novelaction Chapter 17 Entering the Extraordinary
Chapter 17 Entering the Extraordinary
Although Jiang Shuzhou had successfully absorbed the elements and stepped into the extraordinary realm, becoming a true mage apprentice, he had no intention of resting.
A single sentence of true teaching is worth more than ten thousand books.
The book "Mage and Spells: From Beginner to Expert" mentions an extremely important point: one should not absorb only one element.
The reason is simple: magic also has attributes!
If you absorb only one element, then you can only cast spells of that single element.
As the book says, the world is a huge canvas, and the mage is the painter. If the painter only has one kind of paint, how can he paint different colors?
Therefore, at least four elements must be absorbed, namely earth, fire, water, and wind. These four are the most basic elements, and other elements are derived from these four. For example, the ice element is a combination of water and fire elements.
Yes, you read that right, it is indeed the element of fire. Jiang Shuzhou was also puzzled when he saw it, but the book provides an explanation.
The element of fire does not simply refer to fire; it refers to heat. The four elements exist in all things, and even within other elements, but their content is extremely small, and Jiang Shuzhou's strength is simply insufficient to observe them.
Creating ice element is simple: just extract as much fire element as possible from water element. The more fire element is extracted, the purer the ice element will be.
So what's the use of pure ice element?
That's for casting spells, of course. The purer the ice element, the higher the damage of the elemental spells released.
The ice element that Jiang Shuzhou is absorbing now is naturally formed. If ice is made with this purity, it can only be used as ordinary ice.
Jiang Shuzhou began searching for the elements. He was currently on an island, surrounded by the sea, so there would be more water elements and their derivatives. However, except for a few extreme environments, the four major elements were easy to find. Before long, Jiang Shuzhou found all the elements and absorbed them one by one.
After absorbing one round, Jiang Shuzhou felt mentally exhausted. He knew that his time was up. Although theoretically he could absorb one or two more rounds, he was not going to continue. After all, absorbing so many elements was useless.
Jiang Shuzhou doesn't know any spells right now, so what's the point of having so much magic power?
He also needs to focus his energy on learning spells; as long as he has enough magic power, that's fine.
After several attempts, Jiang Shuzhou finally returned to the material world.
As the sun gradually sank below the horizon, the sky was dyed a brilliant orange-red. The sunset brought warmth and tranquility, as if the whole world was enveloped by it.
"Does time really fly by?"
I glanced at the system's time and realized it was already past 5 p.m. I had started cultivating at 1:30 p.m., but it felt like only a few minutes had passed, yet four hours had already gone by in reality.
It's true that there's a reason why cultivators sometimes go into seclusion for hundreds of years.
People's perception of time is often confused, a phenomenon known in psychology as "time illusion," which is quite common.
Name: Navis Lebo
Class: Mage
Rank: Apprentice
"Magic Power: 10/10"
"Soul: 10"
"Spirit: 10"
"Willpower: 10"
Strength: 4.1
Endurance: 4.1
Agility: 6
Spell slots: None
Sure enough, as the soul and body absorbed the elements, strength and endurance also increased.
However, it probably can't compare to the improvement of combat professionals, since that's how they make a living. If the improvement was the same, they wouldn't be able to survive.
Shaking his head, Jiang Shuzhou stopped daydreaming, lit the candles he had scavenged, and prepared to work through the night. He was determined to learn a spell today and become a true sorcerer.
I was planning to use them sparingly, as I only have about ten left. If I run out, I'll have to go to the trading post to buy more, and the prices of all kinds of items there are ridiculously high these days.
A single gold coin sells for 3, and a loaf of bread dares to sell for over 5. If you add another zero to those prices, someone should be giving a speech at a beer hall. It seems some people still haven't learned their lesson.
The trading houses of today are not trading goods at all, but rather like stock markets. Every item represents a stock, and the easier something is to obtain, the easier it is to be speculated on.
Just like gold coins and bread, gold coins are harder to obtain, so their price is relatively lower, while bread is easy to obtain, resulting in it being driven up in price. It's unclear who will ultimately be left holding the bag.
Indeed, everything can be stir-fried, and chives are everywhere.
Shaking his head, Jiang Shuzhou knew he wouldn't get involved. However, he still took a dozen or so loaves of bread to sell. After all, it would be foolish not to make money when it's available. This trend wouldn't last long, and the price of bread would soon plummet. Selling now would make him as much profit as he could.
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Jiang Shuzhou quickly sold out his thirteen loaves of bread, making a total profit of around 65 yuan, which was a small fortune. The game pod was definitely worth the money.
I just don't know which idiot bought it.
After closing the trading post, Jiang Shuzhou forced down the bread in his mouth with a few sips of water. The bread was dry and hard, and after eating just one piece, Jiang Shuzhou's throat felt like it was on fire.
"I'm done for. I'm going to go buy some bread after I log off and search online for how to make it taste good, otherwise I really can't survive."
If it weren't for the fact that hunger would affect his health, Jiang Shuzhou would never have eaten this lousy bread.
One comment: Even dogs wouldn't eat it.
Holding his breath and calming his mind, Jiang Shuzhou suppressed his dissatisfaction with the food and began to eat his spiritual nourishment by candlelight.
Five hours later.
It was almost 10 p.m. when Jiang Shuzhou reluctantly closed the book.
He still hadn't learned how to cast spells, but that wasn't his fault. After all, who would have thought that casting spells was much harder than cultivating magic power? The entire 100 pages were filled with the prerequisites and various precautions for casting spells. Every single one of them was extremely important. Every word and every sentence had to be carefully considered and savored, otherwise problems could easily arise.
Fortunately, he managed to finish reading about half of it in four hours. At least he roughly understood the principles of spellcasting, and he should be able to finish the rest tomorrow.
After putting the book back into his inventory and blowing out the candle, Jiang Shuzhou, who was lying on the bed in the captain's cabin, logged off. Next, he would head to another battlefield—the Internet.
The reason is simple: remember the bread that cost 50,000 yuan each at the trading house?
Now it's 50 yuan each, a direct drop of 1000 times. Such a large price drop is unprecedented in the stock market.
As a successful person who has made more than 600,000 yuan, Jiang Shuzhou plans to go to the forum today to have a heart-to-heart talk with the brothers who are about to jump off buildings, and see if he can save their lives. After all, life is only once and should be cherished. Of course, the most important thing is to have some fun.
After all, other people's lives are their own, and your own fun is your own. Although saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-story pagoda, if you can't save someone, then watching the fun is also good. Who told them to be so greedy?
Therefore, cherish life and stay away from gambling.