Mystery: A Spark

Unless it's the legendary survival hunter where "a harpoon arrives first, followed by the death of both the hunter and the pet."

But if you were to make him a survival hunter, forget it.

Survival hunting? Even a dog wouldn't play that.

As mentioned before, the Skull of Gul'dan is an artifact left behind by the legendary warlock Gul'dan after his death.

It is filled with a large amount of fel energy, as well as a lot of knowledge about the warlock profession.

Before this, although Arthur knew about this, he had never cast any sorcerer spells in reality.

It's not for any other reason, it's simply because he doesn't know how yet.

Because casting spells isn't like clicking a mouse or pressing a key in a game.

To successfully cast a spell, you must first construct the corresponding spell model, then channel enough energy, and finally successfully cast the spell.

Arthur had just transmigrated and was mainly focused on dealing with things in the real world, so he naturally didn't have time to learn the warlock magic inside the Skull of Gul'dan.

Another reason is that fel energy is actually very dangerous.

This energy represents chaos and is the enemy of order.

In World of Warcraft, fel energy has arcane energy as its opposite, which can be considered a kind of restraint relationship.

Even so, the orcs still ruined their planet by recklessly using fel energy.

The underlying logic of the mysterious world is chaotic and insane. If Arthur were to recklessly unleash evil magic before fully understanding this power, who knows what problems might arise?

Chaos upon chaos won't equal two negatives; if they manage to blow up the planet beneath their feet, Arthur will really be in trouble.

Therefore, based on this consideration, Arthur basically never used even a trace of evil energy outside.

Moreover, the fel energy within Gul'dan's Skull is not limitless, and no one knows whether it can be replenished after it's used up.

However, Arthur had virtually no such concerns within the Trial Illusion.

Because when he examined the Skull of Gul'dan in his hand, he discovered that the artifact appeared in the illusion in a way similar to a projection, just like Arthur.

Just as Arthur will not truly die, there is nothing to fear in using fel energy within this trial illusion.

However, just as Arthur was about to unleash a grand spell with his dog-headed head to celebrate, he discovered that he could only use three spells at this stage.

Shadow Bolt, Drain Life, and crafting basic Soulstones.

Huh? Wait, crafting a basic soulstone!?

Arthur immediately perked up.

In the game, this skill allows a player to revive with a quarter of their health after death.

Although there is a cooldown period, this is a resurrection!

But soon, Arthur realized he had been wrong.

Because the effect of this basic soul stone is only to withstand one fatal mental attack.

To put it simply, if you suffer a fatal mental attack or pollution, this primary soul stone can die in your place once.

Although this effect is already very powerful, it still can't compare to the resurrection effect.

Moreover, this skill has a one-day cooldown.

Therefore, once Arthur binds a basic soulstone, he can withstand two fatal mental contamination attacks or assaults without dying, provided that a day has passed.

In this way, Arthur's life will be greatly protected.

After all, the Skull of Gul'dan itself can provide Arthur with strong mental resistance, so ordinary mental pollution and attacks do not have much effect on him.

As for the other two of these three initial skills, there's not much to say.

It's basically what it sounds like; it doesn't have any special effects.

Chapter 14 Warlock Magic

After Arthur summoned Dog Egghead in this trial illusion, he didn't recklessly rush towards the Dark Temple like he did last time.

Because he knew that with his current abilities, there was absolutely no chance of him breaking into the Dark Temple.

So Arthur didn't waste this opportunity to enter the Trial Illusion, and instead began to learn the three initial spells.

Of course, among these three skills, the one with the highest priority to learn is crafting basic soul stones.

Secondly, it must be the skill of absorbing life.

As for Shadow Bolt, to be honest, Arthur felt it wasn't as good as a pistol.

Building spell models and casting spells involves a lot of fancy stuff, but it's better to just shoot the enemy directly.

So he simply gave up on the skill and didn't bother to learn it.

In Arthur's plan, the functional spells in sorcery would definitely be the highest priority to learn.

As for other offensive spells, they not only consume fel energy, but are also very difficult to cast.

It would be better to use extraordinary abilities or magical items instead.

Furthermore, Arthur discovered that all the warlock spells within the Skull of Gul'dan required this artifact to assist in casting.

Those spells that require fel energy to cast must rely on this artifact, which is understandable.

After all, there's no evil energy in the mysterious world, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

However, spells that don't require fel energy, such as life drain, still require this artifact to be cast, which made Arthur feel a little uncomfortable.

