Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 80: Days on Annual Leave

Claude sighed deeply as he looked at the silver moon that was pure from the sky.

Over the past few days, he has repeatedly thought about what kind of magic path he can choose for his future, but still can't make up his mind.

The battle magician is good, but he has no place to learn those battle spells.

Become a Syntax Magician who specializes in Alchemy and Magic Character Arrays. Although the combat power is poor, it is also difficult to collect Alchemy Experimental Materials and Magic Materials. But with Landers Magician's Diary in hand, Claude can be promoted smoothly to a Syntax Magician with four rings according to the points above.

It's not as bad as Claude thought it would be to be a grammar, but at least a few of the primary alchemy experiment materials in the diary and in that magic notebook could be bought with money. For example, several low-grade magic potion formulations, as well as the construction of barrel refining and fittings in the alchemy spell array, make it easy to get the materials you need in pharmacies and blacksmiths' stores, nothing more than some herbs and metal ore.

As Claude is now at home, buying these test materials is not a problem, and the only difficulty is that buying the magic materials that set up the Alchemy Character Array takes a lot of money. Like the sparkling stone, this is one of the basic materials that make up the alchemy magic array. It is now regarded as a valuable jewellery raw material. It is rare and difficult to buy on the market...

Claude had also thought that if he had an alchemy spell array, he might be able to do some alchemy tests to see if he could make a firearm, maybe a revolver. The structure of the two guns was clear to him that, in theory, there was nothing wrong with making them by hand, and all that was needed was an alchemy magic array and a hidden place to set it up.

Unfortunately, Claude can't do anything right now, can't buy the magic materials that set up the Alchemy Character Array, and there's no hidden place. He can only think in his heart, after all, he is only a junior high school student, almost seventeen years old.

Whatever choice Claude makes for his future magic path, now he can only continue to practice Six-Mountain Meditation, attracting and transforming fire element photons into his own magic. It will take several months for him to become a first-degree scribe...

Day after day, the weather began to get cold, and Claude now needs to wear her mother's knitted sweater in the morning. The sprain on his left foot is long gone, Claude can jump again, but this sprain made Claude realize that his body still needs to work out, so he gets up early every morning to run around the two southeastern districts of town, which is almost five or six kilometers away...

By the time November arrived, the classmates were all a little agitated. The first is that the annual holidays are approaching, which are more than two and a half months in a row. Students who have been in school for almost 10 consecutive months are eagerly awaiting the holidays. Second, grade exams are about to start. This is the most important exam to test students' overall grades for a semester. It doesn't matter to those grade superiors, but it's a pain for the rest of the students.

Teachers in schools also let go of the students' agitation and no longer demanded strict school discipline. For these instructors, the approaching of each vacation means that the graduation of the Third Nation students is coming soon, and they have a lot of work to do, such as organizing graduation ceremonies and recommending good graduates for public grades...

Since the instructors relaxed control over the students, second-year classmates, led by Bok Al and Eriksson, often took the twenty minutes off to visit female classmates across the street, find opportunities to talk to them and joke. Often there are also students who, because they have a word with the girl of their heart, will not be there for the next class hours. With a silly smile on their face, their hearts will not know where to fly...

“These two fools are hopeless...” Claude can only shake his head when he looks at Bok Al and Eriksson with a dementia and that silly smile on his face. Isn't that when the class took a break, these two went to the girls' class and had a few words with Betty, the big-eyed glasses girl, and that naturally foxy Bria, and came back just like that? Looking at them like this, this should fantasize about them and those two women starting a family with lots of kids...

“Sorry, Claude.” Villicro was a little embarrassed to say.

Claude doesn't understand, "What's wrong with you? Why are you apologizing to me? ”

“Well, you know, last night, I told my father that I wanted to invite you and us to go hunting in White Eel after the holidays. But my father rejected my offer, saying that the winter in Bailu was more dangerous than usual, because at this time the hungry leopard would attack any prey entering his territory, and he could not guarantee the safety of his entourage with certainty...”

Vericulo lowered his head and lowered his voice: “My father also said that he believed you had the courage to face these dangers, and that giant Python and Niles crocodile had proved you qualified. However, since your father is Mr. Morsan, he cannot take the risk of being a crime chief and invite you to join us for a hunt in Bailuanzhou...”

Claude nodded and said, "It's okay, Vero, I understand your father's concerns. Even if my father agrees that I go hunting with your father and son in Bailuzhou, your father is still worried about whether I will be in any danger or not, and this will delay your hunting plans. So taking me with you is one thing that I can't afford to lose, and he just made the smartest choice, which is nothing strange, you don't have to apologize. ”

Looking down at Verricolo, Claude laughed: “Why don't you get some sleep and nourish yourself? This afternoon is the final physical exam, and I'm ready to compete with you for the first place in this physical exam. ”

Claude stood out for the final exam, and he rose to seventeenth place in literature. Thanks to Tafford, who used copying to sneak up on the answers, Bok Al, Eriksson and Vilikro also achieved a significant improvement in their literature scores, which rose to around thirty and forty out of sixty-three classmates. While most of the classmates know what this is about, they have been silent for a long time because of their group of four in the class...

