Chapter 371 Fourth-Level Magician!

In the public's impression, apart from being mysterious and powerful, the magician is "rich".

Inpier, who was killed by Raven, had only 20,000 gold coins on it, which is an exception.

Who told him to follow the Death Hand Cultivation?

And Flindo's private collection is much richer in comparison.

For a level 5 magician, daily expenses have nothing to do with gold coins. Even so, he still brought about 60,000 gold coins with him.

At first glance, he didn't care much and piled it in the corner of the space ring, because inside, Lei Wen also found several purchase and collection orders that were mixed in.

What Fulinduo really cares about is various magic materials, such as magic cores, magic crystals, magic plants, and magic ores, and has clearly partitioned according to the level and attributes.

Although Flindo's henna is full of bells and whistles, the various raw materials stored are very clear, most of which are related to blood, darkness, and life. Perhaps because she is studying flesh and blood magic.

The evil blood crystal that Raven gave to William and Ernada before was part of her collection.

If these collections are sold in packages, they can be exchanged for at least 300,000 gold coins; if you have the intention to slowly find a buyer, then 500,000 gold coins are not impossible.

"What a pity..."

Counting the number, Lei Wen shook his head.

The vast majority of the magicians in a mage guild will not be kept with them, but will hoard them in the mage tower.

You can carry materials worth 300,000-500,000 gold coins with you. It is normal to have three or five times more in the mage tower. Thinking of this, you will lose a lot...

But Lei Wen couldn't let Flindo go at that time.

Flindo knows too much.

So far, most of the strong men who have seen Lei Wen take action are dead.

Even if Palmer was killed in public, the witnesses were all big-headed soldiers. They would only wonder, but they would not know what power Lei Wen used.

But Flindo is different.

She is a knowledgeable 5th-level magician, and she has seen almost all the methods that Lei Wen can do to the bottom of the box.

Once these news is spread, Lei Wen will encounter more trouble when he faces the enemy in the future.

The results of the battle between extraordinary people depend largely on the information difference.

The more methods the opponent doesn't know, the more likely it is to win.

Let's give a simple example.

If Palmer knew that Raven had mastered the Shiyuan Waste Fire, he would not have used "Desolate Creation" to create the flame giant, and the direction of that battle might have changed accordingly.

Flindo proposed that signing a magic contract and becoming a slave of Raven seemed tempting, but in fact it was not safe.

After all, she is a level 5 magician.

He is fully capable and pays some price. He asks the level 6 or even 7 magicians in the Mage Guild to help her lift the contract restrictions.

If this is true, Lei Wen may have to face a level 5 magician who is hidden in the dark, knows him well, and hates him to the core.

So after weighing the trade-offs, no matter how much you gain from enslaving Flindo, you can only bear the pain and kill him.

And Flindo doesn't seem to tell the truth completely.

At least she wasn't that unconcerned about Quelli, the apprentice.

In her storage ring, except for the magical raw materials and the various clothes and jewelry she used to change, the only one that was sorted out and cut into space for storage were several very inconspicuous magic compared to her collection. raw material.

Among them, there is a core flower that can help Quili break through the fourth level.

Even a large number of magic scrolls are scattered together.

And the core flower is the last main material that Lei Wen lacks in refining the magic-supporting potion!

Now Lei Wen's magic has grown to 10 stars in level 3, and the fireball technique has been engraved.

The first two passes have been crossed, and only the condition of magic-scaling potion is left!

"It's time to start trying to break through the fourth level."

Just as a knight activates the battle pattern at level 4, a magician can also have brand new methods when he reaches level 4.

But before that, there is something to deal with.

He ordered people to call Eric, and Raven issued several more instructions.

Eric listened, his face becoming more and more excited and nervous.

Since he followed Raven into Aivor, this kind of frustration of only defending but not attacking is the first time he has experienced it, and he has long been unable to bear it.

Now Lei Wen’s plan is so meticulous and rigorous that he couldn’t help but look forward to it before he started to implement it.

