A noun entry: Wizard

"Cough, cough!"

With a violent cough, the boy lying on the beach woke up, his body hunched over as if he were coughing up his lungs.

He coughed up a lot of water, then struggled to breathe, gasping for air.

Russell looked around; he had been washed ashore by the waves and was soaking wet.

My chest was filled with a burning pain, and my head was also dizzy and disoriented as fragments of memories kept flooding back.

"Time travel? No, it's more like awakening memories of a past life."

Russell stumbled and fell to a relatively safe place, making sure he wouldn't drown. He sat on the beach, rubbing his throbbing head, and slowly sorted through his memories.

Sitting by the sea, with the damp sea breeze blowing, Russell's two memories intertwined and merged.

This is a world similar to the Western Middle Ages on Earth, but it possesses extraordinary powers—knights and wizards.

The known knight ranks are divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced ranks, as well as the Grand Knight rank after breaking through to the advanced rank.

Wizards start as apprentices, progressing through levels one, two, and three, before becoming full-fledged wizards.

Of course, these two are not equivalent.

Knighthood is an extraordinary profession that anyone can learn. By simply honing one's physical abilities and gradually improving, one can reach the level of a novice knight.

A junior knight is simply an ordinary person with a strong body, without any special abilities.

This applies even to intermediate and advanced knights.

It's just that high-level knights have reached the physical limits of ordinary people, and they can easily lift boulders weighing thousands of pounds.

Only when they reach the Great Knight stage will they reveal their true extraordinary abilities.

In the wizarding system, even a novice can begin to learn spells, such as the lowest-level zero-rank spells like fireball and wind blade.

Of course, the entire wizarding apprentice class can only learn zero-order spells. First-order spells are for professional wizards.

Of course, there are also wizard apprentices with exceptional talent in magic who can cast first-tier spells when they are at the third-tier wizard apprentice level.

But in this backward and dilapidated coastal kingdom, there is only one official wizard.

Not to mention the wizard apprentices who are only known by legend and can cast first-order spells.

Russell was a student who possessed the qualifications to become a wizard, but had not yet become a wizarding apprentice.

In the Kingdom of Ent, everyone is tested at the age of six to see if they have the aptitude to become a wizard.

If so, they will be taken to Panlong City at the foot of Panlong Mountain, where the official wizard resides.

Then I studied here for ten years.

When they turn sixteen, if they can become a wizard's apprentice, they can ascend Panlong Mountain.

Continue down the path of the wizard.

If one fails to become a wizard's apprentice, they will be considered unworthy and unable to ascend the mountain.

Whether you stay in Panlong City or leave, no one will care.

It seems that in those final months, the original owner still failed to become a wizard apprentice. In despair, she went to the beach and committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

"I didn't realize the original owner was so fragile," Russell clicked his tongue.

Being unable to become a wizard apprentice within ten years does not mean that one cannot become a wizard apprentice for life.

If you spend another ten or twenty years, as long as you can become a first-level wizard apprentice, you can become a person of extremely high status in any city you go to.

Having the aptitude to become a wizard is extremely rare, one in ten thousand. In a city with a population of tens of thousands, there might only be one or two at most.

Within the territory of the Kingdom of Ente, dozens of cities cannot gather more than a hundred qualified individuals each year.

The original owner's starting line was already the finish line for countless others.

"Forget it, I'd better hurry back to the city and take a good look at this thing in my head."

Russell thought to himself.

If he simply relaxes, a blurry box will appear in front of him, displaying a series of information.

Name: Russell Insec

[Occupation]: Knight

Level: Beginner (52%)

[Skill]: Ent Meditation Method (49%)

……

[Entry Sequence]: Not built.

Core term: None.

Branch entry: Not unlocked.

[Entry Dust]: 10 points.

Back in his house in the city, after a quick shower, Russell began to study the blurry box.

It appears to be the Deep Blue-style stat allocation system that Russell most desired after his time travel.

It has no intelligence, no scheming, no communication; its only function is to add points, pushing the host's points all the way to the limit.

In fact, it was similar to what Russell had imagined, but there were also some differences.

The term dust is not for Russell to add points to, but for extracting terms.

The core function of this system is [entries].

Extract terms and assemble term sequences.

The quality of entries ranges from low to high: white (common), green (fine), blue (advanced), purple (rare), gold (legendary), red (epic), and colored (mythical).

There are seven qualities in total.

A single speck of dust can be used to draw one speck. A ten-draw guarantees a green (excellent) speck, and a one-hundred-draw guarantees a blue (advanced) speck.

However, since Russell is a newcomer, the system thoughtfully arranged a ten-pull pool for him, guaranteeing him a rare purple affix.

"I'm guaranteed to get a rare item in my 10-pull, so I'll do the beginner's 10-pull anyway."

Russell took a deep breath, went directly to the gacha interface, and selected a ten-pull.

The system interface dimmed slightly, and a series of illusory cards appeared in front of Russell. With a thought, one of the cards glowed white and flipped over.

"Ordinary white!"

A low chant, tinged with slight disdain, quietly began to play.

[Strong Body (Normal): Physical defense +2%.]

"Looks like, well, I can only say it's worthy of being a white-label entry. Also, I wonder if the gacha voice lines could be turned off."

Russell felt that the system was mocking him.

"Ordinary white!"

"Green and high-quality!"

"Ordinary white!"

"I've reached the minimum requirement. Hopefully, I'll get a decent rare affix." Russell sighed, thinking that his luck should always be pretty good.

Click on the last card.

A colorful halo spread out.

Russell's eyes widened.

"Colorful...myth!!!"

The system's voice was drawn out, filled with unparalleled disbelief, and it was uttered in an almost aria-like tone.

【Tracing the Origins - Supreme Soul (Myth): Soul Essence +900%, Comprehension +400%, Myth Passive: Soul Rank +1】

"Mythological entry!" Russell was almost blinded by the card's colorful glow, staring incredulously at its attributes.

I glanced at the [Strong Body (Normal): Body Defense +2%] again.

Indeed, without comparison, there is no harm.

Russell decisively equipped the [Tracing the Origin - Soul Sacred (Myth)] to the core entry of the entry sequence.

A 900% increase in soul essence means that Russell's soul has grown tenfold.

A 400% increase in comprehension means Russell's comprehension increases fivefold.

The final mythical passive skill, Rank +1, signifies that Russell's soul has undergone a leap, from an ordinary person to the level of a wizard apprentice.

Once Russell reaches the level of a third-level wizard apprentice, his soul will leap directly to the level of a full wizard!

The former is nothing special; at most, it's a progression from 1 to 2, or 3.

However, the latter goes directly from 10 to 100!

Mythological entries do indeed possess the terrifying ability to directly create a myth.