Chapter 1: The Magic Apprentice
One of the most brilliant fireworks in the prologue
"Red Alert: Emergency energy burst detected, distance 0. 005 light years, energy level 5S, suspected to be a supernova explosion! The energy compartment was hit by cosmic rays, and the fault is being repaired, and space jump cannot be performed!"
Lin Xi quietly looked through the huge porthole of the exploration ship at the huge star in front of him that suddenly erupted towards the end of life, a crimson sphere with a mass about 100 times that of the sun.
"This star should have at least 100,000 years of life, isn't it? Zero!" Lin Xi sighed, his straight and emaciated figure standing quietly.
"The universe is always full of accidents, and sooner or later they will happen. In the past thirty-two years, you have successfully avoided nearly 100 accidents, traveled millions of light years, traveled across three galactic galaxies, discovered six planets suitable for human habitation, and become the greatest interstellar explorer of the Federation!"
A light female voice echoed in Lin Xi's ears, this was the core of his intelligence, and the only companion on the long journey to the stars, Zero.
"A supernova explosion! A rare cosmic spectacle! In a moment, this star will be brighter than a thousand suns, and all her energy will be completely exploded, even from thousands of light-years away. This brilliant fireworks, the silence of this galaxy, is enough to pay tribute to my impending death!"
In the next moment, endless light and flames erupted, engulfing the only human in this vast starry sky and the 7,300-meter-long "Explorer" together.
Chapter I
Accompanied by high-pitched and loud singing, a flock of seagulls gently streaked across the turquoise sea and flashed through the tower's narrow windows.
A handsome young man sat on the edge of the window, his white teeth gently biting an emerald green horsetail, his blue eyes staring at the sea in front of him, his blond hair fluttering in the wind.
"The arcane imprint and acid flying spell models have been analyzed, and it is known that only the mage's hand has not yet completed the analysis of the zero ring spell, and the current progress is 23%, and the analysis is in progress. ”
"Zero, how are you recovering now?" Lin Xi, a former interstellar explorer and current magic apprentice, asked in his mind about his companion who had come to the new world with him.
"The basic smart module has been repaired intact, the primary smart module cannot be activated, and the overall damage is 98. 7%, the maintenance program could not be started, and the maintenance plan was being retrieved ......"
Sivi's mind echoed with a mechanical, hollow female voice.
Zero, who had once activated the Advanced Intelligence Module, could already be considered a real human in terms of emotional thinking, but now it is reduced to the most basic functions. Even so, Zero was still able to provide him with great help - assisting in the analysis of spells, which allowed the newborn teenager Sivi to master five Zero Ring spells in just ten days, and he also successfully reached the level of a high-level magic apprentice in terms of mana accumulation.
A high-level magic apprentice has enough magic power to cast ten zero-ring spells, and when his mana accumulation reaches twenty zero-ring spells, the door to the official magician will open to the young talent.
"Senior Sivi, Tutor Gatlin has told everyone to go to the rotunda on the fifth floor of the tower, please be sure to arrive within five minutes!" a short boy with flaxen hair and freckles on his face gasped to the blonde boy.
Xiwei turned around lightly and jumped off the windowsill, smiling slightly: "Thank you for the reminder, Gais, we will be there soon!" The slender and white fingers of his right hand stretched out from under the black robe, accompanied by a few crisp and mysterious syllables in his mouth, and in an instant, a pale cyan light flowed through his fingertips, and soon, the pale cyan aura had appeared at the feet of the two teenagers.
The Zero Ring Spell, the Wind Spell, can effectively increase the caster's movement speed, and after blessing the Wind Spell, Sivi's speed has surpassed that of the Olympic 100-meter champion in the Earth Era.
However, by the time the two of them arrived at the rotunda on the fifth floor of the tower, almost all the apprentices in the tower had arrived, and Tutor Gatling was already standing on the steps.
The elderly Gatlin tutor has white hair, white eyebrows and white beard, and looks like Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies, but unfortunately his hooked nose and the inadvertent anger under his eyes make Sivi always have a trace of fear for him.
Gatling was the only wizard in the Tower, and for decades he had devoted himself to training true magicians, providing his apprentices with a complete set of magical texts and materials for spellcasting, and the Rotunda was home to all fifty-six magical apprentices.
After Tutor Gatling on the steps looked at the magic apprentices in front of him one by one, he nodded with satisfaction: "My children, I'm glad you haven't relaxed during this time, and you have made a lot of progress in yesterday's test!
"Geth, Carter, come out! Congratulations on your successful advancement to the Intermediate Magic Apprenticeship! You will be able to enter the third floor of the Tower to live! From now on, the magic books and spell casting materials in the Intermediate Area will be open to you, I hope you can continue to work hard!"
The freckled boy Gath and the other chubby dun walked up the stairs together, and with a look of excitement on their faces, they received a small silver badge from Tutor Gatling, signifying their successful advancement to the intermediate magic apprenticeship.
