"Master Wayne, you don't actually have to order any newspaper delivery business, I get up an hour early every morning to buy the newspaper, besides, the price of 1 gold pound is too expensive......

Wayne listened to the chatter of his servant, cook, and butler, and gently shook a few newspapers in his hand.

[On August 12, 1024 in the new calendar, after six months of consultations, the Chamber of Deputies of Ceylon passed the proposal for a steam railway from the city of Florence to the city of Pearl.

This is also the first steam railway to be built in the south continent and the West Continent, and the Minister of Industry promised that once the railway is completed, Ceylon's cargo throughput will be increased by at least 60% or more......] - Ceylon Economic News

[The six-month-long Kosh War continues, and unlike the analysis of external intelligence agencies, the Kosh government forces surrounded in the capital were not completely wiped out by the rebels at the end of last month, but almost broke the encirclement of the rebels in several offensive and defensive battles.

According to internal intelligence, this may be related to the secret assistance of Middle-earth powerhouse Withers to the Kosh government army ......] - Horn Voice

[On August 10, 1024 in the new calendar, at the five-year Sarayan Music Exchange, one of the founders of hard-core singers, a famous advocate of gay love, and the Count of Gold and Silver Horns, Samolov Diesel publicly delivered at the closing ceremony:

"A real man should go to a man, and only a man should go to a woman" ......] - Crown Music News

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"Master Wayne, our expenses are really getting bigger and bigger now, by the way, Florent's meat has risen by 7 pence today......

The family is now only dependent on your uncle Sir Luke's monthly maintenance, and the expenses are getting tighter, and besides, you will have to pay an expensive entry fee for the knight's rank examination next month......"

Beside him, the middle-aged servant was still calculating the household expenses at a pound and a shilling and a penny.

Wayne didn't raise his head to make a mummmm, casually scanning the newspaper one by one, tapping his fingers lightly on the table.

"The spell model is still not very stable in terms of mana transmission, and the mental power consumed is 3 scales more than the standard model recorded in the book, but there is no problem with the general structure, and it can be improved slowly......

In general, from the experiment with the newspaper servant just now:

[Charm Pupil] is a spell, in addition to the effect of casting spells of the same sex is a bit disgusting, depending on the mental strength of the caster, it can also perform long-term hypnosis to a certain extent.

However, during channeling, disturbances, such as noise and physical collisions, may cause the cast to fail.

Well, it's pretty useful in zero-tier spells.

But well...... This spell called [God's Finger], I don't understand it a little.

The name is so loud, but it seems that it can only condense a faint thunder attribute on the fingers, which makes people feel numb?

There's a ...... this."

After summarizing the gains and losses of this witchcraft experiment in his heart, he threw the spell called [God's Finger] into the trash can in disappointment.

Wayne raised his head and interrupted the old butler's question about the price of horse feed:

"Okay, Mr. Paul, don't worry about the gold pound in advance, no matter what, I will settle your monthly salary a month in advance."

"Okay." Paul immediately closed his mouth cleanly, with a decent smile on his face: "Master Wayne, what do you want to eat at noon?" I prepare the ingredients in advance. ”

"No need, I'll go to my uncle's house at noon, there is a family dinner."

Wayne stood up and stretched, his majestic figure was extremely oppressive: "By the way, Mr. Paul, please go to the bronze blacksmith shop, I customized a knight's sword, today is the acceptance day." ”

"Bronze Blacksmith? Over there in Hilltown? Paul said with some hesitation: "Master Wayne, it's not close over there, and it takes a day to go back and forth in the pack cart, so I can't say I have to have lunch outside......

Wayne glanced at the servant helplessly: "The travel expenses and lunch will be reimbursed from home." ”

"No problem." Paul exhaled and patted his chest with a smile: "Master Wayne, before six o'clock in the afternoon, I will bring the knight's sword back for you on time." ”

Sending his only servant away, Wayne shook his head secretly.

Twenty years ago, slavery was abolished in the Southern Continent and the New Noble Act was passed in the Federal Assembly of the Southern Cities.

Wayne's status as a nobleman has been cut almost the most severely.

There is no longer the privilege of the nobles who can spend money to be exempted from liability for killing people who violate the law, there is no longer the preferential treatment of officials who are exempt from examinations, there is no longer a fief vassal, and there is no longer the benefit of exempting 50% of taxes and fees for doing business......

In this way, there are 174 laws restricting the abolition of aristocratic privileges......

