The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

As Ren flipped through the pages, his facial expressions sometimes frowned and sometimes relaxed.

Finally, Ren let out a long breath and began to think deeply.

It turns out that Adams is not a wandering wizard apprentice like Endri who became a monk halfway, but has a relatively orthodox background.

According to the records in the other party's diary, many years ago, Adams was the wizard apprentice of Thorin Bergman, the advisor to Duke Louis of the Dragon Empire.

However, at that time, he was young and energetic, and he had an affair with Catherine, the wife of Duke Louis, but this matter soon came to light and was secretly told to Duke Louis by one of Catherine's personal maids.

Fortunately, Adams, who sensed something was wrong in advance, discovered the Cavaliers team that came to capture him.

Adams felt that once he was caught by the furious Duke Louis, his life would be in danger. In addition, he was resentful of his mentor Thorin for not protecting him.

Immediately, Adams stole many magic materials and witchcraft scrolls from his mentor Thorin and quickly fled the imperial capital.

"Okay, this story can be passed down by troubadours! Tsk tsk, as expected, a man who is not romantic will waste his youth!"

"I didn't expect that Adams was also a romantic figure when he was young."

"Slept with me, Duchess. It was worth it."

"Well, it's much better than the troubadour in Endri. One just hooked up with the countess, but Adams is different. That's the duchess."

"But are all wizard apprentices so romantic?"

"Besides, the ones he likes are all wives. Cao's thief attributes are full." Ren rubbed his chin and thought to himself.

"In addition, Duke Louis' advisor Thorin, according to Adams' statement, seems to be a formal wizard from the 'Igni School'."

Although Adams only described his mentor Thorin in one sentence, Renn felt that it revealed a lot of content.

First of all, in this world, certain wizard apprentices or wizards have schools, that is to say, they have a complete inheritance and training system.

Since there is the 'Igni School', it means that there is a high probability that there are other schools.

This is obviously a good thing for Ren, who is trying to explore the mysteries of witchcraft but has been trying to cross the river by feeling the stones.

Secondly, the fact that an official wizard serves as the advisor to the Duke of the Empire. After careful consideration, Renn feels that this at least reveals that the empire's top brass does not view wizards as scourges, but rather as a kind of help.

This reminded Ren for a moment of the kind of counselors who accompanied his lord in ancient times.

After thinking about it so coherently, Renn felt that if he relied on the empire and continued to climb up, he should gradually come into contact with systematic knowledge of witchcraft.

In addition, there are some contents in the diary that also impressed Ren.

It turns out that in the eyes of third-level wizard apprentices, knights below the level of Grand Knight, whether they are senior knights or peak knights, are no different than fish belly.

In Adams's eyes, when his strength reaches his level, basically, only other mysterious professions can pose a threat to him, that is, in the opponent's mind, 'only witchcraft can fight against witchcraft'.

The knight's extraordinary ability, which relied solely on physical attacks, was not taken seriously by Adams.

No wonder Adams was quite disdainful when faced with the siege from him and Hamilton, thinking that he could easily handle it.

Ren thought carefully and deduced the battle situation according to normal circumstances. Indeed, Adams really had no possibility of losing.

With the strength shown by Adams, he can easily deal with the siege of a peak knight and a senior knight.

It's just that the other party was a bit unlucky to meet a cheating guy like him!

After an outbreak, a 'little monster' has a combat power that exceeds that of a peak knight, and also has a little bit of witchcraft.

So, unfortunately, Adams capsized in the gutter.

Of course, the focus of Renn's attention is that in Adams's knowledge and judgment, he, a third-level wizard apprentice, is at least equal to the Grand Knight, and even slightly better.

Does this mean that in this world, in terms of combat power, the combat power of a third-level wizard apprentice is equivalent to that of a great knight.

No!

Ren thought about it carefully and felt that one or two qualifications should be added.

That is, a third-level wizard apprentice who has a "professional background" and possesses many witchcraft scrolls as his trump card should be stronger than a great knight. The kind of wandering wizard apprentice or a "poor" wizard apprentice, that is not the case. That’s for sure.

‘Whether there is any external force that can be borrowed’ directly determines the combat power of a wizard apprentice!

After thinking about it, Ren continued to flip through the diary and read down.

A quarter of an hour later, Renn picked up the crystal ball, which was slightly smaller than a baby's head, and looked at it carefully.

