Wizard Profession Certification

Chris said, "Leo, you went to see Wizard Sally, right? Was Wizard Sally very angry? She's been asking us nonstop these past few days whether you'd returned."

Leo said with a smile, "She was indeed very angry. All right, come in first, both of you."

Leo welcomed the two into his room.

Of course, there was nothing much to entertain them with.

Leo asked, "Chris, Molly, when I went out to sea, I brought back some jerky from the knights. Would you like some?"

"I'll have some," Chris answered.

Molly shook her head. "I'll pass."

Leo prepared some jerky for Chris. After sitting down, he asked, "You two came looking for me because you have something to ask, right?"

Chris took a bite of jerky, then said indistinctly, "Leo, Molly and I wanted to ask how you became a wizard."

Leo nodded slightly, understanding their purpose.

They wanted to ask about his experience of becoming a wizard and see whether there was anything they could learn from it.

Leo said, "To become a wizard, the most basic requirement is for your mental energy to reach 10 points. You should both know that."

"Once mental energy reaches 10 points, it begins to concentrate, moving toward materialization and the formation of a condensed Spiritual Seed."

"Of course, during that process, I used the Dawn Arcane Potion. That was what allowed me to condense a Spiritual Seed so easily."

"If one's mental talent is poor and there are no potions available, condensing a Spiritual Seed will probably take quite a long time."

Once Leo finished speaking, Chris and Molly both turned solemn.

Chris said, "So if your mental talent isn't sufficient, you still need potions if you want to quickly condense a Spiritual Seed?"

"That's right."

Molly asked, "Leo, how many Magic Stones would a potion like the Dawn Arcane Potion cost?"

"About a hundred Magic Stones," Leo said.

Molly's body trembled slightly at those words, and an unnatural look appeared on her face.

Chris asked again, "Leo, how many Magic Stones did you obtain from hunting sea monsters on this voyage?"

Leo found it hard to give an exact figure, so he said, "One or two hundred Magic Stones, I suppose. Of course, that was because all sorts of accidents happened during the mission. Otherwise, the hunting mission itself would only have earned fifty Magic Stones."

"That's still a lot..." Seeing how much Leo had gained, Chris immediately became interested. He asked, "Leo, is hunting sea monsters dangerous?"

"It's not particularly dangerous, but there are countless dangers at sea. Those are the real danger," Leo said. "This time, more than half the knights who set sail with me died."

Leo did not say that everyone had died, not because he was trying to gloss over the matter. After all, Kairila's group of knights who had gone aboard another ship were still alive.

Chris was startled when he heard that, and he began to feel like backing out.

Leo said, "Also, if you want to hunt sea monsters, you must master a certain technique before you can play any role in such hunts. Otherwise, even if you accept a knight order's commission, you may not be able to help much."

"This time, another Wizard Seedling with Level 4 mental energy accepted the commission alongside me. Because he was unable to contribute, he received no payment."

Molly asked, "Leo, what kind of technique is it? Is it simple?"

Hearing that, Leo extended a hand and directed a point of Mental Radiation at the cup before him.

The cup immediately warped and began to corrode.

Chris and Molly's faces went slightly pale at the sight. "Isn't that the method that wizard used before?"

Molly said, "Wizard Leo, this should be something only wizards can use, right? Those of us who haven't become wizards yet shouldn't be able to learn it."

Leo said with a smile, "You can actually learn it even before becoming a Wizard Seedling. It's just very difficult."

After hearing Leo say that, Chris immediately gave up on the idea of hunting sea monsters.

In any case, with his Level 3 mental talent, if he proceeded steadily and surely, he would have no problem gathering enough tuition for the first year. There was no need to take such risks.

Molly, on the other hand, gritted her teeth and said, "Leo, I wonder whether you can teach me how to use this technique. I'm willing to pay two Magic Stones for your guidance."

Leo thought for a moment, then nodded. "All right. But I can't guarantee that you'll be able to learn it."

To be honest, Mental Radiation truly depended somewhat on one's comprehension.

Leo's mental talent was inferior to Hughes's, yet he had figured it out through his own exploration.

Even after Hughes understood the principle, he still had not managed to figure it out.

Afterward, Chris and Molly asked a few more questions about wizards, and Leo patiently answered every one of them.

When they left, Chris and Molly both spoke gratefully.

"Leo, thank you for sharing your experience with us."

"Wizard Leo, thank you for your guidance."

Although Leo's words could not directly help them become wizards, they gave Chris and Molly a much clearer view of the path to becoming wizards.

Molly in particular had a resolute look flash across her face compared with when she had first arrived.

She planned to accept a mission to hunt sea monsters.

If Leo had gone to hunt sea monsters to take a shortcut and earn Magic Stones through a measure of risk, then Molly's plan to hunt them was born of necessity.

She was different from Chris.

Chris, with his Level 3 mental talent, had a high chance of obtaining a hundred Magic Stones for tuition if he followed the usual path step by step.

Molly was different. If she did not fight desperately for those hundred Magic Stones, she simply would not be able to gather them.

Not long after the two left, the voice of a Lizardman servant came from outside the door.

"Wizard Leo, Wizard Sally asked me to deliver some materials to you."

Leo temporarily stopped what he was doing, opened the door, and accepted the materials handed over by the Lizardman.

Afterward, Leo flipped through the materials.

They were divided into two parts. One was a collection of Potionology-related professional examination questions from the past thirty years, while the other contained the requirements and relevant regulations for Potionology-related professional assessments.

Leo first took out the requirements and relevant regulations for the Potionology assessment and read them carefully.

Leo frowned as his right hand lightly brushed over sheet after sheet of paper, his expression gradually turning grave.

The subjects of the wizard profession assessments were even more difficult than Leo had anticipated.

Take Potion Wizards, for example.

It was not simply a matter of being given a formula and then being asked to brew a potion of more perfect quality. One had to improve, or even create, an entirely new formula.

The assessments for other wizard professions were much the same. They required relevant experience in successful improvements and innovation.

Within the field of Potionology, Leo was most interested in three wizard professions: Potion Wizard, Arcane Botany Wizard, and Combat Wizard.

The first two were suited to the catalog manual's capabilities and could also help Leo earn a considerable number of Magic Stones.

Combat Wizards were wizards whose profession encompassed every spell type within the combat category.

This included the Battle Mage's Basic Body Fortification Technique, which also fell under Combat Wizards.

However, the difficulty of wizard profession assessments was also more troublesome and challenging than expected.

For Potion Wizards, candidates had to develop one entirely new potion, improve three potions, brew ten high-quality Level 1 potions and more than twenty high-quality beginner potions, as well as participate in one Grade B Potion Wizard-related research project and three Grade C Potion Wizard-related research projects.

For Arcane Botany Wizards, candidates had to improve one arcane plant, cultivate ten high-quality Level 1 magical plants and more than thirty high-quality Potionology-related plants, as well as participate in one Grade B Arcane Botany Wizard-related research project and three Grade C Arcane Botany Wizard-related research projects.

Finally, Combat Wizards had to improve ten combat-oriented wizard apprentice spells, participate in three Grade B Combat Wizard-related research projects, and ten Grade C Combat Wizard-related research projects.

No matter which wizard profession it was, the difficulty was immense, and all of them required extensive experience participating in laboratories.

The one year Sally had mentioned was probably an understatement.

Leo then began to look through the examination questions from previous years.