CH 42.1

In Need of Money (1)

Anna's words sounded very motivational. She had been following this advice the whole time. It was useless to complain about others. If there was a problem, then she would try to solve the problem. If one solution failed, she would try another solution. Nothing could stop her from moving forward toward her goal.

But Natalie drooped her head instantly after listening to Anna's words, like a bunny.

"No, I can't do it. I have taken the test seven times!" Natalie said frustratedly, "I'm truly stupid. I am the only elemental affinity body in our family, but I am not talented. I can’t keep up with others at all. The mages who joined the Mage Association with me at the same time are all one-star wizards at the worst. As for me, I am still a mage’s disciple and can’t even pass the exam to be a one star mage."

Anna thought it sounded about right; if she had failed the exam seven times, she would probably be as in despair as her.

However, according to her personality, if she failed the exam at most two times, she would summarize the reasons for failing the exam, and then conduct targeted training.

"This time is different." Anna said gently and firmly.

Natalie asked in tears, "Where is it different?"

"I will accompany you to take the test this time." Anna said. As Dubian said before, her practice level was enough to pass the assessment of a one-star mage, she wanted to see if Dubian was right.

Natalie was not at all touched by Anna's "sharing of satisfaction and hardships". On the contrary, she felt even more upset: "We are both mage’s disciples and can't pass the exam. What use is it to take the exam together!"

Anna smiled and said, "I haven't introduced myself before. My name is Anna. Today is the first day I have arrived in Black Cloud City, and it is also the first day I became a mage’s disciple."

Natalie thought she had heard wrong, and looked at Anna in surprise: "You just became a mage's disciple? Wait, why did you become a mage's disciple so late? I have been a mage's disciple for eight years!"

Seeing Anna looking at herself smiling, Natalie could only suppress her doubts first, and say: "My name is Natalie Wright. I am the youngest daughter of the Wright family and the only one with elemental affinity in the Wright family. I want to become a one-star mage, to become a baron. With this title, I can get an annual salary from the lord, I can support myself, and my father can no longer force me to marry someone else!"

Anna heard the most crucial point from this long monologue of Natalie: "After becoming a baron, you get an annual salary from the lord?"

Natalie said: "Don't you know? Although the annual salary of the Baron is very small, only ten gold coins, if you save a little, it can be considered enough. I just need to become a one-star mage. If you don't want to increase your level, you don’t need to spend more gold coins."

Ten gold coins a year!

Anna had never wanted to participate in the promotion assessment so eagerly to become a one-star mage. She was too poor and had no gold coins. With her financial situation, she did not dare to communicate normally with her classmates. Interpersonal communication was mutual, and if she were to forcibly make friends when she had no money, both parties would feel uncomfortable.

"Very good, now let's talk about this promotion assessment." Anna said ambitiously, although now she had never even taken a literacy class.

Natalie was completely led by Anna's nose and said: "The most recent promotion assessment is two months later. I couldn't pass the written test and practical exercises. What should I do?"

Anna took out the manual and turned to the page about the promotion assessment. The promotion assessment included two parts: theory and practice. The practice also included three items: mental power, potion, and actual combat. Only if one passed two parts, could you be promoted.

At first, Natalie didn't know what Anna was looking at. She came over and found that she was reading a manual that she would have been issued when she first joined the association. Suddenly she remembered what Anna said, which was that she had just become a mage's disciple today.

"Anna, you really just became a mage's disciple today?" Natalie still couldn't believe it.

"Yeah, I just arrived in Black Cloud City today." Anna read and pondered, and she said perfunctorily to Natalie, before continuing: "Let me see your first seven assessment results."

Who would have predicted that Natalie would shake her head vigorously: "No! I threw them all away!"

Anna said: "Then should I go to the association to ask? These kinds of results should be kept on file."

Natalie whimpered, she was about to cry.

Anna reluctantly said: "I’m not going to laugh at your performance results. I just want to know your weak links so that you can undergo the special training in a targeted manner."

Natalie looked at Anna with red eyes, and said in confusion: "But didn't you just become a mage's disciple today? How can you give me special training!"

At this time, Anna couldn’t say that she was talented, learned things quickly, and still had enough energy to teach Natalie. She just said: "Before I became a mage's disciple, there was a mage who taught me a lot of things."

But this was the study room of the library. Anna couldn't release a small flame to prove to Natalie that although she had only become a mage's disciple on the first day, she was not a complete beginner who knew nothing.

Natalie said with a look of envy: "I really want to meet such a mage, too!"

Her family just had the title of a baron. In fact, they did not have much money. Her relatives were not mages. She could only attend classes through the association. Each class had a fee of one gold coin. But she was not talented. She understood what the teacher taught in class, but once class was over, she would be lost. After taking dozens of classes and failing the promotion assessment three times in a row, her father refused to let her spend money on classes.

Therefore, she was now reading in the elementary library by herself, and only the goddess knew how much she actually understood.