Badge in Azure

Chapter 3: When an apprentice encounters a soldier, he cannot explain why he is right (Part 1)

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For the next ten days, Salin kept repeating this magic, but could not complete it once. Www!QUAbEn-XIAoShUo!comNo matter how perfect and skillful his spells and gestures are, he just can't complete this simple level 0 magic.

During this period, Magician Jason only appeared once, and spent the rest of the time in the laboratory transformed from the living room. He didn't seem to need to eat and kept doing magic experiments in the house.

Salin was a little anxious, but there was no point in being anxious about learning magic. He could only practice again and again. Finally, in the third ten days, Salin learned this magic.

He came to Jason's magic laboratory excitedly. Seeing Salin's excitement, Jason sighed: "You learned a level 0 magic in 30 days, and your qualifications can be said to be very poor. I suggest you not to continue, otherwise you may only be able to do this for the rest of your life. An apprentice."

Salin was stunned: "Teacher..."

"Are you unwilling? Let's do an experiment." Jason took out a crystal ball, placed it on the table, and said, "Perform a magic on this."

Salin quickly cast a reading spell according to his words, and there was almost no change in the transparent crystal ball.

Jason put away the crystal ball and said: "It's worse than I thought. Your mental power is very strong, but your elemental affinity is too poor. According to the test results, you may not have the chance to advance to the first level until you are a hundred years old. Magician. Salin, if you are willing, I will give you a sum of money to go to Scotia City and find a swordsmanship hall. At your age, there may be a way out for you to learn swordsmanship."

Salin felt as if he had been doused with cold water. If he had not had this opportunity, he might have accepted Jason's suggestion. However, thirty days of practice made him addicted to magic. When the first level 0 magic was completed in my hand, the pleasant feeling of being in control could no longer be eliminated from my bones.

Become a swordsman? Like those guards in Ceylon City, who walk around the streets every day, block the city gates to collect taxes, or work as mercenaries, but can't get a wife in their thirties

"Teacher, is there nothing we can do?" Salin struggled inwardly and asked.

"It's not nothing, but even I can't afford the price. This is not a problem that gold coins can solve. Unless a ninth-level magician is willing to help you and transform your physique. Even so, your future achievements will only be low-level magic at best. Master, it won't reach level four." Jason replied helplessly.

"Teacher, I still want to give it a try. I would rather be a hundred-year-old apprentice than a swordsman. Please teach me the rules of meditation." Saleen gritted his teeth. He had a very bad impression of swordsmen. There were no decent swordsmen in Ceylon City, and he took Jason's gold coins to learn. Who knew what would happen. Having been deceived a lot since childhood, Salin was a little disillusioned with the world.

"If you insist, fine, but after learning my meditation rules, you can't leave unless you become an official magician."

"I'd like to continue."

"My meditation rules are very precious even in the Qin Yin Empire. If you leak it to others, I will take away your life. Can you understand?" Jason said calmly, and Salin felt like he was shaking in his heart. cold. He knew that the teacher would never say anything casually. If he violated this requirement...

"Where to start?" Jason said to himself. It was his first time to accept students and he was a little at a loss. When the teacher taught me the meditation rules before, I was already a level 2 apprentice with a lot of basic knowledge. Salin obviously doesn't understand anything yet.

"The rules of meditation actually include meditation, elemental absorption, hypnosis and spiritual resonance. Ordinary magicians can only learn meditation, and the full set of meditation rules can only be learned from great magicians. As introduced in the book, There is only meditation alone. You will never become a great magician by self-study..."

Jason took the trouble to give Salin lessons from scratch, and then taught him everything. It only took Salin half an hour to completely remember Jason's words. Jason also lamented Salin's intelligence and felt sad for him at the same time. Such a smart child has extremely low elemental affinity.

"Okay, I've told you all the contents of the meditation rules. You are very smart. Just read the books upstairs in order. Meditate at least once a day. It may be good for you. Remember to cook me a meal and bread once a week. If you don’t have any, go to the city and buy it. I’ll leave you a gold coin. After you fully master the law of meditation, I still have work for you.”

"Yes, teacher." Salin bowed his head and exited the room. He was still young and did not understand that he had chosen an extremely difficult path. There was only excitement in his heart now, as if the door to another world had been opened to him. And he didn't know how much it would cost to enter this door.

Salin went directly to the first room where the books were placed and began to study. The first bookshelf was on linguistics. Salin didn't even know a few words, so he could only learn it step by step. Reading Magic is magical and allows him to teach himself words. The only trouble is that after he uses reading magic once, he has to rest for half an hour before he can use it a second time.

