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Chapter 55

Flower Bud

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Angell returned to Cecilia City. Instead of returning to Workshop first, he took Blood Elf and flew directly to the Cloud Realm.

This is also the first time Thornmoon has entered the inside of Sky Spring.

Thornmoon discovered that this Sky Spring looks like an inverted tree from below, but actually looking closer, it is an aerial city composed of countless rooms.

These rooms are also bright white, like building blocks, put together to form the body and branches of the tree.

Along the main trunk, above Cloud Realm, there is a broad platform, with countless Root Veins growing like the Forest. At the densest location, there is a huge Crystal Ball, which shows the street of Cecilia.

A group of Rune Master are gathering under Crystal Ball.

In the past six months, with the efforts of Angell, we have accepted all the students of this batch City of Academies Rune Major, and used preferential conditions to attract several graduates from previous batches, and the number of Rune Master has expanded to 258.

These employees were busy copying Rune, and when completing a sentence, they picked up the hookah holder connected to Crystal Ball and took a puff, which not only contributed computing power to Sky Spring, but also kept their minds clear.

In fact, many people live in Sky Spring these days.

Angell is even considering converting the rooms inside Sky Spring into several dormitories.

Thornmoon couldn't help but shake his head after looking at it.

"This is too extreme. Boss, have you ever been bitten by a vampire?"

"Even if I've been bitten by a vampire, do you think a mere vampire can have any impact on me?"

"That's right, you are much crueler than a vampire." Thornmoon agreed, and then Angell punched him in the face.

Angell did not disturb the group of Rune Master. He dragged the clattering thing to Crystal Ball and stuffed it directly into Crystal.

The thing was actually still alive. He struggled again and his eyeballs fell to the ground.

Thornmoon tried very hard to look in other directions, not to look at that terrible scene.

Although the boss is obviously doing such extreme things, the employees are hardly disturbed.

In fact, the employees here did not see the arrival of Angell and Thornmoon, and they certainly did not see Angell dragging the terrifying object in his hand.

But being invisible is a good thing, Thornmoon also wants to be invisible but not heard.

Thornmoon thought like this and observed the group of Rune Master, and found that not everyone was unaware of it.

For example, Horned Boy was leaning against a tree root, and for some reason he was not working. He was staring in the direction of Angell from the beginning, but his eyes were very void, and it was hard to say whether he saw it or not;

There is also the most beautiful boy among Rune Master. He turned his head and looked at Crystal Ball several times with a puzzled look on his face. He should have sensed something, but he couldn't sense it clearly;

The one who had the biggest reaction was the little girl adopted by Angell. She had been shivering since the arrival of Angell.

Well, when you see the fate of similar people, you should be afraid.

Thornmoon thought so.

*

Demon God Jeri is really scared.

Very scared.

What He is so afraid of is not that his kind will be captured as sacrifices - that thing is not his kind! When Jeri's big Demon God body comes, that thing can only be the commander of the Demon God Legion's army or something like that.

What Jeri is afraid of is Angell's careless look.

The last time He came, he saw a similar existence.

Although that human looks much colder, has a completely different temperament, and has a different power level, the other person has the energy level that can crush Plane, and his indifferent attitude towards life is exactly the same!

By the way, how did a Intermediate Mage catch that thing and deal with it nonchalantly?

Jeri thought strangely.

As part of "knowledge", Jeri knows that humans divide the Magic Power they can control into low-level, middle-level, and high-level, but to Demon God, it is like seeing ants divide themselves into According to their strength, they are divided into "low-level warriors who can lift 10 grams of cockroaches", "intermediate warriors who can drag 50 grams of Candy", "super warriors who can kill 100 grams of baby birds" and "over 100 grams is unlimited power" are just as ridiculous.

So from the perspective of Jeri, there is actually no difference between Angell and Enlise.

Most humans are no different.

But such an ant can suddenly kill his own dog easily, which is very scary.

Where did he get his power from?

Could he be the one who sealed himself last time?!

Isn't it possible? The energy level of that person last time was about to exceed the human level and was on the verge of a critical point? If the other person continued to live in this Plane for tens of thousands of years, his weight could easily cause this Plane to collapse.

--Demon God is the same, so he can't come in person, but uses projection.

So, what is going on with this human being?!

Demon God looked through Enlise's eyes with the mentality of watching a horror movie, watching a vicious ant stuff a dog into the incinerator, and then swaggering towards him.

God! This ant seems to look a bit like the one last time!

The ant smiled and said, "It's great that you are still useful to Enlise!"

"I don't need to sacrifice you to heaven for the time being."

Wow, so scary!

Demon God instantly shrank to the deepest part of Enlise's consciousness, hiding itself.

