Witch Forest Friends Club

Chapter 5 The Visitor and the Witch Tea Party in Cat Shadow

PS: Anjaye sometimes wonders whether Elsa brought her luck or trials?

The person Anjaye pointed at with the mushroom staff was lying on the edge of the window, making a beautiful meow.

The window was clearly closed, but it slipped in without a sound. It only made a little noise when it knocked over the pile of books piled up by the window—or, in other words, it was deliberately reminding Anjaye that a guest was coming.

Two fluffy tails swayed back and forth, as flexible as a pair of ballroom dancing partners, with silver rings with exquisitely carved runes strung on the tips of the tails.

Like an emissary of the night sneaking in the shadows, with fluffy and smooth black hair, and slender and slender limbs, she jumped onto the desk and sat upright, licking the fleshy balls on her furry paws, while staring at Anjaye with great interest.The demeanor is elegant and proud, just like a dignified lady waiting for her servants to greet her.

It's a black cat--

But the intelligent eyes in the emerald-colored cat eyes are obviously beyond ordinary animals, and on the pair of pointed and long triangular cat ears, there are shimmering magic rings floating on each ring, which are composed of countless thin and star-like rings. Dust's runic condensation - looks like an asteroid belt held in place by some sort of gravitational field.

The magic wall lamp elongates and projects the shadow of the black cat on the wall, and the atmosphere is like a mysterious and dreamy fairy tale.

Anjaye and the cat stared at each other silently, their guard not relaxed at all.

She suddenly raised the frame of the glasses, turned her gaze to the shadow of the black cat, and said unhappily, "Come out."

"Hehe, it was discovered."

Accompanied by a lazy and soft girl's voice in response.

A jet-black ink-like fluid suddenly surged from the cat shadow, and it flowed to the floor and piled up like black waves—Anjaye recognized that this was a highly concentrated block of magic essence, as if it had been roughed by an ancient Greek sculptor. The soft curves were polished by the rocks, and the gorgeous long skirts were carved out of the clay after being baked. The black magic element quickly condensed into the outline of a human figure, and finally solidified into a fine silhouette of a girl.

The next moment, the silhouette raised its hand and snapped its fingers, and the black outline was instantly coated with thousands of colors. The witch who showed her true face lifted her skirt and performed a ball ceremony in front of Anjaye.

"Scared me." Anjaye put down the staff with big bright mushroom bushes, and sighed slightly dissatisfied, "Elsa, did you find a new familiar? Sneaked in , Be careful next time I set up a spore trap outside the house."

This uninvited guest has long hair as pure as snow, and a cute black round hat is slanted on his head. The hat is firmly tied with a black and white checkered headband decorated with white roses, and a layer is draped behind his head. Shiny white gauze as thin as onion's wings.

She was wearing a black and white one-piece dress decorated with gorgeous lace and ruffles, and she also wore a first bud badge on the neckline with a bow tie. She was a third-rank student like Anjaye, but she looked a little younger than her two years old.

The girl's delicate and charming face is quite in line with the world's association of witches, and the smile that blooms in the eyes is full of seductive and depraved magic beauty.

What makes people even more creepy is the shape of her pupils—the left eye is a normal golden round pupil, while the pupil of the right eye is a black and white square, which is not a weird man-made object, but a real gurgling rotation, reflecting The eyeballs of the figure of Anjaye.

"Don't welcome me." The little witch named "Elsa" gently pressed her index finger to her lips, and said with a playful wink, "Obviously Xiao An leaves me alone every time in the vacant room, she is too lonely , I came to play with you—look, I didn’t forget to bring you a gift.”

She clapped her hands with a happy expression, and from the shadow behind her, she suddenly stretched out a fluid-like slender arm, and lifted a box of delicate cakes in transparent packaging to her side.

"The goat's milk pudding cake that I just baked is a luxury dessert with wine marinated hazelnuts and teardrop grapes, and it's only available tonight."

