Chapter 20 Preface (please read)
After returning to the school’s headquarters, Richard and Mei Luo first went to the school’s security office to report the news of Nicolo’s accident.
After completing the transcript, they will no longer have to deal with subsequent matters. Special personnel from the Security Department will take over and be responsible for related matters, including on-site investigation, collection of remains, and notification of family members.
The exhausted two people agreed to meet again in three days and returned to their dormitories. Before leaving, Mei Luo took away the heart of the giant crocodile in the Dead Swamp and gave Richard five magic stones as compensation.
Early the next morning, the morning light dewed slightly.
Richard was awakened by the severe pain in his legs. He finally knew why the extremely effective potion of swiftness was only sold for five magic stones, because the side effects were so painful.
And the pain lasted not for one day, but for For three whole days!
Sure enough, the goods are cheap but not good!
I remember that the medicine used by Senior Sister Meiluo seems to make the body lighter. I might ask her about it next time I see her.
Yesterday, Richard decided to go to the library and choose a suitable zero-level witchcraft after seeing Emilia, the leader of the previous batch of students, and her powerful zero-level witchcraft. Practice to avoid encountering the situation where you cannot break the monster's defense again!
The library of the Ignis School is located in the center of the teaching area and has a rich collection of books. However, every local library has its own rules for borrowing books, and the Ignis School is no exception.
The library of the school has different permissions to borrow books according to different student levels. A first-level wizard apprentice can only borrow a maximum of two witchcraft books at a time. The borrowing time is one month and costs 1 magic stone.
In other words, if you borrow two books at a time and return them one month later, you will be charged two magic stones. What if I return it early? That also charges two magic stones.
However, general books such as "General History of the Continent of Bias", "Travels of the Bard Oleg", "Illustrated Manual of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in Pharmacy", etc. can be borrowed five times at a time without consuming magic stones.
Resisting the pain, Richard limped over. In front of a tall, square building in the teaching area was the library of the Ignis School. The exterior of the wall was made of gray rare stone. The whole library looks primitive and majestic.
At this time, the library had just opened and there were very few students.
Richard came to the counter, where a stooped old man with gray hair was sitting there casually, flipping through a book in his hand.
The old man couldn't tell his specific age, but his aura was far more powerful than Richard's. According to Richard's observation, the opponent is probably the peak strength of the third-level wizard apprentice, that is, the kind of veteran student who has not been successfully promoted to a formal wizard for ten or twenty years, but is proficient in many levels of zero-level witchcraft.
Second- and third-level wizard apprentices are the backbone of the school. There is no saying that they will be dropped out of school if they are not promoted within five years.
If there are still assessment requirements for second-level wizard apprentices, then for third-level wizard apprentices, the school basically has no restrictions, allowing them time to strive for the official wizard level!
The old man didn't even turn his head or even raise his eyelids. He continued to look at his book and asked: "First-level apprentice? He should be the newcomer! If you know the rules, you can follow the ghost servant to find the book by yourself, and then come back. I'll register here."
"Okay, Your Excellency." Richard politely saluted the old man and began to talk about his needs with the ghost servant in the spirit form beside him. After a while, the ghost servant quietly said, He took Richard to the bookshelves in the middle two rows on the second floor.
These two bookshelves hold zero-level witchcraft of the shadow system and the undead system respectively.
Richard came here this time to find a relatively powerful attacking witchcraft. He planned to study it carefully and try to understand and master it as soon as possible to make up for the gaps in his witchcraft attacks.
It would be best if one could directly learn top zero-level witchcraft such as Shadow Grip and Death Bite.
Richard thought very clearly that only by increasing his strength could he safely complete tasks and earn points and magic stones, which would then be fed back to himself, thus forming a virtuous cycle. Otherwise, going out on missions will be very dangerous. For example, last time was a good lesson!
