Chapter 98 Gagarin’s Ambition
Datun Port is a small port town not far from Kosai Island.
But it's not so much a town as it is a small and medium-sized fishing village that can accommodate small ferries. Most of the boats moored at the port are small fishing boats owned by local villagers. As for ferries or merchant ships, only a few are seen throughout the year.
However, many fishermen in Dutton Port are also secretly engaged in the business of smuggling people. During the season when moonlight moss grows most vigorously every year, they will also secretly use their fishing boats to smuggle some adventurers to Kosai Island, and they will Bring these adventurers back after the agreed time.
Although this business is extremely risky, and the market only lasts less than two months each year, as long as they can get a few orders, the money they earn will be more than what they have earned from a year of hard work fishing.
It is precisely for this reason that although every year there are incidents in Dutton Port that cause shipwrecks and deaths due to triggering defensive witch formations or encountering accidents during navigation, the villagers here still "stick to" this fortune. career.
Some of the experienced villagers have even mastered the "secret route" after a long period of exploration, and then became professional "ferrymen".
For example, Old Huosen is such a ferryman.
It's just that in his late fifties, he can no longer withstand the hardships. In the past two years, the ferry boat work has gradually transitioned to his son Tom.
But the mysterious guest who has stayed at home recently always makes Old Huosen a little worried.
Although this guest spent a lot of money, even all the expenses were paid with yellow gold coins. But Old Hosen, who had spent his whole life dealing with adventurers on the ship, noticed something unusual about this guest.
Not to mention that it is not yet the main time for collecting moonlight moss, and it seems that Kosai Island is not peaceful recently, let’s just say that this guest came alone, without any tools, and came to stay at home temporarily. Having almost never left the attic for such a long time doesn't look like one of those adventurers who came here to collect moon moss.
In fact, Old Huosen doesn't care too much about the guests' intentions. After all, his ability to live as a ferryman for so long has a lot to do with his attitude of not asking, not exploring, and not meddling in other people's business over the years. .
But the problem is that since this guest arrived, some strange things always happened at home.
First, the fishing cat that had been kept at home for many years suddenly went crazy and scratched his old wife. Then, his daughter's personality seemed to have undergone strange changes during this period. Sometimes she would even sit in a chair or stare blankly. It was lying on the table, like a lifeless doll.
These changes always made Old Hossen a little uneasy. If Tom hadn't owed a large sum of money when he ran a boat, he would never have been willing to let this weird guest live in his home again.
Suddenly, Old Hosen heard the muffled sound of something falling from inside the attic.
And then, there was a wailing sound that was somewhat unlike what humans could make.
"Sir?" Old Huosen cautiously walked towards the attic, but after opening the door, he discovered that under the hood of the mysterious "guest" was actually a beautiful and monster puppet body.
"Ah..." Old Huosen opened his mouth, but he couldn't move the next moment, so at this time his body was entangled with countless small silk threads, and these threads quietly penetrated into Old Huosen's body, and even Some of the threads have penetrated to the soul level.
As the puppet's fingers slowly moved, Old Huosen's eyes, which were still relatively stiff, began to blink, and then his mouth gradually opened and closed.
Click... click...
As the puppets continued to be adjusted, Old Hossen's movements gradually became more lively from the stiffness at the beginning, and even in the end, he had a gentle and kind smile on his face.
"Go out and get ready. I'm going to land on Kosai Island tonight." The puppet looked at Old Huosen and put on his hood again.
"Okay, sir." Old Huosen responded with a smile.
After the "new puppet" left, the puppet man clenched his fists with some anger and reluctance, and then smashed a crude furnishing on the bedside into powder with one punch.
"Oh, Bennett...my poor Bennett..." The puppet seemed to be sad or angry, but its exquisitely painted face could hardly see emotions similar to human beings, even when it was gnashing its teeth. At that time, the painted corners of the mouth were still slightly upturned.
"Who killed him? My Bennett... shouldn't have..." the puppet babbled in a low voice, but soon his tone became gritty. "Damn Bennett! Damn the ruin restrictions!..."
But soon, the puppet calmed down. His delicate eyes made of stone were staring directly at the old wooden board on the side of the attic, and his tone was very calm.
"No matter who you are, I will find you, I will definitely find you!"
