Oak Town, a small town not far from the border of the Duchy of Edinole, has a small population, only five or six thousand people.

Like a dozen or so nearby towns, the residents of Oak Town are mainly engaged in agriculture, and a few lumberjacks go to the nearby mountains to cut down trees, cut them into simple pieces, and sell them to traders who come to buy them.

"Excuse me, is the house here for rent?" In front of a very secluded small courtyard on the edge of Oak Town, a young man knocked lightly on the door and asked a woman who had come out to answer the door.

This big guy is Ryan, who has just left the Duchy of Pools and entered the Duchy of Eddinor. After picking up the mercenary mission from Capoos City to escort the caravan to Edino, he successfully mixed out of the Duchy of Pools.

Subsequently, in just two days of escort trips, Ryan saw the madness of the robbers. Ryan has really gained knowledge, and the robbers he encountered when escorting the caravan from Kata City to Skayas City in the past can be regarded as a group of good babies compared to the robbers in this three-area area.

The robbers are generally dozens of people in a group, and the most are as many as hundreds of people, and their strength is relatively strong, about half of them are low-level swordsmen or above, and there are even a very small number of middle-level high-level swordsmen, and the remaining half are non-swordsmen. But don't think that non-swordsmen are inferior in strength, these outlaws are very fierce and desperate, and the low-level swordsmen who are a little less powerful are not their opponents at all.

The bandits roared and attacked the caravan like locusts, putting a lot of pressure on the dozens of mercenaries in the Ryan caravan. Ryan behaved decently among the caravan mercenaries,

Does not show superior strength, nor does it perform worse than other mercenaries.

After two days of thrilling journeys, the caravan arrived at its destination, the frontier city of the Duchy of Edino. Ryan easily received the mercenary's remuneration of 5 gold coins.

Don't think that these 5 gold coins are easy to earn, even with the strength of a Ryan level 4 swordsman, you have to be very careful, otherwise it will be easy to capsize in the gutter if you are not careful.

After completing the mercenary mission, Ryan couldn't wait to leave, and now that he was safe and didn't have to worry about being hunted down, he found a place to retreat and continue to practice magic.

Ryan sensed magic elements before, but it was just the first step on the road of magic, and then he had to sense more magic elements,

Only by absorbing these magical elements into the body and transforming them into magic power can you truly succeed in cultivating. After that, he must successfully perform magic in his body before he can be considered a magician.

After that, Ryan found a small town at random, that is, Oak Town, and found a courtyard on the edge of the town to rent. He planned to live in seclusion in this place and devote himself to practicing magic.

Ryan was very satisfied with this courtyard, and the courtyard was very suitable for his cultivation.

The courtyard is large and surrounded by a wall more than two meters high to prevent curious passers-by from looking in. There is a courtyard more than ten meters long and wide, which is convenient for Ruian to practice swordsmanship, and there are three rooms in it, one large, two small. Although the courtyard is a little bigger, it is no problem at all for Ryan, who is now a little rich.

Ryan is in the middle of it

In one room, a hole was dug in the ground, and then he went in to cultivate naked. He wanted to see if in an environment like a room, like a hole in the woods, could sense magical elements.

As a result, Ryan didn't sense the magic element for most of the day, and he thought that he couldn't do it in the room, so he had to go to the woods. But just as he was about to give up, a yellow point of light appeared.

Ryan was overjoyed at once, and in the future, he finally didn't have to go to the wild woods to cultivate in fear, he could hide at home and practice for as long as he wanted.

In the following days, Ryan practiced magic meditation without sleep or food, and he had stopped cultivating his fighting qi and sword skills. Throughout the day, Ryan spent all of his time in magical meditation, except for an hour or two of sleep and meals.

In this way, after a month of intense cultivation, Ryan made very obvious progress. He sensed more and more magical elements,

From the earliest time, only one magic element could be sensed, and gradually increased, until a month later, more than 100 magic elements can be sensed at the same time.

According to the magic meditation method taught by Uncle Pasiutas, there are more than a hundred magic elements, which meets the minimum standard for absorbing magic elements. In other words, Ryan has reached the next step of cultivating magical meditation, absorbing magical elements and transforming them into magical power.

Actually, Ryan's magical talent is just too bad. It took him a full month to reach this level, and he's still energetic, just a little sleep, than

It took everyone else twice as long to reach this level, but in fact, it took Ryan more than two months equivalent to an average magic apprentice to reach this level.

You must know that those magic apprentices who have magical talents and can naturally sense magic elements can generally sense hundreds of magic elements within ten days and begin to absorb them. As for those genius magic apprentices, it only took two or three days to reach this level.

