Full-Time Magister: I Had No Intention of Reaching the Dimensional Throne

The ocean at night is pitch black, like a ferocious beast ready to devour its prey, only silence prevails.

The deck was filled with the shadows of people moving about; no one could sleep, all terrified by the enormous shadow they had seen beneath the ship during the day.

The room was brightly lit. Bai Mo rested his chin on his hand, looking at the two items on the table in front of him.

One is a token, and the other is too.

After clearing out the Greenstone Guild and confiscating their spoils, Bai Mo only wanted the stone tablet that had trapped the Yin-Yang Face.

The moment he held it in his hands, it felt familiar.

Now, if you put the Di token that Han Ji gave him together with this stone tablet, which also has an ancient seal script engraved on the back, you can see that the two tablets are actually exactly the same in shape.

It was just a piece of dark yellow and a piece of platinum.

He didn't recognize the small seal script on the platinum back, but he could tell that the two were related; they were probably made by some kind of totem or powerful creature.

"What kind of character is this? And what is it made of?"

Bai Mo picked up the platinum token and carefully stroked it. It felt like a bone product. He secretly speculated, but the two tokens did not have any effect when placed together.

He recalled how Yin Yang Face used the token, so he tried to channel his spatial magic into it. Apart from the token flashing briefly, there was no other reaction.

So he tried other types of magic, but none of them worked.

"Does it have to be a light-type?" Bai Mo raised an eyebrow slightly. If so, then this token would only serve as a clue and guide for him.

"However, since this platinum token works, can't this Di token also work? Surely not only light-element mages can use them?"

With a silent thought to himself, Bai Mo picked up the dark yellow Di character token. When Han Ji gave it to him, he only said that it was related to totems, and the records and research materials on it did not mention that this thing was a magical artifact.

Therefore, he had never tried using magic energy on it. After all, it was an ancient artifact, and rashly introducing magic energy into it could easily cause damage.

The token's color was closer to the earth element, and the platinum token could only be activated by the light element, so Bai Mo first infused it with earth element magic power.

Buzz!

As soon as the earth-elemental magic entered, Bai Mo felt the token in his hand vibrate. His mind followed the magic and entered it, sensing the changes in his earth-elemental magic, which seemed to have been imbued with mental power.

At the same time, he also saw that the character "氐" on the token was gradually and unevenly lit up with dark golden light spots, much like the arrangement of a magic star map.

As the forty-ninth spot of light illuminated, a sudden inspiration prompted Bai Mo to utter four words.

"Guardians of the Sand!"

As these four words were uttered, the token in his hand suddenly dispersed, turning into fine, dense sand that surrounded Bai Mo, light and agile, as if it had its own thoughts.

Bai Mo raised an eyebrow slightly, not sensing the connection between the mage's spell and his own magic.

He took a few steps and noticed that the tiny, almost invisible grains of sand were also slowly moving as he walked.

He unleashed a wind blade, only to find it wasn't blocked by the fine sand, so he summoned the Wind Spirit to test it out.

It was discovered that once an attack came from the outside, the protective sand would condense into a rock shield to block it.

However, for larger areas of destruction, such as windmills, these fine sands cannot stop it; their maximum blocking area is only three meters.

Its defensive power is similar to that of the mid-level stone shield he uses, and it should be able to be upgraded to a higher level of defense as his cultivation level increases. It would be quite effective against lightning, assassins, and other mages.

This is a fixed spell.

After glancing at the platinum token, the first fixed spell inside was the Prison of Light.

After the experiment, Bai Mo entered into a period of cultivation.

Upon arriving in Japan, after dealing with the tedious customs checks, they were unable to answer the late-night massage calls from their five-star hotel room because of their unclear identities.

They had no choice but to stay overnight at a temple halfway up the mountain.

Yanming Temple.

After settling in, the group dispersed.

Bai Mo sought out Mu Nujiao, intending to take a stroll down the mountain.

"How come you're in the mood to go out and stroll around, ignoring them?" Mu Nujiao asked.

"It's a rare treat to be out here. What's the point of staying inside the temple? Why not go and try some of the good food around here?"

Bai Mo pulled her along, ignoring the frightened girl beside him, and they quickly arrived at the city at the foot of the mountain.

"What if something goes wrong?"

Mu Nujiao spoke casually, but her eyes were scanning the surrounding streets. Compared to China, there wasn't much difference, except that it was cleaner. The subtle differences in the GG brand, shop names, and decorations told her that this was Japan.

To be honest, she had always been on the path of cultivation and study. Although she came from a good family, she had never been there to play.

"How about we go see a movie?" Bai Mo suggested.

"What do you want to do?" Mu Nujiao asked warily. She didn't believe that this person had traveled all the way across the ocean just to watch a movie.

