Super Righteous Player
Chapter 549 - 90 The Wizard’s Code_1

Chapter 549: Chapter 90 The Wizard’s Code_1

"Finished looking?"

Only after Thirteen Fragrance’s gaze left the void did Longjing Tea, standing by with arms crossed, begin to speak:

"What profession did you choose?"

"...Choose?"

Thirteen Fragrance looked at Longjing Tea with some surprise. After a pause, he countered, "Did you guys choose your professions?"

"Did you get yours randomly?"

"No, I did a psychological test. Just like with Pokémon Rescue Team, I answered four questions."

Thirteen Fragrance explained in detail, "After answering the last question, it locked in and gave me two professions that looked like they were from the spellcaster type. I chose one of them... and then I was given the profession of a Wizard apprentice."

"Wizard apprentice is great!"

A kid nearby exclaimed enthusiastically, "If you have a transformative tendency, you could even be sent to the Black Tower to do a task for Kaiserser."

He asked curiously, "Which school of magic do you belong to?"

Longjing Tea waved a hand, "How could he possibly know if you ask him like that... Let’s put it this way, what’s the first spell you got?"

Could it be that the skills are different too?

Wang Shouyi paused in thought.

He glanced at his skill panel again before replying, "It’s a level five Wizard apprentice. The skill is a level one ’Instant Spell,’ and the spell in the parentheses is ’Mind Capture’."

"It’s from the Soul Snatching School,"

Longjing Tea concluded.

He also corrected, "Besides, the spell is called Mind Capture. The meaning of that earlier Instant Spell is that it’s cast instantly... In this game, spells are basically classified by their chanting time. Instant Spells, Guided Spells, Chanting Spells, Ritual Spells.

"The first is a spell that can be activated by a simple action like clapping or pointing... The second is the type that can be turned on and off at will, continuously consuming mana. The third needs a cast bar, and the fourth is the kind that can only be used out of combat.

"I’ve written a beginner’s guide to the Wizard profession on the forum. You can first take a look at the forum... In a bit, I’ll start another post, and you can put the questions you still remember and the answers you chose in the reply. I’ll compile the psychological test questions to see if we can exhaust all possibilities and find the underlying pattern."

Longjing Tea narrated methodically.

He then began to teach Thirteen Fragrance step by step how to use the Frostwater Harbor forum.

Threads like newcomer guidance, introduction to the world view, and player’s code of conduct, which are a must-read, naturally had to be looked through right away. Any questions could also be answered immediately.

There were also posts by Delicious Feng Goose about the proper use of important rituals, as well as several subway route maps uploaded by Lin Yiyi.

Then there was the beginner’s guide to the Wizard profession, written by Longjing Tea— which contained knowledge about spells, mana pools, and the effects of erosion, how to use spells precisely with intent, and how to obtain usable spells.

Originally, such knowledge was supposed to be "paid for," meaning only when players in the "Hidden Eye" faction reached a certain level, they had the privilege to spend some reputation points to look it up. Moreover, after looking it up, it would also increase the reputation of the uploader—that is, Longjing Tea’s faction.

But considering that by the time players’ reputation levels were high enough to purchase this knowledge, they would mostly no longer need it... Longjing Tea didn’t charge extra, instead providing this knowledge free of charge to all players.

——This can be considered an early investment.

After all, there’s a higher number of players in this batch.

Unlike the beginning... at first, only Longjing Tea was suitable for the Wizard profession. He was also lucky to be brought by the native wizard to learn at the Wizard’s Tower.

Although wizards are not particularly rare now.

But among the current players, the only one formally trained as a proper Wizard is still just Longjing Tea.

Now, without entering the Wizard’s Tower, players simply can’t get their hands on these materials— and it’s easy for them to go astray.

For instance, except for the destructive wizards, all other Wizard professions must try their best to control their erosion level from getting too high. Otherwise, it would directly reduce their available mana.

In cases where the erosion degree is too high and the perception attribute too low, the proportion of order mana to twisted mana can easily reverse—this leads to a state of "out of control".

Even if mana is not yet exhausted, using order spells at this time would result in as high as a 50% failure rate, as well as a random effect variation ranging from -50% to 200%.

