Chapter 136
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The Kong Kong spirit portal bag was made with the skin of a Kong Kong soul beast. The Kong Kong soul beasts were an extremely rare species of soul beast. It had a strong dimensional attribute and could store all their rewards into their bodies. Since they could travel through portals of dimensions, they were very hard to capture. The Kong Kong spirit portal bag made with their skins were the best type of portal bag because of its ability to stretch.
In the beginning, a Kong Kong spirit portal bag was also one square meter. It was stretched by directly putting other portal bags into a Kong Kong spirit portal bag. These Kong Kong spirit portal bags were secret weapons of every large race. Therefore, few people had heard about their existence.
Upon seeing this record, Abel took a look at the size of his portal bag again. It was about the size of a house. He couldn't help but bite his tongue. It was 10 meters in length, 10 meters in width, and a height of 4 meters, which was four hundred cubic meters in total. This meant it must require 400 normal portal bags in total to throw into this Kong Kong spirit portal bag. Who would have even dared to guess, where did the wolves find all these portal bags to expand the Kong Kong spirit portal bag into its current size?
But one thing could be certain. The wolves had sacrificed generations of hardship, murdering wizards and accumulating their portal bags to help expand this Kong Kong spirit portal bag. Only a powerful and vicious race, such as the wolves, could have the ability to achieve such a thing. This Kong Kong spirit portal bag was the strategic treasure of the wolves. It helped to carry a large number of resources to take from the human world, back to the world of the orc. The wolves themselves kept a part of it, and a part of it was exchanged for large sums of wealth.
After reading Morton's observation records, Abel felt like he knew way too many secrets. He had to stay safe. Now, he was like a kid carrying a massive amount of wealth in brought daylight. If someone had found out how much wealth he carried around with him every day, it would be a disaster.
Abel couldn't seem to calm himself down. He could only hope the night come sooner so he could examine in detail each of the spoils of war in the Kong Kong spirit portal bag. Before, he only kept these spoils of war in the Kong Kong spirit portal bag because he though they held some kind of value. But now, he realised these things were not just valuable, they were extremely valuable, to the point where he no longer wanted to sell it — especially that soul catching grass, which he thought was the most precious thing.
Luckily Abel was not short of gold coins before he discovered this information. It seemed like he made a correct decision not to sell off the soul catching grass. The only way to do these treasures justice was to keep them a secret, and only use them when Abel had accumulated more knowledge in potion study.
Abel's identity card began to vibrate. As soon as he got connected, the voice of Carlos came from within, "Abel come down quick. Camille and I are waiting for you!"
Abel couldn't help but shake his head with a face full of smile. Carlos was still enthusiastic, as always. During these four months, he would invite Abel for lunch together as soon as he was free. Abel answered, "Coming down, Carlos!"
Abel had already gotten familiar with Carlos and Camille, and he had changed the way they addressed them long ago. Abel enjoyed the atmosphere in Morton magic tower; it reminded him of the time when he was at school in his previous life. There were no scams and pitfalls, only pure friendships.
It was a pity his second senior brother and 3rd senior sister always locked themselves in their individual floors. Abel had only seen their wizard followers deliver food to their door; he never seen them come out. According to Carlos, both second senior brother and 3rd senior sister were also very lovely people.
Despite Carlos inviting him for food every day, it seemed like it might still be a good idea for Abel to get his own wizard follower. Therefore, Abel already had a sense of who he was going to pick.
As Abel was thinking, he had walked to the first floor. However, Carlos and Camille were not around the dining table. Instead, they were at that hall. That's strange, it was time for lunch, and usually, the two would wait for Abel around the dining table.
"Junior brother, today I will take you to see something!" Said Carlos raising his eyebrows up and down to Abel.
"Don't worry about him Abel. We will take you to Caral City. Carlos and I need to exchange something, so we want to take you along to enrich your experience." Camille said to Abel with a smile.
"Where's Caral City?" Abel asked in a puzzled tone. Although he did not know much about this world, he still had heard of most of the city in the Duchy of Carmel. However, he had never heard of Caral City.
"Caral City is located on the border between the 4 Duchies. The Duchy of Carmel, Duchy of Thunder, Duchy of Koror, and Duchy of Laka. It was a place for wizards from the 4 Duchies to do exchanges and not open to ordinary people. Long ago, it was only a place used by a few wizards to exchange stuff they don't need. In the past few hundred years, it had undergone a lot of progress and slowly became the Caral City we know today." Camille explained as she saw the puzzled look on Abel's face.
"How are we going to get there, Camille?" Abel asked.
"The teleportation circle, of course. We had not used our free teleportation this month. little brother, you didn't use yours as well, right?" Asked Carlos pointing towards the teleportation circle.
