Xiusi opened the box containing the red fruit, ate two according to the count of chips, and picked up the iron sword to cultivate.

Xius swung his sword as he swung it, and he could feel a surge of energy running through his body.

"It's really cool to feel like you're getting stronger little by little."

"Chips, analytics become the conditions to ride"

"Drop, a necessary condition to become a knight, to reach 3.0 strength or constitution to stimulate life energy"

"Analyze how long it will take me to awaken the vibrations," Hughes continued, commanding the chip deduction.

"Drop, according to the host's own cultivation speed, it is expected that the host's physique will break through 3.0 to awaken life energy after 18 days"

"18 days, that's a fast time," Theseus felt that he could wait.

Hughes made a trip back to the castle and exchanged his sword for a dagger. He's going to the woods to catch the black-scaled snake.

According to the memory of the original owner, the black-scaled snake is still very common here, non-venomous, and can be found in dark and damp places, but this snake is smaller, and the largest can only grow to the length of an adult's arm, and few people usually catch this snake.

Hughes walked around the forest and saw a black-scaled snake on a tree trunk, this black-scaled snake was only the thickness of a thumb, its whole body was pitch black, and even its eyes were black, and its length was strange.

Xius cautiously walked to the side of the tree trunk, pulled out the dagger, and stabbed it at the head of the snake, the black-scaled snake was suddenly broken into two sections, and the snake body was still constantly twisted, and Xius used the dagger to stir the entire snake body into a blur of flesh and blood, and picked out a snake gall.

Xius looked at the snake gall in his hand, gritted his teeth, and threw it directly into his mouth with a horizontal heart.

The moment the snake gall entered his mouth, Xius only felt a bitter smell instantly permeating his mouth. Hughes swallowed with nausea.

"Drop, the host ingests the black scale snake gall bladder, and the physique is slowly growing"

"In order to increase your physique, endure it, and go on," Xiusi said lightly.

Hughes took the dagger and began to hunt for the black-scaled snake in the woods.

In less than an hour, Xius had an extra cloth bag in his hand, which was full of black-scaled snake gall. It's nice to find so many, and it's enough for me to use for a while. Hughes walked back to the castle with the sack.

Cultivation is boring, but Xiusi doesn't think so, Xiusi gets up every day to cultivate and eat.

The growth of strength is also obvious.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I will break through the knight and awaken the life energy, but my father doesn't know when he will be back"

Count Clay has been gone for more than half a month, during which time he asked the soldiers to come back once, telling Hughes to come back some time later, and let Hughes go out of the castle as little as possible. Although Xius didn't know why, he did it, anyway, it was more convenient to stay in the castle to cultivate.

At noon, Theseus locked himself in his room, and he had a premonition that the vibrations were about to awaken.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Theseus's body began to ooze black and red impurities, and he could feel that he was undergoing a metamorphosis and preparing to break out of the cocoon into a butterfly, and there was a force in his body that was pregnant.

"Chip, list my data"

"Drop, Hugh Bruch, Strength: 3.2 Agility: 2.8 Constitution: 3.1 Status: Health"

Hughes opened his eyes, looked at his clothes that had been dyed red with impurities, and clenched his fists, a faint fluorescence wrapped around them. Hughes stood up, his bones rattling, he felt like he had grown a lot taller, and his whole body was light.

"Is this the life energy," Hughes sighed as he felt the energy in his body. I'm stronger than Uncle Rael now, but I don't have the actual combat aspect anymore.

Xiusi awakened the life energy, and he was in a happy mood for a while.

Hughes packed his clothes and went out, only to find that before he knew it, it was already dark.

On the street, an army slowly moved forward, and when the armor on the soldier's body moved, there was a loud noise with the ground, and the moonlight shone on the armor, reflecting the blood stains on the armor, and the blood stains were still very clear, as if they had just experienced a battle, which looked shocking.

Hughes heard the sound of horses' hooves in the room, and went out to check, Ellie had already walked in front of Hughes, "Master Hughes, the Earl has arrived at the castle, my lord asked me to call you"

"I know, I'll go now" Theseus strode down the stairs, eager to see his father, more for the ring, and saw that the knight's power was so powerful, and he became even more curious about the legendary wizard.

