Miss Witch, even if we're poor, we can't sell ourselves!

The group hailed a taxi at the school gate and left.

The night in Bellavita was unmistakably cold. The thin ice under the streetlights reflected a light like shattered diamonds, the glowing plants along the street shrank their leaves in the cold wind, and even the crystals suspended on their metal bases seemed to have darkened a bit from the cold.

Miya pulled her scarf up to cover half her face and pulled up the hood of her clothes, shrinking into the corner of the back seat. From a distance, she looked like a down dumpling that had been casually placed on the seat.

The taxi arrived at its destination in less than twenty minutes.

Miya opened the car door, looked up, and instinctively exclaimed "Wow!"

The building in front of her was completely different from the adventurers' guild she had imagined, which was covered with old wooden planks and had gargoyles squatting at the entrance.

The Bellavita branch of the Witch Association is a five-story modern building with a combination of dark gray marble and glass curtain walls. Above the main entrance floats a slowly rotating silver pentagram, which looks exactly like the APP icon, only much larger.

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor, you can see the warm yellow light and the figures of people coming and going. If it weren't for the bronze plaque at the entrance that reads "Witch Association - Bellavita Central Branch", Miya would have almost thought she had arrived at the entrance of a five-star hotel.

"Stop spacing out, let's go inside."

Fig, wrapped in a blanket, stepped out of the car from the other side, her crossbody bag swaying gently beside her.

Corona Borealis acted as if she were back on her home turf, and when she pushed open the glass door, she turned back and winked playfully at Miya.

The interior decoration of the hall is even more extravagant than its exterior.

A huge crystal chandelier hangs from the dome, each crystal containing a cluster of dancing elemental flames. The floor is made of polished moon-white stone, so smooth that it almost reflects one's image.

Oil portraits of past Witch Association leaders hang on the four walls, with motion-activated magic projection screens embedded in the portrait frames, displaying the latest commission updates and ranking lists.

If it weren't for the fact that it was an association branch, Miya would definitely have thought she had walked into the lobby of a high-end hotel.

There were far more people in the hall than she had expected, and most of them were young faces.

Several freshmen wearing Moon Forest school uniforms crowded in front of the self-service registration machine, chattering and trying to figure out how to fill in the information, while a row of little witches who were obviously new students sat on the sofa area.

Each of them had a copy of "The Witch Association Registration Guide" spread out on their laps, their expressions serious as if they were preparing for an exam. Some were carrying beginner wands and potion packs they had just bought from the association's shop, and they gathered in twos and threes to discuss which novice commission to accept.

"They're all freshmen registering."

Fig glanced around the hall and summarized in a flat tone.

"It's like this every year at the start of the school year; the queues stretch all the way outside the door."

As soon as Corona Borealis entered, it began looking around, clearly searching for something.

Her gaze swept around the lobby and quickly locked onto the front desk, where she raised her hand and waved.

"Xiao Luo! Are you on duty today?"

Behind the reception desk stood a young witch in the association's uniform, with short, dark brown hair curled at the ends, looking like a recent graduate.

She was looking down at a stack of forms when she heard Corona Borealis's voice and immediately looked up, a practiced professional smile spreading across her round face.

"Senior Corona Borealis! Long time no see, are you trying to climb the charts again this month?"

"Of course."

Corona Borealis stood with one hand on his hip, looking so smug that his tail was practically wagging.

She strode to the front desk, rested her elbow on the table, and was about to catch up with an acquaintance when the receptionist, a witch named Xiao Luo, after greeting her, naturally shifted her gaze from Corona Borealis to behind her and then couldn't look away.

Miya followed behind Corona Borealis, her head bowed as she untied her scarf.

After taking off her hat, several tufts of her light blonde short hair stood up. She raised her hand to try to press them down, but found that the more she pressed, the more they stood up, so she simply gave up.

The collar of her dress completely covered half of her face, leaving only a pair of large, honey-colored eyes visible. Suddenly noticing that the receptionist was staring at her, she politely blinked.

The form in Xiao Luo's hand instantly fell onto the table. This little devil is just too cute.

The form fell with little noise, but it still attracted a lot of attention in the relatively quiet reception area of ​​the lobby.

On the sofas closest to the front desk, several little witches who were filling out forms all looked up at once, their gazes immediately drawn to Miya.

"Hey, isn't that—"

"The one who came in first place at Moon Forest?"

"Really? Is it that guy who single-handedly defeated three opponents in the exam hall and even knocked down Corona Borealis?"

"Yes, yes, that petite girl with light blonde hair, that's her!"

"I'm actually much smaller in person than I appear on the live stream..."

