Harvest

Green had only gotten one answer from the fatty.

"Who told you I only sold them at Black Isotta Tower?"

And that was the end of it. Faced with the direct temptation of five thousand magic stones, even though Green had not figured out the key to it, he no longer hesitated and directly signed the Seven-Ring Contract.

As far as Green knew, this contract, created through the power of the Seven-Ring Holy Tower, could not have its binding force resisted at all without the power of a level-four Stigmata Sorcerer.

As for the existence of a level-four Stigmata Sorcerer?

That was far too distant for the current Green...

With five thousand magic stones in advance at his disposal, under the fatty's pained expression, Green unceremoniously took one precious resource after another, then even "politely" thanked the fatty before returning to his little hut in wild delight, looking at these precious materials he had once not even dared to imagine.

The Eternal Earring was worn directly on his right ear. With his golden curls casually covering it, Green's slightly wild aura immediately gained a touch of elegance.

This top-tier sorcerer artifact worth six hundred magic stones not only had excellent effects in resisting curses and illusions, it could even automatically absorb free elemental energy from the air, keeping the wearer's body at a relatively comfortable constant temperature.

Green also carried a section of Crying Branch on him.

If Green encountered a curse he could not resist in the future, this section of branch would let out an ear-piercing scream, temporarily solidifying the curse and giving the subject a considerable amount of time to respond.

Red-Ear Mushroom was an extremely precious potion ingredient for sorcerer apprentices. One only needed to prepare a small amount of auxiliary potion, boil this mushroom into a fresh soup, and after taking it, it would produce the effect of stimulating a sorcerer apprentice's mental strength.

The effect varied from person to person, but generally speaking, it could increase mental strength by at least one point, and at the higher end could even reach three points, fully saving a sorcerer apprentice several years of meditation time.

Insights on Reconstructing Flame Sorcery Magic Arrays was a sorcerer's casual notebook on elemental research.

Of course, it was only a portion of insights regarding changes in the forms of flame sorcery. If it were the entire notebook, its value would be far too great.

A Gem Clam Pearl, if held in the mouth, could grant a person the ability to breathe underwater.

Finally, Green also took two mid-grade magic stones, worth two hundred low-grade magic stones.

Three days later.

Green arrived at the library with a face full of exhaustion, once again sporting two dark circles under his eyes.

With the appearance of those two dark circles, all that elegance and strange, bewitching air from three days ago was long gone. If one had to say he still had any aura, it would be dumbly adorable...

If someone asked Green what his greatest wish was right now, it would be to get a good sleep.

Sorcerer Lianyi sat in the VIP section of the library, quietly drinking rich coffee in the silent room. Several plates of exquisite pastries were also set on the table, making one wonder whether these pastries were meant to be eaten or admired.

Dragging his exhausted body, Green performed sorcerer etiquette, then respectfully placed the box containing thirty bottles of fragrance on the table.

"Hehe, one look at those dark circles under your eyes and I know configuring these little things wasn't easy work. I don't know how you thought of making these fragrances. Still, these things truly are miraculous. They can actually make us sorcerers of long years produce certain pleasant memories from the past."

Sorcerer Yilian spoke with delight.

Memories?

So that was it...

In an instant, Green comprehended something.

Perhaps the reason sorcerers liked these fragrances was precisely because, over their long lifespans, they had already grown used to unchanging monotony. Though in the eyes of those who had not obtained it, that monotony was the most perfect enjoyment.

Just like now.

In Green's eyes, the female sorcerer was enjoying these exquisite pastries and delicious coffee. But in the female sorcerer's eyes, after several hundred years of the same pastries and coffee, she had long since forgotten their original taste. She did not even want to touch those pastries.

To them at this moment, perhaps only the memories of struggling before they had possessed these "wonderful" things were the most precious and beautiful wealth.

And Venus, Goddess of Love's use for them lay precisely in this: awakening those beautiful memories they had not forgotten.

Seeing that Green was somewhat restrained, Sorcerer Lianyi also knew how uneasy these little fellows were when facing an official sorcerer, and shook her head with a smile.

"All right, next is the reward I'm giving you. They're all little trinkets I have no use for, and they happen to be useful for your trial. After all, I also don't want a sorcerer apprentice who created something as wonderful as Venus, Goddess of Love to die just like that."

As she spoke, Yilian took out three things.

"This necklace, I call it Spring of Joy. Its function is to increase the mental strength of the sorcerer apprentice wearing it by two points. Of course, if your mental strength reaches that critical value, this necklace will be useless to you, but clearly you're still far from that."

Of course Green knew the critical value for sorcerer apprentices.

For a sorcerer apprentice to break through and become an official sorcerer, one of the conditions was that their mental strength had to exceed forty points. Forty points of mental strength was the so-called critical value.

Next, Sorcerer Lianyi began introducing the other two items to Green.

Inside one crystal bottle was an insect the size of a fingernail, called a Phantom Wasp.

As long as there were enough corpses to cultivate this insect, then in a short time, there would be an insect monster equivalent to a legendary knight protecting Green for one day.

