Chapter 276:Keep a cat for a thousand days, use it in a moment
August has already left to go back to class, and he is equally helpless against the curse on Kasha.
However, he promised Charlotte that he would keep an eye on the internal news of the Light Mage Association and gather some information about the Resentment Mist for him. Charlotte can go find him next time he goes to Calva.
You see, it's not a bad thing to give someone a leg up when appropriate.
"Disciple, I have cured your friend. It's time for you to apprentice." As August left, Adolf proudly looked at Vivian and said.
Jacques also smiled at Vivian. This exceptionally talented girl was going to become his junior apprentice.
Vivian solemnly confirmed, "You said I can stay at the Abyss Clinic, and you won't publicly announce that I've become your apprentice, right?"
"That's correct. That was a condition I proposed to myself. As long as you become my apprentice, I will keep my promise," Adolf nodded.
"Master!" Vivian called out in a cute and silly manner.
"Good disciple, good!" Adolf couldn't stop smiling and took out a space ring with a pink diamond inlaid on it, handing it over. He said, "This is the gift from your master upon becoming an apprentice."
Charlotte's eyes went wide. The pink diamond sparkled brilliantly, easily worth several million copper coins. It was clear that the internal space of that ring was quite large.
This master was truly generous. He couldn't help but want to become his disciple.
"Thank you, Master." Vivian joyfully accepted the ring, placed it on her finger, and it shone brightly. Then, she turned her gaze to Jacques, eagerly calling out, "Senior Brother."
"Sister Apprentice, this is a small gift for our first meeting, it's not as precious as what our master gave you, but I hope you don't mind." Jacques proudly took out a stack of talismans from the space ring and handed them to Vivian.
"Thank you, Senior Brother. I don't mind at all. The talismans you gave me are very practical," Vivian smiled as she received the two or three dozen talismans and stored them in the space ring.
"Master, do you still need more disciples?" Charlotte couldn't help but weakly ask.
Adolf glanced at him and said, "If you had come to me three years ago, I would have considered it seriously."
For Vivian to become Adolf's apprentice was a joyous occasion, and for Charlotte, the benefits outweighed any disadvantages.
As a senior member of the Doctor's Association, Adolf's status would at least allow him to have a better understanding of their enemy.
Adolf took Vivian aside and eagerly began arranging their teaching schedule.
After a while, Charlotte felt a cold gaze on him. He turned around and met the disapproving face of Adolf.
"Boy, you're exploiting my inexperienced precious disciple to the extreme. You see patients at the clinic in the morning and then go to the potion workshop to make potions in the afternoon," Adolf said in a deep voice.
Charlotte remained unfazed and said, "I didn't force her to do this. It's good for young people to have ambition. Besides, there's still time in the evening."
Vivian nodded and chimed in, "Yes, yes. I like my current job. Master, why don't we study magic in the evenings? It won't interfere with my ability to earn money."
Adolf's face grew even darker. What kind of discipline did he pick up? She sold him out and even helped count the money.
In the end, Adolf had no choice but to comply with Vivian's request and teach her magic for three hours every evening.
"Goodbye, Master, Senior Brother," Vivian sent Adolf and Jacques off, closed the doors of the clinic, and waved the sparkling pink diamond ring in front of Charlotte, saying, "Is it shiny?"
"It's blinding," Charlotte replied acidly. "How big is the internal space of that ring?"
"Probably... about the size of this hall," Vivian pondered for a moment and answered.
Charlotte fell silent. This hall was about 50 square meters, with a height of five meters. It meant that Vivian's space ring had a capacity of over 200m³.
In contrast, his space ring currently only had a capacity of 3m³.
"Thank you, you've saved me once again," Marsha said earnestly as she looked at Charlotte and Vivian.
"Why mention it? We're friends," Vivian said with a smile.
"You were the one who helped me gather herbs and got injured in the process. It's only natural for me to help you," Charlotte said warmly.
Marsha nodded and said, "I've decided to work in the potion workshop for an extra month to repay you."
Charlotte didn't refuse her offer. No capitalist could reject reliable labor.
After a simple dinner, the exhausted girls went back to their rooms, while Charlotte, unable to sleep, went to the laboratory.
The three gold-devouring mice in the cage remained calm and still. It was clear that they were extremely wary of the seemingly fragile, thorny grass and didn't dare to approach the bars.
"If this kind of grass is planted outside the city walls, can it to some extent prevent magical creatures from approaching? Is it effective against the enchanted magical creatures during the Red Moon Night? How about against high-level magical creatures?" Charlotte couldn't help but be curious.
He quickly searched through the material encyclopedia but found no information about this thorny grass. Its medicinal properties were unknown.
However, based on Marsha's personal experience, after rolling into the pile of grass and getting pricked, she regained her sanity when faced with uncontrolled enchantment.
This meant that this thorny grass could somewhat treat enchantment.
He named this thorny grass "Stinging Nettle Grass." When he transplanted it in the morning, he accidentally got pricked and had already experienced that refreshing feeling, which was on par with the Stinging Nettle Grass.
Taking a small amount of Stinging Nettle Grass, he brewed a pot of green potion in a small pot for future use.
Charlotte decided to go back to the wilderness tomorrow morning.
Marsha had just encountered a lich and almost lost her life, so he dared not let her go into the Abyss at night.
But currently, there weren't enough gold-devouring mice for experimentation, so he had to go himself and catch a few more.
The day after tomorrow was the Red Moon Night, and he had to prepare in advance.
The night passed without incident. Early the next morning, after instructing Vivian and saying a few words, Charlotte ventured into the wilderness alone.
He had obtained the gold-devouring mice nest location from Marsha, which was in the outskirts of the wilderness, about fifty miles west, in a black stone mountain.
In less than an hour, he found a black stone mountain filled with hollows.
The black stones contained rich iron deposits and were extremely hard, but they were gnawed into caves of various sizes by the gold-devouring mice.
These caves were only half a meter tall and were not easy for a person to enter.
Moreover, due to the hardness of the stones, the method of kicking the stone to make the gold-devouring mice reveal themselves didn't work.
So Charlotte took Anna out of his pocket, holding her in front of one of the openings, and rubbed her head. He said, "Keep a cat for a thousand days, use it in a moment. Anna, go and drive out all the rats inside."
"Meow?" Anna glanced at him.
"You'll get a roast chicken when we return at noon," Charlotte promised.
"Meow," Anna nodded humanely and then proudly entered the cave.
After a while, a large group of gold-devouring mice hurriedly escaped from various caves, numbering in the hundreds...