"Unexpectedly, this crystal ball is actually a test crystal, which can simply test a person's affinity for the mysterious energy particles of various systems." Ren said to himself.

To put it simply, everyone has different attractions to different energy particles on the mysterious side.

For a wizard apprentice, energy particles with strong affinity, that is, strong attraction, will naturally be easier to control and more powerful.

Therefore, it is very clear in Adams's diary that before an orthodox wizard apprentice learns witchcraft, one very important thing is to test his own affinity direction.

So that when choosing a specialization in the future, you can get twice the result with half the effort!

This has benefited Renn, the 'wild' wizard apprentice, a lot.

Soon, Renne figured out how to use this 'test crystal'.

The method is very simple. You only need to pour your own spiritual power into the crystal ball and try your best to understand the mysterious energy particles around you.

After thinking for a moment, Ren decided to test it immediately, so he began to hold the crystal ball with both hands, closed his eyes, and concentrated.

With the injection of Ren's spiritual power, the crystal ball soon emitted a soft white light. At the same time, the originally transparent crystal ball began to surge with lights of different colors.

After a few seconds, the light gradually stabilized.

At this time, Ren opened his eyes and saw a red mist at the top of the crystal ball, and a light silver mist in the middle. The two seemed to be about the same size. Although there was a slight difference, the difference was not big.

The light silver is only slightly less than the red, and the two combined account for nearly 89% of the volume in the crystal ball.

What's left are some mixed colors, almost red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

According to Adams, red represents the affinity of the flame energy particles. The more area it occupies in the crystal ball, the stronger the tester's affinity for the energy particles.

Ren nodded slightly and thought to himself, this is right.

This also explains why when he first entered the first-level wizard apprenticeship, he could only mobilize flame energy particles.

As his mental power grew day by day and he was about to enter the level 2 wizard apprenticeship, he could barely affect other mysterious energy particles around him. At the same time, there was still a lot of difference in power.

However, this test crystal can only roughly measure the affinity direction of the tester, and cannot conduct a very precise quantitative test.

To put it simply, this is like if you take a certain exam and your scores in Chinese, Mathematics, and English are 60, 60, and 10 respectively, then the ratio is 6:6:1; of course, your scores should be 120, 120, and 10 respectively. 20, the ratio is also 6:6:1.

What is displayed on the test crystal is a certain ratio, not a specific value.

As for Renn, this light silver color.

There is no record of this in Adams' diary.

This made Ren frown slightly.

Obviously, if he can figure out what direction this pale silver energy particle represents, he can consciously collect witchcraft and related knowledge in this direction, and the witchcraft he performs will naturally have a lower affinity than it. Yes, much more powerful.

but

Since he couldn't be sure at the moment, Ren thought for a moment and decided to continue reading.

An hour later, Lane had read Adams' entire diary.

When Ren looked at the trophies on the table again, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

Regarding the short staff, there is a record in the diary that it was made from a special tree called Osmanthus sinensis and has the special effect of slightly enhancing negative energy witchcraft.

For Renn, it is of no great use.

It's just that some wizard apprentices who specialize in negative energy will probably like it very much.

The slender white finger bone was not recorded in the diary, so I will skip it for now.

As for the other two spiritual books, one details a method of making a secret potion. The effect of this potion is to increase a small amount of mental power, but 99% of the materials in it are things that Ren has never heard of. Passed.

Ren looked at it for a while and put it aside first.

Because, for most wizard apprentices, the only way to improve their spiritual power is through years of basic meditation practice.

A small number of wizard apprentices who are rich in resources, or have inheritance, have a second way, that is, they can improve by taking this rare potion that can increase their mental power in small amounts.

But for Renn, he still has a third way.

The effect is far stronger than the two methods mentioned before.

That's it - add some points!

Therefore, for Ren, in his mind, this kind of mysterious potion, which can enhance a small amount of mental power, is far less precious than the same potion in the hearts of other wizard apprentices.

Mainly because Renn considered a problem.

That is at this stage, if he chooses to make this potion, he will need to search for these rare materials on his own.

Maybe, the time spent in this process will allow Ren to upgrade his various career panels by several levels.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Ren understood that it would be much easier to arrange for people to search when his position was further promoted later, and it would be too late to make this potion by then.

Another book made Ren's eyes light up, because it recorded three witchcrafts, to be precise, two curses and one witchcraft.

The first is the first curse ‘mental exhaustion’.

