Throne Steps

Noah did not separate from Li Chen immediately, in fact, he came here specifically to find Li Chen.It's just that on the way to Li Chen's dormitory, he found the kid and the group of little soldiers talking together, so he turned over directly.

Li Chen watched him follow all the way to the dormitory, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the matter?"

"That's right." Noah smiled, followed into the door, and put the bag in his hand on the dining table.Lichen's roommates were not there, so he probably ran to rob the laboratory.Since Pesa revised the assessment method of the "Dawn Conference", the standard line of practical ability of students in the Alchemy Department has become more specific.But being specific does not mean that it becomes easier. On the contrary, because the standard is comprehensive, it becomes more difficult to achieve.If the warrior department and the magic department had two long fights in the fifth and sixth grades, the alchemy department had to meet the standard step by step for two consecutive years, and if they made a mistake, it might affect the ranking.

They are only in the third grade now, and the little alchemists are already soaking in the laboratory from time to time. One can imagine how crazy they will be in the fourth grade.

"Hurry up and take a shower first, or the breakfast will be cold."

Li Chen pouted, but didn't argue with him any more.Just after morning exercise, there was a little wind again, and my whole body was cold and sticky, very uncomfortable.

Li Chen washed up quickly, and when he came out, his breakfast was still warm.Noah sat at the table bored and was practicing the compression of water droplets on his fingertips. When he saw Li Chen coming out and dissipating immediately, he pushed the breakfast in his direction: "Eat quickly."

Li Chen was too lazy to be polite with him, so he sat down and ate: "You are practicing stability."

"Hmm." Noah looked at his fingertips, "The recent practice doesn't show any effect, I think it's better to try from a solid foundation."

Li Chen nodded secretly. He is obviously in a bottleneck period, and he is right in thinking about relaxing the cornerstone of mental stability.However, what method Noah decides to take is his own business, and Li Chen does not intend to take the initiative to express his opinion.

He gnawed on his breakfast and asked indifferently, "What do you need from me?"

Noah didn't answer directly: "Where are you going?"

He was asking the question knowingly, [-]% of Li Chen was going to the furnace.Although Xiao En has graduated, she still has a lot of prestige. As her only hand-picked member and the only alchemist with good friendship, Li Chen is naturally resident in the laboratory she occupied at the beginning.In fact, they didn't say that others couldn't go, but the "Witch's Laboratory" was so famous that other members subconsciously wouldn't go there.

Sure enough, Li Chen didn't mingle with him: "The furnace."

Noah nodded: "I'll be with you, okay?"

Li Chen looked at him suspiciously: "You? Why are you in the laboratory?"

Noah said: "I thought about it, anyway, to consolidate the foundation, it is better to practice the speed of casting spells."

"so?"

"So, I want to see your technique, of course, without disturbing you." Noah smiled, "This way I can know in my heart."

Li Chen frowned.He is indeed good at casting spells quickly, but this is due to saving mana, so it may not be suitable for magic students with great mana talents.

"Noah, I didn't intend to express my opinion, but if you want to use me as a model..." Li Chen considered his words, "Objectively speaking, this may not be a good idea."

Noah shrugged: "There is no other way anyway, it's good to try your direction."

"Don't simply step on other people's footsteps, Noah." Li Chen is extremely sensitive to the matter of "imitation", "Besides, I and you come and go in different directions."

Noah saw Li Chen's solemn appearance of persuasion, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I know."

Li Chen wiped his mouth after breakfast, and spent some time thinking about Noah's affairs.He knew that since the "Nie Wen incident", Noah had been approaching him vaguely, but the recent movements were particularly obvious, almost to the point where people around him looked sideways from time to time.Li Chen is keen on interpersonal relationships, so of course he doesn't think that this means that children get along with whoever they play with a lot.Looking at Noah's performance, Li Chen felt that he was on the wrong team.

Wiggins is the flagpole, so it's better not to make mistakes in this image.

"Noah, we need to talk." Li Chen tapped on the table, "I'm not sure if I've judged something correctly, but it's always right to prevent problems before they happen."

Noah was helping him tidy up the table. Looking at this "little adult" looking serious and teaching, he smiled and said, "Say it."

Li Chen knew that Noah didn't take it seriously, and he didn't care.He just thinks that Noah is a rare person among civilians who has a peaceful personality, subtle observation and clear thinking, and has a certain political consciousness, so it is not a bad thing to pull him out.

Of course, this is also a secret way to win over.

"Think about it carefully." Li Chen looked at him with his chin propped on his right hand, "Are you on the wrong team somewhere?"

"Huh?" Noah didn't expect Li Chen to talk about such a topic when he opened his mouth. It was the first time that they talked about "political stance" so openly.Although Noah wanted to take care of Li Chen as a younger brother, he also understood that this villain had more opinions and was much more sensitive than himself, so he still seriously considered Li Chen's problem.

He started with the most recent: "Cervantes?"

Li Chen didn't answer him.The error rate of this character's team is really very low, basically at the same level as Belen.Except for Wiggins, a kid who still uses his personal likes and dislikes to express his views, he hasn't seen anyone who made a mistake.

Noah was obviously just asking for directions, and he continued to ask: "Shaluo? Kokolin? Or is it about your colleagues in the military department?"

Li Chen was noncommittal about these selections, and said: "It's not an external problem, but an internal problem. Let me tell you plainly, it's a problem between the few of us."

