Mage Progress

The "Mindful Caster" that he held in his hand, once it spread, the number of Mage professionals would absolutely see a surge.

It was the process of copying that held back the vast majority of people; otherwise, his classmates would have definitely had him try it out then.

In the Arthur world, it wasn't stated that anything was exclusive to natives and couldn't be mastered by players. Especially after the mass transmigration, everyone was basically on the same playing field. What you can do, I can also do.

If Antinoa could teach him the "Mindful Caster," he could also teach this ability to others.

This was equivalent to Zhao Xu holding a key to spreading combat power.

Zhao Xu found it hard to imagine that the natives of Arthur would trust a player like him so readily.

Arthur was a place for the people of Arthur to protect, not for them, the players, to protect.

If it were another player, not knowing about the future transmigration, they might have sold this knowledge for a few hundred or a thousand.

"Mentor, why do you trust me so much?" Zhao Xu asked slowly.

"There's no 'why'."

Zhao Xu was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

"Just kidding. Your ability isn't complete, so you can't spread it," Antinoa suddenly said with a smile.

Zhao Xu finally realized the reason Antinoa had mentioned earlier that he hadn't fully mastered it.

However, a year later, he would eventually truly master it due to transmigration, making him a potential hidden danger at that time.

"Actually, you don't need to worry. There are plenty of things that disrupt balance," Antinoa said, looking at him. She directly raised her arm from beneath her robe and pointed at Zhao Xu.

It was completely different from other mages—there were no incantations, no gestures.

She was simply pointing at him and casting a spell.

A golden light flashed.

Zhao Xu didn't even have time to dodge before he saw his desk.

Neatly arranged, tens of thousands of gleaming golden coins were piled before Zhao Xu.

The image of the Goddess of Commerce and Wealth was still vaguely visible on the coins, proving they were genuine gold.

"Wish Spell, twenty-five thousand gold coins," Antinoa said softly.

Zhao Xu had never seen so many gold coins at once in his previous life, and he immediately stopped breathing.

"This is the ability that truly disrupts balance, understand?"

Zhao Xu looked up at Antinoa. Casting the Wish Spell required a price—it consumed experience, and using it too much would cause a level decrease.

He just hadn't expected Antinoa to conjure these gold coins out of thin air.

"No cost?" Zhao Xu said in disbelief, thinking of a possibility.

"Of course. I wouldn't risk leveling down by casting the Wish Spell just to show off to a brat like you."

"This is too much!" Zhao Xu almost shouted. Countless people worked day and night, yet struggled to earn the equivalent of this 225kg of gold, which was now laid out before him.

This was a quarter of a ton, not 4 grams.

On Earth, this would be equivalent to a ninth-level spell conjuring 80 million worth of gold out of nowhere.

Being able to cast it without cost could directly destroy the financial system.

"Don't overthink it. There won't be many mages who master this ability," Antinoa said, looking deeply into Zhao Xu's eyes.

The gold coins on the table were instantly swept away, collected by Antinoa into her Dimensional Pouch.

"I shouldn't have let you know this so early, but I saw a different destiny behind you. I believe you can be trusted."

Zhao Xu sat quietly.

When these Legendary Mages said they could see destiny, it wasn't like reading lines; they genuinely saw it.

Perhaps Antinoa now realized that people from Earth like Zhao Xu would all come to Arthur in the future.

Zhao Xu knew it was useless to seek confirmation; the sentence the other party had spoken was the maximum extent of what she could reveal.

No other player could get a clearer prophecy than this.

Zhao Xu lowered his head again. "Mentor, what should I study next?"

Having truly witnessed what mages could accomplish in the future, Zhao Xu's entire being was captivated by this magical ability.

"Hmm?" Antinoa suddenly let out a soft hum, carrying a hint of surprise.

"Suddenly, there's something I need to take care of. You should go rest too, and come back to study tomorrow."

With that, Antinoa's figure flickered and vanished, as if no one had ever been there in the first place.

Zhao Xu hadn't expected his mentor to leave so abruptly. He could only pick up the "Overview of First-Level Spells" beside him and look at the spell descriptions.

He still had to choose some first-level spells from it, which would be his real combat power after leaving the Floating City.

Without Antinoa's supervision, naturally, no one would provide him with specific spells to copy. Zhao Xu could only get a preliminary understanding by looking at the descriptions for now.

After nearly two hours of reading, knowing that all lectures would have ended by that night, Zhao Xu could only log off by himself and tell Antinoa his choices tomorrow.

"Brother Xu, what's up with you today? You're not even playing the game."

After a bit of intimate time with his girlfriend downstairs, Zhang Qi returned to the dorm room and was greatly surprised to see Zhao Xu wasn't logged in, but instead quietly reading a book.

"Taking a break." With the major worry in his heart resolved, Zhao Xu, no longer afraid of not being able to become a Mage, began to engage in some trivial pastimes.

"Brother Xu, do you want to join our class guild?" Zhang Qi quickly leaned over and said.

"Did you guys raise enough for the deposit?" Zhao Xu asked in surprise.

Arthur didn't need any guild charter or anything to establish a guild; one just needed to pay a deposit to the local town's big boss.

Then, they could officially recruit members and post or accept quests.

It was just that this money, no player could afford it right now.

"I didn't expect Brother Xu to be so well-informed," Zhang Qi exclaimed. "We definitely don't have the money, but we players can still form a guild in name. We just can't post quests."

"The guild was initiated by Huang Daqiang from our class, to attract the attention of the few campus beauties," Zhang Qi explained.

Huang Daqiang was considered a bully in their class, usually displaying his wealth and having many people running errands for him on campus.

Later, when Huang Daqiang was the guild leader, he did a few things that angered everyone and lost popular support, leading to his ousting. Since then, he had been actively opposing their class guild.

In his previous life, Zhao Xu had also been disgusted by Huang Daqiang, which was why he specifically played "Arthur" to be able to contribute to the class when guild wars were initiated.

"I can't, I'm still stuck in the Mage Academy."

Now that Zhao Xu had a new goal in sight, he naturally had no interest in picking a fight with Huang Daqiang and thus politely refused.

He was struggling just to survive, so he had no interest in trying to prove himself, especially since the class guild was still under Huang Daqiang's leadership.

"Hey, Brother Xu, you should listen to me and switch professions soon. Two-thirds of the Mages on the forum have already given up their training and switched to other classes."

"Li Tiange, that top student. I heard Goddess Lulu complaining that Mages were hard to play, so he specifically entered the game to play a Mage. But he still felt he couldn't inscribe a zero-level spell today and gave up in defeat. So far, no one in the entire school who chose Mage has successfully inscribed a zero-level spell."

Zhao Xu was astonished. He hadn't expected such inside information from the start of the server. Li Tiange was considered a top student in their grade.

It seemed he had underestimated the difficulty of being a Mage at the start of the server.

"Brother Xu, how far have you gotten?"