Outside the dungeon of the castle, Du Wei met Ruolin, the first female knight he recruited under his command. Ever since she came to the castle, Ruolin had taken the initiative to guard the magician's captives.
Ruolin did this because after all, the magician was once her companion. Although she was loyal to Du Wei, she still had to remember some old feelings. Although the magician was also attracted by her beauty in the first place.
, and everyone's business was only for a few days. Although Ruolin did not dare to go against Du Wei's wishes and secretly let this guy go, she still took care of him personally - at least she could take care of this former companion as much as she could, which was considered to be her best.
A little affection.
At least after arriving here last night, the magician was able to have a full meal under Ruolin's care. Although he was not allowed to sleep, and meditation was absolutely not allowed. Ruolin's two followers, the
The bull warrior and the archer took turns guarding the magician, preventing him from having a chance to recover his magic power.
When Du Wei came to the dungeon, he was a little uncomfortable with the damp and gloomy smell in the dungeon.
Ruolin, who had changed into a knight's attire, made Du Wei's eyes shine! This long-legged girl originally had a charming face, but now she probably made some changes in her appearance and shortened her hair.
A ribbon was tied on her forehead and her eyebrows were trimmed, which made her look less feminine but more heroic.
Especially after wearing the knight's attire, the whole person looks much more solemn - although the original short skirt is no longer worn, and the plump and beautiful long legs are no longer exposed. However, with a slender sword,
Coupled with the light knight's breastplate on the upper body, it looks quite a bit like a knight.
"Dear Master." Seeing Du Wei walk into the dungeon, Ruolin immediately came up to him: "You are..."
"I'm here to see my prisoner." Du Wei's face was cold. He was in a bad mood and glanced at Ruolin: "Are you staying here all night?"
Ruolin showed a look of embarrassment on her face: "Master, this guy inside is my former companion after all. I think..."
"Are you begging for mercy?" Du Wei shook his head: "No need to, I didn't want to embarrass him. As long as he obediently answers a few questions, I will let him go immediately."
After saying that, Du Wei walked past Ruolin and left a message at the same time: "He and I will be alone. All of you are waiting outside. You are not allowed to come in casually."
The room where the magician was kept was originally the largest room in the dungeon of the castle. When Du Wei came in, the magician was already pale and could hardly open his eyes.
Although the magician's mental power is strong, after all, during the previous trip, he fought with everyone in the tavern and cast magic, which consumed a lot of mental power. After that, he was caught and never had the chance to meditate.
And the mental energy consumed to recover, but I haven't been able to sleep for the past two days, and I can no longer support it at this moment.
After being imprisoned in this dungeon, he came here one night, and every time he closed his eyes, a bucket of cold water was poured on him immediately. Although Ruolin was more polite to him, Ruolin's two subordinates were not polite at all.
.
Originally in the small adventure team, the bull warrior and the archer disliked the magician very much. Because the magician was attracted by Ruolin's beauty, he was often looked down upon by the bull warrior and the archer.
.The relationship between them has always been uneasy.
At this moment, seeing this little nobleman walking into the dungeon room, the magician felt that he was about to collapse. There were no chains on him. Anyway, a magician who had lost his magic power was not as strong as an ordinary person. It's just that
The dungeon was dark and damp, and he didn't know how many buckets of water had been poured on him. His lips turned white from the cold. When Du Wei walked in, the magician was sitting on a stone bed with his knees in his arms. The bull warrior next to him was still
Wu Zi shouted: "Hey, don't close your eyes! Otherwise I will pour water on you again! I have run so many times just to carry water this night!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and saw Du Wei coming in, and immediately closed his mouth. Du Wei waved his hand to signal him to go out, and then walked to the magician: "How is it? Dear Mr. Magic. Is everything okay here?
?”
Okay? Do I look like "okay"? The mage cursed in his belly, but there was a pleading expression on his face: "Sir, why do you have to make things so difficult for me as a nobleman with such status as you? As a person of your age,
The eldest son of the Earl of the Luo Lin family, if word gets out that you treated a magician so badly, then I’m afraid it will be difficult for your family to make friends with magicians in the future!"
Still want to threaten me?