—This also means that players can occasionally choose to enter a state of uncontrolled chaos for a high-stakes gamble.

However, destruction wizards are different.

To follow the path of a destruction wizard, one needs to greatly increase the erosion degree—it’s best to achieve over 40% erosion degree before reaching the bronze rank.

Because only then can one obtain twisted spells upon advancing.

The effect of twisted spells is that they increase the erosion degree and have side effects when used, but they inflict exceptionally high damage. Generally, twisted spells are only available at the silver rank or above... but the destruction school is an exception.

That’s because the destruction school encompasses the best among hundreds, mastering spells with "the most powerful destructive force" from various schools. Hence, in the spell list for the destruction school, over half are twisted spells... and to learn in the wizard tower of the destruction school, one must possess spells with immense destructive power.

An ordinary order destruction spell, such as "Metal Detonation," can instantly shatter metal touched or within eighty meters into numerous fragments. If used for slaughter, it could take down most infantry within a twenty-meter radius in an instant.

Yet, if used to attack obsidian, it probably would only scrape the surface.

However, a bronze-tier twisted spell could use "Lightburst" or "High Heat Gaze".

With only a small increase in the erosion degree, the former can make one burst forth with an intense light instantaneously. This light is so piercing that it can penetrate eyelids, causing enemies within tens of meters to go blind instantly, leaving them at least blind for three hours and possibly permanently losing vision or going completely blind.

The cost is rendering one’s skin scorching to the touch and extremely fragile for eight days, with intense pain at the slightest contact.

The latter involves sacrificing eleven days of vision and a third of permanent vision to unleash eleven seconds of laser gaze from one’s eyes—focusing the beam will appear after just one second of gaze.

This searing gaze can easily cut through thinner metals, and merely sweeping it across a person would cause burns—in over three seconds, the beam could melt metal. The light that forms instantaneously can make mortals combust. With temperatures near 2000 degrees at the end of the beam, it can even melt metal and stone.

Although once the pupils move or the eyes close, the beam would vanish, one could change the landing point of the beam by moving their head, creating a burning track.

Such power could injure transcendents of the silver rank with just a slight touch. If the target does not dodge... maintaining an output for eleven seconds would be enough to kill even the hardy warriors of the gold rank transcendents.

—Unless they use a noble decoy to resist damage.

This is the twisted spell of the destruction school.

Take, for example, "Lava Ban Tower"—a wizard’s tower situated in the United Kingdom, within a volcano crater, is currently the main source of spells from the destruction school.

Unlike other wizard towers, they hold exams for entry and only accept formal wizards above the bronze rank, without additional training for wizard apprentices.

The content of the exam is to attack a specially made piece of obsidian, engraved with ritual markings with spells. Only when the obsidian is melted, broken, split—in short, when the rituals on it are nullified—will they permit entry.

Because the core philosophy of destruction wizards is different from other schools. They believe in "forming deterrence through violence" to gain influence and earn a voice.

But the power of destruction spells is just too strong, hard to control, and comes at a high cost. Thus, destruction wizards are the least fond of using spells... they usually utilize traps, guns, or explosives modified with spells.

—Their belief is to avoid using spells if possible. When a destruction wizard mediates in front of others, their words carry extra weight.

Therefore, if a wizard hails from the destruction school but lacks sufficient "spell deterrence," their activity among humans would diminish the deterrence of all destruction wizards.

When people forget the deterrence of destruction wizards, to re-establish their presence and deterrence, they must cause massive destruction and kill a vast number of people again.

In other words... if you come from the destruction school, having a low erosion degree when becoming a formal wizard equates to a ruined career.

Because without a wizard tower, one cannot learn powerful spells. And you end up as a rogue wizard.

Similarly—the Soul Snatching School forbids romance before graduation, the Idol School prohibits having faith, and the Disabling School strives to keep their emotions calm. These are precepts that must be adhered to during the apprenticeship phase.

This knowledge is extremely important.

Whether or not they adhere to them is their own business.

But whether or not to inform them... Longjing Tea feels that this is his responsibility.

He joined the game earlier than them. Therefore, it is his duty.

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