Due to the personality of the wizards, this teacher-student relationship will be even closer than that of blood relatives, and students will have to give everything to their teacher, and pin their loyalty and destiny on the teacher; Teachers also need to take their students more seriously than their children, lovers and even elders.

In the wizarding world, betraying one's teacher is the most hated and despicable crime in the wizarding world. Because of this symbiotic relationship, the chief student can be seen as the spokesperson for the wizard leader he serves.

Naturally, the seriousness of the formal teacher-student relationship makes wizards very cautious about this, a student with bad intentions can be a devastating blow to a school lineage, there are not a few people like Rasputin who have great power but are unwilling to accept apprentices, and there are also those who simply take their relatives and lovers as students, and deepen the connection through two layers of relationships - this led to the emergence of magical families.

They generally have ancient arcane traditions and do not communicate with the outside world, let alone have their knowledge in the hands of outsiders. These wizarding families often have a long history, and they constitute the main force in the wizarding world of "aristocracy" and the promotion of "bloodline".

Even in a relatively free wizarding world like the Magic Tower, and as a high-powered wizard leader, the five members of Steppenwolf still maintain this caution.

Marion Green, who has the largest number of apprentices, does not have more than ten real students. And if nothing else, the leader of a school often only cultivates one chief student in his life.

Because of this, the status of the chief student is the most competitive target of the younger generation of genius wizards. Among them, even Richard, who was an outsider in the past, had heard of all kinds of frightening rumors.

In addition to ganging up to gain support, studying hard to move up the ranks faster, currying favor with teachers with excel in tasks such as "Hunting Hour", and winning wizard duels that emphasize personal strength, there are even conspiracies such as assassination, poisoning, and framing.

All in all, it is an extremely cruel and fierce competition, let alone winning, once you throw yourself into this whirlpool, it is not easy to survive in the end.

The high wizarding leaders never paid attention to such "little things", and so this terrible custom has been preserved. A legendary wizard is often born by stepping on the corpses of countless people of the same kind, and they rely on their talents and wrists to climb up step by step, so they naturally do not take this "reasonable" competition to heart.

And since this is an internal competition between students, it is a violation of the unwritten rules of the teacher-student relationship in the wizarding world to intervene to stop it; Rather, the people on the magic tower believe that only in this environment can a truly outstanding young wizard be born.

What's more, even if the students die completely, it doesn't matter to them, countless people are eager for the wizard leader's teachings, and they will not lack students who can be cultivated.

But for Richard, who comes from a modern civilized society, this naked society dominated by the law of the jungle is really awe-inspiring.

Ignorant and unknown, he was still envious of the lives of young wizards who were far more talented than him and respected by the higher-ups: studying the magic path in the laboratory, hunting demons in the wilderness, and slashing all the way through the wizard duel to break the crown...... That's what you should do when you're in another world!

At that time, Richard was frustrated that he could not become a real wizard and enjoy the thrill of adventure.

But as he learned more about wizarding society, this kind of thinking soon faded, and he began to feel that there was nothing wrong with being willing to be mediocre.

Competition is competition, and adventure is risk, but it's better to be afraid all day long and live a life where you have to worry about your life all the time.

Richard is self-aware of himself, and ordinary modern people are no longer accustomed to the life-risking fights of the past, and this personality is naïve from the perspective of the concept on the Black Tower, so naïve that it is likely to be seen as prey by people with malicious intentions, and one day quietly murdered.

Richard always believed that the most important thing he should do was to stay away from danger as much as possible, and other negative effects, such as being regarded as "cowardly and cowardly" because of this withdrawal, being despised and despised by others, were trivial.

It's just that the world is impermanent, and I didn't expect that one day he would ascend to the sky in one step and directly cross the stage of competition with the young wizards at the top, which is really incredible. But whether this is a good thing or not is still unknown.

Thinking of this, Richard's hand holding the serpent staff of gold and gems couldn't help but work harder.

At the moment when the magic power is still at the level of "apprentice", in addition to the spiritual ability, knowledge and authority that a legendary wizard has, the only thing he can rely on is the items that once belonged to Rasputin (there was originally a "constant talisman spell" that the other party once set up around his body, but Richard found that although he could control whether this part of the spell was turned on or not, once it was triggered, the magic power required to consume was not something he could afford at all), and unfortunately, Rasputin was the kind of wizard who didn't pay much attention to what was outside his body.

Richard still had the Book of Magic and the Black Thorn in his arms, but it would take a while to study the secrets hidden in them.

All that was left to use was the mask on his face and the golden snake staff in his hand. The Silver Mask is just a secondary alchemy item for spells in the spell realm that can have a camouflage effect, so the only thing left to use against the enemy is the snake staff.

According to Richard's observations, the serpent's staff has a powerful power that originates from the realm of the mind - it contains a magic power far more powerful than a mask, and it is the magic power of the master rank. Its abilities include multiple aspects: it can screen lies, judge emotions of joy and sorrow, etc., and as a means of attack, it has a spell called "Mental Storm".

This spell is the superior of the "Psychic Shock" type of spells. Psychic Shock is a signature spell in the mental realm that can cause stun and even stun to enemies, and its effect varies depending on the level of willpower, and even those with weak wills may become idiots.

Mental Storm is even more on this basis, except that the effect has been enhanced to the point that it can make people directly brain dead, and the scope has been greatly expanded, and it can be used on multiple people. Richard thought it might be some kind of powerful electromagnetic pulse weapon against the human brain.

Of course, alchemy items are still different from wizards who can actually cast spells. A powerful spell of this magnitude requires ten hours of recharge, cannot be used in long-term combat, and is even less meaningful to a legendary wizard.