CH 63.3

Don’t Cross the Line (3)

Because of the painstaking adjustments, Dawkins did not consume the raw ingredients as quickly this time, so he was very satisfied that every two days when he went to the management office, he was able to get about 50 units of the extract. Up until now, the “Intone of Light” he prepared would no longer explode. He saw the note that Anna had left for him at the management office, telling him that the extraction liquid for ten gold coins had been completed, and that she wondered if he still needed it.

Dawkins changed his face when he saw this note. He was so addicted to the preparation of “Intone of Light” that he forgot about this matter. He was worried that Anna had run away, so he hurriedly went to find Teresa. From Teresa, he found out that Anna usually spent her mornings studying in the library, and hurriedly went to Anna with a lot of gold coins.

Anna had now saved up five gold coins for the promotion assessment, and was not as eager to make money as before, but when Dawkins approached her holding the gold coins in his hand, he was already a middle-aged man, but looked at her like a puppy looking with wide eyes at its owner, so naturally she accepted the ten gold coins and said, “Mage Dawkins, I’m starting to prepare for the one-star mage promotion assessment, and don’t have much time each week to make extracts.”

Dawkins sighed in his heart. He nodded understandingly, and then he heard Anna say, “I can only guarantee 80 units a week.”

Dawkins’s depressed mood instantly improved. He thought that Anna could only make 20 or 30 units a week. 80 units was much more than what he could make himself. He was about to cry with joy.

As for Anna’s statement that she wanted to take the one-star mage promotion test, Dawkins, who had fully understood Anna’s talent, didn’t find it strange at all. He even felt like she would be taking the two-star mage assessment soon, so the time left for him was not much!

“Okay, that’s more than enough!” Dawkins squeezed Anna’s hand and said excitedly, “Anna, you are my benefactor!”

The joy from the fact that “Intone of Light” was about to be complete made Dawkins overwhelmed for a moment, until out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of Raymond, who showed up at some point and was looking at him with an icy stare.

Dawkins shivered and quickly let go of Anna. These two two-star mages had their differences. His two-star mage status was on its last leg, but Raymond was someone who could become a four-star mage, and Raymond did not have a good temper. A slight disagreement and he would show his fists. He, an old bag of bones, could really only be useful for formulating potions; how could he be capable of fighting such a powerful young man like Raymond?

He must flee!

Dawkins didn’t care to say another word to Anna, and ran away after saying a brief goodbye.

Anna knew what was going on when she saw Dawkins’ reaction. She carefully put away the gold coins, turned and walked towards the demon standing at the door of the library.

What she said to him that day had an effect, and since then until now, he had not touched her on purpose, which reassured her a lot.

But Anna had just walked up to the demon when she heard his cold voice: “I can’t touch you, but Dawkins can?”

Anna was stunned, this sounded kind of…

It just so happened that two mages came out of the library together, and when they heard this, they suddenly looked over. There were not many people in the Mage Association, and even if the mages didn’t know each other, most of them had heard of each other’s names.

Rothgarr’s questioning of Anna before had been spread throughout the Association, and it had become a very juicy story. Today’s words would definitely add a bit of flavor to the story—Mage Dawkins, who was over forty and a less than a twenty years old Mage Raymond was fighting over a mage in training, and Mage Raymond even lost against Mage Dawkins!

When Anna saw the gossip in the eyes of passersby, she knew that her reputation would only worsen.

Although what this demon said was true, when it came out through his mouth, she didn’t know why it sounded so strange… She highly suspected that he was deliberately ruining her reputation, so that she had no choice but to choose him!

Facing the demon’s questioning at this moment, Anna could only explain using gentle words: “He was too sudden, I didn’t have time to react.”

Rothgarr sneered: “So I can touch you if you don’t react in time?”

Anna: “…Don’t distort my words on purpose!”

Anna was a little tired mentally. Why did it feel as if she was coaxing an unreasonable wayward girlfriend…

Rothgarr sneered. He turned and walked away.

Anna didn’t catch up, anyway, this little contradiction couldn’t rise to the point of him flipping the switch on her, so she let him be.

After lunch, Anna and Natalie did not separate this time, they went to the potion lab together.

From today onward, they would have special training in potion preparation together. Anna also had the task of making extracts for Dawkins, which she could do at the same time.

The number of times Natalie had entered the potion lab over the years was countless, but this time was the one she was most excited about.

Before, when she was preparing for the promotion assessment, she didn’t have any planning. She would play with one thing for a while, and then mess around with something else for another while, but this time, she practiced mental micro-manipulation for a long time before coming to the potion lab.

The preparation of potions was inseparable from the precise control of mental power, and she felt like she would feel different when preparing potions this time.

The number of potions involved in the one-star mage promotion assessment was not large. There were only more than 20 kinds of potions in total, all of which could be used by ordinary people. They were very basic potions, but considering the cost of repeated practice, Anna knew that they could not rely on the number of practice sessions to obtain a passing score.

She roughly estimated that the cost of all the more than 20 kinds of potions to prepare once was about one gold coin. It was definitely necessary to practice each at least once, but if they prepared all the potions in three days, it would cost them one gold every three days. Thirty days meant spending ten gold coins. Natalie had no problem with the cost, but Anna herself couldn’t afford it.