Chapter 41 Harold: I Hate You

Chapter 41 Harold: I Hate You

Four hours later, the hot air balloon landed in front of a temporary tent on the outskirts of Xumi City.

"We can only land here. The people from the Ministry of Education won't allow us to land the hot air balloon in Xumi City, otherwise they will charge us a high fee for falling objects from high altitude," said Tinari.

Harold:?

Is a landing hot air balloon considered a falling object?

There are so many weird rules. Hazard, you are really short of money.

Even though he knew the cause and effect of everything, after personally experiencing the series of temporary measures taken by the House of Lords, he still couldn't suppress his complaints.

Tinari slowly turned off the burner, and the balloon gradually shrank, and finally turned completely into a piece of cloth spread on the ground.

Tinari untied the bandages around his head, shook his ears, and ran his hands through the hair on his ears to make sure it was smooth again.

Then he jumped out nimbly with one hand on the basket of the hanging basket, turned his head, opened his arms and said to Harold: "Be careful when you come down, don't worry, I will hold you well."

Then he whispered to himself: "Hmm... The instructor is right. I should definitely get a hanging basket with a door."

Because he is a mixed-blood, he is more agile than the average human. The railings that he can easily cross are a challenge for ordinary humans.

"I'm fine," Haroldt simply made a staircase with rocks this time and walked down the stairs quite gracefully.

"What other uses does the Rock Elemental God's Eye have besides hoeing the ground?" Tinari's eyes sparkled. "When I was a kid, I also thought about using elemental power to make a ladder, but I wanted to use grass elemental power."

"Maybe it's because we live in different environments," Harold said with a smile.

Tinari was in a good mood: "This is another example of how biological knowledge can be reflected in real life. This world is really amazing."

Then, the two of them put the balloon into the box together, and then put the box and the basket into the temporary tent.

"Tinari, will you be home tomorrow?" Harold asked.

"Of course, on the last day of my vacation, I plan to stay home and take care of my potted plants."

Harold: "I plan to visit Lord Nafis tomorrow. Can you show me the way?"

After that, he added: "I have an invitation letter from him."

Of course Tinari knew about this. Nafis had mentioned this matter to him more than once, and even jokingly complained to his good friend Zacharias in front of him, "Your favorite disciple doesn't even give face to the sage of the Asana school. What an arrogant boy."

"You want to meet with the mentor? In private?", Tinari said.

Harold nodded. "Tomorrow afternoon or evening, I would like to take up some of Lord Nafis's personal time."

The sages of the Court of Ordinances have no days off. As long as they are working hours, they will stay in the Court of Ordinances. But if you want to request a meeting, you must submit an invitation letter or instructions from your superiors to the guards.

This means that the sages' personal time is very precious. Many sages will not interact with the people of the Ordinance House as sages after get off work. Once they leave the Ordinance House, they are just members of Xumi City. Nafis has implemented this point to the fullest.

So he sent an invitation, implying that he asked Harold to visit him during his working hours as a scholar of Amyrido College, which would undoubtedly declare to everyone that the sage of the Shenglun school valued him.

Harold thought it was possible, but unnecessary. Being classified as a member of the Nafis faction or even being considered as the successor that Nafis was training was not his goal.

He came here just to do one thing, to do scientific research, to do scientific research, or to do damn scientific research.

If you think in this way, meeting Nafis in the House of the Decrees may not necessarily bring more benefits than disadvantages to him. But now it is different. With Tinari, Nafis's disciple, as a middleman, he can visit Nafis privately. As long as he can bypass the House of the Decrees and Azar, the nature of the situation will immediately change.

Well, it would be even better if Nafis could provide some financial and equipment assistance for his research. He would definitely be very grateful.

Tinari: "I will explain the situation to my teacher. I believe my teacher will be very happy to know the news. Then please tell me your home address. I will find a suitable time to visit you tomorrow."

Harold thanked him and wrote his address on a piece of paper and handed it to Tinari.

The two said goodbye here, and Harold returned home under the cover of night. It was already three o'clock in the morning, and the entire Xumi City was deserted. Harold stood in front of his house, holding the door handle with one hand, turned around and looked at the darkness in the distance, his mind empty for two seconds.

