Entering the Junior Wizard Apprentice

Entering the Novice Wizard Apprentice Stage

How should he put this process? It was unpleasant, a bit like eating grass—his mouth, throat, and stomach all felt unbearably awful.

He forced it down. Before long, he felt a cool breath rise in his stomach. Dole hurriedly closed his eyes. "It's here."

Dog Aoduo climbed up from the ground and stood before Dole. Looking at the herbs scattered on the floor, a look of surprise appeared on his dog face. He could sense Dole's urgency, but he had no idea where it came from. Had this little fellow run into some kind of trouble?

In potion-making, medicines naturally had the best effect when refined, but eating them raw worked too. Dole clearly lacked the means to refine them and could only eat them raw. But why not wait a while and get himself a set of alchemy tools?

It seemed he really had run into something.

Dog Aoduo glanced over. What Dole had just eaten was the most basic novice mental power potion. It could increase one's mental power by the tiniest, almost negligible amount.

Forget it. He would not go out tonight. He would keep an eye on this little fellow.

Dog Aoduo lay back down, though he glanced over from time to time. His strength had already recovered to level three. Looking after a novice magic apprentice was naturally no trouble at all. The kid could mess around as he pleased, as long as he did not get himself killed.

What did level three mean? In all of Duomeng City, he was a godlike existence. No creature could possibly threaten him.

Dole had already entered his sea of consciousness. With the addition of that cool breath, his second copper coin took shape at a speed visible to the naked eye. It slowly filled in bit by bit, and before long, the coin became distinct and complete.

The cool breath had not yet run dry. Sensing this, Dole struck while the iron was hot and began outlining a third copper coin.

As the second copper coin was successfully outlined, Dole could clearly feel that he had changed. He did not know exactly how, only that his mind was exceptionally clear and his thoughts agile. He outlined the third coin with incredible speed; almost the instant he thought of something, it appeared on the third coin.

After a while, the third copper coin was fully outlined as well. The three coins bobbed up and down in his sea of consciousness, brimming with joy.

When he prepared to outline the fourth copper coin, that cool breath vanished. Clearly, the power brought by the medicine had run out.

He let out a breath and began consolidating the results, doing his best to perfect the two copper coins he had just outlined.

At this moment, he knew that he had entered the novice wizard apprentice stage. Sharpened five senses and quicker thinking were the clearest signs.

He opened his eyes.

Only after advancing to wizard apprentice did Dole understand why The Legend of Naluye said that wizardry was the true essence of all professions. Advancing to wizard apprentice had not increased his strength, but his five senses had become sharper and his perception stronger. Even things he had once overlooked—the flow of wind, sunlight, colors—now seemed so vivid before his eyes. Every movement in the world was filled with a wondrous rhythm.

His hearing, vision, sense of smell, intuition, and sense of touch had all been greatly enhanced. He could even sense Dog Aoduo's gaze resting on him. It was an extraordinarily wondrous feeling, as though he had become dozens of times more sensitive than before.

Dog Aoduo also noticed Dole's abnormality. With a slight probe, he knew that the little fellow had advanced to magic apprentice. Though it had taken a little longer, he had made it in the end.

Of course, his actual combat power had not increased. He could not even cast many spells. Still, it was a good beginning.

Wizards at the apprentice stage had pitifully low combat power and relied entirely on all sorts of auxiliary items—alchemy creations, alchemical potions, and the like. Their own offensive abilities were extremely weak. But anyone who underestimated a wizard apprentice would surely suffer a terrible loss, especially if that wizard apprentice had money. Their methods emerged one after another; alchemy items alone could bury a whole crowd of senior warrior apprentices to death.

Sharper perception brought stronger awareness of the outside world, and likewise greatly strengthened control over oneself. After examining his body, Dole felt that he was nearing the complete perfection of the novice warrior stage. He clenched his fist, and the power bursting from his muscles had reached the limits of his body. His surging blood and qi rushed through his veins, filling his fingertips.

The feeling was wondrous.

It seemed he needed to find another place to live. Staying here was far too unsafe. And now that he had become a wizard apprentice, he needed his own laboratory to refine all kinds of alchemy creations. Only wizard apprentices with alchemy creations possessed combat power and could protect their lives. Otherwise, a mere wizard apprentice relying on hand-to-hand combat could not defeat a warrior.

That was why many wizards also cultivated the warrior profession, or some other profession, during their early stages to make up for their shortcomings in battle. But once they became official wizards, they would abandon it.

Official wizards could manipulate the free energy between heaven and earth without relying on alchemy creations, unleashing powerful spells. Powerful wizards could even destroy heaven and earth; wiping away a mountain peak with a wave of the hand was no difficult feat. That was absolutely beyond comparison to the warrior profession.

But weak wizard apprentices could do nothing at all. That was the awkward part of the wizard profession. Moreover, wizards found advancement far more difficult than warriors. Thus, Dole did not dare place all his bets on wizardry. His warrior profession needed to advance as well.

Who knew how much time passed before he finally grew tired and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, he left in high spirits and quietly made his way to the blacksmith shop. He was not relaxed in the slightest, because the moment he arrived, he discovered someone watching him from afar.

He did not turn around. Though it was only intuition, that intuition was immensely strong.

He deliberately shifted his body and glanced with the corner of his eye. There truly was someone over there watching this way, and his heart sank.

Those damned Aoduo father and son were truly like chewing gum, clinging to him and refusing to let go.

The experiment had to be carried out as soon as possible. Only with the support of alchemical potions could he feel safe. Though staying at the blacksmith shop gave him peace of mind, there was no guarantee that one day he would not fall into someone else's hands.

He was only an ordinary person, an exceedingly ordinary person. He did not dare leave his fate here.

After reading The Legend of Naluye, his sights had long since moved beyond Duomeng City, toward the vast world outside. He did not want to die, through one careless misstep, in this backwater corner of the world.

In the realm of wizards, there were far too many ways to kill someone without a sound. The best were all kinds of poisons—plant poisons, heavy-metal poisons, acidic and alkaline poisons, even colorless and odorless poisons. There were simply too many, and most methods of novice wizard apprentices came from this area.

Besides poisons, he could also refine some small things, such as bombs or concealed weapons.

There was no helping it. Novice apprentices were this shabby. Only upon reaching senior apprentice could they combine materials and use some powerful spells. Intermediate apprentices and novice apprentices were not fundamentally all that different.