The Lord of Ashes

From the jellyfish, Thain learned some of the secrets of the underwater world.

By dissecting the body of the Purple Sea Snake he purchased, Thain was able to discover that the sea people's sensory organs were different from those of normal humans in the wizarding world.

This is a small sarcoma located deep in the ear of this sea serpent. Thain tentatively calls this small sarcoma a "core". This is a special organ possessed by most sea tribesmen.

These sea people can judge the blood and pulse of different creatures in front of them through the subtle vibrations of water molecules, which seems to be closely related to this small organ.

Not only this Ziti sea snake man, but also Thain also found similar primitive organs on the sides of their brains after dissecting three green oyster crabs.

It's just that the level of development is not as sound as that of the Ziti Sea Snake people. Thain judged that their level of evolution is not enough.

"Not only the sea people in the wizarding world, but also the creatures in other planes in the star world that have evolved to a certain extent also have their own special abilities and detection methods."

"Just a breath-condensing magic is not enough to hide completely." Thain sighed.

While experimenting, Thane seemed to notice Yuri, the honest and silent constructor slave next to him.

Therefore, I couldn't help but ask: "How do you Neisser civilized creatures detect and discover the enemy?"

Facing Thain's inquiry, Yuli was stunned. She seemed to be distracted just now.

But soon, Yuri replied: "Our constructed golems are generally equipped with detection radars."

"In addition, constructors who have reached 'Orange Level' or above basically have the ability to detect mental power."

The 'orange level' constructor is a certain construction level of the Nesser civilization. If converted, it is almost an intermediate magic apprentice in the wizarding world.

In the apprenticeship level of the wizarding world, there are also low-level detection magics suitable for magic apprentices, so Thain did not pay too much attention to this.

After nodding, Thain said nothing more.

…

After staying in Tizit Seaport for a while, purchasing some sea slaves, and doing a few simple anatomy experiments, Thane continued westward.

He successively passed through Snow Lotus City, Port Dougans, Salvia Bay and the Dodotri Islands.

These large landmarks passed by Thain are actually targeted to a certain extent.

These landmarks basically appeared in the magic notes of many teachers of Moses.

Some were simply written down, while others were places that Moses had personally visited.

Including according to records, there should be black markets in these places, and they are even meeting points for black magicians.

But without exception, Thain did not find any traces of the black market or black magicians.

The limited number of black market sites discovered by Thain are only a pile of ruins and imperceptible wreckage, indicating that these black markets have long been erased.

At this time, Thain was in the western half of the Dodotri Islands on the south coast.

A huge floating ship flying above the sea of ​​clouds.

Standing on the deck and looking down, apart from some white clouds and the endless sea, the most eye-catching thing is the Dodotri Islands, which are rich in plants and materials.

In fact, the southern coast of the Wizarding World is very large, including continuing southward and reaching the depths of the endless South Sea, where there is a mysterious treasure house waiting to be explored.

As a top-level plane, the resources produced by the Wizarding World itself are extremely abundant.

Every year, countless knights and magicians explore the depths of the sea.

If you are lucky enough, the benefits from exploring the vast ocean will not be much inferior to participating in an alien war.

Several months have passed since Thane arrived on the southern coast of the Wizarding World.

However, Thain spent most of this time on the road.

Except for staying in Tizit Seaport for an extended period of time before, Thain rarely stayed in other cities or regions for more than a week.

Although this approach allowed Thain to cover a long distance in a relatively short period of time.

But it also caused him to miss a lot of things invisibly.

For example, the Dodotri Islands in front of us, if Sain is willing to take the time to explore them.

It is estimated that it will take two months to collect and collect some specimens of animals and plants unique to the Dodotri Islands, and it may not be possible to get out of the Dodotri Islands.

This way of traveling is the correct way for magicians above the level of the Wizarding World to travel around the Wizarding World.

After all, they have a lifespan of thousands of years. Even if the wizarding world is extremely grand and vast, it is still enough for them to explore freely for a long time.

Glancing towards the center of the Dodotri Islands that was gradually disappearing, Thane couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, he spent two magic coins and boarded the commercial floating ship connecting the two giant seaports on the east and west sides of the Dodotri Islands.