Du Wei curled his lips: "Oh, really? Then if word gets out that a little first-level magician actually masters the instant spell, what will be the consequences?"
The magician's face was pale, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes.
as a result of?
The consequence is very simple! If other magicians learn such a news, he will soon become the common prey of magicians across the continent! Every magician is eager to learn the instant spell.
This is a top-notch skill! And a small first-level magician can actually master this skill... In the end, do you still need to ask?
It's like a three-year-old child, completely undefended, but carrying hundreds of millions of dollars!
"Tell me about it." Du Wei smiled: "Actually, I know that your so-called instant spell is not a real instant spell. You must have used some opportunistic method to achieve this, right?
?I am not a magician. Even if you tell me, there will be no loss to you. I just want to satisfy my curiosity."
The magician lowered his head, with a look of struggle on his face.
"What is there to hesitate about?" Du Wei sighed: "You are just a first-level magician. Although magicians are rare and respected in this world, they are only limited to those with intermediate-level magic and above.
Master. Even if I kill you here, or lock you up here for the rest of your life, as the lowest first-level magician like you, I'm afraid no one will care about you. Even the Magic Society will not do it for a person who has nothing to do with you.
A humble first-level magician offends a great nobleman, right?"
"You..." The magician's eyes finally relaxed, and his psychological defense began to collapse. He bit his lip with difficulty: "You... if I tell you, you must swear not to tell me. Because... this concerns me.
The identity of a magician!"
"Yes, absolutely yes." Du Wei immediately raised his hand and swore: "I, Du Wei Luolin, swear here that everything you said to me today will be kept in mind and I will not tell anyone else again.
Otherwise, let the goddess of light punish me!"
"..." The magician's expression was a little complicated. There was a hint of guilt in his eyes, and then his lips twitched a few times: "I...actually, I am just a magic apprentice."
"...What?" Du Wei was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"
"I..." The magician seemed to have spent a lot of effort to say it: "I said, in fact, I am just a magic apprentice. My real magic strength is only the level of a magic apprentice. And my first-level
The qualifications of a magician were obtained through some means."
"Liar?" Du Wei began to feel a little tempted!
Fooled into becoming a magician?
According to what Du Wei knows, the assessment of the mainland's magician society is not easy to pass by tricks! If the qualifications of a magician can be easily deceived, wouldn't it be a joke?
"I have been learning magic since I was a child. My master was a low-level magician. He thought I had a talent for magic and accepted me as his apprentice. I obtained the qualification of a magic apprentice when I was thirteen years old... It was not difficult.
The magician's tone was somewhat resentful: "There are only a few hundred real magicians on the mainland, but there are thousands of people with magic apprenticeship qualifications. Unfortunately, the road to becoming a real magician is too difficult.
The vast majority of magic apprentices will not be able to pass the first-level assessment even if they work hard all their lives. They can only stay at the level of magic apprentices for the rest of their lives. And I... am also one of these poor people."
"Every magician will have several apprentices, but the magician himself also knows that not all of these apprentices can become magicians, and it is very likely that they will not be able to teach a magician disciple in their lifetime.
.But every magician on the mainland will still recruit many apprentices. Because... a person with the status of a magician is so noble and revered. How can such a person have an identity without followers? Therefore, every magician
A magician will always bring a varying number of magic apprentices with him. Most of these apprentices have dreams of magic, but in the end, only a handful of them are able to realize their dreams. The most disgusting thing is that many magicians know full well that
There is no possibility for these magic apprentices to become magicians, but they are not told... because magicians need obedient apprentices around them, someone to help them do magic experiments, someone to help them, be their assistant, or even a servant...
...Moreover, this kind of servant doesn’t cost them even a single gold coin!
This is what I experienced. When I was thirteen years old, I met my master. He told me that I had talent, and then took me away from home, saying that he wanted to teach me to become an excellent magician. I took
I followed him with endless longing, but unfortunately... Later I discovered that this was simply an impossible dream. My master had more than a dozen disciples, and each of them passed the assessment of magic apprentice. Master just used us as
Free servant, free assistant.
He will still use false lies to deceive us, but he clearly knows that many of these disciples will never become magicians in their lifetime. He knows it! But he just doesn't say it!
