Si raised her hand habitually and wanted to use the Shadow Demon Summoning Technique to summon her servants, but just as she was about to cast the spell, she froze in place for a moment.
The magic was not released.
Although he could indeed remember the magic and could feel the existence of the magic power, when he wanted to release the skill, he was unable to do so successfully.
"A new different world." Si had a very clear sense of the reality of this. Without the assistance of the system, she found it very difficult to cast magic. From controlling the magic power to the principles of how to cast magic, everything needed to be done by herself.
This seems a bit bad.
Although her body and strength had not changed, she now had difficulty casting even the most basic magic. Although she had trained before, she still subconsciously relied on the power of the system. So although she had not completely lost her ability to cast spells, if she encountered a battle, her current ability to cast spells might be even more helpless than that of a low-level magic apprentice.
"Edol..." If it were in the past, Miss Fairy would definitely give useful advice like a teacher, but after coming to the new world, she can no longer get Edol's advice.
The unfamiliar environment, limited power, and the sadness of losing a friend, all these emotions burst out at the same time, making Si feel very bad.
And there is also a sense of status gap.
Before she traveled through time and space twice, she was always weak and had never experienced what it was like to be strong. But in the last world, she became strong. Even though she still had a long way to go to reach the upper limit of that world, she was indeed the strongest human magician in that world. Although she did not compete for that title, she finally defeated the hero.
The hero's master, the old man who was known as the strongest magician, was no longer her opponent.
Moreover, she was the owner of the Ye Tian Pavilion, and her wealth was so much that she couldn't even count it. Now she suddenly became a poor noble lady, although this starting background was much better than the previous two. But she was a powerful witch just now, and she fell into this situation. The huge gap still made her feel uncomfortable.
Especially the reality that she had to accept that she could not use magic for the time being, and that she had to clean the room by herself, made her very uncomfortable. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she had done this, and the dust in the room was so much that it was hard to breathe. She didn't know how Miss Astraea could endure it?
Wait, although it seems a little impossible, could it be that the character of Miss Astraea is designed according to her personality?
Si thought silently, if she traveled a long distance from the college and rushed back to the villa that had not been taken care of for many years, and saw that the villa was still quite dusty, but not so dirty that it was uninhabitable, would she think about cleaning it hard on the first night?
How is it possible? Just a little dust, can't it stand for one night? The first thing Si thought of was that he would definitely give such a reply at that time.
hiss--
No, this can't be me!
By the way, where are the cleaning tools for this villa? Si recalled the things in his mind that clearly did not belong to him, but they really existed, and there was nothing strange about them.
She walked out of the room and came to a cabinet in the corridor on the first floor. She opened the cabinet and found the cleaning tools.
It had been two years since she remembered, but the quality of these tools was still very good. Then she went to the well in the courtyard outside to fetch water.
"Damn it, why are there so many weeds here, and it's all rusty!"
There is a device on the wellhead that can be used to lower a bucket to draw water, but unfortunately, this device is no longer usable, the rope on it is no longer strong, and the axle of the machine has rusted.
She took a look at the depth of the well and found that she really had no way out. As for the difficult operation of jumping in to fetch water, she said she couldn't do it.
Although her physical fitness is still close to 10,000 points, it does not represent her skills. She is just a magician. Even if she has physical fitness that exceeds that of a swordsman, she cannot perform the kind of maneuvers that allow her to fly over rooftops and walls.
"Miss Astraea, do I have money?" She was used to solving problems with money, and the first thing she thought of was to go to the city to find a servant to solve all the problems. However, in her memory, a certain Miss Astraea showed a poor and sad smile and shook her head at her.
Sorry, she had already pawned all of Astraea's family's property in exchange for a ticket to the Imperial Capital Magic Chanter Academy. Moreover, she spent all of it lavishly in the first year, and was left penniless in the second year.
The worst thing was that this young lady had used all her money to buy materials for magic research, and her life was always very tight. The reason she took a vacation from school was because she was kicked out of school and had no place to live, and the school wanted her to prepare to pay for the next semester's tuition.
According to the imperial policy, if she were a commoner, she could go to school with the empire's sponsorship as long as she showed talent.
But unfortunately, she had the title of a hereditary duke, which was the highest title, but because she was only an honorary noble, it was of no use at all, although she could even use this title to eat and drink at the banquets in the palace.