If Thain was flying by himself, it would take him at least more than a month to cross the vast and complex Dodotri Islands.

Taking this floating ship can not only compress the time to seven days, but also directly reach the giant port of Haiert with a short-distance space teleportation array.

The south coast of the Wizarding World is really huge. Even though Thain has been traveling non-stop for several months, he has only covered less than one-sixth of the south coast.

If he relied solely on the flying speed of a first-level magician, even if Thain was exhausted to death, it would take him three to four years at the earliest to reach the Western Islands.

The use of this commercial floating ship or the more convenient space teleportation array can greatly shorten the time spent on the road.

Although he was not able to take a close look at many special areas on the south coast, including the Dodotri Islands, Thain has benefited a lot in the past few months and has seen many features of the south coast.

In addition, Thain's space ring also contains many south coast specialties.

These things are counted as Thain's gains.

Fortunately, among first-level magicians, Thain is considered a rich man.

He still has about 15,000 magic coins on hand (ps: most of them were redeemed through points during the regional academy war), and the more than 20 second-level energy crystals he obtained in the yellow sand world are also The basics are still there.

This asset is enough to cover any expenses before Thane is promoted to a second-level magician.

Even if Thain saves a little, it would be enough to barely use it to the third-level magician stage.

It can also be seen from here how willing the major holy towers are to invest resources in cultivating apprentices.

Of course, it is unlikely that you will encounter a peak apprentice like Thain who easily collects 200,000 points in thousands of years.

Even if a peak apprentice appears, one hundred thousand points is basically the limit.

Normally, the apprentice who ranks first in the regional Holy Tower Academy War personal standings only earns tens of thousands of points, which is just a few thousand magic coins.

Is it worth spending thousands of magic coins to train a number one magic apprentice?

In the eyes of most first-level magicians and above, it is certainly not worth it!

Because many of them participated in a plane war, and their income was only a few hundred magic coins.

But in the eyes of the high-level vision of the wizarding world, this is worth it!

This is because the different classes we live in have different perspectives on things.

From the perspective of the tower masters and even higher-level experts, a few thousand magic coins are nothing.

If you use several thousand magic coins to cultivate a level three great magician, or a more powerful level four or higher Holy Spirit magician, it will obviously be a sure-profit deal.

Cultivating new generations with more potential is a major civilization plan for which wizard civilization has developed and prospered to this day, and hundreds of thousands of years have been invested in it.

The Regional Academy War is a model for cultivating newcomers promoted from top to bottom by the top management of the Wizarding World.

Including the resources and magic coins awarded to those magic apprentices, in fact, it is not all paid by each holy tower. The Wizards Alliance will provide certain subsidies.

Where does the Wizards Alliance's money come from?

It is not obtained from the many franchised planes, or from the weak planes directly controlled by the wizard civilization.

Using other people's money to cultivate your own people, the operating system of the Wizards Alliance is not something that ordinary civilizations can handle.

This has also led to the wizarding civilization's enduring civilization development so far, and it has mastered a civilization system that becomes stronger with each war.

According to his mentor Lu Lianman, the huge rewards he received during the war at Thane Regional Academy were enough for him to use to advance to the third-level great magician stage.

Speaking of which, Thain gained a lot from his mentor Lu Lianman.

Whether it is the inheritance of Jade Fire Magic, the pack of green source seeds, or the use and residence permissions on the top of the Holy Tower, etc.

But upon closer inspection, it seems that Lu Lianman has never directly given Thain magic coins or energy crystals or other common objects.

I don’t know if this is considered “the mentor’s pettyness”.

It is foreseeable that if Thain asks his mentor for money, Lu Lianman will put his hands on his hips and teach Thain in a serious tone that he should earn resources by himself, and the mentor is not your nanny.

Fortunately, Thain has never done this. He is not a person who only asks for unlimited things.

His mentor, Lu Lianman, was good enough to him.

…

After traveling through the Dodortrie Islands, Thane came to the giant port of Geert.

This giant port is the largest port Thain has encountered so far since arriving on the south coast.

Just the fact that the city center of this port has a short-distance space teleportation array shows that it is different from other cities.