The release conditions for this curse are a bit troublesome.

The first step is to draw a ritual, a reverse pentagram pattern. In addition, you need to have close contact with the cursed object. Of course, it would be better if there are hair or blood of the cursed object.

Renn was suddenly enlightened after seeing the description of the effect of the curse 'mental exhaustion'!

Curse 'mental exhaustion' effect: lowers the spirit of the cursed object and creates a strong sense of exhaustion.

This immediately reminded Ren of himself in his sleep last night. He suddenly felt extremely tired and could hardly open his eyes. It was obviously because of this curse.

Ren studied this curse-type witchcraft carefully, and then frowned.

Because the release of the curse of 'mental exhaustion' not only requires learning some prerequisite knowledge, such as 'basic principles of negative energy', 'human neurology', etc., the key to performing the technique also requires the mobilization of negative energy particles.

The strength of the negative energy particles that the caster can mobilize is directly related to the strength of the curse.

Of course, the strength of mental power is almost linked to the power of all witchcraft, so I won’t mention it here.

In other words, if it were Ren who performed this witchcraft, with the same mental strength, the effect of his curse would probably be much weaker than that performed by Adams.

The second curse is called 'Ghost Haunting'.

It also requires close contact with the cursed object, such as hair or blood. Secondly, it requires a ready-made resentful spirit or other spiritual creature. If not, it's not impossible, but the effect of this curse will be greatly reduced.

The curse's 'ghost entanglement' effect: causes the magnetic field of the cursed object to change, making it extremely easy to be noticed and attacked by ghosts, evil spirits and other spiritual creatures.

Seeing the effect of this curse, Ren couldn't help but understand why Adams was called the ghost controller.

Sure enough, there was only the wrong name, not the wrong nickname.

For most people, even formal knights, it would be difficult to resist this strange curse without the help of other external forces.

After thinking about it, although these two witchcrafts are curses with negative energy, it is more difficult for Ren to learn them. In addition, the effects after learning them are probably relatively modest.

But Wren still plans to try.

However, in terms of learning order, these two curse-oriented witchcrafts are ranked after the third witchcraft.

The third witchcraft is a witchcraft that Adams has not mastered, called 'High Temperature Force Field'.

Judging from the name, you can tell that this is a fire witchcraft, and it is also a rare force field witchcraft.

The effect of witchcraft's "high temperature force field": a high temperature spherical force field is formed within a few meters around the caster.

Judging from the scrawled text in the annotations in the book, the reason why Adams stole this witchcraft was because it was a rare force field witchcraft. Adams felt at the time that although it was a fire witchcraft, it was very powerful. Reference meaning.

But later, Adams discovered that the structure of the witchcraft model of this 'high temperature force field' was a bit complicated and difficult to master.

More importantly, this witchcraft is inconsistent with his fighting philosophy.

Adams tends to build himself into a "fort", that is, he prefers to learn witchcraft for long-range attacks, and the range of this "high temperature force field" is only a few meters, which immediately makes him have no desire to learn.

However, when Ren saw this witchcraft, he thought of something completely different from Adams.

A large part of Renn's current combat power comes from the knight (extraordinary) profession, which means that he mainly relies on melee combat.

The witchcraft of 'high temperature force field' seems to have an inexplicable fit with him.

Imagine that within a few meters of yourself, there is a high temperature comparable to that under the scorching sun of the Sahara Desert. The enemy will soon have signs similar to heatstroke, such as nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

This picture is simply too beautiful!

Of course, the above picture is only Ren's imagination. After all, the specific power will not be known until he learns it.

However, the 'High Temperature Force Field' is a fire-based witchcraft, which is completely consistent with Ren's affinity direction, which is a major advantage.

In other words, once Ren masters this witchcraft, its power can be slightly enhanced.

In addition, this elemental witchcraft does not seem to have any prerequisite learning content. It can be learned directly, and once mastered, it can be quickly transformed into combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Ren immediately decided to learn the fire witchcraft 'High Temperature Force Field' first, and then learn the two curses.

In the end, only two sorcery scrolls remained.

The production of witchcraft scrolls is extremely difficult, but it is extremely simple to release. You only need to input a small amount of mental power to trigger the scroll.

There is no need to consider the witchcraft model, affinity, etc., it is the thing that can most quickly improve the combat effectiveness of a wizard apprentice.

The only drawback is that it’s expensive!

