By the time the two of them and the bird returned to the village, the sun had already set, and the remaining light from the burning clouds in the sky covered the whole village in amber. The thatched house outside the village had been built, and the children were gone, but that wasn't strange. After all, the children of farmers had a lot to do. They had to help with housework and farming, and it was already a sign of respect for Liang Lidong that they took the time to help him build the thatched house.
The old village chief stood on a small mound at the entrance of the village. He was relieved to see Kail return from the other side of the mountain, and he turned around and slowly returned home.
Kail separated from Liang Lidong at the entrance of the village. Before he left, he glanced enviously at the "bald chicken" standing on the latter's shoulder and asked, "Teacher, are you really not going to stay at my house? Grandpa is just a little confused. He didn't mean to offend you. "
"I don't even know why we had a dispute, do I?" Liang Lidong patted the boy's head and smiled gently. "Don't worry, it's just a difference in philosophy. At most, the old village chief thinks I'm too stingy. It's not a big deal. Besides, we can't stay at your house. Do you want me to be your chef?"
Kail blushed. He was indeed worried that he wouldn't be able to eat such delicious food again after his teacher left. His thoughts exposed, the boy turned around and ran. "See you tomorrow, teacher."
Liang Lidong shrugged and walked into the thatched house not far away. Because it was built in a hurry, the thatched house didn't have a wooden door. The smell of straw and withered branches filled the house. It wasn't unpleasant, and for those who liked to be close to nature, it was a rather fragrant and comfortable smell.
There was a simple table and chair in the room, and a wooden bed in the corner with a blanket on it. The blanket had been used by Liang Lidong for the past two nights. It must have been sent by the old village chief.
The "bald chicken" on Liang Lidong's shoulder looked around and said in surprise, "Wow, as a spellcaster, you live in such a shabby place?"
With their master's knowledge, the magic pet's perspective would also change. They knew a lot of human knowledge and understood how to look at problems from a human perspective. If the three-feathered crowned falcons were still half-magical beasts, they would definitely not think that there was anything wrong with this thatched house. In their simple minds, they would even think that this nest was very big and good. However, after becoming magical pets, they knew what kind of rank this house was in human society.
"Let's make do with it for now," Liang Lidong sat on the bed and said with a smile, "In another six months, we will have a big stone house to live in."
"What about food? I'm hungry." The bald chicken's voice was quite pleasant. "If I still had feathers, I could take care of my own food problem. But now, you can only feed me for a month. If I can't fly, I can't do anything."
"It's getting late. Let's starve for the night." Liang Lidong chuckled and said, "With our physiques, it won't be a problem to go hungry for three or four days. It's not a big deal to skip one meal. Tomorrow, I'll find a way to make a delicious meal for you. Please believe in my skills."
"I don't doubt you …" The bald chicken made a swallowing motion. "In the knowledge you passed on to me, there is a lot about food. Like braised meatballs, kung pao chicken, boiled fish … I suddenly feel that it's not so bad to be your magic pet. "
Liang Lidong smiled. This magic pet seemed to have a good personality. Generally speaking, because magic pets had their own different personalities, it often took a period of running-in for Mages to connect with a magic pet. Depending on the patience and personality of both parties, the time would be long or short. He asked, "According to the convention, every magic pet has its own name. How should I address you?"
"Based on the knowledge you passed on to me, I think there is a female name that suits me."
"Oh, tell me about it!"
"Joan Of Arc the Maiden!" The bald chicken raised its head, looking rather impressive. "Only such a holy name is qualified to match my identity."
"Oh … As long as you like it."
The bald chicken … now called Joan Of Arc, jumped from Liang Lidong's shoulder to the bed, wrapped itself with a corner of the blanket in its mouth, and yawned like a human … Then, it soon fell asleep. After all, it had directly evolved from a half-beast creature to a magic pet, and its head was stuffed with a bunch of useful and useless knowledge. It was already very tired both mentally and physically.
Liang Lidong was also a little tired. Tearing off two soul fragments wasn't as simple as a headache. It had a certain impact on his spirit, and it would take about half a month for him to recover. According to the notification given by the system, the effects of all his magic skills in the next 360 hours would be reduced by about ten percent.
The negative effects were within an acceptable range, and it wasn't a permanent loss, so it wasn't a big problem. Now that he thought about it, Liang Lidong felt that he had been a little impatient at the time. The soul had always been a very mysterious thing. In the game, the officials had repeatedly reminded players that they had to be careful with quests or skills that involved the soul. Splitting off one soul fragment a month was already the limit. In the afternoon, he had split off two soul fragments in a row. If it had been in the game, the system would definitely have forcibly interrupted the contract process, but fortunately, it had succeeded, and there was no real irreversible loss.
I can't do such rash things in the future. Liang Lidong secretly warned himself that in order to meet Blondie and Whitey in the future, he must be careful and more careful in the future.
In a trance, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep. When he woke up, he found that the sun was already high in the sky. He first opened the system data and found the system notification at midnight last night:
After a day of hard work, you have gained 6 character experience points.
The experience points for a day did not exceed a single digit, which was within Liang Lidong's expectations. He yawned, then grabbed the sleeping Joan Of Arc, shook her awake, and put her on his shoulder.
"You bastard, this is how you deal with a sleeping girl?" Joan Of Arc, who had just been woken up, forcefully pecked Liang Lidong's face twice, but it was very measured. It could make Liang Lidong feel pain, but not really hurt him.