Even Jizhiyuan Holy Tower... has not yet established a short-distance teleportation array, mainly because of lack of money.

The giant port of Hailt is a city where magic civilization is extremely prosperous. There are very few ordinary humans among the permanent population here, and most of them live in the outer city.

Most of the people walking in the city are knights and magicians.

The total number of knights and magicians above the first level in this city is estimated to be over a thousand.

The total number of magic apprentices and knight attendants has exceeded 100,000, which is almost as strong as the Jade Source Holy Tower.

I don’t know if there are any knights or magicians above level 4 living in seclusion in this city.

According to the map records and the magic notes of Moses, the giant port of Helt is considered one of the industries of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

This giant port was funded and built by the Dawn Holy Tower back then, and its current prosperity is inseparable from the resource tilt of the Dawn Holy Tower.

Within the territory of the Holy Tower of Dawn, there are two other similarly highly prosperous cities.

After arriving at the center of the city, Thane flew straight in the direction of the space teleportation array.

There is no flight restriction policy here. After all, this is just a city, not a holy tower.

And flying directly in the city is also a manifestation of one's own strength.

When Thain revealed the powerful elemental pressure of a first-level magician, many passing magic apprentices and knight attendants showed expressions of respect and yearning.

"Hmm, this seems to be a mechanic?" While flying towards the teleportation array, Thane saw a magician who was inside a metal aircraft and used the aircraft's mechanical arm to replace his arm.

The magician was stopping in front of a magic shop. He also looked up at Thain in the sky.

But to be precise, the target he was looking at was the constructor Yuli who was following Thain closely.

As an extremely prosperous seaport city, it is not surprising that there are mechanics in the giant port of Geert.

After all, Thain's travel route to the Western Islands included the City of Steel.

The mechanics of the City of Steel are also very likely to go in the opposite direction and come to the south coast of the Wizarding World to start their own travel journey.

The mechanic probably recognized Yuli next to Thain as a Nesser civilized creature, but the other party did not take the initiative to fly up and strike up a conversation.

The mechanics in the wizarding world are more dull and dull than other types of magicians.

I don’t know if it’s because they have been dealing with metal equipment all year round, or because they have been enclosed in a metal shell for a long time, so they are not good at communicating with others.

Thain took a focused look at the aircraft where the mechanic was.

It was a one-man metal aircraft with a diameter of no more than three meters, with a translucent cover on the upper half.

This metal flying machine went beyond Thane's knowledge of previous alchemical equipment.

In addition to the ability to fly, it is estimated that the other party has other uses, but I don't know if the metal disc under Thane's feet can fly faster.

The surprising glimpse of the mechanic was just a small episode before Thane headed to the space teleportation array.

Finally, Thane came to a stone palace with a grand and empty structure. Here, he would go through the procedures for using the space teleportation array.

"Excuse me, where is your destination?" Behind the long table, a sweet-looking female magic apprentice respectfully asked Thain in front of her.

This female magic apprentice should be the magic apprentice of the Holy Tower of Dawn. On the magic robe on her chest, there is a badge of the Holy Tower of Dawn.

The major holy towers in the wizarding world seem to like to squeeze their apprentices and use various academy tasks to let the apprentices display their value.

Of course, in the words of the magicians of the Holy Tower, this is actually "sharpening" these apprentices.

Here, the giant port of Geert has established space landmarks with four other places.

Two are in the west, one is in the south, and the other is directly connected to the Holy Tower of Dawn.

If Thain was simply in a hurry, he should use the space teleportation array to reach Muser City in the far west, which is also a relatively prosperous large city.

However, Thain is not in a hurry for this moment. He plans to go to the Holy Tower of Dawn first to meet the second-level peak magician Midic who gave him a great opportunity and helped him in his early years.

If it weren't for Midic, Thane would have died long ago in the underground world of the Underdark.

Moreover, it was this master who gave him a Holy Light Badge as a token to help Thain successfully join the Holy Tower of Origin of Jade.

So far, there are four people who have been very kind to Thain, namely: Lina, Moshe Duo, Midici and Lu Lianman.

Now that he has arrived at the Holy Tower of Dawn, Thain should meet this master no matter what.