Enlise blinked her eyes. She had always been able to see Angell, but she seemed to have only realized the existence of Angell at this moment. She said in surprise, "Mr. Angell, why are you here?"

Enlise's words seemed to break some kind of spell, and other Rune Master also realized the existence of Angell at this moment.

Everyone was in high spirits.

--Although Angell is a generous and good boss, is there anything scarier than seeing your boss suddenly appearing silently next to your workstation?... Ah, the head teacher suddenly standing at the back door doesn't count!

Angell himself is also from Corporate Slave. He knows that his presence will affect the working mood of employees, so Angell usually does not appear in front of everyone casually unless there is anything special.

He smiled reassuringly at the others, "It's okay, you continue. I'm just upgrading the performance of Server."

"Performance upgrade?"

Silverleaf glanced at Crystal Ball strangely. From the very beginning, he felt a pressure coming from Crystal Ball that he could not refuse, as if his body was instinctively obeying something.

But as Angell appeared, Silverleaf was surprised to find that the uncomfortable pressure just now had disappeared, and a new Vine grew out from under Crystal Ball, wrapped around Crystal, and because of the existence of this Vine, the transmission of Magic Power suddenly accelerated several times, so that prototype flowers grew on Vine.

"These flowers are..."

"Data redundancy." Angell frowned and looked at the flowers.

The problem with using Demon Race to expand capacity is that it is not very clean.

In other words, it's not very compatible.

Gee, this is not a good sign!

"Silverleaf, no, forget it..." Angell wanted to instruct his most capable employee to do something about this, but looking at Rune in front of Silverleaf, he couldn't bear to do it.

Silverleaf has now been upgraded to the director of the Rune department, and is also the most efficient employee. It is too wasteful to let him handle other tasks.

Not only Silverleaf, but also other Rune Master.

Angell looked around and finally found a freeloader.

Jack.

This last gentleman has been at Magic Gear for more than half a year, and has been kept purely as Angell's pet - the cats still have to work - fortunately, Magic Association also knows Jack's level, so he does not force Angell to pay him a salary. Angell only needs to pay for food.

At the end of the year, when everyone is so busy that even Angell is finally unwilling to leave him alone.

Angell waved to Black Sheep: "Jack, there is something very important for you to do."

"Yes?"

Black Sheep walked over slowly.

*

"Player people" don't know the troubles of Angell, and they even view the changes of Server as a wonder.

"Daddy, look! There are buds growing on the aerial roots of Sky Tree!"

Sherry looked up at the sky and said.

Sherry is very concerned about Cloud Server in the sky - although she prefers to call it Sky Tree - every time she walks in the city where she can see Cloud Server, she can't help but look up, so she immediately discovered the changes in Server.

The crown of the tree is too high to be seen clearly, but there are tiny Vine blooming along the aerial roots downwards, with the same type of bright white flower buds. They quiver in the breeze under the clear sky and look particularly endearing.

"So beautiful."

Mr. Reiche immediately picked up Camera and took several photos.

"You guys are really fed up. You've only been here for one day and you've already wasted a roll of film." Mrs. Reiche said impatiently, "Can't you shoot something more meaningful?"

Mr. Reiche heard his wife say that and immediately pointed the camera at the other party.

"It's really beautiful, my dear, why don't you take some pictures?"

"Humph, you are just trying too hard." Mrs. Reiche said with disgust, but immediately looked around to find a suitable scenery.

She had to admit that the scenery at Cecilia City was really beautiful.

The buildings of Magic Era, which are full of history, match the ancient streets, and there are good views everywhere.

Needless to say, little girls like Sherry, even Mrs. Reiche, walking through a certain alley, felt like they had traveled through time in a story book and became the adventurer of Magic Era.

Take such a photo back and "accidentally" show it to your wife group who usually drinks tea... Tsk tsk!

Mrs. Reiche raised the corners of his mouth at the thought of his imagination.

She quickly found a suitable location, located in the middle of an intersection of three roads. The small shop facing the street looked like it was growing out of spar. There happened to be an aerial root of Cloud Server hanging down in the distance, and the newly grown buds swayed slightly.

"Okay, let's shoot!" Mrs. Reiche raised his chin.

Mr. Reiche smiled and was about to press the shutter when he saw his wife looking towards her daughter dissatisfied.

"Sherry, come here too!"

"No need, Mommy, you can do it yourself." Sherry said dissatisfied.

She thought her mother was the one who was annoyed. She was just taking pictures along the way, wondering whether she was here to play or to take pictures.

Sherry has his own things to do. "I haven't found any clues yet!"

Sherry raised the magnifying glass in his hand.

One of the seven props of Magical Girl: Mirror of Truth.

