Law of the Devil

Chapter 18 [A Different Path]

Outside the dungeon of the castle, Dewey met Jolyn, the first female knight she had solicited, and since coming to the castle, Jolyn had taken the initiative to guard the magician's captivity.

Jolyn did this, after all, the sorcerer was her companion, and although she was loyal to Dewey, she still had to remember some of the old days. Though this magician was attracted to his beauty in the beginning, and everyone's business was just for a few short days. Jolyn didn't dare sneak this guy off against Dewey's will, but she took care of him herself - so that she could at least take care of her old companion a little, if not a little.

At least after arriving here last night, the magician, under the care of Jolyn, had a full meal. Although he is not allowed to sleep, meditation is absolutely not possible. Jolyn's two servants, the Barbarian Bull Samurai and the Archer, took turns guarding the Magician and denied him the chance to regain his magic.

When Dewey came to the dungeon, he was a little bit out of tune with the humid, dark smell of the dungeon.

But Jolene, dressed as a knight, shined Dewey in front of me! This long-legged chick had a lovely face, but now she's probably made some costume changes, cut her hair a little short, put a ribbon on her forehead, and trimmed her eyebrows, which reduces some softness, but adds a little extra energy.

Especially after wearing a knight's costume, the whole person looked a lot more solemn - although the original skirt was not worn, the rich, beautiful legs were not revealed again. However, with an elongated sword and the lightweight knight's chest armor on the upper body, it's quite a knight's stand.

“Dear Master.” When Dewey walked into the dungeon, Ruolin greeted her immediately: “You are…”

“I came to see my prisoner.” Dewey's face was cold, he was in a bad mood, and he looked at Lauryn: “Have you been here all night? ”

If Lynn's face reveals a slight embarrassment: “Master, this guy inside is my old companion after all, I think...”

“Ask for help?” Dewey shook his head: “No big deal. I didn't mean to embarrass him. As soon as he answered a few questions properly, I let him go. ”

After that, Dewey walked over to Jolyn and left a message: "Me and him alone, all of you wait outside, don't come in. ”

This magician's room was originally the largest in the dungeon of the castle. When Dewey came in, the magician was pale and could hardly open his eyes.

The magician's spiritual strength is powerful, but after all, he fought with people in the pub on the previous trip. He also performed magic, consumed a lot of mental energy, and was caught later. He never had the opportunity to meditate and recover the spiritual power consumed. Instead, he could not sleep for two days. This moment is long overdue.

As he was locked up in the dungeon, he came over one night, and every time his eyes closed, a barrel of cold water immediately poured down. Jolyn was nice to him, but Jolyn's two men weren't nice at all.

Originally in that little adventure team, the Barbarian Bull Samurai and Archer looked at the magician very badly, because the magician was attracted to the beauty of Laurin, so he was often blinded by the Barbarian Bull Samurai and Archer. There has also been a lack of rapprochement between them.

At this moment, the magician felt he was about to collapse when he saw this little nobleman walking into the dungeon room. He didn't have any chains on him. Anyway, a magician who had lost his magic was stronger than an ordinary man. Only the dungeon was wet, he didn't know how many barrels of water had been poured, his lips were white. As Dewey walked in, the magician was sitting on a stone bed with his knees in his arms, and the barbarian cow samurai next to him drank himself: “Hey, don't close your eyes! Or I'll water you again! I've run as many times this night as I can carry water! ”

When he had just finished, he turned his head and saw Dewey come in, closed his mouth immediately, waved his hand, prompted him to go out and walked to the magician: "What do you say? Dear Mr. Mage. Is everything all right here? ”

Do I look like I'm okay? The wizard's belly was defamatory, but his face showed a mournful expression: "Sir, why should a nobleman like you be so hard on me? As the eldest son of the Count of the Rollins, I'm afraid your family will have difficulty making friends with a magician in the future if it comes out that you treat a magician so badly! ”

Are you threatening me?