The ancestors of the Astraea family disdained the power of the nobility and were a group of ascetic monks obsessed with swords.
They could never have imagined that their descendants would end up in such a state, and instead of learning swordsmanship, they went off to learn magic!
At this time, there was a knock on the door outside. Si was very confused. In his memory, this lonely and down-and-out young lady seemed to have no friends or enemies. How could someone come to visit him?
She came to the door nervously. It was no wonder that she was so nervous because she couldn't use magic now. Although she had a good physique, she really hadn't learned any fighting and swordsmanship.
When she opened the door, a little blonde girl dressed as an adventurer looked up and saw her, with a sweet smile. The girl's temperament did not seem like that of an ordinary adventurer.
Why would an adventurer come to see her?
"Sister Si, I received a call from the teacher saying that you are back." said the blonde girl.
When Si heard what the girl said, she was very confused. Although she did have a magic mentor of high status, that guy had never cared about Miss Astraea's life or death, and had not even taught her a few magic moves.
In Miss Astraea's character setting, she was self-taught through magic books.
She bought that teacher with the Astraea family's connections and money. Since one had to follow a teacher to learn magic in school, Miss Astraea gritted her teeth and bribed the magician to become his student. She also obtained the qualification to enter the old man's library, and then taught herself.
And she was not familiar with the old man's other students, because Miss Astraea basically stayed in the magic laboratory every day to study magic when she was in school. She was a typical autistic nerd.
So what did the teacher who had no sense of existence in her memory ask this girl to come to her for? Si silently looked at the girl in front of her, and then if she felt it through intuition, the feeling she gave her could only be described in one word.
weak.
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[Chapter 2: Four Sages]
After the girl introduced herself, Si knew that her name was Alshe Eve Lil Field. Because the name was too long, it was shortened to Alshe. According to the customs of this world, Alshe was the girl's name, followed by Alshe's surname, and some other titles.
In my memory, Miss Astraea didn't know much about these things. After all, the Astraea family was an outlier among the nobles. They were honorary nobles. Don't expect a group of reckless people to learn these things.
After learning about Si's difficulties, Alshe took the initiative to take Si to find her team of adventurers, and then they helped find tools to clean up the villa.
She felt a little scared by the enthusiasm shown by her teammates after hearing that Alshe wanted to invite the eldest lady of Astraea to join the team.
Because she couldn't remember when Miss Astraea had such great personal charm. Then again, could it be her devilish beauty that was at work?
Because she cannot use her skills for the time being, she has no way to hide her beauty. Basically, she is the one being watched wherever she goes.
"Haha, finally finished cleaning. It's so hard to clean a big house.
It's convenient." The man named Heklan threw down the rag in his hand and sat on the scale that he had just cleaned without any image.
In the previous introduction, Tsukasa knew that he was a warrior and the weapon he used was a sword.
Moreover, the other party made it very clear that he was very much attracted by the swordsmanship of the Sword Saint Astraea.
Although I might be overthinking, but this guy approached me, could he want to inherit the swordsmanship of the Astraea family?
However, the Astraea family does not have this thing, because the Astraea family's swordsmanship is inherited through blood, which is very similar to the inheritance method of the dragon clan, and it is not something that can be taught to outsiders.
Moreover, if one wants to learn the swordsmanship of the Astraea family, one must at least first possess the monstrous physical fitness of the Astraea family.
How can we describe the inheritance of the Astraea family? In terms of setting, they are born sword masters. Every descendant of the Astraea family has a natural talent for swordsmanship. And because of the physical fitness brought by the blood of the Astraea family, basically every generation of descendants has their own unique style of swordsmanship. It can be said that the swordsmanship of each generation of sword masters is different, and the only thing in common is that they are strong!
When Si saw this setting, he always felt that it was very similar to the family setting of a certain Long Aotian character in an anime he had watched before, and even the family name was the same, Astraea.
But she was sure that this world was not the one in her anime, because in that anime, humans were not in a weak position. But in this world, according to the information she knew in her memory, the human race in this world was just a weak race.
Moreover, there is no country here that worships the Dragon God, so it is certain that this is not the world of the anime, but a different world that she does not know about.
