The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the tides rise and fall on the seashore.
In the blink of an eye, another half month passed.
Tap tap tap~
Call——
In front of the west gate of Black Rock City, the black carriage gradually stopped.
Colin stepped out of the black curved carriage and walked out of the city gate in a familiar manner.
He was wearing a dark black witch robe, with a silver-white triangle badge on his chest, and he was carrying a white wolfskin satchel in his hand, which contained manuscript paper, bright crystals and other miscellaneous items.
From a distance, soldiers wearing steel armor at the city gate greeted him respectfully.
In the past month, they have become very familiar with this new wizard.
Entering the wooden house on duty, Colin put down his satchel, moved his body a little, and then began to continue practicing.
In a few days, he will end his shift for this month.
Since the last visit of Wizard Lapp, the number of ferocious beasts attacking in the dark forest has been decreasing day by day.
His strength has also gradually weakened, from being comparable to the level of an intermediate wizard apprentice at the beginning to now being at most the same level as an ordinary junior wizard apprentice.
On several occasions, the captain of the city guard, who was a great knight, led the knights to deal with the problem directly.
No need for him to take action.
And now, there haven't even been any vicious beast attacks in the past few days.
However... I don't know if it is because of this reason that their team has not added new wizards on duty.
In this area on the far right in the west of the city, only he and Holt are still on duty.
On the other hand, the Chiwen Gang on the side has already filled up its manpower on duty.
Moreover, most of the time recently, he was the only one in this entire area... Holt didn't know what he was busy with, and he often didn't see anyone.
After practicing Hope's defensive force field several times, Colin summoned the gold paper with a thought.
The golden particles gather.
[Name: Colin Leonard]
[Level: Intermediate Wizard Apprentice (4/100); Grand Knight (45/100)]
[Meditation method: Apprenticeship circle meditation method I (40/100); Solar breathing method I (95/100)]
[Witchcraft: Zero-level magic: slightly; Zero-level wizardry: Steel Armor I (17/100); Missing Shot I (19/100); Secondary high temperature tolerance (58/100); Hope’s defense
Field (70/100); Fireball (64/100); Detect Evil (46/100); Purify Evil Energy (41/100)]
[Skill: Elementary Witchcraft Crystal Production]
[Talent: Intermediate Strength (95/100)]
[Break limit point: 0]
His eyes slowly moved across the gold paper, and the four colors of blue, gold, purple and black came into view.
Based on previous attempts, he has learned that gold means reaching the limit, blue means breaking the limit once, and black means the initial state of the skill.
But now a new color has appeared - purple.
This purple is the color of the circle surrounding the middle-level talent with strong life.
‘Perhaps this represents the level equivalent to breaking the limit twice?’ He couldn’t help but speculate in his mind.
Every time he practices steel armor, a witchcraft that breaks the limit once, the ↑ symbol flashing behind it is always the same purple.
From this point of view, the display of the intermediate talent and strong life on the gold paper seems to be slightly different from that of witchcraft.
This may be because the starting points between the two are different... After all, talent is not like witchcraft. It is practiced from scratch. It is already an intermediate power from the moment it is obtained.
In addition, the golden four-leaf clover energy had been completely digested by him five days ago.
His soul strength has been greatly improved, and the progress of his intermediate life-strengthening talent has finally been fixed at 95/100.
Although he did not reach a high level in one fell swoop, his self-healing ability has been greatly improved compared to before.
For the same wound, the time it takes to heal is only half of what it was before!
The only thing that worried him a little was——
After the energy in the heart disappears, although the flashing ↑ symbol will still appear behind the intermediate level of strength every time you practice solar breathing, the improvement speed becomes very slow.
It has been five days since the energy was completely digested, and it has not improved at all.
However, in addition, he has successfully practiced Hope's defensive force field and fireball skills to the point where they can be cast instantly, and the secondary high temperature tolerance is only 2 points short of being able to be cast instantly.
Other witchcraft have also been improved in different ways. It can be said that time is not wasted.
'Unfortunately, there is still not enough time.' He sighed softly and closed the gold paper.
Although with the help of Renee and Arthur, he now does not need to deal with any chores every day, and all his time is spent on training.
But he still felt that there was not enough time.
The number of magic stones on his body is now 109 due to the reward from the black-maned giant boar incident and the reward from the corpse of the ferocious beast.
109 magic stones are equivalent to 109 limit breaking points.
With so many limit-breaking points in hand, he has long been eager to improve himself... Unfortunately, none of the items on the golden paper has reached the limit yet.
But it's soon.
The progress of Solar Breathing, which has been broken at least once, has reached 95/100, and there are only 5 points left before it can be improved again.
Tuk-tuk-tuk——
At this time, a knock on the door suddenly sounded.
"Colin." Holt's voice came from outside.
Colin stood up and opened the door in confusion.
"Good evening, Captain." He greeted Holt.
"Good evening, Colin." Holt's expression was a little complicated, looking forward to yet melancholy. He looked at Colin and said, "I have something to tell you."
Colin nodded and stared at him.
"There may not be any more people from our team." Holt sighed.
Colin frowned slightly, looking puzzled.
‘Isn’t someone coming?...Will he and Holt be the only ones on duty from now on?’
"...Or maybe the team has been disbanded." Holt sighed and added, "I'm going back to the Wizarding World for a while...Minister Barton just informed me today."
He paused and continued:
"This should be the punishment for the previous Dark Forest incident..."
"In addition, you have also discovered that there are fewer and fewer ferocious beast attacks in the west of the city. This means that the west of the city may not need so many wizards on duty for the time being..."
"And when I leave, you will be the only one left in the team, so the team is equivalent to being disbanded. And you should be reassigned to other teams, or to other guards in the city..."
Colin was silent, digesting the sudden news.
…I didn’t expect that I would be transferred again less than a month after I came to Chengxi to work.
"By the way, do you remember Catherine from before?" Holt paused and asked suddenly.
"Remember." Colin nodded.
"She was indeed contaminated by the evil god...the degree of contamination was very high. I heard that in the end, the corpse was handled by the Lapp wizard himself.
Moreover, there seems to be a shadow of a cultist behind this..."
Holt hesitated and then said: "...There is a high probability that you will be assigned back to the headquarters to be responsible for the security of the city...Although your strength is not bad, most of those cultists and polluters are weird and difficult to deal with."
"You should practice more witchcraft of detecting evil and purifying evil energy when you have time..."
Perhaps because he was about to return to the Wizarding Territory and would not be able to go down the mountain for a while, Holt felt melancholy and talked a lot before saying goodbye to Colin.
Colin stood at the door and said goodbye to Holt, watching him go away.
Holt is gentle and friendly, and has no airs. Although he sometimes has some flaws, he is undoubtedly a good captain overall.
This time he returned to the Wizarding Territory, and he didn't know when he would have a chance to meet again.
He closed the door, turned around and looked at the bright moon outside the window, not only lamenting the impermanence of the world...