"No, I have not used the teleportation circle." Said Abel as he stared at the gigantic teleportation circle. He was a little curious, he had never seen the size of the teleportation circle pattern on the teacher's 11th floor, and the one in Rogue encampment was very small. It was nowhere as complicated as the pattern of this teleportation circle in front of him.
"Ok then, let's go!" Camille waved her identity card on the metal fence in front of the teleportation circle. It opened up a small door, allowing only one person to pass through. Camille entered in a flash.
Abel followed closely behind, but suddenly the small door had disappeared in a flash of white light. Blocking Abel on his way.
Carlos couldn't help but laugh, seeing that Abel was shocked that he was blocked "Haha, this defense circle can only let one person pass at a time," He said.
Afterwards, both Carlos and Abel flashed their identity cards and entered the teleportation circle. As Abel stood inside, the hugeness and complication of the teleportation circle could be felt to an even greater extent. Some strips of the pattern on the floor began to emerge on to the surface, while some remained hidden below. Only with a few looks, Abel knew how hard it would be to copy this teleportation circle.
"Stop looking, teleportation circles are the Wizard Union's top-secret, you can only buy one when you reach a certain status, and it was set up and tested by a wizard specialized in drawing circles." Said Carlos. As he saw Abel examining the teleportation circle, he could help but laugh again.
"The spirit of the tower, ready for teleportation!" Said Camille to an empty space after making a "be quiet" hand sign to Carlos.
"Identity confirmed, Free teleportation for three people. Please select your destination !" A very robotic voice came out of the teleportation circle.
"Destination Caral City!" Said Camille.
" confirmed, begin teleportation!"
Abel felt the magical power around him began to rush in. The pattern on the floor began to glow in stripes of white light among those magical power. In a few short seconds, the entire teleportation circle was surrounded by white lights. Abel felt like a hurricane surrounded him. Since Abel was used to teleportation, things had entirely down after a short while as the white light faded. He realized the scenery around him had changed entirely.
On the 11th floor, a smirk emerged from the face of Wizard Morton. He mumbled, "these kids!" as he disappeared from his room in a flash.
Abel turned his head and looked at Camille and Carlos. They still haven't woken up from the dizziness caused by teleportation. They were not like Abel; about was an intermediate knight with an extremely high power of the will. He also uses teleportation circles quite frequently, so he didn't faint from the dizziness caused by teleportation.
"Stop hiding, come out!" Called a wizard follower In a grey robe.
"Ok ok, calm down!" At that point, Carlos and Camille had become more clear-headed as he said to the wizard follower waving his hand.
When the three stepped out of the teleportation circle. Carlos said while padding the back of his head, "I hate teleportation, every time it ends up like this. Why can't they invent a teleportation circle that won't make you dizzy."
"That's because you are too weak. If you had become an intermediate Wizard like teacher and still faint for half a day every time you move in a flash, then you will become the biggest joke in the wizard community." Said Camille in a mocking tone.
"Oh, you never got dizzy? I thought you also had just woken up!" Carlos counteracted.
"At least I didn't complain. I knew I would make it through the dizziness one day," said Camille in a very particular tone.
"Wait, wait, did you say 'move in a flash'?" Abel seemed to remember from Diablo, 'move in a flash' was a spell to teleport things to a short distance in a flash. He was not sure how it works in this world.
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Chapter 137
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"Yes, teacher uses 'move in a flash' whenever he travels, it is the signature spell of an intermediate wizard. When someone has mastered the 'move in a flash,' almost no one could keep a wizard locked up in one place," Carlos said admiringly.
"How far, in terms of range, can the 'move in a flash' go?" Abel remembered that the mysterious movements of his teacher Wizard Morton, but he was very concerned about how far he could travel with the 'move in a flash' since it seemed that the 'move in a flash' from Diablo could only be seen at close range.
"It all depends on how far your power of the will can extend. The larger your power of the will could extend, the further you can travel." Camille explained.
Since the three of them talked while walking, when they were walking out of the teleportation circle, there was suddenly another white light behind them as more wizards were being teleported to the circle.
Carlos then took a badge from his pocket and placed it in front of his chest. The badge had a six-star shining circle on the top with three small leaves on the bottom. Camille, on the other hand, also wore a badge on her chest, with an extra tiny leaf.
Noticing that Abel was looking at the badge on his chest, Carlos smiled, "It's a wizard's badge. You can also apply one from the wizard union. Do you see these leaves? One leaf means one rank. Since I'm a rank three novice wizard, I have three tiny leaves."
Carlos took one look at the badge on Camille's chest in a mocking way and then said, in the face of Camille's defiant gaze, "You know, your rank determines the number of leaves you have. Seeing Carlos had skipped introducing her own badge, Camille stared directly onto Carlos's eyes with her eyes of death.
