive was spread, and the bard mysteriously said that the wind brought the story.
Wood gradually became less weak because he no longer had to be squeezed by Annan, although relying on livestock blood made him recover very slowly.
The next day, Annan, who had not yet gotten rid of the shadow of "inferior summoning" and turned into "vampire summoning", suspected that "are you ready" might mean that he would have to face it for a long time. The ghost of Wood lingers.
The bard laughed at him that this was a good thing - the first-level spell "lower summoning" can only summon small monsters such as kobolds and lizardmen. Vampires are at least humanoids, and they are also magical creatures. In addition to being unable to be controlled as summons and not being female, the bard laughed at him. Vampires have almost no flaws.
Wood has been nagging in Annan's ears about when to bring human blood. Animal blood is like black bread. It only keeps people from dying, but disease and malnutrition will follow. For example, Wood now can't even control the retraction of his teeth.
He used "Drinking blood might be able to recall more past events" as an excuse. Annan had no choice but to ask Wood again during the day, but the stubborn old man still asked him to wait.
At dusk, Wood brought the news to the abandoned house. The vampire's abandoned look even made Annan feel guilty.
"Victor...is his name right? Doesn't he want my blood? I can give him a lot, just bring me human blood...please..."
Wood's reaction reminded Annan of a sentence: I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.
If a vampire had never smelled human blood, it could have feasted on animal blood.
"Okay, I'll ask for you tomorrow."
Arriving at the tavern, Annan and Fast got into the wine cellar, in front of him and Soluman Copper. Release a low-level summoning spell in front of the beard. This is what Mr. Fast asks - don't cast spells without protection until you have mastered the correct spell.
Soon after, Wood, whose face was covered with black cloth, slipped out of the back door of the pub.
Wood appeared in the tavern cellar about twice a day, and after six times of this, Annan got good news from Mr. Victor: The human blood Wood wanted was available.
Just in the dungeon.
Annan thought that Mr. Victor would coincide with his idea: to extract blood from normal people. I didn’t expect that the blood of criminals was used.
Although this is okay...
Fast laughed at Annan for being stupid enough to let a vampire drink his own blood. Blood is the power of vampires, and they can use it to curse and perform evil spells at will. However, it also proves that Wood does not have any malicious intentions and that it does not know anything.
The death row prisoner was one of the bandits who robbed the passing caravan. He was captured a few days ago and will be executed today.
Punishment of criminals is undoubtedly just, but using blood is slightly evil.
Annan was waiting outside the dungeon, and soon a guard brought a bucket of blood. Annan, who rushed to the abandoned house before his blood had coagulated, was too lazy to waste time looking for Wood and just cast a low-level summoning spell.
Wood emerged from the rift in space.
Annan avoided Wood's eating process, only knowing that the wine barrel was empty when he went in again. Wood looked tipsy, holding the barrel, and said drunkenly: "I really want to know what dragon's blood tastes like."
< br>"I only know that you will not feel well if you drink dragon blood."
"Why?"
"Dragon Curse...it seems necessary to kill such a powerful creature. Pay the price."
"Not even blood?" Wood woke up with half of his blood.
"The village of a farmer who picked up dragon scales was destroyed by dragon magic the next day." Annan recalled, "The bard said it. But I guess unless you encounter a five-color dragon that will surely retaliate, having dragon skin and dragon scales is normal. It'll be okay...as long as you don't get discovered."
Then that night, in the tavern and cellar, Annan once again released a low-level summoning spell.
Generally speaking, Annan, who has just become a warlock, is unlikely to summon a more advanced magical creature such as a vampire.
But he still summoned Wood again.
"I sometimes wonder if I signed a contract with you..." Wood couldn't help but say.
Wood and Mr. Fast chatted for a while before leaving that day. The next day, Annan heard an unexpected news: Wood replaced him as the new waiter in the tavern.
“I helped someone who took away my job?” Annan thought, “Are you ready?” is this?
"You can charge a commission." Mr. Fast said, "Wood's weekly salary is one silver coin, one-third of which is yours."
In addition, "Law" I still get the share of Annan from "Breaking the Sky" as usual.
Meditation will have no effect no matter how long it takes, so Annan, who has free time in the evening, has nothing to do.
During this period, Annan took out the note given to him by Tasia and asked Mr. Victor, but even the knowledgeable old man did not know.
If he is a mage, he should be preparing a second spell model at this moment——
Annan, who thinks that the first spell can barely be learned, plans to learn the second spell.
In the morning, when Lindi came over, Annan asked her the price of the low-ring summoning magic scroll.
Lindy mentioned a few casually: summoning lightning lizards, 56 gold coins, summoning monsters, 39 gold coins, summoning skeletons is cheaper, only 23 gold coins.
Annan finally realized what Mr. Victor meant by "are you ready?": Are you ready for the cost of the spellcaster?
While still struggling for money, an invitation letter was delivered to Annan.
(End of this chapter)