Arcane Linguist

Chapter 154 Successfully Breakthrough Intermediate! (seeking a monthly ticket)
Inside the Mage Tower, Level 1, Adventurer's Hall.

Roland came to this place that he seldom visits.

"Student, you are such a rare visitor, why did you come down in person when you have time today?"

A senior who manages the place received Roland. He has admired this accomplished junior for a long time. Naturally, he knows the identity of the other party, and he did not expect to see him here.

"Hi senior, I want to ask the Adventurer's Association to make a commission." Roland said with a smile, "Because it involves some identity control content, I didn't let Al do it for me."

The senior said: "Okay, I'll call someone to go through the formalities for you."

He pressed the bell, and while summoning people, he asked curiously: "What special task does it involve identity control?"

Roland said truthfully: "I want to capture a group of kobolds, alive, for sacrificial offerings."

The senior couldn't help becoming serious, and asked, "Sacrifice?"

This is a content strictly controlled by Alteraine, and low-level mages are not allowed to touch it.

No wonder even the succubus companion is restricted, so they won't be represented.

"Junior Roland, I have to remind you a little bit more. Worshiping evil gods and the like is illegal in our Atlanta Rhine. If you are found, you will be criticized and educated, and you will be fined...

Especially for arcane stars like you, you should pay attention to the influence. "

Roland was a little dumbfounded: "How dare you do illegal things? Don't worry, senior, this has nothing to do with evil gods, it's just collecting some monster spirits for experimentation.

Speaking of this, maybe I can try to get someone to collect it for me and bring the magic bottle back directly.

I just don't know if this will lose some of its effectiveness. "

"It turned out to be the use of spirits such as necromancy." Hearing that illegal activities such as evil gods were not involved, the senior's expression was obviously much more relaxed. "In this case, ordinary adventurers may not be able to do it, at least they must be wild mages."

Wild mages are also mages, and most of them embarked on the career path directly after graduating from colleges or mage towers, and did not stay in towers for further study.

Theoretically speaking, Sophia and Polina that Roland had met before also belonged to wild mages, but they did not become adventurers.

Not long after, the staff of the Adventurer's Guild came and asked Roland about his specific needs.

Roland said: "I entrusted a fund here, and hired a wild mage to help me collect 16 spirits. Let's try it.

I will pay the money for the magic bottle. To capture kobolds alive, at least 20 kobolds are needed. "

"These are actually two medium-difficulty tasks. Because of the need to fight, go deep into the forest, and search for kobold settlements, let's set them as B-level second gear. I will calculate the approximate price."

The staff calculated proficiently and came to a conclusion in a short while.

"Sir, the recommended reward amount here is 240 gold coins for collecting spirits, 300 gold coins for capturing kobolds alive, and an additional 300 gold coins may be needed to transport them out.

The guild's service fee, agency fee, adventurer's personal accident insurance, etc. are 10% of the entrusted reward. Do you think this is okay?

In order to motivate adventurers, you can also add additional rewards, based on the reward amount, with a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 100%. "

"No problem, I will add 20% as an extra bounty."

"That's a total of 1092 gold coins."

"I'm a top VIP of Union Bank, account~~~... Go back and find my secretary Al to verify the allocation."

The senior accompanied him all the way, and when he saw Roland signing the order in a chic way and successfully placing such an entrustment, he couldn't help being extremely envious: "It's great to be rich."

For Arcanists, time and energy are precious.

Do experiments if you have experiments, study, research, and rest if you don't have experiments.

In order to get these things to go deep into the forest, it is really not worthwhile to waste more than ten days and half a month to deal with the monsters in person.

Therefore, Roland would rather spend money to do things in order to save worry and effort.

There is also a place where you can save money, that is, Roland sets off with the team himself and enters the forest to do this experiment.

But Roland didn't do that, and would rather spend 300 gold coins for adventurers to ship it out.

The premise of all this is money.

Hearing this, Roland couldn't help but smile: "If the senior is interested, he can also apply for funding, using public money."

The senior smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It is very troublesome to apply for funding for this kind of project."

Roland said: "Can you choose a better name, such as domesticating kobolds, improving breeding technology and so on."

The senior complained: "Student, this is a fraudulent fund, pay attention to the impact!"

"At Rhine implements a contract system for research funds. As long as results can be produced, the purpose and whereabouts of the funds are easy to say."