In the midst of the drama between the three, they walked out of the teleportation circle. As Abel looked curiously at his surroundings, although this place was called a city, it looked more like a town as there was only one main road. The road was made from giant boulders, and it was also very smooth with both sides of the roads occupied by various shops.
"These shops in the City of Caral are the shops of the witches and wizards as well as the branches of some large trading corporations. These shops are tailored for wizards, sp the goods in these stores aren't exactly cheap. If you want to buy something, remember to check the price first, or you will not have enough gold to buy them," Carlos kindly explained and introduced Abel.
"Abel, tell me if you don't have enough gold coins, or if you need anything else," Camille smiled at Abel.
"Thank you, Camille. I think my family's fortune is enough for me already."Abel replied gratefully.
As they spoke, the three of them came to a huge storefront with a wand painted on the sign. "Here we are," Carlos said. "This is the wizard's exchange. Witches and wizards in this neighborhood hold fairs here every twenty days, and luckily, today is the day of the fair."
Abel watched curiously as Carlos went to a table in the doorway and drew a gold coin to a wizard follower standing there with his magic card. He then took a sign from the wizard follower.
"Ok, let's go. It's shop 168." Carlos waved the sign at the two of them.
Abel could see clearly that there was a sign of 168 on the sign, but nothing else.
In front, Carlos found shop 168, which was more like a long bar than a shop. There was a three-story wooden shelf behind it. Carlos then took twelve runes from his arms and placed them on the first shelf, while Camille took fifteen runes and placed them on the second.
"How come you have more runes than I do?" Carlos asked Camille defiantly.
"This is because you're lazy. I've been drawing at least five times a day for months. What about you?" Camille asked Carlos with a blank look.
"I.. I just spent a little more time practicing," Carlos said guiltily.
"Are these the runes you made?" Abel asked, picking up one of Camille's runes.
"Yup, but the materials are too expensive, which means the success rate of these runes weren't able to increase. I could barely break even too," Carlos sighed.
"What materials are these runes made of?" Abel asked, looking at the wood and gold on his hands, it felt like a similar material he had worked with before.
"It's made of crystal cores. I used a potion to soften them slightly, then reshape them and finally carved them with a knife. As my teacher, Wizard Morton, is good at making runes, Carlos and I have learned this skill." Camille said.
It was made from the nucleus of a crystal, thought Abel. No wonder he felt so familiar. The irregular shape of the nucleus had been refashioned into a rectangular plate, so he couldn't even recognize it.
Abel then looked at the runes, most of which were "8#Ral" runes, a few "7#Tal" runes, and "10#Thul" runes.
"Why are there so many fire attack runes here?" Abel asked Camille.
"Wait, you know these runes?" Instead of answering Abel's questions, Camille was surprised that Abel knew the runes. This was because the knowledge of these runes wasn't something that could be learned casually. Even for wizards, they could only learn the knowledge of these rules if they have a heritage in rune drawing. Otherwise, most wizards would generally purchase their runes if they ever need them.
"Yes, I've learned runes from my blacksmith teacher for a while back then." Abel looked at Camille, puzzled, as He didn't think that this knowledge was valuable. From the beginning, he had a Dwarf magical weapons forging guide, which allowed him to learn the most systematic knowledge of the runes, and successfully copied the rune from a rune sign.
"Was your blacksmith teacher a dwarf?" Camille didn't expect Abel to have also learned forgery. In her memory, only the dwarf blacksmiths would have inherited their rune systems.
"No, my blacksmith was a human blacksmith, but his teacher was a dwarf blacksmith," Abel explained.
Camille suddenly realized, "No wonder you know about this rune knowledge. When making a rune sign, you need to balance the energy within the crystal core to the energy the rune requires. Recently only Fire crystal cores were available on the market most of the time, so all the runes signs we made were basically all fire attributes as well.
Abel had some understanding of the requirements of making runes, as it was the same principle as forging the magic swords. Both of them required the same energy. The difference was that the runes used the crystal core, while the magic sword uses the magic gems.
"Can I learn how to make runes?" Abel asked Camille expectantly.
"I don't think I can teach you. The teacher will have to teach you this knowledge when he can. I will not dare to teach you in advance as I might get in a lot of trouble." Camille shook her head, but when he saw Abel's disappointed look on his face, she added, "But I can teach you the basics of how to use a carving knife. These are the basics of rune making."
"Thanks, Camille! Abel's mood was suddenly much better, as he was able to practice the basic use of carving knives first. This would lay a good foundation for learning rune card making in the future and save a lot of time. This was because he had a lot of time to practice in Rogue encampment.
"Carlos, stay here. I'll go with Abel and buy him a good carving knife."
