Rebirth in the Magic Continent

9. Meet

The seven lucky numbers given by Derek were not outrageous.

Starting from the hundredth place up, the intercept is the national points for zero integer, than Marlene 100,000 points out of the two lucky numbers are “500” and “10,000”, this result eases the Marlene 100,000 in the election of the sudden.

Kesrang is a small town with a small population, so all the people present know each other's identity if they pay a little attention on weekdays.

Aunt Marlene's bakery is quite famous, at least, everyone present recognized Marlene and Marlene's grandson Jerry.

As for Inari, this child who came to the small town along with the free man magician Fushil five years ago, she was the object of gossip in the small town's leisure time on weekdays.

After all, everyone knows, Fushil is ordinary civilians can not offend the magician, she does not often appear in the streets of the small town, mysterious movements, only occasionally in the small town of the Adventurers Association in the trace, but her daughter is often can see.

Because of the curious nature of the magician, although the other residents of the small town do not know much about Fushil, but will still seize the opportunity to get close to Inari, from Fushil's daughter to start probing for news.

As a result, Inari, who hung out with Jerry in the small town almost every day and was cute and pretty, was basically a household name in Kesrang small town.

--

Inari heard a number of people talking about Great Aunt Marlene's ridiculously high points, and they were stealthily sizing themselves up.

Based on the fact that Inari's entrance was registered to Great Aunt Marlene's National Card Guaranteed Identity, Inari heard speculation that Fushil had entrusted herself to Great Aunt Marlene in return for a high number of National Points ......

The results of the lottery had appeared, and the crowd in the circular line returned to their places after each had swiped their National IDs, and Great Aunt Marlene had returned to Inari and Jerry early.

Inari didn't have time to elaborate on the information Jerry had revealed any further, Marlene had reached out and wrapped her arms around the two children, and then listened calmly to the others' comments without changing her expression.

Inari did have a lot of questions she wanted to ask now, but she was being held in Marlene's grasp, with a Jerry who couldn't read the atmosphere and was happily angling his head on her arm, and there was only a feeling of impotent headache.

Now was not a good time to ask.

Inari put aside her rambling thoughts for the moment and pinched Jerry around the waist. Jerry jerked back in pain, and his position, in which he was so aroused that his body went limp and he was about to hang onto Inari, corrected itself with this raw maneuvering by Inari.

Pulling herself together, Inari smiled weakly back at the crowd of onlookers and managed to make some of the explicitly suspicious ogling flinch back.

Inari was unsure if she had gotten the attention of the court wizard on the round dais, but for today, at least, she had gotten the attention of the townspeople present.

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Derek was still sitting on the only round bench. This time his eyes didn't drift far away, and he watched attentively throughout the uneventful process of swiping the license to read the points.

Seeing that three lucky spectators had won out of the seven numbers given, Derek showed no impatience or surprise, and seemed indifferent to the outcome. He signaled Maria to come forward and say some words, and then shifted his gaze to the transparent stone in front of him.

Although she couldn't hear Derek and Maria's conversation, Inari still paid attention to Maria's tiny change in expression, and she seemed to be taken aback for a moment ......

But as she continued with the process, Maria was still the perfect, absolutely faultless spokesperson for the court wizard.

Maria gently announced that this time, in addition to being able to climb onto the round platform to see the magical props up close, the selected lucky audience members could also pick a magical prop, and after guessing the prop's function, they would be given the power to ask Dai Li a question.

...This new additional activity made Inari instantly spirited, and the opportunity was once again in front of her.

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The lucky audience members were chosen to go on the stage in order of numbers from smallest to largest.

Relying on the lucky five hundred points to get on stage was a young man in the small town of Kesrang who had recently inherited a small farm.

He brought his pair of sons and daughters with him, and with the signal of Magister Rook, who was guarding the steps, they walked up the steps together, passed through the square holes in the barrier, and stepped onto the round platform.

Magister Rook also remained on the dais, just a short distance away, guarding the side of the gap.

After everyone had stepped onto the round platform, Maria waved her wand again to restore the square gap in the barrier to its original state.

Before the event officially started, she also gave the onlookers under the stage an explanation of the principle of the barrier that wrapped around the round platform: this barrier was an isolation magic that was automatically generated according to the magician's personal will after inputting magical elements into the special magical props provided by the church.

The barrier she set up today was only to prevent the crowd from crowding and causing safety hazards, and there were no negative effects imposed on the barrier: it would not distort vision, would merely have a soundproofing effect when necessary, and could be touched without being injured.

Maria even kindly prompted the audience who did not have the means to go up to the stage to see these magic props up close, do not be afraid, you can stick close to the barrier and shorten the distance as much as possible.

Immediately after Maria's words fell, there was an enthusiastic response, and the crowd, which had once maintained a safe distance of at least half a meter, quickly pushed forward.

Inari stumbled forward a few steps in the direction of this crowd, tripping on the steps that were already in front of her and not retracted, and nearly dropping herself.

Luckily, Great Aunt Marlene reacted quickly and firmly stabilized Inari and Jerry, while at the same time she raised her hand to stop Jerry's attempt to voluntarily press his face against the transparent barrier.

