My Magic Age

In the blink of an eye, this sunny summer passed by unknowingly.

After school starts, sixteen-year-old Tracy will have her coming-of-age ceremony.

Recently, Fanny is preparing a dress for Tracy to wear after the coming-of-age ceremony. Fanny thinks that Tracy's waist is not thin enough and not soft enough. She has been using a girdle recently, which makes Tracy sigh about the food on the table every day. For those evening dresses, Tracy prefers exquisitely made leather armor, which looks quite heroic. In recent years, many girls choose to wear leather armor, short skirts, and long leather boots at the dance, showing their round and straight long legs, and they don't have to worry about their waists not being thin enough. This kind of dress is far more popular with girls than traditional dresses.

In fact, Tracy still wants a piece of exquisite leather armor in her heart. I am probably the only one who understands her little thoughts.

I took the high-grade leather with scales of the two-headed fire lizard to the leather shop, and wanted to ask the leather craftsman to cut out a set of exquisite female leather armor according to Tracy's figure, and wanted to give it to her as a gift for Tracy's coming-of-age ceremony.

Faced with this extremely rare two-headed fire lizard skin, any leather craftsman could not resist the temptation of that high-grade leather. He has been trying to convince me that it would be a pity not to ask the inscriptionist to make magic pattern construction on such a good piece of leather. If I don't plan to draw inscriptions on the leather, he really wants to leave space for engraving inscriptions on the leather armor when making leather armor.

If I am willing to give up this leather, he is willing to exchange it with me for exquisite fire lizard or manticore leather armor, and he can give me some magic crystals for the remaining difference. I politely declined him.

In the city of El, there are no more than three inscriptionists who can draw magic patterns on leather armor. It is said that each magic pattern structure is extremely complicated to make. It takes at least one or two weeks to make a magic pattern structure. The production cost is definitely not affordable for ordinary wealthy families. An ordinary noble family needs to use several years of savings to make a magic pattern structure.

For an ordinary noble family, the property is calculated in several aspects: real estate, land, gold coins and magic pattern structures. From this, we can see the value of a magic pattern structure.

The reason why I made a whole set of fire snake lizard leather armor without engraving magic patterns is not only because it is too expensive to ask an inscriptionist to engrave the magic pattern array, but also because I hope that one day in the future, I can also draw a magic pattern array with my signature on it. In addition, the manufacturing cycle is not in time. I want to give the leather armor to Tracy before the coming-of-age ceremony. However, the leather armor must be engraved with inscriptions in the future. Such precious leather is absolutely a waste of resources if it is not made into a magic pattern structure.

But Tracy was still kept in the dark about all this.

Tracy has become very idle recently. There are only empty spaces in the schedule of Stans School. Many classmates are participating in outdoor training activities. They all write letters to Tracy. Sometimes she sits on the roof of the attic and reads interesting stories in the jungle with me, but she is unwilling to share the love letters sent back by Arendt with me. Girls always want to have a little private space of their own.

Now she is a ninth-level warrior apprentice and can vaguely feel the existence of "qi" in her body. Arendt said that Tracy just lacks a little bit of luck. She needs to lift the veil in front of her and enter the realm of real swordsmen. She is about to graduate, but she is also lingering outside the door of real swordsmen, just one step away from taking the last step into the door.

Tracy found a job in a jewelry store on the central street of the city, and she began to plan her dowry.

I suddenly had a feeling that the girl Tracy, who was a little willful and paranoid, suddenly grew up overnight, and she seemed to understand a lot of truths.

From the hatred at the beginning, it was probably because she thought I shared Fanny and Ryan's love for her. Later, it became indifference and alienation. She knew that I was destined to marry her when I grew up. The inability to change and shame made her alienate me during her teenage years, and she was even unwilling to introduce my existence to her friends.

Later, she gradually got used to and accepted it. She probably thought that I would need to join the army after the coming-of-age ceremony, and if I could come back alive, she would marry her. She was full of sympathy for my fate.