Standing in front of the window on the second floor, Wayne watched Paul's back close the door, and then continued to wait for more than a dozen quarters of an hour before turning into the study, locking the door, and skillfully buttoning the pull tab in the hidden place on the right side of the bookshelf.

With a slight grinding sound, the bookshelf, which was the same height as the entire wall, slowly shifted to the side, revealing a gap just large enough for one person to pass through.

Behind the gaps, mossy gray stone bricks spiraled down and disappeared into the darkness, like a giant mouth with its mouth wide open waiting for its prey.

Ignoring the screams of the wind in his ears like a wail, Wayne walked more than forty steps down the slightly slippery stairs before a large basement appeared in front of him.

Under the glow of luminous moss on the walls, tables, chairs, beds, washrooms, stoves, kitchenettes are all available.

The most conspicuous thing is the XXXL stone platform in the center of the basement, on which many strangely shaped instruments are placed on the bottles and cans.

"There are many lakes in the Gulf Stream area near the coast of Florent, and the underground air is still a little too humid......

Whew, if only I could move to the manor for experiments......"

Wayne wiped the moisture from the wall and muttered to himself.

However, he knew, it was clearly an unrealistic fantasy.

Even more than 1,000 years have passed since the gods disappeared, and the glory of the gods has become darker and darker under the kingship.

Even the legendary [Demon Ban Decree] issued by the gods is like waste paper in a sense.

Hundreds of years ago, the 'demon exterminators' who were all over the city, wearing red-backed and white-striped robes, wearing blood-dripping beheading badges, often in the name of 'heresy', searched every other week to capture and burn wizards at the stake.

But Wayne still didn't dare to reveal his wizarding identity in the slightest.

Because from what he has been able to touch since he was a child,

including jokes that scare small children from the mouths of adults; in the classroom of a history teacher in a primary school; folklore myths passed down by word of mouth; and even in various knightly adventure novels......

The term sorcerer represents evil, darkness, depravity, destruction, and other negative images.

This negative image is not only common in the southern continent, but also in the Pandora world......

With a sigh, Wayne dispelled his unrealistic illusions, sat down at the central stone table, and picked up a charcoal pen on a heavy notebook, recording his experience in the two spells of [Charm Pupil] and [God Finger].

When this was done, Wayne got up and washed his hands carefully twice before carefully taking out a heavy book with a brown leather cover from the dark compartment of the bookshelf next to him.

On the cover is written in the ancient lingua franca - "The Wizard Initiation of the Bruce Family"

In order to recognize these words, Wayne spent half a year secretly learning this ancient script, which had been taboo five or six hundred years ago.

And this book, along with the XXXL platform and some of the instruments, is a secret legacy left to him by Wayne's father, who died young.

His parents disappeared in an avalanche during an expedition, and Wayne, who was just two years old, lived with his uncle until he was 14 years old before taking over the family's ancestral home in the Gulfstream district.

Later, during a cleaning process, he stumbled upon the secret passage and basement behind the study on the second floor, as well as the secrets of the Bruce family as a wizard family.

This "Enlightenment of Wizardry in the Blues" records a considerable number of low-level spells used in enlightenment, as well as related knowledge such as alchemy, pharmacy, potions cultivation, and historical secrets.

According to the introduction, the history of the Bruce family can even be traced back to the dawn calendar before the new calendar, when the legend of wizards and gods waged war.

Of course, on this point, Wayne feels that his ancestors are in Ha Cowhide......

Turning the pages of the book along the pre-clipped bookmark, on the unknown leather page, is the spell model and introduction of [God's Finger] -

[Believe me, with the use of [Charm Pupil], the spell of [God's Finger] will have indescribable abilities in some aspects......]

"It's all! I also felt that such a resounding name as the Divine Finger, even if it was a zero-order spell, must have something unique, and as a result, I wasted a month of building a spell model. ”

With an old stalk in his heart, Wayne turned the page with a dark face.

Pharmaceutics, p. 78...... Found ...... [Come, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh] ......"

Wayne silently took a sip in his heart, someone who could come up with the name of this potion broke his legion, and then carefully read the potion materials on the page that he had memorized for a long time.

After confirming that it was correct, he checked them one by one, and carefully took out all kinds of materials with an attitude of just cutting his foreskin and holding his little brother to shout.

It is also impossible for Wayne not to pay attention.

This kind of potion that can perfectly hide the aura of wizards, for him, not only means that he doesn't have to worry about it in the future, for fear that one day when he goes to the street, he accidentally meets a high priest who can detect the magic in his body and GG.

