Wizard, I Have Another World – Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Choosing Wizardry

“When did you know that Hodgson was hiding nearby?”

“What was his purpose?”

“Was it you who took him to Wizard Marian’s wizard tower?”

“……”

Second floor of the tower.

Under the glow of the first-circle spell ‘Covenant Oath’, Nancy knelt on both knees, sweat beading on her forehead as she answered Daniel’s questions one by one.

The influence of the spell prevented her from lying, and every question was answered instantly.

This kind of spell, similar to ‘Soul Searching’, would cause significant trauma to a wizard apprentice’s spirit.

Once used.

It almost meant that the wizard apprentice’s path to becoming a wizard was cut off.

First floor.

“Congratulations!”

Wizard Bella nodded at Karl with a smile:

“I didn’t expect that among those who came from the Black Swamp, you would be the second wizard apprentice to successfully advance.”

“No!”

“It should be one of only two.”

The others had been abandoned by the tower, including Nancy, who had been highly regarded and possessed a second-level wizard talent.

Helping a wanted criminal steal from their mentor, that action alone was unforgivable.

“The second?” Karl’s eyes flickered:

“What about Omar…”

“That’s right.” Bella nodded, a hint of pride in her expression:

“With my help, Omar successfully advanced to become a wizard two months ago and is now in seclusion to stabilize her cultivation.”

“If you had broken through earlier, you could have seen her here.”

“Congratulations!” Karl said sincerely:

“Senior Bella is not only skilled in cultivation, but her ability to teach disciples is also second to none.”

“Omar has a good master!”

“Haha…” Although Bella was a woman with a delicate figure and appearance, her temperament was very forthright.

She laughed upon hearing this, looking pleased, but still said modestly:

“Omar is a good child, otherwise, no matter how well I taught, it wouldn’t matter if the disciple didn’t make progress!”

As she spoke,

Her eyes turned cold as she glanced at the second floor.

“Actually…” Karl frowned upon seeing this:

“Hodgson, who ambushed me, has already been killed by me, there is no need to use secret methods to interrogate Nancy.”

“At most, she was just misled, she shouldn’t have her future ruined because of this.”

“Hmph!”

Bella snorted upon hearing this:

“Karl, you probably don’t know yet, Marian is dead.”

“Ah?” Karl ‘looked panicked’, with a surprised expression:

“How could that be?”

“That’s right.” Bella said:

“As a wizard of the tower, one would leave a wisp of their aura on a legacy magic item of the tower.”

“Once they die, the legacy magic item will sense it and lock onto the location where the death occurred.”

Karl’s face turned pale.

He was really frightened, he didn’t know that the tower had such methods, and subconsciously asked:

“Where did Senior Marian have the accident?”

“Cloudwood Hill!” Bella’s expression was grave:

“The exact location cannot be determined, but it is certain that the place of death was near Cloudwood Hill.”

“Alas!”

She sighed:

“If it were the tower in the Kalim Continent, their legacy magic items could even recreate the scene from a certain time before death, locking onto the perpetrator, which is also a guarantee for the tower’s disciples when they are traveling outside.”

Fortunately!

Karl breathed a sigh of relief and asked:

“Senior Bella’s meaning is… that Senior Marian’s death is likely related to Nancy? That’s why you used torture to interrogate her?”

“That’s right!”

Bella nodded heavily.

“It has nothing to do with her.” At this time, Daniel, dressed in white robes, walked down from the second floor, a look of fatigue on his face:

“I questioned her carefully, Nancy didn’t know that Wizard Marian had already been killed, but that Hodgson is very suspicious.”

“Suspicious?”

“Yes!” Daniel nodded, pulled a chair over, and sat down:

“Hodgson dared to go to the wizard tower to scavenge for things because he knew that Wizard Marian was not there during that time.”

“He even talked about how Marian’s inheritance would be handled after her death…”

“Although it seemed like he was trying to mislead Nancy at the time, how could he be so sure that Marian wasn’t in the wizard tower during that time?”

“That’s right!” Bella’s eyes lit up:

“Unless he knew that Marian was already dead, it’s a pity that he’s also dead, killed by Karl, otherwise, we could have asked him.”