But soon, he opened the door, turned on the light, took out the book with the invitation letter, took out the invitation letter and put it in the "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Biology of the Continent of Teyvat", which was a book he would take out to review whenever he had free time.

Then he washed up, made half a cup of tea, and fell asleep on the bed.

At seven o'clock the next day, Harold woke up on time, dressed, washed, poured water and drank tea, picked out a few things from the freezer, chopped them up and cooked them in a pot.

After breakfast, Harold took the book and went to the Elhaisen house.

It’s only 7:40, I wonder if anyone has arrived early.

Harold thought about it and knocked on the door of Elhaisen's house.

The one who opened the door was Elhaisen, who was fully dressed. Since it was not a working day, he did not wear the student uniform of the Ordinance House. Instead, he wore a traditional Sumeru robe. The plain robe had only a few small symmetrical plant patterns embroidered on the collar.

"Good morning, Senior Elhaisen," Harold greeted.

"Well, come in, and remember to close the door."

After saying this, Elhaisen went into the house first.

Harold smelled food; Elhaisen must be making breakfast.

After walking into the house and closing the door, he found that he was the first one to arrive. After letting him in, Elhaisen said, "Find a place to sit," and went into the kitchen. Haroldt turned his eyes to the chair in the living room.

Xumi's chair is actually more like a low bed. The two chairs in the living room of Elhaisen's house take up a relatively large area, and each one can accommodate three adults sitting side by side.

Harold sat on the far left of one of the chairs and looked around the room curiously.

There must be a lot of bookcases in the Elhaisen family, and just as Kavi said, several of the bookcases are full, with some books randomly placed horizontally on other books, making it look a bit messy.

As for the layout of the furniture...

From a graphic designer's perspective, Harold's work does lack aesthetic appeal, but it's not "completely unbearable to look at" as Kavi said.

The main reason was that he had met some weird roommates during his school years, such as those who would throw their socks on the towel rack and put up some obscene posters in public areas, which was really unbearable.

Sure, he took care of those garbage men, but he also became notorious in middle school and high school because of it.

Alas, it was all because of his youth and recklessness. He did things without knowing the limits and caused a lot of mess. Fortunately, he is not like that anymore.

"It seems that you are quite interested in the furnishings in my house. You must have a lot in common with someone," Elhaisen walked out of the kitchen with a plate of scones. He walked straight to sit down opposite Harold, put the plate in front of himself, held a book in one hand and a scone in the other, and ate while reading.

Harold's eyes then turned to Elhaisen and the scones in his hand.

...Why don’t you just eat it like this?

El Haisen, how could you swallow it?

Harold felt like he was going to choke just by looking at it. He had no objection to the furnishings in Elhaisen's house. He could tolerate his roommate's poor taste, but he didn't want to see Elhaisen eating scones in front of him.

After just a few glances, Harold decided not to torture his visual nerves, so he spread "The Complete Works of Xumi Ancient Characters" on the table and began to read.

The two sat facing each other quietly, the only sounds in the room being the faint sounds of chewing and turning pages.

Five minutes later, Elhaisen finished his breakfast and there was another knock on the door. Elhaisen went to open the door with a book.

The ones who came this time were Setale and Seno. They met on the way here. Setale was surprised that there was another desert person in Kavi's society besides herself. She started chatting with Seno.

The same origin and skin color connected them together. Although they had never met before, they felt that each other looked very friendly. Setale also unconsciously gained a bit of favor towards Kavi, the founder of the society.

The two of them walked and talked as they slowly came to Elhaisen's house. In Xumi City, it was very rare to see people with dark skin who were not wearing the uniforms of the Gilded Brigade or the Thirty-Man Group. The two of them attracted many people's attention along the way, and some people recognized that the tall woman was the assistant next to the great sage, but the two of them ignored the whispers of those people and had a very pleasant chat.

After entering Elhaisen's house, Setale and Seno both sat on the chairs in the living room. The originally wide chairs immediately seemed crowded.

Setale deliberately sat next to Harold, while Senor chose to sit next to Elhaisen.

