Formal Wizard, The Power of Law

"Gulp."

After getting the potion, Ahab drank it on the spot.

Then he simply stayed in the reception room of the General Affairs Hall, absorbing the potion's effects there.

After all, Ahab had Academy contribution points on him now.

He was still entitled to rest for a while in the General Affairs Hall.

Time passed minute by minute, second by second, until the moon hung high in the sky.

In the reception room, Ahab suddenly opened his eyes.

The medicinal power had been fully absorbed, and his spiritual power had increased by 10 points!

"I didn't expect it to be this fast. The diary said Vivian took a week to advance."

"Mm, it's also possible she didn't have 0.4-circle wizardry, and the extra week she spent was for learning wizardry."

Ahab quietly sensed his own condition.

The instant his spiritual power broke through 30, Ahab felt as though he had suddenly understood many things.

The shifting of mountains and rivers, the changing of waters, the growth of plants and trees...

It was as if he had gained a preliminary understanding of the tracks by which the world operated.

Moreover, this was different from receiving sudden enlightenment.

Rather, with a clearer mind, he had gained a deeper understanding of the knowledge he had learned in the past.

From this moment on, he was a Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice!

After this, he would move house, moving to the East District, which was mainly made up of Second-Rank Apprentices.

The Academy's subsidies would also stop, and he would need to do missions himself to earn Magic Stones.

Or perhaps, like Lola and the others, he could form a small organization and have everyone work together.

"Hmm?"

Ahab rose from his seat, ready to head back and move.

But just as he took one step, the scenery around him changed.

The warm reception room of the General Affairs Hall was gone, replaced by an unfamiliar place.

It was an island so small he could see its end at a glance, with a few thick trees on it.

Under the moonlight, waves crashed against the reefs one after another.

What was going on? Had he directly stepped through the void?

A Second-Rank Apprentice wasn't absurd to that extent, right?

Thinking this, Ahab looked around.

Then, on the opposite side of the small island, he saw a familiar figure.

A square male apprentice, his horizontal and vertical measurements almost the same.

The newcomer was none other than Andre, the First-Rank Wizard Apprentice who had just threatened him during the day.

"No, a First-Rank Wizard Apprentice doesn't have an ability this powerful either."

"A full-fledged wizard made a move!"

Ahab looked around warily.

Andre laughed aloud.

"Pretty vigilant, aren't you? No wonder you managed to kill Lola, that toy our teacher had his eye on."

The "big shot" behind Lola really was a full-fledged wizard.

Strange. Why had he been exposed all of a sudden?

Ahab's heartbeat quickened, but his face remained utterly calm.

"What are you talking about?"

Andre, standing opposite him, did not speak.

Another voice suddenly rang out in the air.

"All things in existence, all matter, have memories."

Ahab took a step back and looked up toward where the voice had come from.

That was... a tree?

But there was clearly no one in its crown.

The next instant, a wind suddenly rose.

The fierce sea wind blew through the lush leaves, and it just so happened to make a sound like a person speaking.

"Take a look for yourself. Do these things look familiar?"

As the voice fell, the surroundings changed again.

Wildflowers and blades of wild grass abruptly flew over from the main island in the distance, where the Academy stood.

The next moment, the things flying over began to change, as if time were flowing backward.

A blade of wild grass was rapidly pulverized; the nutrients within separated out and recombined, turning into a puddle of fresh blood.

In the end, countless blades of wild grass and wildflowers were restored into blood, then gathered around Ahab in a splattering pattern.

Just like the scene that afternoon, when Ahab had pointed a brick at the back of Lola's head and smashed it down.

Ahab stared, dumbfounded, and at the same time understood what was happening.

Lola had been ambushed by him, and the blood she shed had seeped into the soil and become nutrients.

Later, those nutrients had been absorbed and become wild grass and wildflowers.

And now, those nutrient substances that had already been absorbed were being reversed again, returned to the form they had taken half a year ago.

Just like the saying went, you could never destroy matter; matter merely existed in another form.

But this scene before his eyes...

This was completely unscientific! How could the conversion of energy flow in reverse?

"Are you stunned stupid? This is an official elemental wizard's control and alteration of the laws of nature!"

Andre looked at Ahab as if he were some country bumpkin.

"Thunderbolt Ice!"

Ahab's expression instantly turned ruthless, and he directly used his strongest offensive method.

Relying on "See Through," when he had been Third-Rank, he could single-handedly kill a Second-Rank.

Now that he had advanced to Second-Rank Apprentice, and that official wizard had yet to show himself, it was obvious the other party could not conveniently act directly.

Facing Andre, he was not without a chance!

An icicle containing berserk energy shot violently toward Andre.

At the same time, Ahab blinked his left eye and began to predict with "See Through."

Andre had an affinity for the water element, and when Ahab predicted the flow speed of water, he could be called right a hundred times out of a hundred.

Sure enough, Andre raised his hand and propped up a solid water shield.

"The Authority is reacting. See Through can be performed."

Ahab looked at Andre.

Next, as long as he gave a "wink," Andre's water-formed shield would be rendered incorporeal by the mighty power of The Void.

The other party would also directly endure the attack of his "Thunderbolt Ice."

But at that instant, invisible ripples began to arise all around.

It was the power of laws again. That official wizard had made a move!

The water barrier Andre had raised looked clearly no different from before.

But Ahab discovered that he could no longer perform "See Through."

This meant he had guessed the component wrong.

But this was clearly a shield made of water, yet there was no flow of water at all?

The thing that underwent a strange change was not only the water barrier Andre had raised.

There was also the Thunderbolt Ice Ahab had shot out.

The icicle that had originally shot out violently, wrapped in berserk energy, now seemed to suddenly wilt.

Not only did its energy abruptly weaken, but its originally straight-line flight also turned into spinning in place.

The compressed, heavy icicle was like a snowflake, drifting and drifting.

Ahab came to a realization. This was what resulted from altering the laws.

Magic power itself was a kind of energy, but it did not necessarily possess might.

One Magic Stone was the condensation of 100 points of magic power.

But the power produced by the explosion of one Magic Stone was even far inferior to a spell that consumed 20 magic power.

A spell was not as simple as gathering magic power and then launching it out; rather, it contained a wizard's use of rules, a leveraging of energy.

"There's no room to resist anymore."

Ahab understood his own limitations.

All along, he had still been looking at this world with a Blue Star mindset.

The increase of a wizard's power, however, was not like working out, where training one pound counted as one pound.

Once one reached a certain level, there would be a qualitative leap!

Third-Rank, Second-Rank, First-Rank—so what?

They were all ants.

As long as the laws were affected, even a Third-Rank Apprentice could slaughter a First-Rank Apprentice.

The waters of this world ran deep—likely far deeper than anything he had seen so far.

Including the truth at the end of Future Diary, the truth of being mentally controlled—

If he wanted to know the truth, even just part of it, then he had to become at least an official First-Circle Wizard as soon as possible!