"You can't do this," Carlos protested.
Turning to Carlos, Camille ignored his protestation and called Abel out.
As they passed, Abel remembered. "Camille," he asked softly and curiously, "What's the price for a half day's rent in one of these shops?"
"10,000 gold." Camille looked back at Abel and then said, "Don't come here by yourself. Your levels are too low. Although it is safer here, there will still be dark wizards."
"Dark wizard?" Another word Abel had never heard.
"Dark wizards is the name given to evil wizards who were born by robbing ordinary wizards. You may see an ordinary wizard here, but he could also be a dark wizard secretly. So be careful in the Wizard world." Camille explained, then said to Abel, "You've got a great talent. You've reached level 2 in such a short time, but there's a lot of rank four and rank five novice wizards out there, and sometimes there are even official wizards, and you can't get away from them since they are so strong."
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Chapter 138
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"Thank you, Camille. I will be careful," Abel said while nodding his head.
"We arrived. Both Carlos and I bought our carving knife here." Said Camille as she led Abel to the front of a shop.
The storefront of that shop was filled with all kinds of knives, swords, and shields. Under the gaze of Abel, all those knives, swords, and shields did not look too bad. They were all made from a hundred skill iron base. Behind the counter, there was a rank, secured with two full body armor.
"Isn't this a place for Wizards to exchange their stuff? Why are there so many weapons? Abel asked quietly.
"Junior brother. Do wizards have any ability to protect themselves? Of course, they need to buy some warrior or knights equipment to protect themselves. All the equipment in our store is the best of the best. If you give a tip to the thing that protects you, they will definitely remain loyal to you." Said a raspy voice coming from somewhere. It was the owner of the shop, a burly man with a face full of beard, who was around 2.2 meters tall. He came up to Abel after he overheard his question.
"Dorian, this is my junior brother Abel, he wants to buy a carving knife," Camille said hello to Dorian, the burly man with a face full of beard.
After Dorian had heard Camille's introduction, he looked at Abel in disbelief. He asked, "Abel? May I ask, what is your name?"
"Abel Harry," Abel bowed and replied.
"My respected Master, Elite Black Smith Dorian salute to you!" Said Dorian as he bowed deeply.
"Dorian, you are too polite!" Said Abel after returning a greeting.
"It is my pride to have you visiting my shop!" Said Dorian in pure excitement.
"Wait, Dorian. Did you just call Abel a Master?" Camille asked in a puzzled tone.
"Camille, did you not know that Master Abel is a Black Smith Master? He was the 36th Black Smith Master in the Holy Continent, as well as the youngest Black Smith Master. According to statistics, he is the closest Blacksmith Master to becoming a Grandmaster Black Smith!" Said Dorian, his voice filled with his respect for Abel.
"Abel?" Camille was dumbstruck. She seemed to have lost her ability to speak all of a sudden. All she could do was stare at Abel. She had only regained her concentration after a while and asked Abel, "Abel, why didn't you ever mention you are a Black Smith Master?"
"That's because no one had asked me," Abel innocently stared at Camille.
"Shouldn't you be the one who tells us first?" Said Camille staring back at Abel in a somewhat helpless way. It was such an important thing, but Abel had always pretended like it was nothing and never told her about it.
"I came to the magic tower to become a wizard. What does my other status have to do with it? The teacher had said that the status and wealth of an ordinary person have nothing to do with being a wizard. As long as you are a member of the wizards, you will be granted the identity of a wizard."
"Do you really not know what being a Black Smith Master signifies? Camille realized maybe Abel didn't know too much about being a Black Smith Master.
She proceeded to say, "Other than making powerful weapons. Black Smith Masters can also work with wizards to make powerful magic weapons. For example, a wand that increases ice attacks, without the help of a Black Smith Master, it is impossible to make one."
Seeing the dumb look on Abel's face, Camille waved her hand and said: "Whatever, you had just become a novice wizard. The teacher will teach you this stuff in the future."
Abel did not know how to make a wand at all. He had only socialized with knights in the past, and almost everything he made was equipment for knights. Master Bentham had said in the past that Abel could become a student of the dwarfs, and further develop his forging ability. But at the time, Abel only wanted to become a wizard and did not pay too much attention to a Black Smith Master's study.
Now, his perspective had changed. It seemed like the connection between Black Smith Masters and wizards were actually a lot closer than he thought. They seemed to have a special yet tightly linked relationship. If he had the chance in the future, he would definitely sit down and have a good talk with teacher Wizard Morton.
"Master Abel, did you say you want a carving knife?" During all this time, Dorian's sight did not leave Abel at all. When Abel noticed Dorian, it looked like he was looking into the eyes of a fan seeing a superstar.
