Chapter 260 Encounter at the Wharf

"Edward, wait a minute...Edward?"

Qiao An chased after two steps, and found that the other party had no intention of turning back, but accelerated his pace instead, so he had to give up chasing.

Joan stood on the sidelines, with complicated emotions, watching Edward's back quickly go away, and hurriedly left the swordsmanship gym as if fleeing.

Recalling the encounter just now, he felt very uncomfortable.

It turns out that Thomas has a deeper opinion of Edward than he does.

Edward's attitude has indeed changed significantly.

The root cause of this change is that Joan's mage level has been raised to the same level as him.

Qiao An was dazed for a long time, but still couldn't figure out why Edward had such a strong sense of competition.

This has gone beyond the category of being competitive, almost a kind of pathology.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply breathed a sigh of relief, gave up trying to understand the other party's mentality, and tried his best to get rid of the confusion Edward brought to him.

Lifting the rapier, he turned around to face the human-shaped sword target standing against the wall, and stabbed out with his sword.

...

Just a week after Joan was promoted to a level 3 mage, Thomas Chap finally fulfilled his boast, successfully broke through the bottleneck of practice, and became the third level 3 mage under Master Rawls.

It was already June 29th, and there was only one day left before the opening of the "Hunting Festival".

Although Thomas successfully upgraded, he didn't have enough time for him to learn 2nd-level spells.

Joan's situation is slightly better than Thomas'.

After a week of special research, he not only basically mastered the six 1st-level spells exchanged with Thomas, but also has some experience in the research of 2nd-level "invisibility", and the success rate of casting spells is no less than 50%.

Because 2nd-level spells are generally more difficult, it would take too much time and energy to specialize in them. With the same amount of time and energy, Joan can learn more and more practical 1st-level spells.

Considering that the hunting competition is imminent, there are not many days left for him to study spells. Except for "invisibility", Joan has not dabbled in other 2-level spells for the time being. After the hunting competition is over, he will free up energy to study 2-level spells systematically Not too late.

On June 30th, Friday, Joann found time to go to Yangbo Trading Company and bought two magic tools specially reserved for him by Mr. Havel - "Campfire Rosary" and "Endless Water Bag" .

The "campfire rosary" looks like a transparent glass bead the size of a pigeon egg. If you place it on the ground and chant the activation spell, it will turn into a pile of burning bonfires. It will burn for up to 8 hours. Warm glass beads. It takes another 8 hours to get fully magical and turn back into a campfire.

During the burning period, the "Campfire Rosary" does not need additional fuel, and it can maintain burning even on the snow, providing campers in the wild with a fire source for heating and baking food.

In addition, the "campfire rosary" has another advantage that is different from other open flames, and it does not produce smoke during the burning process.

When lighting a fire in a cave or indoors, you don't have to worry about choking people, and when you start a fire in the wild, you won't expose your whereabouts due to rising smoke and dust, attracting attacks from wild animals or bandits.

The "endless water bag" looks ordinary in appearance, and the black skin seems to be tanned from lizard or toad skin, with a soft and moist touch.

The water bag weighs about 1 pound and can be filled with pure water after four hours, with a maximum capacity of 16 pounds.

When the clear water in the skin bag is emptied, new moisture will be automatically generated in the following time.

After four hours of accumulation, the bladder can be refilled with 16 pounds of cool, purified water.

The total price of the two magic tools was 2,000 Gold Durga, which Mr. Havel sold to Joan at the purchase price, and he didn't earn a single copper coin.

The reason why Joan was willing to spend a lot of money to buy these two magic tools was not only because he was about to embark on a hunting trip in the wild and needed the "campfire rosary" and "endless water bag", but also because these two magic tools could only Manufactured with divine magic, Joan can't analyze the spell attached to it, and can't copy it by himself, so he can only buy it with money.

Since you have to buy it sooner or later, of course you can benefit from buying it early while you have money in hand.

In addition to buying the "Campfire Rosary" and "Endless Water Bag", Joan also repaid the 500 gold Dujia owed.

In this way, the 2,000 Gold Duga he earned by helping Rebecca make the "sedation bracelet" and the 500 Gold Duga he earned from removing spirits in the Snow Manor were all spent.

Looking at the shriveled purse, Joan felt lost.

Originally, he wasn't very keen on the hunting competition, he just wanted to help Thomas and the Tyndall brothers get enough team members, and he didn't expect to win any medals.

However, considering his financial situation that has become tight again, and considering that he has invested a large sum of money to purchase two magic tools for this hunting trip, Joan's mentality has also undergone a subtle change.

Now he feels that he should go all out and try his best to get good results.

If he can break into the top three, he can at least win a bonus of 1,000 Gold Durga, which is quite a considerable income for him.

...

At eight o'clock in the morning on July 1st, Joan and Thomas met with the Tyndale Brotherhood at the school gate.

All four of them had their bags on their backs and were ready for a long journey.

Thomas's personal servant, Bobby, specially brought four brave and strong hounds from home.

Everyone greeted each other and boarded the carriage of Chap's family one after another.

Bobby was in charge of driving, and the four very human hounds trotted all the way, closely following behind the carriage.

Just before nine o'clock, the carriage stopped near the pier.

Joan looked out through the car window, and there were carriages all around as far as the eye could see. Sometimes people got out of the carriages and walked towards the pier in groups.

Men and women are all wearing neat hunting clothes, carrying bows, crossbows, swords and even magic crystal guns, all dressed up for hunting.

Joan and the others got out of the car one after another, and followed the crowd to the pier.

A loud siren sounded from the opposite side of the trestle bridge, and a huge ship was slowly approaching. The main mast propped up the white sails fluttering in the wind. The towering bridge tower had six floors, like a grand hotel built on the deck.

"Look! That's the 'New World'! The largest magic crystal steam cruise ship in Leiden Harbor!"

"Wow! It's really big! It's like a castle floating on the sea!"

Qiao An heard familiar conversations behind her, and when she turned around, there were indeed three familiar faces.

"Sister Meow! Ah Chi! Teacher Benny! Good morning!"

Joan raised his voice to say hello, and at the same time waved repeatedly at the combination of Catwoman, White Ratman and Kobold in the opposite crowd, in order to attract the attention of the other party.

"Hey~ Isn't this Joan, what a coincidence!" Xiao Miao walked over with a smile, wagging her tail, "Are you going to Wild Boar Island to participate in the hunting competition?"

Qiao An nodded, and then introduced her companion to Xiao Miao and the others.

"Sister Meow, are you also going to participate in the hunting competition?"

Thomas chatted with Xiao Miao very familiarly.

"There are only three of you, and you don't have hunting dogs. You don't look like experienced hunters."

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