Marlene stared at the barrier, and her expression, which had been calm just now, became rare and serious, “This kind of thing, don't touch it.”

Inari saw the hostility showing in Marin's eyes.

Of course, this was just a small episode, no one cared about it except Inari.

The first batch of lucky winners on the round stage had already started their visit to the magical props.

The two children circled around these magic props with excitement and novelty, and the young farmer was also cautiously scrutinizing these magical treasures that appeared in front of him. However they both tacitly avoided the direction where Derek was sitting, as if there was a natural barrier separating them.

The two oldest children, only eight years old and the youngest six, had been restless and tried to reach out and touch them, but were gently pushed away by Maria with her wand.

The two children could still be heard chattering and asking questions on the stage, and while not everything was answered, Maria occasionally answered a few on small, unrelated questions.

The young farmer, on the other hand, acted a bit more professionally; there were seven objects on display on the circular stage, and he looked at each one of them, as well as dropping his eyes to the only plain, clear stone set before Derek, but not getting any closer.

In the special additional session of guessing the role, the young farmer chose a mirror set with numerous gems ...... After this the session of guessing as well as verification went into silence. Just watching the young farmer with a regretful expression at the end as Rook withdrew from the dais, Inari also knew that he didn't get that chance to ask the wizard a question.

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The second lucky winner on the stage in order was someone Inari recognized -- Babu, a little-known adventurer in the small town of Kesrang.

With a slight talent for enchanting, Babu had a great strength and could also use a sledgehammer with earth attribute magic attached to it.

Babu often takes on short-distance transportation tasks issued by various merchants in Kesrang, and he also does repair and cleaning work for the large families in the town. In addition, Babu is also one of the few adventurers who receives the national points issued by the church in the Adventurer's Association. What's even more rare is that Babu also steadily opened the adventurer's academy in Kesrang once a month.

It could be said that Babu was a popular person of all ages in Kesrang Small Town.

Inari would never miss Babu's adventurer's class, which lasted ten coins a month, and she was also the most popular person in “Babu's Adventurer's Class”.

--Bubba is a single man who enjoys being alone.

Babu, as a single person, enjoyed the benefit of visiting the magic props by himself.

After being guided to the stage by Rook, he had a clear goal, looking at all the magic props on the round table without asking any questions.

When it came to the segment of guessing the item, he instead pointed directly at the small transparent stone placed in front of Dai Li ......

This segment of additional perks was also a silent screen, but Inari was able to guess about eight or nine times.

For adventurers who had done the talent test, the magic bonding stone was of course the most certain magic prop.

On the silent screen, Inari saw Babu and Dai Li engaged in a conversation, Babu took out the small hammer hanging from his waist, made it bigger on the round table, and gestured in front of Dai Li, and finally Dai Li took Babu's hammer and quickly carved something...

Babu had a smile on his face as he was guided off the round platform by Rook, his hand still carefully touching the small hammer at his waist with a look of triumph.

Getting close, Inari immediately came forward and asked out, “Mr. Babu, what kind of question did you raise?”

Babu saw his adventurous classroom's most loyal little apprentice and had absolutely no desire to hide his clumsiness, “Just asking if I could get a court wizard's autograph, and then I got it!!!”

...... This one seemed like it could really blow, and Inari heard a sigh of envy. Jerry was also beginning to imagine in advance the possibility that he could harvest a court wizard's autograph.

Inari wasn't interested in the autograph; she had now thought of an excellent line of questioning.

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It had been the turn of Great Aunt Marlene's family in order, and Inari felt the cleric Rook hold his gaze on her for a split second, a little nervous, always worried that Rook would use some excuse to prevent her from taking a reasonable advantage of this perk.

Fortunately, Rook didn't say much, just gestured for Marlene to keep an eye on the children as they went up to the round platform together, and Marlene was the one who pulled one child up the steps with a determined look on her face.

Inari passed through the barrier without incident, and little by little she approached what she thought was the second twist of fate.

Upon ascending the round platform, the guide was immediately replaced by Maria, who had a small age difference about her appearance, and who smiled kindly and gently at Inari and Jerry, introducing herself once again, “I'm Maria, it's a pleasure to meet you.”

Jerry was knocked straight down by the smile, taking an exaggerated step backwards, and his face flushed red, and

“I, I'm Jerry, the future heir to Marlene's Bakery, nice to meet you. I'll treat you to the best bread in the world sometime.” Then Jerry was slapped on the back by Aunt Marlene with a look of disgust...

Inari saw Maria's slightly overwhelmed expression for a moment and couldn't help but laugh a little, Maria had probably never seen such a borderless self-conscious child before.

Inari stepped forward to cover Jerry's fangirl look and bowed and nodded slightly, “I'm Inari, it's an honor to meet you.”

Instead of using the aristocratic etiquette she remembered, Inari used an unorthodox, yet somehow elegant looking bow, which managed to ease Maria's embarrassment.

Maria pursed her lips and smiled as she complimented Inari on her little dress and carefully braided pigtails before using standard noble etiquette to give a simple meet-and-greet bow to Great Aunt Marlene as well, leading them towards the center of the round table.