I have been a magic apprentice for ten years, and finally found out that I have no talent in this area at all. It is true that my mental power has been stronger than that of ordinary people since I was a child, and I can also sense a little bit of the power of nature... But this is already the limit.
.My talents are limited.
Later, I had no choice but to...study magic potions."
Magic Potion?
Du Wei's eyes lit up!
This guy's experience is very similar to mine!
However, he couldn't even pass the examination of the lowest level magic apprentice... Du Wei smiled bitterly in his heart.
In fact, even Du Wei himself didn't know that the situation was not what he thought.
Magicians are a strange group. Most magicians are lonely and proud by nature. They regard themselves as people who stand above all living beings. They are people who can call the wind and rain, and can use the power of gods. The so-called living beings, in most magicians
In the eyes, they are just ants that can be used casually.
Many magic apprentices recruited by magicians actually have less magic talent than Du Wei! But magicians need followers. Although magicians are rich, they cannot spend money to recruit servants like ordinary nobles - what is that!
As a sacred magician, as a mysterious magician, the servants around him naturally need to have the status of magic apprentices! How can ordinary people be used? Isn't it very cheap?
However, there are only a few people with magical talents. Therefore, most magicians, in order to have some magic apprentices around them, even lower the standards to recruit magic apprentices! Obviously there are some people who are not talented enough, even if they are just better than ordinary people
Even a slightly stronger person will be tempted by a magician who will teach you to become a magician.
After that... these people who are not actually talented enough to become magicians will just wait to be cheap labor for teachers for the rest of their lives!
This situation makes the assessment of magic apprentices on the mainland very confusing! The level is also uneven.
However, the assessment that Du Wei went through when he was in the imperial capital last time was conducted according to truly strict standards! Because... that Master Clark did not dare to deceive the second-ranking figure in the imperial military, the head of the Luo Lin family.
eldest son!
Precisely because of Du Wei's identity, Master Clark did not dare to trick him into using him as cheap labor.
Otherwise, if Du Wei was an ordinary person... then that day, Master Clark saw that he had such mental power that exceeded ordinary people, he would have accepted Du Wei long ago!
Even if he knew clearly that Du Wei had no magic talent, Clark would definitely accept him as his apprentice! Because having a magic apprentice with excellent magic power by his side will be a lot more convenient when he does magic experiments in the future.
In fact, many magicians on the mainland do this. If Du Wei was not the eldest son of the earl, he would have been deceived, and then he would have dreamed of becoming a magician, working as a cheap labor force for magicians, and even wasted his money.
His own life has delayed his own future.
"It was by chance that I learned a fact: my teacher had actually known for a long time that it was impossible for me to become a magician." There was a hint of bitterness in the prisoner's voice: "Even when he took me
He was already very aware of this when he was taken away from home! However, he saw that I have a good talent for magic, and felt that having a free servant like me around would be more convenient when doing magic experiments in the future. Teacher's
There are many disciples under my sect who are like me. Some of them have strong magic power, and some have good senses. However, they all have major flaws, but they are kept by the teacher's side by a woven dream, which is a waste.
Take their lives!”
"...Then what?" Du Wei sighed.
"As I said just now... after I knew the facts, I was very angry at first, and then... I decided to change my destiny. Since I can't learn real magic, then... I decided to study magic potion
." The magician prisoner sighed: "Because, magic pharmacists are also a type of magicians explicitly recognized by the Magic Society. Although... this view is considered ridiculous by most people, although most people think it is ridiculous.
Magical apothecaries are not true magicians at all."
"...Then what?" Du Wei felt his heartbeat began to speed up!
Could it be that...this guy...
Like himself, he has no magic talent! But now he has become a magician! Moreover, he is really using magic in the tavern!
Since he, a person with no talent, did not know how to learn magic in the end... Then, as long as he can tell what method he used to do it... then maybe he can do it too!
If you can find a way to learn magic, then...
Can’t we learn the astrology left by Semmel in the secret room in the castle, and the star magic that Semmel has studied all his life?
"Can someone who is proficient in magic pharmacy become a magician?" Du Wei looked at the prisoner: "But according to what I know, the qualification assessment of the Magic Society and the assessment of magic pharmacists are completely different from other magicians."
