Victor sat in the carriage waiting for the servant's notice, but he heard Vega's low chirping voice.
"Are you interested in that extinct volcano?"
The one-eyed crow was combing its shiny feathers again. Perhaps because its body was too fat, its beak could not reach the back.
Victor glanced at Vega.
"How did you find it?"
Vega raised his head and said confidently.
"Otherwise you would not have come to find this fiancée."
Victor ignored him and acquiesced.
Not long after, Victor was still patient, but Vega couldn't help it first.
"Why hasn't anyone come to call us in?"
The sound of flipping pages stopped, and Victor closed the magic book and said lightly.
"Imagine, if you are a very beautiful woman, alone at home, and someone wants to see you late at night, and this person is your fiancé, what would you do?"
Vega tilted his head and thought for a while, and said hoarsely: "Dress up beautifully and meet in the most exquisite manner?"
"I understand, she saw you coming, so she put on makeup! And you are also very patient waiting for her."
"Wrong, she will only think that this kind of person is sick and makes her feel bored."
Victor denied it expressionlessly, but obviously, the crow was a little dissatisfied.
"Why, I saw that those storybooks are written like this, don't you understand women?"
"You don't understand Gwen."
Victor turned his head and looked at the gate of the courtyard of the Delin family.
This sacred knight has never regarded himself as a 'woman'.
Well, in fact, Victor himself doesn't quite understand Gwen now.
But he thinks that Gwen should hate him during this period of time.
After all, no woman would like a man who has a stinky face and is petty every day, and even does bad things.
The relationship of an unmarried couple is probably a stain on the life of Knight Gwen until the end.
So after Victor died, she remained unmarried.
"Get ready, we should go in."
He lowered his head to remind the crow on his shoulder, and the crow quickly put on an "I am just a pet" look, standing lazily on his shoulder without moving.
After a while, the maid came to the carriage and respectfully told him that Miss Gwen was ready and invited him in.
Victor got off the carriage and led the maid through the gate to the conference room.
As soon as he came in, he saw Gwen.
The other party sat on the soft sofa, without dressing up, wrapped in a tight bathrobe, without revealing any skin.
It seemed that she had just come out of the bath.
But she didn't need to dress up. In Victor's opinion, even if she was just bare-faced, this exquisite and perfect face was enough to capture any man.
"It's so late, what are you doing here?"
Gwen's tone was neither warm nor cold, and there was a sense of alienation.
Victor sat opposite her without any hesitation, and went straight to the point in the same calm tone.
"I heard that you are going on a mission and won't be back for half a month."
Gwen didn't wonder where he heard it from, and nodded honestly.
"Well, I'll leave in a week."
"Can you take me with you."
Gwen: "..."
Hearing this, her reaction was a little... subtle.
First she was a little confused, then she frowned, as if she was repeatedly confirming.
Finally, she leaned back, and an expression of disbelief gradually appeared on her face.
Gwen put her hand on her forehead, lowered her head, and asked again.
"Repeat what you just said."
"Can you take me with you."
Without any hesitation, Victor repeated it.
"Huh..."
Gwen exhaled lightly, she always felt that the other party had a broken brain.
"What's the reason?"
"Without a suitable reason, I can't take you with me."
Victor: "I know the terrain of the surrounding mountains very well, including the weaknesses of the monsters distributed around. If you take me with you, you can come back in seven days, including the round trip."
Hearing his words, Gwen didn't even raise her eyes, and she didn't know whether she was considering Victor's value or didn't care at all.
Victor wanted to say something to raise his value in Gwen's eyes, but Gwen spoke first to block his mouth.
"What I want is the truth."
Victor's eyes became colder, looking at Gwen, and slowly said: "...You used your ability on me."
As a knight born with justice, Gwen Delin has exerted her unique talent since she was a child.
She has a heart of justice.
As long as she wants, she can clearly distinguish whether the other party is lying.
Gwen can control this ability freely, so she will not use her ability when it is not necessary.
However, she did not believe herself.
Victor did not feel how angry, but rather expected it.
Because this indirectly proved how much Gwen hated him.