Until the early spring, I became a magic apprentice. Tracy thought that I didn't have to be cannon fodder on the battlefield. The invisible pressure disappeared all of a sudden, so we cleared up the past grudges. After a period of confusion, we have found our place in life. The relationship is purely a sister and a brother. Now Tracy prefers to share the secrets in her heart with me.

She likes to lie lazily on my bed and read books when I draw magic scrolls. Her room has only one window. In such a hot summer, it is not as cool as my room. Occasionally, she will help me wash socks. Only then do I feel that she is like my sister.

When Tracy is bored, he likes to fight with Minotaur Luka in the yard. The rapier is better than Luka's mallet in terms of skill control, but Luka needs to be careful. His strength has been increasing recently. Sometimes he can't control his strength well and accidentally knock Tracy to the ground.

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Squatting in the yard mowing the lawn, I really want to replace the scissors in my hand with Tracy's rapier, because that way my work efficiency will be much higher. Every time I swing the scissors, the air will be filled with the fragrance of grass. I find that I really like working under such a scorching sun. The feeling of sweating profusely is really long-lost.

From a distance, I saw Anne walking down the street, her long red hair flying in the wind, like a burning flame when blown by the wind. At this time, the beautiful face of a girl with extremely gentle red eyes always appeared in my mind—Katarina. There has been no response to the letter written to Qi Ge, and I don’t know how they are doing in the imperial capital.

It turned out that before the start of school, Anne came back from the mountain city in a dusty manner. Her salamander leather armor was already covered with scars. Maybe she should take it to the leather shop to repair it. She was carrying a very large backpack. It seemed that she had gained a lot during this period of time in the mountain city. And her aura has changed. I can clearly feel the strong fire element around her body.

Annie's plump figure is extremely hot. When she walked towards me, she seemed to be wrapped in a layer of dancing flames. Unlike her charming body, there is a kind of cold flame hidden in her eyes. Her eyes have a strong sense of oppression. I always feel that she can see my heart at a glance.

Annie did not complain more about my sudden departure in Shancheng when she came back. Instead, she asked me to sit under the lemon tree in her yard for a while, and took out the letter sent by Su from the imperial capital to share this light joy with me.

Some words are always on the tip of my tongue, but I can't say them. Looking at the water element spirit of Sister Guoguo standing in the yard and curiously looking at the light blue flowers in the flowerbed, I don't know how to say it to Annie.

"My teacher wrote to me and asked me to go to Qiyan City to help her!" Annie said after a long silence. She raised her eyes and looked at me, and my thin figure was reflected in her clear eyes.

"That's a good thing. Maybe when we meet again, I will call you Commander Annie, or maybe General!" I put the teacup in my hand into the tea tray and said with a faint smile.

I thought: Annie is going to Qiyan City, Su will go to the imperial capital with Ying Li, and Sister Guoguo's yard may be completely idle. For Annie, this place may no longer have the taste of home.

Her mentor is Nancy, a very famous swordsman in El City. At the beginning of the year, she was appointed as the commander of the garrison in Qiyan City by the Green Empire military. I remember that the War Soul Team went to the south specifically to help Nancy complete some secret tasks as a confidant. Unexpectedly, Annie returned to El City for less than three months, and the invitation letter from Qiyan City was sent.

Anne avoided my gaze bitterly, sighed and said, "That's fine!"

Standing up from the chair, Anne placed her hands on the wooden fence, her eyes became as bright as the night stars, and her tone suddenly became very firm, saying, "I can finally realize my dream. I always think that the uniform in the military camp looks good. Well, maybe that's why I agreed to the instructor's request."

Her words seemed to be talking to me, and to herself.

"Annie, have you been promoted to a magic swordsman?" I asked her with some feeling.

Annie is very famous among the graduates of this year's Warrior Academy. She has fire magic elements in her body, and can use special spells to make her sword moves have strong magic damage. After becoming a warrior, she awakens some magic talents without a magic pool in her body. Such warriors may become magic swordsmen, but it is not absolute.