Although it was only the second day after arriving at Cecilia City, the clever Sherry had already discovered a way to inherit the power of Cecilia and pass the test of Magical Girl to become Magical Girl.

That is to gain experience points (X)Cecilia's Recognition!

She discovered that if she went to a busy shopping street to play Game Table, she could get Cecilia recognition;

You can also get approval by going directly to Magic Gear Alchemy Workshop and calling Arena;

If you purchase Cecilia City, Carbonated Water and other specialty snacks, you will also have a chance to be recognized;

Even just sitting in a hotel and meditating can gain recognition.

In short, there are many ways to obtain "Cecilia's Recognition", Visitor can try it by themselves.

Even if they are not invitees like Sherry, the Reiche couple can be "recognized" to obtain some special services.

However, Sherry also found that the numbers of these recognitions are different. Meditation received the least recognition. Going to Alchemy Workshop to fight Arena to eliminate Magic Creature received the most recognition, but that requires too much skill. With Sherry's current Magic Power level, he can only be an audience and pick up some recognition fragments from the scene.

If you want to improve the level of Magic Power, meditation is too slow. Game Table is faster, but if you play for too long, the efficiency will become lower, and you will be stopped by your mother because you waste too much money.

So Sherry chose another way to get recognition faster:

Complete Quest for Cecilia.

After all Visitor check into the hotel, they will find a map of <Magical Girl☆Maya> Holy Land Tour. Ordinary Visitor like Sherry's parents would be satisfied with taking pictures, but Sherry discovered If you use the props according to the process of Movie, you will find "Cecilia's Quest Box" in each classic scene. As long as you complete the commission inside, Sherry can get a considerable number of "Recognition Points", which is more efficient than blindly immersing yourself in the game Game Table.

The place where Sherry is now is where the blue Magical Girl Lisa joined the team.

Here Lisa used "Mirror of Truth" to see through Magic Creature's fighting method and defeated the opponent.

But Sherry looked several times with the peripherals she bought, but couldn't find what she wanted. She almost wanted to dig into the grass and take a look regardless of her ladylike image.

Of course her mother couldn't let her do that, and even wanted to capture her and take pictures:

"Sherry! Sherry!" Mrs. Reiche shouted angrily, "Don't run around like a boy!"

Seeing that she was almost about to take her daughter back in person, Mr. Reiche quickly stopped her. "Okay! She is on vacation anyway, so let her be free! Besides, why do you always have to hold her back? Isn't it good for you to be beautiful alone?"

"Humph, just spoil her!"

Mrs. Reiche said dissatisfiedly, finally convinced by her husband.

But without the "prop" of her daughter, Mrs. Reiche felt a little wrong no matter how she posed, especially since the window of the building on the side of the alley was reflecting her figure, which made her sense of dissonance increase many times.

Mr. Reiche didn't know his wife's dilemma, so he clicked the shutter button and completed Quest.

Mr. Reiche is lucky.

He should be glad that the data age has not yet arrived, so no matter what his photography skills are, before the photos are actually developed, everything is in a mysterious Schrödinger state, so that he will not incur dissatisfaction from his wife - how strange!

"I think the background just now is not very good. Can we change the direction?" Mrs. Reiche asked.

Mr. Reiche helplessly continued to waste film.

Fortunately, although Magic Capital is old, there are still places that sell film, so he doesn't have to worry about running out.

When the seventh or eighth picture was taken, Mr. Reiche paused.

"Sherry, I seem to have found what you were looking for!" Mr. Reiche said.

"Found it?" Sherry said in surprise.

"Yes, take a magnifying glass and look at the sign of that Candy store." Mr. Reiche said.

A magnifying glass is not for seeing far away.

But it is not universal for Magic Magnifying Glass.

Sherry raised her magnifying glass and found her Quest. She almost jumped up in surprise, and then felt puzzled. "But in Movie, Lisa is clearly fighting in the direction of the grass! Why is it on the signboard?"

Because Magic Creature is actually Lisa's teacher, right?

Mr. Reiche, who had watched Movie several times with her daughter, thought numbly.

The seemingly kind gentleman often buys Candy from the Candy store for children, and is also willing to teach girls Lisa Physics. He seems to be a very good person, but all the details show that he is a pervert who has no good intentions towards children.

This is also the only Magic Creature in the plot whose true identity is not revealed - although for adults, it is clear enough to use Pointer and Physics methods to attack.

But when it comes to this level of hints, Mr. Reiche doesn't want her daughter to know.

He randomly found a reason. "Maybe Lady Cecilia also thinks that girls should be as sweet as Candy?"

"Huh?" Sherry didn't really agree with this reason.

