Magic Stone

It was dusk, and the giant ship of Lilith's Hut Wizarding Academy was sailing on the waves whipped up by the sea breeze.

Two or three hundred wizard apprentices on the deck were shouting excitedly, pointing at a giant ocean liner that was approaching three hundred meters away.

"Look, it really is a pirate! This is the first time I've ever seen a pirate."

"Those pirates over there are such cowards! Why aren't they coming over here yet?"

The wizard apprentices chattered amongst themselves, seemingly unconcerned, as did the sailors.

It's no wonder these people have no fear of the legendary pirates. As the ocean liner that transports wizard apprentices to and from Lilith's Hut Wizard Academy, the fifty-odd sailors alone are all standard knights. In addition, there is a sailor captain and Baron, the servant of Wizard Dila, both of whom are legendary knights.

In this way, ordinary pirate ships are no match for this wizarding academy's ocean liner.

Even if some large pirate ships come to plunder, as long as Wizard Dila personally intervenes, those pirates would never dare to board the ship, even if they had ten thousand lives.

Green looked toward the pirate ship in the distance.

The pirate ship was slightly smaller, only about seventy or eighty meters long, but it was covered with people on the sides, masts, and railings, and at first glance, there seemed to be several hundred people.

These pirates were all men, dressed in rags, many missing arms, legs, or even one eye. They were all shouting and yelling, brandishing short knives, bows and arrows, and anchor ropes. They seemed to be overly excited and had inexhaustible energy.

As for why there were no women on the pirate ship?

The pirates firmly believed that women would bring misfortune to their ships, attracting powerful sea monsters to overturn them, and that evil sea monsters would devour their flesh, leaving only bones.

All the pirates of the sea firmly believed this.

  

However, Green discovered that the pirate ships did not seem to approach the wizard ships immediately. The reason was simple: the pirate captain had noticed the anomaly of the target ships through a folding telescope.

On the boat... were there a bunch of excited, cheering children?

Suddenly, the pirate captain, who had many years of sailing experience, seemed to realize something. His expression changed drastically, cold sweat beaded on his forehead, and deep fear appeared in his remaining single eye. He roared at the pirate at the helm beside him, "Turn around! Quickly, turn around right now!"

The pirate captain's change seemed to frighten those around him; even the monkey on his shoulder was startled, squeaked, and jumped off the pirate captain onto the railing.

The pirate at the helm was terrified and stammered, "Turn around?"

It's clear that this pirate captain held considerable prestige.

The metal hook shoved the pirate at the helm aside. Without offering any explanation, the pirate leader frantically spun the helm with his remaining arm, and the pirate ship, carrying hundreds of dumbfounded pirates, fled at breakneck speed.

the other side.

On the ship carrying Lilith's Cottage Wizarding Academy, the door to the room reserved for the esteemed wizard Dila suddenly opened, and a boy and a girl walked out curiously.

When the people on the deck saw two children, about the same age as them, emerge from the wizard's room, they could hardly believe their eyes.

The wizard apprentices on the deck were immediately abuzz with discussion.

"Who are these two guys? How come they don't live in the cabin? The musty smell and mushroom soup they've been drinking these past few days are making me want to vomit!"

"Who knows, could they be descendants of a wizard?"

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't know. That day, the wizard said on the deck that these two people are geniuses that the wizarding academy sees only once in a hundred years. We arrived early and heard it all. Wizard Dila said..."

The crowd buzzed with discussion, secretly pointing and whispering about the two children who had suddenly appeared.

But the two children seemed completely unconcerned, their arrogant expressions just like those of Joris in Biseltburgh, which was incredibly annoying.

The girl wore a white dress, had long, golden hair, and a pair of amber-blue eyes that looked innocent and pure. She had a charming smile on her lips, like a little princess.

Judging from the disdain in her eyes as she glanced at the people on the deck, she was not as innocent as she appeared.

As for the other boy, he was just intently playing with the white mouse in his hand, completely ignoring everyone on the deck, as if the mouse in his hand was far more important than anyone else present.

