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WIZ Chapter 40: Moonlight Elixir

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 apprentices either live in Diagon Alley or have their own arrangements made by their wizard mentors. Only a small number choose to live outside on their own."

"After becoming a second-class wizard app...

WIZ Chapter 39: Benefits of a Second-Class Wizard Apprentice

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 three foundational public courses, Basic Mana Studies. Additionally, he was a dark elf, a rare sight within the academy.

Sasari raised an eyebrow as he examined the application Locke handed him. "I...

WIZ Chapter 38: Growth Gel

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 from oak leaf tips and fluorescent moss in a 3,7 ratio.

This was the most basic entry-level potion, so simple it could hardly even be called a potion.

Thus, it was only referred to as Gro...

WIZ Chapter 37: Magical Flames

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 thrashed violently, trying to break free, but in the next moment, the invisible Mandrake Vine coiled around its throat, squeezing its neck until it could neither move nor speak.

A normal dryad's combat...

WIZ Chapter 36: Formal Wizard Wesley Durant

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. "My learning speed falls between that of a Level 5 and Level 6 aptitude prospect."

"But if I can find more synthesis formulas and solve the issue of magic stone scarcity, I believe I can furthe...

WIZ Chapter 35: Anglon Potion

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 courses and Witch Sophia's classes. He simply hadn't had the energy to spare for anything else.

Moreover, for a third-class wizard apprentice, selling specially synthesized plants, seeds, or ge...

WIZ Chapter 34: One Year and Second-Class Wizard Apprentice

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 together with the frog remains.

After mixing in castor beans and grinding them into the concoction, Locke poured the liquid into a glass vessel inscribed with twenty-one Ogham runes.

Sitting...

WIZ Chapter 33: Public Classes

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 behind him like a screen.

As a formal wizard specializing in the ice magic sub-branch of the evocation school, Urien Rich was explaining basic rune principles.

"Runes and language form a m...

WIZ Chapter 32: Level 5 Mandrake Vine

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 local wizard apprentices.

At the entrance of Dwarf Street stood a massive statue of a three-legged black iron furnace, its interior filled with burning charcoal.

Living here was indeed much mo...

WIZ Chapter 31: The Dryad

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 feed the potion ingredients in the magical creature cultivation room."

"Now that you're here, you'll be responsible for it from now on."

"There’s an instruction manual in the room. Just ...

WIZ Chapter 30: New Student Loan Contract

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 ship had even glimpsed the hem of a formal wizard’s robe yet.

Still, those two hours weren’t wasted.

Though he couldn’t understand a single diagram in the scrolls Sophia was working...

WIZ Chapter 29: The First Student

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 least another decade, so there are no spare dormitories prepared for you here."

Locke replied, "Mentor Sophia, I can find lodging in the port city."

Sophia nodded. "There's no need to be s...

WIZ Chapter 28: Witch Sophia

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 Quadrant Luminescence Society Mentor. Lilith’s Cottage Healing Wizard Mentor. Inventor of the Deathlight Curse, Mr. Hamrick Us."

Meanwhile, Locke’s letter bore a far simpler inscription:

"Li...

WIZ Chapter 27: Lilith’s Cottage

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, Yuri fixed her gaze on Locke, Lorne, and the other five students. "You seven will come with me."

"The wizard ship will arrive at Lilith's Cottage territory in ten days. Be assembled on deck at no...

WIZ Chapter 26: Exchange and Dispute

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 year."

"Are you two Locke from Corfu Island and Lorne from Schleswig Continent?"

Lorne responded immediately, "Yes, I am Lorne, and this is Locke Augustine."

The admissions teacher ...

WIZ Chapter 25: Rose Red Jade

“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 for all, but each wizard’s soul and mana were unique, requiring slight rune adjustments to better align the spell with oneself.

This demanded a wizard apprentice’s understanding and profici...

WIZ Chapter 24: Formal Wizard

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 in the southeast quadrant.”

“We also specialize in the curse and head-dropping branches of necromancy.”

“Join us, and you can do whatever you want: kill, burn, anything. The cult o...

WIZ Chapter 23: The Bone Cult

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, rather than ancient languages.

As Locke turned, a zombie with cyan skin and hollow white eyes lunged, slamming into his chest. The force sent him sliding across the deck, nearly into the sea.

...

WIZ Chapter 22: Black Wizards Attack

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 cast Vine Hand five times, so an additional 30 points meant he could cast it fifteen more times.

In battle, this was a significant boost.

While other wizard apprentices of the same level had...

WIZ Chapter 21: Level 5 Indigo Jade

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 level.

The woman, seemingly named Angela, had mana slightly weaker than Locke’s, but she had indeed reached the stage of a third-class wizard apprentice.

From Angela’s words, Locke le...

WIZ Chapter 20: Aptitude

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 decent on Corfu Island but ordinary on this southeast quadrant wizard ship.

The ship likely carried prospects with Level 4, 5, or even 6 and 7 aptitudes.

One of the three ship wizards, hold...

WIZ Chapter 19: Three Months and the Arrival of the Wizard Ship

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.

Practicing Skull Explosion didn’t require killing a human; slaughtering livestock and using the resulting deathly aura sufficed.

Though rushed learning left it unsteady, he could refin...