Alice said, "As is customary for our Thorn Rose, any new member can get a free item equal to their strength. This item can be a weapon, a book that records some kind of magical secret, or the equivalent of a gold coin. Ace, pick one. ”

Hearing what Alice had said, Ace began to think: this time, I have to choose carefully, I have to choose the one that is most useful for my current progress.

As a blacksmith, weapons and equipment don't seem appealing to me, as I'll soon be able to make my own, and my current need for gold seems to be small.

Therefore, the third level of dark spells seems to be the best choice.

"I'll choose a level 3 dark spell." After much consideration, Ace finally made a decision.

"Okay." Alice immediately came up with four different third-level secret techniques. They are known as "Poison Curse", "Destruction", and "Tricky Eye" and "Concealment"

Alice explained: "The poison curse is a secret technique that focuses on the lethality of a single body, which can poison the target continuously, and cannot be detoxified with a simple antidote, causing its combat effectiveness to fade quickly, weaken the body, and even die;

Destruction is a secret technique that focuses on group damage and can inflict huge blows on opponents in a single battle, and its power is amazing.

Of course, the amount of magic that needs to be consumed is also enormous.

The Eye of Trickery is to write a spell with the magic in your body and present it on your own eyes, allowing you to see the trajectory of the flow of magic in other people's bodies. ”

At this point, Alice remembers that Ace had been groping for himself and had not systematically studied true dark magic. He immediately explained:

"You already know a lot about mana, any magician can only store a limited amount of mana in his body, once it is used up, the magician needs to recover his magic through meditation, the stronger the mental power, the faster the magic power will recover."

"Currently, you are a third-level magician's mana, so you can only store the corresponding mana in your body. These spells are only enough for you to cast level 3 magic, but not enough for you to perform level 4 magic.

That's why you can't successfully cast Level 4 Gathering Magic. Of course, as the mage level increases, so does the mana capacity of your body. ”

Ace thought for a moment: "For example, I can only hold a bucket of mana in my body now, so I can cast all the mana that consumes less than a bucket, and I can't successfully cast mana that costs more than a bucket." Is that what I mean? ”

Alice was delighted: "You're smart. I only need to say this knowledge once, and you can understand it very quickly. ”

After the praise, he went on to add, "Every increase in a magician's level is a huge leap forward in the body's magical abilities.

For example, if a first-level magician's body can only contain the magic of one philosopher's stone, then a second-level magician can hold ten, a third-level magician can hold 100, and so on. Every level added is a huge change, you know? “

Ace nodded. It's no wonder he always felt like he had reached a bottleneck a few days ago. It turns out that this is because he is trying to perform magic at a higher level than himself. Of course, this is unlikely to succeed.

After listening to Alice's explanation, many problems in Ace's mind were solved. Sure enough, it's really important to have a teacher who teaches you how to learn magic.

Seeing that Ace had understood, Alice picked up the third spell "Concealment" and said, "This is an auxiliary spell, called Concealment." You can take it literally. Learning it can make you disappear in front of others for a while, and even if you move, the other person can't see you. ”

Ace's eyes lit up instantly. It's a lot of fun. Can it make people disappear? At the moment, I don't seem to need harmful spells. On the contrary, this "stealth" sounds good.

If I learn the secret technique of "concealment", it seems that I can do anything on my own in the future, which is much more convenient.

"Have you thought it through? Which one do you want to choose? Alice asked.

Ace no longer hesitated: "I choose to hide!" ”

"Oh?" Alice was surprised by Ace's choice, as he had expected Ace to choose an offensive spell, but Ace ended up choosing a support spell, which was surprising.

However, out of politeness, Alice didn't ask in detail: "The materials used to make the spell are very special, once you open the outer shell of the spell, the record inside will automatically enter your mind, and the spell will automatically disappear."

As such, spells are a very valuable consumable that can only be crafted by magicians above the Magister level, and are very expensive to craft. ”

Ace took the spell, and all the information about the "concealment" of the spell instantly came to mind, and the document recording the secret technique in his hand disappeared.

It's amazing!

Ace thought about it for a while, and soon mastered the method of using the spell "concealment". While "hidden" magic is very useful, it requires a lot of mana, which is a major drawback of this spell!

After a long time, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly handed the mysterious codex on his arm to Alice: "This is a dark codex left by my mother, there are many strange magic circles in it, I don't know the function of these magic circles. ”

"Your mother, Sarina, left it behind?" Alice's voice changed subtly, and a beautiful face immediately appeared in her mind.

Alice took the code, her eyes full of tenderness. After looking at it for a long time, she sighed and gave it back to Ace: "This is your mother's note on dark magic, I can recognize her handwriting." ”

"What?" Ace was obviously shocked by this answer: "My mother, isn't she a magician of the Holy Light Department, how can she learn dark magic?" ”

"Your mother has always believed that all magic has something in common, and even she thinks that different magic can merge with each other to form a new kind of magic," says Alice.

I think that's why she's studying dark magic. But she didn't expect that dark magic would soon be recognized as evil magic by the Wizards' Guild.

Many ancient books on dark magic have been burned by the Wizards' Guild, and I think this code is the result of your mother's hard work. “

The waves in Ace's heart are like the sea in a storm. Among them, the indoctrination of knowledge he received since childhood was the most important and basic. That is, two different spells cannot be fused with each other. If someone dares to try, he will inevitably die from the explosion.

This is the consensus of almost all magicians today. As a Holy Light magician, how could his mother not know?

Then there was only one answer, and that was that she did find some important connections as she researched different magic. As for what it was, he had no way of knowing.