Chapter 100 Gift

"Ancient...dark...horror...when...the stars...he...awakens..."

In the slightly dark room, Claire was sitting at the desk, concentrating on studying the things in front of her.

It was a fragment of an ancient slate with strange relief characters engraved on it. The material was a gray-black rock with a slightly greasy metallic luster, which was very strange.

By the pale white magic candlelight, the girl's blue eyes were serious, looking at every tiny pattern on the stone slab with great concentration.

From time to time, he flipped through several thick tomes at hand, compared the contents of the severely yellowed pages, and tried to decipher the strange words on the stone tablets bit by bit.

Under the candlelight, the girl's long golden hair shone brightly, and her pair of lovely white pointed ears swayed slightly unconsciously, reflecting an alluring crystal luster.

After being separated from Anvis, the girl did not go to other schools to attend classes, nor did she go to some entertainment and social venues like some noble children to try to make more friends and develop her own connections.

Instead, he devoted all his time to studying various mysterious knowledge.

In the entrance examination, the girl's professional talent can only be considered above average. But the strange thing is that she has an incredible talent in mysticism.

When she was young, the old mage who took care of her noticed her talent.

Based on the idea of ​​​​research, the old mage opened up all kinds of books in his private library to the girl. He wanted to see how much the girl could learn in the end.

With the support of the mage, the girl has mastered a lot of knowledge about ancient history, magical languages, ancient creatures, etc. in the past few years.

All the relevant classics in the library have been read by her several times.

During this time, she even tried to independently decipher a small ancient magic spell carved on a clay tablet.

Although the effect was only to summon a weak magical tentacle creature, the mage was still shocked by the girl's talent.

"Meow--"

When Claire was studying the words on the slate attentively, a white shadow suddenly flashed past the window.

Hearing the sound, the girl looked up in confusion.

Appearing outside the raised wooden shutters was a snow-white cat with strangely blue eyes.

On its back, there was a small, bulging package tied to it.

Seeing the girl's sapphire-like eyes looking over, the cat raised its fluffy white front paws and patted the window glass with its tender flesh pads.

"Magic messenger?"

Looking at it with some confusion, Claire waved her hand, and the invisible magic turned into her palm, opened the inner crystal lattice window, and let in the cat that was spinning outside the window.

"Meow-"

Seeing the window open, the cat jumped lightly from the window to the table in front of Claire.

A pair of round blue eyes looked at the girl, tried hard to shake the package on his back, and gave a cute cry, signaling the girl to open it.

The girl stretched out her white fingertips and lightly tapped a silver-white emblem on the surface of the package that exuded faint magic waves.

The next moment, the package opened on its own, revealing a small black exquisite box.

After delivering the item to Claire, the white cat meowed again, turned its head and licked its fur, then turned and ran away along the window.

"Who sent this to me?"

Not feeling any malicious presence in the box, the girl stretched out her finger and lightly pressed on the mechanism in the center of the box.

Snapped--

The lid of the box slowly opened under the action of a mechanical spring, revealing a slender light silver ring with a blue gemstone embedded in it and a distinctly feminine style.

When the lid of the box is sensed to be opened, a recorded magical image is projected into the air.

It was a mini-sized Avis projection, only as big as a girl's palm. Wearing a white top hat and monocle, and a pure white magic dress, he gracefully bowed to the girl.

"I'm sorry to meet you again in this way."

"The ring is enchanted with the same detection secret method as that time. It can be activated by injecting spiritual power into the ring. There are three opportunities to use it every day."

"As a companion who has been on an adventure together, I hope to accept this small gift."

After all, this is your family's secret method. Is it okay to just give it to me?

Claire looked at little Anvis strangely, but didn't ask anything. After all, this is just a recorded image.

However, he seemed to sense the girl's doubts.

Above the lid of the box, the image of Anvis smiled softly. He turned his head slightly, looking at the girl's beautiful face with a somewhat puzzled look, and his blue eyes suddenly blinked at her.

"Although the secret technique cannot be leaked easily, I don't think you will report me to my family, right?"

After saying that, the projection flickered, gradually turning into light spots from bottom to top, floating in the air.

Claire was slightly startled when she saw the handsome and pale boy smiling and blinking in the scattered light spots like fireflies.

After a moment, the silence returned to the room, and the beautiful half-elf girl with blond hair smiled knowingly.

"Is this what it feels like to be a companion?"

………

Three days later, Anvis was browsing the information that Pekkala had given him, playing with a twelve-sided crystal that emitted emerald green light, and quietly thinking about the follow-up solution.

Eighty-four cursed lands, this is the number of mining areas Anvis finally obtained.

Among them, there are seven places that produce high-level cursed ores, twenty-two places that produce mid-level cursed ores, and the rest are low-level mining areas. There are a total of thirty-seven types of all ore samples.

This number is less than what Avis expected. After all, he was mentally prepared to obtain at least hundreds of cursed land samples.

But after thinking about it, Avis was relieved.

Although the humans on the Yar continent claim to have unified the entire continent, the actual range of human activities actually only accounts for about 35% of the continent's area.

The remaining 65% of the area is covered by extreme environments such as dangerous primeval forests, ancient and steep mountains, and swamps filled with poisonous miasma.

Because of this, although the area of ​​the Yar continent is almost twice the size of the continent where Avis lived in his previous life. But the White Rose Chamber of Commerce Alliance can actually get the cursed land locations, which are not too many.

Of course, Avis is sure that in those undeveloped areas where few people go, there are definitely many secret mining areas of many forces.

After his preliminary testing, he found that the curse of eight types of ores, including the Blood Curse Ore, was not caused by radioactivity, but by some other negative magical effects.

After excluding the cursed places that produced these ores, there are still sixty-seven mining areas that are confirmed to produce radioactive cursed ores.

Today, Pigeon went to attend an offline online writer seminar, Gu——

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