Riding an Engel Swift Snail felt like speeding in a small car. As magical creatures selectively bred and modified through beast-taming magic, these snails moved incredibly fast, equipped with a 0.3-circle trick spell [Drift].
They could run tirelessly for five or six hours at high speed, making them the preferred choice for Lilith’s Cottage wizard apprentices needing quick transport in ...
2025-07-29 10:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostLocke examined the description of the Growth Gel in his hand—Level 6 Growth Gel.
[Enhanced Growth Gel, with effects comparable to advanced Growth Gel crafted by potion-making assistants.]
Locke thought, “No special synthesis formula appeared, but that’s fine. The enhanced effect from synthesizing to Level 6 is already significant.”
He could craft ordinary Growth Gel, t...
2025-07-29 10:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostDiagon Alley, Room 341.
The academy provided second-class wizard apprentices with a small villa, complete with a dedicated servant team of three.
These servants were a special type of diminutive elf called gray dwarves.
From the Universal Studies course, Locke learned that the minds of gray dwarves had been altered by prolonged magical enslavement. They innately revered those ...
2025-07-29 10:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostInside the magical plant cultivation room.
Locke and Sophia stood at the entrance. Only then did Locke realize the room was far larger than he had imagined, its interior space rivaling a small castle, filled with sprawling fields of magical plants.
The number of magical plants here resembled a garden.
Standing at the entrance, Locke saw the nearest fields of magical plants. ...
2025-07-29 10:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostInside Witch Sophia’s office.
Locke said to Witch Sophia, “Teacher, I truly don’t know what a meditation technique is. Please enlighten me.”
Since entering Lilith’s Cottage, Locke had relied on learning spell models to passively increase his mana.
Moreover, information about meditation techniques was rarely mentioned in the academy’s public resources.
He had ...
2025-07-29 10:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, in the public classroom area of Lilith’s Cottage, during the Universal Studies course.
The dark elf Sasari stood at the podium, holding a birdcage.
He lifted the black cloth covering the cage, revealing a fairy with green hair and dragonfly wings. Upon seeing the numerous wizard apprentices, the fairy let out a piercing scream.
The scream felt like it could rup...
2025-07-29 10:33:54 +0000 UTC View PostHalf a month later.
In Locke's room on Dwarf Street.
Locke placed the Moonlight Elixir, obtained from Witch Sophia, on the table. The liquid in the glass bottle shimmered like flowing moonlight, each drop sparkling with crystalline particles.
He uncorked the bottle. The elixir had to be consumed within half an hour of opening, or its properties would change.
Locke drank ...
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1. Necromancer, What The Hell Is A Type 055 Summon?
2. Wasteland Border Inspector
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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 ...
2025-07-29 03:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 wi...
2025-07-29 03:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostFive 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 p...
2025-07-29 03:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostInside 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...
2025-07-29 03:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 ...
2025-07-29 03:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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.
... 2025-07-29 03:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostOne 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 concocti...
2025-07-29 03:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 e...
2025-07-29 03:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostOne 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...
2025-07-29 03:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostWitch 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, ...
2025-07-29 03:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostLocke 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...
2025-07-25 04:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostLocke 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,...
2025-07-25 04:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 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...
2025-07-25 04:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostYuri 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."
<... 2025-07-25 04:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostBeneath 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 ...
2025-07-25 04:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post“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...
2025-07-25 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLocke 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...
2025-07-25 03:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostLorne 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 lung...
2025-07-25 03:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostTwo 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.
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 ha...
2025-07-25 03:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostLocke 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 car...
2025-07-25 03:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostThree 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 usin...
2025-07-25 03:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post