To become a wizard, one needs a wealth of knowledge. There is a saying that goes "knowledge is power" which is fully implemented in this world. Any formal wizard is a knowledgeable scholar, and any powerful wizard is a great scholar who is familiar with countless knowledge, even the bloodline wizard who is called a reckless man by orthodox wizards is no exception.
At this time, Lin Xiao was learning all kinds of basic knowledge, basic biology, basic anatomy, basic potions, basic physics, basic neurology, basic pharmacy, the principles of all things, principles of spell models and dozens of other basic subjects.
If one wants to learn advanced knowledge, one must go to various major schools or the official academy of the Wizarding Empire to learn advanced knowledge. Although the wizard family he was born into has advanced knowledge, it is not complete enough, and it is difficult to even train formal wizards.
All advanced knowledge in this world has been monopolized by the empire or higher schools. If you want to become a high-level wizard, you must join a school or an official academy.
In order to receive the family's special training, Lin Xiao began to demonstrate his outstanding talents early on.
After roughly understanding the advancement speed of normal wizards, he began to demonstrate an advancement speed that far exceeded that of normal wizards.
Only two years after learning meditation, he was able to clearly meditate on twelve characters and could clearly sense the ubiquitous energy particles in the void, successfully advancing to a first-level wizard apprentice.
After that, he continued to absorb the most strongly sensitive energy particles in the void through meditation to decide which path to take next. He chose the wind energy particles.
The wizard's training method is to meditate to develop powerful mental power, and then use the powerful mental power to capture energy particles in the void and bring them into his own body, using these energy particles to strengthen his body.
When your mental power is strong enough and there are enough meditation runes, you can combine these runes into different spell models in your spiritual sea and solidify them, so as to cast the corresponding spells.
This spell is not that spell. The spells in the wizarding world are much more difficult to cast than spells in other worlds, and their corresponding power is much greater than spells in other worlds.
In other worlds, zero-level tricks are just tricks, but here, zero-level spells have powerful destructive power.
Just five years after being promoted to a first-level wizard apprentice, the thirteen-year-old Lin Xiao successfully mastered a zero-ring spell, and his physique was strengthened to a certain extent, and he was successfully promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice.
By this time, his performance finally caught the attention of his grandfather, and after an assessment, he was qualified to study at the official academy of the Wizarding Empire.
Half a year later, Lin Xiao, who was only fourteen years old, left his family to study at the official academy, Morning Star Tower.
The Morning Star Tower is located in an important border town of the Wizarding Empire. Its main responsibility is to guard the border between the Empire and the northern alien races. Most of the students it accepts are children of nobles from various border provinces.
After entering the academy, Lin Xiao remained as low-key as ever, and worked hard to learn advanced knowledge that his family could not learn. Anyway, his family provided tuition and various expenses, so he could continue studying like this until graduation.
He planned to stay alive until he became a formal wizard, and then serve the empire for a period of time. He had even thought about what to do after graduation.
Either stay in school and become a teacher, or become a civilian and stay in various places, developing slowly until you have enough strength to protect yourself in this world.
However, one day one year after entering school, Lin Xiao, who was reading in the library, suddenly received a piece of news that was like a bolt from the blue. The family he was born into was exterminated by a foreign tribe that came south to plunder, and all the civilians in the entire castle and the nearby family fiefdoms were killed.
He immediately asked for leave and went home. What he saw was a ruined castle and a family fiefdom where countless death grievances were imprisoned by witchcraft to form a deadly place. Even in broad daylight, countless ghosts roamed around under the cover of death.
Lin Xiao stayed in the castle ruins for several days, anger, sadness, and hatred filling his heart.
God also has feelings. After all, his mother gave birth to him and raised him for so many years. When he heard the news of her death, he was extremely angry. He had silently made a decision in his heart that he must avenge her.
After the worship, he returned to the school and continued his studies.
If he wanted to take revenge, he had to be very powerful. He had to be at least a level 2 formal wizard to be qualified, or level 3 or above to be safe. Now he was not even a level 1 formal wizard.
But now that his family has no support for tuition and living expenses, as well as the most critical cost of learning various materials, he has to set aside some time to earn money, and he has to earn a lot.
He didn't feel anything before because of the family's support, but now that the family's support has stopped, he knows how expensive it is to study in a wizard academy.
There are two kinds of currency in this world. One is the gold coin, silver coin and copper coin commonly used by mortals. They are all based on a hundred-base system. One hundred copper coins can be exchanged for one silver, and one hundred silver coins can be exchanged for one gold.
However, wizards use magic stones and magic coins. Magic stones are the essence extracted from magic stone mines. They can be used directly to restore mana and are very valuable.
Magic coins are mostly made from magic stone ore scraps mixed with rare metals. Generally, one thousand gold coins can be exchanged for one magic coin, and ten magic coins can be exchanged for one magic stone.
Most of the time, magic coins are used for studying in the academy. Occasionally, gold coins can be used to purchase some daily necessities. If you want to purchase spell models, advanced knowledge, or some advanced potions, you usually use magic stones directly.
