Chapter 168 Followers? (Please Subscribe)

According to the promotion requirements for intermediate wizards, the only thing Wei En has not achieved now is the number of spell runes imprinted on the original daughter body.

Does each origin child have to have five spell runes?

Wei En looked at the ghost master and other sub-bodies, and counted the number of rune marks between their eyebrows.

Among them, the ghost's eyebrows have the most rune imprints, including Devouring Soul, Summoning the Undead, Rage of the Undead, Corpse Explosion, Shadow Coil, Transformation of the Undead, Bone Wall and Claws of the Undead, for a total of eight spell runes.

As a sub-body of the elemental spell system, the Mystic Master has six runes in addition to the soul-devouring runes, including elemental heart, flicker, fireball, lightning bolt, and spiritual shield.

Although the driver is Wei En's second original sub-body, because he chose the mechanical puppet system, there are not many runes imprinted on him. There are only three runes: the mechanical box, the cornerstone, and the puppet manipulation technique.

The one with the fewest rune imprints is Red Heart, which is the flesh-strengthening spell system of the Blood Spirit School. So far, it has only imprinted one Heart of Flesh rune.

However, the Heart of Flesh spell was the spell that improved Wei En the most and satisfied him the most.

Its powerful toughness level increasing effect has made him resist the urge to upgrade it until the basic attributes are higher, so that he can maximize the toughness level increase.

"That is to say, all that is needed now is the mechanical puppet and the rune imprint of the flesh and blood strengthening system to advance to the intermediate level of wizard..."

After Wei En understood this, he lowered his head and continued to read the "Junior Wizard's Codex".

"Note: For wizards in the secret magic system, the soul-eating rune brand of each original child body can also be regarded as one of them."

This means that in addition to the soul-devouring spell runes, each original child body also needs four rune brands.

Wei En curled his lips, he didn't have enough time to learn the one or two spell runes.

"According to statistics from the fifth era of the Ghost School, the average time it takes to advance from a junior wizard to an intermediate wizard is one year and three months (excluding the occult spell system)."

"However, unlike the apprenticeship period, the wizard stage not only requires mastering the drawing and imprinting of runes one by one, but also requires certain changes and innovations in the learned spell runes."

Change and innovation?

must?

Wei En frowned slightly, is this a mandatory requirement?

The rest of the content was easy to understand, but this one confused him very much.

When there is already a spell system recorded, why does the school force all wizards to innovate the original runes?

In that case, wouldn't it waste more time?

It seems that there must be some reason for this...

Wei En continued to read, keeping this doubt in his mind for the time being, and he might take the initiative to contact Dean Josue in the future.

"According to the relevant regulations of the school wizard management office, within one year of being promoted to a junior wizard, you need to submit at least one research note on the spell runes of the selected system. There is no limit on spells."

"Note that wizards who fail to submit research manuscripts on time will be marked by the Wizard Management Office and given corresponding punishment measures, including but not limited to increasing the exchange price of relevant knowledge, reducing the contents of the exchange list, etc."

"Finally, I emphasize again that wizards in the necromancy system must learn the transformation of the undead and transform at least one undead creature every year and send it to the world of the undead. The transformation of undead creatures is also included in the required courses for wizards in this system."

Wei En read through all the contents and had a clearer understanding of what the junior wizard had to do.

At the same time, he also realized another problem - that is, whether he joined the research center or not, he had to submit a research note on spells every year.

However, compared with the research center's fixed topic directions, the content in this handbook does not require rigorousness or ease of promotion, leaving a lot of room for manipulation.

Wayne put down the note, picked up a quill and started writing on the blank parchment.

Spell rune imprinting is not difficult for him, and even the related research notes are not a troublesome matter.

After all, when he learned that it would take a year to travel to the Southern Continent, he roughly planned several things to be accomplished during the voyage.

This includes upgrading runes from proficient to proficient level, preferably to expert level, to obtain expertise related to runes.

However, there were still some things he was confused about regarding the contents of this handbook.

For example, the requirement to compulsorily innovate spell runes - does it satisfy the change requirements if the errors and omissions in the spell runes are supplemented? Is integrating the original runes of Death considered an innovation?

These all need to be answered after he asks someone...

Looking for someone to ask?

Wei En frowned. If he wanted to know more about the inside of the Ghost School, it would be best to ask Dean Josue.

But he has not yet decided whether to accept the research center's invitation to establish a separate research institute. At this time, approaching him will make him passive.