"Yes, your excellency Dorian. I need a carving knife for my study of rune sign-making," Abel said with a laugh.
"Please wait," Dorian said and bowed. It was somewhat comedic to see a 2.2meters gigantic bowing to the 1.85 meters Abel.
Dorian turned around and searched in a box behind the counter. After a while, he carefully took out a dark gold color carving knife and handed it to Abel with two hands. Dorian said, "I had accidentally found a natural ore around here. However, the ore was too small to make any weapons out of it, so I made this carving knife. Upon its completion, I realized this carving knife was a lot sharper than anything else on the market. Please give it a critique."
Abel received Dorian's carving knife with two hands and closely examined it. This carving knife looked like it was made with some kind of alloy. Abel tapped it two times with his hand. It seemed like there was some extremely balanced heavy metal inside it. If this kind of natural compound gold was sharped to such extent, it would be even rarer than other valuable ores. This alloy was truly unique.
"The material of this carving knife was compounded with many types of metal. You said it's a natural ore, so it was compounded naturally. Materials like these were so rare. You can almost call it a treasure from the sky," said Abel in a careful tone.
"Master Abel, your sight is too good. I have shown this carving knife to many Black Smiths and wizards, but never a Black Smith Master. The few wizards I have shown this carving knife to agree with what you have said. It's just that they were not too interested in these compound metals. Although these types of metal were sharper than gold, they could not increase the amount of magical ability being injected. Therefore in the eyes of those wizards, this carving knife is not too different from the ones made with normal metals," said Dorian looking at Abel with respect.
Abel smiled in a little embarrassment. The alloy could be seen everywhere in his previous world. Even primary school kids could understand the concept of alloy. However, this carving knife in the hand of Abel was good for both study and practical use. He was not like the other wizards who only cared about magical ability. If Abel could separate the compounds within the alloy, he might be able to make some extremely powerful weapons.
According to the statistics in the Horadric cube, the attacking power of this world's weapons was generally lower, to the point where it's basically impossible to hurt anyone with a 'absorb material impact' rune sign. Abel calculated, although these weapons might have no problem battling a low-rank monster in Rogue encampment, it would most likely have a problem battling high-rank monsters. Since Abel had discovered a type of alloy that could increase a weapon's attacking power, it provided him with a direction for experimenting in the future. That's good news.
"How much for this carving knife?" Abel asked as he stared at the carving knife in his hand in excitement.
"Master Abel, if you like it, I can give it to you as a gift. That ore didn't cost me that much, and my forging skills are nothing compared to yours anyway, so don't ever talk gold coins with me." Said Dorian waving both of his hands.
"That's?" Abel was a little hesitant. He really wanted this carving knife, but his heart won't let him take advantage of Dorian and walk away with this carving knife for free.
"Abel, just accept it. I knew Dorian for many years. If he said, he wants to give you something as a gift. With his personality, he would rather throw it away than take it back," Camille couldn't help but interrupt seeing Abel's hesitation.
"Ok, thank you, your excellency, I'll accept this gift. If you have any questions in regards to forgery, feel free to ask me. Of course, I had not been studying forgery for too long, so I might not be able to answer some of your questions, but I'll try my best," said Abel in a somewhat serious tone.
"Thank you, Master Abel." Hearing Abel's promise, Dorian was filled with joy. Although Dorian was already an elite Black Smith, he did not have any inheritance. At first, he felt like he had lost his goal. However, after hearing this promise and guidance by a Black Smith Master, he had regained a sense of direction again. That was great news for Dorian.
On the way back, Camille asked Abel countless questions that made his brain hurts.
"Abel, how much does it cost if I want to buy a weapon from a Black Smith Master?"
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"Abel, what are some prerequisites to become a Black Smith Master?"
"Abel, do you still connect with other Black Smith Masters?"
"Abel, do Black Smith Masters make clothing for girls?"
"Abel, can Black Smith Masters make jewelry?"
These questions did not stop. Abel saw the no168 shop front in front of him, and let out a breath of relief. Hr said to Camille, "Camille, we arrived."
"Abel, ever since I found that you are a Black Smith Master, your attitude towards me changed. How come you are no longer as enthusiastic," Said Camille emphasizing her voice.
Abel bitterly smiled at Camille. He knew that all women could be illogical sometimes, even a wise female wizard. Camille was obviously asking weird questions along the way. Abel just did not know how to answer these questions, not that he had an attitude problem. That was such a big injustice. Abel could even feel it on his own face.
"You are back," Said Carlos saving his hand to Abel and Camille. Then, he began to chat with a young wizard follower around 20 years of age in the shop in front of him.
