Rejected the Demon’s Marriage Proposal Thousands of Times

Rejected the Demon’s Marriage Proposal Thousands of Times Chapter 21.4

High Strength (4)

Anna's heart suddenly became cold. She couldn't feel anything. Did she really not have elemental affinity?

Dubian went on to say: "It takes about two months for the average apprentice of the mage to experience the natural elements in meditation, so you don't have to worry if you can't feel it now."

Anna was finally relieved.

It turned out that even after meditation, it must take two months. It was indeed necessary to test one’s affinity for the elements before learning spells. If they did not have an affinity for elements, there would be no need to waste time at all.

Anna didn’t know if she had an elemental affinity, but being in a Schrödinger's state was better than knowing for certain that she did not. She was very willing to take the little "risk" of wasting time to meditate.

After teaching Anna how to meditate, today's class was over. Just before leaving, Anna couldn't help but ask a question: "Is the posture of meditation very important? If I meditate while lying down, will it still be effective? "

Dubian was stunned, because he never thought about it, let alone try it. His teacher taught him how to meditate, and he followed. Why would he want to meditate lying down?

But since Anna asked, Dubian couldn't help but think about it.

"I'll try it later and I will tell you tomorrow." Dubian said.

Anna just asked the question casually, but she didn't expect Dubian to take her seriously. She was also taken aback and smiled brightly. "Okay, see you tomorrow!"

Anna returned home happily, and the house was as peaceful as usual. Her mother Gaea didn't ask too much after Anna informed her that she would be coming home late every day. After greeting Gaea, she went back to her room.

Adele and little Evan were already asleep. Anna got into the meditation position on the bed, and after some time, she yawned.

Although she still didn't feel the natural elements, Anna was not anxious. She went to sleep after cleaning up.

The next day, Anna arrived at the small building where the demon lived at 8:30 in the morning.

To Anna's surprise, the demon actually looked prepared today; she saw books on the table.

Books in this world were very precious. Of course, what is precious was not the paper itself, but the knowledge written on the paper, the knowledge monopolized by the upper-class nobles and mages.

Seeing that Anna had arrived, Rothgarr threw the precious book over.

Anna caught it in a hurry.

Rothgarr sneered: "Not hiding this time?"

Anna suddenly remembered that the demon had previously thrown a bag of gold coins to her after intimidating her, which she didn't pick up.

He was really a sensitive demon, even remembering such a little matter till now.

Anna smiled shyly and didn't reply. This was a book; it was the first time she touched a book after coming here!

The book was handwritten and thread-bound, with some words written on the cover, but she couldn’t read a single one.

Turning over the inner pages, she looked on a little greedily. Because of the vocabulary words that Dubian taught her yesterday, she could occasionally understand a few words in this book, and she would glance at the familiar words more often.

Rothgarr looked at Anna's eagerness and even hungry look, slightly distracted.

It turned out that she really longed to be literate.

He remembered when she said that she wanted to be literate because she wanted to carve her own path. Could it be that she approached Parrish and Ulysses at first, really just for literacy?

Rothgarr didn't come to a final conclusion. His evaluation of Anna now was higher than that of ordinary humans, so he didn't think her intentions would be so simple.

Wanting to become literate was not in conflict with taking shortcuts to rise in status.

Rothgarr said, "Do you know what this is?"

Anna shook her head: “No."

Of course she could guess from the format that this was likely to be a collection of poems, but there was no need to tell the demon about this kind of thing.

"This is something you must learn today." Rothgarr said.

Anna: "......."

Was this demon really only teaching her to read, and not just torturing her?

She didn't even know a few words yet, would he force her to sprint a hundred meters before she could learn to walk? Did he forget that she only started learning basic characters yesterday!

"Master Ulysses, not everyone is a genius like you. My talent is very ordinary. I only learned the basic characters yesterday. I really can’t learn a whole book today!" Anna said quickly.

Sure enough, it was not easy to reap the benefits of the demon.

"If you can’t learn it, don't go back today." Rothgarr smirked.

Anna panicked.

What did that mean? On the surface, it meant detention as one would have with an ordinary teacher, or was it that if she couldn’t learn it all today, he would kill her and end it here?

Anna didn't dare to ask. She held the suspected poem collection, but fortunately, the poem collection was relatively thin, about fifty pages, and when she looked through it just now, she found that many words were repeated.

Wasn’t this just speed memorizing words? She could do it! She had memorized 500 unfamiliar English words in one day!

Anna took a deep breath and strode over to Rothgarr. She slapped the book on the table, pointed to the cover and said, "Then Master Ulysses, start teaching me immediately!"

Thinking on the positive side, she wouldn’t lose anything at all by learning so many written words in one day.