"I'm not doing anything. I've heard that movies here are different from those in China."

"Let's try that pufferfish ramen first, then check out the izakaya," Mu Nujiao said, but then she saw a familiar figure in front of her.

"You've come down to shop too?" Jiang Shaoxu asked with a bright smile.

"Alright, let's go down and take a stroll, and try some exotic cuisine." Mu Nujiao smiled.

"Really? Let's add one! I heard there's a really good restaurant here, it's on me!" Jiang Shaoxu's eyes lit up.

"Okay." Mu Nujiao nodded, and the two girls started chatting together, leaving Bai Mo standing to the side.

Shaking his head, Bai Mo finally arrived at the restaurant Jiang Shaoxu had mentioned. While waiting for the food to be served, he listened to the two of them chatting about everything from makeup to the legends of Japan.

It was Jiang Shaoxu who was doing all the talking; Mu Nujiao didn't know anything about Fusang.

"Rumor has it that Japan is teeming with wandering spirits, and each one is more beautiful than the last. They specifically target vigorous young men, especially those with girlfriends. They love them the most, Jiaojiao, you'd better keep a close eye on them! Kukuku~"

Jiang Shaoxu originally wanted to say something scary, but after she finished speaking, she couldn't help but laugh.

"You're talking nonsense!" Mu Nujiao lightly slapped her, annoyed. "There's no such thing as a ghost in Japan!?"

"Don't you believe me? I heard it from my grandfather."

Jiang Shaoxu pressed down the corners of her mouth to appear more serious.

"Fusang has many such spirits. They enjoy making humans suffer and resentful. They are also skilled at transformation. Perhaps the janitor you encounter, the passing office worker, or the waiter is a spirit in disguise!"

"Madam and sir, your meal is here." Just then, the waiter came in with the tray. Before Mu Nujiao could react, Jiang Shaoxu almost stood up from her seat.

"Thank you," Bai Mo said, watching as the food was set out before chuckling, "Afraid of ghosts and still talking about these things?"

"I was just startled by her sudden appearance." Jiang Shaoxu pouted, using food to divert her embarrassment. "Let's eat, it looks good."

"You seem to know quite a bit about these rumors and stories," Mu Nujiao said.

"Of course, I often hear my brother say that many things about the older generation in our family were found out from them."

Jiang Shaoxu raised her chin, then suddenly sighed and looked at Bai Mo, "Jiang Shaojun came to see you."

"right."

"He disappeared. My family doesn't know when or what you talked about."

"Please accept my condolences," Bai Mo said. "He asked me to explain the hollow willow totem."

"Another totem." Jiang Shaoxu tapped the porcelain plate with his fork. "He's seen plenty of those things, but he doesn't try to subjugate or befriend them. I don't know what he's looking for."

"Some things are already rare just to encounter them." Bai Mo glanced at the two of them.

"Maybe."

Bai Mo chewed on the fish slice in his mouth. There was too much wasabi sticking to it, making it a bit pungent. Suddenly, he felt a force connecting with his mind, as if trying to take him to another place.

"Hmph!" Bai Mo lowered his eyelids slightly, activating his level five mental power and the wind of mental protection, along with the mental protection armor of the Void Illusion Armor, to expel this connection.

"It must have been Mo Fan who mentioned my name."

Immediately realizing what this soul-snatching power was, Bai Mo drew a conclusion, glanced at Mu Nujiao, and breathed a sigh of relief upon finding that she was normal.

Rumble!

The vast expanse of dark clouds was oppressive and heavy, as if something too heavy for the sky to bear was accumulating within them.

Streaks of purple-gold lightning, like pythons, roamed the rolling dark clouds above the sky, illuminating a large area and carving out bright yellow rivers through the clouds.

The deafening roar echoed across the cape, even lowering the ceaseless crashing waves below. On the flat ground, dense thickets of shrubs and trees with purple veins grew, and even the occasional stray bolts of purple lightning posed no threat to these plants.

It emitted a smoky aroma, like the smell of roasted meat.

A pair of eyes, as bright and agile as gemstones yet full of majesty, seemed to be formed from solidified lightning, reflecting a creature clutching its rear end, which then vanished in a dark shadow.

"Nye~"

She touched the dragonborn lying beneath her, then withdrew her pure eyes from the direction she had been looking, her gaze filled with barely suppressed curiosity, and uttered a question.

"Roar!"

The dragonborn beneath him looked up in an instant, its bright yellow electric eyes like thunderbolts, huge and terrifying, and its abyss-like maw opened, from which a thick purple beam of light shot out.

Wherever it passed, all the plants within a kilometer radius turned into lightning plasma—it was terrifying!

"Let's go back after we finish eating. Something might have happened at the temple."

Bai Mo wiped his mouth and said to the two girls who wanted to do something else after finishing their meal.