When Liang Lidong rushed to the river, a group of students were already waiting. There was some worry in their eyes, but when they saw Liang Lidong rushing over, they were relieved. In this day and age, it was harder to find a teacher who was willing to teach them how to read and be a person.
"Sorry, I'm late. This is my magic pet … Joan Of Arc, say hello to the children. "
"A group of children, why be so polite to them!" Joan Of Arc raised her head high.
"The featherless chicken spoke …"
"Ah! It spoke! "
The group of children suddenly burst into a clamor. Most of them were very nervous. After all, they had heard rumors that the animals that could speak were all high-level magical beasts. They ate people without spitting out the bones, and they especially ate children.
Liang Lidong spent some effort to pacify these little guys, making them believe that the bald chicken that could speak did not eat people. Then he cleared his throat and continued, "Like yesterday, before I teach you how to read, I will first tell you some basic knowledge. In this world, there are four main gods and around twenty or so secondary gods, which I think everyone is very clear about. Many people believe in gods, but they don't know the benefits of believing in gods, and they also don't know how to obtain benefits from gods. Many people think that believing in gods means that they should be completely dedicated, but this kind of thinking is wrong. We believe in gods, and gods give us protection. This is a win-win transaction. Perhaps you think that I am disrespecting gods, but in fact, the more powerful gods are, the more they like to trade with intelligent beings. However, the content of the trade isn't money, but the power of belief … "
After the morning routine was over, Liang Lidong returned to the front of the thatched hut. Just when he was about to go to the mountain to get some game and wild vegetables to eat, he discovered a few baskets placed in front of the house. The baskets were filled with different things, such as matsutake mushrooms, bread, wild vegetables, and a gray sparrow.
These things … Liang Lidong found it somewhat strange. When he saw Belin squatting at the entrance of the village, he beckoned her to come over and asked what was going on.
"Everyone knows that teacher moved out of the village chief's house," Belin said with some awkwardness. "Everyone feels that building a thatched hut for you is too unfair. Moreover, you taught us how to read and teach us other knowledge. Adults and grandpa said that if we exchanged it for school fees, the entire village wouldn't be able to afford it, so we can only think of ways to get some things from the mountain. They also said that these things aren't worth much and aren't even worth one ten-thousandth of the school fees. But if teacher teaches us things and we have to think of ways to find food by ourselves, then everyone in our village is an idiot who doesn't understand reason. We absolutely can't let such a thing happen, or else our entire village won't have the face to meet outsiders."
So it was like that! Liang Lidong was slightly moved in his heart. He patted Belin's small head and said, "I understand. Then can you help me thank everyone in the village?"
"Alright!"
Belin nodded her head vigorously. She was extremely happy to see her teacher agree to help. Yesterday, when her teacher moved out of the village chief's house, the people of the two villages were afraid that her teacher would be angry and no longer want to teach their children, so they left the village. The most tragic thing in this world wasn't that there was no opportunity, but that when the only opportunity came, they could only watch it slip away.
Liang Lidong used the mountain to make a delicacy with a value of nine. Joan Of Arc ate until her belly was round. Lying on her side on the bed like a dead chicken, she savored the taste of the delicacy and said, "After I rest for a while, I can eat another plate of stir-fried matsutake … For the first time, I didn't know that vegetarian food can be so delicious."
Liang Lidong was amused. Falcon-type creatures were generally carnivores, but after Joan Of Arc evolved into a magic pet, she became omnivorous and could digest vegetables very well.
Since he was free in the afternoon, Liang Lidong began to make level-one magic scrolls and succeeded all six times. The talent of Scroll Making was more useful than he had imagined. Making scrolls could increase his EXP. Liang Lidong estimated that his EXP would be more than single digits at midnight. Although the alchemy items required to make scrolls were very high, magic scrolls were even more expensive. Liang Lidong planned to sell the scrolls in the city in a few days, then trade them for more alchemy items before continuing to make scrolls. First, he could farm EXP, and second, he could accumulate money.
It was a great virtuous cycle.
However, before he went to the city, he had to make the Space Anchor magic scroll that Karl needed. He took out the black box from his Backpack and was about to work, when Kail ran in and shouted, "Master, master, the mayor's daughter is here. She asked to see you!"
The mayor's daughter? Liang Lidong remembered that Kail mentioned the person before. She seemed to be a young female Mage.
Putting Joan Of Arc on his shoulder again, he followed Kail to the village leader's house and met the rumored female spellcaster. From the looks of it, she was about seventeen years old. Her curvaceous figure was faintly discernible under the magic robe. It was obvious that she had a good figure, but her face was not beautiful. It was very ordinary, but because she was a spellcaster, she looked very unique.
"Greetings, ascetic believer from afar!" Seeing that her master was here, the female spellcaster stood up and bowed. "I'm Barbara, a member of the Red Magic Tower. It's a pleasure to meet you in this beautiful village surrounded by mountains."
"I'm Beta, a believer of Goddess Woking. This is my partner, Joan Of Arc. "
"Greetings!" Joan Of Arc greeted him lethargically.
"Magic pet?" Barbara looked at Joan in surprise, with an unbelievable surprise on her face: "You can actually contract a magic pet? What is your level of spellcasting? I feel that although your spiritual power is very stable, but not particularly strong, how can you separate your own soul fragments? How did you do it?"