Karl’s cheeks twitched slightly.

However, the two’s assumptions saved him a lot of effort, and as for other clues, there was no need to worry.

With the Divine Domain Fragment’s ability to destroy evidence, even a third-circle wizard would have difficulty discovering anything.

“Karl.”

After recovering a bit, Daniel looked at Karl with a smile:

“Congratulations on successfully advancing to become a wizard.”

“Don’t call me senior anymore, just call me by my name or Wizard Daniel.”

Advancing from apprentice to wizard was similar to a college student becoming a professor, the former teachers became colleagues.

Calling him senior was no longer appropriate.

“Yes.” Karl nodded:

“Daniel… Wizard.”

“Go on.” Daniel waved his hand:

“Senior Vulcan is waiting for you on the fourth floor.”

…………

Vulcan.

A second-circle wizard of the natural school, specializing in earth magic!

He had the title of Master of the Earth!

Unlike the Grey-Robed Wizard Addison, who relied on external objects to advance, this one had advanced to the second circle through his own abilities.

Moreover, his strength was among the top of the second-circle wizards.

Placed in the ‘resource-scarce’ Magic Forest, he could even compete with the third-circle wizards here.

“My mother came from the royal family of the Kingdom of Slo, so theoretically I am also considered a native of the Eastern Kingdom Continent.”

Vulcan snapped his fingers, and a soft glow immediately lit up the room. He looked up from behind the desk full of books:

“When I was young, I once followed my mother back to the Kingdom of Slo to attend a funeral, and I haven’t seen anyone from there for a long time…”

“The Slo royal family?” Karl said:

“Does senior possess the bloodline of a duke?”

“Yes.” Vulcan stood up, his large frame making the originally spacious room seem a bit cramped:

“My mother had a good wizard talent, so she was sent to the tower, and soon after she had me.”

“You probably don’t know.”

“The top levels of the two continents do have some interaction, but not very frequently.”

Karl understood.

For ordinary people and even wizard apprentices, the two continents were not connected, but in the eyes of some people, it was different.

The vast distance could not completely prevent the exchange of personnel.

“Come!”

Vulcan picked up a piece of paper and handed it over:

“Do this test paper.”

Test paper?

Karl looked at the densely packed text and patterns on the paper, a familiar sense of dread washed over him.

No way?

Having transmigrated to this world, he still had to take exams?

“There’s no way around it, it’s the rule of the tower.”

As if seeing the complex emotion in Karl’s eyes, Vulcan shrugged and explained:

“I need to give you a score, register it, so that the people from the tower can have some understanding of you.”

“This test paper was created by Earl Aufnier of Bai Zhi fifty years ago. If it were in the Kalim Continent, I would worry that you had seen it before.”

“Although it is an old test paper from fifty years ago, the knowledge points it covers are quite broad and classic, I think it’s very suitable.”

“Senior.” Karl asked:

“Did Omar do it too?”

“Of course.” Vulcan shrugged:

“She also did this same test paper, you two haven’t met, so there’s no need to worry about leaking the answers.”

“How many points did she get?”

“I’ll tell you after you’ve done it.”

“……” Karl sighed helplessly:

“Alright!”

He took the test paper, sat down at the desk, picked up a quill pen, and looked down at the test paper.

First, there were ten multiple-choice questions.

The magic creature Howling Deer possesses both water and fire attributes, to which category does its bloodline structure belong?

a: Special case
b: Symmetrical
c: Mysterious
d: Mutated

Which of the following does not belong to the ancient magic empire?

a: Meshket
b: Sylvanas
c: Holm
d: Duchy of Calais

The Flame Hell of Ravendi and the Roar of the Storm Lord are both second-circle spells, the difference between them is…

Karl’s throat bobbed, the quill pen hovering in the air trembled slightly, and sweat involuntarily appeared on his forehead.

He couldn’t understand!

He didn’t know!

A sense of bewilderment, like an elementary school student looking at a college exam paper, rose in his heart.

***

After the multiple-choice questions were twenty short-answer questions.