But there was also nervousness in the expectation: "But sir, isn't it obvious that you are awake when you are?"

"Can you?" Lei Wen asked.

Eric thought carefully and nodded slowly: "Yes, you said you should dig the tunnel from your camp as the starting point. Although the digging of earthworks, you said you could use the storage ring to put it out and then let the horned eagle beast cavalry lead it. It is inevitable that many soldiers will come in and out of your tent. This is unconcealable for Blue Fort with flying monsters, and it must be very eye-catching."

"And we have been closing the camp for so long, and suddenly launching an attack can only be interpreted as you are awake!"

Lei Wen smiled and said, "What you said makes sense, but I ask you, since I'm awake, why don't you show up in public?"

Eric hesitated: "Uh...it may be that you are afraid of the next assassination...or..."

Before he finished, Raven said easily: "If the other side still has someone to carry out the next assassination, why didn't they come in and kill me during this time when I was unknown? Since they didn't have anyone, why should I be afraid?"

This time, Eric finally couldn't find a reason.

"You can't think of it, and the other side won't think of it either." Raven smiled: "Besides, even if they can guess that I'm awake, what can they do?"

"Did they not dare to attack during the time I was unconscious, and they dared to attack again after confirming that I was awake?"

"One thing, it won't harm me, maybe it can make the other side spend more energy, why not do it?"

Eric was speechless, convinced, turned around and left, taking the city defense force deployment map brought back by William and Ernada, and left the central tent.

Soon, the Wind King's troops took off and rushed to the Blue Castle.

A large number of Eagle Army were mobilized, squeezed into Raven's tent, and began to dig on the spot.

With strength in numbers and Raven on-site supervision, the tunnel excavation progressed rapidly, and that night, a 5-meter-deep, inclined staircase was opened.

The efficiency was so high that a separate room was dug for Raven to meditate, practice and rest next to the trail.

In the following days, the stairs continued to extend inward, and Raven's room was raised and widened, and padded with various relatively easy-to-obtain soundproof materials.

Although it was not very comfortable or exquisite, it was at least a qualified resting place.

After settling down, the first thing Raven had to do was, of course, to brew the "magic potion".

Fortunately, the magician Flindo also brought two sets of enchantment and alchemy equipment with him.

This process was not very smooth, although Raven had read the formula countless times in advance, the raw materials had been collected, and even the Eye of Truth helped.

But it still took 8 days, and two batches were wasted, before he finally finished brewing this magic potion that belonged to Raven.

It looked like a whirlpool in a jar, without moving, it kept turning and flowing, and the color kept changing from gray, white, yellow, and black.

It only took 8 days to brew this potion.

But it took Raven 2 years to get it together.

The magic potion can't be stored for a long time, and Raven didn't plan to wait any longer.

After giving the order that no one could disturb him, Raven sat back in the middle of the room and drank the potion with his head tilted up.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

There were bursts of noises in his stomach, and Raven felt that the magic power in his body was expanding like being blown up, and he quickly closed his eyes tightly.

From level 3 to level 4, it is the first transformation on the path of magician practice.

There are 3 steps to break through.

The first step is to subdue the magic power that is about to run wild!

Raven sank into a state of meditation.

At this moment, in his magic pool, the magic power like a trickle of water is as turbulent as the sea surface that has set off a typhoon. Magic power keeps gushing out of it and hitting the edge of the magic pool.

The feeling of magic power running wild in the body is like a worm crawling in the gap between muscles.

In the real world, the magic power that flows out of Raven's mouth and nose has turned into magic flames and started to burn!

Raven immediately mobilized all his mental power and built a circle of invisible barriers around the magic pool, like a deliberately raised river bank.

It expanded and grew wildly, like a deep well surging backwards.

Just like water flow, the deeper it is, the greater the pressure.

Mental power is an extension of thinking.

Raven's permanent mental power continued to raise the barrier, blocking the outflow of magic power. A strong pressure from the inside out came down, as if to tear Raven's soul apart!