"Then it won't produce results, what if it messes up?"

"Uh, this is... there is no way."

As for commercial companies, they want to make money.

No good person will give you money for nothing unless you have enough business value.

This is essentially a transaction, and the two don't even bother to discuss it.

……

After hanging up the entrustment, Roland returned to the library, and continued to prepare for his promotion ceremony while performing job rotations.

He reviewed the difference between the biological rank and the internal vision and outward vision of mental power. This is also a watershed for various races and worlds at low and middle levels.

If it reaches a high level, it can resonate with the world, cast spells directly with spiritual energy, and produce spell-like abilities.

Therefore, spells such as "Reincarnation Lich" are only eligible to be cast by high-level mages.

And the spiritual power of the gods can distort reality and directly act on the material world.

That is an objective and idealistic existence!

Ritual magic, such as sacrifice, actually involves the content of the soul and spirit.

In addition, the devils on the alien plane, demons, and succubus companions are actually objective and idealistic existences.

For example, Al, the body on the alien plane is actually a fallen soul.

Those souls who indulged in pleasure and indulged in love and desire fell into hell and became succubi.

This is the original source.

Both the Nine Hells and Heaven Mountain are magical places, where souls can transform into physical bodies just like the material plane, and reincarnate into various forms according to the essence of the soul.

This is also the reason why many monsters look hideous, but succubus and the like are extremely in line with human aesthetics.

It is born by heart.

Only after descending to the material plane can one obtain the objective physical body in the true sense.

The special plane descent mechanism creates the essence of the unity of soul and body, which is the fundamental principle of many summoning magics.

Although Roland is not researching summoning magic now, the "Xing Tian Totem" also has some summoning principles in essence.

The mysterious spirit created is attached to one's own body, and the sacrificial offerings are actually used as fuel.

This again involves the content of necromancer magic.

Taken together, the entire spell structure becomes more complicated.

……

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, and it was August 8th.

The senior at the adventurer's guild sent him a message, saying that the person who received the mission had returned, and the commission had been successfully completed.

Roland was refreshed, and went downstairs to meet the adventurers who had completed the mission, and prepared to inspect the goods.

At this time, he has almost done the theoretical preparations. If everything goes well, he will soon be able to improve the original magic circle design.

In a room of the Adventurer's Guild, Rabio and his partners were sitting there chatting, waiting for Roland's arrival.

He is a third-tier mage of the actual combat faction. After discovering this commission, he immediately called his captain to take it.

Because this is a commission worth more than 80 copper dollars, the degree of danger is not too high. The only troublesome part is to transport the captured monsters out.

But with the concerted efforts of the team members, they successfully completed the task.

Now, it's time to collect the balance and return the deposit of the magic bottle.

Everyone's faces were filled with joyful smiles, and they even discussed how to spend after collecting the money, but Rabio thought more than ordinary people.

"Jonis, the customer this time is not an ordinary person. I checked his information and found that he is a rising star in the arcane world, the well-known winner of the Morning Star Award of the Rune School, and Mr. Roland, the founder of the Siris School.

He didn't hide the purpose of this entrusted task, he wanted to use ritual magic to advance to the middle level, so as to complete the improvement of "Dream Art".

Do you know what this means? "

Jonis is a soldier and the captain of this adventurer team, so he couldn't help but think about it.

"It means the big benefactor?"

"It seems that you have also thought of it. For ordinary arcanists, it is enough to cooperate once or twice. They don't have the spare energy to support adventurers, and there is no possibility of opening a mage tower or owning their own territory in the future.

But this Mr. Roland is different. It is entirely possible for him to do that.

If we can become his followers and serve as the guards of the mages or the sheriffs of the territory, not only ourselves, but also the job opportunities of future generations will be solved! "

"Rabiot, you have always thought further than ordinary people, but you don't have to go this far.

If the other party is really such an unattainable person, why should he have a crush on us? "

A young man next to him was cynical.

He is a wanderer in the team, and he believes in being drunk today, but he never thinks about such long-term things.

"No, in fact, we also have capital. In the past few years, haven't we always wanted to find a reliable funder and sell that secret for a good price? Maybe this time we will have a chance to sell it."

"What, are you talking about...the secret?"

The other two team members cast their gazes over.

They joined later, and they couldn't help showing a confused look.

But the rogue looked serious, obviously thinking of something.