"Sivi, Meryl, come out! Congratulations on your successful advancement to a high-level magic apprentice! You will enter the fourth floor of the tower to live! All the magic books and spell-casting materials in the tower will be open to you! Becoming a real magician as soon as possible is what I hope for you!"
Sivi walked forward quickly, and with him was a small girl with shaved yellow hair, who looked a little stunted.
Receiving a gold badge from the amiable Gatling Mentor, Sivi bowed in thanks, and walked back into the crowd under the envious gaze of most of the magic apprentices in the audience.
At this time, he suddenly realized that there was a little heel behind him, it was the girl with yellow hair named Meryl, who had been clumsily imitating her movements since she had just come on stage, so that she had been following her all the way here.
This Meryl seems to have just been fourteen years old, having only arrived in the Tower three years ago.
In Sivi's limited memory, the girl was either chewing on a thick tome of magic books, or meticulously conducting magical experiments, and her talent for magic was outstanding.
At this moment, Gatlin's voice also raised high: "Children, salute the best of you, the high-level magic apprentice Palin! He is only seventeen years old, and he is already able to cast a full twenty zero ring spells, and he is only one step away from a real magician! Palin, my child! I am proud of you! I will prepare the materials for your promotion ceremony, and in three days, the magician promotion ceremony will be officially carried out for you!"
The eyes of everyone in the audience became scorching, and they looked at a tall and thin black-haired young man in the crowd like a starry moon, and it was very likely that a new magician was about to be born in the tower!
However, Sivi was keenly aware that the smile on the face of the future Palin Master seemed a bit far-fetched, and he was not even as happy as the other apprentices.
Tutor Gatling was old enough to meet the Lord of Radiance, and he had rarely mentored his apprentices in all these years, so he quickly left the Rotunda after the commendation. At this moment, an old man with gray hair, tortoiseshell glasses, and a two-handful beard walked quickly in front of Sivi: "Sivi and Meryl, please come with me, I will prepare a new room for you!"
The old man's name was Edward, and he was a close confidant of Gatling's mentor and the steward of the entire tower.
The Tower had only six high-level magic apprentices before this, and the biggest benefit of this advancement for Sivi was naturally that he would be able to enjoy a separate room and laboratory from now on.
Sivi nodded slightly, his room had nothing but a few changes of clothes, and the move was very neat. Unexpectedly, as a girl, after Meryl came out of her room, the things she was holding in her hand were only a few books and a stack of parchment calculating magic runes, and other than that, there was only a set of magic robes at the bottom.
Sivi leaned into Meryl's ear with some curiosity and asked softly, "Do you only have two magic robes?"
The next moment, Meryl's originally morbid pale neck instantly rose into a red mist, and she said cowardly in a voice similar to murmuring: "One is dirty, one is washed, and the other is ...... dressed."
This little girl is too shy, and Sivi secretly made an assessment, he himself is not a person who is good at interacting with people, otherwise he would not have explored alone in the long galaxy for many years.
The room belonging to the high-level magic apprentice was about seventeen or eighteen square meters, with a large comfortable bed and a thick walnut table, and the closed room shone with soft dark yellow magic lights.
The past cannot be admonished, but the coming can still be chased.
This is a world of swords and magic, demons and gods, and Sivi, who died in the supernova explosion without resistance, maintains the necessary awe and respect for the new world, and if you want to live a good life in this world, becoming a mage is undoubtedly the best choice.
The magic of this world is essentially similar to the blue bar casting, there is no limit to the spell bit, and there is no need to prepare spells in advance, mages can cast corresponding spells on the fly, and meditation is the most important and basic way to increase mental power and restore mana.
In the apprenticeship stage, the casting of spells is similar to learning to solve a math problem and then reciting a language, you must first master the structure and texture, and you must be proficient in memorization without making any mistakes. In fact, with the zero assistance of the intelligence core, there is no difficulty in memorizing the part, and the only difficulty lies in the understanding and analysis of the spell model.
"Weak Resistance Increase, Acid Splash, Detection Magic, Detection of Toxicity, Flash, Brightness, Freezing Ray, Switching, Copying, Arcane Seal, Magic Tricks, Copying, the basic Zero Ring spells that are already in the Tower have all been mastered, and only the Mage's Hand is still being analyzed!"
"However, these spells are generally useless, most of them are auxiliary spells, the lethality of acid splashes and freezing rays is also very limited, and there is no way to improve mental power in one step, only to combine and innovate some more effective apprentice-level magic!"
In fact, the "Wind Technique" researched by Xiwei himself is a simplified version of the one-ring spell "Oiling the soles of the feet", which can be cast with the mana of about three standard zero-ring spells, and the acceleration effect is only half of that of "Oiling the soles of the feet".
"High-level magic apprentices, only one step away from becoming an official magician! But it has been six years since he entered the tower, and there has always been only Gatling in the huge tower who doesn't know what level of magician is, and the apprentices who have held magician promotion ceremonies one by one have never returned, although the official statement is that these official magicians have left the tower to have a brighter future, but ......"
Just when Sivi was thinking wildly, "tuk tuk tuk", a crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded.