422 The Golden Sons are Getting More and More Influential (2/2)
”I can teach you.” Susie sat down on the bed. As she leaned back, her long, straight legs were crossed and fully revealed before Roland's eyes. ”But you have to find me another set of elemental cores.”
”That's at least sixty gold coins.” Roland clicked his tongue. ”Your tuition fee is really high.”
”High as it may be, you still have to learn the language.” Susie seemed determined to rip Roland off. ”You can always learn it from someone else, or give up the prospect of being an Elemental Lord.”
Roland stared Susie in the eye. ”You want to be an Elemental Lord too?”
”I'm a Sword Dancer,” Susie said matter-of-factly. ”The Elemental Lord is also known as a Sword Dancer among the elves. You think I'm not interested in that?”
Roland smiled and took the book from Susie's hand. He then snapped his finger and cast Language Proficiency on himself.
The drows could cast spells too, so Susie recognized what Roland had just cast easily.
She jumped to her feet in shock. ”You're capable of this spell?”
”Is it strange?” Roland looked at her.
Susie sighed and lay on the bed in disappointment, her arms and legs stretched out. With her messy and revealing clothes, she couldn't be more inviting.
Roland moved his eyes away. He had seen this too often from Andonara, and he had gained enough resistance.
Besides, Susie wasn't as beautiful as Andonara, and her body and her vibe weren't as good either.
The only aspect in which she dwarfed Andonara was her wildness.
Some people liked wild girls, but some didn't.
Roland was one of the neutral people who appreciated such girls but weren't crazy about them.
While turning the pages, Roland asked, ”It's just sixty gold coins. I'm sure you can gather them yourself, can't you?”
”Just sixty gold coins?” Susie turned her body around. ”That's sixty gold coins! Did you know that this manor only cost me thirty gold coins in total? I've never had savings of more than twenty gold coins. Sixty gold coins is something that only the big nobles and magnates can take out casually.”
”But you charged sixty gold coins for teaching me Ancient Elvish?”
”That's Ancient Elvish that few people in the world can understand! I spent forty years learning it,” Susie shouted in discontent.
”It's just an unpopular language,” Roland remarked unconcernedly. ”It's only of some historical and archaeological significance. I don't think it's a big deal.”
”You're too pragmatic. The fluency in Ancient Elvish shows that you are a man of knowledge and depth.” Susie lay back on the bed again. ”But all the good Mages are just like you.”
Roland thought for a moment and said, ”While I don't need you to teach me Ancient Elvish, you can teach me other things.”
”I don't think there's anything else I can teach you.”
”What about the tricks in enchantment?”
Susie was briefly stunned. ”The tricks of enchantment I know are not worth sixty gold coins.”
”What do you know?”
”A lot. But all the tricks are rudimentary.” Susie thought for a moment and said, ”I can teach all of them to you, but they're worth a dozen gold coins at most.”
Enchantment was very important for Mages, but few human beings were capable of it.
Roland could hardly find a teacher to learn it.
The drows were naturally capable of enchantment, although some knew more tricks than the rest.
Now that he had come across a drow, he might as well learn it first.
”After I return to the human world, I can try to gather a set of elemental cores for you, and you will teach me the tricks of enchantment to me in exchange.” Roland thought a moment and said, ”In the meantime, you will owe me a favor. I may ask you to do something for me when I need you.”
The drow looked at Roland in disbelief. ”You're so generous? That's a price difference of more than forty gold coins.”
”Sometimes, a favor is more valuable than that.”
Susie laughed after hearing that. ”You have faith in a favor promised by a drow?”
”I have faith in the credit of the elves,” Roland explained. ”You're in elf territory, but none of the elves come to you for trouble. So, you must have qualities to make them trust you.”
Susie smiled, helplessness shining through her smooth, dark face. ”Do you have to be so smart?”
”I'll go back.” Roland put the book back into the suitcase and closed the suitcase. He grabbed it and said, ”I'll come back to you after I gather the elemental cores.”
Sitting on the bed, Susie hummed a response.
Roland teleported himself back to Delpon from Ill. He instantly released another mission for a set of elemental cores at the Guild of Mercenaries.
Though Susie claimed that her tricks were cheap, enchantment was really invaluable in the human world, because there was nowhere to learn it.
Besides, Roland could build big data models for the enchantment tricks he learned. The more he learned, the more patterns he would find.
With enough data, he would be able to infer a lot of things.
At this moment, Roland had almost completely cracked the mystery of the magic arrays.
Thanks to the exam-oriented education he received in his previous life, he was best at analyzing math problems and inferring the solution to these problems when he had their answers.
After he arrived at the Magic Tower from the Guild of Mercenaries, Vivian immediately came to him and said, ”We've received a message that Chairman Tobian is dead. The headquarters do not have a leader now. All the branch chairmen are being summoned. On the tenth of next month, a new General Chairman will be elected.”
”Was he killed by his bastard son?”
”No.” Vivian shook her head. ”According to our intelligence, he was killed by five Golden Sons.”