Chapter 64: Advancement

  In the academy, Francis walked on the empty road. Since school had not started yet, there were only a few people on the road, mostly teachers. Following the map at the entrance, Francis found the library, which was tall and slender with a pointed roof, a typical Gothic building. Upon entering the library, rows of bookshelves stretched out before him, with over a thousand shelves just on the first floor alone. Each shelf was three meters high, and to reach the books on top, one had to climb a ladder.

  Following the instructions of the first floor, this floor is basically filled with mainland history, folklore, geography, climate, and miscellaneous notes. On a bookshelf labeled "Miscellaneous Notes", Francis picked up a travelogue written by a wandering poet and roughly flipped through it.

  This book is already some years old, according to the time on the book, Francis calculated that at that time, his cheap old dad was not born yet! The travel notes are a self-narrated biography, all of which are the poet's own experiences and legends from various places during his travels. He chose a seat by the window and began to read slowly...

  "Master! You're back!" In the garden, Vivi, who was accompanying Dolores, saw Francis come in and hurried over to take the things from Francis' hands.

  "What's this?" Dolores also rode over on Gale, taking the three books from Vivian's hand and looking at them. The first floor of the library had books that could be borrowed by any student or teacher in the academy. These books all had alchemy marks on them, which allowed them to remain undamaged for a long time, and they couldn't be put into a spatial ring.

  "With the books borrowed from the library, I won't have to run to the academy every day!" Francis pinched Dolores' small face "Do you understand?"

  "Ah! The words above, Dolores can all recognize!" Dolores nodded, she could already understand these texts through inherited memory.

  "Does that young master not have to go to the academy tomorrow?" Vivi asked aloud.

  "That's right!"

  "That's great, then Mom can play with me tomorrow!" Dorothea threw away the book in her hand and rushed into Francis' arms. Vivian on the side picked up the book on the ground and started flipping through it.

  "Can Vivian also understand human language?"

  "Hmm! The Beastman's writing is almost the same as human's, I can understand it."

  "Say, where did those three Dis guys go?" Francis didn't feel the presence of the three Dis in his house.

  "Mr. Dismausk and his men have gone into the woods behind the manor to practice!"

  "Is that so! Looks like I'll have to hurry up and cultivate too." Francis' magic had already reached a critical point, and in just a few days he would reach the 6th rank. This was his first real promotion since coming to this other world, unlike before when promotions were always unclear. Although this time he couldn't summon anything with his promotion, at least his strength would increase which was somewhat beneficial.

  "Master brought back some strange books!" Vivian roughly flipped through them, two of which recorded some strange customs and practices on the mainland, while one was a rough introduction to the Holy Rank Magic Beast.

  "Hmm! These things are quite useful, don't underestimate them!" In the Beast Country, many beasts Francis couldn't even name, in the library there were just enough beast encyclopedias, Francis picked one up and brought it back. From then on when encountering these beasts, Francis could at least recognize what kind of beasts they were.

  At night, Francis turned on the magic lamp on his desk and began to flip through the book he had borrowed.

  "Knock, knock!"

  "Come on in!"

  "Master, the red wine you wanted!" Vivian walked in with a bottle of red wine and an exquisite wine glass.

  "Thanks!" Francis said with a smile.

  Vivian poured a glass for Francis and then walked behind him, kneading his shoulders. As he savored Vivian's massage, Francis took a sip of the red wine in his cup and began to read the book in his hand seriously. The excellent quality and flavor of the slightly sour taste, combined with the faint scent of alcohol, made him fond of this world's red wine.

  Vivian slowly massaged Francis's shoulders, gazing at him under the lamp light, which accentuated the contours of his face. He was just an ordinary beastman fox tribe member, and compared to other fox tribe girls, he only looked more outstanding. Without any sacrificial talent, he was destined to become a normal fox tribe member, living an ordinary life from birth to death. After being caught by the human slave squad, she had thought about ending her own life, but as a high-priced fox girl, humans kept a close eye on her. After being forced to sign a slave contract, her life seemed not to belong to herself, and she worried about her future every day, living in terror until she met Francis. The first time she saw Francis's face, she was certain that the owner of this perfect face was a man, especially Francis's enchanting smile, which made her feel like basking in sunlight.

  "Hmm!" Feeling her body being hugged, Francis turned around and looked at the girl behind her. What's going on? She wasn't usually this proactive of a girl!

  "Master!" At the whisper in his ear, Francis turned around to see a pair of enticing red lips and Vivian's eyes that seemed to flow like a crimson river. Francis swallowed hard. She was indeed a fox spirit, already so alluring at such a young age. To kiss or not to kiss? Between the options of beast and less than beast, Francis chose the former.