The self-satisfied girl commanded the shadow arm, and lifted the cake box in front of Anjaye.

Anjaye had no choice but to take it.

"Elsa, the astronomy classroom will hold a stargazing ceremony tonight, and you skipped class again." An Jiaye looked at the girl with a headache, "Don't let the training room find out that you have escaped to my place."

After speaking, she sat back at the small round table by the fire, and clapped her hands at the friend who had just arrived.

"Have you had dinner yet? Would you like some mushrooms?"

"Then I won't be polite." The white-haired girl trotted a few steps with her skirt in hand, found a wooden bowl and spoon from the pantry with ease, and scooped up a large bowl of fragrant and juicy mushroom broth from the pot.

"Xiao An's cooking skills are getting better and better. In the fairy tales heard by the folks, the food provided by the forest witch to the lost travelers is so delicious. No wonder they can't bear the temptation, let go of vigilance and eat until they forget themselves, and finally become pig."

Elsa sticks out her little tongue and licks off the soup on her cherry lips. Her smile is so sweet that one wants to taste the kind of honey that melts between her lips and teeth.

"You can eat as you please, don't call me a black shop." An Jiaye turned his head in embarrassment, his face was slightly hot.

Damn, I was teased by her again.

As Anjaye's junior and a roommate who has been together for five years, Elsa is one of Anjaye's few friends.

She is not from the peninsula, but an exchange student from Mrs. Stella's hometown - "Eirrond", where the Northland Witches Society is located. , and Anjaye was also the object of being squeezed out by other apprentices.

An Jiaye lived alone for half a year after his previous roommate graduated, and welcomed a new roommate who was assigned——

She is obviously a genuine witch, but she belongs to the astronomy department. Among the fanatics of Stella who study the sky and the universe all day long, she is a rare sober person.

At the beginning, Anjaye was still vigilant and indifferent, keeping a distance from Elsa—but for some reason, facing the exchange student who was dismissed by others, he gradually became familiar with her. Kasyapa was deceived by the gorgeous appearance of this white rose - only after getting along with her for a long time, did she know her troublesome physique.

After drinking the mushroom broth, Anjaye set up a polished and smooth iron plate on the magic stove. She turned the heat on to heat the iron plate in place, picked up the skewered mushrooms and placed them on the iron plate one by one. Flipping it back, he also took out a bottle of reddish-brown mixed powder, poured it into a small measuring cup to accurately calculate the amount, and then sprinkled it evenly on the skewers.

"I want to eat it myself." An Jiaye, who insisted on making the barbecue feel experimental, glanced at the drooling white hair beside him, and pointed to a large bunch of skewers in the vegetable basket.

Carefully cultivated edible mushrooms are paired with tender lamb and radish cubes, as well as meaty sausages and wild vegetables, exuding a tempting and delicious aroma.Compared with eating in his mouth, Anjaye prefers the feeling of relaxation during the barbecue process.Watching the oil slowly ooze out, the sizzling dripping, sprinkle with the carefully prepared spice powder, and finally stuff it into the mouth with satisfaction, no matter how tired the body and mind are all day, it can be relieved in this gluttonous taste.

"Xiao An, you really like mushrooms." Elsa also picked out a few skewers and grilled them to pass the time, "But for skewers, compared to sprinkling these weird powders, they are still stained with Dempsey from my hometown. Red sauce is better."

"The essence of barbecue is to sprinkle spices and chili powder." Anjaye will not compromise on this aspect.

While bickering, the two acted as grabbing each other's grilled skewers to eat, and quickly finished all the ingredients. The witch's appetite was as big as a mouse eating a whole piece of cheese.

Anjaye took out two wooden teacups, filled them with herbal tea that is good for digestion, and began to share the goat's milk pudding cake brought by Elsa amidst the calming scent of tea.

As a senior foodie, Elsa is good at making desserts.

