Struggle in the Steam Age

Fifteen minutes later, Lawrence and Safiel sat together in a luxurious tea room and enjoyed a sumptuous afternoon tea. Sitting opposite them across a coffee table was Madame Fontaine in a long coat with lace hair accessories.

Everyone chatted very happily during the whole afternoon tea, especially Mrs. Fontaine knew that Lawrence had sent him an invitation after he published a cover paper in the "Federal Medical Journal", hoping that he could be with Seifel when he was free. Get up for the party at Fontaine.

During the chat at afternoon tea, Lawrence took out the rest of the incense and handed it to Mrs. Fontaine, because she expressed to Lawrence that she hoped that she could have some way to help her child recover as soon as possible, and now Lawrence's only way is to burn This extraordinary spice. Of course, Lawrence also believed that Mrs. Fontaine could pay him a good price for these things.

When the afternoon tea was over, Lawrence and the others left the manor in the carriage in the manor. After they returned to their detective agency, Safiel went upstairs and called Fatina down who was practicing how to use the tail knife, and then the three of them sat in the living room and began to distribute the harvest after completing the commission today. .

Regarding supernatural items, according to the distribution rules among superhumans, it belongs to the person who made the most contribution when searching for this item, and at the same time must make up for other people who made contributions in this process. But now the notebook with the book charm was obtained by Lawrence with his own strength, so it naturally belonged to Lawrence.

After determining the destination of the notebook, the next step is the distribution of money. When talking about this, Safiel seemed a little excited. "We made a lot of money this time, really, I swear I've never made so much money before."

After speaking, she took out her wallet and opened it in front of everyone. Lawrence found a thick wad of green bills inside. These are all ten-dollar banknotes issued by the White Eagle Federation. They have the national emblem of the Federation painted on the front, a bald eagle with a star in its mouth, and the words ten yuan are written on the back.

"This mission was 500 yuan when we negotiated it." Sai Feier took out the money and divided it into two parts, one more and one less, and then pushed the smaller part in front of Lawrence. "But in the end, the steward of Fontaine's house gave me 600 yuan. The 100 yuan is for your spices, so naturally it belongs to you."

"And the remaining 500 yuan—" Sai Feier said and divided the 500 yuan on the table into two parts. "Half of it will be used as public funds for the detective agency, and the other half will be distributed according to the contributions of the three of us in this commission. Among them, Lawrence gets 180 yuan, I get 60 yuan, and Fatina gets 10 yuan."

"Is everyone okay with my distribution method?" After dividing the money, Safiel looked at Lawrence and the others and asked.

"I took 10 yuan without doing anything, isn't it a bit too much?" Looking at the money allocated to her, Fatina said a little embarrassed. After all, 10 yuan is already equivalent to a month's salary for ordinary workers .

"Not many." Lawrence stood up and looked at Fatina at this time and said, "You must know that we are a team, so when the spoils are distributed, every member who participated in this event should get the spoils It was decided by everyone that you didn't go today, so you should get this trophy if you stay as required and do nothing."

After the loot distribution is over. Lawrence returned to the upstairs room for magic research. The first thing he did after entering the door was to take out the previous notebook from his coat pocket.

According to the magic ritual learned in a book in the library of St. Gutenberg Cathedral, Lawrence took out a small bottle of essential oil distilled from the leaves of the flower of water and mixed it with sterling silver powder and cypress leaf powder. When everything was well mixed, he added an equal amount of distilled water to the bottle.

After finishing all this, Lawrence checked to make sure that there was no problem with the liquid configuration. He took out his mithril pen for drawing runes from the space bag on his waist, dipped it into the liquid in the bottle and placed it on the side of the table. A magic circle was drawn on a slate, and then the somewhat old notebook was placed in the middle of the magic circle.

After everything was ready, Lawrence injected a little magic power into the magic circle. Every line and every rune on the entire magic circle was illuminated by magic power to emit a soft white light. When the entire magic circle was lit up, Lawrence quickly took out a silver-plated knife and cut a small cut on his left ring finger, and then dripped blood on the book.

In an instant, all the light on the magic circle rushed towards the notebook in the center of the magic circle. Its brightness forced Lawrence to squint his eyes. After the light faded, Lawrence immediately felt a faint connection between himself and the book charm in the book.

After feeling that the magic contract was successfully signed, Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief at this time. Because in the library before, this book charm made it very clear that it wanted to become Lawrence's familiar, because it smelled something from Lawrence that made him very comfortable.

Lawrence felt that it might be caused by the blood of Bai Ze in his body. As a symbol of wisdom, it is very normal for Bai Ze's blood to attract creatures like book charms whose life is knowledge.

For Shumei, it is also a very fortunate thing to meet a suitable master candidate. Because creatures like them are not good at fighting, not good at concealment, and have high requirements on the growth environment. If they grow up by their own strength, the growth rate will be very slow, and it is also very easy to die young.

Therefore, for creatures like them, it is a very good choice to find a better owner to take them to upgrade quickly. After all, their lifespan is much longer than that of human beings, and the time needed to serve one person is a small part of their lives. It is very worthwhile in their eyes to exchange such a period of unfreedom for a greatly improved level of.

As for the fact that individual masters can also have a long lifespan, it is not a bad thing for these magic pets, because in such a world, lifespan is often linked to their strength. Among them, in the most fortunate cases, there are even magic pets who have successfully become slave gods or angels after their masters ignited the god fire and successfully ascended to the gods.

Naturally, those magic pets who follow their masters to become gods or emissaries are regarded as winners in life among intelligent and extraordinary creatures like book charms, and everyone who is interested in holding the thighs of other intelligent creatures looks forward Seeing that they will be the next one.

"Okay, you can come out." After confirming the establishment of the contract, Lawrence input a little magic power into the notebook, and he could feel the book charm suddenly become active after the magic power entered the book. Fortunately, the magic power required by the book charm is not much, and it only needs the magic power of a zero-level magic in a week. "I have something to ask you."

"Master, is there anything I can help you with?" As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, the chubby book charm floated out of the notebook and asked, "Now is the time when I feel the most alive in the past 50 years. , The previous feeling of only being able to maintain a sliver of life is really too bad."

"I want to ask what ability you have mastered?" Lawrence said to the little guy in front of him. "After knowing your ability, it will be convenient for me to get along with you in the future."

"My ability—" the little ball said after circling Lawrence a few times, "my ability is not very good at fighting, but I have special talents in other aspects—"