  Slowly, she offered her mouth to him, and Vivian also tightly grasped Francis' arm, closing her eyes. Just as Francis was about to succeed, he suddenly stopped, why didn't you come at any other time, but had to choose this moment.

  Vivian waited for a while, feeling no movement from Francis, and slowly opened her eyes to stare at Francis in surprise.

  Francis stood up from his chair and also helped Vivian, who was leaning against him, to stand up. "That's it for today! I have something to do, you go back first!" After finishing speaking, Francis grabbed the wine on the table and drank it in one gulp.

  "But...!" Vivian looked at Francis in puzzlement, why did he stop?

  "Scram! Get going!" Francis pushed Vivian out the door. "Tell everyone not to disturb me later, I'm going to advance!"

  "Advance?" Vivi stood outside the door, looking at the closed room door, and curiously shook her tail. Thinking of the ripples just now, she covered her face with both hands in front of Francis' door.

  "You really know how to pick the time, don't you!" Feeling the turbulent light magic in his body, Francis walked over to the bedside and sat down cross-legged, beginning to comb out the slowly boiling magic within him.

  "What's going on?" Saber was sitting on the bed, lost in thought, when he suddenly felt Francis' magic stirring next door. He put on his coat and walked out, just in time to see Vivi still covering her face.

  "What's wrong, Vivian?"

  "Ah! Miss Saber!" Vivian quickly put down her hand upon hearing Saber's voice.

  "What are you doing standing in front of Master Francis's door?" Saber asked, looking at Vivian with a puzzled expression. At this time, Dis and Aeolus also walked over, they too had sensed the magical fluctuations in Francis's room. Only Dorothea was still fast asleep, hugging Garet tightly, and didn't come over.

  "Just now, Young Master said he's going to advance, and told me to guard the door, not letting anyone disturb him!" Vivian stopped Saber who was about to open the door.

  "Advancement! No wonder. It seems like Young Master hasn't advanced in almost half a year now!"

  "I'll just wait here for a while then!" Dais said, leaning against the wall.

  Slowly using his spiritual power to compress the light system magic within his body, the external light elements kept surging towards Francis.

  With Francis's spiritual power controlling the magic, it was easy to calm down the magic in his body, and the light elements around him no longer surged towards his body.

  Spiritual power swirled around the magical powers, constantly compressing the light system magic. This took a long time, and it wasn't until nearly three hours later that Francis finally succeeded in compressing it completely. Afterwards, the surrounding magical powers once again surged towards Francis.

  "Is that it?!" Francis opened his eyes, and after advancing to 6th rank mage, besides having more abundant magical power, the speed of condensing magical power also became faster.

  "What's going on? Are you all there?" Francis pushed open the door and came out, feeling that there were several people outside.

  "Master, have you successfully advanced?" Although Saber knew Francis must have succeeded, he couldn't help but ask again.

  "Ah! Now I'm a 6th rank light system mage!" Francis felt the magic power filling his body, and with that, he could learn several more spells. "Hmm! Don't worry about it! Nothing's wrong, all of you can go back now!" Francis chased away the few people still lingering at the door, it was almost midnight and he didn't want them to keep guarding the door for so long.

  "Hmm, why haven't you left yet?" Francis looked at Vivian who was following behind him.

  "Me!..." Vivi lowered her head, she liked staying by Francis' side.

  "Hehe! Go to sleep quickly, it's already very late!" Francis patted Vivian's head and sent her out.

  "Hmm!" Francis sat on the bed, immersing his spiritual power into the wolf head tattoo, directly entering the dark space within. To be honest, he still had a bit of reluctance.

  "It's still exactly the same here!" Francis looked around at the unchanging darkness.

  "Ding! Welcome player back! Player successfully leveled up! Current player level is six!" The mechanical voice of the system echoed in the black space.

  Francis waited for a while and didn't hear the voice he wanted to hear. "As expected, six stages can't be summoned!" Just as Francis was about to leave, the system's voice sounded again.

  "Players can leave the newbie village at level 6!"

  "Ah!! Is there still such a thing as a newbie village?" Francis was depressed, it seemed like he didn't have a newbie village himself.

  "Player is currently at level 6, task system has been activated, player can accept tasks!"

  "Quest... system?" Francis was puzzled, where was the quest system? He circled around the disk twice, but Francis still couldn't find the so-called quest bar.

  "Ah! I'm so stupid! This is obviously a game that requires an internet connection, and I've been searching for the task all along?" After a futile search, Francis exited the Wolf Head space.

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