Full-Time Wizard: Starting with Harvesting Wheat

"Incredible! Two Lothar Lions! Even at his peak, Lord, he couldn't kill two at once, could he?"

The group arrived at the manor gate and gazed expectantly into the distance.

From their vantage point on the high ground, they could clearly see a small caravan of horses moving hurriedly, their heads held high.

However, those with sharp eyes noticed that the knight at the front was wearing armor, but his helmet was off.

That wasn't Leylin Lotter, but another official knight who had gone out with him.

His name is Francis.

Francis took the lead and rushed into the manor at great speed. The people surrounding him hurriedly made way for the chestnut horse.

Despite someone calling him from behind, he kept walking until he handed the chestnut horse to the groom and hurriedly went into the house.

"Lord Francis... he hasn't even taken off his armor yet," Walter exclaimed, his mouth agape in surprise.

Something's happened.

Everyone looked at each other.

It's normal for injuries and fatalities to occur while hunting, but for Francis to be so agitated, the casualties must have been significant.

The size of the cavalry was about the same as when they left, meaning that there were not many casualties among the servants.

A chilling thought rose in their minds.

After the entire caravan entered the manor, they did not see Leylin, which further solidified their belief.

"Where is Young Master Leylin?" Walter asked a support staff member.

"He faced two Lothar lions all by himself..." the logistics officer said excitedly, wiping his eyes. "And then..."

"Then……"

"Young Master Leylin has been seriously injured."

"How heavy is it?" Walter asked.

"Don't ask anymore." Robert patted Walter on the shoulder from behind.

A true knight possesses extraordinary regenerative abilities, capable of inflicting injuries that Leylin could never recover from...

It must be extremely terrifying.

"With Francis there, why let young master Leylin face two lions alone? One lion is comparable to a full-fledged knight!"

"Exactly, isn't Francis's purpose in following him to pave the way for Young Master Leylin's future?"

Listening to the servants, who were comfortably staying in the manor, making unfounded accusations against Francis, one of the hunting party's servants couldn't stand it any longer and shouted, "Francis was also seriously injured, but he deliberately wore armor so you wouldn't see it!"

"Yes, our group was suddenly attacked. If it weren't for Francis's intervention, we probably would have lost more than half of our men!"

"What exactly happened?"

Roy stood behind a group of servants, listening to them interrogate the hunting party like they were conducting an interrogation. Finally, the old steward appeared and told them to stop asking questions and lead the hunting party to take off their armor and get some rest.

Afterwards, Roy ran into Marley again while eating in the cafeteria.

"I'll tell you in a secret..." He brought over the plate.

"I heard from the hunting team that when they were hunting a pride of lions on the savanna, a pack of crazed hyenas suddenly rushed out without warning, and no one noticed them."

Roy, ignoring how Marley obtained the information, frowned and said, "Knights should have a strong sense of danger, so how come even they couldn't detect it?"

"Yes, they also said that the hyenas attacked them like madmen, and even when they were severely wounded, they seemed not to feel any pain at all. How could such mad hyenas hide so well that even the knights didn't notice them?" Marley said skeptically.

"Furthermore, a formal knight can exude an aura of power, and hyenas are creatures that know how to bully the weak. How could they knowingly attack a team with knights when they are no match for them? Strange, very strange!"

"It is indeed strange to say that," Karazhan nodded in agreement from the side.

"So what do you think?" Roy asked Marley for his opinion.

He roughly concluded that there were two possibilities: either the servants lied—a possibility that was extremely slim, since it would not be easy to get so many servants to agree on their stories, and among the entire group, only Francis had the means to do so.

Another possibility is that the wizard intervened.

Only a wizard has the ability to hide hyenas so well that even a knight cannot detect them.

Could there be such a wizard?

What's the point of manipulating hyenas to attack the team while remaining hidden yourself, ultimately only severely injuring Leylin and allowing the entire team to escape unscathed?

"I think perhaps some mysterious force has intervened," Marley said half-jokingly. "Have you heard of wizards? They're one of the extraordinary beings besides knights."

Roy and Karazhan exchanged glances and slowly nodded.