"Thank you." Although she suspected that Heklan's goal was the Astraea family's swordsmanship inheritance, Si did not show her suspicion. Instead, she expressed her gratitude very seriously for their help in cleaning the villa, even though she couldn't even get a glass of water to entertain them.
Because it is uncertain whether the water in the well is still drinkable, Alshe and the elf named Imina are now in charge of cleaning the courtyard, because it would be more convenient to clean it outside with magic.
At this point, some people may wonder why Miss Astraea, the senior sister, did not clean the courtyard, but let the junior sister Arshe do it? The reason is simple. Perhaps considering that when Tsukasa first came to this world, he could not release skills, Astraea's character is that kind of genius who has strong theoretical knowledge of magic but very poor spellcasting ability. It seems that the magic power in her blood is too strong, so she can never control it well.
If we follow the character setting of Miss Astraea before and ask her to clean the courtyard, even if she can release magic, the result will be to make the villa ascend to heaven, so of course she cannot be asked to do this job.
Hekkeran felt a little unnatural in front of Si, which was something that all men understood. The beauty of this young lady was even more exaggerated than the rumors said. Even though he was devoted to Imina, he couldn't suppress his instinctive impulses as a man, so he basically didn't dare to look at the young lady's face and behaved very reservedly.
This behavior of his is one of the reasons why Si suspected that he had some plot against him, but he did not dislike him. After all, as a swordsman, it is normal to desire to inherit the powerful swordsmanship. And this man can still control his will in the face of his beauty, which shows that he is a good person.
Not to mention the priest Robatiku over there. He seems to be a priest who insists on hard training. He is the heavy armored tank in this team. He can maintain his composure even when facing Si's devilish beauty.
Hekkeran rubbed his head, looked away, and said with a smile, "Haha, no need to thank me. Since you are Alshe's senior sister, you are a friend of the four sages. Besides, this little thing is nothing."
"Really? But I always feel a little embarrassed." Although Si said so, she also knew that she couldn't give them any reward. The swordsmanship inheritance of the Astraea family? Uh, do you really think she knows the Astraea swordsmanship?
"If you really feel embarrassed and must thank us, just find an opportunity to treat us to a meal at your next restaurant." Heklan said. Obviously, he also realized that the young lady had nothing to treat them with.
The Astraea family is known to almost everyone in the empire, because this family is the founding duke of the empire, and the sword masters of each generation are the strongest in the empire. However, the previous sword master and his wife lost contact during the adventure of exploring ancient ruins, and were eventually deemed dead, leaving the underage Miss Astraea alone. This young lady refused everyone's help at the time and decided to enter the magic academy to study magic, which shocked the entire empire.
Even the iron-blooded Blood Emperor couldn't help but run to the Magic Academy to persuade the young lady to return to the right path, but the Blood Emperor failed. Then the angry Blood Emperor said that he would cut off all support for Miss Astraea, trying to force the young lady to give up.
Then two years passed.
The eldest lady still didn't give up.
"By the way, regarding what Arshe just said, Ms. Astraea, are you really planning to join the Four Sages?" Hekkeran asked with some dismay.
He said politely, "Perhaps Alshe didn't make it clear to you. In fact, our team is not a regular adventurer. We are just workers working for the Adventurer's Guild because our purpose is to earn money."
Workers are a general term for people who do adventurer work but are not members of the Adventurer's Guild.
Since they are not under the jurisdiction of a trade union, the nature of their work often wanders in a gray or even illegal area, and members often form alliances for profit without a strong sense of camaraderie.
simply put.
They are mercenaries who work for money.
Workers don’t have a very good reputation.
Because generally speaking, the income of adventurers is more than enough to live on, and workers are a group of people who want to take risks to earn more income. It is basically clear what kind of people these people are.
However, we cannot generalize, because there are also people among the workers who earn money through legitimate means. They do not do anything illegal, but accept more dangerous jobs to earn more money.
Although Si doesn't know the Four Sages well now, she can basically judge that they are workers of this nature, and they must have their own difficulties that led them to choose this profession.
To this, Si replied, "Yes, I would like to join you if possible, because I urgently need to make money to pay for the tuition for next semester. If I sign up as an adventurer, I may not have enough time."
“I see.” Hekkeran said, understanding.