And he didn't know many wizards from the Ghost School, to be precise, very few.

The only one left to choose is the Director of Intelligence, the werewolf wizard Armitage...

"Internal number 2348..."

It just so happened that he also needed to know information about the Black Pearl and the Sea Crow Clan, and he didn't know if the werewolf director could provide it.

Just do what you think of, and Wei En directly activates the special liaison device.

This was the first time he actively used it - as he pressed the gem button to activate the contact, the nodes inside the trophy flickered faintly, and a black illusory light curtain appeared in front of him.

"Please tell me your internal number." A cold voice came out with a hint of malice.

Um?

Is it the effect of rune power, or is there a role like an "operator" in the middle after activation?

Wei En looked at the communicator in front of him and said thoughtfully: "337."

"Internal number 337, name: Wayne Loft, who do you want to contact?"

"I would like to contact the Director of Intelligence, Wizard Armitage Freed, internal number 2348."

"Hold on……"

After a few brief exchanges, Wei En was able to confirm that it was not the so-called operator. It should be that the rune array of this communicator had a similar rune structure.

That voice was too cold and stiff, more like it was made up of several voices.

He looked at the rune nodes on the trophy with great interest. Now he really wanted to dismantle the whole thing and study the rune array inside.

If this ability is used in other aspects, it may be of greater use.

Not long after, a clear figure slowly appeared above the trophy - a figure wearing a black wizard robe, with a head covered with thick hair, sharp teeth and cold vertical pupils.

"Good afternoon, Team Leader Wei En."

Team leader?

Wayne realized that he was addressing him as the leader of the Shadow Team, "Good afternoon, Director Armitage."

"What's the matter?" Armitage's wolf face looked a little impatient, as if he had interrupted something important.

"Sorry, Director Armitage, there are some things I want to know and I have to disturb you."

"oh?"

Seeing his reaction, Wayne thought of Armitage's resolute action last time and did not beat around the bush, "I want to know the information about the Black Pearl and the Sea Crow Clan, and about the official wizard..."

"Wait!" before he could finish, Armitage stretched out a fluffy wolf claw and interrupted: "You said it's the Sea Crow Clan? The one on the Cordo Sea, with the anchor mark between his eyebrows. That sea tribe?"

"Yes, Sea Crow Clan." Wei En's heart suddenly moved, Sea Clan?

"Have you seen them?"

"Yes, I saw a few yesterday."

Director Armitage opened his mouth slightly and looked at him suspiciously, "Where did you see them?"

"On the sea, not far from the west coast of the Eastern Continent." Wei En asked calmly: "Director Armitage, is there anything wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. I haven't heard anything about them for many years." Armitage raised his paw and scratched the short hair on his chin. "You just said you still want to know about the Black Pearl? You want to know about them in detail. What information?"

"Best of all..."

"All? Team Leader Wei En, I need to remind you that even within the ghost, if you want to obtain some special information, you have to pay a certain price."

"Huh? Didn't you say last time that I could obtain all the intelligence in the area?"

Director Armitage burst into laughter, "So you are on the Cordo Sea and you want to get all the information there for free?"

Wei En sneered, "Of course... no."

Isn't it just a little bit of information?

mean!

"Well, the information on the Black Pearl is 3,000 gold pounds, and the Sea Crow Clan is 5,000 gold pounds. Considering your status as the leader of the Shadow Action Team, all the intelligence fees will be discounted in half for you, a total of 4,000 pounds..."

"Four thousand gold pounds?!"

Fuck, is this a bit dark?

Let’s not talk about the Sea Crow clan. For a pirate as famous as the Black Pearl, there must be many people who have basic information about them. Does this cost three thousand gold pounds?

"Don't compare the information from our Ghost Intelligence Unit with the garbage outside,"

Director Armitage saw through his thoughts, grinned and revealed one side of his sharp teeth, and said sarcastically: "For example, the intelligence of the Black Pearl includes not only the intelligence of their crew, but also the abilities these people are good at, as well as other Basic information about subordinate ships.”

"As for the Sea Crow Clan...the last time they appeared, or the records I have seen, was five hundred years ago, and many people have never even heard of their names."

The implication is that information is precious, do you want love or not?

"..." Wayne glanced at the bulging wallet on the workbench, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take it, thank you, Director Armitage."

"A wise choice," Armitage looked at him with a half-smile, "but you can also choose not to pay the money."

"Um?"