"Can the price go any lower for this fire spell rune sign? The market price is 20,000 gold coins, and you are selling them for 22,000 gold coins. That's quite a big gap, isn't it!" Said the wizard follower, sounding a little irritated upon seeing the rune sign on display.
"We got a customer?" I'm a flash of an eye, Camille stepped in front of the counter. She looked at the wizard follower and said with a smile, "You can't say it like that. Yes, the market price is 20,000 gold coins, but do you know why we are selling higher?"
"Why?" The Wizard follower saw a gorgeous female wizard.
"Because of heritage. All of our runes were personally inherited by an intermediate wizard, so our quality is a lot more promising than those ones on the market with defects, and turnover by multiple hands." As Camille was speaking, she seemed to flash the identity card on her waist subconsciously.
When the wizard follower saw the identity card with a big tree engraving on Camille's waist, his eyes immediately began to sparkle, he smiled and said: "Give me three fire attack rune signs."
Carlos took out three rune signs from the shelf and handed it to the hands of the wizard follower. The
Wizard follower then took out his magic gold card and lightly tapped on Carlos's magic gold card. A payment of 66,000 gold coins had been completed.
After the wizard follower had left, Carlos looked at Camille directly in the eye and said, "Wow, you used the teacher's name to sell rune signs again. You better watch out."
"No, I didn't, I just said it was inherited by an intermediate wizard. There are a few intermediate wizards within the four countries. Who knows which one I am talking about!" Said Camille as she put on an innocent look, as though she had really just exposed her identity card mistakenly.
"Ok ok, at least we can sell some of them. It had been very quiet lately, and no one is buying rune signs," said Carlos sounding a little irritated.
"Quiet is a good thing. It means that nothing major had happened. If not, we will get put in missions, and we won't even have time to do our training," Said Camille with a smile as she disagreed with Carlos's perspective.
"Camille, we need to do missions?" Asked Abel suspiciously.
"Abel, you had only just settled in the magic tower. All you need to focus on is doing your training. You will get put into missions after five years." Camille explained.
"Junior brother, if some bad intentioned dark novice wizards decided to something bad, sending an official wizard will be too much of a waste. However, it will be suicide if we send a knight. Novice wizards like us will be a perfect match. It will also be a good chance for us to gain some more experience in fighting." Said Carlos turning his head after fixing up the things on the shelf.
"But only for novice wizards who can fight. We don't want to give more food to our enemies by sending some rank three novice wizards," Camille gifted this sentence to Carlos.
"Oh, it's like I never completed a mission," Carlos shouted while jumping up like a rabbit being bit in the tail.
"Yeah, what rank was that novice wizard that tagged along? Rank 1 or rank 2." Camille asked Carlos in a calm voice while rolling her eyes."
Seeing the two in killing mode again, Abel immediately said from the side, "Camille, Carlos. I'll go take a walk, see if there's anything to buy."
"Ok, since it's your first time here, it will be a good idea to take a walk around. I don't trust Carlos to be by himself here. With his personality, he won't even make enough gold coins for us to get back using the teleportation circle." Said Camille nodding her head.
Abel slowly walked along with the crowd. Every shop had weird objects he couldn't even recognize. Most of them seemed to be the body part of beasts, while others were strange herbs or materials. As Abel continued to walk, the more alienated he felt. By this point, he was even more motivated to memorize everything in Morton's Observation Record. If he had, he wouldn't be staring at all these weird objects in every shop like he had never been outside before.
After a while, Abel had stopped his steps. He finally recognized something in the shop in front of him. It was a crystal core; he was certain of that.
The owner of the shop was a middle-age rank four novice wizards with four-leaf badge on his chest. When he saw Abel, he said with a genuine smile, "Junior brother, are you looking for something?"
Abel continued to look at the crystal core on the shelf. Seeing such a familiar seller, he thought, why not buy some. It might also be a good idea to stock up some ingredients when he made runes in the future, "How much for a crystal core?" Abel asked.
"The Fire one is 20,000 gold coins apiece, the ice, and poison one is 30,000 gold coins apiece." The middle-age wizard introduced with a smile.
Abel had asked about the rough value of crystal cores. These crystal cores in the shop were not too expensive. They were around the normal market value. This middle age novice wizard did not randomly raise the value since he didn't have a wizard badge.
"Give me ten fire crystal cores and all of the ice and poison ones you have." Said Abel seeing there was not much ice and poison one lefts on the shelf.
"Wait a minute, let me calculate," the middle age novice wizard calculated in his heart for a while and proceeded to say "10 fire crystal cores, 20,000 gold coins. Seven ice and poison crystal cores, 21,000 gold coins. 41,000 gold coins in total."
Abel took out his magic gold card. He had just received the auction payment of 240,000 gold coins from Edmound's boutique shop. Now, he had reached a shocking amount of 35,1250 gold coins in his magic gold card.