It can be seen that Ryan's magical talent is really poor, but Ryan is not useless, his diligence, his persistence, is incomparable to other magic apprentices.

Next, the cultivation of absorbing magic elements, Ryan's cultivation was not very smooth. Although he had the experience of absorbing qi during the cultivation of Dou Qi, after all, the two were completely different systems. It took Ryan another month to barely absorb a magical element into his body and transform it into magical power.

Ryan was overjoyed and a little frustrated, but it took him two months to successfully complete the magic meditation. Can he not feel frustrated at the thought of his super-poor magical talent and the gap between him and other magicians?

Actually, Ryan was a little wrong. It is true that it takes him a lot more time than other magic apprentices to sense magical elements, but the time it takes him to learn to absorb magical elements and transform them into magic power is no slower than that of other magic apprentices. Generally speaking, it takes at least a few months for a magic apprentice to learn this step, and there are a few who are a little worse, even

It took years to succeed. And Ryan spent about two months converted into an ordinary magician, which is already considered fast.

It is very difficult for magicians to practice magic, it is very time-consuming, and they pay attention to talent, otherwise there will not be many magicians, such as Uncle Pasiutas, who have cultivated all their lives, and they will not be able to reach the level of high-level magicians when they are old.

Except for the fact that Ryan is almost a little bit of a sensor magic element, his other talents are not bad. However, this does not mean that Ryan's future achievements will definitely surpass other magicians, because when other magicians can sense tens of thousands of magic elements at the same time, Ryan may be able to sense hundreds at the same time, so even if Ryan's other talents are good, they will be distanced.

In the days that followed, Ryan continued to consolidate the success rate of absorbing magical elements until he was able to absorb them freely every time he practiced.

At this point, Ryan is a true magic apprentice, and in the future, as he accumulates mana, until he can cast a spell, he can be regarded as a level 1 magician.

However, at this time, Ryan has a new trouble, that is, whether he will cultivate Dou Qi or magic in the future?

Indeed, it was a difficult choice

Ryan's swordsman level has reached the level of a level 4 swordsman, and he is cultivating a high-level fighting qi secret, and there is absolutely no problem when he reaches the level of a level 6 swordsman in the future, and there is a certain possibility of even breaking through the bottleneck of a level 6 swordsman.

However, now there is an option to practice magic, and the magician is mysteriously powerful than the other

The slightly higher status of people is even more desirable. Moreover, not to mention that middle and high-level magicians, even low-level magicians, the degree of respect is not comparable to that of some middle- and high-level swordsmen. Ryan's magical talent is not strong, and he doesn't know what level his magic level can reach, but he is definitely confident that he can reach the level of a low-level magician, and even an intermediate magician is not impossible.

"How do you choose?" Ryan hesitated.

Fish and bear's paws, can't have both? Do you really want to choose the same?

From his limited experience, Ryan never seemed to hear of anyone who could do both.

Indeed, Ryan is not the only one in this world who can cultivate Dou Qi and magic at the same time, but people's energy is limited, and there is simply not so much time to cultivate both at the same time, these people will generally only choose one of them as their main cultivation profession, and then cultivate the other one on the premise of success in this cultivation. Therefore, this situation is not a both.

Of course, there are also some people who are reluctant to give up one of them and study both, but in the end, they get the result that both are very low-level, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Ryan didn't know about these situations, he just subconsciously sensed that if both cultivated at the same time, there didn't seem to be enough time. Originally, he was confident that he would break through to the level 4 swordsman and reach the level of a level 5 swordsman in a year or two, but if he cultivated magic again at the same time, then the time for his promotion would be far delayed.

But if Ryan wants to give up something, he is very reluctant, especially the devil

Fa is something that Ryan has spent countless hours and energy to barely possess a magical talent.

Faced with this choice, Ryan hesitated for several days, unable to make a decision because of the pain in his head. Finally, one day he shouted fiercely: "I don't want to, both of them cultivate, cultivate Dou Qi during the day and magic at night." ”

Suddenly, Ryan felt that the troubles in his heart disappeared like a dark cloud touching the sun.

In fact, Ryan has the advantage of being energetic and sleeping a lot less than others, and it is not impossible to do both.

As for the results, it is not known.

After making his choice, Ryan lived in this rented compound for a few more months, and lived until he was bored and didn't want to live anymore.

One day, Rui An'an decided to go out for a walk, to see every part of the world, to walk the world.

So the next day, Ryan packed his luggage, quietly left Oak Town, and walked slowly in one direction. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point