Chapter 111: Aldrich
Aldrich complained about the unfairness of life, envied the life of the nobility in the towns near the castle, longed for the experiences of the legendary characters in the troubadour's mouth, and prayed to the stars that a miracle would happen, but when he woke up the next day, he found that nothing had changed, how to live or how to live, if this continued, Aldrich's greatest possibility was to marry a girl from a neighboring village and have children, and finally live his life plainly.
Perhaps his prayer for the stars really worked, when he was 18 years old, a violent earthquake completely collapsed the castle, and Aldrich, who was lucky enough to save a life, found that there was a basement under the castle in the ruins of the castle.
In this basement, there were no gold coins or fortunes that Aldrich was looking forward to, only a simple table, and a book on the table that was not too thick, this book written in the lingua franca of the continent, called the Wizard's Codex, which allowed Aldrich to see a magical world he had never seen before, or even heard of only a few words—the wizard's world!
It turned out that one of his ancestors was a mysterious wizard apprentice, a high-level wizard apprentice who served the royal family of the Nader Kingdom, and that made his family famous hundreds of years ago.
But for some reason, Aldrich's family did not record any deeds of this ancestor at all, and after the ancestor died, the family slowly declined, until Aldrich found this basement on that day, and a wizard's codex left by the ancestor in the basement, which was this wizard's codex, which allowed Aldrich to open a door to a different world.
This wizard's codex, although it does not have the ability to make Aldrich directly become a wizard's apprentice, and most of the content is only a simple introduction to wizards, herbs, minerals, and the knowledge of making potions, but at the end, it has a detailed description of how to become a wizard's apprentice, and a diagram of the witch formation necessary to become a wizard's apprentice.
Although it is explained in the Codex that the actual success rate of this wizarding array of how to become a wizard's apprentice is only one level, Aldrich, who is bent on becoming a wizard, does not think about this at all.
In order to become a wizard apprentice, Aldrich began to travel all over the world, as a mercenary, a mouse, and even did the work of a bandit, little by little accumulation, constantly collecting the materials needed to become a wizard, and finally through unremitting efforts and super luck, Aldrich became a junior wizard apprentice before he was 50 years old.
After becoming a wizard apprentice and slowly getting in touch with the outlines of the wizarding world, he realized how lucky he was to be promoted to wizard apprentice, and how desperate he was at the same time!
There is a saying among wizard apprentices: "If you want to become a wizard apprentice, or even a real wizard, you can only have a glimmer of hope if you have a talent beyond ordinary people, a wealth of knowledge, enough gold, and enough luck!"
Therefore, if you want to become a wizard apprentice, you first need to have the guidance of a guide, without the guidance of a guide, it is impossible to contact the wizard's world, and the leader represents knowledge.
The second is the guarantee of sufficient resources, every wizard's experiment and advancement needs the support of massive resources, and every experiment or promotion failure will cause a huge loss of resources, and these lost resources are gold coins.
Then if you want to become a wizard apprentice, the most basic requirement is to have wizard talent! people who don't have wizard talent can never become a wizard apprentice!
The better the talent, whether you want to become a wizard apprentice, improve the level of the wizard apprentice, or even promote to a formal wizard, you must have a huge innate advantage!
The last and most important thing is luck, and people who don't have enough luck will never reach the end.
Aldrich was lucky, he had the wizard's codex instead of the guide, not only did he have the talent of a wizard, but also gathered enough resources to promote the wizard's apprentice, and finally he relied on extraordinary luck to become a junior wizard apprentice, with extraordinary strength, and more than double the lifespan of ordinary people.
But Aldrich is unfortunate again, he has no real mentor, he has obtained very few witchcraft models except for the three 0 rings of witchcraft models obtained in the original wizard's codex, and most of these witchcraft models are illusion and psychic witchcraft, without any offensive or defensive capabilities.
In addition, most of the resources Aldrich has saved for decades have been used when he was promoted to become a junior wizard apprentice, and the subsequent promotions consume resources more and more, and even many of them are things that Aldrich has not heard of.
Although he has the talent of a wizard, he is the lowest talent, and if he wants to improve his wizard apprentice level, he needs to pay several times, or even more than ten times the time and resources of others.
Although Aldrich has been running around the Nader Kingdom for more than ten years, constantly collecting various resources, witchcraft models, potions, etc., but his strength has been limited due to talent limitations, difficult to obtain wizard knowledge, and lack of sufficient gold coins, etc., Aldrich's strength has been stagnant and unable to be promoted to higher ranks.
However, Aldrich never gave up, because in his opinion, since he had opened the door to a different world by chance, then he had to keep going.
So this time, he originally heard that in the town of Yezi in Scanning Province, a person who might be an intermediate wizard apprentice was killed in battle, so he immediately rushed over to see if he could pick up a little cheap, after all, every intermediate wizard apprentice is extremely rich, if he can find this intermediate wizard apprentice's nest by the way, he will really be sent by then!
According to the news on the wanted warrants of the four lords, the person who killed this middle-level wizard apprentice was Count Harold, the chief officer of the Golden Lion Battalion [Mad Lion] Totini, but Totini is an intermediate knight, and he is guarded by an army in the Golden Lion City, so it is basically impossible to get information from the other party.
Don't say that Aldrich is just a junior wizard apprentice, even an intermediate wizard apprentice would not dare to break into a military camp with a strong person of the same level stationed at will.
Aldrich then sets his sights on the protagonist of the wanted warrant, Barron, who is considered an accomplice of the evil wizard.