"I'm usually right when I guess. This time it must have been the wizards who made the move, but it was just a small skirmish. Otherwise, the hunting party would have been wiped out long ago." He seemed to have a high opinion of wizards.

Even the usually silent Pierre nodded quietly.

Gradually, news of the hunting party's situation spread, and various opinions emerged.

Almost no one in the manor had ever seen a wizard, which gradually gave rise to a conspiracy theory.

Francis severely wounded Leylin and ordered the hunting party to keep the matter a secret.

This rumor is completely unfounded. Francis had no reason to harm Leylin. Besides, since he had already done so, why didn't he just kill him to prevent future trouble?

Therefore, such remarks were quickly suppressed.

Aside from that, putting aside the fact that Leylin was injured, the results of this hunt were still gratifying.

Two live Lothar lions represent a long-term supply of lion blood, which can accelerate the practice of lion breathing techniques.

This high-level resource wasn't even supplied to the official knights first; the main recipients were squires, because the blood had little effect on the knights' physiques.

At this very moment, Roy revealed his ability to manipulate life energy, a fact that confirmed he had entered the ranks of knights' squires, even if he was still at the most basic starting stage.

He also obtained a small portion of the pureblood of the Lothl Lion.

After drinking the blood, he suddenly felt a surge of heat in his abdomen, and the condensation of life energy became clearer and faster. He quickly seized the time to maintain the breathing state of a lion and grasped the tail of that life energy.

280 breaths can increase constitution and strength by 0.1, and the breathing method is twice as efficient as before consuming blood.

Unfortunately, the small amount of blood he received could only last for two or three hours.

Despite this, as the heat subsided, it triggered a total of five attribute boosts. When he stood up, his bones roared, like a lion howling through the mountains.

On average, his attributes could be improved once every half hour, which was undoubtedly the fastest method of attribute improvement he had ever seen since he transmigrated!

With only five points of strength, he could crush the hilt of a training wooden sword with just a little effort.

With full force, it can even recreate the horrific scene of crushing a human skull.

"We need to get more blood," Roy thought to himself.

……

In the evening, it snowed lightly.

Roy sampled Walter's cooking and found it to be comparable to the dishes at Soram's Tavern.

The next day, he and Karazhan headed towards the back of the mountain.

The manor, covered with a thin layer of snow, was hidden in the pale mountains.

Soraya's cottage was filled with wisps of warmth, and the fire in the fireplace was at its highest, like the bonfire in Lanxi Town that night, making a warm crackling sound.

—It was Ainz who made the move.

As Roy and Karazhan entered, exhaling a pristine white mist, Soraya suddenly transmitted her thoughts to them.

They were taken aback for a moment before realizing that she was referring to the attack on the hunting party.

"Ainz?"

—It was the wizard who attacked you, Ainz Hein.

Soraya said to Roy.

He was injured by the witch hunter and should be recuperating now. However, he recently gained a new bloodline ability that allows him to command animals. With a little witchcraft, this is enough to make the pack of hyenas launch an attack right under the knight's nose.

She added.

Bloodline wizards possess a form of magic that allows them to heal wounds using the blood of living beings; the stronger the life force within the blood, the better the healing effect. Knights, being able to manipulate life energy, naturally possess very strong life force in their blood.

—I suspect that Ainz ordered the hyenas to find creatures with strong vitality, but did not give a specific target, and then they found their way to the hunting party and were eventually wiped out.

—Now that he has already manipulated the creatures to act, the time until he is fully recovered will not be too far away.

As Soraya drew her conclusion, her sharp gaze turned toward Roy.

—If he analyzes your blood and finds the potential abilities worthwhile, he might target you again.

She sighed.

—I think you should speed up your cultivation.

"Speed ​​up my cultivation?" Roy stared at Soraya. "Does Miss Soraya perhaps have some other way to help me accelerate my progress?"

"Could it be that they want to give me more high-purity lion blood?"

Having tasted the sweetness of blood, Roy now only wanted to drink a few more vials of blood before entering a breathing state.

If vampires can truly experience such a wonderful rate of progress, then becoming a vampire wouldn't be so bad.

