Arriving at the Wizard Tower

It took a full hour for Lohr to finally turn over the entire energy cabin ruins.

The harvest was quite gratifying, accounting for a full 37 fire-element magic stones.

Do not think this is little; if recharged into charge points, it was a full 370 charge points.

Lohr would have to kill fish for more than three years in that previous town to save up this much.

Misfortune is what happiness leans on, and starting capital is now secured, Lohr smiled. Though if I had a choice, I would rather not have this misfortune.

Risking his life for these 37 magic stones was something he would only do if he were a fool.

After picking out the magic stones, Lohr feigned a casual stroll through the remaining area on the first floor, and naturally found nothing at all.

Then he went to the dining room to get some bread and fruit, and returned to his cabin.

The door to his cabin was also broken, but it did not matter. With a big shot sitting above, who dared to be presumptuous?

Eating a wonderful dinner and relaxing his mind, Lohr then began his daily meditation.

The next day, early morning.

Mara took Lohr away from the flying boat and down to the open ground below, tapping the flying boat first as endless flames swept over it.

Burning for about five minutes, Mara then pressed his hand against the flying boat.

The next instant, the flying boat vanished.

Then reaching out and pointing at Lohr, he instantly became as if he had lost all weight, floating up.

Mara grasped his arm, directly taking him and flying toward the east.

This speed is at least five times faster than the flying boat.

Lohr looked at the scenery swiftly flashing past below, estimating slightly in his mind. If we fly continuously without stopping, we should be able to reach the wizard tower within today.

With a Second-Circle Wizard's elemental reserve, flying for a day was as simple as eating and drinking.

The result was just as Lohr anticipated. Before the sun had even set, Mara brought him to the sky above an extremely vast city.

At the center of this city, there was also an earth-yellow tall tower, about ten-odd miles wide, its body piercing straight into the clouds.

With Lohr's eyesight, even standing in midair now, he could not see the top of this tower.

At the bottom of the wizard tower, flying ships of various styles occasionally landed, and flying ships also ascended.

Every mile or so, there was a wizard tower entrance.

These entrances were quite lively, with an endless stream of people coming and going.

The only slight regret was that aside from the area within thirty miles near the wizard tower zone, which had some human habitation, the other places—though having houses, manors, and castles—did not even have a ghost of a shadow.

This city should be newly built now, and only the framework has been made. House prices are most likely very cheap.

Lohr felt a bit of pity in his heart. If this were not the Murphy Continent, I would definitely buy more land to wait for appreciation. But there is no rush; when I go to other continents in the future, there will always be opportunities.

Mara did not stop above the city, but flew straight toward the wizard tower located in the center of the city.

Whoosh.

Before long, he brought Lohr beneath the wizard tower, and flew around about half a circle of the wizard tower.

Finally, he landed in front of a female wizard apprentice who wore yellow-and-red wizard robes and was sitting behind a table yawning.

"Lord Wizard."

That golden-haired apprentice with a rather outstanding appearance immediately stood up and saluted the moment she saw Mara approaching, yet her gaze could not stop glancing at Lohr beside him.

Those who could come to her were generally wizards sent out by the Earth-Fire School to recruit apprentices.

Aside from that, there were only geniuses discovered by other schools who possessed Fifth-Level Meditation Talent and had also chosen the Earth-Fire School's meditation method.

"Mhm, go call your mentor over," Mara said.

"Yes, Lord Wizard, please wait a moment," that apprentice replied respectfully, and then ran quickly toward the wizard tower entrance.

A genius with Fifth-Level Meditation Talent was truly not someone she could handle.

Before long, that wizard apprentice ran out again, followed by a blue-haired middle-aged wizard who also wore red-and-yellow wizard robes, but with an extra circle on his collar.

As the two arrived before them, before the blue-haired wizard could speak, Mara pointed at Lohr and spoke first:

"Lor Rokes, Fifth-Level Meditation Talent, innate spiritual power close to 2 points, perfectly constructed the Earth-Fire Meditation Model in eight hours, spiritual power close to 6 points within twenty days, voluntarily chose the Fire-Earth School."