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"Giggle..." At the edge of a lake on the floating island, Lucian was teasing a few beauty shells. Perhaps because they have been living in the world of scrolls for generations, these beautiful shells are not afraid of people at all, nor do they have natural hatred and wariness towards wizards or humans like the wild beautiful shells Lucian bought before. On the contrary, It seems a little curious and close to humans.
Even when Lucian tried to invite them to come out and take a look, he easily persuaded several of them to follow him out of the picture space.
This greatly facilitated Lucian and allowed him to collect Belle Belle's tears in a gentler and more effective way.
For example, just now, he just used his mental power to manipulate the water flow to perform a few interesting moves, which made these little guys giggle. And one of the younger ones burst into tears from laughter.
"It is said that the Moonlight Praise made using the tears of joy of the beauty shells is better than ordinary tears." After carefully collecting the two tears just now, Lucian interacted with the beauty shells to maintain the relationship, and then We ended today's collection and returned to the ancient study room in the center of the floating island.
"Lord Lucian." Gagarin was standing at the door of the study at this time. When he saw Lucian returning, he quickly bowed and saluted, his attitude was extremely humble, and he was even flattering in his humility.
The period of following Lucian was quite nourishing for Gagarin, and he was even more comfortable than when he worked under Lilia before.
Moreover, in terms of resource allocation, Lucian is much more fair than Lilia's exploitation, which can be said to be bone-crushing and marrow-sucking. He is even willing to trade with Gagarin and the others, giving Gagarin and the others some materials in exchange for the magic potion [Moonlight Praise] ] opportunity.
For Gagarin, this was unimaginable before.
These visible benefits also attracted Gagarin, making him rack his brains to squeeze into Lucian's inner circle, and he was extremely eager to become Lucian's student.
Judging from Lucian's current strength, even if he has not yet been promoted to an official wizard, he is already not far away from this level. And once Lucian is promoted to an official wizard, as a disciple of the official wizard, he will also have a big backer and thick legs within the academy.
What's more important is that Lucian's thick thigh seems to be very protective of his shortcomings, and he is even more generous to his students!
You must know that Kaliko is undergoing baptism now. This is the biggest treasure in the ruins, which is enough for a third-level wizard apprentice to fight for it.
But what about Lucian? But he gave it directly to Carly.
This was an opportunity that was enough to be promoted to an official wizard, but Lucian just gave in.
How could this not drive Gagarin crazy? He didn't even expect to be treated like Carly. If he could enjoy half of Carly's treatment as Lucian's student, he would be very satisfied.
In order to become Lucian's student, Gagarin worked extremely hard during this period. He has even made relevant plans. Even if he cannot become Lucian's student immediately, he still hopes to have a good relationship with Lucian during this period of time in the secret realm, and at least become a subordinate that Lucian can use more easily. Gaining Lucian's trust step by step...
He had a plan in mind, so Gagarin seemed particularly diligent and hardworking during this period. When he had nothing to do, he would actively wait at the door of the study for instructions, as if he were Lucian's personal butler.
"Yeah." Lucian smiled at Gagarin.
Gagarin's performance these days was very obvious, and Lucian naturally saw the intention of his actions. However, the number of students bound to the system was extremely precious, and Lucian could not emotionally bind him to Gagarin because of his deliberate efforts to please him in the past few days.
Not to mention, he still has no free binding quota on hand.
However, Gagarin's active approach gave Lu Xian the beginning of a new idea. Perhaps he could use Gagarin's proactive approach to figure out a new model suitable for dealing with unbound students.
After all, Lucian's ultimate goal is to change this cruel wizarding order in the Academy of Ashbones and even more areas and the endless exploitation of lower-class wizards by upper-class wizards.
But to do this, he also needs to find a new model to balance interests.
After all, Lucian cannot require all high-level wizards to take the same selfless care of his students as he does. I have a system to help students pay their "tuition fees", so I can be so generous.
But other wizards didn't. If we blindly require tutors to take care of students, from a certain perspective, we will change from oppressing students to oppressing tutors. This is definitely not advisable and cannot be achieved in the long term.
So Lucian needs to find a new order to help other wizards complete a new balance of interests.
Now, maybe I can try this new balance on Gagarin.
(End of chapter)