Victor was sitting in the carriage waiting for the servant's notification, but he heard Vega's low chattering voice in his ears.
"Are you interested in that extinct volcano?"
The one-eyed crow was combing its shiny feathers again. Perhaps its body was too fat, and its beak could not reach the back.
Victor glanced at Vega.
"How did you find out?"
Vega raised his head and said confidently.
"Otherwise you wouldn't have come to see this fiancée."
Victor ignored him, which was considered as his consent.
After a while, Victor still had his patience, but Vega couldn't help it anymore.
"Why hasn't anyone come to call us in?"
The sound of flipping pages stopped, 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, then said hoarsely, "Dress up beautifully and meet in the most exquisite manner?"
"I understand. She put on makeup just to see you coming! And you were waiting for her patiently."
"Wrong, she would just think that this kind of person is sick and makes her feel annoyed."
Victor denied it expressionlessly, but it was obvious that the crow was a little dissatisfied.
"Why? I've seen that in all those vernacular novels, it's written like this. Don't you understand women?"
"You don't understand Gwen."
Victor turned his head and looked towards the courtyard gate of the Delin family.
This holy knight has never considered himself as a 'woman'.
Well, actually Victor himself doesn't quite understand Gwen now.
However, he thought that Gwen should hate him during this period of time.
After all, no woman would like a man who has a sour face every day, is petty, and even does all kinds of bad things.
I'm afraid that this relationship of an engaged couple will remain a stain on Knight Gwen's life until the very end.
So after Victor died, she never married.
"Get ready, we should go in."
He lowered his head and reminded the crow on his shoulder. The crow quickly put on an "I'm just a pet" look and stood 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 out of the carriage and was led by a maid through the gate to the meeting room.
As he entered, he saw Gwen.
The other person was sitting on a soft sofa, not dressed up, wrapped in a tightly wrapped bathrobe, not revealing any skin.
It looked like she had just come out of the shower.
But she didn't need to dress up. In Victor's opinion, even if she was without makeup, this exquisite and perfect face was enough to capture any man.
"What are you doing here so late?"
Gwen's tone was neither warm nor cold, and there was a hint of distance in it.
Victor unceremoniously sat opposite her and spoke in the same calm tone, getting straight to the point.
"I heard that you were going on a mission and wouldn't be back for half a month."
Gwen didn't wonder where he heard it from, but nodded honestly.
"Yes, we'll leave in a week."
"Can you take me with you?"
Gwen: "…"
When she heard this, her reaction was a little... subtle.
She was a little confused at first, then she frowned, as if she was confirming something again and again.
Finally, she leaned back, an expression of disbelief gradually appearing on her face.
Gwen put her hand to her forehead, lowered her head, and asked again.
"Repeat what you just said."
"Can you take me with you?"
Without hesitation, Victor repeated.
"Hu..."
Gwen let out a sigh of relief. She always felt that the other person had a broken brain.
"Why?"
"I can't take you with me without a good reason."
Victor: "I know the terrain of the surrounding mountains very well, including the weaknesses of the monsters scattered around. If you take me with you, you will only need seven days to return, including the round trip."
Gwen didn't even raise her eyes when she heard his words, and it was unclear whether she was considering Victor's value or just didn't care.
Victor wanted to say something to raise his own value in Gwen's eyes, but Gwen spoke first to stop him.
"What I want is the truth."
Victor's eyes turned colder, and he looked at Gwen and said slowly: "...You used your ability on me."
As a born righteous knight, Gwen Delin has displayed his unique talents since childhood.
She has a righteous heart.
As long as she wanted to, she could clearly tell whether the other person was lying or not.
Gwen can control this ability freely, so she will not use her ability when it is not necessary.
However, she did not believe Victor.
Victor did not feel particularly angry, but rather somewhat surprised.
Because this indirectly proves how much Gwen hates 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 have any further explanation.
Suddenly, Victor smiled with relief.
He thought for a moment, then resumed:
"There is a kind of monster in Mount Vesuvius that produces a unique crystal. I need that thing to make magic items."
After saying this, a strong desire was revealed in Victor's eyes.
[First-level magic: self-suggestion]
Effect: Give yourself hypnotic suggestion, which can randomly increase any ability by 1 level within a period of time.
It's easy to deal with Gwen's righteousness. He just needs to tell the truth.
Even if this truth was made up on the spot, as long as Victor himself believed it, it was the truth.
The mage also has his own means, which are flexible morality and wise mind.
Gwen finally looked up at Victor.
"It seems that you do know about that volcano, otherwise you wouldn't say such a thing."
"In order to achieve your goals, you can even use the Royal Knights as your guard."
"As expected of you, selfish Victor."
Victor didn't put on a poker face for the first time in a long time, and smiled and nodded.
"I took this as a compliment."
Gwen would never doubt Victor from a selfish perspective, because that's just the kind of person he is.
She also knew that Victor would only pester her more in order to achieve his goal.
In that case, you might as well agree to it.
"I will apply for a traveling wizard. You can come to see me on the same day."
Seeing Gwen agreed, Victor smiled and said in return: "Thank you, Knight Gwen, for your selfless help even for someone as selfish as me."
"I will arrange everything within this week, so there is no need to send it anymore."
After that, Victor stood up and left.
Gwen nodded and watched him leave.
However, the smiling face of Victor when he complimented her could not be erased from her mind for a long time.
Victor, have you ever laughed like that?
Back in the carriage, Victor leaned calmly on the seat, his dark eyes staring at something unknown.
"Are you angry?"
Crow asked suspiciously.
"What makes you think that?"
Vega: "I've seen your poker face for a long time. It's just my intuition."
"You can't smile as brightly as a daisy if you don't have any big emotions."
angry?
Hearing its words, Victor thought about it for a moment.
Maybe the education he was born with made him want to be a good person, but he was called selfish by the other party's righteous words.
The only way to gain that person's approval is to pretend to be what she thinks he is.
Not to the point of being angry.
It just made him feel a little nauseous.
.....
These days, Victor teaches at the academy during the day and studies magic potions in the basement at night.
As long as there are enough materials, he can make about a hundred bottles every day, and then give them all to Leah to sell.
Leah said that when the store is renovated, the potions will be on the shelves, and for the time being, only this type of potion will be sold.
You have to build up your store's reputation before you can consider purchasing other magic items.
Of course, Victor knew that once this kind of consumable was put on the shelves, it would definitely cause a frenzy of buying.
So he told Leah not to sell them all and limit the number to fifty bottles a day.
Hunger marketing.
Leah is a businessman herself and she understands things quickly.
At the college, Victor was also busy. 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 class.
It is called absorbing experience.
Erica came to his office every night, often with many questions, and her frequency increased.
Although Victor was a little annoyed, Vega patiently answered his questions one by one.
In order to prevent Vega from chattering in his mind all the time, he had to convey everything to Erica.
By the way, he can 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 any of Vega's difficult and complicated content, but he learned it as soon as Erica taught him.
Even at this point, she seemed to have countless questions waiting to be asked and answered.
Victor couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
For a student as talented and hardworking as Erica, if she doesn't get first place in the exam, who will?
Everything was going smoothly, and soon it was the sixth day as agreed between him and Gwen.
Heni followed Victor quietly. Today she would still follow Professor Victor and listen to his lectures.
She didn't quite understand why Professor Victor let her audit the course, since it was clearly the course she wrote.
It was not until they reached the door that she finally understood Professor Victor's intentions over the past few days.
"Today, I want you to go in by yourself and use your knowledge to teach a lesson to the students in this class."
Heni: "???"