"Wait a minute, isn't that Corona Borealis next to her?"

"Keep your voice down!"

Whispers spread like ripples through the hall.

Mi Ye subconsciously took a half step back, reached out and grabbed the hem of Wu Hua Guo's clothes, and shrank behind her senior.

Fig glanced down at the hem of her clothes that had been tugged, and instantly understood. She took a small step forward, shielding Mi Ye behind her, and then looked up at Xiao Luo at the front desk.

"Help her register. Tsukimori first-year student, Miya."

Xiao Luo then came to her senses and quickly picked up the form that had fallen on the table, a somewhat embarrassed smile on her face.

She quickly operated the crystal screen in front of her, brought up the registration system, took out a palm-sized silver-gray testing terminal from the drawer, and gestured for Mi Ye to sit on the chair at the front desk.

"Okay, okay, we'll get it done for you right away. Please put your hand on this testing terminal so we can test your magic capacity first."

Miya placed her palm on the sensor area of ​​the detection terminal. The cool metallic touch made her fingers twitch slightly before she steadied them. The runes on the terminal's surface lit up with a pale blue light, and a string of numbers jumped on the crystal screen for a few seconds before stopping.

【209】

Rating: E

Xiao Luo stared at the number, a slight crack appearing in her professional smile.

Her eyebrows twitched, and her lips parted slightly before closing again. Mi Ye was all too familiar with that expression; in her past life, when she saw her teammates choose the least popular Prison character while playing games, she had the same expression on her face.

It's that kind of "How can I tactfully advise you not to send it?" expression.

"Uh... Miya-kun."

Xiao Luo put down the testing terminal, interlaced her fingers on the table, and tried to make her tone sound gentle.

"Here's the thing, recently there have been some unusual monster activities around Bellavita, much more frequent than in previous years, and many strange species have appeared. The government has issued a safety warning, advising newborn witches to travel in groups as much as possible and not to accept high-risk requests alone."

The unspoken message was that with your limited magical capacity, accepting commissions would be like handing them over to someone else.

Mi Ye pursed her lips and nodded, not angry at all, since what the other party said was true.

"Thank you for reminding me, I will be careful."

She obediently replied, as if she hadn't understood what the other person was implying, and her polite attitude made Xiao Luo even more embarrassed.

"Let's test the vitality concentration next."

Faced with such a cute little thing, Xiao Luo couldn't say anything too direct. She could only pick up the testing terminal again, press a few buttons, and switch to another testing mode.

"Please put your hand back on."

Miya placed her hand back on the sensor area.

This time, the runes lit up a pale green, and the numbers on the crystal screen jumped much faster than before, as if water was being pumped up from a deep well, with the values ​​rising rapidly and showing no sign of stopping.

【2319】

Xiao Luo blinked, looked down at the screen, then flipped the testing terminal over, patted the back, and restarted the testing program.

【2319】

"...Please wait a moment."

Xiao Luo took a deep breath, her professional smile barely held up.

She put the testing terminal back on the table, turned around and walked quickly to a door on the other side of the hall. After knocking, she poked half her body in and whispered something.

A few seconds later, another receptionist witch walked out of the door. She had long black hair tied in a high ponytail, deep blue eyes, and wore a staff badge of a higher rank than Xiao Luo.

"What's wrong—"

The black-haired receptionist came out with a puzzled look on her face. Then she saw Miya sitting at the front desk, stopped abruptly, her eyes widened, and she asked.

"Your name is Miya, right?"

Mi Ye nodded, but before she could say anything, the black-haired receptionist had already rushed to the front desk, deftly operated the crystal screen, entered Mi Ye's personal information into the system, and then directly marked her with a D rating in the rating column. She then handed over a blue-purple bronze badge and a registration card with a silver pentagram printed on it.

"Registration complete, Miya-kun. Initial rating: D. The system will automatically adjust your rating based on your commission completion record. This badge can be used at any branch of the Witch Association nationwide, and you can enjoy a tax-free allowance for commission fees with it."

Miya took the badge, tilted her head, and said thank you, completely baffled as to what was going on.

Seeing this, Xiao Luo, who was standing nearby, didn't dare to say a single word.

Seriously, this level of vitality is something only an S-rank witch can achieve. Isn't the person in front of me just a freshman? And why would they give a newly registered witch a D-rank badge right off the bat?

Accidentally trespassing into the imperial palace...

The North Corona witnessed the entire scene and finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Fig's lips curved into a slight smile. He gently patted Miya's shoulder, then took her wrist and quickly walked out of the association's gate with Corona Borealis.