North American wizards, starting as cooks, roam freely and without fear.

"Bang!!"

The explosion was deafening, the ground shook, and the violent, chaotic aftershocks of elemental energy surged forth, flipping and throwing the slightly slower Jerry the mouse over the railing and about to fall to the ground floor.

Just then, Li Heng, who had quickly retreated outside the room, immediately used his "Wizard's Hand" to grab its long tail from a distance and pulled it back.

Although the little guy is tough and thick-skinned, he might not even lose a single hair if he falls from this height.

"squeak!"

Upon seeing that he had been rescued by his owner, little Jerry immediately shouted with joy and jumped onto his owner's shoulder as soon as he landed.

"That was great, very brave..."

Li Heng stood outside the room, slung Little Jerry over his shoulder, and was about to go inside to check on the evil spirit.

At that moment, lines of virtual text emitting a pale golden hue appeared before his eyes: [New species of extraordinary creature identified: Evil Spirit]

[Rewards available for first-time inclusion]

[Inclusion Method: Kill]

【...】

Looking at the notification data, Li Heng couldn't help but mutter to himself, "The 'Book of Omniscience,' your reaction is really slow..."

But before he could finish speaking...

Another series of golden virtual characters appeared before my eyes:

[Soul Source Obtained: 1]

【...】

[Slay a new species of extraordinary creature: the Evil Spirit]

[Already included]

[First-time inclusion reward: Tier 1 Wizard Robe]

【...】

Looking at the prompts that reappeared before my eyes, I carefully read each prompt, especially the final reward for inclusion.

Li Heng's eyes lit up instantly. He wasn't surprised that he only obtained a little bit of Soul Source this time, because the evil spirit aura just now seemed to be equivalent to a C-level superhuman, exactly the same as the rules for obtaining Soul Source in his previous life.

The "Book of Omniscience" gave him Soul Source based on his own strength. He was only C-level when he killed the black werewolf in the park in Brooklyn, but he was given two points because he was only C-level at that time.

Now that he's at B-rank, killing a C-rank is only a small matter.

When he advances to the third level of wizard apprentice, which is equivalent to a level A superhuman, he can still obtain soul resources by killing level B beings, but he will not be able to obtain them by killing level C beings.

Because the difference in strength between the two is too great.

This is the Soul Source Rule of the "Book of Omniscience," which encourages the host to kill and grow stronger while also restricting defenses to prevent him from taking shortcuts.

However, although he was not surprised to earn some Soul Source, he was very surprised, delighted and happy about the collection reward in front of him!

As mentioned before,

Witchcraft artifacts: also known as "enchanted items", are objects inscribed with witchcraft arrays and possessing extraordinary abilities.

In the wizarding continent of Tyria in the previous life, "wizard artifacts" were an indispensable piece of equipment for wizards, and they also had a complete set of ranking systems.

Among magical artifacts, the lowest grade, which is a magical artifact that is only engraved with a magical array, is collectively called a "zero-grade magical artifact," meaning it has no grade.

Above the zeroth tier is the first-tier magical artifact, which is a magical artifact inscribed with two to three magical arrays.

Wizard artifacts are very expensive. Before becoming a formal wizard, wizard apprentices are already considered very powerful if they have one or two other level zero wizard artifacts in addition to the level zero robe issued by the academy.

A first-tier magical artifact is the kind of magical artifact that a formal wizard would typically use.

Of course, some talented and powerful apprentices with strong backgrounds can also possess this before they become official wizards.

Li Heng had also obtained a first-tier sorcerer's robe from the rewards of the "Book of Omniscience" in his previous life.

Now that he has acquired it again, his excitement and joy are even greater than when he obtained it in his previous life, because this world is too dangerous and he is too weak.

He reached out and took the exquisite black robe, formed by the fusion of golden virtual characters, which slowly floated down.

"Gah..."

Just as Li Heng was about to put it on and study it, he suddenly heard the cawing of a raven named Dahei from behind!

"besides!?"

Li Heng was startled and immediately put on his robe, turning around and running towards the source of the sound.

"Gagaga!"

The big black croak came again, but why did it sound a little excited?

It's on the third floor!

Li Heng heard clearly this time and immediately ran towards the third floor. Little Jerry the mouse seemed to think he was too slow and jumped off his shoulder first, rushing towards the third floor at lightning speed.

soon.

When Li Heng rushed up to the third floor, he was shocked by what he saw: in the wide corridor ahead, a black bird, nearly two meters long, with its wide wings spread, was pressing a figure to the floor with its back turned!

The giant black bird had one claw gripping the head and the other gripping the back, its sharp claws digging deep into the human-shaped figure's body, pinning the struggling figure to the ground. Its huge, sharp beak was still pecking at the figure's neck, and it looked like it was about to peck the neck off!

They were incredibly fierce and brutal!

The giant black bird before us is none other than Black Raven.

Li Heng had never personally seen Dahei transform into this form before, and this was the first time he had seen it, which really surprised him!

Good guy!

This giant was much larger than a typical eagle, appearing even taller than him, and its pair of black feathers spread out were truly astonishing.

But he didn't rush to tell Big Black to stop.

Because the figure being trampled under the claws of the giant black dog is not human!

He noticed it immediately upon going upstairs: a huge gash on the back of the figure's head, filled with scabbed black blood clots, just like the congealed bloodstains he had stepped on when he went upstairs earlier.

He was wearing a priest's uniform from some unknown church, covered in blood, with his exposed arms bruised and his struggling body stiff!

That wasn't a person, but a corpse that had been dead for a long time—the very priest that Harvey, a member of the "Carl Paranormal Research Association," had mentioned dying in this villa!

He's just turned into a zombie now!

next second.

A series of pale gold virtual characters appeared before my eyes.

[An extraordinary being detected: an evil spirit]

【...】

They're not zombies, they're evil spirits!

Seeing the prompt in front of him, Li Heng was about to tell Dahei to stop and move aside when he saw Dahei suddenly peck down with its long beak and break the corpse's neck. Then, he saw Dahei open its mouth and suck out a cloud of black gas, like ink, from the corpse's neck and swallow it.

The corpse, which had been struggling just a second ago, suddenly fell silent.

WTF!

At this moment, watching this scene, Li Heng couldn't help but murmur. He was obviously surprised and shocked that Dahei could actually devour evil spirits!

This thing can actually devour evil spirits!

"squeak!"

At this moment, Jerry the mouse, who had been standing next to Big Black for a long time, looked at this scene with great envy and immediately looked up and chirped.

"quack!"

"Gagaga!"

After absorbing the black energy and devouring the evil spirit, the raven was clearly in a great mood. It cawed a few times, gave its little brother, the mouse, a very smug look, and then jumped off the corpse.