Richard spent nearly two hours, and after a rough review, he found that the shadow system has several more powerful zero-level attack witchcraft, such as secondary shadow arrows, shadow shock, etc., and the undead system also has many, such as death. Bite, corpse explosion, etc., but none of them seem to be as good as the "Grasp of Shadows" in his hand. The biggest advantage of Shadow Grasp is that, if used well, it is a witchcraft that combines offense and defense. Death Bite is also very good, but its characteristic is strong and continuous attack power. On the premise of learning one first, Richard thought about it and felt that it would be best for him to master the Grasp of Shadow first.
Opening the cover, I came to the introduction section, which read [Shadow Grasp]: Shadow-based zero-level attack witchcraft, which consumes a certain amount of mental power. After building a witchcraft model, it condenses dark energy particles to form a palm shape, and attacks or Restricting the opponent's movement, those with strong mental power can freely control the dark elemental energy hand to carry out attacks in changing forms.
Prerequisite course mastery: "Primary Control of Mental Power", "Use of Dark Energy Particles".
Richard's face darkened at this, and it was the same as the "Rodrigue Meditation Method". It was the kind of situation where you couldn't get started directly and needed to learn beforehand!
Therefore, Richard quickly searched for books related to his prerequisite course, and soon found books related to the prerequisite course "Primary Control of Mental Power".
But after flipping through a few pages, Richard's complexion became even darker, and his brows furrowed into the character "Sichuan"!
And more importantly, if you want to learn any zero-level witchcraft, you need to get started with meditation. Whether it is basic meditation or advanced meditation, you need to get started before you can learn zero-level witchcraft. The reason is that here Involves the concept of sorcery rune construction.
Only sleight-of-hand, because it is weak and does not involve the construction of witchcraft runes, can be learned before learning the meditation method.
Richard suddenly understood and recalled what Stefano had said before.
"Some children are born with extraordinary mental power. They can use magic tricks without learning meditation. Many five- and six-year-old children are afraid of the dark, so they unintentionally perform light magic. But there are also some children who are afraid of the dark
. Hei, what he used was the ignition technique, which set the house on fire."
It seems that the idea of directly learning powerful zero-level witchcraft is not feasible.
If you want to quickly improve your strength, you can only start with tricks!
Fortunately, this book says that the best way to exercise mental control is to learn the trick [Skeleton Manipulation].
When the degree of control of the trick [Skeleton Manipulation] reaches the proficiency level or above, it means that you have reached the level of primary control of mental power, which is considered to have met the basic conditions for learning the Grasp of Shadow.
Ho! Seeing this, Richard seemed to understand a little bit. It should be that the more powerful the witchcraft, the more prerequisite courses or conditions are set!
Therefore, the whole learning process is like the Russian matryoshka dolls in the previous life, one is nested one after the other, and only after all the nests are taken out can the core content be learned!
No wonder Mei Luo said last time that only a few people in their batch learned the bite of death. This must be the reason.
In this case, it just so happens that since I haven't learned meditation yet, all I can learn are tricks, and this trick happens to be my favorite, which is the prelude to the subsequent zero-level witchcraft Shadow Grasp.
Now that I have learned it, I can kill two birds with one stone. It can not only directly let me master a trick and improve my combat effectiveness, but it can also pave the way for learning the Grasp of Shadow in the future!
A first-level wizard apprentice needs to learn a lot of knowledge every day. In addition, he also needs to spend time earning points.
If some students also want to study other subjects such as pharmacy, human body modification, etc., the time schedule will be even more full.
Therefore, Richard can now finally understand why a considerable number of freshmen have only learned one or two tricks after coming to the school for half a year!
In the end, Richard went downstairs with two witchcraft books, the sleight of hand "Skeleton Control" and the zero-level witchcraft "Shadow Grip".
However, when Richard casually glanced at the introduction to "Manipulating Skeletons" in the trick book, he suddenly discovered that such a trick actually had pre-learning content: "Human Osteology" and "Common Animal Osteology".
Richard's head suddenly went dark and he almost fell down on the stairs!
Thanks to book friend Lan Tingyou for the many recommendation votes for that crazy and disturbing book!
(End of chapter)