Wizard's Journey

Chapter 132 Departure

The laboratory of Nirmaza the Faceless Mask on the 56th floor of the Black Tower.

A specimen of a creature called the Dorado bat is placed in front of Green, immersed in a solution. On the experimental table is a huge leather scroll containing information about the Dorado bat's auditory perception system.

"In the world of sound, it is not as monotonous as ordinary humans perceive it to be. At a superficial level, sound is divided into infrasound, normal sound, and ultrasound. At a mid-level, it is divided into pitch, frequency, timbre, sound shape, sound quality, and rhythm. At a deeper level, there are even the sounds of the soul, the sounds of the earth, the sounds of the world, mysterious sounds, spiritual sounds, resonant sounds, sounds of thought, sounds of misfortune, sounds of power, sounds of instinct, sounds of paralysis, sounds of illusion..." Nirmazza explained the most basic knowledge of sound science in a plain and dry manner.

(This is pseudoscience; do not apply it to real-world knowledge.)

Nirmaza pointed to a diagram of human auditory nerve analysis and said calmly, "Ordinary humans can perceive sound frequencies between the 29th and 20090th strings. Wizards call these frequencies 'normal sounds.' Sounds below this frequency are called 'infrasound,' and those above this frequency are called 'ultrasound.'"

Green had only been exposed to some very basic knowledge of sound waves, and as he listened to Neil Maza's lukewarm explanation, he was rapidly jotting down the relevant information in his notebook.

Picking up the scroll, Neil Maza pointed to Dorado Soundbat's ear and said, "Do you see the auditory nervous system in this area? Years ago, under my mentor's guidance, I studied sound magic and became obsessed with this kind of ultrasonic magic perception and infrasound resonance destruction. Mask's ultrasonic positioning magic is a creation I completed under my mentor's guidance."

Green pondered for a moment, completely ignoring Nirmaza's underlying hostility, and asked, "Why didn't you perform this kind of modification on the human body, but instead chose to create masks?"

Neil Maza looked at Green with a mocking smile and sneered: "Hmph, don't try to apply your own understanding to my thinking. You may be an expert in human life science, or your instinctive understanding may be self-modification and evolution, but when I was studying alchemy and sonic magic day and night, my first reaction was to create a second cognitive magical artifact. I never even thought about human modification."

Green suddenly realized.

Indeed, for a moment, Green made a mistake in his thinking, assuming that others should think like him and should undergo human body modification to achieve some degree of active evolution of some organs.

However, what ordinary people perceive as "evolution" is actually a form of regression.

Being able to hear ultrasound but not normal sounds can be convenient for wizards at times, but it causes a lot of trouble in daily life.

After all, in the wizarding world, wizards are more accustomed to communicating with words than with their souls.

Therefore, creating a mask that allows users to turn off its special functions at any time is indeed a wise choice.

Nirmaza pointed to the protruding horn on the mask and said calmly, "This thing utilizes the Dorado Sound Bat's special hearing ability to receive ultrasonic waves, and then transmits it through these rune positioning techniques that I have studied for seven years, forming a kind of spiritual perception of the sound world. So for the next half month, you will mainly be learning these rune positioning techniques, which is the core knowledge of my ultrasonic positioning sorcery."

Green quickly sketched a few lines of Dorado's auditory diagram in his notebook, then put the notebook away and followed Nilmazar into another laboratory.

It must be said that Neil Mazar's way of imparting knowledge was simply teaching Grimm how to make the Pale Mask.

Moreover, their cold and indifferent attitude and condescending rejection made Green realize how difficult it was to gain knowledge from other wizards. After all, while knowledge could indeed be purchased with other means of payment, for wizards, the value of knowledge always exceeded that of money, hence their natural sense of rejection.

The reason for this sense of rejection is as if some incompetent person used their wealth to forcibly exchange for their most precious treasure.

As for Green, it's impossible for him to gain a deeper understanding of sound waves through such explanations!

Of course, Green wouldn't delve too deeply into the knowledge of sound waves. Green's path forward was a combination of traditional elemental knowledge and the body's self-evolution, using his "talent" to explore higher elemental knowledge that was easier to study. Therefore, he had no interest in deep-seated sound wave magic.

Want to become an all-knowing and all-powerful wizard?

If one tries to study everything, since a wizard's energy and knowledge are limited, a wizard who tries to study everything will only develop into a foolish wizard who knows nothing.

Just as a wizard who leverages all ten elements ten times the power can never be a match for a wizard who leverages only one element a hundred times the power. (The analogy is somewhat exaggerated, but that's the general idea.)

Regarding knowledge of sound waves, Green could only memorize the knowledge that Nils Mazar had taught him verbatim, just as he would with the blood-stained dolls of the occult.

This approach is no different from the attitude of other weak wizard apprentices when learning witchcraft.

For those weak wizard apprentices, they do whatever is written in the books of magic and sorcery, without paying any attention to shallow basic knowledge reasoning or deep knowledge association, and they have no insights of their own at all.

They had nothing but the desire to gain the power of this magic so they could learn the next spell.