When talking to him, Gwen would even use her sense of justice to measure whether he was lying.
"I don't trust you."
Gwen was very straightforward and didn't explain any more.
Suddenly, Victor smiled with relief.
He thought for a moment, then said again:
"There is a kind of monster on Mount Vesuvius, which produces a unique crystal. I need that thing to make magic props."
After that, Victor's eyes revealed a strong desire.
[First-level magic: self-suggestion]
Effect: Hypnotize yourself and randomly increase any ability by 1 level within a period of time.
It is very simple to deal with Gwen's sense of justice. He only needs to tell the truth.
Even if the truth is made up on the spot, as long as Victor believes it, it is the truth.
The mage also has his own means, that is, flexible morality and wise mind.
Gwen finally looked up at Victor.
"It seems that you really understand the volcano, otherwise you wouldn't say such a thing."
"In order to achieve your goal, even the Royal Knights can be used as your guard."
"As expected of you, selfish Victor."
Victor didn't put on a poker face for a long time, and smiled and nodded.
"I'll take this sentence as a compliment."
Gwen would never doubt him from the perspective of Victor's selfishness, because he is such a person.
She also knew that Victor would only pester her more and more in order to achieve his goal.
Since that's the case, it's better to agree.
"I will apply for a companion wizard, and you can come to see me on the same day."
Seeing Gwen agreed, Victor smiled and replied: "Thank you, Knight Gwen, who is willing to help selflessly even for a selfish person like me."
"I will arrange everything this week, so there's no need to send me off."
After that, Victor got up and left.
Gwen nodded and watched him leave.
But in his head, Victor's smiling face when he complimented him could not be shaken off for a long time.
Victor, have you ever smiled like that?
Back in the carriage, Victor leaned back on the seat calmly, his dark eyes staring at something unknown.
"Are you angry?"
Crow asked doubtfully.
"Why do you think so?"
Vega: "I've been looking at your poker face for a long time, it's just intuition."
"If you don't have any big emotions, you won't smile as bright as a chrysanthemum."
Angry?
Hearing its words, Victor thought for a moment.
Maybe the education he was ingrained in his bones made him want to be a good person, but he was so selfish when the other party said it with righteousness.
And he could only get the recognition of that person by pretending to be what she thought he was.
Not angry.
It just made him feel a little sick.
.....
These days, Victor taught at the academy during the day and buried himself in the basement to study magic potions at night.
As long as there are enough materials, he can make about a hundred bottles a day, and all of them can be sold by Leah.
Liya said that when the store is renovated, these potions will be put on the shelves, and only this kind of potion will be sold for the time being.
The store must be well-known before it can consider purchasing other magic props.
Of course, Victor knew that once this consumable product was put on the shelves, it would definitely cause a frenzy.
So he told Liya not to sell all of them, and limit the number to fifty bottles a day.
Hungry marketing.
Liya herself is a businessman, and she can understand things at a glance.
At the college, Victor was not idle either. On the one hand, he was thinking about the topic of the lecture, and on the other hand, he made a decision.
Every time he taught a class, he would let Heni sit in on the side.
In the name of absorbing experience.
Erica would come to his office every night, often with many questions to ask, and more and more frequently.
Although Victor was a little bored, Vega answered them one by one without getting tired of it.
In order to prevent Vega from chattering in his mind all the time, he had to convey everything to Erica.
By the way, he could also make up for his magic knowledge with Vega.
After secretly studying with Vega, he realized that Erica was really a genius.
He couldn't understand Vega's awkward and complicated content at all, but Erica could teach him.
Even at this level, she seemed to have countless questions waiting to be answered.
Victor couldn't help but sigh.
For a talented and hardworking student like Erica, who else would be the first in the exam?
Everything was going smoothly, and soon, it was the sixth day he and Gwen agreed on.
Heni followed behind Victor quietly, and today she would still follow Professor Victor to audit.
She didn't quite understand why Professor Victor asked her to audit, because it was obviously the course she wrote.
Until the two walked to the door, she finally understood Professor Victor's intention these days.
"Today, I want you to go in by yourself and use your knowledge to teach a class for the students in this class."
Heni: "???"