The height kept rising, rising, and rising! ! !

Until the overflowing water exceeded the capacity of the magic pool by ten times!

It was like a sand sculpture without any foundation that would collapse as soon as the wind blew.

And the wind did blow at this moment.

It was not from the outside, but from the inside - the two vortices at the bottom of the magic pool, connected to the star realm, slowly stopped rotating under the huge pressure from the magic power.

They finally stopped frantically turning elements into magic power.

But their pause also meant the severance of a magician's communication with the elements.

Next, what Raven has to do is the second step, which is also the most dangerous step in the process of breaking through the fourth level -

Draw out the remaining mental power, turn it into a lid, and press it hard on the high magic power!

As a container, the human body has a limited size of magic pool, and its magic growth naturally has its limit.

Only by compressing the magic power and turning it into a new form can it be improved.

Therefore, this step is not only to compress the magic power, but also to temper the magic pool so that it can accommodate deeper magic power!

The countless pores on Raven's body opened, oozing a trace of blood.

The pressure from the magic pool water not only acts on Raven's soul, but also on his body, and then continues to put pressure on the soul through the body!

An almost unstoppable vicious cycle.

This step not only tests the magician's will, but also tests the operation of mental power.

If the will is not strong enough and cannot bear the pain brought by the pressure, the uncontrolled magic power will at least burn the magic power of the magician dry and turn him back into a mortal; if it is more serious, the magician will be roasted into a mummy!

If the control of mental power is not delicate enough, either the magic power cannot be compressed quickly or the magic pool will be crushed directly.

Fortunately, Raven's will is strong enough and he has the Eye of Truth as an aid.

The surging magic power was pressed back to the surface of the water little by little, and the texture began to become thicker and heavier, as if it had turned from water into mud.

At this point, Raven exhaled a little.

The second step was finally basically completed.

The next step is the last step-

His mental power turned into a probe, pierced into the magic pool, and touched the two vortexes that had stopped working.

Then

Stir it hard!

Boom! !

The explosion sounded in Raven's soul as if the universe was restarted, and the two original magic vortexes suddenly collapsed!

Without the support of these two vortexes, the magic power that had been compressed into mud began to leak out along the gate of the star realm!

The mental probe in it was twisted, curled, and changed by the pressure from all sides.

But Raven did not withdraw it, but controlled and let more mental tentacles probe into it, turning them into tweezers and pliers, exploring and piecing together the broken vortex fragments bit by bit!

The mud magic power in the magic pool will flow out in 2 hours at most.

And Raven must piece together the vortexes that have been broken into thousands of pieces in these 2 hours!

Magic is a product of fantasy.

Raven not only has to piece together these fragments, but also has to clearly imagine what the pieced-together vortex will look like.

Mental power is being tempered and forged unconsciously.

Time passes by every second.

Just when the water in the magic pool dropped to 1/3, a new magic light wheel finally formed.

It was no longer like the past, with two light wheels sandwiching a star gate, but it started to rotate again with the star gate as the core!

The magic pool water began to slide down at an unprecedented speed.

At this point, Raven's mouth curled up to a smile.

He watched the magic dry up quietly, and then the newly formed light wheel slowly turned.

The magic began to flow from the star gate!

Unlike the previous muddy texture, the magic now rushing out of the star gate is purer and more transparent. To compare it, it is like colorless mercury.

The magic filled the bottom of the pool, and the scale was like a small bubble.

But this texture is more than dozens of times more than before. This bubble alone exceeds the total magic of Raven when he was 3 stars and 10th level.

"Finally succeeded!"

Raven opened his eyes and let out a long breath, his eyes full of emotion.

It took half a year to go from level 1 to level 2; it took a full year to go from level 2 to level 3.

And from the time he was promoted to level 3 to now, Raven has gone through...

6 years!

He stretched out his palm, a trace of magic flowed in it, and turned into a layer of almost invisible water film covering his whole body. After flowing, it gathered along his fingertips into a few drops of black water and fell to the ground.

