A noun entry: Wizard

one year later.

"A mandatory task?"

Russell sat in a classroom at Dawn College, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Yes, you can accept normal quests or choose not to accept them, but wizard apprentices have one mandatory quest every year that they must complete."

Yafna sat down next to Russell, tucking a stray pink strand of hair behind her ear and said.

"How much do you know about this mandatory mission?" Russell asked.

Now that he's in the Wizarding Guild and has a stable environment, even if he kills enemies of higher ranks and can obtain affix dust, Russell only wants to become a wizard first before thinking about anything else.

Russell wasn't particularly enthusiastic about farming for affix dust at a lower level.

In the Wizarding Guild, the gap between wizarding apprentices and wizards is terrifying.

After becoming a wizard, Russell's strength will experience a tremendous leap, and only then can he be said to have the ability to protect himself throughout the entire wizarding world.

Instead of being like now, barely possessing the strength of a first-tier wizard.

During that year, he collected many spells suitable for arcane wizards, but he also mixed in a lot of spells based on the four elements: earth, fire, water, and soul.

They then carefully selected four from these and began constructing spell models.

The element of water was the most favorable, after all, Russell's royal bloodline from the Sea Clan gave him an extremely high affinity for the water element.

Secondly, there's the fire element, which isn't too difficult.

The difficulty of comprehending the earth element has increased significantly.

This is common knowledge.

Even today, many wizarding apprentices and even wizards in the Wizarding Guild use lower-level artificial elements such as earth and rock, which are based on the earth element.

But Russell's noodles still didn't bother him for long.

It took Russell four months to complete the model of the three elemental spells: earth, fire, and water.

The remaining eight months were spent researching and constructing models for soul spells.

It can only be said that it lives up to its reputation as the most difficult spell to learn; the difficulty of level zero is comparable to that of level one.

But after such a long time, the soul spell model has become infinitely close to perfection.

The casting time is only 0.1 seconds, which is almost the same as instant casting, but it is this slight difference that is causing his level 3 Fu Rui model to get stuck here.

Russell intended to overcome this difficulty in one go, even if it took several months.

However, he learned of this news from Yafna while attending classes at Dawn Academy.

"I asked some senior students at Dawn Academy, and they said that the mandatory missions are different every year and are directly issued by the wizards of Dawn City."

"Moreover, it's said that a hidden reward is included in the mandatory annual missions—a reward that can help a wizard apprentice advance to the rank of a full wizard!"

"It's just that it's hard to detect."

"Only once every few years, or even every ten years, will such a lucky person appear and become a wizard, but no one knows if it's true or not."

Russell and Yafna chatted for a bit and gained some understanding of the mandatory missions.

Just as he was about to say something more, he noticed an old man dressed in a white shaman's robe slowly walking onto the stage.

"The teacher is here, let's start class," Russell said in a low voice.

After Yafna responded, the classroom quickly quieted down, and the white-robed old wizard nodded in satisfaction.

"Today we will explain three advanced uses of mental magic," the white-robed old wizard began his lecture.

Mental spells are a lower-level form of soul spells, and can also be amplified by Russell's [Holy Soul - The Tragedy of the True Spirit (Legendary)].

However, it is much less difficult to use than soul spells, and its power is even less.

Mental spells are also key to condensing arcane soul runes; Shillien prepared four mental spells for Russell.

The "Mental Shock" spell in the Ring of Rilot is actually a mental spell, but Russell at the time was unaware of the existence of mental spells.

Furthermore, since Mental Shock can be amplified by the Soul Attack bonus, Russell came to regard Mental Shock as a soul spell.

However, mental magic is ultimately inextricably linked to soul magic.

Russell came to the class hoping to gain some insights into mental magic and refine his model of soul magic.

Furthermore, since Russell's prepared cover identity was that of an arcane wizard, he naturally had to take courses in mental magic.

Soon, the class was over.

Russell and Yafna left the classroom and headed towards their lodgings.

"I never expected that you would also want to pursue the path of an arcane wizard," Russell said with some emotion.

Yafna has good talent, and she came to the Wizarding Association as a second-level wizard apprentice, where she received cutting-edge knowledge.

Compared to when we were at Panlong Mountain, there are undoubtedly many more possibilities.

In less than a year, they could become second-level wizard apprentices; none of them lacked talent.

Gus is also a genius. If he had come to the Wizarding Association at level two, he might have had the chance to become a wizard.

Unfortunately, he is already very old, and there is basically no possibility of him becoming a wizard.

"I don't really like fighting and killing. I was tested some time ago, and my soul strength is twice that of a normal wizard apprentice."

"I may not be as good as you, Brother Russell, but I still have the potential to become an arcane wizard," Yafna said sweetly.

Although the possibility was not high, Russell did not intend to discourage the little girl; instead, he offered her a few words of encouragement.

"Mental spells are simpler than soul spells, but much more difficult than other spells, such as the most difficult elemental spell, earth spells."

"It will probably take more than ten years, or even several decades, to build the models of the four mental spells to perfection."

"Ultimately, there's a good chance he'll fail to get promoted."

Russell shook his head, banishing the matter of Yafna from his mind, and began to think about the mandatory mission.

"In the past year, although I have become much stronger, there are still areas where I can improve."

Russell turned his attention to the glossary system.

[Entry Dust]: 40413 points.

"After a year without pulling any cards, my luck must have returned to its peak. I'm sure I'll pull a golden legendary card, or even a red epic card!"

Russell took a deep breath, burned 10,000 points of keyword dust, and began a hundred consecutive draws.

"Green and high-quality".

"Green and high-quality".

……

"Blue is high-end."

My first 10-pull ended with a guaranteed drop.

"That can't be right. I haven't pulled any cards in a year. My luck must be off the charts... Hmm, it must be a padding pull, just like when I pulled a golden legendary card."

Russell took a deep breath. This was only the first ten draws; there were still ninety more to go.

Not urgent.

"Blue is high-end."

……

"Blue is high-end."

……

"Purple is rare."

Russell remained silent.

This 100-pull still ended with a guaranteed purple affix.