Chapter 0276 - The Undead of Effort
This is not the first time the two have met, there is nothing strange about it, the only thing that can surprise the two is Li Xun's age.
Judging from his handsome and slightly youthful face, he should not be over 20 years old! It's just that his face is a little worse, he looks too pale and not a little bloody, and his body is a little shaky when he walks, and it seems that he is a nerd who is lying on his desk all the year round and is addicted to magic.
At the age of 20, you can climb to the level of high-level mages and become their companions, which can already be classified as geniuses. However, this is not too rebellious, after all, the biggest obstacle to the achievement of mages below the high level is resources, and the biggest constraint above the high level is talent and potential.
As long as a person has excellent mage talent, and there is a big family or big force willing to cultivate it, basically 10 years can cross the moat and become a high-level mage who is proud of others. But further up, you need to look at the individual's talent potential. Many people spend one or two hundred years unable to climb to the threshold of 15 levels, and the reason is that their personal potential is near, and no amount of effort is in vain.
Therefore, high-level mages can rely on resources to pile up, while ** teachers need more potential and luck. At present, the Klein Continent can already test the talent attribute through the relevant alchemy items, but the potential is still in a vague state of estimation, which can only be used as a reference, not as a real judgment standard.
Therefore, for a figure who may become a high-level mage at the age of 20 or so, the two high-level mages are more envious of the forces behind them, rather than suspicious.
And so it turned out.
The effect of the two 6th-order spells "Petrification" and "Serial Lightning" cast by Li Xun is really weak, and it can be seen that it should have just reached the standard of successful casting, and the effect is nearly half of the normal 6th-order spells.
"A rookie who barely made it to the next level!" The two high-ranking mages smiled knowingly.
But the poor effect is the poor effect, Li Xun did not use any spell items, and successfully cast two 6th-order spells, which marked that he had stepped into the ranks of high-level mages. Therefore, the two high-level mages still hugged him kindly, congratulated him, and presented him with a brand new level 11 mage badge.
If Li Xun can cast 2 6th-order spells with ease, then this badge will become 12th-level, but unfortunately, his broken body and sluggish mental power make him tired, and he can only accept such a result.
It doesn't matter if it's level 11 or level 12, I'm a high-level mage, and the conditions for participation have been met.
The rest of the routine data registration was completed, and Li Xun completed the registration as the contract mage of the Duchy of Novis that he had used, and from now on he had become a great free high-level mage. After chatting with the two high-level mages for a few words, he declined their invitations to join the club, and Li Xun got his full set of mage certificates as he wished.
So an hour later, when Li Xun and Xilisi met again in the hall on the first floor, they were already wearing the blue mage robe representing the high-level mage, and the golden level 11 mage badge was pinned to their chest.
Looking at the beautifully crafted blue mage robes with intricate magical ornamentation, Cialis's pretty little face instantly felt a trace of trance. O High Mage! Since then, he has broken away from the ranks of rookies and has become a high-level spellcaster that no group can ignore. The pace of the other party's progress is getting faster and faster, and I have to try to catch up!
Silently cheering herself up, a sweet smile was put on Cialis's face again. As a reward, Cialis gave Li Xun a big hug, which flattered him and made the hearts of all the male apprentices in the hall pause for a moment.
Li Xun can fully feel the complicated feelings of the beautiful girl in front of him, but he doesn't need to do anything, he just needs to give her a warm hug, and the rest of her mental journey is all up to her. It can be said that this kind of mental touch, which is mixed with all kinds of complex emotions such as envy, resentment, inferiority, and jealousy, is exactly what a mage needs to control.
A strong mage first needs a strong heart. How can the heart be strong without tempering, without setbacks?
Li Xun may be able to help her solve it at this time, but this can only make her forget all kinds of unhappiness for a while, but she can't transform this kind of thing into her own motivation to move forward. She figured it out and thought it through, so that she could really gather her strength and take the direction of progress into her own hands.
In the meantime, the two need to be separated temporarily. Hillis needs to go to the Breland Academy of Magic to contact her acquaintances and friends to prepare for the competition, while Li Xun needs to rush to the Dagon Academy of Magic to contact the thief Elena who is waiting for him there.