The last was a seed, called an Earth Bud. After simple cultivation, it could grow into a giant flower. When someone lay inside the giant flower, the Earth Bud would shrink underground, providing its owner with a relatively safe resting environment.

Seeing Green accept the reward with a face full of joy, Lianyi took out a mirror and actually placed the fragrances Green had brought directly into the mirror.

"Sealing spell!"

Green said in shock.

Glancing at Green in surprise, the female sorcerer said, "I didn't expect you to have some knowledge. You've already come into contact with knowledge of sealing spells?"

After saying this, regardless of Green, the female sorcerer left on her own.

Of course Green knew of sealing spells. Unless it was one of those extremely precious spatial storage sorcerer artifacts, only some sorcerers who had mastered sealing spells could bring real objects into certain spatial cracks or illusory worlds, making them convenient to carry at any time.

In fact, during these two years, when Green recalled the first time his aptitude had been assessed in Bissell City, the bizarre and terrifying phenomena he had seen, he also suspected that he had some kind of talent for sealing spells.

Because only this type of wizard could see certain absurd, bizarre things caught between reality and illusion.

Of course, in some books on sealing arts, certain wizards had once speculated that these things between illusion and reality were actually a kind of living creature as well. It was just that such creatures lived in lower-dimensional or higher-dimensional cracks between themselves and reality.

Their dimension did not match the one wizards occupied, and their understanding of space and time was different as well, so ordinary wizards simply could not come into contact with these creatures. The two would never intersect.

A little anticipation rose in his heart. As a wizard apprentice whose mental strength had naturally grown to twelve points without meditation, Green knew very clearly that he possessed a talent.

Although this talent was not like Yun Li's or Bibilionna's, revealing itself and being used during the wizard apprentice stage, as long as he reached the level of an official wizard, he would naturally begin to understand that eerie talent.

However, for ordinary wizard apprentices, advancing to wizard was far too difficult. The overwhelming majority of wizard apprentices remained nothing more than wizard apprentices until the end of their lifespans.

Half a month later.

Because of his excellent aptitude for elemental sorcery, Green already had his own comparatively deep understanding of Insights on Reconstructing Flame Sorcery Magic Arrays.

According to Green's estimate, in as little as two months, or as long as half a year, he should be able to improve the mental solidification magic array on his soul.

After the solidification magic array was improved, even if Green used the same amount of magic power, the force with which a wizard pried at the rules of the world would cause a tremendous change in Green's attacks.

Because he had only seen Wizard Lianyi cast her improved sorcery in firebird form once, Green naturally developed in that direction as well.

However, compared with improving the elemental magic array, Green's most important matter right now was those little fellows inside the wild crane's gastric sac. Green had even prepared an entire set of procedures for these little fellows, waiting only for them to fully mature.

That day, amid the wild crane's wails, Green used an exquisite scalpel to end its life as an experimental specimen, then dissected out the most important gastric sac in the wild crane's belly.

The pungent stench inside the gastric sac was magnified dozens of times by Green's sensitive nose. Left with no choice, Green paused the function of Hunting Nose and poured everything inside the gastric sac into a prepared container.

The liquid in the container quickly separated the undigested scraps of food from one white, grain-of-rice-sized parasite after another.

"Heh heh, come on, my darlings..."

With a strange laugh, Green collected these white parasites into another vessel. In the eyes of a normal person, this sort of affectionate, fervent behavior toward parasites was simply wicked to the extreme.

It had to be said that after just over two years of life at the wizard academy, Green no longer realized just how disgusting the things he was doing truly were.

A moment later, Green took the collected mature Gadfly Snails to the experiment table. After creating an environment suitable for these parasites' survival, he picked up a rice-grain-sized Gadfly Snail and placed it on the crystal ball.

Following the incantation, after a change swept through Green's soul, the Gadfly Snail on the crystal ball actually let out a cry so faint it could barely be heard.

After another short while, with a few drops of sweat running down his forehead, Green felt that intimate, familiar aura on the crystal ball and panted softly.

He had finally succeeded in cultivating his first symbiotic insect!

Afterward, Green gently picked up that rice-grain-sized Gadfly Snail. As if the other party were a part of his own body, Green actually opened his mouth and directly swallowed the Gadfly Snail into his stomach.

Or rather, stored it inside his own gastric sac.

From then on, this Gadfly Snail became Green's symbiotic insect, just like one of Green's bodily organs. This was the meaning symbiotic insects held for wizards.

"Phew, splitting the soul really is exhausting work. Purifying five Gadfly Snails in a day is already the limit, and with these nearly three hundred Gadfly Snails, even if I go all out, it will still take a full two months to complete all the purification."

With a sigh, Green continued purifying the Gadfly Snails.

As for those Gadfly Snails that had not been purified, Green naturally did not dare swallow them casually. Otherwise, if he became a host, that would be bad.

At this moment, Green had long since forgotten just how much he had loathed the scene of Wizard Lianyi swallowing centipedes back then, while now he himself was "relishing" the act of swallowing these filthy, disgusting, terrifying parasites in ordinary people's eyes.

He had even once sworn an oath.

This was the path of growth for wizards!