Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 222: Do I... Need to Call You Master?

Chapter 222: Chapter 222: Do I... Need to Call You Master?

"Eek——"

The petite black-haired girl looked at Anvis blankly, then at her own current state, and like being electrocuted, she instantly let go of her hand and broke free from Xia Ye Yinghuo’s embrace.

Suddenly released, the half-asleep Half-Elf girl’s body swayed and was about to fall.

Seeing this, Lorna hurriedly embraced her again.

Meanwhile, as the ritual ended, the system-hosted Xia Ye Yinghuo also woke up.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Lorna holding her tightly in front of her.

Calmly being held by the black-haired black-eyed girl, Xia Ye Yinghuo curiously checked her own panel.

In the skill section of the panel, a new permanent passive skill had appeared.

[Destiny Companion·Lorna]

Companion Summoning type: Living Oddity

Grade: Unique

Wow, a golden border!

Jackpot!

Xia Ye Yinghuo excitedly hugged the girl back and tapped the icon on the panel with her mind. The icon expanded, revealing Lorna’s attributes.

[Lorna]

Level: 22

Race: Living Oddity

Life: 1200/1200

Magic Power: 1480/1480

Endurance: 800/800

Experience: 0

Upgrade required: 25000

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Talent: Immortal [If killed by a non-rule level attack, can be reborn based on the Player character]

Special: When the Companion Summoning’s level is lower than the Player character, the experience gained by the Player character is split in half with the summon. Player character and summon share certain attributes.

Upon noticing her own panel, Xia Ye Yinghuo realized she might be becoming godlike.

Every attribute on her character panel had an extra golden special bracket behind it, containing all of Lorna’s attributes.

When suddenly hugged again, Lorna immediately realized the girl had woken up, sighed with relief while quickly and disdainfully letting go, leaving the Half-Elf girl somewhat puzzled.

After that, she finally noticed Anvis smiling and waiting at the side.

"Dear old... Anvis, you are here too?"

Her face slightly blushing, Xia Ye Yinghuo quickly corrected herself.

Although she wanted to tease this cute NPC, it’s better to be reserved since Lorna is here.

You were about to say "husband," huh?

Anvis, standing beside with a polite smile on his face, felt helpless inside.

The panel hasn’t even opened my character’s affection level, what are you dreaming of peaches?

At the same time, after seeing the girl’s character panel, Anvis confirmed the result of the ritual.

Perfect success!

A Cross-Rank Companion Summoning, highly effective.

And, since both Lorna and Xia Ye Yinghuo are humanoid creatures.

Xia Ye Yinghuo has almost directly acquired all the attributes of 22-level Lorna, even able to use part of Lorna’s life/magic/endurance, which is calculated in addition to her own original attributes.

Although it sounds highly effective, Anvis understood that this situation is very hard to replicate.

In fact, it was a fluke that the girl accidentally gained full recognition from Lorna, achieving such an effect.

And, both of their levels are within Fourth Rank

Once beyond Fourth Rank, such Companion can at most skip one major rank, even with full recognition from the summon.

"Alright, the ritual is complete, the materials consumed by the ritual totaled 37,856 Gold Coins, and the ritual setup fee 25,000 Gold Coins, totaling 62,856 Gold Coins."

Smiling, Anvis announced, startling the player girl with his words.

"Do I still need to pay a fee?"

Xia Ye Yinghuo asked weakly, she had never even seen a gold coin, as her previous task rewards had all been paid in black copper coins...

"You must understand, Miss Traveler, miracles and magic are never free."

With a somewhat regretful expression, the young man with light golden broken hair slowly shook his head.

"Of course, I see that you don’t look like you can afford such an amount, but considering you volunteered as my experimental subjects, I can waive the ceremony arrangement fee for you."

"In that case, you just need to pay me for the materials used, I can even generously round down the smaller amount, you only need 37000 gold coins——"

"But what if I can’t even produce a single gold coin?"

Xia Ye Yinghuo couldn’t help but speak in a soft voice.

She should have known, the money-grabbing planners even made the system voice prompts payable. With such a philosophy of creating joy through hardship, how could the game tasks possibly be free?

Hope something happens to the greedy planners!

"Not even a single gold coin? That’s troublesome..."

Anvis’s expression became slightly silent, and just when Xia Ye Yinghuo had braced herself to forever lose her male god, his next words immediately made the girl breathe a sigh of relief and even feel secretly delighted.

"Then, you’ll have to repay through completing tasks."

"No problem, as long as I can do it, I’m willing to do anything!"

Xia Ye Yinghuo quickly agreed, and as she spoke, something crossed her mind and her ears suddenly turned red.

"Don’t get too excited, Miss, I won’t make it too difficult for you."

Anvis looked somewhat suspiciously at Xia Ye Yinghuo who suddenly became weirdly excited.

What exactly are you excited about?

"Forget it... here, take this."

Taking out an ordinary crystal ball, Anvis held it close to a nearby large crystal ball for a while, then casually handed it over to the girl, before putting away the large crystal ball.

Secret techniques like bizarre transformation rituals are always recorded using a high-standard magic crystal ball throughout the entire process for future reference of ceremonial details.

"What is this?"

Xia Ye Yinghuo curiously took it, feeling its cool touch, and noticed it had browsable options.

"This is a backup of the experimental records, I’m giving you a copy as a memento. You can view it on your own after I leave."

Anvis expressed emotionlessly.

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"By the way, after some time, we will leave this island and return to the Continent. And you will need to stay by my side until all your debts are paid off, then you can regain complete freedom."

"Alright, Anvis, I understand!"

Xia Ye Yinghuo nodded like a pecking chicken, even secretly thrilled. Meanwhile, thinking of some plot, a somewhat weird question suddenly slipped out.

"Um... do I need to call you master?"

"...No need."

Anvis’s eyelid twitched.

Call me master? You’re not right!

After Anvis left, Xia Ye Yinghuo started to browse the crystal ball curiously.

Then, her entire face up to her ear tips immediately flushed red, almost as if steam was about to rise from her head.

Did I... look like that in front of Anvis before?!

x>To Lorna, who was unaware of this, Xia Ye Yinghuo handed the crystal ball to her.

After a moment, Lorna’s little hands trembled abruptly, shying away into her body and not coming out.

.........

Pulling Xia Ye Yinghuo into his camp was a decision Anvis made on the spur of the moment.

Being able to spawn directly on a hidden map when the game launched, and even gaining strange recognition due to her own capabilities, all indicated that she had enough luck.

Meanwhile, he also opened the fate perspective once again to peek at the player’s line of destiny.

But unlike during the beta test’s Last Dragon Descendant, Xia Ye Yinghuo’s line of destiny seemed much more real.

Although it still stretched out a short distance into the void, its color had become indistinguishable from that of the natives.

This phenomenon indicates that among the players, a Prophet and a special ’Child of Destiny’ might also emerge.

Then, he could try to extract fate feedback directly from the players themselves by issuing tasks.