Chapter 6: Copying the Scroll
Victor spoke again: "Being able to sense the presence of mana while meditating is an official entry, my magic apprentice." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoNext, you need to further learn the ability to cast 1st level spells, take these two scrolls, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me. ā
Yang Guang took the two magic scrolls from Victor's hand and opened them one by one, revealing one "Magic Missile" scroll and the other "Mage Armor" scroll.
Compared with the 0th-order "Light Technique", these two first-order spells are significantly more difficult in terms of difficulty, but Yang Guang already has a foundation, and under the guidance of Victor, he quickly learned their spell chanting methods, and copied the two spells into his own magic book.
In the following days, Yang Guang continued to study hard behind closed doors, and it took him almost a week to finally complete the first-order spell of "Magic Missile", and after he skillfully recited the spell, he released a purple missile from his fingertips, and smashed the wooden card that was used as a target more than ten meters away.
Looking at the sawdust all over the ground, Yang Guang couldn't help but smack his tongue at the power of the magic missile, this thing is more powerful than an ordinary pistol, but it's not surprising if you think about it carefully, the mage wants to meditate on the power of the spell to chant spells, and there are also spell slot restrictions, if the released missile can't even be knocked down by an ordinary person, then what else does the mage do?
Coming out of Victor's magic tower, Yang Guang was once again bathed in the warm sunlight.
Becoming a trainee mage for 20 days made Victor very appreciative of Yang Guang's learning ability and gave him a high evaluation. At the same time, Victor also told Yang Guang that as a trainee mage, the most important thing for him now is to collect commonly used magic scrolls and perfect his magic books, which are not rich.
Mages can copy the spells they have prepared on the scrolls, which is how the magic scrolls that Victor gave to Yang Guang came from. The higher the level of the magic scroll, the rarer it is, and the higher level spells often contain unimaginable power and are not so easily tied to a blank scroll.
Victor suggested that Yang Guang start by copying the first-order scrolls, on the one hand, each copying process is a re-learning and comprehension of the spell, and on the other hand, the successful copying of the magic scrolls can be sold for gold coins, and then to buy other magic scrolls that he lacks and need to copy in his magic book.
The urban style of the Faeron Continent is completely different from modern time and space, and Yang Guang looked at the buildings on both sides of the street with relish, feeling that the special effects were much stronger than those movies he had seen before.
After coming to the bazaar, Yang Guang was even more dazzled by the dazzling array of goods, but fortunately, he still firmly remembered the purpose of his trip, and soon followed Victor's instructions to find a shop with a staff sign hanging at the door of the house.
The owner of the shop is Luke, a middle-aged man in his forties, who looks shrewd and capable. There aren't many items in his shop, but every one of them is related to magic, and after hearing Yang Guang mention Victor's name, Luke says that he can give Yang Guang the lowest price, just like Victor did.
When he went out, Victor gave Yang Guang a money bag full of gold coins, but Yang Guang didn't plan to use it, he was already embarrassed to study, eat and live in Victor's magic tower for free, and he really couldn't help but use the teacher's money to buy things for himself, so Yang Guang took out the industrial silver ingots that had been prepared long ago from his backpack, handed them to Luke and asked, "Can this thing be exchanged for gold coins?" ā
Luke took the silver ingot from Yang Guang's hand, weighed it with his hand, licked it with his tongue, and said to Yang Guang, "I can exchange it for 100 silver coins for you." ā
Yang Guang nodded in acceptance and took 100 silver coins from Luke's hand. He used the money to buy a bottle of secret ink, which cost 45 silver coins, and a stack of 20 blank scrolls, which cost 40 silver coins. Thinking that he had borrowed Victor's things before, Yang Guang also used 10 silver coins to buy a set of transcription tools, and spent the silver coins that had not yet been warmed up.
Back at Victor's Magic Tower, Yang Guang began to concentrate on copying the scroll.
Copying scrolls is not an easy task for a mage, and it is necessary to prepare the spells to be cast before meditating to restore mana.
When copying, if a mage or other mage casts a spell on a blank scroll, as long as the mental power is not concentrated enough, or the control of the mana in the whole process is deviated, the transcription will immediately fail, and the blank scroll used will be destroyed, wasting the secret ink that has been used.
It took Yang Guang a full five days to use up the stack of blank scrolls, but he only got 4 qualified magic scrolls, which was a 20% success rate. He made a trip to the bazaar and sold all four Tier 1 scrolls from Luke for 400 silver coins.
There is still about one-tenth of the secret ink in the 45 silver coin, and the transcription tool can be used for a long time, and the price of 10 silver coins also makes it seem very small in the overall cost, so the monetary cost of this transaction is about 80 silver coins.
Although those 5 days of busyness were indeed very hard, the 400 silver coins harvested made the whole transaction a net profit of 400%, which is much better than ordinary business.
This was not all Yang Guang had gained, he had improved his understanding and knowledge of spells by copying scrolls, and this increase in strength could not be bought by any amount of money. Strictly speaking, those magic scrolls were just accessories that Yang Guang had obtained during his studies, and how much money they could sell for was already secondary.
However, since there is such a good thing that can improve himself and make money, Yang Guang will certainly not let it go easily, he bought a large number of secret inks and blank scrolls from Luke, and returned to Victor's magic tower to continue to be busy.
By the time all these inks and scrolls were all gone, it would be 20 days later. The continuous boring process instead honed Yang Guang, further deepening his understanding of spells, and increasing the success rate of copying a bit, and finally obtained 22 Tier 1 scrolls.
Selling these scrolls, Yang Guang harvested 2,200 silver coins, so many quantities were not easy to carry, Luke exchanged them for 22 gold coins, which were also spent by Yang Guang like water before they could be heated.
He first bought a storage pocket, which looks about the same size as an ordinary instant noodle pocket on the outside, but it can provide about a foot square of space inside, and reduce the weight of the items in it by about 20%, so that Yang Guang can carry his belongings more easily when he goes out.
This kind of storage pocket is basically the lowest and cheapest, but one still costs Yang Guang 10 gold coins.