At this moment, a staff member came to the door of the reception room and informed them: "Everyone, Mr. Roland, the employer of this entrustment, has arrived."

Rabio and Jonis looked at each other, got up and followed him out, and went to the other side to meet Roland.

After a while, they came to the reception room on the other side, and saw a young mage in his twenties wearing gorgeous robes. It was Roland.

He sat there, looked at the two people who came in calmly, then smiled and stood up.

"The two are the adventurers who accepted the mission I entrusted?"

"The captain of the Jonis team, the fifth-level fighter Jonis, this is the third-level mage Rabio in our team. It is a great honor to play for Mister."

"I see. Please sit down, both of you."

In the reception room, there are seniors stationed in the tower of the adventurer's guild and the staff who are also here to prepare for the handover. Hearing this, he said: "Gentlemen, you can start to settle the mission now."

Hearing this, Rabio immediately took out the magic bottles containing the spirits of monsters from his dimensional bag and arranged them one by one.

Roland briefly inspected it, and by the way asked the senior to help him perform an "appraisal technique", roughly confirmed the content, and signed the settlement statement.

After a while, everyone walked out from the gate of the mage tower and came to the large square outside.

The place where the Mage Tower of Orvisto is located is the node of the leylines in the forest. After years of development, a group of rural people and adventurers have gathered here.

They built houses around the mage tower, reclaimed farmland, and established a large village with more than a hundred households, which is about to develop to the level of a small town.

At this moment, there are two groups of kobolds chained up under a big tree like a dog. Some villagers' children are watching and playing.

After confirming that these monsters were indeed still alive, Roland nodded and signed the bill again.

"Congratulations, the handover of the task is completed, and now it's money and goods."

The members of the Adventurer's Guild withdrew after confirming, leaving Roland and others outside.

Jonis summoned up his courage and said, "Mr. Roland, actually we have something else we want to discuss with you. I wonder if you are interested."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

"It's like this. During our adventure, we once discovered a ruin by accident. We want to send you the information about the ruin and the simple map that we have explored. If necessary, we can also hire us to help you again. Serve!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Roland was really interested.

Master Rabio said: "Yes, Mr. Roland, that is an ancient ruin, probably from a classical city-state in the humanistic era."

Similar to the unified dynasties such as the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing in the history of Chinese civilization, Arterine also had the Barbarian Age, the Mystic Age, the Wizard Age, the Magic (Empire) Age, the Alchemy Age, the Magic Age, and the current Arcane Age.

The classical city-states of the humanities era are the period of the Mystic Age, which is the origin period of the Rune Age.

This means that the mystery of the "original rune" may be contained in that ruin.

Rabio received a mage education. Although he became a wild mage, he would not forget these basic common sense, and preached: "It would be great if it can help your arcane career."

"Well, how much do you plan to sell this information for?" Roland was really moved.

If you want to develop the Seris Rune, you can't just rely on the previous Blue Star information in your mind, and you have to absorb enough nutrition from the world itself.

But for a long time, the arcane community has not studied the "primary runes" deeply enough, and has not yet formed an "primary rune system" that can be directly used by future generations.

Even the "Ancient Magic Runes" edited by Roland's teacher, Archmage Orvisto, is still far from complete.

This is quite regrettable.

Roland was not sure whether the existing knowledge in the arcane world was sufficient to supply the nutrients needed for the development of the Siris Rune, nor could he predict the value of the relic.

But it would be great if there was something to discover.

In this fantasy universe, "archaeology" is very valuable, because many civilizations are not continuous, but fragmented states that are constantly destroyed and reborn.

As a result, some new civilizations are even more backward than the ancient civilizations, and many valuable technologies are left in the ruins.

"This information does not require money. It is mainly to form a good relationship with you, sir. Please take care of our business in the future." Jonis said quickly.

Roland laughed when he heard that, free things are the most expensive.

But he didn't reject the other party's kindness, because if he didn't want to admit it, any kindness or good relationship would be useless.

The initiative rests with me, so I won't suffer a loss in this deal.

But he didn't have time to deal with this matter right now, so he made an agreement with them to talk about it when he had time after a while.

The top priority is to get rid of the kobold spirits and captives first.

……

That night, Roland prepared everything.

In order to verify the correctness of the magic circle, and to get rid of the effect of divine power in the future and rely entirely on arcane power to operate, he didn't even wait for the divine power to be fully charged again, only about 7 drops before entering the dream and trying again.

