Chapter 54: Ambition and the Nine Rings

Orondo never felt like he was a smart person, nor did he think he had a high level of emotional intelligence.

In his last life, as an earthling, he was just an ordinary office worker. My only hobby is reading, reading everything, which is why I became a librarian.

In this life, he became a human nobleman in Azeroth, if he didn't know that this was a world where even adult Titans could fall at will, he would actually prefer to be his own noble lord, eating, drinking, and having fun for a lifetime.

However, in Azeroth, an ordinary human aristocrat wants to eat, drink and be merry in peace, and Orondo finds it more difficult than becoming the richest man in the world on Earth.

At least on the earth, there is no way to become the richest man in the world, at least you can live, at least three meals are fed, and there is no big problem with personal safety.

But in Azeroth, still a human nobleman, or at this time - whether he can live to die of natural old age is a very realistic and greatly questionable question.

The calm of Azeroth is only a few decades away. Not a year has been quiet in Azeroth decades later.

The human race, which bears the brunt, is a disaster within a disaster, and almost half of the world-destroying disasters occur on the territory of human beings. As a human being, even if you don't hide as a nobleman, there is no safe place to hide.

Where to hide?

Lordaeron? Hehe, everything is undead under natural disasters. Orondo didn't want to be the Forsaken with a pile of rotten flesh and dripping corpse fluid everywhere—if he was unlucky enough to take the corpse and assemble it for abomination......

Dalaran? Without the butterfly effect, the unfortunate mage's capital would have been destroyed several times in a row. Even if they float to the sky, the legions, the old gods, and so on will carry out several terrorist attacks. Fortunately, the masters are okay, ordinary people can't die anymore if they come to a pond fish.

No part of the northern human kingdoms is safe!

So, hide in Stormwind in advance? Hehe...... That place is more dangerous. Not to mention that it is still a wild city, not to mention the orc war in the future, let's just say that Stormwind City, which has become powerful in the future, as an ordinary human being, will also experience a lot of messy things such as the Black Dragon Rebellion, the Defia Brotherhood, the Scourge Air Raid, the Wings Spitfire, the Legion Trouble, and the Arrival of the Ancient Gods.

As an ordinary person, if you can still live strong in such a stormwind city, you can buy lottery tickets casually.

Isn't there still a few decades of peace, one might say? In the past few decades, I have been hiding in my own territory, eating, drinking and having fun every day, and when the disaster comes, I will be sixty or seventy years old, and my burps are enough!

That being said, there are indeed decades of peace behind Azeroth. But that is the general peace of Azeroth, and it does not mean that Orondo and the Hillsbrad Hills, as a minor human noble, will be peaceful.

What if one day there is a bandit or something that can't be opened, and he comes to the door to rob him? What if a black dragon passes by one day and is in a bad mood and takes a squirt? What if two mages happen to be fighting nearby one day, and accidentally a fire explosion smashes at them?

Even if none of this happens, he lived to be sixty or seventy years old, and then hanged himself before the turbulent times of Azeroth.

Will he be able to rest assured? In his happy decades of eating, drinking, and merrymaking, won't he leave a large group of descendants? I burped and left a bunch of descendants for the natural disasters, orcs, demons, and ancient gods in the back?

People who are selfish in their hearts may not care, just say "who cares about the flood after death". But Orondo can't, after all, the soul that has the dominant power in the body has received more than 20 years of traditional Chinese education, and it is impossible to have no feelings for the family, relatives, homeland, and future generations.

Moreover, he still has half of the elven bloodline, and his natural lifespan is more than sixty or seventy years...... When the orcs and natural disasters come in the future, it is estimated that he will be in his prime, and he will really commit suicide and hang himself to end his life that can live for hundreds of years?

If you want to live a little freer, if you want to live longer. In Azeroth, no matter what race you are a part of, the only way to protect yourself and live well is to have power.

In this world of war, power is everything. It doesn't matter if it's its own power, or if it comes from a force that is attached to it, or if it comes from the help of an outside ally.

In the first three days of the time-travel, Orondo figured this out.