Because in their eyes, this is powerful strength.

……

half a month later.

Green had a basic grasp of the knowledge of rune positioning technology, and this was the first time he had seen a magic circle in the wizarding world that was not based on a large circle with six stars, but rather presented a series of spiral patterns.

Nirmaza seemed like a traveler in a hurry, and then began to introduce the technique of maintaining the 'Pseudo-Wizard's Shield' to Green. This kind of overload of learning made Green feel a bit overwhelmed, and he once again experienced the hardship of seeking knowledge.

Apart from a mentor, no one will selflessly teach any witchcraft knowledge to others, because all wizards know how difficult it is to acquire knowledge, and that is why they are selfish.

When wizards selfishly conceal their knowledge, it becomes even harder to acquire it...

Wizard's Veil and Curse spells will be mandatory courses for all witch hunters.

Unlike internal battles between wizards, when conquering otherworldly realms, the all-around defense provided by the Wizard's Shield, thanks to the existence of the Origin Space Fortress, becomes the most basic and perfect defense for demon hunter wizards against creatures from otherworldly realms. This defensive measure is a wondrous magic born entirely from the Origin Space Fortress; it is a great magic that allowed wizards to gain protection from their home world after invading otherworldly realms and leveling the playing field with the creatures of those realms.

As for curses, curses within the wizarding world seem insignificant. With the presence of symbiotic worms, wizards possess strong resistance to curses, unless it is a large-scale curse prepared over a long period of time or a wizard who specializes in cursing magic, in which case the curse can be used to kill.

However, in otherworldly realms, ordinary creatures can only resist wizard curses by relying on world protection, substitute abilities, and stamina. Therefore, if a witcher obtains some physical information about creatures from otherworldly realms, it will be the beginning of a nightmare for those creatures.

Therefore, wizarding spells and curses are things that almost every experienced witcher studies in great depth.

The so-called wizard's shield on the Pale Mask is not, strictly speaking, a true wizard's shield spell, because its strength cannot increase with the caster's power.

This "Wizard's Shield" is merely a constant repulsive energy body crafted in imitation of a wizard's shield, with conventional elemental resistances being specially refined.

(It's like Grimm's passive evolution of his regular elemental resistances, which seems like a comprehensive enhancement, but if he encounters an unconventional element, all his resistances become ineffective.)

Another two weeks later.

After learning all the knowledge about the so-called wizard's shield, Green felt deeply deceived.

There's no wizard's shield, only full-scale class-based resistance magic. The only redeeming feature is the constant maintenance system, which is somewhat creative and might come in handy for Grimm in the future.

His high expectations turned into disappointment, and all Green could do was sigh.

Want to gain knowledge through shortcuts?

too difficult……

Indeed, the best knowledge is the one you acquire yourself; no one can truly impart their knowledge to you selflessly. This also highlights the role of mentors and the deeper meaning of regional academy wars.

In order to obtain magical essences or other benefits, arcane wizards are compelled to impart their knowledge to their disciples to enhance their strength and compete for certain interests, thus inadvertently adding fresh blood and future hope to the wizarding world. There are even instances where wizards vie for the knowledge of their apprentices who are relatively talented and perform exceptionally well.

If there were no profit motive, how many wizards would do such a pointless thing?

The legacy of the wizarding world? The future of the wizarding world? The hope of the wizarding world?

Not all wizards consider these things. For ordinary, normal, and low-level wizards, striving to reach a higher level of strength is fundamental.

…………

Three days later, at the window of the Peranos Laboratory on the seventy-ninth floor of the Black Tower.

Looking down over the entire Blacksor Tower Wizarding Academy, Green was somewhat lost in thought and saddened.

Peranos glanced at Green and said in a low voice, "Aren't you going to check on your friends? Especially your little sweetheart Raffi. She even dragged her tutor over to ask about you, but I brushed her off."

Beneath the pale mask, a resolute glint shone through the unconcealed sorrow in Green's eyes. He shook his head and said softly, "Let us all remain in the beautiful memories of that night."

Peranos said in a deep voice, "You should think this through. Once you leave, after you advance to a formal wizard, you'll need a long time to improve your mental strength, and there will be the foreign wars in preparation for your advancement from a demon hunter wizard to a formal demon hunter wizard. It will be at least two or three hundred years before you can return. By then, apart from a very few who will advance to formal wizards, your friends will truly become just memories."

Green clenched his teeth, trying hard not to let his eyes show any weakness.

Looking at Peranos, Grimm said firmly, "Mentor, there's no need for further words. If they don't advance to become full-fledged wizards, let my memory remain forever in the beauty of that night. What's the point of glancing at them a couple more times?"

Peranos shook his head and sighed, "Then let's go. Every formal wizard must go through this; no one can avoid it. It will take two or three hundred years before you become a true formal wizard. In the meantime, you will only be a wizard apprentice with wizarding abilities."

"understood."

Green followed Peranos, turning into two black dots in the sky, and left the Blacksor Tower Wizarding Academy.

(End of this chapter)