Struggle in the Steam Age

After listening to the teaching of Warlock Karen, Lawrence returned to the main hall of St. Gutenberg Cathedral, and then he was led by Priest Carter into a basement he had never known before.

"This is the meditation room," after talking to the gatekeeper, Lawrence and the others appeared in a long underground corridor. On both sides of the corridor are black doors one after another. The oil lamps hanging on the wall in the gate illuminated the entire corridor as brightly as the sun. "I think you need a place like this right now."

After speaking, Priest Carter opened the door of an empty room. "No one will disturb you here, just go out after you have settled the matter."

"Thank you!" Lawrence nodded, then walked into the meditation room and sat cross-legged on the carpet. In fact, he could use any movement for what he was going to do next, but considering that this was his first time manipulating extraordinary power, Lawrence chose to sit cross-legged, the most orthodox meditation posture.

Closing his eyes and concentrating, Lawrence saw a dozen patterns appear in front of him. Each pattern is composed of a large number of mysterious runes that are constantly changing.

Although he doesn't know any of these runes. But as long as you focus on it, you can know exactly what spells these patterns represent and what effects they have.

"12 zero-level spells and 8 first-level spells. I can choose 6 zero-level spells and 4 first-level spells." Lawrence opened his eyes excitedly after receiving this news, because this world is about the level of extraordinary people. The division is closely related to his ability to use extraordinary ability levels.

The key point of this division lies in the highest level of spells he has mastered and the mana he possesses. Taking Lawrence himself as an example, only when he masters the first level spells and at the same time has the mana that can use the first level spells three times can it be said that he is an apprentice Level Warlock. If any of these two points are not satisfied, he can only be regarded as an extraordinary contact person and cannot be regarded as a true extraordinary person.

And now that there is a first-level spell option, it means that his realm has skipped the level of the initial ordinary contact person to the level of the apprentice level. Although his mana strength may only be barely enough, he only needs to follow the steps step by step With accumulation, his overall level will soon reach the average standard of trainees.

After a little excitement, Lawrence looked at the listed optional spells. Among them, he can now choose zero-level spells, which are to increase resistance, flash, magic trick, strike against undead, read magic, detect magic, detect poison, copy, send message, repair, mage's hand, and shoot arrows .

The first-level spells available are protection from evil, magic missile, detect undead, kindly countenance, comprehend languages, scholar's touch, identification, and discern bloodlines.

After reading these spells, Lawrence felt that the magic revealed by the Bai Ze bloodline after adapting to this world obviously had partial problems, especially the lack of combat-related spells, but this is also normal, after all, spells come from blood. If it doesn't exist in the blood, then it really doesn't exist. Fortunately, there are many very practical spells in the available spells.

In the conversation just now, Lawrence learned that each warlock masters different types and quantities of spells, which is caused by the difference in the inherited blood and personal aptitude.

This also makes warlocks have a customary rule, that is, never disclose information related to their spells to others. Therefore, during the communication just now, Karen did not ask Lawrence what spells he could choose.

So now Lawrence can only choose his own spells based on the basic knowledge he just learned. After some thinking, he finally chose his own spells.

Among them, the six zero-level spells are Strike Undead, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Message, and Mage's Hand. The four first-level spells are Protection from Evil, Magic Missile, Detect Undead, and Identify.

These spells were chosen by Lawrence considering that firearms could fully make up for the lack of attack power at low levels, so he chose them according to his current situation and out of future plans. In fact, he wished he could choose all the 20 spells listed, but unfortunately the rules only allowed to choose such a few, and the rest were just eye-catching.

Unlike activating blood vessels, when selecting those spells, it is enough to simply touch these patterns with your mind. When he came into contact with the first pattern of striking undead through his mind, that pattern directly entered his mind, and then he found that he had learned this spell in this way.

"Finally learned magic." Lawrence had a feeling of tears streaming down his face. If the protagonists of the time-travel novels he read before coming to this world, if they entered a world with magic, they would usually be able to learn magic in the first three chapters, but he actually struggled for so long. He even had to risk his life to obtain such an ability. It has to be said that he was ashamed to cross the army.

After adjusting his mood with emotion, Lawrence learned all the other spells in one go. After that, he entered a state of meditation and began to explore his own sea of ​​consciousness.

Perhaps because of becoming an extraordinary person, Lawrence's will easily entered his sea of ​​consciousness. This place is known as the source of the spellcaster's mana, and all the energy veins in a person's body will converge here.

Now floating in the center of Lawrence's sea of ​​consciousness is a milky white phantom of a cub, which looks like a one-horned lamb, which is also a visualization of the source of his magic power. The image of the source of magic power is related to occupation. For warlocks, the source of their mana is generally their own blood creatures. If it is replaced by a mage, the mage tower is usually manifested.

Next to Bai Ze's phantom, there are now ten glowing figures representing spells floating. They revolve clockwise around Bai Ze's phantom just like planets revolve around the sun. The spells are divided into two tiers, with six zero-level spells in the inner circle, and four level-one spells swirling around their outer tier.

While checking these spells, Lawrence felt Bai Ze's phantom calling him. After concentrating his consciousness on the phantom, he discovered that besides magic, he also acquired two special abilities.

According to the legend, Bai Ze is a kind of divine beast that knows astronomy and geography from the top, and the trivial from the bottom, and can also seek good fortune and avoid evil, so after activating its blood. Lawrence also gained two special abilities of knowledge and invulnerability.

Proficiency in knowledge is to allow Lawrence to obtain additional bonuses in learning, making him more efficient in acquiring knowledge through learning than ordinary people. And All Evil Does Not Invade makes him more effective in defending against evil attacks and attacking evil. Every defense or attack can improve the efficiency of magic power utilization, which is equivalent to increasing the magic power strength in disguise when facing evil.

When the fruitful Lawrence exited his consciousness space, he looked at the clock hanging on the wall, and was surprised to find that he had been in this meditation room for a full ten hours.

"Sure enough, even if you become a warlock, even if you have a strong body, your legs should be numb if you sit cross-legged for ten hours without practice." When Lawrence wanted to stand up, he found that his legs were completely numb. This forced him to slowly lie on the ground and straighten his legs, and it took several minutes to fully recover.

"Let's have dinner first." Standing up, Lawrence thought while rubbing his flat stomach, "I hope there is still dinner in the dining room at this time."