"I only need you to provide a piece of information about the purpose of the appearance of those sea crows, or their exact whereabouts. I can provide you with these two pieces of information for free."

free……

Wayne looked deeply at Armitage's wolf face with a cunning expression, and cursed secretly, must this guy be a werewolf, and not a more sophisticated race pretending to be one?

Not to mention that he had made a deal with the Sea Crow Clan before, and promised not to disclose information about them to others.

The value of the information alone that they are going to be enemies with Isabello at this moment is probably far more than four thousand gold pounds.

"No need, Director Armitage, it's only four thousand gold pounds...I'll pay for it!"

Damn Black Pearl, I will make you spit out this money next time I see you.

Armitage shook his head in disappointment, "Then let's call it a deal. I'll ask Team Leader Wei En to send over the intelligence fee later."

"good……"

"Is there anything else?"

"Yes!" Wei En took a deep breath, "As you know, I have just been successfully promoted and I have a lot of questions about the wizard stage."

"Oh? Where is it?"

"For example, I saw a handbook that stated that the spells and runes learned must be modified and innovated. Are there any rules for such changes? Or should they be used at will?"

"Changes and innovations?" Armitage said lightly: "Just feel free to do it. Those runes have existed for many years. It is very difficult to make reasonable changes."

"The reason why the school requires this is just to hope that you don't always want to inherit that knowledge, use your brain, and get something for nothing. That kind of behavior is probably similar to the way you just wanted to obtain free information..."

"...So actually, it is not necessary to make changes?"

Wei En clenched his fists. Four thousand gold pounds was a huge sum of money, shouldn't it be appropriate to feel a little distressed?

"There are so many wizards in the school, and there are always some stupid ones. But I think you, Team Leader Wei En, are not included among them, right? After all, you are a genius wizard who created such powerful corpse explosion and flicker spells."

A smile flashed across Armitage's vertical pupils, "These days, the topic about you has become extremely noisy among the ghosts."

"Hmm? What's the topic?" Wei En asked knowingly.

"Since the internal restructuring of the school and the establishment of various research centers, you are the first genius wizard that a wizard claims to follow!"

Wayne slowly opened his mouth, "Follow me?"

"Hearing this news," Armitage grinned widely, "Have you ever thought about returning to the school? Of course, if some people are impressed by your ability, there will be others who are not convinced."

"If you really return to the school of thought, glory and trouble will surely surround you. When the time comes..."

"Sorry, Director, I don't plan to return to the school yet."

Before he could finish speaking, Wei En shook his head.

When he first heard that there were followers, he felt very fresh, and even felt a little secretly happy in his heart.

But when he thought that those wizards were doing it because of the effects of his spells, he felt a little unhappy...

If at that time, someone really forces him to take out those spell research notes, or give instructions, won't he reveal his secret?

At this moment, he was extremely glad that he had made the right choice not to return to the school!

"You can make your own decision, but I will give you a piece of advice regarding the research of spells."

The smile on Armitage's face disappeared, and he stretched out a paw to tap, "Aside from worrying about wizards getting something for nothing, the most fundamental reason for forcing you to change and innovate spell runes is to prevent you from being exposed to those hidden on the runes. Will influence.”

will?

Wei En's heart moved. This word was the same as what the clown said before.

"Does that really exist?"

"Yes, and there are many more than you think, especially some old monsters in the middle and late third era, and the chaotic period of the last era."

Armitage's eyes gradually turned cold. "They attach their original will to knowledge in the hope of being resurrected one day. This is just a common trick of rats in the gutter."

"Resurrection?"

"The specific method involves too profound knowledge, so I'm not good at it, but as far as I know, some wizards in the ghosts use this method to achieve resurrection -"

Is there a resurrection? !

Wei En's heart was shocked, and he suddenly thought of a record he had read before.

"Then if the original will is attached, is it possible that someone else's origin is made into runes?"

"Oh?" Armitage frowned, as if he was confused that he would ask such a question, "Where did you see it?"

Wei En clenched his fists subconsciously and said vaguely: "It's just random thoughts."

He couldn't tell the other party that this was the basic knowledge for getting started with runes, right?

The famous saying of a great wizard who was said to be in the middle of the Third Age - Give me a little time, and I will turn the gods into original runes!

"Your idea is very good."

Armitage looked at him deeply and said, "That is exactly the correct way to use the source attachment. Simply put, it is to erase its will, retain only the source power, and finally form it into a rune."

Is there really such a method?

Wei En nodded calmly, "It seems I made the right mistake by mistake..."

