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Salin's room quieted down. Silva angrily put down his weapon. A hole appeared in the wall, almost piercing through it.
No, he couldn't go home. The little demon beside Salin definitely had bad intentions. Also, it wasn't safe for him to go home alone. That bastard from the Vatican had seen his face. It wouldn't be good if he dragged the people in the village down.
Silva found a strong reason for himself. He decided to continue his adventure with Salin. He couldn't let the little demon get away with it no matter what. When his power recovered, he would give Salin some of the priest's blessings so that he wouldn't be tempted by the demon anymore.
Neris's tears were real this time. Salin couldn't sleep. He decided to do his daily training and took out his family badge. After a simple level-0 spell, the mysterious badge absorbed all the magic strings in Salin's body and most of his energy, just like before.
But there was a slight change this time. When various negative states invaded Salin's body, Neris felt the same thing. It was her first time. She immediately screamed.
Neris thought that Salin was punishing her. She was scared. The pain on her body was something she had never experienced before. Tears flowed down uncontrollably.
"Master, don't you want yourself? This is a good thing. Why are you crying? Is it pain? My heart hurts! "
Salin strangely felt the despair in Neris's heart. He lay on the bed and couldn't move. But after a long period of training, he could at least speak.
"Neris, I'm doing magic training. Maybe it's because of the soul contract that you feel my pain. "
"Master, you're also going through this …"
"Yes, don't worry. It'll be fine soon." Salin comforted Neris. He felt the throbbing in the depths of his soul. Suddenly, he couldn't bear to let Neris suffer like this.
Neris was a demon after all. She quickly got used to the pain. She asked in a low voice, "Master, are all magic training like this? Why do humans torture themselves? "
"No, only me." Salin didn't know how to explain.
"Master, do you want to become stronger? I have a way … "
"Neris, this training has to be done as long as there's time." Salin interrupted Neris. This temptation was too direct. A way to become stronger?
There were no shortcuts to becoming strong.
"Master …"
"Don't be so long-winded. If you have time, read more books and learn to speak the common language."
"I have no books to read."
"Shut up!"
"En, ah, uh …"
Neris continued to moan, Shika pounded the walls angrily, and Enni burst into tears. My house!
Neris finally calmed down. Salin realized that perhaps it was because Neris shared the pain, but this time, he only took less than an hour to return to his normal state.
If the duration of this status was reduced to zero, the family emblem would be a good secret weapon. He held the badge in his hand and tried to see the magic patterns on it with the moonlight that spilled in through the window. He wanted to find something.
However, the lightning-shaped mark in the center of the badge had completely destroyed the integrity of the magic veins. Salin stared at it for a long time, but still couldn't find any clues.
"Master, did Shika misunderstand us?" Nelis couldn't sleep and continued to tease Sarlin. What Salin didn't know was that demons rarely needed sleep, unless they were seriously injured. Or if they were locked in a place where they couldn't get food like Neris, they would also fall into a deep sleep to reduce energy consumption.
"Misunderstand what?" Salin was still in love. Although he knew about the affairs between men and women, he didn't think too deeply about it. For mages, there was no mystery to the activities between men and women. Naturally, they wouldn't pay special attention to it. Without mystery, there would be no attraction. Unless Salin grew older, he would become especially sensitive.
It wasn't without reason that ordinary people felt that mages were unreasonable. They had studied far more than others, and their views on things were purer and more direct. Secular humans, on the other hand, needed hypocrisy to protect themselves. Without great power, pure thinking would only make one a lamb.
"Master, of course it's a misunderstanding. You and I …"
"You said mating? You don't even differentiate between men and women. What's there to misunderstand? I'll just tell Shika tomorrow. "Salin turned around impatiently, feeling a certain part of his body getting restless.
Neris helplessly lowered her head, put her chin on the floor, and continued to daydream.
Or should I trick Shika's gem tomorrow? Will master use training as an excuse to punish me? What's wrong with me? I want to bear the pain with master. That's not what a demon should think.
Eat master!
A voice sounded in Neris's heart.
Eat him, and you'll be free!
"Master?" Neris called softly, but Salin had already fallen into deep meditation and didn't answer her.
Neris raised her head, looked up at the bed, and continued to speak softly, "If I eat you one day, will you forgive me? I'm a demon, I can't always follow you. "
The moonlight moved away from the window, and the room became darker. Salin's eyelids gently closed, and he didn't hear Neris's words.
That night, except for Salin, no one else had a good rest. Ainphent already had a sickly look, and now he looked more tired and listless.
