The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 465 A Gold Coin?
Vasida immediately pulled the remaining pan-fried lamb chops to her side and cut them into three pieces.

Lilith divided the two batches of hash browns into three portions as well.

Even the mushroom soup was shared among the three of them, spoonful by spoonful.

The guards at the next table felt sorry for them.

How pitiful! The nuns are even poorer than these roughnecks; they can't even afford a whole meal.

Originally, I wanted to reinforce my image of being poor and stingy, so I ate a little something symbolically and planned to have a big meal back in my room.

But once it entered his mouth, Moran regretted it.

It tastes terrible!

How do you manage to make these lamb chops have such a strong gamey smell?
I was so afraid to eat too much, for fear of throwing it up.

Moran glanced at Vasita, Lilith, and Sylph, who all looked pale and sickly.

We shouldn't have listened to them and eaten at the restaurant!
What to do now?
If they don't finish their food, it'll be a waste and won't fit their persona!
Vasida and the others no longer had any interest in watching the commotion at other tables.

I was really worried looking at the food on my plate.

Their very first meal in the human world dealt them a devastating blow.

If you think lamb chops are bad, try hash browns!

Goodness, why does it taste a bit bitter?
I quickly drank a couple of sips of mushroom soup to calm my nerves. Fortunately, the soup was alright; it wasn't particularly delicious, but it was edible.

Eating that meal felt like torture.

The monks and guards at the other tables said, "How poor they are! They treat such a small amount of food as if it's too precious to eat."

After waiting for a while, when they finally finished eating and were ready to leave, Gobert quickly got up and went over: "Please wait a moment, are you also going to Lance City?"

Moran nodded slightly.

This mage was the highest-ranking among that group of mages, and the only intermediate-level mage.

However, since she was playing a high-level mage, she only nodded slightly, appearing somewhat arrogant.

“That’s great. We’re in the same boat. The annual knighthood assessment for Lance City is about to begin, and we have to travel through the Colorado Mountains to make it in time.”

"Could you join us on this journey? That way we can look out for each other along the way?" Gobert said.

“Okay! Give me this amount and I'll agree to protect you for a bit.” Moran held up one finger.

"One gold coin?" Gobert said, "No problem!"

Moran glanced at him dismissively: "You think you can get a high-level mage for just one gold coin? You're dreaming! Ten magic gold coins, or 1200 gold coins! Otherwise, forget it!"

As a wild mage with no background, I'm poor because I spend all my money on magical resources, and I'm stingy because I have to find ways to get all the resources myself, but I can't be stupid!

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to cultivate to an advanced level on his own.

"Ten magic coins?" Gobert's gentlemanly smile gradually crumbled.

How dare someone with not a single gold coin in their pocket ask for ten magic gold coins?
They're all gold coins, but there's a world of difference between ordinary gold coins and magic gold coins.

One hundred regular gold coins might not even be enough to exchange for one magic gold coin!
"We're leaving tomorrow, so decide by tomorrow evening whether you want to hire me. There's no room for negotiation."

After Moran finished speaking, she quickly walked towards the stairs.

She needed to hurry back to her room to eat something good to calm her nausea.

Those lamb chops really gave her internal injuries.

After the footsteps in the stairwell disappeared, the mages erupted in chaos.

"They're also going to Lance City, probably to take the nobility assessment like us! It's just on their way, and they want ten magic coins? Why don't they just rob us?" "Ten magic coins? I don't have any!"

"I do not have either!"

"With such high prices, how could she be poor!"

"She's not poor, she's just stingy! Another mentor who mistreats her apprentices."

"But the Colorado Mountains have high-level magical beasts! Without a single high-level mage, our casualties could be quite high."

"How about we take the safer trade route? It's just that we definitely won't be able to make it to this year's title assessment; we'll have to wait three years."

"No, we have to catch up! Time is magic. The sooner we get the title and fief, the more noble dividends and fief income we'll receive in three years!" Gobert said through gritted teeth.

"If you don't have ten magic coins, you can still make up 1200 ordinary coins, right?"
Let's all submit according to our rank!
Each apprentice receives 150 gold coins, each novice mage receives 120 gold coins, and I receive 60 gold coins.

If you don't have that much money on hand, you can borrow it from me and pay me back when you get to Lance City.

If you don't take the money, I'm sorry, you'll have to leave the team from now on!

……

After going upstairs, Moran, Lilith, Vasita, and Sylph walked faster and faster. After entering the room, they first set up warning magic circles at the doors and windows, then pushed all the furniture in the room to the corners and took out the spatial tent and placed it in the center of the small hall.

After rushing into the tent restaurant, the group quickly exchanged their cards for several ready-made food items.

After tasting the familiar delicious food, I immediately relaxed.

“This is what eating should be like! That was torture!” Lilith said.

"I originally thought that the egg fried rice was bad enough, but I didn't expect that human chefs are even worse than egg fried rice!"

They're all human, but the humans on Blue Star are such good cooks, how come the humans in the Principality of Lance are so..." Vasida shakes her head whenever she thinks about human cuisine, except for Blue Star.

"Do all humans in Valen eat this kind of food?" Sylph asked. "I see that the mages and warriors seem to be quite used to it."

"I don't think so!" Moran said uncertainly.

"I've tried all the dishes in the 'Gourmet Guide of Valen Continent'. Although I can't get used to every single one, they're all pretty delicious."

Silver Flower Hostel is probably just a mid-to-low-end hotel, while Golden Flower Hostel is a high-end hotel, which is why the food isn't very good!

If you want your dishes to taste good, you can't do without spices.

Spices are quite expensive among humans.

Furthermore, there are barriers between ordinary humans and mages.

The ingredients that monks can access are completely inaccessible to ordinary humans.

"I just hope all the restaurants in Lance City aren't like this!" Vasita said. "If they're all this bad, I'll start to doubt human intelligence!"

"Moran, what is this 'nobility assessment' that the mage mentioned?" Lilith asked.

"Do you remember the three mage movements of the Magic Empire in your history class?" Moran said.

"I remember. The first time was when the country was founded, when it was established that all mages could become nobles and receive fiefs. The second time was... what was it again?" Vasita stammered.

"The second one seems to have been a conflict between the old and new mage nobles! What was the result again?" Sylph recalled.

Moran looked at Lilith.

Lilith was engrossed in eating: "Don't ask me. I graduated two years ago, who would remember the first-year curriculum?"

"Now that you're all in the Magic Empire, shouldn't you take some time to review the history of the continent?" Moran said helplessly, "The special practice cards for the history of the continent have been available for a while now, so it's easy to review."