Weird Wizarding World

   Chapter 55 Convocation

   After dinner.

  Colin came to the meditation room to start meditating as usual... As for Barney's words, he didn't take it to heart at all, and was thrown aside long ago.

   Lighting the incense of tranquility, sitting on the soft cushion in the meditation room, he began to meditate.

  Since he absorbed the golden four-leaf clover, he obviously felt that his magic power increased faster than before during meditation.

   The aptitude has obviously been improved a lot... Probably, it has reached the second class.

   These changes, shown on the golden paper, are that the progress of the intermediate wizard apprentice and other ranks grows faster.

  In the past, it took about twenty days to increase the progress a little, but now it should only take about ten days.

   As night fell, Colin ended his meditation.

   He can indeed feel that his aptitude has improved, but it can only be vaguely estimated, which is not accurate.

  Thinking of this, he had a thought——

  ‘Perhaps… it’s time to buy a talent crystal ball and test the specific talent after the upgrade for yourself. ’

  …do it.

   The next morning, he went straight to the center of the city in a carriage.

  There are only two places on the island where there are talent crystal balls, one is the shops outside the wizard's territory on the mountain, and the other is the wizard's alley in the center of Blackrock City.

  If he went to the mountain, the mountain road was steep and difficult for ordinary carriages to pass, so he could only walk. If he set out from outside the city gate, it would take him more than an hour to reach the wizard's foreign shop, and it would take longer from his home on Palm Street.

   However, if you choose to go to the center of the city, although it will take more than an hour, you don’t need to walk, you can go directly by horse-drawn carriage.

   Comparing the two, it is clear at a glance who to choose.

   Sitting in the carriage, Colin lifted the curtains of the carriage and looked outside casually.

   Horse carriage laymen come and go, most of them wearing linen clothes and thin.

   Not long after, the carriage came to a long gentle **** of yellow mud. On both sides of it, there are many hawkers carrying sea fish or other sundries for sale.

   There are obviously more people here than elsewhere. The speed of the carriage also slowed down.

   And when there are too many people, the smell becomes messy, especially on this island with limited sanitation.

   All of a sudden, the smell of sweat, fish, feet and even the subtle smell of excrement and urine all poured in from the window.

   Colin frowned slightly and lowered the curtain.

  …

  Appeal~

   "Master, here we are." Arthur said respectfully.

The    black carriage gradually stopped, Colin opened the door and walked down slowly.

   is a not wide masonry street, and there are various shops on both sides of the street.

   The environment here is finally better.

   The sanitary conditions in Black Rock City are really uncomplimentable. Only a wealthy area like his residence and the city center here will be slightly better.

   Walking into the alleyway, in a trance, Colin felt as if he had returned to the wizard's land. Most of the pedestrians who come and go here are wizards, and ordinary people are extinct here.

  Speaking of which...the knight skills and bee stings from last time are also bought here. It's a pity that the plan can't keep up with the changes, that Ben Canguang has never practiced once.

   After all... his energy is really limited, and he still has many skills on the gold paper that he has not practiced to the limit, how can he still have the time to practice an ordinary knight combat skills.

   As he thought, he walked into a grocery store.

   Not long after, he came out with a talent crystal ball the size of two fists.

  This crystal ball is not cheap, it cost him 5 magic stones.

   hurried home, he couldn't wait to reach the basement. Concentrate and place your hands on the clear crystal ball.

   After a while, a white mist slowly rose from the crystal ball.

  Colin carefully observed the size of the fog-

   is about seven-tenths.

   There was a flash of clarity in his eyes, 7 out of 10 was already the highest level of the second-class, and the further up was the first-class.

  Although I had expected it in my heart, I would still be a little excited when I really learned the specific result.

   In addition to aptitude, at least half of a wizard's talent is the ability to learn knowledge.

But after all, aptitude also accounts for half of it. After all, the original owner's talent was only fourth-class. Even if Jin Zhi disguised his talent, his real talent is always only fourth-class... Now it has been directly upgraded to second-class, which can be regarded as making up for a shortcoming. plate.

   Time flies so fast.

   To Colin’s surprise, he obviously didn’t go to work for Barney that night, but Barney didn’t bother him again after that.

   "Perhaps he thought he was gone?" He speculated to himself.

  Just like that, a week goes by and Sunday comes again.

   This morning, the sky was light.

   Acorn Street.

   Pedestrians are sparse.

   Drive!

   On the yellow mud road, a carriage came galloping from a distance.

   A knight of the guard in leather armor was following him on a black horse.

   In the carriage, Colin frowned slightly. Today was supposed to be his day off.

   But Flower, for some reason, sent guards to deliver the letter, asking them to gather at the inspection office immediately.

After    got the news, Colin greeted Arthur to drive towards the inspection office, and he was on the way now.

  Tap tap~

  The horse's hooves stepped on the yellow mud, raising the dust and blending into the early morning mist.

   Not long after, he arrived at the inspection office.

   got off the carriage and came to the door. He gently pushed the hall door open and walked in.

   At this time, Flower was sitting on the lounge chair in the middle of the hall, eating crispy roast chicken.

   There were some people gathered in front of him, but based on the number of people, there should be some people who have not arrived.

  Colin stepped forward, walked into the crowd, and waited quietly.

  Kacha~Kacha~

  Time passed slowly with the sound of Flower chewing chicken bones.

   After a while, there are more people, but it seems that they have not arrived yet. Flower still didn't speak, just focused on eating the roast chicken.

  Colin carefully scanned the week and counted the number of people secretly.

  ‘Only one person didn’t arrive, it seems to be… Barney? ’

   It was at this moment that the door of the hall was pushed open again.

  Barney walked in in a hurry, his clothes were a little disheveled, and his forehead was sweaty because of the rush.

  ‘It should have just got up from the woman’s bed. ’

  Colin looked around Barney calmly, and from a distance, he could smell the perfume on Barney's body.

  Barney came to the far left and stood still, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

  Flower raised his head and glanced at Barney, swallowed the last mouthful of food, and said slowly:

   "Since everyone is here, I'll keep it short."

   "Barney." He said coldly.

   "...I'm here! Lord Flower." Barney was startled and responded quickly.

   "Come here." Flower stood up slowly and smiled inexplicably at Barney.

  Barney walked out of the queue obediently, with some doubts on his face.

  He looked at Flower's smile and his heart skipped a beat.

   A little nervous, but also a little looking forward to it.

   "Could it be..."

   Even though he knew it was impossible, for some reason, this impossible thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

   "Could it be that Lord Flower looked at my hard work for so many days and planned to announce my vice-captain status in front of everyone!"

The idea of ​​   was out of control as soon as he thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that his idea didn't seem so impossible. In addition, every subtle movement of Flower, even the oil on his hands, supports his inference...

   Although I thought a lot, in reality only a moment passed.

  Barney felt the gaze coming from behind, and he could not help straightening his back, feeling a burst of pride in his heart.

   After adjusting his expression, he turned his head indifferently "inadvertently", his eyes swept from left to right, and finally stopped on Regana's body for a while before changing his attentive expression and striding to Flower's side.

   (end of this chapter)