Chapter 32 Mary's Desire

evening.

Alchemy room in the east tower.

A quill is dancing in the air.

The jet-black tail feathers appear at first glance to come from the tips of a crow's wings.

But the feathers of ordinary crows are obviously not so long, and each feather is so upright and symmetrical.

If you look closely, the tips of these feathers seem to be twinkling with starlight.

Luxurious and mysterious.

The stage that matches this pen is an old book with dry and yellowed pages.

The book also floats in the air, dancing to the quill.

Such a gorgeous "dance" is pleasing to the eye just by watching it.

Unfortunately, neither of the two people in the room paid attention to this splendid performance.

"Vera, Mary often does this...'sleep'...is it okay?"

The chief of the Wolf School glanced at the "sleeping" girl lying on the table and couldn't help asking.

"It'll be fine," the sorceress looked unhappy. She glanced at Mary and explained, "This is good for her. It can increase her resistance to sleep and mind spells."

"Is this how all you sorceresses improve your strength?" Soi couldn't help but ask.

He and Vera had known each other since childhood.

When she was 8 years old, Vera was taken away by a warlock.

It was at the age of 10 that he, full of passion and unwilling to listen to any dissuasion, embarked on his own road to glory.

When the two met again, they were both in their thirties or forties, and each had made a name for themselves.

After knowing each other for hundreds of years, it was the first time that Soi discovered that although they had a close relationship, he seemed to have never understood Vera's apprenticeship life.

"We're not that close."

"Besides, there's nothing much to say about my apprenticeship."

Soi doesn't care about Vera's mind reading.

He lived an honest life and never did anything shameful.

What's more, the person who read his mind was his beloved.

After not seeing each other for ten years, he wanted to show her all the longing and love he had accumulated over the years.

I’m just afraid she hasn’t read enough, or deeply enough.

"Snapped"

The dance of the quill ends and the old book is closed.

The sorceress took the slowly falling experimental record and sighed.

She read his thoughts, but unfortunately...

"Soy, we can't go back to the past."

"Since I made the wrong choice at that time, my whole life seems to have been immersed in a vortex of guilt and regret."

The demon hunter instinctively took two steps closer and tried to explain:
"Vera, you know it's not our fault, and Aelin is alive and well now..."

"He didn't live well..." The sorceress interrupted the witcher and repeated, "Soi, he didn't live well..."

"Even without being a mind reader, I could sense his fear."

"Soy, he's afraid..."

"What hurts me most is that this is not the end of Ailin's suffering. His life is destined to be surrounded by blood and fire."

Vera's pupils trembled at the prophecy of Arryn's future.

The demon hunter wanted to get close to her, hug her, and warm her...

But the sorceress reacted quickly and took a step back to avoid it.

Seeing the witcher's actions, her expression suddenly turned cold.

"The Demon Hunter's Eye Experiment Record."

The yellowed book flew towards the witcher.

The sorceress crossed her arms and said coldly:

"I'm leaving now, you can go now."

The witcher opened his mouth to say something.

"Snapped"

A snap of the fingers.

The door to the alchemy room opened.

Soi tightly grasped the forged experimental record, glanced at the expressionless female surgeon with disappointment, and then walked out of the alchemy room.

"Wait a minute," the sorceress' voice came from behind. The witcher was instantly excited and turned around to look, thinking that their relationship had taken a turn for the better.

Unexpectedly, the sorceress's expression did not change at all: "Take good care of Ailin, otherwise you know the consequences."

"Don't worry, he is my child too." The demon hunter nodded seriously and promised. After calming down his depressed mood, he left the alchemy room.

……

After returning from hunting with Vesemir, Arryn walked to the alchemy room to get his dinner.

On the way to the south tower, he thought he could see the sorceress again.

After knocking on the door of the alchemy room, he regretfully discovered that the sorceress had opened the portal and left just a few minutes before he arrived.

"Witcher Apprentice, what is your relationship with Ms. Vera?"

"How did you please her?"

Mary was holding the water bag, and the pink bump on her forehead was full of curiosity.

She has been learning magic from Ms. Vera for five or six years.

Beautiful, cold, decisive...

There are many adjectives that can be used to describe Ms. Vera, but gentle and selfless are not them.

Before coming to Kaer Morhen, the girl Mary had never seen Lady Vera teach.

Even Mary herself, the most outstanding and promising sorceress apprentice selected by Lady Vera from the Aretuza Sorceress Academy, had never attended Vera's class.

After the sorceress accepted her as her apprentice, she only gave Mary a list of books and asked her to study on her own.

Of course, this knowledge itself is valuable, and many books are only available from Ms. Vera.

Mary was originally very satisfied.

Until she met Ailin.

If the sorceress could teach her a lesson like she did to Arryn, Mary would be so happy that she would laugh out loud in her dreams.

But the cold, beautiful and knowledgeable Ms. Vera actually taught alchemy to Ailin, the witcher apprentice, for ten days.

Incredible, incomprehensible.

“Investors and investees?”

Ailin asked back somewhat uncertainly.

Of course, he would not tell Mary about the miracle child.

As for how to win people’s favor?

After thinking for a moment, Ailin realized that he had never done anything like this to please others.

The sorceress's kindness is always spontaneous.

"It seems you don't know either." Mary rubbed her forehead subconsciously and sighed.

So, how can we win the favor of Ms. Vera?

At least please remind Ms. Vera when casting the sleeping spell so that she can be prepared!

After a few days, Mary felt that her skull was about to be deformed.

Maybe it's because of the Wolf School Chief? Mary thought.

She then handed the water bag to the witcher apprentice.

After taking the water bag, Ailin thanked the absent-minded Mary and left the alchemy room.

……

After returning to the apprentice dormitory, Ailin, as usual, taught the apprentices the tricks of using seals.

However, because he had something on his mind, Ailin was a little absent-minded.

In order to improve hunting efficiency, the time spent searching for water ghosts must be reduced.

Ailin had actually acquired this method a long time ago.

【Name: Water Ghost Whistle】

【Type: Bait Flute】

[Function: Blowing the water ghost whistle can make a whistle sound to attract water ghosts to gather]

【Note: Demon Hunter + Water Ghost Whistle =? 】

Of course, a demon hunter plus a water ghost whistle means killing indiscriminately.

But this is something you get from a treasure chest, so you must avoid Vesemir...

"We must avoid Vesemir... avoid Viser..."

A faint flash of inspiration passed by, and Ailin seemed to have grasped something, muttering thoughtfully and repeating it.

wrong!

Why did I have to avoid Vesemir?
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