[Ding!]
[You intercepted the small opportunity of the protagonist.]
[You have slightly changed the plot.]
[A new quest has been activated.]
[Basic Destiny Quest 1: Can You Finish What You Have Started?]
[Content Target: Find and use the opportunity you have intercepted.]
[Reward: ??]
[Note: Successfully completing a Destiny Quest will reward you with a Luck stat bonus, depending on the difficulty level of the quest.
Intercepting the opportunity and using it in any form can also grant you the Luck stat bonus.]
'Cool! Just as I thought.'
Ian almost laughed out loud but controlled himself.
If he remembered clearly, the thing he had just looted was a token of inheritance from the Ignisia Tower. Of course, it was a small opportunity given to the protagonist Carl by the Author.
When the protagonist came to the Imperial Academy, the Sixth-ring Wizard Ruther inside his ring noticed small mana fluctuations from this horse.
So, he asked Carl to check it out. That's why the horse suddenly fainted because of the mental attack.
His plan was to argue with the youngster and then offer help. During the treatment, he would secretly steal the token.
'Now, it has become my property.'
Ian thought while giving the pill he had prepared to the youngster who came behind him.
"It seemed to be affected by heat. Give it this pill, and it should be fine within a few minutes."
Anyway, the horse was just stunned by the mental attack just now. So, it would wake up automatically after a while on its own.
Otherwise, how could the son of a dignified duke carry a medication pill for horses in his pocket?
But acting had to be done realistically. Who told the protagonist to have the Sixth-ring Wizard as a backup from the start? He had to be very careful.
So, after telling him, he quickly left the area and went inside the academy.
"Thank you, young master. Thank you very much!"
However, for the youngster, Ian was the beam of light in the darkness. Finally, he didn't have to get scolded by his father when he went home.
"Master, did you find the item?"
While Ian and the youngster were talking, Carl was already near the horse.
"Strange. There is no mana fluctuation now. Maybe I made a mistake."
After scanning the horse with his mental power, Ruther didn't find anything valuable.
"Okay, it may be a mistake. How could such a barren place have something valuable?" Carl didn't take it seriously at all.
As for Ian and the youngster, he didn't take them seriously either. A wizard and a knight were as apart as the mortal and immortal.
So, how could he take such things to heart? Arguing with them would simply lower his status.
"Yeah!"
Wizard Ruther didn't care even more. He was just checking as he was quite bored.
Ian walked inside the Academy and registered his name. After that, he walked to a corner and began to check the item that he had stolen just now.
After throwing all the useless stuff outside, he finally found a token shimmering faintly with a blue color. Besides some pattern of an unknown bird, he didn't find anything noteworthy.
"Hey, System, when will I get an identification feature?"
Ian couldn't help but ask, as it was really inconvenient.
[Ding!]
[Some features will only be activated after the host increases his mental power.]
This time, surprisingly, the system replied briefly.
'So I need to become at least a Wizard apprentice as soon as possible,' he thought and took out a scroll from his ring.
This was the one-time library access permit he had asked his father to prepare. Although the Imperial Academy didn't have much allure to the top Aristocrats, they didn't have absolute power over it.
Instead, they also needed to follow the protocol when they wanted to do anything in the academy, as it had its own autonomy.
"Let's go to the library then."
He couldn't wait to grab the meditation method inside the library immediately to avoid mistakes. After all, unlike the protagonist who treated it as dispensable, for him, it was the only method to get started as a Wizard.
Ian walked along the corridor, followed the path mentioned on the map, and arrived shortly at the library. After that, he gave the scroll to the librarian and entered smoothly.
'Let's see, right side from the door, after the third window, below the fourth cabinet.'
Ian thought while following the directions mentioned in the novel. The Imperial Library was located in a large hall filled with tall cabinets full of books with only a narrow passage in between them.
So, without the fixed location, it would be hard to find some unknown book.
After he passed the third window, he quickly walked to the dusty fourth cabinet. By the looks of it, it seemed nobody had ever come to this area.
Ian didn't care about the dust, crouched down, and began to sweep all the books under the cabinet.
Since nobody had arranged this area for a long time, there were a lot of books underneath.
"I don't know how the hell Carl found it."
Ian couldn't help but complain; luck is really outrageous.
After skimming through dozens of books, throwing away others, he finally found a thin book covered with leather tightly.
"Swoosh!"
Ian used a little life energy from his seed to blow away all the dust, uncovering the real look of the book.
'Harmony, Volume I'
Except for these words, there was nothing special on the cover, so he opened the book eagerly.
'Introduction to Wizard Meditation.'
"It is really true."
Looking at the dense Arcane words and the vague pictures of human figures, Ian was ecstatic.
Although his family had no wizards, they still had a few books on the subject. He had read them over the past week in preparation for this moment, so at least he could understand the simple instructions and begin meditating.
Just as he was preparing to look further, a sudden prompt from the system distracted his attention away from the book.