"I hate water..."
Taylor, dressed in a red robe, lifted his foot and watched the droplets clinging to his sole drip away. Then he looked at the endless shallows nearby and the little fish occasionally swimming past beneath his feet, and his face immediately fell.
Of the five spells Taylor had learned so far, two were related to fire. Gale Spell was a versatile spell, Black Mist was a support spell, and Mild Mechanized Mind went without saying.
He could feel that the spell models for Flame Serpent Spell and Lesser Fireball in his Mental Space had grown somewhat dim, as though the ubiquitous, extremely active Water Element around him made them feel suppressed and repulsed.
Krite, who had casually gathered a huge ball of water in his hand with mental power and was studying it, heard his apprentice complain and said with a smile.
"Adapting to different planes is also a required lesson for wizards. There will be many more situations like this in the future: extreme Fire Element, extreme Wood Element, extreme Light-Dark Element. All of those are possible. Adapt to them slowly."
That was what the profession of wizard was like. They tinkered with their own worlds until they were done, then began tinkering with more worlds. The operation of worlds, the continuation of civilizations, symbols, information, writing, powerful lifeforms, even the operation, flow, and changes of the worlds themselves—all of it was knowledge and subject matter that wizards could study.
For instance, Wizard Krite had begun studying the active Water Element of this plane.
Behind the master and apprentice, Butler still wore a polite and gentle smile. However, the case on his back had opened at some point, and seven other tall, broad-shouldered puppets appeared around him, wielding greatswords, meteor hammers, chain hammers, broadswords, shields, battle blades, and axes.
Including Butler, all eight Construct Puppets had appeared. These eight puppets had been forged by Krite using the finest magic metals available at his current level. Their strength, durability, size, speed, and the elements they controlled had all been enhanced with spell arrays and spell runes.
Although the elemental power they used was somewhat limited and lacked flexible means of response, they were still Construct Puppets created by a Level 1 Wizard—and one from the wealthiest group among Level 1 Wizards, the White Wizards.
Thus, they now possessed the power to suppress Level 1 Lifeforms.
Behind the powerful Construct Puppets stood over a hundred Magic Mechs, five hundred Granite Golems, and three hundred Iron Golems. Altogether, nearly a thousand puppets formed the Puppet Legion, arranged in neat, battle-ready formations.
The Puppet Legion commanded by the Construct Puppets was precisely why Taylor and Krite still looked so relaxed.
Krite was currently holding several water spheres of varying sizes, masses, and even elemental fluctuations for study. Beside them were several mist spheres in gaseous form and solidified ice spheres.
Seeing how happily his teacher was conducting his research, Taylor quickly adapted to the excessively active Water Element here and decided that he could only use Gale Spell against enemies for the time being.
Fortunately, he was not the main force. Then again, with his current strength, he was not qualified to be one anyway.
Since his teacher was busy, Taylor naturally needed to continue his own studies. Since he was in an entirely new plane, he naturally had to thoroughly study the composition, flow patterns, activity, and inertia of the plane's overall elemental magic power.
He directly took an instrument from his spatial ring, one specifically used to analyze the overall elemental composition and elemental distribution of other planes.
White Wizards were the practical group best at invention, innovation, creation, and collecting knowledge and truth. They had also invented all kinds of auxiliary instruments to help them acquire and understand knowledge more effectively.
This Otherworld Element Analyzer was naturally an invention of the White Wizards. Ordinary Level 3 Wizard Apprentices had no way of coming into contact with such an instrument, because it was intended for the most promising wizard apprentices. Even some newly promoted Level 1 Wizards needed the help of these instruments.
Through his own talent and Krite's assistance, Taylor had obtained one such instrument.
Before beginning his research, Taylor did not forget to release Kano. A flash of blue light energy passed by, and the Magic Mech operated by Kano appeared before Taylor.
Taylor was some distance away from Wizard Krite. He turned to look at his teacher and, after confirming that nothing was amiss with Krite, turned back and activated Kano's Magic Mech.
"Has the war officially begun?"
The moment Kano opened his eyes, he noticed that his feet were standing in a stretch of shallows. He quickly lifted the hem of his red robe slightly to avoid getting it wet with seawater.
As Taylor activated his Otherworld Element Analyzer and adjusted the stability of its data-testing magic power link, he replied.
"That's right. The war has officially begun. It's just that my teacher is studying this plane's elemental subjects right now, so he has no time to formally lead the Puppet Legion into battle."
Kano turned around and looked at the Puppet Legion commanded by eight Construct Puppets. Surprisingly, envy appeared in his eyes.
If Taylor had such a powerful armed force protecting him, his future path as a wizard would be much smoother. But unfortunately, they belonged to Teacher Krite, not something he could covet.
Still, a sufficiently powerful, organized force at the basic level could settle many problems. Once Taylor had his own Wizard Tower in the future, he would need a powerful Puppet Legion as his foundational combat force in order to independently lead wars of planar conquest.
Kano slowly calculated in his heart. Taylor would inevitably conquer planes in the future, and if he conquered them alone, the resources he harvested and knowledge he acquired would be richer and more abundant.
At that time, he would not only harvest a plane's knowledge and resources, but could also use the Puppet Legion to watch over the lifeforms of those planes, making them cultivate and create even more resources and benefits.
A ready-made Puppet Legion was truly tempting. What a shame it belonged to Teacher Krite.
Kano reluctantly withdrew his greedy gaze.
Taylor himself was an inferior version of Trinity, so both Bobby and Kano regarded Krite, Taylor's teacher, as their own teacher—even though Krite had no idea that students like them existed.
Seeing that both Krite and Taylor intended to remain where they were and study things such as the overall elemental distribution and elemental flow of this plane, Kano found that he could not stand it.
"You can stay here and study slowly. More research, more thought, more experiments—those will always be beneficial. I'm going to scout out this plane."
Kano's Magic Mech body possessed a Transformation Spell. While it could not deceive Level 1 Creatures, it was more than enough to fool anything below that level.
"Mm-hm. Do whatever you want. Don't hold back. Freely show what you can do."
Taylor also felt that he and his teacher might be staying here for some time, so he nodded and agreed to Kano's idea.
After receiving Taylor's permission, a sinister smile actually appeared on Kano's metallic face.
"Don't worry, Taylor. I won't disappoint you."
With that, he immediately transformed into a tall fishman wearing a red robe and slowly disappeared from Taylor's sight.
After Kano left, Taylor lowered his head and was about to continue adjusting his instrument when Krite's voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.
"Not a bad Magic Mech."
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