Even if the delicious and juicy mushrooms and meat have just been eaten, the goat milk pudding has a melt-in-your-mouth taste and slightly sour sweetness, and it is not greasy at all. Chew the nuts and wine-flavored dried fruit carefully, and add to the cake. Rich layers of flavor——Anjiaye suddenly missed the desserts he had eaten in his previous life even more, and he didn't know if Elsa could restore them all with Vinland's ingredients.

The black cat on the table also got a piece, but it was more interested in Anjaye's notes than the cake.While licking the cream around its mouth, the black cat stretched out its small paws to scratch the notebook, looking at the text and rich patterns on the paper page by page. The two tails that kept flicking seemed to show the cat's exuberant curiosity.

"Let your little cutie be good, and don't let the cake stain my notes." An Jiaye sighed while holding his forehead.

Elsa raised her eyebrows, with a slightly weird smile in her eyes, she turned her head to look at the black cat and grimaced, and the black cat also showed a weird smile.

An Jiaye felt even more frightened in his heart, but he pretended to be calm and said.

"What's its name."

"Miss Ramir." Elsa also stood up, and flipped through the cultivation notes with the cat, "Yeah, the drawing is really good."

"Miss Ramir?" Anjaye was amazed at his roommate's boldness, "Are you crazy? Named a cat the dean of discipline?"

"It seems that you have bred a lot of new varieties." Elsa didn't care, admiring Anjaye's mushroom sketches. Many mushrooms were painted with colorful paints, with fresh and smooth lines and vivid colors Tian Cheng reveals the painter's simple, accurate and concise aesthetics.

"Has there been any progress in the research on mushroom witchcraft recently?" Elsa stopped to browse and asked, "Do you want to plant mushrooms on people's heads next, or turn people's heads into mushrooms?"

"I'm not juggling." Anjaye couldn't help complaining, "Witchcraft experiments must also follow the basic laws of nature."

"If it succeeds, please let me know." Elsa folded her hands together and said, "It's interesting to think about it. Transfiguration is added to the mushroom form. Whoever doesn't like it will become a mushroom and plant it in a flowerpot."

Anjaye was noncommittal, she could indeed grow mushrooms on people, but if she wanted to turn living creatures into mushrooms, she had to be a master who could establish a school—the major types of transfiguration techniques that have been popular in Vinland so far. They are all named by the legendary Faye. For example, the only sheep-changing technique she knows is from the book "Kadishman and Farquharsson Teach You How to Transform Sheep". It was jointly developed by two ancient legends. Classic shapeshifting.

"I don't want to stand out, don't compare me to you trouble-making pleasure criminal."

"Oh, then who asked old Gambino to find the little white mouse secretly?" Elsa put on a hypocritical good sister face, "For the sake of our deep friendship, the newly researched witchcraft experiments have made people feel so much better. Let me visit."

PS: Elsa, who loves to stick to Anjaye, makes her debut!

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Chapter 6 Invitation to Pilgrimage

(Xiao An has always stood up to make money. But the witch's thighs are white, soft and fragrant. Maybe it's okay to give up some morals?)

"Secret."

Seeing that Elsa is a "fun person", An Jiaye threw a blank stare at the bad girlfriends under the guise of visiting the experiment and taking the opportunity to make trouble with her.

"Don't be so indifferent, Xiao An, you must know that the training room is turning a blind eye to you, it's me who is covering you."

"Then this time you will be my test product for the potion?" Anjaye looked up and down Elsa with indifferent eyes.

"Eh? If my best friend dies, let's see who will take care of you!" Elsa covered her chest in shock.

"I'm very humane." An Jiaye sneered and said persuasively, "I've done an experiment with rabbits, and the dose is controlled well. It won't kill anyone."

"Take the cute rabbit as an experiment again. You, an evil little witch, are also worthy of speaking humanely? My former classmates, but there are rumors that you use dead people as fertilizer for mushrooms."

"You know it's just a rumor." An Jiaye sighed, "All the familiars in the academy stay away from me, and I don't even have to masturbate if I want to."

