Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 15 The Other Side of the World, The Wizard's Territory

The next moment, Su Nan felt as if the scenery around him was being distorted. Before he could react, he found himself leaving the castle and arriving in a desolate wasteland.

Gray stone tablets stand in this desolate land.

The sky was gray and gloomy, but a full moon hung in the sky, and the wasteland was covered with aconite, with an ancient altar in the center.

On that altar, Su Nan sensed a special aura similar to his own.

"Where is this? The AI?" Sunan asked.

[Currently, information is severely lacking, but based on your level of mental activity and sensory perception, this appears to be more than just a hallucination; rather, it is a secondary space relative to your original world.]

This can be likened to entering the underworld of a planet, or another side of a similar world. This region may hold significant importance for wizarding civilizations.

Su Nan walked along the desolate land. He stood at the highest point of the wilderness and saw that the land in the distance was shrouded in mist and could not be seen.

Within that gray mist lay the wilderness beneath his feet.

Meanwhile, in the westernmost corner of the wilderness, there seems to be a cluster of ancient castles, but half of these castles are shrouded in mist, appearing and disappearing indistinctly.

Many parts of the castle have collapsed, and the overall shape of the castle has some strange coffin-like designs.

Su Nan suddenly noticed a figure appearing out of the corner of his eye. He immediately turned around and saw a shadow shrouded in a black robe standing in the center of the wilderness, holding a huge scythe.

His clothes were tattered, suggesting he had been standing there for a long time.

Su Nan immediately walked to the center of the wilderness, preparing his defenses. "Who are you?"

"Excuse me, where is this place?"

The black-robed man wielding a giant scythe seemed somewhat surprised upon hearing the voice. He looked up at Su Nan and said, "It has been a very, very long time since a wizard has been born in this region."

"You are the first second-class wizard apprentice to be born in this region in the last two thousand years."

"What a miracle! I am the gatekeeper and guide of the Gray Earth Cemetery School in the [Secret Realm]. You can call me Or."

"Wizard apprentices whose mental and magical strength meet the standards of a second-class wizard apprentice can, with the help of their mentors, enter the 'Secret Realm,' hidden in the cracks of the material world. This is the other side of the world, concealed by the church and the kings."

"I've been alone here for far too long. I don't know when it started, but the school stopped producing new wizards, and the wizards of the past no longer appear here. Until one day, I realized that I had been abandoned."

Orr sounded very downcast as he said this. "The entire Gray Cemetery School has disappeared. They may have moved away, died, or gone missing."

"The Secret Realm, also known as the Secret World, is a world of idealism that corresponds entirely to the material world. In the material world, matter dominates the spirit, but here the spirit dominates matter. Wizards will naturally discover the Secret Realm when their spiritual power and magical power reach a certain level, and establish a large and prosperous place for communication within it."

Ordos said, "But all of this came to an abrupt end more than two thousand years ago."

"The wizards left this land. They may have gone elsewhere, to other secret realms. So this place became a wasteland. Without wizards, the mists of the secret realms gradually swallowed everything they had here."

"This spiritual realm, long neglected, has once again become desolate."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. So, he had entered a place that was once only accessible to wizards of at least the second-rank apprentice level in this land. "Are there ranks among wizards?"

Guardian Or said, "Yes, we divide them. First, there are ordinary people who study in wizarding organizations. Next are third-class wizard apprentices, whose mental strength is already much stronger than that of ordinary people. Then there are second-class wizard apprentices whose mental strength is sufficient to enter the secret realm."

"Next, one can recognize the first-rate wizard apprentice within oneself."

"Then come the formal wizards."

"In the past, the church claimed that only gods could use thunder, manipulate fire, and heal others, while wizards could at most manipulate illusions and play with curses, but these were all nonsense to a proper wizard."

"A formal wizard is a scholar who is capable of wielding godlike power."

"The official wizards of the Gray Earth Cemetery can even resurrect the dead and turn them into better people."

"Next are the second-circle wizards, who are above the regular wizards."

Su Nan's breathing became a little rapid, but he quickly calmed down.

The secret realm is right before my eyes. I can obtain all its mysteries myself. There is absolutely no need for any impatience.

Su Nan asked, "So, what is a second-ring wizard like?"

The Guardian of Or shook his head. "Even in the old Gray Earth Cemetery, there were no second-circle wizards. So, I don't know the power of a second-circle wizard. But Gray Earth Cemetery, which had formal wizards, really did a lot of things back then."

"Even the shepherds of the law seek their guidance and cooperation in order to understand the mysteries and weaknesses of the neither-living nor-dead."

Su Nan said, "So you don't know why the wizard of the Gray Earth Cemetery left, or where he went?"

The Guardian of Orl was somewhat dejected. "I am a guide created by dark magic in the secret realm of the Gray Earth Cemetery. I have no way to go to the material world. All I know is what the wizards have told me, but those wizards are very, very busy, so I only know a very small amount of information."

"In addition, two thousand years have passed, and I have forgotten many things. Loneliness and solitude can change many things... Fortunately, you have come now."

Su Nan understood the guardian's predicament. He secretly had the AI ​​scan the other party's data and asked, "Why am I in the secret realm area where the Gray Earth Cemetery is located? What can this secret realm do?"

Guardian Or said, "As I said before, the secret realm is a gap in the material world. Just as the material world has the sun and the moon, the secret realm is an objectively existing place in the material world. Wizards have only discovered it."

"The wizards and scholars of the Gray Earth Cemetery speculate that the unconscious flow of wisdom among life forms in the material world over millions of years has given rise to the secret realm. You could also think of yourself as being in a super-vast collective unconscious world right now."

"Therefore, you are somewhere in the real world, and when you enter the secret realm, you will appear in this area. And the real world you are in just happens to be the stronghold of the Gray Earth Cemetery two thousand years ago."

"Therefore, the moment you became a second-class wizard apprentice, you were summoned into the Gray Earth Cemetery's former stronghold in the Secret Realm."

"Unfortunately, because no wizards have come here for so long, there is almost nothing left."

"If you don't come soon, the last piece of land here that has been developed will be swallowed by the mist, and I will die in the mist as well."

The Guardian of Or pointed to the full moon in the sky and the desolate path beneath his feet: "The area we are in is a manifestation of your magic in the secret realm."

"Because of the special nature of the secret realm, casting spells here consumes almost no mana, and the difficulty is greatly reduced."

"Every living being in the material world has a corresponding symbol in the secret realm, especially wizards. When wizards' magic appears in the secret realm, it will form some special symbols in the secret realm."

"This wilderness, the verbena, and the full moon are your symbols in the secret realm."

"It's worth mentioning that a typical second-class wizard apprentice wouldn't have as many or as many symbols in the secret realm as you."

"You are a very special wizard."

The Guardian of Orl said, "In the Secret Realm, wizards can better observe their own hearts and experiment with their spells. But most importantly, as long as there is a piece of land, people will conquer and explore it, and wizards are no exception."

"In order to keep the lands they conquered for a long time, wizards were keen to establish various strongholds in the secret realm in the past."

"But then one day, I don't know why, they gave up everything they had worked so hard to possess."

"If this were two thousand years ago, I could have guided you to join the Gray Earth Cemetery and inherit its legacy, but now there's nothing left here."

"However, perhaps you can rebuild something here as the first wizard born in this region two thousand years from now."

(End of this chapter)