Seeing Master Messer again, Donald had a blank badge on his chest.
This is the general apprenticeship certificate for mage in the mainland, invented by the magic empire Benedict thousands of years ago. If he can become a first-stage black iron mage, there will be an additional pattern formed by spells on the badge.
"Master Messer!"
I didn't have much social experience in my previous life, but I also knew the reason why it is not strange to be polite to many people, and this world where the strong are respected is relatively strict, so if you see someone with a higher status than yourself, even if it is an enemy, you must be respectful.
After changing into a casual attire common to nobles, Master Messer sat on the sofa like an old man next door.
"Sit down! Don't be restrained!"
Donald heard the words and sat opposite Master Messer without any extra action.
"Apprentice Donald, I invited you to come here this time, because I have some personal opinions, but before I say it, there are some small things prepared here, as a gift for me, a senior to celebrate your becoming a formal apprentice, so you must Take it!"
Hearing the unquestionable tone of the old mage, coupled with the caring look in the eyes of the other party, Donald felt warm in his heart, and took the tray placed on the coffee table into his hand without being pretentious.
"Thank you for the great love of the master, Donald is very grateful!"
The tray contained three items, the first was a roll of parchment, the second was a small bag, and the third was a copper ring set with crystal stones.
The old mage pointed to three ordinary-looking objects and said with a smile: "This parchment scroll contains my list of first-level spells and spells, and in the bag are a few elementary element spar, and the last ring is mine. Although the equipment used when I was young is only a gadget, it is still very helpful for spellcasters below the bronze level, especially apprentices!"
"It has a certain spiritual enhancement ability, which enables you to master some first-level spells in advance. With this white crystal ring, you can learn the first three spells on the parchment scroll, and you don't have to worry about spell backlash. Mage should be of some help!"
Donald was overjoyed when he heard this. This is not only a little help, but a big help. This kind of equipment that can increase the strength of mental strength and make people jump to cast spells is simply an artifact for junior mages and apprentices!
Hearing that Master Messer's gift was so precious, Donald was a little afraid to accept it.
Seeing Donald's hesitation, the old mage said with a smile:
"Don't worry, this equipment is good, but it has no effect on me at the current level! Our Celtic Kingdom has been isolated from the center of the mainland for hundreds of years, and its strength is relatively low. In terms of the number of mage levels, It is far inferior to Polin, the descendant of the Banai Empire, the Mage Kingdom. In terms of the number and strength of warriors, it is even less of the Swordsman Kingdom Kurt, or even the small Siren Knight Principality. There are so many powerful countries on the mainland. The people can only work hard to improve their own strength, so that they will not be annexed by other countries. Any wizard of the Celtic Kingdom who sees such an excellent apprentice as you will give certain help to make this new generation of you. Grow up, so you don't have to feel sorry for my gifts!"
After Donald heard these words, his admiration for the old mage soared. Perhaps there are not many patriotic mages, but there should be not many who are as upright, noble and selfless as Messer.
"Actually, I did this with selfish intentions. In the past few decades, I have only accepted two apprentices, but they all unfortunately left before me. Originally, I no longer have the mind to teach students. , no matter your appearance makes me change my mind, I wonder if Donald, are you willing to be my official student?"
Donald was stunned when he heard the words, and didn't know how to answer for a while. He didn't think that the most powerful master of the North County Master would want to accept himself as an apprentice.
Messer's expression darkened: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to, you can still come to me for help at any time!"
"No, Master, I am too pleasantly surprised. I am very willing to be the teacher's student!"
After speaking, he formally greeted Messer, and the old mage laughed and lifted Donald up.
After receiving gifts and some notes on promotion of Dark Iron Mage from Teacher Messer, Donald was sent by the old Mage to the library of the Mage Club in Boulder City.
According to the old mage: "The collection of books in the Jushicheng Mage Club is not too much, but it is enough for apprentices and mage below the bronze level. If you have the opportunity, you can go to the Mage Tower of the Wangdu Mage Association to see. Look, it can enrich your knowledge and vision and make you grow faster."
Anyone who becomes a formal apprentice can use the apprentice mage badge to enter the library of this clubhouse, but except for the first time, which is free and has a certain time limit, a certain fee must be paid at other times. This is also the case for the magistrates of the general kingdom. This is a theory that originated from the magical empire Benedict thousands of years ago.
Only by mastering knowledge can you become a more powerful mage. In the more ancient Arcanist Empire, there is a saying, "If everyone can become an Arcanist, then there will be no need for gods in this world."
Of course, such absurd "criminal words" will not appear in the records of various races, except for the books left by ancient mages who are committed to pursuing the truth of the existence of the world and do not believe in gods.
Donald is under the care of Master Melina, so this time there is no time limit.
After entering the library, he didn't rush to look at the spell books for the first time. Instead, he was very interested to look at the historical records and the mage's diary first. To understand a thing, you must first understand its history. This is Donald's experience from a previous life.