Please list at least three ways to break the Tarnos Quirky Labyrinth, without using knowledge beyond the first circle.）

Please describe in detail the advantages and disadvantages of the Life Concealment Technique.

The practical application of invading the mind and weaving memories in nightmare magic…

***

Karl’s forehead was sweating, he thought for a long time, and the quill pen hovering in mid-air slowly marked an option.

Three hours later.

Karl stood in front of the desk, his head lowered, like a student waiting to be scolded, watching Vulcan grade the test paper.

It was obvious.

Vulcan was not very satisfied, his expression was a bit gloomy, or rather, helpless.

“Seventeen points!”

He threw the test paper over, and Vulcan rubbed his forehead:

“Among them, I suspect you guessed one of the multiple-choice questions correctly, your basic knowledge… is too poor!”

“Out of a hundred points, sixty is passing, many junior wizard apprentices in the tower probably score better than you.”

“……Yes.” Karl chuckled dryly:

“I will work hard.”

“It’s not surprising that your basic knowledge is poor.” Vulcan shook his head:

“After all, you come from the Eastern Kingdom Continent, where wizard knowledge is scarce, but you also…, never mind!”

He waved his hand helplessly and said:

“Fortunately, you have some talent in application, it seems you are not suitable for theoretical research, but more suitable for exploration in application, especially in bloodline magic and potion-making, you barely guessed a few points.”

“By the way.”

“That Omar, scored thirty-two points.”

Thirty-two points?

Karl breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Neither of them passed, so they could be considered brothers in misfortune, and his own score of a little over ten didn’t seem too bad.

After all, his time in contact with the wizarding world was too short, and his knowledge reserves were insufficient, which was inevitable.

“Never mind.”

Sitting up straight, Vulcan said seriously:

“As a disciple of the Six Rings Tower, after advancing to become a formal wizard, you can choose two first-circle spells to practice for free.”

“This is the list, take a look and choose what you want.”

He waved his arm lightly, and several pieces of magic paper filled with spell catalogs bounced and jumped in front of Karl.

***

One of them jumped especially high, as if it was eager for someone to choose it.

Karl looked down and scanned them.

Frost Ray!

Charm Human!

Terror Spell!

……

“Senior.” He thought for a while and asked:

“Is that all?”

“Isn’t this enough?” Vulcan laughed:

“More than two hundred first-circle spells, involving various schools and branches, and all of them are improved versions. There are not many places in the entire Kalim Continent that can offer this.”

“It’s not that.” Karl shook his head:

“I just think… as the top force in the Kalim Continent, the Six Rings Tower should have some more special spells.”

“Heh…” Vulcan waved his hand, and the magic papers that were jumping back and forth on the desk immediately quieted down:

“You’re very smart.”

“In addition to these common first-circle spells, there are indeed some special spells, but you need to spend a certain amount of magic stones to choose them.”

You?

Karl noticed the term he used.

That meant that besides himself, Omar had also asked about this.

But if they had them, why not just take them out directly? If he hadn’t asked, wouldn’t he have missed out for nothing?

He didn’t know that this was actually a kind of test, testing whether the newcomer would delve into the catalog.

A spirit of inquiry,

was always a necessary quality for a wizard.

“Choose!”

Vulcan waved his hand again, and a yellowed piece of paper flew out of the drawer and landed in front of Karl:

“It’s also two spells, I hope you have enough magic stones to buy them, this kind of opportunity only comes once in a lifetime for every wizard of the Six Rings Tower.”

Karl took a deep breath and looked down.

Electric Blast Orb: Hybrid magic, priced at 100 magic stones.

Advanced Invisibility: Requires taking specific potions during practice, priced at 100 magic stones.

Purification Curse: Mysterious magic, priced at 100 magic stones.

***

Karl’s eyes lit up.

Indeed!

The spells on this list were much better than the first-circle spells on the previous list, each one was very unique.

He was not lacking in knowledge about wizardry.

The dozen or so inheritances he had collected in the Black Swamp, and the memories of the Grey-Robed Wizard Addison, allowed him to easily distinguish the power of a spell.

Starlight Cloak: Flight magic, priced at 100 magic stones.