"On the way to the Nelson Wizard Tower, my flying boat was attacked by War Temple Knights. Except for him, all the other reserve wizard apprentices died, including my student."

To tell the truth, Wizard Mara even felt a bit regretful now.

Back when Lohr chose his school, he should have tried to win him over.

Fifth-Level Meditation Talent was not much to him, but he deeply admired Lohr's wisdom.

Unfortunately, by the time he noticed Lohr's wisdom, the foundations of the meditation method were already set—they could only be added to, not subtracted from—making him no longer suitable to be taken as a student.

Opposite them.

The words that were originally about to spill out were swallowed back by the blue-haired wizard, who turned to the apprentice behind him and said, "Kateya, you take Lohr inside first. I still have some matters to discuss with this wizard."

Upon hearing the string of data and experiences reported by Mara, the look of pleasant surprise on his face overflowed.

This was an extremely rare seedling. High meditation talent and rapid spiritual power progress—these were one thing.

Yet he was also able to become the sole survivor of a crisis. What this represented was wisdom tempered by practice.

Talent can be altered, but wisdom is innate. As elemental wizards, what they valued most was wisdom.

"Yes, mentor."

Kateya was jolted back to her senses, forcefully suppressing the emotions stirred by Lohr's recent experiences, swallowing hard, and saying to Lohr, "You... please follow me."

"There's no need to be so polite, just call me Lohr."

Lohr smiled and followed Kateya into the wizard tower.

Looking at the three horizontal lines on this person's collar, she was at least a Third-Level Wizard Apprentice. It was inappropriate for her to use honorifics toward a First-Level Wizard Apprentice.

"Alright then."

Seeing that Lohr was not as difficult to get along with as some other geniuses, Kateya let out a breath of relief and said with an admiring expression, "Lohr, you are truly amazing."

"Leaving aside cultivation, those temple knights even killed Lord Wizard's student, and everyone else died, yet you were able to survive."

"I heard that temple knights inherited the legacy of the gods, and the strong ones among them have reached the Third-Tier life stage."

"If it were me facing such a powerful lifeform, I definitely wouldn't have survived!"

Once Kateya's conversational floodgates opened, it was as if they would never end, and she rattled on in one breath.

"I just had good luck. Besides, the Third-Tier Temple Knight was dealt with by Wizard Mara; we only needed to cope with the Second-Tier Temple Knight."

Lohr shook his head, though deep within his eyes lay a profound and cold intent.

Sooner or later, he would procure a few temple knight corpses to take a look, striving to research exclusive tracking sorcery in advance and exterminate these cockroaches.

"Being able to escape with your life from the hands of a Second-Tier Temple Knight is already very impressive. You're only a First-Level Apprentice!" Kateya said.

"Mhm."

Lohr nodded perfunctorily, his gaze beginning to glance left and right, sizing up the interior of this wizard tower.

The ceiling inside the wizard tower was very high, the first floor being around ten meters or so, and it was extremely spacious, resembling a small city.

At the wall locations several miles away on both sides were stairs leading to the upper floor.

The entrance of the wizard tower was very crowded. Most of the wizard apprentices and the occasionally passing wizards wore earth-yellow wizard robes.

Only a small portion wore dual-color or tri-color wizard robes.

And among this small portion, most people wore yellow-and-green or yellow-and-blue dual-color wizard robes.

As for those wearing red-and-yellow wizard robes, if not nonexistent, they were truly very rare.

Today's Fire-Earth School is really unpopular, Lohr sighed inwardly. Unlike in later eras, when the Fire-Earth School completely independent itself from the elemental wizard system, becoming a new major school—the spatial school.

After walking for a while longer, ascending two floors, and turning a dozen corners, Kateya finally stopped her boasting and instead asked, "Lohr, how did you think of joining our Fire-Earth School?"