The First Female Duke

Chapter 7

"Seeing you again." Edith said looking a little pleased, and indeed she was, for some reason she had a good feeling about the young girl the first time she saw her, although it seemed that the outside world didn't have a very good opinion of the young girl.

Elena shrugged her nose gently, having every intention of putting on a condescending attitude, as she had done to others every time before, but when she met those eyes full of genuine kindness, she couldn't help but soften her freshly put together smirk a bit.

Oh, damn, she looked just like her favorite doll in the castle! That must be why she couldn't get a cold face!

"What, your good brother didn't drop you off at the classroom door?" Elena tried to sound vicious.

Edith blinked, the "good brother" was really mocking, she pointed to the soft couch next to her, "Can I sit here?"

Elena hesitated for three seconds, then nodded reluctantly.

"You seem to dislike Leo?" Edith said.

"Why would I like him?" Elena gave Edith a look that struck the doll as a bit of a fool; couldn't she see that the phony smiler was secretly coveting her heirship?

Elena didn't hold back for a second and started to explain to Edith, "You'd better not get too close to him."

Edith, of course, didn't think that Leo was as simple as he appeared to be, so she nodded her head as a matter of course, but this was interpreted as perfunctory in Elena's eyes.

The green-eyed girl furrowed her brow and fell into a deep concern for the future of the silly white girl.

The crowd in the classroom had originally seen Edith walking towards Elena with the mindset of watching a good show, and it must be admitted that they did want to see the young lady of the Villey family kill that little witch's thunder. As a result, the expected tit-for-tat didn't appear, and the crowd was shocked to find that the little witch was more than half as nice to Miss Willey as she was to them.

The crowd is puzzled, but after thinking about it is not incomprehensible, no matter who, with the next generation of the Verrilli family heir to fall out how to see is a rather stupid thing, the little witch although domineering, but you see those who were bullied by her can not be half a point to fight back on this point can be seen, this little girl is very smart, will pinch the soft persimmon.

When you think about it, it's not surprising that she's at peace with Ms. Willey.

As for the friendliness shown by Edith, the crowd was even less surprised; they couldn't associate words like arrogant and bossy to her, no matter from which angle.

Although it was a great pity for the crowd that they didn't see a good show, they didn't take the atmosphere where Edith and Elena seemed to be harmonizing too much to their hearts.

It wasn't until later when they saw the two of them laughing and joking, and even began to go in and out together as if they were inseparable, that they sensed that something was wrong.

No, the relationship between these two people, why does it look like something is not quite right ah!

Not to say that they have become rivals, but don't be so good that you can wear a skirt!

The crowd realized afterward that these two people not only did not go toe-to-toe as they expected, but instead became good friends.

I don't know if it is because of the influence of this incident, the original crowd looked at the well-behaved sweet like a little angel like Edith, now the style of action even more and more like Elena that female devil.

Near the ink is black!

Jesus Christ! The crowd cried out in their minds, it was enough that a Grimm family rode over them, and now a Willey? Give them a break!

Polina sent Edith to Violet in order to let her make friends instead of learning, Edith has realized that for the nobles in this world, "learning" is something to wait for their magic power to be awakened, it seems that in the eyes of the nobles, awakening is a watershed, before awakening, you're just a child, you can play freely and capriciously, without thinking about the future, but after awakening, in a sense, you'll be a child, and you don't have to think about the future, but after awakening, in a sense, you will be a child. Before the awakening, you are a child, you can play recklessly, do not have to think about the future, but after the awakening, in a sense, you are already a small adult, fully qualified to make decisions for themselves, to choose the direction of the future.

So, as Polina wished, Edith happily spent two years of her life, and made an uncompromisingly detrimental best friend, the violet Ding Ding's famous witch, Elena. Polina knew it was really happy, but also invited Elena to come to Tagmart as a guest, Elena was still squirming, but under Edith's persuasion, she made a show of agreeing to it, God knows how long she has been longing for this famous castle, once and for all, Tagmart has just like become her second home.

"Magic awakening is in seven days" Elena shared Edith's dessert without a care in the world, "I don't know what line of magic I'll be awakening to, and by the way come to think of it I haven't even figured out what type of wand I'm going to use yet!"

Edith couldn't help but quietly roll her eyes as she watched Elena elegantly but speedily destroy the dessert in front of her, obviously when she had said earlier that Mrs. Mowgli had come up with a new dessert this person had a doleful look on her face saying that she wasn't interested in it, and as a result, who was the one who couldn't stop eating her mouth off right now.

"Wands?" Edith raised an eyebrow, "With all due respect, I think you might have more of a future along with knights than wizards in comparison."

At first Elena didn't understand Edith's subtext, and she subconsciously asked back, "Why?"

"With the experience you've accumulated over the years of crisscrossing Violet, I think you're more accomplished at frontal charge."

It was just a joke about her violence anyway!

"Miss Willey" Elena said seriously, putting down her silver fork, "I think you've changed for the worse, once you weren't like this, you gave me back my simple sweet little angel."

More than a knight, Elena thought that she, as a beautiful lady, was bound to still be more in line with her aesthetics as a wizard.

"The past is gone, you know, and even the clearest water turns muddy when it meets sand." Edith sighed as if singing an opera.

After two years, maybe it's because of the influence of her ears, Edith's poisonous tongue already has a blue streak, and Elena finally knows what it's like for those people to be gagged by her so much that they can't say a word.

However, heaven is good, Edith didn't have to be complacent for long, at the sight of her personal maid walking in from outside with a tray, Edith's face changed drastically.

