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But under the current circumstances, I must meet my mentor first.
So, on the way to Ceres' alchemy room, Richard thought of two sets of excuses.
The first set of rhetoric was said by Celes when his aura concealment was effective and he believed that he was a level 2 wizard apprentice. The other set of rhetoric was prepared when his aura concealment was discovered and Celes recognized that he was a level 3 wizard apprentice at the peak of his level.
When Richard walked into Celes's two-story building, he deliberately stopped for a while in several alchemy rooms on the first floor that were available for rent, but unfortunately, he did not see any familiar figures.
After going up to the second floor, Richard waited at the door of Celes's private alchemy room as usual.
But as soon as Richard stood still, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside the door. It was the voice of his mentor Ceres.
"Richard?" This time, Celes didn't call Richard in, but opened the door and walked out.
The surprise and excitement in his mentor's words allowed Richard to clearly feel the other person's joy.
Suddenly, a warm current surged into Richard's heart!
"Teacher, I'm sorry to have worried you!" Richard looked at Celes and bowed 90 degrees for a long time.
Celes helped Richard up and looked him over. "Hey! Your mental strength seems to have reached the peak of a second-level apprentice?"
Richard was stunned, pretending to be embarrassed, and touched his head, "Yes, mentor, in the past six months, I have gained some insights into Rodrigo's meditation method, so my mental strength has improved faster!"
Richard felt a little relieved in his heart. It seemed that Rodrigo's meditation method had a very powerful effect in concealing his breath. Even a formal wizard like his mentor could not tell his true strength.
If it weren't for the special effect of Breath Concealment, once the mental power of this third-level wizard apprentice at the peak level was exposed, even if Teacher Ceres could accept his words, it would be very troublesome to pass the school.
Although you won't be taken away for slice-up, the school's hearings and various tests will follow, which will be extremely troublesome!
"Come in and sit down and talk." After a brief excitement, Celes quickly regained his composure.
This is the quality of a proper wizard, being able to quickly stay calm at all times.
The two entered the alchemy room and sat down. Richard briefly told his mentor what had happened to him, ignoring the teleportation array, Fingart, and the blind fishman tribe.
He just said that he was knocked into an underground river by the ancient dark fishman and fainted immediately. Before he knew it, he was drifting with the flow and came to an unfamiliar area.
When he woke up again, he found that there were many monsters in this area. After experiencing many battles, he luckily found an underground river and returned to the surface.
Richard also gave examples of battles with various monsters from time to time, such as brain-eating monsters, demonic horned frogs, etc., but he did not mention powerful monsters such as mutant crab monsters and troll mantises that even third-level wizard apprentices found difficult to deal with.
Because the strength Richard displayed at this time was at the top level of a second-level wizard apprentice, and a monster that matched it was the most suitable, otherwise it might backfire.
This situation where a large amount of truth is mixed with lies is the most difficult to distinguish.
It's not that Richard wanted to hide something deliberately, but he felt that if he said some things, it might involve his inspiration panel, otherwise he would be unable to explain it at all.
The inspiration panel was his biggest secret, so he just regarded it as a white lie!
Listening to Richard's battles with various monsters, Celes nodded repeatedly, and was quite appreciative of Richard's various combat responses, and did not doubt it immediately.
Because in his early years, when Ceres himself had just become a formal wizard, he had also traveled to the Underdark and encountered one or two of the monsters that Richard had mentioned.
Moreover, he also knew that there were many mezzanines and gaps between the surface and the underworld. It was rare for a wizard apprentice to survive after being washed into a mezzanine along an underground river, but it was not impossible.
As far as he knew, there were no less than seven or eight recorded cases of this happening in the Ignis School alone. Of course, the most recent one was several decades ago.
Therefore, in Celes's opinion, Richard's luck was really good. He was able to survive under such circumstances. Moreover, the most important thing was that Richard's strength had actually increased significantly.
While Richard was talking about what he had seen, he took out more than a dozen kinds of unique herbs from the Underdark from his package. To be precise, some of them can also be found on the surface, but they are only produced in some extremely special places with very small yields, so they are extremely precious on the surface.
"Is this golden fern fruit? Is this... Rosemary? This is..." Ceres, who was obsessed with alchemy, was overjoyed. He immediately stood up and carefully identified the herbs that Richard took out.
Looking at his mentor's delighted face, Richard couldn't help but smile.
Although Celes is a master of pharmacy, there are still several rare herbs from the Underdark that even Celes cannot name at once.
