Chapter 214: Another School Season Begins
Half a month after returning from the business trip to the Otter Opera House, the Nightingale Opera Troupe was invited by the Saint Laurent Opera House for a second tour.
The reputation of this tour was clearly better than the one at the Otter Opera House.
As the largest opera house in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place, the Saint Laurent Opera House's style of work is deeply influenced by the local religious culture. They particularly appreciate tear-jerking plots involving "sacrifice" and "offering."
Precisely because of this, the grand performance of "song of the ocean" once again caused a sensation in Turin City.
As Jia Na's influence grew, after returning to Turin, she also secured her first commercial endorsement deal—a full-range endorsement for the wizard robes under the Spiritual Communication Group.
"Jia Na, this is a wizard robe specially customized for you by the Spiritual Communication Group. Would you like to come and try it on?"
Saying this, Julie-Ann took out a deep purple velvet gift box and placed it in front of Jia Na.
"Also, this is the contract that was redrafted according to your suggestions last time. If there are no issues, please sign your name here."
Seeing the contract handed over by Julie-Ann, Jia Na quickly scanned it. Seeing that the content was fine, she signed her name at the bottom of the two standard contracts.
"The contract period is one year, the endorsement fee is five thousand jin sule, and the Spiritual Communication Group will send their latest wizard robes every quarter. Overall, it is indeed a very sincere collaboration."
Gently opening the velvet gift box and looking at the simple yet exquisitely detailed deep green wizard robe inside, Jia Na couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.
"As expected, expensive items are different."
Compared to the transformation-specific wizard robe Jia Na bought at "Tanuki's New Outfit" before, the wizard robe sent by the Spiritual Communication Group was several grades higher in both appearance and quality.
After all, judging purely by price, the "tanuki robe" Jia Na was currently wearing only cost ninety-five jin sule.
The one sent by the Spiritual Communication Group had a starting price of one hundred eighty jin sule, which was almost as much as the Frost robe Vivian had privately customized from the Tanuki Master.
"Does this wizard robe have a name?"
Looking at the wisteria embroidery on the cuff of the wizard robe, Jia Na couldn't help but ask Julie-Ann.
"Yes, this wizard robe is called the Wisteria Robe. It's the upcoming spring new arrival in the Spiritual Communication Group's ready-to-wear series. Besides this, there are also Frost Flower Robes, Flame Core Robes, and Gray Stone Robes—all classified by attribute."
Saying this, Julie-Ann handed a ready-to-wear catalog to Jia Na and asked her to memorize the entire thing.
"Dustproof, fireproof, cold-resistant, and with certain toxin immunity and physical immunity properties—it is indeed a very cost-effective apprentice-level transformation-specific robe."
After taking off her performance attire and removing her makeup, Jia Na put on this new wizard robe.
"Not bad, not bad. It suits you very well."
From an elegant actress to a mysterious Wizard, with just a wizard robe, Jia Na's demeanor underwent a drastic change.
"Oh right, there's a photo shoot for the Wizard ready-to-wear promotional poster at two o'clock this afternoon. So, we need to arrive at the shooting location at least an hour early to prepare for makeup."
"Okay, I understand."
Because today's performance was in the morning, normally, if there wasn't a poster shoot in the afternoon,
Jia Na could have finished work and gone home directly.
Unfortunately, as Jia Na's popularity grew, although her income also continuously increased, her frequent workload still made her much busier than before.
Fortunately, no matter how high the remuneration for commercial contracts was, Jia Na always stipulated before signing that it should not affect her class time on weekdays.
So, as long as she got through this busy period of the winter break, Jia Na could continue to immerse herself in the Wizard study life she loved.
"Lunch is here—" Just as the two were chatting, Weini brought three lunch boxes to the lounge.
"Today's lunch is low-carb beef brisket and tomato salad. Eat quickly."
Beef brisket salad is a classic diet dish from Cui Yu's String. The main ingredients are beef brisket, tomato juice, lettuce, cucumber, etc., and no salad dressing is added.
"Eating this means you won't have to worry about swelling this afternoon. Oh right, Weini, go and buy Jia Na a cup of iced bitter coffee."
"No problem, I'll go now."
Looking at Weini's hurried retreating figure, Jia Na, who was eating the salad as if chewing wax, couldn't help but sigh.
"Making money is indeed a very difficult thing—"
Because it was her first time shooting a poster, Jia Na took a relatively long time. But fortunately, in the face of absolute beauty, all camera language can turn decay into magic.
Even the unedited initial footage already possessed a soul-stirring magic.
"It was really hard work today—" Looking at the night sky that had turned dark again, Jia Na, who had finished a full day's work, just shook her head wearily at Julie-Ann. After removing her makeup, Jia Na put on her new wizard robe and left the shooting location alone.
"School is finally starting soon—"
Four-fifths of the two-month winter break had now passed. In just over a week, Jia Na would officially begin her second-year courses at White Coral Academy.
Before the start of the semester, White Coral Academy required all apprentices to complete their required course selection at least two days in advance.
As a top student who excelled in both required and elective courses, Jia Na had to arrange her elective courses in advance after selecting her required ones.
Therefore, to avoid the elective course slots being filled, Jia Na decided to go to the Magic Tower to select courses four days in advance. Then, she would also exchange some Witchcraft that could be learned and use the time before school starts to practice properly.
"I remember that the required courses for the second year should still be six—"
In addition to the five courses carried over from the first year: "Ancient Magic History," "Intermediate Spells," "Intermediate Herbs," "Intermediate Biology," and "Black Magic Defense," a new course, "Dragon Language," was added to the second-year required curriculum.
After all, in Mysticism characters, besides "Elvish," which was taught in the first year, "Dragon Language" holds equally important status.
However, all courses in the second year, including required courses, require apprentices to pay for their selection.
If they don't select them, their usual class grades will be zero, and unless their written exam score in the final exam reaches A+, they will still face the risk of repeating the year.
"Creak—creak—"
Stepping on the thick snow on the ground, Jia Na, already used to getting off work late at night, walked slowly towards the academy alone under the cold moonlight.
"After school starts, I won't have to work overtime like this anymore—"