"Witches in the forest faction should cure illnesses and save lives. Let's see what you are researching." Elsa covered her forehead with a heartbroken expression of a moralist. The phantom gas... is a contraband that is on the blacklist of various countries. Not to mention your added ingredients, it is much more dangerous than the popular ones on the market."

"Elsa, let's get straight to the business." An Jiaye was so angry that he wanted to pick up his staff and knock off the hat of the bad friend, "You are the one who likes to use my invention as a toy the most. Listen to the user evaluation of the villain. I can't be happier."

"Among other things, your newly launched 'Little Black Bottle for Drinking Light' is quite useful as a sleep aid." Elsa caressed her glowing white cheeks with her fingers, seemingly intoxicated, "I've been sleeping all night. It smells great and my skin is much better.”

"You are amazing." Anjaye complained helplessly. The "drinking up the little black bottle" in Elsa's mouth was a kind of meditation accelerator specially prepared by her. The speed of element replenishment and the degree of refining—and its influence is also long-lasting, which has subtle benefits for the promotion of low-level spellcasters.

Potions with such miraculous effects are so precious that there is no market in the desert of witchcraft civilization like the Mirage Peninsula-but Elsa just used them as a sleeping aid!

In fact, Anjaye didn't want to sell it to her at first, because the "little black bottle" has certain side effects, and taking too much may lead to the aggravation of the condition of "magic addiction" patients.

The earliest batch of "Little Black Bottles", except for a few trial products that were circulated to the market by the black-hearted businessman Gambino, the rest of the goods Anjaye is hoarding for experiments, preparing to improve the formula and process, and make up for product defects ——Unexpectedly, Elsa got the news and came to her to ask for it.

She couldn't bear a beautiful white-haired girl acting coquettishly in front of her eyes all day, so An Jiaye casually quoted a "friendly price" to make her retreat. Although the price on the black market was not outrageous, one bottle could also make an ordinary small The apprentice lived frugally for several years—but to Anjaye's astonishment, the little monster in front of her was so big that she could pack it up and drink it as happy water.

"I heard that Fan Na bought medicine from you?" Elsa suddenly changed the subject.

"The news is really well-informed." An Jiaye responded indifferently.

"Does she know what you're selling?" Elsa pressed.

"Maybe it's just a test." Anjaye took out a paper folded into squares from his pocket, "The list given by Miss Marshall seems to cover all kinds of potions. I don't know what they are used for. It should be suspicious. ——If I agree to the transaction, she will find the time to remind me of the goods I really need."

"Then Xiao An, can you guess what she wants?" Elsa's eyes became gossip.

"I'm not good at dealing with aristocrats with twisted minds." Anjaye bit his thumb helplessly, "Misses who can enter the academy don't want to talk to inferior people like me and drop their status. For five years, I usually have nothing to do with him."

"But this time I'm really after you." Elsa took out a dark green ampoule from her sleeve, pinched the body of the bottle with her index finger and thumb up and down, and placed it in front of her eyes, looking at the transparent liquid flowing in the bottle. Luminous liquid, "Old Gambino sells drugs on the black market, only a very small part can attract Fanna's status. Combined with the timing, did she get the news and want to buy a 'little black bottle'?"

"Then I'm quite honored." An Jiaye shrugged, the medicine in this ampoule came from her hands. "Great nobles are willing to condescend to order."

"She is the only daughter of 'Uncle Lenghu' in the Kingdom of Oga, and 'Uncle Lenghu' is the nobleman closest to the Shuting territory, and his relationship with the king is not good. I heard that there have been troubles in the earldom recently. The incident of black witchcraft harming people." Elsa smirked with gloat, "Is it possible--it would be fun for Vanna to get 'magic addiction'."

Anjaye heard something in Elsa's words.

"I'm selling meditation boosters, not 'Starstone Sacrament'. I don't think Vanna doesn't have this bit of self-control."

