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He cannot accept unequal gifts from his peers.
"However, we shouldn't be too concerned about Christmas gifts. We'll find a way to reciprocate later."
……
Keep the Christmas cards and ancient gold coins safe.
Dak's gaze shifted to another gift.
Putting everything else aside, this gift is really precious!
He didn't look at it any longer and opened the gift box directly.
There weren't any strange or unusual designs this time.
Inside the gift box lay a complete set of books, all quietly and peacefully!
That is the super best-selling book series - "Alibaba's Fourteen Dragon-Slaying Techniques"!
And there are seven books in total, from the first volume to the seventh volume!
"Who sent this?"
Dak was somewhat taken aback.
He then picked up the Christmas card that was placed on top of the book.
It's a very ordinary store design, the same type of free gift you get when you buy something from Dak.
He opened the Christmas card and saw the sender's name.
"Witt and Robert?"
Dark looked at it repeatedly and, after confirming that it was indeed a gift given by the two of them together, he was quite surprised.
"Have they not given up on improving my favorability?"
Regardless of the circumstances, one should always reciprocate a gift received as a gift.
After thinking for a moment, Dak took the entire set of "Ali Baba's Fourteen Dragon-Slaying Techniques" back to his dormitory and put it away before going out again.
……
That night.
When Witt and Robert returned from Travellers Street, they received a return gift from a classmate of Duck.
The two looked at each other, took the gifts, and went into Witt's dormitory, where they stared at them for a long time.
Robert hesitated and asked, "Did we receive Christmas presents?"
Witt nodded slightly, a hint of bitterness in his voice: "Yes, the first one besides our own."
Robert suddenly realized, "Wait a minute! Every gift-giving event will be reciprocated, so why should we wait for others to give gifts first?"
Witt: “…”
In fact, even the set of "Alibaba's Fourteen Dragon-Slaying Techniques" ended up in Dark's hands by a twist of fate.
Although Witt had considered winning Dark's favor with a Christmas gift two months prior, he gradually forgot about it due to a crisis of trust regarding their "forbidden love" along the way.
So he originally intended to give this super best-selling book series to Pandora as a Christmas gift.
But after much courage, he finally managed to find a senior student from the Magic Academy to ask her, only to learn that Senior Sister Pandora had already left for a long journey the night before.
That gift simply couldn't be delivered!
Christmas gifts are the kind of things that have an expiration date; if they aren't delivered today, they basically lose their meaning.
Witt was very disappointed by this.
But since the gift has already been bought, it can't just sit there unsold, can it?
Thanks to Robert's reminder, he remembered the task of unlocking favorability.
Once you raise Dark's favorability to 80, you can unlock a reward.
Although he wasn't really keen on giving the gift to Dark, he reluctantly gave it to him at Robert's urging.
I just didn't expect Dark to send a return gift so quickly, one for each of us.
Robert: "What kind of gift could this be?"
Witt: "It looks like a book."
Robert thought for a moment and said, "It makes sense that he would give us books in return because we gave him books."
Witt: "Let's stop guessing and just open it and see."
Robert: "Together?"
Witt: "Hmm!"
So the two of them solemnly opened both gifts at the same time!
Close the door!
Nothing happened.
The gift box indeed contained books.
The two read out the book title at the same time.
Robert: "Dark Dimon's Potions Notebook"
Witte: "Dark Dumont's Arithmetic Notebooks!"
……
[Here's a chapter from yesterday's update (﹃).]
[Here's another character design as compensation; please don't criticize this low-budget production...]
Chapter 200 The Visit of a Man in the Dead of Night
"This……"
Witt and Robert both looked astonished; they had had many guesses. But they never imagined that Dark's Christmas return gift would be two notebooks!
Robert asked in astonishment, "Why would he give us these notes?"
Witt's expression turned grim: "Perhaps in his view, this is exactly what we need."
Robert shrugged. "He probably has no idea how hard we studied while we were in solitary confinement. This notebook won't be of much use to us."