Although he thought that if the young lady gave in, went to the Blood Emperor to admit her mistakes, and stopped learning magic and took up swordsmanship again, she would probably be strongly supported by the Blood Emperor. But the young lady must understand this truth, and he believed that the young lady's personal wishes should be respected in this matter, instead of being so stubborn that the young lady of the Astraea family should learn swordsmanship.
[Chapter 3: Sugar Water]
The process of registering as a worker is very simple. You just need to make a record and register at the Adventurer's Guild.
However, after completing the registration, Si realized that she had overestimated the level of the workers. She originally thought that the workers were high-income people who wandered in the gray area like mercenaries, but in fact, most of the real workers did odd jobs for the Adventurer's Guild.
Although there are workers like the Four Sages whose ranks are comparable to Mithril-level adventurers, they are rare exceptions. Most workers do hard and tiring, low-paid odd jobs, such as helping adventurers carry their luggage and decomposing monster corpses.
The more senior workers are responsible for wandering in the wild, and once they find any ruins or mazes, they will report them to the guild to get commissions. When workers like the Four Sages find a maze, they will generally go into it to search for treasures. The guild will also give them some high-risk commissions that no adventurer is willing to accept.
After a brief understanding, she found that being a worker was not a good career. Unless you really need money in a short period of time, it is not recommended to be a worker. Because workers cannot enjoy the benefits of guild members, do dirty and tiring work, and have a very low status.
Coupled with the fact that many workers do things very unethically, this industry has a bad reputation.
I asked a worker to carry my luggage, and when I finished the ruins maze, I found that my luggage had been stolen. I asked a worker to dissect a monster's body, and found that some of the materials had been embezzled. I asked a worker to explore the maze, and the treasure in the maze was taken away by the worker.
All kinds of things like this happen.
It gives workers a very bad reputation.
"Welcome Astraea to join our team of four sages!"
In the Value Tavern near the Adventurer's Guild, the Four Sages team is holding a celebration to welcome new members.
Several people raised their glasses, and the fragrance of beer spread with the spilled wine. Si carefully raised the glass to her lips and took a sip. She knew she was not good at drinking. At first, she thought that the high-end red wine was actually grape juice, but she didn't tell anyone about it. Although she secretly tried to drink later, she still couldn't accept the taste of wine. It's not that she can't drink it, but she just doesn't think it tastes good.
It's either too bitter or too spicy, and not as good as other drinks.
But today's beer unexpectedly doesn't taste like alcohol.
Although there is a wine aroma, the taste is very light.
And it has a maltose sweetness.
"Delicious."
She couldn't help but doubt whether this was wine.
The people around her heard her exclamation and smiled, saying that everything was said. Because of Si's words, she revealed the fact that she couldn't drink in front of these people.
Because the beer in this store is famous for its sweet taste.
It was a low-grade product among low-grade products. Only some young and face-conscious adventurers would order this kind of wine to cover up the fact that they couldn't drink. Because there were minors like Alshe in their team, they chose this store as their permanent place.
"Hahaha, newbie, the sugar water tastes good!"
The adventurers at the table next to him couldn't help laughing when they heard what Si said. The people there reeked of alcohol. The alcohol they drank was completely different from this kind of sugar beer. Si ignored the adventurers who laughed at him and asked Hekkeran and the others, "Sugar beer? I remember you ordered ale when you ordered just now?"
"No
Wrong, it's beer, the specialty of this store, a drink that even children can drink. It's said to be made from beer mixed with sugar water, but the specific recipe is a secret. "Haklan threw the wooden stick in his hand at the face of the group of adventurers opposite, and continued, "You don't have to care about what these drunkards say."
"Oh shit!"
The adventurer who was hit in the face by Hekkeran's wooden stick stood up angrily, just about to teach this arrogant guy a lesson.
But when he saw Heklan's face clearly, he sobered up a lot and walked towards the door, cursing, "Hmph, what's the point of talking about beer? It's just a kind of sugar water. Only kids who can't drink would drink sugar water without any taste of alcohol!"
"Asshole, you wanna fight?"
Hekkeran yelled at the top of his lungs, and the man pushed open the door and ran away in a panic. He obviously knew that they, a mere [Iron]-level adventurer, could not possibly deal with the four sages of the famous worker team, because the strength of the four sages was equivalent to that of [Mithril]-level adventurers.