"It's just that no one has actually implemented this method since it was proposed. In other words, the great wizard who proposed this theory has implemented it, but failed to pass it on."

Having said this, Armitage looked at Wayne and sighed: "Maybe the wizards who want to follow you have made the right choice. With your current level and knowledge accumulation, maybe your future achievements will exceed everyone's." Imagine.”

"Director, you have given me the award."

"Okay, according to the question I just answered for you, Chenghui will give you two hundred gold pounds."

"...Are you serious?"

Wei En was shocked by these words.

Damn, you charge me two hundred gold pounds for asking a few questions? !

"Of course, in the world of wizards, everything has a price," Armitage grinned. "I look forward to meeting you next time, Captain Wayne."

After the words fell, his figure disappeared, and the communicator slowly became quiet.

The only sound left in the entire studio was Wayne's increasingly heavy and rapid breathing.

"Damn it, it charges two hundred gold pounds, why don't you go and rob it!?"

You can't grab it so quickly, right?

Wayne was deeply hurt by the operation of the intelligence chief. Two or three questions, an average of one hundred gold pounds per question?

Simply, bandits, thugs, hooligans!

With such resentment, Wei En wrote down a list of the information he wanted to exchange, as well as the damn consulting fee, and put 4,200 gold pounds directly into the blue and white box.

Humph, I’ll write these down for you first!

Aren't you interested in the information about the Sea Crow Clan?

When I see it, how do I charge it? Wait!

As the gold pound was transferred out, it didn't take long for the blue and white box to flash and light up. After a few popping sounds, Wayne opened the box and took out the contents.

There were only twenty volumes of parchment, fifteen of which were about the situation of the Black Pearl, and the other five were about the Sea Crow Clan.

Wayne looked at the parchments, "There are so many...forget it, let's wait until we have time to read them."

The most important thing now is to give priority to improving strength. You can just read this information in the next few days.

Thinking of this, Wayne took out another blank parchment, found the exchange list for the wizard stage, and checked the relevant knowledge about mechanical puppets and the flesh-and-blood enhanced spell system.

Of course, he did not forget to redeem some knowledge related to mechanical transformation for subsequent research on undead transformation.

Mechanical puppet substitution technique. Within a certain distance, the caster can exchange places with the mechanical puppet and replace the caster to resist attacks. The exchange price is 680 gold pounds.

Mechanical puppet teleportation is a spell that can teleport a mechanical puppet to a designated location, regardless of distance and obstacles to a certain extent. The exchange price is 900 gold pounds.

…

Boiling blood, after activation, increases the explosive power of the body, exchange price is 730 gold pounds.

Healing, can quickly restore physical injuries, redeem...

Wei En studied for more than two hours, and also specially exchanged an introduction about some spell rune patterns, and then selected the spell runes he needed.

Spending nearly two thousand gold pounds, a total of two mechanical puppet system spells and four flesh and blood strengthening system spells were exchanged.

"The average exchange price of a spell is five hundred gold pounds, and this is after a 20% discount..."

It has to be said that the price of exchanging knowledge in the wizard stage is more than ten times more expensive than in the apprenticeship stage.

Plus it’s all those damn intelligences to blame!

If he hadn't just looted a batch of gold-pound treasures from the Storm Hunter, as well as the proceeds from making anti-bacteria potions, I'm afraid he would have gone back to the days of eating black bread.

However, of the more than 7,000 gold pounds, there are only 330 gold pounds left...

Hey, it’s better to make more money.

Wei En looked at the time on the clock and found that it was still early before nightfall, so he opened the spell scroll he had just obtained and learned how to draw the runes on it.

[You successfully drew the mechanical avatar (god of death) rune. Special rewards: +3 survival points, +1 spiritual level. 】

【……】

[You successfully drew the Boiling Blood (Death) rune. Special rewards: +3 survival points, +1 spiritual level. 】

[You have successfully branded the mechanical avatar (god of death) rune and learned the mechanical avatar, level 1. Evaluation: Congratulations, a very practical mechanical puppet spell, mechanical, Jie Jie... really a good choice. Special rewards: +1 spiritual level, +2 survival points. 】

【……】

[Congratulations, your Mechanical Substitution (Death) spell has been upgraded to level 3. Evaluation...Special rewards...]

PS: Thank you to Mr. Bakarakamiao for the reward, thank you very much!

This is just one chapter today. I’m too sleepy. I’ll add more tomorrow.