Witt opened the arithmetic notebook in his hand and said, "This is a photocopy. The original should be his notes from class, from the first class to the last class. I'm afraid his notes for the entire semester's arithmetic classes are here."
But as he flipped through the pages, he suddenly fell silent!
Robert asked, puzzled, "What's wrong, Witt?"
Witt: "I don't understand."
Robert: "What?"
Witt: "I can't understand it! It's clearly the first semester's notes, how can I not understand it??"
"No way……"
Robert also quickly flipped through his potions notes.
At first it was fine, it was just normal blackboard writing and copying.
But later on, suddenly many knowledge points beyond the syllabus were mixed in!
From this notebook, one can clearly feel that Dark's potion-making skills are improving rapidly.
If you can thoroughly study this notebook, you will definitely benefit greatly!
“Witt”.
Robert looked at Witt and hesitated, "It's impressive, but we'll learn these things in the second semester, right?"
Witt thought for a moment and nodded, "It should be."
If it's more than one grade level, that's too much of an exaggeration.
Robert breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I can just pay attention in class next semester. I really can't learn by staring at a notebook."
Witt: "Me too. And I have things to do tomorrow."
Robert: "What is it?"
Witt: "Re-enter the secret passage!"
……
The Tower of the Noble House.
Dak flipped through "Alibaba's Fourteen Dragon-Slaying Techniques" with a bit of interest.
After receiving the gift, he thought about it for a while and then went to Travellers Street to photocopy two notebooks to give to Witt and Robert.
When giving gifts, you should naturally give what the recipient needs.
What Victor and Robert did after receiving the gifts was none of his business.
By this moment, as the first-year students of the Noble Academy returned from Traveler's Street one after another, he had received an extra large number of Christmas gifts.
Although the return gifts were mostly chocolates, candies, and cookies, the total amount of Christmas return gifts for the entire class was enormous.
He was even considering whether he should call Diana in to handle the situation.
think carefully.
Of the gifts I received this Christmas, the four most useful were, in order:
① The Dragon's Reverse Scale
② Magic Ring
③ Blessing of the Wind
④ Ancient gold coins...
In terms of quality, it can only be described as "very fruitful".
But Dak always felt he was missing something.
He tapped the book, somewhat distracted.
This book, "Alibaba's Fourteen Dragon-Slaying Techniques," tells a story that took place in an ancient civilization in the last century.
Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, accidentally stumbled into the Fairy King's labyrinth on his way to chop wood.
He went through many hardships, escaped the labyrinth, and obtained the Fairy King's treasure.
Fourteen evil dragons, who had been eyeing the Fairy King's treasure, came running when they heard the news. In order to protect the city from the dragons' threat, Alibaba had no choice but to use the Fairy King's treasure to kill the fourteen dragons in fourteen different ways!
The story is well-structured and simple, yet the narration is vivid. It provides detailed descriptions of the cultural background and social environment of the time. It is not only a bestselling classic story, but also a scholarly work that allows readers to enter the world of the book and experience the rise and fall of an ancient nation.
Beyond the surface of entertainment, one can learn a great deal from its essence.
After watching the first episode, Dak closed his eyes and savored it for a moment.
Two minutes later, he opened his eyes, ready to continue watching the second episode.
But just as he turned to the table of contents for the second episode, a ray of light flew in from outside the window and went straight through the half-open window for ventilation.
Dark glanced at it and lowered his guard.
It was a small elf that looked like a griffin, one of Principal Art's many elves.
It was this little elf who gave him the Sorting Card during the Sorting Ceremony, so he had a very deep impression of it.
"What's the matter?"
Dak's tone was quite gentle.
The griffin spirit circled the room briefly, seemingly checking for anything indecent.
After confirming that it had done so, it flew back to Dark and began to glow and transform.
As the luminous body grew longer, a breathtakingly beautiful body stretched out.
Principal Arte appeared before Dark.