[WP] Chapter 44: Increased power

[WP] Chapter 44: Increased power

After parting with the old priest, Shade found the three-story gray building of the rental carriage company office three streets away, according to the map. The main business here is to book carriages in advance for important trips, but some carriages can carry goods.

Shade knew that it would be best if his books were not seen by ordinary people, so he specifically asked the coachman whether he would check the goods.

"We are a professional rental carriage company. Even if you pull a corpse, no, even if you pull a whole car of corpses, as long as you don't leave any traces, it has nothing to do with us."

The middle-aged accountant who took the money from Shade emphasized with his eyelids drooping:

"We are very professional."

A carriage for carrying goods is much cheaper than a carriage for carrying people, even if it also has to carry Shade back. When Shade personally moved the books into his home at 6 St. Teresa's Square, he spent less than 8 shillings in total.

Although Room 1 on the second floor looked large in the past, after moving so many books in, he could feel that the study was not big enough. While Shade controlled the curious orange cat Mia to prevent her from touching his books, he thought that he must develop the remaining space in the house when he had time.

He did not go out again that day. The exaggerated foggy weather outside was not suitable for going out, so he honestly read the books he bought for 50 pounds at home, consuming gas and steam whose price was still unknown.

Most of the courses for the first-year ring wizard only involve knowledge, not extraordinary things, so most of them are memory-based exam subjects. As a foreigner who has undergone a complete education system, Shade is very good at this and believes that he has the confidence to finish most of the first-year courses during the exam season at the end of this year.

As for those courses that require practical operation, he has a great curiosity about power and believes in his self-learning ability, so he thinks it won't take too long to finish those courses.

Since he got the textbook, Shade is most concerned about [spells] and [thaumaturges], which are the ways to directly gain power. Although he kept the doctor's warning in mind, Shade still believes that he needs the most basic self-protection power.

As a first-year ring wizard who has just enrolled, St. Byron's Comprehensive College did not directly mention too many magic and spells in the two courses of "Basic Course for Ring Wizards-Thaumaturges" and "Basic Course for Ring Wizards-Spells," and the few magic and spells are relatively ordinary.

St. Byron's Comprehensive College provides three spells and four magics for free for first-year correspondence ring wizards.

Free [Spells] have a standard system, and no matter which college the students are from, the first spells they come into contact with are the same.

Among them, the spells recommended to be learned and used first are [Ignition], [Water Summoning], and [Moving Objects]. These are the most primitive manifestations of mysterious power since ancient times, and they have more advanced [spells] to extend.

Moreover, these three spells do not require too many materials to learn, and no materials are needed when casting. They are the most convenient spells. Shade learned and mastered them in half a night.

"Ha!"

He stared at the newspaper in his hand, and the newspaper finally emitted a wisp of burning green smoke, scaring the orange kitten who was playing with the pages on the other side of the newspaper and rushing into Shade's arms.

"Ha!"

He kept shaking the empty water cup with his right hand, and the inner wall of the water cup became wet. Shade touched the sweat on his forehead and put the water cup back on the table, but before he could check, the soft orange cat Mia in his arms curiously pounced on the cup.

"Ha!"

Looking at the water cup with eyes that were about to bleed, the cup moved back on the table automatically. The orange cat that rushed to the cup changed direction in the air, kicked the table with its little paws, and jumped back into Shade's arms again, looking frightened again.

This is a somewhat timid cat, and its ferocity towards strangers is just a means of protecting itself.

The [Magic] provided by St. Byron's Comprehensive College for first-year students is determined by the core spiritual runes of the ring wizard.

Shade's talent is quite good. Although [Time and Space] and [Silver Moon] are rare, they are not uncommon. In the basic course, Magic, the college's suggestion is to prefer the magic related to [Silver Moon]. After all, for the occult scholars who have just started, the [time and space] spiritual runes are both dangerous and complicated.

Therefore, among the four free magics provided by the college, the only magic related to [Time and Space] is [Perception of Time], which allows Shade to have the ability to know the time point at any time.

Although this magic doesn't sound very useful, it is quite troublesome to learn. As a basic magic provided by the academy, the materials needed for learning are naturally provided by the academy. Among them, the pocket watch with a century of history is easy to find, but the strange plant "Four-leaf Clock Flower," although the School of Chemistry has a nursery for planting, the picking process is very troublesome, so Shade will not be able to get it from the doctor until next month.

As for the magic related to [Silver Moon], the academy provides three items:

[Silver Moon Gift of Cindia], which gains healing ability under the light of the Silver Moon, which can heal both oneself and others. This is a magic that can only be learned and used by the holder of the [Silver Moon] spirit rune, and it can only be used at night.

From the naming method, it can be seen that this is a magic developed by the academy's ring magician, so the name is used as a prefix. If the [Silver Moon Light Art] invented by Shade is strong enough, he can name it [Shade's Silver Moon Light Art].

[Illusion of Moon Shadow] On any night, use the power of moonlight to perform some simple illusions. Any holder of a spirit rune related to the moon can learn this magic, but the illusion also has slight differences depending on the spirit rune and the user, and it is also limited to night use.

[Silver Moon Slash] pulls a silver moonlight in the air to attack the enemy, which has a very good damage effect on enemies with enlightenment and blasphemous elements. This magic can only be learned by the holder of [Silver Moon], but other holders of moon, star, and even sun concept spirit runes also have similar magic, but the effect is different.

This is the only attack magic among the three magics.

There are three moons in the night sky of this world: silver, yellow, and red. The three moons have different meanings in mysticism. The red moon is related to flesh and blood and reproduction; the yellow moon is "moonlight" and "guide," and the silver moon is synonymous with "guardian," "holiness," and "mystery.".

Therefore, the magic related to the concept of the Silver Moon is different from other moons. If Shade's spiritual rune is a higher-level concept such as [Moon], he can learn more magic.

The three magics are specially selected by the academy, which are respectively inclined towards treatment, illusion, and attack, which can be said to be very comprehensive.

The learning materials are still given with the book, which is the mercury-like liquid "Silver Moon's Moonlight" in a thumb-sized glass bottle, a piece of silver silk cloth embroidered with an unknown old sacred emblem, and a silver knife with only the blade left, and the blade is engraved with a crescent moon.

But it is not possible to learn with the materials. Shade also needs to prepare the corresponding environment and master the corresponding spells. These cannot be solved in one day, so as of that night, he only learned [Silver Moon Slash].

The learning requirements of [Silver Moon Slash] only require the ring wizard to be able to attach the moonlight of the Silver Moon to the broken silver knife, which is quite simple for Shade now.

He repeated this process under the moonlight at night, and each time he attached the moonlight, the knife became shorter. When he attached silver moonlight for the 13th time, the broken blade in the light completely disappeared. Shade looked at his slightly glowing hands, and he had an epiphany in his heart. He had learned this attack-type magic.

(End of this chapter)