"Brother Yunli, look! Those pirates have run away. How boring!"

The girl spoke coquettishly, while shaking her long golden hair, letting the sea breeze blow it away and make it flutter in the wind.

As for the boy who was playing with the white mouse in his hand, he didn't even look up and said indifferently, "I told you before, no pirates on the high seas would dare to hijack a Wizard Academy's ship. You wouldn't listen and insisted on coming out to see. The deck stinks to death. Let's go back."

"Okay, it's just so boring..."

Ignoring the angry expressions of the crowd, the girl and boy casually entered the room that only wizards were allowed to stay in.

On deck, while the sailors were already used to it, the wizard apprentices were in an uproar, their angry roars echoing everywhere, extremely displeased.

After all, who am I?

To the children on the deck, they were wizard apprentices selected from thousands of people, elites, destined to become great wizards, and possessed their own pride. These two were just ordinary people, so what were they so arrogant about?

The deck stank horribly...

So how did they survive all these days living in the musty cabin?

To many, these two guys are just using someone else's connections in the Wizarding Continent or with Wizard Dila; they're just using someone else's influence to intimidate others.

Everyone, including Green, looked annoyed with the two guys.

Despite their displeasure, no one dared to question the wizard Dila, no matter how compelling the reason. Thus, the pirate incident came to an end.

Three days after the pirate incident, Green, who was studying the "Scent Atlas" in his cabin, suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. He shook his head, thinking it was Binghamson again, since he was the only one who kept coming to Green's cabin these days.

But when Green opened the door, he found it was actually Yocris and Yokriana, a brother and sister.

Somewhat surprised, Green still showed his welcome and let the two into the room.

After thinking for a moment, Green took out the juice he had been saving for days to serve the two of them. The juice was preserved using aristocratic methods and could be kept fresh for two months.

It's clear that after the fight in the cabin, Yocris was no longer so arrogant and became much more composed and mature.

Although Yokliana was still somewhat reserved and shy, she took the initiative to speak this time.

"Brother Green, thank you for helping us that time. My brother and I are very grateful."

The voice was a little soft; even a girl would feel embarrassed to say something that sounded so timid.

"Uh... you don't need to worry about this."

Green gave it a perfunctory response.

To be honest, in that situation, although he was very unhappy with Yokris before, as a fellow member of the same camp who boarded the ship together, he had to show some courtesy no matter what, at least in Green's view, it was absolutely necessary.

In the end, it was actually Lafite that played the decisive role.

"No, no, we are really grateful to Brother Green, it's true."

Yorkriana hurriedly added, then seemed to feel that it wasn't serious enough, so she tried to appear more serious and carefully took two stones out of her clothes and handed them to Green.

"These are treasures my brother and I obtained by chance when we were children. Later we learned that they are Philosopher's Stones, a form of currency among wizards. Over the years, my brother and I have wasted some, and we only have a few left. So, we are giving these two Philosopher's Stones to you as a token of our gratitude."

Green looked at the brother and sister with some surprise. They actually had a currency that circulated among wizards?

These aren't gold or silver coins; most people would never even see one, and Green had never even heard of such a thing before.

Unexpectedly, these two siblings already possessed such precious items. No wonder Yokris was so arrogant back then; it turns out he had such high-end goods.

And then there's Wade; the stone he bribed the wizard Arowanas with was the Philosopher's Stone.

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A moment later, the siblings, Yocris and Yokliana, got up to say goodbye.

During this time, it was Yokliana who was talking to Green. Yoklis didn't say a word the whole time, which shows that what happened that day had affected him a lot and made him feel awkward in front of Green.

But as the two siblings were about to leave, Joris suddenly patted Green on the shoulder and said solemnly, "I was wrong before."

Then he left without looking back.

Green simply nodded politely without saying anything more.

After the two siblings left, Green continued to sit at the table, but now there were two thumb-sized stones on the table, the two legendary magic stones.

Intrigued, Green picked up the two Philosopher's Stones and began to examine them closely. After all, Green knew that even a single Philosopher's Stone was a considerable treasure for a wizarding apprentice.