Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 9: Flower Buds and Bulls

Although he didn't know what kind of flower bud this was, it was better than a dog's face, he thought.

He picked up the small storage bag, connected it with his mental power, and placed the back of his hand on it. This way, it would be easier to imprint the secret mark.

The small bag, whose structure was unknown, established a connection with him in an instant and was completely under his control from then on.

Using mental power to probe inside, I found that the small bag was almost the size of two small lockers. The space inside was irregular and kept changing shape, so I could only make a rough estimate. However, there was no need to worry about things being squeezed and damaged. The inner space would bounce open when it encountered the built-in objects during the change.

The branded storage bag is very convenient for storing things. Just get close to the bag and think about it, and the things will be put into it in a flash. When taking things out, use your mental power to explore the pocket, and the things will appear directly in your hands.

After everything was packed up, he finally played with a scroll of inheritance of the power of the wild bull for a long time before putting it away and not taking it out again.

He stood at his usual seat, looking at the shorts materials carefully placed on the cave wall, and in the end he did not put them into the storage bag.

The time spent sorting out his things allowed him to calm down, think things through, and become more clear-headed.

He pushed aside the sparse hair on his arms. The foul-skin spell was still active, and his skin had turned a strange black and purple color, but he didn't feel any discomfort.

When he tried to stop the spell, the black-purple color would fade away in the blink of an eye.

He thought for a moment and took out the stone bar used by wizard apprentices to test their mental power.

After clenching it tightly and concentrating, there was still a dot that lit up, but it seemed to be brighter than before.

There are ten dots on the stone bar, and each dot represents a standard unit of mental power. The mental power standards of the first five dots correspond to the five levels of wizard apprentices. If five dots on the stone bar light up, it means that the mental power intensity has reached the standard passing line of a fifth-level wizard apprentice.

But the path of a wizard apprentice does not stop there. The upper limit for a fifth-level apprentice is ten standard amounts of mental power. Only when you reach that level can you be prepared to be promoted to a formal wizard.

Therefore, even among the same fifth-level wizard apprentices, the strength of their mental power can vary. Furthermore, many veteran wizard apprentices have been at this stage for many years, and their accumulated magical knowledge naturally varies. Therefore, the strength of fifth-level wizard apprentices can vary greatly.

He began to maintain the foul-smelling skin spell once again, and planned to keep doing so. The less he felt exhausted, the more he wanted to test his limits.

As long as you don't stop casting spells, you can at least get a good night's sleep.

He suddenly realized that as long as he could maintain this spell, he was now the safest dog-headed man in the tribe, and might even be the only dog-headed man who could go to the hunting area alone.

Unconsciously, I felt a little more secure.

Maybe there will be no more insomnia.

Thinking of this, he took out his super treasure, the black book.

Now that he has become a wizard apprentice, it is time to try to turn the next page. He also needs to continue learning meditation methods in order to be prepared to build the next magic mark.

As his fingers rubbed the pages of the book, he suddenly thought, I wonder if half-humans also practice this magic mark meditation method.

Although the book was a gift from the other party, the black book might have come from the owner of the diary, that is, the wizard apprentice Karu, who only saw the words but not the person.

The half-man looked so weird and scary that he couldn't tell whether he was dead or alive. He really didn't want to see the half-man's missing head again if it wasn't necessary. But there was no free lunch in the world. Now, probably because he was too weak, the great dog-headed worm catcher was despised.

He raised his brows slightly and flipped through the unread pages of the Black Book, turning many pages at once. He saw six new, more complex runes in one fell swoop. The second rune required the six runes he had previously mastered, plus the six he had yet to master, for a total of twelve runes to complete the second rune, which would allow him to advance to the second level of wizard apprenticeship.

Hei Shu's unprecedented generosity made him a little uncomfortable, but it also showed that his mental strength had grown to a certain stage. After becoming a wizard apprentice, his mental strength became more condensed and his ability to withstand shocks was stronger.

"Short-lived? Short-lived? That means I'm not young anymore."

The first thing that came to his mind was that his plan to grow taller and stronger was probably doomed to fail.

"I don't know if that's enough time for me to successfully become a wizard."

He looked at the new contents in the black book and thought about something.

Turning to a new page, the first paragraph described a method to speed up the recovery of mental strength, which was exactly what he needed at the moment. He had originally planned to use the inheritance scroll of the zero-ring spell, the Power of the Bull, tomorrow.

Following the instructions, he placed himself directly above the first magic mark in his mental space, meditating and sketching the six runes that made up the mark. Sketching the runes in this state would not consume any energy, but rather absorb something through the magic mark, promoting the recovery of his mental power.

The mental fatigue quickly dissipated, and the energy consumed in the previous continuous construction of spell models and magic marks was also replenished.

The whole person becomes energetic.

It seems that his recovery speed is much higher than what is described in the black book.

After a brief rest, he tore open the inheritance scroll of the power of the wild bull without hesitation and began to construct the spell model.

The spell model of the Power of the Bull had a total of twenty-one nodes. After successfully constructing it, he immediately began to empower and fill it. The two spell models of the Power of the Bull and the Secret Mark were rotating and floating around the magic mark in the void. When the empowerment was completed, under his guidance, a phantom with twenty-one nodes in the spell model was pulled out and projected, plunging into the magic mark.

The temporary spell slot of Mohen finally welcomed its first tenant.

However, this guest at the twenty-first node was destined not to be able to rent the place for long.

He began to meditate to restore his mental strength.

Since I can no longer grow taller or stronger, I will use the power of magic to make up for it and arm myself with the power of magic.

As for the remaining hair removal and mental boiling, there was no need to rush. The mental space had experienced enough vibrations in a day, and he still had one thing to do.

According to his estimation, with his fully recovered mental state, he could empower and fill the spell model of the Mystic Mark about twelve times, which means that the zero-ring spell Mystic Mark could be cast twelve times in a short period of time, and the Power of the Bull could be cast about eight times.

This is roughly the ability of a first-level wizard apprentice.

These are his estimates, and they should be roughly correct.

He ended his meditation and picked up the long stick. The black book had been put into the storage bag and no longer had to be carried on his back. Now he only had one last step left to verify it before he could feel at ease. He had to experiment to see if there was any deviation in this spell that was supposed to stink or not.

After the spell solidified, he felt more and more that the spell of Stinking Skin was a better choice than the Fireball spell.

As long as there is no deviation, he will be very glad that he made this decision at that time.

(End of this chapter)