However, the new apprentice Donald was unaware of his move, much to the satisfaction of Master Messer, who observed him through magic. Some new apprentices came to this library, and faced so many spell books, they immediately read those spells that exceeded their own level, and pursued powerful attack spells wholeheartedly. This is a sign of unstable xinxing, and contacting them too early will be detrimental to the future development of the apprentices.
And the most talented apprentice he has ever seen, not only did not do that, but first focused his attention on the historical truth and the origin of the Master, the precious legacy left by his predecessors, these things can establish the formation of an apprenticeship. The correct mage worldview and mage style can help them become valuable knowledge of how to become a real powerful mage. This proves that the student Donald is not only talented, but also has a very calm personality, which is reassuring in all aspects.
Satisfied Master Messer withdrew the visitation spell, and Donald immersed himself in the world's mighty history.
The information here is very different from the history books Donald has read, but this is also what he expected. Compared with all the church canons with God as the highest center, there is a perfect interpretation of what is called the four praises of merit. In the epic of the kingdom of words, only rigorous mages can truly and objectively record the truth of history, and there will be no subjective beautification and ugliness of false information.
Through these materials, Donald has a general understanding of the situation in the world he is in.
This is a world where gods exist. Powerful dragons and ancient beasts once ruled the continent, but I don't know how many years later, high elves were born from the world tree, and soon they became the new masters of the world with extraordinary wisdom. .
Countless years have passed, and the newly born high elves have gradually degenerated from the initial demigod strength to the gold level. Humans, orcs, dwarves, goblins and other intelligent races have appeared one after another, but the high elves are still The worthy masters of the world, they built a mighty elven empire to rule over everything on the continent, and soon conquered the vast ocean.
However, due to the continuous expansion of the main world, the mother world tree of the high elves had to disperse into energy to support the plane barrier of the main world, so as to prevent her children from being violated by other planes. Since then, although there is a tree of life, a branch of the world tree, to maintain the existence of high elves, but there is only one tree of life, which cannot take into account the high elves distributed in the continents and oceans, which makes the fertility of high elves greatly weakened. So there are tens of thousands of ancient elf tree seeds that the tree of life has nurtured at the cost of reducing its strength. When the ancient elves were nurtured and survived by the high elves everywhere, their offspring elves were born.
Since then, except for the Holy Land of Elves where the Tree of Life is located, no other elves have ever been born into high elves. This is because, unlike humans, which are inherently weak and weak, the souls of elves are condensed from nature by ancient elves. High elves are born with gold-level strength, and ancient elves naturally cannot compete with their parents. Compared with the tree of life and the tree of the world of the ancestors, both parents are also high elves, but they can only give birth to the offspring of ordinary elves. Even elves, their soul strength is at least comparable to that of black iron-class spellcasters at birth. Therefore, although the number of elves is rare, each clan is a very powerful warrior or mage, which is also the reason why they once ruled the continent. , and now in this period of human prosperity, it still occupies a certain position.
Here I have to say that one of the most powerful professions other than the true gods since the birth of the main world, the arcanist, has been recognized by the gods.
The ancient arcanists are the source of today's wizards, and it can be said that today's wizards are actually a branch of the arcanists of the past.
The earliest arcane masters can be traced back to the ancient times tens of thousands of years ago. They were originally founded by high elves, but it was humans who really carried forward the arcane arts.
Thousands of years ago, the high elves had to withdraw from the status of the rulers of the continent due to their ethnicity. Humans, dwarves and orcs also began to flourish. Among them, the human beings who were good at creating and learning quickly stood out, and they obtained Arcanists from the high elves. Inheritance, some extremely talented human arcanists, with their short life span of less than a hundred years, have reached the achievement of the top high-level arcanists of the elf race, and even a few high-level elves are among the few great arcanists.
Therefore, the high elves have noticed the characteristics of the human race, withdrawing from the stage of history and living behind the scenes, they took the initiative to make friends with human beings, and recognized that the status of human arcanists was equal to that of elves. A lot of arcane research is done together with human beings, and different ideas quickly make the arcane system develop at a high speed, creating countless wealth of wisdom such as sky city, magic crystal cannon, domain enchantment, artificial intelligence puppet, etc. To a height that makes God also admire it.
It is a pity that it is such a splendid civilization. Because of the whimsical research of some Arcanists, they have set their sights on the realm of the gods, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of the gods and brought the reason for the collapse of the Arcanist Empire.
The gods need faith to enhance their power, but in the kingdom led by the Arcanist Suo, everyone pursues arcane arts and truth. He has a premonition that if this development continues, within a thousand years, the Arcanists may be able to reach the level of parity with the gods, so The gods decided to reduce the power of the arcanists and impose restrictions on the mortals, so that they can better believe in themselves.