The more important significance is that in the [Knight Assessment] of the Principality of Ceylon a month later, this bottle of potion can be used to conceal the official detection of divine arts.

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Since the wizard disappeared, Pandora's extraordinary power that can be brought out openly is only a few professions such as knights.

It is different from the [Divine Favorer] (Warlock) who awakens by looking at his face, and it is also different from the [Priest] or [Priest] who must surrender his faith and soul to various churches in order to gain supernatural powers.

Knights are individuals, as long as they are willing to work hard (krypton), they can embark on an extraordinary path, and they naturally have a wide audience base.

In addition, ordinary people have an innate yearning for extraordinary power, and after the disappearance of the gods, in order to suppress the divine power, the governments of various countries issued a large number of policies that the knight class could obtain preferential treatment.

The knight, a transcendent power that had been marginalized in the wizarding era, grew rapidly in the millennium following the beginning of the new calendar.

The systematic way of practice, the way of fighting, etc., are all summarized.

However, unlike the judgment method of a wizard priest who can use several orders of spells (divine arts), the practice of knights is to constantly strengthen their physical bodies, and there is no specific standard for judging strength at all.

So the knight assessment was like an event at the beginning.

And following the standards of priests (wizards), a level from one to nine was established, and after passing several levels of assessment, several levels of knightly certificates or medals were issued.

As a result, the knight's transcendent profession has officially embarked on the road of professionalism and standardization.

Later, Pandora countries basically had their own knight assessment events.

Of course, in this case, due to the different levels of assessment difficulty in each country, the gold content of knights in different countries is also different.

For example, in the most watery Duchy of Turent in the Southern Continent, knightly medals can be bought for as long as they spend money.

The strongest are the two great powers of Middle-earth, Atlan and Withers, their first-order knights, who really fight, can often treat the second-order knights of other countries as little brothers.

In the Duchy of Ceylon or the countries of the Southern Continent where Wayne is located, the gold content of the knight assessment has been quite good in recent years.

The reason is that after the implementation of the New Noble Act, it was clearly stipulated that all descendants of hereditary nobility could only inherit their father's title unless they had made a great contribution to the state.

Wayne's father, who died young, was a baron, and a baron with a fief.

Of course, under the New Noble Act, all fiefdoms and vassals were nationalized.

However, in order to appease the old aristocracy, the Duchy of Ceylon would still pay 20% of the annual tax revenue of the original fief to the nobility.

In other words, as long as Wayne successfully passes the knight examination next month, he will be able to officially inherit the title of Baron Bruce after his 16th birthday, and receive 20% of the annual tax of the former fief.

Well, by the way,

The wizard profession requires not only talent, but also krypton, krypton, and krypton......

And Wayne - no money......

Just the materials for this [come, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh] potion, it took Wayne more than a year to slowly assemble.

"20 grams of crow flesh, supplemented with red crystal dust, pickled in the juice of fathead grass, phew, fermented for 30 quarters of an hour...... At the same time, 10 grams of ghost insect shells are extracted from the alchemy table...... Prepare 100 ml of Roldi alcohol at 50% concentration......

Whew, okay, the concentration of the configuration solvent is normal, the fermented flesh mana scale is normal, and the next step is the last step......

According to the records in the book, at this point, the potion basically has a 99% chance of success, haha, no matter how dark my face is, I probably won't touch that 1%......"

Wayne wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a relaxed smile on his face.

One hand glowed with a faint white light, pressing the control center in the center of the alchemy platform to supply magic power,

With the other hand, he carefully picked up a piece of meat wrapped in a blood-red mist with tweezers, and confidently placed it into the solvent that bubbled with gaygay pink bubbles underneath.

The next second,

With a "boom", a scorching fire rose up......

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[After the defeat, the various temples jointly issued a ban on demons, and the demon slayer relied on the temple's tracking methods to slaughter and capture a large number of wizards hidden among ordinary people.

In just a few decades, the number of wizards who survived that war was reduced by nearly half.

In this case, in the 67th year of the new calendar, a seventh-order wizard named Fei Di'an invented this potion called [Come, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh].

Moreover, the preparation method and materials of this potion are relatively simple, so it can quickly spread among wizards.

Ahem, although nine out of nine wizards with the name of this potion wanted to kill the name after hearing it, it was indeed able to perfectly conceal the aura of wizards of the sixth order and below.

(Of course, this is if you don't cast your magic in the presence of the Demon Slayer.) ）】

—Excerpt from "The Wizard Initiation of the Bruce Family"