The Wizard: Starting with Infinite Part-Time Jobs

"A maze of falling rocks!"

With a wave of the wand, another sandstorm roared out, leaving the ground riddled with holes, scattering pebbles everywhere, and swirling dust in the air.

He is now very skilled at casting the Falling Rocks Maze. From stumbling at the beginning to now playing it smoothly, his progress is indeed remarkable.

He silently assessed his current strength in his mind.

"I've already learned one spell, and with the elemental magic arrows and polymorph I already knew, I've mastered three spells, though they're all zero-level tricks," Aiden muttered to himself.

Mastering a new form of witchcraft within three months is already considered a very fast pace.

"Besides that, I haven't neglected my arm strength training, and I've also made considerable progress in visualization techniques," Aiden said.

He moved his wrists, his knuckles cracking, and the muscles in his arms under his sleeves were bulging and clearly defined.

"In these three months, besides the wear and tear on the spellcasting medium, there's also the wear and tear on the wand. In short, just one spell, the Falling Rock Maze, cost me nearly two thousand magic stones. It's really outrageous," Aiden said, shaking his head.

Two thousand magic stones are enough for an ordinary wizard apprentice to live on for a lifetime.

He spent all of it on three months' worth of expenses; just thinking about it makes my wallet ache.

"Tomorrow, I have to go on a business trip with Senior Sister Iseli. Before that, I need to check on how Xiaodie's stomach is developing."

Aiden got up, dusted off his robes, rode his magic broom, and returned to his hut in a few minutes.

In the air, Aiden complained, "To save commuting time and have more time to cultivate, I've stopped walking altogether and rely entirely on my magic broom to move around. But this has added another expense to my life."

……

At Aiden's cabin.

The sea breeze was blowing fiercely outside the window, causing the curtains to flutter continuously.

He looked at the small, ethereal butterfly lying on the table, encased in a cocoon of light, and observed it quietly.

The patterns on the surface of the cocoon were slowly flowing, as if something inside was breathing.

"Xiaodie's condition is relatively stable. She's been in a deep sleep for two months. Judging by the time, she should wake up today," Aiden murmured to himself.

Click!

Just then, the sound of a cocoon breaking open came from the desktop.

A crack appeared on the cocoon shell, and fragments fell onto the table with a clatter, bouncing a few times before rolling to the side. Little Butterfly crawled out, now a little bigger.

Its wings were still covered with a sticky, transparent liquid, and its six thin legs supported it on the table. It swayed a couple of times before it regained its balance.

Its antennae twitched, and it looked a little confused.

"My dear daughter, what's wrong? Are you feeling alright?" Aiden quickly asked with concern.

He reached out to touch Xiaodie's back, but was afraid of hurting her, so he paused for a moment with his fingers hovering in mid-air before gently lowering them, his palm touching the base of Xiaodie's wings.

"I just feel so hungry," Xiaodie said weakly.

Its voice was as faint as a mosquito's hum, and its flat belly was pressed against the table.

"Want some?" Aiden quickly took out the royal jelly he had gotten earlier and placed it in front of Xiaodie.

"I don't want to eat it, I want to eat insect meat, Daddy." Xiaodie shook her head.

Its antennae drooped limply, and the whole butterfly lay motionless on the table.

"A change of pace? Is the stomach lining working?" Aiden's eyes lit up.

According to the introduction in "The Entomological School's Domestication Manual".

After the stomach sac is modified, the contracted worms will have a greatly changed appetite and can devour a large number of worms to improve themselves.

"I don't know," Xiaodie said, lying down.

"Wait a minute, I'll go get you something to eat." Aiden reassured it and rode off into the hut on his magic broom.

A stream of air shot out from the tail of the broom, its power at full blast.

……

At this moment, not far from the Rune Courtyard, in the nearest island jungle.

Aiden, riding his magic broom, activated his bio-radar and discovered a large ant nest hanging on a tree ahead.

The radar screen was covered with countless red dots; the cluster of fire ants was as big as a washbasin, huddled together in dense swarms.

"Okay, this swarm of fire ants will keep Little Butterfly fed for a long time."

Aiden's eyes lit up. He immediately pulled out his wand and a jar of spellcasting medium, and began chanting: "Falling Rocks Maze!"

The tip of the wand exploded into a cloud of yellowish-brown smoke, which rapidly expanded and spread, engulfing the entire tree and the ant nest on it.

A dense crackling sound came from within the smoke; it was the sound of stones falling and crushing the ant nest.

The ants scurried about, some were smashed into mincemeat by falling rocks, and others were choked by the smoke and fell to the ground, kicking their six legs wildly.

The branch snapped with a crack, and the ant nest, along with the bark, fell to the ground, splashing up a cloud of mud and water.

Soon, the ants inside were crushed to death or injured by the falling rocks, and Aiden caught them all, putting them into a large bag, totaling several hundred.

"The area-of-effect (AoE) attacks of the wizard class are indeed powerful, especially against targets like this that only get hit," Aiden said.

He patted the bag, and the ants inside were still rustling.

"If I were just a skilled archer, I'd either shoot those ants to pieces or exhaust my hands. It's not worth it at all," Aiden sighed.

He tucked the wand back into his belt and shook his head.

"Unless, I master an archery technique that also has an area-of-effect attack," Aiden continued.

Soon, he dug out a lot of plump ant pupae and put them into a bag.

The ant pupae are white and plump, soft to the touch, and when squeezed, a yellow liquid oozes out.

"That should be enough to eat." Aiden hurriedly rode back on his magic broom.

……

"Good daughter, eat up. These ants are big and fat," Aiden said with a smile.

He dumped the bag onto the table, and several red fire ants and plump white ant pupae rolled out, some of them still wriggling.

Xiaodie's mouth opened and closed rapidly as she swallowed, making a crunching sound as she chewed.

"Daddy, it's delicious," Xiaodie said softly.

Its belly swelled up noticeably, and its wings spread out considerably.

"Haha, so you only drank dew and potions before, now you're eating insect flesh," Aiden exclaimed.

"The wizard's methods are truly perverse; with just a stomach pouch, he completely altered the habits of a creature," Aiden continued.

Only in the wizarding world, after being baptized by knowledge, could Aiden realize just how extraordinary the wisdom of the wizarding community truly was.

"Dad, I feel like I have more energy inside me. I want to release it," Xiaodie said, touching her belly.

Its antennae stood straight up, and its body glowed, as if it was holding back a lot of energy.

"Then try out the power of your transparent air blade," Aiden said, his eyes lighting up.

"No problem," Xiaodie replied.

He rubbed his hands together and led Xiaodie to the test target in the garden.

Xiaodie's transparent light blade, undetectable to anyone, is one of his trump cards.

……

A person and a butterfly arrived in the garden, in front of the test target.

The target was a thick iron plate, riddled with arrow holes left from before.

"boom!"

A transparent blade of light struck the target at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, severing it completely.