Claude, who ranks first in the combined scores of the Department of Physics, has a very weak advantage over Verricolo. If Claude hadn't won the two-handed sword and bayonet championships in the swordsmanship contest this time, as well as the fifth best score in the short sword contest, and thus became the first in the swordsmanship class, the first honor in the gymnastics would still have been taken away by Verricolo. Claude can't help but think that Verricolo, who is so powerful and powerful, is born with horn power and has an absolute advantage in boxing these physical projects.

Once the school was officially on annual leave, Claude and the three partners were separated. Erickson is going out on a boat, following his father Captain Autroni to the storm waters to kill whales. This was the first time that Ericsson boarded a distant fishing boat called the Red Sea Shark that went to dangerous stormy waters in the winter, and he was already anxious to prepare to sail.

It will take about seven or eight days for Verricolo to follow his father on a hunt and medication trip to White Eel. However, the two of their fathers and sons may have to go twice this year because his father promised to get a stone fox fur for his daughter, the sister of Villicro. Baiyuzhou is huge, and Father and Son probably won't be able to find where the Stone Fox's lair is for seven or eight days.

Bok Al also left White Deer Town to follow his father to visit their branches in three southwestern counties, examine this year's accounts and award bonuses and year-end rewards to the directors and clerks of the branches. He left in such a hurry that on the afternoon of the holiday, he left in his father's carriage that he could not even say hello.

For Claude, the school gave him his annual leave, and instead he became nothing to do. All the partners left Bai Lu Town. He just wanted to go out and have no friends to find. He could only stay at home with his brother and sister. Funny how many little snowdogs have grown up. Then stay in your little attic and practice the Six-Mountain Meditation.

It took Claude three days to get around all the bookstores and grocery stores in White Deer Town, and even the grocery stores in the open market. It's just that he never found any more magical objects, not even a book about the Dark Calendar, which filled his heart with disappointment.

But his sister Angelina and brother Browick were very happy to go shopping with Claude, who buys them clothes and toys and tasty snacks every time they go out. Finally, Mr. Morsan thought Claude was spending too much money, and even if he split the Niros crocodile that time, it would soon cost his brother and sister everything, so Anna and Little Booker were forbidden to go shopping with Claude.

More than a week later, after visiting the Verrick Rodden Gate, he brought Claude a back leg of suede as a gift, which he had caught the night before returning from White Herring, so he brought it to Claude for a taste.

Mountain suede, originally a common wild herbivore in three southwestern counties, is about the size of an antelope, but lacks the ability to climb the mountain walls of horns and antelopes, combined with the freshness of the flesh, making it the animal hunters love to hunt. Traces of suede have been seldom seen in the three southwestern counties over the years, and traces of suede activity can be found only in the depths of the mountains and in rare places such as Bai Luzhou.

Verricolo said that following his father to Bailuzhou was mainly about collecting herbs and hunting stone foxes, but many herbs were collected, and completing the commissioning of the pharmacy was sufficient, but no trace of stone foxes was found. So his father decided to go back to Bailuanzhou in December, probably a little longer this time until the new year.

Véricolo has always felt sorry that Claude could not follow his father and son on a hunt in White Herring. He thinks Claude is the most talented hunter he's ever met, and if he tries a little more, he's bound to be the best hunter in three counties in the Southwest. But Claude's father, Mr. Morsan, would certainly not have made his second son a hunter, although in Villicro's mind the hunter was the best profession.

Bok Al sent a letter the other day, and Claude took it out for Verricolo to watch. Bok Al said he would not return to White Deer Town for New Year's Eve. His father meant to take his family to his aunt's house in West Millock County for New Year's Eve, and he expected to return to White Deer Town in late January before he could get together with his partners.

And then they talked about Eriksson, and Veriksson thought he should be back in the New Year's Eve, and sailing meant nothing, and the sea couldn't send a letter, and all they could do was wish Eriksson and his father a safe return.

As for Claude's inactivity during this period, Villicro suggested that he take a fireline gun and walk around the woods on the southern outskirts of town. Though a few months ago they set up a series of traps there to capture a lot of mountain chicken rabbits, they should recover at this time. Véricolo thinks Claude should stop setting up condom traps now, but practice guns instead of being a handyman.

Claude happily accepted Verricolo's offer to carry a fireline gun to the hills and woodlands on the southern outskirts of town, hunting rabbits and chickens, lucky sometimes to lead the prey home, but more often he returned empty-handed.

Day after day, the snow grew bigger and bigger, and the entire earth was covered in thick silver. The banks of Lake Beringa have also begun to form a very thick ice layer and gradually spread towards the lake. And this time, Ericsson came back. Their family's Red Sea Shark ocean fishing boat dragged two large whales back to White Deer Town.