After some experimentation, Arthur quickly figured out the reason for the problem.

The reason he needs the Skull of Gul'dan's assistance to cast warlock magic is because this spell system itself comes from another world.

The different rules of the world prevent spells from being cast directly here. Arthur must use the Skull of Gul'dan, an artifact of unknown origin, as a relay device to successfully cast warlock magic.

If that's the case, then a problem arises.

Unlike other spellcasters, who hold a staff or wand when casting spells, or simply cast spells empty-handed, highlighting their dashing, mysterious, and sophisticated style.

But what about Arthur? He has to carry an orc skull to cast a spell, and the worst part is that there's nothing on this dog's head to hold onto.

In World of Warcraft, Illidan could hold the Skull of Gul'dan in one hand and play with it because he was a night elf who was two or three meters tall.

Not only was he a night elf, but Illidan's body had also undergone demonization, which further increased his size.

Therefore, only someone three or four meters tall like Illidan could hold Dog Egg Head in his hand and play with it like a walnut.

But what about Arthur? He's only about 1.8 meters tall, which is quite a good height for a human, but it's not as good as an orc. Orcs have much bigger heads than ordinary humans.

This means that if Arthur wants to keep the dog's head in his hands during battle, he has no choice but to hold it in his arms.

If you fight like that, putting aside the issue of appearance, you can basically forget about agility.

Therefore, Arthur desperately wanted to be able to cast spells freely outside of Gul'dan's skull.

He can set aside magic that requires fel energy and other special spellcasting resources for now, but he must find a way to cast ordinary spells independently.

Soon, Arthur came up with a solution.

......

"Good morning, Captain." Arthur knocked on the door of the captain's cabin, and after receiving permission to enter, he went in and greeted Edwina.

"Good morning, Arthur. Is there anything I can help you with?" Edwina asked, putting down her book as she sat behind her desk reading.

As expected of a top student on the Reader's Path, he's always learning... Arthur thought to himself.

"It's like this, Captain. I've been thinking about how to repay your life-saving grace, and now I've come up with a way," Arthur said sincerely.

Falling into the sea during the initial time travel is truly an incredibly unlucky start.

If no one had rescued him, he probably wouldn't have survived long adrift at sea.

His persistence will probably be even shorter than the original owner's, because at least the original owner could swim, while he only went into the water when he took swimming lessons in college.

And tragically, he hadn't fully mastered it yet; he could only barely manage to splash around in the water a couple of times.

Therefore, even if Edwina had a premonition and discovered him, there might be other factors involved, but her act of saving Arthur's life is undeniable.

Arthur had been worried about how to repay the kindness, since he didn't have anything of particular value on him.

Perhaps a virgin's chastity could be considered? Cough cough, that's just wishful thinking.

For a learned intermediate-sequence extraordinary like Edwina, Arthur didn't have any particularly suitable occult knowledge to offer as a reward.

He had even considered that if he couldn't think of a good way, he might as well just reveal Russell's gossip, since that could be considered occult knowledge.

I wonder if Roselle would be so angry if Arthur did that that he'd crawl out of his grave.

“Actually, you don’t need to feel too guilty about this. As I said before, rescuing innocent people who have fallen into the sea is something that every law-abiding person would do. It’s a kind of customary rule,” Edwina said with a smile.

Arthur smiled and said:

“You may not care about this, Captain, but I can’t afford to be. And you should be very interested in my reward.”

After hearing his words, Edwina became somewhat interested and asked with some curiosity:

"Oh? So what is your payment?"

"It's some ancient knowledge that I accidentally obtained during my previous adventures. It inherits a unique system of magic, and I can tell you about it, Captain."

“But I have another request, which is that after you understand this knowledge, Captain, you can teach it back to me so that I can learn this system of magic,” Arthur said earnestly to Edwina.

He wanted to explain to Edwina the part of warlock magic that was unrelated to fel magic, hoping she could understand it and make it reproducible under the rules of this world.

This allows Arthur to cast spells without needing the Skull of Gul'dan.

Chapter 15 A New Knowledge System

After hearing Arthur's words, Edwina was clearly surprised.

She raised her beautiful, delicate eyebrows slightly, and asked with some surprise:

"You mean you once received some occult knowledge, which included a special system of magic? A complete system of magic?"

"Of course it's incomplete; it should only be considered a small part. After all, most of warlock magic is still closely related to fel energy..." Arthur muttered to himself.

"Well... I'm not quite sure either. Perhaps only you, Captain, can figure this out," Arthur said calmly.