Chapter 324: Contract Summoning Ritual
“That's strange. This wizard robe is clearly a 'deformation-specific wizard robe,' so why was it pierced by a branch?”
After changing into a new wizard robe, Jia Na looked at the ruined emerald green wizard robe in her hand, a hint of confusion in her eyes.
This ruined wizard robe was the latest summer vine robe gifted by the Tongling Group when summer began this year. Logically, its quality shouldn't have been so poor.
“Unless the branches that grew from my back at the time weren't due to deformation, but rather—a part of my body.”
Thinking this, Jia Na turned around and stood in the center of the seclusion room, transforming into her “treant” form once more, allowing branches to grow wildly from every part of her body. But in just a moment, she returned to her human form.
“How strange.”
Looking at her wizard robe, which was still perfectly intact, the confusion in Jia Na's eyes never faded.
“Could it really be a quality issue with the wizard robe?”
After pondering for a while, Jia Na no longer dwelled on this minor matter. Instead, she put the damaged wizard robe into her thorn bracelet, then pushed open the door of the seclusion room and walked towards the elevator at the end of the corridor.
“Ding—” As the mechanical elevator doors slowly opened, Jia Na, riding the elevator, descended from the ninth floor of the Magic Tower back to the first floor,
and walked straight towards the magic crystal wall.
“Good evening, Miss Bei'er.”
“Good evening—…—Hm? You've broken through again?”
Black Cat Belle, who was resting on the magic crystal wall, saw that the newcomer was Jia Na, whom she hadn't seen in a long time. As she habitually stretched and responded to Jia Na, she suddenly froze, staring at Jia Na with a look of surprise.
“Yes.”
Upon hearing Jia Na's affirmative reply, Black Cat Belle, though extremely surprised that Jia Na could break through to a Third-level Wizard Apprentice in such a short time, this was also within her expectations.
After all, the person before her was a monstrous genius who possessed double A-rank Wizard Talent and had also mastered several Law Fragment.
“What are you here to exchange this time? Still wizardry? But I shouldn't have any wizardry left that you can study, right?”
“I want to exchange for some Contract Summoning ritual materials.”
As Black Cat Belle said, White Coral Academy's stock of wizardry, anything related to Plant-based or mental-based, had already been fully exchanged by Jia Na when she first advanced to a Second-level Wizard Apprentice.
Among the wizardry remaining at the magic crystal wall, even if there were wizardry suitable for a Third-level Wizard Apprentice to learn, most were dark-attributed, or the four elemental wizardry of water, fire, wind, and earth—which were not suitable for Jia Na, a Summoning and Plant-based Apprentice, to learn.
This situation occurred not only because of White Coral Academy's own scarcity of wizardry resources, but also because there were too few pure White Wizard Apprentices like Jia Na who cultivated positive energy magic particles within the academy.
“Ritual materials?”
Feeling the strong Plant-based aura on Jia Na, Black Cat Belle sometimes involuntarily overlooked Jia Na's identity as a Summoning Apprentice.
“Will you pay with academic credits or jin sule?”
“Pay with academic credits.”
“Alright, pay up.”
Looking at the Contract Summoning ritual materials flying out of Black Cat Belle's extradimensional pouch, Jia Na skillfully pressed her index finger on the magic crystal wall's fingerprint scanner, completing the academic credit payment.
“Miss Bei'er, I'll be leaving now.”
After putting all the ritual materials into her thorn bracelet, Jia Na bid farewell to Black Cat Belle.
“Little Apprentice—”
Just as Jia Na had turned around, preparing to leave, Black Cat Belle's voice suddenly came from behind Jia Na.
“I wish you… good luck.”
Although Jia Na was momentarily stunned by the somewhat abrupt blessing, a genuine smile still bloomed on her face.
“Thank you for your blessing, Miss Bei'er.”
Thump, thump, thump. The sound of footsteps gradually faded. Looking at the slender figure that had completely disappeared from sight, Black Cat Belle's cat face
kept flashing with conflicted expressions, then she sighed and silently lay back down on the magic crystal wall.
“I hope you don't repeat the same mistakes, Little Apprentice.”
“Drip, drip, patter—”
The night was dim. After walking out of the Magic Tower, Jia Na realized it was raining lightly and coolly outside.
Seeing this, a faint emerald green light flickered from Jia Na's hand, and a giant morning glory, half the size of Jia Na, abruptly grew from beside her feet.
“This kind of weather is very suitable for water-elemental Apprentices to travel.”
After advancing to a Third-level Wizard Apprentice, water-elemental Apprentices would naturally also master semi-elementalization.
And in water elemental form, a water-elemental Apprentice's body would be no different from ordinary water flow; not only could it deform at will, but it could also use various liquids for elemental jumps—and rainwater was a natural jumping medium.
Of course, as a Plant-based Apprentice, Jia Na could also perform elemental jumps, but her prerequisite was that plants must be present around her.
“Whoosh—”
The rain grew heavier. Jia Na, who had used a vine to pluck the morning glory, held its stem to use as a temporary umbrella. Then, accompanied by the sound of rain in her ears, she slowly walked to the dormitory building, enjoying the rare coolness in the sweltering summer.
“Ding—”
As the elevator door slowly opened, Jia Na, still holding the morning glory, couldn't help but shake the raindrops off its petals. Then, she used a vine to gather the petals and placed them at the dormitory entrance.
“Miss Jia Na, you're finally back!”
Because Jia Na had been staying in the seclusion room for the past few days, the Door Spirit, seeing Jia Na again after many days, his voice trembled a bit from excitement.
“I'm back, Door Spirit—these flowers are for you.”
After tidying her hair behind her back, Jia Na took out a few small yellow and white flowers she had just picked at the dormitory entrance and handed them to the Door Spirit.
“Ah! Thank you, Miss Jia Na! These flowers are really beautiful.”
“As long as you like them.”
Jia Na, who had known the Door Spirit for nearly two years, naturally knew his preferences. Besides incense, the Door Spirit's favorite things were vibrant flowers.
“Good night, Miss Jia Na!”
Seeing Jia Na enter the room, the Door Spirit, holding the fresh flowers, also hurriedly bid Jia Na good night.
“Good night, Door Spirit.”
Bang— As the dormitory door closed, Jia Na, seeing a thin layer of dust on the floor, immediately cast two Cleaning Spell on the dormitory and herself, and threw all the gathered dust into the trash can beside the experimental table.
“Since there's still some time tonight, I can go ahead and organize the Contract Summoning ritual materials—”