Lin Xiao sat on his bed in the dormitory and counted his belongings. He now had twelve magic stones, twenty-one magic coins, and more than a hundred gold coins, which were left over from before.
To be honest, the purchasing power of twelve magic stones and twenty-one magic coins is quite high, but it will definitely not last long, especially now that he needs to be promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice and needs to buy a bottle of awakening potion to stimulate his mental strength, which will directly cost most of the magic stones.
After being promoted, you will need to learn various new spells and advanced knowledge, and this amount of magic stones will definitely not be enough.
"I have to start making money once I get promoted!"
Lin Xiao put the magic stone into a small bag and tied it up, then went out to the school's trading area. Occasionally, apprentices passed by on the road, and most of them looked at him with strange eyes, either sympathetic or gloating.
Most of the students studying in the Morning Star Tower were born in wizarding families of all sizes in the border provinces of the empire. How could they not know the news of the demise of the Leng family? In their eyes, Lin Xiao had lost the support of his family and his future was worrying.
After all, Lin Xiao's performance in the past year has been quite good, and he is what people call a genius.
But geniuses also need resources. Now that they have lost their family's supply, many people want to see the genius' fall.
The school has a place dedicated to selling various potions, including potions developed by the academy teachers and those made by some third-level wizard apprentices who specialize in alchemy.
The potions made by teachers are of high quality and stable, while those made by apprentices are cheap. The one you choose depends on how fat your wallet is.
Lin Xiao came to a shop he often visited. It was opened by an alchemy instructor of the school. Guarding the shop was a beautiful blonde female apprentice whose slender figure could not be concealed even by a black robe. She was a third-level wizard apprentice and an apprentice of the instructor who opened the shop.
In the school, one must be promoted to the third-level wizard apprentice before being accepted as an apprentice by the mentor. Before becoming a third-level wizard apprentice, one can only take public classes or pay for private lessons, and cannot formally become a disciple of the mentor.
However, having said that, there are many apprentices who are too outstanding and are noticed by their mentors very early on. Although they cannot be formally accepted as apprentices, their treatment is no different from that of disciples.
Lin Xiao's qualifications were above average among all the apprentices in the academy, and with his decent family background, he had been noticed by a mentor early on, and was often called in to sit in on classes when the mentor was giving them to his disciples.
However, he no longer received this treatment after returning this time. Several times he knew that his tutor had classes but did not call him like before.
Just like cultivating immortals requires money, friends, skills and land, wizards also pay attention to these things. One's aptitude determines whether one can embark on this path. The specific upper limit of growth depends on other factors, among which money accounts for an extremely important proportion.
After all, even a pig placed in a paradise for a long time can become a fairy pig.
The blonde female apprentice showed a trace of pity when she saw Lin Xiao coming in, and said:
"I heard about your family. I'm so sorry!"
"Thanks!"
Lin Xiao keenly noticed a hint of alienation in her eyes. He used to come often and she was quite enthusiastic.
But he didn't take it seriously, and just pointed to one of the cabinets in the store and said,
"I need a bottle of awakening potion!"
The blonde female apprentice looked at him in surprise and asked with a little surprise:
"You are going to be promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice?"
"Yes."
There was even more pity in her eyes, and she said:
"There are three types of stable awakening potions, namely graphite potion, morning potion and ghost potion. Which one do you want?"
"Morning potion."
The blonde apprentice took out a small jade bottle with a note on it and placed it on the table. A chill slowly spread across the tabletop. She said,
"In fact, the best awakening potion is the graphite potion. It is 17% more effective than the morning potion. Are you sure you don't want the graphite potion?"
Lin Xiao shook his head.
"Oh well!"
The blonde female apprentice said nothing, but pushed the potion over and said,
"Eight magic stones."
Lin Xiao took out eight magic stones that were slightly larger than his big finger and handed them over, then picked up the potion and left.
He didn't dare use the graphite potion. He had seen the formula of this thing. It required an 18-year-old woman who was five months pregnant, a small amount of soul-eating insects, and a large amount of unknown materials.
The production process was even more unacceptable to him. A pregnant woman had to die suddenly in extreme fear, and then the body would be preserved. A kind of mucus called graphite would be injected into the fetus in the womb, which would eventually dissolve completely into liquid in the pregnant woman's belly. The dissolved liquid would then be extracted and mixed to produce graphite potion. One set of materials could be used to make five bottles of graphite potion at one time.
Although graphite potion has the best effect, he can't help feeling nauseous when he thinks of its formula and production process, so he dares not drink it.
I returned to the dormitory, hung a Do Not Disturb sign on the door and locked it, then took out the morning potion and placed it on the table.
The materials of this potion are relatively normal. The main ingredients are just the dew accumulated on high-level potions and a liquid extracted from the feces or urine of high-level monsters, mixed with other materials. Although it is also disgusting, it is not inhumane.
He sat cross-legged on the bed to adjust his state, gradually making his spirit active. When his state reached the best, he took out the medicine, opened the cork and drank it in one gulp.
(End of this chapter)