Neris was much more obedient. Without saying a word, she followed Salin out of the room. She didn't even provoke Shika. She was ready to do so, but she didn't know why, when the sunlight shone into the room, she gave up.
Salin stretched, and saw Shika coming out of her room. Suddenly, he didn't know how to explain to her what happened last night. Salin scratched his head, and simply put it aside. If he didn't mention it, Shika wouldn't mention it now.
"Captain, where are we going to eat?" Shika made up her mind last night not to go back to the village for the time being. After thinking it through, she felt much better, and became enthusiastic about food again.
"Ainphent?"
Salin looked at Ainphent. Ainphent rubbed his eyes and said, "At the end of the month, the family's caravan will come to collect the goods. I can't leave before that. You guys stay here for a few days, I'll hire some people, and we'll leave at the beginning of the month. "
Salin heard this, and knew in his heart that Ainphent had decided to continue dating him. Otherwise, Ainphent could let him and the Clyde family's caravan return to the Qin Yin Empire together. After he got rid of them, whatever happened to Salin would have nothing to do with him. Hiring a mercenary group to protect him meant that the agreement between him and Ainphent was still valid.
Salin didn't have to go to Ainphent's uncle to buy magic potions, but he wasn't familiar with the Qin Yin Empire, and he was a little nervous about traveling alone. He would go to the Bitter Water Prefecture to temporarily stay, and when Ainphent had money, he would transfer the extra gems to him. He wouldn't have to travel before becoming a Great Magician.
Salin couldn't sell the gems in the Gift Ring. They were too pure, and too big. If he sold them, he would definitely die. Moreover, Salin was a Magician himself, and when he reached the sixth level, he would have to build a Magic Tower. These gems were still useful to him, but if he sold them, it would be impossible to buy them back in the future.
Salin remembered that there was a map of the Temple in the Gift Ring, and there were 25 Magic Formations on the back of the map. When he understood the uses of these 25 Magic Formations, he wouldn't need help to build a Magic Tower. Thinking of this, Salin suddenly felt that his future was bright.
What Church, what Count Alphonso, they were all thrown to the back of his mind.
As long as he built a Magic Tower, unless the Church sent all the Holy Knights, he wouldn't care even if a few deacons came.
A Magic Tower was a Magician's battle fortress. If you wanted to kill a Magician with a Magic Tower, you would have to pay a hundred times the price.
After breakfast, Ainphent went to the Guild of Professionals, posted a hiring notice, and prepared to return to the Qinyin Empire with Salin and the others. Half of the shop was his private property, and the other half was a small stronghold for his family in the Phoenix Duchy. There were many strongholds like this in the Phoenix Duchy, so Ainphent didn't have to keep an eye on them every day.
When the family's convoy arrived, he could leave one person behind to look after the stronghold.
This town was too small. If not for the Chaos Swamp, the Clyde Family wouldn't even bother to set up a stronghold here.
In the next few days, Salin learned a lot about the Qinyin Empire from Ainphent. Although Ainphent had been thrown to a remote area by his family, he could still get news every month. He wasn't exiled, just not put in an important position.
This kind of situation could only happen in the Qinyin Empire. If it was in another empire, because of the power of the Church, people like Ainphent would have disappeared long ago.
Since Ainphent's parents were imprisoned in the Qinyin Empire, the Church's desire to seek revenge on Ainphent's parents was also futile. Both sides had suffered losses, so they could only leave it at that. If the Church wanted to deal with the Clyde Family, they would have to send a large number of people into the Qinyin Empire. That would definitely anger the emperor, and the outcome wouldn't be good.
The Clyde Family didn't just deal in weapons. Like the other big families in the empire, the Clyde Family's business touched almost every corner. Even weapons and equipment weren't the family's biggest business.
Food, spices, silk, tea, livestock, construction …
The Clyde Family was like a huge business empire, living comfortably under the imperial power. There were four such big families in the Qinyin Empire, and every family leader would be given the title of Count by the emperor.
This title had no political meaning. The imperial power of the Qinyin Empire was far more concentrated than that of the other three empires, and the power of the nobles was greatly weakened. Count was a mid-level noble, so this title had no other purpose other than to reduce taxes for the four families.
Ainphent reminded Salin that the real power in the Qinyin Empire was in the hands of the royal family. As a magician, you could ignore the nobles, but you had to avoid conflict with the royal family.
This was because the royal family of the Qinyin Empire had always relied on magic, and the number of royal magicians exceeded the total number of magicians in the armies of the other three empires.
In the Qinyin Empire's palace, there were three huge level-nine Magic Towers. So the Qinyin Empire had another name: the Magic Empire.
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