In this way, it took Salin a month to finally learn the mainland lingua franca, which is the language he speaks now. He wanted to take a look at the books at the back in advance, but found that the magic books in the room were very large, and not all of them were written in common language. There were at least more than twenty languages in the books on the bookshelves. Salin had to Read all the books on the first bookshelf before looking down.

Magicians are all knowledgeable people. Without reading magic, it is impossible to complete magic learning.

Fortunately, within a month, Salin finally mastered the rules of meditation. Now he can cast reading magic twice in a row, and then it takes ten minutes to fully recover.

The magic elements stored in the body of a magic apprentice are pitiful, and Saleen has even less than ordinary apprentices. Despite this, he is very satisfied. Four huge rooms, each with dozens of large bookshelves and tens of thousands of books, is enough for him to read.

He is no longer anxious about promotion, he is eager to absorb more knowledge. Salin patiently studied in order. There are more than a thousand books on linguistics, including Common Language, Mersian Language, Magic Language, Qinyin Language, Skochinya Language, Tanggulas Language... Salin even studied Caucasian language. The Caucasus people have never produced a magician. The Caucasus region is still very primitive and only has priests. However, Salin was obsessed with learning languages. It took him half a year to master the languages introduced in more than a thousand books.

It was slow at first, but as he recognized more and more words, he learned faster and faster.

By the time he finished reading the last book, he had been able to cast the reading spell three times in a row, which meant that he had become a level 2 magic apprentice. Salin didn't know that this was actually because his mental power was very strong and the loss when controlling magic was too small. Since he was only performing level 0 magic, the loss was even pitiful. In fact, the magic elements stored in his body were still only at the level of a level 1 apprentice.

This speed cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it is definitely unprecedented. If most people practiced at this speed, they would have been kicked out long ago. Salin had the best meditation rules. After half a year, the storage capacity of magic elements in his body was barely improved. Jason did not deal with him. Salin was really not suitable for learning magic.

The next content is magic knowledge, which is still a bookshelf with more than a thousand books. The mysterious veil of the magical world has been lifted. Salin doesn't know how much he can learn, but he believes that hard work will always pay off.

The origin of magic is unknown. It is generally believed that magic on the continent of Mers has a history of at least 30,000 years. It was not perfected until the Second Dynasty more than 10,000 years ago, and was divided into earth, water, wind, fire, light and darkness. Six major departments. Since then, the calendar of the Mels continent has been perfected. The year is divided into 12 months, each month has 30 days, and a 6-day week is made. The sixth day of the week is the dark day, which is a rest day for various industries. Even with the fall of the goddess Mels (goddess of nature) and the rise of the Holy See, this habit has not changed.

The calendar of the Holy See is too troublesome. The Holy See believes that a week should have seven days. After a hundred years of implementation, the entire continent still only uses the new calendar within the Holy See, and ultimately nothing happens.

Apprentices are not limited to performing level 0 magic before becoming a level one magician. After being promoted to a level 6 apprentice, a magic apprentice can actually learn a level 1 magic and complete it. This is the leapfrog spellcasting in the magic formula. There is only one chance to leapfrog the spellcasting. It is not surprising that any magician can do the leapfrog spellcasting.

It's just that after a magician casts a spell beyond a certain level, he will fall into a state of weakness and be almost unable to recover himself. Only by relying on meditation can it be possible to recover the consumed magic strings.

Magic strings are the cornerstone of magic. Without magic strings, magic apprentices can never be promoted to official magicians. In order to form a magic string, you must have strong mental power and elemental affinity. Salin's elemental affinity is very low, so Jason said that he may have to wait until he is a hundred years old to become a magician.

At the rate Salling is progressing, this is not an exaggeration.

As for what the magic string is, there are detailed descriptions in various books, but they cannot be unified. What Salin can understand is that the magic string exists in the body of the magician, providing the basic elemental power for the magician to cast magic. Through continuous training, magic apprentices allow magic elements to accumulate in their bodies, from quantitative changes to qualitative changes. This process is the process of forming magic strings, which is the promotion from apprentice to official magician.

What makes Salin discouraged is that he has never seen any book mentioning another way to form magic strings. If he relies on accumulation, he really has no hope of becoming a magician.

Within half a year, all the food stored in the kitchen was eaten, and Salin knew it was time to go shopping in the city. He came to Jason's laboratory and told Jason that he was going to the city.

"How are you studying?"

"I can already complete three reading skills in a row." Salin emphasized the word 'three', hoping to attract the teacher's attention.

"Okay, go ahead." Jason didn't say anything more, and just gave Salin five more gold coins. Salin's progress was a little faster than he expected, but Jason knew that this was because of Salin's strong mental power. He judged that Salin still only had the strength of a level 1 apprentice, and there was not much meaning in casting an additional level 0 magic. At least it would not help Salin accumulate enough magic elements. In other words, it would not be possible to form a magic string in the end.