Chapter 100 Gift
"Ancient...dark...horror...when...the stars...he...awakens..."
In the slightly dim room, Claire sat at the desk, concentrating on studying the things in front of her.
It was a fragment of an ancient stone slab with strange relief characters engraved on it. It was made of a gray-black rock with a slightly greasy metallic luster, which was very strange.
In the pale white magic candlelight, the girl's blue eyes were filled with seriousness as she examined every tiny line on the stone slab with great concentration.
He would occasionally flip through several thick tomes at hand, comparing the contents of the severely yellowed pages, and trying to decipher the strange words on the stone slab bit by bit.
In the candlelight, the girl's long golden hair sparkled, and her pair of white and cute pointed ears swayed slightly unconsciously, reflecting an alluring crystal luster.
After separating from Anvis, the girl did not go to other schools to audit classes, nor did she go to some entertainment and social venues like some noble children to try to make more friends and develop her own network.
Instead, he devoted all his time to studying various mysterious knowledge.
In the entrance examination, the girl's professional talent was only above average. But strangely, she had an incredible talent in mysticism.
When she was young, the old wizard who took care of her noticed her talent.
With the idea of research in mind, the old wizard opened all kinds of books in his private library to the girl. He wanted to see how much the girl could learn in the end.
With the support of the wizard, the girl mastered a lot of knowledge about ancient history, magical languages, ancient creatures, etc. over the years.
She has read all the relevant books in the library several times.
During this time, she even tried to independently crack a small ancient magic engraved on a clay tablet.
Although the effect was only to summon a weak magical tentacle creature, the wizard was still shocked by the girl's talent.
"Meow--"
When Claire was concentrating on studying the text on the stone tablet, suddenly a white shadow flashed past the window.
Hearing the voice, the girl looked up in confusion.
Appearing outside the raised wooden shutters was a snow-white cat with strange blue eyes.
There was a bulging small package tied to its back.
Seeing the girl's sapphire eyes looking at it, the cat raised its fluffy white front paws and gently tapped the window glass with its pink pads.
"Magic messenger?"
Looking at it with some doubt, Claire waved her hand, and the invisible magic power turned into a palm, opening the inner crystal lattice window and letting the cat that was spinning outside the window in.
“Meow——”
Seeing the window open, the cat jumped lightly from the window to the table in front of Claire.
A pair of round blue eyes looked at the girl, and he shook the package on his back hard, called out cutely, and signaled the girl to open it.
The girl stretched out her white and tender fingertips and gently touched a silver-white emblem on the surface of the package that was emitting a faint magical fluctuation.
The next moment, the package opened by itself, revealing a delicate black box.
After handing the item to Claire, the white cat meowed again, turned its head and licked its fur, then turned around and ran away through the window.
“Who sent this to me?”
Not sensing any malicious presence in the box, the girl stretched out her finger and lightly pressed the mechanism in the center of the box.
Snap——
The lid of the box slowly opened due to the action of the spring, revealing a slender light silver ring inlaid with a blue gem, which was obviously a female style.
Sensing the opening of the box lid, a recorded magical image was projected into the air.
It was a mini-sized projection of Avis, only as big as the girl's palm. It wore a white top hat and monocle, and a pure white magic long dress. It bowed gracefully to the girl.
"I'm sorry to meet you again in this way."
"The ring is enchanted with the same secret method of detection as it was back then. It can be activated by injecting mental energy into the ring. There are three opportunities to use it each day."
"As a companion who has been on this adventure with me, please accept this small gift."
After all, this is your family's secret method. Is it okay to give it to me? Claire looked at little Anvis strangely, but did not ask anything. After all, this was just a recorded image.
However, he seemed to sense the girl's doubts.
Above the lid of the box, the image of Avis smiled softly. He turned his head slightly and looked at the beautiful face of the girl with a puzzled look. His azure eyes suddenly blinked at her.
"Although the secret method cannot be easily leaked, I think you will not report me to my family, right?"
After saying that, the projection flashed, and gradually turned into light spots from bottom to top, floating in the air.
Claire was slightly stunned as she watched the handsome and pale boy smiling and blinking in the light spots that scattered like fireflies.
After a while, the room returned to silence, and the beautiful half-elf girl with blonde hair smiled knowingly.
"Is this what it feels like to be a companion?"
………
Three days later, Avis was browsing the information given to him by Pekara, playing with a twelve-sided crystal emitting emerald green light in his hand, and quietly thinking about the subsequent treatment plan.
Eighty-four cursed lands, this is the number of mining areas that Anvis finally obtained.
Among them, there are seven places producing high-level cursed ores, twenty-two places producing mid-level cursed ores, and the rest are low-level mining areas. There are a total of thirty-seven types of all ore samples.
This number is even less than what Avis expected. After all, he was mentally prepared to obtain at least hundreds of samples from cursed lands.
But after thinking about it, Avis felt relieved.
Although the humans on the Yar continent claim to have unified the entire continent, the actual range of human activities actually only accounts for about 35% of the continent's area.
The remaining 65 percent of the area is covered by extreme environments such as dangerous primeval forests, ancient and steep mountains, and swamps filled with poisonous miasma.
Because of this, even though the area of Yar Continent is almost twice the size of the continent where Anvis lived in his previous life, the number of cursed places that the White Rose Chamber of Commerce Alliance can actually obtain is actually not too many.
Of course, Avis was sure that in those undeveloped areas where few people went, there must be secret mining areas of many forces.
After his preliminary testing, he found that the curse of eight types of minerals, including the Blood Curse Ore, was not caused by radioactivity, but by some other negative magical effects.
After excluding the cursed lands that produce these ores, there are still sixty-seven mining areas left that are confirmed to produce radioactive cursed ores.
Today, Pigeon went to attend an offline online writer seminar.
Want to know what they were talking about? They said: "Gu--"
(End of this chapter)
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