Chapter 558 - Cats and Cats (2/2)

After the door was closed, the Great Elder chuckled and slightly shook his head, before he continued his work.

About half an hour later, someone knocked at the door.

”Come in.”

A young Mage pushed open the door and walked in. He was smiling and looked very sunny and delighted.

He walked straight to the Great Elder and bowed. He then said cheerfully, ”Great Elder, I'm here to apply for the spell model of Language Proficiency. I'm told that Roland already submitted it to the Red Magic Tower a while back. I want to learn it.”

”The modified model of Language Proficiency is indeed much simpler. You can learn it.” The Great Elder nodded. ”However, you will only be able to hear and speak, not read or write, at your current level.”

”Okay.” The young man smiled and said, ”Then I'll work harder and try to get to the bottom of this spell next year.”

Hearing that, the Great Elder slightly raised his head and said to the young man, ”Jared, I've heard a lot about you. You're good at socialization and leadership You're quite talented in magic too. It seems that you have balanced your social life and magic studies well.”

The young man nodded and accepted the Great Elder's compliment confidently.

He believed that he deserved the compliment.

”But that's not very good.” The Great Elder slightly shook his head.

Jared was briefly stunned.

”In the end, strength is what matters to a Mage,” said the Great Elder casually. ”Any social connections will be brittle in front of absolute strength. Mages have to be steady and mysterious. You don't have to be loyal to anyone except magic.”

Jared was stunned.

He was the kind of person who was good at socializing and believed that socializing was of great help to his career as a Mage. Also, since he began to study magic, his social connections had helped him a lot in the acquisition of magic resources.

Seeing that Jared was stunned, the Great Elder continued, ”In that regard, you must learn from Roland. You need to be as steady, self-restrained, smart, and always eager to study as him.”

Jared's smiling face became solemner. He nodded, showing that he had accepted the Great Elder's advice.

”Very good. This is the spell model you asked for.” The Great Elder gave a parchment to Jared. ”Don't care so much about socializing in the future, and don't smile every day. A Mage has to be self-contained, got it?”

Jared nodded again.

Then, the Great Elder waved his hand and dismissed the visitor.

After leaving the room, Jared opened the parchment. Looking at the dense and patterned nodes on the parchment, he couldn't help but feel that those nodes were really beautiful.

”Is this the Language Proficiency that Roland has simplified?” Jared's eyes glowed. ”Impressive. The Great Elder was right. I truly have to learn from him to be an orthodox Mage. I'm older than he is, yet I'm far less skilled than him. My social connections have wasted too much of my time. From today on, I'll reduce my participation in unnecessary social gatherings.”

Roland had no idea that a decent young man had set him as an example thanks to the persuasion of the Great Elder, who clearly had double standards.

He was simply confused at the messy yard before his eyes.

”I remember that everything looked well before I left. Why is it such a mess now?”

There had been a flat lawn in the manor, which was clean and beautiful.

However, some parts of the lawn had been replaced by pits and clods.

As a result, the whole manor looked hideous.

A few servants were standing nearby. One of them said timidly, ”Master, a Mage just came from outside and had a fight with Miss Marilyn. This is the result of their fight.”

Huh?

Roland was rather surprised. Everybody in the Red Magic Tower knew that Marilyn was his ”slave.” Even the Elders had been showing her some respect. Why would anyone come to fight him?

Did the catgirl do anything terrible?

”Where are they right now?”

All the servants shook their heads.

Thinking for a moment, Roland took a stick out of his system Backpack. He was about to locate Marilyn with Lesser Benediction, when Marilyn suddenly jumped over the wall and landed steadily.

Upon seeing Roland, she ran to him and shouted, ”Master, help! Someone wants to catch me! Meow!”

Roland felt a headache coming on. He wasn't convinced by the catgirl; she didn't have the fear and desperation of someone being hunted on her face even though she looked anxious.

There was more fury than fear on her face.

The catgirl ran to Roland and hid behind him.

Then, another person jumped over the wall agilely.

The stranger was wearing a magic robe with a pair of black cat ears and a long cat tail.

She seemed both cute and somewhat domineering.

She was another catgirl.

After she jumped in, she walked straight to Roland.

”Sell your cat to me.”