Just when Ren was about to check the witchcraft scroll, there was a knock on the door from Matteo.

As soon as Matteo entered the door, he began to report on the investigation:

"Adjutant, we have found out the identity of that young man. He did not lie. He did become an employee of Adams store about a month ago."

"In addition, the other party told a more useful piece of news. Two days ago, a middle-aged man came to the store to see his boss. He felt that the attack on you might have something to do with that middle-aged man."

Hearing this, Renn raised his eyebrows. This was very possible.

After all, he had no grudge against Adams. If the other party came to attack and kill him, he must have been hired by someone else.

"Well, do you have any specific information about the middle-aged man?" Ren asked.

"Not long after the middle-aged man came in, Adams turned away from him. Therefore, the young man did not know the details of the discussion between the two parties and the specific identity of the middle-aged man."

"But, sir, I just asked someone to draw a portrait based on this young man's dictation. You can take a look." As he spoke, Matteo took out a rolled parchment from his arms, opened it and opened it. Placed it in front of Ren.

Ren was delighted, nodded and said, "Very good, Matteo, you are becoming more and more careful in your work."

After careful identification, Renn confirmed that the other party was not Baron Alonso, and at the same time, he was not Viscount Hamady.

Of course, that's assuming the two weren't using some kind of well-made human skin mask.

Ren recalled it in his mind and confirmed that he did not know this person.

But Ren always felt that this person's appearance seemed a little familiar, but he couldn't find the source of this familiarity.

Not a minute after Matteo left, there was another knock on the door in the utility room where Ren was.

Ren opened the door and took a look, only to see Lagret outside the door.

"Ren, is it convenient? I want to talk to you about something."

"Of course, come in."

"Ren, have you reached the level of a senior knight now?" Lagree looked at Ren with a pair of deep blue eyes and asked with a somewhat expectant expression.

"Huh? LaGrei, why did you think of asking this question?" Renn smiled.

"I heard from the night watchmen. They all said that your strength has surpassed Lord Hamilton, the Sheriff of Goldsmith Town."

"This...maybe so." Renn nodded and did not deny it.

"That's great! Renn, can I ask you something? I want to go to Yesong Forest to collect the remains of my brother and teammates, as well as their weapons."

"I've been waiting for too long." When LaGrei talked about this topic, her eyes suddenly lost light and she looked lonely!

It turns out this is what happened.

Ren looked thoughtful.

It's not that he doesn't want to go.

But since the canopy knight could easily kill Lagret's brother, a barbarian warrior whose strength reached 40% of the ferocious level, it was obvious that the opponent was very strong.

Although he killed Adams, a third-level wizard apprentice, this does not mean that he is confident in dealing with some mysterious events in this world.

"Ella Gray, I will go to Lord Hamilton right now to inquire about the county and the church's plans. Logically speaking, people from the church should be here soon."

"I heard that the delay some time ago was because Monsoon and the Sea Goddess Church were cooperating with the official empire to suppress the cult." Renn thought for a while and said.

At this time, my sister Mint suddenly shouted downstairs: "Brother, someone is looking for you downstairs. There is a carriage parked."

Renn raised his eyebrows. Could it be that someone from the Crowley family was here?

"Ding-deng-deng!"

Mint trotted upstairs, with a rosy face, and said slightly excitedly: "Brother, the carriage is not a rose pattern, it seems to be a giant dragon?"

Um?

Dragon?

impossible!

This immediately made Ren very confused.

He immediately said hello to LaGrei and went downstairs first.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he discovered that there was a luxury carriage parked next to the front door of his house. It was not the style of the Crowley family, and the coat of arms on the carriage was completely different.

This time the carriage shape has more curves, giving it a more refined and noble feeling.

In addition, the coat of arms in the upper right corner of the carriage is actually a lifelike giant dragon with its wings spread out and its head raised roaring.

What sister Mint said is true!

Ren's pupils shrank!

Obviously, the other party has a lot of background.

Because ordinary nobles or institutions are simply not qualified to use dragons as heraldry. This is the customary heraldry design tradition of nobles in the Dragon Empire.

Relevant content, Renne heard the other party talk about it when he and Jenny were chatting in the carriage a few days ago.

Saw Ren come out.

I saw a middle-aged man wearing a slim tuxedo also stepping out of the carriage and saying, "Excuse me, is this the deputy security officer of Goldsmith Town, Mr. Ren?"