There is no point in just thinking here, Sherry can't wait to take the next step.

Sherry once again used a magnifying glass to confirm the Quest logo on the signboard - it was a Rune.

However, compared with the Rune obtained by staying in the hotel, this Rune is already quite complicated. People without some basic knowledge of Magic Power cannot draw it completely.

But this will not trouble our future Magical Girl.

"Cecilia of the Waning Moon, please give me the power of wisdom!"

She chanted the Lisa battle spell, concentrated her attention, and drew the complex Rune in the air.

The golden Rune flashed past and shattered in the air.

The falling gold powder from Rune formed a golden image in the air. It was Sherry wearing a detective uniform, but the uniform was incomplete, only a small plaid shawl on the upper body.

Text also appeared in front of Sherry.

[Congratulations, you solved the problem of Lisa and obtained the detective uniform and shawl X1 of Magical Girl]

[Please go to the tailor shop of Red Reindeer Commercial Street to get it.]

"I got new clothes!" Sherry said happily.

She turned to look at her parents. "Shall we go to Red Reindeer Commercial Street?"

"Hmm, let's take a look, Red Reindeer Commercial Street... Oops, it's quite far away!" Mr. Reiche took out the map and looked at it, then glanced at his wife worriedly.

He didn't care, but he had been visiting all morning today, and Mrs. Reiche had already hinted that her legs were too thick, her heels were too high, and so on. If she walked that far again, she might go crazy.

Mrs. Reiche was not as reluctant as her husband imagined.

Instead, her eyes lit up.

"Is there a tailor shop? You can go check it out!"

"?"

Mr. Reiche looked at his wife in confusion. How did he know that when Mrs. Reiche saw his daughter's "transformed image", he had already realized why he was not taking pictures properly.

It's clothing!

Mrs. Reiche's dress is the same as Camera in Mr. Reiche's photo. They were all specially bought for this trip. It is Xiesse's most fashionable outfit. However, walking on such a contemporary style road, it seems a bit out of place.

Mrs. Reiche only noticed this when he saw his daughter changing her clothes.

Sure enough, the one I want to match with Magic Capital is a slightly classic skirt!

Mrs. Reiche thought so.

She couldn't refuse and walked towards Red Reindeer Commercial Street with her daughter. Mr. Reiche, who didn't know that he was about to lose a lot of blood in his pocket, followed behind his wife.

*

Red Reindeer Street·Scissors and Thimble Tailor Shop.

Hana sat behind the counter and sighed facing the street outside.

She originally planned to go out on a date with her boyfriend Lance, but she was not careful when she went out today. She was caught by her mother, the proprietress of this tailor shop, and she had to stay in the shop.

But no one came to the door at all!

In such an old shop, except for the familiar aunts and uncles who come to customize pajamas and underwear, there will be no new customers at all. In fact, those aunts and uncles also prefer the new fashions from Xiesse, and most of them come to repair and cut. While cutting, they have to listen to them saying, "Be careful, this is the latest model of Xiesse. My daughter bought it for me."

... he, tui!

So Hana felt that the old-style Sewing store had no future. She admitted that despite her family's objections, she dated Lance, who came to Cecilia for an internship. She wanted to rely on the other person to leave this too ancient city, but who knew that the other person was so stupid that not only did she not take her away, but she also voluntarily stayed in Cecilia, becoming the Rookie Reporter of <Eastern Border Daily>.

However, the other party's behavior seemed to have touched his family. Hana noticed that his mother did not seem to be so opposed to his marriage to Lance, and even left Cecilia a month ago.

But after <Magical Girl☆Maya> was released, Hana noticed that there seemed to be some changes in her mother.

In other words, the old neighbors on the street have changed somewhat.

They were busy picking up the business that they had discarded before, not knowing what they were expecting.

Hana didn't go to see <Magical Girl☆Maya>.

Obviously she would watch every movie shown in the cinema, but she refused this one.

She always felt that if she went to see it, something would be broken.

Especially when I heard that the heroine of Movie is the daughter of a tailor shop like myself.

This was also the first time that Hana hated Magic Gear. She vaguely knew that the recent changes in the Magic City were caused by the owner of Alchemy Workshop.

Even my own tailor shop has been affected.

--For example, He Tu Shu said that in the window of his shop, there were Magic Era's dresses, which were from the last century. Hana could not imagine that anyone would want them, but his mother followed the request of Mr. Alchemy and put them in the sun again, saying that there would be customers coming soon.

Why are there guests?

Hana thought in disbelief, and as if responding to her thoughts, the doorbell rang representing the arrival of the guests.

Hana raised his head in surprise and saw a couple wearing Xiesse fashionable clothes and their daughter walking in from outside the store.

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