Gain and Loss

The shadow surrounding the wall clock lost its fixed shape and flowed around the clock, changing its shape.

According to the chip's monitoring data, the radiation intensity in the entire room fluctuated violently, and an unknown force field filled the space around Raymond, making it impossible to determine what changes might occur.

After a moment's hesitation, Raymond judged that he currently lacked the ability to resist this human-shaped shadow, so he leaned down, picked up the small cage and threw it into the corridor, then returned to the room and calmly said to the shadow, "I give up."

The shadow surrounding the wall clock quickly re-condensed into a thin human-shaped shadow and moved in front of Raymond.

Its voice still trembled a little as it cursed loudly. After a long time, the human-shaped shadow said in a low voice, "Tell me everything about the Tully family!"

Raymond straightened the chair that was not completely broken, sat down and gave a detailed account of what he had seen in the Tully family library.

With the complete record in the chip, Raymond described in detail some important, happy and memorable major events of the Tully family, starting from Heilem's disappearance.

The human-shaped shadow standing in front of Raymond soon began to sob as Raymond spoke, its thin body trembling and swaying. Finally, it quietly squatted on the ground, looking up at Raymond with its flat face, and listening quietly.

More than 200 years of history, even if Raymond picked out the important events to talk about, time passed quickly unconsciously.

The human-shaped shadow squatting in front of Raymond gradually became transparent, blurred by the flickering candlelight.

The chip, which had been faithfully monitoring the entire room, recorded the changes in the entire room. The unknown force field that had been lingering in the room gradually disappeared as the radiation intensity decreased.

By the time Raymond talked about the modern Tully family, the human-shaped shadow squatting in front of him had almost completely disappeared. Raymond could see the whole wall behind it through its body.

Raymond hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Master Heilem, will there be any problems if you continue to listen?"

The human-shaped shadow, immersed in Raymond's narrative, woke up with the sound. Its thin paper-like head turned around. The wall clock showed that it was now four thirty in the morning.

With a startled cry, the tone changed abruptly into a crisp female voice.

The human-shaped shadow that suddenly collapsed on the ground crawled up the wall very slowly. It took a long time for it to disappear completely behind the clock. But before it disappeared, a transparent light ball the size of a fist suddenly appeared on the clock.

The light ball that appeared suddenly emitted a soft glow and gradually floated to Raymond's chest. At the same time, a sigh came from behind the clock: "Some of my feelings are in it. It should be useful to you. Come again in a month..."

The round sphere floating on Raymond's chest slowly fell down as the tired female voice disappeared. Raymond hurriedly caught the sphere with his long robe and silently commanded the chip to start checking.

"Task established, analysis started..."

"Weak energy force field, insufficient data..."

"Constant radiation emission, no threat to the entity..."

"Stable structure, anti-scan protection unavailable, unable to perform internal analysis..."

Raymond, with red dots flashing in his eyes, looked calm. According to the chip's detection, this fist-sized light ball was protected by an unknown force field and could not be detected by the chip.

It seemed to be made of gas, with a very stable structure, only a weak radiation, without containing too much explosive power, and no danger.

Raymond stood up with his hands clutching his long robe, hesitating.

This thing should have been given to him by the human-shaped shadow. According to what it said, it contained some of its feelings. Everything that happened today showed that the human-shaped shadow was Heilem, the missing person of the Tully family. Back then, she had reached the peak of a third-level wizard apprentice.

After hesitating for a moment, a rustling sound came from the basement corridor.

Raymond turned to look and couldn't help laughing.

With a look of fear, the black brown bear with black bristles all over its body was sticking to the wall of the corridor and slowly moving over, walking on tiptoe. It was purely using the pads on its bear paws to move silently in the corridor.

But the fear in its eyes revealed its panic and unease.

Raymond turned his head, his eyes meeting the bear's, filled with guilt. It stretched out its bear paws and waved at Raymond, as if wanting him to come over.

Raymond shook his head and shouted at the black brown bear, "Stay there and don't let anyone disturb me!"

Raymond's instructions made the black brown bear look ashamed. It immediately turned around and sat in the corridor, blocking the way. It raised its bear paws and waved them, indicating that it understood Raymond's meaning.

Raymond slowly took the light sphere caught in his long robe in his hands. Upon contact, it felt icy cold.

The chip's voice also appeared in Raymond's ears: "Data is attempting to transmit. Allow?"

Raymond silently agreed to the data transmission. Immediately, a lot of information appeared in his mind.

About the role of the Wizard's Book, the classification of wizard apprentices, understanding the active substances in the air, explaining the magic spells of wizards...

A large amount of complex information was instilled into his mind. Standing in the room, Raymond was immersed in this information.

It seemed as if a big door had opened in front of him, giving him a slightly clearer impression of "wizards".

It turned out that the book called "Wizard's Book" by the human-shaped shadow that he faced every day was what every wizard apprentice needed to master. When memorizing the symbols in it, it would activate the active substances in the air and accelerate the body's absorption of these active substances through meditation.

The most obvious distinction between wizard apprentices and official wizards was the memorization of these strange symbols.

Before becoming an official wizard, all wizard apprentices had to go through this step, memorizing the forty-five symbols in the "Wizard's Book" completely.

Memorizing ten symbols was equivalent to reaching the first level of wizard apprentice.

Memorizing twenty-one symbols was equivalent to reaching the second level of wizard apprentice.

Completely mastering all forty-five symbols was equivalent to reaching the peak of the third level wizard apprentice, with the potential to impact the official wizards.

Only by becoming an official wizard could one truly break free from the bottom level and have infinite possibilities...