Evans’ Extreme Cold Ray: Mutated water magic, priced at 100 magic stones.

***

Karl’s gaze lingered on the Starlight Cloak, this spell was much stronger than ordinary flight magic.

In the presence of stars at night, the flight speed could be increased again, and it had a certain degree of concealment.

He pursed his lips, Karl’s gaze continued to move down, and stopped at the very end, his eyes involuntarily shrinking.

Hill Resonance: Earth magic, requires the practitioner to possess the bloodline of a hill giant, priced at 1000 magic stones.

1000 magic stones?

For a moment, Karl suspected that he was seeing things, and wondered if an extra zero had been added to the price.

He finally confirmed that he was not mistaken.

“1000 magic stones?”

Karl’s expression was strange:

“You can buy a complete second-order inheritance with that, right?”

“That’s right.” Vulcan, obviously knowing what he meant, smiled and said:

“Hill Resonance is a relatively special spell, it can increase the practitioner’s sensitivity to the earth, and it can also enhance the power of earth magic, even second-circle and third-circle wizards can use it.”

“Of course, the requirements are also quite harsh.”

Karl’s eyes flickered, looking at the other party’s large frame, which was two and a half meters tall, far exceeding normal people, and said thoughtfully:

“Senior possesses the bloodline of a hill giant?”

“That’s right.” Vulcan nodded:

“Without this bloodline, you can also obtain it by practicing bloodline magic, but hill giants are relatively rare.”

“There are a few in a certain demi-plane, and they are forbidden to be hunted.”

Karl shook his head, not only did he not have the bloodline of a hill giant, but he was not following the path of earth magic, so he was only looking at this spell.

There was only one spell priced at 1000 magic stones, but there were quite a few spells priced at 800 and 500 magic stones.

Thunder God’s Wrath: Soul magic, priced at 800 magic stones.

“Senior.”

Karl frowned, pointing at this spell and asking:

“800 magic stones?”

It wasn’t that it was expensive,

but that it was cheap!

Thunder God’s Wrath, could condense the power of thunder within the soul, destroying all invading evil thoughts.

Immune to curse death and sudden death.

Greatly increases mental resistance.

Greatly increases affinity for thunder.

The benefits of this spell for the practitioner were far greater than Hill Resonance, and there were no cultivation requirements, yet it was only priced at 800 magic stones.

“Thunder God’s Wrath?”

Vulcan rubbed his chin and nodded:

“The rank of this spell is indeed higher than Hill Resonance, but unfortunately, it is almost impossible to master.”

“Thunder God!”

“Anything involving the existence of gods is often very complex.”

He thought for a while before continuing:

“This spell came from a great wizard two thousand years ago, he captured an angel who controlled the power of thunder, analyzed this spell from that angel, and successfully cultivated it.”

“But unfortunately, since then, very few people have mastered this spell, and most of them are third-circle wizards or higher.”

“Some people speculate that to master Thunder God’s Wrath, it is best to obtain a blessing from a deity who possesses the authority of thunder, otherwise, you can only practice it after mastering the power of thunder after reaching the third order.”

?

Karl shook his head.

No wonder it was called Thunder God’s Wrath!

He didn’t expect wizards to be so fierce, they could actually capture angels, he knew that ordinary angels had no combat power, while angels with combat power were all extremely powerful.

A deity’s blessing?

Wizards didn’t believe in deities at all, how could they obtain a deity’s blessing, naturally, they couldn’t master it.

Wait a minute!

Karl’s eyes twitched.

I myself am a ‘god’!

If he only needed a blessing, he could bless himself, wouldn’t that mean he had a chance to master this spell?

“Actually, it’s not that there are no spells that increase thunder affinity, the most valuable thing about this spell is that it prevents sudden death.”

Vulcan, not knowing that Karl was feeling conflicted, continued calmly:

“You should know that some spells can kill people instantly, such as Death Wither, Life Elegy, etc.”

“If you are hit by such a spell, it all depends on resistance and judgment. If the resistance is insufficient, even a second-circle wizard may die on the spot!”