"Teacher, these herbs are prepared for you." Richard said with a smile.
The surprise on Celes's face was beyond words, but after taking a deep look at Richard, he shook his head and said, "Although I like it very much, I cannot violate the wizard's principle of equal exchange. Tell me, Richard, what do you want?"
Celes's meticulous attitude made Richard feel a bit overwhelmed.
"Teacher, don't be so strict. I am just expressing my gratitude to you. I really don't want to make a deal with you." Richard said with a wry smile.
"Oh~ Is there really nothing you want to ask me?" Celes smiled slightly.
"Haha, I do have a few questions I want to ask you, but I can pay you for the consultation. It has nothing to do with these herbs." Richard said rather embarrassedly.
"Go on."
"Well, I just want to ask you about the origin of Rodrigo's meditation method. It would be great if you could tell me the details about the exploration of the ruins."
"Oh, it seems that you have already started preparing for your promotion to a formal wizard?" Celes looked at Richard with a smile.
"Hehe, it's never a bad thing to get ready early." Richard said, scratching his head.
"Although you are my disciple, we have all promised not to reveal any information about the ruins. Therefore, I can only give you the relevant information about Rodrigo that I found myself, and the price will be offset by the price of your herbs."
After hearing this, Richard's face changed, and he was obviously a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, he nodded in agreement. It's better to have something than nothing. "Okay, mentor."
"In fact, even if I can tell you the information about the ruins, it will be of no use to you. Moreover, you will have to pay a large amount of magic stones because the ruins can no longer be opened. At least, no wizard below the second level can force it open. Therefore, it is a good thing that you don't know."
After hearing Celes's cryptic words, Richard immediately understood what was going on.
What the mentor meant was that the entrance to the ruins must have been destroyed for some reason, and other possible ways of entering should no longer be accessible.
If you want to get in, the only way left is brute force, which requires the strength of at least a level 2 wizard.
Obviously, Richard does not have this ability at this stage.
"Richard, don't have too high expectations for the follow-up content of Rodrigo's meditation method. Even with the information I gave you, it will be very difficult for you to find some useful clues."
Richard nodded. It was true. Ancient wizards would often leave behind many puzzle-solving texts or patterns. If you could not comprehend or detect the key, even if you were given the specific location of the ruins, you still would not be able to enter.
What's more, Rodrigo lived too long ago, and many of the contents left by him were lost. It would be even more difficult to find any clues from the missing information.
"But, Richard, do you know why advanced meditation methods are so scarce?" Celes said as he handed Richard a thumb-sized recording crystal.
What was recorded in it was some information about Rodrigo that Celes had collected.
Richard took it respectfully, shook his head and said, "I hope the instructor can give me some advice."
"This starts with the official wizards. As you know, the power of official wizards has far exceeded the limits of ordinary people and even knights. Even a hundred official knights can hardly fight against a first-level wizard.
But to become a formal wizard, the resources required are enormous, and after becoming a wizard, the resources required are even more massive."
As Celes told the secret in a rhythmic voice, Richard's eyes seemed to light up, and he thought to himself, "It turns out that it is the lack of resources that has caused the upper echelons of the wizard world to control the promotion of formal wizards so tightly."
"So, even I cannot reveal to you the knowledge I gained from the Ignis School regarding the promotion to a formal wizard, but I can give you some hints. There are also huge differences in the promotion to a formal wizard.
The first type is that ordinary third-level wizard apprentices rely on the water of breaking limits to barely break into the first-level wizard. Of course, this is the bottom among the first-level wizards, but it is also the most numerous type.
The innate witchcraft he possessed was mostly level 0 witchcraft that he mastered during his apprenticeship period. Its power was far less than that of level 1 witchcraft, so his combat power was ranked at the bottom. And most importantly, his future was blocked and he could not cultivate to the level 2 wizard.
At this point, it is too late to practice advanced meditation methods, because advanced meditation methods require laying the first level foundation during the apprenticeship period!
The second type is much better than the first one. It refers to those who successfully advance to the first-level wizard by accidentally obtaining a certain first-level witchcraft plus the water to break the limit.
Although the innate witchcraft he mastered was also first-level witchcraft, most of the first-level witchcraft he obtained did not match the meditation method he practiced, which also led to the severance of his path forward.
This kind of promotion is most common among ordinary wizard families, and they are ranked in the middle in terms of combat power.
However, among some of the first-level wizards who were promoted in the second case, there are some very strong first-level wizards, and this needs extra attention. "
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