That was the remnant left after the dirt and mud on Raven's body were washed away.

From level 3 to level 4, it is a process of breaking and reconstructing, and it is also the process of a magician truly entering the hall.

From level 4, magicians can directly mobilize elements from the astral world and are no longer constrained by the environment.

The magic power that has been improved in essence can evoke and control elements in the material world to a limited extent without chanting. The process of washing the body just now is an application.

Directly connecting to the astral world also brings a new ability to magicians:

Magic creations can last forever!

For example, water.

A first-level water magician can summon a large amount of water sources - they can be used to clean the body, wash away stains, and even put out fires.

But you can't drink it.

Because once the magic in the water source dissipates, the magic summoned water flow itself will disappear.

In other words, drinking it is the same as not drinking it, and it can't relieve any thirst.

But after reaching the fourth level, it's completely different.

The water created is real water, which can be evaporated into steam and condensed into ice, but it will never disappear from the world!

With Raven's current magic reserves, I dare not say anything else, but maintaining the daily water supply of a standard legion is not a problem at all.

"Magic is closer to the essence of the world than fighting spirit."

Raven thought of the words on the title page of the book "The Way of the Mage".

At that time, he thought it was the magician's self-praise, but now he is deeply touched.

Because the created objects will not disappear, it is a power that belongs to the creator!

Taking advantage of his good mood, Raven opened Flindo's ring again, picked and chose, and selected 4 magic scrolls from it.

Since he has been promoted to the 4th level, of course he must master at least one 4th level magic first.

These 4 scrolls are all the 4th level magics in Flindo's collection -

The shadow magic "Dust of History" she has released; the lightning magic "Wrath of the Titans"; the fire magic "Jade Pearl"; the arcane magic "Element Disintegration".

After a little consideration, Raven held the scroll of elemental decomposition.

Arcane magic is not classified in the basic elemental classification. It is pure magic based on magic power. It is also called "magic in magic" and "magic of the wise".

Most arcane magic is developed by bored mages from scratch.

Therefore, the effects can be said to be varied, some are ridiculously weak, some are inexplicably confusing, and some are so strong that they are jaw-dropping.

Although he is no longer a rookie in magic, he has mastered the Elvish language and has the assistance of the Eye of Truth in mental control. Raven estimates that it will take at least 1 month to fully master it.

But Raven still resolutely chose it.

42 days later.

"If I had known earlier, I would not practice this kind of magic..."

When he was sure that he had fully mastered this magic, Raven sighed.

Arcane magic is still too difficult, far beyond Raven's expectations.

If Flindo heard Raven's sigh, she would definitely want to bury Raven under the Mage Tower.

When she was at level 4, she studied this magic for 3 months, but she didn't even get into it.

After being promoted to level 5, she was not sure that she could master it within 2 years, so she abandoned it!

It took Raven 42 days, but he still thought it was too slow! ?

The reason why Raven was able to persist was because the level 4 magic was strong enough.

Generally speaking, a newly promoted mage has just enough magic power in his body to release a magic of the same level.

For example, Flindo.

When she was alive, she was level 5, 2 stars, so she could only release level 5 magic once. She could release it for the second time when she was 3 stars, and she could barely release it for the second time when she was 5 stars. Even when she reached 10 stars, she could only use it 5 times.

Raven is different. He has the blood core of the True Ancestor. Even if he is only level 4, 1 star now, he can release level 4 magic 3 times!

One level 4 magic may change the direction of a battle; the value of 3 level 4 magics is even more needless to say!

Of course, there are pros and cons.

He thought for a moment that if it weren't for this exaggerated and overloaded magic depth, Raven wouldn't have had such a hard time in the first two stages of his promotion to level 4.

June 7, 1200 of the Bright Calendar.

Raven put on the leather armor that he hadn't worn for a long time and left the room, and ordered the hyena who had been guarding the door:

"Pass my order, summon all officers to come to the central army tent for a meeting."

"It's time to launch a general attack!"

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