Chapter 20: The Five Departments of Wizards
"When a person is doing what he likes to do, time always flies very quickly...... Roger couldn't understand this sentence before, because whether it was his student career in the previous life or the knightly path in the present life, strictly speaking, it could not be counted as his own choice.
But this time, it's completely different from before.
It's been almost a year since Roger escaped from the hands of the Giant Hand and was brought to the 'Wizarding Academy of the Sky' by Monterey.
In the course of this year, Roger has successfully embarked on the path of wizarding and become a beginner wizard apprentice. It was only then that Roger realized that many of the things he had known about wizards were still too one-sided.
Originally, his understanding of wizards could only be divided by different types of elements, such as fire, water, earth, and so on.
But when Roger himself became a wizard's apprentice and systematically studied about wizards, he realized that he was still thinking too simply. In fact, the classifications he understood were earth, water, wind, and fire...... Even many obscure elemental types can be included in the 'elemental system' category.
In addition to the category of 'elemental system', there are several other categories of wizards - 'summoning system', 'alchemy system', 'bloodline system', and 'mystical system', which are called the five major departments of wizards together with the 'elemental system'.
However, there are some people in the wizarding world who hold another view, these people do not think that the 'occult system' should be regarded as a major system, because the 'occult system' is divided into all cultivation directions except the other four major departments, and they believe that the types of wizards should not be limited to be called, and there are many cultivation directions that may also develop into a major system in the future, and should not be replaced by a general name.
Of course, these are just battles of words, and the vast majority of wizards still divide their cultivation names by the five major departments.
The reason why Roger has the illusion that the elemental system is equal to all types of wizards is because most of the wizards he has seen are in the wizard apprentice stage, and the 'elemental system' has always had the title of the basic system, and in the wizard apprenticeship stage, except for the gifted people, very few people can master the cultivation methods of several other major systems.
Therefore, most wizards use the 'elemental system' as their main cultivation method during the wizard apprenticeship stage, and then change their cultivation mode after being promoted to a full-fledged wizard...... For example, some people will choose to major in the 'Elemental Department' and take one or more other major departments as a minor category, while others will major in other major departments and use the 'Elemental System' and another major department as a minor department, and even worse, they will simply choose only one major department as the direction of cultivation and do not want to be distracted.
No one can say which of these choices is good or bad, and Roger naturally doesn't know.
But Roger finally knew why his mentor, Marcus, seemed so different from the wizards he had seen before.
Because Marcus is a 'bloodline' wizard who has chosen a single cultivation direction since the wizard's apprenticeship stage, all his energy has been focused on the cultivation of the 'bloodline' alone, and he has never cultivated any category other than the 'bloodline'.
This is also the reason why he would tell the guardian spirit Guy at the beginning that he was not suitable for accepting apprentices, because all his cultivation experience was limited to the 'bloodline' system, and most people could only choose the 'elemental system' as their cultivation direction on the road to becoming a wizard's apprentice. The reason why Guardian Spirit Guy recommended Roger to him, and he gladly accepted, was because Roger was one of the very few people who could start cultivating the 'Bloodline' at the wizard apprenticeship stage!
For the cultivators of the 'bloodline line', at the beginning of cultivation, there are certain requirements for physical strength, but most people with wizarding talents will not spend effort to exercise physical strength. Because logically speaking, there is a way to improve the strength of the physical body after becoming a wizard anyway, in that case, why not start cultivating the 'bloodline' when the time comes?
The reason why Marcus chose a single 'bloodline' to cultivate in the wizard's apprenticeship stage was also because he improved his physical strength by chance, which just met the requirements of being able to cultivate the 'bloodline' at the wizard's apprenticeship stage.
Over the years, Marcus has not thought about taking on apprentices, and as a full member of Sky Canyon, he also wants to contribute to the organization.
It's just a pity that there has never been anyone who fits his cultivation line.
He also tried to train some on his own, but the end result was a failure, and after a long time, he himself almost gave up on accepting apprentices.
Anyway, contributing to the organization is not only about training apprentices, but if you can't do it, you can't do it.
Roger's appearance was something he never expected.
A great knight with the talent of a second-class wizard, this is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate to be his apprentice, and now if anyone dares to rob him of Roger's apprentice, who can he play with!
On the other hand, Roger is actually quite satisfied with his seemingly brainless mentor, not only because he is Marcus's only apprentice, which makes Marcus take care of him far more than the average mentor should do to his apprentice, but also because he finds that his muscular male mentor is by no means as rude and brainless as he seems on the surface.
Think about it, how can a person who can become an official wizard be stupid.
During the year of contact with Marcus, Roger deeply understood what it means to be wise and foolish, and this adjective is really applicable to Marcus.
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"I said Roger, I don't understand, why do you have to ask for trouble and choose such a complex bloodline as the first bloodline? Can't you be simpler, just like your mentor and me, in the apprenticeship stage, choose a bloodline that only needs to continuously strengthen the physical body to improve the level......?
Because of some things, Marcus left the 'Chaotic Sky Canyon' for more than a month, and when he returned, he learned that Roger had fused the first bloodline and officially became a wizard apprentice of the 'bloodline'.
But what he didn't expect was that Roger didn't follow his advice and fuse the bloodline that he chose for Roger to be the easiest to upgrade in the wizard apprenticeship stage, but chose a bloodline that needed to be cultivated in both the earth and fire types in the 'elemental system' to improve the level.
In the wizard's apprenticeship stage, he chose to study both departments, which in Marcus's opinion, was undoubtedly a high-minded behavior, and he was naturally very dissatisfied with this.