Dewey whispered, “Oh, yeah? So what would happen if it came out that a little first-degree magician actually mastered transient surgery? ”

The wizard looked pale and his eyes revealed a slight fear.

Consequences?

The result is simple! If the other magicians find out about this, they will soon become the common prey of magicians across the continent! Any magician is eager to learn the finest skill in transient surgery! And when a little first-degree magician can master this skill... do you have to ask?

It's like a three-year-old child, completely unprotected, but with billions of dollars on his back!

“Say it.” Dewey laughed. “Actually, I know that your so-called transient technique is not a real transient technique. You must have done it with some kind of speculative trick, right? I'm not a magician, and even if I did, it wouldn't hurt you. I'm just trying to satisfy my curiosity. ”

The magician lowered his head and his face revealed a hint of struggle.

“What more can you hesitate to do?” Dewey sighs: “You're just a first-degree magician, and while magicians are rare and respected in this world, they're limited to those above the intermediate level. Even if I kill you here, or lock you up here for the rest of your life, I'm afraid nobody cares. Even the Magic Society wouldn't have offended a great nobleman for a despicable lowest level of magician, would it? ”

“You…” The magician's eyes finally loosened, his psychological defense began to crumble, biting his lips hard: "You… if I tell you, you must swear not to speak. Because... this is about my magician status! ”

“Yes, totally.” Dewey immediately raised her hand and made an oath: "I, Dewey Laurin, swear here that I will remember everything you said to me today, and I will never tell anyone again. Otherwise, let the Goddess of Light punish me! ”

“…” The magician's expression was somewhat complex, his eyes revealed a slight lack of heart, and then his lips crept a few times: “I… am, in fact, just a magic apprentice. ”

“... anything?” Dewey stunned: “What do you mean? ”

“I…” the magician seemed to take a lot of effort to say: "I said," Actually, I'm just a magic apprentice, my true magic strength, only one magic apprentice level. And my qualifications as a first-degree magician have been tricked by a number of means. ”

“Cheating?” Dewey's starting to get a little carried away!

To qualify as a magician?

According to what Dewey knows, the magicians of the mainland are not easy to pass! Wouldn't it be a joke if the magician's credentials could easily be tricked?

“I have studied magic since I was a child. My master is a junior magician. He thinks I have a magical gift and I am an apprentice. I qualified as a magic apprentice when I was 13 years old... it is not difficult.” The magician's tone is somewhat of a grudge: “There are only a few hundred true magicians on the continent, but there are thousands of people with magic apprenticeships. Unfortunately, the road to becoming a true magician is too difficult, and the vast majority of magic apprentices, even if they work their whole lives, will not pass the first level of assessment. You can only stay at the magic apprentice level for the rest of your life. And I... am one of these poor bastards. ”

“Every sorcerer will receive several apprentices, but the sorcerer himself knows that not everyone in these apprentices can become a sorcerer, and probably will never be able to teach a sorcerer disciple. But every magician on the continent still recruits a lot of apprentices. Because... a man of such a status as a magician is so noble and revered. How can a man like that lose his identity? So every sorcerer is accompanied by an unequal number of magical apprentices. Most of these apprentices have dreams of magic, but as a result, only a handful of them are able to realize it. The worst part is that many magicians, who know clearly that these magic apprentices are unlikely to become magicians, do not tell them... because magicians need disciples to be around, some to do magic experiments for them, some to help them with their hands, to be their assistants, even as if they were servants... and this kind of servant doesn't need them to spend even a gold coin!

That's what I went through, and when I was thirteen, I met my master, and he told me I had a gift, and he took me away from home to teach me to be a brilliant magician. I followed him with an infinite vision, unfortunately... and then I realized that this was simply an impossible dream. My master has more than a dozen disciples, each of whom passed the Magic Apprentice exam. Master just used us as free servants, free assistants.

He would still deceive us with false lies, but he knew that many of these disciples could never be magicians for life. He knows! But he just won't talk!

After 10 years as a magic apprentice, I finally realized that I had no talent at all. I did have a little more spiritual strength than ordinary people since I was little, and I could sense a little natural power... but this is the limit. My talents are limited.

Later, I was helpless... and learned magic pharmacology. ”

Magical Pharmacy?

Dewey's eyes shine!

This guy's experience is similar to his own!

However, I can't even pass the lowest magic apprentice exam… Dewey laughs.

In fact, even Dewey doesn't know that, and that's not what he thinks.

Magicians are a strange group. Magicians are mostly isolated and proud. They see themselves as the ones who stand above the creation. They are the ones who can call the wind to rain and use the power of the gods. The so-called arts and crafts creatures, in the eyes of most magicians, are merely convenient ants.

Many magicians recruit magic apprentices, in fact magic talent is not even as good as Dewey! But magicians need to follow, and magicians, though rich, cannot spend as much on servants as ordinary aristocrats - what is that like?

Being a sacred magician, a mysterious magician, a servant around you, naturally requires an apprentice in magic! How can you use ordinary people? Isn't it very discounted?

But those who possess magical gifts are, after all, a minority. So most magicians, in order to have some magic apprentices around them, even try to lower their standards to recruit magic apprentices! Obviously there are some people with insufficient talent, even a little bit stronger than ordinary people, who will be tempted by the magician to “teach you to become a magician”.

And then... these people who aren't really talented enough to be magicians, wait for the rest of their lives to be cheap laborers for their teachers!

In this case, the magic apprentice's appraisal on the continent is really confusing! The levels are also uneven.

However, the last time Dewey went through the exam in Dido, it was done according to really strict standards! Because... the Clark Master, dare not deceive Imperial Military Number Two character, the eldest son of the Rollin family owner!

Due to Dewey's status, the Clark Mage dared not deceive him into cheap labor.

Otherwise, if Dewey was an ordinary man... then that day, the Clark Mage would have taken Dewey by the look of his spiritual power beyond the ordinary man!

Even if Dewey knew he had no magic gift, Clark would definitely accept him as his apprentice! Because having a magic apprentice with great magic will be a lot of convenience in the future when you do your own magic experiments.

In fact, that's what many magicians do on the continent. If Dewey was not the Count's eldest son, he would have been deceived and then dreamed of becoming a magician, a cheap workforce for a magician, and even wasted his life delaying his future.

“It was a coincidence that I learned the fact that my teacher had long known that I could never have been a magician.” This prisoner's voice bore a hint of bitterness: “Even when he took me away from home, he knew it! However, he looked at my magic talent and felt that I was surrounded by a free servant, and that it would be more convenient to do magic tests in the future. Many of the disciples under the teacher's door are just like me. Some of them are very magical and some have good sensibility. But there were major flaws, but they were woven into a beautiful dream, and they stayed with their teachers, wasting their lives! ”

“... and then what?” Dewey sighed.

“As I just said… after I knew the facts, at first I was angry, and then… I decided to change my destiny. Since I couldn't learn true magic, I decided to study magic pharmacology.” The Wizard captured a sigh of relief: “Because, the Wizard Pharmacist, is also a Wizard recognized by the Wizard Society. Although... this view is ridiculous to most people, although most people think that magic pharmacists are simply not true magicians. ”

“... and then what?” Dewey feels his heart is accelerating!

Is... this guy...

He, like himself, has no magical gift! But now he's a magician! Besides, he's in a pub, but he's really using magic!

Since he, a man without talent, didn't know what method he had learned magic in the end... so long as he could say what method he had done it... then, himself, maybe!

If you can find a way to learn magic then…

The astrology left behind by Semel in the castle's secret room, the star magic that Semel has studied all his life, can you learn?!

“With mastery of magic pharmacology, can you become a magician?” Dewey looks at this prisoner: “But according to what I know, the Magic Society qualification, the Magic Pharmacist examination is completely different from other magicians. ”

On the continent, for real magicians, there are ten levels. Every time you pass the first test, the difficulty increases considerably! So the higher the level, the stronger the magician is naturally.

However, the magic pharmacist's assessment, known as "one of the magicians”, is much simpler.

Even simplicity can make people feel very perfunctory!

Magical Pharmacist's assessment, no rating!

Level 1!

As long as you pass the test! You're a magic pharmacist! The Magic Society will then also award you a badge, which symbolizes the official recognition of you as a magician.

However, most people do not approve of such recognition.

Moreover, even the Magic Society itself, the badge issued, carries a certain “differentiation”!

Magical Pharmacist, awarded a copper circular badge, easy to work with, and… no magical anticounterfeiting spells.

Perhaps the Magic Society knows for itself that no one will be interested in posing as a profession that few people can afford.

A magic pharmacist, commonly known as a poisoner, is not even as senior as an ordinary physician.

And a true magician, even if it's a first class, the badge is also silver! The First Class Mage is a Silver Leaf badge.

Of course Dewey will not forget that in the fierce battle at the tavern that day, what he captured from this magician's captive was a genuine silver leaf badge!

That is, he did not pass the magic pharmacist's exam! It's a true magician's assessment!!

How the hell did he do it?

Learning magic, originally seemed like a broken dream, at this moment, hope to reappear in Dewey's heart!

“My gift is magic, and I am born with more mental power than ordinary people. If it's a normal person, it's just that I'm a little more energetic than a normal person, not easily fatigued, etc… but I don't have the sensibility. No matter how I meditate, how hard I try, at first, I can't feel even a little fluctuation of the forces of nature.” This prisoner slowed down: “Later, just after I had studied 10 years of magic pharmacology, a question suddenly arose… what was the so-called force of nature? The teacher told me it was everything! It's everything in this world! It's the wind, it's the fire, it's the water, it's even tiny little by little. But this statement is still too vague. I have a thought in my mind… If, I can understand, what exactly is the so-called 'force of nature', then perhaps I still have hope. ”

Dewey listened quietly, while he was carefully mocking this guy's words.

“For example, the magic of fire systems. Wizards can use spells to exploit fire elements in the natural world, and then use magic to turn flames! And in magic pharmacology, there are dozens of ways to create flames with drugs! For example, the simplest one…” Speaking of which, the Wizard captured a glance at Dewey: “Do you understand what I'm saying? ”

“Please go on, I understand.” Dewey smiled lightly: “I've also read some magic pharmacology books. ”

“Okay.” the magician continued: "In magic pharmacology, there are a dozen ways to do the same basic principles as fire magic... make a fire! For example, the most basic one, a powder that can be milled with pyrophosphorus, burns itself! So I was thinking… Fire phosphorus grass can make fire, magic magic of the magician's fire system can make fire. Is it true... that pyrophosphorus contains magic elements from the so-called forces of nature? Or is there something in the pyrophosphorus grass that's a fire magic element? ”

Dewey's mind moved as if she thought of something, but for a while she couldn't catch it.

I heard the Wizard prisoner continue: “I found another delicate thing. All the magic! I mean all of it! Although the power of the spell is small to great. Take fire magic as an example, the simplest fireball technique, and the legendary 'burning city' curse that can destroy the heavens and the earth! Though the power is countless times worse, the principle is actually the same! They burn with flames! But... delicate things have come... all kinds of magic can do, magic pharmacology can do the same! Fire magic, for example, although pharmacology cannot produce the massive, forbidden spell-level power of 'Flaming City’, the principle of fire is the same! For example, wind magic, water magic, and so on... all kinds of magic can be done with pharmacology! Even though it can only be the simplest basic principle, it can be done! Why is that? Perhaps… I was thinking, perhaps, that the raw materials of precious pharmacology actually contain the so-called 'magical elements’ of all facets of magic! Aren't you?”

This captive's face shows a slight expression of pride: "Since I can't meditate on extracting magic elements from nature... then I use the pharmacist's method to extract magic elements from the drug!! ”

Remember to smash tickets ~

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