He sighed:

“I had a friend, he was mentally exhausted due to some matters during that time, and was hit by a first-circle spell, and as a result, he died because the judgment failed, it was quite a joke at the time.”

“There are also secret techniques that directly cut a person’s lifespan, and curses that cut a person’s soul, which are the favorites of the Shadow Hand group, if you master this spell, you don’t have to be afraid…”

“I’m getting off track!”

“This spell is cheap because it is too difficult to master, you should look at other spells.”

“No!” Karl looked up and said seriously:

“I want to try it.”

“Hmm?” Vulcan raised an eyebrow, a sense of helplessness rising in his heart, making him feel that his previous words were a bit redundant.

“Heh…”

He chuckled lightly, but he didn’t refuse:

“Suit yourself, I also wanted to try it back then, but unfortunately I didn’t succeed, if you want to try it, it’s not impossible, but there is no one to guide you in this spell.”

“No problem.” Karl nodded:

“Besides this Thunder God’s Wrath, I also want this Thunder Wings, a thunder-attribute flight spell.”

“Tsk tsk…” Vulcan shook his head and clicked his tongue lightly:

“You’ve got a good plan.”

“Thunder God’s Wrath is 800 magic stones, Thunder Wings is 500 magic stones, that’s a total of 1300 magic stones.”

“Pay up!”

Karl’s expression stiffened.

He was careless!

Because of the Grey-Robed Wizard Addison, it seemed that he no longer had that many magic stones?

“Is it okay to use other things as payment?”

“No problem, but I will determine the price.”

Vulcan didn’t expect him to be able to come up with so many magic stones in the first place.

Thirty different potions, a pile of soul powder, a dozen magic items, and various kinds of magic materials.

These items were taken out of the storage pendant one by one.

As for the pendant…

It came from Hodgson!

Marian’s things in the pendant had already been taken out, but it belonged to Karl as spoils of war.

There were two cubic meters of space inside, enough to store many things.

“I heard that you gained a lot of benefits during the market unrest that day.” Vulcan said thoughtfully:

“It seems that it’s true!”

“But it’s still short by more than a hundred magic stones.”

“Senior.” Karl thought for a while, looked at the empty storage space, and took out a crystal that recorded a spell:

“I have a rather special spell here, can you see how many magic stones it’s worth?”

“The tower doesn’t lack spells.” Vulcan took it casually:

“If it’s a spell that the tower already has, I won’t accept it, otherwise, leave the pendant you have, it’s worth…”

“Hmm?”

Halfway through his words, Vulcan’s expression froze, and his face became serious as he fell into deep thought.

“Earthquake!”

“Through resonance, brute force, and assimilation, it triggers the earth vein to vibrate, interesting… a very interesting spell.”

He was following the path of earth magic, and suddenly seeing a somewhat different earth magic spell, he couldn’t help but become interested.

“This spell doesn’t have high requirements for mental power, but it requires the practitioner to be physically strong.”

“Most wizards are not suitable.”

“Yes.” Karl nodded:

“But it’s suitable for you, senior.”

Vulcan possessed the bloodline of a hill giant, his physical strength far surpassed that of a legendary knight, coupled with the mental power of a second-circle wizard.

He was very suitable for ‘Earthquake’.

“Alright!”

Vulcan shrugged, put away the crystal:

“I’ll take this spell, it will offset the remaining magic stones.”

“In addition, according to the rules, after advancing to become a formal wizard, you should have a few years of rest, but now you also know the situation of the market, it would be too wasteful to let a formal wizard rest, you still need to keep an eye on the shop.”

“Rest for three months first, and then come out to work!”

“……Yes.” Karl sighed helplessly, he had expected this, Wizard Bella had also mentioned it, turning to leave, he casually asked:

“How will the tower deal with Nancy?”

“That ignorant girl downstairs?” Vulcan shook his head:

“The mistake she made means that she cannot inherit Marian’s inheritance, as for the rest… let’s put that aside!”

A wizard apprentice who had undergone ‘Soul Searching’, and was unable to inherit her mentor’s inheritance, meant that Nancy had completely lost all hope of advancing to become a wizard.