For the hostility and suppression of the gods, the Arcanists who yearn for freedom will naturally not sit still and let the gods enslave them. They rise up to resist, but except for the top group of great Arcanists, few can compete with the divine power. Competitive existence.
For the victory of mankind, the Arcanist leaders made a wrong decision, opened the door of the main world, and summoned an army of demons from the dark side of the universe, the dark and evil endless abyss.
The abyss demon caused a great blow to the gods, causing most of the true gods to fall. Most of the current gods were conferred gods after the catastrophe, and only a few ancient true gods still exist.
Although the Arcanists won, it was only a tragic victory, and the demons also caused incalculable disasters to the main world. And the inheritance of many arcane masters has been buried under the ruins of history, which makes the strength of the arcan masters inferior to the next generation. Until the division of the Benai Empire a thousand years ago, the title of arcanist has completely disappeared since then. in front of people.
The ancient magic empire Benai can be said to be the last swan song of arcanists in the history of the world. At that time, humans, elves and dwarves had a common enemy, that is orcs.
Although the orcs are not as intelligent as the human elves and other races, their strong reproductive ability and omnivorous nature have made their numbers grow all the time. The huge population base provides the orc pantheon with huge beliefs. Like the orcs of the earth, their gods are equally aggressive as beasts.
Feeling that the orcs are eating the lands of the races, trying to rule the entire continent, like humans and elves, to build a powerful empire on the continent, which is intolerable for humans and other races of gods.
When the war was raging on the ground, the gods headed by humans also fought against the orc gods in the starry sky.
The strongest country of mankind was Benai, ruled by the descendants of arcane masters at that time. With the support of their many powerful combat powers that surpassed the gold level, the orc tribes with insufficient spellcasting ability were quickly defeated and driven to the bitter cold western plateau of the continent.
The Arcanists of Benai also successfully unified the entire continent and established the second empire dominated by Arcanists. And the residual arcane knowledge was unified and sorted out, creating a new profession of mage.
When the arcane art developed to the extreme, it was divided into eight factions, almost including the abilities of all spellcasters in the world. The mage profession based on the incomplete arcane heritage has only a limited number of branches, such as element mage, alchemist, summoner, and wizard who is good at soul and curse.
It's a pity that the ancient magic empire Benai has just reached its glory, and then it dissipated like fireworks.
Because after the human gods defeated the orc gods, the space cracks in the main world caused the abyss demon that once destroyed the ancient arcanist empire to come again. This is the origin of the second demonic disaster recorded in the continental calendar.
After the disaster, there was a second Arcanist Empire in the world. The Benai Empire was divided by the intentional actions of the gods. I thought the world would be at peace, but due to the influence of many forces between the main world and the abyss plane, There are many stable space gaps formed. Through such gaps, every once in a while, or ten or a hundred years, there will be abyss creatures running to the main world to make trouble. Some larger space cracks even have a small number of demons all year round, infesting the creatures of the main world. Although the cracks are small and fragile, they cannot withstand the entry and exit of powerful demons, but even the lowest-level little demons are stronger than an adult human. They also have spell-like innate abilities, so they have always been a tumor that threatens the life of the main world.
Fortunately, human nations and various ethnic forces also have powerful positions.
With the support of the industry and the Church of the Gods, several large-scale demonic disasters that have erupted in the past thousand years have been successfully wiped out by the coalition forces of various ethnic groups. Once the small-scale demonic disaster occurs, under the attention of all forces, it will be quickly wiped out.
This world is not only between human races and nations, but also between human races and alien races, between the main world creatures and the evil creatures of other planes, wars are constantly breaking out. I think this is why this world civilization has developed for at least tens of thousands of years, but it is still similar to the medieval era of the previous life. It is not only the result of the control of the gods, but also the continuous war between these various races, at least part of the reason.
Knowing these real historical situations, Donald did not panic at all about the invasion of orcs and the intrusion of demons, but instead became excited!
He still remembered a fantasy novel written by a famous author of a great god that he had read in his previous life. After the protagonist traveled through a different world, he relied on the merits he made in the calamity to go to the top of power step by step, and even finally succeeded in conferring a god.
"Doesn't that mean that if I can make military exploits in the battle between the human nation and the orcs in this world and against the demonic scourge of demonic creatures, then I will definitely get a new fief, re-establish the glory of the Melina family, and even more so. Further, become a real great noble?"
With the power brought by the Book of Truth, Donald believes that he must be able to do something in it.
Although demons are powerful, those who can reach the main world from the abyss through space cracks must not be powerful types. According to the research of mages, orcs have never produced professionals above the gold level since the fall of their gods.
"Even if the war with the orcs breaks out, those orc masters will naturally have strong human professionals to deal with. I only need to choose the soft pinch and rely on the power of summoning the army to earn enough merits to exchange for the reward, but it's easy. easy."
Donald has no doubts about it, and is confident.