A dark gold flash of light emerged as Abel tapped his magic gold card with the middle age novice Wizard's magic gold card. After Abel had confirmed, 41,000 gold coins had deducted from his magic gold card. Now he only had 31,025 gold coins.
The middle-age novice wizard in front of Abel caught a glimpse of Abel's gold card. Abel did not have the experience. Normally, people would cover their magic gold cards with their hands during transactions. When the middle age novice wizard saw the six figures in Abel's gold card, his eyes flashed in greed.
Abel sensed a wave of bad intentions with his power of the will. When he lifted his head to see where the bad intentions were coming from, the eyes of the middle age novice wizard returned to peace again. Abel shook his head. Everything seemed to be normal, so he put the crystal cores in his bad and walked off.
Seeing where Abel had walked off, the middle age novice wizard took out a small sign and slowly injected some mana into it. This was a wizard exchange ground, so the use of mana was strictly band. However, these small scale communication signs only required a small amount of mana to operate, and it was sold by the officials of Caral City. That's why the middle age novice wizard was brave enough to use it.
A small scale communication sign could only be used within a city, and that city must be covered in energy from a communication circle that corresponds with the communication sign. As the wizard exchange ground, Caral city was all covered in communication circles and was publicly selling these small communication signs. However, these small communication signs were normally extremely expensive. Normally an intermediate wizard could not afford it, and they were mostly purchased by official wizards.
"Teacher, I discovered a fat sheep!" During their conversation, the honest tone from the middle age novice Wizard's voice had completely vanished. What's left was only a smell of fishiness.
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Chapter 140
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Chapter 140: Dark Wizard
"You say it's a fat sheep every time. The last fat sheep only had 20,000 gold coins on it. It barely even covered the cost of operating my magic circle," a heavy voice emerged from the communication sign.
"Teacher, I promise. It's a fat sheep this time. I saw that he had a balance of 310,000 gold coins." said the middle age novice wizard in excitement.
"Do you know who he is?" Said the wizard on the other side. He doesn't seem to be too excited about the 310,000 gold coins since he kept asking for more details.
"I feel like he is just a rank 1 or 2 novice wizard. He doesn't have a wizard badge, so he probably wasn't even verified by the wizard union," said the middle age novice wizard explained.
"Ok, not bad. Lure him to my place, and I'll share some of the gold coins with you." The voice of the Wizard from the other side began to show some interest.
Abel did not know what was waiting in store for him at all. He continued to look around the different shops, trying to elevate his thin knowledge of Wizardry.
"Junior brother!" A familiar voice came from behind. When Abel turned and looked, it was the middle age wizard who had just sold him the crystal cores. Abel felt a bit strange and asked, "Is there any problem?"
The middle-age novice wizard said, "When you paid for the crystal cores just then, you forgot to cover the balance in your magic gold card. That's very dangerous, and you have to be more careful next time.
"Oh, thank you so much!" At that moment, Abel had just realized the balance in his magic gold card might be a little too big to carry around. It might attract bad intentioned people. Luckily, the middle age novice wizard reminded him.
The novice wizard said in a bit of embarrassment, "I just saw the balance in your magic gold card and remembered that my friend had some unique crystal cores that he wants to sell. Are you interested in buying some electric crystal cores? If you want, I can take you to my friend's place. He is also selling some attribute-less crystal cores.
Abel did not have much response when he heard the middle age wizard said electric crystal cores. He didn't even know how to make a rune sign; these materials were just for future training. However, when he heard the middle age wizard mention an attribute-less crystal core, his heart began to chime. These attribute-less crystal cores were often exclusively exchanged between official wizards, and they would only exchange once every 100 days. Therefore, these attribute-less crystal cores were tough to attain. However, hearing that the 2nd floor of this exchange ground had a stock, he might have a chance to get one, so he wanted to take a look.
Abel did not worry about his safety since he was in Caral City. Even if a slightly more significant amount of mana was unleashed, it would attract the attention of the wizards on guard. If a fight had broken out and even the official wizards on guard could not solve the problem, then at least four intermediate wizards would be teleported here immediately to solve it.
"Ok, I am very interested in attribute-less crystal core. Let's go have a look," said Abel with a smile.
"Junior brother, follow me," seeing Abel agreed to his offer. He led Abel to where the corner of the exchange ground was located.
Abel realized the further they walked, the fewer people there were. Although he was still in the exchange ground, the place was deserted. He started to become suspicious, and he slowed down his steps.
"Junior brother, you see that shop in front of us? That's where we are heading. We've arrived ." Said the middle age novice wizard, as he slowed down his stepped and pointed to a shop not far in front of him to Abel.