So when he found out that he had the fantasy device of the Eye of Truth on his body, and knew that he had the ability to become a mage, he resolutely embarked on the path of a mage.

For nothing else, so that there is no danger to his life in Azeroth in the future, and he will not directly GG because he is casually killed by a pond fish.

He knows that his IQ is not high, he is not very good at intrigues, and his emotional intelligence is average.

In order to live well in Azeroth, and even live a wonderful life, there are only two things that I can rely on-

One is his prophetic ability to the world, knowing the deeds and characters of many legendary figures.

The other is the Eye of Truth.

With the former, this prophetic ability can be used to avoid harm before the butterfly effect sets off a huge change.

With the latter, there is a basis of strength, with which you can have the power of self-preservation. Then, through a strong self-preservation force, develop the forces that depend on themselves, and finally attract allies to get external help when they are strong.

This is the plan that Orondo had decided in his mind before he came to Dalaran, and he will improvise and implement it in the future - gain power, gain power, and then get help!

Never be an ant in this world.

Even if it is an ant, it must be the kind of ant that makes Sargeras want to step on it, and he is a little hesitant.

At that banquet, after discovering Hero Grief and many other situations similar to him, Orondo took notice of it, and later asked Moros to investigate a situation similar to Héró.

After listening to Moros's report, Orondo already had a rough plan in mind.

However, before the plan was executed, he decided to pass Dalaran's mage ring exam and become a high-level mage before considering the implementation of the plan.

Speaking of Dalaran's mage ring exam, it is necessary to mention Dalaran and Quel'Thalas's division and cognition of mage levels.

In the real world, of course, there are no levels of 45, 60, 70, 80, 85, 90, and so on. And because the various races rarely communicate with each other, at most it is only because they have dealings with a few allies.

The strength division level of each race is not clear at all, it is not uniform at all, it is very complicated and cumbersome, and the primitive race simply has no strength division - the one who can fight the most is the big guy.

Because his teacher is Quel'Thalas, Dalaran is also very similar to Quel'Thalas in terms of mage rank.

According to the strength level of the mages by Quel'Salas and Dalaran, the mages are divided into nine ring levels according to their strength and knowledge, which is the so-called nine rings.

Zero Ring is the level of mage apprentice and apprentice apprentice, the level that has just come into contact with the power of arcane and can perform a little trick.

This is followed by one to three rings, which is the level of a formal mage. Mages of this level can already cast formal spells, such as fireballs, ice arrows and other offensive spells, and can barely rub bread, water, or put a slow fall spell, or start to try alchemy, enchantment, and other magic crafts.

As a human mage, the ability to reach this level, and also passed the certification of Dalaran, that is, the official mage, can have certain privileges in the territory dominated by the Kenrito Council.

Further up are the four to six rings. A mage of this level is called a high-level mage, and he has begun to have his own mage tower, and he has begun to have his own fame, and he is at least a court mage outside of Dalaran, and it is easy to become a nobleman in other kingdoms.

Being able to unleash range-based climate spells such as Blizzard, or being proficient in spells with more than four rings, such as flickering, are the characteristics of high-level mages.

In Dalaran, from the time of the High Mage, he had the right to be a teacher. And unlike a formal mage, if you want to become a high-level mage recognized by Dalaran, you must pass the Mage Ring exam of the Kenrito Council.

The identity that Orondo wants to obtain at this time is the identity of a high-level mage. So he needs to pass the ring exam of the Kenrito Council before he can be promoted from a full-fledged mage to a high-level mage.

As for the six rings and above, they are uniformly called archmages, archmages, great star magicians, etc., and so on. Mages of this level are already the elite of the elite, and the mages who can leave their names in history are all growths of this level.

And when it comes to the Nine Rings, that is the master, and the so-called legendary mage is also. There are not many existences of this level in the whole of Azeroth. Dalaran is also in the single digits.

Above the Nine Rings? No mage yet knows what that concept is.

Perhaps, but that's not something that most of the mages of Quelsala Stone and Dalaran have access to.