Outside the guild station, the two said goodbye in tears and embarked on different journeys.
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The Undead Realm, Stratholme.
After half a month of exploration and colonization, the terrain and the distribution of natives within thousands of miles near Stratholme have been roughly figured out, and they have been rubbed into different versions of the sheepskin map and sold to the undead mercenaries. In addition, the situation of the original target zombie lord has also been clarified, and it seems that he is fighting with another lord for a certain item, and the entire territory is involved in the war.
In view of this situation, Skeletron shifted his focus to the other direction when he issued the mission, and did not prepare to intervene in the war between the two lords for the time being. I believe that there is a buffer of thousands of miles, and the disturbances over there cannot be involved here in a short period of time, after all, the high-level undead in the undead world still have various defects in wisdom, and acting and doing things are more instinctively driven.
If it were to be a human kingdom, and such a large-scale and well-organized force suddenly appeared next to his own territory, any king would temporarily put an end to the war and find out the bottom of this force first. However, the zombie lord seemed careless, and the war with the other lord was still in full swing, and according to Alsace, both sides had even dispatched their own personal guards.
Arthas, who had already gone out, had been wandering around the Zombie Lord's territory under the orders of Skeletron, and began to turn his head to try to understand the basic situation of the other lord he was fighting again, and it was estimated that there would be results in another five or six days.
Since taking root in the world of the undead, it is not the powerful undead who have bothered Skeletron the most, nor the vast territory, but time. There is no day or night in the world of the undead, and there are still undead souls who live in it without extinguishing their souls, so time has no meaning here at all.
Once a dead spirit is initiated, it can often walk in one direction for a month or several months without a goal or motive. They can't sense the passage of time at all, and they don't have any basis to judge the passage of time, so the rhythm of the undead creatures is generally sluggish and slow, and there is a kind of dazed and chaotic everywhere.
But since they were incorporated into the cemetery system, there has been a concept of year, month, day, and hour. Each Graveyard City Mage Tower also spent additional mana to conjure up a timer, taking the lead in unifying time in the undead world. The day when the land of chaos was built was taken as the new calendar, and it was postponed day by day. And when publishing tasks, there is a final deadline for the completion of each task, and merit points will not be awarded after the expiration date.
In this way, the cemetery city forcibly instills the concept of time into the soul of every undead mercenary. All tasks are timed in days, and if the time limit is exceeded, nothing will be obtained, and this method forces the undead mercenaries to run, which revitalizes the rhythm of the entire cemetery life circle.
Today is February 25, the first year of the Kaiyuan calendar, and the cemetery city has been rooted in the world of the dead for nearly 14 months, and it has kept pace with the Klein continent in time, although there is no spring, summer, autumn and winter here, only the gray sky that is forever monotonous.
Compared with the meritorious delivery some time ago, the current Stratholme has entered a period of steady development. Every day, the busy undead mercenaries shuttle through several important occasions such as mission halls, hotels, and markets, and there are bats taking off and landing from time to time at flight points outside the city. Some veteran mercenaries in fresh clothes and angry armor swaggered and whistled away, while those rookies who had just been incorporated into the system shrank at the door of the mission hall, trying to re-understand such a strange world with their eyes wide open.
At present, there are 137 undead mercenaries in Stratholme, covering almost all the middle and low-level undead races, and the outstanding ones have also been promoted to leadership positions. For example, the necromancer Prataya is currently serving as the head of the Stratholme Mage Regiment, while the green-haired zombie has recruited more than a dozen mid- and high-level undead with the approval of Skeletron to form the first recognized mercenary group, leading the leader of the group, and now it is in full swing.
With their current merit point acquisition speed, it is not enough to feed the surplus new Ding with the old and the new, so the expansion speed is not fast. In order to expand its influence, the green-haired zombies did not have any shelf to fight with these rookies, explaining the basic rules to them, pointing out the tricks of the task, analyzing the current situation of survival, and encouraging hard work...... In short, if someone counts the most popular companions among the undead mercenaries, the green-haired zombie will inevitably be elected with the highest number of votes.
In this way, the two most outstanding people in the undead mercenary, a colonization high-level and a radio grass-roots level, are all working hard to manage this hard-won happiness in their own way.
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