"What's going on? How can you hear me from this far away?"

Jiang Shaoxu didn't believe him, simply suspecting that he was bored because he felt Mu Nujiao had been taken away by her.

"Didn't you just say that there are many dead souls in Japan?"

Bai Mo pursed his lips. "When Jiao Jiao and I came down, we ran into one. It was a woman."

"How come I didn't see it?" Mu Nujiao hesitated, feeling that Bai Mo might be joking.

"I brought a vessel for the dead." Bai Mo gestured to the bracelet on his wrist and said, "She tried to take my soul while we were eating, and it seemed like she was going to take me somewhere, but I chased her away."

"What about Ai Jiangtu and the others..." Jiang Shaoxu's face turned a little pale. She could laugh about it when she was talking about it, but she wouldn't be so happy if she actually encountered them.

"Old Ai has strong mental strength, she shouldn't be able to pull him, but it's hard to say about the others. Let's go back first."

As Bai Mo spoke, he teleported the two of them out of the store.

The waiter who had just knocked on the door and entered shuddered when he saw the empty private room.

Back at Yanming Temple, he ran into Ai Jiangtu. Upon seeing Bai Mo and the other two, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good that you're all alright. Zhao Manyan suddenly fainted."

"Looks like they've been bewitched. Have you found out why?"

"Mo Fan has some leads and is currently conducting experiments with Mu Ningxue." Ai Jiangtu nodded slightly.

"What do you mean, 'bewitched'?"

At this moment, the two had already entered Yanming Temple and joined the others. Bai Mo said:

"I encountered a ghost on my way down the mountain. Ordinary people can't see her. I ignored her, but when I was eating, I encountered a soul-snatching force. I think it was her doing."

"It seems Mo Fan also mentioned your name. How come you weren't seduced?" Mu Tingying chuckled. They learned from Mo Fan how Zhao Manyan's soul had been seduced.

Bai Mo glanced at Mu Ningxue, who was sitting with her eyes closed, and said, "If your mental strength is strong enough, you can block it."

"Where is the others?" Bai Mo glanced around and found that apart from Mu Tingying, Nan Rongni, and Jiang Yu, no one else was there.

"They've all gone to look for clues," Ai Jiangtu said.

"Then let's go out and look for them too," Bai Mo said, leading Ai Jiangtu and Jiang Shaoxu out.

Without Jiang Shaoxu, even if Mo Fan saw the wooden fish vessel, he wouldn't be able to enter the vessel's world.

They hadn't been out long when they encountered Mo Fan. After a brief conversation, the group followed him to the wooden fish vessel.

Afterwards, he and Ai Jiangtu entered the vessel world to rescue people, while Bai Mo and Jiang Shaoxu guarded outside.

Bai Mo tested whether he could communicate with the Baxia vessel, but found that it was unresponsive to him, and even when he took out the silver hairpin spear, it did not react.

Seeing this, he wasn't surprised.

After much effort, the group managed to rescue Zhao Manyan and Mu Ningxue. Zhao Manyan, however, unexpectedly gained the Baxia totem artifact.

The group then left the temple, preparing to head to Osaka to defeat the Fusang Kingdom, before heading to Tokyo Naval Battle Castle for naval training.

Mount Fuji was towering and could be clearly seen from the train. Bai Mo and Mo Fan, along with several other boys, were sitting there, while the other row of seats was for the girls.

Zhao Manyan played with the wooden fish in his hand, listening to Nan Jue and Mo Fan's discussion about the companion vessel, slightly lost in thought.

"Is this also a companion vessel? How do you use it?"

"You might have to become a monk." Bai Mo said solemnly.

"Companion artifacts are usually closely related to totem beasts. Look at Mo Fan's pendant, it's black and ugly, like a loach, which is why he likes to be reckless and court death. Yours should be a Buddhist totem, so you probably just need to look like a monk."

"Damn it, that won't do. At most, I'll chant 'Amitabha Buddha' a few times," Zhao Manyan exclaimed.

"According to you, Mo Fan is a mudfish. Mudfish like to burrow, so he should be a good match for me. I also like to burrow. Mo Fan is just a virgin. He's good with words, but he's useless."

"Mo Fan, how about we switch to someone else? You seem quite suited to a vegetarian diet and Buddhist practice."

Mo Fan was initially amused by Bai Mo's bluffing, but now that it had come back to haunt him, his face darkened.

"Get the hell out of here, you're the virgin. Yours is clearly a turtle shell, but you insist on calling it a wooden fish. Be careful you don't run into a monk and get beaten to death."

"A turtle shell?" Zhao Manyan looked down at the vessel in his hand and pondered, "Now that you mention it, it does look like one. Luckily, it's not green. I hate green-haired turtles."

The others remained silent, pretending not to know them. (End of Chapter)