"Us?" Noah frowned when he heard this topic.He understood that Li Chen was referring to their group of four, and he could barely add Nie Wen.But they have been hanging around for several years, and their mutual impression and attitude have been relatively fixed, and Noah couldn't guess Li Chen's meaning for a while.

Seeing his bewildered look, Li Chen sighed inwardly. This was really difficult for Noah: "I am not the center of the group of four. Noah, you are on the wrong team."

Noah was taken aback.

Li Chen directly pointed out: "You should bet on Wiggins."

"Wiggins!" Noah did not hide his surprise, "But he is still so ignorant!"

Wiggins is indeed talented, but it's not enough.Not to mention that Wiggins still can't play his talent. From the perspective of thinking alone, Mills, who misjudged Nie Wen, is more sober than Wiggins. Why should Wiggins be the backbone?

"Yes, it's Wiggins." Li Chen stood up and collected the leftovers from earlier, "So, it doesn't matter if Mills and Nie Wen made a mistake; He pulls back, at least for now. Got it?"

Noah stared at his movements without answering.

Li Chen picked up the trash and said with a smile, "If you think about it carefully, you will figure it out."

Noah made a rare raised eyebrow expression, then nodded.He looked at the back of Li Chen standing up to throw out the trash, and suddenly laughed in a low voice: "But, I can always decide who I get close to."

Noah finally went to the furnace with Li Chen.There was no one in the furnace, and the corridor was mysteriously drowsy.If it were Sean the Witch's shoes, you'd get a kick-tap-tap echo here.

They accidentally ran into the president of the furnace around the corner.

"Ruisen, I also said I was looking for you." The president's family came from the largest chamber of commerce in Letia, which made his smile always have a commercial taste, "What a coincidence."

Li Chen didn't care about Noah standing beside him, and asked directly, "What's the matter?"

"Of course." The president glanced at Noah, without asking any questions, and said directly: "I think it would be more appropriate to hand over this year's script to you."

The play "Ash and White" from the previous year of the Furnace was only performed once, but Pessa's response was quite enthusiastic.It is full of "darkness", "evil" and "revenge" that are not familiar to the Raetians, and the emotional logic is smooth, which gives the theatergoers a rather straightforward sense of refreshment.Last year, when Xiao En was pulling Li Chen to work on the script, he continued the previous plot and copied "Sleep and Awakening" in a messy manner.

It is about the time of Baixue's daughter's first birthday, Cinderella's husband entrusts the necromancer to make trouble for revenge.A necromancer came to the birthday party and cast a necromantic curse on the baby girl - the little princess would die on her 16th birthday.In order to keep the secret of her daughter's identity as the cursed son, Bai Xue's husband killed all the guests who came to the banquet that day, and then sought medical treatment across the country.The light magician cracked death, but could not completely remove the curse, and the little princess fell into a deep sleep on her 16th birthday. After 100 years, she woke up, but the king was overthrown due to tyranny.The princess had no choice but to marry a farmer while living among the people.When she was pregnant, she wanted to eat lettuce that was not in the solar terms. The farmer risked his life and stole the necromancer's manor, and saved his life in exchange for his first child.The couple gave birth to a child but did not intend to fulfill their promise, and immediately set off to escape. Naturally, they were chased by the necromancer and forced to hand over their first child.

The current president of the melting pot happened to be elected during the period of the second stage play. With a keen sense of business, he immediately started to release the first and second picture albums.This series of works has a unified style, a coherent plot, and obvious and strong dark meanings, but it just steps on the moral bottom line because of reasonable emotional logic.Once launched, it not only quickly swept the entire Pesa, but also has a tendency to sweep the mainland.The members of the melting pot who participated all got a piece of the pie, and now they have treated this matter as a serious event, and they are no longer like they used to be mavericks and stay out of it.

The most obvious manifestation is that the president of the melting pot approached Li Chen just after the second half of the semester started.In previous years, the script was said to be produced by Sean, but in fact, Rigsell put in a lot of effort. This matter is an open secret in the furnace.

Li Chen did not give an answer immediately, but just said: "I will give [-]% of the album income from the day of this year's performance to the day of next year's performance."

The president knew that this kid was shrewd and would ask for conditions sooner or later, but he didn't expect him to open his mouth so loudly: "Ruisen, conditions can be negotiated, but the 'empty glove white wolf' thing is not so easy to do."

"Without the script, there will be nothing after that. But what did Xiao En get last year, President?" Li Chen was not in a hurry, and his tone was very leisurely, "Of course, the witch herself doesn't care, and I won't talk about it. But Now that you have come to me, if you want me to help you make money, then you must show sincerity, right?"

The president looked at him with a casual look of "you think about it slowly, I'll take a step first", and his mind turned quickly: "Forty percent is too much, twenty percent."

"Yes." Li Chen replied, "but it must cover the income of all related commodities."

"You just said it was just a picture book!"

"President, you are a businessman." Li Chen squinted at him, "But you are not the only businessman in this world."

"[-]%" is the president's estimated line, which means that his bottom line is still above "[-]%".Li Chen didn't bother to continue to test each other with him, so he simply bought the price, and it was all he won or not.

The president thought for a while: "Deal, but you have to keep it secret."

Li Chen glanced at Noah, got a smile, turned back and said: "Understood. Sign a contract another day, and I'll start working."

The president turned away, and Li Chen took Noah to the laboratory.Seeing that these two seemed to be okay, Noah couldn't help smiling silently without saying a word.