Abel focused his sight. Although the storefront in front of him was placed with merchandise, he did not see anyone moving inside. He had no idea why anyone would rent a shop here.
"Little brother, please go in," the middle age novice wizard slowly came to a halt, allowing Abel to step in. Since Abel had arrived, he did not pay too much attention. He thought he might as well step up and take a look at the merchandise in the storefront.
There were large amounts of crystal cores placed on the shelf. He moved along. He noticed a large amount of fire crystal cores, Poison and ice crystal cores, and even some electric crystal cores.
Abel continued to walk along. Suddenly, everything in his surroundings changed. He realized he was standing in an open field surrounded by big trees, and the middle age novice wizard behind him had disappeared as well.
"Oh no, I've been scammed." Abel felt his heart drop as he muttered to himself.
Black was a beginner wizard. Normally he was the owner of a seven stories magic tower in Duchy of Keyen. However, sometimes he would also do some dirty things. Yes, he was a dark wizard.
Although Duchy of Keyen had quite a lot on consecrates for wizards, they were far not enough to sustain Black's spending. He did not have any special inheritance, so he wouldn't make any rune signs and potions. Sometimes, he would go hunting some soul beast to get some income, but he couldn't do it very often since hunting a soul beast required at least a few wizards to go together. Therefore, the costs of the magic tower, the cost of his own, and his disciple's training always stressed him out.
Without a choice, he had to find another way to make more gold coins. Therefore, he decided to murder some novice wizards with a relatively big fortune and take their money. Just like that, he became a dark wizard.
Black did not have the guts to kill an official wizard since that would be a very hard and risky thing to do. Every official wizard had their own unique defensive moves, but In regards to killing a novice wizard, it would be like a walk in the park for Black.
After he sacrificed a lot to make a barrier circle, Black began his profession as a novice wizard murderer to make money. He had calculated the time exchange for every exchange ground within the nearest 10,000 miles. Then he would use his disciples as bait to lure novice wizards into the barrier circle. Just like that, he would successfully avoid the attentions of the wizards on guard.
Black would rarely make his killing in Caral city. Caral City was the center of the 4 Duchy. Every teleportation circle within a few thousand were controlled by the wizards of the Duchy. If he had left a tiny bit of bread crumb behind from his killing, many intermediate wizards would be immediately teleported to his place. If he was unlucky, that number would be even higher. Therefore, he could not make a mistake no matter what, as his chance of escaping will be extremely low.
Throughout the morning, he did not have a single success this time. He arrived at Caral City. Just then, his disciple reported that there was a novice Wizard with 300,000 gold coins worth of fortune. Although it was not a lot of gold coins, it was still extremely rare for a novice wizard to carry that much around. Seeing the novice Wizard who had been lured into the barrier circle was only a 13 years old rank 2 novice wizard, Black let out a breath of relief. An official wizard would not make a mistake when identifying someone who was younger and lower rank than themselves.
After he had confirmed that this young rank 2 novice wizard was not acting bait or an impersonator, Black began to walk out from where he had hidden, standing in front of Abel.
"Hello, young novice Wizard. I am a rank 7 dark wizard. Please transfer all the gold coins in your magic gold card to my magic gold card." He thought he was completely out of the league of this rank 2 novice wizard. There was no way this kid knew any spells; how could he hurt him.
"D..D…Don't even think about it," said Abel. Although he was nervous, he already had a lot of combat experience at his age. He knew that in a situation like this. He had to numb his enemy. No matter what, he couldn't let this rank 7 beginner wizard have a chance to attack.
Abel stared into the face of the dark wizard, and the dark wizard doesn't seem to be concerned about him at all. Abel couldn't blame him. Who would have guessed a 13-year-old rank 2 novice would simultaneously be an intermediate knight with a power that exceeded an elite knight.
"I don't want to say it twice!" Said Black, waves of impose pressure emerged from his voice.
"I.. I know spells," Abel tried to act scared, as he drew the pattern for "fireball" in mid-air. However, he might be too nervous. He made a mistake immediately. He then tried to draw it again but still failed.
Black stared at this young novice wizard in front of him in amusement and said: "how did your teacher teach. You can't even draw a basic 'fireball' spell."
"My teacher is very powerful. He is an intermediate wizard." Abel flipped the identity card on his waist to the front, exposing an engraving of a big tree.
The eyes of Black grew tense. He recognized this was the identity card of Wizard Morton. Although he doesn't have the ability to fight Wizard Morton, this kid in front of him was only a novice wizard. He would just be careful, and no one would know."
"Little kid, don't try to scare me with your teacher. Quickly give me your magic gold card, or I will make you suffer so bad, you rather die." In a flash, the heaviness within Black's voice had disappeared. Wizard Morton's name still gave him a lot of pressure.