"Well, I have to go to the Warrior Guild tomorrow to go through the routine procedures." Annie answered calmly. She looked at her right arm intently. A hot fire element suddenly surged out of her body, and the whole arm was wrapped in a flame. She finally realized her own "qi" in the meridians in her body, and it seemed that she now knew how to use this qi to drive the fire element to run along a certain magic pattern array in her body, and then form a hot flame.

Annie really did it, so at this moment she has successfully advanced.

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The magic grocery store has been doing very well recently, and the demand for magic parchment has also been increasing. I guess Marvin has already visited all the papermaking workshops around El City, and no papermaking workshop is willing to sell me the scraps of magic parchment. The quality of magic parchment made in local papermaking workshops is still much better than the magic parchment brought down from the Pai Plateau by merchants, but the price is also more expensive, so Marvin began to gradually contact those merchants returning from the orc tribe. There are always bundles of magic parchment on the backs of their thunder rhinos, and the price is 20% lower than the parchment in the El City market.

I had to buy those blank magic papers for drawing ordinary scrolls, which slightly increased the cost of the ‘Fire Gathering Scroll’ and the ‘Frost Scroll’.

Marvin was a man who liked to be thrifty. He soaked the magic parchment he had purchased in the juice of white ring vine for a day and a night to repair the quality problems of the parchment. Then he asked young craftsmen to cut the magic parchment into suitable sizes for drawing ordinary magic scrolls. This job did not require very strict skills, and young leather craftsmen were more than capable of doing it.

Marvin used the cut blank magic paper for drawing ordinary scrolls and sold it at the cost price of magic parchment. Such a cheap price made the paper merchants in El City crazy. After a long period of negotiation, he adjusted the price and promised that the grocery store would accept the orders of the paper merchants, which calmed the anger of the paper merchants who surrounded the city hall.

But after this happened, it seemed that the blank magic paper of the magic grocery store became popular overnight. Later, Marvin excitedly told me that he bought rough magic parchment and processed it into blank scroll magic paper. After selling it, there was a small profit surplus.

In fact, the reason why Marvin went to such great lengths to do the business of blank magic scroll paper was very simple. He just wanted to provide me with some scraps of magic parchment for free. After producing those blank magic papers, there would be a lot of scraps of magic paper left. It was much easier to use these scraps to make palm-sized magic scrolls of fire gathering than to buy scraps from various papermaking workshops.

In this way, Marvin and I accidentally gained another profitable business. At the same time, my Fire Gathering Scrolls had a free and stable supply, and the quality of the magic parchment I needed became very stable.

Every day, I need to draw those "Fire Gathering Scrolls" continuously until the magic power is exhausted, then quickly meditate, and then continue to draw magic scrolls. Now I am even proficient enough to successfully draw magic scrolls while chatting with Tracy. Doing the same thing over and over again all day long, life is sometimes boring. Unknowingly, in this month, as a fifth-level magic apprentice, the capacity of the magic pool in my body has reached a bottleneck state, and I have unknowingly reached the peak state of a fifth-level magic apprentice. It is possible to be promoted to a sixth-level magic apprentice at any time.

Originally, I thought that after the summer vacation, the demand for "Fire Gathering Scrolls" would decrease, but in fact, it has increased.

In the first two months, I only needed to draw fifty "fire gathering scrolls" to meet the needs of the magic grocery store, but in the summer vacation, I had to draw at least fifty fire gathering scrolls almost every night. The reason is nothing more than two words "winter storage".

After the start of school, after the graduation ceremony of the graduates in the academy, it means that autumn has arrived, and winter is not far away. The barbarians hiding in the snowy tundra north of the Galloping Horse River will take advantage of the long winter to hunt slaves.

The people of El City must prepare enough food and heating fuel before winter comes, so that they can spend a long winter safely.