"Then why did she ask you to buy 'Little Black Bottle'?" Elsa asked reluctantly.

"She mentioned you." An Jiaye said helplessly, "She said she didn't want to fall behind."

"No way." Elsa pretended to be surprised, "Did she think that my strength came from taking drugs?"

"You have always been low-key, and you only like to play tricks in secret." An Jiaye said bluntly, "No one among the apprentices knows your details. It is you, not me, that Fan Na is after."

"Fanna and I entered the academy almost in the same batch." Elsa folded her arms and raised her head in thought, "She is the leader of the noble apprentices. I am just an exchange student from the north, and Asuka will not set foot on the territory of wild deer. I didn't even see her trouble me."

"Now she has a strong sense of competition with you, which is weird." Anjaye lowered his head and rubbed his chin.

The two were silent for a few seconds, then looked at each other involuntarily.

"Is it a battle for chief?"

Anjaye understood a little bit.

A round of graduation ceremonies will be held in the academy every three years, and the apprentices who have achieved success in their studies will be awarded the qualifications to be promoted to official witches.

And this qualification is by no means as simple as putting a nameplate on the famous and precious plants that grow in the greenhouse.

"Star Scholar" Mrs. Stella is a down-to-earth practical school. At the beginning, she led all her followers and crossed all the way south to the coast of the Mirage Peninsula. "The key to the city, knelt down and surrendered to the great witch.

Since the establishment of the school, every time the graduation examination, the trainee witches have to imitate the sages, starting from crossing the sea of ​​sunken trees, going through the long and arduous test all the way, arriving at the Linhai cliff of the royal city, entering the pilgrimage of the saint's temple, and obtaining a star. Shi Leizhu came back for proof.

The test is called "Truth-Seeking Pilgrimage".

After the pilgrimage is over, the Mentor Council will recommend the most outstanding apprentices and introduce them to the Great Witch as the "Chief Student".

In addition to the precious gifts from the Academy, the "Chief Student" will have the possibility to board the "Eternal Night" Observatory, which has been closed for half a century, and be eligible to meet legends.

The selection criteria for the chief student, apart from the reputation among the tutors, the degree of academic completion and the strength of witchcraft, the most important thing is undoubtedly the performance and gains on the tour.

The apprentices will bring a memory shell to record important experiences along the way. They can only rely on the staff in their hands and the knowledge of the witch to overcome the dangerous trial road in the mist.

After the fortunate completion of the tour, the apprentices will also submit the essence of their personal experience as a report to the academy to clarify their thoughts and perceptions of witchcraft, which is equivalent to a graduation thesis and an important reference for the selection of chief students.

"Actually, I really don't care about the false title of 'chief'. After all, I'm just an exchange student, but in the eyes of the local witch apprentices, if an outsider from the north is qualified to meet the great witch, they will lose face Bar."

"Perhaps there is a deeper reason." An Jiaye put the staff on his lap.

"Xiao An express your opinion quickly." Elsa clapped her hands to encourage.

"People fight for things that are important to them." An Jiaye was holding the unremarkable mushroom bag on the staff. She liked to do this whenever she was thinking.

"I've been in the academy for a long time. As an assistant to the tutors, I also observed the performance of many apprentices."

"Now in the academy, only you and Fan Na have the qualifications to compete for the chief, but for a good student like Fan Na who is proud of her heart, what she is fascinated by is the act of 'exploring knowledge' itself, even if she becomes the chief to meet the great witch. , to obtain the key to access higher-level mysteries, you must walk on the way of the witch with strength. She has never troubled you in the past, which is the proof."

Both Elsa and the black cat adjusted to a more comfortable sitting position, stared at Anjaye with interest and continued talking.

"But what about now? She even invited me to participate in the truth-seeking tour. I'm afraid she wants to find out your details by wooing me, a roommate. If you think about it in a sinister direction, she might even try to intimidate and lure me. Add something to the medicine."