Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

Sitting in front of the computer, Wang Yi kept sliding the mouse, and then occasionally typed some text on the keyboard, opening different links and browsing various websites and forums.

Time passed slowly until it got dark and the streetlights outside the building started to come on.

The surrounding villas were brightly lit, and laughter and noise could be heard from time to time, but Wang Yi's house was very dark and quiet.

Inside the bedroom, the pale light from the computer screen flickered incessantly, reflecting off Wang Yi's tightly furrowed brow.

The only sounds in the room were the faint scraping of a mouse and the occasional clicking of a keyboard, proclaiming that there were still living people present.

Only when the bright moon was high in the sky did Wang Yi stretch wearily, rub his sore eyes, get up, fumble around for a bit, and then press the switch on the chandelier.

The sudden bright lights startled Wang Yi, causing him to squint instinctively. After his eyes adjusted slightly, he turned back to his computer, sat down, and took out his phone from his pocket.

While he was researching various materials, his phone vibrated several times, but Wang Yi, who was busy absorbing all kinds of knowledge, did not want to be interrupted.

Now that he had almost finished his investigation, he took out his phone and saw that most of the messages he received were greetings from classmates, which Wang Yi cautiously did not reply to.

When Wang Yi came across the message from his homeroom teacher, Bai Yu, he immediately sat up straight, a sense of crisis rising in his heart.

"Come to the principal's office tomorrow morning during reading time."

It was clearly Wang Yi's act of jumping off the building today that alarmed the principal.

"I wonder if the original owner and the principal have met before, and how well they know each other. If they are very familiar, wouldn't using amnesia as an excuse give me away? Old people are shrewd and not to be underestimated!"

Wang Yi felt somewhat gloomy. After much deliberation, he decided to test the waters with Bai Yu first.

At least this twenty-year-old female homeroom teacher should be easier to fool than the principal.

Wang Yi replied, "I'm not familiar with the principal. Why would he want to see me? Is he going to give me an award?"

"You're the first student to jump off a building in the 78-year history of Lanling Magic High School. Even if the principal didn't know you before, he'll have to get to know you properly now!"

Upon seeing this message, Wang Yi breathed a slight sigh of relief. Since he didn't know the principal before, he had much more room to maneuver.

"Didn't you suffer from amnesia? How do you know you're not familiar with the principal?"

Bai Yu then sent another message.

Wang Yi used a pre-prepared excuse: "I had just woken up and was completely dazed. My mind was blank. But when I saw my classmates and returned to my familiar home, I became much more sober."

"What the hell? Why didn't you do this earlier!" Bai Yu, who was taking a bath in the bathtub, saw the message and angrily threw her phone aside. She then submerged her mouth under the water and started blowing air.

Wang Yi casually tossed his phone back onto the computer desk, clasped his hands together, cracked his knuckles until they made a crisp "crack" sound, and then shook his hands with a satisfied expression.

With a push of his feet, Wang Yi slid the swivel chair to the bedside and opened the wooden box again to examine it carefully.

After searching for so long, Wang Yi was able to confirm that the marbles in the wooden box were the crystal cores of magical beasts, commonly known as magic crystals.

It has to be said that the internet is a wonderful thing. If he were to travel to ancient or medieval times without the internet, he really wouldn't be able to acquire the basic common sense of this world so efficiently and conveniently.

Based on his initial research over the past few hours, the so-called magic crystal is the core of a magical beast and the key to enabling humans to learn and use magic.

Ninety-six years ago, the first Abyss officially appeared in this world above Hydingburg, a city in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Subsequently, new demonic abysses began to appear one after another around the world.

The Abyss is another world with unique magical power, a product of the collision and fusion between this world and the Abyss, serving as a spatial passage connecting the two worlds.

Based on the size and specifications of these two passageways, people have given them different names.

Only a passage between the two realms that has no hierarchical restrictions and is of enormous size deserves to be called an "Abyss".

Medium-sized interdimensional passages with limited rank and smaller area are called "boundaries".

The passage between the two realms that has the smallest area but the greatest hierarchical restrictions is called a "bridge".

Whether it's the abyss, the boundary, or the bridge, they are all fixed passages; the entrances will not change, and they will almost never disappear.

In addition, there is another type of small interdimensional passage that appears randomly in various places and usually does not exist for very long.

It will dissipate in as little as three to five days, or as long as one to two years.

This type is called a "floating bridge".

The portal connects two worlds; humans can enter, and naturally, creatures from the magical world can too.

In the magical world, there are mostly plants and animals that can use various strange magical powers, and they are called "magical beasts".

Magic crystals are the core crystals found inside the bodies of magical beasts after humans hunt them down.

By absorbing magic crystals, some humans who have awakened magical talents are able to acquire magical power and use it to unleash spells.

Such a person is a Dharma Master.

Perhaps because the fundamental rules of the two worlds are different, firepower weapons made by human technology often have difficulty being effective in the passage between the two worlds where the rules intersect.

Therefore, mages became the main force in guarding and exploring the passage between the two worlds.

Humanity's original technological civilization has also begun to include a magical path.

The year the first Demon Abyss appeared in this world is also known as the "Year Zero of Magic," which ushered in the age of magic.

As the two worlds become increasingly integrated, the number of mages grows, their strength increases, and the proportion of magical civilization becomes larger and larger.

Later, the world calendar was changed to the Magic Calendar, and ninety-six years have passed since the first year of Magic.

Let's get back to the magic crystal.

As the core of a magical beast, the magic crystal stores its unique power.

In fact, magic is simply a special and powerful force. However, the first Abyss of Magic appeared in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where the culture and legends of magic had long been prevalent.

As the first to try something new, this power was naturally given the name "magic" by them.

If the first Demon Abyss had been built in China, perhaps this power would have been called Immortal Arts or Taoist Magic.

Humans are very good at summarizing and generalizing. After studying magical power for so long, mages have long since developed a standardized and regulated magical system.

Based on the current understanding of magical power, magic is mainly divided into elemental, mental, and spatial systems.

Based on the effects of magical power, magic can also be divided into offensive magic, support magic, and healing magic.

Based on their strength, magical beasts are classified into ranks: low-rank magical beasts, mid-rank magical beasts, high-rank magical beasts, super-rank magical beasts, and holy beasts.

Similarly, the ranks of human mages correspond one-to-one with those of magical beasts, except that the ranks of forbidden mages of humans are matched with those of sacred beasts.

Wang Yi pressed and rubbed his temples hard with his thumbs, constantly summarizing, categorizing, and digesting the various knowledge of the magic system in his mind.

According to information found online, besides differences in size and intelligence, the biggest difference between humans and monsters is another point:

Mages can absorb magic crystals to obtain the magic of various magical beasts. However, the magic of a magical beast of the same race is basically fixed and cannot be obtained by absorbing additional magic crystals.

From this perspective, compared to the native magical beasts that bring magical power, human mages seem more like the darlings of the magical world.

If Warcraft possessed advanced intelligence and understood this situation, it would surely condemn the injustice of the world.