Roland reconstructed the magic circle in the dream world, which is generally the same as before, but there are great changes in the details.

At the same time, he also added a part of the function of condensing the spiritual body according to the magic principle of the totem technique.

Although this kind of technology from the National Restoration Army cannot completely restore its full appearance, it can be said to complement each other because of the supplement of divine power.

You must know that the magic technology of the Reiner Kingdom is far behind that of Alter Rhine, and the public information that Roland checked in the library is better than the background information of the entire world in many demonized and low-magic regions.

Roland didn't deconstruct the opponent's spell by himself, but stood on the shoulders of giants and used what other arcanists had already proven to deal with it.

And the godhead fragments in his hands and the divine power condensed from them are the key among the keys.

There is no existence that is easier to guide spiritual power than this.

Roland's own karma with Seris culture, and his similarity with Xing Tian, ​​a cultural symbol, are not comparable to Serrad and others.

"Onelovra, give me some buffs!"

Roland yelled, and the dream fairies rushed out, holding hands and singing in circles around him.

In Onelovra's babbling and singing, dots of firefly light gathered and condensed into magical aura with buff effect.

With the blessings of the fairies, Roland began to chant the "dream spell" spell.

Then he said his wish aloud.

"I hope to advance to the fourth rank!"

"~~~,~~~~~!"

On the magic circle in front of him, sound and meaning runes are activated, and the magic power builds a strange dream power.

The crystals lit up one after another, carrying Roland's own magical power mixed with divine power, gradually opening out along the spiral.

The second, the third, the fourth, the fifth...

A total of nine crystals lit up.

Immediately afterwards, other lines of the magic circle also shone like bands of light, forming complex lines full of fantasy beauty.

They represent the underlying principles of the linguistic symbol system, from the initial convention, to the encoding of content, and then to the reflection of the objective material world.

The area representing "objective reality" is illuminated.

In the world of dreams, the spirits from the kobolds are introduced into the magic circle and put into the place of sacrifice and melting.

It attracted the fusion power of "Xingtian War Intent" and "Xingtian Totem".

One after another souls were dissolved, and then refined by the magic circle to restore them to the purest spiritual power.

This is the so-called "experience value"!
More areas were lit up, and the entire magic circle shone brightly.

Suddenly, pure magic power surged, and the stronger mana resonance drove the production of magic power, which was continuously injected into Roland's body.

Roland immediately sensed that his body was filled, and even his mental strength was like a pond overflowing.

Naturally, it jumped out and was released outside.

In an instant, the whole world seemed to be different!
At this moment, although Roland was lying on the big bed in his house with his eyes closed and in a dream, he seemed to be able to "see" the outside world through his body, and at the same time "see" reality in his sleep.

This powerful observation ability is a manifestation of the improvement of basic perception.

At the same time, the operation of mental power also makes the brain seem to have added a plug-in chip that can run at high speed.

The breadth of thinking, the depth of thinking, the speed of calculation, the instantaneous memory, the long-term memory...

All significantly improved.

This is a manifestation of increased intelligence!
The intelligence attribute is the basic attribute of the mage profession. It is not equivalent to IQ, let alone knowledge and wisdom.

But there is no doubt that the improvement of this kind of quality can indeed greatly improve the level of one's own magic power and control ability, and the understanding of those complicated middle-level spells can also be simpler and more efficient.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Roland woke up from his sleep, and found that the curtains were slowly being opened, and the fragrance of birds and flowers was coming in from outside, and the green mountains in the distance were even more charming.

"I succeeded?"

Sensing the changes in himself, Roland felt a bit of heartfelt joy.

He stood up, tried to enter the meditation state again, and then constructed the spell structure in his mind.

Sure enough, complex lines that seem to have a three-dimensional structure can also be clearly presented.

People have spiritual power, which can reflect everything in the material world and imagine out of thin air in their minds.

The process of casting a spell needs to build a corresponding spell structure in the mind, and then fix it to become a model.

It's a bit like relying on memory to retain that picture after seeing a photo.

Or, memorize words and mathematical formulas.

The effect checks of many spells are closely related to intelligence and caster level, as well as the casting requirements.

Undoubtedly, the success of this promotion made it easier for him to master level 3 spells and even level 4 spells.

(End of this chapter)