The light of the candle shone on the face of Count Clay's vicissitudes, and his face was full of fatigue. The knife and fork in his hand stopped in mid-air, as if he was thinking about something. It wasn't until a figure appeared in front of him that interrupted Earl Clay's musings, and Count Clay came back to his senses and realized that it was his son who appeared before him.

Clay glanced at Hughes, his face unwavering, but his heart was amazed. It's really Hughes, this has changed too much in the past month.

Count Clay stood up and asked Hughes to follow him to the study.

On the dimly lit staircase, Hughes and Count Clay walked one after the other, neither of them spoke, only the sound of footsteps echoing in the castle.

Pushing open the heavy door, Count Clay sat opposite Hughes.

"It seems that during my absence, I have put a lot of thought into cultivation, and I can feel that you are very different from before," Count Clay looked at Xius in front of him.

Instead of answering Count Clay's words, Theseus took out a ring from his pocket.

When Count Clay saw the ring, he seemed to think of something.

Earl Clay looked at the ring and pondered for a long time before he began to speak.

"You know wizards," Count Clay asked Hughes calmly.

"Wizard?, I read it in the book" Theseus was afraid of revealing the stuff, so he had to say so.

"This is the record of wizards is true, and the whole, in our entire continent of Corent, whether it is the royal family or the nobles of various fiefdoms, they have some connection with wizards"

"Then father, is this ring a wizard's thing" Xius already knew in his heart that there were wizards in this world, but he could confirm it from his father's mouth, and he was still surprised in his heart.

"This ring, it is indeed a wizard's thing, it was given to me by a wounded wizard I rescued when I was young in my early years, and he told me that this is a token, a token that can enter the wizard's academy, their academy is called the Ring of Shadows, which is the symbol on the ring"

Theseus suppressed the excitement in his heart, he knew that it was not that simple. Quietly wait for my father to finish.

"In the early years, I ordered someone to inquire about this academy, it is indeed a wizard academy, it is said that every five years it will be tested on the Death Coast of Soto City, the northernmost part of the Corente continent, and if you pass, you can enter the academy and become a wizard, but something went wrong, the Shadow Ring has not appeared on the Dead Coast for twenty years, but my friend in Soto City has sent a message that in a month, there will be wizards on the Death Coast to test, which is also the purpose of I called you"

"What do you think, I want to send you over, if you have the qualifications to become a wizard, plus this ring, it will be easy to enter the academy, and it will be of great benefit to you and the entire Bruch family at that time"

"Go, I'm sure I'm going to go, Father-in-Ama, I'm sure I'll become a wizard and I won't let you down"

"Okay, if you think so, it's not in vain that I killed so many soldiers for you to get those things"

Seeing the doubt on Hughes' face, Count Clay returned the token of the Shadow Ring to Hughes.

"Take this ring, and don't tell anyone about it," said Count Clay solemnly.

"I went to the Nanling mine for so long this time, it was originally just a nest of bandits making trouble in the mine, but I didn't expect a small family to make trouble inside"

"But to my surprise, that family actually has something to do with wizards, so I asked around about this family, there are indeed wizards, but I don't know the strength. ”

"Father, are you alright?"

"It's okay, it's just a wizard apprentice, and it's a little more powerful than ordinary people, and I was cut by a sword" Speaking of this, Count Clay was in a very good mood.

"Wizard apprentice?" Theseus wondered

"Before becoming a wizard, it starts with an apprenticeship, and only by passing the apprenticeship level can you become a real wizard," Count Clay explained.

"Father, how do wizards divide their ranks?"

"I don't know this, in the wizarding world, ordinary people like us can only understand the skin, and we know that the official wizard is only a wizard apprentice in front of it."

"But the wizard apprentice who was beheaded by me is still worth a little, and there are more than twenty magic stones on his body."

"Magic stones?" Hughes heard the unfamiliar words again.

"It's the currency used to trade between wizards, these more than twenty magic stones, it's not a small amount, I'll let someone give it to you tomorrow, you can take it to Soto City yourself, in the Shadow Ring, you will definitely be able to use it"

"Okay, you go back, I'm going to rest, so many days of hard work, my body can't help it" Count Clay waved his hand in the direction of the door with some tiredness.

"Yes, Father, you have a good rest," Theseus walked out of the study and closed the door.