Chapter 391 49. Selecting a fief
As if he were the devil's advocate, Annan spent the whole morning asking the players to fulfill the devil's contract. Finally, we arrived at the mansion rented by Freya Holy Academy. They didn't sign the contract, but they still happily paid 1,400 gold coins.
Now there is only 10,000 gold coins left from Habar Knight Academy.
Freya Holy Academy invited Annan to attend their banquet tonight. Annan declined the invitation because there were still important things to do today - good news came from Syltovis.
Annan brought honor to the college, and the dean fulfilled his contract: he asked Annan to go back and choose his own fiefdom.
It is rumored that magicians are a bunch of slackers who invented the "cleaning technique" to avoid bathing and washing clothes, the summoning "elves" to avoid cooking, and the "sweeping technique" to avoid tidying up the room. The excuse of magicians is that magic changes life. Why stand when you can lie down?
But when it comes to themselves, they work harder than anyone else - for example, the dean of Sol Magic Academy received the news yesterday and contacted his old friends and local officials to solve the fiefdom issue for Annan.
The Imperial City has a portal maintained by the Ministry of Magic, but the portal leading to Sltovis is extremely expensive, 10 gold.
Annan spent 10 silver coins to buy some pastries and went back in the name of visiting his ancestor. He pretended to be curious and asked about his ancestor's past and praised his beauty when he was young.
Old people will always miss the past, and the ancestor sighed: "Among these descendants, only Oulin is the most like me."
"You must be kidding..."
Either the ancestors in the oil painting have been beautified, or Olin Montreal is wearing a mask. Annan really couldn't connect the girl with a bright smile and the cold Orin Montreal.
“That’s just Olin who is busy with the Knights all day long. When she was a child, she always liked to sweep the flowers and plants in the flower garden with her wooden sword, making the gardener complain. You haven’t seen Oulin’s appearance after makeup. Right? Alas...it happened twenty years ago, as if it was just before my eyes."
The lively girl who liked to harm flowers and plants with a wooden sword also became the unsmiling leader of the knights.
The succubus curse that is still affecting Annan makes him subconsciously collect this information for use, but there seems to be no place that can threaten Oulin.
"By the way, do you know what else can drive the floating city besides arcane energy cores?"
"Of course, this world has endless magical things." The ancestor first gave Annan hope, "Have you seen Wild boar? "
Annan nodded and shook his head.
“The meat of the wild boar is woody and hard, with a fishy smell that is difficult to get rid of, but the nobles flock to it because there are not many of it...”
The arcane energy core is almost like a domestic pig. The difference with wild boars. In other words, the arcane energy core is a cheap substitute invented by arcanists to analyze magical things.
But Annan still couldn't afford it.
"It seems that my territory is still far away from the floating city..."
Annan sighed but was not too disappointed - a distant but touchable goal will make people motivated.
“Our little Annan is still a lord?”
“He was before, but he hasn’t found a fiefdom yet.” Annan smiled shyly. He talked about something about the northern border and pretended Tsukuru asked unintentionally: "Can you still cast spells now?"
"Some little tricks."
"Where's the portal? It just so happened that our dean helped me find the fiefdom. I want to go back and have a look."
"The emperor has a portal."< br>
"I am a warlock and I have nothing to do with the Ministry of Magic." Annan flinched.
The old eyes looked at Annan with a smile: "I haven't cast a spell for a long time, maybe you will be teleported to the void..."
"It's okay, I believe in the genius magic girl who once shocked the Tatooine Empire."
The ancestor smiled happily, raised his skinny hand and lightly touched Annan's chest, and then there was a feeling of teleportation dizziness. Annan suddenly thought, couldn't the ancestors not be able to hear the sound? How...
After a brief period of weightlessness and dizziness, Annan regained consciousness.
There was no cold and dead void, no whispers and malicious gazes, no burning and vicious sulfur. Annan stood at the door of Solz Magic Academy and smelled the familiar sea breeze.
No matter who said that his ancestor was cursed and lost his power, Annan let the eighteen earth elements of Xingyue Bay overlap him.
The legendary mage Kerberos who captured him from Star-Moon Bay and brought him to the Royal Capital, his portal seemed to condense the torture of sitting in a carriage all day into just a few seconds.
As a well-known figure at Salz Academy of Magic, Annan's return quickly aroused discussion, and Dean Blehim knew of his arrival before he even arrived in the dean's room.
"Your beard..."
Annan found that Dean Blehim's gray hair and beard had turned pale.
"You said this will make you more intelligent."
Annan looked at the dean with a slightly offensive look. After dyeing his snow-white beard and hair, Dean Blehim was simply the perfect Dumbledore. Good choice!
The only thing missing from that wise dean is a pair of crescent glasses. Speaking of which, it seems that our ancestors can’t see clearly? Let Bronzebeard polish a pair of glasses.
"Mr. Annan, what kind of fief do you want?"
"By the sea."
Annan thought for a while and added: "The golden sandy beach is adjacent to the forest mountains and has rivers or lakes. It is not remote."
The floating city does not always float in the sky, and usually lands every few years. maintain. Only those floating cities with rich wealth will always hang in the sky like stars.
And Annan has no money to float now.
"How about the north?" said Abbot Blehim. "There is a bend in the province of Durin that matches your description."
"Is there a sea there?"
Dean Blehim shook his head, and Annan also shook his head.
"Where's Gem Bay?"
"Where is that place?"
Dean Breshim, who had prepared in advance, opened a map and pointed to Tatoun. A remote area on the edge of the empire.
The terrain of Gem Bay is similar to that of Xingyue Bay. In one direction are rolling mountains and forests, with a river flowing into the ocean. But the environment is much more beautiful than Xingyue Bay, and you can even still see Wilhelm's floating city, which is completely in line with Annan's illusion of Xingyue Bay.
Even the name of Gem Bay is so wonderful.
"But it seems that Gem Bay is not in the empire?" Annan noticed the details.
"The Principality of Montablrock, it is a vassal state of the Tatooine Empire. Gemstone Bay nominally belongs to the territory of the Principality of Montaburlock, but it is actually a land without one. Become the lord of Gemstone Bay, you You don’t have to take orders from anyone.”
That’s the real beauty of Gem Bay.
Dean Blehim said with slyness: "It's just that there are still some nobles who are interested in this place, and there is a price to pay for grabbing the development order..."
Annan knew what the dean wanted:
"No one can take away the championship of Solz Magic Academy."
(End of this chapter)