Riding an Engel Swift Snail felt like speeding in a small car. As magical creatures selectively bred and modified through beast-taming magic, these snails moved incredibly fast, equipped with a 0.3-circle trick spell [Drift].
They could run tirelessly for five or six hours at high speed, ma...
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Locke examined the description of the Growth Gel in his hand—Level 6 Growth Gel.
[Enhanced Growth Gel, with effects comparable to advanced Growth Gel crafted by potion-making assistants.]
Locke thought, “No special synthesis formula appeared, but that’s fine. The enhanced effect...
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Diagon Alley, Room 341.
The academy provided second-class wizard apprentices with a small villa, complete with a dedicated servant team of three.
These servants were a special type of diminutive elf called gray dwarves.
From the Universal Studies course, Locke learned that the m...
2025-07-29 10:40:38 +0000 UTC
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Inside the magical plant cultivation room.
Locke and Sophia stood at the entrance. Only then did Locke realize the room was far larger than he had imagined, its interior space rivaling a small castle, filled with sprawling fields of magical plants.
The number of magical plants here re...
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Inside Witch Sophia’s office.
Locke said to Witch Sophia, “Teacher, I truly don’t know what a meditation technique is. Please enlighten me.”
Since entering Lilith’s Cottage, Locke had relied on learning spell models to passively increase his mana.
Moreover, information...
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The next day, in the public classroom area of Lilith’s Cottage, during the Universal Studies course.
The dark elf Sasari stood at the podium, holding a birdcage.
He lifted the black cloth covering the cage, revealing a fairy with green hair and dragonfly wings. Upon seeing the numer...
2025-07-29 10:33:54 +0000 UTC
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Half a month later.
In Locke's room on Dwarf Street.
Locke placed the Moonlight Elixir, obtained from Witch Sophia, on the table. The liquid in the glass bottle shimmered like flowing moonlight, each drop sparkling with crystalline particles.
He uncorked the bottle. The elixir h...
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The halfling second-class wizard apprentice respectfully and meticulously explained the state of affairs at Lilith's Cottage to Locke. "The academy has prepared better accommodations for second-class wizard apprentices, the Diagon Alley."
"Within the academy, most second-class wizard appren...
2025-07-29 03:26:49 +0000 UTC
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In the central area of the port city, within the main building of Lilith's Cottage's public classrooms, Locke entered the office of Sasari, the resident instructor of the Universal Studies course and a first-class wizard apprentice.
Sasari was also the resident instructor for one of the thr...
2025-07-29 03:25:45 +0000 UTC
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Five days later.
Wesley Durant glanced at the cyan magical flame in Locke's crucible. Under the vaporization of that flame, the mixed liquid inside gradually evaporated, turning into a pale green gel-like substance resembling glue.
It was a simple potion made by distilling morning dew...
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Inside the magical creature cultivation room.
Locke resisted the dryad's passive [Human Charm Spell] while using a small knife to slice its wrist and extract its blood.
"Human, my kin will tear you to pieces!"
"I'll use your heart to nurture a new dryad!"
The dryad thrashe...
2025-07-29 03:19:42 +0000 UTC
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In Witch Sophia's office, Locke placed his hands on the amethyst matrix, and soon a number appeared, [53].
Locke's eyelids twitched. Indeed, he had now reached the level of a second-class wizard apprentice.
"It took me a year to become a second-class wizard apprentice," Locke thought....
2025-07-29 03:19:09 +0000 UTC
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After instructing the dwarf servants to clean his room, Locke stepped outside. Despite a year of effort, he still hadn't escaped his magic stone poverty.
There was no helping it, his primary focus had been on increasing his mana and mastering two spells, alongside attending the three public...
2025-07-29 03:18:27 +0000 UTC
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One year later.
In the house Locke rented with Lorne on Dwarf Street, Locke donned a pair of rubber gloves in his room.
He then grabbed a poison dart frog from a glass container and crushed it completely into paste using tools.
Next, he added a blue-ringed octopus, mashing it to...
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In the central district of the port city, within the cluster of wooden buildings that served as Lilith's Cottage's public classroom area, Formal Wizard Urien Rich stood at the lectern delivering his lesson.
Dressed in silver-embroidered wizard robes, he had a floating wizard slate hovering ...
2025-07-29 03:16:31 +0000 UTC
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One week later.