--no.

Soraya shook her head.

While there are methods to make the two male lions produce blood quickly, these methods will affect their bodily functions in the future, leading to a decline in blood quality, so it is best to avoid using them if possible.

Therefore, I can only draw blood from them once a month at most, and I can't possibly let Hist give you all the blood, since that would alert the other servants.

"Okay, if it's not blood, then what is it?"

—It is another method of body tempering besides breathing techniques.

—This is called the body refinement through poison.

She continued to explain.

The principle behind toxin-based body training is similar to that of human exercise. For example, if a person wants to increase muscle mass, after a certain amount of training, the muscles will weaken to a less than original level in a short period of time, but later they will surpass the original muscle mass, thus completing one training cycle.

Roy had heard of this concept on Earth.

Supercompensation refers to the process by which the body, after experiencing fatigue and decreased function due to exercise, can recover to or even exceed pre-exercise levels through rest and nutritional replenishment, thereby enhancing physical fitness, muscle strength, and other abilities.

So what is the relationship between this poison-based body tempering and super-recovery?

Soraya glanced at him and continued.

—The prerequisite for improvement is to keep the intensity of training within an appropriate range. Excessive training will cause the body's recovery speed to not keep up with the rate of consumption, such as excessive damage to muscles and tissues... Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I explained it.

In short, the principle of toxin-based body tempering is the same: within the body's tolerance range, toxins are applied to ensure that the recovery rate keeps up with the consumption rate, while simultaneously triggering super-recovery. Furthermore, because the effects of toxins are continuous, super-recovery will continue to be triggered until your physical constitution becomes stronger, the recovery rate far exceeds the consumption rate, and the toxins become ineffective. At that point, a more potent toxin will be needed.

—Because the threshold for the knight system to go from squire to full knight is only the standard of reaching 10 in physique and strength attributes, it does not necessarily require the use of breathing techniques to improve, and can be completely improved by external forces, which is why I thought of poison body tempering.

"So, the first step is to determine which level of toxin is suitable for my body?"

—This is the point: if this work isn't done properly, the toxins might not be a good medicine to help you improve, but rather turn into real poison.

Soraya demonstrated the knowledge expected of a wizard of the Life School.

—The wizards of the Life faction created a table listing the toxicity levels of various toxins. Of course, this table requires magic stones to purchase, but I already knew how to use it and had it memorized.

If we rate the toxicity of king cobra venom as 100, then the relative toxicity of centipede venom is 0.3 and that of bee venom is 0.5. These two toxins would only have an effect on an adult and cause death if they were combined hundreds of times, which is actually quite weak.

The relative toxicity of toad skin toxins is 15, meaning that only large quantities or accidental ingestion could cause death.

There are also many other snake species whose venom is more potent than that of the king cobra.

As she spoke, Soraya opened the locked cabinet next to the fireplace and took out a metal-sealed box.

It was also made of Star Marrow Steel. She placed her finger on it and waited for a while. The box automatically recognized it and unlocked.

—This contains the various common toxins I've collected.

Soraya took out a test tube containing a pale yellow, transparent liquid.

—This is centipede venom.

She took out a test tube containing a reagent of the same color.

—This is king cobra venom.

If it weren't for the labels on the test tubes, Roy wouldn't have been able to tell which was which without his True Sight.

—And this too.

This time, she took out a glass bottle containing colorless and transparent powder.

—This is tetrodotoxin, with a strength of 800 on the toxin list.

She smiled expectantly at Roy, which sent a chill down his spine.

—You probably won't need this. A new servant's constitution is about ten times that of an ordinary person, so using king cobra venom would be sufficient.

—If you experience a relatively obvious poisoning reaction, it means that the level of toxin you need to accept during the toxin body tempering process is roughly within this range.

Next, she took out the test tube containing king cobra venom, along with several other glass bottles and test tubes.

Karazhan shuddered, wished Roy good luck, and went off to study.

He has not yet been able to manipulate life energy and enter the level of a servant, so using poison to refine his body at this time will not achieve the best results.

A moment later, Soraya walked towards Roy with a syringe in her hand.