Chapter 69: Comrade with the Son

Library.

"Your Highness, Boge will definitely be ecstatic about your favor."

Anliya's face was full of joy, and she kissed Xia Mingyu's face lightly.

"Lewd..." Yilisi, who only blocked half of her face with a book, couldn't help but raise the book higher, but still didn't block those different-colored eyes.

"Yilisi, come here!" Xia Mingyu, who was lying on Anliya's lap, beckoned without looking back.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Yilisi quickly put down the book, forgot to put on her shoes, and ran barefoot to Xia Mingyu's side, kneeling and sitting obediently.

What to do, what to do? His Highness wouldn't want her to give him a knee pillow, right!

Although Yilisi's surface expression was calm, her heart was already panicking.

She didn't mind the knee pillow; after all, His Highness was the first person to praise her eyes for being beautiful and give her flowers, but... it would definitely hurt after a long time, right? She was just a weak and sickly little girl!

"Yilisi, do you know what the Transcendent profession for a farmer's promotion is? I flipped through the books on blessings on the bookshelf, and it seems none of them are written." Xia Mingyu asked.

Fortunately, it wasn't asking her for a knee pillow.

Yilisi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but felt a little disappointed.

"Your Highness, I remember the farmer's promotion profession is Harvester; about ten years ago, the kingdom sent people here to search for forbidden books and took away many books, among which there should be books recording farmer blessings."

Yilisi thought for a while and answered.

At that time, she was still a little girl, and because she spent all day in the library reading books, she remembered this.

"I see..." Xia Mingyu's expression gradually became solemn.

Originally he was just guessing, but now it seems it can be confirmed—the king of this kingdom is really deliberately suppressing agriculture!

But what good does this do for him?

Could it be that letting all the citizens starve and live in misery would help his rule...

"Yilisi, do you know the conditions for a farmer to promote to Transcendent?" Xia Mingyu thought for a moment and asked in a deep voice.

"Sorry, Your Highness, perhaps I have seen it in forbidden books, but time is too long ago and I have forgotten it." Yilisi shook her head.

It seems that the plan to cultivate Transcendent farmers to solve the food problem once and for all is impossible... Xia Mingyu sighed.

"Anliya, go back to sleep, I'm going to start meditating."

Looking at the night sky outside the window, Xia Mingyu sent Anliya away from the library.

"Yilisi, why haven't you gone back to sleep yet?"

Looking at the silver-haired girl who was still kneeling on the ground, Xia Mingyu asked in confusion.

At this time, usually she should have gone back to her room to sleep!

"Recently, for some reason, my father and stepmother seem very happy, so they were noisy all night and I couldn't sleep next door."

Yilisi showed a bitter look.

Heaven knows why they could shout all night!

Even if she covered her ears with a pillow, she could hear it clearly, so she didn't dare to go back to her bedroom to sleep at all, and could only make do on the hammock in the library.

Xia Mingyu: "..."

He always felt a little uneasy in his conscience.

"Yilisi, I saw in a book that the conditions for promoting to a mage are one, sufficient magic power, and two, awakening core magic; can you tell me more about the latter?"

Xia Mingyu asked with a frown.

The books in this world are just like textbooks on Blue Star, vague at critical points.

"To become a mage, the most critical thing is to comprehend true magic; the magic we use now by superimposing magic patterns with blank magic power can strictly only be called illusion, not true magic."

"True magic is presented as extremely complex patterns fused with many magic pattern details, called magic diagrams."

"And core magic is the first magic that a mage awakens according to their own spirit and magic power characteristics; only when a mage uses core magic can they release it directly without drawing extremely complex magic diagrams."

Yilisi explained slowly.

"Most magic in this world comes from mages throughout history copying and recording their own core magic into magic books; only a very small number are created by top-level mages."

"If Your Highness wants to awaken core magic, the fastest way is to come into contact with magic books and comprehend the magic diagrams recorded on them."

After listening to her account, Xia Mingyu couldn't help but fall into thought.

The magic system of this world is really strange!

Most magic is not created by people, but recorded by other mages from their own awakened magic.

"Are there any magic books in Black Langbao?"

"No, magic books need to be made of rare materials such as magic crystals and magical beast skin, which are extremely expensive; even Black Langbao doesn't have them." Yilisi shook her head.

Her father had mentioned buying her magic books, but she refused.

One is that it is too expensive, and two... she and her father both know very well that even with magic books, she cannot promote to a mage, because God does not allow her to promote.

"Professional promotion really requires resources everywhere..." Xia Mingyu sighed in his heart.

Forget it, he'd better honestly meditate and refine magic power; after all, his current magic power is still far from the threshold of a mage.

Afterwards, he sat cross-legged and meditated facing the bright moon outside the window, while Yilisi went to the hammock to sleep.

One night passed without incident.

Early the next morning.

Just as the sky was bright, Xia Mingyu took Boge and left Black Langbao, coming to a nearby dense forest.

He needed to test the ability of "Comrade with the Son", preferably where no one could see.

And here the trees were towering, the canopy was layered and blocked the sunlight, and the surroundings were filled with a little morning mist; it was indeed a quiet and hidden good place.

"Your Highness, thank you for your favor, I will definitely offer you everything."

Boge had already learned that he was going to be appointed, so he knelt on one knee on the ground with a flushed face.

The look he cast at Xia Mingyu was full of fanaticism, as if if Xia Mingyu told him to die the next moment, he would willingly crash into a big tree and die.

But soon, his expression became shocked and unbelievable.

Because Xia Mingyu actually started to unbutton his clothes and take them off.

Boge: "???"

Does His Highness have that kind of hobby?

Fortunately, he soon realized he had misunderstood, because His Highness was just taking off his outer garment.

Immediately after, Xia Mingyu gently draped the silk outer garment he had taken off over his shoulders, and then recited in a low voice:

"How can you say you have no clothes? I share my robe with you."

"The king raises his army, I repair my spear and sword."

Listening to His Highness's voice, many illusions inexplicably appeared in Boge's mind; he seemed to see a terrifying army with his own eyes, the lord and minister sharing the same heart, driving chariots forward bravely, and the sand raised by the wheels covered the sky.

"Share the same hatred with you!"

Accompanied by the last sentence, the silk outer garment draped over Boge actually turned into countless light spots and gathered on the identity blessing on top of his head.

Under Xia Mingyu's gaze, the line of text gradually changed, turning from the white "Commoner" to the emerald green "Comrade".

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 70 =====