"Can you tell me why you're doing this?" Hathaway asked seriously, "Your answer will determine whether I explain the key to storage magic."

"That magic is storage magic? How big is the space? Can it hold living things..." Ronald muttered evasively.

Hathaway didn't say anything, she just stared at Ronald with narrowed eyes.

Ronald had no choice but to confess honestly: "Captain Lagren is a great person and I'm lucky to have met her, so I don't want to cause her any trouble."

"That's it?" Hathaway was a little dissatisfied with Ronald's answer.

"What else?" Ronald glanced sideways at Hathaway, "If you need, I can also insert some plotlines from epic biographies, things like interspecies romance..."

"Alright, I'll take your word for now," Hathaway obviously didn't believe him, but changed to this half-teasing style, and she believed him.

"So now you can answer my questions, after all, you don't want the elven race to get a bad reputation...like being untrustworthy, ungrateful, and so on..."

As soon as Hathaway finished speaking, Ronald took off his hood. Hathaway's smiling expression instantly froze.

"Tsk, I thought you had something to hide, but it turns out you're just a kid," Hathaway blurted out her true thoughts.

Ronald was speechless, he immediately retorted,

"Miss Hathaway has no right to call anyone a child, because you don't look very old either."

Now it was Hathaway's turn to be speechless.

So the two of them just stared at each other.

...

Revealing his true appearance gave Hathaway a certain degree of trust in Ronald. Their subsequent conversation became very smooth.

Hathaway first briefly introduced the history of elven magic to give Ronald a general understanding. Only then did she start teaching Ronald the storage magic he had asked about.

The true name of this spell is "Space Storage", a unique elven magic of the elven race.

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The storage belts, rings and other magic tools made by humans are developed based on this magic.

However, compared to the elves' "Space Storage", the storage items developed by humans are much weaker in many aspects.

The most obvious difference is the space capacity and personal password settings.

For storage items made by human space magicians, the size of the space is closely related to the materials used.

The more precious the materials, the larger the space capacity of the storage magic tool.

The elves are completely different, they don't need expensive materials at the initial stage, and the space capacity can grow larger as their own strength increases later on.

Next is the personal password setting.

Human-made storage items do not have password settings. As long as you can input magic, the magic tool will open.

In other words, whoever picks up the storage item gains access to a huge fortune.

But the extradimensional space opened up by the elven storage magic is very difficult for outsiders to open, unless you have a deep enough understanding of spatial magic, or your strength completely overwhelms the owner, otherwise just go to sleep.

Additionally, the elven password setting also has a downside, that is, when the elven mage dies, the extradimensional space she opened up will automatically collapse within a certain period of time, and all the treasures inside will be annihilated by the tearing of space. Human magic tools don't have this concern.

This is hard to say which is absolutely better, it just has different pros and cons. But in general, learning elven storage magic is more beneficial than harmful for Ronald.

The most important thing is that storage magic tools are too expensive. Ordinary petty nobles can hardly own one in a lifetime, let alone a lone soul like Ronald without family support.

It's a rare opportunity to be able to obtain storage magic for free. Ronald would not let it slip by. Even if he had to act shamelessly like a licking dog, he would lick the magic into his hands.

Hathaway analyzed the runic structure of the storage magic in detail and answered all of Ronald's questions about storage magic.

Ronald's performance surprised Hathaway a lot.

At first Ronald did act like a complete beginner, asking questions nonstop.

But as Hathaway taught, Ronald quickly grasped the key points of storage magic knowledge, and was able to come up with his own ideas.

As an elven royal, Hathaway had seen many people with extraordinary talents, but no one could understand this magic as quickly as Ronald. The fastest elven person to comprehend the Space Storage spell was her, and it took her almost half a year.

Hathaway was even thinking that it would be great if Ronald was also an elf, then Ronald's talent could be perfectly displayed.

However, it was a pity that Ronald was human, and humans were destined not to master elven magic.

Ronald and Hathaway talked until dawn before returning to camp.

The dwarf shield warrior on duty for the second half of the night saw the two and gestured a "awesome" to Ronald.

Ronald was not a rookie just out of the box. Naturally, he would not blush over a joke. He greeted the dwarf normally, then let Hathaway use his tent, while he hugged a thin fur blanket and curled up next to the campfire.

Accepting the service of an apprentice was a very normal thing, and Hathaway readily accepted Ronald's goodwill as a student.

However, not everyone took it for granted. Captain Lagren and the dwarf who got up early had ambiguous looks.

Ignoring the dwarf Hammerfist's inquiry of "how far did you guys go", Ronald closed his eyes and started digesting the knowledge he had learned staying up late.