In Dwarf Street, located in the port city of Lilith's Cottage, Locke and Lorne rented two houses here.
The primary reason was that the owner of Dwarf Street, the Hearthstone Dwarf Blacksmith, provided many free rentals for wizard prospects from overseas and poorer loca...
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Witch Sophia stood up and walked to the door, then suddenly seemed to remember something. She turned back and tossed Locke a set of keys.
"This is the key to my magical creature cultivation room. I originally planned to post a long-term task to hire a second-class wizard apprentice to help ...
2025-07-29 03:14:43 +0000 UTC
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Locke waited in Witch Sophia’s office for a full two hours before she finally had time to attend to him again.
But he didn’t feel slighted in the least.
After all, Sophia was a formal wizard. He doubted any of the other wizard prospects who had arrived in the southeast quadrant by...
2025-07-25 04:03:11 +0000 UTC
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Locke bowed respectfully to his mentor. "I will follow all your instructions. You are my teacher."
A trace of relief seemed to flicker across Witch Sophia's face. "Good. You are, in fact, my first true student."
"Though I had assumed the academy wouldn't assign me any students for at ...
2025-07-25 04:02:37 +0000 UTC
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After Yuri Burns led away the wizard prospects with Level 5 and 6 aptitude, the remaining group dispersed. Locke and Lorne soon realized they had been assigned to different mentors.
Lorne’s letter read:
"Evocation School, Light Magic Sub-branch. First Circle Wizard. Southeast Quadra...
2025-07-25 04:01:54 +0000 UTC
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Yuri Burns of Lilith's Cottage wore a stormy expression as she spoke into an emerald-encrusted ring on her finger. After receiving confirmation from a formal wizard of Lilith's Cottage, she turned her glare toward Gregor.
"The deal is settled."
Without waiting for Gregor's response, Y...
2025-07-25 04:01:26 +0000 UTC
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Beneath the deck of the ship, in the corridor, a young wizard clad in a gray robe embroidered with golden threads cast an indifferent glance at Locke and Lorne. Behind him trailed over a dozen wizard prospects with Level 3 aptitude.
"I am the admissions teacher for Virdantia University this...
2025-07-25 04:00:51 +0000 UTC
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“This Ogham rune can be tweaked to make my control over the Mandrake Vine more flexible.” In the wizard ship’s cabin, Locke was adjusting the four-dimensional structure of the sixteen Ogham runes forming the [Vine Hand] spell model.
The standard Vine Hand model was universal, suitable...
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Locke and Lorne exchanged a glance.
Locke asked, “Respected Witch Barbara Vayne, what magic does the Bone Cult specialize in?”
“What benefits do we get by joining?”
Barbara Vayne replied, “The Bone Cult excels in necromancy, particularly the bone branch, the strongest ...
2025-07-25 03:59:05 +0000 UTC
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Lorne Guerrero shouted to Locke, “Behind you!”
“Watch out!”
The zombie horde had scattered the wizard prospects on the ship. Most prospects spent their time studying, lacking combat experience.
Only black wizards trained prospects in practical combat from the start, rath...
2025-07-25 03:58:38 +0000 UTC
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Two days later, in his room on the wizard ship, Locke embedded two more Indigo Jades into gold rings and filled them with mana.
With the Indigo Jade synthesized the previous day, he now wore three Indigo Jade gold rings, granting an extra 30 points of mana.
Ten points of mana could ca...
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Locke heard the increasingly heated argument outside and opened his door.
In the corridor below the deck, on the negative first floor, he saw an adult woman wearing a swordsman’s outfit, carrying a two-handed greatsword on her back, arguing discontentedly with the wizard prospects on this...
2025-07-25 03:57:32 +0000 UTC
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Locke realized the wizard ship’s deck held dozens of other wizard prospects besides them.
The deck was vast, so even with dozens of people, it didn’t feel crowded.
Most had strong mental energy, many surpassing Locke’s mana.
Locke calmed himself. His Level 3 aptitude was d...
2025-07-25 03:55:53 +0000 UTC
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Three months passed in a flash.
In his dormitory at Aurelian Academy, Locke tidied everything, moved out, and stored excess belongings at the Augustine family’s manor.
During these three months, with Professor Alder’s help, Locke mastered the Skull Explosion spell on the final day...
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