On the mainland, there are ten levels for real magicians. Every time you pass a level exam, the difficulty will increase a lot! Therefore, the higher the level of magician, the more powerful it is.
However, although the assessment of a magic pharmacist is said to be "also a type of magician", it is much simpler.
In fact, it’s so simple that it feels perfunctory!
The assessment of the magic pharmacist is not graded!
Just level one!
As long as you pass the exam! You are a magic pharmacist! Then the Magic Society will also award you a badge, which symbolizes the official recognition that you are a magician.
Although, most people do not agree with this recognition.
Moreover, even the badges issued by the Magic Society itself come with a certain degree of "differential treatment"!
The magic apothecary issues a copper round badge, which is very simple in workmanship, and... there is no magic anti-counterfeiting spell.
Perhaps, the Magic Society itself knows that no one would be interested in pretending to be a profession that not many people value.
A magic pharmacist, commonly known as a poisoner, has a lower social status than an ordinary doctor.
As for a real magician, even if he is a first-level magician, his badge is made of silver! A first-level magician has a silver leaf badge.
Of course Du Wei will never forget that in the fierce battle in the tavern that day, what he seized from the prisoner of the magician was a genuine silver leaf badge!
In other words, what he passed was not the assessment of a magic pharmacist! But the assessment of a real magician!!
How on earth did he do it?
Learning magic originally seemed to be a shattered dream. At this moment, hope surged in Du Wei's heart again!
"My talent is that I have excellent magic power, and my natural mental strength is stronger than that of ordinary people. If I were an ordinary person, it would just show that I have more energy than ordinary people, I am not easily tired, etc... However, I lack the ability to sense.
No matter how much I meditate and how hard I work, at the beginning, I couldn't sense even a trace of the fluctuation of natural power." The prisoner said slowly: "Later, after I studied magic potion for ten years, I suddenly
A question arose... What is the so-called force of nature? The teacher told me that it is everything! It is everything in this world! It is wind, fire, water, even every little detail. But this statement,
It's still too vague. An idea came to my mind... If I can understand what the so-called 'force of nature' is, then maybe I still have hope."
Du Wei listened quietly, and at the same time he was also carefully considering what this guy said.
"For example, fire magic. The magician can use the fire element in the natural world through spells, and then use magic to create flames! In magic potion science, there are also more than a dozen ways to use potions to create flames.
Flame! For example, the simplest one..." At this point, the magician prisoner glanced at Du Wei: "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Please continue, I can understand." Du Wei smiled lightly: "I have also read some books on magic potions."
"Okay." The magician continued: "In magic potion science, there are more than a dozen ways to achieve the same basic principles as fire magic...make fire! For example, the most basic one can be done with a
The powder grinded by planting fire phosphorus can burn by itself! Then I was thinking... fire phosphorus can make fire, and the magician's fire magic can also make fire. Could it be that... fire phosphorus contains the so-called natural essence?
The magic element in the power? In other words, there is something in the fire phosphorus grass, which is the fire magic element?"
Du Wei's heart moved, and he seemed to have thought of something, but he still couldn't grasp it for a while.
I heard the magician prisoner continue: "I discovered another subtle thing. All magic spells! I mean all of them! Although the power of the spells may be small or large. Let's take fire magic as an example, the simplest
The fireball technique, and the legendary 'Flame Burning City', a forbidden spell that can destroy the world! Although the power is countless times different, in fact, the principle is the same! Both use flames to burn!
But...here comes the subtle thing...all the things that all kinds of magic can do, magic and potion can also do! For example, fire magic, although potion can't produce a large-scale attack like 'Burning the City with Flames'
The power of the powerful forbidden spell level is the same, but the principle of making fire is the same! Another example is wind magic, water magic, etc... All types of magic can be done with pharmacy! Although it can only do the most.
Simple basic principle, but it can be done! Why is this? Maybe... I was thinking, maybe, those precious raw materials of pharmacy actually contain the so-called 'magic elements' of various magics.
!Is not it?"
The prisoner showed a proud expression on his face: "Since I can't use meditation to extract the magical elements from nature... Then, I will use the pharmacist's method to extract the magical elements from the potion!!"