Elena glanced in the direction towards the door just in time to see Lexi entering, a scene that would play out every few days was a good one she didn't want to miss, and if it wasn't for the fear of really pissing off her best friend, she almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Li Xi set the tray of items in front of Edith, a small delicate white porcelain bowl filled with a clear lavender liquid, it looked quite pleasing to the eye.

But Edith dared to vouch for you with her honor, this stuff was definitely the worst thing she had ever drank so far, bar none.

Elena covered her mouth to stifle her laughter back into her stomach, cleared her throat, and said in a fake voice, "A true warrior dares to face a miserable life head on."

It was something Edith had often talked about before, and was learned by Elena, who found it very apt for this place.

Edith took a moment to look at Elena, "There are things a true warrior doesn't want to face, I'd even give up Mrs. Mowgli's treats if I could do it without this."

"The treats will make you gain weight, and you could have done without it, but this potion is about your magical awakening, and you have no reason to refuse it."

From the time when there was still a month to go before the day of magic awakening, her mother started to let her drink this stuff, don't look at only a small bowl, the value behind it was countless gold coins, there was no place to buy it even if you had the money, because only in the ancient noble families could they keep some precious formula potions, this formula potion was given to those who didn't have magic awakening yet, it could improve the physique, and the most important thing was, to enhance the innate magic power.

Of course, this kind of magic power enhancement varies from person to person, and is entirely based on the individual's talent, and if the inherent talent is not good, then the magic power enhancement is quite limited. But no matter what, with this, as long as one wasn't born a loser, they would also be able to at least successfully awaken, and the percentage of highly gifted individuals that would emerge would also be drastically increased.

After Edith knew that Willey still had this kind of perverse potion, she sighed in her heart more than once, perhaps this is the root of those old noble families, with this, they don't have to worry about not having a superior heir, the family's lifeblood can be continued.

"As a matter of fact, I feel like the magic power in my body is so full that it's almost overflowing." Edith said with a frown as she stared at the lavender liquid in the bowl.

Elena, however, took this as an excuse for Edith not wanting to drink the potion, "Oh dear, fight it, it's only a sip if you close your eyes."

Edith sighed, God knows she was telling the truth. Looking at the white porcelain bowl in front of her, she pinched her nose as if she were looking death in the eye and then took the potion in one gulp, next to her, Lexi watched as Edith swallowed and then slipped her a candied fruit as quickly as she could.

Edith held the candied fruit in her mouth, her face wrinkled into a bitter melon.

Elena giggled beside her, "Is it that bad?"

Edith frowned in thought, "It tastes like you stirred stinky socks and ichor into a soup ......"

Elena shook her body exaggeratedly, "Spoken like you've actually had this horrible soup."

Edith was about to describe the details to her to prove that she was resisting so completely for a reason, but Elena waved her hand at her:

"Oh, for the love of a wonderful afternoon tea we just enjoyed, stop your horrible descriptions."

Edith laughed out smoothly.

The day of the magical awakening still came, for nobles, the magical awakening at the age of ten was bound to be a very important part of their lives, Edith had been waiting for this day for too long, so inevitably, she was a little nervous.

Polina put off all the things in her hand to accompany Edith on this day, and those elders in the clan who always hate Polina to be divided into several petals to deal with official business also surprisingly did not say anything, obviously, they also think that the awakening of the family's next-generation heir is much more important than those so-called official business.

Edith's awakening was completed in Tagmat, at this time, she is in the castle's underground forbidden room, obviously, this is Tagmat's extremely confidential place, servants or outsiders will never have the opportunity to step into here half a step.

Edith thought that such a thing as magic power awakening would only be accompanied by her mother at most, so when she walked into the forbidden room and saw the room full of people, she was still shocked. Putting her eyes on a sweep, Carrie old lady, Plenty uncle and aunt, Cousin Leo ...... and other racks of thieves, usually the gods and dragons in the elders of the clan.

Edith's scalp went numb, and Polina, perhaps seeing her daughter's subtle timidity, walked up and touched Edith's hair, smiling gently at her:

"No need to be nervous."

Edith then remembered the many times that her mother had said, in a tone of certainty, that she would make an excellent wizard. Taking a deep breath, Edith nodded toward Polina to show that she was ready.

With a slight smile, Polina glanced to the side, and Fanny immediately handed over the small bowl she held in her hand.

Perhaps it was because she had drunk too many strange potions lately, Edith subconsciously frowned, she knew what was in the bowl, drink it so that the magic power in her body would be fully stimulated, so that the test results would be accurate. Glancing towards the bowl, to her surprise, it wasn't a strange color, on the contrary, this catalyst was colorless and tasteless.

Before drinking the catalyst down, Edith also had the heart to mutter, how is this situation a bit like the high school exams ...... The potion didn't have much flavor, and when it flowed down her throat and into her stomach, what it brought was more of a cooling sensation.

Handing the bowl to Fanny, Edith walked up to the testing table quite calmly.

This world had developed to the point where the means of awakening magical power was naturally very diverse, and Willey, as an ancient great noble, had awakened in a way that had more of a sense of sanctity outside of precision.

Under the feet like a hexagram-like formation, various lines are outlined into complicated patterns, and on the round table in front of Edith, a colorless crystal is placed.

Edith knew that this was an attribute-less magic stone.

"Edith," Polina called out to her, "put your hand on it and infuse it with magic."

Before it all started, Edith even prayed to the various gods and goddesses, hoping that the results wouldn't embarrass her too much, but on second thought, across the world, the gods and goddesses probably didn't have a very good signal ......

Brain stuffed with sparse thoughts, Edith placed her hand on the colorless crystal.