Harold didn't feel awkward at all when a person of the opposite sex sat next to him. He lowered his head and read by himself. The chairs in the Elhaisen house were very big, and there was some distance between them.

But Harold always felt that Setale seemed to be secretly looking at him, perhaps out of curiosity, or maybe someone had told her something.

Harold pretended not to notice anything and continued reading, and soon, Setale stopped looking at him that way.

After a while, Kavi also arrived.

"What, I'm the last one?!" Kavi said in surprise.

"Look at the time, it's already eight o'clock in the morning, what do you think?" said Elhaisen.

"Really? It's already eight o'clock? I clearly left home half an hour earlier..." Kavi thought, could it be that I spent too much time helping my junior look at her design drawings on the way?

When everyone arrived, Kavi sat next to Seno and took out the paper document of the society's project report. He asked everyone to sign on it in the order of the strokes of their surnames. Then he would submit the document to the Council of Ecclesiastical Orders and ask the clerk to stamp it. Only in this way would their society's project be officially recognized by the Council of Ecclesiastical Orders.

After everyone signed, Kavi suggested that for the first activity, the topic could be put aside for a while, and everyone could introduce themselves first, get to know each other, and then determine the division of labor.

After the proposal was accepted by everyone, they introduced themselves one by one in the order of their seats.

"My name is Kawi. I'm eighteen years old. I'm a scholar at the Sahavara Academy and the initiator of this society. I'm good at mechanical engineering and architectural design, so I set the research direction of the society to be architecture, runes and linguistics."

"I'm Seno, 23 years old, a scholar at Sipandama College, good at elemental studies and geomancy, and have joined many societies that study the Red King. This time, I will work hard with Miss Selema, and I will make her sacrifice more meaningful!"

Kavi's eyes widened: "Wait, Miss Selema?"

"...a scholar who was eliminated in the interview," Harold whispered to Kavi.

"Then why do you say 'sacrifice'? Did something happen during the interview?" Kavi asked puzzled.

Harold: "This is a long story, senior. I will tell you slowly after I finish the study..."

"El Haisen, a scholar from Shravarman College."

While Kavi and Harold were whispering, Elhaisen finished his self-introduction. His introduction was still brief, even omitting the parts about age and expertise.

"Harold, fifteen years old, a scholar at Amyrido College. Although my research interests are biology, ecology, and medicine, I have taught myself the ancient Xumi script, so you can leave the translation work to me."

Seno showed an admiring look: "The difficulty of the ancient Xumi characters is very high. It is not easy for a 15-year-old Shenglun school scholar to master those pronunciations by self-study. He can even 'beat' the ancient characters. Is that why he is the 'Amirita God of War'?"

Harold: ...

Three goals, right?

El Haisen, Tinari, Senor, I hate you.

"Ah? So what exactly is this 'Amirita God of War'? Why do I seem to be the only one who doesn't know?" Kavi said dissatisfiedly.

Although he was still shouting in the bar a few days ago, "If you don't tell me, I will check it myself," he completely forgot about it after he went home and had a nap after drinking.

Setale couldn't help laughing when she heard this. She had already found out the ins and outs of the title of "Amiritto God of War", but this did not affect her respect and trust for Harold. It also made her feel that this adult was a straightforward person.

No wonder he dared to send such a report to the great sage when the rainforest people and the desert people were at loggerheads!

Setale has been smiling since she met Seno today, which seems incredible to other people in the House of Religion. As a desert person, all her appropriate and inappropriate actions will be criticized by other senior officials, so she is used to keeping a stern face. But today she doesn't need to hide anything.

Moreover, the image of Lord Harold was completely different from what she had originally imagined. Although Setale did not say it, when she silently read Harold's name in her heart, she could not help but add the word "Lord" at the end.

Seeing that Harold was in an awkward situation due to Kavi's questioning, Setare said, "I am Setare, a graduate of Ridovandi College. I am good at astronomy and astrology, and have some knowledge of ancient characters. If you see any records about astrology in ancient books, you can let me decipher them."

Kavi was immediately attracted by what the tall woman with dark skin and long dark blue hair said, and temporarily put the matter of "God of War Amirudo" behind him.